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show has been a stalwart of the Sunday schedules since 1961.", "The prime minister says the \"big lever marked uncontrolled immigration\" will not be pulled to solve the driver shortfall.", "Police Scotland introduces new safeguards in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard.", "Britain's Lizzie Deignan takes a sensational breakaway win in the first edition of the women's Paris-Roubaix.", "Boris Johnson refuses to rule out supply problems at Christmas as fuel shortages continue.", "The Department of Health says those classed as immunosuppressed have now been identified.", "Disability campaigners including Adam Pearson oppose an Elephant Man dissection show.", "An industry body representing the sector says some operators are at risk of going out of business.", "What have been the major financial disclosures and what action has been taken?", "The scheme to protect jobs is coming to an end having cost nearly £70bn.", "The offshore dealings of presidents, prime ministers and royalty 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over-50s and healthcare staff can get a third.", "Will Renwick began his trek to run up and down 189 peaks over 2,000ft a month ago.", "Jorja Halliday, from Portsmouth, was due to have her coronavirus vaccination on the day she died.", "The home secretary will promise tougher sentences, after a series of recent climate demonstrations.", "On Tuesday, we will be answering your questions about the leak and our findings, in our live page.", "The private aircraft went down soon after take-off, killing a Romanian billionaire and seven others.", "Opposition parties say new laws are needed to sort out emergency visas for HGV drivers.", "Demonstrations against Jair Bolsonaro take place in more than 160 towns and cities.", "Rallies are held in all 50 states amid fears that abortion rights are being rolled back.", "Ministers meeting in Milan hear calls for sweeping carbon cuts ahead of the COP26 climate summit.", "Panorama investigates the Pandora Papers, one of the biggest offshore leaks in history.", "The ex-PM and his wife did not have to pay the tax as they bought the company that owned the house.", "Scotland's justice secretary says it would send a \"powerful signal\" that sexist abuse will not be tolerated.", "Irish Olympian Mick Clohisey is first to finish while Fionnuala Ross wins the women's race.", "It is understood both patients and staff are affected by the outbreaks at two wards.", "The vaccines are initially being offered to people who are immunocompromised.", "To be in the top 10 of Conservative donors, you're going to need a seven figure sum.", "The total number of coronavirus-linked deaths in NI since the start of the pandemic is 2,565.", "Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says he does not understand why some people refuse the coronavirus vaccine.", "The chancellor says ministers are doing what they can to mitigate disruption to food and fuel supplies.", "An estimated 80,000 people run the London Marathon in the city and virtually via an app.", "The businessman, politician, showman and sports mogul was one of France's most recognizable figures.", "His appointment to the UN's economic commission for Africa was announced earlier this week.", "The complex in east London was evacuated after the discovery of the small fire in a first-floor shop.", "Shakib Al Hasan becomes the leading wicket-taker in Twenty20 internationals but Scotland successfully defend 140 against Bangladesh in the T20 World Cup in Muscat, Oman.", "Long queues and last-minute dashes put a \"downer\" on Stansted travellers' long-awaited trips.", "Two friends growing coral and the country of Costa Rica are among five winners receiving £1m each.", "Firefighters tunnel through debris to reach the car's occupants after the crash at Hythe Library.", "Britain's Cameron Norrie reaches his first Masters 1,000 final at Indian Wells as he beats Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in straight sets.", "Ten people were mistakenly killed by the US military in a drone strike on the Afghan capital.", "As well as his TV career, Alan Hawkshaw was in the Shadows and toured with the Rolling Stones.", "Venezuela halted talks with the opposition after Alex Saab was flown from Cape Verde to the US.", "The 23-year-old was part of a crew operating an armoured vehicle on the UK's largest training area.", "The 75-year-old had been receiving treatment for a blood infection in California.", "A 14-year-old boy dies after an incident at a railway station in Glasgow.", "Eilish McColgan sets a new course record as thousands take on the 10-mile route through Portsmouth.", "Her family has told the BBC that they fear she could be returned to jail at any time.", "The rail operator was stripped of its franchise for failing to declare millions in taxpayer funding.", "Fr Jeff Woolnough was unable to enter the church where Sir David Amess was stabbed.", "Newcastle's first game since the club's Saudi Arabian-backed takeover ends in a defeat by Tottenham that intensifies the pressure on manager Steve Bruce.", "He is accused of overthrowing a democratically-elected government to assume power.", "Russia is not slowing gas supplies for political reasons, Andrei Kelin says.", "Prof Dame Sarah Gilbert says medical science has transformed ambitions for new vaccines.", "UK university staff are being balloted on fresh strike action over pay, pensions and conditions.", "The opportunity comes under a scheme aimed at helping key workers and others on to the property ladder.", "The man arrested over the killing of Sir David Amess is named as Ali Harbi Ali, a Briton of Somali heritage.", "Watch as the head of Essex Police describes the immediate aftermath of the attack on Sir David Amess.", "Infections continue to soar as the Kremlin struggles to persuade people to get vaccinated.", "The prime minister and Labour leader visit Leigh-on-Sea to pay tribute to MP Sir David Amess.", "\"We are absolutely broken, but we will survive and carry on for the sake of a wonderful and inspiring man,\" the family of Sir David Amess say.", "The supporter who collapsed, prompting Newcastle United's Premier League game against Tottenham Hotspur to be halted, is \"stable and responsive\" in hospital.", "The protests come as tensions rise between civilian and military rulers.", "The strategy aimed at stopping people becoming terrorists needs improving, Robert Buckland says.", "Union and council officials reach a provisional agreement after 13 days of industrial action.", "Carl Whalley, who died in Clayton-le-Woods on Friday, was \"the centre of our world\", his family says.", "Constituents in Leigh-on-Sea mourn Sir David Amess as they try to make sense of what happened.", "How constituents and authorities reacted to the tragic killing of Sir David Amess.", "Robert Durst was on Thursday convicted of murder and is a suspect in two other deaths.", "The 1961 Paris massacre was denied or concealed by French governments for decades.", "Pte Jethro Watson-Pickering, 23, was part of a crew operating an Army vehicle at Salisbury Plain.", "Boris Johnson said Sir David Amess was one of the \"kindest, nicest, most gentle people in politics\".", "The 450kg-haul was concealed in a shipment of ceramic tiles sent to Melbourne from Malaysia.", "Justin McLaughlin was found seriously injured at High Street station in Glasgow on Saturday.", "The buy now, pay later firm announces changes in the UK, ahead of an expected crackdown on the market.", "Former PCC Arfon Jones apologises after being slated for comments following Sir David Amess' death.", "Granting this to Southend, they say, would be a fitting tribute to the late Sir David Amess, who championed the cause.", "Police women told BBC Newsnight that misogyny continues to shape work culture in the Met.", "Law firm Leigh Day says Amazon drivers could be entitled to thousands of pounds from the giant.", "Lyndon Dykes' 86th-minute effort salvages a vital Scotland win over the Faroe Islands and keeps their World Cup qualifying bid on track.", "The Environment Agency says hundreds could die in a flooding event at some point.", "About 2,000 people will stay on two vessels berthed in the River Clyde during the climate change summit.", "The actor who played Captain Kirk in the classic TV show is the oldest person ever to go to space.", "Yet more small suppliers have been caught between soaring energy costs and the UK's price cap.", "The EU is set to outline new proposals for the Northern Ireland Protocol, but tensions remain.", "Scottish TikToker Luna campaigned for the store to recall a batch of the milk which she says was \"smelly\".", "The mayor's office blames \"uncertainty caused by the pandemic\", but other options will be planned.", "Wales and Bournemouth midfielder David Brooks reveals he has been diagnosed with Stage 2 Hodgkin lymphoma cancer.", "The UK's Brexit minister says the existing protocol cannot survive and warns the UK could still trigger Article 16.", "It follows unease with the depictions of black women and references to slavery in the hit song.", "MPs and Peers back a campaign against replacing some of the vocational qualifications with T-levels.", "The source of the daily noise is being investigated but so far it remains a mystery.", "The mystery illness has sickened US diplomats around the world since it was first reported in 2016.", "A woman says hospital restructuring has badly affected her husband's treatment.", "Leo Varadkar speaks out after Dominic Cummings says the UK had never meant to stick to Brexit deal.", "Police say a man armed with a bow and arrows killed four women and a man in the town of Kongsberg.", "A Holocaust denier was buried in the former grave of a music professor outside Berlin.", "The app widely used to prove vaccination status for travel suffered an outage Wednesday.", "The comedian and author made the decision to leave the competition because of ill health.", "Get Baked, in Leeds, is told to stop using US-made decorations containing a prohibited additive.", "The boss of toy chain the Entertainer says it will be harder to get stock to the right places at the right time.", "Claudia Webbe made a string of phones calls in which she threatened to use acid and share naked photos.", "Numerous 999 calls were made in desperation as the car was seen driving the wrong way along the M4.", "Some of the Tesco Max All-In-One Chesty Cough & Cold Lemon Sachets contain incorrect dosing information.", "But the new report by MPs fails to reflect the views of bereaved relatives, campaigners say.", "Mexico City's mayor made the announcement on the anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the Americas.", "The notorious gangster's favourite gun made top dollar - $860,000 - at the California sale.", "Researchers gathered data on violence-related injuries from 133 NHS centres in England and Wales.", "Billy Hood claims he was forced to sign a confession in Arabic despite not speaking the language.", "A record £184m Euromillions prize will be up for grabs again on Friday after no ticket won on Tuesday.", "The council had agreed the tribute would be set near newly-refurbished Provost Skene's House in Aberdeen.", "GDP rose 0.4% in August in the first full month after all Covid restrictions were lifted in England.", "England's path to the 2022 World Cup hits an unexpected stumbling block are they are held by Hungary in a qualifier Gareth Southgate calls a \"big disappointment\".", "The DJ says that when she reported the matter to police, officers laughed about what had happened.", "The treatment, meant to rejuvenate and treat dryness, worked no better than a placebo procedure.", "Kerry Roberts, whose daughter Leah died from taking MDMA, says hearing the \"other side\" was healing.", "The prediction comes as a further eight deaths and 2,317 new Covid cases are recorded in Wales.", "Stephen Port was jailed after he raped and murdered four men using fatal overdoses of the drug GHB.", "Police arrest more campaigners as Insulate Britain mounts its 13th day of road protests.", "The government's climate advisers warn the UK risks falling behind on efforts to reach net zero by 2050.", "The former minister will become a special representative for a United Nations body in Africa.", "The footage was released as part of Hate Crime Awareness Week and shows abuse aimed at an officer.", "Shipping giant Maersk says it is diverting cargo from Port of Felixstowe due to congestion.", "The Irish foreign minister says this is \"more serious\" as EU prepares new package on NI Protocol.", "A woman left needing crutches to walk says long Covid has destroyed her active life.", "Eluned Morgan apologises after MPs say early Covid response one of worst ever public health failings.", "He leaves his passenger stranded at the roadside when a £2 surcharge for the dog is queried.", "It has been a mixed reaction to the proposals for post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland.", "Oliver Dowden says the PM is sorry to bereaved families, after a report criticised the UK's Covid handling.", "A lack of care staff in the community leaves hospitals struggling to discharge patients.", "The woman, aged in her 50s, was taken to hospital after a car fire in County Londonderry.", "Doctors who came into the public eye during Covid received death threats and harassment.", "The highest level of hospital investigation will be carried out into the cases of 17 patients.", "It is alarming, say researchers, that longevity was declining in the north even before the pandemic.", "Refuge wants the government's new policing bill to reflect the seriousness of crimes against women.", "Andrew RT Davies says flu and Covid have \"had an impact on my mental well-being\".", "The Brighton and Hove Albion player was arrested at a nightclub in the Sussex city.", "Eight places across the country are in the running to succeed 2021-winner Coventry.", "Paris recalled its envoy last month after Australia cancelled a submarine deal to join a US-UK pact.", "The singer tells the BBC she is returning to the country of her birth after 30 years in the UK.", "Supermarket chain Iceland says blaming business for supply shortages is \"simply not helpful\".", "Households in England could see bills jump within three years, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies.", "The 5.9-magnitude quake brought down mud houses in Balochistan province, officials say.", "The livestreaming site says a mistake exposed its data to a malicious third party on the internet.", "Student leaders are warning a lack of flats and soaring rents have created a \"student housing emergency.\"", "The lone insect found in Surrey may be a stowaway or part of an undiscovered population.", "Regulator calls for law change as customers miss out on refunds despite Covid lockdown restrictions on travel.", "The Commons Petition Committee wants the government to publish a \"dedicated Covid recovery strategy\".", "Farmers' livelihoods are at stake due to a shortage of abattoir workers, according to the farmers' union.", "They will be \"very far reaching\", says European Commission Vice President Maros Šefčovič.", "The Chang'e-5 probe gathered rock from a volcanic eruption that occurred just two billion years ago.", "The legal requirement for social distancing in hospitality will be lifted from 31 October.", "The state-backed bank pleads guilty to offences and could now be hit with a large penalty.", "The environmental group had argued permission should not have been granted by the UK government for the Vorlich oil field.", "Wreaths were laid at dawn in memory of the 457 British servicemen and women who were killed.", "Josef S is accused of complicity in the murder of 3,518 prisoners at Sachsenhausen near Berlin.", "Long delays outside hospitals leave ambulance crews unable to respond to other calls, report finds.", "The future of Llanbedr village school and other rural primaries in Powys is in the balance.", "Ex-minister Steve Baker adds his voice to calls for a U-turn, amid concerns over living standards.", "Millions \"lost a lifeline\" when the temporary rise to universal credit ended, the footballer says.", "The fake consent forms contain false claims about possible side effects from Covid jabs.", "The changes will make it easier and cheaper for people to travel abroad, industry groups say.", "From Monday, arrivals to the UK from South Africa, Brazil and Mexico will no longer need to quarantine in hotels.", "The number of countries on the UK's red list will be cut to just seven from 11 October, the transport secretary says.", "Amnesty International urges the Premier League to change its owners' and directors' test \"to address human rights issues\" amid the Saudi Arabian-backed takeover of Newcastle United.", "Spencer Beynon died after police officers were called about concerns over his behaviour.", "Prof David MacMillan says growing up in Scotland meant he learned how to communicate ideas quickly.", "The high costs of wholesale gas has collapsed a number of UK energy firms in recent weeks.", "Nicole Jack, who joined IS in 2015, says she is \"out of sight, out of mind\" in a camp in Syria.", "The maker of Quality Street says it is \"working hard\" to make sure chocolates are available.", "Spencer Beynon died after being Tasered by police called about concerns over his behaviour.", "A total of 110 military personnel will help as non-emergency drivers in Wales from next week.", "A £305m Saudi Arabian-backed takeover of Premier League club Newcastle United is completed.", "The Conservative MP has been accused of being out of touch with hard-pressed families.", "Gary Shepherd said he was arresting a woman for drug dealing but he fled when she challenged him.", "The number of people with secondary breast cancer, where the cancer has spread, will be audited.", "Thousands worldwide have taken ivermectin to fight Covid. But what's the evidence?", "The outgoing James Bond actor says it is \"an absolute honour to be walked all over in Hollywood\".", "Experts are worried as this will be the first winter Covid and flu circulate fully at the same time.", "The Swedish Academy praised him for his \"uncompromising\" writings on the effects of colonialism.", "The White House praised the ruling as an important step to restoring women's constitutional rights.", "\"Young people still haven't got a hope in hell of buying a local home,\" says local councillor.", "The baton will cover 72 nations and territories before arriving in Birmingham for the 2022 Games.", "The Institute for Fiscal Studies says fees are over 90% higher than state-school per-pupil spending.", "Admiral Sir Tony Radakin is the first Chief of Defence Staff selected from the navy in 20 years.", "Covid Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru and First Minister Mark Drakeford hold face-to-face talks.", "However, Paul Givan says it is prudent to plan to manage health service pressures.", "The PM promises higher wages, better transport and more training, as he gives his Tory conference speech.", "Some clinics have reopened after the ban was lifted, others have stayed shut due to lawsuit fears.", "Health officials say more than half of recent Covid-19 cases were in the 0 to 17-year-old age group.", "High energy costs could put up goods prices, say firms, with households already facing bigger gas bills.", "Anyone caught trying to fake a test result or using a counterfeit pass in Wales will be fined £60.", "Andy Murray says he is \"back in the good books\" after his \"stolen\" tennis shoes and wedding ring were found in Indian Wells.", "His legal team believes the sealed document will end a case brought by his accuser, Virginia Giuffre.", "A missing persons log was incorrectly closed by an inspector and inquiries were not progressed.", "Wales' chief medical officer is worried about people not social distancing or wearing face masks.", "The Prince of Wales will visit Jordan and Egypt on first royal tour since the start of the pandemic.", "The US basketball legend wore the pair of red and white trainers during his first NBA season in 1984.", "Molly, 14, died after viewing graphic content on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook.", "Mohamed Salah scores a hat-trick and Paul Pogba is sent off as clinical Liverpool embarrass Manchester United 5-0 at Old Trafford.", "Homecare companies say the rates they are paid by local authorities do not cover basic costs.", "Aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is distraught at the prospect of returning to jail, her husband says.", "The new money is welcomed by health leaders, but they warn it will not solve staff shortages.", "US Open champion Emma Raducanu says \"everyone should be patient\" as she attempts this week to earn a first win since her Grand Slam success.", "Willie McKay had a \"preoccupation\" with getting a pilot for Cardiff-Nantes journey, court hears.", "Family and friends gather at a vigil to honour women lost to male violence.", "In a statement, the group said: \"We won't stand by while the government kills our kids.\"", "Referrals of officers using their position for a sexual purpose have nearly doubled since 2016.", "Despite the pandemic, atmospheric levels of CO2 and methane once more broke records last year.", "Refuse and recycling workers, along with ScotRail staff, could all take industrial action during the summit.", "Mohammed bin Salman discussed assassinating the late King Abdullah in 2014, Saad al-Jabri says.", "All foreign travellers to the US will be required to show proof of vaccination or a negative test.", "Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says the court order covers the \"entire strategic road network\".", "Tilly Ramsay said the comments from the LBC presenter were a \"step too far\".", "Lloyds bank will close in April 2022 with customers being told to use the Post Office instead.", "A key pledge on climate funding has still not been met, and the money is not sure to be there before 2023.", "\"If we don't act now, it'll be too late,\" warns Sir David Attenborough ahead of the COP26 climate summit.", "The chancellor will use his Budget on Wednesday to confirm that the \"pay pause\" is being lifted.", "Brentwood's MP says it is a \"very dark day\" for the town after the suspected stabbings.", "The climate activist speaks to the BBC about the COP26 conference, emissions targets and rickrolling.", "Astronomers have found hints of what could be the first planet ever to be discovered outside our galaxy.", "Legal papers shed light on what happened when actor Alec Baldwin fired a gun with tragic results.", "Angharad Williamson and two others are accused of murdering Logan Mwangi.", "How much do you know about the steps you could take to help curb climate change?", "The singer-songwriter says he will be \"self-isolating and following government guidelines\".", "Conservative MPs are facing a backlash on social media after rejecting tougher sewage protections in the Environment Bill.", "Defiant protesters stay on the streets despite soldiers opening fire on crowds opposed to the coup.", "UK networks agree to block almost all internet calls from abroad if they pretend to be UK numbers.", "A senior MI5 officer concedes that not stopping Salman Abedi on his return from Libya was a mistake.", "Shoppers had been locked out of the supermarket's website following an outage that began on Saturday.", "The first minister is calling for \"credible action, not face-saving slogans\" from COP26.", "Police identify the remains of a man killed by notorious murderer John Wayne Gacy in the 1970s.", "Rishi Sunak's statement isn't until Wednesday, but several pledges have been announced.", "Zykiah went from washing family cars to cleaning for Gary Neville, Molly-Mae Hague and Scott McTominay.", "Scotland's health secretary cannot rule out restrictions if the UN climate summit creates a Covid spike.", "One steelworker says the value of his pension has plummeted £20,000 in a fortnight.", "Eight men are in custody on suspicion of murder over the deaths of two teenagers in Brentwood.", "Frances Haugen, who leaked thousands of documents, appeared before MPs working on online safety.", "Councils should be able to use exclusion zones to stop the protests outside schools, Labour says.", "Jennifer Aniston says the show \"would not have been the same\" without the late James Michael Tyler.", "Average petrol prices reach 142.94p a litre, surpassing the previous record in April 2012.", "The 42-year-old, who will have surgery to remove a tumour on Monday, says the \"outlook is positive\".", "The prime minister believes new funds will tackle the Covid backlog - but refuses to set targets.", "The BBC’s Yogita Limaye witnesses first-hand the extreme poverty engulfing millions in Afghanistan.", "Blue Eden includes a tidal lagoon, floating solar panels, a battery plant and eco homes.", "Liverpool's thrashings shows Manchester United have lost their way and the question is how long Solskjaer will be allowed to stay, asks Phil McNulty.", "The government says the funding will \"unlock\" 160,000 greener homes on brownfield land.", "Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman died in a senseless attack. But they should not be remembered as victims.", "Council leader Susan Aitken said cleansing staff were \"working round the clock\" for the UN climate summit.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak will deliver his second Budget for 2021 next week. How will it affect you?", "The event, which was cancelled last year due to the pandemic, will have a reduced capacity of 30,000.", "Vanessa Bryant said she learned about the death of her husband by seeing \"RIP Kobe\" notifications.", "But the chancellor says the data does not suggest \"immediately\" moving to government's back-up plan.", "Islamic State says it was behind the bombing - a week after the UK warned about a possible attack.", "The health secretary says it is his belief that the UK will avoid another Christmas lockdown.", "Protesters in Khartoum denounce the coup, as soldiers cut off main roads and restrict the internet.", "That figure is one in 45 for Wales, one in 55 for England, one in 90 in Scotland and one in 130 in NI.", "Five officers have cases to answer over messages sent on WhatsApp and Signal, the police watchdog says.", "Bernard Haitink led the world's top orchestras in London, Amsterdam, Chicago and Dresden.", "A 14-year-old boy also appears in court charged with five-year-old Logan Mwangi's murder.", "The health minister's warning comes as other ministers raise concerns over opening of nightclubs.", "No 10 calls the practice \"unacceptable\", but wants new guidance for employers rather than a law.", "Sheila Mott, who helped saved someone's life, says the machine explained what needed to be done.", "The Crown Court backlog could remain a problem for years, severely affecting victims, says a watchdog.", "Students were suspended and barred from school activities for wearing long hair, the lawsuit says.", "The 16-year-old boy and a 43-year-old woman were injured in the blast at a house in Ayr on Monday, along with two others.", "The 95-year-old has been told by doctors to rest for two weeks and to only undertake light duties.", "The controversial law will be tested next month when the court holds an expedited hearing.", "Government advisers express \"deep concern\" at planned reductions in aid spending before COP26.", "Belarus is accused of taking revenge for EU sanctions by offering migrants tourist visas, and helping them across its border.", "Buckingham Palace says she has \"reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for the next few days\".", "The singer scores her third UK number one single with the hotly anticipated new single Easy On Me.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 October.", "Fewer adults are practising social distancing than think it is important, figures for Great Britain show.", "The presenter's final guest will be Kate Garraway, who will then take over hosting duties.", "The broadcaster says live text services will be restored on several platforms and programmes.", "The one-off payment to lower-income groups is prompted by the spike in fuel and energy prices.", "A man is also being treated in hospital after the firearm was discharged on set in New Mexico.", "Anthony Rees was trying to move the 74-stone stove when it fell and crushed him, inquest hears.", "The global health body says healthcare workers should be prioritised for vaccination.", "England's Care Quality Commission issues a warning, saying staff are \"exhausted and depleted\".", "The home secretary wants to change the law after the BBC revealed a big rise in cases being dropped.", "It may be more contagious than Delta, but there is no evidence yet that it causes worse illness, experts say.", "The man's citizenship was removed in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena attack which killed 22 people.", "Halyna Hutchins, who has died on a film set, had been named an American Cinematographer rising star.", "Logan Mwangi was discovered in the River Ogmore, Bridgend county, on 31 July.", "The arrests follow multiple reports of drinks being spiked and needles being used.", "Retail sales in the UK fell for the fifth month in a row, according to the Office for National Statistics.", "Some used car models are growing in value despite getting older, research by the motoring group suggests.", "Director of photography Halyna Hutchins was killed by a prop gun fired by the actor in New Mexico.", "Najin, 32, has been part of a programme in Kenya trying to save her species from extinction.", "A skull was reportedly found in the hunt for Brian Laundrie, a person of interest in Gabby Petito's death.", "Fire officers spent more than an hour putting the fire out, with an investigation now underway.", "Ali Harbi Ali, charged with the murder of Sir David Amess MP, appears via video at the Old Bailey.", "A statement from the veteran politician was read out in the Lords, backing a new assisted dying bill.", "Scientists say poaching during Mozambique's civil war led to more females being born without tusks.", "Alison McDonald was diagnosed with a blood cancer after she lost several inches in height.", "Support for roads, aviation and fossil fuel drilling could undermine UK's green credentials at COP26.", "A director who worked with Halyna Hutchins in 2020 describes the gun safety protocols films tend to use.", "Tougher measures to stop the spread of coronavirus could be avoided with early action, advisers say.", "The kidney, from a genetically-altered pig, appeared to function well, say the surgical team.", "Doreen Lofthouse donates her fortune to a charity that strives to develop her hometown Fleetwood.", "One hit cartoon creator calls for the government to continue subsidising children's TV programmes.", "The family of three and their dog were found dead on a trail in Devil's Gulch Valley two months ago.", "BBC correspondents answer your questions about Glasgow's COP26 climate summit.", "Sean Flynn had been due to stand trial for a second time after being cleared of killing Louise Tiffney in 2005.", "The Green Party of England and Wales says the £9bn plan could be paid for with a tax on landlords.", "North Londoner Ali Harbi Ali, 25, has been charged with murder and preparing terrorist acts.", "Conservative MP Sir David was stabbed to death at a constituency surgery a week ago.", "The health board warns its hospitals are at maximum capacity and describes occupancy levels as \"critical.", "Only nine Republicans in the chamber voted to hold Mr Bannon in contempt.", "She is \"in good spirits\" after a one-night stay for preliminary medical checks, Buckingham Palace says.", "The 24-year-old is detained at Manchester Airport on suspicion of a terrorism offence.", "Bars are giving female staff the night off and closing early to coincide with a nightclub boycott.", "Ros Atkins looks at how Europe is getting to grips with its emissions problem.", "The jailed real estate heir is facing a new second-degree murder charge, authorities say.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak will deliver his second Budget for 2021 next week. How will it affect you?", "The singer will read I Talk Like a River, about a boy whose father helps him with his stutter.", "The prosecution alleges David Henderson was \"reckless and negligent\" in allowing the flight.", "Archbishop Eamon Martin was speaking at a church service marking the centenary of Northern Ireland.", "Special schools face a \"perfect storm\" of staff absences, warns one principal.", "The Commons leader says maskless Tory MPs are in line with official guidance as they know each other.", "Teacher pay rises and extra pandemic funding have reversed spending cuts during the past decade, analysis has found.", "There is a \"real risk\" that people \"are being misled over the capability\" of 111, a coroner warns.", "The Loose Women presenter will return next week, \"all being well\", a show spokesperson said.", "Police women told BBC Newsnight that misogyny continues to shape work culture in the Met.", "The RMT says its ScotRail members will strike for the entire duration of the climate summit in Glasgow.", "Recent figures showed just under a fifth of patients waited longer than a fortnight.", "England's chief medical officer says winter will be tough for the NHS even without a Covid surge.", "Positive results from the widely-used rapid Covid tests should be trusted, say UCL researchers.", "The chancellor says shoppers \"should be reassured\" the government is working to fix port delays.", "Steve Bannon could face around one year in prison for not attending Capitol riot hearing.", "The actor who played Captain Kirk in the classic TV show is the oldest person ever to go to space.", "Yet more small suppliers have been caught between soaring energy costs and the UK's price cap.", "The EU is set to outline new proposals for the Northern Ireland Protocol, but tensions remain.", "Philip Allott faces further pressure to resign after outrage over his comments about Sarah Everard.", "An investigation has been launched into \"organised abuse\" in a special school in London.", "Supply chain problems mean prices should be higher, the UK's largest poultry seller says.", "Volunteers will search through satellite images to see how many of the tusked beasts they can spot.", "MPs and Peers back a campaign against replacing some of the vocational qualifications with T-levels.", "The Amazon devices were found to invade privacy and break data laws in a landmark UK case.", "Robert Durst was convicted of killing his best friend in 2000 and is a suspect in two other deaths.", "PC Chris Dwyer's actions harmed West Yorkshire Police's reputation, a misconduct trial finds.", "At least six die as protesters come under fire, in some of Lebanon's worst violence in years.", "Police say a man armed with a bow and arrows killed four women and a man in the town of Kongsberg.", "NHS nurses went \"above and beyond\" during Covid, but now feel \"undervalued\", says a trade union.", "President Biden's plan calls for offshore turbines to be built along nearly every coastal state.", "The BBC Nolan Investigates podcast says the charity's work raises questions of impartiality.", "The justice secretary tells the BBC delays to prosecutions in England and Wales will fall in the next 12 months.", "\"Sir Roger\" is the club's record league scorer and was part of England's 1966 World Cup-winning side.", "The pizza giant says it needs the drivers to keep up with demand as sales and orders surge.", "The arrest follows the death of Hazrat Wali, who was attacked in Twickenham on Tuesday.", "The comedian and author made the decision to leave the competition because of ill health.", "Nine Moscow restaurants have received Michelin stars for their food - a prestigious industry award.", "Get Baked, in Leeds, is told to stop using US-made decorations containing a prohibited additive.", "Locals hoping to take over The Old Forge on the Knoydart Peninsula win more than £500,000 in funding.", "The boss of toy chain the Entertainer says it will be harder to get stock to the right places at the right time.", "Claudia Webbe made a string of phones calls in which she threatened to use acid and share naked photos.", "People in England going away for half term will be able to book lateral flow tests, the government says.", "Consultation begins on \"significant\" changes to Scotland's electoral map for Westminster elections.", "The Queen officially opens the Welsh Assembly saying it marked a \"further significant development in the history of devolution in Wales\".", "The artwork, which self-shredded when sold in 2018, fetched more than double its guide price.", "Her Majesty also spoke of the challenge of Covid as she opened the new session of the Scottish Parliament.", "The prince says great minds should focus \"on trying to repair this planet\" not exploring space.", "An official said in 1997 it would not be appropriate for the monarch to open Wales' new institution.", "Provides an overview of Norway, including key dates and facts about this north European country.", "The Queen opened the sixth term of the Senedd in her first visit to Wales for five years.", "Homeless Anthony Kemp walked into a police station to admit the 1983 killing as a way to get shelter.", "Sir Gerry Robinson presented the series Can Gerry Robinson Fix The NHS? for the BBC in 2007.", "Residents in Kongsberg react to the bow and arrow attack in their neighbourhood.", "Kenya's Agnes Tirop, a two-time World Athletics Championships medallist, has been found stabbed to death at her home.", "MP Ian Paisley says Boris Johnson promised to tear up the protocol before signing the Brexit deal.", "Emissions from the richest countries are going up again this year as the global economy rebounds.", "The government is to allow butchers into the UK on temporary visas after warnings of mass culls.", "The 23 houses will be demolished following months of delays after the work was delayed due to Covid.", "Police said even if climate summit protests are peaceful they can be unlawful and \"very unsafe\".", "Commissioner Philip Allott quits his role following a two-week storm of sustained criticism.", "The information commissioner will check a whistleblower's claims to see if Facebook has broken UK law.", "Our proposals to help fix Northern Ireland trade problems are unprecedented, the bloc's UK ambassador says.", "The climate protest group has blocked motorways and roads in the London area in the last five weeks.", "It has been a mixed reaction to the proposals for post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland.", "A lack of care staff in the community leaves hospitals struggling to discharge patients.", "Trains will run between 01:00 and 05:30 on the Central and Victoria lines from 27 November.", "The company will offer a jobs-only site with no social-media elements, instead.", "Doctors who came into the public eye during Covid received death threats and harassment.", "First Minister Paul Givan says it is in line with his party's position on north-south contacts.", "Lucy Dyer is charged with causing death by dangerous driving and drink driving following the crash.", "Gloria Cecilia Narváez was abducted by Islamist militants in 2017 while working as a missionary.", "The two largest power stations shut down, leaving Lebanon without electricity nationwide.", "It is believed he went in the wrong direction during the descent of a ramp and got trapped under it.", "It is \"not acceptable\" for protesters to intimidate people getting a Covid vaccine, says first minister.", "The BBC's Sarah Rainsford reflects on being barred from Russia and the assault on the country's freedoms.", "Milos Zeman is in intensive care the day after a surprise opposition win in parliamentary elections.", "AQ Khan is considered a national hero but was also called \"the greatest nuclear proliferator of all time\".", "Ian Blackford, the SNP's Westminster leader, says the UK government has a responsibility to provide short-term support.", "Miriam Groot scoops top prize at the World Porridge Making Championships with a savoury vegan recipe.", "Firms say consumers could face a \"huge cost\" from providers going out of business.", "Tsai Ing-wen's speech comes a day after China's President Xi vowed to complete \"reunification\".", "Four people, aged 18 to 44, are killed while a 15-year-old boy has life-threatening injuries.", "French authorities prevented 414 people from making the crossing, the Home Office says.", "The UK wants the European Court of Justice removed from oversight of the NI Protocol.", "The 300ft (90m) high structures in Eggborough were demolished as part of redevelopment plans.", "A domestic abuse victim says her experience of the system was harrowing and absolutely horrific.", "Jasmine Tetley retained her 2019 title after the 2020 event was cancelled due to Covid.", "Three fathers doing a charity walk receive a donation from film star Daniel Craig as they set out.", "Grace, 15, who uses a wheelchair after having Covid last year, was at a centre to receive a jab.", "The pontiff says he wants to hear from ordinary Catholics and for the Church to be open to change.", "The UK has an average of only 53% of its biodiversity left, well below the global average, study shows.", "Sebastian Kurz denies allegations he used government money for party political purposes.", "Ireland's foreign minister says the demands are a new \"red line\" that the EU cannot move on.", "The broadcaster vows to continue campaigning after a suspected arson attack outside his home.", "Scott McTominay sparks bedlam at Hampden as his stoppage-time winner against Israel keeps Scotland on course for the World Cup qualifying play-offs.", "A total outage of the country's electricity grid ends after the government secures fuel.", "Olivier Rousteing, creative director of Balmain, shared a picture of himself swathed in bandages.", "Catching both viruses at the same time puts people at a more significant risk of death, a health boss says.", "The boss of the food giant says rising prices are partly due to pandemic disruption.", "The business secretary says the consumer protection will be maintained despite soaring gas prices.", "Tyson Fury delivers 11th-round stoppage to beat Deontay Wilder and retain his WBC heavyweight title in a thrilling trilogy fight in Las Vegas.", "This is the twentieth day of eruptions coming from the Cumbre Vieja volcano.", "The meeting comes a day after Afghanistan suffered its deadliest attack since US forces withdrew.", "Paul Luttrell's family were warned he may not wake from a coma, but he has made a speedy recovery.", "The deal will allow the UK firm's Rotherham plant - which has been closed since spring - to reopen.", "Tyson Fury crowns himself the \"greatest heavyweight of my era\" after defending his WBC crown in a classic fight against Deontay Wilder.", "Police say the mainly Haitian migrants were left by smugglers paid to take them to the US.", "The business secretary says he is looking for a solution but does not set out new support for firms.", "High energy costs could put up goods prices, say firms, with households already facing bigger gas bills.", "Gaelic speakers of African and Caribbean descent have shared their experiences in a BBC Alba documentary.", "The US singer will be the festival's youngest ever solo headliner at the age of 20.", "Manchester City make a complaint to Liverpool after alleging a home fan spat at their backroom staff during the 2-2 draw at Anfield.", "A man who assaulted Jenna Pike in Edinburgh in 2012 went on to rape one woman and sexually assault another.", "Petrol problems are \"virtually over\" in Scotland, northern England, and the Midlands, say retailers.", "The Conservatives say they suspended the man from the party and are working with the police.", "Teething problems with the scheme have been fixed says Deputy First Minister John Swinney but club bosses claim it is still a \"shambles\".", "Children's author David Walliams has been criticised for using \"harmful stereotypes\" of a Chinese boy.", "But ITV says the actor and presenter will continue to host its All Star Musicals specials.", "Tyler Higgins is described as \"cold-blooded\" for the late-night attack.", "The announcement comes days after the firm shut down amid a scandal over its business practices.", "US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian share the 2021 prize in Physiology or Medicine.", "Firms still relying on the scheme, which has protected the wages of millions, call for support as it closes.", "Mohamed Salah's incredible solo goal lit up a thrilling draw between title-challengers Liverpool and Premier League champions Manchester City.", "Met chief Cressida Dick says the force's culture will be examined following Sarah Everard's murder.", "Grants for councils to fund healthy-lifestyle support have fallen by a quarter in six years.", "Some drivers have had to wait three months until a driving test has become available.", "It comes days after Kim Jong-un said he would restore communication as a conditional olive branch.", "A private plane has crashed into an empty building in Milan, killing all eight people aboard.", "Facebook says the outage, which lasted nearly six hours, was caused by a faulty configuration change.", "The spill has been described by one official as a potential ecological disaster.", "Daniel is the first victim of serial rapist Reynhard Sinaga to waive his right to anonymity.", "Dale Morgan will serve at least 21-and-a-half years in prison after bludgeoning his mother to death.", "The hope of reducing health inequalities for black people made it worth recommending, the regulator says.", "Will Renwick started his challenge to run up and down every peak over 2,000ft a month ago.", "PC David Carrick, 46, appears in court charged with raping a woman in Hertfordshire.", "As the supermarket's ownership is settled, its chairman says supply issues have been \"slightly overblown\".", "The chancellor says ministers are doing what they can to mitigate disruption to food and fuel supplies.", "Met chief Cressida Dick must investigate how Sarah Everard's murderer \"slipped through the net\", Alex Chalk says.", "What have been the major financial disclosures and what action has been taken?", "The scheme to protect jobs is coming to an end having cost nearly £70bn.", "The home secretary wants powers to stop people attending demos if they are likely to commit crime.", "The offshore dealings of presidents, prime ministers and royalty feature in the Pandora Papers.", "The 28-year-old man, who lost part of his finger while climbing a fence, is being treated in hospital.", "William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk, is set to become the oldest person to fly to space.", "The changes will make it easier and cheaper for people to travel abroad, industry groups say.", "Letters will be sent to all 12 to 15-year-olds by the end of half-term, the health minister says.", "Sir Iain Duncan Smith tells the BBC he was called \"Tory scum\" before someone tried to hit him in the head.", "At least 13 people died in the storm, which raged across parts of the Gulf region on Sunday.", "An investigation has been launched into Major General Matthew Holmes' death at the weekend.", "Emily Ratajkowski alleges Robin Thicke grabbed her breasts while filming the hit song's music video.", "A commission finds evidence of 2,900-3,200 abusers within the country's Catholic Church since 1950.", "Boris Johnson says all party donations are vetted - but campaigners say the rules are not strict enough.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin and the king of Jordan are among leaders linked to the leak.", "In his Tory conference speech, the chancellor says funding the Covid recovery \"comes with a cost\".", "As the military begins delivering supplies, retailers say conditions are \"still challenging\" in the South East.", "The private aircraft went down soon after take-off, killing a Romanian billionaire and seven others.", "Daniel Craig's final outing scores the biggest box office weekend ever for a Bond film in the UK.", "Facebook ex-product manager Frances Haugen says the company prioritises \"growth over safety\".", "The High Court in Belfast is hearing a second legal challenge over abortion laws in Northern Ireland.", "Economy Minister Gordon Lyons says Monday marks \"the next significant step\" of the Spend Local scheme.", "Lewis Hamilton is launching a scheme that aims to boost the recruitment of black teachers of science, technology and maths subjects.", "Morteza Ahmadi, 38, will appear in court after four people were injured in Soho on Friday night.", "Lucy Letby is accused of murdering five boys and three girls at the Countess of Chester Hospital.", "The controversial artist, who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, was under police protection when he died.", "Sarah, the first patient to try it, says it has allowed her to enjoy life again.", "Irish Olympian Mick Clohisey is first to finish while Fionnuala Ross wins the women's race.", "The ex-PM and his wife did not have to pay the tax as they bought the company that owned the house.", "A huge leak of financial documents puts the spotlight on the hidden assets of the rich and powerful.", "Microsoft's latest operating system is being offered as a free upgrade from Tuesday.", "The star looks set to release her first new music since 2015, after updating her website and socials.", "Victor Fedotov is awaiting government approval for a controversial energy link between UK and France.", "The businessman, politician, showman and sports mogul was one of France's most recognizable figures.", "Documents reveal the scale of the secret offshore financial wealth she shares with her husband.", "The Home Office say two Somali nationals are rescued while a search for a third person ends.", "The mayor orders people to stay at home as floods engulf the streets of Catania in southern Italy.", "A missing persons log was incorrectly closed by an inspector and inquiries were not progressed.", "Youmna Mouhamad hopes more young black women \"feel heard and accepted\" and get into engineering.", "The 95-year-old has been told by doctors to rest for two weeks and to only undertake light duties.", "Police are still questioning three men in connection with the deaths of two teenagers in Brentwood.", "Edward Vines is accused of attempting to breach a restraining order to not contact the presenter.", "A report says ex-minister Owen Paterson had used his position as MP to benefit two companies who paid him.", "The Hollywood film star wrote to the Edinburgh bookshop owner after finding out he was a typewriter \"geek\".", "US Open champion Emma Raducanu says \"everyone should be patient\" as she attempts this week to earn a first win since her Grand Slam success.", "Afghans are pressing the UK government to announce when its new resettlement scheme will open.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak is outlining further details of his spending plans to MPs in the Commons.", "A woman who said she was a covert officer asked Lowri Davies to supply information on protests.", "The new rules are expected to boost the prospects of the £20bn nuclear power station in Suffolk.", "Ramadan Abedi and his wife Samia Tabbal are under surveillance by Libyan authorities, the BBC confirms.", "Referrals of officers using their position for a sexual purpose have nearly doubled since 2016.", "Mohammed bin Salman discussed assassinating the late King Abdullah in 2014, Saad al-Jabri says.", "All foreign travellers to the US will be required to show proof of vaccination or a negative test.", "Buckingham Palace says the Queen, who has been advised to rest, is \"disappointed\" not to attend.", "Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says the court order covers the \"entire strategic road network\".", "The teenager set up a fake gift voucher website and bought a haul of Bitcoins which soared in value.", "A key pledge on climate funding has still not been met, and the money is not sure to be there before 2023.", "\"If we don't act now, it'll be too late,\" warns Sir David Attenborough ahead of the COP26 climate summit.", "Parliamentary staff and visitors have been told to cover their faces to combat the spread of Covid.", "The chancellor will use his Budget on Wednesday to confirm that the \"pay pause\" is being lifted.", "Cardinal Vincent Nichols will preside over the service on 23 November.", "Current carbon-cutting plans from nations would lead the world to climate catastrophe, says the UN.", "Astronomers have found hints of what could be the first planet ever to be discovered outside our galaxy.", "Defiant protesters stay on the streets despite soldiers opening fire on crowds opposed to the coup.", "The firefighters' union says there was an \"unjustified reliance\" on fire crews to evacuate the tower.", "Clive Watson, boss of City Pub Group, says the rise will be needed to pay for a higher minimum wage.", "Emma Raducanu fought back at the Transylvania Open to win her first game since becoming the US Open champion.", "Walter Smith, one of Rangers' most successful managers and who had spells in charge of Everton and Scotland, has died at the age of 73.", "The two sides have until 14 July 2022 to submit sworn testimony in the civil case, a US judge rules.", "Prevalence remains extremely high even if cases have fallen \"to a certain extent\", Downing Street says.", "Gen Burhan also said he had taken the deposed prime minister to his house \"for his own safety.\"", "Whitbread is paying millions in wage rises and bonuses to try to combat persistent shortages.", "The government must cut demand for flying and meat under plans to curb climate change, experts say.", "Police identify the remains of a man killed by notorious murderer John Wayne Gacy in the 1970s.", "Rishi Sunak's statement isn't until Wednesday, but several pledges have been announced.", "Infection rates are still on the increase in Wales, despite continued measures to combat Covid.", "Frances Haugen, who leaked thousands of documents, appeared before MPs working on online safety.", "The actress tells the BBC nations must start sharing jabs to help reach the WHO's vaccination goals.", "UK scientists are likely to be \"frozen out\" of EU research programmes, a committee of MPs warns.", "A photographer captures a pipe pumping filtered sewage into Langstone Harbour in Hampshire.", "The funding will be available to recent start-ups seeking to kick-start activity or established SMEs.", "The Queen's physician has to maintain privacy for a patient whose life is lived out in public.", "The firm posts strong profits as it continues to face negative press over leaked internal documents.", "Ministers say their priority's been helping charities during the pandemic, despite promising the cash two years ago.", "Young employees saw the biggest dip and rebound in wages but the gender pay gap has widened.", "Get extra climate news, analysis and in-depth reporting from the BBC direct to your smartphone.", "The target controversially omits new short-term goals and cuts to fossil fuel industries.", "\"I am not bending to anybody's demands,\" says the US comic of the transgender backlash he faces.", "The government says it will make utilities take action over waste dumped in rivers after pressure from peers.", "The Swedish activist invites rail and council workers who plan on striking during COP26 to join her.", "Poultry industry chief tells MPs the government's overseas workers scheme has come too late.", "The £378m deal for the Oxford Street site is part of the furniture giant's plan to open inner-city shops.", "PC Joseph Powell of West Midlands Police is accused of an historical offence between 2009 and 2011.", "The fire at the appliance manufacturer destroyed trailers and caused damage estimated at about £2m.", "Carl Davies admits sending intimidating comments to Louise Minchin and her daughter Mia.", "Tan Copsey was told he would have to pay more than agreed for his stay as prices had soared in Glasgow.", "The activists say they stayed at London's Science Museum for the \"victims\" of fossil fuel sponsors.", "Long queues and last-minute dashes put a \"downer\" on Stansted travellers' long-awaited trips.", "Cardiff City chairman Mehmet Dalman says there is still \"a lot of work to be done\" in the Emiliano Sala case, two years after the footballer's death.", "The ex-US secretary of state, the first African-American in that role, dies of Covid complications.", "Two friends growing coral and the country of Costa Rica are among five winners receiving £1m each.", "Firefighters tunnel through debris to reach the car's occupants after the crash at Hythe Library.", "Tutt provided the backbeat for the King of Rock 'n' Roll's 1969 Taking Care of Business tour.", "Stormont's first and deputy first ministers call for an end to the abuse of public representatives.", "The Equality Commission says employers could end up \"on the wrong side of the law\".", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak will bring in new rules around environmental sustainability reporting.", "The 75-year-old had been receiving treatment for a blood infection in California.", "Two adults and two children are taken to hospital after four homes are caught up in an explosion in Ayrshire.", "Just three days after signing for Cardiff City, Emiliano Sala was on a light aircraft which disappeared on Monday night.", "MPs have been remembering Sir David Amess, who was killed in his Essex constituency.", "The rail operator was stripped of its franchise for failing to declare millions in taxpayer funding.", "The carmaking giant is investing £230m in its Halewood plant as it moves to electrify its vehicles.", "England are ordered to play one match behind closed doors as a punishment for the unrest at Wembley Stadium during the European Championship final.", "Mr Kennelly spent decades working as a professor of modern literature at Trinity College Dublin.", "The report in the Financial Times newspaper reportedly caught US intelligence by surprise.", "BBC newsreader George Alagiah says his doctors want to hit a new tumour \"hard and fast\".", "As Snowdonia National Park celebrates its 70th anniversary, a former warden shares his memories.", "The Balfour Hospital in Orkney points to the need for the NHS to cut emissions from its buildings.", "The Tory MP was a backbencher of the old school who fought for the causes he cared about.", "An MP says he was threatened after asking people to be kinder following Sir David Amess's death.", "MPs have been remembering their former colleague, who was stabbed to death in his Essex constituency.", "Blood results show it gets the body to mount an immune response to fight coronavirus.", "Emiliano Sala, known as the 'local Carlos Tevez', was a player who bloomed late, was teased by team-mates and loved detective novels.", "South Wales Police says it has made \"significant findings\" linking David Morris to the crime scene.", "The man arrested over the killing of Sir David Amess is named as Ali Harbi Ali, a Briton of Somali heritage.", "Boris Johnson announces the town will be awarded the coveted status that the MP campaigned for.", "UK university staff are being balloted on fresh strike action over pay, pensions and conditions.", "The deputy prime minister says such an award would be a fitting tribute to Sir David Amess.", "David Henderson admits a charge relating to the flight in which footballer Emiliano Sala died.", "Sir David, who was stabbed to death on Friday, had campaigned tirelessly for the town to be recognised.", "Nightclubs and large events can only allow entry to people who can show they have had two Covid jabs.", "\"We are absolutely broken, but we will survive and carry on for the sake of a wonderful and inspiring man,\" the family of Sir David Amess say.", "The family of missing footballer Emiliano Sala thank donors who helped raise £280,000 for a private search.", "Its collapse takes the number of customers affected by energy company failures to more than two million.", "Mark Zuckerberg is a leading voice on the metaverse - a virtual reality version of the internet.", "The justice minister says the chief constable has contacted MPs following the killing of Sir David Amess.", "A couple were sent a fine after a word on a woman's clothing was mistaken for their number plate.", "Union and council officials reach a provisional agreement after 13 days of industrial action.", "And in the Commons, MPs pay tribute to Sir David Amess saying they have lost a much-loved colleague.", "The teenager has been arrested and charged over the death of Justin McLaughlin, 14, in Glasgow on Saturday.", "Experts give hope to campaign for David Morris’s conviction to be re-examined.", "France, among other countries, does not recognise the president's claim to a sixth term.", "Cameron Norrie wins one of the biggest titles in tennis when he fights back to beat Nikoloz Basilashvili at Indian Wells.", "MPs have described their experience of threats to their safety as tributes are paid to Sir David Amess.", "Younger mothers opt for more modern names, according to official birth data in England and Wales.", "The trial of Dennis Hutchings, 80, had been adjourned when he tested positive for Covid-19.", "The online retail giant is trying to attract enough UK workers to fill 20,000 posts over Christmas.", "A doctor describes the moment he went to the aid of an elderly Newcastle United supporter who collapsed near him.", "The buy now, pay later firm announces changes in the UK, ahead of an expected crackdown on the market.", "Residents choke back tears on the streets of Leigh-on Sea as they remember their compassionate MP.", "Granting this to Southend, they say, would be a fitting tribute to the late Sir David Amess, who championed the cause.", "The US secretary of state whose support for George W Bush gave credibility to the 2003 Iraq invasion.", "The government has hired Dave Lewis to help it fix problems that led to petrol and other shortages.", "A tribunal case brought by former officer Rhona Malone found evidence of a \"boys' club culture\" in Scotland's armed policing.", "Eight places across the country are in the running to succeed 2021-winner Coventry.", "\"Swift, decisive action\" is needed in the face of soaring energy prices, the director general of UK Steel says.", "Students in Glasgow have complained to the provider about holes in floors, construction dust and flooding.", "A judge recommends that the civil rape case made against Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo in the United States is thrown out of court.", "David A Lindon recreates Munch's The Scream and van Gogh's The Starry Night, among others.", "The fiancee of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi says the Saudi Arabian-backed takeover of Newcastle United is \"heartbreaking\" for her.", "Farmers' livelihoods are at stake due to a shortage of abattoir workers, according to the farmers' union.", "The Chang'e-5 probe gathered rock from a volcanic eruption that occurred just two billion years ago.", "From Monday, arrivals to the UK from South Africa, Brazil and Mexico will no longer need to quarantine in hotels.", "Wales' enterprising display is not enough for victory against the Czech Republic as the two sides produce a thrilling 2-2 World Cup qualifying draw in Prague.", "Britons will no longer be advised against holidaying in 51 destinations including Cameroon and Jamaica.", "The Institute for Fiscal Studies says fees are over 90% higher than state-school per-pupil spending.", "Andy Murray says he is \"back in the good books\" after his \"stolen\" tennis shoes and wedding ring were found in Indian Wells.", "It follows controversy over the event which is timed to coincide with the centenary of NI's formation.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday evening.", "How do restrictions here compare to other parts of the UK and the Republic of Ireland?", "Plans to boost building have angered many Tory MPs, but the ex-housing secretary says they must go ahead.", "Callum Wheeler, from Aylesham, Kent, is accused of murdering community support officer Julia James.", "Millions \"lost a lifeline\" when the temporary rise to universal credit ended, the footballer says.", "Stephen Port was jailed after he raped and murdered four men using fatal overdoses of the drug GHB.", "Police make 35 arrests in the group's 12th day of protest in the past four weeks.", "Some clinics have reopened after the ban was lifted, others have stayed shut due to lawsuit fears.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 1 and 8 October.", "Islamic State militants say they were behind the deadliest bombing since US forces left Afghanistan.", "The former president had previously claimed the hotel earned $150m during his four year term.", "Pre-workout powders should be diluted in water, but some gym-goers are eating it neat.", "West Lothian woman tells of how a dangerous medical condition turned her skin a golden yellow.", "Comments after her Question Time appearance make her \"more determined to speak out for minorities\".", "The legal requirement for social distancing in hospitality will be lifted from 31 October.", "Here's what you need to know about the journalist and presidential critic who won the Nobel Peace Prize.", "The fake consent forms contain false claims about possible side effects from Covid jabs.", "Harbour Police saw the seal in Belfast Lough on Wednesday and there are fears its life is at risk.", "New rules will be brought in on 11 October after a Senedd vote in favour of the passes.", "A £305m Saudi Arabian-backed takeover of Premier League club Newcastle United is completed.", "The group say they will reschedule the final four UK dates of its reunion tour.", "Experts are worried as this will be the first winter Covid and flu circulate fully at the same time.", "RBS report finds the second-fastest decline of applicants for permanent jobs since records began.", "The Foreign Office says the information could \"harm\" the UK's relations with Saudi Arabia.", "Pope Francis previously said he planned to attend COP26 but it would \"depend on how I feel\" following health issues.", "The brief outage comes just days after Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp went down for hours globally.", "Anonymous protesters called for Professor Kathleen Stock to be fired for her views on gender identity.", "A court hears of WhatsApp threats made by the father of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.", "The England and Wales Cricket Board says it hopes to \"resolve these matters in the coming days\".", "The historic deal is designed to make big corporations pay a fairer share of tax around the world.", "Using new ways to heat six homes is equivalent to taking 60,000 cars off road, housing association says.", "David Fuller, 67, killed Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce at their Tunbridge Wells bedsits.", "The social network changes its policy following a BBC investigation.", "PC Chris Dwyer is alleged to have taken them from a charity tuck shop without paying in full.", "It will scrutinise culture and standards at the police force following Sarah Everard's murder.", "James Brokenshire, who has died of cancer, is remembered by colleagues for his kindness and decency.", "The pop superstar gives her first interviews for five years, ahead of the release of her new album.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford says he expects businesses to stay open and Christmas be more like we're used to.", "Households will again see big rises in energy bills next spring, warns regulator Ofgem.", "Following financial problems caused by the pandemic, Marston's took over the running of the pubs.", "One woman says she's been \"left in the dark\" during her 18 months with long Covid.", "The Conservatives say they suspended the man from the party and are working with the police.", "An actress and film director dock with the International Space Station in a first for Russia.", "Facebook says the outage, which lasted nearly six hours, was caused by a faulty configuration change.", "The Amazon 4-star shop in Kent will sell a range of products which are bestsellers on its website.", "Priti Patel has announced a policing inquiry during a Conservative conference focused on women's safety.", "Latest data suggest 86% of petrol stations nationally have both types of fuel.", "As the military begins delivering supplies, retailers say conditions are \"still challenging\" in the South East.", "The Foreign Office says they discussed women's rights and preventing terrorism in the country.", "Economy Minister Gordon Lyons says Monday marks \"the next significant step\" of the Spend Local scheme.", "The winter plan will fund more NHS support workers, cash for care at home services and a pay rise for care staff.", "Emma Raducanu says it has been \"pretty cool\" to receive the congratulations of other players at Indian Wells, but now is the time to get back to business.", "A huge leak of financial documents puts the spotlight on the hidden assets of the rich and powerful.", "\"They have put their immense profits before people,\" she told senators at a Washington hearing.", "Boris Johnson says there is \"abundant statute\" to tackle violence against women.", "Frances Haugen said Facebook researched youth addiction, yet did not act, in order to save profits.", "The first minister admits that the app had caused \"extreme frustration\" for users and businesses.", "The vigil is being held in the town where the murder suspect was arrested.", "Will there be long-term consequences for children born in the pandemic?", "The announcement comes days after the firm shut down amid a scandal over its business practices.", "Grants for councils to fund healthy-lifestyle support have fallen by a quarter in six years.", "Wooden barracks at the death camp were spray-painted with English and German phrases.", "Mark Zuckerberg denies claims, heard in the US Senate, that Facebook puts profits before people.", "The hope of reducing health inequalities for black people made it worth recommending, the regulator says.", "Wayne Couzens is jailed for life for his premeditated attack on a victim he chose at random.", "William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk, is set to become the oldest person to fly to space.", "Flooded roads cause disruption after heavy overnight rain lashes the capital.", "The pop star posts a 21-second clip of a black-and-white video for a song called Easy On Me.", "Ellen and William Craft's daring escape and campaigning is honoured at their former London home.", "Lewis Hamilton is launching a scheme that aims to boost the recruitment of black teachers of science, technology and maths subjects.", "James Oliver, who led the BBC Panorama investigation, and Fergus Shiel, ICIJ managing editor, answered your questions.", "The Scottish Police Federation union said officers were \"routinely\" helping out because an ambulance was not available.", "More policies cover the cost of behavioural treatment for pets as owners return to workplaces.", "Serial killer Stephen Port murdered four men between 2014-15 with fatal overdoses of the drug GHB.", "Letters and consent forms for the Covid vaccination will be issued to students mid-to-late October.", "A serious case review over Lilly Hanrahan's death criticises authorities' checks on her murderer.", "There is an air of crisis in British policing this weekend as it faces a great moment of reckoning.", "Trade body the SMMT says UK new car registrations fell 35% last month due to a computer chip shortage.", "Billions of users were affected by the outage - which also took down Whatsapp, Messenger and Instagram.", "The public have a right to know why he was allowed to continue as an officer, the home secretary says.", "The PM will promise a high-wage, high-skill economy, as he makes his Conservative conference speech.", "The home secretary wants powers to stop people attending demos if they are likely to commit crime.", "Matthew Boorman, a father-of-three, died during the attacks in Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire.", "A fresh deal is expected to be put to railway workers after six months of industrial action, the Scottish government says.", "Microsoft's latest operating system is being offered as a free upgrade from Tuesday.", "Hollywood's off-camera employees say they are being worked to death with long hours.", "Video-sharing platforms have a legal duty to enforce strict rules - or be fined or even suspended.", "Conservative chairman Oliver Dowden says civil servants must set an example by returning to the office.", "Arsenal lose a game for the first time since February as Barcelona's Asisat Oshoala haunts her old club in the Women's Champions League.", "What have been the major financial disclosures and what action has been taken?", "There is concern that No 10 is brushing away concerns about the economy too easily.", "Sir Iain Duncan Smith tells the BBC he was called \"Tory scum\" before someone tried to hit him in the head.", "French PM Jean Castex accuses the UK of not respecting its Brexit deal commitments on fishing.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin and the king of Jordan are among leaders linked to the leak.", "Deported Haitian migrants must now rebuild their lives in a crisis-hit nation they fled a decade ago.", "The High Court in Belfast is hearing a second legal challenge over abortion laws in Northern Ireland.", "Stephen Port murdered four men in 2014 and 2015 by giving them lethal doses of a date rape drug.", "An employment tribunal accepts evidence of a \"horrific\" culture in part of Police Scotland.", "The remains from South Wales are few and fragmentary but recall the dawn of dinosaur evolution.", "The Church asks for forgiveness as an inquiry says it treated victims with \"cruel indifference\".", "Documents reveal the scale of the secret offshore financial wealth she shares with her husband.", "The attack \"displayed significant stealth and malicious sophistication\", a review finds.", "The Foxes chairman and four others were killed in the crash outside the King Power Stadium in 2018.", "First minister calls for first-past-the-post system used in Westminster to be scrapped.", "The RMT accepts a new pay offer which will provide its ScotRail members with a 2.5% pay rise.", "The Duchess of Cornwall calls for change of culture to stop violence and sexual harassment against women.", "A ceremony was held at a Cambridge college to mark the official transfer of ownership.", "Many DJs lose audiences as the ratings body unveils the first figures under a new measurement system.", "The pedestrians were injured shortly after 15:00 and have been transferred to hospital in Glasgow.", "Serving police constable Adam Zaman, 28, is remanded into custody after appearing in court.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak is outlining further details of his spending plans to MPs in the Commons.", "Protesters were squirted with ink as they blocked roads connecting to the M25, despite an injunction.", "Stormont's finance minister plays down expectations of much extra cash from Wednesday's budget.", "Buckingham Palace says the Queen, who has been advised to rest, is \"disappointed\" not to attend.", "The teenager set up a fake gift voucher website and bought a haul of Bitcoins which soared in value.", "A group of 10 former rugby league players - including ex-Great Britain scrum-half Bobbie Goulding - are claiming the sport has left them with brain damage.", "A walk through the headlines of the announcements from the chancellor in his Budget.", "A US prosecutor says \"all options are on the table\" over the shooting involving actor Alec Baldwin.", "Several viewers got in touch to say they thought they had seen a lump under Shirley Ballas's arm.", "Sam Imrie was convicted on two charges of breaching the terrorism act at the High Court in Edinburgh.", "Parliamentary staff and visitors have been told to cover their faces to combat the spread of Covid.", "The ruling is the latest step in an escalating dispute over Poland's legal reforms.", "Lawyers for the US say a judge who blocked Julian Assange's extradition was misled by a psychiatrist.", "For the first time in 19 months, Australians will not need an exemption to travel overseas.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak is not seizing the moment to argue for a leaner state.", "The Brexit minister seeks \"urgent clarification\" after France says it will block ports to UK boats.", "Pubs and high streets also get a boost - but Labour says Chancellor Rishi Sunak is ignoring the cost of living crisis.", "A man is arrested following the discovery of a body at a property in Portadown, County Armagh.", "The firefighters' union says there was an \"unjustified reliance\" on fire crews to evacuate the tower.", "Clive Watson, boss of City Pub Group, says the rise will be needed to pay for a higher minimum wage.", "Rain continued to fall overnight and and nine flood warnings remain in place.", "Emma Raducanu fought back at the Transylvania Open to win her first game since becoming the US Open champion.", "The economy is set to return to pre-Covid levels at the end of the year, but rising costs could hamper recovery.", "His political satire spared no side and revolutionised how stand-up comedy is now performed.", "Borrowing was lower than a year earlier, but was still the second-highest number on record for September.", "The Chancellor pledged to return schools funding to 2010 levels with an extra £4.7bn investment.", "Rishi Sunak's statement isn't until Wednesday, but several pledges have been announced.", "Ronald Koeman is sacked as head coach of Barcelona after 14 months in charge at the Nou Camp following a defeat by Rayo Vallecano.", "In a new book, Huma Abedin says the senator made an unwelcome advance after inviting her into his home.", "A new chapter in physics is here, says a team that hunted for a key building block of the Universe.", "The actress tells the BBC nations must start sharing jabs to help reach the WHO's vaccination goals.", "The sectors worst hit by the Covid pandemic in England are given help with their business rates.", "The UK's new £200m research vessel is in Greenwich ahead of its first ocean voyage to the Antarctic.", "Sarah Everard's murderer Wayne Couzens applies to appeal against the length of his jail sentence.", "They meet 10 volunteer collectors for the Royal British Legion at a Clarence House event.", "The boss of the UK's forecaster says Brexit will be worse for the economy than Covid.", "Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves replaces the Labour leader to respond to Rishi Sunak's statement.", "England claim a second win in two games at the T20 World Cup thanks to an eight-wicket hammering of Bangladesh.", "One burglary at Tamara Ecclestone's home is thought to be the biggest of its kind in English legal history.", "A 52-year-old man is arrested in Halifax on suspicion of malicious communications.", "The funding will be available to recent start-ups seeking to kick-start activity or established SMEs.", "The UK is recovering faster than its major competitors from Covid says the chancellor.", "The teenagers were found fatally injured in Brentwood, Essex, on Sunday morning.", "The chancellor boosts science spending to £20bn a year by 2024 - £2bn less than previously pledged.", "Persistent rain could lead to flooding and travel disruption until Friday afternoon, warns Met Office.", "Holders Manchester City are knocked out of the Carabao Cup as West Ham United win 5-3 on penalties in front of an ecstatic sell-out crowd at London Stadium.", "The government says it will make utilities take action over waste dumped in rivers after pressure from peers.", "Some key decisions about tax and spending in Scotland are devolved - but the UK budget still has a big impact.", "US actor Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins last week.", "A shake-up of alcohol duty is announced by the chancellor, with higher taxes for stronger drinks.", "The chancellor makes a change that will allow working claimants to keep more of their benefits but Labour says struggling families need more help.", "Ahead of COP26, a BBC World Service poll finds growing support for strong political leadership.", "The chancellor might be a reluctant taxman but by spending amid low borrowing, taxes must fill the gap.", "The Adelaide United footballer has become the only current top-flight male professional to do so.", "Moldova has made history by buying gas from somewhere other than Russia. How will the Kremlin react?", "Wrexham's Hollywood co-owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney choose a Tuesday evening in Maidenhead to watch their club in action for the first time.", "The activists say they stayed at London's Science Museum for the \"victims\" of fossil fuel sponsors.", "At least 750 allegations were made against serving officers across Britain over five years.", "Eighteen-year-old Frankie Morris was missing for a month after attending an illegal rave in May.", "Only end-of-life and critical care visits will be allowed, says Hywel Dda health board.", "Ian Blackford, the SNP's Westminster leader, says the UK government has a responsibility to provide short-term support.", "The Prince of Wales tells the BBC he sympathises with protesters - but any action must be constructive.", "Julian Smith MP says Philip Allott's comments following the Sarah Everard case were \"unacceptable\".", "A deal averting another carbon dioxide crisis in the food and drink industry will now run into 2022.", "The work by an Italian painter was gathering dust until its discovery in a house clearance.", "Ireland's Amy Hunter celebrates her 16th birthday by becoming the youngest player to hit an international century in Monday's game in Zimbabwe.", "Ten people are detained in London and Kent after an international investigation into false documents.", "Alun Michael says protests against the Covid-19 vaccination programme are \"crazy nonsense\".", "An investigation is launched into why Ohio officers pulled out the man as he called for help.", "Catching both viruses at the same time puts people at a more significant risk of death, a health boss says.", "Thomas Schreiber admits manslaughter but denies murdering Sir Richard Sutton.", "The DUP and Sinn Féin describe job losses at JMC Mechanical and Construction as \"devastating\".", "In a letter to parents, the health and education secretaries call vaccines \"our best defence against Covid\".", "Stephen Port went on to kill three more young men with overdoses of the date rape drug GHB.", "The BBC's Sarah Rainsford reflects on being barred from Russia and the assault on the country's freedoms.", "Firms say consumers could face a \"huge cost\" from providers going out of business.", "\"It was John who wanted a divorce,\" he says, setting the record straight on the band's break-up.", "The 300ft (90m) high structures in Eggborough were demolished as part of redevelopment plans.", "The pontiff says he wants to hear from ordinary Catholics and for the Church to be open to change.", "The footballer is accused of the rape and sexual assault of three women at his home in Cheshire.", "The Youth Sports Trust charity wants girls to have a greater say over PE in schools.", "David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens share the prestigious economics prize.", "John Atkinson's family say \"precious time was allowed to ebb away\" after the Manchester Arena bomb.", "The boss of the food giant says rising prices are partly due to pandemic disruption.", "The deal will allow the UK firm's Rotherham plant - which has been closed since spring - to reopen.", "A survey of firms finds a big rise in new business, with more staff being hired for the third month in a row.", "The business secretary says he is looking for a solution but does not set out new support for firms.", "But the new report by MPs fails to reflect the views of bereaved relatives, campaigners say.", "An RBS survey of recruiters suggests a shortage of candidates has \"placed upwards pressure\" on pay.", "Brexit minister says if the EU isn't \"ambitious\", the UK will trigger a mechanism to suspend the deal.", "Michael Rosen wins the CLiPPA prize following a year in which he battled Covid-19.", "Australia's biggest city passed a key vaccination target, allowing people to enjoy new freedoms.", "Four people, aged 18 to 44, are killed while a 15-year-old boy has life-threatening injuries.", "Marcus Rashford says the support he received after being targeted with racist abuse following the Euro 2020 final was a \"special moment\" for him.", "Police say work at the scene of the crash is \"highly complex\" and is likely to go on into Tuesday.", "Boris Johnson does not rule out triggering Article 16 if there is no movement on current problems.", "The broadcaster vows to continue campaigning after a suspected arson attack outside his home.", "The government's climate advisers warn the UK risks falling behind on efforts to reach net zero by 2050.", "While some are happy to use a pass to go to events, others say it causes division and is unfair.", "UK security agencies say most of these attacks on the UK come from cyber-criminals in Russia.", "A source close to the duke said it had \"come as no surprise\" the Met had decided to drop its probe.", "Fully vaccinated travellers from nations including the UK will no longer need to quarantine.", "Sami Jasim al-Jaburi was allegedly a deputy leader of the jihadist group under Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.", "The Irish foreign minister says this is \"more serious\" as EU prepares new package on NI Protocol.", "Wales scrape past Estonia with an unconvincing win in Tallinn to keep their hopes of finishing second in their World Cup qualifying group in their own hands.", "The business secretary says the consumer protection will be maintained despite soaring gas prices.", "\"Normalised\" levels of clothing returns are set to hit the online fashion giant's profits.", "The RMT says its ScotRail members will strike for the entire duration of the climate summit in Glasgow.", "Police say a man was arrested and a knife was recovered after the incident in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.", "Positive results from the widely-used rapid Covid tests should be trusted, say UCL researchers.", "Some people who took tests in Berkshire earlier this month may have wrongly been given the all-clear.", "The future of a statue of controversial explorer HM Stanley goes to a vote in his home town.", "Steve Bannon could face around one year in prison for not attending Capitol riot hearing.", "NHS Test and Trace suspends testing at a private lab amid fears of thousands of false negatives.", "Stephen Port was jailed after he raped and murdered four men using fatal overdoses of the drug GHB.", "Shares in the firm dive 20% as it delays first tourist flight to make upgrades.", "Women's education and independent media have been the success stories, but all this might change now.", "How constituents and authorities reacted to the tragic killing of Sir David Amess.", "Boris Johnson said Sir David Amess was one of the \"kindest, nicest, most gentle people in politics\".", "Robert Durst was convicted of killing his best friend in 2000 and is a suspect in two other deaths.", "The air ambulance was deployed, with three of those hurt being treated as \"priority\" cases.", "The Amazon devices were found to invade privacy and break data laws in a landmark UK case.", "The US rolls back international travel restrictions, answering a major demand from allies.", "PC Chris Dwyer's actions harmed West Yorkshire Police's reputation, a misconduct trial finds.", "Scott Morrison had said he might skip the summit, reigniting criticism of Australia's climate vows.", "The fatal stabbing of Tory MP Sir David Amess has a potential link to Islamist extremism, say detectives.", "The BBC Nolan Investigates podcast says the charity's work raises questions of impartiality.", "Dr Iain Robertson-Steel has taken two people to hospital himself due to ambulance shortages.", "Easy On Me is the singer's first new material since 2015 - but what does it tell us about the star?", "The monarch appears to criticise people who \"talk\" but \"don't do\", ahead of the COP26 summit.", "Police in England and Wales are increasingly running out of time to bring charges, the BBC discovers.", "Fully vaccinated travellers will be allowed to enter the US for the first time since March 2020.", "The Tory MP was a backbencher of the old school who fought for the causes he cared about.", "The job of an MP is increasingly accompanied by abuse, intimidation and danger.", "New South Wales will allow vaccinated citizens and their relatives unrestricted entry from November.", "Nine Moscow restaurants have received Michelin stars for their food - a prestigious industry award.", "Wales' Chief Medical Officer Dr Frank Atherton says pregnant women should get a Covid jab.", "A Labour MP accuses the Welsh government of adopting Stonewall's interpretation of equality law.", "More than 20% of women admitted to intensive care for Covid since May were pregnant, a study finds.", "A lab in Wolverhampton is suspended as 43,000 people in England and Wales are potentially affected.", "People in England going away for half term will be able to book lateral flow tests, the government says.", "The RMT warned there will be no trains running anywhere in Scotland during COP26 if the strikes go ahead.", "Aged as young as seven or eight, they're risking their lives to smuggle small items over national borders.", "The artwork, which self-shredded when sold in 2018, fetched more than double its guide price.", "The site says \"sometimes we make the wrong call\" after being accused of attacking free speech.", "Residents choke back tears on the streets of Leigh-on Sea as they remember their compassionate MP.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 October.", "Health chief says it's not clear what went wrong as 43,000 in England and Wales potentially affected.", "Sir Gerry Robinson presented the series Can Gerry Robinson Fix The NHS? for the BBC in 2007.", "Friends and colleagues remember Essex MP David Amess's \"wonderful smile\" and \"photographic memory\".", "The DUP is refusing to attend most north-south ministerial talks over the NI Protocol.", "The government is to allow butchers into the UK on temporary visas after warnings of mass culls.", "The popular Islamic app was removed in the country, after an official request.", "Average petrol prices are just 2p off their record high from April 2012, says the RAC.", "Lewis Bloor is cleared as the prosecution admits it failed to disclose some evidence.", "The Swedish furniture giant says it will take another year before shipping and supplies return to normal.", "Stacey Dash has revealed how she \"lost everything\" due to taking 18-20 pills a day.", "Record-breaking long-distance runner Agnes Tirop was found stabbed to death at her home on Wednesday.", "Britain's Cameron Norrie beat Argentina's Diego Schwartzman to reach the semi-finals of the Indian Wells Masters.", "Ministers want to lift the limit on how many deliveries overseas lorry drivers can make in the UK.", "The home secretary says her \"dear and loyal friend\" Sir David Amess died doing the job he loved, as political leaders lay wreaths near where he was attacked in Essex.", "Police said the gun had been kept loaded in a children's backpack on the floor of the couple's room.", "Commissioner Philip Allott quits his role following a two-week storm of sustained criticism.", "David Wightman was found by a group of students after two nights alone in the Scottish mountain range.", "Police had launched a massive manhunt for Masten Wanjala, who confessed to killing several children.", "A man in his fifties died after the house collapsed in Clayton-le-Woods, near Chorley, police say.", "Plans to use ozone machines to disinfect classrooms from Covid are abandoned in Wales.", "Personnel will be sent to NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Borders to relieve \"significant pressure\" ahead of the winter period.", "The rock star tops the UK singles chart with Cold Heart, with the help of collaborator Dua Lipa.", "Land and ferry crossings with Mexico and Canada will reopen in November after 19 months of curbs.", "In the first instance, foreign tourists arriving on chartered flights will be allowed in from 15 October.", "Joel Souza, wounded by a gun fired by actor Alec Baldwin, grieves for lost friend Halyna Hutchins.", "Five officers have cases to answer over messages sent on WhatsApp and Signal, the police watchdog says.", "A statement from the veteran politician was read out in the Lords, backing a new assisted dying bill.", "The actor was handed the weapon by an assistant director before Halyna Hutchins was shot, a warrant says.", "The 24-year-old is detained at Manchester Airport on suspicion of a terrorism offence.", "Exam board AQA said publisher Hodder Education would remove the book from sale \"and review its content\".", "A network of \"family hubs\" is to be funded in England to provide support services in one place.", "The massive wheel was opened in Dubai with a lavish fireworks display to mark the occasion.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak will deliver his second Budget for 2021 next week. How will it affect you?", "Students were suspended and barred from school activities for wearing long hair, the lawsuit says.", "A director who worked with Halyna Hutchins in 2020 describes the gun safety protocols films tend to use.", "The home secretary wants to change the law after the BBC revealed a big rise in cases being dropped.", "Former student Whitney Dowler tried to run away from lecturer Kary Thanapalan as he pursued her.", "Tougher measures to stop the spread of coronavirus could be avoided with early action, advisers say.", "The controversial law will be tested next month when the court holds an expedited hearing.", "It may be more contagious than Delta, but there is no evidence yet that it causes worse illness, experts say.", "The climate activist speaks to the BBC about the COP26 conference, emissions targets and rickrolling.", "The chancellor will announce increased funding for tram, train and bus services in England.", "More than 1.7 million people were stopped in the past year, including 145,000 unaccompanied children.", "Doreen Lofthouse donates her fortune to a charity that strives to develop her hometown Fleetwood.", "The right-wing politician is charged with kidnapping and dereliction of duty, which he denies.", "Key routes near the SEC in Glasgow have closed as the city prepares for a major UN climate summit.", "England bowl West Indies out for 55 as they make a stunning start to their Men's T20 World Cup campaign with a six-wicket win in Dubai.", "President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declares them \"persona non grata\" for urging an activist's release.", "Halyna Hutchins, who has died on a film set, had been named an American Cinematographer rising star.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 October.", "A new law urges parents to allow children time for rest and exercise, and restrict time spent online.", "The arrests follow multiple reports of drinks being spiked and needles being used.", "A charity says animals that cannot be sold are disguised as strays so rescue centres take them.", "A government source says the EU has offered \"things that we can work with\" but gaps remain.", "Director of photography Halyna Hutchins was killed by a prop gun fired by the actor in New Mexico.", "The government sets out its package for new T-levels and boosting further education in England.", "Fully-jabbed people returning to England can now take lateral flow tests instead of PCR tests.", "Some lockdown pet owners pretend dogs are genuine strays after failing to sell them, rescuers say.", "Robin Swann says he \"will not be deterred\" from recommending more restrictions if cases rise.", "Quiñónez, one of the country's best known athletes, was shot in the city of Guayaquil.", "Many athletes turn out for the funeral of Agnes Tirop, who was found stabbed to death at her home.", "The mysterious sign appeared on the outskirts of Sandtoft in North Lincolnshire earlier this week.", "Dementia patient Esme Hanson was left stranded in hospital because of a lack of home care.", "Boris Johnson says the police do a \"wonderful job\" - but must do more to tackle violence against women.", "Rhian Horsey was \"completely transparent\" about what the cash was for, the court heard.", "A Turkish man joined a search party without realising he was the person they were looking for.", "Vaccinated Australians can start travelling abroad from November, ending an 18-month ban.", "Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay vow to make the party a serious electoral force across England and Wales.", "Development charities fear \"accounting tricks\" will be used to cut the amount spent directly on aid.", "Humza Yousaf says \"high demand\" is to blame for people being unable to access their vaccination status.", "There has been a huge drop in school exclusions since Maureen McKenna became Glasgow's education chief.", "Sentencing Wayne Couzens to a whole-life term, the judge said he had eroded confidence in the police.", "Opening day takings were 13% higher than Spectre but 26% below Skyfall, distributor Universal says.", "This is the highest reported rate for Covid for any age group since the pandemic began.", "The RAC says drivers are facing a \"bleak picture\" as rising wholesale costs push up pump prices.", "Halle lost three-and-and-a-half stone because the pain was so bad she stopped eating.", "\"The police service is very sexist and misogynistic,\" says former high-ranking Met officer Parm Sandhu.", "There are \"two few convictions\" in cases of rape and domestic violence, says Boris Johnson.", "Princess Beatrice and her husband reveal they have named their daughter Sienna Elizabeth.", "In lockdown Kathleen Edge could get through a litre of vodka and four bottles of wine in two days.", "The increased sales tax will be passed on to customers, say restaurant and bar bosses.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday evening.", "Commissioner Philip Allott said women \"need to be streetwise\" in the wake of the Sarah Everard case.", "Wayne Couzens is jailed for life for his premeditated attack on a victim he chose at random.", "A senior Met officer says checks in its vetting processes \"may not have been undertaken correctly\".", "Charities say they have been inundated with calls from worried immunosuppressed people.", "Opposition parties say new laws are needed to sort out emergency visas for HGV drivers.", "Many users say they have been unable to access their vaccination status through the new app.", "Policing Minister Kit Malthouse says the murder has struck a \"devastating blow\" to confidence in the Met.", "Dame Cressida Dick says she recognises a \"bond of trust has been damaged\", after facing calls to resign.", "People stopped by a lone plain-clothes officer should challenge their legitimacy, the Met Police says.", "The hip-hop stars will be joined by Kendrick Lamar and Mary J Blige in Los Angeles in February.", "Gwrych will be home to the show for a second year as its usual Australian base remains off-limits.", "The number of people trying to use it probably caused the issues, the Scottish government says.", "The Colombian singer was walking in a park in Barcelona, Spain, with her son when the animals struck.", "Sarah Everard's name became a rallying cry against men-on-women violence. It was not her choice.", "Natasha Ednan-Laperouse's parents said she would be \"very proud\" of the new law to protect allergy sufferers.", "The singer was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in 2016 and taken off treatment in August.", "Sarah Everard's killer is believed to have been in a chat with officers sharing \"discriminatory\" content.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 24 September and 1 October.", "The force seeks to reassure the public after the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving officer.", "It follows allegations that an executive deceived potential investors during a conference call.", "Panic buying of petrol has left some key workers unable to get fuel to travel to work.", "Grass fires and floods in Wales are becoming \"unbelievable\", says one front-line firefighter.", "In court, the family of Sarah Everard confront her murderer and lay bare their loss and anguish.", "Kate Wilson met the undercover officer while he was posing as an environmental campaigner in 2003.", "The singer reveals she was molested by a family member when she was a child at music school.", "Halle's family says they have lost faith in the NHS as the 14-year-old waits for jaw treatment.", "Police must do more to restore trust - and can't put the onus on women to change behaviour, says MP.", "Driver Johnny Anderson says about 20 vehicles followed him to a building site in Northamptonshire.", "Standard energy bills rise by £139 a year and prepayment meter bills see sharper rise under new price cap.", "Almost 200 servicemen and women will provide temporary support after a week of long queues for fuel.", "The British chart-topper and another man are both sentenced to 28 months in jail.", "Koci Selamaj appears in court accused of the \"premeditated\" killing of teacher Sabina Nessa.", "\"Ongoing tech issues\" caused it to repeat Wednesday's episode instead of the finale.", "Eighty women and girls were videoed by secret cameras, but a Spanish judge dismissed the case.", "Promising results mean a clinical trial has ended early and emergency authorisation is being sought.", "The charges follow alleged mistreatment of hospital patients following a BBC investigation.", "The Met chief previously ignored numerous calls for her resignation - what was the final nail in the coffin?", "But the situation is patchy across the UK, with smaller fuel stations in many areas still seeing big shortages.", "Jeremy Stansfield is awarded £1.6m after a Bang Goes The Theory stunt caused spine and brain injuries.", "The pub chain saw its sites closed for about 19 weeks under coronavirus-related restrictions.", "The former French president is found guilty of illegally funding his unsuccessful 2012 re-election.", "A lack of butchers has resulted in the supply chain between farm and supermarket becoming blocked.", "The historic deal is designed to make big corporations pay a fairer share of tax around the world.", "Lucy Dyer is charged with causing death by dangerous driving and drink driving following the crash.", "The service would track users but campaigners say the real problem is male violence against women.", "The England and Wales Cricket Board says it hopes to \"resolve these matters in the coming days\".", "Britain's Emma Raducanu loses on her return to court for the first time since her US Open triumph.", "Top-flight clubs complain to the Premier League after it cleared Newcastle's Saudi Arabian-backed takeover.", "Disadvantaged children miss out most from not being in school, the education secretary says.", "It comes two days after a lower court blocked the law, which bans abortions at six weeks of pregnancy.", "It is believed the doorman tried to \"engage\" with a driver who was thought to have been drinking.", "The two largest power stations shut down, leaving Lebanon without electricity nationwide.", "\"Swift, decisive action\" is needed in the face of soaring energy prices, the director general of UK Steel says.", "Students in Glasgow have complained to the provider about holes in floors, construction dust and flooding.", "It is believed he went in the wrong direction during the descent of a ramp and got trapped under it.", "Taiwan dismisses the Chinese leader's remarks, saying its future lies in the hands of its people.", "A petition urges the royals to conserve nature and reintroduce animals on their estates.", "Firms say consumers could face a \"huge cost\" from providers going out of business.", "Miriam Groot scoops top prize at the World Porridge Making Championships with a savoury vegan recipe.", "The UK wants the European Court of Justice removed from oversight of the NI Protocol.", "The move sets up a potential legal showdown over what documents an ex-president can keep secret.", "The island says it is easing Covid restrictions, and will allow vaccinated travellers from 11 countries.", "David Fuller, 67, killed Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce at their Tunbridge Wells bedsits.", "The social network changes its policy following a BBC investigation.", "Grace, 15, who uses a wheelchair after having Covid last year, was at a centre to receive a jab.", "Three fathers doing a charity walk receive a donation from film star Daniel Craig as they set out.", "Sebastian Kurz denies allegations he used government money for party political purposes.", "The UK has an average of only 53% of its biodiversity left, well below the global average, study shows.", "Letters will be sent to all 12 to 15-year-olds by the end of half-term, the health minister says.", "The former president had previously claimed the hotel earned $150m during his four year term.", "The answer to making coal tips safer could be out-of-this-world.", "Aimee, 29, struggled to cope even while on the school run.", "It will scrutinise culture and standards at the police force following Sarah Everard's murder.", "Aneurin Bevan health board is closing midwifery-led births at four hospitals for 11 days.", "James Brokenshire, who has died of cancer, is remembered by colleagues for his kindness and decency.", "Scott McTominay sparks bedlam at Hampden as his stoppage-time winner against Israel keeps Scotland on course for the World Cup qualifying play-offs.", "Residents described hearing screams and ran to comfort the toddler and his mother.", "Olivier Rousteing, creative director of Balmain, shared a picture of himself swathed in bandages.", "The group say they will reschedule the final four UK dates of its reunion tour.", "This is the twentieth day of eruptions coming from the Cumbre Vieja volcano.", "The meeting comes a day after Afghanistan suffered its deadliest attack since US forces withdrew.", "Paul Luttrell's family were warned he may not wake from a coma, but he has made a speedy recovery.", "Public Health Scotland says 551 people who tested positive for the virus were at the festival around the time of their illness.", "Police say the investigation into the \"alleged sonic weapon attack\" began in August.", "The brief outage comes just days after Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp went down for hours globally.", "Islamic State militants say they were behind the deadliest bombing since US forces left Afghanistan.", "High energy costs could put up goods prices, say firms, with households already facing bigger gas bills.", "Pyongyang confirmed the test a day after South Korea detected a ballistic missile had been fired.", "While some allegations against British troops are credible, others are not, defence secretary says.", "Agents are sweeping homes linked to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch who is under US sanctions.", "Warren Higgs speaks before and after having his kidneys, which weighed more than five stone (35kg), removed.", "New AI features such as \"magic\" photo editing and on-device voice processing come with the new chip.", "More than 17,000 children were waiting more than a year to see a hospital consultant for the first time.", "The ex-US secretary of state, the first African-American in that role, dies of Covid complications.", "Stormont's first and deputy first ministers call for an end to the abuse of public representatives.", "The Manchester Arena bomber's brother Ismail Abedi has been ordered to appear as a witness.", "The Equality Commission says employers could end up \"on the wrong side of the law\".", "Two adults and two children are taken to hospital after four homes are caught up in an explosion in Ayrshire.", "The rapper, who won BBC Music's Sound of 2019, was accused of abusive behaviour by an ex in 2020.", "MPs have been remembering Sir David Amess, who was killed in his Essex constituency.", "A catastrophic fault knocked out subtitles, signing and audio description more than three weeks ago.", "The new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips expand the firm's use of silicon it has designed.", "British supermarket group Morrisons says shareholders approve the US private equity group takeover.", "The supermarket's new GetGo format lets customers shop without scanning a product or using a till.", "England are ordered to play one match behind closed doors as a punishment for the unrest at Wembley Stadium during the European Championship final.", "Urgent track repairs are affecting services between Kent and Sussex, and London Charing Cross.", "Food and drink firms are seeing price rises of as much as 18% while manufacturers struggle with costs.", "The Tory MP was a backbencher of the old school who fought for the causes he cared about.", "It means secondary pupils must continue to cover their faces even when seated in the classroom.", "South Wales Police says it has made \"significant findings\" linking David Morris to the crime scene.", "Boris Johnson announces the town will be awarded the coveted status that the MP campaigned for.", "Det Con Lee Cunliffe is charged with 11 offences following a police investigation.", "A UK government minister says such a project could provide thousands of jobs on Anglesey.", "Scientists are studying it to better understand how much of a threat it may pose.", "The prime minister will announce 18 new foreign investment deals in low-carbon sectors worth £9.7bn.", "Zac Harvey died of smoke inhalation in the blaze in Ceredigion in January 2020.", "Its collapse takes the number of customers affected by energy company failures to more than two million.", "Two students report being injected with a mystery substance during nights out in Nottingham.", "The US climate envoy says decisions have to be made now to avoid the worst consequences of climate change.", "An inquiry finds police seemed \"reluctant to investigate\" claims against former MP Lord Janner.", "And in the Commons, MPs pay tribute to Sir David Amess saying they have lost a much-loved colleague.", "But Boris Johnson says the rollout of a Plan B to control the virus in England has not been discussed.", "It is thought to have been a submarine-launched ballistic missile which are harder to detect.", "He was the prolific creator of multiple movie hits such as Candyman, Feeling Good and Goldfinger.", "The teenager has been arrested and charged over the death of Justin McLaughlin, 14, in Glasgow on Saturday.", "Sixty eight percent of all Premier League players have now had both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, the league announces.", "Doctors booked a termination for Sharon Gorvett, but no-one discussed her options with her.", "From half-term, this group will be able to get vaccinated at national hubs, rather than at school.", "The BBC logo is updated for the first time in 24 years as services like iPlayer also get a revamp.", "Mateusz Morawiecki clashes with EU leaders over a Polish court ruling that rejected parts of EU law.", "Labour says a government plan to close a loophole in future cases should also apply retrospectively.", "A judge ruled Alta Fixsler's life support should be withdrawn in a hospice rather than at home.", "MPs have described their experience of threats to their safety as tributes are paid to Sir David Amess.", "The trial of Dennis Hutchings, 80, had been adjourned when he tested positive for Covid-19.", "Younger mothers opt for more modern names, according to official birth data in England and Wales.", "David Henderson, 67, denies the charge of endangering the safety of an aircraft.", "Police have escorted cabinet minister Michael Gove away from a crowd of anti-lockdown protesters.", "Potential hazards for ministers include sceptical Tory MPs and voters worried about rising bills.", "Footage gathered from a shop shows a man believed to be the suspect on the morning of the attack.", "The Duchess of Cambridge warns of the \"devastating impact\" of the pandemic on addiction rates.", "Dennis Hutchings, who was on trial over a fatal shooting in County Tyrone in 1974, died on Monday.", "One woman says she's been \"left in the dark\" during her 18 months with long Covid.", "The singer tells the BBC she is returning to the country of her birth after 30 years in the UK.", "The Home Office says a technical issue affecting self-service border checks has been resolved.", "Households in England could see bills jump within three years, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies.", "It comes after the singer was found guilty of sex trafficking last month.", "The Amazon 4-star shop in Kent will sell a range of products which are bestsellers on its website.", "A labour shortage in abattoirs means some 600 pigs have already been shot and discarded.", "Ernest Johnson was executed despite pleas from Pope Francis and other advocates.", "A \"total\" disaster, a resident says, as the storm turns the sky orange in parts of São Paulo state.", "Emma Raducanu says it has been \"pretty cool\" to receive the congratulations of other players at Indian Wells, but now is the time to get back to business.", "Next boss Lord Wolfson says hiring overseas workers under a visa tax scheme is the solution to shortages.", "Mauro Restrepo alleges Sophia Adams told him his marriage was cursed and she could save it for $5,100.", "Boris Johnson told the annual Tory conference it is responsible for the government to raise taxes to fund healthcare.", "Exams have been cancelled in a bid to avoid a repeat of last summer's GCSE and A-Level \"fiasco\".", "Patsy Stevenson says \"about 50\" officers contacted her after her arrest at a vigil for Sarah Everard.", "Documents, shared in online forums appear to show records of payments made to streamers.", "Meet the families who have been spending their savings getting back to nature during the pandemic.", "Australia has controversially held migrants in PNG since 2013, and will continue to do so in Nauru.", "Gareth Davies missed a tight Senedd vote that saw Covid passes for nightclubs and events approved.", "Boris Johnson leader's speech at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester.", "Mark Zuckerberg denies claims, heard in the US Senate, that Facebook puts profits before people.", "Wooden barracks at the death camp were spray-painted with English and German phrases.", "The justice secretary is accused of not understanding the definition of prejudice against women.", "A gross misconduct notice is issued to a police staff member over Jake Davison's shotgun certificate.", "Boris Johnson ends the Tory conference on a high, but many voters fear a difficult winter ahead.", "Wales will move in line with England to reduce grade inflation which occurred during the pandemic.", "Letters and consent forms for the Covid vaccination will be issued to students mid-to-late October.", "High energy costs could put up goods prices, say firms, with households already facing bigger gas bills.", "But Boris Johnson says an extra £3,000 will lure maths and science specialists to deprived areas.", "The public have a right to know why he was allowed to continue as an officer, the home secretary says.", "The PM will promise a high-wage, high-skill economy, as he makes his Conservative conference speech.", "Bradford Pretty's \"abhorrent\" Facebook post targeted Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka.", "The maker of Quality Street says it is \"working hard\" to make sure chocolates are available.", "The high costs of wholesale gas has collapsed a number of UK energy firms in recent weeks.", "Ronald Blake held a belt on John Atkinson's leg for nearly an hour after the Manchester Arena bomb.", "Matthew Boorman, a father-of-three, died during the attacks in Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire.", "The two-week trial involves flights of about 30 miles, from Kirkwall to North Ronaldsay.", "The £20-a-week top-up to universal credit was always meant to be temporary, the government says.", "The Brighton and Hove Albion player was arrested at a nightclub in the Sussex city.", "Offering to write essays for payment will be made a criminal offence in England, the government says.", "Video-sharing platforms have a legal duty to enforce strict rules - or be fined or even suspended.", "The lone insect found in Surrey may be a stowaway or part of an undiscovered population.", "There is concern that No 10 is brushing away concerns about the economy too easily.", "French PM Jean Castex accuses the UK of not respecting its Brexit deal commitments on fishing.", "The star hands over the rights to songs like The Best and Nutbush City Limits to music company BMG.", "Police Scotland has apologised to Rhona Malone after an employment tribunal found evidence of a sexist culture.", "However, Paul Givan says it is prudent to plan to manage health service pressures.", "Shami Chakrabati says the inquiry into failings after Sarah Everard's murder needs to be judge-led.", "An employment tribunal accepts evidence of a \"horrific\" culture in part of Police Scotland.", "The remains from South Wales are few and fragmentary but recall the dawn of dinosaur evolution.", "The PM promises higher wages, better transport and more training, as he gives his Tory conference speech.", "Britain's biggest supermarket shrugs off the impact of the pandemic and supply chain crisis.", "His legal team believes the sealed document will end a case brought by his accuser, Virginia Giuffre.", "Tamara Padi was stabbed multiple times in her bedroom by her estranged husband, who lay in wait.", "Joel Souza, wounded by a gun fired by actor Alec Baldwin, grieves for lost friend Halyna Hutchins.", "Shoppers had been locked out of the supermarket's website following an outage that began on Saturday.", "Exam board AQA said publisher Hodder Education would remove the book from sale \"and review its content\".", "The massive wheel was opened in Dubai with a lavish fireworks display to mark the occasion.", "Eluned Morgan apologises after MPs say early Covid response one of worst ever public health failings.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak will deliver his second Budget for 2021 next week. How will it affect you?", "Former student Whitney Dowler tried to run away from lecturer Kary Thanapalan as he pursued her.", "Molly, 14, died after viewing graphic content on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook.", "A charity says urgent reform is needed to stop people going without support.", "NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde says patients should not turn up at A&E unless they are seriously ill.", "Covid left him waiting to pass the milestone after 25 years of enjoying the wooden rollercoaster.", "Two forces in Wales say they have been contacted about potential cases.", "Mohamed Salah scores a hat-trick and Paul Pogba is sent off as clinical Liverpool embarrass Manchester United 5-0 at Old Trafford.", "Brentwood's MP says it is a \"very dark day\" for the town after the suspected stabbings.", "Aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is distraught at the prospect of returning to jail, her husband says.", "Vanessa Bryant said she learned about the death of her husband by seeing \"RIP Kobe\" notifications.", "The climate activist speaks to the BBC about the COP26 conference, emissions targets and rickrolling.", "The new money is welcomed by health leaders, but they warn it will not solve staff shortages.", "One was taken to hospital after trouble erupted at Coventry City's ground on Saturday.", "Scotland's health secretary cannot rule out restrictions if the UN climate summit creates a Covid spike.", "But the chancellor says the data does not suggest \"immediately\" moving to government's back-up plan.", "Key routes near the SEC in Glasgow have closed as the city prepares for a major UN climate summit.", "President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declares them \"persona non grata\" for urging an activist's release.", "England bowl West Indies out for 55 as they make a stunning start to their Men's T20 World Cup campaign with a six-wicket win in Dubai.", "The chancellor says he will set out a plan for rebuilding the economy next week based on skills.", "Care homes in Wales could fill 20,000 vacancies \"by the end of the week\" if they could find staff.", "The changes will make it easier and cheaper for people to travel abroad, industry groups say.", "Andrew Marr is joined by Rishi Sunak and Rachel Reeves.", "Halyna Hutchins, who has died on a film set, had been named an American Cinematographer rising star.", "The singer-songwriter says he will be \"self-isolating and following government guidelines\".", "The cinematographer was fatally shot by a prop gun while filming for western movie Rust.", "Police said even if climate summit protests are peaceful they can be unlawful and \"very unsafe\".", "A government source says the EU has offered \"things that we can work with\" but gaps remain.", "A charity says animals that cannot be sold are disguised as strays so rescue centres take them.", "The government sets out its package for new T-levels and boosting further education in England.", "Fully-jabbed people returning to England can now take lateral flow tests instead of PCR tests.", "Jennifer Aniston says the show \"would not have been the same\" without the late James Michael Tyler.", "The 42-year-old, who will have surgery to remove a tumour on Monday, says the \"outlook is positive\".", "The prime minister believes new funds will tackle the Covid backlog - but refuses to set targets.", "The health board warns its hospitals are at maximum capacity and describes occupancy levels as \"critical.", "Quiñónez, one of the country's best known athletes, was shot in the city of Guayaquil.", "The government says the funding will \"unlock\" 160,000 greener homes on brownfield land.", "Dementia patient Esme Hanson was left stranded in hospital because of a lack of home care.", "Police are investigating a banner by Crystal Palace fans at their match on Saturday criticising the Saudi Arabian-led takeover of Newcastle.", "The former minister will become a special representative for a United Nations body in Africa.", "A Holocaust denier was buried in the former grave of a music professor outside Berlin.", "The spending budget for a minimum standard of living increases to £16,700 for a couple, the calculations suggest.", "The Queen, patron of the charity, attended a service at Westminster Abbey to mark the milestone.", "The Labour leader is warned to move to the left while visiting a HGV driver training centre and taking a lesson.", "Fully vaccinated travellers from nations including the UK will no longer need to quarantine.", "Shipping giant Maersk says it is diverting cargo from Port of Felixstowe due to congestion.", "Sami Jasim al-Jaburi was allegedly a deputy leader of the jihadist group under Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.", "The Environment Agency says hundreds could die in a flooding event at some point.", "Despite recent tax rises, there is limited scope to spend more on public services, says the IFS.", "The parents of six-month-old Eva Maria Nichifor say they are \"distraught\" by their loss.", "The business secretary says he is looking for a solution but does not set out new support for firms.", "Eluned Morgan apologises after MPs say early Covid response one of worst ever public health failings.", "Legal action, if successful, could radically change how player information and data is used.", "The Conservative denies saying \"they all look the same to me\" after mixing up two ethnic minority ministers at an event.", "Stephen Port went on to kill three more young men with overdoses of the date rape drug GHB.", "Former soldiers and police are among Afghans trying to evade a crackdown at the Turkey-Iran border.", "Jonathon Ramsbottom had cocaine and cannabis in his system when the crash happened, court hears.", "The chief scientific adviser says he does not just tell the government what it wants to hear.", "Julian Smith MP says Philip Allott's comments following the Sarah Everard case were \"unacceptable\".", "A deal averting another carbon dioxide crisis in the food and drink industry will now run into 2022.", "The driver, a 67-year-old man, was later arrested on suspicion of drink driving, police say.", "The work by an Italian painter was gathering dust until its discovery in a house clearance.", "A record £184m Euromillions prize will be up for grabs again on Friday after no ticket won on Tuesday.", "A major report by MPs says the March 2020 lockdown came too late - but praises the vaccine rollout.", "The auctioneer says the buyers \"seemed to think they are actually Egyptian\".", "Ten people are detained in London and Kent after an international investigation into false documents.", "Police say work at the scene of the crash is \"highly complex\" and is likely to go on into Tuesday.", "A teacher from a Wrexham secondary school is arrested in Bolton on suspicion of grooming.", "In an upcoming comic the new reiteration of Superman, Jon Kent, will be pictured in a same-sex kiss.", "The mayor's office blames \"uncertainty caused by the pandemic\", but other options will be planned.", "Weeks after a series of missile tests, Kim Jong-un says weapons are needed for defence, but not war.", "The UK's Brexit minister says the existing protocol cannot survive and warns the UK could still trigger Article 16.", "Her rejection of an Israeli company to translate her new book into Hebrew triggers anger and praise.", "Job vacancies rose by 35% compared to pre-pandemic levels due to a shortage of skilled workers.", "England's path to the 2022 World Cup hits an unexpected stumbling block are they are held by Hungary in a qualifier Gareth Southgate calls a \"big disappointment\".", "At its height, about 70 firefighters were involved in tackling the blaze at the flats in Battersea.", "The DJ says that when she reported the matter to police, officers laughed about what had happened.", "Wales scrape past Estonia with an unconvincing win in Tallinn to keep their hopes of finishing second in their World Cup qualifying group in their own hands.", "An investigation is launched into why Ohio officers pulled out the man as he called for help.", "John Atkinson's family say \"precious time was allowed to ebb away\" after the Manchester Arena bomb.", "Matthew Corrie hopes his customers will make deliveries for him because he cannot find staff.", "Some of the Tesco Max All-In-One Chesty Cough & Cold Lemon Sachets contain incorrect dosing information.", "The pair went on Instagram live to discuss the backlash to their song.", "The state has become the first in the US to pass the law, which aims to tackle gender stereotypes.", "Hungary fans fight with police in the opening minutes of Tuesday's World Cup qualifier against England at Wembley.", "The DUP and Sinn Féin describe job losses at JMC Mechanical and Construction as \"devastating\".", "Carbon emissions from making building materials - or embodied carbon - had led to calls to end demolitions.", "A woman says hospital restructuring has badly affected her husband's treatment.", "The migrants were struck by the train in a southern coastal town near Biarritz on Tuesday morning.", "But the new report by MPs fails to reflect the views of bereaved relatives, campaigners say.", "Public health boss says not only older people are at risk, as under-25s hit in Neath Port Talbot.", "His appointment to the UN's economic commission for Africa was announced earlier this week.", "The former US president is expected to meet young climate activists during his visit to the UN summit.", "Ten people were mistakenly killed by the US military in a drone strike on the Afghan capital.", "Police say a man was arrested and a knife was recovered after the incident in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.", "Sir David Amess has been described as \"one of the kindest, most gentle people in politics\".", "As well as his TV career, Alan Hawkshaw was in the Shadows and toured with the Rolling Stones.", "The 23-year-old was part of a crew operating an armoured vehicle on the UK's largest training area.", "Rising temperatures and desertification are forcing many Mauritanians to leave their ancestral homes.", "Artwork aiming to make Cardiff more \"vibrant and welcoming\" is removed in error by cleaning crews.", "Her family has told the BBC that they fear she could be returned to jail at any time.", "Roberto Firmino nets a hat-trick and Mohamed Salah scores another wonderful goal as Liverpool spoil Claudio Ranieri's first game as Watford boss.", "The monarch appears to criticise people who \"talk\" but \"don't do\", ahead of the COP26 summit.", "He is accused of overthrowing a democratically-elected government to assume power.", "Prof Dame Sarah Gilbert says medical science has transformed ambitions for new vaccines.", "Fully vaccinated travellers will be allowed to enter the US for the first time since March 2020.", "The Tory MP was a backbencher of the old school who fought for the causes he cared about.", "The job of an MP is increasingly accompanied by abuse, intimidation and danger.", "Friends and colleagues remember Essex MP David Amess's \"wonderful smile\" and \"photographic memory\".", "The opportunity comes under a scheme aimed at helping key workers and others on to the property ladder.", "The man arrested over the killing of Sir David Amess is named as Ali Harbi Ali, a Briton of Somali heritage.", "Watch as the head of Essex Police describes the immediate aftermath of the attack on Sir David Amess.", "Infections continue to soar as the Kremlin struggles to persuade people to get vaccinated.", "The day before Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is due for release, her husband talks of his hopes and fears.", "A man in his fifties died after the house collapsed in Clayton-le-Woods, near Chorley, police say.", "Police are treating the attack in Essex as a terrorist incident, which may be linked to Islamist extremism.", "The Lucy probe will visit swarms of asteroids called trojans to gain insights on planetary origins.", "The prime minister and Labour leader visit Leigh-on-Sea to pay tribute to MP Sir David Amess.", "Shares in the firm dive 20% as it delays first tourist flight to make upgrades.", "The president's administration will ask the Supreme Court to block a restrictive Texas abortion law.", "The protests come as tensions rise between civilian and military rulers.", "Average petrol prices are just 2p off their record high from April 2012, says the RAC.", "Stacey Dash has revealed how she \"lost everything\" due to taking 18-20 pills a day.", "Lewis Bloor is cleared as the prosecution admits it failed to disclose some evidence.", "The popular Islamic app was removed in the country, after an official request.", "A lab in Wolverhampton is suspended as 43,000 people in England and Wales are potentially affected.", "Constituents in Leigh-on-Sea mourn Sir David Amess as they try to make sense of what happened.", "How constituents and authorities reacted to the tragic killing of Sir David Amess.", "Hazrat Wali was found with knife injuries and died a short time later.", "The 1961 Paris massacre was denied or concealed by French governments for decades.", "Boris Johnson said Sir David Amess was one of the \"kindest, nicest, most gentle people in politics\".", "Thomas Rainey is charged with killing Katrina Rainey, who died after being found in a burning car.", "The rock star tops the UK singles chart with Cold Heart, with the help of collaborator Dua Lipa.", "The 450kg-haul was concealed in a shipment of ceramic tiles sent to Melbourne from Malaysia.", "Police believe a bow-and-arrow attack that killed five may have been as a result of mental illness.", "A 14-year-old girl was stopped and searched by a stranger while on her way to school on Wednesday.", "Land and ferry crossings with Mexico and Canada will reopen in November after 19 months of curbs.", "The home secretary says her \"dear and loyal friend\" Sir David Amess died doing the job he loved, as political leaders lay wreaths near where he was attacked in Essex.", "Anti-abortion activists celebrate but a doctor who could be targeted by new law fears for the future.", "Former PCC Arfon Jones apologises after being slated for comments following Sir David Amess' death.", "Residents choke back tears on the streets of Leigh-on Sea as they remember their compassionate MP.", "The fatal stabbing of Tory MP Sir David Amess has a potential link to Islamist extremism, say detectives.", "The singer's daughter says MP Sir David Amess was the \"driving force\" behind the memorial's campaign.", "The government says consumers and businesses will benefit from deal, but it is unlikely to boost growth.", "Agents are sweeping homes linked to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch who is under US sanctions.", "More than 17,000 children were waiting more than a year to see a hospital consultant for the first time.", "A student who believes she was jabbed in a club says she has been left feeling \"violated\".", "Plans for legal rights to ensure Catholic priests can administer the last rites at crime scenes.", "Dame Cressida Dick announces a new system for the Met after the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard.", "Two other people had knife injuries after the attack on the bus outside Mile End Tube station.", "Police say \"significant damage\" was caused by the Rathenraw industrial estate blaze on Tuesday night.", "Laura Anderson shares her experience of hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) during her pregnancy two years ago.", "The CMA says the social media giant, which also may be changing its name, deliberately broke rules.", "MPs call the action by anti-vaccine protesters \"scandalous\" in the week after Sir David Amess's death.", "Police targeted county lines operations where gangs supply drugs via dedicated phone numbers.", "Buckingham Palace says she has \"reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for the next few days\".", "Ministers say the Environment Bill shows global leadership, but critics accuse them of \"inaction\".", "But the business secretary says it is not time for \"Plan B\" and he wants to avoid further lockdowns.", "Items owned by Gabby Petito's missing fiancé and apparent human remains have been found in Florida.", "Several airlines have been told by the Moroccan government that flights will be suspended.", "Steve Bannon could be prosecuted for refusing to give evidence on the Capitol riot.", "Northern Ireland households could see gas bills increase by another 50% in December warns regulator.", "Additional measures are not needed in England at this point, the health secretary says.", "The global health body says healthcare workers should be prioritised for vaccination.", "The New England shilling dates from 1652 and was found amongst a forgotten coin collection.", "The health secretary is asked whether MPs should wear face coverings in the House of Commons chamber.", "At least 14 people are reported to have died in the bloodiest attack in the Syrian capital in years.", "British supermarket group Morrisons says shareholders approve the US private equity group takeover.", "David Ibbotson was ordered to not fly the aircraft before the fatal crash, a court hears.", "The former batsman was arrested in Sydney over an alleged domestic violence incident.", "Sir Andrew Pollard warns against possible moves to reverse planned investment in science.", "An inquiry finds police seemed \"reluctant to investigate\" claims against former MP Lord Janner.", "The advertising watchdog says three Brewdog adverts for a gold can competition were \"misleading\".", "A Nottingham student who believes she was injected with a needle during a night out speaks to the BBC.", "The former soldiers are accused of trying to form a mercenary force to fight in Yemen's civil war.", "Footage gathered from a shop shows a man believed to be the suspect on the morning of the attack.", "Manager Steve Bruce leaves Newcastle United by mutual consent just 13 days after the Saudi Arabia-backed £305m takeover of the Premier League side was completed.", "A BBC investigation had previously exposed the occultist's influence on the killer of two sisters.", "The business secretary denies that individuals will have to pay more to have a greener lifestyle.", "Food and drink firms are seeing price rises of as much as 18% while manufacturers struggle with costs.", "Many care staff are struggling with an increased workload and want to quit, research suggests.", "Heavy rain triggers flash floods and landslides in parts of India and Nepal.", "The health secretary's warning comes after 49,139 new cases were recorded earlier today.", "The average amount Britons take out of cash machines rises by over £10, but there are fewer visits.", "Four houses in Kincaidston are likely to be demolished while 35 others are damaged or strewn with debris.", "But Boris Johnson says the rollout of a Plan B to control the virus in England has not been discussed.", "He was the prolific creator of multiple movie hits such as Candyman, Feeling Good and Goldfinger.", "Boris Johnson promises to push through \"tough\" online safety laws, at Prime Minister's Questions.", "Yat-Sen Chang attacked female students while working in London between 2009 and 2016.", "Pyongyang confirmed the test a day after South Korea detected a ballistic missile had been fired.", "Jonathan Goodwin says he was on \"the brink\" after an accident in rehearsals for US spin-off show.", "While some allegations against British troops are credible, others are not, defence secretary says.", "Nikolas Cruz could see life in prison or the death penalty over the 2018 Florida school shooting.", "The prime minister has led the tributes to former Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire.", "New AI features such as \"magic\" photo editing and on-device voice processing come with the new chip.", "The Manchester Arena bomber's brother Ismail Abedi has been ordered to appear as a witness.", "A research paper recommending people shift towards plant-based foods is not policy, the government says.", "Refugees are leaving their hotels as they fear being moved to any part of the UK if they stay there.", "No reason was given for the Russian leader's decision not to attend the conference in Glasgow.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel says police will change their plans to \"properly\" reflect the situation.", "Police have escorted cabinet minister Michael Gove away from a crowd of anti-lockdown protesters.", "Potential hazards for ministers include sceptical Tory MPs and voters worried about rising bills.", "The Duchess of Cambridge warns of the \"devastating impact\" of the pandemic on addiction rates.", "The star's management company will select this year's song after the UK came bottom last year.", "The four-day event in Manchester begins amid petrol shortages, and rising food and energy costs.", "Almost 200 servicemen and women will provide temporary support after a week of long queues for fuel.", "The man had begun swallowing metal objects after quitting alcohol, doctors in Lithuania said.", "Boris Johnson says the police do a \"wonderful job\" - but must do more to tackle violence against women.", "Archaeologists make a number of finds including an amber bead and stone wheel.", "Canadian Mohammed Khalifa, who narrated IS videos, played a key propaganda role, prosecutors say.", "There is an air of crisis in British policing this weekend as it faces a great moment of reckoning.", "Mick Cullen, who walks in swimming trunks, is told he cannot stay \"dressed like this.\"", "The British chart-topper and another man are both sentenced to 28 months in jail.", "Development charities fear \"accounting tricks\" will be used to cut the amount spent directly on aid.", "The world longest-running religious TV show has been a stalwart of the Sunday schedules since 1961.", "The people of La Palma describe their struggles following a volcanic eruption which began two weeks ago.", "Her Majesty spoke of her affection for Scotland and the challenges of the Covid pandemic", "Clayton, Dubilier & Rice is highest bidder in the battle for the UK's fourth-largest supermarket group.", "Police Scotland introduces new safeguards in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard.", "It follows allegations that an executive deceived potential investors during a conference call.", "Britain's Lizzie Deignan takes a sensational breakaway win in the first edition of the women's Paris-Roubaix.", "The health secretary says he will not delay the November deadline for workers to be fully vaccinated.", "Panic buying of petrol has left some key workers unable to get fuel to travel to work.", "\"It's important to us, our children and our grandchildren and for schools,\" Elders founder says.", "The radio host must pay the families of victims after calling the Sandy Hook school shooting a \"hoax\".", "For the first time in more than two years a full-scale London Marathon - with crowds, charity runners and some of the world's best athletes - returns to the city's streets.", "The Independent Office for Police Conduct is considering whether to take action over Steve Turner.", "But the Petrol Retailers Association says driver restraint means the problem is improving nationwide.", "The home secretary's call follows the murder of Sarah Everard by serving Met officer Wayne Couzens.", "Anna Taylor, from Cumbria, climbed routes listed in Ken Wilson's renowned guidebook Classic Rock.", "A 14-year-old referee was shouted and sworn at by parents during a game in West Yorkshire.", "Commissioner Philip Allott said women \"need to be streetwise\" in the wake of the Sarah Everard case.", "There has been a huge drop in school exclusions since Maureen McKenna became Glasgow's education chief.", "Jorja Halliday, from Portsmouth, was due to have her coronavirus vaccination on the day she died.", "Northern Ireland's 12 to 15-year-olds will be offered one jab, while all over-50s and healthcare staff can get a third.", "Environmental activists are protesting against the emissions caused by private flights in Farnborough.", "Charities 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World Health Organization (WHO) says.\n\nHealthcare workers must be prioritised for vaccines, WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, and he criticised unfairness in the distribution of jabs.\n\nThe deaths occurred between January 2020 and May of this year.\n\nEarlier, another senior WHO official warned a lack of jabs could see the pandemic continue well into next year.\n\nThere are an estimated 135 million healthcare workers globally.\n\n\"Data from 119 countries suggest that on average, two in five healthcare workers globally are fully vaccinated,\" Dr Tedros said.\n\n\"But of course, that average masks huge differences across regions and economic groupings.\"\n\nFewer than one in 10 healthcare workers were fully vaccinated in Africa, he said, compared with eight in 10 in high-income countries.\n\nA failure to provide poorer countries with enough vaccines was highlighted earlier by Dr Bruce Aylward, a senior leader at the WHO, who said it meant the Covid crisis could \"easily drag on deep into 2022\".\n\nLess than 5% of Africa's population have been vaccinated, compared with 40% on most other continents.\n\nThe vast majority of Covid vaccines overall have been used in high-income or upper middle-income countries. Africa accounts for just 2.6% of doses administered globally.\n\nThe original idea behind Covax, the UN-backed global programme to distribute vaccines fairly, was that all countries would be able to acquire vaccines from its pool, including wealthy ones, writes BBC Global Affairs correspondent Naomi Grimley.\n\nBut most G7 countries decided to hold back once they started making their own one-to-one deals with pharmaceutical companies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins looks at the ethics of Western countries rolling out Covid booster jabs while millions globally remain unvaccinated\n\nDr Aylward appealed to wealthy countries to give up their places in the queue for vaccines so that pharmaceutical companies can prioritise the lowest-income countries instead.\n\nHe said wealthy countries needed to \"stocktake\" where they were with their donation commitments made at summits such as the G7 meeting in St Ives this summer.\n\n\"I can tell you we're not on track,\" he said. \"We really need to speed it up or you know what? This pandemic is going to go on for a year longer than it needs to.\"\n\nThe People's Vaccine - an alliance of charities - has released new figures suggesting just one in seven of the doses promised by pharmaceutical companies and wealthy countries are actually reaching their destinations in poorer countries.\n\nThe alliance, which includes Oxfam and UNAids, also criticised Canada and the UK for procuring vaccines for their own populations via Covax.\n\nOfficial figures show that earlier this year the UK received 539,370 Pfizer doses from Covax while Canada took just under a million AstraZeneca doses.\n\nOxfam's Global Health Adviser, Rohit Malpani, acknowledged that Canada and the UK were technically entitled to get vaccines via this route having paid into the Covax mechanism, but he said it was still \"morally indefensible\" given that they had both obtained millions of doses through their own bilateral agreements.\n\nThe UK government pointed out it was one of the countries which had \"kick-started\" Covax last year with a donation of £548m.\n\nThe UK has also delivered more than 10 million vaccines to countries in need, and has pledged a total of 100 million.\n\nThe Canadian government was keen to stress that it had now stopped using Covax vaccines.\n\nThe country's International Development Minister, Karina Gould, said: \"As soon as it became clear that the supply we had secured through our bilateral deals would be sufficient for the Canadian population, we pivoted the doses which we had procured from Covax back to Covax, so they could be redistributed to developing countries.\"\n\nCovax originally aimed to deliver two billion doses of vaccines by the end of this year, but so far it has shipped 371m doses.", "It is thought New Zealand will be able to sell more lamb to the UK under the deal\n\nThe UK has agreed a free trade deal with New Zealand which it says will benefit consumers and businesses.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the deal will cut costs for exporters and open up New Zealand's job market to UK professionals.\n\nThe government hopes it is a step towards joining a trade club with the likes of Canada and Japan.\n\nThe New Zealand deal itself is unlikely to boost UK growth, according to the government's own estimates.\n\nOverall, only a tiny proportion of UK trade is done with New Zealand, less than 0.2%.\n\nLabour and the National Farmers Union (NFU) said the deal could hurt UK farmers and lower food standards.\n\nBut International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan said it \"affords opportunities in both directions for great sharing of produce\" and British farmers should not be worried.\n\nMr Johnson and New Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, agreed the pact in a video call on Wednesday after 16 months of negotiations.\n\nTariffs will be removed on UK goods including clothing, ships and bulldozers, and on New Zealand goods including wine, honey and kiwi fruits.\n\nProfessionals such as lawyers and architects will be able to work in New Zealand more easily, the government said.\n\nHowever, the deal is not likely to increase UK economic growth - or GDP - according to the UK government's own assessments. New Zealand will fare slightly better as it may be able to sell more lamb to the UK.\n\nBut, like the trade deal recently struck with Australia, the UK hopes this is a step towards joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) - a trade bloc that includes Australasia, Canada, Mexico and Japan among others.\n\nThe UK already has deals with many of the members, rolled over from when it was in the EU. But CPTPP membership would give it more access in terms of services and digital trade.\n\nIn a video of the deal being struck, Mr Johnson said: \"We've scrummed down, we've packed tight, and together we've got the ball over the line and we have a deal. And I think it's a great deal.\"\n\nMs Ardern said: \"I loved your use of rugby metaphors, but if we were going to continue that on, then naturally it would conclude with the All Blacks winning.\n\n\"And I know that New Zealand feels that way with this free trade agreement, but actually, it's good for both of us, as it happens.\"\n\nThe NFU said the deal, like the one with Australia, could have a \"huge downside\", especially for UK dairy and meat farmers.\n\nIts president, Minette Batters, said the Australia and New Zealand deals mean \"we will be opening our doors to significant extra volumes of imported food - whether or not produced to our own high standards - while securing almost nothing in return for UK farmers\".\n\n\"The fact is that UK farm businesses face significantly higher costs of production than farmers in New Zealand and Australia, and it's worth remembering that margins are already tight here due to ongoing labour shortages and rising costs on farm,\" she said.\n\n\"The government is now asking British farmers to go toe-to-toe with some of the most export-orientated farmers in the world, without the serious, long-term and properly funded investment in UK agriculture that can enable us to do so.\n\nEmily Thornberry, shadow trade secretary, said the government's own figures showed the deal would \"cut employment in our farming communities, produce zero additional growth, and generate just £112m in additional exports for UK firms compared to pre-pandemic levels\".\n\nShe added that the only winners were \"the mega-corporations who run New Zealand's meat and dairy farms\".\n\n\"As our economy recovers from the pandemic, we need trade deals that will boost jobs and growth, open up big new markets for UK exporters, and support our objectives to buy, make and sell more in Britain. This trade deal with New Zealand fails on every count,\" she said.\n\nThe international trade secretary said British farmers should not be concerned about increased lamb imports because the lambing seasons were different in the UK and New Zealand.\n\nAnne-Marie Trevelyan said: \"I'm very comfortable it's a complimentary - because of the seasons… consumers will have more choice.\"\n\nShe said trade with New Zealand was currently worth £2.3bn a year but had the potential to increase by up to 30% by 2030.\n\nA bottle of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc could cost 20p less as a result of this trade deal and other products like Manuka honey and kiwi fruits could also cost less.\n\nIn terms of overall trade, even by the UK government's own analysis a tariff free trade deal will make no difference at all to the country's GDP - the total value of the goods and services the UK produces.\n\nOverall the trade between the two countries is less than 0.2% of the UK total and in fact in 2018 New Zealand ranked as only our 53rd biggest trading partner.\n\nSo why does this deal matter?\n\nThe UK signed its first big post-Brexit deal with Japan last year and in June it also signed a draft agreement for a trade deal with Australia.\n\nBoth countries, as well as New Zealand, are members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership or CPTPP.\n\nThe combined GDP for the 11 nations that form the CPTPP in 2020 was £8.4trn - one of the key reasons given by the UK government when it formally applied earlier this year.\n\nThis deal is the first agreed during the tenure of Britain's new Secretary of State for International Trade, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, who took over from Liz Truss last month.\n\nShe believes that by getting this deal done the UK's application to the CPTPP will be looked upon more favourably.\n\nThat being said, the trade deal the UK really wants is with the US.\n\nBut with the recent change in administration in the White House that seems further away.", "The report pays tribute to care workers' professionalism and resilience\n\nThere will be \"a tsunami\" of people without the care they need this winter unless staff shortages are tackled, England's care watchdog is warning.\n\nSocial care staff are \"exhausted and depleted,\" says Care Quality Commission (CQC) chief executive, Ian Trenholm.\n\nIn a report, the CQC urges immediate work to address the problem of rising numbers of unfilled care sector jobs.\n\nOn Thursday, the government announced an extra £162.5m to boost the adult social care workforce.\n\nThis is in addition to £5.4bn earmarked for social care over the next three years from the government's health and social care levy, which already includes £500m to be spent on the workforce.\n\nThe CQC welcomes the money but has a warning: \"It must be used to enable new ways of working that recognise the interdependency of all health and care settings, not just to prop up existing approaches and to plug demand in acute care.\"\n\nIn its latest State of Health and Social Care in England report, the CQC confirms fears that social care providers are facing a staffing crisis, losing staff to better paid jobs in retail and hospitality, and unable to recruit replacements.\n\nAcross England, numbers of unfilled jobs are rising month on month, the researchers found, from 6% in April to more than 10% in September.\n\nLondon is worst affected with 11% of jobs vacant, followed by the East Midlands at 9.4% and the South West at 9.2%.\n\nThis means care providers are having to limit their services, the researchers found.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Care minister Gillian Keegan: \"We want to get more hours in the system\"\n\nIn Devon, Rebecca Marks, director of Ark Care Homes, says more than one in five of their beds are empty, because they cannot afford to staff them.\n\nShe says current staff are exhausted after the pandemic, and despite the company offering funding for training and qualifications, and paying joining bonuses, \"they are saying: 'You know, I'm going to go and work in a supermarket'\".\n\n\"We need help and we need it fast... whether it's funding to be able to pay our staff higher wages to represent the responsibility and the amazing job that they do, or something different.\n\n\"It's a very difficult place for care providers and care staff, and ultimately our residents.\"\n\nOona Goldsworthy, who oversees five care homes in the south-west of England, told BBC Breakfast she was \"literally throwing everything\" at the problem to try and fill vacancies - including increasing wages.\n\n\"We have to recognise paying carers the minimum wage is just not acceptable any more,\" she said.\n\nIn the measured tones of a regulator, this report makes it clear that a staffing crisis in the long overlooked care system has much broader consequences.\n\nA \"tsunami of unmet need\" is more than a striking phrase. It represents a lack of support that can leave someone who is disabled or in the later years of their life struggling - alone or with family, facing grinding daily difficulties and too often deterioration that ends in crisis.\n\nIt is distressing for those at the heart of it and pressure on an overstretched NHS that with the right support might have been avoided.\n\nThe extra money the government has announced will help, but councils and care organisations have been quick to say it won't be enough.\n\nAnd the suggestion it could lead to tens of thousands of new care staff is likely to be greeted with a wry smile coming just 18 months after the last government recruitment campaign failed to do that.\n\nUnpaid carers who look after relatives at home are among those hit hard by the staffing squeeze.\n\nDorothy Cook cares for her husband Melvin, at home in Bristol. Melvin is in the advanced stages of a degenerative brain disease which has left him unable to wash, dress, shower or feed himself without her help.\n\nFollowing a fall in February, he was in hospital for six weeks, and then spent four months in a rehabilitation unit.\n\nMelvin is meant to have a care package at home but the provider ended it after five weeks, as his condition was too complex for them to manage.\n\nThat was 12 weeks ago, and Dorothy is struggling.\n\n\"It all falls on my shoulders, and I'm on my knees with exhaustion,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"We both feel completely and utterly alone. We feel that nobody cares.\"\n\nCarers UK, which represents unpaid people like Dorothy, says a survey of 8,000 of its members suggests more than half (55%) have lost some or all of the support they need, since the pandemic.\n\nThe government says it will take steps to ensure that unpaid carers have the support, advice and respite they need, with more detail to be published later this year.\n\nCare companies say the main factors making it hard to find and keep staff are:\n\nIn its report, the CQC pays tribute \"to the professionalism and resilience of everyone that works in social care\", but according to chief executive Ian Trenholm: \"Those people cannot be expected to work any harder.\n\n\"If we're to get safely through this winter, there needs to be urgent action.\"\n\nHe says local leaders of health and social care services will need \"to make maximum use of everything they have at their disposal to get safely through the winter... If these things don't happen there is the genuine risk of a tsunami of unmet need, with many people not getting the care that they so desperately need this winter.\"\n\nHe believes the key is more collaboration between services and urges a rapid overhaul: \"We can't be in this position in a year's time. We need to be thinking about what systems will look like in the future.\n\n\"We are really clear, there are no silver bullets, there are no simple answers to what is a very, very complex problem.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said: \"We appreciate the dedication and tireless work of health and social care staff throughout the pandemic.\n\n\"We have provided record levels of investment to support them and will provide £36bn over the next three years for health and social care across the UK.\n\n\"We are working on health and social care reform to ensure we can provide world-leading services and are committed to learning lessons from the pandemic, with a full public inquiry in the spring.\"\n\nShadow minister for social care, Liz Kendall, called the report \"devastating\", saying the government's recent social care announcement would not help.\n\n\"Labour is calling for a ten-year plan of investment and reform,\" to include a new deal to transform pay, training and conditions for care staff, and a shift in focus towards prevention and early intervention, said Ms Kendall.", "The Queen spent Wednesday night in hospital for preliminary medical checks and is now back at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe 95-year-old monarch returned from the private hospital in central London at lunchtime on Thursday and is \"in good spirits\", the palace added.\n\nThe Queen had cancelled a visit to Northern Ireland on Wednesday.\n\nShe was given medical advice to rest for a few days after a busy schedule of public engagements.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said \"everybody sends Her Majesty our very very best wishes\".\n\nHe added he was \"given to understand that actually Her Majesty is characteristically back at her desk at Windsor as we speak\".\n\nIn a statement on Thursday night, Buckingham Palace said: \"Following medical advice to rest for a few days, the Queen attended hospital on Wednesday afternoon for some preliminary investigations, returning to Windsor Castle at lunchtime today, and remains in good spirits.\"\n\nThe Queen travelled by car to the King Edward VII's Hospital in Marylebone, about 19 miles (32km) from Windsor, where she was seen by specialists. Her admittance is understood not to be related to coronavirus.\n\nThe overnight stay was said to be for practical reasons and the Queen was undertaking light duties back at Windsor on Thursday afternoon.\n\nIt is the first time the Queen has stayed in hospital since 2013, when she suffered symptoms of gastroenteritis.\n\nThe King Edward VII's is a private hospital used by senior royals - including the Queen's husband, the late Duke of Edinburgh, who received treatment there earlier this year.\n\nThe news on Wednesday that the Queen would have to cancel a trip to Northern Ireland was always going to cause concern.\n\nDespite looking very well and happy at the numerous events she has attended over the past week, it cannot be forgotten that she is 95 years old.\n\nIt is a tricky balance for the palace to release enough details about the Queen's health to keep the public informed while maintaining the privacy to which she is entitled.\n\nIt was for this reason that the news that she had been taken to hospital for tests was not announced, until a report on the Sun newspaper's front page forced the palace's hand.\n\nPeople will be concerned, but the reassuring guidance remains that she is in \"good spirits\" on her return from hospital and is well enough to undertake some light duties.\n\nIt has been a busy period of official engagements for the Queen.\n\nAn official record of the Queen's diary showed at least 16 formal events during October, and there had been the plans for her to embark on the two-day trip to Northern Ireland this week.\n\nShe was pictured hosting a Global Investment Summit at Windsor Castle on Tuesday evening alongside Mr Johnson.\n\nHowever, on Wednesday a Buckingham Palace spokesman said the monarch had \"reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for the next few days\".\n\nHe said the Queen was \"disappointed that she will no longer be able to visit Northern Ireland\" - which would have involved an overnight stay.\n\nThe Queen began the month in Scotland, planting a tree with the Prince of Wales at the Balmoral Estate on 1 October and attending the opening of the sixth session of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh the following day.\n\nPrince Charles, known as the Duke of Rothesay when in Scotland, planted a tree with his mother to launch a tree-planting initiative\n\nThe following week, she met members of the Canadian military at Windsor Castle on 6 October and attended the launch of the Commonwealth Games baton relay at Buckingham Palace on 7 October.\n\nLast week, on 12 October, she attended a church service to mark the centenary of The Royal British Legion at Westminster Abbey.\n\nShe then travelled to Wales to open the sixth term of the Senedd on Thursday.\n\nBy Saturday she was back in England - attending Champions Day at Ascot racecourse in Berkshire.\n\nAnd on Tuesday evening she was back at Windsor Castle hosting the Global Investment Summit.\n\nThe Queen was pictured alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday\n\nThe Queen is expected to lead a royal delegation to the Glasgow COP26 climate change summit in two weeks' time.\n\nIn reported remarks overheard at an event last week, she appeared to suggest she was irritated by people who \"talk\" but \"don't do\" when it came to protecting the environment.\n\nEarlier this week, the Queen declined a magazine's award of Oldie of the Year, saying \"you are only as old as you feel\".\n\nShe \"politely but firmly\" turned down the award, but sent the Oldie magazine a message with her \"warmest best wishes\".", "Health Secretary Sajid Javid has agreed that MPs should set an example by wearing face coverings in the Commons.\n\nAsked at a Downing Street news conference about many Conservatives not doing so, he said politicians should \"set an example\".\n\nMPs have not been compelled to use face coverings since Parliament reduced limits on the number of them attending debates over the summer.\n\nBut unions representing Commons workers have called for the rules to change.\n\nMore Labour and SNP MPs than those on the Conservative benches have been seen wearing masks since full sittings returned.\n\nAt at the press conference, Mr Javid was asked whether there was a \"difference between what you're telling people to do and the behaviour of some senior public figures\" and reminded that \"nobody\" on the government front bench had been wearing a mask at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nMPs in the House of Commons on Wednesday, hours before Mr Javid's news conference\n\n\"I think that's a very fair point,\" he replied.\n\n\"As I say, we've all got our role to play in this and we the people standing on this stage play our public roles as a secretary of state, as someone in the NHS, as the head of UKHSA (UK Health Security Agency).\n\n\"We also have a role to play to set an example as private individuals as well, I think that's a very fair point and I'm sure a lot of people will have heard you.\"\n\nLinda Bauld, a professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, told the PA news agency the lack of mask-wearing among Conservative MPs was \"striking and very unfortunate\".\n\n\"Leaders need to lead by example and with these [coronavirus case] numbers and the concerns we have, absolutely, I think politicians from all parties should be wearing a face covering when they're in the chamber, when they can't distance etc,\" Prof Bauld said.", "Dozens of ambulances remain outside the emergency department on Thursday\n\nThe Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (RCHT) has declared a critical incident due to the pressures it is facing.\n\nA critical incident allows all health and care organisations to work together and focus on resolving the situation.\n\nThe trust reported up to 100 people were waiting to be seen in the emergency department on Wednesday, with 25 ambulances waiting outside.\n\nManagers contacted staff asking them to work extra hours to help handle \"intense pressures\".\n\nThe trust said the emergency department is designed to accommodate up to 40 people at any one time.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the NHS in Cornwall, RCHT medical director, Dr Allister Grant said: \"There is unprecedented demand on health and care services in Cornwall, more so this week than at any point during the pandemic.\n\n\"As a result, we have escalated our operational level from OPEL4 to an internal critical incident.\n\n\"Pressure will always be most visible at the Emergency Department where ambulances are waiting, and our priority here is to move people into wards as soon as we can.\"\n\nAs part of the response, NHS staff are working in care homes where beds are available for patients, but there is a shortage of workers.\n\nDr Grant added: \"Families, friends and neighbours are urged to help us, too, by offering to support someone waiting for home care to leave hospital sooner, and we would ask them to contact the ward directly if they can help in any way.\n\n\"Getting someone home a day or two sooner will mean we can free up a vital hospital bed for someone else in urgent need.\"\n\nCollin Holloway said his wife waited nearly 12 hours for an ambulance\n\nColin Holloway said his wife was waiting nearly 12 hours for an ambulance that never arrived.\n\n\"You never think that it is going to be you and several hours later it was us and it was very real and it was very scary.\"\n\nMr Holloway and his wife Kay, were watching television on Tuesday evening when she felt chest pains.\n\nAfter a 111 call, an ambulance was ordered which resulted in a 12-hour wait, only to be told the ambulance was not coming.\n\nThe \"stress was making her chest feel even worse than it was\", he said.\n\n\"I think we're heading for a catastrophe unless something really happens and I want people to sit up and take notice of this.\n\n\"My experience is dreadful, fortunately we've got through, it but someone's not going to make it,\" said Mr Holloway.\n\nKay was seen by her GP and things have settled down, he told the BBC.\n\nThere have been recent repeated warnings about the pressures on the Emergency Department at Treliske, and on the ambulance service.\n\nLast night the trust issued an urgent plea to staff asking if anybody could come in and work extra hours.\n\nBBC Spotlight has been contacted by people from Cornwall who say they have called for an ambulance on the advice of 111 and it hasn't turned up.\n\nThe trust said on Wednesday there were 120 people in beds in its wards that could have been discharged out into the community but the care simply wasn't there.\n\nThis obviously leads to a build up in pressure within the whole system and the visible manifestation of that is ambulances queuing outside.\n\nSouth Western Ambulance Service (SWAS) recorded the longest response times for life-threatening and emergency incidents across England in September.\n\nWill Warrender, CEO of SWAS, said the service was under \"the most sustained period of pressure in its history\", adding \"the situation today is no better than it was in September\".\n\nIn August seven leaders of Cornwall's health and care system wrote an open letter describing an \"ongoing surge in demand\".\n\nAll planned and urgent surgeries were temporarily suspended at RCHT in September due to the pressure it was under.\n\nRoutine surgeries remain suspended, with urgent procedures reviewed daily and continuing where possible.\n\nThe trust said on Thursday it was treating 44 patients with Covid-19 - 10 more than the previous week.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "The boss of one of the UK's biggest energy companies has called for the energy price cap to be abolished.\n\nKeith Anderson, chief executive of Scottish Power, said the recent energy crisis had exposed deep flaws in the way the energy market was structured.\n\nHe added there had been serious failures on the part of Ofgem.\n\nThe regulator said the price cap had helped to keep down costs for millions of households.\n\nMr Anderson said that the price cap was a popular idea politically but it has caused dozens of companies to go bust.\n\nAs wholesale prices soared six-fold this year, companies had to buy gas at a price miles more than the rate they were allowed to sell it.\n\n\"There was a fixation about trying to create more and more competition and get more and more companies into the energy sector,\" he said.\n\n\"But it went too far. We ended up with a raft of small, not particularly well-run organisations coming into the retail sector. This crisis has shown this is quite a risky business.\"\n\nHe said that the regulator asking well-run companies to take on millions of customers from poorly-run and resourced companies is placing a massive burden on the sector which will mean prices will have to rise for the next 12 to 18 months.\n\n\"Every customer taken on at the price cap means £1,000 of cost,\" he said.\n\n\"We estimate the total cost to the industry of between £4bn and £5bn.\n\n\"The risk is that you will end up going back to the big five or the big six.\"\n\nHe added that a one-size-fits-all cap was regressive, as it did not even succeed in protecting more vulnerable customers, who spend a disproportionate amount of household income on energy.\n\nHis solution would be the abolition of the cap while having a special tariff for people in fuel poverty.\n\nMore affluent customers would pay more but that would be a more progressive way to regulate the industry.\n\nMr Anderson was scathing about the competence of Ofgem saying the regulations were not fit for purpose.\n\n\"The regulator has not kept pace with what has been going on in the marketplace,\" he added.\n\nOfgem responded by saying that the price cap had played its part in cushioning millions of households from soaring gas prices.\n\nBut it acknowledged that regulations would need to change.\n\n\"Ofgem, with industry and the government, will need to build an energy market that is more resilient to shocks like this in the future.\n\n\"This is likely to mean an approach to regulation which is more focussed on the business models that enter and operate in our energy market, and on the risk they carry,\" it said.\n\nMr Anderson rejected the notion that he is advocating an oligopoly with no price controls in which profit margins were allowed to be higher and people were disinclined to switch because they have seen smaller suppliers go bust.\n\nHe said that a removal of the cap would not see profiteering as a market of 10 or 15 well-run companies in competition would provide good value for money.\n\nMr Anderson noted that would still be more market competitors than you see in banking or supermarkets.\n\nHe acknowledged the cost of transitioning to a net zero economy would be hundreds of billions which would end up on our bills or in taxes but said that it would ideally be spread over decades.\n\nThe economic activity it generated would ripple right across the UK economy creating thousands of jobs, he said.\n\nHis comments come the day after Scottish Power confirmed it was investing £6bn in three offshore wind projects.\n\nIt was the centrepiece of a raft of investments the government announced at a global investment summit in London followed by a reception for business leaders at Windsor Castle attended by the prime minister and the Queen.", "A Texas nurse has been found guilty of the murder of four patients who died after he injected them with air following heart surgeries.\n\nWilliam Davis, 37, was convicted of capital murder by a jury on Tuesday and could now face the death penalty.\n\nProsecutors said he targeted seven people from June 2017 to January 2018.\n\nChristus Mother Frances Hospital, where the attacks took place, said it hoped that the \"jury's verdict helps bring some closure to those harmed\".\n\nThe men, aged between 47 and 74, experienced \"seizure-like symptoms\" and died from fatal brain damage after the air was injected into their arterial lines.\n\nThe court heard that the four men killed by Mr Davis had initially been recovering well from their operations and that doctors had been at a loss as to how their conditions had deteriorated so rapidly.\n\nAuthorities said it was only once doctors saw CT scans that showed air in the patients' brains that they realised something was amiss.\n\nDr William Yarbrough, a Dallas based pulmonologist, told the jury that he had never observed such a case in his decades in medicine.\n\nDuring the trial, security footage was played of Davis entering the room of one of the patients, whose heart monitor alarm sounded just three minutes later. He later died from the injection.\n\nDavis' lawyer, Philip Hayes, claimed during the trial that there was no evidence that the men had died from foul play and suggested that Davis was being made a scapegoat for a hospital with serious procedural issues.\n\nSpeaking during the trial, Jacob Putman, the district attorney for Smith County in Texas, said that \"it turns out a hospital is the perfect place for a serial killer to hide\".\n\nProsecutors will now seek the death penalty for Davis, who they claim \"enjoyed\" carrying out the murders and \"liked to kill people\".\n\nDavis will remain in custody at the Smith County Jail on an $8.75 million bail bond.", "Mr Souli says he doesn't know what impact the summit will have on his business\n\nGlasgow businessman Mohsen Souli is in two minds about the COP26 summit.\n\nThe cafe and antiques shop owner is excited at the prospect of tens of thousands of people descending on Glasgow, potentially boosting his sales.\n\nBut he's also worried. His businesses are only a short distance away from the SEC Campus, where COP26 is due to take place from the end of this month.\n\nRoad closures around Finnieston, where he is based, have left him wondering if shop footfall will grow or slump.\n\nBut he's even more worried about security.\n\n\"I am concerned about what might happen if there are protests. I am hopeful that they will be very peaceful but if not, a broken window would cost me £5,000 to replace,\" he says.\n\n\"I also don't know what affect the closing of roads is going to have on my business - will it be good or bad?\"\n\nMr Souli says he plans to stock up on goods for his cafe ahead of the summit, in case deliveries are affected by security and traffic measures.\n\n\"I can't be sure whether I will be getting too many supplies - things are very uncertain at the moment.\n\n\"I have spoken to other businesses in the area and everyone has the same feeling of uncertainty. We will just have to see how it goes,\" he adds.\n\nThe climate summit is due to be held at the SEC Campus in Glasgow\n\nBusinesses in other sectors have widely welcomed COP26 - and its potential for future business - but some remain concerned over the impact on trading of road closures, traffic congestion and planned rail and bus strikes.\n\nRoad closures are due to come into effect in Glasgow from Saturday 23 October - more than a week before the start of the event - and last until 15 November.\n\nGet Ready Glasgow, the city's information site, has produced a congestion map showing how travel in the city will be \"significantly impacted\".\n\nHotels and other accommodation providers in central Scotland have reported high levels of occupancy for the duration of the UN climate summit, bringing in welcome business as they work to recover from the pandemic.\n\nBut Leon Thompson, executive director for Scotland of trade body UKHospitality, said the picture was less clear for bar and restaurant owners.\n\n\"They will be hoping to see greater footfall on the streets during the event, but road closures in the city may have an impact on that,\" he explains.\n\n\"Traffic congestion may also have an effect on the number of people going out and about during the summit.\"\n\nA further uncertainty, he added, was the amount of disruption road closures could have on deliveries of supplies to premises.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses in Scotland has also raised concerns about the potential disruption facing some members.\n\nPolicy chairman Andrew McRae explained: \"Like any global conference, COP26 was bound to cause some disruption to residents and businesses in Glasgow.\n\n\"While communications from the relevant authorities have mostly been good, the scale of the road closures has worried some in business as well as people who travel for work.\n\n\"And even if you know about a major diversion, that doesn't compensate you if, for example, it becomes more difficult for your customers to reach you for almost a month.\n\n\"On a more positive note, the high-end tourism and hospitality sector in Scotland looks likely to do well from the conference.\n\n\"And the event is an opportunity to show Glasgow and Scotland, as well as our business community, to some of the most important decision-makers on the planet.\"\n\nThe Glasgow Chamber of Commerce said \"inevitably\" there would be some disruption to businesses over the course of the summit, but added it was working closely with Glasgow City Council and the Scottish and UK governments to minimise the impact.\n\nChief executive Stuart Patrick said: \"COP26 will put Glasgow on the world stage and we will be working hard with our members to ensure there is a lasting economic and environmental legacy from the event.\"\n\nThe Scottish Retail Consortium said its industry had shown repeatedly over recent years that it was adept at coping with disruptions and ensuring shoppers could continue to have access to a good range of products.\n\nDirector David Lonsdale said: \"Most retailers in Glasgow have well-developed contingency plans in place to deal with a massive event like COP26, and to minimise any short-term impact on shoppers and deliveries to stores.\n\n\"Retailers continue to carefully monitor developments including road closures and industrial action with public transport.\n\n\"However, with trading conditions very tough at the moment, and with Glasgow's shopper footfall down by a fifth compared to pre-pandemic times, this will certainly put these plans to the test.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Government borrowing fell in September compared with a year earlier as the economy continued to recover from coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nBorrowing - the difference between spending and tax income - stood at £21.8bn, which was £7bn less than in September 2020.\n\nBut the figure was still the second-highest for September since monthly records began in 1993.\n\nThe government spent billions of pounds on emergency measures to protect wages, such as the furlough scheme, which wrapped up last month.\n\nAs a result, government debt has been pushed up to more than £2.2 trillion at the end of September this year - about 95.5% of the UK's gross domestic product (GDP), and the highest level recorded since the early 1960s.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates that the government has borrowed a total of £108.1bn so far in the current financial year (April to September), although this is £101.2bn less than in the same period last year.\n\nAs well as higher spending on Covid measures, the government has collected less in tax receipts during the pandemic, having given some badly-affected firms tax holidays from VAT, for example.\n\nAs a result of a lower income from taxes and higher spending, the ONS now estimates that in the 2020-21 financial year the government borrowed £319.9bn. That amounted to 14.9% of GDP, the highest rate seen since the end of World War Two.\n\nSome government sources of income have started to recover more recently. In September, the amount it collected through Value Added Tax (VAT) rose by 4.5% in comparison with the same month a year earlier.\n\nFuel duty payments were also up by 6%, although alcohol and tobacco tax takes fell by 12.7% and 7% respectively.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is due to deliver a new Budget and growth forecasts on 27 October, as well as new multi-year spending limits for individual government departments.\n\nThe monthly borrowing figure for September was lower than economists had expected. However, Paul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics, said that while the picture had improved for the government ahead of next week's Budget, he did not expect a \"major fiscal giveaway\".\n\n\"Borrowing has fallen much more quickly than almost everyone expected,\" he said.\n\n\"That said, the rumours are that the chancellor will still keep a very tight grip on the public finances in next Wednesday's Budget to try and bring down borrowing even quicker and build a fiscal war chest to deploy ahead of the 2024 election.\"\n\nIn response to the latest official figures, the chancellor said that although debt levels have risen, \"our recovery is well underway - with more employees on payrolls than ever before and the fastest forecast growth in the G7 this year\".\n\n\"At the Budget and Spending Review next week, I will set out how we will continue to support public services, businesses and jobs while keeping our public finances fit for the future.\"\n\nAndrew Bailey has warned the Bank of England \"will have to act\" over rising inflation\n\nProf David Miles, a former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee and professor of financial economics at Imperial College, warned that there could be \"a long struggle ahead\" for the chancellor.\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme: \"The debt came down very rapidly after the end of the Napoleonic wars, the First World War, the Second World War.\n\n\"All those people who had been in the army and the other armed forces came back into employment, tax revenue went up, the government was spending less on armaments - that's not going to happen now, so I think it is considerably more difficult to bring down the stock of debt to GDP than it was in the aftermath of those earlier wars.\"\n\nIn recent years, the government has been able to borrow easily at very low interest rates, which makes its debt more affordable.\n\nBut rising inflation means that the Bank of England may increase interest rates soon, in an attempt to ensure the cost of living does not increase too quickly.\n\nThe Bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, warned on Sunday that it \"will have to act\" over rising inflation soon.\n\nAlthough he did not give any indication as to when it might increase rates from the current record low of 0.1%, investors are expecting rates to be raised later this year or early in 2022.\n\nWhat's striking in the public sector finance figures is not how big the borrowing or debt is in the financial year to date. That's the same story we've known for months: the second-highest borrowing in peacetime, second only to last year's even more extraordinary amounts.\n\nWhat's newer, and more eyebrow-raising, is what the figures show about how rapidly borrowing can fall, before any spending cuts or tax rises have taken effect, simply because the economy is growing.\n\nWith expected growth this year of 7% or more, tax money is flowing into the Exchequer far faster than was anticipated at the last Budget. And much of the emergency spending required in the more severe lockdown last year no longer has to be spent because the economy has, mostly, reopened. Public sector borrowing (the amount government has to borrow to plug the gap between its income and its spending) has nearly halved, dropping by more than £100bn.\n\nNot only that: all the borrowing accumulated over the years, also known as net debt, is also falling, down two percentage points, from 97.6% of gross domestic product in August to 95.5% in September.\n\nBoth borrowing and debt are falling, not because of any economic hairshirt the chancellor is requiring us all to wear, but because a successful vaccination programme has helped the economy to recover.", "A government research paper recommending people \"shift dietary habits\" towards plant-based foods has been hastily deleted.\n\nThe paper focuses on changing public behaviour to hit climate targets and also suggests promoting domestic tourism and portraying business travel as an \"immoral indulgence\".\n\nIt was deleted soon after publication by the Department for Business.\n\nBeis said the paper was academic research and not official policy.\n\n\"We have no plans whatsoever to dictate consumer behaviour in this way. For that reason, our Net Zero Strategy published yesterday contained no such plans,\" it said.\n\nThe Behavioural Insights Unit, also known as the Nudge Unit, wrote the document.\n\nThe unit is most known for its role in the design of the sugar levy and early comments on the pandemic \"herd immunity\" strategy.\n\nThe document was swiftly deleted and has been replaced with a note saying it was published in error, but BBC News obtained a copy.\n\nIt was also later put online by Alex Chapman, a researcher at the New Economics Foundation.\n\nThe Behavioural Insights Unit made a recommendation, following the example of the sugar levy, with a tax on producers or retailers of \"high-carbon foods\" to incentivise plant-based and local food diets.\n\nIt suggests \"building support for a bold policy\", such as a tax on producers of sheep and cattle meat.\n\nHowever, it states that an \"unsophisticated meat tax would be highly regressive\".\n\nThe research paper also says the government can begin to get people used to the idea of plant-based food through its spending at hospitals, schools, prisons, courts and military facilities.\n\nIt also states a \"timely moment to intervene\" in changing diets could be to target people attending university or first-time renters.\n\nThe document recognises that \"asking people to directly eat less meat and dairy is a major political challenge\", although a positive portrayal and \"smaller asks\" may be possible - for example, people learning one new recipe.\n\nWhen talking about flights, the paper suggests \"much stronger carbon taxes\".\n\nOne possibility discussed in the paper is trying to \"shift social norms\" to make in-person business meetings needing international flights a sign of \"immoral indulgence or embarrassment\" rather than a sign of \"importance\".\n\nMeanwhile, it says domestic tourism should be promoted to lessen consumer demand for international flights.", "Petrol station stock levels have recovered after a recent surge in demand for fuel, new figures suggest.\n\nFilling station storage tanks in Great Britain were 45% full on average at the end of the day on Sunday, statistics from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy show.\n\nThat was the highest level seen since May.\n\nA few weeks ago, many forecourts had run dry after people queued to fill up due to supply chain concerns.\n\nPanic-buying was sparked in late September after warnings that some petrol stations were having delivery problems due to a shortage of lorry drivers.\n\nStock levels dropped to a low of 15% on 25 September, after demand peaked the day before.\n\nIt led to military drivers being deployed to help deliver fuel to forecourts. A total of 151 personnel are still driving tankers to transport fuel.\n\nSupermarket chain Asda said on 13 October that it had not had any petrol supply problems for a week after demand eased, while the Petrol Retailers Association said supplies in London and the South East had improved.\n\nLondon and the South East were the slowest regions to recover from the shortage, but petrol station storage tanks in these areas were an average of 42% and 45% full on Sunday, according to the Department for Business.\n\nThe situation in the most populous parts of the country had been described as \"serious\" at one point.\n\nBut the latest numbers also show that UK sales of fuel have slowed from an average of 35,900 litres per filling station on 24 September to 11,800 litres on Sunday.\n\nDuring the supply crisis, motorway service stations were prioritised for deliveries.\n\nMany parts of the UK economy, including supermarkets, retailers, and ports, have been affected by shortage of HGV drivers.\n\nA Road Haulage Association (RHA) survey of its members estimated there was now a shortage of more than 100,000 qualified drivers in the UK.\n\nThe industry believes the existing shortage has been exacerbated by the pandemic, Brexit, tax changes, and a slowdown in driver testing.\n\nIn response, the government has introduced temporary visas for 5,000 lorry drivers to work in the UK, although only just over 20 of the 300 applications have been approved so far, according to Conservative Party chairman Oliver Dowden.\n\nA government statement said: \"Thanks to our interventions and the continuing deliveries made by the military, fuel levels across all regions returned to normal earlier this month.\n\n\"As the industry has said, we have ample fuel reserves and the return of normal buying habits by the public has reduced the exceptional demand seen in previous weeks.\"", "MPs bowed their heads in a minute's silence to remember their former colleague, Sir David Amess, who was killed in his Essex constituency.\n\nBoris Johnson said that Sir David \"simply wanted to serve the people of Essex\".\n\nFollowing sessions of remembrance in both Houses, members attended a memorial service at nearby St Margaret's Church.", "Major tax evasion and avoidance schemes have cost governments an estimated €150bn (£127bn) in lost revenues, research shows.\n\nSo-called cum-cum and cum-ex schemes are designed to exploit weaknesses in national tax laws.\n\nThey apply to the payments, or dividends, firms make to shareholders.\n\nThe new figures have been calculated by a team of experts at the University of Mannheim, in partnership with the German not-for-profit group Correctiv.\n\nEvidence from leaked documents and people involved in the schemes suggests UK taxpayers have also lost out, potentially to the tune of billions of pounds.\n\nThe research forms part of a joint investigation carried out by newsrooms worldwide, co-ordinated by Correctiv, known as the CumEx Files 2.0. It casts new light on a growing scandal which first came to public attention in 2018.\n\nSo-called cum-ex trades were transactions where shares were sold from one investor to another immediately before the payment of a dividend (cum, or with, dividend) but delivered afterwards (ex-dividend).\n\nThis tactic effectively created confusion over who owned the shares at the moment when the dividend was paid. It allowed both parties to claim rebates on withholding tax - a levy which had only been paid once, when the dividend was issued.\n\nThis practice became popular in Germany in the early years of the century and continued until 2012, when the law was changed. It also spread to other countries, notably Denmark, but also France, Belgium, Italy and Austria.\n\nIn Germany, prosecutors have launched a wave of criminal inquiries.\n\nSeveral individuals have already been found guilty of tax evasion. Some 1,000 people are currently under investigation, including junior and senior banking staff, lawyers and brokers.\n\nA list acquired by German broadcaster ARD's investigative programme Panorama contains the names of more than 700 of those under scrutiny, of whom 134 are known to be UK citizens.\n\nAlthough London has been widely identified as the place where many cum-ex trading strategies were conceived, the UK exchequer was not a target - because dividends here are not subject to withholding tax.\n\nBut documents show that bankers were able to carry out related trades to \"recycle\" otherwise unusable German tax credits and generate profits at UK taxpayers' expense.\n\nThe complex system relied on so-called \"manufactured overseas dividends\" (MODs), payments made between parties involved in so-called short sales of borrowed shares in foreign companies.\n\nIt allowed investors to generate liabilities which could be offset against German tax credits and at the same time, generate a credit against UK tax.\n\nEstimates vary as to how much this scheme actually cost the UK taxpayer. One individual who was involved in these kinds of trades in the past suggested it would have been several hundred million pounds a year until 2005 - and more than £100m per year thereafter.\n\nAnother whistleblower told the BBC that \"these were not small trades\", and that the practice \"must have been used on a significant scale\".\n\nIn 2014, HMRC changed the rules on taxation of MODs. It says this was done for a variety of reason, including to \"reduce the potential for tax avoidance\".\n\nWhile the fallout from the cum-ex affair has dominated media attention and prosecutor interest so far, the latest findings from Correctiv's investigation suggest an even bigger scandal may be brewing.\n\nCum-ex is understood to have cost governments nearly €10bn. But according to researchers at the University of Mannheim, that figure is dwarfed by losses stemming from another long-standing form of dividend arbitrage, known as cum-cum.\n\nThis strategy comes into play in countries where domestic and foreign investors are treated differently for tax purposes. A foreign investor will sell or loan shares just ahead of the dividend payment to a second investor resident in the country where the company is listed.\n\nThe second party is able to claim a dividend tax credit that would not have been available to the foreign investor. The shares can then be passed back to the original owner, and the benefits shared.\n\nThe Mannheim team has calculated that between 2000 and 2020, this practice cost 10 governments, including those of Germany, Spain, France and the US, a total of €141bn. It describes this estimate as \"very conservative\".\n\nWhether these losses will lead to prosecutions is less clear, however.\n\nWhile cum-ex involved generating multiple claims for withholding tax that had only been paid once, and its use has been described as a \"criminal act of tax fraud\" by Germany's Federal Court of Justice, experts say cum-cum sits in a legally grey area.\n\n\"It's not against the law,\" explains Christoph Spengel, a professor of international taxation and the leader of the Mannheim team.\n\n\"But in individual cases, in Germany it is against the law if the sole purpose of buying and repurchasing shares is to have a tax benefit.\"", "Jonathan Smith was described as a 'kind and considerate family man'\n\nA 60-year-old man from South Lanarkshire has died after saving his two grandsons from being swept out to sea off a Greek island.\n\nIt is understood Jonathan Smith, from Carluke, drowned in choppy waters after rescuing the two boys in Crete.\n\nThe incident happened at Gouves beach in the north of the island.\n\nMr Smith worked at North Lanarkshire Council for 34 years and after leaving last year had been working for NHS Lanarkshire.\n\nAnthee Carassava, a journalist based in Athens, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme he had been on holiday with his wife, daughter and two grandsons at the resort.\n\n\"They simply went off for a swim and the two young boys, aged seven and 10, ran into some choppy waters,\" she said.\n\n\"The grandfather got very upset and unnerved and he went in, tried to save them. He managed to pull them out of these choppy waters... but in his bid to actually reach these rocks along the beach, he simply got exhausted and it was impossible for him to get out.\"\n\nMs Carassava said that locals, including two waiters, had also jumped into the water to help Mr Smith and his grandsons.\n\nA life ring could be seen on the rocks following the incident\n\nShe added that the boys had been taken to hospital where they were treated for minor injuries.\n\n\"They saw their grandfather - a hero - effectively saving them but losing his life,\" she said.\n\nThe Cretapost website said life-saving aids were thrown out to Mr Smith and the boys.\n\nA local worker told the website: \"We tried to pull him ashore but the currents were very strong and we could not.\"\n\nDes Murray, chief executive of North Lanarkshire Council, said: \"The news about Jonathan has been a terrible shock to everyone who knew and worked with him at the council and beyond over many years.\n\n\"Jonathan was held in the highest regard, and the work he did to forge long-lasting links and friendships with communities and partners across North Lanarkshire is testament to the passion and tireless dedication he gave to everything he did.\"\n\nHe said Mr Smith was central in developing the council's Syrian Resettlement Programme in 2015, which has assisted a number of families who have fled conflict and provided them with a safe and secure future.\n\nMr Smith was central in developing the council's Syrian Resettlement Programme in 2015\n\n\"He was also pivotal in community engagement and participation, maintaining relationships with many of our local community groups and addressing local needs,\" Mr Murray added.\n\n\"He was a wonderful, kind and considerate family man, who will be deeply missed and all our thoughts are with his family at this time.\"\n\nMeghan Gallagher MSP formerly worked with Mr Smith at North Lanarkshire Council.\n\nShe said: \"This is really sad news. He was a lovely man and always did his best to help communities across North Lanarkshire.\n\n\"Thoughts are with his family friends and colleagues.\"\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said it was supporting the family of a British man who had died in Crete and was in contact with the Greek authorities.", "Further lockdowns are unlikely, Wales' health minister says\n\nFurther Covid restrictions in the run-up to Christmas are \"unlikely\" at the moment, Wales' health minister has said.\n\nHowever, Eluned Morgan pleaded with the Welsh public to \"play their part\" in keeping the virus at bay.\n\nIt comes as the Welsh NHS records its worst performance figures ever.\n\nThe Covid case rate in Wales is currently 651.9 per 100,000 people - and for a month it has been higher than any other UK nation.\n\nAsked whether Christmas would look more normal this year, Ms Morgan told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"We certainly hope so.\"\n\n\"But in our Covid plan, there is a second scenario where we start to go back up through those levels of restrictions, and that is something we'll keep an eye on.\n\n\"But at the moment it's unlikely that we'll go down that path - but who knows what the winter will bring, we still don't know whether there'll be a new variant, so we just have to keep an eye on the situation. It's still something that we're living and learning about as we go along.\"\n\nHowever, she admitted cases were not reducing in Wales as hoped, compared to other parts of the UK such as Scotland.\n\n\"As the head of the NHS has said, it's going to be the toughest winter ever in the history of the NHS,\" Ms Morgan said.\n\n\"And I would plead with the Welsh public to take their responsibility in trying to lower that pressure in making sure that they take their level of responsibility through being Covid-safe.\n\n\"Making sure that they are washing their hands, that they're working from home where they can, but also that they're not using services that are inappropriate, and there are mechanisms for example to take the pressure off GPs, the pressure off the ambulance services and our accident and emergency services.\"\n\nLatest figures on Thursday showed Blaenau Gwent has the highest case rate in the UK - and its highest point yet during the pandemic - reaching 1,036.3 cases per 100,000.\n\nThere have been big rises in neighbouring local authorities too.\n\nThe cases in the Aneurin Bevan health board area are likely to have partly been driven by 1,000 positive lateral flow tests in the last week - the highest incidence rate in Wales of asymptomatic people being picked up through routine testing.\n\nThe daily average for the number of patients in hospital beds with confirmed Covid was the highest since 5 March - 506 patients - although there were three times as many on average at this point of the second wave in January.\n\nNurses are getting a 3% pay rise from the Welsh government\n\nMs Morgan also urged people to take their Covid booster jabs and winter flu jabs, if offered.\n\nShe said she was \"really concerned\" about the pressure NHS and social care workers are under.\n\n\"They are exhausted, they're also responding to Covid within the community,\" she said.\n\n\"We still have very high rates within our communities, as high as they've ever been, and of course some of those nurses are catching Covid too.\n\n\"That means they've got to get off work and that puts more pressure on the people who are already in work.\"\n\nThere were more patients in NHS acute beds in Wales on Wednesday than at any time during the pandemic - 5,887.\n\nThe number of vacant available beds - 538 - was the lowest and the bed occupancy - nearly 92% on Wednesday - was the highest.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is in dispute with the Welsh government over plans to increase pay by 3% - and will ask members if they are prepared to take industrial action.\n\nMs Morgan said it was \"not possible\" for the Welsh government to pay nurses more without more money from the UK government.\n\n\"The RCN are more than welcome to come back to the table - we've offered them lots of additional enhancements beyond the 3%,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS surgeons say they have successfully given a pig's kidney to a person in a transplant breakthrough they hope could ultimately solve donor organ shortages.\n\nThe recipient was brain-dead, meaning they were already on artificial life support with no prospect of recovering.\n\nThe kidney came from a pig that had been genetically modified to stop the organ being recognised by the body as \"foreign\" and being rejected.\n\nThe work is not yet peer-reviewed or published but there are plans for this.\n\nExperts say it is the most advanced experiment in the field so far.\n\nSimilar tests have been done in non-human primates, but not people, until now.\n\nUsing pigs for transplants is not a new idea though. Pig heart valves are already widely used in humans.\n\nAnd their organs are a good match for people when it comes to size.\n\nDuring the two-hour operation at the New York University Langone Health medical centre, the surgeons connected the donor pig kidney to the blood vessels of the brain-dead recipient to see if it would function normally once plumbed in, or be rejected.\n\nThe surgery took a couple of hours\n\nOver the next two-and-a-half days they closely monitored the kidney, running numerous checks and tests.\n\nLead investigator Dr Robert Montgomery told the BBC's World Tonight programme: \"We observed a kidney that basically functioned like a human kidney transplant, that appeared to be compatible in as much as it did all the things that a normal human kidney would do.\n\n\"It functioned normally, and did not appear to be undergoing rejection.\"\n\nThe surgeons transplanted a bit of the pig's thymus gland too, along with the kidney. They think this organ might help stop the human body rejecting the kidney in the long term by mopping up any stray immune cells that might otherwise fight the pig tissue.\n\nA heart transplant recipient himself, Dr Montgomery says there is an urgent need for finding more organs for people on waiting lists, although he acknowledges his work is controversial.\n\n\"The traditional paradigm that someone has to die for someone else to live is never going to keep up.\n\n\"I certainly understand the concern and what I would say is that currently about 40% of patients who are waiting for a transplant die before they receive one.\n\n\"We use pigs as a source of food, we use pigs for medicinal uses - for valves, for medication. I think it's not that different.\"\n\nHe said it was still early research and more studies were needed, but added: \"It gives us, I think, new confidence that it's going to be all right to move this into the clinic.\"\n\nThe family of the recipient, who had wanted to be an organ donor, gave permission for the surgery to go ahead.\n\nUS regulator the FDA has approved the use of the genetically modified pig organs for this type of research use.\n\nDr Montgomery believes that within a decade, other pig organs - hearts, lung and livers - could be given to humans needing transplants.\n\nThe team behind the surgery\n\nDr Maryam Khosravi, a kidney and intensive care doctor who works for the NHS in the UK, said: \"Animal to human transplantation has been something that we have studied for decades now, and it's really interesting to see this group take that step forward.\"\n\nOn the ethics, she said: \"Just because we can doesn't mean we should. I think the community at large needs to answer these questions.\"\n\nA spokesperson for NHS Blood and Transplant, said matching more human donors remained the priority for now: \"There is still some way to go before transplants of this kind become an everyday reality.\n\n\"While researchers and clinicians continue to do our best to improve the chances for transplant patients, we still need everyone to make their organ donation decision and let their family know what they want to happen if organ donation becomes a possibility.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vaccination is 90% effective at preventing deaths from the Delta variant of Covid-19, researchers say.\n\nThe data, released by the University of Edinburgh, was gathered using a Scotland-wide Covid surveillance tool.\n\nFigures suggest the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is 90% effective and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab 91% effective at preventing deaths.\n\nIt looked at people who have been double-vaccinated but who have tested positive for Covid in the community.\n\nThe study is the first to show across an entire country how effective vaccines are at preventing death from the Delta variant, which is the most dominant form of Covid in the UK.\n\nResearchers defined death from Covid as anyone who died within 28 days of a positive PCR test, or with Covid recorded as a cause of death on their death certificate.\n\nThe study analysed data from 5.4 million people in Scotland between 1 April and 27 September this year.\n\nDuring this period, 115,000 people tested positive for Covid using a PCR test in the community, rather than in hospital, and there were 201 Covid-related deaths recorded.\n\nNo deaths have been recorded in those who have been double-vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine in Scotland, according to the data.\n\nResearchers said it is therefore not possible to estimate this particular vaccine's effectiveness in preventing Covid-related deaths.\n\nThe research team from the University of Edinburgh, University of Strathclyde and Public Health Scotland analysed the dataset as part of the EAVE II project - Early Pandemic Evaluation and Enhanced Surveillance of Covid-19.\n\nIt uses anonymised, linked-patient data to track the pandemic and the vaccine rollout in real time.\n\nSo far, 87.1% of adults in Scotland have taken a second dose of the Covid vaccine.\n\nThird \"booster\" doses are being offered to everyone over 50, along with frontline medical staff and younger adults with some underlying health conditions.\n\nProf Aziz Sheikh, director of the University of Edinburgh's Usher Institute and EAVE II study lead, said: \"With the Delta variant now the dominant strain in many places worldwide, and posing a higher risk of hospitalisation than previous variants seen in the UK, it is reassuring to see that vaccination offers such high protection from death very shortly after the second dose.\n\n\"If you still have not taken up your offer to be vaccinated, I would encourage you to do so based on the clear benefits it offers.\"\n\nProf Chris Robertson, of the University of Strathclyde and Public Health Scotland, said: \"This study shows the value of carrying out analyses of routine healthcare data available in near real-time.\n\n\"Our findings are encouraging in showing that the vaccine remains an effective measure in protecting both ourselves and others from death from the most dominant variant of Covid-19.\"\n\nHe added that it was important to validate these early results with follow-up studies.\n\nThe team behind the study said due to the observational nature of the figures, data about vaccine effectiveness should be interpreted with caution and said it was not possible to make a direct comparison between both vaccines.", "Ricky Gervais has filmed the third series of his Netflix production After Life in Hemel Hempstead\n\nA council has received about £100,000 in the past six months as a result of a town being used for the filming of major TV series.\n\nHemel Hempstead has been the setting for shows including ITV's Grantchester, Ricky Gervais' After Life on Netflix and Apple TV+'s Masters of the Air.\n\nSome of the revenue will fund a new role to coordinate filming activities.\n\nDacorum Borough Council said it wanted to demonstrate it was a \"filming positive\" authority.\n\nSo far this year, locals have seen Marlowes in the town centre transformed into 1970s Huddersfield for a Sex Pistols biopic.\n\nIn September, Hemel Hempstead's Old Town was transformed into the setting for Masters of the Air, a new World War Two series from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.\n\nRobson Green was spotted in the Old Town in August while filming the latest series of detective drama Grantchester.\n\nIn May, Gervais was seen filming in Hemel Hempstead for the third series of After Life, when a funfair appeared in Gadebridge Park.\n\nRobson Green was seen filming episodes of the latest series of 1950s detective drama Grantchester\n\nA funfair appeared in Gadebridge Park for the filming of After Life\n\nAt the time of Gervais' filming, a council spokesman said crews were \"taking advantage of the many great filming locations that Dacorum has to offer\".\n\nHe said it had become more popular due to its proximity to London.\n\nA Freedom of Information request from the Local Democracy Reporting Service found that between April and October this year, £99,500 was brought in from filming charges on council-owned or managed land. This compares to £64,660 for the whole of the financial year of 2018/2019, the last full year not affected by lockdowns.\n\nThe authority could not reveal a breakdown for each project for commercial reasons, but confirmed Grantchester, After Life, Masters of the Air and BBC Three's Ladhood collectively generated £71,765 in 2021/22.\n\nParking was suspended and roads closed in the Old Town during filming for Master of the Air\n\nThe council has now employed an officer to facilitate filming projects and work with businesses to co-ordinate activities and develop filming protocols to address any local concerns.\n\n\"We want to demonstrate that Dacorum is a filming-positive council,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Having one point of contact to manage these relationships will ensure that residents and businesses can be better informed going forward.\"\n\nThe council added that there were a \"range of benefits\" in supporting filming.\n\n\"Encouraging the use of local locations and using local businesses and services will bring economic benefit to the area,\" it said.\n\nThe Old Town is popular for filming due to the historic nature of the High Street\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion please email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teenager Sarah Buckle woke up in hospital after a suspected spiking incident\n\nA police force is investigating 15 reports of spiking where the victims believe they were injected with a needle.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said victims reported effects that were \"consistent with a substance being administered\".\n\nIn one case an injury was also sustained \"which could be consistent with a needle\", the force said.\n\nIt is planning to deploy more police officers to the city centre over the next few weekends.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said the majority of reports had been made by young women\n\nNottinghamshire Police said the first report of a person being spiked with \"something sharp\" was made on 2 October.\n\nThere have also been 32 reports of people being spiked by having their drink contaminated since 4 September.\n\n\"These figures have increased throughout October with the largest number of reports being made last weekend,\" the force added.\n\nPolice said the offences were believed to have happened on different days and at different venues.\n\nThe majority of reports are being made by young women, particularly students, but there have also been reports of young men being potentially spiked too, police said.\n\nA 20-year-old man was arrested as part of a wider investigation into spiking.\n\nIt followed a report of suspicious activity on Lower Parliament Street on 16 October.\n\nHe has been released on conditional bail.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said a meeting had been held to discuss a response to the issue.\n\nIt involved the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham City Council, East Midlands Ambulance Service and hospital trusts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe force said it would be deploying more officers to the city centre over the next few weekends.\n\nThere will be a planned operation with the force's police dogs on Saturday.\n\nSupt Kathryn Craner, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: \"I understand that these reports and those from other cities are concerning but want to reassure people that we have been working with our partner agencies and licensed premises throughout the city to help tackle any reports of spiking.\"\n\nSarah Buckle woke up in hospital after a suspected spiking incident in a Nottingham nightclub in September.\n\nThe 19-year-old told BBC Radio Nottingham she had to have a hepatitis test after a pin prick wound was found on her hand.\n\nShe said since she spoke about her experience, others have got in touch to share what happened to them, and said she still feels \"incredibly nervous\" when out at night.\n\n\"I've had numerous people reach out to me essentially saying 'this happened to me the week [before], but I thought I was going crazy because I hadn't heard of it',\" she said.\n\n\"This wasn't how I thought you got spiked - I thought it was just through your drink.\n\n\"I've been out a few times since and I haven't had much to drink at all, or I've been completely sober, and it actually hasn't made me feel any better.\n\n\"[Clubbing] is quite a physical experience, so you can't have eyes everywhere.\n\n\"There are people suspecting they've been spiked in so many different parts of their body - you can't look out for that, whether you're sober or not, and it's just really terrifying having no clue what's going on.\"\n\nMiss Buckle said she was left shaking for two days\n\nPeople in other parts of the country have come forward to report similar incidents in recent weeks, including a second-year Loughborough University student who said she was injected in the elbow at a student union bar.\n\n\"I don't remember actually getting spiked, I just remember going dizzy and collapsing in the smoking area,\" she said.\n\nThe student said a doctor later confirmed that she had been injected, and she went to hospital for monitoring after experiencing heart palpitations.\n\nHowever, she added she did not report the incident to police as she was not confident it would be properly looked into.\n\nPolice encouraged anyone who has been the victim of a similar offence to report it, while the university urged the student to come forward \"so we can fully investigate\".\n\nMeanwhile, Devon and Cornwall Police say they are investigating reports of a woman being attacked with a needle in Fever and Boutique in Exeter on Saturday.\n\nHannah Thomson's petition, which calls for compulsory nightclub searches, has been signed by more than 150,000 people\n\nMore than 150,000 have signed a petition calling for nightclubs to \"thoroughly\" search customers on entry, and Home Secretary Priti Patel has asked police forces to examine the issue.\n\nMike Kill, chairman of the Night Time Industries Association, said the government should hold an inquiry into spiking.\n\nHe said his members have \"definitely seen more cases\" being reported, adding clubs are \"taking our responsibilities here very seriously\" and are working to raise awareness about efforts to train staff and keep people safe.\n\n\"Without a doubt we're going to see a step up on people being searched on entry,\" he said.\n\n\"There is no [specific criminal] categorisation in terms of spiking, so I think there's some work that needs to be done in terms of the Home Office, the policing and the collaboration with the industry to ensure that we're starting to get convictions to send a very clear message to people who feel they can carry out this heinous crime.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Nottingham City Council said it would hold talks with door staff and nightclub managers to see what more can be done to keep customers safe.\n\nCouncillor Toby Neal, chairman of the authority's licensing committee, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: \"There is clearly a matter of concern here and we need to understand what is going on.\n\n\"It is really worrying. Are a group of blokes going around doing this stuff and what are we going to do to protect people?\"\n\nYvette Cooper has suggested police are not taking the matter seriously enough\n\nYvette Cooper, chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, urged police forces to work closer with hospitals, student groups and nightclubs to get a fuller picture of the scale of spiking.\n\n\"My concern is that they just don't have a proper assessment of the scale of the problem,\" she said.\n\n\"Partly it's because there's not proper work being done between police forces and A&Es, for example, to try and identify the scale of the problem, or proper work being done with nightclubs or with student groups and organisations.\n\n\"I think there's a big problem here that we don't even know or have the accurate figures, and that also is contributing to the police not, I think, taking this seriously enough.\"\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 coin dates to 1894, the year a set of masts were installed on HMS Victory\n\nA 127-year-old farthing has been discovered under the mast of Lord Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory.\n\nThe Victorian-era coin, which was found when the mast was removed for restoration work, was placed there for good luck.\n\nIt dates to 1894, the year a set of masts were installed on the ship after the previous ones became rotten.\n\nIn its day it was worth a quarter of a penny, and now would have a value of 0.1p.\n\nThe now-corroded coin once showed Queen Victoria's head on one side, and Britannia on the other, with a lighthouse in the background.\n\nThe tradition of placing coins under ships' masts dates back to Roman times and still continues today.\n\nThe coin was found by Diana Davis, head of conservation at the National Museum of the Royal Navy\n\nIt was found by Diana Davis, head of conservation at the National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN).\n\n\"I removed as much of the corrosion as possible without damaging the patinated copper alloy surface,\" she explained.\n\nShe added \"the impact of the mast with upwards of 21 tonnes resting on it\" caused damage but she said she was able to clean it enough to uncover the lighthouse on its surface.\n\n\"It's been one of the more unusual projects I've worked on - being the first person to see the coin in over 120 years,\" she added.\n\nHMS Victory is in dry dock in Portsmouth\n\nMs Thornber said: \"We had wondered if there would be a coin under the mast, to follow with naval tradition, and imagine our excitement when the coin was found and news rapidly spread through the team, who were sworn to secrecy whilst we conserved it and made plans to put it on display.\"\n\nShe added \"on paper it's not particularly rare\" but \"it occupied such an intriguing place for so many decades, and now its imprint is part of Victory's fabric\".\n\nThe coin is now on display to mark Trafalgar Day at the NMRN, next to Victory's dry dock at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe NHS in Wales has recorded its worst performance figures ever amid growing concerns on staff pressures ahead of a difficult winter.\n\nNearly 250,000 people have been waiting more than nine months for treatment, up from about 25,000 at the start of the pandemic, statistics show.\n\nNHS Wales chief executive Andrew Goodall said the system was running \"at the hottest we've seen\" due to Covid.\n\nIt comes as the Welsh government unveils its winter pressures plan.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives criticised the plan as a \"copy and paste failure\" from last year.\n\nRussell George MS, the party's health spokesman, said the party had called on the government to \"bring in rapid diagnostic centres to spot cancers earlier and deliver treatment to patients closer to home\", which would \"help address the backlog\".\n\nAlmost two-thirds of Welsh NHS staff surveyed said they felt tired or exhausted\n\nLatest Welsh NHS data shows accident and emergency waiting times were again the worst on record - only 66.8% were admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.\n\nThis was down from 68.7% in July, which was itself a record.\n\nCancer treatment waiting times have improved slightly since July - 63.2% of patients newly diagnosed with cancer started their first treatment within 62 days of first being suspected of cancer. This is one percentage point higher than August 2019.\n\nDr Goodall said: \"It does feel like this is the most challenging period... and we can see that in the data.\n\n\"Rather than just focusing on coronavirus we've got the NHS trying to restore a range of activities across all its settings.\"\n\nDr Goodall said there were 700 Covid patients in hospital beds - the equivalent of two medium-sized district general hospitals - alongside record ambulance calls, high levels of emergency demand and a busiest-ever primary care sector.\n\nWales' newest hospital, the Grange in Cwmbran, for a second month in a row recorded the worst A&E performance in a month for any Welsh emergency unit with just 38% of people dealt with within four hours. The target is 95%.\n\nAnd 8,484 people waited more than 12 hours in A&E when the target is that no-one should wait that long.\n\nRoutine surgeries have been delayed because of the pandemic\n\nWaiting lists also grew further to 657,539, a record which is equivalent to more than 20% of the Welsh population.\n\nDr Goodall said some planned operations would likely be postponed over the winter.\n\n\"Inevitably there will be some disruption and that will involve planned care, but the commitment of the NHS is to maintain as many of its activities in all of its settings for as long as possible,\" he said.\n\nHe said health boards would need to make decisions regarding the extent planned services could be protected in the face of other pressures.\n\nEarlier this week, Health Minister Eluned Morgan said it would be \"very tough\" to work through waiting lists, but health boards had been told to \"keep in touch\" and offer support, such as pain relief, to those waiting.\n\nThe Welsh government's winter pressures plan includes an extra £40m for social care, as well as extra funding for front-line services, to try and tackle delays discharging patients from hospital and cut readmissions of frail and vulnerable people.\n\nDr Andrew Goodall said he was concerned about the resilience of the care sector\n\nBut Dr Goodall said staff shortages in the care workforce were concerning.\n\nHe said: \"The resilience of the care system is a concern - it feels it is at its most fragile even with the support available.\n\n\"We've provided funding to make sure the care sector is further supported, but workforce elements is a problem, whether it's people choosing to enter a care career or the community prevalence of Covid, meaning staff have to self-isolate.\"\n\nDr Alice Groves is expecting it to be the hardest winter in the health service's history\n\nIn an effort to take pressure off emergency services, Aneurin Bevan Health Board has set up urgent care centres at Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital and Abergavenny's Nevill Hall Hospital.\n\nThis was after estimating that between 30% and 50% of those attending A&E could be seen in primary care settings.\n\nAlready, 5,500 patients have been seen and clinical director Dr Alice Groves said: \"The worry was patients would have waited ages at A&E or become unwell trying to access other services.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, 17 medical royal colleges and faculties have warned of a growing winter crisis and called for a national plan to deal with staff shortages.\n\nA recent survey by the Royal College of Physicians found 46% of respondents in Wales said their organisation was not at all prepared for winter, 37% felt personally unprepared, with 63% feeling tired or exhausted.\n\nAsked if the pressures of winter might \"break\" exhausted staff, Dr Goodall said: \"This [pandemic period] has been a much more sustained experience than many of us would have envisaged.\n\n\"When we usually talk of a major incident we talk of a matter of hours or days. We've been running a major incident situation for 20 months now.\n\n\"Everybody needs to do their bit including the public, but I know NHS staff will pull out all the stops.\"", "Nearly 1,500 people have been arrested in England and Wales in a week-long operation against so-called county lines drug dealing networks.\n\nPolice say they have started focusing on senior figures controlling phone numbers used to sell drugs.\n\nOfficers are also using modern slavery and human trafficking laws to prosecute gangs exploiting vulnerable children.\n\nSome 139 county lines were closed, and almost £2m of Class A drugs, including cocaine and heroin, seized.\n\nCounty line gangs are urban drug dealers who sell to customers in more rural areas via dedicated phone lines.\n\nThey have become central to the trade in illegal substances across Britain and the way they operate is often accompanied by serious violence.\n\nGangs in cities operate phone lines advertised in other towns and rural areas to supply drugs, while remaining at arm's length to reduce the risk of arrest.\n\nBut police changed tactics two years ago and now have a strategy of identifying the \"line holder\" by analysing phone records, meaning gang leaders can often be arrested in possession of the phone, proving their involvement.\n\nAs a result the number of arrests has been growing during regular week-long operations in which different police forces co-ordinate their efforts.\n\nA total of 85% of defendants are now pleading guilty and the conviction rate is 99%, said Graham McNulty, deputy assistant commissioner of the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC).\n\n\"We are making significant inroads into dismantling violent county lines.\n\n\"The figures speak for themselves. We're stopping abhorrent criminals abusing young people and lining their own pockets in the process,\" he said.\n\nAn assessment of county lines drug dealing produced by the NPCC suggests the number of active lines has fallen from around 2,000 in 2018 to 600.\n\nIn the latest police push, between 11 October and 17 October:\n\nPolice also visited 894 addresses used by drug gangs for their operations against the will of the resident, a practice known as \"cuckooing\".\n\nMost of the gangs operate from Merseyside, the West Midlands and London.\n\nCounty lines gangs groom children and vulnerable adults to get them moving drugs around the country, often using threatening and coercive behaviour.\n\nNearly £2m worth of class A drugs were seized during operations between 11 and 17 October\n\nPolice are pioneering the use of \"victimless prosecutions\" which aims to reduce the need for victims to give evidence in court.\n\nHowever, the Children's Society, a charity that works with young people facing abuse, neglect and exploitation, wants the government to boost the law on the criminal exploitation of children by adding a definition of the offence to the new Policing Bill.\n\nIryna Pona, Policy Manager at The Children's Society, said: \"This should also provide clarity for professionals in identifying young victims and would be strengthened further by a national strategy, supported by funding, to ensure more children get earlier help, ending the current postcode lottery in support.\"\n\n\"There needs to be a relentless focus among professionals upon identifying and supporting children at risk of exploitation as early as possible.\"\n\nThe Children's Society runs a campaign, Look Closer, designed to help people spot signs that children and vulnerable adults are involved with county lines.\n\nJames Simmonds-Read, from The Children's Society's prevention programme which has worked alongside police said: \"It's vital that professionals spot instances where children have been exploited by criminals, so we are pleased that many vulnerable people - including young people - have been identified as being in need of support.\"\n\n\"The public can also play a crucial role in spotting signs of exploitation and reporting them to the police and Look Closer highlights how everyone from commuters to transport and shop staff can help children to escape horrific exploitation.\"\n\n\"Young people may not ask for help themselves because they have been manipulated into thinking they are making a choice or because they have been subjected to terrifying threats.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hunting for children caught up in county lines drug gangs\n\nThe British Transport Police try to stop drugs being transported on trains.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Crime Agency is focusing on stopping drugs getting into the country in the first place.\n\nRecently the NCA has charged six men with importing 2.3 tonnes of cocaine worth £190m.\n\nOther seizures include 5.2 tonnes of cocaine being transported by sea, and the discovery of heroin and cocaine inside a British lorry.\n\nNCA Director of Investigations Nikki Holland said: \"It is a high priority for the NCA to build on the successes we have had in source countries and along the drugs supply routes, so that organised crime groups land fewer drugs in our towns and cities and prevent them being pushed further afield through county lines groups.\"", "The Queen was pictured on Tuesday evening, hosting a Global Investment Summit at Windsor Castle\n\nThe Queen has cancelled a trip to Northern Ireland and has \"reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for the next few days\", Buckingham Palace says.\n\nThe 95-year-old monarch will remain at Windsor Castle but is still expected to attend the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow later this month.\n\nThe Queen is in \"good spirits\" but \"disappointed\" that the visit cannot go ahead, the palace said.\n\nShe was due to begin the two-day trip on Wednesday.\n\nThe nation's longest-reigning monarch has attended a series of events in recent days, hosting a Global Investment Summit at Windsor Castle on Tuesday evening.\n\nEarlier in the day, she held two audiences via video link, greeting the Japanese ambassador Hajime Hayashi and the EU ambassador Joao de Almeida.\n\nOn Monday, she held a virtual audience with the new governor-general of New Zealand, and at the weekend, she attended the races at Ascot.\n\nIt was revealed on Tuesday that the Queen had declined the Oldie of the Year award, from the magazine of the same name, saying: \"You are only as old as you feel\".\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokesman said: \"The Queen has reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for the next few days.\n\n\"Her Majesty is in good spirits and is disappointed that she will no longer be able to visit Northern Ireland, where she had been due to undertake a series of engagements today and tomorrow.\n\n\"The Queen sends her warmest good wishes to the people of Northern Ireland and looks forward to visiting in the future.\"\n\nThe Queen's decision is understood to be unrelated to coronavirus.\n\nBuckingham Palace is keen not to cause any alarm and has stressed that the Queen has \"reluctantly accepted\" the advice of doctors to rest for the next few days.\n\nShe has had a busy schedule of engagements over the past couple of weeks that would test the resilience of many people far younger than her.\n\nI saw her last Tuesday at an event at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIt was the first time she had used a walking stick in public.\n\nShe also took a shorter route into the Abbey.\n\nWe were told this was \"for her own comfort.\"\n\nBut she still looked incredibly well and engaged for a 95-year-old.\n\nIt is clear though that getting older takes its toll on us all and the Queen's diary will be carefully managed going forward.\n\nThe Queen had been due to arrive in Hillsborough in County Down on Wednesday afternoon and attend a church service marking the centenary of the formation of Northern Ireland in Armagh tomorrow.\n\nAn advance team was already in Northern Ireland making preparations for the two-day visit.\n\nMeanwhile, the Prince of Wales was also at Windsor Castle on Wednesday for an investiture ceremony where the chef and TV presenter Mary Berry was made Dame Commander.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, said on Twitter: \"We thank Her Majesty for her good wishes to the people of Northern Ireland and trust that she will keep well and benefit from a period of rest.\n\n\"It is always a joy to have Her Majesty in Royal Hillsborough and we look forward to a further visit in the near future.\"\n\nWishing her well, Ulster Unionist leader Doug Beattie said the Queen had been \"a source of great comfort during Northern Ireland's darkest days and provided lasting leadership as we moved into a new era for all our people\".\n\nPrince Charles held the investiture ceremony for Dame Mary Berry on Wednesday\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said he wished the Queen \"all the very best as she takes a few days' rest\".\n\nChurch leaders in Northern Ireland said in a joint statement that they were sorry she would not attend the Service of Reconciliation and Hope in Armagh, and acknowledged \"the significance of her commitment to the work of peace and reconciliation, which has meant a great deal to people throughout this island\".\n\nThe Queen first travelled to Northern Ireland in 1945, just after the end of World War Two, when she was a princess. If it had gone ahead, this week's trip would have been her 26th visit.\n\nRoyal visits to Northern Ireland during its centenary year have included the first in line to the throne, Prince Charles who went to Belfast in May, and Prince William who visited Londonderry in September.", "A huge leak of documents seen by BBC News shows how countries are trying to change a crucial scientific report on how to tackle climate change.\n\nThe leak reveals Saudi Arabia, Japan and Australia are among countries asking the UN to play down the need to move rapidly away from fossil fuels.\n\nIt also shows some wealthy nations are questioning paying more to poorer states to move to greener technologies.\n\nThis \"lobbying\" raises questions for the COP26 climate summit in November.\n\nThe leak reveals countries pushing back on UN recommendations for action and comes just days before they will be asked at the summit to make significant commitments to slow down climate change and keep global warming to 1.5 degrees.\n\nThe leaked documents consist of more than 32,000 submissions made by governments, companies and other interested parties to the team of scientists compiling a UN report designed to bring together the best scientific evidence on how to tackle climate change.\n\nThese \"assessment reports\" are produced every six to seven years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body tasked with evaluating the science of climate change.\n\nThese reports are used by governments to decide what action is needed to tackle climate change, and the latest will be a crucial input to negotiations at the Glasgow conference.\n\nThe authority of these reports derives in part from the fact that virtually all the governments of the world participate in the process to reach consensus.\n\nThe comments from governments the BBC has read are overwhelmingly designed to be constructive and to improve the quality of the final report.\n\nThe cache of comments and the latest draft of the report were released to Greenpeace UK's team of investigative journalists, Unearthed, which passed it on to BBC News.\n\nThe leak shows a number of countries and organisations arguing that the world does not need to reduce the use of fossil fuels as quickly as the current draft of the report recommends.\n\nAn adviser to the Saudi oil ministry demands \"phrases like 'the need for urgent and accelerated mitigation actions at all scales…' should be eliminated from the report\".\n\nOne senior Australian government official rejects the conclusion that closing coal-fired power plants is necessary, even though ending the use of coal is one of the stated objectives the COP26 conference.\n\nSaudi Arabia is the one of the largest oil producers in the world and Australia is a major coal exporter.\n\nA senior scientist from India's Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, which has strong links to the Indian government, warns coal is likely to remain the mainstay of energy production for decades because of what they describe as the \"tremendous challenges\" of providing affordable electricity. India is already the world's second biggest consumer of coal.\n\nA number of countries argue in favour of emerging and currently expensive technologies designed to capture and permanently store carbon dioxide underground. Saudi Arabia, China, Australia and Japan - all big producers or users of fossil fuels - as well as the organisation of oil producing nations, Opec, all support carbon capture and storage (CCS).\n\nIt is claimed these CCS technologies could dramatically cut fossil fuel emissions from power plants and some industrial sectors.\n\nSaudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, requests the UN scientists delete their conclusion that \"the focus of decarbonisation efforts in the energy systems sector needs to be on rapidly shifting to zero-carbon sources and actively phasing out fossil fuels\".\n\nArgentina, Norway and Opec also take issue with the statement. Norway argues the UN scientists should allow the possibility of CCS as a potential tool for reducing emissions from fossil fuels.\n\nThe draft report accepts CCS could play a role in the future but says there are uncertainties about its feasibility. It says \"there is large ambiguity in the extent to which fossil fuels with CCS would be compatible with the 2C and 1.5C targets\" as set out by the Paris Agreement.\n\nThe offshore Sleipner gas field in Norway has been using CCS since 1996\n\nAustralia asks IPCC scientists to delete a reference to analysis of the role played by fossil fuel lobbyists in watering down action on climate in Australia and the US. Opec also asks the IPCC to \"delete 'lobby activism, protecting rent extracting business models, prevent political action'.\"\n\nWhen approached about its comments to the draft report, Opec told the BBC: \"The challenge of tackling emissions has many paths, as evidenced by the IPCC report, and we need to explore them all. We need to utilise all available energies, as well as clean and more efficient technological solutions to help reduce emissions, ensuring no one is left behind.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tony Blair on climate change: \"Even though the challenge is immense, there really isn't an alternative to dealing with it\"\n\nThe IPCC says comments from governments are central to its scientific review process and that its authors have no obligation to incorporate them into the reports.\n\n\"Our processes are designed to guard against lobbying - from all quarters\", the IPCC told the BBC. \"The review process is (and always has been) absolutely fundamental to the IPCC's work and is a major source of the strength and credibility of our reports.\n\nProfessor Corinne le Quéré of the University of East Anglia, a leading climate scientist who has helped compile three major reports for the IPCC, has no doubts about the impartiality of the IPCC's reports.\n\nShe says all comments are judged solely on scientific evidence regardless of where they come from.\n\n\"There is absolutely no pressure on scientists to accept the comments,\" she told the BBC. \"If the comments are lobbying, if they're not justified by the science, they will not be integrated in the IPCC reports.\"\n\nShe says it is important that experts of all kinds - including governments - have a chance to review the science.\n\n\"The more the reports are scrutinised\", says Professor le Quéré, \"the more solid the evidence is going to be in the end, because the more the arguments are brought and articulated forward in a way that is leaning on the best available science\".\n\nChristiana Figueres, the Costa Rican diplomat who oversaw the landmark UN climate conference in Paris in 2015, agrees it is crucial that governments are part of the IPCC process.\n\n\"Everybody's voice has to be there. That's the whole purpose. This is not a single thread. This is a tapestry woven by many, many threads.\"\n\nThe United Nations was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2007 for the IPCC's work on climate science and the crucial role it has played in the effort to tackle climate change.\n\nBrazil and Argentina, two of the biggest producers of beef products and animal feed crops in the world, argue strongly against evidence in the draft report that reducing meat consumption is necessary to cut greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nThe draft report states \"plant-based diets can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 50% compared to the average emission intensive Western diet\". Brazil says this is incorrect.\n\nBoth countries call on the authors to delete or change some passages in the text referring to \"plant-based diets\" playing a role in tackling climate change, or which describe beef as a \"high carbon\" food. Argentina also asked that references to taxes on red meat and to the international \"Meatless Monday\" campaign, which urges people to forgo meat for a day, be removed from the report.\n\nThe South American nation recommends \"avoiding generalisation on the impacts of meat-based diets on low-carbon options\", arguing there is evidence that meat-based diets can also reduce carbon emissions.\n\nOn the same theme, Brazil says \"plant-based diets do not for themselves guarantee the reduction or control of related emissions\" and maintains the focus of debate should be on the levels of emissions from different production systems, rather than types of food.\n\nBrazil, which has seen significant increases in the rate of deforestation in the Amazon and some other forest areas, also disputes a reference to this being a result of changes in government regulations, claiming this is incorrect.\n\nA significant number of Switzerland's comments are directed at amending parts of the report that argue developing countries will need support, particularly financial support, from rich countries in order to meet emission reduction targets.\n\nIt was agreed at the climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009 that developed nations would provide $100bn a year in climate finance for developing countries by 2020, a target that has yet to be met.\n\nAustralia makes a similar case to Switzerland. It says developing countries' climate pledges do not all depend on receiving outside financial support. It also describes a mention in the draft report of the lack of credible public commitments on finance as \"subjective commentary\".\n\nThe Swiss Federal Office for the Environment told the BBC: \"While climate finance is a critical tool to increase climate ambition, it is not the only relevant tool.\n\n\"Switzerland takes the view that all Parties to the Paris Agreement with the capacity to do so should provide support to those who need such support.\"\n\nA number of mostly eastern European countries argue the draft report should be more positive about the role nuclear power can play in meeting the UN's climate targets.\n\nIndia goes even further, arguing \"almost all the chapters contain a bias against nuclear energy\". It argues it is an \"established technology\" with \"good political backing except in a few countries\".\n\nThe Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia criticise a table in the report which finds nuclear power only has a positive role in delivering one of 17 UN Sustainable Development goals. They argue it can play a positive role in delivering most of the UN's development agenda.\n\nDo you have any questions about the leak of climate documents? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.", "The company behind brands such as PG Tips, Cornetto and Dove has said it will raise prices to cope with \"elevated levels\" of cost inflation which it expects to continue next year.\n\nConsumer goods giant Unilever said that it had already lifted its pricing.\n\nUnilever said this would continue across its global operations and within each of its product divisions.\n\nThe company reported a 2.5% rise in sales for the third quarter to 30 September.\n\nGrowth was supported by a 4.1% increase in prices while the volume of goods sold fell by 1.5%.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Office for National Statistics said that the UK consumer prices index (CPI) measure of inflation slowed to 3.1% in the year to September.\n\nHowever, inflation is expected to accelerate in the coming months due to a rise in energy costs as well as continuing disruption to UK and global supply chains.\n\nUnilever's chief financial officer, Graeme Pitkethly, said: \"We expect inflation to be higher next year than this year.\"\n\nIt is not yet clear how Unilever's price rises will affect consumers. The company sells to businesses such as retailers, supermarkets and wholesalers who may or may not pass on higher costs to shoppers.\n\nBut Danni Hewson, financial analyst at AJ Bell, said Unilever was facing a \"balancing act of not increasing prices so much that its products are no longer competitive\".\n\n\"It is a real test of the strength of the company's brands,\" she said. \"After all, will we really stick with branded soap at a materially higher price when there's an unbranded alternative sitting next to it on the shelf which is an order of magnitude cheaper?\n\n\"If enough consumers decide they can put up with a cheaper alternative then it would become a big problem for Unilever.\"\n\nUnilever's brands include Simple skin care, Sure deodorant and Vaseline. It also produces Marmite, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Hellmann's mayonnaise and Knorr stocks among many others.\n\nUnilever said it expected its full-year sales to grow between 3% and 5%, but that its profit margin would be unchanged.\n\nEarlier this week, the boss of the Food & Drink Federation warned that the hospitality industry, which includes restaurants and pubs, was seeing \"terrifying\" price inflation of between 14% and 18%.\n\nMark Derry, executive chairman of Brasserie Bar Co, which owns the Brasserie Blanc chain of restaurants and whose chef patron is Raymond Blanc, told the BBC that while trading was holding up well, costs were rising which means it would have to raise prices for diners.\n\nRaymond Blanc, who holds two Michelin stars, is chef patron of Brasserie Bar Co\n\n\"There is an inevitable effect of all of this inflation and that is that we will have to try and put prices up,\" he said\n\n\"At the moment, we've tried very hard to hold them because obviously we've come out of a very, very serious problem over the last year and a half and doing our best to control it, but I cannot see how it is possible not to put prices up, frankly.\"\n\nKraft Heinz, known for its tomato ketchup and baked beans, recently warned that people will have to get used to higher food prices.\n\nOn Wednesday, food giant Nestle revealed that it had also increased prices, which rose by 2.1% in the third quarter.\n\nThe maker of Kit-Kats, Nescafé and Purina pet products, said prices had risen on the back of higher energy and raw materials costs as well as transport.\n\nThe Financial Times reported that Nestle's chief executive, Mark Schneider, said \"inflation costs are rising faster than we can roll forward through pricing. The situation has not improved. If anything we are seeing further downsides compared to what we told you in the summer\".", "Ai-Da stands in front of one of 'her' artworks.\n\nA British-built robot that uses cameras and a robotic arm to create abstract art has been released after Egyptian authorities detained it at customs.\n\nAi-Da, named after mathematician Ada Lovelace, was seized by border agents last week who feared her robotics may have been hiding covert spy tools.\n\nOfficials held the robot for 10 days, imperilling plans to show her work at the Great Pyramid of Giza on Thursday.\n\nThe UK's Embassy in Cairo told the BBC that it is \"glad\" the case is resolved.\n\n\"The Embassy is glad to see that Ai-Da the artist robot has now been cleared through customs,\" the embassy said in a statement. \"Customs clearance procedures can be lengthy, and are required before importation of any artworks or IT equipment.\"\n\nAccording to creator Aidan Meller, border guards seized Ai-Da because they had been suspicious of her modem, before then raising issues with her camera.\n\nMr Meller offered to remove the modem, but said that he could not remove the cameras, which are essential to Ai-Da's ability to paint. The robot uses AI algorithms to turn what is recorded through its camera into works of art.\n\n\"I can ditch the modems, but I can't really gouge her eyes out,\" he told the Guardian.\n\nHe praised the work of the UK ambassador, who Mr Meller said had \"been working through the night to get Ai-Da released,\" but pointed out that her late release meant it would be difficult to get her ready for the display on Thursday. \"We're right up to the wire now,\" he said.\n\nThe work was due to be part of the first contemporary art exhibition at the Pyramids in Egypt for 4,500 years.\n\nBoth Ai-Da and her sculpture had been sent in specialised flight cases by air cargo to Cairo before the \"Forever Is Now\" exhibition, which will run until 7 November.\n\nHer clay sculpture is an interpretation of the Greek riddle of the sphinx: what goes on four feet in the morning, two feet at noon and three feet in the evening? A human going through the stages of being a baby, an adult and finally old age using a walking stick.\n\nHer interpretation of the famous Greek riddle is a sculpture of Ai-Da with three legs.\n\nAi-Da was completed in 2019 and her artwork, which includes the first \"self-portrait with no self\" has been displayed at the Design Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Our past has shaped and scarred us\"\n\nThe head of the Irish Catholic Church has said partition causes him \"a deep sense of loss and sadness\".\n\nArchbishop Eamon Martin was addressing a service to mark the centenary of Ireland being divided and the formation of Northern Ireland.\n\nIn 1921, the island was divided into Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson joined 150 guests from both sides of the border at the event on Thursday.\n\nArchbishop Martin said for the past 100 years, partition had \"polarised people on this island\".\n\n\"It has institutionalised difference, and it remains a symbol of cultural, political and religious division between our communities,\" he said.\n\nHe told the service in Armagh's Church of Ireland Cathedral that he also felt churches could have gone further.\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis and Prime Minister Boris Johnson were among those attending the centenary church service\n\n\"I have to face the difficult truth that, perhaps, we in the churches could have done more to deepen our understanding of each other and to bring healing and peace to our divided and wounded communities,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, the prime minister said: \"It has been very moving to be here today and see the way in which people from very different perspectives have come together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said Northern Ireland was \"an incredible part of the country\" and had \"an amazing future\".\n\nThe prime minister added: \"I am a passionate unionist and, of course, I believe the future is within the United Kingdom.\"\n\nThe Queen had been due to attend the service but was unable to travel for medical reasons.\n\nThe Armagh church service was organised to \"mark the centenaries of the partition of Ireland and the formation of Northern Ireland\".\n\nPresident Higgins said the title of the service made it \"inappropriate\" for him to attend as head of state.\n\nSinn Féin, including Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, also decided not to attend.\n\nHowever, Colum Eastwood, the leader of Northern Ireland's other nationalist party, the SDLP, was present.\n\nAmong others at the service were Northern Ireland First Minister Paul Givan, of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP); DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson; Ulster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie; Alliance leader Naomi Long; Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis and Northern Ireland's chief medical officer Sir Michael McBride.\n\nTwo representatives from the Irish government were also present - Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney, from the Fine Gael party, and chief whip Jack Chambers, from Fianna Fáil.\n\nWith Assembly Speaker Alex Maskey, a Sinn Féin member, not attending, deputy speaker Roy Beggs formally represented the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nThe event, titled \"A Service of Reflection and Hope\", was organised by the leaders of the main Protestant and Catholic Churches.\n\nIt began with the ringing of the cathedral bell before the Dean of Armagh, Rev Shane Forster, sent his good wishes to the Queen.\n\nWelcoming the congregation in both English and Irish, he said: \"Our past has shaped us and scarred us, it has divided us. And, yet, it has also, on occasion, brought us together.\"\n\nThe leaders of Ireland's main churches delivered their personal reflections on the creation of Northern Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Dr David Bruce, said: \"I grieve the times when fear has held us back from building relationships with those with whom we differ.\n\n\"If we are to build a better future, then we must recognise our own woundedness and our responsibility to care for the wounds of one another.\"\n\nDr Ivan Patterson, the president of the Irish Council of Churches, said \"we need to learn\" from the example of young people.\n\n\"They are a generation who want to build peace, a generation who respect and care for this planet in solidarity with the poorest and most vulnerable here and around the world.\"\n\nChurch of Ireland Primate Rev John McDowell said: \"I am hopeful. Hopeful in a new generation who know that the big problems we've landed them with, especially climate change and economic inequality, can only be tackled together.\n\n\"I think there are already signs that the next generation will see the things that we obsessed about as secondary and place their priorities elsewhere.\n\n\"As we lament our failures, sorrows and pain, and recognise our wounded yet living history, may we with a united voice commit ourselves to work together for the common good, in mutual respect and with shared hope for a light-filled, prosperous and peaceful future.\"\n\nThe main sermon was given by Rev Dr Sahr Yambasu, the president of the Methodist Church in Ireland\n\nThe main sermon was given by the president of the Methodist Church in Ireland, Rev Dr Sahr Yambasu, who told the congregation: \"We have come a long way - not just a century but centuries.\n\n\"During that time people have cared for one another and made efforts to build community.\"\n\nBut he added: \"We have also been blighted by sectarian divisions, terrible injustices, destructive violence, and by win-lose political attitudes. And for this, we have cause to lament.\"\n\nDr Yambasu said Thursday's service was an opportunity \"to give thanks and, also, lament; to imagine what could be, and to choose the way forward that can be mutually beneficial\".\n\nThe service included an opening prayer in Irish led by Linda Ervine and Seán Coll.\n\nIntercessions were offered by Prof Mary Hannon-Fletcher and Robert Barfoot, both of whom were injured in the Troubles.\n\nChildren carried a lantern to the altar, a symbol of light and hope for the future.\n\nNorthern Ireland was established in May 1921 after the partition of Ireland.\n\nIt followed decades of turmoil between nationalists, who wanted independence from British rule, and unionists, who wanted to remain in the United Kingdom.\n\nThe border divided the 32-county island into two separate jurisdictions - six counties in the north-east became Northern Ireland, which is still part of the UK. The other 26-county territory became the Irish Free State, but is now the Republic of Ireland.\n\nNationalists, north and south of the border, were infuriated by partition and continued to campaign for independence for the whole island.\n\nMany unionists were also bitterly disappointed, especially those who lived on the southern side and woke up to find themselves in a new state on 3 May 1921.\n\nThe BBC News NI website has a dedicated section marking the 100th anniversary of the creation of Northern Ireland and partition of the island.\n\nThere are special reports on the major figures of the time and the events that shaped modern Ireland available at bbc.co.uk/ni100.\n\nYear '21: You can also explore how Northern Ireland was created a hundred years ago in the company of Tara Mills and Declan Harvey.\n\nListen to the latest Year '21 podcast on BBC Sounds or catch-up on previous episodes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Floods are causing havoc in India and Nepal\n\nMore than 180 people have died after heavy rainfall triggered flash floods in Nepal and two Indian states - Uttarakhand and Kerala.\n\nHomes were submerged or crushed by rocks swept into them by landslides.\n\nAt least 88 people died in Nepal and 55 in Uttarakhand, including five from a single family, with dozens more missing in both nations.\n\nRains further south in India's Kerala state also triggered deadly floods, leaving another 42 dead there.\n\nIn Nepal the victims included a family of six, among them three children, whose house was buried in a sudden deluge of soil and debris.\n\nThe worst-affected areas are Panchthar district in east Nepal, and Ilam and Doti in west Nepal.\n\nRescuers were struggling to reach 60 people stranded for two days in the village of Seti in west Nepal, Reuters reported.\n\nNepal's government is giving $1,700 (£1,220) to the families of each victim of the floods.\n\nIn the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand schools have been closed and religious and tourist activities suspended.\n\nThe Ganges burst its bank in Rishikesh and the popular Nainital region was severely affected.\n\nUttarakhand, which normally sees up to 30.5mm (1.2in) of rain for the whole of October, recorded 328mm in a 24-hour period this week.\n\nBut the Indian Meteorological Department says the rainfall is now easing.\n\nUttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami announced a compensation of 400,000 rupees (£3,800; $5,300) for the families of those who have died and a further 190,000 rupees for those whose homes were destroyed.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his condolences on Twitter: \"I am anguished by the loss of lives due to heavy rainfall in parts of Uttarakhand. May the injured recover soon.\"\n\nOverflowing rivers have swept away bridges as here in Chalthi, Uttarakhand\n\nWhile attributing the heavy rains to the climate crisis, experts have also cited hydro-power projects in the higher reaches of the Himalayas, and excessive and often unchecked construction on steep slopes which cause damage to the region's fragile ecology.\n\nExperts also say higher temperatures have meant lesser snow in the Himalayas - and this, coupled with heavy rains, is pushing large volumes of water downstream, triggering flash floods.\n\nThe southern coastal state of Kerala has also seen heavy rain since Friday.\n\nThousands of people have been moved to safety, with more than 1,600 homes destroyed or damaged.", "Emiliano Sala had just signed with Cardiff City\n\nThe pilot of a plane that crashed into the English Channel, killing footballer Emiliano Sala, was ordered not to fly the aircraft, a court has heard.\n\nFay Keely said she asked that David Ibbotson not fly her plane after being told of previous infringements.\n\nDavid Henderson, 67, was the plane's operator and was responsible for choosing appropriate pilots.\n\nMr Henderson is on trial at Cardiff Crown Court accused of endangering the safety of an aircraft.\n\nSala, 28, was involved in a multimillion-pound transfer from French club Nantes to Cardiff City FC, when the plane crashed into the sea in January 2019, killing the striker and pilot Mr Ibbotson, 59.\n\nMr Henderson denies the charge of endangering the safety of an aircraft.\n\nHe has previously admitted a charge of attempting to discharge a passenger without valid permission or authorisation.\n\nDavid Henderson was the aircraft's operator since its purchase in 2015\n\nMs Keely said she had bought the Piper Malibu aircraft in 2015 through her family's trust, Cool Flourish Ltd, of which she is secretary and director.\n\nShe said that she had told Mr Henderson in 2018 that Mr Ibbotson should not fly the aircraft again after she was notified by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of two infringements that had happened while he was in the air.\n\nShe later found out that Henderson had hired Mr Ibbotson again, this time to pilot a flight carrying her sister a month later, in August 2018.\n\nSala's body was recovered, but Mr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowley, Lincolnshire, has never been found\n\nShe said: \"Later on in the year, in August, he tried to contact me while I was on holiday. He was due to fly my sister on a trip and was going to be piloting himself.\n\n\"I found out after the event that he was unavailable and had asked David Ibbotson to fly instead of him.\"\n\n\"He allowed that to happen without my permission,\" she added.\n\nAsked by defence counsel Stephen Spence QC if she had warned Henderson not to hire Mr Ibbotson again, she said: \"No. As far as I was concerned I had made my feelings clear that he shouldn't be flying the aircraft.\"\n\nThe Piper Malibu aircraft was bought under advice from Mr Henderson, Ms Keely told the court\n\nIn an text message exchange from August 2018, that was read to the jury, Mr Henderson had a conversation with someone who had flown with Mr Ibbotson.\n\nIt said: \"The Ibbotson experience was interesting! He was all over the place. Had to help him out coming into White Waltham [airfield].\"\n\nMr Henderson replied: \"His handling OK? Takes a lot to try and knock these new guys into shape.\"\n\n\"He's just not very quick and not thinking ahead,\" was the reply.\n\nIn another text message, found on Mr Henderson's phone from July 2018, Mr Ibbotson explained he had \"messed up a couple of times\" during a flight.\n\nJurors also heard that, hours after the night-time crash, Mr Henderson had messaged aircraft engineer David Smith telling him to \"keep very quiet\", adding \"need to be very careful. Opens up a whole can of worms\".\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB disappeared from radar near the Channel Islands on 21 January\n\nThe court has already heard that Mr Ibbotson did not hold a commercial pilot's licence, was not allowed to fly at night, and that his rating to fly the Piper Malibu had expired.\n\nDespite this, when Mr Henderson was unavailable to fly the plane carrying Sala between Nantes and Cardiff in January because he was away with his wife in Paris, he hired Mr Ibbotson again.\n\nMr Smith, an employee of aircraft maintenance company Eastern Air Executive, said he had become aware of some issues with the aircraft on January 21 before it was due to fly back from France to the UK and insisted it was checked by a French engineer.\n\nThe trial is expected to last until the end of next week.", "A California sheriff has said heat and possibly dehydration are to blame for the deaths of a family found on a remote hiking trail in August.\n\nJonathan Gerrish, 45, Ellen Chung, 30, their one-year-old girl Aurelia Miju Chung-Gerrish and dog Oski died due to hyperthermia in Devil's Gulch Valley.\n\nThe announcement comes over two months after rescue crews found their bodies in the Sierra National Forest.\n\nTheir unexplained deaths had puzzled summer hikers in the US West.\n\nIn a news conference on Thursday, the Mariposa County Sheriff's Office said that the family had been found with an empty 85oz (2.5-litre) water bladder, and did not have any other bottles or water filters with them.\n\nTemperatures on the day of their hike rose above 109F (42C), officials say.\n\nAccording to CBS News, the BBC's partner in the US, Mr Gerrish was from the UK and met Ms Chung in San Francisco before moving to the small town of Mariposa in 2020.\n\nTheir bodies were discovered by rescue crews on 17 August in an area south-west of Yosemite National Park after a friend called authorities to report them missing.\n\nThe Mariposa County Sheriff's Office has been working with FBI, environmental researchers and toxicologists to determine what killed the family.\n\nThey had already ruled out death by lightning, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, cyanide, illegal drugs, alcohol, gun \"or any other type of weapon\" or suicide.\n\nThe FBI is still attempting to access the mobile phone owned by Gerrish, Mariposa County Sheriff Jeremy Briese told reporters.\n\nHe added that there is no phone service in the area where they were hiking, and that an earlier fire had burned trees that would normally provide shade in some sections of the steep trail.\n\nConcerns over water quality in the nearby Merced River led to speculation that an algae bloom could have killed them, but officials say there is no evidence that the family drank the river water.\n\nOther dismissed theories included a leak that originated from abandoned gold mines that are common in the Gold Rush region.\n• None Poison algae may have killed family - US police", "The COP26 climate summit is under way in Glasgow - one of the biggest ever world meetings on how to tackle global warming.\n\nBBC News Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris answers some of your questions.\n\nYou can send a question using the form at the bottom of this page.\n\nHow is the average family going to find the extra £20,000 needed to buy an electric vehicle? Nicola Hippisley, London\n\nYou don't necessarily need an extra £20,000 to buy an electric vehicle.\n\nOverall, electric cars have been more expensive than petrol or diesel ones for some time, but the difference has been narrowing.\n\nThe average cost of an electric car in the UK is about £44,000, but you can buy a basic one for less than £20,000. That's partly because the price of the batteries which electric cars use has fallen sharply in recent years.\n\nAt the moment, the price of raw materials is threatening to push battery prices up again, but the industry expects that as electric car sales increase, economies of scale will kick in.\n\nExperts predict that new electric and petrol/diesel cars will cost the same within the next five years. It is also possible to lease an electric vehicle, and there's a growing second-hand market as well, where vehicles are much cheaper.\n\nThe UK government currently offers a grant of up to £2,500 as a discount on the price of certain brand new low-emission vehicles including some electric models.\n\nYou can also claim a grant of up to £350 to help meet the cost of installing a chargepoint at your house if you have dedicated off-street parking. This is available whether you lease your car or own it outright.\n\nSeparately, the Scottish government offers interest-free loans to help people buy brand new or used electric vehicles.\n\nHow will the decisions made at COP26 change our day-to-day lives? I want to know what I can do to help move these policies forward. Matthew Hadley, Harpenden\n\nThe decisions made at COP26 are part of the wider ambition to decarbonise our economies - and that will certainly have an impact on daily life.\n\nThe cars we drive and the way we heat our homes are going to change. Buying an electric vehicle, or getting a heat pump installed at home, is going to become more and more common. The hope - and for many the expectation - is that as these technologies become more established, the costs will come down.\n\nThere are also personal choices to be made about what we eat (the Climate Change Committee which advises the government recommends a 20% reduction per person by 2050 in the amount of beef, lamb and dairy we consume), and how often we fly.\n\nThen there are practical issues like recycling and cutting down on waste as much as possible.\n\nWhy are we still referring to 2050 as some sort of end goal, since very little has changed in the last two decades? Wouldn't 2040 or perhaps even 2030 put a little more urgency into every little step humanity takes? Jake Kettmann, Bega, NSW, Australia\n\nThe year 2050 is the target date set by many countries for reaching net zero emissions of greenhouse gases. But you're not alone in thinking that 2050 is much too far in the future to force some politicians or companies to take action now.\n\nThat's why there are also plenty of interim targets, and the 2020s have been identified as a critical decade for climate action - it can't all be delayed until the 10 years leading up to 2050.\n\nMany of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases have now set targets for 2030, and the UN says overall emissions need to fall by 45% [by that date]compared to 2010 levels, if the aim of limiting global temperature rises to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels is to remain realistic.\n\nAt the moment, though, the world is nowhere near achieving that, even with the new pledges made at COP26.\n\nIf scientists have already considered a 1.5C reduction goal will not be achieved, why don't we set up a new goal, which we may able to achieve? Ana, Vietnam\n\nQuite a few scientists think it may already be too late to restrict the rise in global temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, but they'd rather have an ambitious target to aim for.\n\nThe Paris Agreement in 2015 set the goal of limiting global warming to well below 2C, and preferably to 1.5C. So \"well below 2C\" is already written into law as a secondary target.\n\nThere's also a growing awareness of the need to take action which will make a difference in the next five to 10 years. That's why many of the agreements made at COP26 - to reverse deforestation, for example, or to cut global methane emissions by 30% - set 2030 as their target date.\n\nThe challenge now of course is to turn those promises into practice, and to deliver urgent change.\n\nHow can we be sure the claims made about greenhouse gas emissions can be verified? What independent observer is measuring different countries' attempts to reduce their fossil fuel usage? Lee Gary, Spain\n\nChecking claims made about greenhouse gas emissions is one of the biggest issues for negotiators at COP26.\n\nAt the moment, countries only have to review and update their pledges for cutting emissions every five years. Many people argue that's not often enough, and some of the countries most vulnerable to climate change want to turn it into an annual process to keep the pressure on.\n\nThe role of independent observer is supposed to be filled by UN scientists. But a recent investigation by The Washington Post found multiple examples of flawed or inaccurate data submitted to the UN by individual countries. It is another example of climate promises falling short of what is required, as a process which relies so heavily on data needs to ensure that the data is accurate.\n\nLast month, a UN-backed body launched a scheme to verify net zero claims made by big companies, to ensure that corporate pledges can be easily compared and properly scrutinised.\n\nIs there a way to force countries in the UN, especially China and India, to cut back to net zero by 2050? Can sanctions or similar trade restrictions be used against them? Diana Butungi, Kampala\n\nOnly a few countries have made their net zero pledges legally binding. Many of the national pledges are non-binding targets, but there is a hope that as momentum towards net zero begins to accelerate it will provide an incentive for others to follow.\n\nIt would be possible in theory to impose trade or other sanctions on countries that are moving more slowly, but that could be counter-productive. The focus of meetings like COP26 is to try to encourage international cooperation.\n\nIt's also unfair to put all the blame on countries like India and China for the majority of carbon emissions, even though China is the largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world today and India is the third largest. China and India have huge populations, and much lower emissions per person than more developed countries.\n\nIn any case, it's important to consider the historical role played by European countries and the United States which are responsible for far more cumulative emissions than China or India.\n\nThe damaging effects of emitting CO2 into the atmosphere linger for hundreds of years, and the rich world has acknowledged that it has the primary responsibility for tackling climate change.\n\nAre there plans for governments and countries to invest in carbon-capture technologies on a very large scale? If not, why? Bernath Bence, Netherlands\n\nThe trouble with carbon capture and storage (CCS) is that the technology that does exist, won't be rolled out fast enough to make any significant difference this decade, when greenhouse gas emissions need to fall significantly.\n\nIn 2020, for example, the UK allocated £1bn to a CCS infrastructure fund, with the ambition of capturing the equivalent of 10m metric tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2030.\n\nThat target has already been increased to capturing 20-30m metric tonnes by 2030. But, to put that in perspective, the UK is estimated to have produced the net equivalent of more than 450m metric tonnes of CO2 in 2019.\n\nGovernment investment varies hugely around the world. Countries like Saudi Arabia and Australia are relying very heavily on CCS to allow them to continue producing fossil fuels for the foreseeable future, but that means scaling up the technology in a way which has not yet been proven to work effectively.\n\nHow do agricultural products like rice and sugar contribute to the increase of CO2? What can we do to help reduce emissions? Ng Wee Meng, Singapore\n\nMost forms of agriculture produce CO2 emissions in one way or another.\n\nBeef is widely agreed to be the most carbon-intensive food to produce globally, but there are emissions from sugar and rice - these are connected with factors such as deforestation, animal feed, energy used in processing and transport, and packaging.\n\nOne study estimates that rice, for example, produces the equivalent of 4kg of CO2 emissions for every 1kg of rice produced. Given that 755 million tonnes of rice are produced every year around the world, that is a lot of CO2. On the other hand, rice is an essential staple food feeding billions around the world.\n\nThe best way to help reduce emissions is to try to ensure you eat food which is produced as sustainably as possible - although many people may not have the luxury of that choice.\n\nWould enforcing quotas for meat consumption and flight travels be efficient and feasible? Anonymous, Geneva\n\nMeat eating (especially beef) and travelling by air both have a sizeable environmental impact.\n\nEating one or two hamburgers a week for a year creates the same amount of greenhouse gases as heating a UK home for 95 days.\n\nAnd a return economy flight from London to New York emits about 0.67 tonnes of CO2. That's 11% of the average annual emissions for someone in the UK.\n\nIn theory, enforced quotas for meat consumption or flying would make a difference, but there's little political appetite or support for that to happen. Instead, the focus is on encouraging behavioural change.\n\nThe UK Climate Change Committee - which advises the government - has recommended that people should consume 20% less meat and dairy by 2030, and 35% less by 2050. People are also being urged to think about flying less.\n\nUsing taxation to make certain things more expensive would probably be a more realistic solution than trying to enforce quotas.\n\nWhy can't we have an international fund to help poorer countries attain zero carbon emissions? Robert Patterson, Darlington\n\nThat is partly what the current debate on climate finance is all about.\n\nIn 2009, rich countries said they would provide $100bn (£73bn) every year to the developing world by 2020. But they have been unable to live up to their promise, and they are now suggesting they will only meet that target in 2023.\n\nPoorer countries need this money to help tackle the effects of climate change that they are already facing. But they also need it to make sure their economies become greener as they develop, on a path to net zero carbon emissions.\n\nIf it is people causing climate change, what is being done to stop over-population ? Gaye Schmidt, Perth, Australia\n\nOverpopulation isn't the root cause of climate change. Rather, it's the excessive emission of greenhouse gases that are heating the planet up. And the richest one per cent of the world's population is responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest fifty per cent.\n\nIt is true to say the population of the planet can't keep increasing indefinitely, because there is a finite number of resources available. But excessive consumption has played a larger role in climate change than a growing global population.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.\n\nIs the global capitalist model not at odds with climate change and the need for a greener way of life? Andrew, Exeter\n\nAccording to some experts, such as the economist Lord Stern, climate change can be seen as the great failure of the market.\n\nThis is because businesses have not generally had to pay for the damage they have caused to the environment.\n\nGlobal efforts to tackle climate change over the past two decades have focused more on harnessing capitalism to limit warming - for instance, putting a price on carbon and making the polluter pay, to ensure that emissions are ultimately restricted.\n\nMeanwhile, it's also the case that if there's consumer demand for greener products and services, capitalism will try to meet that demand.\n\nBut there's evidently still a lot of work to be done to make these approaches work.\n\nDoes COP26 really need 25,000 people there? They will generate a lot of CO2, so why can't many elements be online? David, Birmingham\n\nThe pandemic might be seen as the perfect moment for the UN to use technology for negotiations, and it was attempted during a preparatory meeting for COP in June, which ran for three weeks.\n\nUnfortunately, it didn't go well - time-zone and technology challenges made it almost impossible for countries with limited resources, progress was limited and decisions were put off.\n\nAs a result, many developing nations have insisted on having an in-person COP. They feel that it is far easier for their voices to be ignored on a dodgy Zoom connection.\n\nThey also bring a lived experience of climate change that it is critical for rich countries to hear first-hand.\n\nThere's some evidence that this works. In 2015, the presence of island states and vulnerable nations was key to securing the commitment to limit temperature changes to 1.5C in the Paris Agreement.\n\nWhat questions do you have about changes in our climate?\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.", "Logan was found dead in the River Ogmore on 31 July\n\nThe mother of a five-year-old boy who was found dead in a river has been charged with his murder.\n\nAngharad Williamson, 30, from Sarn, becomes the third person to be charged with the murder of Logan Mwangi.\n\nA 14-year-old boy, who cannot be identified because of his age, has also appeared in court charged with murder.\n\nLogan Mwangi, also known as Logan Williamson, was discovered in the River Ogmore in Bridgend county on 31 July.\n\nLogan's stepfather John Cole, 39, from Sarn, has already been charged with the murder.\n\nAngharad Williamson and John Cole have both been charged over the death of Logan\n\nBoth John Cole and Logan's mother Angharad Williamson have also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe 14-year-old has been remanded into care of the local authority.\n\nTeddies and balloons were left next to the River Ogmore in memory of Logan\n\nFollowing Logan's death, residents left floral tributes, teddies and cards near the part of the river where he was found.\n\nLogan's classmates have described him as a happy boy who liked Spiderman and playing hide and seek.\n\nHis friends were \"heartbroken\" by his death.", "Mayor Andy Preston said complaints cost taxpayers thousands of pounds in council time and resources\n\n\"Self-obsessed, selfish and not very bright\" councillors are costing Middlesbrough Council dear because they keep complaining about each other, the town's mayor has said.\n\nComplaints among council members have risen to 12 this year, compared with just four in 2020 and nine in 2019.\n\nMiddlesbrough's mayor Andy Preston said probing complaints was too costly.\n\nThe council's standards committee said it needed to tackle a \"low tolerance to the cut and thrust of debate\".\n\nIn total, there have been 29 complaints so far this year made to the council, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nThis includes the 12 from council members while the other 17 were made by council officers or the public.\n\nOf the 29, two have been withdrawn and 16 have been resolved informally.\n\nThe council's standards committee said it needed to tackle a \"low tolerance to the cut and thrust of debate\"\n\nMr Preston, who stood as an independent, said: \"There are some brilliant councillors here but there are also way too many self-obsessed, selfish and frankly not very bright people who seek to cause trouble for the good of their own self-promotion.\n\n\"Politics in Middlesbrough features a significant number of people who seek to cause trouble for others by making official complaints about them citing all sorts of false allegations - from bullying to pretty much anything they can dream up.\n\n\"Every single one of those complaints costs the tax-paying people of Middlesbrough thousands of pounds in council time and resources.\"\n\nIn 2020, there were 31 complaints, four from members and 27 from others - 16 of those were not progressed, 12 were rejected and two were resolved informally.\n\nThe mayor himself has not been immune to criticism from councillors.\n\nIn May, five senior councillors - including Mr Preston's deputy - resigned after complaining about \"consistent poor conduct and behaviour\" and called for him to quit.\n\nIn response, Mr Preston wrote on Facebook that allegations that he had spent £600,000 without official approval and appointed and paid a friend without following proper procedures were \"unfounded\".\n\nMr Preston added: \"I want to see a culture change in Middlesbrough Council that will end this outrageous waste of time and money and to get all councillors focused on putting Middlesbrough first.\"\n\nThe standards committee report added: \"We need to consider whether there is a culture that has developed within Middlesbrough to have a low tolerance to the usual cut and thrust of political debate.\n\n\"We also need to know whether some of the complaints have been of a retaliatory nature, with complaints being made from and against the same members in regards to the same issue.\"\n\nLabour group council leader Matt Storey said: \"Tolerance is a virtue in short supply these days in politics.\n\n\"Politics doesn't have to be poisonous or antagonistic.\"\n\nThe council report said that members' social media comments were responsible for a large number of the complaints, with online posts accounting for 12 grievances in 2019, 14 in 2020, and 14 in 2021 to date.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nConservative MPs don't need to wear masks during debates because they know each other, Jacob Rees-Mogg has said.\n\nThe Commons leader said the party's \"convivial, fraternal spirit\" meant they were acting in line with government Covid guidance.\n\nThis guidance says people in England should cover their faces around \"people you don't normally meet\".\n\nTory MPs have largely ditched masks in recent months, but are being urged by opposition parties to wear them.\n\nOn Thursday, Labour's shadow Commons leader Thangam Debbonaire said MPs should wear face coverings to set the \"best example to the public\".\n\nBut Mr Rees-Mogg responded that many Labour MPs had been pictured maskless at the the party's recent annual conference in Brighton.\n\nAnd he claimed they were more likely to cover up \"when there are television cameras around\".\n\nThe SNP's Pete Wishart told Mr Rees-Mogg all MPs should set an example by wearing masks - and that the difference between the Tory and opposition MPs on the issue had become \"comic\".\n\nMr Rees-Mogg joked that the SNP MP might not like \"mixing with his own side\" but the Conservatives \"have a more convivial, fraternal spirit and therefore are following the guidance of Her Majesty's government\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Question Time programme, Conservative vice chairman Andrew Bowie acknowledged that his fellow Tory MPs had been criticised for not wearing masks in Parliament but said the situation with Covid had looked \"very different\" in the first weeks of autumn.\n\nHe said MPs had \"a responsibility to set the tone and set an example\" and that he was \"encouraged\" to see more of his colleagues wearing masks in the House of Commons.\n\nConservative MPs and ministers have mainly stopped wearing masks in the Commons\n\nProfessor Robert West, a health psychologist advising the government as part of the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours (Spi-B), argued that MPs would set an example if they wore masks.\n\n\"Actually people who are ambivalent, it gives them a kind of excuse if you like, to say, 'If they're not doing it why should I do it?'\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One.\n\n\"It's about leadership. And politicians often talk to members of the public and sports personalities and so on about setting a right example for the public and I do think it behoves them to do the same thing.\"\n\nMost MPs from opposition parties have been wearing masks in the Commons chamber since full in-person sittings resumed over the summer.\n\nIn contrast, MPs from Labour and other opposition parties are covering their faces during debate\n\nThe government is still encouraging people in England to wear face coverings in \"crowded and enclosed spaces\", although it is no longer mandatory.\n\nOn Wednesday, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said mask-wearing was one of several measures that could help lower Covid transmission over the winter.\n\nSpeaking at a Covid press conference in Downing Street, he warned restrictions were \"more likely\" to return if people \"don't wear masks when they really should\".\n\nHe said this included \"really crowded\" places \"with lots of people that they don't normally hang out with\".\n\nHis statement came just hours after MPs packed into the Commons chamber for Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nNearly all Conservative MPs, including government ministers, did not wear a face covering during the session.\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Layla Moran said: \"It is utter hypocrisy that the public are rightfully being advised to wear masks while Conservative MPs refuse to do so.\n\n\"Conservative MPs and ministers have a duty to lead by example and take precautions to protect themselves, their colleagues and staff.\"\n\nUnions representing parliamentary staff say their members have been told to wear masks in the chamber, and have called for Tory MPs to do the same.\n\nThe Prospect union has previously accused maskless MPs of \"recklessly undermining\" public health messaging, and urged mask-wearing to be more rigorously enforced.\n\nGMB and Unite have called on Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, who enforces the parliamentary dress code, to refuse entry to maskless MPs.\n\nSir Lindsay has encouraged MPs to continue to wear masks during debates, but has said there is \"no meaningful way\" for him to enforce this as he does not have the right to stop elected MPs entering the Commons.", "Ismail Abedi left the UK rather than appear at the public inquiry\n\nThe elder brother of the Manchester Arena bomber has \"taken the coward's way out\" by leaving the country, families of the victims have said.\n\nIsmail Abedi had been ordered to attend the inquiry into the bombing but it emerged this week he had left the UK.\n\nHe has refused to answer questions from the public inquiry into the 2017 attack in case he incriminates himself.\n\nIn a statement read outside court, the victims' families said his \"absence speaks volumes\".\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nInquiry chairman Sir John Saunders had demanded Ismail Abedi appear as a witness but the 28-year-old left the UK on a flight to the Middle East, the BBC understands.\n\nIn a statement read outside the inquiry courtroom, the families of 11 of the victims said: \"Our lives were torn apart and changed forever when Salman Abedi carried out his murderous attack.\n\n\"Since then, we have sought nothing but the truth, to understand what happened that night and why.\"\n\nThe families said they wanted to put on record their \"horror\" that he was able to leave the country.\n\n\"A man who had genuinely rejected extremism would want to help the search for truth and would have been here today,\" they said in the statement read on their behalf by Shane Smith, a member of the legal team at Slater & Gordon.\n\n\"Ismail Abedi is clearly not such a person but has taken the coward's way out.\"\n\nTwenty-two people died in the bombing on 22 May 2017\n\nThe inquiry's solicitor wrote to Greater Manchester Police on 17 August asking to be told about anything that suggested Ismail Abedi might not comply with the order to appear as a witness, such as by leaving the country.\n\nThe inquiry heard Ismail Abedi was stopped trying to leave the UK on 28 August and questioned by police, which meant he subsequently missed his flight.\n\nHe told officers he intended to return to Britain but then returned to the airport the next day and was able to leave.\n\nThe inquiry only found out about his departure on 31 August, meaning it could not attempt to use legal powers to stop him leaving.\n\nPaul Greaney QC, counsel to the inquiry, said Ismail Abedi had been \"able to flee and effectively laugh in the face of the inquiry\" and said such a thing should not be able to happen again.\n\n\"No-one should think the story is over so far as Ismail Abedi is concerned,\" he added.\n\nMr Greaney said Ismail Abedi's lawyers had written to the inquiry with a \"self-serving and frankly quite disgraceful statement\" that made plain he had decided not to come and answer questions.\n\nSir John said he wanted to know from Greater Manchester Police in detail about what happened, but said he did not want to \"rush to judgement\".\n\n\"We all wanted him to be here to answer questions,\" he said.\n\nDuncan Atkinson QC, representing several bereaved families, said they \"have the very gravest of concerns and the most extreme sense of frustration that this has occurred\".\n\nHe added that the relevant powers under the inquiries act provisions may not be \"fit for purpose\".\n\nThe parents of bomb victims Liam Curry and Chloe Rutherford said they were \"incredibly frustrated\" that he had failed to attend.\n\nIn a statement, Caroline Curry and Mark and Lisa Rutherford said: \"Answers are urgently needed so that we can understand how this was allowed to happen.\"\n\nAhmed Taghdi said he was \"appalled and shocked\" by the bombing\n\nAhmed Taghdi, a close friend of Salman Abedi, has also denied that he tried to \"do a runner\" after being ordered to give evidence to the inquiry.\n\nThe 29-year-old told the hearing he was going on a \"little break\" hiking in Slovakia when he was arrested at Manchester Airport on Monday.\n\nHe denied trying to flee the UK to avoid questions about his close relationship with the bomber.\n\nMr Taghdi, who was brought to the inquiry in police custody, said he and his sister had intended to fly to Vienna then back to the UK via Palma in time for his court appearance.\n\nThe inquiry was shown photos from his laptop and phone, seized after his arrest in the days after the bombing, which the court heard depicted armed Islamist militants.\n\nBut he denied holding extremist views or that Salman Abedi ever spoke of his extremism.\n\nMr Taghdi also told the inquiry he made a prison visit to convicted terrorist Abdalraouf Abdallah with Salman Abedi as a \"social visit\" because he \"felt sorry\" for Abdallah.\n\nThe court has previously heard Abdallah is alleged to have radicalised the bomber.\n\nMr Taghdi also denied knowing that Salman and Hashem Abedi were going to use a car, which he helped them to buy, to store explosives.\n\nHe said the brothers told him they needed the car to carry out \"errands\" before they left the country and he had helped as a favour.\n\nNeither Mr Taghdi or Ismail Abedi have been charged with any offences.\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. Sajid Javid said people should take up their offer of a jab, or risk more restrictions\n\nAn \"unacceptable\" level of Covid cases means ministers should trigger their Plan B for the pandemic in England, doctors say.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) accused the government of being \"wilfully negligent\" for not reimposing rules such as mandatory face masks.\n\nDaily UK infections have been above 40,000 for eight days in a row.\n\nNo 10 said ministers are \"monitoring the usual metrics\" on coronavirus and \"won't hesitate to act if need be\".\n\nBoris Johnson's official spokesman said that, while the government listened to a variety of voices, including doctors, \"we don't always agree\".\n\nHe said reports that a harsher so-called Plan C for England was in the works were \"not accurate\". \"Neither ministers nor officials are working on those proposals,\" he added.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar earlier said the NHS was not under \"unsustainable pressure\" which would justify further restrictions.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast there were about 95,000 beds in NHS hospitals, with 7,000 occupied by Covid patients and 6,000 currently empty.\n\nUnder the government's plan for tackling Covid in England over the winter, the strategy currently in operation is Plan A.\n\nIt involves offering booster jabs to about 30 million people and offering a single vaccine dose to healthy 12 to 15-year-olds, as well as encouraging ventilation for indoor gatherings, hand-washing and face masks in crowded places.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, the BMA's chairman, said doctors can \"categorically\" say that the \"time is now\" for starting Plan B.\n\nHe stressed that case numbers were comparable to March, when England was in lockdown, and were \"unheard of in similar European nations\".\n\n\"It is therefore incredibly concerning that [Mr Javid] is not willing to take immediate action to save lives and to protect the NHS,\" he said.\n\nBut Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Wednesday that \"at this point\" the government would not introduce its Plan B measures.\n\nThese include compulsory face coverings in certain places and Covid passports for entry to nightclubs and large events, as well as recommending working from home.\n\nMr Argar said Tory MPs should make their own minds up as to whether to wear a face covering while in the crowded Commons, after Mr Javid urged people in England to cover their faces in crowded places.\n\nBehavioural expert, Prof Robert West, who advises the government, told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme politicians should lead the public when it comes to mask wearing.\n\nHe said it gave those who are undecided \"a kind of excuse if you like to say, 'If they're not doing it why should I do it?'\"\n\nMr Javid also warned insufficient vaccine uptake would make restrictions in England more likely.\n\nOver the last seven days, the number of Covid patients admitted to hospital has risen by 11% and the number of deaths has increased by 21%, compared with the previous week, although the number remains far below the peak in January.\n\nPlan B would bring England effectively in line with restrictions still in place in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Scotland, face coverings are still compulsory on public transport and in places such as shops; people are asked to continue working from home where possible; and people attending nightlife venues and large events must prove their vaccination status.\n\nAs well as an existing requirement for face masks indoors and a focus on working from home, Northern Ireland has plans to introduce Covid passports and mandatory social distancing if hospital pressures become unsustainable.\n\nThe UK reported another 49,139 cases on Wednesday, and a further 179 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nAround 14% of people in the UK aged 12 and over remain unvaccinated.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Have you experienced problems getting a booster jab?", "Ali Harbi Ali was arrested at the scene of the stabbing\n\nA 25-year-old man has been charged with murder and the preparation of terrorist acts after the fatal stabbing of MP Sir David Amess.\n\nAli Harbi Ali was arrested following the attack at a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on Friday.\n\nSir David, a Conservative MP since 1983, suffered multiple stab wounds and died at the scene.\n\nMr Ali is a British man whose father is a former adviser to Somalia's prime minister.\n\nNick Price, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"We will submit to the court that this murder has a terrorist connection, namely that it had both religious and ideological motivations.\"\n\nMr Ali is accused of visiting the home of one MP, the Houses of Parliament and the constituency surgery of another MP at various times this year as part of reconnaissance for a potential attack.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Ali, from north London, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court. Wearing a grey tracksuit and black-rimmed glasses, he spoke only to confirm his name, age and address.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and is due to appear at the Old Bailey on Friday.\n\nMetropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Matt Jukes sent his \"deepest condolences\" to the family, friends and colleagues of the MP.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Jukes, Assistant Commissioner for the Met Police, said their work continues with Sir David's family remaining in their thoughts\n\n\"Sir David's dedication to his family, his constituents and his community, and his positive impact on the lives of so many has been abundantly clear since his death,\" he said.\n\nSince the killing, a large team of detectives in the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command had been \"working around the clock\" to search several addresses in north London, analyse digital devices and review CCTV, Mr Jukes said.\n\nThere have been no other arrests and police are not seeking anyone else, he added.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has been working with Parliament's security team and the Home Office to review the protection of MPs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV footage showing a man believed to be Ali Harbi Ali, accused of the fatal stabbing of Sir David Amess\n\nPolice forces across the country have also been working with individual MPs about their security in their constituencies.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I hope that the family of David Amess and all those who love him will get the justice they deserve as fast as possible.\"\n\nHe praised the police outreach to MPs on security, but said MPs must not be \"intimidated by this appalling murder into changing the way we conduct our Parliamentary business or the way we work in our constituencies - which I think is the last thing David Amess himself would have wanted\".\n\nOn Tuesday, MPs paid emotional tributes to their colleague, with Mr Johnson saying the killing was a \"tragic and senseless death\" of one of the \"most gentle individuals\" to serve in Parliament.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer praised him as a \"dedicated constituency MP\" and fellow Essex MP Mark Francois called him \"the best bloke I ever knew\".\n\nFloral tributes to Sir David Amess were left outside Parliament", "One home was completely destroyed in the blast in Ayr\n\nDozens of people will spend a third night away from home after an explosion at a property in Ayr.\n\nFour houses in Gorse Park, Kincaidston, are likely to be demolished while 35 others are damaged or strewn with debris.\n\nA family of four remains in hospital after the blast on Monday, the cause of which is still being investigated.\n\nPolice Scotland said it was too early to determine whether it had been caused by gas.\n\nEngineers from Scottish Gas Networks (SGN) remained at the scene on Wednesday.\n\nA 43-year-old woman and a 16-year-old boy are being treated for serious injuries at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.\n\nA 47-year-old man is in the city's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital while an 11-year-old boy is in the adjoining Royal Hospital for Children.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, South Ayrshire Council confirmed residents of 46 properties could safely return to their homes.\n\nWork is ongoing to re-establish gas supply in the wider area\n\nOf the properties that will be left standing, four have been \"significantly\" damaged and will need extensive repairs before householders can return, the council said.\n\nOthers were damaged by debris and some are not safe to access due to broken windows or debris strewn across gardens or inside properties.\n\nThe council said teams were working to remove debris, but that some people could return to their homes while their next-door neighbours could not.\n\nWork is ongoing to re-establish gas supply to the wider area.\n\nEmergency services will decide whether people can return to their homes\n\nCouncil leader Peter Henderson said: \"I know that council teams, the emergency services and partners have been working tirelessly to help as many people as possible to return to their homes.\n\n\"This is no easy task and I am relieved that their painstaking work has allowed some families to get back home today. Of course, it's still very early days and the devastation caused by this tragic event will take considerable time to rectify.\n\n\"We are committed to working alongside our communities and partners to support them through the aftermath of this terrible event.\"\n\nEarlier, the deputy leader of South Ayrshire Council, Brian McGinley, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that some residents were back in their homes, some were staying with family and friends and others were in hotels.\n\n\"We need to realise that this has been a very major incident, it's a very demanding and technical situation,\" he said.\n\n\"Clearly we're working as fast and as hard as we can to make sure everybody is safe, that everyone's needs are met. But it's going to take a long time for this community to recover.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Aileen 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\nMr McGinley added: \"Volunteers are providing rest and food for local people and emergency services - they have clothes, drinks and foodstuffs available. Some people have been a bit traumatised by it so they can come down, have a cup of tea and chat to people about it.\"\n\nThe council also said it had been overwhelmed by donations from the public and offers of help from local businesses.\n\nA hub for residents affected by the incident and emergency service workers has been set up at Kincaidston Community Pavilion.\n\nOne community worker told the BBC that about 120 residents were initially unable to return to their homes following the explosion.\n\n\"[They] had to register to say what location they were in approximate to the explosion and then they could get let back in their houses,\" he said. \"We had kids in getting their evening meals.\n\n\"As far as I'm led to believe one of the local hotels has put some of the residents up, that was [Tuesday] afternoon - I don't know what the situation is now.\"\n\nHe said the centre had received donations from local businesses, including takeaways, supermarkets, bakers and butchers to support displaced people.\n\n\"It's been quite hectic but the emergency services are very appreciative of what we've done for them - the community has rallied round.\"\n\nA total of 35 homes were damaged or strewn with debris\n\nScottish Fire and Rescue Service area commander Ian McMeekin described the aftermath of the explosion as \"extremely challenging\".\n\nAt its height, nine appliances responded to the explosion, which happened shortly after 19:00 on Monday, as well as urban search and rescue teams.\n\nMr McMeekin said: \"There is significant damage to the properties and the surrounding area.\"\n\nHe also thanked the local community for their \"support and understanding\".\n\nResidents needing support following the blast have been urged to contact 0300 123 0900.\n\nThe gas distribution company SGN said it would continue to work with \"expert parties\" in the coming days to establish the cause of the explosion.\n\nA temporary, above-ground gas pipeline has been installed for homes in Kincaidston.\n\nThe company said: \"We'd like to reiterate our reassurance to the local community that the gas network across the area remains safe and secure to use.\n\n\"Our engineers have carried out full safety checks in the area to ensure the safety of all the homes close to the damaged properties.\n\n\"We're aware some residents may have turned off their gas supply at the meter as a result of the incident.\n\n\"If this applies to you, then our engineers are available to visit your property and safely turn your gas supply back on.\"", "Investigators leading a search for the missing fiancé of a murdered US blogger have found apparent \"human remains\" in a Florida park, the FBI has said.\n\nAgents said items belonging to Brian Laundrie, who is a person of interest in Gabby Petito's death, were also found during the search.\n\nMr Laundrie has been missing for over a month after returning to Florida from a joint trip without his partner.\n\nHer body was later found in Wyoming, where the couple had been travelling.\n\nIn a news conference on Wednesday, FBI special agent Michael McPherson confirmed that investigators had found \"what appears to be human remains\" on a search in the Carlton Reserve area.\n\nHe said the remains were discovered along with personal items including a backpack and notebook belonging to Mr Laundrie.\n\n\"These items were found in an area that up until recently had been underwater,\" he added.\n\nOfficials say the remains have not yet been identified and a search of the area is ongoing.\n\nThe case of Ms Petito, 22, and Mr Laundrie, 23, has sparked widespread media attention.\n\nThe couple had spent their summer on a road trip through national parks, documenting their nomadic \"van life\" trip on social media.\n\nMs Petito's parents reported her missing on 11 September after they were unable to contact her since the end of August.\n\nIt eventually emerged that Mr Laundrie had returned to Florida without Ms Petito on 1 September. Her family repeatedly appealed for her fiancé and his family to cooperate with investigators, but he then went missing himself.\n\nHis parents told police they last saw him on 13 September - when he went hiking alone and never returned.\n\nMs Petito's body was eventually discovered in Wyoming on 19 September. A coroner ruled last week that she had been strangled to death and left for weeks before her body was found.\n\nMr Laundrie has not been charged with crimes relating to Ms Petito's killing, however, the FBI has issued a federal arrest warrant and charged him with fraudulently using her debit card after her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA lawyer for Mr Laundrie's parents confirmed they were in the area where the items were discovered on Wednesday.\n\n\"Chris and Roberta Laundrie were at the reserve earlier today when human remains and some of Brian's possessions were located in an area where they had initially advised law enforcement that Brian may be,\" Steve Bertolino said.\n\nHe added the couple would \"wait for forensic identification of the remains\" before commenting further.\n\nMr Bertolino earlier told reporters that \"some articles\" had been discovered on a trail frequented by Mr Laundrie within a park where a car driven by him was earlier discovered.\n\nThe FBI's Tampa field office tweeted after the discovery that the nature reserve was closed to the public.\n\nFBI special agent Michael McPherson said that officers would likely be processing the scene for several days.\n\n\"I know you have a lot of questions, but we don't have all the answers yet,\" he told the media.\n\nThe plight of Gabby Petito has captured global attention and triggered a debate over the amount of attention accorded to missing white women compared with other missing persons.", "Ruby Rose left The CW's Batwoman after appearing in just one season\n\nWarner Bros has hit back at Ruby Rose's claims that there were poor working conditions on the set of Batwoman.\n\nThe actress left the show, which began on the CW network in 2019 and airs on E4 in the UK, after just one series.\n\nWriting on her Instagram story on Wednesday, Rose posted a string of allegations of abuse, negligence and poor working conditions.\n\nWarner Bros said it did not hire Rose for a second season after receiving complaints about her behaviour.\n\nThe company described Rose's account as \"revisionist history... aimed at the producers, the cast and crew, the network, and the studio\".\n\n\"The truth is that Warner Bros Television had decided not to exercise its option to engage Ruby for season two of Batwoman based on multiple complaints about workplace behaviour that were extensively reviewed and handled privately out of respect for all concerned,\" a spokesperson told BBC News.\n\nRose previously indicated she left the series due to a combination of being injured on set and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on production.\n\nFor the second season, she was replaced by Javicia Leslie, who is also currently starring in the third.\n\nActor Dougray Scott said he \"completely refuted the defamatory and damaging claims\" Rose made against him\n\nHowever, Rose has now posted multiple allegations about the working conditions of Batwoman in a 10-page Instagram story, accusing several senior figures of poor or abusive behaviour.\n\nShe asked fans to \"stop asking\" if she would return to that \"awful show\", adding: \"I wouldn't return for any amount of money... nor did I quit.\n\n\"They ruined [the character] Kate Kane and they destroyed Batwoman, not me. I followed orders, and if I wanted to stay I was going to have to sign my rights away.\"\n\nShe alleged several people working on the production had sustained serious injuries, including herself, a personal assistant, and a crew member who sustained third-degree burns.\n\nRose acknowledged that she \"fought people on set\", but said this was because she \"wanted safety\".\n\nShe also accused her co-star Dougray Scott of yelling at women on set and \"hurting a female stunt double\".\n\nResponding to her claims in a statement, Scott told the BBC: \"I absolutely and completely refute the defamatory and damaging claims made against me by [Rose]; they are entirely made up and never happened.\n\n\"As Warner Bros Television has stated, they decided not to exercise the option to engage Ruby for season two of Batwoman based on multiple complaints about her workplace behaviour.\"", "As we've been reporting, cases of coronavirus are rising sharply, frontline doctors say they are under huge pressure and some healthcare staff report being burnt out. But the government in England says there's no reason to change tack right now.\n\nMoving to Plan B on tackling the pandemic would involve relatively small changes to people's lives. It would mean compulsory face masks on public transport and in shops, and/or advice to work from home.\n\nMinisters say the NHS is extremely busy but they don't believe the pressure is unsustainable. There is still headroom and the country is in a much more positive place than it was last autumn.\n\nEven as cases rise, the Covid vaccination programme is keeping a lid on hospital admissions and deaths - and that's why speeding up access to booster vaccines for the over 50s and jabs for young teens is a priority, as well as targeting the five million people who've so far refused a vaccine.\n\nThis will increase protection for the majority of the population over the next few months.\n\nAnd with infections rising, natural immunity from the virus is also helping that process.\n\nPredicting what will happen to cases is tricky. Cases could still flatten and come down or continue to rise to 100,000 as Health Secretary Sajid Javid warned on Wednesday.\n\nIn many countries in Europe, the picture is much rosier and that's causing some concern in the UK as a whole.\n\nThere is no precise trigger for Plan B - it's a wait-and-see judgement call, and the government in England is still biding its time.", "Morocco has banned flights to and from the UK due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSeveral UK airlines and holiday companies have been told by the Moroccan government that flights will be suspended from 23:59 BST on Wednesday until further notice.\n\nFlights between Morocco and Germany and the Netherlands have also been suspended.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the Moroccan embassy and tourism office, as well as the UK Foreign Office for comment.\n\nLatest figures from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said that Morocco's weekly rate of reported coronavirus cases on 14 October stood at 10.4 per 100,000 people, compared with 445.5 per 100,000 people in the UK.\n\nOn Tuesday, the UK reported 43,738 new Covid-19 infections, with new cases above 40,000 for seven days in a row. The number of patients in hospital rose by 10% in a week to 7,749 on Monday.\n\nAnother 223 deaths were recorded, the largest number since March, although daily figures are often higher on Tuesdays.\n\nThe UK government updated its advice on travel to Morocco to state that the Moroccan government has suspended direct flights between the UK and Morocco for an unspecified period of time.\n\nUK passengers are not banned from travelling from the country, but must travel via a third country to do so.\n\nThe advice states that UK travellers will need to provide proof that they have been fully vaccinated for at least two weeks or a negative PCR test taken no more than 48 hours before boarding.\n\nThey will also be asked to present a Public Health Passenger form to the Moroccan authorities on arrival.\n\nEasyJet has said that it was told this morning. It has cancelled its outbound flights from the UK, Germany and Netherlands to Morocco until 30 November.\n\nThe airline had two flights operating from Manchester and Gatwick to Marrakech, which it will operate as \"ferry flights\" for return customers due to travel back to the UK today.\n\nIt said that, ahead of receiving further guidance from the Moroccan government, it intends to fly inbound flights in the coming days as repatriation flight options.\n\n\"We are contacting all customers whose flights are cancelled with their options, which include a free of charge transfer, receiving a voucher or a refund,\" an EasyJet statement said.\n\nBritish Airways has cancelled a flight from Heathrow to the same destination, meanwhile holiday operator Tui confirmed it had also been contacted by the Moroccan government.\n\nTui said: \"We are contacting customers in departure date order to discuss their options, which include amending to another destination or a full refund. We would like to thank our customers for their patience and understanding during this time.\"\n\nThe tour operator said it currently has about 2,000 UK travellers in Morocco, but hasnot yet confirmed whether it will need to bring these passengers back early.\n\nThe flight ban will affect families in England and Wales who booked half-term holidays in Morocco for next week.\n\nMorocco's National Office of Airports said the policy will remain in place \"until further notice\".\n\nThe UK's Foreign Office has updated its advice on travel to Morocco to include the latest development.\n\nIt says that passengers returning to the UK from Morocco should contact their airline or tour operator to arrange an alternative route via a third country, such as Spain or France, where flights are operating as normal.\n\nAlison Sedgewick says the changes to restrictions have put her off travelling until next spring at least\n\nAlison Sedgewick is currently on holiday in Agadir, off the south-western coast of Morocco, with her husband and son.\n\nOn Thursday, they were due to return from their first holiday in the two and a half years since her son was born.\n\n\"You couldn't write it… the one week we've chosen to go away and they've closed the borders while we're here,\" she said.\n\nHowever, Ms Sedgewick added she felt hopeful that because she booked a package holiday with Tui, things would get sorted out swiftly. She said she received a \"holding message\" from the tour operator, telling her she will hear more information within 24 hours.\n\n\"I'm hoping it'll be a bit sooner than that because the bus to the airport is supposed to be picking us at half six tomorrow evening,\" she added.\n\nWhile she joked that her main concern is ensuring she doesn't run out of nappies for her son, Ms Sedgewick said she did feel put off the idea of travelling during the upcoming winter months.\n\n\"We debated doing a city break in November or December but I don't feel confident travelling abroad over winter because things like this might become more common,\" she said.\n\nPeter Mercer said the ban will have a \"major impact\"\n\nMeanwhile, Peter Mercer, the owner of the Dar Zaman boutique hotel in Marrakech, said that several guests were \"rushing around\" and attempting to return to the UK on Wednesday before the ban came into place.\n\n\"It's going to have a major impact, not just from the UK but also the flights from Germany and the Netherlands,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not very encouraging because we're suddenly back to where we were in March 2020. In terms of our business model, it is worrying. People perhaps will lose faith in travel because restrictions can be imposed with little notice.\"\n\nWhile Mr Mercer said that he agrees with the Moroccan government's actions to reduce the spread of coronavirus, he hopes any restrictions on travel will be short-term.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "St Helena, pictured here is its capital Jamestown, has remained free of coronavirus\n\nAlasdair and Gill Maclean say they felt a bit guilty having spent much of the past year happily living on a beautiful, tropical island, untouched by Covid-19.\n\nThe English couple had been sailing around the world prior to the start of the pandemic, when they arrived at the British Overseas Territory island of St Helena, in the middle of the south Atlantic.\n\n\"We had been due to leave 10 days later, and we ended up spending just over eight months,\" says Mr Maclean.\n\nHe adds that he and his wife were conflicted about updating friends back in the UK about their good fortune. \"How do you tell them you're having a lovely time, freely going to restaurants, and partying when they're all in lockdown?\"\n\nAlasdair and Gill Maclean say they were very happy indeed on St Helena\n\nLocated some 1,200 miles (2,000 km) west of the African nation of Angola, and 2,500 miles east of Brazil, St Helena has a population of around 4,500 people, and is 47 sq miles (121 sq km) in size. To put that into context, it has about the same landmass as Jersey in the Channel Islands.\n\nSt Helena's claim to fame since March 2020, is that it remains one of only a handful of places on Planet Earth to have not reported a single case of coronavirus.\n\nThis meant that when the UK government introduced its Covid traffic light system back in May, for countries (and overseas territories) that people could visit, St Helena was always one of the few on the green list - meaning you wouldn't have to quarantine upon your return.\n\nThe island hopes that this spotlight has encouraged more potential tourists to visit.\n\nMatthew Joshua, the St Helena Government's head of visitor information services, says this already appears to be the case. \"We're getting an increase in inquiries. It has put St Helena on the map.\"\n\nSt Helena is part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, while South Georgia is the largest constituent of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands\n\nBut how exactly do you get to St Helena? Prior to the opening of the island's airport in 2016 the only way to reach the island was by sea.\n\nThen for the first year of the airport's operation it was unusable due to safety concerns about high winds over the approach to the runway. This led to the facility, which cost the UK government £285m, being dubbed \"the world's most useless\" airport.\n\nHowever, after a number of trial flights, the airport was eventually passed as safe to use, with the first commercial flights starting in October, 2017.\n\nMr Joshua says the issue got unfair press coverage. \"We don't have tropical storms like you do in the Caribbean, but there is wind.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, St Helena was served by weekly flights from Johannesburg and Cape Town. But these routes are still on hold due to coronavirus restrictions in South Africa.\n\nInstead, St Helena is currently served by Titan Airways charter flights every three weeks to and from London Stansted Airport.\n\nFor many people, St Helena is best-known as the place where French military and political leader Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to, and where he died in 1821.\n\nVisitors to the rocky, steep-sided island can see the house where he lived, which is now a museum. Other attractions include sea fishing, diving, hiking, the colonial era streets of the capital Jamestown, the warm weather, and exploring the fauna and flora - the island is home to more than 500 species of plants and animals not found anywhere else.\n\nNew Economy is a new series exploring how businesses, trade, economies and working life are changing fast.\n\nBack in 2019, St Helena had 5,135 overnight visitors, plus the odd day-visit by cruise ships. This number then fell to 2,071 in 2020, mostly before the end of March, and then down to 696 from January to July of this year.\n\nCurrently all visitors have to quarantine for 10 days.\n\nThe island has just two hotels, which remain closed. Sasha Ella, communications manager for the largest - Mantis St Helena Hotel - says that times have been tough, and they will only return to normal when the world puts coronavirus behind it.\n\n\"It is our feeling that when access and frequency of the flights to the island, and relaxation to the quarantine restrictions, take place, only then will a positive effect be felt on the island,\" she says.\n\nSt Helena also has a number of private guest houses.\n\nAnother very remote, and Covid-19 free British island that was permanently on the UK government's green list, is South Georgia. Located in the south Atlantic, some 800 miles south east of the Falkland Islands, it is 1,362 sq miles (3,528 sq km) in size.\n\nOnly accessible by sea, the island has no permanent human population. Instead there are two government officers, and two dozen or so staff from the British Antarctic Survey, the UK's polar research institute.\n\nLike St Helena, South Georgia is now waiting for tourists to return. Prior to the pandemic, it would be visited by cruise ships going to and from the coast of Antarctica.\n\nIn the summer of 2019/2020 (its summer is during winter in the UK) it had 12,568 visitors, but this fell to just two people in 2020/21.\n\n\"In a normal year, tourism accounts for around 20% of our income,\" says Ross James, visitor management & bio-security officer for the Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands.\n\nThe island has no overnight accommodation available for visitors, who instead only stay for a few hours, and have to follow strict rules during their visit designed to safeguard the natural habitat.\n\nPrior to their arrival people are also encouraged to watch a video guide to the region, narrated by David Attenborough.\n\nAll cruise firms that travel to South Georgia are members of the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators. Amanda Lynnes, the organisation's director of environment & science coordination, has this advice for visitors: \"Use your experience to be an ambassador for South Georgia's continued protection.\"\n\nSouth Georgia has dramatic snow-topped mountains for visitors to see amid cold temperatures - even in its summer months it struggles to go above 6C.\n\nBy contrast, St Helena enjoys highs of 34C. Yet Mr Maclean says it is not just the pleasant weather that makes it special. \"St Helena is up there as one of the friendliest communities in the world,\" he says.", "Human remains found in a Florida park on Wednesday are those of Brian Laundrie, the fiancé of murdered blogger Gabby Petito, the FBI says.\n\nThe body of Mr Laundrie, who had been missing for over a month, was identified using dental records.\n\nMr Laundrie, who was a person of interest in Gabby Petito's death, returned to Florida last month from a joint road trip without his partner.\n\nHer body was later found in Wyoming, where the couple had been travelling.\n\n\"On October 21, 2021, a comparison of dental records confirmed that the human remains found at the T Mabry Carlton Jr Memorial Reserve and Myakkahatchee Creed Environmental Park are those of Brian Laundrie,\" the FBI said in a statement on Thursday.\n\nA lawyer representing Mr Laundrie's parents released a statement, saying: \"Chris and Roberta Laundrie have been informed that the remains found yesterday in the reserve are indeed Brian's.\n\n\"We have no further comment at this time and we ask that you respect the Laundries' privacy at this time.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, officials said that the remains had been discovered in a part of the park that until recently had been underwater. Other items, including a backpack and notebook belonging to Brian, were also found during the search.\n\nAccording to NBC News, bones and a skull were discovered during the search.\n\nIn a short news conference on Thursday, Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno praised officials for working under \"treacherous conditions\" in the park.\n\nHe described the chest-deep water as being filled with rattlesnakes and alligators.\n\n\"It's not like you're searching a house or a car. These areas are huge and they are covered by water,\" he told reporters gathered outside the closed park.\n\nThe case of Ms Petito, 22, and Mr Laundrie, 23, sparked nationwide media attention.\n\nThe couple had spent their summer on a road trip through national parks, documenting their nomadic \"van life\" trip on social media.\n\nMs Petito's parents reported her missing on 11 September after they were unable to contact her since the end of August.\n\nIt eventually emerged that Mr Laundrie had returned to Florida without Ms Petito on 1 September. Her family repeatedly appealed for her fiancé and his family to co-operate with investigators, but he then went missing himself.\n\nHis parents told police they last saw him on 13 September - when he went hiking alone and never returned.\n\nThe parents, who have been condemned by the Petito family for not doing more to aid investigators, joined the search party on Wednesday. Chris Laundrie, the father, was the person who discovered a bag belonging to his son, the family lawyer told US media.\n\nThe rapid discovery of Mr Laundrie's remains and other evidence following the participation of his parents in the search has led some to speculate that they may have planted his remains or evidence.\n\nHowever, Steve Bertolino, the couple's attorney, told CNN that any suspicion that his clients planted evidence at the scene was \"hogwash\".\n\nHe added that Chris Laundrie had made a chance discovery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Petito's body was eventually discovered in Wyoming on 19 September. A coroner ruled last week that she had been strangled to death and left for weeks before her body was found.\n\nMr Laundrie was not charged with crimes relating to Ms Petito's killing. However, the FBI issued a federal arrest warrant and charged him with fraudulently using her debit card after her death.", "The inquest heard how Anthony Rees did not want to wait for his son to help him move the stove\n\nA 78-year-old farmer died while trying to move a 74 stone (470kg) stove, an inquest has heard.\n\nAnthony Rees was moving the Aga cooker at his home in Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd, near Ruthin, Denbighshire, when it fell and crushed him in June.\n\nHis wife Elizabeth Rees said she asked him to wait until their son could help but \"he wanted to get the job done\".\n\nShe said medication he was taking for cancer could have influenced his actions.\n\n\"The medication may have contributed to the accident... it was out of character,\" said Mrs Rees.\n\nThe former deep sea diver, who turned to farming after retiring as a marine operations manager, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer last April.\n\nIn a statement from Mrs Rees, read out at the inquest in Ruthin, she described how her husband had built a four-wheeled trolley to move the stove in June.\n\nShe said she told him to wait until their son Daniel could come to help but he moved it on his own.\n\nThe 470 kg log-burning Aga stove was being removed to be replaced with a new oil-fuelled model\n\n\"I couldn't understand why he had been so keen to go ahead,\" Mrs Rees said.\n\nThe cooker toppled over, pinning Mr Rees to the ground and she was unable to free him.\n\nAfter dialling 999 she called a neighbour, David Heller, who managed to move the cooker while she freed her husband.\n\nParamedics and doctors carried out CPR but he was declared dead at the scene, and the cause of death was given as crush injuries to the chest.", "A Conservative ex-minister has urged the government to \"tell people they must not eat so much\" in an effort to stop them getting \"grossly overweight\".\n\nLord Robathan said the current anti-obesity strategy for England was not working and there had to be more emphasis on personal responsibility.\n\nIt should not be \"socially acceptable\" to be very overweight, he added.\n\nBut the government said it was important not to create more anxiety for people with eating disorders.\n\nAccording to official figures, 28% of adults in England are obese - meaning fat accounts for more than 30% of body weight - with the rate almost doubling from 15% since 1993.\n\nAnd during the pandemic more than 40% of adults in England gained weight, according to a survey by Public Health England.\n\nBut the charity Beat estimates about 1.25 million adults in the UK have an eating disorder, such as anorexia, bulimia or binge eating disorder.\n\nThe government's anti-obesity strategy for England, published last year, says losing weight is \"not just about an individual's effort\", and calls for healthy food options, and better nutritional advice, to be made more widely available.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Lords, Lord Robathan, a former Conservative MP, responded: \"I'm glad the government recognises the huge problem this is and the dangers that being overweight bring, especially during Covid. But... the strategy, as good as it might be, is not actually working.\n\n\"Is it not time, perhaps, to revert to the situation when I was young, when it was not socially acceptable to be grossly overweight and push individual responsibility?\n\n\"The government's policy should tell people they must not eat so much.\"\n\nHealth minister Lord Kamall replied: \"One of the things we always have to be careful about with any strategy or programme is the unintended consequences.\"\n\nHe added that the government was also focusing on \"not creating more problems and concerns and anxiety for those who suffer from eating disorders\".\n\nLord Kamall said health officials had been looking in detail at policy on obesity and that \"further details will be made available\" at a later date.", "An innovative type of medicine - called gene silencing - is set to be used on the NHS for people who live in crippling pain.\n\nThe drug treats acute intermittent porphyria, which runs in families and can leave people unable to work or have a normal life.\n\nClinical trials have shown severe symptoms were cut by 74% with the drug.\n\nWhile porphyria is rare, experts say the field of gene silencing has the potential to revolutionise medicine.\n\nSisters Liz Gill and Sue Burrell have both had their lives turned around by gene silencing.\n\nBefore treatment, Liz, from County Durham, remembers the trauma of living in \"total pain\" and, at its worst, she spent two years paralysed in hospital. Younger sister Sue says she \"lost it all overnight\" when she was suddenly in and out of hospital, made redundant and did know whether her partner would stick with her (he did).\n\n\"It was scary,\" she tells me.\n\nBoth became used to taking potent opioid painkillers on a daily basis. But even morphine could not block the pain during a severe attack that needed hospital treatment.\n\nGene silencing gets to the root-cause of the sisters' disease rather than just managing their symptoms. Their porphyria leads to a build-up of toxic proteins in the body, that cause the physical pain. Gene silencing \"mutes\" a set of genetic instructions to block that protein production.\n\nBoth had been taking the therapy as part of a clinical trial and are still getting monthly injections.\n\n\"The difference is astronomical, we're not in pain anymore,\" Liz said.\n\n\"You're not dependent on opiate-based pain relief and that leads to things like being able to succeed in a job and being able to buy your own home.\"\n\nLiz and Sue hitting the beach last year\n\nSue, from Norfolk, said the therapy had transformed her life: \"[You're] able to do things that you couldn't do before, being able to be a mother better, being able to be a wife better… to just live life.\"\n\nClinical trials showed the gene silencing therapy, called givosiran, cut the number of severe attacks by 74%.\n\nThe National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), which approves drugs for use in England, said the therapy \"would improve people's quality of life\" and was \"value for money\".\n\nYour DNA contains the instructions for running the human body\n\nProf David Rees, the director of the King's College Hospital National Acute Porphyria Service, told the BBC: \"To find a drug that really does transform people's lives is extraordinary.\"\n\nHowever, acute intermittent porphyria is rare. Only around 17 people are diagnosed in the UK each year.\n\n\"[But] if we can control genes and switch them on and off when we want to, then almost anything is possible in terms of treating diseases including Alzheimer's and cancer and everything else,\" Prof Rees said.\n\nGene-silencing has already proven effective in other rare genetic diseases such as amyloidosis. Its ability to tweak how DNA works in the human body, without permanently altering it, has already seen it used as a twice-a-year cholesterol busting jab.\n\nTara Moore, a professor of personalised medicine at the University of Ulster, said gene silencing had the potential to be as big as antibiotics.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health: \"It will be, it's a very powerful tool, it is so specific, it's really phenomenal.\n\n\"There's really nothing to stop us targeting so many different diseases from cancer to cardiovascular disease to cholesterol problems.\"", "The government has laid out its plans to reduce emissions sharply by 2035 and take the UK towards being a zero carbon economy by 2050. These including more electric cars, planting trees and moving away from gas-powered central heating.\n\nBut what potential hazards are there ahead for ministers?\n\nSome in the prime minister's own party doubt the economic arguments in favour of moving towards what they consider an over-reliance on renewable energy sources.\n\nConservative MP John Redwood asked in the House of Commons what would happen when the sun stopped shining and the wind stopped blowing. Another, Steve Baker, said a lot of \"assumptions\" were involved and asked that ministers carry out a \"comprehensive audit\" of their plans.\n\nTory MP: What happens when the wind doesn't blow?\n\nOthers are concerned about the cost to the general public, particularly those on lower incomes, and the impact that, in turn, may have on their chances at the next election.\n\nCraig Mackinlay said it could become \"electorally difficult\" once people realised the plans \"cost them money\" or mean \"a lifestyle that's not as convenient\".\n\nGiven that the Conservatives have an 80-seat majority, this is unlikely to stop any plans becoming law, but if some of Mr Johnson's backbenchers are not persuaded, there could be some political turbulence.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband was scathing in his response to the government's announcement, saying there was nothing like \"the commitment we believe is required\", in terms of investment, to cut greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nLabour's commitment to borrow and invest £28bn per year in tackling climate change is a markedly different approach to the Conservatives. The Treasury has said borrowing heavily to cut greenhouse gases goes against the \"polluter pays\" principle and passes the costs on to future taxpayers.\n\nIt's not certain how this will play out in Parliament or whether this could become an important dividing line between the parties - and how it would play with voters.\n\nThe Treasury accepts there will be an overall cost to achieving net zero emissions in the short term, but sources stress the cost of inaction would also be significant.\n\nNo overall figure is given but officials admit new taxes will be needed to recoup the revenue lost from the move away from petrol and diesel fuelled cars, for example.\n\nThe government raised £37bn from fuel duty and vehicle excise duty in the 2019-20 financial year, or about 1.7% of GDP.\n\nA carbon tax could plug some of this, but the takings would dwindle as emissions fall, leaving a big shortfall.\n\nHow will voters feel if their bills go up to cover the costs?\n\nIn an assessment to go with the government's carbon-cutting plans, the Treasury said that \"as with all economic transitions, ultimately the costs and benefits of the transition will pass through to households through the labour market, prices and asset values\".\n\nThere is evidence of public support for stronger measures to tackle climate change, but if households end up having to spend a lot more money to go greener, there could be increased unease among voters that the government will not want ahead of a likely general election in the next couple of years.\n\nIn particular, it is feared this could go down badly in some of the former industrial areas of the the Midlands and northern England where the Conservatives made large gains from Labour in 2019.\n\n\"Any policies we bring in will be designed to be fair across the board,\" the PM's spokesman said.\n\nOne thing most governments agree on is that any effort to reduce emissions must be international if it is to succeed in limiting temperature rises.\n\nWith the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow fast approaching, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hope his plan prompts other countries to make similar commitments and boost the chances of the UK brokering a renewed global effort to cut greenhouse gases.\n\nIf the world's biggest CO2 producers - including the US, China and India - reach an agreement it could ease domestic political pressures and allow him to claim more of an environmental \"legacy\".\n\nUS President Jo Biden and Indian PM Narendra Modi are attending COP26, but China's Xi Jinping is not thought likely to do the same.", "David Henderson was the aircraft's operator since its purchase in 2015\n\nThe man accused of organising the flight carrying footballer Emiliano Sala was \"distressed\" once he knew it had crashed, a court has heard.\n\nDavid Henderson, 67, of Main Street, Hotham, East Riding of Yorkshire, said he had been monitoring the plane's trip between Nantes and Cardiff.\n\nSala and pilot David Ibbotson died in the crash in January 2019.\n\nMr Henderson denies endangering the safety of an aircraft and has begun giving evidence in his defence.\n\nHe told Cardiff Crown Court he \"was getting concerned\" when trying to monitor the aeroplane on the radar.\n\n\"I think I rang Cardiff to see what time it was expected, they didn't know,\" he said.\n\n\"Time was ticking on. I rang Exeter and then Guernsey and that's when they told me they had lost contact.\n\n\"I was very concerned and distressed. I feared the worst.\"\n\nThe single-engine Piper Malibu aircraft was carrying the 28-year-old striker and Mr Ibbotson when it went down 22 nautical miles north-west of Guernsey on the evening of 21 January 2019.\n\nAsked how he felt at the time, Mr Henderson said: \"The whole scenario - to lose an aeroplane and a person I know and a passenger - I was very badly affected by the news.\"\n\nHe added he had been suffering from \"anxiety\" since, and \"barely an hour goes by without it being in my mind\".\n\nSala's body was recovered, but Mr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowley, Lincolnshire, has never been found\n\nFay Keely, who owned the plane, told the court on she had informed Mr Henderson that Mr Ibbotson should not fly the aircraft again after she was notified by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of two infringements that had happened while he was in the air.\n\nMs Keely said: \"As far as I was concerned, I had made my feelings clear that he shouldn't be flying the aircraft.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Henderson said he phoned Ms Keely after receiving the order from her by email to explain the situation, and that he had changed her mind about Mr Ibbotson.\n\nHe told the court: \"I said he's [Mr Ibbotson] mortified by it and admitted his mistake and that it won't happen again.\"\n\nHe added: \"I believe I'd brought her around about David Ibbotson.\"\n\nStephen Spence, defending, asked Mr Henderson: \"If you thought there was a problem, would you have used him to fly her sister a month later?\"\n\nThe court heard how Henderson had got his private pilot's licence in 1983 after serving in the RAF for two years, later getting a commercial licence to fly in the UK and America.\n\nHe said he used this to co-pilot and travelled \"literally all over the world\".\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB disappeared from radar near the Channel Islands on 21 January\n\nEarlier, as the prosecution drew its case to a close, the court heard more about Mr Henderson's version of how the flight came about by means of a letter sent to the CAA in April 2020.\n\nThe letter was read to the jury by Stephen Hunt, from the CAA.\n\nIn the document, Mr Henderson said he had received a phone call from football agent Willie McKay asking for an aircraft between 18 and 21 January, 2019.\n\nMr Henderson was in France at the time but said Mr McKay was \"very persistent, so I offered to see if there were any other pilots who were available\".\n\nHe said he sent Mr Ibbotson a text message saying: \"Do you fancy a weekend in Nantes?\" Mr Ibbotson replied: \"Yes.\"\n\nMr Henderson said there was no discussion about payment at the time, and he had \"previously made it clear to Mr McKay that the flights were private\".\n\nThe letter also outlined his relationship with Ms Keely, the owner of the plane.\n\nHe said: \"I was never paid a fee by Miss Keely - she offered me the use of the aircraft on a fuel-only basis.\n\n\"She was happy for me to allow hire of the aircraft to suitable parties.\"\n\nPilot Mr Ibbotson raised concerns to Mr Henderson about the Piper Malibu aircraft, the court heard\n\nThe letter also said Mr Ibbotson had called Mr Henderson when he arrived in Nantes, and highlighted \"a soft pedal issue and an oil leak\", adding: \"He thought he had heard a bang on the descent into Nantes.\"\n\nMr Ibbotson said he \"was obviously concerned about the issue\", but the court heard he had spoken to engineer David Smith who \"was satisfied the aircraft remained air worthy\".\n\nResponding to a question asking whether he accepted being the organiser of the flight, Mr Henderson said: \"While I accept that I looked after the aircraft, at the relevant time the person who had control of the aircraft was Mr Ibbotson.\"\n\nHe added: \"At no time was there any reason for me to believe Mr Ibbotson was not qualified to fly the aircraft.\"\n\nThe court has previously heard Mr Ibbotson did not hold a commercial pilot's licence, was not allowed to fly at night and that his rating to fly the Piper Malibu had expired.", "The terror threat level currently facing MPs has been raised from \"moderate\" to \"substantial\" following a review, the government has announced.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the Commons that police and intelligence services would \"properly\" reflect the change in their security arrangements.\n\nBut she added there was no information on \"any credible or specific threat\".\n\nThe announcement comes after Conservative MP Sir David Amess was killed in his constituency on Friday.\n\nHis stabbing, while meeting constituents at a church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, came five years after the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.\n\nA 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after the attack on Sir David and police are treating the killing as a terrorist incident.\n\nFollowing a security review by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, Ms Patel told the Commons: \"While we do not see any information or intelligence which points to any credible or specific or imminent threat, I must update the House that the threat level facing Members of Parliament is now deemed to be substantial.\"\n\nShe added: \"I can assure the House that our world-class intelligence and security agencies and counter-terror police will now ensure that this change is properly reflected in the operational posture.\"\n\nThe terror threat for the UK as a whole is currently also deemed to be \"substantial\", meaning an attack is \"likely\". At the \"moderate\" level, this is judged to be \"possible but not likely\".\n\nThe terror threat level is best understood as a shorthand that serves two purposes.\n\nFirst, it gives the public an insight into what security chiefs think. So while not as remotely revealing as local crime statistics - it gives us a bit of a clue as to the national picture and, in theory, helps keep the public aware.\n\nSecondly, it should help keep the UK's security and emergency agencies on their toes by making sure they have got the right plans and resources in place to minimise the likelihood or impact of an attack.\n\nFor 11 years, the level has been broken down publicly into three parts: The threat from international terrorism, the threat from Northern Ireland paramilitaries inside Northern Ireland - and the threat from those paramilitary groups to the rest of the UK.\n\nMy understanding is that until Wednesday there was not a formal assessment of the threat to Parliamentarians which had been kept secret.\n\nThe Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre - the body that analyses and assesses all available intelligence to come up with the rating would regularly discuss the safety of MPs in a similar way to how it would debate the threats to other potential targets in society.\n\nThat broad-brush assessment has now been formalised into an official rating of its own.\n\nAddressing the Commons, Ms Patel also called social media a \"cruel space\", saying: \"It has become far too permissive for too much cruelty and harm and it's not just levelled and leveraged towards elected Members of Parliament.\n\n\"We see children, different people of different races, religious groups being targeted and affected by some of the most awful, barbaric statements. That is what has to stop and change.\"\n\nFor Labour, shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on the the government to outline what would be done to protect the staff of MPs.\n\nHe added: \"In order to stand firm in the face of these threats, we must do everything possible to guard against these violent positions, not least as we hear, as the home secretary has set out, that the threat level to MPs has been raised to substantial, and we accept the assessment made by the joint terrorism assessment centre that the threat has increased.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid said people should take up their offer of a jab, or risk restrictions being reimposed\n\nIf not enough people get vaccinated, it is more likely restrictions will be reintroduced in England, the health secretary has said.\n\nSajid Javid said the government would not be bringing in its Plan B measures, which include mandatory face coverings and working from home, \"at this point\".\n\nHe added that he did not believe the current pressures on the NHS were unsustainable.\n\nBut he warned cases could rise to 100,000 a day.\n\nDaily Covid cases have been above 40,000 for eight days in a row, with 49,139 new infections reported on Wednesday.\n\nNHS leaders have said some restrictions must immediately be reintroduced if England is to avoid \"stumbling into a winter crisis\".\n\nUnder the government's plan for tackling Covid in England over the winter, restrictions will only be reintroduced if the NHS comes under \"unsustainable pressure\".\n\nMr Javid told a Downing Street news conference: \"If not enough people get their booster jabs, if not enough of those people that were eligible for the original offer... if they don't come forward, if people don't wear masks when they really should in a really crowded place with lots of people that they don't normally hang out with, if they're not washing their hands and stuff, it's going to hit us all.\n\n\"And it would of course make it more likely we're going to have more restrictions.\"\n\nHowever, No 10 earlier said there were no plans for another lockdown in England.\n\nAsked about the pressures on the NHS, Mr Javid said: \"Don't get me wrong, there are huge pressures, especially in A&E, in primary care. At this point we don't believe they're unsustainable.\"\n\n\"If we feel at any point it's becoming unsustainable… we won't hesitate to act,\" he added.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England, said he expected the number of Covid patients in hospitals to continue to rise due to the high number of infections in the community.\n\n\"It undoubtedly feels exceptionally busy in the NHS and our NHS organisations are telling us that all the time,\" he said.\n\nProf Powis said there was \"no one number\" that the government would consider to trigger new restrictions - but it would look at factors including infection rates, vaccine effectiveness, hospital admissions, as well as flu and other viruses.\n\nAs of Tuesday, there were 7,891 patients in hospital. Another 179 people were reported to have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus on Wednesday.\n\nIt is important to remember that the situation is very different to 12 months ago.\n\nThe vaccination programme has transformed the situation, and has completely changed the calculation for ministers about the risks of coronavirus cases spreading, versus the many downsides of restrictions.\n\nBut there are nerves in Westminster about what might happen next. The health secretary warned the pandemic is not over, and the government's efforts to control it can't be either.\n\nAnd once again, at those famous three lecterns in Downing Street, ministers are asking all of us to think again about how we act.\n\nThe ultimate fear from the government's critics is that, in an echo of last autumn, their actions to control the disease could come too late.\n\nMr Javid also announced that people eligible for a Covid booster jab can book online if they have not received an invite from the NHS.\n\nBooster doses can be offered to people who are at least six months on from receiving their second dose.\n\nThe health secretary said boosters could be booked online if people had not been invited within a week of reaching the six month milestone.\n\nSeparately, around 14% of people in the UK aged 12 and over remain unvaccinated.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth accused Mr Javid of complacency, telling the BBC: \"The simple truth is that the so-called wall of defence we've built up with vaccination is now crumbling.\"\n\nHe said it was disappointing the health secretary did not give details on \"how he is going to grip this and drive up the vaccinations we need\".\n\nMeanwhile, the government has agreed deals for two new Covid treatments.\n\nThe Antivirals Taskforce has secured 480,000 courses of molnupiravir, which trials found cuts the risk of hospital admission or death by about half, as well as 250,000 courses of PF-07321332/ritonavir, which is currently undergoing clinical trials.\n\nIf approved by the UK's medicines regulator, the Department of Health said thousands of patients would be able to access the treatments this winter.", "Dua Lipa threw her support behind the idea\n\nThe team behind Dua Lipa and Lana Del Rey will choose the UK's entrant for the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nTap management, which also looks after Ellie Goulding and Hailee Steinfeld, will take over the selection after the UK came last in this year's contest.\n\nJames Newman failed to score a single point with his song, Embers, extending an embarrassing run of failures at the contest.\n\nNo UK entrant has made the top 10 since Jade Ewen in 2009.\n\nTap's involvement means that record label BMG will no longer be involved in selecting the UK's entry.\n\nTap Management began in 2009 after Ben Mawson, then a practising lawyer, met Lana Del Rey and helped her escape unfavourable deals she'd signed early in her career.\n\nRealising her potential, he teamed up with Ed Millett, an experienced music manager, and together they helped establish the New York musician as one of the defining voices of her generation.\n\nTheir company has since expanded to London, Berlin, Sydney and Los Angeles, while also establishing its own record label.\n\nReacting to the news Mawson said: \"We're really excited to be teaming up with the BBC for this event and will use Eurovision to authentically reflect and celebrate the rich, diverse and world-class musical talent the UK is globally renowned for.\"\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat, Mawson said the process of choosing the artist and song was \"not simple\".\n\n\"I think our conclusion was [Eurovision] is not as political as people think,\" he said. \"And I think we should focus on getting some really special music and a really special artist that represents Britain in the best possible way.\n\n\"We don't want to see Eurovision as a boom or bust night for the artist. We want to see this as a platform for development for a career. We don't know yet if they'll be a new artist but if they are we want to make sure this is going to be a really positive experience.\"\n\nSpeaking to The Sun, Dua Lipa said: \"I'm a proud Brit whilst also being a proud Kosovan. I'm happy to lend my manager to the cause. I'll be cheering them on!\"\n\nRock band Måneskin were the victors at this year's Eurovision\n\nDespite the lack of success in recent years the appetite for Eurovision is clearly still strong for viewers in Britain.\n\nThis year's Eurovision Song Contest was won by Italian rock band Måneskin, whose song Zitti E Buoni became a top 20 UK hit. Their victory was watched by an average audience of 7.8 million on BBC One, making it the most watched final since 2014.\n\nSpeaking of the hook-up with Tap, BBC entertainment boss Kate Phillips said that the corporation has \"grand ambitions\" for the 2022 contest, and was \"really excited to announce this collaboration that will enable us to tap into some great music talent.\"\n\nThe competition will take place at Turin's PalaOlimpico Arena on May 10, 12 and 14, with the final landing on the latter date.\n\nThe European Broadcasting Union announced on Wednesday that all 39 countries that took part last time out are set to return next year, plus two additional ones - Montenegro and Armenia.\n\nItaly has previously hosted the contest in Naples and Rome.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Judi and Graziano had been due to dance to Physical by Olivia Newton-John\n\nLoose Women's Judi Love has been ruled out of Saturday's Strictly Come Dancing after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe presenter is the second contestant to come down with the virus in this series, after Tom Fletcher caught it a day after the first live show.\n\nJudi and dance partner Graziano Di Prima have been in the dance-off for the past two weeks, but have been saved by the judges both times.\n\nThe pair will return next week, \"all being well\", a show spokesperson 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 Judi Love This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Strictly statement said: \"Judi Love has tested positive for Covid-19 and is now self-isolating following the latest government guidelines.\n\n\"While Judi and Graziano will not be taking part in Strictly Come Dancing this weekend, Strictly Come Dancing protocols mean that all being well, they will return the following week.\"\n\nThey had been due to perform the Cha Cha Cha to Physical by Olivia Newton-John on this week's show.\n\nTom and his partner Amy Dowden missed one week after they both tested positive.\n\nMeanwhile, Robert Webb has withdrawn completely, saying he had \"bitten off way more than I could chew\", two years after having open heart surgery.\n\nFormer rugby star Ugo Monye is due back on the dancefloor this Saturday, however, after missing last week's show with back problems.\n\nBruno Tonioli is not among the judges on this year's series\n\nIt was also announced on Thursday that Bruno Tonioli will return to the judging panel for Strictly's 2022 UK arena tour after missing the current TV series due to difficulties travelling to and from America.\n\nThe US-based Italian has been replaced by Anton Du Beke for the TV show, but will be reunited with Craig Revel Horwood and Shirley Ballas next January and February.\n\nTonioli said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to be involved.\n\n\"I've missed my fellow judges, I've missed the glitz and glamour of the tour and I've missed the amazing audiences that come to see us all over the country - I hope you have missed me too,\" he said.\n\n\"I cannot wait to be back alongside Shirley [Ballas], Craig, the celebs and the pros.\"\n\nTonioli is also a judge on Strictly's US equivalent, Dancing with the Stars, and has previously flown back and forth between both shows. But this year he is appearing only on Dancing With The Stars.\n\nStrictly judges (left to right) Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Shirley Ballas and Bruno Tonioli\n\nThe tour will feature performances from some of the celebrities and professional dancers from the current series of the BBC One show.\n\nCommenting on Tonioli's return, Revel Horwood, who will also direct the live shows, said: \"Next year is going to be bigger and better than ever before.\n\n\"With Bruno coming back to join us on the judging panel, this year will be just fab-u-lous.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mr Bannon's lawyers say he will not co-operate with the inquiry\n\nThe US House of Representatives has voted to hold ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress, opening him up to a potential prosecution.\n\nMr Bannon had defied a summons from a congressional panel investigating the 6 January riot at the US Capitol.\n\nThe House select committee voted to hold him in contempt on Tuesday, before passing the matter to the full chamber.\n\nThursday's vote largely fell along party lines, with 229 voting in favour compared to 202 against the move.\n\nOnly nine Republicans in the Democratic-controlled chamber voted to hold Mr Bannon in contempt.\n\nHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now expected to certify the vote before it is referred to the US Department of Justice, which has the final say on charges.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nA committee investigating the riot has been chasing testimony from Mr Bannon about his communications with Mr Trump before the invasion of the Capitol, as well as any knowledge he may have had of plans to overturn the results of the November 2020 election.\n\nSupporters of Mr Trump stormed the Capitol building and disrupted certification of President Joe Biden's electoral victory. More than 670 people have been arrested.\n\nAs Thursday's vote began, Representative Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the 6 January committee, said Mr Bannon was believed to have \"valuable\" information about the riot.\n\n\"What sort of precedent would it set for the House of Representatives if we allow a witness to ignore us flat out without facing any kind of consequences?\" said the Mississippi Democrat.\n\nIndiana Republican Jim Banks took to the floor of the House to slam the \"illicit criminal investigation into American citizens\" and said Mr Bannon had become a \"boogeyman\" for the Democratic party.\n\nUS Attorney General Merrick Garland, who leads the justice department, testified earlier on Thursday to Congress about the likelihood of criminal charges for Mr Bannon.\n\nMr Garland said that the department will \"apply the facts and the law and make a decision, consistent with the principles of prosecution\".\n\nContempt of Congress cases are notoriously difficult to litigate - the last time such a prosecution took place was in 1983 against a Reagan administration official.\n\nMr Trump has urged former aides and allies to reject requests to testify before the 6 January committee, claiming that his communications from the time are protected by executive privilege - a legal principle that shields many White House missives.\n\nMr Bannon has yet to comment on the proceedings. His attorney has previously said that he will only co-operate if Mr Trump's executive privilege claim is legally resolved.", "Boris Johnson went for a run in Manchester on Sunday morning\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged the Conservatives will \"change and improve\" the economy after the pandemic, as the party opens its annual conference in Manchester later.\n\nThe PM said the country cannot \"go back to how things were\" before Covid.\n\nHe has accused the haulage industry of being too reliant on low-paid immigration, amid shortages at petrol stations.\n\nThe military is due to begin delivering petrol across the UK from Monday.\n\nTwo hundred military servicemen and women, 100 of them drivers, will provide \"temporary\" support to ease pressure on forecourts.\n\nThe government has also announced 5,000 temporary visas for foreign lorry drivers to plug a shortage of lorry drivers worsened by Covid, Brexit and other factors.\n\nAlthough the industry and opposition parties have dismissed these figures as inadequate, Mr Johnson has said importing drivers is not a long-term solution.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, he said: \"What we don't want to do is go back to a situation in which we basically allowed the road haulage industry to be sustained with a lot of low-wage immigration.\"\n\nHe added that a \"mass immigration approach\" had made the sector less attractive by reducing wages and \"the quality of the job\".\n\n\"People don't want that. They want us to be a well-paid, well-skilled, highly productive economy and that's where we're going.\"\n\nHowever, he did not rule out issuing more temporary visas, saying the situation would remain \"under review\".\n\nThe conference comes amid a backdrop of the Army preparing to drive petrol tankers\n\nAhead of the Conservative conference beginning on Sunday, the prime minister vowed to take \"big, bold decisions\" to rebuild after the pandemic.\n\n\"We didn't go through Covid to go back to how things were before - to the status quo ante. Build Back Better means we want things to change and improve as we recover.\"\n\nThe post-pandemic recovery is set to be a key theme of the four-day event in Manchester, along with the government's effort to \"level up\" regional inequalities.\n\nAround 10,000 delegates are expected in Manchester for the party's first in-person conference since Covid, and the first since its 2019 election victory.\n\nAs the conference begins, the party has promised £22m extra funding for councils to renovate tennis courts, and £30m for schools in England to repair sports facilities.\n\nThe party argues this will help equalise access to sport in poorer regions, with unplayable courts more likely to be found in deprived areas.\n\nThe prime minister has both a substantial Commons majority and leads a party that most recent opinion polls suggest is more popular than Labour.\n\nBut as the conference here begins the pressures on the government stack up: queues at some petrol stations, fears of further shortages on shop shelves, even staffing issues in abattoirs.\n\nPrices are rising just as both the furlough scheme and the uplift to universal credit end and an increase to National Insurance looms.\n\nBoris Johnson insists he is taking what he calls the \"big, bold decisions\" on the priorities people care about, such as social care and supporting jobs.\n\nExpect plenty of talk here in the next few days about the government's desire to \"level up\", as ministers call it.\n\nIt is a promise that collides for many with the reality that it's bills that are going up.\n\nThe government has made \"levelling up\" a priority ahead of the next election but is facing criticism from some of its own MPs that the concept remains vague.\n\nOn Sunday, 10 Tory MPs elected in 2019 became the latest set of backbenchers to make demands on the issue, calling for more power to be handed to local councils, and for tax breaks for community businesses and social enterprises.\n\nThere is also concern in the party over the effect of rising inflation and surging energy costs, combining with the withdrawal of a universal credit top-up of £20 a week, which was introduced during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSome of the party's MPs, including former leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, have joined opposition MPs in warning about a squeeze on living standard for the poorest households.\n\nLabour, which has warned of a \"winter of discontent\", has urged the PM to recall Parliament to discuss the fuel crisis.\n\nThe party's leader Sir Keir Starmer has called on the government to issue \"enough visas\" to deal with the lorry driver shortage and give \"key workers\" priority access to fuel.\n• None Party conferences: What to expect this year", "United Airlines says it will fire staff who refuse a vaccine and don't qualify for an exemption\n\nThe boss of United Airlines has told the BBC that firing staff who refuse to get a coronavirus vaccine is \"just the right thing to do\".\n\nAround 300 of the airline's 67,000 US based staff are yet to comply with the strict policy, after an initial deadline of 27 September.\n\nVaccine hesitancy has been a hugely divisive issue in the US but President Biden recently made it easier for big companies to take a tougher line.\n\nCEO Scott Kirby says United's strict policy is \"about saving lives\".\n\nHe adds that \"when I retire someday, hopefully long in the future, I will look back at this and it will be one of the proudest moments of my career that we've made the tough decision, but the right decision to require vaccines.\"\n\nMore than 250 staff have complied with United's policy since last week's deadline. A further 2,000 employees have requested an exemption on medical or religious grounds. They haven't all been granted, but final numbers won't be clear until legal processes are resolved.\n\nAny dismissal process could take weeks or months as the company says it would follow agreements with trade unions.\n\nUnited CEO Scott Kirby says insisting that staff are vaccinated is \"just the right thing to do\"\n\nMr Kirby says his airline's experience holds a lesson for other companies too which has been applauded by an \"awful lot\" of customers.\n\n\"Despite all the rhetoric and all the challenges that business leaders may think they're going to have with the vaccine requirement, we did it. It was seven weeks from the time we announced it until we finished and we got to 99%.\"\n\nWhilst Mr Kirby is pleased about the influence he's been able to have over his staff there is frustration about the lack of a single global system for recognising the Covid vaccine and test status of passengers.\n\nThe airline trade body, the International Airline Transport Association, is amongst those who have tried to introduce a unified system.\n\n\"It's really complicated, and I don't blame governments\", says Mr Kirby. He points out that \"there's different vaccines in different parts of the world, every country has their own regulatory apparatus\".\n\nUnited's passengers numbers in the first half of 2021 were at only 48.8% of pre-pandemic levels\n\n\"I've never thought that we would get to a world where we had a single system that applied broadly, it'd be great if we could, just it was always impractical\".\n\nSo far the pandemic has led to losses of more than $8.7bn at United. Passenger numbers of 38.6m in the first six months of this year point to recovering demand. That is slightly higher than the same time last year, but is only 48.8% of pre-covid levels, when United was the world's fourth biggest airline.\n\nThe company had been predicting that autumn would bring a return to profitability, but \"the Delta variant caused a setback\", says Mr Kirby. He says that the forthcoming easing of travel restrictions that will essentially reopen transatlantic travel \"is really important for us\".\n\nThe hope is that the airline will reach \"at least a breakeven [point] at the start of the next year, particularly as we get vaccination rates up, and as Delta variant cases start to come down\".\n\nThe majority of United's staff have been vaccinated against coronavirus, including this pilot who was jabbed at United's onsite clinic at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport\n\n\"Widespread vaccine rollout is crucial to the recovery of the global aviation industry\", says the independent aviation consultant Andrew Charlton. Last year, passenger numbers fell 60% to 1.8 billion and the industry lost $126bn, according to IATA, which said it was the worst year on record. Further big losses are forecast for this year.\n\n\"United, like the other big American carriers, have generally coped pretty well with the pandemic\" says Mr Charlton. He explains this is because \"around 75% of their operations are domestic travel which hasn't been disrupted as badly as international flights. Assuming there are no more big shocks that has given them financial resilience to reshape and resize themselves for after the pandemic\".\n\nDespite getting more than $10bn of support from the US government to get through the pandemic, much of which has been repaid with private borrowing, the airline is still investing heavily in the future. As well as ordering 270 new aircraft it is planning to launch supersonic flights in 2029, they would be the first commercial flights that are quicker than the speed of sound since Concorde retired in 2003.\n\nBoeing 737's make up the majority of United's big recent order of new aeroplanes\n\nThe planes are being made by Boom Supersonic and are expected to reach speeds of 1,122mph (1,805km/h). Going that fast requires more fuel than conventional aeroplanes, which has led to criticism about their environmental impact.\n\nMr Kirby says \"it's been important that we've worked with Boom Supersonic to develop these aeroplanes in a sustainable way. This will be the first aeroplane, the first aircraft engines ever designed from scratch to run on 100% sustainable aviation fuel\".\n\nMr Kirby is adamant that there is a need to travel so quickly. \"It's much more productive for you as a business traveller or even as a leisure traveller to get there faster\".\n\nBut it is business travellers that the airline has in mind for the $200m aircraft. When it comes to the economics, Mr Kirby says \"an all-business class aeroplane at the kinds of business class fares that we charge today is profitable\".\n\nUnited Airlines hopes it will be able to start supersonic travel in 2029\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Archive This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 is resolute that business travel will return in the pandemic despite the rise of video calls. \"Business travel is about human relationships. It's not about the transaction\".\n\n\"I think zoom and technology like this is going to replace phone calls. But it is not going to replace the need to be there in person\".\n\nLeisure travel will also recover says Mr Kirby, but he agrees with a recent Boeing forecast that it will take until 2024 for global aviation to fully recover from the pandemic.\n\nHe predicts domestic US travel, the majority of his business, will lead the way. \"Certainly by 2023, probably by the end of next year, we're back to normal travel between the US and Europe\". But, he adds \"there are parts of the globe that are going to take longer\".\n\nYou can watch Scott Kirby's full interview on \"Talking Business with Aaron Heslehurst\" this weekend on BBC World News at Saturday 23:30 GMT, Sunday 05:30 and 16:30 GMT, Monday 07:30 GMT and 16:30 GMT and Thursday at 07:30 GMT.", "Armed forces personnel will begin delivering petrol to garages across the UK from Monday, the government says.\n\nAlmost 200 servicemen and women, 100 of them drivers, will provide \"temporary\" support to ease pressure on stations.\n\nMinisters have also announced that up to 300 overseas fuel tanker drivers will be able to work in the UK immediately until the end of March.\n\nThere have been long queues at petrol stations this week after a shortage of drivers disrupted fuel deliveries.\n\nMinisters - who have maintained there is enough fuel if people buy at their normal rates - say the situation at petrol station forecourts is improving, with more fuel now being delivered than sold.\n\nBut they acknowledge some parts of the country are worse affected than others.\n\nBrian Madderson, chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association, which represents nearly 5,500 of the UK's 8,300 petrol stations said Scotland, the north of England and parts of the Midlands had seen a \"distinct improvement\" with fewer dry sites.\n\nBut he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it remained a \"big problem\" in London and south-east England, where \"if anything it had got worse.\"\n\nHe said the military drivers will be a \"large help\" but a \"prioritisation of deliveries to filling stations, particularly the independent ones, which are the neighbourhood sites\" was needed \"immediately\".\n\nMr Madderson warned drivers would see a rise in fuel prices next week, but because of \"global factors\" not because of profiteering.\n\nOn Friday, the RAC motoring group also said the disruption in deliveries was continuing to ease, though many areas were still experiencing supply issues.\n\nSmaller fuel stations were facing major supply problems as drivers filled up for the weekend, it said.\n\nMilitary personnel are currently training at haulier sites and will be on the road delivering fuel supplies across the country to \"help fuel stocks further improve\" from Monday, the government said.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said personnel would be seen working alongside drivers this weekend following training this week.\n\nIn addition to the 300 fuel tanker drivers being allowed to work temporarily in the UK, temporary visas are also being offered to 4,700 food haulage drivers who are able to arrive from late October and leave by 28 February 2022.\n\nVisas are being offered to a further 5,500 poultry workers who can come from late October and stay until 31 December.\n\nPreviously, the government said these temporary visas would last until Christmas Eve.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said there were \"continued signs that the situation at the pumps is slowly improving\".\n\n\"UK forecourt stock levels are trending up, deliveries of fuel to forecourts are above normal levels, and fuel demand is stabilising,\" he said.\n\n\"It's important to stress there is no national shortage of fuel in the UK, and people should continue to buy fuel as normal.\"\n\nMore than a week after queues started appearing on petrol station forecourts, just under 200 military personnel will take to the roads.\n\nMinisters say it takes time to train up servicemen and women to drive large tankers carrying highly flammable substances into built-up areas.\n\nWhile they will help with getting supplies to garages, there's been a concern inside government that falling back on the armed forces could be counter-productive.\n\nWhat message does it send to worried motorists to see soldiers driving petrol tankers? Could it lead to more panic buying?\n\nMinisters are confident the situation will continue to stabilise, but they've been under pressure to take more urgent action.\n\nIt's notable that alongside the decision to deploy the military, up to 300 tanker drivers will be allowed into the UK from overseas immediately - several weeks before the wider visa scheme comes into effect.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer called on the PM to recall Parliament from party conference recess, saying \"emergency action\" was needed to speed up the visas.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson accused the haulage industry of being too reliant on low-paid migrant workers.\n\nHe added that he would not allow the UK to repeat the \"failures\" of the past, by allowing mass immigration to create a \"low-wage, low-skill economy\" for British workers.\n\nThe haulage industry says the driver shortage already existed, but has been made worse by factors including the pandemic, Brexit, an ageing workforce, low wages and poor working conditions.\n\nA survey from earlier this year suggests a number of reasons for the driver shortage\n\nIn addition to offering temporary visas, the government last week set out a number of other measures aimed at limiting disruption in the run-up to Christmas and beyond.\n\nThese include increasing HGV (heavy goods vehicle) testing capacity, sending nearly one million letters to drivers who hold an HGV licence, encouraging them back into the industry, and offering training courses for HGV drivers.\n\nMeanwhile, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned there is global disruption to supply chains in other industries, which could continue until Christmas.\n\n\"These shortages are very real,\" Mr Sunak told the Daily Mail. \"We're seeing real disruptions in supply chains in different sectors, not just here but around the world. We are determined to do what we can to try to mitigate as much of this as we can.\"\n\nAnd the Financial Times reports that turkeys will be imported to the UK from France and Poland in the run-up to Christmas after farmers reared about one million fewer birds.\n\nBritish Poultry Council chief executive Richard Griffiths told the paper that Brexit had cut off the industry's supply of cheap labour.", "The Speaker of the House of Commons has asked for an urgent meeting with the Met Police after it was confirmed that Wayne Couzens was on duty five times at Parliament last year.\n\nSir Lindsay Hoyle said it was \"extremely concerning\" and raised questions about police vetting policy.\n\nThe Met confirmed Couzens was on armed protection duties at Parliament between February and July 2020.\n\nCouzens was given a whole-life sentence on Thursday for Sarah Everard's murder.\n\nA serving Met police officer at the time, Couzens kidnapped the 33-year-old under the guise of an arrest in March as she was walking from a friend's house.\n\nIn a statement, Sir Lindsay said he had requested a meeting with police to discuss how Couzens, 48, was deemed suitable for deployment to the parliamentary estate.\n\n\"The security of members and staff has always been my number one priority, so I want to know how this man could ever have crossed the parliamentary threshold,\" Sir Lindsay said.\n\nThe parliamentary estate includes the House of Commons and the House of Lords.\n\nThe Met Police had previously said Couzens moved to the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command in February 2020 where his primary role was to patrol diplomatic premises, mainly embassies.\n\nBut a spokesman for the force said on Saturday that he was deployed to armed static protection duties on the estate on five occasions from February to July 2020.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is facing questions over its failure to stop Couzens, with calls for Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick to resign and an inquiry into police misogyny.\n\nCouzens is believed to have been in a WhatsApp group with five police officers who are now being investigated for gross misconduct.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct watchdog previously said he was linked to a flashing incident in 2015 and two more days before he killed Ms Everard.\n\nCouzens used his police warrant card to trick Ms Everard into being handcuffed, then drove her to Kent where he raped and murdered her. He later burnt her remains in what was a premeditated attack on a random victim.\n\nIn light of \"understandable public concern\" over what happened to Ms Everard, Police Scotland are introducing a new verification check for lone officers.", "Rosie Morgan (left) donated a kidney to her best friend Zoe (right) earlier this year\n\nA woman who donated a kidney to her best friend joined a man with Down's syndrome among the Welsh runners in this year's London Marathon.\n\nRosie Morgan, 27, from Bridgend, made the donation to her friend Zoe, who suffered kidney failure, in March.\n\nMeanwhile, Michael Beynon from Chirk was running again, having become the first Welsh man with Down's syndrome to do the race in 2020's virtual event.\n\nRunners took part both in London and virtually in this year's race.\n\nRosie was running for the charity Kidney Wales, just months after saving her friend Zoe's life.\n\nZoe was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in November 2019 and went into kidney failure in March 2020, just as the UK entered its first coronavirus lockdowns.\n\n\"We were given that news the day that the UK went into lockdown, and I remember sitting on her sofa and sobbing, knowing that once I left her house that night I wasn't going to be allowed back,\" Rosie said.\n\nRosie said she \"didn't hesitate\" to be tested to see if she was a match for Zoe, which she was.\n\nAfter a \"terrifying\" year of appointments and preparation, the transplant was scheduled for February, but was pushed back by a month, allowing Zoe to have her Covid vaccinations.\n\nThe pair have been recovering since, but despite this, Rosie took part in an 62-mile (100km) ultra-marathon just a few weeks after surgery.\n\nJust weeks after surgery, Rosie ran in the same ultra-marathon as her surgeon, Michael Stephens (left)\n\nSince donating a kidney, Rosie said she had to watch her salt and alcohol intake, but otherwise her day-to-day life had not really changed.\n\nShe said: \"Organ donation changes your life but it doesn't have to affect what you do.\n\n\"I know a lot of people that have said to me they didn't realise that they could donate and still carry on with life as it was before, and so that's my main goal... showing that you can still do things with one kidney.\"\n\nAlthough she has run longer races, Sunday was Rosie's first 26-mile marathon - unlike Michael.\n\nIn 2020, he became the first Welsh man with Down's syndrome to run the London Marathon, when he completed the virtual race in his former home of Ammanford, Carmarthenshire.\n\nBut this year, Michael, 26, was competing in the London race alongside thousands of other runners.\n\nHe said: \"I'm really proud to be an ambassador for Mencap to show what people with Down's syndrome like me can achieve if given an opportunity.\"\n\nMichael became the first Welsh man with Down's syndrome to run the London Marathon in 2020's virtual event\n\nOther differences with last year's virtual race include Michael's training, which has been taking place on the steep slopes surrounding Chirk Castle with his new puppy, Bella.\n\nMichael, who doctors thought would have to spend his whole life in a wheelchair, is also being joined this year by his girlfriend, Ffion Edwards, who also has a learning disability.\n\nMichael was running this year's marathon alongside his girlfriend Ffion\n\nMichael's mother, Erika Walker, said: \"It's a huge achievement and I know how hard it is to run 26 miles.\n\n\"I'm very proud. Very, very proud. Very proud of what he's achieved, very proud of what he wants to achieve in his life.\"\n\nChris Richards from Bridgend was running to raise funds for WellChild, a charity supporting seriously ill children.\n\nHis own son Geraint was left severely brain damaged and needing round-the-clock care after a near fatal asthma attack caused him to have a cardiac arrest.\n\n\"We as a family had to deal with so many changes whilst caring for his everyday needs,\" said Chris.\n\n\"We had to adapt to suddenly having a profoundly disabled 11-year-old, who couldn't walk, talk or do anything for himself.\n\n\"Our WellChild nurse Rhian Greenslade would visit daily on the ward and provide such a calming effect on us, we dreaded the weekends when we wouldn't see her... we all looked on Rhian as our guardian angel.\"\n\nDespite suffering a knee injury two weeks into training, Chris said he was going to give it \"everything I've got\" to get to the finish line.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nKevin de Bruyne's deflected late equaliser gave Manchester City a fully deserved point after a moment of genius by Mohamed Salah looked to have earned Liverpool victory in an Anfield thriller.\n\nReigning champions City and Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool were each hoping to take over from Chelsea at the top of the table, but this result means Thomas Tuchel's side stay clear at the Premier League summit.\n\nCity dominated the first half but wasted a host of chances and were punished when Sadio Mane was the beneficiary of more Salah brilliance to apply a clinical finish to put Liverpool ahead after 59 minutes.\n\nLiverpool's lead lasted just 10 minutes until Phil Foden, who tormented the struggling James Milner throughout, took a pass from Gabriel Jesus and fired a low, angled finish across Alisson at the Kop end.\n\nCity manager Pep Guardiola was nursing an understandable sense of injustice after Milner somehow escaped a second yellow card for blatantly upending Bernardo Silva, before Anfield exploded in joy after 76 minutes when Salah slalomed his way beyond a succession of City defenders to power home a stunning finish.\n\nCity's performance merited at least a point and secured it when De Bruyne's shot took a deflection off Joel Matip to beat Alisson with nine minutes left.\n\nThe Reds should have won it with five minutes remaining but Fabinho's goalbound shot was kept out by Rodri's sensational block.\n\nLiverpool have bullied City at Anfield in the past but the tables were turned here in the first half, the champions dominating possession and pinning the hosts back in a manner rarely seen under Klopp in recent seasons.\n\nKlopp's side needed a spark to return to at least something like their normal selves and it was talisman Salah who provided it with a virtuoso second-half performance.\n\nThe Egyptian first of all showed his class to set up Mane for a goal that was against the overall run of play but was the result of Liverpool increasing the pace at the start of the second half. Salah's run and pass was sheer perfection and his attacking partner gratefully accepted the invitation to finish in style.\n\nAnd after the excellent Foden drew City level, Salah scored a goal that will live long in the memory as he twisted and turned in between a host of City defenders before lashing an unstoppable finish past Ederson.\n\nIt was a goal worthy of winning any match, but in reality Liverpool could not complain at only getting a point as they struggled to exert their authority.\n\nSalah's masterclass, however, showed once again that he truly belongs among the game's elite.\n\nFoden's importance for City was also emphasised as he gave Milner a nightmare for the 78 minutes the Liverpool veteran was on the pitch, and scored a crucial equaliser just as The Kop sensed their side had finally established supremacy.\n\nMilner, in at right-back with Trent Alexander-Arnold injured, simply could not cope with Foden, escaping with a foul on the edge of the area that was not given then being booked for hauling the youngster down in desperate fashion.\n\nCity were clearly determined to probe the right-hand side of Liverpool's defence where Milner was not actually receiving too much assistance, and it was no surprise that Foden found himself in space to give Allison no chance with a fine finish to level.\n\nThis was a good response from City to their midweek Champions League loss to Paris St-Germain, although once against questions will be raised about the lack of a recognised striker when a host of first-half chances were not taken.\n\nCity's play was measured and, with Ruben Dias and Aymeric Laporte solid at the back, it took those two moments of rare skill by Salah to unlock them.\n\nIt would have been harsh on City had they not got at least a point and Guardiola's joy was obvious when De Bruyne got the leveller, albeit he was running hot with fury at the time after referee Paul Tierney decided against giving that second yellow card to Milner - earning one himself as his vociferous protests continued after Salah had restored Liverpool's lead.\n\nCity have performed impressively against the two teams widely regard as their closest Premier League title rivals in the last eight days, winning at Chelsea then coming away with a point at Anfield.\n\nGuardiola will regard four points as a reasonable return and will be highly satisfied that his team could have had the maximum, even pressing for a winner in the closing moments.\n\nThe most decisive contribution in this frantic finale, however, came from Rodri as he somehow blocked Fabinho in a packed goalmouth when he looked certain to score the match-winner.\n\nHe made a crucial intervention and Guardiola was all smiles again at the final whistle.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fabinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Mohamed Salah with a cross.\n• None Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Kyle Walker (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Fabinho (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2, Manchester City 2. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2, Manchester City 1. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Curtis Jones. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Many petrol stations in the South East that have had fuel - such as this one in Ashford, Kent - have seen long queues\n\nPetrol supplies are still not getting to London and south-east England, with more than a fifth of forecourts still dry, retailers have said.\n\nThe Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) said it hoped the Army driving tankers would help increase fuel deliveries.\n\nBut it said the \"crisis is virtually at an end\" in Scotland, Wales, the North and Midlands.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson earlier did not rule out supply chain problems continuing until Christmas.\n\nBrian Madderson, chairman of the PRA, said: \"The fuel is still not going to the pumps that need it most in London and the South East.\"\n\nOn Sunday morning up to 22% of filling stations in the UK's most populous region were dry and only 60% had both grades of fuel available. The PRA said only 6% of stations were dry in the Midlands, northern England and Scotland.\n\nMr Madderson said the PRA, which represents nearly 5,500 of the UK's 8,000 filling stations, was \"disappointed that no concerted action is being taken to address the supply problems\" in the South.\n\nFilling stations need to get more information ahead of time about deliveries, he said.\n\nHowever, he said in the North there was a \"plentiful supply at filling stations\" and little queuing.\n\nMr Madderson added he hoped the army being deployed \"will help to increase fuel deliveries\".\n\nFrom Monday military personnel will start to be available for hauliers to use, with more than 65 drivers available initially.\n\nThere are plans for 200 members of the army to be deployed in total, including 100 drivers.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"Stocks in London and the South of England have been recovering at slightly slower rates than other parts of the UK, so we have begun deploying military personnel to boost supply in these areas.\"\n\n\"More than half of those who have completed training to make fuel deliveries are being deployed to terminals serving London and the South-East of England.\"\n\nSupermarket Sainsbury's said it was still seeing \"high demand\" for fuel at its petrol stations.\n\n\"We're working closely with our supplier to maintain supply and all our sites continue to receive fuel,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nMany sectors of the UK economy, including food firms and petrol retailers, have been affected by a chronic shortage of lorry drivers, which the haulage industry has blamed on factors including Covid, Brexit, an aging workforce, and tax changes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: The \"big lever marked uncontrolled immigration\" will not be pulled to solve the driver shortage\n\nOn Sunday Boris Johnson told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that labour market problems would not be solved by pulling \"the big lever marked uncontrolled immigration\" to allow in large numbers of foreign workers.\n\nHe insisted the lack of lorry drivers was not just a problem for the UK, and claimed the US, China, and some countries in Europe were having similar issues.\n\nHowever, there have been no reports of fuel problems or interruptions to food supply linked to driver shortages in those countries.\n\nThe rush of people filling up their cars in the past week was triggered by reports that a shortage of tanker drivers was affecting deliveries.\n\nThe prime minister said the UK economy was going through a \"period of adjustment\" and the way to get more HGV drivers was for the industry to ensure they were \"decently paid\".\n\nHe added: \"We have got to make sure people come on stream as fast as we practically can.\n\n\"When people voted for change in 2016, when they voted for change again in 2019 as they did, they voted for the end of a broken model of the UK economy that relied on low wages and low skills and chronic low productivity. We are moving away from that.\"\n\nMore than a week on from the first forecourt queues and closures, what began as a problem mainly affecting Southern parts of the country has returned to being just that.\n\nFollowing limited supply issues caused by a tanker driver shortage, pleas not to panic buy were seemingly ignored. The resulting crisis has shown the impact a sudden hike in demand can have on the finely balanced supply chain.\n\nMeasures aimed at helping the distribution system cope have included temporarily relaxing competition laws, so oil firms could better share information and target fuel deliveries.\n\nThe situation appears to have improved markedly in many regions of the UK but less so in the densely-populated capital and the South East.\n\nBusinesses, the government and of course millions of motorists will hope the deployment of military drivers from Monday helps to plug remaining gaps.", "Thanks for joining us - stay tuned, there's plenty more to come\n\nWe’re going to leave our live coverage of the Pandora Papers here for the evening, but we’re only just getting started on this massive story – expect plenty more in the coming days. We’ll have more revelations tomorrow and from 07:00 BST we’ll bring you the latest throughout the day here on the live page. And if you just can’t get enough:\n• Read our main story to get all the headlines so far\n• Get up to speed with our simple guide\n• Watch BBC Panorama’s investigation in full on iPlayer (UK only)\n• See how the King of Jordan secretly amassed a £70m property empire\n• Read our story on how Tony and Cherie Blair did not have to pay £312,000 in tax on a new office Thanks for joining us, see you tomorrow.", "The furlough scheme closes on Thursday, with uncertainty ahead for people who have not yet fully returned to work.\n\nNearly one million workers were expected to be on the scheme at the end of September, according to research by the Resolution Foundation.\n\nOf those on furlough in late July, about half on the scheme were able to work some of the time, the HMRC says.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic, it has helped pay the wages of 11.6 million workers.\n\nBut many forecasters, including the Bank of England, are expecting a small rise in unemployment as it ends.\n\nThe chancellor said he was \"immensely proud\" of the near £70bn scheme, but now was the right time to close it, despite calls for further support from some badly-hit companies.\n\nThe travel sector has suffered more than most during the pandemic, with businesses being affected by changing restrictions and lower consumer confidence.\n\nMark Andrew, the director of Animal Aircare, which helps pets travel overseas via Gatwick Airport, said some of his staff may be made redundant if business does not improve.\n\nThe firm has not yet had to lay off staff, which Mr Andrew said was \"purely down to furlough\".\n\n\"Furlough ending means there's a real question mark for our business. We're still waiting for Gatwick to pick up... it seems the airline industry is not buoyant enough yet,\" he said.\n\nAlthough the end of the scheme comes amid a record number of job vacancies, Fidelity International's investment director, Maike Currie, told the BBC that \"no-one really knows what is next\".\n\n\"I think what we can be certain of is that we'll see under-employment, where employees return to work but possibly not on a full-time basis and that they might need to supplement their income.\"\n\nFurlough was introduced in March 2020 after Covid-19 forced large parts of the UK economy to close.\n\nOfficially known as the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, it saw the government pay towards the wages of people who could not work, or whose employers could no longer afford to pay them, up to a monthly limit of £2,500.\n\nAt first it paid 80% of their usual wage, but in August and September it paid 60%, with employers paying 20%.\n\nThere have been big recruitment drives for hospitality staff, HGV drivers and warehouse workers as businesses get back on their feet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Abi is finally back to work after 18 months on furlough and says it feels 'amazing'\n\nLatest official figures show the UK's economy grew by 5.5% between April and June - revised up from the initial estimate of 4.8%.\n\nThe uplift was largely driven by household spending rebounding after lockdowns, although many firms are now being held back by current labour shortages.\n\n\"Any hope that the end of the furlough scheme might be the magic wand to solve the supply chain crisis is likely to be wishful thinking,\" said Susannah Streeter, from Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\nThere is likely to be a big mismatch of skills and experience between those leaving the furlough scheme and the jobs on offer, she added.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke told the BBC: \"We think there are probably two million fewer people unemployed than would have been the case if this scheme hadn't been introduced.\n\n\"I think it's done an enormous amount to shield our economy and our society from the worst of Covid.\"\n\nThe scheme has also been praised by the Resolution Foundation think tank as a \"great success\".\n\nIts senior economist Dan Tomlinson said furlough had been \"as critical to fighting the Covid crisis as nationalising the banks was to fighting the global financial crisis\".\n\nBut the foundation's recent research suggested that a small rise in unemployment was a \"real risk\" for those still on the scheme as it ends, particularly older workers or those in the travel sector.\n\nWhen the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme started, it was described as a bridge over the pandemic uncertainty.\n\nIt has succeeded in keeping the official unemployment numbers at less than half pre-pandemic expectation. For that reason it has proven value for money, despite costing over £68bn.\n\nBut there is now some uncertainty over the fate of the million or so workers still having their wages subsidised.\n\nNew analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies points to regional differences, with London workers for example the most likely still to be furloughed. Older workers are also disproportionately still on the scheme.\n\nIndustries that are yet to return to normal, such as the airport sector, had called for the scheme to be kept in some form. Unions also argue that the UK should follow Germany in maintaining a form of the scheme for future crises.\n\nCertainly a precedent has been set in that the government is willing to spend billions on wage increases if large-scale increases in unemployment are avoided.\n\nAlthough a million vacancies do not map on to the same number still on furlough, it is clear that many industries are having to welcome back more furloughed workers. Partly out of fear of being caught out by worker shortages later down the line.\n\nFor many of those returning to work, conditions will not be the same as pre-pandemic.\n\nJess Pitman was furloughed from her job as marketing manager at a travel firm two weeks after the scheme was introduced.\n\nThe company she works for specialises in organising trips abroad to raise money for charities, but travellers cancelled their plans when Covid hit.\n\nThe firm's payroll has been reduced from 27 to just five and the 29-year-old will return to work part-time, topping up her income with freelance work.\n\nJess Pitman works for a travel firm, which organises fundraising trips for charity\n\n\"I feel really torn about the end of furlough, and I'm really sad for the travel industry as a whole,\" Jess said.\n\n\"I know a lot of people in the industry will be made redundant... I think we'll lose a lot of talented people, which is really disappointing.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Association of British Travel Agents (Abta) warned that companies in the sector still face \"extreme difficulties\" because of continued travel restrictions.\n\nAbta called for sector-specific support for smaller firms in particular, who have lost two summers of sales, as well as those which specialise in destinations still subject to red list rules.\n\n\"The government needs to look at how it can support these businesses... through a package of tailored financial support,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nElsewhere, the Federation of Small Businesses also cited concerns over a \"colder environment\" for business.\n\nEmployers and workers alike will have to cope with the end of the furlough scheme, as well as the scrapping of an incentive for hiring apprentices, rising energy bills and the planned cut to Universal Credit in October.\n\nHowever, the Treasury said generous support was being provided through its \"Plan for Jobs\", which it said was part of a £400bn spending package.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said he was \"immensely proud of the furlough scheme, and even more proud of UK workers and businesses whose resolve has seen us through an immensely difficult time\".\n\nAre you using the furlough scheme? How will you or your business be affected by the scheme ending? 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.", "Dame Cressida Dick has faced calls to resign after the murder of Sarah Everard\n\nThe home secretary will be watching the Metropolitan Police chief \"very closely\" over the vetting of officers in light of Sarah Everard's murder, Solicitor General Alex Chalk has said.\n\nMs Everard was killed by Wayne Couzens - a serving police officer - in March, leading to questions for the force over its failure to stop him.\n\nA number of politicians have called for Commissioner Cressida Dick to resign.\n\nMr Chalk warned Ms Patel would be keeping a close eye on the situation.\n\nCouzens was jailed for a full-life term on Thursday after details emerged of the brutal attack.\n\nHe abducted the 33-year-old as she walked home from a friend's house under the guise of an arrest, before raping and killing her.\n\nDame Cressida said she recognised that a \"precious bond of trust\" had been damaged by Couzens, who had \"brought shame on the Met\".\n\nBut she soon faced calls to resign, with Labour MP Harriet Harman saying women's confidence in the police \"will have been shattered\" by the case.\n\nMs Patel said she would \"continue to work with\" Dame Cressida, and continue to hold her and the Met to account \"as everybody would expect me to do\".\n\nSpeaking at a Conservative Young Women's event at the party's conference, Mr Chalk told the BBC that the police commissioner needed to look at the vetting issue that allowed Couzens to \"slip through the net\".\n\nHe said a lot of people would be concerned by the case, and \"want to be absolutely satisfied that things are about to improve\".\n\nBut he also issued a warning to Ms Dick that she may not keep the confidence of the home secretary if the issue was not sorted out.\n\n\"[Priti Patel] says she has confidence in her, but I suspect the home secretary will be watching very closely to see that the vetting issue is properly investigated and scrutinised,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the Speaker of the House of Commons has asked for an urgent meeting with the Met after it was confirmed Couzens was on duty five times at Parliament last year.\n\nSir Lindsay Hoyle said it was \"extremely concerning\" and also raised questions about police vetting policy.\n\nThe Met confirmed Couzens was on armed protection duties at Parliament between February and July 2020.", "Thousands of videos, graphics and other images have been collected together to form a growing propaganda archive\n\nA Canadian citizen who allegedly narrated violent propaganda videos for the Islamic State group (IS) has been charged in the US.\n\nSaudi-born Mohammed Khalifa is accused of being \"the voice behind the violence\" by providing English narration on some 15 videos.\n\nMany of them encouraged supporters to join IS, while some showed the \"brutal execution\" of prisoners and hostages.\n\nIf convicted, the 38-year-old could face life in prison.\n\nMr Khalifa will appear before a US court next week on charges of providing \"material support to a terrorist organisation, resulting in death\". He denies the charges.\n\nProsecutors say he was also an IS fighter, and during one conflict shortly before being captured, threw a grenade at opposing forces.\n\n\"Through his alleged leading role in translating, narrating, and advancing IS's online propaganda, Khalifa promoted the terrorist group... and expanded the reach of videos that glorified the horrific murders and indiscriminate cruelty of IS,\" Raj Parekh, acting US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia said in a statement.\n\nAmong the videos are two IS productions which the US justice department has described as \"the most influential and exceedingly violent\" videos that promoted violence against foreign citizens, showed various IS attacks, and the deaths of unarmed prisoners.\n\nAnother video includes a voice recording of Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people in the Pulse Nightclub attack in Florida in 2016, swearing allegiance to IS.\n\nMr Khalifa left Canada in 2013 to join IS in Syria where he became a key member of the group's propaganda team, the US justice department said.\n\nHe allegedly served in a number of prominent roles before becoming its lead translator due to his English and Arabic language skills.\n\nBy translating the videos into English, he played an integral role in the recruitment and radicalisation of Westerners which caused the deaths of numerous people at the hands of IS, prosecutors say.\n\nMohammed Khalifa was captured in January 2019 during a firefight between IS and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) - a US-backed Kurdish-led militia which spearheaded the fight against IS in northwest Syria.\n\nHe was later handed over to the FBI.\n\nIn a newspaper interview after his capture, he said he had been a low-level fighter and \"just the voice\" of IS. He insisted that he had played no role in filming or carrying out the gruesome scenes he narrated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOnline videos showing beheadings and other atrocities were a key feature of IS's worldwide recruitment drive as the group extended its reach in Syria and Iraq.\n\nBut the propaganda effort dwindled as the militants began to lose territory from 2017.", "The force has asked for anyone with information to contact them\n\nTwo men have been arrested after a video was posted on social media purportedly showed a female nightclubber's drink being spiked.\n\nPolice have said two 18-year-olds from Gloucestershire have been arrested on suspicion of administering a noxious substance and are in custody.\n\nThe footage appears to show a man dropping a tablet into a woman's drink as he reaches to collect his drink.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police is continuing to investigate the incident in Bristol.\n\nThe video taken in Bristol nightclub Pryzm, has been removed from Twitter.\n\nOfficers warned adding substances to anyone's drink without their knowledge is a \"serious offence\".\n\nA police spokesman said doing so could also cause harm if the person was to have an allergic reaction.\n\n\"If you believe your drink has been tampered with on a night out, we'd recommend alerting bar or security staff at the venue, reporting the incident to police by calling 101 and seeking immediate medical advice,\" they said.\n\n\"The same applies if you're with someone and believe their drink has been tampered with.\"\n\nThe force has asked for anyone with information to come forward.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sunday's episode will feature special guests, favourite hymns, musical collaborations and a message from the Queen\n\nThe Queen has congratulated \"all those involved\" in BBC One's Songs of Praise as the show celebrates 60 years on air.\n\nNearly 3,000 episodes of the world's longest-running religious TV programme have aired since its first transmission, from Cardiff, in 1961.\n\nIn a message to be broadcast on Sunday's show in Westminster Abbey, the Queen applauded the series for showing Christianity as \"a living faith\".\n\nHosted by Aled Jones, the show will feature ex-presenters and star guests.\n\nIn a pre-recorded message, the Queen said: \"For 60 years Songs Of Praise has drawn together congregations and BBC viewers throughout the United Kingdom in collective worship.\n\n\"During that time, the programme has shown Christianity as a living faith, not only through hymns and worship songs, but also by featuring the many people who have put their faith at the centre of their lives.\n\n\"I congratulate Songs Of Praise and all those involved in the programme on its 60th anniversary.\"\n\nCommitted Christian and former star of The Goon Show, Sir Harry Secombe was a regular presenter in the 90s\n\nThe show, which continues to reach more than one million viewers each week, was the brainchild of TV producer Donald Baverstock, who - in 1961 - happened to see a test transmission of an outside broadcast of hymn-singing in Welsh from a Welsh chapel.\n\nHe later described the emotional draw of \"ordinary people, in their best hats, singing with their souls\".\n\nMr Baverstock suggested to Stuart Hood, then director of BBC TV programmes, that something similar might suit the designated \"closed period\", between 18.15-19.25 on a Sunday evening, which was - at the time - given over, by law, to religious programmes.\n\nThe first programme came from Tabernacle Baptist Church in Cardiff, from which a format developed of visiting cathedrals and parish churches all over Britain, with the focus on congregational hymn-singing.\n\nIt was an overnight success, reaching as many as 12 million viewers on some Sundays.\n\nThe original broadcasts went out live on Sundays from churches, many of which were chosen because they were near sports grounds, where the outside broadcast vehicles were in use on the previous Saturday afternoons.\n\nBy the time broadcasting restrictions were relaxed in 1972, the show had become a stalwart of the Sunday schedule.\n\nSir Cliff Richard performed at the show's 40th anniversary gala concert in London's Royal Albert Hall\n\nGloria Gaynor also performed at the gala concert in 2001\n\nSinger Charlotte Church presented the Christmas story from Jerusalem in 2000.\n\nOver the years, there have been 270 presenters on the programme, including Sir Cliff Richard, Charlotte Church and audience favourite singer Sir Harry Secombe - who crossed over to the show with the demise of ITV's hymn-themed show Highway in 1993.\n\nActress Dame Thora Hird went on to host spin-off show Praise Be! for 17 years.\n\nPam Rhodes, the programme's longest-serving presenter, has presented 386 episodes, having first appeared on the show in 1987.\n\nCurrent host, Aled Jones, has been with the show for 21 years, having made his Songs of Praise debut as a child in 1988.\n\nThe format of the show has changed over the years, reflecting the changing face of Christianity in the UK.\n\nInterviews were introduced in 1977, to complement the hymn-singing and viewers heard stories of faith from members of the local community.\n\nSongs of Praise hosts the Gospel Choir of the Year competition annually\n\nAs the years went by, there were increasingly ambitious outside broadcasts too.\n\nIn December 1982, Songs of Praise visited the Falklands to meet some of the islanders and armed forces stationed there. More recently, in 2015, an episode was filmed at the so-called \"Jungle\" migrant camp in Calais.\n\nTo mark the millennium, more than 65,000 singers performed live in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.\n\nThe show was relaunched in 2014 in a magazine format, and now features a range of churches, locations, congregations, and choirs - including gospel and Pentecostal churches - but remains firmly \"a Christian music show\".\n\n\"For 60 years, Songs of Praise has held a very special place on BBC One. Never has this been more important than the past year - when as churches had to close their doors, Songs Of Praise continued to bring together people of faith across the UK every Sunday,\" said Patrick Holland, director factual, arts and classical music.\n\nHe added: \"It is a great honour to pay tribute to the world's longest-running religious television programme - long may it continue.\"\n\nSongs of Praise: The 60th anniversary airs on Sunday at 2.45pm on BBC One", "Boris Johnson has said the \"big lever marked uncontrolled immigration\" would not be pulled in order to to solve the UK's shortage of skilled drivers.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, the prime minister said some ''controlled'' immigration to address the problem was \"entirely sensible\".", "Sarah Everard was murdered after being abducted by a serving Met police officer\n\nA new verification check for lone police officers in Scotland has been introduced in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard.\n\nPolice Scotland said it wanted to reassure the public after she was abducted and killed by Metropolitan police officer Wayne Couzens.\n\nCouzens, 48, used his warrant card to abduct Ms Everard from a south London street before raping and murdering her.\n\nMembers of the public in Scotland can now request a control room check.\n\nPolice Scotland said there was \"understandable public concern\" about the \"horrendous murder of Sarah Everard\".\n\nThe force said its officers normally worked in pairs, but in future on the rare occasions a lone officer approached a member of the public they would \"proactively\" offer an identity check.\n\nUnder the new process, the officer's personal radio will be put on loudspeaker so that another officer or a member of control room staff can confirm they are who they say they are, that they are on duty and the reason the officer is speaking to them.\n\nThe control room will then create an incident number which can be displayed on the officer's mobile phone or radio to confirm the broadcast message details.\n\nIf a lone officer has become involved in an incident they will call 999 and allow the member of the public to speak directly to control room staff.\n\nWayne Couzens (right) is believed to have shown Sarah Everard his police warrant card\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Will Kerr said: \"The appalling circumstances of Sarah Everard's murder have deeply affected people and many are now understandably concerned about verifying an officer's identity.\n\n\"Police officers will, of course, continue to approach any member of the public who appears distressed or vulnerable, to offer support and assistance.\n\n\"However, although it is rare for a lone police officer to have to speak to a member of the public in Scotland, we absolutely recognise our responsibility to introduce an additional means of verification to provide further reassurance to anyone, in particular women who may feel vulnerable, and who might be concerned if they find themselves in this situation.\n\n\"The onus is on us, as a police service, to proactively offer this additional verification process to any member of the public who appears distressed, vulnerable or frightened.\"\n\nCouzens has been sentenced to a whole life sentence after targeting Ms Everard, 33, on a street in south London in March.\n\nHe used his police warrant card to trick her into being handcuffed, then drove her to Kent where he raped and murdered her. He later burnt her remains in what was a premeditated attack on a random victim.\n\nThe full details of his crimes only emerged during his sentencing last week, prompting national outrage and calls for more action to tackle violence against women.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nBritain's Lizzie Deignan took a sensational breakaway win in the first edition of the women's Paris-Roubaix.\n\nThe Trek-Segafredo rider pulled away from the peloton with more than 80km to go, before rain affected the course.\n\nThe legendary race on the brutal 'pave' cobblestones returned this weekend after the coronavirus pandemic caused it to be postponed in 2020.\n\n\"I feel so incredibly proud - women's cycling is at a turning point and today is a part of history,\" Deignan said.\n\n\"I'm also proud to be part of a team making history, and even fans watching at home are making history to show there's an appetite for women's cycling - and that these athletes can do one of the hardest races in the world.\"\n\nDeignan, who becomes the first Briton ever to win Paris-Roubaix, powered clear just over halfway through the 116km race before the riders reached the unforgiving cobbled sections that permeate the race known as the 'hell of the north'.\n\nThe 32-year-old took cobbled corners carefully to stay on the bike and protect a lead of two minutes 30 seconds.\n\nShe then also revealed after the race that she was not the rider her team had initially selected for the victory.\n\n\"[Winning] was really not the plan,\" she said. \"I just needed to be at the front on the first section of cobbles to protect the leaders - today I was third rider.\n\n\"I looked behind after the first cobbles and there was no-one behind me, so I thought they have to chase me so, I just kept going.\"\n\nJumbo-Visma's Marianne Vos of the Netherlands broke away from a group of 19 riders chasing Deignan and halved her lead by 10km to go.\n\nHowever, Deignan brilliantly held on to the bike as her rear wheel slewed left and then right across the mud on the treacherous Caphin-en-Pevele sector.\n\nDeignan, who has won the road world championships, Tour of Flanders and the one-day women's Tour de France, beat the sport's greatest riders to lift the famous cobblestone trophy.\n\nShe crossed the line in the soaking wet Roubaix outdoor velodrome ahead of Vos in second and team-mate Elisa Longo Borghini of Italy third, to claim prize money of £1,300.\n\nDeignan will contest the Women's Tour of Britain from Monday, while the men contest a 259km edition of Paris-Roubaix on Sunday for a first place prize of £26,000.\n\nThe first men's race was in 1896.\n\nMeanwhile, Britain's Adam Yates of Ineos Grenadiers finished fourth in the Giro dell'Emilia one-day race in Italy.\n\nThe 29-year-old, who came fourth in this year's Vuelta a Espana, was 10 seconds behind winner Primoz Roglic of Jumbo-Visma.\n• None What's the worst that could happen? Possibly everything! The Goes Wrong Show is streaming now\n• None Ricky Gervais reveals behind-the-scenes facts and secrets of the comedy classic", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson on the Andrew Marr Show: \"We don't want to raise taxes\"\n\nBoris Johnson says the UK is in a \"period of adjustment\" after Brexit and Covid as the country faces petrol shortages and supply chain issues.\n\nA lack of HGV drivers and high demand plunged the UK into a fuel crisis last week, with lengthy queues and closures.\n\nWorries persist about the cost of living, as food and energy prices rise, alongside cuts to universal credit.\n\nBut the PM insisted his plan for a higher wage, higher skilled economy would offer a long-term solution.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr on the first day of Conservative Party conference, Mr Johnson said: \"There will be a period of adjustment, but that is what I think we need to see.\"\n\nHe would not say if supply issues would affect Christmas, but later told reporters he was \"very confident\" the festive season would be \"considerably better\" than last year.\n\nA few thousand people held an anti-government protest outside the event in Manchester on Sunday, where the Tories will be hosting party members until Wednesday.\n\nThe PM also refused to rule out raising taxes again just three weeks before Chancellor Rishi Sunak announces his annual Budget.\n\nHe said he was a \"zealous opponent of unnecessary tax rises\", but warned the pandemic had hit the UK's economy like a \"fiscal meteorite\".\n\nLast month, the government announced it would be raising National Insurance to pay for health and social care.\n\nAt the time, when asked whether he would rule out additional taxes, Mr Johnson said he could give an \"emotional commitment\" that he did not want to introduce further rises.\n\nEarlier this year Mr Sunak also froze income tax thresholds - leading to more people paying the levy - and the extra £20 weekly universal credit payment, brought in during the pandemic, is due to end this week.\n\nAsked on Sunday by Andrew Marr if he would raise taxes again, Mr Johnson replied: \"If I can possibly avoid it, I do not want to raise taxes again.\"\n\nThe PM added: \"I can tell you that you have no fiercer and more zealous opponent of unnecessary tax rises than me, but we have had to deal with a pandemic on a scale which this country has not seen before in our lifetimes and long before.\n\n\"We don't want to raise taxes, of course we don't, but what we will not do is be irresponsible with the public finances.\"\n\nCabinet members are warning against any further tax increases, with Leader of the House Jacob Rees-Mogg telling a party conference fringe event that \"tax is about the highest level it has been since the war\" and \"we are at the upper reaches of the reasonableness of the tax burden\".\n\nHe added: \"We are [at] about the limit of what taxes we can raise.\"\n\nTees Valley Tory Mayor Ben Houchen also called on the PM to avoid further tax rises, saying they would not be \"helpful\" for businesses coming out of the pandemic.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News at the conference, he said: \"I appreciate it is a difficult job being the prime minister and chancellor [and] to balance the books.\n\n\"But if we want to support those businesses to create those jobs to put more money in people's pockets, I don't think tax rises are the way to go about it.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss insisted the government did not want to put additional tax burden on working people, saying growing the economy would \"pay the bill from Covid\".\n\nShe told the BBC: \"None of us want to see taxes rise, we are a low tax party. We understand that it is enterprise that is going to deliver the opportunities and we need to keep the tax burden low at the same time as growing our economy.\"\n\nLiz Truss made her first conference speech as foreign secretary on Sunday\n\nAsked about job shortages and supply issues in shops and on petrol forecourts, the PM insisted the lack of lorry drivers - affecting the delivery of goods - was not just a UK issue, claiming the United States and China were seeing similar problems, as well as some countries in Europe.\n\nAnd he said the petrol shortages were \"very largely driven by demand\", adding: \"I understand people's frustrations and I understand how infuriating it is when you turn up and can't get any. But we are making sure we have the supplementary drivers where necessary.\"\n\nMr Johnson called out those who wanted to \"go back to the tired, failed old model\" of \"reaching for the lever called uncontrolled immigration\" to bring people into the country to fill the job gaps.\n\nBut he did not reject comments made by Mr Sunak, who told the Daily Mail the \"very real\" shortages could affect Christmas,\n\nInstead the PM said the country was going through a \"period of adjustment\" post-Brexit and needed to look to a future of \"better paid, better skilled jobs\" for British people.\n\nMr Johnson added: \"What we had for decades was a system whereby [sectors like] the road haulage industry... were not investing in the truck stops, not improving conditions, not improving pay and we relied on very hard working people who were willing to come in, largely from European accession countries, to do that work under those conditions.\n\n\"What you need to do is make sure that people now invest in basic equipment, such as truck stops, and better pay.\n\n\"When people voted for change in 2016 [over Brexit] and when people voted for change again in 2019...they voted for the end of a broken model of the UK economy that relied on low wages and low skill and chronic low productivity and we are moving away from that.\"\n\nAndrew Marr and Boris Johnson argued about what's happened to the average wage, with the prime minister saying we're finally seeing \"growth in wages, after more than 10 years of flat-lining\" but Andrew Marr saying that \"in real terms over the last three months wages have gone down, not up\".\n\nReal wages, a measure that takes account of rising prices, peaked just before the financial crash in 2008 and only returned to that level in August 2020.\n\nSo, there has been a decade of little improvement overall.\n\nRather than \"flatlining\" - as Mr Johnson claimed - it was actually roughly five years of falls followed by growth over most of the last five years.\n\nLast year saw record dips and jumps as the economy was shut down and then re-opened.\n\nBut the most recent figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest that growth may be stalling, with real wages looking lower in July than they were in April.", "People who are immunosuppressed in Northern Ireland will be notified shortly about receiving a third dose of the vaccine.\n\nThe Department of Health told BBC News NI those classed as immunosuppressed have now been identified.\n\n\"They will be receiving a letter shortly advising them to book online to receive the third dose,\" it said.\n\n\"Those identified by GPs will be given a letter advising them to receive a third dose at a community pharmacy.\"\n\nVaccine experts recommended on 1 September that those affected should be given the extra dose to give them fuller protection.\n\nStudies have shown that people who are immunosuppressed, around 500,000 people in the UK, are unlikely to mount a strong defence against the virus, even after two doses of the vaccine.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a small number of people have recently received their third dose but the department said it expected the bulk of vaccinations to happen over the next few weeks.\n\nThe announcement comes as one more death with coronavirus and another 992 positive cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Saturday.", "Actor and broadcaster Adam Pearson is among thousands of people to oppose a show where a replica of Joseph Merrick's body will be dissected.\n\nKnown as the Elephant Man, Mr Merrick grew up in Leicester and toured the East Midlands as a travelling exhibit before moving to London.\n\nDisability campaigners have likened the \"dinner and dissection\" event to a freak show, and more than 8,000 people have signed a petition against it.\n\nThe show is being held by Sam Piri, who secured funding for his business on the BBC programme Dragons' Den and insists the show is educational.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Many bus companies cannot run services due to a lack of tourists\n\nAn industry body representing Northern Ireland's private bus and coach sector has said it is at its most vulnerable.\n\nBus and Coach NI said operators are at risk of collapse.\n\nCompanies have not been able to run services due to a lack of tourists. Some businesses have received grants from Stormont.\n\nKaren Magill, chief executive of Bus and Coach NI, told BBC Radio Ulster's Inside Business programme the future for some operators is uncertain.\n\n\"Our industry has been decimated by Covid-19 and at this point in time while other sectors of the economy are recovering, unfortunately we are not.\n\n\"We still have 75% of our fleet idle and we wont see any return to business until March or April next year,\" she said.\n\n\"Despite not being back to full capacity, with little or no income, and restricted demand, we have increased additional costs incurring every day.\n\n\"We have significant Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) loans and those increasing Covid debts and restricted demand mean companies are seriously vulnerable.\n\n\"If you have a loan of £1.5m, your monthly repayment now is £16,000, and this is based on actual figures from some companies,\" she said.\n\nAsked if she expects all operators to survive the next few months, Ms Magill said: \"At this point in time, no I don't.\"\n\nCoach operators rely heavily on international visitors who book excursions to well-known tourist areas.\n\nThe pandemic has seen a drastic reduction in the amount of visitors arriving on our shores.\n\nFor Sean Logan, who owns Logan Executive Travel in Dunloy, County Antrim that means his fleet is parked up.\n\n\"We would normally have 50 touring vehicles and at this time of year we would expect our yard to be empty. At the minute we are lucky to get two vehicles on tour a week.\n\n\"There is some school work but it's not what we need, with the value of the fleet we have and the debt we have incurred to survive so far.\n\n\"My house overlooks my yard and the first thing I see when I pull the curtains back in the morning is a coach park. That's basically what we are.\n\n\"They cost me money while they are sitting parked, earning nothing,\" he told Inside Business.\n\nMore than 90 companies have been provided with grants totalling £5.7m\n\nMr Logan had to lay off some office staff as there was not enough work.\n\n\"The staff we have taken back off furlough are on reduced time, working two or three-day weeks.\n\n\"I cannot guarantee categorically that we will survive [the winter]. We have survived this far and we will do everything we can. It has taken over 40 years of my life and we will do the best we can. It's an impossible situation,\" he said.\n\nMs Magill said additional financial support would help the industry.\n\n\"We have had two previous schemes through the Department for Infrastructure… at this stage 50% of businesses out there were not eligible for support. There was a formula which should have made life simple but didn't.\n\n\"We had one operator who received £3,200. Out of that, which is what they were eligible for, they had to pay £1,500 out to their accountant as we had to have all figures backed by an accountancy firm.\n\n\"Other operators have benefited from the scheme,\" she said.\n\nThe Department for Infrastructure said more than 90 companies have been provided with grants totalling £5.7m through two schemes.\n\n\"Minister Mallon is committed to doing all she can where she has the powers within her department and working with executive colleagues to support the industry through recovery.\"", "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)", "For the past 18 months the government has been subsidising the wages of employees hit by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe furlough scheme was the centrepiece of Chancellor Rishi Sunak's \"unprecedented\" intervention in the economy, designed to stave off a wave of job losses as the country closed down in the face of the virus.\n\nIt protected the incomes of millions of people across the UK working sectors that could no longer operate, such as live music, nightclubs, the travel industry, business events, hospitality and retail businesses.\n\nNow that scheme is ending, requiring firms to shoulder full responsibility for those employees again or let them go.\n\nDuring the lifetime of the scheme about 11.6 million jobs were supported, with a steep take-up in the first few months especially.\n\nThat doesn't mean the government was ever paying 11 million people's wages at the same time.\n\nAccording to data from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), the number of people on furlough peaked at 8.9 million on 8 May last year. It then fell steadily until late 2020, when it picked up again, without ever hitting the heights of the first lockdown.\n\nSince then, numbers have continued to fall, although around 1.6 million were still relying on the scheme at the end of July, the last date for which figures are available from HMRC.\n\n\"To all those at home right now, anxious about the days ahead, I say this: you will not face this alone,\" the chancellor said, announcing the furlough scheme in March 2020.\n\nAlthough he has since become one of the country's best-known politicians, Mr Sunak was fairly new in his post at the time, and he had just kicked off his chancellorship with a Budget that included a jawdropping a £30bn package to boost the economy and get the country through the virus outbreak.\n\nBut it turned out to be nowhere near enough. The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, to give furlough its official title, along with other support measures, would end up incurring a far bigger bill, requiring the government to borrow much more than it would in normal times, month after month.\n\nUnder the scheme, the government initially paid 80% of the wages of people who could not work, or whose employers could no longer afford to pay them, up to a monthly limit of £2,500.\n\nBut by the end of the scheme the government was contributing only 60%, with employers shouldering a 20% share themselves\n\nOverall it cost the government nearly £70bn, but has been praised by the Resolution Foundation think-tank as a \"great success\", protecting people's living standards and preventing what many feared would be a catastrophic rise in unemployment.\n\nWhile workers were furloughed in every age group it was younger workers who accounted for a large proportion of those on furlough.\n\nYounger people were more likely to be employed in the sectors of the economy worst hit by the coronavirus lockdown measures including hospitality and retail.\n\nSince March 2020, more women than men have been furloughed although according to the latest figures more men remained on furlough towards the end of the scheme.\n\nSome sectors of the economy made more use of the furlough scheme than others.\n\nWith pubs and restaurants particularly badly affected by coronavirus curbs, the hospitality industry saw a high number of workers furloughed.\n\nAnd non-essential shops were closed at the height of the lockdown, so retailers made big claims on the government's resources. However, some large employers in that sector, notably supermarkets - who remained open during lockdowns, have since repaid the cash.\n\nPeople working in the arts, entertainment and other leisure activities were also more likely to find themselves on furlough than those in other walks of life.\n\nThe scheme was designed to keep people connected to jobs that would return after the pandemic peak passed.\n\nHowever over the last 18 months some of those on furlough have been made redundant, especially during the period late last year when it looked as though the furlough scheme was coming to an end.\n\nIn recent months, as the economy reopened and continued to grow, the number of redundancies has fallen.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation has described the furlough scheme overall as \"a very successful and well-implemented policy intervention\".\n\nBut its recent research suggested there remained a \"real risk\" to the jobs of those still on the scheme as it ends, particularly for those in parts of the travel sector, which still hasn't returned to normal operation, and for older workers.\n\nAnd doubts have been voiced in other quarters over some aspects of the scheme.\n\nIt has drawn fire from the Commons Public Accounts Committee, which wants all firms benefiting from the scheme to be named publicly in the interests of transparency.\n\nThe committee has spoken dismissively of \"hastily drawn up economic support schemes\" that provided \"unacceptable room for fraud against taxpayers\".\n\nHMRC, which administered the furlough scheme, has suggested that up to 10% of the money delivered by the scheme to mid-August 2020 - £3.5bn - may have been paid out in fraud or error.\n\nApart from that, there is the question of whether it has delayed the process of people making the shift from jobs that are no longer viable to take up new opportunities.\n\nThe number of vacancies fell sharply during the early stages of the pandemic, but job vacancies are now considerably up on last year with staff shortages affecting several sectors.\n\nSome have blamed furlough for keeping workers out of action during the last few months, waiting to see if their old jobs will still be there for them, when some firms have been desperately trying to recruit new workers.\n\nAre you coming to the end of your furlough? 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 secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires has been exposed in one of the biggest leaks of financial documents.\n\nSome 35 current and former leaders and more than 300 public officials are featured in the files from offshore companies, dubbed the Pandora Papers.\n\nThey reveal the King of Jordan secretly amassed £70m of UK and US property.\n\nThey also show how ex-UK PM Tony Blair and his wife saved £312,000 in stamp duty when they bought a London office.\n\nThe couple bought an offshore firm that owned the building.\n\nThe leak also links Russian President Vladimir Putin to secret assets in Monaco, and shows the Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis - facing an election later this week - failed to declare an offshore investment company used to purchase two villas for £12m in the south of France.\n\nIt is the latest in a string of leaks over the past seven years, following the FinCen Files, the Paradise Papers, the Panama Papers and LuxLeaks.\n\nThe examination of the files is the largest organised by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), with more than 650 reporters taking part.\n\nBBC Panorama in a joint investigation with the Guardian and the other media partners have had access to nearly 12 million documents and files from 14 financial services companies in countries including the British Virgin Islands, Panama, Belize, Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Switzerland.\n\nSome figures are facing allegations of corruption, money laundering and global tax avoidance.\n\nBut one of the biggest revelations is how prominent and wealthy people have been legally setting up companies to secretly buy property in the UK.\n\nThe documents reveal the owners of some of the 95,000 offshore firms behind the purchases.\n\nIt highlights the UK government's failure to introduce a register of offshore property owners despite repeated promises to do so, amid concerns some property buyers could be hiding money-laundering activities.\n\nThe Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his family, who have been accused of looting their own country, are one example.\n\nThe investigation found the Aliyevs and their close associates have secretly been involved in property deals in the UK worth more than £400m.\n\nTap to see the UK offshore property empires of foreign heads of state The King of Jordan has luxury homes in Malibu and Washington DC, plus eight properties in London and south-east England In Malibu, California, he spent on three clifftop mansions The king’s property portfolio also includes apartments in Washington DC, where his son attended university And in the UK, King Abdullah’s properties include these two near Buckingham Palace. He owns the building on the left and three flats in the building on the right Azerbaijan’s ruling Aliyev family, , have built a vast offshore network to hide their money The files expose how the Aliyev family and close associates were involved in property deals in the UK This includes a £33m property in central London bought for the president’s 11-year-old son They also sold a property for £66m in 2018, having paid £35m for it 10 years earlier\n\nThe revelations could prove embarrassing for the UK government, as the Aliyevs appear to have made a £31m profit after selling one of their London properties to the Crown Estate - the Queen's property empire that is managed by The Treasury and raises cash for the nation.\n\nMany of the transactions in the documents involve no legal wrongdoing.\n\nBut Fergus Shiel, from the ICIJ, said: \"There's never been anything on this scale and it shows the reality of what offshore companies can offer to help people hide dodgy cash or avoid tax.\"\n\nHe added: \"They are using those offshore accounts, those offshore trusts, to buy hundreds of millions of dollars of property in other countries, and to enrich their own families, at the expense of their citizens.\"\n\nThe ICIJ believes the investigation is \"opening a box on a lot of things\" - hence the name Pandora Papers.\n\nThe leaked financial documents show how the King of Jordan secretly amassed a property empire in the UK and US worth more than £70m (over $100m).\n\nThey identify a network of offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands and other tax havens used by Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein to buy 15 homes since he assumed power in 1999.\n\nThey include £50m on three adjacent ocean view properties in Malibu, California, and properties in London and Ascot in the UK.\n\nHis property interests have been built up as King Abdullah has been accused of presiding over an authoritarian regime, with protests taking place in recent years amid austerity measures and tax rises.\n\nLawyers for King Abdullah said all the properties were bought with personal wealth, which he also uses to fund projects for Jordan's citizens.\n\nThey said it was common practice for high profile individuals to purchase properties via offshore companies for privacy and security reasons.\n\nAmong the other revelations in the Pandora Papers:\n\nThere is no suggestion in the Pandora Papers that Tony and Cherie Blair were hiding their wealth.\n\nBut documents show why stamp duty was not payable when the couple bought a £6.45m property.\n\nThe former Labour prime minister and his barrister wife Cherie acquired the building in Marylebone, central London, in July 2017 by buying the offshore company that owned it.\n\nIt is legal to acquire properties in the UK in this way and stamp duty does not have to be paid - but Mr Blair has previously been critical of tax loopholes.\n\nThe townhouse in Marylebone, central London, is now home to Mrs Blair's legal consultancy, which advises governments around the world, as well as her foundation for women.\n\nMrs Blair said the sellers had insisted they buy the house through the offshore company.\n\nShe said they had brought the property back under UK rules and will be liable to pay capital gains tax if they sell it in future.\n\nThe ultimate owners of the property were a family with political connections in Bahrain - but both parties say they did not initially know who they were dealing with.\n\nThis Mayfair building was sold to a front company in 2009\n\nOther documents show how Azerbaijan's ruling Aliyev family have secretly acquired UK property using offshore companies.\n\nThe files show how the family - long accused of corruption in the European nation - bought 17 properties, including a £33m office block in London for the president's 11-year-old son Heydar Aliyev.\n\nThe building in Mayfair was bought by a front company owned by a family friend of President Ilham Aliyev in 2009.\n\nIt was transferred one month later to Heydar.\n\nThe research also reveals how another office block owned by the family nearby was sold to the Crown Estate for £66m in 2018.\n\nThe Crown Estate said it carried out the checks required in law at the time of purchase but is now looking into the matter.\n\nThe UK government says it is cracking down on money laundering with tougher laws and enforcement, and that it will introduce a register of offshore companies owning UK property when parliamentary time allows.\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. More 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)", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBBC coverage: Watch live on BBC Two from 08:00 and BBC One from 10:00 with uninterrupted coverage and extra streams on the Red Button and online; live text from 08:00.\n\nThe London Marathon returns to the city's streets for the first full-scale staging of the race in more than two years on Sunday.\n\nMore than 40,000 runners will join some of the world's best on the usual course that starts in Blackheath and finishes 26.2 miles later in the shadow of Buckingham Palace on The Mall.\n\nThey will be joined by a similar number completing the distance 'virtually' via a tracking app on a course of their choosing.\n\nLast year, the race was shifted from it's usual April date as the coronavirus pandemic forced the suspension of sporting events worldwide.\n\nLast October, a small, elite field competed over 19 laps of a closed course around St James's Park, with the mass element of the event taking place remotely.\n\nLondon's race director Hugh Brasher said this year's event - 40 years on from the inaugural race in 1981 - \"could easily be the most memorable ever\".\n\n\"It will be a moment of joy, of true emotion,\" he added. \"It is more than just a marathon. It is about bringing people together and that is what we have missed so much in the last 18 months.\"\n\nThis is all you need to know about Sunday's race.\n• None 'This could be the most memorable London Marathon ever'\n• None Forty London Marathons and counting - the story of an 'EverPresent'\n• None BBC Sport coverage details- and how to contact us with your stories\n\nKenyan world record holder Brigid Kosgei is aiming for a third successive victory in the race after emphatic wins in 2019 and 2020. Germany's Katrin Dorre was the last athlete to complete such a treble in the women's race with wins between 1992 and 1994.\n\nShe will face stiff competition with Israel's Lonah Salpeter, the seventh-fastest woman over the distance, and Kenya's reigning New York City Marathon champion Joyciline Jepkosgei hunting a first London win.\n\nKosgei insists she is up for the challenge just eight weeks after winning Olympic silver in hot, humid conditions in Sapporo, Japan.\n\n\"After one week, I was well recovered,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"The big reason is I like too much London. I love London. I like the course. The way they welcome us. Even the race organisers. I like the place and how they cheer us on the way.\"\n\nCharlotte Purdue and Natasha Cockram, the first Briton in the 2019 and 2020 races respectively, are aiming to qualify for next year's World Championships in Oregon.\n\nPurdue, the fourth-fastest British woman over the distance, was bitterly disappointed to miss out on selection for the Tokyo Olympics, feeling she was wrongly overlooked on medical grounds.\n\n\"I was really annoyed and angry but as soon as I had London as a focus I just channelled all my energy into London,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"Now I'm all in on this race on Sunday.\"\n\nIn last year's men's race, Ethiopia's Shura Kitata explained how he had hit the breakfast buffet hard to power himself to a surprise victory over Kenyan great Eliud Kipchoge.\n\nHere's hoping the elite athletes' hotel has stocked up on pastries because Kitata is back to defend his crown.\n\n\"Last year's win had very great meaning because Eliud is such a famous, strong runner,\" said Kitata.\n\n\"It has brought me strength in my psychological and physical preparation, and also a lot of attention from the public as well.\"\n\nKipchoge, who had won four of the previous five London Marathons before 2020, is absent this time, with Britain's Mo Farah also missing after failing to qualify for Tokyo 2020 on the track and suffering a stress fracture in this foot.\n\nHowever, Ethiopia's Birhanu Legese, the third-fastest man of all time over the distance, is in the field along with compatriot and world silver medallist Mosinet Geremew.\n• None 'I'm running with the man who saved my life'\n\nGreat Britain's eight-time men's wheelchair winner David Weir competes in his 22nd London Marathon but is up against Switzerland's in-form Marcel Hug, who won four golds, including the marathon title, at Tokyo 2020.\n\nAmerican Daniel Romanchuk, a hugely impressive winner in 2019, is also in the field along with Canada's defending champion Brent Lakatos.\n\nWith more than 240,000 positive Covid tests across the United Kingdom in the seven days before race week, there are still precautions in place for the race.\n\nAll runners must provide a negative lateral flow test before they are allowed to line up in London and are being encouraged to bring only one other person to spectate and support them in person.\n\nStewards will ask people to move along the course if large crowds gather at any point.\n\nThe race will start with smaller waves of runners released over 90 minutes, and the usual baggage system, which takes warm-up kit from the start to the finish, has been streamlined to reduce the chance of transmission.\n\nOrganisers insist fuel supply problems should not be an issue, encouraging runners to use public transport for their journeys to the start and back home.\n\n\"Those services have been the best way for people to get to the event in its history and will remain that way,\" said Brasher.\n\nElectric lead vehicles at the front of the race, compostable drinks cups, goodie bags at the finish line made out of sugar cane instead of plastic.\n\nThe London Marathon has introduced a host of measures to mitigate the waste and carbon produced by the race.\n\nThe race has become a draw for runners all over the world with 84,125 overseas applications to run in the 2020 race.\n\nOrganisers have introduced a carbon levy to help offset those international runners' journeys to the start line. They have also helped fund tree-planting projects in east London and Kenya which absorb carbon dioxide.\n\nThere have also been changes to improve the experience of runners at the back of the field after some of 2019's slowest runners reported being insulted by officials and finding the clean-up operation taking place ahead of them.\n\nThere will be 50-strong team of 'tailwalkers' who will walk the course at eight-hour pace accompanied by a DJ providing motivational music. There will also be additional officials on hand about every 400m from 16 miles onwards to support any runners struggling to complete the course.\n• None What's the worst that could happen? Possible everything! The Goes Wrong Show is streaming now\n• None Ricky Gervais reveals behind-the-scenes facts and secrets on the comedy classic", "The man lost his finger while trying to climb a fence near a parking area in Lower Bannister Street, Southampton\n\nPolice have traced the owner of a severed finger found outside a block of flats.\n\nThe finger was discovered near a parking area in Lower Bannister Street, Southampton, on Saturday morning.\n\nPolice had appealed for the man to come forward after he lost the finger while trying to climb a fence after getting trapped in a courtyard area.\n\nHampshire Constabulary said the man was receiving treatment at hospital in Salisbury after seeking assistance.\n\nA force spokesman said he had wandered off following the incident, after being given a towel by a resident.\n\nEarlier the force said it feared he may have lost a lot of blood.\n\nBut the spokesman said: \"We are pleased to say that the man who lost part of his finger in Southampton has now been traced.\n\n\"The 28-year-old is receiving treatment at hospital in Salisbury for his injury after seeking medical assistance himself.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson on the Andrew Marr Show: \"People should trust the police\"\n\nThe government \"will stop at nothing to make sure that we get more rapists behind bars\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe PM told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that prosecutions for rape and sexual violence were \"going wrong\".\n\nHe added women should have confidence in the police, with the nation's officers \"overwhelmingly trustworthy\".\n\nThe jailing of Wayne Couzens for Sarah Everard's murder has raised questions about women's safety, and trust in the police and criminal justice system.\n\nCouzens was a police officer in London at the time of Ms Everard's murder, and the Metropolitan Police is facing questions over its failure to stop him.\n\nAsked by Andrew Marr whether he would launch an independent public inquiry into the case, Mr Johnson said he wanted the police watchdog to complete its review first.\n\nHe said: \"We do need to look systemically at not just the Wayne Couzens case, but the whole handling of rape, domestic violence, sexual violence and female complaints about harassment, all together.\"\n\nSpeaking later, he added: \"There are delays taking place at every stage in the process.\n\n\"You know the reasons - it's all the complexities to do with people's mobile phones, the evidence that's produced by the defence, and all that kind of stuff.\n\n\"But, in the end, that is no excuse. We have to have these complaints properly dealt with.\"\n\nOver the past five years, cases reported to police - and initially recorded as rape - have risen sharply.\n\nHowever, the proportion making it to court - known as prosecutions - in that time has more than halved, the BBC's Reality Check team found.\n\nFigures for 2019-20 show 1,439 suspects in cases when a rape had been alleged were convicted of rape or lesser offences in England and Wales, the lowest level since records began.\n\nThis was down from 1,925 the previous year, despite a rise in reports of rape.\n\nRape carries a penalty of between four and 19 years' custody, with a maximum of life imprisonment in limited circumstances, according to Sentencing Council guidelines.\n\nBoris Johnson responded to questions about whether funding cuts had had an impact on rape investigations, saying the government was \"investing massively in policing and crime and in all aspects of the justice system\".\n\nIn 2020-21, the budget of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) was £9.5bn - an increase on the previous couple of years but still below where it was in 2010.\n\nOverall, between 2010 and 2020, the MoJ had a cut of about 25% to its budget, according to official spending figures.\n\nAfter the last budget in March 2021, the Institute for Government projected that spending on areas including police and crime would only increase by 1% each year once you adjust for rising prices after 2021-22.\n\nIn the year to March 2021, just 1.5% of recorded rapes ended in a suspect being charged or issued with a summons - roughly half as many as five years ago.\n\nThis has been attributed to funding cuts, as well as a number of other things - such as big court backlogs and victims being more likely to withdraw their complaints rather than go through the often intrusive court process.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss, who is also minister for women and equalities, said the criminal justice system and the culture within the police needed to change.\n\n\"It is wrong that women don't feel safe on our streets and I personally very much understand that,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"We will only have a truly equal society when women feel as safe as men on the streets.\"\n\nThe Met has been criticised over its safety advice to women after it emerged Couzens used his position as an officer to falsely arrest and kidnap Ms Everard.\n\nThe advice said women who were suspicious of lone plain-clothes police officers should shout out, flag down a bus, or knock on doors for help.\n\nMr Johnson said women who were suspicious about they way they were being treated by a police officer should follow this advice.\n\nBut he added: \"My view is that the police do - overwhelmingly - a wonderful job and what I want is the public, and women in particular, girls and young women, women of all ages, to trust the police.\n\nThe murder of Sarah Everard sparked calls for more action to tackle violence against women\n\nThe Met was facing further questions over its handling of vetting procedures after it confirmed Couzens stood guard within Parliament on five occasions last year.\n\nThe Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, requested an urgent meeting with the force's leadership \"to discuss how this person could have been deemed suitable for deployment here\".\n\nIt followed the revelation there were two separate allegations of indecent exposure linked to Couzens - with one in the days leading up to Ms Everard's murder.\n\nDame Lynne Owens, the outgoing director general of the National Crime Agency, said \"we, in policing, need to take a long hard look at ourselves\" after Couzens was jailed.\n\nShe wrote on Twitter: \"The many good people [in] policing, at all ranks & grades, need to be part of the solution though.\n\n\"They joined because they want to make a difference and they know the public needs confidence in them.\"", "Children aged between 12 and 15 will be offered vaccination by the end of term, Eluned Morgan says\n\nAll 12 to 15-year-olds in Wales will be offered a Covid vaccine by the end of the October half-term, the Welsh health minister has said.\n\nThe rollout is due to gather pace this week with all health boards providing jabs, mostly at mass vaccination centres and others in schools.\n\nSome of the most vulnerable children have already received the vaccine.\n\nFamilies have been encouraged to discuss the choice to help make an informed decision.\n\nLast month the UK's vaccine advisory body JCVI refused to give the green light to vaccinating healthy 12-15 year olds on health grounds alone.\n\nIt said children were at such a low risk from the virus that jabs would offer only a marginal benefit.\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers then said healthy children aged 12 to 15 should be offered one dose of a Covid vaccine as it would help reduce disruption to education.\n\nHealth Minister Eluned Morgan said studies showed children were at some risk of developing long Covid despite low hospital admission rates.\n\n\"Vaccines remain our strongest defence from the virus, helping prevent harm and stopping the spread of Covid-19,\" she said.\n\n\"Some studies show one in seven children who have been infected with the virus are thought to have also developed long Covid.\n\n\"We have provided resources and information to help this age group make an informed choice about vaccination. I encourage parents, guardians, children and young people to discuss the vaccination together,\" she said.\n\nGill Richardson, deputy chief medical officer for vaccines, said: \"We have seen the benefits that come from having as many people as possible vaccinated.\n\n\"After careful consideration of the evidence, the four UK chief medical officers recommended the vaccination of healthy 12 to 15-year-olds after consultation with experts, such as the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.\n\n\"They concluded that the health benefits, combined with the additional benefits of reducing educational disruption and effects on mental health meant that vaccination should be offered.\n\n\"Children and their families will be receiving links to information with their invitation letters so they can make an informed decision about whether or not to have the vaccine,\" she said.\n\nLast month the chief medical officers agreed a single dose would help to reduce disruption to education.\n\nThe recommendation that only one dose be given is related to the very rare risk of a condition called myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle.\n\nThe risk is tiny after one vaccine dose and slightly higher after two, with 12 to 34 cases seen for every one million second doses.\n\nTheir decision came after the UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said there was not enough benefit to warrant it on health grounds alone for most children.\n\nEithne Hughes, director of the Association for School and College Leaders Cymru, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers schools were already being targeted.\n\n\"There have been anti-vax campaigners, who are very, very well coordinated, who have made direct threats to head teachers by phone, by letter - confettis of letter with quasi-legal challenges threatening court action and huge fines, fake NHS consent letters to try and trick schools into sending those out to parents with misinformation.\"\n\nShe said it had caused a \"real upset in the system\".\n\n\"Let's be really clear about this, the virus is the enemy, not Public Health Wales, not the school, and college leaders are doing their very best to educate learners and get everything back on track again,\" she said.\n\n\"So it's deeply disappointing and if these people are listening, I would urge them to desist.\"\n\nTrefor Jones, head teacher at Ysgol Y Creuddyn in Penrhyn Bay, Conwy, said he had received letters from people opposed to children having a Covid vaccine.\n\nHe said: \"It is concerning... It does reference various legal processes they want to take, so yes, it is a challenge...\n\n\"To be targeted in this way is a little disappointing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Specially designed barges were used in the construction of North Sea Link\n\nThe world's longest under-sea electricity cable, transferring green power between Norway and the UK, has begun operation.\n\nThe 450-mile (725km) cable connects Blyth in Northumberland with the Norwegian village of Kvilldal.\n\nAt full 1,400 megawatt capacity it will import enough hydro-power to supply 1.4 million homes, National Grid said.\n\nNational Grid Ventures president Cordi O'Hara said it was a \"remarkable feat of engineering\".\n\nShe added: \"We had to go through mountains, fjords and across the North Sea to make this happen.\n\n\"North Sea Link (NSL) is also a great example of two countries working together to maximise their renewable energy resources for mutual benefit.\"\n\nNational Grid said the €1.6bn (£1.37bn) joint venture with Norwegian power operator Statnett would help the UK reduce carbon emissions by 23 million tonnes by 2030.\n\nIt has four other power cables running to Belgium, France and the Netherlands and said 90% of energy imported in this way would be from zero carbon sources by 2030.\n\nThe link from Blyth in Northumberland to Kvilldal in Norway took six years to build\n\nHydropower in Norway and wind power in the UK are subject to weather conditions and fluctuations in demand.\n\nUsing NSL, renewable power can be exported from the UK when wind generation is high and electricity demand low, or be imported from Norway when demand is high and wind generation low.\n\nBusiness, Energy and Industrial Strategy minister Greg Hands said NSL enabled both countries to \"benefit from the flexibility and energy security that interconnectors provide\".\n\nHe added: \"This pioneering partnership shows first-hand how crucial international cooperation will be in helping us to deliver on our net zero ambitions.\"\n\nThe cable will allow the UK to swap wind energy for Norway's hydropower\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.", "Thousands were evacuated from coastal areas in Oman\n\nAt least 13 people have been killed after tropical cyclone Shaheen battered parts of Oman and Iran.\n\nThere was widespread flooding along Oman's northern coast as the storm made landfall on Sunday, bringing heavy rain and winds of up to 150km/h (93 mph).\n\nOmani authorities reported the deaths of seven people in North al-Batinah province on Monday. Four others drowned or were killed in landslides on Sunday.\n\nIn Iran, state media said the bodies of two fishermen had been found.\n\nThree other fishermen remain missing off the coast of the south-eastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, near the border with Pakistan. Iran's deputy parliamentary speaker initially said that six people were killed.\n\nInfrastructure, including electrical facilities and roads, was also damaged.\n\nParts of the United Arab Emirates were placed on standby as the storm moved south-westwards over land on Monday and weakened. Residents of al-Ain were told to avoid leaving home except for emergencies.\n\nAt least 11 people were killed in Oman, as a result of flooding and landslides\n\nIt is rare for storms of this power to hit Oman's northern Arabian Sea coast.\n\nAuthorities said 369mm (14.5 inches) of rain fell on al-Khaboura, north-west of Oman's capital city, Muscat, while more than 200mm was recorded in Muscat itself.\n\nShaheen's high winds also caused waves of up to 10m (32ft) along the coast.\n\nBefore the cyclone made landfall on Sunday, the National Committee for Emergency Management (NCEM) reported that a child who had been swept away by water in Muscat province had been found dead.\n\nTwo Asian workers were also killed by a landslide in an industrial zone.\n\nOn Monday, the NCEM announced that the body of a missing person had been found in Wadi al-Silil, in South al-Batinah province, and that six others had died in North al-Batinah.\n\nStreets in Oman's capital, Muscat, and elsewhere on the coast were submerged\n\nOman's state news agency reported the armed forces were continuing to rescue people who had been trapped by floodwater.\n\nIt added that they were also restoring damaged roads to get aid into the areas that needed it.\n\nMore than 5,000 people were moved into some 80 shelters set up in affected provinces.\n\nThe National Multi Hazard Early Warning System had alerted residents that there was still a risk of thunderstorms as the bad weather moved inland. People were urged to avoid wadis - valleys and ravines found in the region - and other low-lying areas.", "Thousands of paedophiles have operated within the French Catholic Church since 1950, the head of a panel investigating abuses by church members says.\n\nJean-Marc Sauvé told French media that the commission had found evidence of 2,900 to 3,200 abusers - out of a total of 115,000 priests and other clerics.\n\n\"That is a minimal estimate,\" he added.\n\nThe commission is to release a lengthy report on Tuesday. It is based on church, court and police archives, as well as interviews with victims.\n\nThe inquiry was commissioned by the French Catholic Church in 2018, following a number of scandals in other countries.\n\nMr Sauvé, a senior civil servant, told France's Le Monde newspaper that the panel had handed over evidence to prosecutors in 22 cases where criminal action could still be launched.\n\nHe added that bishops and other senior church officials had been told of other allegations against people who were still alive.\n\nCommission members included doctors, historians, sociologists and theologians. More than 6,500 victims and witnesses were contacted over two and a half years. The final report is 2,500 pages long.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigitte, a survivor of child sex abuse by a chaplain, explains why she is ready to speak now (From 2019)\n\nChristopher Lamb, of the Roman Catholic publication The Tablet, told the BBC that abuse scandals had plunged the Church into \"its greatest crisis in... 500 years\".\n\nEarlier this year Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church's laws to explicitly criminalise sexual abuse, in its biggest overhaul of the criminal code for decades.\n\nThe new rules make sex abuse, grooming minors, possessing child pornography and covering up abuse an offence under Canon Law.", "Emily Ratajkowski appeared alongside Robin Thicke in the music video for Blurred Lines\n\nAmerican supermodel Emily Ratajkowski has alleged she was sexually assaulted on the set of the music video for the hit song Blurred Lines.\n\nIn her upcoming book, the 30-year-old accuses singer Robin Thicke of groping her without consent during filming of the 2013 video.\n\nThicke, 44, has not yet responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThe allegations, first reported in the Sunday Times newspaper, feature in Ratajkowski's forthcoming book My Body.\n\nThe 30-year-old claims Thicke \"returned to the set a little drunk to shoot just with me\".\n\n\"Out of nowhere, I felt the coolness and foreignness of a stranger's hands cupping my bare breasts from behind. I instinctively moved away, looking back at Robin Thicke,\" she writes.\n\nThe model said she felt \"humiliation pump through [her] body\".\n\nRatajkowski appeared in the video alongside Thicke, singer Pharrell Williams and rapper TI.\n\nThe video's director, Diane Martel, told the Sunday Times that she recalled the alleged incident.\n\n\"I remember the moment that he grabbed her breasts. He was standing behind her as they were both in profile,\" she was quoted as saying.\n\nThe director said Thicke later apologised.\n\nRobin Thicke has not responded to the allegations made in the forthcoming book\n\nBlurred Lines topped charts around the world, becoming the UK's most-downloaded song of all time in 2014.\n\nBut its lyrics and music video have been criticised by some who claimed they referred to non-consensual sex. Pharrell later admitted he was \"embarrassed\" by the lyrics.\n\nThicke has defended the video, telling the BBC in 2013 his critics didn't \"get\" the song.\n\nAnd in 2015, he told the New York Times that the lyrics were not intended to have sexual connotations. \"I have never and would never write a song with any negative connotation like that,\" he said.", "Most children are expected to receive their jab in school\n\nYoung people aged 12 to 15 in Northern Ireland will be offered Covid vaccines, while all over-50s and healthcare staff will be offered booster jabs.\n\nThe changes to the vaccine programme were announced by Stormont's Department of Health, with the first boosters to be given within 10 to 15 days.\n\nPeople aged 16 to 49 with underlying health issues can also have boosters.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said it would protect young people and prolong protection for those most at risk.\n\nAn estimated 900,000 people will be eligible to receive a booster jab in Northern Ireland.\n\nCare home residents will be first on the list when the booster roll-out begins in late September, according to the head of Northern Ireland's Covid-19 vaccination programme, Patricia Donnelly.\n\nMs Donnelly also said 12 to 15-year-olds were likely to be offered their vaccines in October.\n\nThere are about 98,000 young people aged from 12 to 15 in Northern Ireland and the decision to vaccine that cohort comes after the UK's four chief medical officers recommended the step.\n\nThese young people will be offered a single dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine with parental consent sought prior to vaccination.\n\nMost school-aged children aged 12 to 15 are expected to primarily receive their Covid-19 vaccination in school.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patricia Donnelly believes 12 to 15-year-olds will be offered jabs next month\n\nA schools-based vaccination programme is the model used for vaccinations including for human papillomavirus (HPV) and the annual flu programme.\n\nThey will be supported by GPs where necessary.\n\nConsent forms for vaccination will begin to be distributed via schools shortly, the department said.\n\nThere will be alternative provision for those who are home-schooled or in secure services.\n\nYoung people aged 12 to 15 who are part of an at-risk group will receive two doses, eight weeks apart, in line with advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\n\"This move will help protect young people from catching Covid-19 and is expected to prevent disruption in schools by reducing transmission,\" the health minister said.\n\nVaccinations for children aged between 12 and 15 in the Republic of Ireland began in August.\n\nThe Covid-19 booster vaccine announcement followed advice from the JCVI.\n\nThey advised booster jabs should be offered to people who are more at-risk from serious disease and were vaccinated as priority groups during the first phase of the vaccination programme early this year.\n\nCare home residents will be the first to be offered booster vaccines\n\nThe Department of Health said this meant the booster jabs will be offered to:\n\nMr Swann said care home residents and front-line health and social care workers would be first on the list.\n\n\"By early October we expect to see GPs starting to invite their oldest patients in to receive their booster dose as they pass the six-month mark from receiving their second dose,\" he said.\n\nRegardless of which vaccine brand these patients received in the earlier stages of the programme, the JCVI has advised a \"preference\" for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the booster programme.\n\n\"This follows data from the Cov-Boost trial that indicates the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is well tolerated as a third dose and provides a strong booster response,\" the department said.\n\nIt added that a half dose of the Moderna vaccine may be offered as an alternative, and in cases where patients have certain allergies, an AstraZeneca vaccine may be considered for booster protection.\n\nAs many younger adults have only recently received their second vaccine jab, the benefits of boosters for under-50s who are at less risk from Covid-19 are to be considered at a later date.", "Will Renwick flies the Welsh flag on the summit of Snowdon\n\nWill Renwick's epic challenge to run up every mountain peak over 2,000ft (600m) in Wales has been fuelled by instant mash, noodles and chocolate bars.\n\nThey are easy to carry and eat when you cannot find shops or pubs when you get hungry while in the middle of nowhere.\n\nWill has been clocking up at least 24 miles a day since starting on the 500-mile run from Swansea on 10 September.\n\nHe is set to finish on Monday at Conwy Castle and it \"can't come soon enough\" since injuring his ankle on Thursday.\n\nIt was sustained \"pushing against the wind\" during bad weather in Snowdonia.\n\n\"I'll be hobbling to the finish,\" he said, during a quick phone chat while dodging yet another downpour in a café in Conwy county on Saturday morning.\n\n\"It is annoying because I have been feeling fit,\" he said.\n\n\"The finish line can't come soon enough.\"\n\nRed sky over Maesglase mountain in Snowdonia - and a curious sheep\n\nHe used the early part of the challenge as part of his training.\n\nHe said running over the Black Mountains and the Brecon Beacons helped to improve his stamina so some days he was able to do in excess of 30 miles.\n\n\"How can you train for this kind of thing? I've got fit during the challenge,\" said Will, 31, from Llancarfan in the Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nHe was a long-distance walker initially, having taken 63 days to navigate the 870-mile Wales Coast Path.\n\nAnd now he also runs ultra-marathon distances, such as completing a 100-mile route around the Isle of Man.\n\nBut he said the latest challenge to climb 189 peaks in Wales back-to-back, carrying everything needed, has taken its toll on his body.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Renwick This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Will Renwick\n\n\"I look famished, I feel worn out, cold and hungry but I'm still going to do it,\" he said.\n\nHe has been fuelling on pocket-size chocolate bars throughout the day and meals of mash or noodles because they are light to carry and quick to prepare.\n\nHe spent four days carrying his own supplies over the peaks in mid Wales before he could find somewhere to stock up so, by the end of the stint, he was rationing his food.\n\n\"It was lonely and isolated,\" he said.\n\nBut Will, a YouTuber, and editor of Outdoors Magic, has also received kindness from strangers along the route.\n\nThere was a hill farmer who insisted he stay overnight in his caravan, feeding him soup and cake, while at Aran Fawddwy near Bala, Gwynedd.\n\nWill Renwick takes a dip at Abergynolwyn, near Tywyn, Gwynedd\n\nHe said the mountain ranges in Snowdonia had been the most challenging - mainly because the peaks in the Snowdon Massif and Glyderau ranges follow in quick succession, leaving little recovery time between each one.\n\n\"It's been good but the weather gods have been throwing everything against me.\"\n\nWill, president of Ramblers Cymru, has been doing the run to raise funds for mental health charity Mind Over Mountains as he believes nature and the outdoors can help to improve people's sense of well-being.\n\nWill said as well as missing his girlfriend, he was most looking forward to taking a \"long bath\" as he has had to use rivers or streams to bathe when away from campsites.\n\nHowever, there have also been opportunities to shower thanks to \"plenty of rain\" along the route which is due to end at Conwy Castle on Monday at 11:00 BST, 24 days after he started.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jorja died on the day she was due to have her first Covid-19 vaccination, her mother said\n\nA 15-year-old girl has died from Covid-19 on the day she was due to be vaccinated.\n\nJorja Halliday, from Portsmouth, died at the Queen Alexandra Hospital on Tuesday, four days after she received a positive PCR test result.\n\nHer mother, Tracey Halliday, 40, said the GCSE student was a \"loving girl, talented kickboxer and aspiring musician\".\n\nJorja had cancelled her vaccine appointment because she was isolating.\n\nTracey Halliday said her daughter was \"very active\" and loved spending time with her friends and family\n\nMs Halliday said her daughter's death was \"heart-wrenching\" but she praised hospital staff who did \"everything they could to save her\".\n\nShe explained that Jorja developed flu-like symptoms the weekend before she died.\n\nShe took a PCR test which was positive so she began to isolate at home on Saturday 25 September.\n\nJorja's symptoms continued to worsen and by Monday she couldn't eat because her throat hurt, at which point she was given antibiotics.\n\nMs Halliday said her daughter's condition worsened and when she was seen by a doctor they admitted her to hospital because her heart rate was \"double what it should have been\".\n\nPaying tribute to her daughter, Ms Halliday said she was a \"loving girl\" and \"beautiful young lady\"\n\nShe said: \"They realised how serious it was and I was still allowed to touch her, hold her hand, hug her and everything else. They did allow me that.\n\n\"I'm at the point where I can't comprehend that it's happened. I was with her the whole time.\"\n\nHospital staff tried to put Jorja on a ventilator so her body could recover, but Ms Halliday said her heart rate didn't stabilise and \"couldn't take the strain\".\n\nMs Halliday confirmed her daughter had no underlying health conditions.\n\nPreliminary results after she was admitted to hospital indicated Jorja had Covid myocarditis, heart inflammation caused by the virus.\n\nJorja was the eldest of five siblings and \"loved spending time with her brothers and sisters\"\n\nJorja, the eldest of five siblings, was described by her mother as a \"loving girl\" who had lots of friends.\n\nMs Halliday added: \"Growing up she turned into a beautiful young lady, always wanting to help others, always there for everybody.\n\n\"It's heart-wrenching because your kids are always meant to outlive you, and that's the one thing I can't get over.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "The home secretary will promise tougher powers to tackle demonstrators blocking motorways, after a string of protests by climate activists.\n\nAt the Tory party conference this week, Priti Patel will announce plans for longer sentences and new powers for police to seize protesters' equipment.\n\nClimate group Insulate Britain has blocked the M1, M4 and M25 in protests over the last three weeks.\n\nTheir campaign has already led to hundreds of arrests.\n\nOn Sunday, the government took out a fresh injunction aimed at preventing activists obstructing traffic on motorways and main roads around London.\n\nIt is the third such court order taken out by the National Highways agency in an attempt to stop demonstrations on major roads in south-east England.\n\nAnyone breaking the injunction faces imprisonment or an unlimited fine. However, previous injunctions have failed to stop the protests.\n\nMs Patel said the government would not \"tolerate guerrilla tactics that obstruct people going about their day-to-day business\".\n\nBoris Johnson told the Mail on Sunday that although the right to protest was \"sacrosanct\", there is \"no right to inflict chaos and misery on people trying to go about their lives\".\n\n\"This government will always stand on the side of the law-abiding majority, and ensure the toughest penalties possible for criminals who deliberately bring major roads to a standstill.\n\n\"We will give the police the powers they need to stop their reckless and selfish behaviour.\"\n\nInsulate Britain's protests have included occupying roundabouts on the M25\n\nHome Office sources said the government would seek to introduce the new powers by amending the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.\n\nThe wide-ranging legislation, which already includes new police powers over protests, is making its way through Parliament.\n\nMinisters want to make obstructing a highway punishable by an unlimited fine, six months imprisonment, or both. It currently carries a maximum fine of £1,000.\n\nThey also want to hand the police new powers to stop and search protesters suspected of carrying so-called \"lock-on\" equipment - such as glue or bike locks - used to secure themselves to protest sites.\n\nThis would add to existing police powers to stop and search individuals for offensive weapons and items intended for committing theft, burglary or damage to property.\n\nInsulate Britain's campaign, which has been going for more than three weeks, has seen more than 300 arrests.\n\nThe group, an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion, has previously vowed to continue campaigning despite arrests and injunctions.\n\nIn an open latter to Ms Patel last week it said: \"You can throw as many injunctions at us as you like, but we are going nowhere.\"\n\nThe campaigners want the government to insulate all homes across the UK by 2030 to help cut carbon emissions.\n\nThe government said it was investing £1.3bn to support people to install energy efficiency measures.", "It's one of the biggest document leaks ever, revealing hidden wealth, tax avoidance and, in some cases, money laundering by some of the world's rich and powerful people.\n\nMore than 600 journalists in 117 countries have been trawling through the files for months, finding stories which will be published over the coming days. The investigation is called the Pandora Papers.\n\nThe data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington DC. BBC Panorama and the Guardian have led the investigation in the UK.\n\nOn Tuesday, we will be answering your questions about the leak and our findings, in our live page. Send your questions using the form below.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the Pandora Papers?\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can use the form below.\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 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. More 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)", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Firefighters and police attend the scene as plane hits Milan building\n\nA private plane has crashed into an empty office block in the northern Italian city of Milan, killing all eight people on board.\n\nThe plane, which was bound for the island of Sardinia, came down after taking off from Milan's Linate airport.\n\nThe pilot was Romanian billionaire Dan Petrescu, 68. He died alongside his wife and their son, Italian media say.\n\nThe crash set the office block and several parked cars on fire. No-one on the ground was injured.\n\nAn investigation into the cause of the crash has been launched.\n\nSome witnesses say the single-engine Pilatus PC-12 was already on fire when it went down.\n\n\"I heard the sound of a plane above me as if the plane was shutting down its engine,\" local man Giuseppe told Reuters news agency.\n\n\"Then I heard a very loud explosion, the windows of our house started to shake so I opened the window and saw a huge cloud of smoke rising,\" he added.\n\nPetrescu, a property developer, was one of Romania's richest men. Besides him, his wife and their 30-year-old son, a child is also reported to be among those killed.", "Drivers encountered lengthy queues at many forecourts on Saturday\n\nBoris Johnson should recall Parliament to pass new laws to sort out fuel and food shortages, says Labour's leader.\n\nSir Keir Starmer says \"emergency action\" is needed to speed up visas for 5,000 extra HGV drivers.\n\nThe prime minister - who will be in Manchester next week at the Tory conference - said the UK supply chain was \"very resilient\".\n\nAnd he accused the haulage industry of being too reliant on low-paid migrant workers.\n\nThere have been long queues at petrol stations this week after a shortage of drivers disrupted fuel deliveries.\n\nMinisters have announced a temporary visa scheme for three months until Christmas Eve to make it easier for foreign lorry drivers to work in the UK.\n\nAsked in a BBC interview about the shortages, the prime minister said: \"This Christmas will be considerably more festive than last year.\"\n\nHe said the UK had \"very resilient supply chains\" and that he would not allow the UK to repeat the \"failures\" of the past, by allowing mass immigration to create a \"low-wage, low-skill economy\" for British workers.\n\nHe accused campaign groups representing the food sector of wanting go back to a system of \"unskilled, mass immigration\" that people \"had voted against\".\n\n\"The solution is to make sure these jobs are properly paid, that we attract people into them and that we invest in automation, facilities and plant because this country has lagged behind competitors for over a decade.\"\n\nDowning Street has been approached for a comment on calls for Parliament to be brought back from party conference recess to tackle the crisis.\n\nSir Keir told BBC News MPs should sit for \"one day, maybe next week\" to approve temporary visas for foreign lorry drivers.\n\nThe Labour leader said the prime minister was \"burying his head in the sand\"\n\nSpeaking outside a petrol station in north London, he said \"at this garage there's no fuel and it's typical of garages across the country.\"\n\n\"The government has said we need visas. There's no sign of any visas.\"\n\nHe accused Mr Johnson of \"burying his head in the sand\" over the crisis, adding that Labour would vote for whatever legislation is needed.\n\nThe Lib Dems are also urging a recall, with the party's business spokesperson Sarah Olney saying the country can not \"wait any longer for Boris Johnson to realise there is a problem to solve\".\n\n\"Care workers can't get to their patients, schools buses are being cancelled, and millions of drivers are left stranded in endless queues.\n\n\"Enough is enough. If the government can't do their job, then MPs should be able to do it for them.\"\n\nThe SNP did not rule out backing a recall. The party's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, said: \"At the very least we there should be cross-party discussions this weekend.\n\n\"We're certainly in the teeth of a crisis and we would welcome an early opportunity to debate it.\"", "The protests come a year ahead of the country's elections\n\nThousands of people have taken to the streets in towns and cities across Brazil to protest against the country's president Jair Bolsonaro.\n\nThe protests were organised by opposition parties and trade unions and fall exactly one year ahead of the country's elections.\n\nMr Bolsonaro is currently falling behind in opinion polls.\n\nMany Brazilians are upset at the president's handling of the pandemic - more than 600,000 people have died.\n\nDemonstrations took place in more than 160 towns and cities on Saturday.\n\n\"This president who is there represents everything that is backward in the world - there is hunger, poverty, corruption and we are here to defend democracy,\" protester Valdo Oliveira told AFP news agency.\n\nProtests were held in over 160 cities and towns\n\nThere have been more than 100 requests filed with the Chamber of Deputies to impeach Mr Bolsonaro. However, its leader has refused to follow up on them.\n\nSaturday's protests come after a number of rallies in support of Mr Bolsonaro last month. They were seen as an attempt to demonstrate that he can still draw huge crowds of supporters after recent polls had him trailing his left-wing rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by nine percentage points.\n\nThe elections are not due to be held until next October but Mr Bolsonaro's approval ratings have dropped to an all-time low.\n\nA poll by the Atlas Institute suggested that 61% of Brazilians described his government's performance as bad or very bad, up from 23% when he first took office in January 2019.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Demonstrators march to US Supreme Court building in support of abortion rights\n\nTens of thousands of people have marched at rallies across all 50 US states in support of abortion rights.\n\nThey have been galvanised in opposition to a new Texas law that severely limits access to abortions in the state.\n\nPro-choice supporters across the country fear that constitutional rights may be rolled back.\n\nIn the coming months, the Supreme Court is set to hear a case that could overturn Roe v Wade - the 1973 decision that legalised abortion nationwide.\n\nIn Washington DC, demonstrators marched to the Supreme Court building, holding signs such as \"Make abortion legal\".\n\nProtests were held from here in Los Angeles, on the west coast, to Washington DC, on the east coast\n\nThe start of the rally was disrupted by some two dozen counter-demonstrators.\n\n\"The blood of innocent babies is on your hands!\" shouted one man, but he was drowned out by the singing and clapping of the crowd, the Washington Post newspaper reported.\n\nOne woman who attended a march said she was there to support a woman's right to choose.\n\n\"While I've never been faced with that choice fortunately, there are many women who have and our government and men have no say in the outcome when it comes to our bodies,\" Robin Horn told Reuters news agency.\n\nThe rallies were organised by those behind the annual Women's March\n\nThe rallies were organised by those behind the annual Women's March - the first of which drew millions of people to protest a day after the inauguration of former President Donald Trump in 2017.\n\n\"This is kind of a break-glass moment for folks all across the country,\" said Rachel O'Leary Carmona, the executive director of Women's March.\n\n\"Many of us grew up with the idea that abortion would be legal and accessible for all of us,\" she added. \"Seeing that at very real risk has been a moment of awakening.\"\n\nMany women turned out at the protest in Texas, weeks after abortion was all but declared unlawful\n\nIn New York state, Governor Kathy Hochul spoke at two rallies.\n\n\"I'm sick and tired of having to fight over abortion rights,\" she said. \"It's settled law in the nation and you are not taking that right away from us, not now not ever\".\n\nAnother of the rallies was in Austin, Texas, where the state's legislature on 1 September enacted a law banning terminations after the detection of what anti-abortion campaigners call a foetal heartbeat - a point when many women do not know they are pregnant.\n\nThe so-called Heartbeat Act also gives any individual the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past the six-week point. Supporters say its aim is to protect the unborn.\n\nPoliticians in several other Republican-dominated states are considering similar restrictions.\n\nRights groups asked the Supreme Court to block the Texas law, but the justices ruled 5-4 against granting this.\n\nOn 1 December the court is set to hear a challenge to Mississippi's 15-week ban on abortion.\n\nThe verdict could upend the court's 1973 landmark Roe v Wade ruling, which protects a woman's right to an abortion until viability - the point at which a foetus is able to live outside the womb, generally at the start of the third trimester, 28 weeks into a pregnancy.", "Young protesters in Milan argue that ministers aren't doing enough\n\nRich countries' plans to curb carbon are \"smoke and mirrors\" and must be urgently improved, say poorer nations.\n\nMinisters meeting here in Milan at the final UN session before the Glasgow COP26 climate conference heard that some progress was being made.\n\nBut officials from developing countries demanded tougher targets for cutting carbon emissions and more cash to combat climate change.\n\nOne minister condemned \"selfishness or lack of good faith\" in the rich world.\n\nUS special envoy John Kerry said all major economies \"must stretch\" to do the maximum they can.\n\nAround 50 ministers from a range of countries met here to try to overcome some significant hurdles before world leaders gather in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut for extremely vulnerable countries to a changing climate the priority is more ambitious carbon reductions from the rich, to preserve the 1.5C temperature target set by the 2015 Paris agreement.\n\nScientists have warned that allowing the world temperatures to rise more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels is highly dangerous.\n\nAn assessment of the promises made so far to cut carbon suggests that the world is on track for around 2.7C.\n\nMinisters from developing countries say this is just not acceptable - they are already experiencing significant impacts on their economies with warming currently just over 1C.\n\nUS special envoy John Kerry called on all richer countries to step up\n\n\"We're already on hellish ground at 1.1C,\" said Simon Steill, Grenada's environment minister who argues that the plans in place just weren't good enough to prevent disaster for his island state.\n\n\"We're talking about lives, we're talking about livelihoods, they cannot apply smoke and mirrors to that.\"\n\n\"Every action that is taken, every decision that is taken, has to be aligned with 1.5C, we have no choice.\"\n\nSome delegates felt that richer countries aren't sufficiently engaged on the issue of 1.5C, because they are wealthy enough to adapt to the changes.\n\n\"They don't care about 1.5C because if there's sea level rise, they have the means to build sea walls, and they are just remaining there in their high walls of comfort,\" said Tosi Mpanu Mpanu, from the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\n\"Some countries are willing to do things but they don't have the means, some have the means but are not willing to do things. Now how do we find the right choreography?\"\n\nOn this question of choreography, ministers were in agreement that the G20 group of countries should be leading the dance.\n\nAlok Sharma is the UK minister in charge of COP26\n\nMr Kerry called on India and China, who are part of the G20, to put new carbon plans on the table before leaders gather in Glasgow.\n\n\"All G20 countries, all large economies, all need to try to stretch to do more,\" he told the gathering.\n\n\"I'm not singling out one nation over another. But I am encouraging all of us to try to do the maximum we can.\"\n\nThe mood on the street in Milan could not have contrasted more sharply with the formal, political roundtable discussions inside the PreCOP26 conference.\n\nOn Friday, students and activists marched to the doors of the conference venue - banners waving and arms linked in a human wall to protect Greta Thunberg, who led the procession. There were cheers of: \"We are unstoppable, another world is possible\". And just one day after sharing the stage with world leaders, and after meeting the Italian prime minister, 18-year-old Greta told a cheering crowd: \"We are sick of their blah blah blah and sick of their lies.\"\n\nMeanwhile, behind the concrete walls of the conference hall on Saturday, ministers were cautiously optimistic that their discussions had laid crucial foundations for the UN climate meeting in November. As he brought the meeting to a close, Alok Sharma, president for the much-anticipated COP26 in Glasgow, assured me that there was now a tangible \"sense of urgency\".\n\n\"It's this set of world leaders that are deciding the future,\" he said. \"We're going to respond to what we've heard here from young people.\"\n\nOne of the biggest remaining hurdles to progress remains the question of finance. The richer world promised to pay developing nations $100bn a year from 2020.\n\nThat figure hasn't yet been met and while ministers here were confident it would be achieved in Glasgow, the failure to land the money is eroding trust.\n\n\"Everything we need to do, we know what that is, and now it's just a question of who's going to be paying for it, who is going to be willing to share their technology,\" said Tosi Mpanu Mpanu.\n\n\"And that's where the problem is. So there seems to be at times selfishness or lack of good faith.\"\n\nDespite these reservations, the UK minister tasked with delivering success in Glasgow was in positive mood after the meeting in Milan.\n\n\"I think we go forward to Glasgow with a spirit of co-operation,\" said Alok Sharma.\n\n\"I do not want to underestimate the amount of work that is required but I think there is a renewed urgency in our discussions.\"\n\nHowever there are significant hurdles to clear before leaders arrive in Glasgow and technical questions about carbon markets and transparency are still unresolved.\n\n\"We need to change. And we need to change radically, we need to change fast,\" said EU vice-president Frans Timmermans. \"And that's going to be bloody hard.\"", "Panorama investigates the Pandora Papers, one of the biggest offshore leaks in history, revealing the financial secrets of some of the most powerful people on the planet.\n\nPanorama investigates the Pandora Papers, one of the biggest offshore leaks in history, revealing the financial secrets of some of the most powerful people on the planet. Reporter Richard Bilton uncovers the hidden offshore deals that presidents, prime ministers and royalty don’t want you to know about.", "Tony and Cherie Blair did not have to pay £312,000 in stamp duty when buying a £6.45m London townhouse, leaked documents show.\n\nThe ex-Labour prime minister and his barrister wife bought the property as an office for her business in 2017 by buying the offshore firm that owned it.\n\nMrs Blair said the sellers had insisted the building was sold in this way but they had brought it under UK control.\n\nShe said they would be liable to pay capital gains tax if they sell it.\n\nWhen the property was put up for sale, the ultimate owners were a family with political connections in Bahrain - but both parties say they did not initially know who they were dealing with.\n\nMrs Blair said her husband's only involvement in the transaction was that the mortgage for the property used their joint income and capital.\n\nThe revelation is contained in the Pandora Papers, a leak detailing the work of companies offering offshore financial services in the British Virgin Islands, Singapore, Panama, Belize, Switzerland and other countries.\n\nBBC Panorama in a joint investigation with the Guardian and other media partners have had access to nearly 12 million documents and files.\n\nSince leaving Downing Street in 2007, the Blairs have built up a significant property portfolio. Altogether they are reported to have spent more than £30m on 38 residential properties before they bought the office.\n\nDocuments show how the way the property in Harcourt Street, Marylebone, was acquired in July 2017 saved the Blairs a bill for stamp duty.\n\nThe four-floor building is now home to Mrs Blair's legal advisory firm, Omnia Strategy, and her foundation for women.\n\nThe previous owner of Harcourt Street is listed in UK Land Registry records as Romanstone International Limited - a British Virgin Islands firm.\n\nRomanstone itself had been owned by another BVI company, whose shareholders were members of the Al Zayani family. Among them was a minister in Bahrain's government - Zayed Rashid Al Zayani, Bahrain's minister for industry, commerce and tourism.\n\nThe leaked documents show the Blairs bought the building by setting up a UK company to acquire Romanstone. Mr and Mrs Blair each held a 50% stake in the British company. They closed the offshore company after the purchase.\n\nBuying the property in this way meant the Blairs did not have to pay stamp duty.\n\nStamp duty is paid by the purchasers of a property or land over a certain price.\n\nThe tax is not paid when a company owning a property is acquired because the shareholder of a company is switching hands, rather than the actual ownership of the property.\n\nTony and Cherie Blair bought the four-floor building in 2017\n\nNo laws were broken in buying the Harcourt Street office but Mr Blair had previously been critical of tax loopholes, once saying \"the tax system is a haven of scams, perks, City deals and profits\".\n\nIn his first speech as Labour leader in 1994, Mr Blair said: \"Millionaires with the right accountant pay nothing while pensioners pay VAT on fuel.\n\n\"Offshore trusts get tax relief while homeowners pay VAT on insurance premiums. We will create a tax system that is fair which is related to ability to pay.\"\n\nRobert Palmer from campaign group Tax Justice UK told Panorama: \"It partly doesn't look great because most people cannot do the same thing… even if what the Blairs did was perfectly legal, perfectly legitimate in the business world, it feels instinctively really unfair because they got access to an advantage, a potential advantage that the rest of us don't have.\"\n\nMrs Blair stressed that Harcourt Ventures had been formed to bring Romanstone and its building under UK tax and regulatory rules.\n\nShe said: \"It is not unusual for a commercial office building to be held in a corporate vehicle or for vendors of such property not to want to dispose of the property separately.\"\n\nThe Blairs said \"the acquisition of a company comes with different tax consequences\" and they \"will of course be liable for capital gains tax on resale\".\n\nLawyers for the Al Zayani family say their companies have complied with all UK laws past and present.\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. More 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)", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scottish Justice Secretary Keith Brown says misogyny could become a 'stand-alone offence' in Scotland\n\nMisogynistic abuse could be come a separate crime in Scotland, the justice secretary has said.\n\nKeith Brown said men's attitude to low level sexism had to be challenged to make women safer.\n\nHis comments follow the sentencing of Wayne Couzens for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard while Couzens was a serving police officer in London.\n\nA working group led by Helena Kennedy QC on whether misogyny should be a distinct crime will report in February.\n\nThe full details of the Sarah Everard case, which emerged when he was sentenced last week, have reignited debate on what more can be done to tackle violence against women.\n\nIn March the Scottish government faced calls to include misogyny - prejudice against women - in its hate crime legislation when it was debated at Holyrood.\n\nProtests took place after the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard\n\nLabour MSP Johann Lamont tabled an amendment that would have included women as a protected group, giving the courts enhanced sentencing powers.\n\nThe amendment was defeated, however, with the government instead setting up a working group led by Baroness Kennedy to look at whether misogynistic abuse should be a separate crime.\n\nMr Brown told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show the ministers would be guided by the group's findings - but he believed such a move would be a \"very important signal that these behaviours are not acceptable in society from men\".\n\n\"Her work is progressing very well and it may well be that we end up, depending on her recommendations, with a stand alone offence of misogyny,\" Mr Brown said.\n\nMr Brown welcomed Police Scotland's introduction of new verification checks for lone police officers as a \"very positive step\" after it emerged that Couzens used his police warrant card and handcuffs to abduct Ms Everard.\n\nNew procedures mean members of the public who encounter an officer working alone in Scotland can verify their identity with the police control room.\n\nThe justice secretary said the measures put \"the onus on the police not women to take action if somebody is in a vulnerable situation with one police officer\".\n\nExtra vetting procedures had also been put in place for trainee police officers in Scotland, he said.\n\nThe justice secretary said men of all ages had to change their attitudes to low level misogyny.\n\n\"I think it is very important that I have to say this, as a man to men, we have have to change our behaviour,\" he said.\n\n\"There are too many women that feel the justice system doesn't serve them well.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sandy Brindley says cultural change is needed to enable more people to challenge misogynistic attitudes\n\nSandy Brindley, from Rape Crisis Scotland, said one of the most \"chilling\" aspects of the Sarah Everard case was that Couzens was reportedly nicknamed \"the rapist\" by colleagues.\n\n\"What that says to me is that people knew that he behaved in a predatory way towards women and nobody held him accountable, and nobody challenged him - that's what we need to change,\" she said.\n\nAsked about a report last year from former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini that found evidence of a \"canteen culture\" and discrimination within Police Scotland, Ms Brindley said there was no doubt sexist and racist attitudes existed within the police as well as in many other institutions.\n\n\"I do think we need a clear commitment from the police to address these issues, but I don't think it's only for the police,\" she said.\n\n\"Time and time again we see a man convicted of a crime like rape where it turns out that people around them, people who worked with them were aware of their predatory behaviour, an institution was aware of it and took no steps to challenge it.\n\n\"We need zero tolerance of the type of behaviour that leads for example being called a rapist and still continue in their job.\"\n\nShe said a \"complete cultural change\" was needed, pointing out that rape had the lowest conviction rate of any crime type in Scotland.\n\nOnly 43% of rape cases brought before a court end in conviction, compared with 88% of other crimes.\n\n\"If you are serious about improving women's safety, the starting point has to be having a justice system we can have confidence in and also a justice system that does not systematically let men who are guilty of rape walk free,\" she said.", "Thousands of runners have taken part in this year's Belfast City Marathon.\n\nMore than 5,700 entered what was the first marathon to be held in the city since 2019, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe race began at 09:00 BST on Sunday on Prince of Wales Avenue in the Stormont Estate.\n\nIrish Olympian Mick Clohisey was the first across the line in Ormeau Park, while Fionnuala Ross was first in the women's race.\n\nThe 26.2 mile-long (42.1 km) race took runners across east, north, west and south Belfast, before finishing in Ormeau Park.\n\nRoads along the route closed at 06:00 and reopened again once all runners had passed.\n\nIt was the first time the marathon had been held in October. 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End of twitter post by Barra Best\n\nA relay and wheelchair race following the same route of the marathon also took place, along with a 2.5 mile (4km) fun run and an 8 mile (12.8km) walk.\n\nIt was Northern Ireland's largest mass participation sporting event since the pandemic began.\n\n\"It wasn't quite clear whether we could go ahead or not for quite a while and to some extent we took a little bit of a risk in deciding it could go ahead,\" Belfast City Marathon chairman John Allen said.\n\n\"It has been relatively more low-key because because of that slight risk.\"\n\nMr Allen said the record number of entrants this year was due to some people's entries being deferred from 2020.\n\n\"They entered originally about a year or so ago and we had to move their entries forward,\" he said.\n\nNo top international runners took part this year, according to Mr Allen.\n\nKenya's Joel Kositany won the event for the fourth time in 2019, crossing the finish line with a time of two hours 18 minutes and 40 seconds.\n\nMeanwhile Caroline Jepchirchir, also from Kenya, set the fastest ever women's time in Belfast, with a 2:36.38 clocking, as she repeated her 2018 win.\n\nOn Sunday morning, Belfast City Marathon apologised on social media \"for the lengthy waits experienced for many\" when picking up race packs on Saturday.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nAnger was voiced on social media on Saturday as a number of people booked to take part said they had to queue for several hours to pick up their race packs.\n\nMarathon organisers posted online that there were large queues and asked people to be patient.\n\nRace organisers were forced to apologise in 2019 after admitting the course was 0.3 miles longer than it should have been.\n\nIn a statement at the time, then chairman David Seaton said \"protocols will be put in place to ensure this never happens again\".", "BBC News NI understands that both patients and staff at the Ulster Hospital have been affected by the outbreaks\n\nTwo wards have been closed at the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald, on the outskirts of east Belfast, due to outbreaks of Covid 19.\n\nOne of the wards provides care specifically for elderly patients.\n\nBBC News NI understands that both patients and staff are affected.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the South Eastern Health Trust confirmed that both wards were closed during the past two weeks.\n\nOver the past month, 96 patients tested positive for the virus on admission to the hospital and 16 others tested positive during their stay.\n\nAccording to the trust, it is their policy to admit Covid-positive patients to side rooms or bays, which are designated for patients with the virus.\n\nHowever, the trust also confirmed that at times non-Covid patients are admitted to these wards due to their clinical condition, such as when requiring respiratory treatment", "People who are immunocompromised have begun receiving third doses of Covid-19 vaccines in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIt marks the start of the \"booster\" programme, with older people to be offered third vaccination doses from next week.\n\nThese will be offered to everyone over 80, and people over 65 in residential settings.\n\nThe Health Service Executive (HSE) said there was a \"very good supply\" of vaccines in Ireland.\n\nProfessor Martin Cormican, who is HSE lead for infection control, said the additional dose for the immunocompromised will include anyone over the age of 12, but in the first instance it will be offered to those aged 16 and over.\n\n\"There will be a little delay for those between the ages 12 and 15,\" he told Irish broadcaster RTÉ.\n\nProf Cormican said this was because this group of people were vaccinated later and there is a need to wait two months.\n\n\"That is where you get the most benefit if you allow the interval of two months to go by,\" he added.\n\nProf Cormican the HSE would contact anyone eligible for a booster dose.\n\nIt is expected to take five to six weeks to administer third doses to all those who need one.", "Welcome to the One Million Pound Club.\n\nTo make the top ten donors to the Conservative Party since Boris Johnson became prime minister, you need to have stumped up a seven figure sum.\n\nAt the top of the chart, by a considerable margin, the providers of one of the most memorable political images of the last few years.\n\nBoris Johnson at the wheel of a JCB, a polystyrene wall smashed, his 'Get Brexit Done' slogan in the mechanical shovel.\n\nJC Bamford Excavators Limited has given just over £2.5m in the last two years. Lord Bamford, the chairman of the family owned company, has personally given £100,000 since 2010, when the Conservatives returned to government. He became a Conservative peer in 2013.\n\nI've been trying to find out what motivates people to give money to the Conservative Party, how do they choose how much to give and how do they measure if it is worth it?\n\nIncidentally, I put all these questions to JCB, but Lord Bamford didn't want to talk to me. That, of course, is his prerogative - what he chooses to do with his own money is his own business.\n\nBut collectively, these are important questions to explore - for they offer an insight into how our governing party is bankrolled, and by whom.\n\nIt is also a window into the world of the super-rich, what motivates them to donate, and the context of some stark and big numbers you might occasionally read about.\n\nSo who is willing to talk publicly?\n\n\"It is a perfectly reasonable thing to ask about.\"\n\nMeet Alasdair Locke, a veteran of the shipping and oil and gas industries, and a multimillionaire.\n\n\"They will put you in everything you want,\" he says, when I ask what he gets in return.\n\nMr Locke has agreed to talk to me on the record, where others said they would speak to me, but only if I protect their identity.\n\nMr Locke says as a donor he may get heard, but wouldn't expect it to be acted upon\n\nHe has donated £280,000 to the Conservative Party since Boris Johnson became prime minister.\n\nElectoral Commission rules mean any donation over £7,500 to a party has to be reported by that party, and the figure and the donor will be published.\n\n\"I can get access via the Leaders Group. It is usually senior ministers and 15 or 20 people. Sometimes in person. Sometimes on Zoom. The last thing I attended was a lunch with Michael Gove in July. It was all donors who were there.\"\n\nTo become a member of the Leaders Group, you have to have donated £50,000 in the last year.\n\nTwo to three lunches a week are arranged, to which around a dozen donors are invited.\n\nGroups don't tend to be bigger than this, to ensure all those who turn up get a chance to feel part of something that isn't impersonal.\n\nSome donors are very regular attendees, others don't come to any.\n\nDoes this amount to buying access, and influence?\n\n\"It is interesting, but I'm not sure we are that influential. Politicking doesn't really interest or excite me. I would reckon I do get heard, but I don't expect it to be acted upon,\" Mr Locke says.\n\n\"Politicians are always cautious, in any case. At the lunch with Michael Gove, I asked about trade relations with the US. There was no attempt by any of us to influence policy.\"\n\nMr Locke was drawn into political donations by a \"strong conviction\" for keeping Scotland in the United Kingdom.\n\nAlastair Locke said he became a Conservative donor to support the party's leader in Scotland Douglas Ross, and his predecessor Baroness Davidson.\n\n\"I started off with the Conservatives when they were facing oblivion in Scotland. I am an old fashioned One Nation Tory, there wouldn't be much between me and centrists in the Labour Party.\n\n\"I wanted to support the centre right unionist party. I wanted to move the Scottish Conservatives away from the patrician tweedy layered image, to involve people who people would vote for,\" he tells me.\n\nHe is a big fan of the Scottish Conservative Leader Douglas Ross, and Baroness Davidson, a predecessor.\n\nIt is not just the Leaders Group that donors can be a member of.\n\nThere is the Treasurers Group, for those who have given £25,000, although I am told plenty of prospective members can be tempted to upgrade to the Leaders Group, as those with a spare 25 grand rattling around can often afford to double it.\n\nThere is then the Advisory Board, for those who have given £250,000 or more in the last year.\n\nBut how transparent is this?\n\nThe short answer: not very.\n\nYes, there is the legal obligation for donors' names and how much they have given to be published.\n\nBut what they actually get for that money is much, much less clear, and less clear than it used to be.\n\nBack in 2012, there was a big row about the then Conservative co-treasurer, Peter Cruddas.\n\nHe resigned as party co-treasurer after The Sunday Times suggested he was offering access to then Prime Minister David Cameron for a donation of £250,000 a year.\n\nBut the following year he won £180,000 in damages in a libel victory against the newspaper.\n\nThe newspaper's appeal succeeded in part and the damages were later reduced to £50,000.\n\nPeter Cruddas is sixth in the league table of Conservative donors since Boris Johnson became prime minister, having given £1.1m.\n\nIn December last year, Mr Johnson nominated him for a peerage, against the advice of The Lords Appointments Commission, describing the earlier allegations as \"historic and untrue\".\n\nAfter the row in 2012, David Cameron decided greater transparency was the answer, even if some internally felt donors were already being told they would be named by the Electoral Commission and a further step was unnecessary.\n\nBut Mr Cameron pressed ahead, and the Tories began to publish a public register of donors who attended private dinners with the then-PM.\n\nBut then, in 2018, they stopped. And there has been nothing since.\n\nThe former housing secretary Robert Jenrick got caught up in one of the most awkward of political binds possible with a donor last year.\n\nHe found himself sitting next to businessman Richard Desmond at a Conservative fundraiser.\n\nMr Desmond then gave the party more money after one of his housing developments was given the go ahead.\n\nMr Jenrick said he regretted the contact and Downing Street supported him, at the time.\n\nHe was sacked from the cabinet this month; one minister telling me his dismissal was far too late - he should have been shown the door a year earlier.\n\nA Conservative spokesperson didn't address the question of the register straight on, but they did say: \"Donations and donors to the party are declared to and published by the Electoral Commission as required by the law and this is freely and openly available on the Electoral Commission's website.\"\n\nDavid Cameron pledged to publish a quarterly register of party donors who attended dinners at official residences.\n\nSo what do donors get for their money?\n\n\"It does give me the chance to speak to some people,\" a very significant donor tells me privately.\n\nThis includes chances to speak to the prime minister and chancellor, as the Financial Times reported over the summer.\n\nBut, when I ask if this represents value for money, I'm told: \"I'm not sure how you measure it, to tell you the truth. It doesn't amount to being involved in making policy.\"\n\nThis is where we get into a fascinating subtlety about very rich people and what they do with their money.\n\nThis same donor offers an insight that all of my conversations tacked back to: he said his - by any conventional metric - vast donations to the Conservative Party, amounted to \"barely a flicker\" compared to the sums involved in the charitable work he does.\n\nThis single example of giving is matched by the picture more broadly. The Conservative Party generates around £25m a year. Charities, collectively in the UK, are a multi billion pound sector, with around 50 generating more than £100m a year.\n\nSome inside the party ponder how giving money to any political party could be perceived to be more noble, as a contribution to public life, rather than so often raising awkward and, usually, unanswered questions.\n\nShould party political donations be treated like donations to charity, which are subject to tax relief, called Gift Aid?\n\nMaybe, argue some, while acknowledging it would look self serving and so politically awkward.\n\nBut let's get back to what motivates people to give money.\n\nBeyond access to ministers, and, for some, eventually, maybe a knighthood or a seat in the House of Lords (although their other work, in industry or for charity, might qualify them for this anyway), there is an X factor available here too.\n\nAuctioning off a weekend for two at a plush hotel in the Lake District doesn't tick any boxes for a donor who may just own that hotel anyway.\n\nBut offer them a dinner at which the prime minister is speaking and there is, perhaps, a near equivalent in terms of social cachet to said donor having spent vast sums having a stratospherically famous rock star play privately at their 60th birthday party.\n\nOr there might be an auction lot for something with next to no monetary value, but which offers a rich anecdote.\n\nI'm told of one such auction, where a speech the prime minister was yet to even give was to be sold off and might fetch around £1,500.\n\nThink this through: it's a pile of A4 paper with words printed on it, which, by the time you receive it, is already in the public domain, and has been merely garnished with a prime ministerial scrawl, his signature.\n\nIt might even turn out to be a speech which you barely agree with a word of. Or a complete dud.\n\nBut, to those for whom material purchases have little added value, because they have all they could ever want, something that can hang on the back of a toilet door and comes with a story, and a smiley picture of you and the prime minister, might just be tempting.\n\nQuestions will forever swirl about political parties and how they are funded.\n\nWhere does the money comes from, who is giving it, how much, and to whom? Who are the donors? Why are they doing it, what are they getting out of it?\n\nThe alternative, many people I spoke to said, was state funding of political parties: asking the taxpayer to pick up the tab for politics.\n\nIn the grand scheme of public spending, the cost of this would be minimal, but most political parties would probably think twice, or more than twice, before attempting to sell the merits of a potential voter picking up their tab.\n\nAs one donor said: \"It doesn't always look good. It really doesn't. But, intellectually, it is the least bad way of funding political parties.\"\n\nAnd a Conservative spokesperson points out that the party is funded by membership, fundraising and donation, which are properly and transparently declared to the Electoral Commission, published, and comply with the law.\n\n\"Fundraising is a legitimate part of the democratic process. The alternative is more taxpayer-funding of political campaigning, which would mean less money for frontline services like schools, police and hospitals.\"", "BBC News NI outlines the latest data on coronavirus and Covid-19 vaccinations across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nOne more coronavirus-related death has been reported in Northern Ireland on Saturday.\n\nDeaths are measured by recording those who died within 28 days of receiving a positive result in a test for coronavirus.\n\nThe total number of deaths linked to Covid-19 in Northern Ireland since the start of the pandemic is 2,565.\n\nAnother 992 cases of coronavirus were reported on Saturday, down from 1,039 on Friday.\n\nThat includes cases confirmed from samples taken in recent days, not necessarily just in the latest 24-hour reporting period.\n\nA total of 240,331 cases of the virus have been confirmed in Northern Ireland since the pandemic began.\n\nThe Department of Health's Covid-19 dashboard is not updated at the weekend.\n\nThe most recent figures from Friday showed there were 342 patients with Covid-19 in hospitals in Northern Ireland.\n\nThere was 33 Covid-19 patients being treated in hospital intensive care units on Friday, up from 29 on Thursday.\n\nA total of 2,528,747 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nAnother 1,586 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the Republic of Ireland on Saturday, up from 1,059 on Friday.\n\nThe total number of deaths linked to Covid-19 in the Republic of Ireland since the start of the pandemic is 5,249.\n\nThat figure, which is subject to revision, is updated weekly and includes \"probable and possible\" Covid-19-linked deaths.\n\nThere are 298 patients with Covid-19 in hospitals, down from 308 on Friday.\n\nThere are 56 patients with Covid-19 in intensive care units, down from 59 on Friday.\n\nA total of 7,218,801 Covid-19 vaccines had been administered in the Republic of Ireland as of Thursday.\n\nOf those, 3,536,134 were first doses and 3,446,993 were second doses. Some 235,674 were single doses.", "Jurgen Klopp: Liverpool manager says vaccine is 'not a limit on freedom' Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nJurgen Klopp says 99% of Liverpool players are vaccinated Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says he does not understand why some people refuse the coronavirus vaccine. There have been concerns about the rate of vaccination in the Premier League with fewer than half of players jabbed at most clubs. Klopp says \"99%\" of his players have been vaccinated. Meanwhile Health Secretary Sajid Javid said it is \"disappointing\" at least five members of the England squad are reportedly refusing to be vaccinated. His comments came after The Sun reported five players have not had the jab despite organisers of next year's Qatar World Cup planning to ban all unvaccinated players. \"I would just appeal to these people, whether they are footballers, whoever it is... that the vaccines are working. Help protect yourself and protect those around you,\" Javid told Times Radio. \"They've made a conscious choice. It is disappointing, of course it is. \"They are role models in society. People, especially young people, I think will look up to them and they should recognise that and the difference that can make in terms of encouraging others.\" Klopp said he has not had to convince any players to be vaccinated. The German says he was jabbed to protect not just himself but \"all the people around me\". \"I don't understand why that is a limitation of freedom,\" he said. \"Because if it is, then not being allowed to drink and drive is a limitation of freedom as well - but we accept that. \"I got the vaccination because I was concerned about myself but even more so for everyone else around me. \"If I get it and suffer - my fault. If I get it and spread it around to everyone else - my fault and not their fault.\" This week it was revealed the Premier League is considering whether to \"reward\" clubs whose coronavirus vaccination rates are high. In an email to top-flight clubs last week, the Premier League said: \"Only seven clubs' squads are more than 50% fully vaccinated, so we have a way to go.\" On Friday, it was announced that Premier League players will be allowed to travel to red-list nations to represent their countries in this month's World Cup qualifiers - but only if they are fully vaccinated. \"I think we can say we have 99% vaccinated,\" added Klopp. \"I didn't have to convince the players, it was more a natural decision from the team. \"I can't remember really talking to a player and convincing him why he should because I'm not a doctor. \"What I would give, like in a lot of other situations, would be my advice - but it was not necessary.\" As of 2 October, almost 49 million people in the UK had received a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, while almost 45 million had received a second - an uptake of 89.9% and 82.5% of over-16s respectively. However, some people choose not to be vaccinated citing a number of factors, including their lack of confidence in the vaccine, concerns about side-effects, or a fear of needles. Others - a minority - opt out of vaccination because of their consumption of misinformation and conspiracy theories online, particularly on social media.\n• None Our coverage of Liverpool is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Liverpool - go straight to all the best content", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak at the Conservative conference in Manchester\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has said there is no \"magic wand\" to make disruption to fuel and food supplies disappear overnight.\n\nHe told the BBC supply problems were global, and ministers were doing everything they can to mitigate them.\n\n\"Pragmatic controlled immigration\" could be part of the short-term solution, he said.\n\nHe was speaking ahead of addressing the Conservative party conference amid concerns over living standards.\n\nThe Chancellor's first in-person speech to Tory members comes against a backdrop of rising food and energy prices, alongside cuts to universal credit benefits and tax rises to fund the NHS and social care.\n\nSupply chain issues are continuing to affect several sectors, with the military due to begin driving fuel to petrol stations.\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Sunak said \"challenges\" to supply chains are not unique to the UK but were a problem across the world as a result of lockdowns and the rapid re-opening of economies.\n\nBut he said the government was doing \"everything we can to mitigate the bits of that that we can\".\n\n\"There are things that we can do and should do and it is reasonable that people expect us to do what we can,\" he said.\n\n\"Whether it's short-term visas, speeding up testing capacity for HGV drivers, of course we should do all those things and we are doing all those things, but we can't wave a magic wand and make global supply chain challenges disappear overnight.\"\n\nBut he said the problems \"we are seeing at the moment will be transitory and will pass through the system\".\n\nPM Boris Johnson also insisted supply problems were part of an international trend, telling reporters they were due to the global economy \"coming back to life\" after Covid shutdowns.\n\n\"There's a shortage of lorry drivers actually around the world,\" he added.\n\nThe prime minister tried on Sunday to present this as short-term pain as part of what he believes will be very significant long-term gains because of Brexit.\n\nNow, the prime minister and other ministers would not say, 'oh, suck it up, enjoy the fact that you have to queue for petrol'.\n\nBut they have, in the last few days, woven this narrative: to take some of the things that we see happening, acutely, whether in agriculture, whether in fuel supply - and to turn them into this story of short-term pain for a long-term gain.\n\nThat was not Rishi Sunak's language.\n\nHe talked rather soberly about global supply shortages, things that the government can mitigate, clearly he believes the government does have a role.\n\nBut he was very different in tone, which was something on the day of a big chancellor's speech at this conference, very well worth noting.\n\nIn his speech later, Mr Sunak will say the best protection against cost of living challenges is to give people the skills and opportunities to get better paid work.\n\nThe chancellor will commit £500m to renew job support programmes and promise to \"double down\" on help for the jobs market after Covid.\n\nHe will also promise to reshape the economy around technology and scientific innovation.\n\nAhead of his speech, Mr Sunak praised the UK's economic recovery but warned the \"job is not done yet\".\n\n\"At the start of this crisis I made a promise to do whatever it takes, and I'm ready to double down on that promise now as we come out of this crisis,\" he said.\n\nHe will also promise to make the UK the \"the most exciting place on the planet\" through better infrastructure and improved skills.\n\nActivists queued earlier for a space to watch Rishi Sunak's speech, the biggest of the conference so far\n\nHis speech will come on the second day of conference, and he will say the Kickstart Scheme - which subsidises eligible jobs for young people on universal credit - will be extended by three months to March 2022.\n\nThe scheme, launched in September last year, was allocated £2bn in funding to create 250,000 jobs by the end of 2021.\n\nHowever, only 76,900 have actually started Kickstart roles, according to latest figures, with 196,300 roles in total made available for youngsters to apply for.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses had been calling for the scheme to be extended, amid reports that firms had encountered delays and found the scheme slow.\n\nMr Sunak will also announce the extension of the JETS scheme to help long-term unemployed people on universal credit until September 2022.\n\nA separate scheme paying employers £3,000 per apprentice they take on will also be prolonged by four months until the end of January.\n\nAnd the government is promising more help finding work for those coming off the furlough scheme, which closed last week, having paid the wages of 11.6 million workers during the pandemic.\n\nThe various extensions will be paid for with £500m of funding, with the Treasury saying that details will be confirmed at the Spending Review on 27 October.\n\nLabour's shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Reynolds said the government's plan to support jobs was \"struggling\" and had \"failed to hit its original targets\".\n\n\"An extended deadline will do nothing to compensate for the chancellor's tax rises, cost of living crisis and cuts to universal credit,\" he added.", "More than 40,000 people took part in the marathon through London's streets\n\nRunners in a range of costumes pounded the capital's streets in a record-breaking London Marathon.\n\nThe 26.2-mile race returned to London's streets for its first full-scale staging in more than two years, following the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nAn estimated 80,000 runners took part in person and virtually via an app.\n\nMarcel Hug and Manuela Schar won the wheelchair races in course-record times, and Sisay Lemma and Joyciline Jepkosgei won the elite races.\n\nIn a dominant performance Hug finished in 1:26.27. beating the previous course record by more than two minutes.\n\nEight-time winner David Weir took third place, competing in the wheelchair race for the 22nd consecutive year.\n\nHug's fellow Swiss athlete Schar finished in 1:39.52, shaving five seconds off her old record set in 2017.\n\nMen's wheelchair race winner Marcel Hug beat the previous course record by more than two minutes\n\nJepkosgei won the women's elite race with a comfortable lead in a time of 2:17.42.\n\nWorld record holder Brigid Kosgei finished just outside the podium places, after winning the two previous races.\n\nCharlotte Purdue crossed the line in 10th place, setting the third-fastest time ever for a British woman with 2:23.26.\n\nAfter the race Purdue spoke about the safety of women while out running after the sentencing of Sarah Everard's murderer this week.\n\nShe said: \"My parents have always told me never to run outside alone at night. My dad used to drive the car with me when I was younger.\n\n\"Even now I wouldn't run outside alone. I've never felt safe doing it. It is sad.\"\n\nEthiopian Sisay Lemma collapsed after crossing the finish line in the course's sixth fastest ever time\n\nLemma won the men's elite race after finishing third last year. His time of 2:04.01 was the sixth-fastest ever for the course.\n\nKenya's Vincent Kipchuma was second in 2:04.28 and Mosinet Geremew third in 2:04.41.\n\nRunners in an array of colourful costumes took part in this year's race\n\nOlympic BMX silver medallist Kye Whyte got the race started just after 10:00 BST.\n\nIt is 889 days since the colourful charity spectacular in front of cheering crowds last took place.\n\nA number of changes were in force this year to try to reduce the risk of spreading coronavirus.\n\nThose running in central London had to show a negative lateral flow test for Covid-19.\n\nThe full London Marathon race was last held in the capital on 28 April 2019\n\nSeveral world records have been broken in this year's race, including fastest marathon wearing Wellington boots and fastest dressed in rugby kit.\n\nSarah Dudgeon and Max Livingstone-Learmonth, dressed as a dog, set the fastest time in a two-person costume with a time of 03:17.12.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Sport This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 group of friends recorded the fastest time for a six-person costume, dressing as a Colin the Caterpillar cake.\n\nBenjamin Taylor, Edward Holderness, Oli Tipping, Guy Dixon, Charlie Mason and Digby Walker completed the race in 04:34.52.\n\nMr Dixon, who ran at the tail end of the costume, said the race \"tested our friendship\" but they were \"incredibly proud of their achievement\".\n\nThe group, who met at Durham University, raised £30,000 for six different charities.\n\nThe Colin the Caterpillar team beat the previous record for a marathon run in a six-person costume by nearly 90 minutes\n\nDavid McGillan a veteran of 30 previous marathons, described this year's race as \"the most special one\".\n\nHe said: \"Seeing the crowds today really restores my faith in humanity - people cheering you on when they don't know you from Adam.\"\n\nMr McGillan ran alongside his son, who was running his first marathon, \"which was a source of pride\", he added.\n\nDavid McGillan and his son Conor ran to support Blueprint for All, formerly the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust\n\nPaul McGregor ran the race remotely in Glasgow - first of eight marathons he plans to run in eight days across eight cities.\n\nHe said: \"I would have loved to have been there today, but it's really nice to know there's a lot of people out there running coming together to raise some money, particularly given the last 18 months.\"\n\nMr McGregor will complete his challenge, raising money for mental health charity Beyond, on 10 October - which is World Mental Health day. His final route will finish at the memorial bench in Hadley, Essex, dedicated to his father, who took his own life.\n\nOlympic gold medallist James Cracknell called the marathon \"a real testament to what people have done over the last year\" when runners were forced to do \"most of their training on their own\".\n\nCracknell, who completed the race in under 2:50, said: \"It really is the best thing about being British; people coming and supporting their mate, their partner, their charity, then staying and clapping everyone else. It's really good.\"\n\nFurther coverage of the race is on the Red Button and the BBC Sport website app.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bernard Tapie faced great highs and lows in his colourful career\n\nOne of France's most recognisable figures, the businessman, sports club owner and politician Bernard Tapie, has died at the age of 78.\n\nTapie, who had battled stomach cancer for the past four years, died peacefully, surrounded by his family, they said in a statement.\n\nAt one time he owned Adidas, Olympique Marseille and was a minister under President Francois Mitterrand.\n\nHe also had a string of legal problems and served time in jail.\n\nTapie's wife Dominique and his family announced his death with \"immense sadness\". They said he wished to be buried in Marseille, \"the city of his heart\".\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron was among the many to pay tribute to him, saying his \"ambition, energy and enthusiasm... were a source of inspiration for generations of French people\".\n\nOlympique de Marseille won the French Championship five times while Tapie was president, and took home the UEFA Champions League in 1993\n\nBernard Tapie grew up in the working class suburbs of Paris.\n\nHe began his career as a singer, then a race car driver - before discovering a talent for buying up failing businesses and selling them on, the BBC's Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.\n\nHe demonstrated his wealth by buying the Olympique de Marseille football club, which won the French championship while he was their owner. However, he was accused of match-fixing and the club was stripped of its league championship title and later relegated to a lower division.\n\nHe also bought a cycling team that twice won the Tour de France, was the majority shareholder of the sportswear brand Adidas and owned a number of newspapers.\n\nIn the 1990s, he dabbled in politics, briefly became urban affairs minister and later elected as a leftist French and European parliament MP in Marseille.\n\nIn 1984, Tapie (right) sang one of his old songs on a TV show hosted by Sacha Distel (left)\n\nHe also had a lifelong interest in entertainment. In 1966, aged 23, he recorded songs under the name Bernard Tapy, but failed to make much of impact.\n\nHe returned to singing in the 1980s, after making his name as a corporate raider, and collaborated with acclaimed songwriter Didier Barbelivien.\n\nIn the 1990s, he appeared in major films including Claude Lelouch's Men, Women: A User's Manual, as well as plays. Over the past 20 years he has starred as a police inspector in a TV drama and hosted a number of chat shows.\n\nBernard and Dominique Tapie at the unveiling of a new theatre in Paris in 2007\n\nTapie's late career as a showman took off as his empire crumbled amid a string of legal problems from the late 1990s.\n\nHe served time in jail for match fixing and other charges concerning corruption, tax fraud and misuse of corporate assets.\n\nEarlier this year, he and his wife were attacked in a violent burglary at their home.\n\nBernard Tapie faced the ups and downs of his life always with panache, our correspondent notes, and he was an admired and fascinating figure until the end.", "Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has had a job offer from the United Nations withdrawn.\n\nMr Hancock announced this week that he had been given a role helping Africa's economy recover from Covid.\n\nThe UN said he would bring valuable experience - but Mr Hancock now says a rule has come to light that prevents him from taking the job while an MP.\n\nLeading figures across Africa and UK opposition parties had criticised the UN's choice of the MP for the role.\n\nOn Tuesday, the former health secretary tweeted a copy of the letter from UN Under-Secretary General Vera Songwe offering him the unpaid role.\n\nHe was congratulated by former cabinet colleagues, including Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Housing Secretary Michael Gove and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries.\n\nBut the West Suffolk MP faced a backlash from critics on social media, who pointed to the fact that a highly critical report from MPs on the UK government's handling of the pandemic had been released on the same day.\n\nMr Hancock's new role came four months after he resigned from his cabinet post for breaking social distancing guidelines by kissing a colleague.\n\nHe had been planning to continue as a Conservative MP while working as the UN special representative on financial innovation and climate change for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.\n\nThe UN has now told him the appointment \"is not being taken forward\".\n\nMr Hancock said he had been \"honoured to be approached by the UN\" but it later wrote to him to explain that UN rule \"has subsequently come to light\".\n\nHe added: \"Since I am committed to continuing to serve as MP for West Suffolk, this means I cannot take up the position.\n\n\"I look forward to supporting the UN ECA in their mission in whatever way I can in my parliamentary role.\"\n\nThis is undoubtedly an embarrassment for the former health secretary who was looking to resuscitate his political career.\n\nThe first step in doing so appeared to come with the announcement about the unpaid role.\n\nIt was not a UK government one - but there was glowing support from many senior former cabinet colleagues.\n\nMatt Hancock says a technical rule has now come to light which prevents him from taking the job as he is a sitting MP.\n\nBut the appointment attracted anger too, coming on the day a group of MPs had been highly critical of the government's handling of the pandemic. And some in the international community questioned the MP's expertise, past mistakes, and his suitability for such a challenging role.\n\nIt appears that added to pressure on the UN to withdraw the invitation - and three days later a spokesman confirmed it was not being taken forward.\n\nUN sources say the appointment should never have been made in the first place.\n\nGordon Brown was a sitting MP when he took a similar role. He was appointed in 2012, two years before he announced his intention to stand down as an MP.\n\nIn her letter to Mr Hancock offering him the job, Ms Songwe said his \"success\" in handling the UK's pandemic response was a testament to the strengths he would bring to the role.\n\nIn his reply, the MP said: \"As we recover from the pandemic so we must take this moment to ensure Africa can prosper.\"\n\nThe withdrawal of the offer was welcomed by campaign group Global Justice Now.\n\nThe group's director Nick Dearden said: \"If Matt Hancock wants to help African countries recover from the pandemic, he should lobby the prime minister to back a patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines.\n\n\"If he'd done that when he was in government, tens of millions more people could already have been vaccinated.\n\n\"The last thing the African continent needs is a failed British politician. This isn't the 19th Century.\"", "Firefighters brought the small blaze on the first floor under control\n\nWestfield in east London was closed due to a fire inside a shop.\n\nWitnesses said the concourse of the shopping centre, in Stratford, \"filled with smoke\" as the centre was evacuated just after 10:00 BST.\n\nThe small fire, within a shop on the first floor, had been brought under control by about 11:45 BST.\n\nThe centre was closed to staff and shoppers for five hours but has since reopened. Car park users would not be charged for the morning, bosses said.\n\nAbout 60 firefighters were at the scene at one point, the London Fire Brigade said.\n\nCrews from a number of stations were sent to the scene, fire bosses said\n\nCrews from Stratford, Leytonstone, Leyton, Plaistow and other surrounding fire stations went to the scene.\n\nOnly \"a small part\" of a shop was damaged, the brigade said, and the cause of the fire is not yet known. No-one was injured.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nShakib Al Hasan became the leading wicket-taker in Twenty20 internationals but Scotland successfully defended 140 against Bangladesh in the T20 World Cup in Muscat, Oman.\n\nShakib took 2-17, as he moved to 108 wickets and overtook Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga, during Scotland's 140-9.\n\nChris Greaves made 45, and then took 2-19 as Bangladesh finished 134-7, six runs adrift.\n\nEarlier, Oman thrashed Papua New Guinea by 10 wickets in the opening game.\n• None Everything you need to know about the T20 World Cup\n• None Eight players to look out for\n• None Quiz: Who has played for England in men's T20 World Cups?\n\nAfter being put in to bat Scotland made a slow start and lost captain Kyle Coetzer for a duck, but recovered to 45-1, before losing five wickets for just eight runs in 25 balls, to slip to 53-6.\n\nGreaves then shared 51 with Mark Watt, who made 22, and 27 with Josh Davey to work Scotland up to a defendable total.\n\nScotland removed both openers to leave Bangladesh 18-2, before a 47-run partnership between Shakib (20) and Mushfiqur Rahim (38) gave the Tigers a platform.\n\nBut both fell in the space of two overs, meaning the run-rate started to rise sharply, and despite conceding 17 from the final over some earlier good bowling and catching was enough for Scotland to pick up the win.\n\nHampshire's Brad Wheal was the pick of the bowlers, taking 3-24.\n\nIn the tournament's first game Papua New Guinea - who had lost their previous 10 games in white-ball cricket and were making their World Cup debut, resulting in tears during the national anthems - were 0-2 before recovering to 102-3, but another collapse restricted them to 129-9, with captain Assad Vala top scoring with 56.\n\nOman captain and spinner Zeeshan Maqsood claimed 4-20, the best figures by an Oman bowler in T20 cricket, before his openers Jatinder Singh and Aqib Ilyas - who had never batted together for Oman - hit 12 fours and five sixes as Oman won with 38 balls to spare and became just the third men's team to win a T20 World Cup game by 10 wickets.\n\nThe next Group B games are on Tuesday, with Scotland facing Papua New Guinea (11:00 BST) and Bangladesh taking on Oman (15:00).\n\nListen to ball-by-ball commentary on Ireland v Netherlands (11:00 BST) and Sri Lanka v Namibia (15:00) on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website and app on Monday, 18 October.\n• None 'You don't wanna be like me': The brand new series of hit comedy Dave is streaming now\n• None Paris is at breaking point in this tense crime drama", "The queues snaked around the Essex terminal building on Sunday morning\n\nPassengers at Stansted Airport missed flights when a baggage system failure plunged departures into \"chaos\".\n\nTravellers hoping to depart on Sunday said they were faced with long queues around the terminal as staff raced to manually process luggage.\n\nStansted said its system, which recently underwent a £70m upgrade, was thought to have suffered a power issue.\n\nAn airport spokesman apologised for disruption and said the problem had been fixed.\n\nSeveral families who spoke to the BBC at Stansted described chaotic scenes that had put a downer on long-awaited holidays.\n\nNeil and Gemma Jackson arrived at Stansted at 04:30 BST after travelling from Kent with their children. The trip to Lanzarote is their first in two years.\n\n\"It started off ordinarily, we queued up to check in and that progressed quite quickly,\" said Mrs Jackson.\n\n\"But where it really went off the rails was we were all advised to drop our bags at a particular zone. There was absolute chaos.\n\n\"Every single passenger from every airline seemed to be in the same queue. There was no crowd control, it snaked around the entire airport, people were pushing in.\n\n\"We waited politely at security control. Then our gate closed and we were turned away.\"\n\nNeil and Gemma Jackson and their children missed their 07:05 flight to Lanzarote\n\nEllie Winstanley, 27, who was flying with Ryanair, also said she was advised to join a queue that \"circled the entire airport\".\n\n\"Then the conveyor belt stopped working,\" she said. \"We rushed through security which was fairly quick and then we sprinted and they closed the gate on time.\n\n\"I've got asthma so I was just trying to get a break. I felt for this other woman with two kids who looked teary and so incredibly stressed.\"\n\nEllie Winstanley was hoping to fly to Malaga for a 10-day break with her father and brother\n\nTrinity Hammatt, 21, from Haverhill, and Thomas Hammond, 21, from Saffron Walden, were heading to Valencia and said they arrived at the airport three hours in advance - as advised by Ryanair.\n\n\"We had to wait in that awful long queue because the belts are down,\" Ms Hammatt said. \"It's completely put a downer on the whole thing.\n\n\"Everyone we spoke to brushed us off. I understand it's busy and manic, but it's been overwhelming.\n\nThe new £70m baggage system has operated at Stansted since May\n\nThe baggage system upgrade in May involved replacing ageing conveyor belts and chutes with 2.4km (7,874ft) of track and 180 automated carts.\n\nAn airport spokesman said he believed the system had suffered a power issue.\n\n\"Contingency measures were immediately put in place with our airlines to mitigate disruption and manually process baggage while engineers worked to fix the issue.\" he said.\n\n\"The system is now operating as normal but passengers are still asked to arrive at the airport at least three hours before their flight departs in accordance with their airline's latest advice.\"\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 Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attend the first Earthshot Prize awards ceremony, held in London\n\nTwo best friends who grow coral and the country of Costa Rica are among the winners of the first ever Earthshot Prizes.\n\nThe annual awards were created by the Duke of Cambridge to reward people trying to save the planet.\n\nThere were five winners announced in London, each receiving £1m.\n\nPrince William was joined by stars including Emma Watson, Dame Emma Thompson and David Oyelowo for the ceremony at Alexandra Palace.\n\nEd Sheeran, Coldplay and KSI were among the acts that performed - and in keeping with the eco message, the music was powered by 60 cyclists pedalling on bikes.\n\nNo celebrities flew to London for the ceremony, no plastic was used to build the stage and guests were asked to \"consider the environment\" when choosing an outfit - with Watson wearing a dress made from 10 different dresses from Oxfam.\n\nHarry Potter actress Emma Watson has previously used her platform to call for climate change action\n\nThe Earthshot prize's name is a reference to the \"Moonshot\" ambition of 1960s America, which saw then-President John F Kennedy pledge to get a man on the Moon within a decade.\n\nEach year for the next decade, the prize is awarding £1m each to five projects that are working to find solutions to the planet's environmental problems.\n\nThe inaugural winners were selected from five different categories, and were chosen from a shortlist of 15 by judges including broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, actress Cate Blanchett and singer Shakira.\n\nThe Republic of Costa Rica won the Protect and Restore Nature award\n\nEmma Watson (left) announces the AEM Electrolyser as the winner of the Fix Our Climate award\n\nIn a recorded message played at the ceremony - which was broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer at 20:00 BST - Prince William said the next 10 years was a \"decisive decade\" for the planet.\n\n\"Time is running out,\" he said. \"A decade doesn't seem long enough, but humankind has an outstanding record of being able to solve the unsolvable.\"\n\nEarlier this week, the duke suggested that rather than the world's top minds setting their sights on space tourism, they should instead focus on saving Earth.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Prince William says the world's greatest minds are needed to \"repair this planet, not find the next\"\n\nWith stars from the worlds of football and music arriving on a green carpet, the message was that environmental challenges deserve the same kind of attention as the Oscars.\n\nAnd the winning teams were obviously thrilled to get such high-profile recognition.\n\nThe test now is whether their projects will be scaled up in a way that makes a difference worldwide.\n\nWhether it's restoring corals and forests or reducing waste and carbon emissions, the plan is for big name companies to support these mostly small-scale schemes and help them to become global.\n\nIt may well be years before we see how well that works out in practice, and inevitably some projects may prove more effective than others.\n\nIn any event, in the countdown to the vital COP26 climate summit in Glasgow next month, the winners offer something that's been in short supply recently: a sense of optimism.\n\nAmong the celebrities at Sunday night's ceremony was Love Actually actress Dame Emma, who criticised throwaway culture as she made her way to the event.\n\n\"If we had shown my parents how people live (today), how they will wander down the streets with a coffee cup, immediately throw it away, eat, throw away, everything throw away, they would've gone, 'what's going on?'\" said Dame Emma.\n\nNigerian Afro-pop singer Yemi Alade performed on stage during the ceremony", "The car ploughed through a wall and ended up in Hythe library on Sunday morning\n\nA car has crashed through a wall and into a library in Hampshire.\n\nThe car became wedged half in, half out of Hythe Library, having ploughed through the wall from a car park in New Road shortly after 11:15 BST.\n\nHampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service said crews tunnelled through the debris to get to the two people inside the car and stabilise the vehicle.\n\nBoth occupants had escaped without any serious injuries, the service said.\n\nHampshire Constabulary said the crash was not being treated as suspicious and no arrests were made.\n\nThe car had been in a car park next to the library in New Road\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Listen live on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra and on the BBC Sport website and app\n\nBritain's Cameron Norrie reached his first Masters 1,000 final at Indian Wells as he breezed past Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in straight sets.\n\nThe world number 26 dominated the semi-final to win 6-2 6-4 in California.\n\nNorrie's run means he will replace Dan Evans as British number one and on Sunday he will challenge for the biggest title of his career.\n\nThe 26-year-old will face world number 36 Nikoloz Basilashvili in the final, after he beat American Taylor Fritz.\n\nThe Georgian won 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 to progress to his first final at this level.\n\n\"I'm becoming more and more comfortable in Indian Wells and it is the biggest win of my career for sure,\" Norrie told Amazon Prime.\n\n\"He made it difficult in the second set. I managed to serve well in those games and get through them. I think I had a very good gameplan today.\"\n\nSuccess in the prestigious Indian Wells tournament comes three months after Norrie claimed his first ATP singles title at Mexico's Los Cabos Open.\n\nThis is the sixth final Norrie has reached on tour this year and the match against world number 28 Dimitrov was the 46th he has won in an impressive season.\n\nNorrie also made it to the third round of every Grand Slam except the US Open in 2021 and is now set to break into the world's top 20 for the first time when the latest rankings are published on Monday.\n\nAfter battling his way through a demanding opening game to break Dimitrov's serve, Norrie grew in confidence.\n\nTwo swift holds and another break put the Briton 4-0 up before the momentum briefly changed hands.\n\nDimitrov won two games in a row but the 30-year-old swung a forehand wide to immediately hand another break to Norrie, who wrapped up the opening set in 31 minutes.\n\nA lengthy opening game in the second set eventually went to the indefatigable Norrie as he claimed an early break.\n\nDimitrov put up more resistance as the set went on but Norrie showed grit to save break point and from there stayed composed to hold serve and close out the win.\n\nShould Norrie come out victorious in Sunday's final (00:00 BST on Monday), he may give himself a chance of qualifying for the season-ending ATP Finals in Turin.\n\nThe women's final will also take place on Sunday and features Paula Badosa and Victoria Azarenka.\n\n'It was nice to show Laver I can play decent tennis'\n\nRod Laver was in the crowd watching the semi-final and Norrie said he was grateful to have the chance to prove himself in front of the Australian tennis great.\n\nThe Briton explained that the last time Laver watched him play was in the final of the San Diego Open earlier this month, when he lost 6-0 6-2 to Norway's Casper Ruud.\n\n\"It is so special to have him here, \" Norrie said.\n\n\"I was destroyed by Casper in that one [in San Diego] and I was thinking, 'he must think I'm awful at the game'. It was nice to come out here and show him that I could actually play some decent tennis.\"\n\nThere were flashes of brilliance from Dimitrov, but he was far too erratic, and was rarely offered any respite by Norrie.\n\nA class apart in the first four games, Norrie continued to serve well and attack when he could. He ran out a comfortable winner on a very hot desert day.\n\nNo British man has ever won the Indian Wells title. If Norrie is successful, he will climb into the world's top 16 and give himself a realistic chance of qualifying for the end-of-season ATP Finals.\n\nThis will be his sixth final of the season: a club in which he only has world number one Novak Djokovic for company.\n• None 'You don't wanna be like me': The brand new series of hit comedy Dave is streaming now\n• None Paris is at breaking point in this tense crime drama", "The aftermath of the drone strike in the Afghan capital, Kabul\n\nThe US government has offered financial compensation to the relatives of 10 people mistakenly killed by the American military in a drone strike on the Afghan capital, Kabul, in August.\n\nAn aid worker and nine members of his family, including seven children, died in the strike.\n\nThe Pentagon said it was also working to help surviving members of the family relocate to the US.\n\nThe strike took place days before the US military withdrew from Afghanistan.\n\nIt came amid a frenzied evacuation effort following the Taliban's sudden return to power and only days after a devastating attack close to Kabul's airport by IS-K, a local branch of the Islamic State (IS) group.\n\nUS intelligence had tracked the aid worker's car for eight hours on 29 August, believing it was linked to IS-K militants, US Central Command's Gen Kenneth McKenzie said last month.\n\nThe investigation found the man's car had been seen at a compound associated with IS-K, and its movements aligned with other intelligence about the terror group's plans for an attack on Kabul airport.\n\nAt one point, a surveillance drone saw men loading what appeared to be explosives into the boot of the car, but these turned out to be containers of water.\n\nGen McKenzie described the strike as a \"tragic mistake\" and added that the Taliban had not been involved in the intelligence that led to the strike.\n\nThe strike happened as the aid worker - named as Zamairi Ahmadi - pulled into the driveway of his home, 3km (1.8 miles) from the airport.\n\nThe explosion set off a secondary blast, which US officials initially said was proof that the car was indeed carrying explosives. However, an investigation found it was most likely caused by a propane tank in the driveway.\n\nOne of those killed, Ahmad Naser, had been a translator with US forces. Other victims had previously worked for international organisations and held visas allowing them entry to the US.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emal Ahmadi: \"Ten people died here... including my daughter, she was two years old\"\n\nThe compensation offer was made on Thursday in a meeting between Colin Kahl, the under-secretary of defence for policy, and Steven Kwon, the founder and president of an aid group active in Afghanistan called Nutrition and Education International, the Pentagon said in a statement.\n\nMr Kahl noted Mr Ahmadi and others who were killed \"were innocent victims who bore no blame and were not affiliated with ISIS-K or threats to US forces\", said a statement attributed to Defence Department spokesman John Kirby.\n\nHe reiterated Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin's commitment to the families, including \"condolence payments\".\n\nMr Austin has apologised for the attack, but Mr Ahmadi's 22-year-old nephew Farshad Haidari said that was not enough.\n\n\"They must come here and apologise to us face-to-face,\" he told the AFP news agency in Kabul.\n\nWhen the US started to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban managed to seize control of the country within about two weeks in a rapid offensive. Kabul fell on 15 August.\n\nIt sparked a mass evacuation effort from the US and its allies, as thousands of people tried to flee. Many were foreign nationals or Afghans who had worked for foreign governments.\n\nThe security situation was further heightened after the IS-K attack on the airport. A suicide bomber killed up to 170 civilians and 13 US troops outside the airport on 26 August.\n\nMany of those killed had been hoping to board evacuation flights leaving the city.\n\nThe last US soldier left Afghanistan on 31 August - the deadline President Joe Biden had set for the US withdrawal.\n\nMore than 124,000 foreigners and Afghans were flown out of the country beforehand. But some people were unable to get out in time, and evacuation efforts are ongoing.", "Alan Hawkshaw - pictured backstage at Top of the Pops while in The Shadows - composed the music for 35 films and \"countless\" television shows\n\nThe musician who wrote the theme tunes for Grange Hill, Countdown, and Channel 4 News has died aged 84.\n\nAlan Hawkshaw was also a member of The Shadows, toured with the Rolling Stones, and was sampled by Jay-Z.\n\nHe was admitted to hospital this week with pneumonia and died in the early hours of Saturday, his agent said.\n\nHis wife Christiane said: \"It was heartbreaking to say goodbye to Alan, my husband of 53 years and the love of my life.\"\n\nShe added: \"We spent the last few hours gazing at each other with love, holding hands, no need for words.\n\n\"I told him he and I were forever, and even though he has been unable to speak for the past two months, he managed a few 'forevers' and I knew he was at peace.\"\n\nHawkshaw wrote the music for more than 35 films and \"countless\" television programmes, his website 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 Tom Hourigan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the 1960s Hawkshaw was in rock'n'roll group Emile Ford & The Checkmates, which toured with the Rolling Stones.\n\nHe joined The Shadows in the 1970s and worked as Olivia Newton-John's musical director, arranger and pianist.\n\nHe was awarded best arrangement by The American Academy of Arts and Sciences for Newton-John's \"I Honestly Love You\".\n\nHawkshaw was instrumental in a host of hits and worked with artists including Barbra Streisand, Tom Jones, Lulu and David Bowie.\n\nA statement from talent agency DNA Music Limited called Hawkshaw \"one of the most sampled musicians in the world\".\n\n\"Hip hop producers in particular have plundered Alan's catalogue of works including the biggest of them all, Jay-Z with Pray which featured on the American Gangster album,\" it said.\n\n\"Alan would often joke, 'I'm one of the oldest rap artists in the world.'\n\n\"He also famously said of Streisand, 'Barbara held this song of mine eight years until I sent her a note via one of her lawyers saying please record it before one of us dies.'\"\n\nShe went on to record his song Why Let It Go.\n\nIn 2004, in association with the Performing Rights Society, he set up The Alan Hawkshaw Foundation.\n\nThe scholarship programme funded over 70 scholarships at the Leeds College of Music, now the Leeds Conservatoire, and the National Film & Television School.\n\nHawkshaw, who was from Leeds, also underwrote the Radlett Junior Tennis Tournament, in the Hertfordshire town where he lived and, according to his website, donated 10% of his income to less well-off people.", "Saab was charged with money laundering in the US\n\nOne of President Nicolás Maduro's closest aides has been extradited from Cape Verde to the United States, where he's been charged with money laundering.\n\nThe US Treasury says Alex Saab worked as a front man for Mr Maduro's regime.\n\nThe Venezuelan government suspended talks soon afterwards with the US-backed opposition.\n\nThe talks were to resolve a political crisis that has led to violence and the collapse of the economy.\n\nThe discussions had been due to resume this weekend in Mexico.\n\nThe US Treasury accuses Mr Saab - a Colombian-born businessman and Venezuelan envoy - of using his accounts in American banks to launder the proceeds of corruption.\n\nHe was detained in June last year as his plane made a stopover to refuel in Cape Verde.\n\nMr Saab said he was travelling on an official mission to obtain medical supplies to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. He denies all the charges and says they are politically motivated.\n\nThe Venezuelan government has accused the US of kidnapping diplomatic personnel and announced the suspension in negotiations with the opposition that were set to resume this weekend.\n\nMr Saab was due to be a member of the government's negotiating team in talks with the opposition in Mexico.\n\nThe suspension of talks was announced by ruling Socialist party legislator Jorge Rodriguez, who heads the government's negotiating team.\n\nMr Rodriguez called the decision \"an expression of our deepest protest against the brutal aggression\" against Mr Saab.\n\nMr Saab is accused of making large amounts of money from overvalued contracts, as well as from Venezuela's government-set exchange rate and centralised system of import and distribution of basic foods.\n\nVenezuela has faced chronic shortages of food and medicine as a result of years of political and economic crisis.\n\nVenezuela's opposition has described Mr Saab as a front man doing shady deals for the populist socialist regime of Mr Maduro.\n\nColombian President Ivan Duque tweeted that Mr Saab's extradition was \"a triumph in the fight against drug trafficking, money laundering and corruption by the dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 2018: Families have resorted to eating rotten meat in Zulia state", "The army has barracks at locations including Tidworth, Bulford and Larkhill\n\nA soldier has died in a training exercise on Salisbury Plain.\n\nThe 23-year-old was part of a crew operating an armoured vehicle in a training area near Enford, Wiltshire, on Friday.\n\nA source said the vehicle overturned and hit a tree, trapping several survivors and the dead man inside.\n\nThe presence of live ammunition meant firefighters could not use cutting equipment, so Army engineers rescued those inside, the source added.\n\nIt took several hours for the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers to free the soldiers.\n\nAn Army spokesman said: \"It is with sadness that we can confirm the death of a soldier on Salisbury Plain Training Area.\"\n\nWiltshire Police said it was investigating alongside the Health and Safety Executive and the Army.\n\nOffering condolences to the man's family, Devizes MP Danny Kruger said: \"While thankfully rare, it is vital that all serious accidents that take place during military training exercises are comprehensively investigated.\n\n\"We owe so much to the young men and women who risk their lives for our safety and we must do everything we can to keep them safe as well.\"\n\nSoldiers have been testing out new kit as part of their training exercises on Salisbury Plain\n\nA spokesperson for Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue said crews were called to the scene at 11:57, along with a heavy rescue unit. The patient was taken to Salisbury Hospital, the ambulance service added.\n\nMost recently, Salisbury has been the base for the Army Warfighting Experiment with troops testing out new kit as the Army adapts to digital warfare which is increasingly becoming more prominent across the world.\n\nThis week, private companies have also been pitching their latest gear, with soldiers testing out equipment and giving them feedback.\n\nThe British Army currently has about 76,500 soldiers, with about 15,000 based around the West Country.\n\nSalisbury Plain is the UK's largest training area for the British Army\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Bill Clinton give a thumbs up after he's asked: \"How are you feeling?\"\n\nFormer US President Bill Clinton has been discharged from a Californian hospital after spending five nights under care.\n\nMr Clinton had been receiving treatment for a urinary tract infection that developed into sepsis.\n\nThe 75-year-old gave a thumbs up to waiting news crews as he walked out of hospital with his wife, former presidential candidate Hillary.\n\nMr Clinton will return home to New York to complete his recovery, doctors said.\n\nDr Alpesh Amin, who oversaw the team of medics treating Mr Clinton, said in a statement: \"His fever and white blood cell count are normalised and he will return home to New York to finish his course of antibiotics.\"\n\nThe 42nd president, who served from 1993 to 2001, shook hands with waiting medical staff as he left the facility with his wife of 46 years.\n\nAccording to US media, Mr Clinton - who was in California to attend a private event for his foundation - had felt fatigued on Tuesday and underwent tests before being admitted to the hospital.\n\nPresident Biden said on Friday night that he had spoken with Mr Clinton and told reporters that he was \"not in any serious condition\".\n\nThe infection is the latest health scare for Mr Clinton. In 2004, aged 58, he had a quadruple bypass surgery after doctors found signs of extensive heart disease and, ten years later, he had a clogged artery opened after complaining of chest pains.\n\nNot long after his second surgery, the ex-president - known for his love of fatty foods - went vegan. He told Politico in 2016, \"I might not be around if I hadn't become a vegan. It's great.\"", "A 14-year-old boy has died after an incident at a railway station in Glasgow.\n\nOfficers were called to High Street station in the city centre at about 15:45 on Saturday.\n\nHe was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\n\nDetective Inspector Iain Nelson said: \"This has been a shocking loss of a young life and a significant investigation is under way.\"\n\nHe added: \"Specialist officers are supporting the boy's family at this incredibly difficult time.\n\n\"Enquiries continue to establish the full circumstances and anyone who can help is urged to get in touch as soon as possible.\"\n\nScotRail said High Street station would remain closed on Sunday while the police investigation was ongoing, with no trains running between Bellgrove and Partick stations.\n\nThe area around the station was cordoned off by police on Sunday\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About 16,000 runners have taken part in the event\n\nMore than 16,000 people have taken part in the 10-mile (16km) Great South Run.\n\nElite male, elite female and fast-paced club runners led the the first wave of the event, held in Portsmouth, from 10:00 BST.\n\nBritish 5,000m record holder Eilish McColgan clocked a time of 50 minutes and 43 seconds to take victory and claim a new course record time.\n\nJack Rowe crossed the finish line to win the men's elite race with a time of 47 minutes and 20 seconds.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Great Run This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 route takes runners past the Historic Dockyard and HMS Victory to the finish line at the seafront.\n\nIn recognition of the efforts of all NHS staff during the pandemic four local members of NHS staff were the official starters of this year's race.\n\nA Great South Run 5km (3 mile), junior and mini runs were held on Saturday as part of the weekend event.\n\nIt has been held in the city since 1991. The event was cancelled last year due to the pandemic.\n\nRoad closures in place for the race were expected to lifted along the route by 16:00 BST.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after she was released from house arrest in Tehran in March 2021\n\nThe British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has lost an appeal against a second jail sentence in Iran.\n\nHer family said on Saturday that there had been no court hearing, but her lawyer was informed of the outcome.\n\nFirst jailed for five years in 2016 after being accused of plotting against the regime, she was sentenced to another year's confinement in April on charges of \"spreading propaganda\".\n\nShe spent the final year of her term on parole at her parents' home in Tehran.\n\nBut concerns have been raised that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe may now be sent back to prison.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, said that his wife was \"waiting for the call to summon her back\" and said that she was \"traumatised at the thought of having to go back to jail\".\n\nShe had called her daughter several times over the course of the day to tell her she loves her, such is her fear that her return to confinement may be imminent, he said.\n\nMr Ratcliffe has not seen his wife in person since her imprisonment in 2016. Their daughter, Gabriella, who was with her mother in Tehran when she was arrested, has been with him in the UK since 2019.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss denounced the Iranian decision as \"an appalling continuation of the cruel ordeal\" Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is going through.\n\n\"We are doing all we can to help Nazanin get home to her young daughter and family and I will continue to press Iran on this point,\" Ms Truss said.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was a project manager for the charity Thomson Reuters Foundation when she was was arrested in April 2016 after having taken her daughter to Iran to celebrate the Iranian new year and to visit her parents.\n\nIranian authorities alleged that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was plotting to topple the government in Tehran and Iran's Revolutionary Guards accused her of leading a \"foreign-linked hostile network\" when she visited.\n\nShe completed a five-year sentence in March this year, only to be slapped with a fresh one-year jail term for \"propaganda against the system\".\n\nShe is one of a number of Western passport holders being held by Iran in what human rights groups condemn as a policy of hostage-taking aimed at winning concessions from foreign powers.\n\nHer husband has alleged that she is being held hostage over a long-standing debt of £400m ($550m) that Britain owes Iran for a tank deal that was never fulfilled.\n\nOver the five and a half years since Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's arrest, it has become increasingly clear that she's a chess piece in a geopolitical game, and that political calculations lie behind Iran's legal moves against her.\n\nThe UK government repeatedly says it's doing all it can to get her home. But Iran has made it abundantly clear that her freedom - and that of other dual nationals - will come at a price.\n\nIn particular, it wants the UK to repay the debt owed since before Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was born, when Iran bought tanks that were not delivered after the Islamic Revolution of 1979.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe sees the failure of her appeal - without even a court hearing - as merely a \"judicial figleaf\" for continuing to hold her hostage. And he fears that unless the debt is paid she is \"never coming home\".", "Southeastern has handed over the running of its services to the Operator of Last Resort\n\nSoutheastern's train services have been taken over by the government.\n\nFranchise holder Govia was informed of the decision last month after failing to declare more than £25m of taxpayer funding.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the Operator of Last Resort would take over the running to protect taxpayers' interests.\n\nPassengers are unlikely to see any immediate changes as trains, timetables and fares will stay the same.\n\nThe franchise was owned by Govia - a joint venture between Go-Ahead Group and Keolis.\n\nThe government stepped in after an investigation by the Department for Transport (DfT) identified Govia had not declared millions of pounds of historic taxpayer funding.\n\nThe DfT said the money had since been reclaimed.\n\nFurther investigations are being conducted and the government is considering more action, including financial penalties.\n\nAnthony Smith, chief executive of passenger watchdog Transport Focus, said: \"Passengers will want a punctual, reliable, clean train, with enough room to sit and stand, and value for money fares.\"\n\nCat Hobbs, director of public ownership campaign group We Own It, said \"privatisation is failing our railway\" and called for the whole rail network to be brought into public hands \"where it belongs\".\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.", "Father Jeff Woolnough asked to administer last rites to Sir David Amess\n\nA Catholic priest has told how he tried to administer last rites to his friend Sir David Amess.\n\nFr Jeffrey Woolnough said he rushed to Belfairs Methodist Church on Friday when he heard the MP - a devout Catholic - had been stabbed.\n\nHe said he asked a police officer if he could deliver the sacrament but was unable to enter as it was crime scene.\n\nHe added he respected the police's decision and an officer had asked colleagues if he could go inside.\n\nInstead, he prayed the rosary outside the police cordon with a fellow parishioner.\n\nFr Woolnough is the parish priest at St. Peter's Catholic Church, Eastwood, Southend, close to where Sir David was killed.\n\n\"A Catholic when they're dying would want a priest there, and for reasons that only the police know, I was not allowed in,\" he told the PA news agency.\n\n\"I got my clerics on, and got the holy oils, sort of expecting that I might be allowed on the crime scene to administer the oil of the sick,\" he said.\n\n\"I didn't know at that time what kind of condition he was in,\" Fr Woolnough said. \"It was a just-in-case matter.\"\n\nHe said it was important to respect the police's decision and that the officer he approached had radioed colleagues inside the church to relay his request.\n\n\"It would've been a great thing to do if I'd have had the chance, but it wasn't to be,\" he added.\n\nA constituent who saw Sir David Amess minutes before his murder has also spoken of his disbelief.\n\nRichard Hillgrove said the MP had been \"in fine form\" during a Zoom meeting before his weekly constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea.\n\nRichard Hillgrove, pictured with his daughter Lola, 11, spoke to Sir David Amess moments before his death\n\nHe told the BBC his video call had overrun until 12:02 GMT, three minutes before the attack took place.\n\n\"It is just senseless, shocking,\" he said.\n\nMr Hillgrove said Sir David had championed the Children's Parliament, a project that partners youngsters with sitting MPs, and his daughter, Lola, 11, was matched with Sir David.\n\n\"It was something that was so important to him, he said when he was the same age at his school they had mock parliaments, and he set up his own political party,\" he said.\n\n\"He had been in such fine form, talking about meeting next week up in Westminster - we were going to get a picture with Sir Lindsay Hoyle. He said 'leave it with me'.\n\n\"He's one of the great ones, he made sense of a crazy world.\"\n\nMr Hillgrove, who attended a special church service at St Alban the Martyr church in Westcliff-on-Sea on Sunday, said his friend had a strong faith and that prayers would be said at services across the borough.\n\n\"This is uniting everyone,\" he said. \"He stood for democracy, he was a libertarian and a Christian.\"\n\nCllr John Lamb said the Conservative office at Iveagh hall would remain open to offer support\n\nCouncillor John Lamb, chairman of Southend West constituency, said he had offered support to Sir David's family and to two parliamentary assistants who witnessed the attack on Friday.\n\n\"They are very distressed,\" he said, \"but they are coping quite well. It will hit home later.\n\n\"[Sir David] loved canvassing, and his actual work through the surgery where he could go out, meet people, listen to their problems and try and help them,\" he said.\n\n\"All the different events in Southend, he would be there, supporting young and old, whatever religion.\n\n\"He was very much a community politician.\"\n\nHe said the Conservative office will stay open to offer support to any constituent who needs it.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nNewcastle manager Steve Bruce said he will \"carry on as best I can\" after the club's new era under its Saudi Arabian owners got off to a losing start at home to Tottenham.\n\nWatched by new non-executive chair Yasir Al-Rumayyan and part-owner Amanda Staveley, Newcastle led after two minutes as Callum Wilson returned from injury to head in.\n\nThe home fans went wild with delight, a continuation of carnival-esque scenes before the match.\n\nBruce, marking his 1,000th game in management, might have felt a sense of optimism while clinging to hope he may continue in the job.\n\nBut then reality struck for a team yet to win in eight Premier League games this season as Spurs scored twice in five minutes.\n\nFirst, Tanguy Ndombele fired in a right-footed drive, before Harry Kane scored his first league goal of the season when he beat the Newcastle offside trap to dink in, the goal awarded by the video assistant referee after initially being ruled out.\n\nThe game was then halted when a fan suffered a medical emergency in the stands.\n\nSupporters and players - including Eric Dier - played their part in alerting medics to the seriousness of the situation before the game was suspended.\n\nPlay resumed with five minutes of the first half remaining, and Tottenham extended their lead when Son Heung-min slid in at the back post for his fourth of the season.\n\nNuno Espirito Santo's side, who moved up to fifth in the table, looked comfortable in the second half as the mood turned sour towards Bruce, with home fans calling for him to be sacked.\n\nA poor audition to stay in the job was made worse when substitute Jonjo Shelvey received a second yellow card for a rash challenge on Sergio Reguilon after 83 minutes.\n\nAnd despite a brief response when Dier's own goal made it 3-2, the result left Newcastle next-to-bottom of the table with a huge transformation needed to turn the club into the superpower that the new owners want them to be.\n\nAsked if he will remain in the job, Bruce said: \"That is for other people to decide. Ever since I have walked into this club, it is difficult. I knew how difficult it was going to be with the frustrations.\n\n\"I will carry on as best I can until I hear otherwise. The owners have conducted themselves respectfully since they came in. As long as I don't hear otherwise, I will go into work tomorrow.\"\n• None What Newcastle need to do to stay up - analysis\n• None Fan 'stable' after game halted because of medical emergency\n• None Go to the Newcastle page\n• None Go to the Spurs page\n\nPrior to kick-off, there was a unique atmosphere outside St James' Park and around the city.\n\nThere were some fans who celebrated the Saudi Arabian-backed takeover by wearing headdresses and draping themselves in Saudi flags, but the overwhelming majority answered the call to wear black and white as they celebrated a new era after Mike Ashley's 14-year reign came to an end.\n\nInside the stadium, the Gallowgate End was a sea of black and white as supporters waved flags and unveiled a banner quoting lyrics from Newcastle-born performer Jimmy Nail's 1995 song Big River, about the city and rebuilding hope for the future.\n\nIt must have been an uplifting sight for Al-Rumayyan, who was attending his first game in his capacity as the governor of the Saudi Public Investment Fund, which now owns 80% of the club.\n\nHe broke out into a huge grin as Wilson scored early on from Javier Manquillo's cross, while Staveley hugged her husband Mehrdad Ghodoussi.\n\nBut the way Tottenham opened up the Newcastle defence showed how much work is needed to take the club to the top end of the Premier League, let alone into contention to win the title. The priority this season is to avoid relegation.\n\nAnd the result will not have given Bruce any further security about his job.\n\nAfter reports last week that he would be sacked, with the club then saying he would remain in charge for this game 45 minutes before his pre-match press conference on Friday, his future remains unclear.\n\nBut this was a demonstration of a team struggling for form, and with little chance of the game turning Newcastle's way, chants of \"We want Brucey out\" came from the Gallowgate End after 74 minutes and continued until the end, when the final whistle was met with boos.\n\nIt was a message that would have been heard loud and clear by the new owners.\n\nOn a day when the visitors might have been distracted by the atmosphere, this was a welcome boost to Spurs boss Nuno, whose side have earned successive wins after a derby defeat by Arsenal that led to many questions about the club's direction.\n\nTottenham's front four of Ndombele, Son, Lucas Moura and Kane were a menace to the hosts, who need to prioritise a defensive midfielder among their spending plans.\n\nPrior to the game being stopped and with Spurs already leading 2-1, Moura headed on to the bar, and they looked far more likely to score in the second half than their opponents before Dier's late own goal.\n\n\"We knew we had to ignore the noise and do our job,\" said Nuno. \"We did not start well but did an amazing job after. I'm really proud of them.\n\n\"I would like to score more, the boys would also, but Newcastle are a good team with good defenders.\"\n\nCredit must also go to Reguilon and Dier for the part they played in alerting medics to the stricken supporter and to midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, who continued after the incident, having also played when Denmark team-mate Christian Eriksen had a cardiac arrest during their Euro 2020 match against Finland in June.\n\nAfter a day when there were conflicting emotions and no end of drama, it put the result into perspective.\n• None Joelinton (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Joelinton (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Second yellow card to Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United) for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jacob Murphy (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jamaal Lascelles.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ryan Fraser (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Allan Saint-Maximin. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "The courthouse in Khartoum was crowded for the start of the trial\n\nSudan's ousted long-serving leader Omar al-Bashir has gone on trial in the capital, Khartoum, in connection with the military coup that brought him to power more than three decades ago.\n\nThe 76-year-old, who has already been convicted for corruption, could face the death penalty if found guilty over his role in the 1989 coup.\n\nMore than 20 former officials are on trial alongside him.\n\nBashir was forced from power in 2019 following popular protests.\n\nThe civilian uprising started in late 2018 as anti-austerity demonstrations but quickly morphed into a call to end President Bashir's rule.\n\nOn 11 April 2019, the military announced that he had been ousted and arrested.\n\nA joint transitional government made up of the top army officials and civilians was later formed in August.\n\nOmar al-Bashir took power in a 1989 coup and was toppled by the military in 2019\n\nBashir is also wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and genocide in the western Darfur region.\n\nThe authorities in Sudan said in February they were are ready to hand the former leader over to the ICC.\n\nThe defendants including former vice presidents Ali Osman Taha and Bakri Hassan Saleh were in a caged off area in the courtroom, the AFP news agency reports.\n\n\"This court will listen to each of them and we will give each of the 28 accused the opportunity to defend themselves,\" it quotes court president Issam al-Din Mohammad Ibrahim, as saying.\n\nOne of the country's former Vice-Presidents, Ali Osman Taha, was pictured in the court room alongside other defendants\n\nIt adds that one of Bashir's 150 defence lawyers, Hashem al-Gali, said in court that their client and other defendants were facing \"a political trial\" being held \"in a hostile environment\".\n\nThe court adjourned the trial until 11 August before any statements or evidence could be given, the Reuters news agency reports.\n\nThe decision was reached to allow more lawyers and family members of defendants to attend, it adds.\n\nBashir seized power in a military coup on 30 June against the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadek al-Mahdi.\n\nAlong with other officials who served in his government Bashir is accused of having plotted the coup in which the army arrested Sudan's political leaders, suspended parliament, closed the airport and announced the overthrow on the radio.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Russia's ambassador to the UK denies Russia is withholding gas for political reasons\n\nRussia is not withholding gas supplies to Europe for political reasons, the country's ambassador to the UK has said.\n\nAndrei Kelin said that commitments to increase supply would take time to take effect.\n\nGas prices globally have soared as economies start to recover from the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe US has expressed concern that Russia may be using gas as a political weapon as household bills rise.\n\nRussia only provides about 5% of the UK's gas usage, but it accounts for about half of the EU's natural gas imports, with most of the rest coming from Norway and Algeria.\n\nSome analysts have suggested Russia could be holding back supplies to Europe to speed up approval of the newly built Nord Stream 2 pipeline running directly from Russia to Germany.\n\nThis bypasses Ukraine, and has been met with objections on geo-political as well as environmental grounds, although Russia is keen for it to come on stream.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she is not aware of any instances where Russia has not met contractual obligations on gas supply.\n\n\"Russia can only deliver gas on the basis of contractual obligations and not just like that,\" she has been quoted as saying.\n\nGazprom, Russia's majority state-owned energy company, supplies gas to Europe under two different arrangements: long-term contracts often lasting from 10 to 25 years, and \"spot\" deals or one-off purchases for a fixed amount of gas.\n\nData from Gazprom's own electronic sales platform suggests very few \"spot\" sales are currently taking place - which would result in little gas being supplied to Europe under this mechanism.\n\nHowever, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said claims Russia is withholding gas to put pressure on Germany over Nord Stream 2 are \"complete rubbish... and politically motivated tittle-tattle\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, Mr Kelin echoed Mr Putin.\n\n\"Certainly, we do not withhold it for political reasons. But gas problems, this is at the pump stations, of course,\" he said.\n\nMr Putin has described the gas allegations as \"blather\", and yet the Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that German Nord Stream 2 approval \"would give a positive signal and cool off the current situation\".\n\nMr Kelin said he didn't see \"any contradiction\" with that.\n\nHe said the pipeline was ready and that \"we expect final go-ahead from Germany. So as soon as it will happen then of course new gas supplies will come from this pipeline\".\n\nAsked whether Russia would carry on increasing the amount of gas for western Europe if Germany did not approve the pipeline quickly, Mr Kelin said: \"As much as we can do that.\n\n\"We have increased supplies via Ukraine pipeline by 10%, but as we understand [it] we cannot do more because the equipment at this pipeline has never been modernised and has never been reconstructed so it is simply dangerous to use it.\"\n\nWhen challenged about a lack of evidence that Russia has increased supply through the Ukraine by 10%, Mr Kelin said he was not a specialist in that area.\n\nHe added that supply would not increase so soon after Mr Putin announcing that it would.\n\nHe said: \"Gas travels at not the speed of light of course, it goes very slowly by that.\"\n\n\"So what do you expect - once the president has said, tomorrow prices will go down? This is not possible.\"\n\nWhen asked whether Russia was doing everything it could to get more and cheaper gas to Western Europe, Mr Kelin said Nord Stream 2 would help.\n\nThe Russian ambassador to the UK said he could not say if gas supplies would rise from November, but said there had already been a 15% increase.\n\nAddressing whether Nord Stream 2 would give Russia huge powers over western Europe just by \"using a tap\", Mr Kelin dismissed those suggestions as \"nonsense\" and joked whether such a tap might be in the basement of his embassy.\n\n\"Of course, it is nonsense,\" he said.\n\nAsked if gas supplies would increase from 1 November whether or not Nord Stream 2 was granted approval, Mr Kelin said: \"I simply do not know. But we have, as I said, we increase it by 15% right now.\"\n\nMr Kelin also questioned the effect of Russian gas supply on price increases in the UK, saying: \"We watch what is happening in the UK, but the UK as far as I understand has only this year from Gazprom has about 3% - it is just nothing.\"\n\nHe added that if there was an opportunity for \"rescue we will do what we can of course to alleviate difficult conditions which are now being created through [the] crisis\".", "Medical science has transformed the pandemic, and the experimental technologies that helped develop vaccines in record time have strapped rocket boosters to scientific ambitions. Could we be entering a golden age of new vaccines?\n\nIf you head to the cutting edge of vaccinology you will find Prof Dame Sarah Gilbert, from the Jenner Institute and the architect of the Oxford vaccine.\n\nUsing a revolutionary technology, the team at Oxford had a vaccine ready to start clinical trials in just 65 days. In partnership with pharma giant AstraZeneca, more than 1.5 billion doses have been distributed around the world.\n\nYou might assume that once you had reached the top of your professional tree you would be free to think profound thoughts that push the boundaries of human knowledge. Yet nearly every time I interview Prof Gilbert, I get the sense that a huge chunk of her time is taken up buying fridges and freezers. After all, if you can't keep viral samples and prototype vaccines cold then you can't do vaccine research.\n\n\"I'm still being asked for more,\" Prof Gilbert tells me.\n\nBut the kitchen, where such appliances are most commonly found, is not a bad place to build an understanding of the leap in vaccine science achieved by Prof Gilbert and her contemporaries.\n\nThe new generation of vaccines are quick to make and highly flexible. \"It's like decorating a cake,\" says Prof Gilbert.\n\nThe old-school method of developing vaccines means you must go back to the raw materials and start from scratch for every vaccine you make. It is like starting with a bench of flour, sugar, eggs and butter. The next step is to take the offending virus, or other disease-causing microbes, and either kill it or weaken it to make a vaccine.\n\nTake the two seasonal flu vaccines that are given each year. The adult jab is made by growing influenza viruses inside eggs. The viruses are then purified and killed to make the vaccine. The nasal spray for children has live viruses, but these are made weak and unstable so they can grow in the cooler temperatures of the nose, but not in the warmth of the lungs.\n\nBut it takes a lot of work to start from scratch for every new disease and there is plenty that can go wrong. You can end up with the vaccine-equivalent of a soggy bottom.\n\nThe development of Oxford's coronavirus vaccine used a completely different approach known as \"plug-and-play\".\n\nWith this type of vaccine most of the work has already been done - the cake has been pre-baked, it just needs to be \"decorated\" in order to match its target.\n\n\"We've got the cake and we can put a cherry on top, or we can put some pistachios on top if we want a different vaccine, we just add the last bit and then we're ready to go,\" Prof Gilbert tells Inside Health.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine's \"cake\" - or platform, to employ the scientific term - is a virus that causes the common cold in chimpanzees. It has been genetically modified to make it safe so that it cannot cause an infection in people. The \"decoration\" is whichever genetic blueprint is needed to train the immune system to attack. Such a blueprint is added to the cake and job done.\n\nIt was this work, applied to the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus, that led to Prof Gilbert's many accolades which range from a damehood to a Barbie doll made in her image. \"Barbie's comfortably ensconced in my office, but yeah I am thinking of sending Barbie as a stand-in.\n\n\"It would be useful to have a double who could go and do interviews for me,\" she says.\n\nIt would be useful to have a double...I am thinking of sending Barbie as a stand-in\n\nTwo of the other big Covid vaccines - one made by Pfizer-BioNTech and the other by Moderna - use another style of highly adaptable plug-and-play vaccine technology. And all these technologies should make it quicker and easier to develop the vaccines of the future.\n\n\"There's a lot of vaccine development that we need to do now that we can do it,\" says Prof Gilbert.\n\nTop of her list of targets are the official \"priority pathogens\". While Covid was a surprise, these are the deadly known threats that are bubbling away. They have the potential to cause large outbreaks and could be the pandemics of the future. Vaccines against them would save lives.\n\nSome of this work is already under way. Oxford has started clinical trials of a plague vaccine using its plug-and-play technology. Plague infamously caused the Black Death pandemic killing hundreds of millions of people. Separately Moderna is already looking at using its own mRNA technology to make a Nipah vaccine. The virus kills up to three-quarters of infected people.\n\nYet, the big barrier for tackling these diseases will be the same as it has always been - money. They affect some of the poorest parts of the world and there is concern that, even in the wake of pandemic, research won't be funded.\n\nAnd, while vaccine technology has leapt forward - the old enemies are still the same and some have tricksy quirks that mean they pose monumental challenges.\n\nAll vaccines need a target - called an antigen - that they train the immune system to attack.\n\nFor all the problems Covid has caused, the virus was a pretty simple beast and the target antigen was blatantly obvious. The outer surface of the virus is covered in spike proteins. So all researchers had to do was plug in the genetic blueprints for the spike protein, train the body to recognise it and be pretty confident that the vaccine was going to work.\n\nHowever, the target antigen is not obvious in other more complex microbes such as the three big killers - malaria, HIV and tuberculosis. HIV is a constantly moving target. It is a shape-shifter that rapidly mutates in order to alter its appearance and outwit our immune system. It is hard to know how to pin it down.\n\nWe already have vaccines against malaria and tuberculosis, but they are far from perfect.\n\nThe world rightly celebrated the rollout of the first malaria vaccine in Africa, this month, but it is only about 30% effective at preventing severe disease. That's because the malaria parasite has a complex life-cycle, during which it morphs into a variety of forms, across two species. A tuberculosis bacterium is also far more complex than a coronavirus.\n\nThere's a long list of antigens to choose from in TB and malaria, and the right one has remained frustratingly elusive.\n\n\"There's such a huge range of choices, and it's not obvious what we should be using,\" Prof Gilbert tells me. \"It's taking a long time to find the right antigen, so that's much more difficult. They are much more difficult than with these outbreak pathogens, which are fairly simple viruses.\"\n\nHowever, BioNTech is using its tech to try to develop an HIV vaccine.\n\nSo, if plug-and-play was the revolution that was proven during the pandemic, what's next on the horizon?\n\n\"I think the next big leap in vaccines, rather than totally new technologies, is making the technologies we've got more stable, that will be great,\" says Prof Gilbert.\n\nVaccines are a bit like Goldilocks - they need to be kept at just the right temperature from the moment they're made to the moment they're given. It means there's a global network of freezers, fridges, cold boxes and so on, known as the cold chain. But it is hard to get vaccines to some of the remotest and poorest parts of the world, particularly where there is no electricity.\n\nShe also says it would be \"really good\" if we could get vaccines that don't require needles.\n\nIt might be better to stop giving some vaccines as injections. You may get a better immune response to some lung infections (such as Covid) by giving them as a spray. \"Because that's where the virus itself would normally go, it's different if you've got a blood-borne infection like Dengue fever.\"\n\n\"But this is something that we can't do very quickly, there is quite a lot of vaccine testing to be done\".\n\nInside Health is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 21:00 BST on Tuesdays and 15:30 BST on Wednesdays, and is available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.", "Staff at University of Leicester joined the strike in 2019\n\nStudents could face more strike action at universities this term after the academics' union opened a ballot over pay, pensions and conditions.\n\nUniversity and College Union (UCU) general secretary Jo Grady said the UK's flagship university sector was built on the \"exploitation of staff\".\n\nThey had experienced a decade of pension cuts, collapsing pay and insecure contracts, she said.\n\nUniversity employers said the prospect of disruption was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe ballot represents a ramping up of the long-running dispute between UCU members and university employers, with staff at 152 institutions being balloted.\n\nA total of 78 of these are being consulted during the next three weeks over pay and working conditions, with another 68 facing two ballots - over pay and conditions, plus the USS pensions scheme.\n\nThe dispute over pensions has been rumbling on for nearly a decade, and has been kicked into action again after what the UCU describes as a \"flawed valuation of the USS pension fund\" wiped \"an estimated 35% off the value of a typical pension\".\n\nThe pay dispute has led to numerous strike days over the past two years, and was only paused during the pandemic.\n\nMs Grady said: \"There is a sense that we are at a breaking point and a sense that this is a sector that needs saving. I don't think I can over-articulate that enough.\n\n\"The idea that staff would want to go out on strike again could not be further from the truth.\"\n\nShe accused institutions of spending their increased fee and research income on extravagant building projects, advertising and advice from consultants, rather than the staff who are teaching young people.\n\nAnd she added that \"exploitative contracts\" were the \"dirty secret\" of a higher education sector which requires students to pay £9,000-plus fees a year for tuition.\n\nThe union estimates that there are some 74,000 staff working on such temporary contracts.\n\nThe UCU says pay for university staff fell by 17.6% relative to inflation between 2009 and 2019.\n\nSince then employers made further below-inflation offers, despite university income from tuition fees growing by a third in the last five years, it said.\n\nThe University and Colleges Employers Association has offered guaranteed increases of at least 1.5% to the pay spine.\n\nHigher percentage rises were pledged for lower-paid staff, up to a maximum of 3.6%.\n\nChief executive Raj Jethwa said: \"We are disappointed that UCU is encouraging its members to ballot for action which is specifically designed to disrupt teaching and learning for students who have endured so many recent upheavals.\"\n\nMr Jethwa continued: \"The final offer from employers was fair and meaningful in the context of the sector's ongoing delicate financial situation.\n\n\"We very much hope the trade union members understand the considerable pressures which continue to face their HE [higher education] institutions. The financial impact of Covid-19 continues to affect these HE institutions, alongside declines in other income sources.\"\n\nHe added that most staff understood the \"financial realities facing their institutions\".", "Tim Perry and Aaron Parsons are among the first batch of tenants who have moved into 12 new houses\n\nA formerly homeless couple have a chance to buy a house for £1 under a scheme to help key workers and others on to the property ladder.\n\nTim Perry and Aaron Parsons are among the first tenants who have moved into 12 new houses at a development in Wednesfield, Wolverhampton.\n\nThey become eligible for the £1 purchase on the 25th anniversary of moving in.\n\nMr Perry, a machine press operator, said he felt \"ecstatic\", adding: \"[I'm] still pinching myself over it. It feels so weird and [I'm] so blissfully happy.\"\n\nHelp to Own was set up by the city council, West Midlands Combined Authority, and fund management business Frontier Development Capital Ltd, for \"working families struggling to save enough deposit to fulfil their dream of home ownership\".\n\nThe council said the scheme provided long-term rent security and enabled tenants to build up a \"loyalty premium\" as they made their monthly payments.\n\nThis can be taken as cash if they leave the scheme within 20 years, or they can buy the home for just £1 a quarter of a century after joining.\n\nThe 100 properties, being built on Lakefield Road at The Marches development, are a mix of two, three and four-bedroom houses.\n\nSo far, 86 of the houses have been offered to successful applicants\n\nMr Perry said the lack of a deposit had appealed, adding \"it's pretty much you can move in after just paying application fees and solicitors' fees\".\n\nHe said previously he had been \"sofa surfing on friends' couches and stuff\".\n\nNHS staff and other key workers are also among the first 32 tenants to receive the keys to their new homes under the initiative.\n\nSo far, 86 of the houses have been offered to successful applicants, and more than 41% of the homes will go to a key worker, according to those behind the scheme.\n\nTim Perry said he was \"still pinching\" himself\n\nHelp to Own is not a social housing scheme, but is available to anyone struggling to get on the property ladder, subject to credit checks.\n\nThe council has put £5.7m into the project, while the combined authority has contributed £4.7m.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "The man arrested by police following the killing of the MP Sir David Amess has been named as Ali Harbi Ali.\n\nThe 25-year-old is being held under the Terrorism Act and officers have until Friday to question him.\n\nWhitehall officials confirmed the man's name to the BBC, and said he was a British man of Somali heritage.\n\nThe BBC understands Mr Ali was referred to the counter-terrorist Prevent scheme some years ago, but was never a formal subject of interest to MI5.\n\nIt also understands that his father, Harbi Ali Kullane, who was previously an adviser to Somalia's prime minister, has been visited by police who have taken his phone for analysis.\n\nPolice officers have spent the weekend searching three addresses in the London area.\n\nIt is thought a converted Victorian property in Lady Somerset Road in north-west London is linked to the investigation. Neighbours said officers started searching it late on Friday night.\n\nFurther searches, also believed to be part of the inquiry, have been taking place at a property in Bounds Green Road, north London, and another in Cranmer Road, Croydon.\n\nA police search at a house in north London is thought to be linked to the inquiry\n\nSir David, who had been a Conservative MP since 1983, was stabbed multiple times during a regular Friday meeting with his Southend West constituents at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.\n\nSouthend councillor John Lamb said he has since spoken to two of Sir David's assistants who were at the constituency surgery with Sir David at the time of the attack.\n\nHe described how one was in the room with Sir David taking notes. \"All of a sudden there was a scream from her, because the person deliberately whipped out a knife and started stabbing David,\" he said.\n\n\"The other lady who was getting names from people outside, she came running in and saw poor David had been stabbed.\"\n\nHe said both were quite distressed but were \"coping quite well\" under the circumstances.\n\nCatholic priest Father Jeff Woolnough said he tried to administer last rites to Sir David shortly after the stabbing but police told him he could not enter a crime scene. Instead, he prayed for his friend on the street behind a police cordon.\n\nAli Harbi Ali was initially arrested on suspicion of murder and held in Essex.\n\nHe has since been transferred to a London police station where he was further detained under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act.\n\nPolice say they are not looking for anyone else for now.\n\nIt is thought Ali Harbi Ali did not spend long in the Prevent programme - which aims to stop people becoming radicalised.\n\nTeachers, members of the public, the NHS and others can refer individuals to a local panel of police, social workers and other experts who decide whether and how to intervene in their lives.\n\nEngagement in the scheme is voluntary and it is not a criminal sanction.\n\nSir David, 69, who was married with four daughters and a son, is the second MP to be killed in recent years following the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox in June 2016.\n\nThe latest attack has raised concerns for the safety of MPs, many of whom hold constituency surgeries which anyone can attend.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said MPs had access to a \"panoply\" of security measures - many of which were put in place after Ms Cox's murder - but said changes could be made to constituency surgeries.\n\nAny measures needed to be proportionate, she told the BBC's Andrew Marr show. \"We're here to serve, we're here to be accessible to the British public.\"\n\nMs Patel described hearing the news that Sir David had died, saying \"our worlds were shattered\".\n\nA post-mortem examination of Sir David took place on Saturday, police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Home Secretary Priti Patel says security measures for MPs are \"being looked at\"\n\nMeanwhile, Tory MP Andrew Rosindell said the killing of his friend and fellow Essex MP \"shouldn't change things in a way that stops us going about our democratic role\".\n\n\"There's got to be some balance to this. I don't have an answer,\" he told BBC Breakfast on Sunday. \"This is not the Britain I want, this is not the country that we're used to.\"\n\nLabour's Diane Abbott MP said she would prefer to meet constituents behind a screen to prevent possible stabbing attacks.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said he wanted to avoid a knee-jerk reaction but insisted \"the best had to come out of this hideous killing\".\n\nHe said security measures would be reviewed to improve MPs' safety and urged MPs to take up measures already available to them.\n\nPeople in Leigh-on Sea have been remembering Sir David\n\nConservative MP Mark Francois described his colleague as his \"oldest and best friend\" as he laid flowers\n\nTributes to Sir David have been pouring in from politicians and constituents, with the home secretary saying his \"infectious personality\" meant he \"touched so many lives\".\n\nOver the weekend, people have gathered for a candlelit vigil in Leigh-on-Sea to mark Sir David's life and attended a church service to share their memories of him.\n\nMany constituents have reflected on his gentle nature and willingness to listen and to help.\n\nSir David had long campaigned for Southend to be given city status. On Sunday, Sir Lindsay Hoyle said that would be \"a good thing to do\" in his memory.", "Conservative MP Sir David Amess was speaking to voters at a church in the town of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, when he was stabbed to death on Friday. Here's how the emergency services responded in the initial aftermath of the attack.", "A patient is taken to a specialist hospital for Covid treatment in Moscow\n\nRussia on Saturday recorded 1,000 Covid-related deaths in a single day for the first time since the pandemic began.\n\nThe figure had been rising all week, with the Kremlin blaming the Russian people for not taking up vaccination.\n\nOnly about a third of the population has had a jab, amid wide distrust of the vaccines.\n\nRussia's figure of 222,000 Covid deaths is the highest in Europe, with another 33,000 infections reported on Saturday.\n\nThe government has avoided bringing in strict restrictions because it says it needs to keep the economy working.\n\nThe Kremlin has instead focused on public apathy on vaccination.\n\nThis week, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: \"In a situation where infections are growing, it is necessary to continue to explain to people that they must get vaccinated.\n\n\"It is really irresponsible not to get vaccinated. It kills,\" he said.\n\nThe government insists the health system has not been overwhelmed and can cope with the rising number of patients.\n\nHowever, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko urged doctors who had left practices because of Covid fears to get vaccinated and come back to work.\n\nThe number of active cases of infected people in Russia is around 750,000 - also the highest it has been since records started in February 2020.\n\nOverall infections since the outbreak began are now closing in on 8 million.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to see the full interactive\n\nThe figures for the percentage of Russians who have had single and full vaccination are surprisingly close together - both just short of a third of the population.\n\nThis suggests a large number of people do not want to be vaccinated at all. Recent opinion polls suggested that figure could be more than 50%.\n\nRussia has not been slow in developing vaccines. Its Sputnik V was rolled out quickly last year and it has approved three others.\n\nBut it appears to have failed to convince many at home they are either necessary or reliable.\n\nIt has had more success selling Sputnik V around the world. But although the vaccine was made available for other countries quickly, it also ran into delivery issues, with some nations unable to get their doses on time.\n\nAbout 70 nations have authorised the use of Sputnik V but, like Russia's other vaccines, it has yet to be approved by the World Health Organization.\n\nThis, along with the lack of international vaccines inside Russia, has led some Russians to take advantage of vaccination tour packages.\n\nSerbia - which Russians can enter without a visa - is one nation where visitors can get a jab of a vaccine such as Pfizer, and open up the possibility of travelling around the world.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer have visited Leigh-on-Sea to pay tribute to Conservative MP Sir David Amess, who was stabbed to death on Friday.", "People in Leigh-on Sea have been remembering Sir David\n\nThe family of MP Sir David Amess have said their hearts are shattered as they called on people to \"set aside hatred and work towards togetherness\".\n\nThe Conservative MP was stabbed multiple times during a meeting with his constituents in Essex on Friday.\n\nA 25-year-old British man is being held under the Terrorism Act.\n\nIn a statement, his family said they were trying to understand \"why this awful thing has occurred... nobody should die in that way. Nobody\".\n\nSir David, 69, was married with four daughters and a son.\n\nThe family said the \"wonderful\" tributes paid to him by friends, constituents and the public had given them strength.\n\n\"We have realised from tributes paid that there was far, far more to David than even we, those closest to him, knew,\" they added.\n\n\"We are enormously proud of him. Our hearts are shattered.\"\n\nOn Monday afternoon, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will lead MPs in paying tribute to their late colleague in the House of Commons.\n\nPoliticians will have at least two hours from 15:30 BST to share their memories of Sir David, after prayers and a minute's silence. The tributes will be followed by a service at St Margaret's Church, next to Parliament.\n\nA Conservative MP since 1983 - first in Basildon and, from 1997, in Southend West - he was a champion for the town he represented, particularly in his long-running campaign to make Southend a city.\n\nHis family have asked people to support campaigns that he was involved in, including fundraising for a memorial to Dame Vera Lynn, who he thought \"epitomised the strength of the nation\" - and to help Southend gain city status.\n\nThey described Sir David as strong and courageous, a patriot and a man of peace.\n\n\"We ask people to set aside their differences and show kindness and love to all. Please let some good come from this tragedy.\n\n\"We are absolutely broken, but we will survive and carry on for the sake of a wonderful and inspiring man.\"\n\nRaised as a Roman Catholic, Sir David was known politically as a social conservative and a prominent campaigner against abortion.\n\nHe was also a committed campaigner on animal welfare issues, and supported a ban on fox hunting.\n\nDavid and his wife Julia, pictured in 1990, with three of their five children\n\nTributes to Sir David have been pouring in from politicians and constituents, with Home Secretary Priti Patel saying his \"infectious personality\" meant he \"touched so many lives\".\n\nOver the weekend, people gathered for candlelit vigils in Leigh-on-Sea to mark Sir David's life and attended a church service to share their memories of him.\n\nMany constituents have reflected on his gentle nature and willingness to listen and to help.\n\nA police search at a house in north London is thought to be linked to the inquiry\n\nDetectives are continuing to hold the 25-year-old man at a London police station and have until Friday to question him.\n\nWhitehall officials confirmed the man's name as Ali Harbi Ali, and said he was a British man of Somali heritage.\n\nThe BBC understands he was referred to the counter-terrorist Prevent scheme some years ago, but was never a formal subject of interest to MI5.\n\nIt also understands that his father, Harbi Ali Kullane, who was previously an adviser to Somalia's prime minister, has been visited by police who have taken his phone for analysis.\n\nPolice officers have spent the weekend searching three addresses in London.\n\nIt is thought a converted Victorian property in Lady Somerset Road in north-west London is linked to the investigation. Neighbours said officers started searching it late on Friday night.\n\nFurther searches, also believed to be part of the inquiry, have been taking place at a property in Bounds Green Road, north London, and another in Cranmer Road, Croydon, south London.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe supporter who collapsed, prompting Newcastle United's Premier League game against Tottenham Hotspur to be halted, is \"stable and responsive\" in hospital.\n\nFans in the East Stand at St James' Park alerted players and officials to the incident in the 40th minute.\n\nTottenham's Sergio Reguilon spoke to the referee and Eric Dier raced to the touchline to urge medical staff to attend with a defibrillator.\n\nBoth teams were told to leave the pitch as the game was suspended.\n\nTottenham were leading 2-1 and had been about to take a corner when Reguilon reacted quickly to a commotion in the crowd and told referee Andre Marriner that a section of fans were calling for assistance.\n\nPlayers from both teams then signalled the need for medical staff, including Tottenham defender Dier, before the sides left the pitch while the fan received help.\n\nAfter a delay of more than 20 minutes the rest of the half plus seven minutes of added time were played, with Tottenham scoring a third goal before the delayed interval through Son Heung-min.\n\nIn a statement, Newcastle confirmed the supporter's condition and added: \"The club would like to thank fans for their swift actions in raising the alarm and praise those who provided immediate chest compressions, as well as thanking the on-site medical professionals who swiftly administered emergency treatment using a defibrillator located close to the incident.\n\n\"Newcastle United club doctor, Dr Paul Catterson, also attended the incident to offer additional support with an additional defibrillator.\n\n\"Our best wishes go to the supporter and their loved ones and we hope for a swift and full recovery.\"\n\nReguilon told BBC Sport: \"I saw the fans waving and I saw a guy lying down. I saw something wrong had happened. I looked at the gaffer and he stopped the match. I think now everything is OK and 100% happiness.\n\n\"It was very strange. We went to the dressing room and I was looking at the man lying down. I was nervous because I don't like to watch that.\"\n\nNewcastle forward Callum Wilson spoke of the importance of the crowd relaying the message that there was a problem.\n\n\"I think it was massive really - the crowd were fantastic and they alerted everyone,\" he told Sky Sports.\n\n\"You could hear fans whistling, shouting, then we saw the space clear where this guy was receiving CPR and then you know how serious it is.\n\n\"It was disturbing to see the guy like that. We wish him well and wish him a speedy recovery.\"\n\nSpurs striker Harry Kane added: \"Firstly, we want to say best wishes to the guy in the stands - it was not a good sight to see. We hear that he might be stable now, so we're thankful to the medical teams and the fans who were doing the CPR.\n\n\"Hopefully he's OK and we wish him all the best from all the players at Tottenham.\"\n\nFabrice Muamba, who collapsed on the pitch at White Hart Lane during Bolton's game against Tottenham in 2012, said: \"Once again today shows how important it is to have a defibrillator nearby and how the quick response of people ensures a better chance of survival. I really hope the person makes a speedy recovery.\"\n• None 'You don't wanna be like me': The brand new series of hit comedy Dave is streaming now\n• None Paris is at breaking point in this tense crime drama", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands join a protest to back the military and oppose the government\n\nOpponents of Sudan's transition to democracy took to the streets of Khartoum on Saturday to call on the army to take control of the country.\n\nSeveral thousand demonstrators gathered outside the presidential palace as the country's political crisis deepens.\n\nMilitary and civilian groups have been sharing power since the toppling of President Omar al-Bashir in 2019.\n\nHowever, tensions have grown since a coup attempt attributed to followers of Mr Bashir was foiled in September.\n\nSince then, military leaders have been demanding reforms to the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition, a civilian alliance which led the anti-Bashir protests and formed a key part of the transitional government. The armed forces have also called for the replacement of the cabinet.\n\nHowever, civilian leaders say that the demands are part of a power grab from the armed forces.\n\nSupport for the transitional government has slumped in recent months amid economic woe\n\nOn Saturday, pro-military demonstrators chanted \"down with the hunger government\" and called for General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the armed forces and Sudan's joint military-civilian Sovereign Council, to instigate a coup and seize control of the country.\n\n\"We need a military government, the current government has failed to bring us justice and equality,\" one protester told AFP.\n\nUnlike previous demonstrations in the country, protesters were allowed to reach the gates of the presidential palace and there was little police presence.\n\nPro-government protesters have also called a rally on Thursday in response to Saturday's demonstrations.\n\nOn Friday, Sudan's civilian Prime Minister, Abdallah Hamdok, unveiled a plan to tackle what he called the country's \"worst and most dangerous\" political crisis in its two-year transition.\n\n\"I am not neutral or a mediator in this conflict. My clear and firm position is complete alignment to the civilian democratic transition,\" he said.\n\nMr Hamdok was sworn in as Prime Minister in August 2019, after mass protests saw the military step in and end the 30-year-rule of Omar al-Bashir in April.\n\nBut support for the transitional government has slumped in recent months as economic reforms spearheaded by Mr Hamdok have seen fuel subsidies slashed and inflation soar.", "People have been leaving tributes in Leigh-on-Sea in memory of Sir David Amess\n\nThe government's Prevent scheme - which aims to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting them - needs urgent work, the former justice secretary has said.\n\nRobert Buckland said there needs to be more of a \"joined up\" approach to monitor individuals.\n\nIt has emerged that the man suspected of killing Sir David Amess had been referred to Prevent some years ago.\n\nThe scheme is already being reviewed to ensure it is \"fit for purpose\", Home Secretary Priti Patel said.\n\nThe Prevent scheme is part of the government's overall counter-terrorism strategy. It aims to reduce the terror threat to the UK by stopping people from being drawn into terrorism.\n\nIn the year to March 2020, just over 6,000 people were referred to the Prevent scheme in England and Wales, because of concerns they were at risk of radicalisation.\n\nOnce someone is referred to the scheme, an assessment is made about whether further action is needed.\n\nIn some cases - about 11% of referrals - the person is placed on the government's Channel scheme for support such as mentoring. The most common referrals to Channel were for right-wing radicalisation (43%), followed by Islamist radicalisation (30%), in the year to March 2020.\n\nEngagement in the Prevent scheme is voluntary and it is not a criminal sanction.\n\nThe BBC understands that Ali Harbi Ali, the man arrested by police following the murder of MP Sir David on Friday, had been referred to Prevent some years ago.\n\nHowever, it is thought Mr Ali, 25, did not spend long in the Prevent programme, and he was never a formal subject of interest to MI5.\n\nSpeaking to Times Radio on Sunday, Mr Buckland - who was the government's justice secretary until September - said he thought there needed to be more cooperation between agencies.\n\n\"I very much hope that when it comes to community supervision and community involvement with people like this particular individual, that it is much more joined-up between health services, education, whatever it might be, who have had some involvement with that individual in the past,\" he said.\n\n\"And I think that that element of being joined-up is what we really need to work on urgently.\"\n\nRobert Buckland was justice secretary until he was replaced last month\n\nAsked how agencies might work more closely, Mr Buckland said: \"There may be records or information from schools or colleges or from the health service which can tell us much more about individuals and their activities.\n\n\"I think we need to join this up much more effectively because what we're talking about here is community prevention.\n\n\"We've got to make sure that every arm of the state is absolutely working together in order to understand as much as possible about these individuals.\"\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Ms Patel said that Prevent was being independently reviewed \"right now\".\n\nThe independent review began earlier this year and is being led by William Shawcross, the former head of the charity watchdog the Charity Commission.\n\n\"It's timely to do that, we have to learn, we obviously constantly have to learn, not just from incidences that have taken place but how we can strengthen our programmes.\"\n\nShe added: \"We want to ensure that it is fit for purpose, robust, doing the right thing. But importantly learning lessons, always building upon what is working and addressing any gaps or issues where the system needs strengthening.\"", "A third party has been appointed by the council to clear the worst of the rubbish\n\nA last-ditch deal could bring an end to Brighton's bin strike, a union has said.\n\nGMB and council officials spent most of Sunday thrashing out a new agreement amid the increasingly bitter row over bin lorry drivers' pay.\n\nIf members approve the deal, 30 days of industrial action due to launch on Thursday would be cancelled.\n\nAs both sides met, private firms were called in to tackle piles of street rubbish dumped in the past fortnight.\n\nGary Palmer, GMB organiser, said the agreement between Brighton & Hove City Council and the union could take effect from Tuesday if it is signed off.\n\n\"If the agreement is passed by both parties, GMB will immediately suspend 30 days of strike action due to start on October 21.\"\n\nMountains of waste have accumulated around the city for almost two weeks amid attempts to end the dispute.\n\nBrighton & Hove City Council said it had only called in third parties as blocked pavements and vermin became a \"growing and serious\" health issue.\n\nIt said fires had been started in some communal bins over recent days, and pedestrians were increasingly at risk as more waste was dumped on pavements.\n\nThe council said the rubbish was now a serious health and safety issue\n\nThe Green-led authority met union officials as both sides attempted to agree a formal resolution in the row over changes to driver rounds and pay.\n\nA spokesperson said the council respected the decision by some of its Cityclean staff to strike, and it was \"keen to address the issues raised\" in order to \"get the city clean as soon as possible\".\n\nThe council said it was putting forward a \"significant and generous pay offer, benefiting some of the lowest paid staff across the whole council, as well as the Cityclean service\".\n\nGMB organiser Mr Palmer had previously said Sunday's talks could usher in the start of city-wide rubbish clearance.\n\nA planned break in the strike is due to take place between Monday and Wednesday, allowing some rubbish to be collected.\n\nRubbish continues to pile up around Brighton as the strike enters its 13th day\n\nMeanwhile, GMB General Secretary Gary Smith has called for a Brighton City Councillor to be sacked for comparing striking workers to terrorists.\n\nIn a meeting last week, Conservative councillor Joe Miller said: \"I hate to refer to Maggie Thatcher, but this is a similar situation - you can't negotiate with terrorists.\"\n\nMr Smith has written to the joint chairmen of the Conservative Party - Ben Elliot and Oliver Dowden MP - calling for Councillor Miller to be removed from the party.\n\nMr Miller previously said he would not be \"bullied\" by the GMB.\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.", "Carl Whalley, 57, died in the house collapse on Friday\n\nA man killed in a house collapse was \"the centre of our world\", his family has said.\n\nCarl Whalley, 57, died amid reports of a suspected explosion in Clayton-le-Woods on Friday.\n\nLancashire Police said officers continued attempts to establish the cause of a house fire that destroyed the Kirkby Avenue property.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Whalley's family said they were \"devastated\" by the loss of a \"much-loved family member\".\n\n\"No amount of time will lessen the pain that we are all going through,\" they said.\n\n\"He was the centre of our world and it has been ripped apart.\"\n\nPolice and the fire service have launched a joint investigation\n\nHis daughter Charlotte added: \"Everything I do in my life I do to make my Mum and Dad proud.\n\n\"I want to carry on in my Dad's footsteps and make sure that his legacy lives on forever. He taught me everything I know and my life will never be the same without him.\"\n\nNeighbours have been returning to their homes after the area was evacuated following the blast at about 13:30 BST on Friday.\n\nOne resident said: \"My wife thought a washing machine had blown up until we went outside and the whole of the front of the house had blown out completely.\"\n\nDet Con Insp Zoe Russo, from Lancashire Police, said: \"Our investigation into the incident, which we now know was a house fire, is in its early stages and we are working with Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service and associated partner agencies to establish the cause of the incident.\n\n\"I would like to thank the nearby residents for their patience, especially those who have had to be evacuated from their houses.\"\n\nPolice are appealing for anyone with information or CCTV footage of the surrounding area to contact them.\n\nWhile a cordon remains around the property, a number of the surrounding roads have reopened.\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 number of floral tributes have been left near the scene where Sir David Amess was stabbed\n\nThe killing of Sir David Amess has shocked the country. But news of the MP's death has perhaps been felt most keenly in his Essex constituency, where he was known to and beloved by many. A day after he was attacked while serving the public, as he had done for almost 40 years, the local community tries to make sense of what happened.\n\nThe mood in Leigh-on-Sea is one of bewilderment. Sir David Amess had represented the area for decades and his constituents speak warmly of a man who dedicated his life to serving them.\n\nAs detectives attempt to piece together possible motives for his fatal stabbing, a thick gathering of police and global media has descended upon the usually quiet Essex town.\n\nPeople have gathered to pay tributes outside the Belfairs Methodist Church, on Eastwood Road North, where Sir David was attacked.\n\nSir David died at the scene after being stabbed multiple times\n\nResident Audrey Martin remembered her MP as \"an absolute gentleman\" who \"dedicated his whole life to his constituents here\".\n\n\"For many, many years he's just been a pillar of society, helping out all different people,\" she said.\n\nShe told the BBC how Sir David had \"taken time out\" to speak to her when she first moved to the area from Scotland.\n\n\"I just wanted to talk and just tell him how I was feeling at that moment in time, moving to Leigh-on-Sea, leaving my friends behind in Scotland and not having friends here.\n\n\"He just had this aura about him.\"\n\nAbigail Mkhize held back tears as she recalled how Sir David had helped her with her Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).\n\n\"Six years ago I was having chemotherapy and because I was working as an agency nurse, I had problems with getting the help with ESA, so I went and saw him,\" she said.\n\n\"He said, 'This is not right, you've been here for so long and you don't deserve this - I will sort it out' and he did.\"\n\nMs Mkhize has lived in Southend for 20 years and said she \"always felt comfortable\" knowing Sir David was around to help.\n\n\"He was the father of all nations, that's how we can describe him,\" she said. \"Whether you were black, white, irrespective of where you come from he gave that love, affection, kindness, caring.\"\n\nAbigail Mkhize, pictured on the left, with her sister Ntombi, said Sir David was \"an amazing man\"\n\nA steady trickle of locals have been slowly edging to the cordon tape to lay flowers and stand for a moment, remembering their MP.\n\nClusters of bouquets have been laid near the scene of the attack, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer among those to have paid their respects.\n\nResidents said they were touched that Mr Johnson had paid a visit so soon and felt he seemed clearly affected by what had happened.\n\nThose who knew Sir David have remembered him as \"universally liked\" regardless of their politics.\n\n\"What he was was a thoroughly decent man: he believed in right and wrong. He was always a positive person, always had a smile on his face,\" said Councillor Tony Cox, of Southend Borough Council.\n\nLocal people have \"lost a great man, they've lost a great MP, they've lost a respected parliamentarian and they've lost a good constituency advocate,\" he said.\n\nBoris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer laid tributes at the scene where Sir David was stabbed\n\nConstituent Lorraine Migliorini highlighted Sir David's work for children and young people with special educational needs.\n\n\"He was genuinely interested and listened to them which was fantastic,\" she said.\n\n\"He got things done and I think all of the special needs groups around here are very very grateful for what he's done.\"\n\nJulie Everitt, a constituent, said she would \"always remember him for his genuine smile\" and his passion for animal rights.\n\n\"He would go on campaigns, he was against the badger cull, he was against trophy hunting and fox hunting,\" she said.\n\nMs Everitt has co-ordinated a vigil for people to \"pay our respects to Sir David and our heartfelt sympathies to his loved ones\".\n\n\"I wrote to him on several occasions and he would always reply.\n\n\"He was a good gentleman, he had a good heart,\" she said.\n\nSome said they were especially shocked to hear police were investigating a possible terrorism link to Sir David's killing.\n\n\"For it to be classed as a terrorist attack is scary, very scary,\" said Tara Wilkinson.\n\nShe said Leigh-on-Sea was a close-knit community and one where you would \"never\" expect a terrorist attack to occur.\n\n\"It's just such a small community, to hear this here is just awful.\"\n\nTara Wilkinson said her community was \"devastated\" by the death of MP Sir David\n\nA 25-year-old man arrested on suspicion of Sir David's murder remains in custody.\n\nA vigil to mark Sir David's life will take place in Leigh on Sea at 19:00 BST.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The day started out much like every other Friday morning for Sir David Amess. One of Essex's most longstanding MPs, he held meetings with his Southend constituents every second week, in recent years varying the location to meet more of the local residents that relied upon his help.\n\nThis week he was at the Belfairs Methodist Church in his home town of Leigh-on-Sea. He tweeted on Tuesday about the upcoming event inviting constituents to join him.\n\nSir David was known for being passionate about his job - and constituents and colleagues spoke of his boundless enthusiasm for his role. These constituency surgeries were at the heart of his political life.\n\nJust 15 minutes before the attack, the 69-year-old father of five was spotted standing on the church steps, chatting and laughing with locals.\n\nAt around 12.05pm, accompanied by two female members of his staff and nearing the end of the drop-in event, Sir David entered the church to meet some more constituents, where he may have noticed the inscription: \"All are welcome here: where old friends meet and strangers feel at home.\"\n\nLocal councillor John Lamb said that it was at this point that the attacker emerged from a small group of waiting constituents and attacked Mr Amess, stabbing him several times.\n\n\"I'm told that when he went in for his surgery there were people waiting to see him, and one of them literally got a knife out and just began stabbing him,\" Mr Lamb said.\n\nLee Jordison, who works at the nearby Hicks Butchers, told the PA news agency: \"We could see a police cordon set up... (someone outside) told me a woman had come out screaming on the phone, saying 'someone's been stabbed, please get here soon', he's not breathing'.\"\n\nPolice arrived on the scene shortly after the stabbing, and arrested a 25-year-old man and recovered the knife used in the attack. At 1.50pm, Essex police confirmed that the man had been arrested in connection with the stabbing.\n\nOne witness, electrician Anthony Fitch, told Sky News that he had witnessed the man being led from the church and being put in the back of a police car.\n\n\"We arrived to do some work on the adjacent building... and at the point when I was crossing the road I saw an upset lady on the phone saying 'you need to arrive quickly, he's still in the building,'\" he said.\n\n\"There were loads of armed police, overhead there was an air ambulance as well as a police helicopter. Obviously wondered what the hell was going on, you don't often see armed police around the local area.\n\n\"I saw the suspect get put into a police van, get taken away and then they cordoned the whole road and pushed us all down the road.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch how emergency services responded in the initial aftermath of the attack on Sir David Amess\n\nAt 2.13pm, an air ambulance arrived at the nearby Belfairs sports ground to move Sir David to a hospital.\n\nHowever, members of his team began to fear the worst, as paramedics remained at the scene rather than moving towards the helicopter. For almost two-and-a-half hours they battled to save his life.\n\nBut just before 3pm, Essex police confirmed that Mr Amess had died at the scene.\n\nAs news of his death filtered through, tributes began to pour in from friends, constituents and fellow MPs.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said that Amess was \"one of the kindest, nicest, most gentle people in politics\".\n\nLocal councillor Dan Nelson told the BBC that Sir David had died \"doing what he loved best, and that was to help residents of Southend West\".\n\nRofique Ali, a local Conservative Party member, described the MP as his best friend in the world.\n\n\"I have known him for many years, and he was so kind to everyone,\" he said. \"I can't forget David.\"\n\nAnd resident Melanie Harris left a card at the scene that read: \"What has the world come to? What a senseless waste of a charming, witty and kind and gentle soul who deserved a lot more than to be snatched from life.\"\n\n\"You were always a pleasure to speak to. Thank you for restoring my faith in politicians.\"\n\nA member of the public leaves flowers at the scene\n\nBy mid-afternoon a full \"Gold\" command meeting was activated by police chiefs back in London - meaning some of the most senior and experienced leaders of major incidents were sitting around the table to work out how to respond.\n\nJoining the discussions were representatives from the security service, more commonly known as MI5, whose investigators sit side-by-side with detectives on many investigations.\n\nAnd watching on from government was Home Secretary Priti Patel - a close personal friend of Mr Amess. She said later on Twitter that she was devastated to learn of his death.\n\nThe conference was an inevitable decision: the killing of an MP is not an everyday occurrence - and the last time it happened, when Jo Cox was murdered in 2016 - it was an act of terrorism by a far-right extremist.\n\nAs daylight faded, members of the press gathered to hear police announce that an investigation was under way. Senior officers appealed to the public for information.\n\n\"This is a shocking and utterly despicable attack against somebody who was an outstanding MP and has worked tirelessly for their community for many, many years,\" said police commissioner Roger Hirst.\n\nHe added that members of Metropolitan Police's specialist Counter Terrorism Command would now try to make sense of an utterly senseless killing.\n\nBy early evening, investigators - still seeking a motive - had at least established the suspect's identity. A government source told the BBC the man arrested was a British national who, according to initial inquiries, was of Somali heritage.\n\nMeanwhile, at St Peter's Roman Catholic Church, locals gathered together to remember the man who, for many, was the only MP they had ever known.\n\nA mass is held at Saint Peter's Catholic Church, following the stabbing of UK Conservative MP Sir David Amess\n\nFather Jeffrey Woolnough told the service: \"Have you ever known Sir David Amess without that happy smile on his face? Because the greeting he would always give you was always that happy smile.\"\n\nAnd he paid tribute to Sir David as a man who carried with him \"that great east-London spirit of having no fear, and being able to talk to people and the level they're at\".\n\nShortly after midnight, police formally declared the attack a terrorist incident, explaining that their early investigations had revealed a \"potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism\".\n\nOfficers continued to search two London addresses in connection with the attack, while the suspect remained in custody at an Essex police station.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The moment Durst is sentenced to life in prison\n\nUS real estate heir Robert Durst, subject of HBO crime documentary series The Jinx, has been hospitalised with Covid-19 just days after he was sentenced to life in prison.\n\nDurst was found guilty on Thursday of killing his best friend Susan Berman in 2000.\n\nHe murdered her to stop her talking to police about his wife's disappearance. Police believe he killed two others.\n\nDurst, who has numerous medical issues, is on a ventilator, his lawyer said.\n\nHe \"looked worse than I've ever seen him,\" Dick DeGuerin told the Los Angeles Times.\n\nIt is not clear where the 78-year-old is being treated.\n\nHis sentence for first-degree murder excludes any possibility of parole.\n\nDurst's wife Kathleen McCormack, a medical student, went missing in 1982 and is presumed dead. He was never charged over her disappearance.\n\nProsecutors have argued that Durst actually murdered three people - the third being an elderly neighbour, Morris Black.\n\nBlack had discovered Durst's identity in 2001 while Durst was hiding in Texas and pretending to be a mute woman.\n\nDurst was acquitted of murdering Black, successfully arguing he had killed him on the grounds of self-defence before cutting up the body.\n\nDurst is an estranged member of one of New York's wealthiest and most powerful real estate dynasties. His brother Douglas Durst, who testified at the trial, told the court: \"He'd like to murder me.\"\n\nAt the end of The Jinx series, Durst is heard muttering to himself: \"What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.\"\n\nHours before the last episode aired in March 2015, authorities arrested Durst in New Orleans for Ms Berman's murder. Jurors were played the clip during the trial.", "French President Emmanuel Macron has called a bloody crackdown on Algerian protesters by police in Paris 60 years ago an \"unforgivable crime\".\n\nOn 17 October 1961, French police turned on Algerian demonstrators. Some were shot, others were drowned.\n\nThe precise number of victims is not known, but some say several hundred could have lost their lives.\n\nMr Macron is the first French president to attend a memorial for those killed that day.\n\nHe joined a commemoration beside the bridge over the River Seine which was the starting point in 1961 for a march against a night curfew imposed only on Algerians.\n\nMr Macron told relatives of victims on the 60th anniversary of the bloodshed that \"crimes\" were committed under the command of the notorious Paris police chief Maurice Papon. Papon was revealed in the 1980s to have collaborated with occupying Nazi forces in World War Two in transferring Jews to Nazi death camps.\n\nThe 1961 march was repressed \"brutally, violently and in blood\", Mr Macron's office said in a statement. Some 12,000 Algerians were arrested, many were wounded and dozens killed, it added.\n\nBut activists hoping for an even stronger recognition of responsibility were left disappointed.\n\nMr Macron stopped short of an apology and did not give a public speech, with the Élysée Palace issuing only the written statement.\n\nThe president's statement \"is progress but not complete. We hoped for more\", Mimouna Hadjam of the Africa93 anti-racism association told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"Papon did not act alone. People were tortured, massacred in the heart of Paris and those high up knew,\" Hadjam added, calling for recognition of a \"state crime\".\n\nSome say several hundred could have lost their lives in the massacre\n\nHistorian Emmanuel Blanchard said that Mr Macron's comments represented \"progress\" and had gone \"much further\" than his predecessors.\n\nThe massacre, which happened during the war against French rule in Algeria, was denied or concealed by French governments for decades.\n\nThe first commemorations of the event were organised in 2001 by the mayor of Paris.\n\nIn 2012, then-President François Hollande said the Republic recognised that Algerians had been killed that day in a \"bloody repression\", and he paid tribute to the victims.", "The Yorkshire Regiment said its thoughts were with Pte Jethro Watson-Pickering's family\n\nA soldier who died during an Army training exercise on Salisbury Plain has been named.\n\nPte Jethro Watson-Pickering of the 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, was part of a crew operating an armoured vehicle in Wiltshire on Friday.\n\nThe vehicle overturned near Enford and hit a tree, trapping several soldiers inside, a source told the BBC.\n\nThe Yorkshire Regiment said on Facebook that its thoughts and prayers were with Pte Watson-Pickering's family.\n\nIt also confirmed the 23-year-old was from the village of Boosbeck, near Redcar on Teesside.\n\nThe presence of live ammunition meant firefighters could not use cutting equipment, so Army engineers rescued those inside, the source said.\n\nIt took several hours for the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers to free the soldiers.\n\nWiltshire Police said a joint investigation with the Health and Safety Executive and the Army has been launched.\n\nAn Army spokesperson added: \"It is with sadness that we can confirm the death of Private Jethro Watson-Pickering in an incident on Salisbury Plain Training Area.\n\n\"The thoughts and sympathies of the Army are with the family and friends of Pte Watson-Pickering at this very sad time.\"\n\nThe British Army currently has about 76,500 soldiers, with about 15,000 based around the West Country.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has paid tribute to Conservative MP Sir David Amess who has died after being stabbed at his constituency surgery in Essex.\n\nThe PM said he was one of the \"kindest, nicest, most gentle people in politics\".\n\nSir David, 69, had been an MP since 1983 and was married with five children.\n\nPolice said a 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after the attack at a church in Leigh-on-Sea.", "Part of the seizure made by Australian police.\n\nAustralian police have announced the seizure of the largest heroin shipment ever recorded in the country, worth around A$140 million (£76m; $104m).\n\nAuthorities said the shipment, which weighed 450kg, included 1,290 packages of heroin with unique red branding.\n\nThe seizure was made at the Port of Melbourne - Australia's largest port - on September 29.\n\nOffices said they arrested a Malaysian man after the huge haul was discovered in a container of ceramic tiles.\n\nHe was later charged with the import and attempted possession of a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug. He could face a sentence of up to life in prison.\n\nTesting of the substance in the packages showed it was heroin.\n\nThe shipment originated in Malaysia and was bound for a business located in Melbourne. Several locations were later raided in the Victorian state capital.\n\nSpeaking following the announcement, Acting Assistant Commissioner Krissy Barrett of the Australian Federal Police said the discovery had been made thanks to close co-operation between international police forces.\n\n\"We have a strong relationship with the Royal Malaysia Police (RMP) and in particular the RMP Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department,\" she said. \"We continue to work together in identifying and disrupting transnational organised crime syndicates that seek to harm both our nations and generate millions of dollars of profits from criminal activity.\"\n\nCommissioner Barrett added that police estimated that they had saved one life for every two kilograms of the drug removed from circulation in Australia's communities.\n\n\"It is important to note that in addition to the arrests made, the primary outcome of this operation is the preservation of an estimated 225 lives\" she said.\n\nIn 2019, authorities made an even bigger bust, when they discovered an enormous haul of methamphetamine worth around A$1.2bn (£660m, $840m) hidden inside stereo speakers at a Melbourne port. Around 37kg of heroin was also found in that raid.", "Justin McLaughlin was rushed to hospital but was later pronounced dead\n\nPolice have launched a murder inquiry following the death of a 14-year-old boy who was stabbed at a railway station in Glasgow.\n\nJustin McLaughlin was found seriously injured at High Street station at about 15:45 on Saturday.\n\nHe was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later.\n\nPolice Scotland said an extensive investigation was under way and appealed for witnesses to come forward.\n\nThe attack, which police described as \"a shocking act of violence in broad daylight\" is believed to have taken place on a platform at the station.\n\nAt least some of the incident was captured on CCTV, while detectives are also studying earlier footage from on board a train.\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Geddes, of Police Scotland's Major Investigation Team, said a number of young people were believed to have been involved in an \"altercation\".\n\nHe said: \"At this stage of the investigation, it is too early to say how many people we are looking for. There are certainly a number of witnesses we need to speak to first.\n\n\"It's very difficult to comment on whether it was a targeted attack or not. But we will keep an open mind all the way through until we know exactly what happened.\"\n\nJustin was found seriously injured at High Street station in Glasgow\n\nThe teenager was a pupil at St Ambrose High School in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire.\n\nThe school's head teacher, James McParland, said he was \"a valued member of our community and his loss will be felt by staff and pupils alike\".\n\nMr McParland added that additional pastoral support would be available to pupils at the school when they return on Monday morning.\n\nFlowers and tributes were left at the railway station on Sunday\n\nPolice Scotland said Justin McLaughlin's family were being supported by specialist officers.\n\nDet Ch Insp Geddes added: \"Our thoughts very much remain with Justin's family and friends. His family have asked for their privacy to be respected at this very difficult time.\n\n\"Although inquiries are at an early stage, we are sure that there will be people who may have witnessed something in the lead up to this.\n\n\"The needless loss of a 14-year-old boy is pretty shocking and I can imagine that will be felt across the communities in Glasgow and far wider.\n\n\"It's really up to us, with the help of the public, to establish the full circumstances of what happened for Justin's family.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said it would be increasing uniformed patrols in the local area in the coming days \"to help reassure the travelling public\".\n\nDetectives have set up an online portal to encourage members of the public to submit information.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Klarna has over 15 million customers in the UK and was recently valued at $46.5bn\n\nBuy now, pay later firm Klarna is planning changes ahead of an expected Treasury crackdown on the UK market.\n\nThey include a \"pay now\" option, to let people pay for items in full, immediately.\n\nThe boom in the use of buy now, pay later has fuelled fears that it encourages people into debt.\n\nKlarna's boss, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, told the BBC that retailers using its service see the average value of an order increase by 40%.\n\nThe company said it wanted to \"drive up standards\" in the sector by improving the way it operates and communicates as well as introducing the choice of paying for items in full, immediately.\n\nKlarna said the \"pay now\" option and other changes it was making would give customers more clarity and control.\n\nIt also said it would perform more thorough checks on how much users could afford to borrow, and use clearer language during the checkout process to ensure customers understood they were taking on debt.\n\nThe \"pay now\" option for customers is already available in several of the 20 other countries where Klarna operates.\n\nLike other buy now, pay later services, Klarna offers shoppers the opportunity of delaying or spreading the cost of a purchase without being charged fees or interest.\n\nInstead Klarna charges retailers a small percentage of the transaction cost in exchange for providing the payment service.\n\nThe opportunity to pay in instalments appeals in particular to younger and low-income shoppers.\n\nIt allows customers to order several sizes of a clothing item, for example, in the expectation that those which do not fit will have been returned and refunded before they are charged the full amount.\n\nBut such schemes have been widely criticised for encouraging shoppers to buy more than they can afford, with charities warning it can be a \"slippery slope into debt\".\n\nCritics say customers are bombarded with messages urging them to use buy now, pay later credit without a clear enough explanation of what it involves.\n\nIn particular, buy now, pay later firms have been accused of failing to explain that customers could be referred to debt collectors and that their credit scores could be affected if they miss payments.\n\nConsumer group Which? recently found that although Klarna and other firms shared their guidelines with retailers about how their service should be presented, some retailers did not adhere to those guidelines.\n\nKlarna is the largest buy now, pay later platform but many other firms offer a similar service, including Clearpay, LayBuy and Paypal.\n\nBuy now, pay later services were used by five million people in the UK for total sales of £2.7bn in 2020. However, one in 10 people using them already had debt arrears elsewhere, a review by the Financial Conduct Authority found.\n\nThe review, led by Chris Woolard, found that three quarters of buy now, pay later users were under the age of 36 and the vast majority of transactions related to clothing purchases.\n\nThe Citizens Advice charity said it had found shoppers did not view buy now, pay later services as \"proper borrowing\" and many did not understand fully what they were signing up for.\n\nThe charity warned that four-in-10 of those who had used this type of credit in the previous 12 months were struggling to repay.\n\nKlarna's boss said he believed there was a place for this kind of affordable credit offering.\n\n\"We firmly believe that most of the time, people should pay with the money they have, but there are certain times where credit makes sense,\" Mr Siemiatkowski said.\n\n\"In those cases, our [buy now, pay later] products offer a sustainable and no-cost healthy form of credit - and a much needed alternative to high-cost credit cards.\"\n\nKlarna said it had worked with consumer group Fairer Finance to ensure its terms and conditions were \"clear, simple and easy to understand\", and that the language during the checkout process made it \"absolutely clear\" there would be \"consequences for missed payments\".\n\nIt had also improved its complaints procedure for dissatisfied customers, it said.\n\nIn February, the government announced that buy now, pay later products would be regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).\n\nThe Treasury's consultation on the sector is expected before the financial watchdog sets out its rules on regulation later.\n\nThe government said that giving the FCA oversight of firms like Klarna, Clearpay or Laybuy would mean that customers would be able to complain to the Financial Ombudsman if they were not happy with the service.", "Arfon Jones posted the tweet shortly after the death of Sir David Amess was confirmed\n\nA former police and crime commissioner has faced a backlash for a tweet posted after the killing of Sir David Amess.\n\nIn the now deleted tweet Arfon Jones, PCC for north Wales between 2016-2021, said \"this is what happens\" when you have a government that \"sows hate\".\n\nBrecon and Radnorshire Conservative MP Fay Jones replied that Mr Jones was \"not fit for public office\".\n\nThe former Plaid Cymru member has since apologised for the tweet, adding that it was \"untimely and offensive\".\n\nMr Jones has since deleted and apologised for the tweet\n\nMP Sir David Amess died after being stabbed multiple times at his constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex on Friday.\n\nPolice said the killing was being treated as a terrorist incident.\n\nFay Jones said Mr Jones's comments were \"completely out of line\".\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\nMr Jones has been asked to comment.", "Making Southend a city would be the \"perfect tribute\" to Sir David Amess, colleagues said.\n\nSir David, who represented the Southend West constituency, was stabbed as he held a regular Friday meeting with constituents in Leigh-on-Sea.\n\nHe had championed Southend's bid for city status as part of The Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel described him as Mr Southend and said his passion for the town warmed hearts.\n\n\"When David's name is mentioned going forward he will bring great cheer and smiles,\" she told The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday.\n\n\"He was Mr Southend, he was Mr Essex, he would always put Southend front and centre of his work and that was David through and through.\"\n\nAmong the many floral tributes to Sir David - a nod to his biggest passion\n\nIn December 2019, Sir David secured an adjournment debate in the Commons specifically on the campaign and he told MPs: \"I am not messing around.\n\n\"We have got it from the prime minister that Southend is going to become a city - and it will become a city.\"\n\nAfter the most recent Cabinet reshuffle in September, Sir David joked to the House that he was left disappointed not to be made \"minister with responsibility for granting city status to Southend\".\n\n\"I think it would be a very fitting tribute to Sir David, particularly as it was something he had campaigned for, for a long time,\" Conservative councillor for Southend Borough Council James Courtenay said.\n\n\"I suspect local politicians from across the political divide will actively support it.\n\n\"I wouldn't be surprised if a number of his Westminster colleagues were to do so as well, given that every time - well it felt like it anyway - he stood up in Parliament, he would ask if Southend could be made a city.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat Carole Mulroney, council member for tourism and culture, told the BBC: \"Sir David was a figurehead, he was incredibly passionate about it.\n\n\"Southend welcomes millions of people every year, it has a really successful arts festival and a huge wealth of talent. You name it - there's a club for it.\"\n\nShe said Sir David's killing was \"a true tragedy\", describing him as a \"jolly chap, very witty, above all a constituency MP who reached out to an enormous amount of people.\"\n\nSir David said at the time of the bid launch: \"Southend is unique and city status would provide long overdue recognition of what we have to offer.\n\n\"The longest pleasure pier in the world, a huge wealth of local talent in the arts and culture industries and a centre of educational excellence, are just a few of the things that make Southend special.\"\n\nSouthend is a tourist hotspot and has a thriving creative arts scene\n\nSouthend Borough Council is currently led by a coalition of Labour, Liberal Democrat and Independent councillors - while the Conservatives have the most councillors.\n\nIt became a unitary authority in 1998 and has a population of more than 183,000.\n\nChelmsford became Essex's first city in 2012 as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.\n\nJust an hour up the A12, Colchester - once the capital of Roman Britain - has just submitted its bid to become a city at the fourth attempt, as has Milton Keynes.\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.", "Sarah Everard's murder has led to a closer look at the culture within the police - and now two inquiries have been announced to see what needs to change. Sarah Everard was killed by a serving police officer who falsely detained her in order to abduct her.\n\nBBC Newsnight's Sima Kotecha spoke to five female police officers - two retired and three currently serving - to hear about their experiences in a male-dominated working environment.", "A law firm is seeking to launch a group action against Amazon over employee rights for delivery drivers.\n\nLeigh Day is claiming drivers hired via third party delivery companies to make deliveries for the online giant should be given rights enjoyed by employees.\n\nThe drivers are classed as being self-employed, meaning they are not entitled to minimum wage and holiday pay.\n\nAmazon said it was committed to ensuring drivers were fairly paid by the delivery companies they work with.\n\nDrivers making deliveries on behalf of Amazon for its \"Delivery Service Partners\" are not entitled to National Minimum Wage or an employment contract, Leigh Day said.\n\nThe law firm says it has already begun legal action on behalf of two drivers and is seeking others to join a group action.\n\nLeigh Day, which brought, and won, a landmark case on behalf of Uber drivers for workers' rights in February, claims at least three thousand drivers could potentially be owed more than a hundred million pounds in compensation.\n\nIt believes that because Amazon tells drivers how they should work, and how they fit into the business, they should have more rights.\n\nThe law firm claims drivers are given estimated timings between deliveries via an app which they have to meet. However, according to Amazon, the routing app provides guidance and it is up to drivers whether to follow the suggested route.\n\nKate Robinson, a Leigh Day employment solicitor, said: \"It appears that Amazon is short-changing drivers making deliveries on their behalf.\n\n\"Drivers delivering for Amazon have to work set shifts and book time off, yet Amazon claim they are self-employed.\"\n\nShe added that that millions of pounds of compensation would be \"a drop in the ocean\" to Amazon.\n\n\"For drivers on the other hand, earning at least National Minimum Wage, getting holiday pay and being under a proper employment contract could be life-changing,\" she added.\n\nMs Robinson stressed that it was \"time for Amazon to stop putting profit above people\".\n\nLeigh Day is bringing similar claims against Uber, Addison Lee, delivery company Stuart and used vehicle marketplace BCA.\n\nThe law firm has been pursuing an equal pay claim on behalf of thousands of Asda staff. It is also representing clients from Sainsbury's, Tesco, Morrisons and the Co-op.\n\nAmazon capitalised on a surge in demand for online shopping during the Covid pandemic, with sales rising 50% to £20.63bn in 2020.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLyndon Dykes' 86th-minute effort salvaged a vital Scotland win over the Faroe Islands and kept their World Cup qualifying bid on track.\n\nSteve Clarke's side were often tepid and impotent, but the late victory ensures they retain a four-point cushion in second place in group F.\n\nScotland were lucky to be level at half-time after their unfancied hosts missed a series of good chances.\n\nBut Dykes' fourth straight goal spared them the ignominy of dropped points.\n\nThe striker's intervention was the subject of a long VAR check as officials determined whether the ball had struck his arm en route to the net.\n• None Reaction and as it happened\n\nCrucially, the win preserved Scotland's lead over third-placed Israel with two games remaining. Maximum points in Moldova next month would seal second and a berth in the play-offs, with Denmark having already secured top spot.\n\nYou have to swipe along to page three of Fifa's world rankings before catching sight of the Faroe Islands, perched in 114th place, nearly 70 spots below Scotland.\n\nBut under Hakan Ericson, they no longer represent the gimme fixture in world football they once were. Ericson's men beat Moldova last month and Denmark only emerged from Torshavn with a similarly late 1-0 triumph.\n\nPerhaps burdened by the weight of history, talk of the heinous 2-2 draw in 2002, or the magnitude of the fixture, Scotland seemed spooked in the early throes.\n\nTheir attacking play was too soporific against a diligent and determined opposition, whose confidence only grew with every foray downfield.\n\nClarke's defence was bolstered by the return of Grant Hanley, yet bamboozled by a flurry of Faroese raids which, at least one, should have delivered a goal.\n\nScotland were having palpitations when Brandur Hendriksson spooned a glorious chance astray.\n\nA full-blown cardiac arrest was in the offing soon after. Goalkeeper Teitur Gestsson's hopeful thump downfield bounced into the away box and was squared for Ari Jonsson, whose point-blank shot was clawed clear fabulously by Craig Gordon.\n\nAnother chance was spurned seconds later, Sonni Nattestad heading Hendriksson's vicious, swerving delivery over.\n\nEven centre-back Odmar Faero, who had spells in the Highland League and with Forfar Athletic while a student in Aberdeen, came closer with a deadlock-shattering effort than anything Scotland could muster. His rasping 25-yard drive deflected wide off Hanley though.\n\nIn amongst the strife for the visitors, Scott McTominay, whose stoppage-time winner against Israel sent Hampden berserk, and Ryan Christie offered signs of an attacking pulse and threat to the home goal.\n\nBournemouth's Christie was booked, though, for a dangerous aerial challenge, ruling him out of the Moldova clash.\n\nCome half-time, the hosts had mustered four shots on target to Scotland's two and Clarke's side needed an infusion of tempo and accuracy.\n\nThey were a little sharper in the second period as they looked to take a grip of the contest.\n\nChristie, down the left again, was felled by a clumsy challenge in the box, but had already been flagged offside. McTominay, breaking in from the right, lashed an effort into the side-netting.\n\nStill, fluency and ruthlessness eluded the Scots and Gestsson remained largely unflustered. The home fans, clapping and bouncing along to their jaunty chants, grew ever emboldened.\n\nThe roof nearly came off Torsvollur when Gilli Rolantsson turned Andy Robertson inside out before cutting back to Hallur Hansson, who whipped just wide from 18 yards.\n\nThen Dykes, another walking the disciplinary tightrope, was cautioned and he too will be unavailable in Chisinau. How Clarke will miss him.\n\nWith 15 minutes remaining, Billy Gilmour side-footed a shot straight at Gestsson after breaking into the box.\n\nFraser then floated a wonderful ball in from the right, only for John McGinn to nod straight at the keeper, and Gilmour shifted beautifully onto his left foot and rifled inches wide from the edge of the area.\n\nSalvation arrived - as it so often has in this nerve-shredding campaign - through combative striker Dykes.\n\nWith normal time almost up, he galloped into the box, and when Nathan Patterson whipped in a cross from the right, Horour Askham cannoned the ball off Dykes' chest and into the net.\n\nMore drama was to follow. Clarke, his players, and virtually the whole nation faced an agonising wait as VAR intervened, examining whether Dykes had diverted home with an arm. Eventually, the goal was given.\n\nA night which threatened to end in anguish for so long yielded another whale of a win and how thrilled Scotland will be to escape the Faroes three precious points richer. The Scottish rollercoaster hurtles on apace.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nLight years from their best, Scotland found a way to win this tricky game, registering a fourth consecutive victory for the first time in 14 years. The persistence, spirit and sheer stubbornness cultivated among this squad cannot be questioned.\n\nDeploying Fraser at right wing-back was a worthwhile experiment, but one yielding limited success. Too many key players were unable to exert a telling influence.\n\nAnd Scotland's reliance on Dykes was again underlined. Not since Colin Stein in 1969 has a Scot scored in four straight competitive matches. His absence next month is a huge blow.\n\nScotland's fate remains in their own hands. Win against Moldova on 12 November and second place is theirs regardless of how Israel fare in Austria.\n\nDropped points, combined with a draw or victory for Israel, and the race for a play-off will come down to the final round of fixtures three days later.\n\nWhile the Israelis host the Faroe Islands, already-qualified Denmark await Clarke's men at Hampden.\n• None Scotland are unbeaten in all 11 encounters against the Faroe Islands (W9 D2), winning their last six by an aggregate score of 19-1 - they've never faced a side more often without ever losing.\n• None Scotland have won four consecutive international matches for the first time since October 2007 (6 wins under Alex McLeish).\n• None Faroe Islands have failed to keep a clean sheet in 18 of their last 19 qualifying matches for major tournaments (Euros and World Cups), only doing so against Malta in October 2019 (1-0).\n• None Lyndon Dykes became the first Scotland player to score in four consecutive appearances for the senior national side since Colin Stein in May 1969.\n• None Scotland had 19 shots at goal against Faroe Islands, the most they've attempted in a World Cup qualifying match since October 2017, against Slovakia (20).\n• None Attempt saved. Callum McGregor (Scotland) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Scott McTominay.\n• None Kevin Nisbet (Scotland) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Faroe Islands 0, Scotland 1. Lyndon Dykes (Scotland) with an attempt from very close range to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Hundreds of people could die in floods in the UK, the Environment Agency has warned in a hard-hitting report that says the country is not ready for the impact of climate change.\n\nEarlier this year in Germany, dozens of people died in floods.\n\n\"That will happen in this country sooner or later\" unless the UK becomes more resilient to increasingly violent weather, the agency concludes.\n\nEmma Howard Boyd, chair of the agency, said: \"It is adapt or die.\"\n\nThe apocalyptic tone is deliberately intended to startle governments, companies and communities into preparing for global warming effects such as higher sea levels and more extremes of rainfall and drought.\n\nThe new report, seen by the BBC ahead of its publication on Wednesday, assesses the country's readiness to cope with the many different risks of climate change.\n\nIn its response, environment department Defra said it was taking key measures to protect the UK from the effects of global warming.\n\nWe are currently heading for an increase in the global average temperature of just under 3C by the end of the century.\n\nBut the agency projects that even a smaller rise of 2C would have severe consequences:\n\nAccording to Ms Howard Boyd: \"We can successfully tackle the climate emergency if we do the right things, but we are running out of time to implement effective adaptation measures.\n\n\"Some 200 people died in this summer's flooding in Germany. That will happen in this country sooner or later, however high we build our flood defences - unless we also make the places where we live, work and travel resilient to the effects of the more violent weather the climate emergency is bringing.\"\n\nThe agency calls for new thinking on flood protection, closer partnerships between government and businesses, and projects to restore natural systems that absorb carbon and hold back rainwater.\n\nMs Howard Boyd added: \"With the right approach we can be safer and more prosperous. So let's prepare, act and survive.\"\n\nThe loss of life in Germany last July is a reminder of the last time flooding led to a massive death toll in the UK.\n\nBack in 1953, a storm surge killed 307 people in England and 19 in Scotland.\n\nThat tragedy forced a radical rethink about flood protection and a massive investment in coastal defences that eventually led to the Thames Barrier in London.\n\nNow, as officials across the UK weigh up future phases of flood defence, the report identifies what it calls five \"reality checks\" about climate change:\n\nThe agency calls for new thinking on flood protection, saying that \"business as usual\" approaches are no longer adequate.\n\nIn practical terms, that means better co-ordination between companies, national agencies and local authorities, with businesses and homeowners encouraged to take basic steps to flood-proof their own properties.\n\nIt wants more investment in natural ways of reducing flood risk, such as restoring upland areas that can retain rainwater upstream and improving management of the soil so there's less run-off.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.\n\nThe agency also suggests trialling new arrangements and technologies for warning local communities about flood risks, and having closer coordination with other emergency services.\n\nThe agency acknowledges that billions of pounds have been spent on flood defences - and that more is earmarked.\n\nAnd it recognises that the UK, as host of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow next month, is highlighting the importance of helping communities and nature adapt to climate change.\n\nIn response, Defra highlighted several key measures designed to adapt to a changing climate: £5.2bn to protect 336,000 properties from flooding and coastal erosion better; a national framework to manage water supplies; and a £640m Nature for Climate Fund to tackle climate change and adaptation together.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are taking robust action to improve resilience to climate change across the whole country and economy, and adaptation to climate change is integrated in policies throughout government.\n\n\"We're also using our COP26 presidency to drive climate adaptation around the world, protecting communities and natural habitats.\"\n\nDo you have any questions about the forthcoming COP26 global climate conference in Glasgow?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The MS Romantika arrives in Scotland to provide accommodation for the COP26 conference\n\nThe first of two cruise ships that will provide accommodation for people attending the COP26 summit has arrived in Scotland.\n\nThe Latvian-flagged Romantika has berthed at King George V dock, next to Braehead Shopping Centre in Renfrew.\n\nA second vessel, the MS Silja Europa, will arrive from Estonia in the coming days.\n\nUp to 25,000 government representatives, media and campaigners are expected to be in Glasgow.\n\nConcerns have been raised about the cost and availability of accommodation in the city for the climate summit, which takes place from 31 October until 12 November.\n\nPaavo Nõgene, chief executive of the ship owner Tallink, described the decision to bring a second ship to Scotland as a \"last-minute agreement\".\n\nEach member of the United Nations has been invited to Glasgow, meaning nearly 120 heads of state are expected to attend along with around 20,000 accredited delegates.\n\nLast Friday, it emerged Pope Francis will not travel to Scotland but US President Joe Biden has said he is \"anxious\" to be there and the Queen has confirmed she will attend.\n\nMeanwhile, BBC Scotland has found evidence that a squeeze on available accommodation has sent prices soaring in Glasgow.\n\nOne room in the city advertised as £42 per night on Monday is being advertised as costing £1,400 per night during the summit.\n\nFiona Hooker, of the Stop Climate Chaos Scotland campaign, said the cost and availability of accommodation was \"a huge concern\" for activists attending the summit.\n\nShe said: \"It's incredible that they can charge so much.\n\n\"What people are looking for is a place to stay with a local person and the chance to feel part of the event.\"\n\nDelegates will take shuttle buses between the King George V dock and the summit venue at the Scottish Event Campus\n\nRestaurateur and property owner Charan Gill, who became known as Glasgow's \"Curry King\" and is one of the country's top entrepreneurs, called the practice \"opportunistic\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime with John Beattie that he would not increase rents because it was damaging to the city's reputation.\n\n\"Sometimes you have to pay a premium,\" he said. \"But there has to be some sort of moral compass where we say surely this is wrong.\n\n\"You will not live off this money forever - fine, you might make an extra few hundred or thousand pounds here and there. At the end of the day you have to go back to your normal people, your normal market, your normal tenants who keep your bread buttered.\"\n\nAirbnb told the BBC they would donate all revenue from stays in Glasgow during the summit to Zero Waste Scotland.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are offering Glaswegians an incentive to start hosting in an effort to provide more accommodation during a unique event and to address a significant accommodation shortage.\n\n\"The expected attendance for COP26 is double that of local hotel capacity and hosting helps cities like Glasgow use existing space to scale up and welcome major events.\"\n\nNearly 700 households have signed up to the COP26 Homestay Network.\n\nOperated by the third sector, the initiative is asking people to open their doors and provide affordable or free accommodation to COP26 attendees.\n\nBut Jillian Evans, the head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian, told BBC Scotland she had some concerns about this plan.\n\nShe said: \"People coming from different parts of the world, some where the vaccination programme is not the same as ours, there are risks associated with that.\n\n\"Then you put people in touch with one another, in folk's homes, and that increases the risk even more.\"\n\nA COP26 spokesperson told the BBC: \"As hosts of COP26 it is of huge importance to the UK there are a wide range accommodation options available which suit the requirement of delegates attending from around the world.\n\n\"We have been working with our hotel provider, MCI, to make sure this is the case.\"\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After landing, William Shatner tearfully said the experience had been \"unbelievable\"\n\nHollywood actor William Shatner has become the oldest person to go to space as he blasted off aboard the Blue Origin sub-orbital capsule.\n\nThe 90-year-old, who played Captain James T Kirk in the Star Trek films and TV series, took off from the Texas desert with three other individuals.\n\nMr Shatner's trip on the rocket system - developed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos - lasted about 10 minutes.\n\nThe craft safely landed just after 10:00 local time (16:00 BST).\n\nThose aboard got to experience a short period of weightlessness as they climbed to a maximum altitude just above 100km (60 miles). From there they were able to see the curvature of the Earth through the capsule's big windows.\n\n\"Everybody in the world needs to do this,\" the Canadian actor told Mr Bezos after landing back on Earth. \"It was unbelievable.\"\n\nIn tears, he added: \"What you have given me is the most profound experience. I'm so filled with emotion about what just happened. I hope I never recover from this. I hope I can retain what I feel now. I don't want to lose 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 Blue Origin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Shatner was joined on the flight by Audrey Powers, a Blue Origin vice president; Chris Boshuizen, who co-founded the Earth-imaging satellite company Planet; and Glen de Vries, an executive with the French healthcare software corporation Dassault Systèmes.\n\nThey were given a couple of days' training, although there was nothing really major for them to do during the flight other than enjoy it. The rocket and capsule system, known as New Shepard, is fully automatic.\n\nWhen the capsule touched down in the Texan desert, it was quickly surrounded by ground teams. Mr Bezos himself opened the hatch to check everyone inside was OK.\n\nAfter the immediate celebrations with family and friends, the crew then lined up to receive their Blue Origin astronaut pins.\n\nWilliam Shatner: \"I hope I never recover from this\"\n\nThis was only the second crewed outing for New Shepard. The first, on 20 July, carried Mr Bezos, his brother Mark, Dutch teenager Oliver Daemen; and famed aviator Wally Funk.\n\nAfterwards, Ms Funk, being 82, was able to claim the record for the oldest person in space - a title she has now relinquished to Mr Shatner.\n\nThe launch comes amid claims that Blue Origin has a toxic work culture and failed to adhere to proper safety protocols. The mostly anonymous accusations made by former and present employees have been strenuously denied.\n\n\"That just hasn't been my experience at Blue,\" countered Audrey Powers, who is responsible for mission and flight operations.\n\n\"We're exceedingly thorough, from the earliest days up through now as we've started our human flights. Safety has always been our top priority.\"\n\nWilliam Shatner may have been the first person to go from Star Trek's version of space to the real thing - but three Nasa astronauts have made the opposite journey.\n\nMae Jemison appeared in an episode of TV sequel Star Trek: The Next Generation, while Mike Fincke and Terry Virts turned up in the final episode of Enterprise, the Star Trek prequel series.\n\nAlso providing a link are Gene Roddenberry, the franchise creator, and James Doohan, the actor who played Montgomery \"Scotty\" Scott in the original 1960s series and subsequent films. Both men had their ashes sent into space.\n\nSpace tourism is going through something of a renaissance, currently.\n\nThroughout the 2000s a number of high-value individuals paid to visit the International Space Station (ISS). But these flights, organised under the patronage of the Russian space agency, ceased in 2009.\n\nNow, the sector is being rekindled, and this time it looks more resilient, simply because there are many more private space companies chasing the business, and this should bring down prices for a wider pool of customers.\n\nAs well as the New Shepard trips organised by Jeff Bezos, the British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson is offering rides in his Virgin Galactic rocket plane.\n\nAnd then, of course, there's Elon Musk, whose Dragon capsule will send people orbital, to circle the Earth for several days - as it did for the privately funded Inspiration4 crew last month.\n\nWhile Mr Bezos simply invites some people to fly on New Shepard, he is selling other seats. And whereas Sir Richard Branson puts a ticket price (from $450,000; £330,000) against the journey, the Amazon founder does not disclose the fees paid by the likes of Mr Boshuizen and Mr de Vries.\n\nBlue Origin is planning one more crewed flight this year, with several more crewed flights planned for 2022.\n\nThe crew went to inspect their rocket booster after landing\n• None Shatner in space: 'The most profound experience' Video, 00:01:35Shatner in space: 'The most profound experience'", "Two more UK energy firms have ceased trading amid soaring wholesale energy prices.\n\nPure Planet, which is backed by oil giant BP, and Colorado Energy join a number of small energy firms that have gone bust recently.\n\nPure Planet said it had been caught between rising costs and the UK's energy price cap, which limits what companies can charge consumers.\n\nThis had left its business \"unsustainable\", it said.\n\nCustomers of both companies will be moved to new suppliers.\n\nPure Planet and Colorado Energy are the latest casualties of a global spike in gas prices.\n\nPure Planet supplies gas and electricity to around 235,000 domestic customers, while Colorado Energy has around 15,000 domestic customers.\n\nEnergy regulator Ofgem will now find a new supplier for those customers, who are asked to do nothing until the transfer takes place in the coming weeks.\n\nThe demise of Pure Planet and Colorado Energy takes the number of customers affected by the current wave of energy company collapses across the UK to around two million.\n\nOfgem said on Wednesday that the unprecedented increase in global gas prices in recent weeks was putting financial pressure on suppliers.\n\n\"Ofgem's number one priority is to protect customers,\" said Neil Lawrence, director of retail at Ofgem.\n\n\"I want to reassure affected customers that they do not need to worry: under our safety net we'll make sure your energy supplies continue.\"\n\nMr Lawrence added that if customers have credit, the funds are protected, so customers will not lose the money that is owed to them.\n\nPure Planet said that the government and Ofgem expect it \"to sell energy at a price much less than it currently costs to buy\".\n\n\"This is unsustainable, and therefore, sadly we have had to make the difficult decision to cease trading,\" it said.\n\nPure Planet said it had lost its backing from oil giant BP\n\n\"In our case, despite being hedged until next spring, and having had the backing of BP, Pure Planet faced increasing risks and large potential losses by continuing to operate in this market,\" Pure Planet said.\n\n\"Sadly, this led to BP taking a decision to withdraw its support and we are no longer able to continue.\"\n\nBP said it had worked to support Pure Planet and give financial support through wholesale supply and other funding arrangements.\n\n\"However, despite considerable work over an extended period, we concluded it is no longer commercially viable for BP to continue this relationship and took this difficult decision,\" a BP spokesperson said.\n\nNine suppliers collapsed in September, but business and energy minister Kwasi Kwarteng has ruled out supporting struggling energy firms. Last week, he said more companies could collapse.\n\nThe regulator's price cap, which covers 15 million households across England, Wales and Scotland, protects customers on default tariffs by limiting charges including how much customers pay per unit of energy.\n\nBut providers say they can't pass on rising wholesale gas prices to customers because of the cap.\n\nSuppliers that have recently gone bust include Avro Energy, People's Energy and Green Supplier Limited.\n\nRising prices have had reverberations throughout the supply chain.\n\nBBC Newsnight reported on Wednesday evening that gas shipping firm CNG has written to its energy supplier customers saying that it will no longer supply the wholesale market.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben Chu This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNewsnight economics editor Ben Chu tweeted that CNG had recently had to supply gas to households without being paid by suppliers that have failed, including Utility Point and Avro Energy.\n\nThis has caused a significant amount of financial damage to CNG, Mr Chu said.\n\nCNG leaving the market will put further pressure on small UK energy firms and could speed up their collapse, he added.\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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 suppose you've rung me to talk about the Northern Ireland Protocol...\", comes the weary voice down the phone.\n\nIt's not diplomats or politicians from any particular EU country who greet me like that these days. It's the reaction I get pretty much across the board.\n\nFour years of Brexit negotiations before the UK's final departure in January last year have left the EU with no appetite for more.\n\nMember states are far more focused on struggling with post-Covid economic challenges, soaring gas prices and smouldering intra-EU strife with Poland and Hungary. The last thing EU capitals say they need or want right now is a trade war with the UK.\n\nBut tensions over the Northern Ireland Protocol are real.\n\nBrussels and London agree - though to differing degrees - that the protocol isn't working well for the people of Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Tuesday, the UK's Brexit Minister Lord Frost called for far-reaching changes to the text.\n\nBrussels views this as a demand for a rewrite, and the EU is refusing to renegotiate the protocol's framework.\n\nIt was drawn up as part of the Brexit divorce deal, known as the Withdrawal Agreement. The result of an effort by EU and UK negotiators to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland - dividing Northern Ireland, which is part of post-Brexit UK, from EU member state Ireland.\n\nThe fear was that a customs border between them might endanger the peace process.\n\nAnd that's how Northern Ireland - which is legally part of the UK customs union - ended up also remaining in the EU customs union and single market for goods after Brexit, as set out in the protocol.\n\nThis \"exceptional solution\" as the negotiators saw it, was an attempt to recognise the exceptional case of Northern Ireland, to avoid that hard border with the Republic of Ireland and to safeguard the peace process after Brexit.\n\nBut, to protect the EU's single market from goods potentially flooding in unchecked from the UK, Brussels insisted customs checks needed to be carried out between Great Britain and Northern Ireland - if they weren't going to take place on the island of Ireland.\n\nThis has angered unionists in the North, who feel they are being severed from the United Kingdom.\n\nLord Frost and others in the UK government warn the Protocol is upsetting the delicate political balance in Northern Ireland, thereby endangering the peace process the agreement was supposed to protect.\n\nBut Brussels insists this is an international treaty signed knowingly at the time by the UK government.\n\nIt says it is happy to work on ironing out any day-to-day practical difficulties of the protocol, raised by businesses and civil society in Northern Ireland. But the EU wants to make clear this week that it is not bowing to \"attempts at bullying\" by London, in the words of one European diplomat I spoke to.\n\nThe EU describes its new proposals as \"practical steps to solve concrete problems\".\n\nIt says it wants to ensure the smooth arrival of medicines from Great Britain into Northern Ireland.\n\nBecause it has heard complaints in Northern Ireland that regulations are being made concerning life there, without local involvement, Brussels will undertake this week to consult more with the authorities and businesses there.\n\nLord Frost said on Tuesday that British people \"voted for change and that's what they expect\"\n\nAnd while the EU insists that waiving customs checks altogether would endanger its single market, EU insiders say new measures being suggested this week to reduce the number of checks on goods and animal products travelling from Great Britain to Northern Ireland (and therefore potentially onwards into the EU single market) already go too far for some EU member states.\n\nHowever, for now, Brussels is refusing to engage with Lord Frost's demand to remove the role of the European Court of Justice in the protocol.\n\nThe ECJ is a red rag to many Brexit supporters including in the governing Conservative party.\n\nDavid Frost said on Tuesday he wanted to see the Protocol changed to become \"like a normal treaty in the way it is governed, with international arbitration instead of a system of EU law ultimately policed in the court of one of the parties, the European Court of Justice\".\n\nBut again the EU insists the protocol is no normal treaty.\n\nIt says that Northern Ireland's ongoing participation in the EU customs union and single market means in those areas it is subject to EU regulations and those, in turn, are always policed by the European Court of Justice.\n\nYet there is some wiggle room here.\n\nIn its agreements with sovereignty-minded Switzerland, the EU has an additional layer of oversight - placing the ECJ very much at arm's length.\n\nBut even if Brussels eventually suggested this, would the UK government go for it?\n\nOn Tuesday, Baroness Chapman, shadow Brexit Minister in the Labour Party, accused senior Conservatives of being \"desperate to use a tussle with Brussels\" to distract from what she described as the government's domestic failures - whether on Covid or the current energy crisis.\n\nA number of EU diplomats I've spoken to have echoed this sentiment. They're not convinced the government wants to resolve the protocol situation with Brussels, they say. At least not right away.\n\nThat is an accusation denied by the UK government.\n\nDetails of the proposed changes will be given by European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic later on Wednesday\n\nIn fact, Lord Frost says he's put together the legal text of a \"forward-looking\" new protocol which he has passed to the European Commission for consideration.\n\nFor now, despite some barbed exchanges by individual politicians (take a look at this weekend's Twitter spat between Ireland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney and Lord Frost) both the EU and the UK insist theirs are not take-it-or-leave-it positions.\n\nBoth sides say they're open to discussion over the coming weeks. Lord Frost called on Brussels to be \"ambitious\" and to work together with the UK to agree \"a better way forward\". The EU is calling for \"constructive dialogue\".\n\nThe UK government has threatened to suspend parts of the protocol if it deems that to be necessary.\n\nThe EU assumption is that, even if talks go badly, the UK would be unlikely to take such action before mid-November when the international COP26 climate summit in Glasgow comes to an end.\n\nThis would avoid a big UK moment on the global stage being dominated by headlines about a row with Brussels and the possible endangering of the Northern Ireland peace process.\n\nBut Brussels is readying itself for every eventuality. Key EU member states say they've asked the European Commission to prepare \"targeted retaliation\" if, for example, the UK suddenly stops customs checks on goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain.\n\nOne possibility you hear mentioned is that the EU could start new legal proceedings against the UK and/or suspend parts of its post-Brexit \"zero tariff zero quota\" trade agreement with the UK. The idea would be to target strategic UK markets like whisky or cars \"to send a clear message to London\", according to EU diplomats I've spoken to.\n\nAs bilateral discussions start again in earnest over the Northern Ireland Protocol, there's definite potential for things to get a lot messier.", "Luna has scored a victory for oat milk drinkers after convincing Lidl to recall a batch of the drink\n\nA Scottish TikToker has won a victory against one of the UK's biggest food retailers after using her platform to campaign for a batch of \"lumpy\" oat milk to be removed.\n\nLuna, known as @lunahtic, wanted Lidl to act on her concerns about its oat milk, and after a one-woman campaign, succeeded in having it recalled.\n\nHer videos highlighting the problem won millions of views.\n\nLidl has now recalled all its oat milk with a use-by date in the next year.\n\nIt said fresh batches would be available in stores soon.\n\nThe 23-year-old student started monitoring the Lidl Just Free oat milk situation in August when she noticed a carton she had purchased was \"lumpy\" and \"smelly\".\n\nIn one video, Luna put the Lidl milk through a blender after comments from followers which suggested the milk just needed \"a good shake\"\n\n\"It's good milk and I've used it for years,\" she said. \"I use four cartons every week and I had bought a big batch of it with the sell by date of 2022. But I noticed when I opened it it was full of lumps and really smelly.\n\n\"I thought it was just the one carton but tried a few more and they were all like that. On 15 August I contacted Lidl HQ and asked for a refund for the £11.20 I had spent on the milk.\n\n\"They never gave me a refund, but said their quality assurance team were looking into it. This went on for ages and I eventually got a refund for one carton.\"\n\nBy this point, Luna was concerned that the milk was still on sale. She took to her TikTok account to vent her frustration.\n\n\"Lots of people agreed with me and it got lots of views. But some people said I was storing it wrong, or it was lumps of oat, or I just needed to shake the carton, so I kept going back to buy the milk to show that it was off.\"\n\nOne of her videos went viral, racking up more than three million views in just a few days. To illustrate her concern, she dashes into the store, buys the milk and then pours out the carton outside to show the lumps.\n\nShe filmed herself cleaning up the mess afterwards.\n\nLuna recorded an uncut video to illustrate her point\n\nLuna said: \"I did it to hopefully prove to people who were sceptical. Across the country people were tagging me in their videos of this milk and I thought they shouldn't be selling that.\"\n\nThe oat milk mission continued, with Luna contacting Lidl again.\n\nShe was sent £50 in vouchers for the store as a gesture to say the company was taking her concerns seriously, which she spent on items for a food bank.\n\nMore TikTok videos followed and more calls to Lidl HQ. Luna said she was told that the product would not be recalled because it was \"not a health hazard\".\n\nThe next step was to refer the issue to her local environmental health department. They agreed to investigate.\n\nHowever, Monday brought a breakthrough - Luna revealed to her 57,000 followers that she had been sent paperwork which suggested the milk was finally being removed from stores.\n\nOne Lidl employee sent her a recall notice and gave her permission to share it.\n\nShe said: \"This document shows that all Lidl oat milk in the UK up to the date stated on the letter has to be recalled.\n\n\"I spoke to my local Lidl store manager who did tell me the oat milk had been recalled. I was told that new batches of the same oat milk will be back on the shelves really soon and you can guarantee I'll be first in line.\"\n\nThen, on Tuesday, her report to her local authority environmental health team brought results.\n\nThe reply said that they had spoken to colleagues at the London Borough of Bexley, which is the primary authority for Lidl UK stores, and they would look into the complaints.\n\nLidl told the local authority: \"Our latest oat milk withdrawal was last Wednesday which was sent to all regions. This was due to a number of complaints we had relating to the product being lumpy/white floating bits. Was confirmed not to be a health and safety risk.\"\n\nA spokesman for Lidl told the BBC on Tuesday: \"At Lidl, it is never our intention for a customer to be dissatisfied in any way and we work very closely with our suppliers to ensure that the products in our stores are of the highest possible quality.\n\n\"Following customer feedback we have recalled the affected batch and the product will be back in stores very soon.\"\n\nLuna said she was delighted her efforts had paid off.\n\n\"It's not very often you can get the attention of big company to do things and it might seem like a small thing but a lot of people had experienced the same issue.\"", "A light show replaced the traditional fireworks to see in 2021\n\nLondon's famous riverside New Year's Eve fireworks display has been cancelled for a second year because of \"uncertainties caused by Covid\".\n\nEngland was under strict lockdown last year, but despite all restrictions having been lifted, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has again called the event off.\n\nNormally about 100,000 people pack the streets around Victoria Embankment.\n\nThere will still be a celebration in Trafalgar Square, with details to be announced \"in due course\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London's new year celebrations featured a message of hope from David Attenborough\n\nThe beginning of 2021 was rung in by millions of viewers watching a light show on television.\n\nExplaining why this year's event was also being cancelled, a spokesperson for the mayor said: \"Due to the uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, our world-famous New Year's Eve display will not be held on the banks of the Thames this year.\n\nLondon's light show which started 2021 was watched by millions of viewers on TV\n\n\"Last year's successful show took place in a slightly different way due to the pandemic, and this year a number of exciting new options are being considered as part of our New Year's Eve celebrations in London.\"\n\nCity Hall added that \"as always, London will be welcoming the New Year in a spectacular way\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Wales\n\nWales and Bournemouth midfielder David Brooks has revealed he has been diagnosed with cancer.\n\nThe 24-year-old said he has Stage 2 Hodgkin lymphoma but that \"the prognosis is a positive one\" and will start treatment next week.\n\nBrooks, who has won 21 Wales caps, was on international duty last week and credits the Wales medical team for helping detect the illness.\n\n\"This is a very difficult message for me to write,\" said Brooks.\n\n\"I have been diagnosed with Stage 2 Hodgkin lymphoma and will begin a course of treatment next week.\n\n\"Although this has come as a shock to myself and my family, the prognosis is a positive one and I am confident that I will make a full recovery and be back playing as soon as possible.\"\n\nHodgkin lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system, an important part of the immune system.\n\n\"I'd like to show my appreciation to the doctors, nurses, consultants and staff who have been treating me for their professionalism, warmth and understanding during this period,\" Brooks said.\n\n\"I want to thank everyone at the Football Association of Wales because without the swift attention of their medical team we may not have detected the illness.\n\n\"I'd also like to say thank you to AFC Bournemouth for all of their support and assistance this past week.\"\n\nBrooks has played nine times for Championship side Bournemouth this season, scoring three goals, but his football career will now be on hold as he begins treatment.\n\n\"Although I appreciate that there will be media attention and interest, I would like to ask that my privacy is respected in the coming months and I will share updates on my progress when I am able to do so,\" Brooks added.\n\n\"In the meantime, thank you to everyone for their messages of support - it means so much and will continue to do so in the months ahead.\n\n\"I look forward to seeing you all again and playing the sport I love very soon.\"\n\nBoth Wales and Bournemouth have offered their support and best wishes to Brooks during his treatment.\n\nBrooks, who made three appearances for Wales at Euro 2020, last played in the Cherries' goalless draw against Peterborough on 29 September, when he came off after 69 minutes.\n\nWales announced on 6 October that he had withdrawn from their latest squad through illness.\n• None Listen to the mystery surrounding a toxic new political conspiracy\n• None Which player's homecoming was the greatest in Premier League history?", "Lord Frost warned the UK could still trigger Article 16 if the EU did not agree on changes to the existing protocol\n\nBrexit Minister Lord Frost has proposed plans for an entirely new protocol to replace the existing Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nIn a speech to diplomats in Portugal on Tuesday, he described his new legal text as \"a better way forward\".\n\nThe protocol is the special Brexit deal agreed for Northern Ireland to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nUnionists argue it undermines Northern Ireland's constitutional position in the UK and creates a trade barrier.\n\nIn a plea to the European Union to allow for \"significant change\" to post-Brexit rules governing trade with Northern Ireland, Lord Frost said his proposed text would support the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nHe said it was forward-looking, improved on the current \"excessively rigid\" protocol, and would allow the EU and UK to \"get back to normal\" by removing \"the poison\" from their relationship.\n\nWith the EU expected to put forward proposals on Wednesday, Lord Frost again warned Brussels London could unilaterally waive some of the terms of its agreement if the bloc failed to budge.\n\n\"We have a short, but real, opportunity to put in place a new arrangement, to defuse the political crisis that is brewing, both in Northern Ireland and between us,\" Lord Frost said.\n\nHowever, Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Louise Haigh said the move to replace the protocol was \"stoking tension while solving nothing\".\n\nIn a tweet, the Labour MP said Lord Frost's speech \"sets the stage for another destabilising stand-off, with the agreement businesses and communities need further away than ever\".\n\n\"Stability, jobs and livelihoods depend on real progress in Northern Ireland in the coming weeks,\" she said.\n\n\"It would be a serious abdication of responsibility to block a pragmatic way forward and provoke more poisonous instability.\"\n\nLord Frost urged the EU to look carefully at the UK's new legal text, and said the existing protocol could not survive, as it did not have support right across Northern Ireland.\n\nHe also warned the UK could still trigger Article 16 - which allows either side to effectively override large parts of the agreement - if the EU and UK could not agree on changes to the existing protocol.\n\n\"We would not go down this route gratuitously or with any particular pleasure but it is our fundamental responsibility to safeguard peace and prosperity in Northern Ireland and that is why we cannot rest until this situation is addressed,\" said Lord Frost.\n\nThere are two schools of thought about how this latest negotiation is shaping up.\n\nThe first is that Lord Frost's hard line on the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is standard pre-negotiation tactics, aimed at grinding out another concession or two.\n\nAfter all the Brexit process has always delivered a deal, even at times when it seemed improbable.\n\nThe UK government wants to remove the ECJ from its oversight role as part of the Northern Ireland Protocol, saying as long as it continues the protocol will never survive.\n\nThe EU, on the other hand, has said it would be very hard for the protocol to continue without the court's oversight.\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has warned that the UK's demands on the protocol could cause \"a breakdown in relations\" with the EU.\n\nHe has hinted that maybe the UK doesn't want a deal unless it's total victory.\n\nUnder that scenario, the UK would go through the motions before triggering Article 16.\n\nIt would use this to gut the protocol while calculating that the EU's ability to retaliate is limited or or at least would take a long time to amount to anything.\n\nWe should find out which view is right by the end of this year.\n\nThe Brexit minister said the protocol represented \"a moment of EU overreach when the UK's negotiating hand was tied\" and that it could not \"reasonably last in its current form\".\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson signed up to the protocol as part of his Brexit agreement in 2020, but has since argued it was agreed in haste and was no longer working for the people of Northern Ireland.\n\nThe EU has repeatedly said it would not renegotiate the protocol, criticising the UK for reneging on an agreement that both sides signed in good faith.\n\nThe UK government also wants to reverse its previous agreement on the oversight role of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which is the EU's highest court.\n\nLord Frost said his new text proposed reliance on \"international arbitration instead of a system of EU law ultimately policed in the court of one of the parties\".\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson has threatened to pull his party out of Stormont\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) - Northern Ireland's largest unionist party - said if the current protocol was not replaced with a long-term solution Northern Ireland would be exposed to \"further harm and instability\".\n\nThe DUP leader has previously warned his party may quit Stormont if its demands over the protocol are not met.\n\nBut Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the protocol was an international treaty that \"recognises the special status of this island.\"\n\nIts implementation, the Sinn Féin vice-president added, was \"not negotiable\".\n\n\"The conduct of the British government throughout these negotiations has been duplicitous and disgraceful and is an effort to break yet another international agreement\".\n\nShe said: \"The attempts by the Tories and the DUP to undermine the protections and opportunities of the Protocol and impose a hard border must be opposed\".\n\nUlster Unionist assembly member Steve Aiken said it was \"self-evident\" the existing protocol was not working.\n\nHe said the party would consider the UK government's legal text and the EU proposals due on Wednesday.\n\nThese will focus on easing practical problems, rather than changing oversight arrangements.\n\nBut Alliance deputy leader Stephen Farry MP said Lord Frost had \"chosen to enter into another layer of delusion\".\n\nMr Farry said short of the UK \"rejoining the Customs Union and Single Market, there is no alternative than for the UK to work with the EU in a spirit of partnership to achieve as many mitigations and flexibilities as possible.\"\n\nSDLP MLA Matthew O'Toole said Lord Frost's remarks represented a \"deliberate distortion of facts and contempt for people here\".\n\nHe said Lord Frost had negotiated the protocol, agreed to its terms and \"backed Boris Johnson's campaign to sell it during the last general election\".\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister said: \"If, as Lord Frost says, it is the UK that governs Northern Ireland, then, there must be an end to the European Union's writ in this part of the United Kingdom.\n\n\"Put simply, it requires an end to the Protocol in all its parts.\"\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\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said he hoped the UK government was \"serious about moving on in partnership\".\n\nHe said Wednesday's EU proposals \"will deliver practical solutions to make the Protocol work better\".\n\nOn Monday, Mr Coveney accused the UK of repeatedly dismissing EU proposals for the protocol ahead of their publication.", "Ronnie Wood, Sir Mick Jagger and Keith Richards recently resumed their tour without late drummer Charlie Watts\n\nThe Rolling Stones have dropped Brown Sugar, one of their biggest hits, from their US tour.\n\nIt follows unease with the depictions of black women and references to slavery in the song, which reached number one in the US in 1971.\n\nThe band's veteran guitarist Keith Richards confirmed the decision to the LA Times but said he was confused by people who wanted to \"bury\" the track.\n\n\"Didn't they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery?\" he said.\n\nThe 77-year-old musician concluded that he's \"hoping that we'll be able to resurrect the babe in her glory somewhere along the track\".\n\nSinger and co-writer Sir Mick Jagger, meanwhile, told the paper the reason for not playing the song was that it was \"tough\" to compile a set list for stadium shows.\n\n\"We've played Brown Sugar every night since 1970, so sometimes you think, we'll take that one out for now and see how it goes,\" he said. \"We might put it back in.\"\n\nOver the years, Brown Sugar has been the band's second most-played song live after Jumpin' Jack Flash, according to Setlist.fm.\n\nThe rock band last performed it in Miami, Florida, in 2019 - the final date of that leg of their North American tour, which resumed last month.\n\nThe catchy opening riff and melody propelled the song to mainstream success and often overshadowed the song's problematic references to slavery, sex, sadomasochism and heroin.\n\nDiscussing the song in a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Jagger said: \"I never would write that song now.\n\n\"I would probably censor myself. I'd think, 'Oh God, I can't. I've got to stop'. God knows what I'm on about on that song. It's such a mishmash. All the nasty subjects in one go.\"\n\nBut criticism of its lyrics, rumoured to be inspired by one of the singer's girlfriends, has intensified in recent times.\n\nLast year producer Ian Brennan criticised the band's decision to continue to \"play and profit\" from the song, which he said glorifies slavery, rape, torture and paedophilia.\n\n\"The call is not for censorship or 'record burning,' but greater consciousness and sensitivity,\" Brennan told Rolling Stone.\n\n\"This particular case is far from nitpicking or searching into the furthest corners of someone's history for any misstep. Brown Sugar is not some obscure B-side.\"\n\nThe song reached number two in the UK charts when it was released, and has been streamed almost 170 million times on Spotify.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A campaign to stop many BTec vocational qualifications being scrapped within two years has won the backing of MPs and Lords from across the parties.\n\nSome 118 have written to Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi asking him to re-think plans to use T-levels to replace them in England.\n\nPeers voted on Tuesday to amend the Skills Bill to demand a four-year transition before funding is removed\n\nThe government said T-levels offer students a route to university or work.\n\nAlthough they are at the same level as BTecs, T-levels are different in their design and include a work placement, which college principals say reduces the time available to re-take core GCSEs such as maths and English.\n\nColleges offering T-levels are likely to make GCSEs in English and maths an entry requirement, which means colleges are unlikely to offer places to those who need to do re-takes.\n\nIf a student does not have the GCSE grades to do A-levels or Btecs, then the entry requirements for the new T-levels will mean they have fewer options.\n\nThe letter to Mr Zahawi is in support of the Protect Student Choice campaign by a coalition of education organisations including many colleges and universities.\n\nBill Watkins, chief executive of the Sixth Form Colleges Association, said the shake-up was far from \"levelling up\".\n\n\"This is a hammer blow for social mobility,\" he said.\n\nCollege principal Graham Pennington worries that some students will not be able to advance in their careers\n\nGraham Pennington, chief executive of Sandwell College Group - which presently offers A-levels, BTecs and T-levels - said if many BTecs are scrapped \"possibly tens of thousands of young people would not have a clear route\".\n\n\"They're going to find it very difficult to come to college and gain qualifications that will help them get further in their life.\n\n\"It's a very risky scenario,\" he added.\n\n\"Lots of young people will find themselves with no real pathway to fulfil their goals and dreams, and that's incredibly sad.\"\n\nT-levels are the government's flagship new technical qualification being phased in over three or four years from 2020.\n\nDesigned with business, they require a minimum of 45 days of work placement.\n\nThree were launched in 2020 and a further seven have started this term.\n\nCadbury College in Kings Norton, Birmingham, offers students a choice of A-levels, BTecs or T-levels - which are equivalent to three A-levels.\n\nJess Cartmell is on a T-level childcare and education course at the college.\n\n\"I like the fact that it's something I definitely want to do and it will definitely take me to where I want to be,\" she said.\n\nAs well as learning about child development and childcare in college, Jess is spending two days a week on a placement in a nursery.\n\nBut she says she was unusual in knowing what she wanted to do at the age of 16.\n\n\"Less than half knew what they wanted to do, I think that's why most people chose BTecs and A-levels.\"\n\nYasna Rezael, who is doing two BTecs in Applied Science and Psychology, said: \"At the beginning of the year I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, so I chose applied science which means I can have a variety of choices at university.\"\n\nWithin a couple of years most 16-year-olds in England will be asked to choose between traditional A-levels or T-levels.\n\nThe letter to Mr Zahawi has been signed by three former Education Secretaries - Lord Baker of Dorking, Baroness Morris of Yardley and Lord Blunkett.\n\nThey argue the move \"will leave many students without a viable pathway after their GCSEs, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds\".\n\nThey are concerned that \"removing the vast majority of BTecs will lead to students taking courses that do not meet their needs, or dropping out of education altogether\".\n\nHigher and further education minister Michelle Donelan said the government would ensure there was a good range of high quality courses.\n\nShe said: \"T-levels are a route to university. They are a highly academic courses that focus on on certain skill levels and they're going to be highly respected not just by business, but by universities.\n\n\"We will ensure there's a good range of courses overall and ensure there is quality.\"", "The source of the noise is being investigated with it currently being a mystery\n\nVillagers plagued by a mystery low-level humming sound for a year say they have felt \"tortured\" in their homes.\n\nResidents in Holmfield, Halifax, say the unwelcome noise has left them unable to sleep and damaged their health.\n\nThey believe local industrial units could be to blame but a Calderdale Council investigation identified \"lots of potential sources\".\n\nVillagers have urged the authority to continue its hunt for the cause.\n\nA recent petition launched amid fears investigations were being stood down has gathered 400 signatures.\n\nCommenting on the online petition to Calderdale Council and Bradford Metropolitan Council, resident Yvonne Conner said the low-frequency noise was affecting her health.\n\nShe said others had to change their working hours because of a lack of rest, with others booking into hotels for the weekend to get respite.\n\n\"It's causing issues for people such as lack of sleep, headaches and pressure to the front of the head, foggy brain, painful ears, stress and anxiety which has led to me having a case of shingles.\n\n\"Residents have been unable to relax in their own home for nearly a year. The noise is continuous day and night.\"\n\nIn a recent cabinet meeting Calderdale Council councillor Scott Patient said investigations would continue, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\n\"The service is convinced there is not one single source of noise and some have been discounted.\n\n\"They are still making tenable inquiries and as long as this exists will continue to investigate,\" he said.\n\nThe council was working with neighbouring authorities, he added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Incidents have been reported at the US embassy in Bogota\n\nUS officials are investigating possible cases of Havana syndrome illness in Colombia, days before a visit by the Secretary of State, US media say.\n\nUS embassy staff in Bogota may have been injured by the mysterious illness, which causes a painful sound in the ears, fatigue and dizziness.\n\nFirst reported in Cuba in 2016, US diplomats around the world have since reported cases of the syndrome.\n\nIts origins are unknown, with some speculating it is a type of weapon.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal first reported that emails sent by US Ambassador to Colombia Philip Goldberg confirmed a number of \"unexplained health incidents\" or UHIs - the term used for Havana syndrome by the US government - since mid-September.\n\nColombian President Iván Duque told the New York Times that the country is investigating the reports. He added that the US is leading the inquiry.\n\nAmericans who have been hit by Havana syndrome have described an intense and painful sound in their ears. Some of the estimated 200 affected have been left with dizziness and fatigue for months.\n\nMore than half of those impacted were CIA employees, according to the Times.\n\nOn Friday, reports of Havana syndrome emerged at the US embassy in Berlin. President Joe Biden released a statement vowing to find \"the cause and who is responsible\".\n\nIt came hours after he signed a new law that entitles the heads of the CIA and State Department to provide financial compensation to those US government employees who have been harmed by the syndrome.\n\nA State Department official refused to confirm the reports to BBC News on Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement, the official said \"we are vigorously investigating reports of AHIs wherever they are reported,\" and that they are \"actively working to identify the cause of these incidents and whether they may be attributed to a foreign actor\".\n\nThe news comes ahead of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's scheduled travel to Bogota next week.\n\nIn August, Vice-President Kamala Harris delayed travel to Vietnam after two US officials were medically evacuated from the country after falling ill.", "Esyllt Calley claims moving vascular services away from Ysbyty Gwynedd has been detrimental to her husband Pete's treatment\n\nA distraught wife says her husband faces losing both his legs due to flawed restructuring by a health board.\n\nVascular services were centralised by Betsi Cadwaladr health board at Glan Clwyd hospital in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, in April 2019.\n\nBut it was controversial, and resulted in several high profile resignations.\n\nThe health board says it remains \"committed to providing a stable, high quality vascular service for north Wales\".\n\nIt says it has \"invested £2.3m in a state-of-the art hybrid vascular theatre\" at Glan Clwyd hospital.\n\nEarlier this year, Arfon MS Sian Gwenllian called for the overhaul of vascular services to be undone.\n\nThe vascular system is made up of arteries and veins, and is the body's way of circulating blood between the heart and different organs.\n\nEsyllt Calley from Llanllyfni, Gwynedd, is adamant that removing specialist services from her local hospital in Bangor has been detrimental to patients like her husband.\n\nSince 2019, people from around north Wales have had to travel to access a centralised vascular service in Bodelwyddan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pete Calley: 'He was such a jolly person... but that's gone'\n\nPete Calley, 51, is currently a patient at Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor, awaiting an operation to amputate his second leg because of complications originating from diabetes he has lived with for 22 years.\n\nSix years ago he had toes amputated at Glan Clwyd hospital, but Mrs Calley claims the surgery was not conducted properly which she said led to a further operation and months of rehabilitation.\n\nHe returned to Glan Clwyd 18 months ago needing to have his leg amputated. Mrs Calley said they had to operate three times within a week.\n\nMrs Calley said her husband now has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after undergoing several operations at the Glan Clwyd site, where vascular services are now centralised. He is refusing to return there for treatment.\n\n\"He's been affected so badly. Just saying the name 'Glan Clwyd' is enough to send him into a panic attack. I feel I've lost the man I married. I love my husband, but he's changed.\"\n\nShe said Betsi Cadwaladr health board had now agreed to fund his treatment at a Liverpool hospital.\n\nPete Calley is due to become a father for the fifth time next year, his second child with Esyllt Calley\n\nBreaking down in tears, Mrs Calley was adamant the restructuring of the vascular services in north Wales had affected her husband's health.\n\n\"I know Pete would still have his leg if it wasn't for Glan Clwyd. And he certainly wouldn't be a double amputee,\" she said.\n\n\"Within two years of having the vascular unit at Glan Clwyd, he's facing becoming a double amputee. In six years as a patient at Ysbyty Gwynedd, he lost no more than two toes.\n\n\"I just don't understand why they moved a unit that was so good.\"\n\nProfessor Dean Williams, who resigned from his position as head of the vascular unit in Ysbyty Gwynedd in 2019, said he had helped develop a world-class limb salvage unit at the hospital.\n\nHe said he had received assurances from senior staff at Betsi Cadwaladr health board that this service would remain at the Bangor site, despite centralisation at Glan Clwyd.\n\nProfessor Dean Williams said the 'world class' limb salvage unit he helped build at Ysbyty Gwynedd has been 'dismantled'\n\n\"When the centralisation went ahead, all major vascular surgery and emergency admissions were removed from Bangor,\" said Prof Williams.\n\n\"To have agreements thrown away, see a world-class service dismantled and then see the predicted consequences of that decision unfold in front of us was difficult and is still difficult to witness.\"\n\nBethan Russell-Williams, who was an independent board member at Betsi Cadwaladr, also resigned over the plans to reform vascular services, and said she had no regrets.\n\n\"Patient outcomes are much worse now than they were when services were available at Ysbyty Gwynedd,\" she said.\n\n\"More patients are having major lower limb amputations, and more patients are dying following major lower limb amputations.\"\n\nResponding to the allegations, Dr Nick Lyons, executive medical director of Betsi Cadwaladr, said: \"Even in this large health board area, we do not have the volume of complex vascular cases for teams to keep their skills and expertise up at each of the three acute hospitals.\"\n\nDr Lyons said a review conducted last year by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) found \"that the service has a robust surgical on-call arrangement and appropriate pathways for emergency and complex vascular intervention\".\n\n\"The RCS noted the commitment from all involved to improve the service and that 'an excellent foundation' is in place to continue the development and improvement of the vascular service in north Wales,\" he added.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We cannot comment on individual cases and this is a matter for the health board. We are in regular dialogue with the health board and will continue to monitor progress within the vascular service.\"", "Boris Johnson fought the 2019 election on a promise to get a deal with Brussels\n\nIreland's deputy PM has warned governments doing trade deals with the UK that it is a nation that \"doesn't necessarily keep its word\".\n\nLeo Varadkar made the comment after Dominic Cummings suggested the UK had always intended to tear up the Brexit deal it signed with the EU in 2019.\n\nBoris Johnson's ex-adviser said the plan had been to \"ditch the bits we didn't like\" after winning power.\n\nThe government said the deal had not worked as intended and must be changed.\n\nAnd it accused the EU of failing to protect the Good Friday peace agreement in its implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nMr Johnson fought the 2019 election on a \"Get Brexit done\" platform.\n\nDuring the campaign, he repeatedly claimed the withdrawal agreement he had negotiated with Brussels - including the Northern Ireland Protocol - was a \"great\" deal that was \"oven ready\".\n\nThe UK now wants to change the deal to allow goods to circulate more freely between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nEU officials are travelling to London later to present their proposals for the border - but they are unwilling to rewrite the protocol and their proposals are unlikely to satisfy Brexit minister Lord Frost, who laid out the UK's plans for an entirely new protocol on Tuesday.\n\nMr Cummings - who has turned against Mr Johnson since being removed from Downing Street at the end of 2020 - claims the prime minister never understood what the withdrawal agreement really meant.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leo Varadkar casts doubt on the trustworthiness of the British government.\n\nHe tweeted: \"What I've said does NOT mean 'the PM was lying in General Election 2019', he never had a scoobydoo [a clue] what the deal he signed meant.\n\n\"He never understood what leaving Customs Union meant until November 2020.\"\n\nWhen the prime minister did finally comprehend, said Mr Cummings, \"he was babbling 'I'd never have signed it if I'd understood it' (but that WAS a lie)\".\n\nAsked if Mr Cummings was correct in his assessment, Lord Frost said: \"We all understood extremely well what the deal meant, it delivered on democracy, took the UK out of the EU whole and entire, and it was a very good deal.\"\n\nBut he said it now had to be changed because it was \"undermining the Belfast Good Friday Agreement, not supporting it\".\n\n\"The problem with the protocol at the moment is that EU law, with the European Court of Justice as the enforcer, is applied in Northern Ireland without any democratic process. That has to change if we are to find governance arrangements people can live with,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Frost says the NI Protocol is “not being implemented with the necessary sensitivity\" and it has to be \"redone\".\n\nIn a statement, the UK government said the protocol needed \"significant change\" to avoid further severe \"economic, political and societal\" disruption in Northern Ireland and to make it \"sustainable for the future\".\n\nMr Cummings - the former Vote Leave campaign chief - said that when Boris Johnson entered Downing Street in 2019, the country was facing the \"worst constitutional crisis in a century\" with much of what he called the \"deep state\" angling for \"Brino\" [Brexit in name only] or a second referendum.\n\n\"So we wriggled through with best option we could and intended to get the trolley [his nickname for Boris Johnson] to ditch bits we didn't like after whacking [Labour leader Jeremy] Corbyn. We prioritised,\" he said.\n\nIn July this year, Mr Cummings told the BBC's Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg the Irish government had also wanted to \"fudge things\" and \"it suited both sides to sign up to something that was not what either side had really wanted and which punted difficult questions into the future\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Brexit divorce deal was \"inherently self-contradictory in various ways\" says the PM's former chief adviser.\n\nIn his latest tweets, Mr Cummings dismissed suggestions that abandoning elements of the deal would mean breaking international law.\n\n\"Our priorities meant e.g. getting Brexit done is 10,000 times more important than lawyers yapping re international law in negotiations with people who break international law all the time,\" he said.\n\nMr Varadkar told RTE television: \"I hope Dominic Cummings is speaking for himself and not for the British government.\n\n\"But those comments are very alarming because that would indicate that this is a government, an administration, that acted in bad faith and that message needs to be heard around the world.\n\n\"If the British government doesn't honour its agreements, it doesn't adhere to treaties it signs, that must apply to everyone else too.\n\n\"At the moment they're going around the world, they're trying to negotiate new trade agreements...\n\n\"Surely the message must go out to all countries around the world that this is a British government that doesn't necessarily keep its word and doesn't necessarily honour the agreements it makes.\n\n\"And you shouldn't make any agreements with them until such time as you're confident that they keep their promises, and honour things, for example, like the protocol.\"\n\nThe Taoiseach (Ireland's PM) Micheál Martin has given his backing to EU proposals for changes to the Northern Ireland Protocol, but he urged both sides to work \"in good faith\" and focus on \"addressing disruption in trade between Northern Ireland and Great Britain\".\n\nTheresa May's former chief of staff, Lord Gavin Barwell, has, meanwhile, warned the UK's proposal for changing the Northern Ireland protocol has \"no chance of success and is going to do even further damage to our relationship with our nearest neighbours\".\n\n\"My problem is if you agree something and fight an election saying what a fantastic deal this is - and then almost immediately afterwards you start to try and unpick the thing - the danger is the people you negotiating with think you didn't agree it in good faith in first place, and that makes it much more challenging when you try to renegotiate it,\" he told an Institute for Government event.\n\nHe said he did not like the current Northern Ireland Protocol - but argued that the UK government had to meet the EU \"half way\".", "An arrow could be seen sticking out of a wall after the attack\n\nFour women and a man were killed and two others wounded when a man used a bow and arrow to attack them in Norway.\n\nPolice first received word of an attack in the town of Kongsberg, south-west of the capital Oslo, at 18:12 local time (16:12 GMT).\n\nA Danish man aged 37 has been arrested and questioned for hours overnight.\n\nPolice said they had previously been in contact with him over fears of radicalisation after he converted to Islam.\n\nThe victims were all aged between 50 and 70, regional police chief Ole Bredrup Saeverud told reporters on Thursday morning.\n\nHe said they were most likely killed after the police first confronted the attacker at 18:18.\n\nReports of the incident were \"horrifying\", said Prime Minister Erna Solberg, hours before she was due to leave office.\n\n\"I understand that many people are afraid, but it's important to emphasise that the police are now in control,\" she said.\n\nThe attacker is said to have launched the assault inside a Coop Extra supermarket on Kongsberg's west side. One of those injured was an off-duty police officer who was in the shop at the time.\n\nA spokesperson for the chain later confirmed a \"serious incident\" at their store, adding that none of their staff were physically injured.\n\nLocal police chief Oyvind Aas confirmed that the attacker had managed to escape an initial confrontation with police before an arrest was finally made at 18:47 local time, 35 minutes after the attack began.\n\nOne witness told local outlet TV2 she had heard a commotion and seen a woman taking cover, then a \"man standing on the corner with arrows in a quiver on his shoulder and a bow in his hand\".\n\n\"Afterwards, I saw people running for their lives. One of them was a woman holding a child by the hand,\" she added.\n\nPolice have told Norwegian news agency NTB that the attacker also used other weapons during the incident, without giving more details on what they were.\n\nThe suspect moved over a large area, and authorities cordoned off several parts of the town. Residents were ordered to stay indoors so authorities could examine the scene and gather evidence. Surrounding gardens and garages were searched with the help of sniffer dogs.\n\nThe attack was Norway's deadliest since far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 people, most of them at a children's Labour Party summer camp on the island of Utoya in July 2011.\n\nKongsberg Mayor Kari Anne Sand said it was a shocking attack that had taken place in an area where many people lived, and that a crisis team would help anyone affected.\n\nDescribing the town as \"a completely ordinary community with completely ordinary people\", Ms Sand said everyone had been deeply shaken by \"this very tragic situation.\"\n\nPolice have cordoned off large parts of the town\n\nThe suspect was taken to a police station in the town of Drammen, where his defence lawyer, Fredrik Neumann, said he was questioned for more than three hours and was co-operating with authorities.\n\nThe suspect had a Danish mother and Norwegian father, he explained.\n\nNorway's outgoing justice minister Monica Maeland told reporters the police did not yet know whether or not it was act of terrorism and could not comment on details emerging about the suspect.\n\nPolice prosecutor Ann Irén Svane Mathiassen told TV2 that the man had lived in Kongsberg for several years and was known to police.\n\nThe attack came on the final day of Erna Solberg's conservative government, and a new justice minister takes over the case on Thursday under a centre-left coalition led by Labour leader Jonas Gahr Store.\n\nMr Store said it was a \"gruesome and brutal act\", hours before announcing his new cabinet.\n\nNorwegian police are not usually armed and after the attack the police directorate ordered all officers nationwide to carry firearms as an extra precaution.\n\nPolice were searching the Huseby area of north-western Oslo on Thursday following reports of a man being seen carrying a bow and arrow. Police stressed no-one had been hurt and there was no threat.\n\n\"The police have no indication so far that there is a change in the national threat level,\" the directorate said in a statement (in Norwegian).", "Bishop Christian Stäblein broke off his holiday to visit the grave and issue a statement, the Church said\n\nGermany's Protestant Church and other authorities have condemned the reuse of the vacant burial plot of a Jewish music professor for a neo-Nazi.\n\nThe remains of Prof Max Friedlaender were moved to another site in 1980, but a tombstone still commemorates him at the cemetery outside Berlin.\n\nA Holocaust denier was buried there on Friday after the grave's reuse was approved.\n\nThe burial plot is in one of Germany's largest Protestant cemeteries, in Stahnsdorf near Potsdam.\n\nProf Friedlaender, who died in 1934, was from a Jewish family but was a member of the Protestant Church. He was a bass singer and musicologist who specialised in the songs of Franz Schubert.\n\nGerman media report that Henry Hafenmayer, the man now buried in the plot in Stahnsdorf, was a Holocaust denier and blogger linked to several neo-Nazi groups.\n\nNeo-Nazi supporters laid wreaths on the grave, with nationalist messages and ribbons adorned with the Nazi-era iron cross symbol. They placed a portrait of Hafenmayer in front of Prof Friedlaender's shrouded tombstone.\n\nThe memorial was covered by the cemetery officials as is usual practice when a grave site is reused, the Church said.\n\nAmong the mourners was Horst Mahler, a neo-Nazi who has spent years in jail for racist incitement, German media report.\n\nIn an apologetic statement, Bishop Stäblein said the burial was \"a terrible mistake and shocking occurrence, in view of our history\". The bishop, who leads the Church in that part of Germany, said \"we must immediately see whether and what we can undo\".\n\nPictures of the funeral were posted on Flickr by RechercheNetzwerk.Berlin, an organisation campaigning against anti-Semitism.\n\nThe organisation says Hafenmayer published anti-Semitic propaganda on his blog, called \"End of the Lie\", and glorified Nazism.\n\nThe Church said that Hafenmayer's representative had originally requested a more central burial plot, which had been refused by the cemetery authorities as there were many Jewish graves in that area.\n\nThe selection of Prof Friedlaender's former plot appears not to have been turned down because the cemetery records recorded him as Protestant.\n\nPolice and officers from the department of state protection were present at the funeral, the Church said, and the cemetery authorities were aware of the dead man's neo-Nazi links.\n\nThe president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany said that he was shocked at what had happened.\n\nJosef Schuster said it was unbearable that right-wing extremists should \"haunt\" the grave of Prof Friedlaender, and in doing so they had desecrated his memory.\n\nThe Protestant Church itself had approved Hafenmayer's being given a plot (though not this specific one) despite his neo-Nazi connections, on the principle that everyone had the right to a final resting place, it said, but there were no Protestant ministers at the ceremony.\n\nJewish graves and Holocaust memorials have been vandalised previously by neo-Nazis in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.\n\nThe Berlin official in charge of combating anti-Semitism, Samuel Salzborn, has launched a legal action against the mourners for allegedly disturbing the peace of the dead and for racial incitement.", "The NHS Covid Pass, used to show a person's vaccine status for travel and events, stopped working on Wednesday.\n\nThe feature, contained in the NHS smartphone app, usually allows users to access a barcode or text records about which vaccine doses they have had.\n\nInstead, users received error messages or a notice saying that high traffic volumes are \"limiting access to the service\".\n\nNormal access to vaccine records was restored after more than three hours.\n\n\"The NHS Covid Pass service was temporarily unavailable between 11:45 and 15:15 today as a result of a technical issue with a global service provider that affected many different organisations,\" NHS Digital said in a statement.\n\nOnline, many travellers expressed concern that they might not be able to prove their vaccinated status at airports or other departure points without the app.\n\nSome claimed they missed their flight because of the problem, while others reported being \"stranded\" at an airport unable to fly.\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\nJournalist Caroline Frost was among those affected, tweeting that she was \"kindly offered a later flight for £250 and an express PCR test at Heathrow for £119 - not happening.\"\n\nChuck Adolphy, a 24-year-old from Surrey, was at Gatwick Airport waiting to fly to Slovenia on holiday when he found the app was no longer working.\n\nHe told the BBC he tried to show staff working for EasyJet his paper vaccine card - which is not widely accepted a proof of vaccination - but that they were \"having none of it\".\n\nHe said he was turned away and missed his flight - and that EasyJet has refused to give him a refund.\n\nMr Adolphy said he did not know if the airline employees knew the outage was widespread at the time. But he described the situation as a \"shambles\".\n\nHe is now hoping to book a flight tomorrow instead.\n\nEasyJet later said in a statement that it was \"not aware of any significant impact\" due to the outage, but was offering passengers who could not board a free transfer to an alternative flight.\n\nIt is possible to save an offline version of the Covid Pass, which remains valid for 30 days. Some users simply screenshot their barcode, and iPhone users can also save a version to their Apple Wallet.\n\nBut those methods needed to have been done before the system went down.\n\nOther elements of the general-purpose NHS app, such as subscriptions, appeared to be working during the outage.\n\nThe Covid Pass is also required for entry to some events and locations in England, though that has become less common as restrictions have been relaxed at most entertainment venues.\n\nThe digital version is available for those over 16 years old who were vaccinated in England, Wales, or the Isle of Man.\n\nA paper version of the pass is also available as a letter for fully-vaccinated people in England. The letter is sent to the address on file with a patient's local GP surgery, but can take up to five working days to arrive, the NHS says.\n\nThe vaccine record in the NHS app is separate to the NHS Covid-19 app, which was widely used earlier in the pandemic to estimate exposure to those who tested positive to the virus, and \"pinged\" many people with self-isolation alerts.", "The pair performing on the first episode of this year's show\n\nComedian Robert Webb and his dance partner, Dianne Buswell, are withdrawing from Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nPeep Show star Webb, who had open heart surgery two years ago, made the decision due to ill health.\n\nHe said he had an urgent consultation with his heart specialist after experiencing symptoms and she recommended he pull out of the series.\n\nA Strictly spokeswoman said the BBC One show would continue as normal this weekend, despite Webb's departure.\n\nWebb, 49, said he was \"extremely sorry\" to have to leave the competition, adding: \"It became clear that I had bitten off way more than I could chew for this stage in my recovery.\"\n\n\"I'm proud of the three dances that Dianne Buswell and I managed to perform and deeply regret having to let her down like this,\" he said.\n\n\"I couldn't have wished for a more talented partner or more patient teacher, and it's a measure of Dianne's professionalism and kindness that I was able to get as far as I did.\"\n\nHe thanked everyone who had voted for him and his dance partner, saying he was \"especially touched\" by the support from fellow heart patients - and that he had perhaps been \"too eager to impress them\".\n\nHe said they would know \"that recovery doesn't always go in a straight line\", adding that \"it was always going to be a difficult mountain to climb\".\n\n\"I leave knowing that Strictly viewers are in very safe hands and I'll be cheering for my brother and sister contestants all the way to Christmas,\" he said. \"Despite this sad ending, it has been a genuine honour to be part of this huge, joyful and barking mad TV show.\"\n\nIn a video played on BBC Two's It Takes Two, which announced the news, he said he would \"miss learning new dances and being able to do new dances... it's been a ride\".\n\nRobert Webb, fifth from left, with some of the other stars of this year's show\n\nBuswell said she was a \"massive fan\" of Webb's, had been delighted to learn he was joining the show and being partnered with him was the \"icing on the cake\". She said they had worked hard \"and had a good laugh along the way\".\n\nShe added: \"I know Robert had a lot more to give to the competition but his health of course comes first and I wish him a speedy recovery. I feel lucky to have danced with him and to call him a friend.\"\n\nFellow contestants also sent their best wishes, with BBC Breakfast's Dan Walker saying it had \"been wonderful to watch them enjoying every dance each week\".\n\nStrictly's executive producer Sarah James thanked the pair for the \"commitment, creativity and joy they brought to the show\".\n\nShe said they were \"so sad\" but completely understood and supported his decision, adding that everyone on Strictly sent \"love and best wishes for his continued recovery\".\n\nWebb and Buswell had performed three dances together, most recently as Kermit and Miss Piggy in last weekend's Movie Week show.\n\nThey danced a quickstep to The Muppet Show theme, from The Muppets Movie, on Saturday night and scored 25 points from the judges. Viewers gave them enough votes to avoid the dance off, broadcast on Sunday.\n\nWebb, who previously became a fan favourite with a Flashdance routine on Let's Dance for Comic Relief, had said it was his health condition that made him want to sign up for Strictly.\n\n\"It's partly my age, and it's partly that nearly two years ago I had quite a big-deal health thing,\" he told the BBC before the live shows began. \"I had to have open heart surgery, so since then I think my attitude is basically, this is no time to be cool, sitting at the edges watching the other people do the dancing.\"", "Rich Myers said he would have to stop selling his \"best-selling\" raspberry glazed donut cookies\n\nA bakery has had to stop producing its bestselling biscuit after officials found the treats were topped with illegal sprinkles.\n\nGet Baked in Leeds withdrew its raspberry glazed donut cookies, which contained a banned food colouring.\n\nOwner Rich Myers branded the decision \"ridiculous\" and said alternative sprinkles on the market were \"rubbish\".\n\nWest Yorkshire Trading Standards said the imported decoration had fallen foul of UK regulations.\n\nMr Myers said: \"I know it sounds like a small thing but it is a big deal for my business - we used them a lot.\n\n\"Our best-selling cookie, we're not going to be able to sell them any more. For a small independent business that only has a small menu, it's a problem.\"\n\nTrading Standards said the E127 food colouring, also know as Erythrosine, is only approved for use in the UK and EU in cocktail cherries and candied cherries.\n\nThe ingredient has been linked to problems with hyperactivity and behavioural issues in children and a US study suggested an increased risk of thyroid tumours when tested on male rats.\n\n\"[The inspector] said they'd had reports of us using illegal sprinkles and I actually laughed by mistake, then realised he was being serious,\" Mr Myers said.\n\n\"To whoever reported us to Trading Standards, all I have to say is: 'Dear Lord, what a sad little life Jane'.\"\n\nHe said he sourced the US-made cake toppers from a UK-based wholesaler, adding that other products on the market were not as good.\n\n\"British sprinkles are rubbish,\" he said.\n\n\"They run and aren't bake-stable. The colours aren't vibrant and they just don't look very good.\"\n\nThe bakery uses the decorations on a number of products\n\nMr Myers' plight was recognised by two former Great British Bake Off contestants, who sympathised with his desire to obtain suitable ingredients.\n\nEdd Kimber, 2010 winner, agreed supermarket sprinkles were \"not as good\".\n\n\"It is what he's designing his product around, so I feel his pain,\" he added.\n\nFellow contestant Hermine Dossou, who was a semi-finalist in the 2020 show, called on sprinkle makers in the UK to \"step up their game\".\n\n\"I get where Trading Standards is coming from, but it comes back to the everything in moderation argument,\" she said.\n\nA spokesperson for West Yorkshire Trading Standards said: \"We can confirm that we have advised the business concerned the use of E127 is not permitted in this type of confectionery item.\n\n\"We stand by this advice and would urge all food business operators, when seeking to use imported foods containing additives, to check that they are permitted for use in the UK.\"\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.", "Restocking popular Barbie dolls is likely to be a problem, says The Entertainer.\n\nOne of the UK's biggest toy retailers is warning delays at UK ports will result in shortages this Christmas.\n\nGary Grant, boss of The Entertainer, said it would get harder to get stock to the right places at the right time.\n\nBarbie dolls and Paw Patrol toys are among the children's favourites he expects to run out fast.\n\nThe government said that Felixstowe had reported \"improved capacity over the past few days\".\n\nA container logjam at ports, including Felixstowe, and a shortage of HGV lorry drivers has sparked widespread concern among retailers about future stocks.\n\nMr Grant said his 170 shops are looking \"very full right now\". But he added that demand \"will outstrip availability\" because there aren't enough drivers to move the company's stock.\n\n\"There'll never be toy shops with no toys. There will be toy shops without all the toys that they would normally expect to have due to the shortages, and that is largely down to transportation and warehouse issues, rather than there being a shortage of toys.\"\n\nThe shortage of drivers means that shipment containers are being offloaded but left stacked on the quayside waiting for collection. The dearth of drivers also means there is a delay in returning empty containers for re-use.\n\nThe problems come at the busiest time of the year for retailers, when most goods are imported from Asia to sell during Christmas trading.\n\nThomas O'Brien, managing director of Leeds-based toy designer Boxer Gifts, which manufacturers its products in China, said there's \"plenty of stock\" but the real problem is that \"everything takes longer and is horrendously more expensive\" which means the company \"will be struggling to keep price increases to anything lower than 10%\".\n\nItems that are in short supply include a sloth soft toy and the moody cow stress ball.\n\n\"Ironically the moody cow which we're short of is almost a nice acronym for how feel at the moment,\" he added.\n\nThe 'Moody Cow' stress ball is in short supply at the moment.\n\nWhile there are alternative toys, Mr O'Brien said the firm has lost six weeks of \"planning time\" to be able to re-stock at short notice.\n\nHe said containers shipped from Qingdao, China to Felixstowe are costing him $15,000 (£11,003) rather than the normal rate of $2,500 in 2020.\n\nEntrepreneur Jack Griffiths, co-founder of loungewear company Snuggy, said he is expecting containers on five different ships, holdings £1m worth of Christmas items, to arrive over the next week but they will now be delayed by three weeks.\n\n\"We're seasonal and we have to make the most of these months, 80% of our turnover comes from October to February.\"\n\nIn November, the business usually takes £500,000 worth of sales which Mr Griffiths said he \"probably won't be able to get in if we don't get that stock in time\".\n\nThe company has already run out of the SnuggyPod product which was due to arrive two weeks ago. Mr Griffiths said the product \"probably won't arrive for three weeks at Felixstowe and then it'll take three weeks to get them out of the port due to the driver issues\". He added that because the SnuggyPod is the firm's original design, there aren't any alternatives.\n\n\"As the weeks go by I can only see it getting worse which is just something we don't want to think about\".\n\nMr Griffiths anticipates he will have to get products shipped by railway and air rather than sea. It comes after £400,000 worth of his stock was delayed earlier in the year when it got stuck on the Ever Given ship which blocked the Suez Canal.\n\nMr Griffiths said that because the SnuggyPod is an original design, there aren't any alternatives.\n\nSteve Parks, director at Seaport Freight which deals with food shipments from overseas as well as other goods, says moving products from Rotterdam port to Felixstowe is delaying goods by two to three weeks.\n\n\"So things like coconut milk, frozen fish and carpets are being delayed from China.\"\n\nWhile Mr Parks said Britain's shortfall in HGV drivers is \"largely\" to blame for the congestion at the port, other countries are experiencing problems, including the US and China.\n\n\"This is absolutely the worst period I have known, ever,\" he said. \"We can't get space on ships coming out of the Far East.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said that fluctuating capacity at ports \"has been exacerbated by the ongoing global container and HGV driver shortages\".\n\n\"All ports across the UK remain open to shipping lines with Felixstowe reporting improved capacity over the past few days and the government continues to work closely with the freight industry, to tackle the challenges faced by some ports this autumn,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nAndrew Goodacre, chief executive of the British Independent Retailers Association, said there was \"no need to panic buy\" but advised customers to start their normal shopping process earlier.\n\n\"If you see something you want, now is the time to buy as retailers have most of their Christmas stock, but we can't guarantee having supplies of everything over the next few weeks\".\n\n\"It's a challenge for small retailers because they don't have the cash to stockpile,\" he added.\n\nThe UK's biggest commercial port Felixstowe told the BBC that it currently had 50,000 containers which were waiting to be collected, due to a shortage of HGV lorry drivers.\n\nOfficials at the port have asked the shipping lines to reduce their empty container stocks as \"quickly as possible\".\n\n\"It's not the port of Felixstowe affecting the supply chain, it's the supply chain affecting the port of Felixstowe,\" it said, adding that the problems are \"similar at all major UK ports\".\n\nDanish shipping giant Maersk has been forced to divert some of its larger ships from Felixstowe to ports in the Netherlands and Belgium to avoid delays. Smaller ships are then transporting the goods to the UK.\n\nA spokesman for the port of Rotterdam said it has been busy over the last couple of weeks, but said: \"It's more to do with Covid than anything else because of the balance of empty and full containers being in the wrong place.\"\n\nThe pandemic is also being blamed in part for bottlenecks at US ports. President Joe Biden will meet with major US retailers as well as the bosses of ports on Wednesday to address the issues.\n\nSultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, chief executive Dubai-based DP World, the global logistics giant which operates out of Southampton and London Gateway, said \"nobody knows how long it's going to take\" to resolve the congestion and shipping container shortages.\n\n\"I think it's going to take a long time,\" he said, adding: \"The problem is complicated because you have a backlog of cargo.\"\n\nThe UK Ports Association trade group, said most UK ports were operating normally but that the shortage of drivers meant \"some delays\".\n\n\"This has meant that some freight is not being collected as rapidly as it would normally. The situation is impacting all types of ports, not just container terminals.\n\nIndustry bodies estimate there is a shortage of about 100,000 drivers. It has been caused by several factors, including European drivers who went home during the pandemic, Brexit and a backlog of HGV driver tests.\n\nThe government recently drafted in military personnel to help with the driver shortages and deliver fuel. Emergency temporary visas have also been issued to foreign drivers.\n\nConservative Party chair Oliver Dowden told the BBC that the government was increasing the number of people having tests and that he would \"expect that number to increase as we approach Christmas\".\n\nAsked about potential Christmas shortages, he told Sky news: \"The situation is improving, I'm confident that people will be able to get their toys for Christmas.\"", "Claudia Webbe was found guilty of using a misogynistic insult and threatening a woman with acid\n\nAn MP who made threatening phone calls to a woman because she was jealous of her relationship with her partner has been found guilty of harassing her.\n\nClaudia Webbe, 56, a former Labour MP for Leicester East, who is now independent, was found guilty of one charge of harassment.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court heard she made several calls over two years and threatened the woman with acid.\n\nAfter the verdict, Webbe said she was \"deeply shocked\" and would appeal.\n\nThe prosecution said Webbe, of Islington, north London, made 16 calls to 59-year-old Michelle Merritt, a friend of her partner Lester Thomas, between September 2018 and April last year.\n\nThe court heard on one occasion she made an \"angry\" call, used a derogatory term and added: \"You should be acid.\"\n\nIn another she threatened to send naked photos and videos of Ms Merritt to her family and made silent calls from a withheld number, the hearing was told.\n\nDuring cross-examination on Wednesday, Webbe, who was suspended by the Labour party, said she had never met Ms Merritt and \"there was no reason for any falling out\".\n\nShe claimed a recorded phone call on 25 April in which Webbe was heard saying \"get out of my relationship\" 11 times was taken out of context.\n\nWebbe said it had been during a heated argument with Mr Thomas over breaching the Covid-19 lockdown with Ms Merritt.\n\n\"I simply called her and asked her not to break lockdown with Lester,\" she said.\n\n\"She was breaking the rules and I was just pointing it out. I'm the victim.\"\n\nWebbe claimed she was a victim of \"domestic abuse and coercive control\" and was being \"goaded and gaslighted\" during the row, which resulted in police being called after a neighbour reported her screams.\n\nShe confirmed she was still in a relationship with Mr Thomas and they were engaged.\n\nWebbe told the court she was still with her partner Lester Thomas\n\nWebbe previously said: \"I have spent my lifetime campaigning for the rights of women, for challenging this type of behaviour and this is not something that is in my character and not something I would ever do.\"\n\nPaul Hynes QC representing Webbe read out character references from former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott.\n\nMs Abbott said the defendant was \"very committed to working to support women\", describing her \"warm, empathetic manner\" and added: \"I regard her as a very honest woman.\"\n\nWhile Mr Corbyn said she was \"very committed to ensuring the administration of justice is done\" and prepared to \"state uncomfortable truths when it matters\".\n\nHowever, District Judge Paul Goldspring said he had found Webbe \"untruthful\" in her evidence.\n\n\"Some of the things she said I believe were made up on the spur of the moment,\" he said.\n\n\"Some things she said in the witness box just don't bear scrutiny.\n\n\"In short, I find Ms Webbe to be vague, incoherent and at times illogical.\"\n\nHe released Webbe on unconditional bail but warned her that she could face prison when she is sentenced on 4 November.\n\n\"Threatening to throw acid at somebody and to send intimate photographs to family members crosses the custody threshold,\" he added.\n\nAfter the verdict, Webbe said: \"I am innocent and will appeal this verdict. As I said in court and repeat now, I have never threatened violence nor have I ever harassed anyone.\"\n\nHer lawyer, Raj Chada, added: \"The recording of the call Ms Webbe made has been taken out of context. We are sure that Ms Webbe will be vindicated at an appeal.\"\n\nLisa Rose from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Webbe's \"persistent nuisance behaviour caused considerable distress and alarm to her victim who became genuinely concerned for her safety\".\n\n\"No-one should have to endure this sort of harassment,\" she added.\n\nThe Labour Party called on Webbe to step down after the verdict.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"The Labour Party strongly condemns Claudia Webbe's actions and she should now resign.\"\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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gwent Police officer Dean Burnett said you can only imagine what the swerving drivers were thinking\n\nA wave of desperate 999 calls reported a car travelling the wrong way along the M4 motorway one February night.\n\nHelp wasn't able to arrive in time to stop it ending with one driver dead and another seriously injured.\n\nThe BBC Crash Detectives series producer describes how one driver's actions can have a far reaching and lasting impact on numerous lives.\n\nIt was edging close to 22:30 on a Friday night in 2019, with traffic flow on the M4 busier than normal.\n\nPenny Roberts and her family had spent the week in London and were now among that traffic, heading home to west Wales.\n\nPenny Roberts believes her decision to ask partner Mark to drive may well have saved their lives\n\nIt was such a regular journey that she, and her partner Mark, had an established routine to share the driving.\n\nAs they neared Newport it would normally be her turn to drive, but that night Mark was at the wheel.\n\n\"We'd stopped at junction 24 to get coffee, I just didn't feel like driving so asked Mark to carry on instead,\" she recalls.\n\n\"I'm just so relieved that he did. I'm not sure we'd still be here if it wasn't for him.\"\n\nThey finished their coffees and rejoined the westbound carriageway, cruising at about 65mph.\n\nPenny rode in the passenger seat of her small Mercedes A class car. Her 23-year-old daughter, boyfriend and the family dog squeezed in the back seat; the boot crammed full of luggage.\n\nThey passed the slip road for junction 26 at Malpas, and were gaining steadily on the car in front when Mark indicated and moved out to the middle lane to overtake.\n\n\"At that point we were heading uphill, and all I could see ahead of me was red tail lights,\" he said.\n\nAnd then he did a double take.\n\n\"Amongst all the red, I saw the glare of white headlights, moving across from the left. I then realised very quickly that a car was on the wrong side of the road and it was coming towards us, at speed.\"\n\nHe stayed calm and planned a course of action.\n\n\"I decided to stay in the middle lane and just concentrate totally on the vehicle coming at us, on the grounds that if they swerved I would have to take evasive action,\" he said.\n\nA tense five or six seconds ticked by, before the silver Vauxhall Astra careered past in the outside lane, just half a metre from the driver side of their car.\n\nMark recalls looking in his rear view mirror to see the car behind them veering across all three lanes as its driver desperately avoided a collision.\n\n\"It all happened in a split second, but it was absolutely terrifying,\" said Penny.\n\n\"Mark's a very good driver - he saw the car and kept his nerve.\n\n\"I don't know how he had time to comprehend all of that, but he did. I can't be sure that I would have done the same.\"\n\nPenny, a former BBC Wales journalist, took out her phone and joined the flurry of motorists frantically dialling 999.\n\nThe Vauxhall Astra continued driving the wrong way on the M4 before colliding with a BMW\n\nAt the same time, Shifa Begum and her husband Walie were on the eastbound carriageway, travelling home to Weston-super-Mare.\n\nTheir three children, aged 10, six and 15 months, were all fast asleep in the back.\n\nHer husband, who was driving, suddenly asked: \"Can you see that? There's a car - it's going the wrong way!\"\n\nShe looked to her right, and saw they were keeping pace with a car as it travelled along the opposite carriageway.\n\n\"I grabbed my phone and called the police, but I was just so shocked that nothing was coming out of my mouth,\" she said.\n\nShe put her phone on speaker and let her husband do the talking.\n\n\"He was trying to stay calm, because we didn't want to wake the kids and scare them. All I could think was that I hope that person manages to get off the road.\"\n\n\"It's a Vauxhall Astra I think,\" Walie tells the operator. \"They're still going, they're not stopping.\"\n\n\"Are they going fast?\" asks the operator.\n\n\"Well, we're doing 50 now, and ... oh! There's been a crash! They've hit a car!\"\n\n\"Seeing the moment they crashed like that was just horrendous, I couldn't breathe, I felt physically sick,\" said Shifa.\n\n\"We slowed right down and Walie asked me should he go and help? He really wanted to stop, but we had kids in the car. I said there was no way he could just run across the motorway.\"\n\nRealising they had done all they could, they carried on.\n\n\"I was literally shaking, all the way home. My legs were like jelly. I just couldn't stop thinking about it,\" she said.\n\nThe silver Vauxhall Astra, which the callers had seen travelling in the wrong direction, had crashed head-on into a black one series BMW, in lane three of the westbound carriageway.\n\nAs Gwent Police forensic collision investigator Dean Burnett arrived at the scene, fire crews were working to free the 21-year-old driver of the BMW, who was seriously injured.\n\nThe 38-year-old woman at the wheel of the Astra had died.\n\nCollision investigator Dean Burnett at the junction where witnesses saw the Vauxhall Astra turn left and drive up the slip road\n\nAs Mr Burnett carried out a painstaking analysis of the scene evidence, he needed to find out why the woman was travelling on the wrong carriageway.\n\nInquiries revealed how horrified witnesses saw her make a left-hand turn from the intersection at junction 28 in Newport.\n\nShe lived locally, and was thought to be familiar with the junction lay out - yet still drove up the wrong slip road, towards oncoming traffic.\n\nShe then continued for 2.8 miles before crashing into the BMW - but not without numerous close calls with other vehicles in the minutes beforehand.\n\nAt an inquest into the woman's death, the coroner said it was hard to understand why the driver did not realise her mistake and pull over on to the hard shoulder.\n\nBut blood tests revealed she was two-and-a-half times the legal alcohol limit to drive and she had also taken cocaine.\n\nMr Burnett said: \"I was under no illusions at all that that level of intoxication was a significant, if not the main contributory factor in this collision.\"\n\nThe 21-year-old BMW driver had life-changing injuries, but the terrifying reality faced by numerous other unsuspecting motorists that night, was captured on motorway CCTV.\n\nWith more than 20 years' experience investigating serious and fatal collisions, the impact of what he saw in the footage was not lost on Mr Burnett.\n\n\"There's some serious near misses. You can only imagine what those drivers are going through. It's horrific.\n\n\"Motorways are statistically our safest roads - because we're all going in the same direction, so the last thing you expect is something travelling towards you,\" said Mr Burnett.\n\nThe natural instinct for most drivers faced with that scenario, is to brake and swerve - and this is seen numerous times in the CCTV.\n\nAmongst all the red lights there was the glare of white headlights\n\nBut he added that there are ways to be on guard to deal with such unexpected issues on the road - and that is to stay alert, and always be looking well ahead.\n\n\"Motorways especially are where drivers tend to switch off more, because the traffic is going in the same direction. Extend your observations at all times, so you can see any changes in road circumstances in front of you.\n\n\"It's more of an effort to do this at night, when you're tired and it's dark and you're less likely to be alert, but this is a good example of why, even when you're tired, you still need to have your wits about you.\"\n\nAs soon as she got home, Shifa Begum began searching online, desperate to know the outcome.\n\n\"When I saw that the woman had died, I just felt numb, I've never seen anything like that before and wouldn't like to see it again.\"\n\nAnd she pledged that from that day on, she would never drive on the motorway again.\n\n\"All these different scenarios just go through your head. I'm so scared now.\"\n\nPenny Roberts is still regularly travelling between west Wales and London - but two years on, the experience is never far from her mind.\n\n\"I can't drive down that stretch of road without thinking about how we could have all been killed, and how my other daughter would have been left alone.\n\n\"I feel desperately sorry for the man who was injured, as well as the woman's family and her children. But I'm also very angry. Cars are lethal weapons, and can destroy lives.\n\n\"A matter of seconds could have been the difference between life and death for the four of us.\"\n\nThe story of how police pieced together what happened was shown in The Crash Detectives on BBC One Wales.\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by the issues raised in this article, information on available support can be found on the BBC Action Line website.", "Customers who have recently bought Tesco Max All-In-One Chesty Cough & Cold Lemon Sachets are being asked to check the dosing information on the packaging because some batches have been incorrectly labelled.\n\nThe medicine should not be given to those under the age of 16, but some of the sachets being recalled say children aged 12 and over can take them.\n\nTesco has taken the product off shelves for now.\n\n\"We would like to reassure patients and parents that if you or someone under the age of 16 have used recently these sachets and have suffered no ill effects there is no cause for concern. If anyone has any questions please speak to your healthcare professional and report any adverse reactions via the Yellow Card scheme.\"\n\nThe Yellow Card Scheme is a website for reporting suspected adverse drug reactions.\n\nThe packs involved each contain 10 sachets that have the drug paracetamol in them. Other ingredients include an expectorant (intended to help clear phlegm) called Guaifenesin and decongestant called Phenylephrine.\n\nParacetamol is an everyday medicine that children can take, but, like other medicines it can be dangerous if your child takes too much.\n\nThe affected sachets, which contain 1000mg of paracetamol, incorrectly state that children aged 12 years and over can take 4 sachets (diluted in water) over a 24-hour period, which would deliver the equivalent of 4000mg of paracetamol in total.\n\nThe recommended dose by age, however, is:\n\nIt means someone who is 12-15 might potentially take 1000mg more than they should.\n\nChair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Thorrun Govind said parents should not panic if this has happened, but should follow the advice to monitor their child for any potential side effects.\n\n\"Nausea and vomiting or drowsiness are some of the things to look out for,\" she said.\n\nThe NHS says if your child has an extra dose of paracetamol by mistake, wait at least 24 hours before giving them any more.\n\nIf they have taken two extra doses or more, they may need treatment.\n\nThe recall does not affect any other products that share the same product licence number (PL 12063/0104) but are distributed by other retail stores.", "The UK's failure to do more to stop Covid spreading early in the pandemic was one of the country's worst public health failures, a report by MPs says.\n\nThe government approach - backed by its scientists - was to try to manage the situation and in effect achieve herd immunity by infection, it said.\n\nThis led to a delay in introducing the first lockdown, costing thousands of lives, the MPs found.\n\nBut their report highlighted successes too, including the vaccination rollout.\n\nIt described the approach to vaccination - from the research and development through to the rollout of the jabs - as \"one of the most effective initiatives in UK history\".\n\nBut campaigners criticised the report for failing to focus on those who had died, saying references to practical issues, including problems with laptops, was \"laughable\".\n\nThe 150-page document, Coronavirus: Lessons learned to date, is from the Health and Social Care Committee and the Science and Technology Committee, and MPs from all parties.\n\nIt predominantly focused on the response to the pandemic in England. The committees did not look at steps taken individually by Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.\n\nThe MPs called the pandemic, which has claimed more than 150,000 lives in the UK and nearly five million worldwide so far, the \"biggest peacetime challenge\" for a century.\n\nSome early failings, the report suggested, resulted from apparent \"group-think\" among scientists and ministers.\n\nIt meant the UK was not as open to different approaches on earlier lockdowns, border controls and test and trace as it should have been.\n\nA woman whose twin sisters died within three days of one another after testing positive for Covid says the report from MPs uses the success of the vaccine programme to deflect from earlier failures.\n\nZoe Davis' sisters Katy and Emma, who were both nurses, died in April 2020.\n\nShe says: \"Nobody is saying that the vaccine programme hasn't been phenomenal but the frustrating thing is that's a deflection of what is actually being brought to attention and the overall message is that Covid failures have cost lives.\"\n\nLindsay Jackson, from Derbyshire, whose mother died with Covid, said the report confirmed her fears she had about care home visits in March 2020.\n\n\"I knew in my own mind the lockdown was too slow, I knew the social care sector wasn't being looked after, I knew people shouldn't have been released from hospital without tests, and this just confirms that.\"\n\nShe is calling for the government to move to a public inquiry now to see if anyone is culpable.\n\nConservative MPs Jeremy Hunt and Greg Clark, who chair the committees, said the nature of the pandemic meant it was \"impossible to get everything right\".\n\n\"The UK has combined some big achievements with some big mistakes. It is vital to learn from both,\" they said.\n\nCabinet Office minister Stephen Barclay said scientific advice had been followed and the government had made \"difficult judgements\" to protect the NHS.\n\nHe said the government took responsibility for everything that happened - saying the government would not shy away from any lessons to be learned at the full statutory public inquiry, expected next year.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the report was a \"damning indictment\" and showed the errors and failures of running down the NHS before the pandemic.\n\nHe called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to apologise to the bereaved and hold the public inquiry as soon as possible.\n\nWhen Covid hit, the government's approach was to manage its spread through the population rather than try to stop it - or herd immunity by infection as the report called it.\n\nThe MPs said this was based on dealing with a flu pandemic, and was done on the advice of its scientific advisers on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).\n\nBut the idea was not challenged enough by ministers in any part of the UK. Although other parts of Europe were guilty of this too, the MPs added.\n\nToo little was done in the early weeks to stop Covid spreading, the MPs said, despite evidence from China and then Italy that it was a virus that was highly infectious, caused severe illness and had no cure.\n\n\"The veil of ignorance through which the UK viewed the initial weeks of the pandemic was partly self-inflicted,\" the report said.\n\nAsked whether herd immunity had been a policy in the early days, Mr Hunt said he did not think there was any desire for the whole population to be infected.\n\nHowever, he said there was a \"fatalism that it was likely that in the end, that will be the only way that we will stop the progress of the virus\".\n\nDecisions on lockdowns and social distancing during those early weeks - and the advice that led to them - were described as \"one of the most important public health failures the UK has ever experienced\".\n\nThe advice from scientists changed on 16 March 2020 - with a lockdown announced a week later.\n\n\"This slow and gradualist approach was not inadvertent, nor did it reflect bureaucratic delay or disagreement between ministers and their advisers,\" the report said, describing it as a \"deliberate policy\".\n\n\"It is now clear that this was the wrong policy, and that it led to a higher initial death toll than would have resulted from a more emphatic early policy. In a pandemic spreading rapidly and exponentially, every week counted.\"\n\nA Liverpool FC and Atletico Madrid football match on 11 March - as a pandemic was declared by the WHO - and the Cheltenham Festival of Racing between 10 and 13 March, may have spread the virus.\n\nMr Barclay said hindsight was \"an issue\". Had the government known how much the country would be willing to endure, lockdown may have come sooner, the minister added.\n\nThe MPs also highlighted how ministers in England rejected scientific advice to have a two-week \"circuit-breaker\" in the autumn.\n\nThey said it was impossible to know whether that would have prevented the second lockdown in November, although they pointed out it had not in Wales.\n\nThe UK was one of the first countries in the world to develop a test for Covid in January 2020, but failed to translate that into an effective test-and-trace system during the first year of the pandemic, the report said.\n\nTesting in the community stopped in March 2020 and for weeks during the first peak only those admitted to hospital were tested.\n\nIt was not until May that the NHS Test and Trace system was launched in England, but the report described its start as \"slow, uncertain and often chaotic\".\n\nIt said the system was too centralised, only later making use of the expertise in local public health teams run by councils.\n\nBut it praised the target set by then Health Secretary Matt Hancock to get to 100,000 tests a day by the end of April, saying it played an important part in galvanising the system.\n\nThe greatest praise though was reserved for the vaccination programme and the way the government supported the development of a number of vaccines, including the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nIt said the whole programme was one of the most effective initiatives in history, and will ultimately help to save millions of lives here and across the world.\n\nA key step, taken early on following a suggestion from chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, was to set up a task force that combined the talents of scientists, the NHS and the private sector, led by the \"bold leadership\" of venture capitalist Kate Bingham.\n\nThe development of treatments, such as dexamethasone, for Covid through the UK Recovery Trial was another area where the UK's response was genuinely world-leading, the report said.\n\nAnd the NHS and government were also credited with the way hospital intensive care capacity was increased to ensure the majority who needed hospital treatment received it.\n\nThe report's recommendations include comprehensive government plans for future emergencies, a bigger role for the armed forces in emergency response plans, and considering a government and NHS volunteer reserve database.\n\nThe MPs said the pandemic had also exacerbated existing social, economic and health inequalities which would need addressing.\n\nThe report highlighted \"unacceptably high\" death rates in ethnic minority groups and among people with learning disabilities and autism.\n\nFor ethnic minorities, there were a variety of factors, including possible biological reasons and increased exposure because of housing and working conditions.\n\nFor people with learning disabilities, not enough thought was given to how restrictions would have a detrimental impact on them - particularly in terms of accessing health care more generally. Do not resuscitate orders were also used inappropriately.\n\nThere was a lack of priority attached to care homes too at the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe rapid discharge of people from hospital into care homes without adequate testing or isolation was a prime example of this.\n\nThis, combined with untested staff bringing infection into homes from the community, led to many thousands of deaths which could have been avoided.\n\nScience minister George Freeman said it was too early for any proper discussion about blame or fault.\n\nAsked about the higher UK death toll, he said: \"A lot of that is actually to do with the very, very heavy obesity-related cardiometabolic chronic disease cohort that we've been carrying for years - that's a failure of public health in this country over decades.\"\n\nLobby Akinnola, of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign group, said Mr Freeman's comments were \"grossly offensive\", adding that \"the statutory inquiry cannot come soon enough\".", "The Columbus statue will be replaced by a replica of the so-called Young Woman of Amajac\n\nMexico City's governor has confirmed that a statue of an indigenous woman will replace the capital's Christopher Columbus monument.\n\nThe statue was removed last year after indigenous rights activists threatened to tear it down.\n\nClaudia Sheinbaum said it will be replaced by a replica of a pre-Columbian statue known as the Young Woman of Amajac.\n\nProtesters have toppled Columbus statues in Latin America and the US.\n\nColumbus, an Italian-born explorer who was financed by the Spanish crown to set sail on voyages of exploration in the late 15th Century, is seen by many as a symbol of oppression and colonialism as his arrival in America opened the door to the Spanish conquest.\n\nMs Sheinbaum's latest announcement was made on 12 October - the anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the Americas.\n\nIn the US it is widely celebrated as Columbus Day. But in Mexico and other Latin American countries it is known as Día de la Raza (Spanish: Day of the Race). Many view it as a commemoration to native resistance against European conquest.\n\nThe previous statue of Columbus was daubed with paint during protests last year\n\nMs Sheinbaum said she wanted to make the change as part of the \"decolonisation\" of the famous Reforma Avenue, where an empty plinth currently stands.\n\nShe added that the new monument - set to to be three times as tall as the Columbus statue - was in recognition that \"indigenous women had been the most persecuted\" during and after the colonial period.\n\nThe original Young Woman of Amajac was discovered in January in Veracruz.\n\nIt is believed that the sculpture depicts a leading female member of the Huastec people at the time of its creation.\n\nThe original currently sits in Mexico City's Anthropology Museum, which is going to create the replica.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Columbus is viewed by some as a symbol of colonialism and oppression\n\nAfter the city government decided to remove the Columbus statute from its plinth, a number of proposals were put forward including a statue inspired by a pre-Hispanic Olmec head.\n\nHowever, it was derided as a token gesture for its lack of authenticity, prompting Ms Sheinbaum to cancel it and opt instead for the Young Woman of Amajac.\n\nThe statue of Christopher Columbus will be moved to a park in another area of Mexico City.", "Some of the items on sale included furniture and artwork that belonged to Capone\n\nA sale of items belonging to the notorious US gangster Al Capone has raked in $3m (£2.2m) at an auction held over the weekend in California.\n\nSome 174 items were featured, including firearms and personal photographs as well as jewellery and furniture.\n\nThe event, called A Century of Notoriety: The Estate of Al Capone, was held at a private club and attracted nearly 1,000 bidders.\n\nThe most popular item was Capone's favourite gun, which sold for $860,000.\n\nOne of the items on sale was said to be the gangster's favourite gun, a Colt .45-calibre semi-automatic pistol\n\nThe gun is believed to have reached the highest selling price for a 20th-Century firearm sold at auction, according to the Chicago Tribune.\n\nAl Capone was a Chicago mobster known as Public Enemy Number One for his relatively brief reign as crime boss in the 1920s during the Prohibition era. He was eventually imprisoned for tax evasion, and spent several years locked up in Alcatraz - the infamous island prison in San Francisco Bay.\n\nGuns and glassware that belonged to the gangster and his son Sonny also went on sale\n\nThe belongings remained in the possession of his family for almost 75 years after his death in 1947.\n\nThere were also photographs on sale, displayed here ahead of the auction\n\nDiane Capone - one of of Al Capone's three surviving granddaughters, who lives in California - said the decision to sell the items was based on her and her sisters getting older, Reuters reports.\n\nAl Capone's granddaughter Diane stands next to a painting of her grandfather and father, Sonny Capone, from the 1920s\n\nShe also said the increasing threat of wildfires to their homes in northern California had been a factor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The gun could fetch over £50,000 ($81,000)", "Covid-19 restrictions led to the sharpest fall in violent crime for at least 20 years, a report suggests.\n\nViolence was down by a third in England and Wales in 2020 compared with the previous year, according to research by Cardiff University.\n\n\"From a violence perspective, 2020 was the safest year on record,\" said co-author Prof Jonathan Shepherd.\n\nBut the report also found that the easing of restrictions was \"accompanied by rapid increases\" in violence.\n\nCardiff University's Violence Research Group analysed data for the whole of 2020 from 133 NHS hospital emergency departments, minor-injury units and walk-in centres, across England and Wales.\n\nThe number of people who attended for treatment of violence-related injuries in 2020 was 119,111 - 56,653 fewer than in the previous year.\n\nThe reductions were across all age groups but were most marked among children under the age of 11, where violence levels were down by 66%.\n\nThe report concluded that this was \"likely to reflect the unprecedented restrictions imposed on free movement of citizens and businesses to limit the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic\".\n\nWhen restrictions were eased in May 2020 to include the phased re-opening of pubs and bars, violence rose again, and by August it had reached pre-pandemic levels.\n\nDuring the second lockdown in the autumn, which included a 22:00 curfew, there was another sharp fall in the number of people needing hospital treatment for injuries.\n\nThe data highlights a clear link between violence and late-night drinking.\n\n\"Efforts to prevent serious violence should be concentrated in night-time economies where pubs, clubs and other licensed premises are located,\" says the report.\n\nAnother encouraging conclusion is that there has been a gradual reduction in serious violence over most of the past 20 years.\n\nThis is because of \"advances in inter-agency collaboration, data sharing and analysis, targeted policing and real-time CCTV surveillance,\" said Prof Shepherd.\n\n\"These factors are all vulnerable when the economy is stretched; they need constant attention.\"\n\nBut while the figures are clearly welcome, they do not tell the whole picture.\n\nHomicide in England and Wales has been rising since 2015, as has knife crime.\n\nAlso, not all violence ends with a visit to hospital.\n\nStatistics for the year ending March 2020 revealed that fewer than half of all violent incidents resulted in physical injury.\n\nThe effects of lockdown on domestic violence are still unclear because few of the hospitals in this survey were able to provide information on the location of violence.\n\nData from Cardiff A&E shows levels of violence in the home in the city were unchanged in 2020.\n\nHowever, other figures have shown an increase in demand for domestic abuse services across England and Wales.\n\nA 10% rise in domestic violence-related offences was recorded by the police in the year ending September 2020, which may reflect improved levels of police recording.\n\nThe picture is further complicated because a large number of domestic offences are never reported.\n\nOn Thursday the Office of National Statistics will publish annual figures on crime patterns, which will shed more light on what happened to violence during the pandemic.", "Billy Hood claims he was forced to sign a confession written in Arabic despite not speaking the language\n\nA British football coach has been jailed for 25 years in Dubai after four bottles of vape liquid containing cannabis oil were found in his car.\n\nBilly Hood from Notting Hill, west London, was arrested on 31 January, shortly after moving to the country.\n\nThe 24-year-old claims he was forced to sign a confession written in Arabic despite not speaking the language.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was \"giving consular support to a British man who has been imprisoned\" in Dubai.\n\nMr Hood, who played semi-professional football for Kensington and Ealing Borough FC, told campaign group Detained in Dubai police had unexpectedly turned up and demanded to search his home and car.\n\nHe told the group he was taken to a \"police station and kept in an isolation cell for 14 days without any hygiene products\".\n\nMr Hood claimed the oil was left by a friend who had been visiting from England two weeks earlier.\n\nBut he claimed he was forced to sign a confession after being pressured by local law enforcement.\n\nThis month he was convicted by a court of drug trafficking with intent to supply.\n\nVaping cannabidiol (CBD) oil is legal in the UK and has become extremely popular - typically used to relieve pain, anxiety or stress.\n\nThe Foreign Office advise there is a \"zero-tolerance for drugs-related offences\" in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).\n\n\"Forced and coerced confessions are commonplace in Dubai,\" said Radha Stirling, chief executive of Detained in Dubai, who are representing the family.\n\nSentences for drug trafficking can include the death penalty and possession of even the smallest amount of illegal drugs can lead to a minimum four-year jail sentence.\n\nBilly Hood's family are appealing to the UK and UAE government to intervene\n\nIn a statement to his lawyers Mr Hood said: \"I have always had a zero-tolerance on any drugs or illegal substances.\n\n\"For me to be accused of promoting and selling drugs in a country that has the same beliefs and values as me is very upsetting as it affects my future.\"\n\nMr Hood's family are appealing to the UK and UAE government to intervene in the case.\n\nMr Hood's mother Breda said: \"I have hidden myself away, crying and crying when I imagine what our sweet boy is going through.\n\n\"It is the worst stress I've ever been through and I feel helpless.\"\n\nThe UAE embassy has been approached for comment.", "Euromillions winners can expect to meet Andy Carter, or one of his colleagues, after confirming their success\n\nA record Euromillions jackpot will roll over after no ticket holder won in Tuesday's draw.\n\nBut the £184m prize will not be added to for the next draw on Friday as it has reached its maximum level.\n\nThe previous largest UK prize was in 2019 when an anonymous ticket-holder won the £170m Euromillions jackpot.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter said \"any money that would have gone into the jackpot will now boost prizes in the next winning prize tier\".\n\nTuesday's winning numbers were 06, 13, 22, 45, 49 with Lucky Stars 10, 11. The Millionaire Maker Selection was ZKZF66866.\n\nThe National Lottery said a \"huge influx of players\" before the 19:30 BST cut-off time caused its website and app to run slower than normal - although some customers said they were unable to access the website at all.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the draw, Mr Carter said he had seen a wide range of reactions from winners over the years.\n\n\"I've seen people be sick with excitement, I've seen people resign their job on the spot, I've seen people jumping up and down.\n\n\"I've known husbands who haven't told wives and wives who haven't told husbands, I've been to homes where there's literally a party going on already,\" said Mr Carter, whose job it is to advise winners.\n\nThe jackpot for Euromillions - which is played in nine European countries - is currently capped at €220m, meaning that once it reaches that point it cannot roll over again and add extra prize money.\n\nThat cap was reached on Friday and the jackpot will stay at the same level for five draws unless it is won.\n\nBut on the fifth occasion the jackpot amount must be won - even if that means sharing it among all those ticket-holders who are just one number short.\n• None £170mBritain's richest ever lottery winner stayed anonymous after their win in October 2019.\n• None £161mColin and Chris Weir (pictured) from North Ayrshire, Scotland in 2011.\n• None £148mAdrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, in 2012.\n\nThe Euromillions jackpot cap rises by €10m whenever it is won somewhere in one of the nine countries. The cap was most recently raised in February this year. It can keep rising until a maximum of €250m.\n\nMr Carter or one of his colleagues would be among the first people to speak to any winner, to provide them with advice and put them in touch with previous winners.\n\n\"If you've won a large amount of money, the best thing you can do is go and have a cup of tea with another winner, because they're the people that will truly understand,\" Mr Carter said.\n\nWith £184m under their belt, a UK winner could buy a house in each of the top 10 priciest streets in the UK, including in Kensington Palace Gardens in London, where the average house price is nearly £30m.", "Denis Law is pictured next to an earlier statue tribute in Aberdeen\n\nOne of the proposed locations for a 4.5-tonne (4,500kg) statue of footballer Denis Law has been ruled out because of its weight.\n\nAberdeen City Council had agreed the tribute would be set near the newly-refurbished Provost Skene's House.\n\nBut Councillor Marie Boulton said it could not go directly outside because it was too heavy to be placed on top of an underground carpark.\n\nBBC Scotland understands it will now be placed in a nearby pedestrianised area.\n\nThe statue will be in view of Provost Skene's House\n\nThis will be just off Broad Street, in between the Marischal Square office buildings and in view of Provost Skene's House.\n\nSculptor Alan Herriot's bronze statue and granite base is due to be unveiled there next month.\n\nCouncillor Boulton, lead of the city centre masterplan, said: \"We have looked at a couple of sites and unfortunately the weight bearing on top of the car park underneath, there was an issue over that.\"\n\nThe statue, entitled Legend, is already built and is currently in storage in Aberdeen. It shows the footballing great with his arm raised.\n\nLaw, now 81, was born and raised in the Granite City.\n\nThe former European footballer of the year went to Powis Academy, before moving away to play for Huddersfield when he was 16.\n\nHe went on to play for clubs including Manchester United, Torino and Manchester City.\n\nHe was one third of what became known as Manchester United's Holy Trinity, when he played alongside George Best and Sir Bobby Charlton during his 11-year stint with the Red Devils.\n\nDenis Law played for Manchester United and scored 30 goals for Scotland\n\nKnown affectionately as The Lawman, he scored 30 goals for Scotland.\n\nIn August, it was revealed he had been diagnosed with dementia.\n\nHe received the Freedom of Aberdeen in 2017, and features in a new hall of heroes in Provost Skene's House, which reopened on Saturday.\n\nThe building, which dates back to 1545, has undergone a £3.8m transformation into an attraction celebrating achievements of people with links to north-east Scotland.", "The UK economy grew by 0.4% in August as more people dined out, went on holiday and attended music festivals.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the services sector made the biggest contribution to economic growth in the first full month after all Covid restrictions were lifted in England.\n\nIt said arts, entertainment and recreation grew 9%, boosted by sports clubs, amusement parks and festivals.\n\nThere was also more demand for hotels and campsites.\n\nRestrictions on social distancing were eased from 19 July.\n\nThe ONS said the economy is now 0.8% smaller than it was before the pandemic.\n\n\"The economy picked up in August as bars, restaurants and festivals benefited from the first full month without Covid-19 restrictions in England,\" said Darren Morgan, director of economic statistics at the ONS.\n\n\"However, later and slightly weaker data from a number of industries now mean we estimate the economy fell a little overall in July.\"\n\nThe ONS said economic growth fell by 0.1% in July compared with initial estimates of 0.1% growth.\n\nActivity in accommodation and food services rose by 10.3% in August, within which hotels and campsites recorded 22.9% growth.\n\nIn travel, air transport and rail both grew in August as Covid-related measures eased, however both industry are still trading far below pre-pandemic levels.\n\nEmma-Lou Montgomery associate director at Fidelity International, said that while August's growth \"marks a small rebound\" on July, \"the worry remains that economic growth won't even be in touching distance of pre-pandemic levels until well into next year\".\n\n\"This all comes in the crucial lead up to Christmas, when suppliers and retailers should be firing on all cylinders,\" Ms Montgomery said.\"But with households facing steep price rises for everyday items, from the food shop through to the gas bill, there will be little desire - or capacity - to spend, spend, spend.\"\n\nGrowth in the economy - everything produced, from new cars to haircuts to restaurant meals - isn't at all slow by normal standards at 0.4% in a month. But we're supposed to be bouncing back with growth of 7% this year.\n\nWhat's becoming increasingly clear, is that it's not a lack of demand for goods and services that's holding the recovery back but the inability of firms to supply that demand.\n\nA big part of the reason? Shortages. In construction, for example, where business is not growing but shrinking, firms reported to the ONS that they've got healthy order books. But they can't meet more orders, partly because of a shortage of materials in August (for example, wood and steel) and partly because of a shortage of skilled staff.\n\nThe ONS reports evidence that the shortage of haulage drivers is slowing down industries from pharmaceuticals to electric lighting. Exports of goods, too, are down by 13% compared with 2018.\n\nSome of these shortages may be due to supply bottlenecks related to the post-pandemic global surge in activity. But without doubt some, notably the ongoing shortage of lorry drivers, are in large part related to Brexit.\n\nElsewhere, economic growth was uneven with some sectors hit by shortages of materials. Output in construction fell by 0.2% in August and the sector remains 1.5% below pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe ONS said: \"This reflects recent challenges faced by the construction industry from rising input prices and delays to the availability of construction products - notably steel, concrete, timber and glass.\"\n\nThe manufacturing sector expanded by 0.5% in August following a 0.6% in July. The ONS said growth was led by an increase in vehicle production \"as it continues to recover following supply side challenges predominantly caused by the global microchip shortage disrupting car production\".\n\nBut it said the output in the manufacture of motor vehicles remains 14.5% below a peak in February this year.\n\nPaul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics, said: \"Such drags may have become more widespread and significant in September and October, with the fuel crisis preventing some people from getting to work.\"\n\nHe said Capital Economics' activity indicator \"suggests that GDP may not have increased at all in September\".\n\nMartin Beck, economist at professional services firm, EY,said: \"The recovery is certainly facing more headwinds.\n\n\"Rising inflation, driven by significant increases in energy prices, and the recent cut in Universal Credit are squeezing consumers' spending power.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland's path to the 2022 World Cup hit an unexpected stumbling block when they were held to a draw by Hungary in a qualifier Gareth Southgate called a \"big disappointment\".\n\nThe game was marred by crowd violence between Hungary fans and stewards and police.\n\nSouthgate's side are still in pole position to reach Qatar but this was a disjointed display despite England taking on the Hungarians with an attacking line-up.\n\nThe early stages at Wembley were overshadowed by ugly scenes involving Hungary fans, who jeered England's players while holding up a banner protesting against taking the knee before clashing with police and stewards.\n\nIn a subdued atmosphere and after a semblance of order had been restored, Hungary took the lead in the 24th minute when Luke Shaw was penalised for a high challenge on Loic Nego and Roland Sallai sent Jordan Pickford the wrong way from the spot.\n\nEngland were level before half-time, John Stones turning in at the far post after Tyrone Mings and Declan Rice touched on Phil Foden's free-kick.\n\nHungary then survived in relative comfort, Harry Kane's struggles for form summed up when England's captain was substituted even though they were searching desperately for a winner.\n• None Follow reaction to the game here\n\n\"I don't think we played at the level we have done and Hungary defended very well. We didn't do enough to win the game,\" Southgate told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"I don't know if subconsciously we thought this was going to be an easier game because we beat them comfortably [4-0] in September but they've been very good defensively right through the summer.\n\n\"In the first few minutes we were taking heavy touches and colliding into tackles. We didn't show the composure and quality that we have done generally.\"\n\nKane's search for form goes on\n\nThe notion of Kane being taken off as they pressed for a winning goal might have been unthinkable at one point but he could have no complaints here when he was replaced by Tammy Abraham with 14 minutes left.\n\nIt came just after he had snatched at a chance in a manner which reflected a striker searching in vain for form and confidence.\n\nThis was the first time he failed to score in a qualifier for England since September 2017, a run of 15 goalscoring games in a row.\n\nKane's performance was very average throughout, a shadow of the player who has been a spearhead for England for so long.\n\nHe had set up a chance for Raheem Sterling just before he was taken off. Sterling, one of a record five Manchester City players in England's starting line-up, could not cash in and was also taken off at the same time as Kane. He is another who is currently nowhere near his best.\n\nKane will surely bounce back but it was a display that once again poses the questions about how much he has been affected by a summer of speculation when he wanted to leave Tottenham for Manchester City but eventually had to stay in north London.\n\nHe does not look himself and the sooner the old spark returns the better for England and Spurs.\n\nSouthgate gave the public what they wanted by fielding an England team with just one holding midfielder in Declan Rice and letting the talented triumvirate of Foden, Mason Mount and Jack Grealish loose on Hungary.\n\nFoden and Grealish had their moments although Mount was quiet as England lacked the attacking thrust to apply serious pressure and break down a well-organised Hungary defence.\n\nIt was a surprise when Grealish was replaced by Bukayo Saka just after the hour. It certainly came as a surprise to many in the Wembley crowd who loudly registered their disapproval, although Saka was given a rapturous welcome.\n\nWith Kalvin Phillips injured and Jordan Henderson on the bench, England's attack-minded selection left them more open to a counter-attack. Hungary did threaten on occasions but they were not good enough to accept the invitation. Better teams might so Southgate has certainly been given food for thought and will learn lessons from this.\n\nEngland are still on course to go to Qatar but this was a disappointing performance in what was a largely dull encounter, with most of the attention sadly focusing on the clashes between Hungarian fans and police and stewards moments after the kick-off.\n\nThis was a highly unsatisfactory night all round, although Hungary celebrated their hard-earned point after the final whistle.\n\nEngland are three points above second-placed Poland with two qualifiers to go next month.\n\n\"We're in a very strong position in the group but tonight is a big disappointment,\" said Southgate. \"We have to make sure we get it right next month.\"\n\nEngland need four points from a home game with Albania and trip to San Marino.\n• None Attempt saved. Ollie Watkins (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (England) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Substitution, England. Ollie Watkins replaces Tammy Abraham because of an injury.\n• None Offside, England. Luke Shaw tries a through ball, but Tammy Abraham is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Luke Shaw (England) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Filip Holender (Hungary) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Zsolt Nagy. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Magic FM DJ Emma Wilson believes Wayne Couzens exposed himself to her 13 years ago\n\nRadio presenter Emma Wilson has said Sarah Everard's murderer Wayne Couzens flashed her and that Met Police officers laughed when she reported it.\n\nThe Magic FM DJ - who is also known as Emma B - said he exposed himself to her when she walked past an alleyway in Greenwich, south-east London, in 2008.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour she recognised him when she saw his photo in news reports.\n\nThe Met Police is investigating the presenter's complaint.\n\nMs Wilson told the programme she was \"so very sure\" it was Couzens - who at the time was a volunteer officer with Kent Police - and that it \"adds to the clamour of chances there were to stop this man\".\n\nCouzens - who went on to become a Met Police officer - was given a whole-life term last month for the kidnap, rape and murder of Ms Everard.\n\nThe police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), is looking into the Met's handling of three other alleged indecent exposure incidents involving Couzens, including two said to have taken place in south London three days before he murdered Ms Everard.\n\nThe other allegation centres around a report of how Kent Police investigated a claim in 2015. Details of a car linked to Couzens had been passed on to police but he was not identified.\n\nA Met Police review found that an allegation Couzens exposed himself outside a fast-food restaurant in the days before he murdered Ms Everard had been allocated for investigation, but by the time of the marketing executive's abduction it was not concluded.\n\nThe IOPC said two Met officers had been served with misconduct notices for possible breaches of professional standards in relation to the incident.\n\nSarah Everard was murdered after being tricked into Couzens' car as she walked from Clapham to Brixton\n\nMs Wilson said she knows it was Couzens who exposed himself to her as he had a \"face that doesn't go anywhere, it stays with you\".\n\nShe explained how she ran into a nearby shop to alert police who then visited her to take a statement.\n\n\"They were asking me what I could see... he was playing with himself and there were specifics about his state of arousal that they thought were quite amusing. It was really humiliating,\" Ms Wilson said.\n\n\"I remember clearly saying to them, 'I really hope this is all he needs to do' and I said that at the time because I was so struck by how feeble their response was.\"\n\nThe presenter said the incident was \"aggressive, it was purposeful, it was calculated\" and that \"it wasn't this comic character that we have of this local peeping Tom or the local flasher in the flasher mac\".\n\n\"There's a really big part of me that hopes it wasn't him because if it was, this is horrific that it could have gone on for so very, very long.\"\n\nThe Met Police said at the time, that a search of the area was conducted but the suspect could not be found. CCTV inquiries were unsuccessful and the matter was passed on to the local safer neighbourhoods team for intelligence.\n\nThe force added that to the best of its knowledge, it was \"not aware\" of any reports before his March arrest where he had been named as a suspect.\n\nIt said if it received any allegations it would investigate.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Met Police Deputy Commissioner Bas Javid acknowledged there was a \"crisis\" of confidence in policing in the wake of Ms Everard's murder.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: \"We want women and girls particularly to feel safe in communities.\n\n\"There's a lot of work to be done to rebuild that trust and give people the confidence to come forward.\"\n\nHe said as well as the independent review into the force's standards and culture, the Met Police was taking other steps to be \"proactive\".\n\nThose measures include undertaking an examination of all ongoing sexual and domestic abuse allegations against officers and staff, and significantly boosting the number of officers who investigate police misconduct.", "A potentially risky laser treatment offered to menopausal women to rejuvenate the vagina is no better than sham or fake therapy, researchers say.\n\nThey tested it in a trial to see if it might ease vaginal dryness and painful sex linked to going through the change.\n\nNHS advisory body the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence says the therapy should only be used for research.\n\nSome private clinics in the UK and the US, however, continue to offer it.\n\nLaser rejuvenation involves a probe being inserted into the vagina to heat and change or remodel the surrounding tissue.\n\nClinics claim kick-starting the body's healing process by purposefully injuring the tissue can increase natural lubrication and restore sexual gratification.\n\nThe non-surgical treatment can be completed within a lunch hour but is not entirely risk free, officials say.\n\nThe US regulator has already said it is \"deeply concerned\" women can be harmed by the procedure.\n\nSome who have had it have experienced vaginal burns and scarring.\n\nThe research, described in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is one of the largest studies to independently scrutinise the therapy using the \"gold standard\" design of a clinical trial.\n\nNICE has been calling for this type of work, to determine if the therapy is safe and beneficial enough to recommend for wider use in the NHS.\n\nThe Australian researchers, not funded by the industry, randomised 85 women to receive either the laser treatment or a placebo procedure - where the probe was inserted but the required \"dose\" of the laser energy not delivered.\n\nNo serious side-effects were recorded - but during the year of follow-up, there was no discernible difference between the two groups in terms of symptom improvement either.\n\nAn accompanying editorial in JAMA likened the laser-therapy situation to the recent vaginal-mesh scare, when some women were harmed by a procedure later halted amid safety concerns.\n\nThe authors, Drs Marisa Adelman and Ingrid Nygaard, from the University of Utah School of Medicine, said: \"The widespread clinical use of vaginal laser therapy, followed by burgeoning reports of adverse events and FDA [US Food and Drug Administration] warnings, brought an unfortunate sense of deja vu.\n\n\"After a rush to market vaginal mesh products for the management of pelvic organ prolapse prior to the completion of rigorous randomised trials, these products are no longer marketed in the US.\n\n\"Although marketing prior to the availability of evidence demonstrating efficacy and safety may be associated with short-term profits for companies and clinicians, this approach closes any window of opportunity to actually learn what individuals, if any, benefit from the treatment, as well as those at increased risk for harms.\"\n\nBritish Menopause Society past-president and spokesman Tim Hillard, a consultant gynaecologist in Dorset, said: \"This is the type of study we have been waiting for.\n\n\"It's one of the biggest randomised trials and isn't industry funded.\n\n\"It really reinforces that doctors should only be offering this therapy in clinical trials to gather more evidence.\"\n\nNew treatments for menopause symptoms were very much needed and worth researching, Mr Hillard said.\n\n\"Symptoms like vaginal dryness, itching and discomfort or pain during intercourse are very common and can be very distressing for women,\" he said.\n\n\"It can be difficult to talk about them.\n\n\"Many women put up with it and don't seek advice - but there are some treatments that may help and there are specialists who can advise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Menopause: what are the symptoms and why does it happen?\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. Kerry Roberts and Tammy Kirkwood shared their experiences at an emotional meeting\n\nA mum whose daughter died after taking ecstasy has struck up an \"unlikely\" friendship with the mother of the teenager who supplied the fatal drug.\n\nAfter agreeing to meet his mother, Tammy, Ms Roberts said she realised both had \"lost something\" as a result of the drug.\n\nThey are campaigning together to raise drugs awareness among young people.\n\nLeah died in May 2019 after she took the Class A drug with a group of friends in a car park in Northallerton, North Yorkshire.\n\nThe drugs were brought into the town by Connor, then 17, with another boy, Mitchell Southern, handing them over to Leah.\n\nConnor, from Dishforth, was jailed for 21 months last year but was released after serving six months of his sentence.\n\nThe mothers were introduced to each other through restorative justice - a process in which victims of crime can meet those who committed the offence against them.\n\nAlthough Ms Roberts did not want to meet Connor, it was suggested that by meeting his mother they would be able to share and understand each other's stories.\n\nKerry Roberts said she and daughter Leah had the \"best relationship\"\n\nIt gave Ms Kirkwood the opportunity to explain how she had been struggling for years to get help for Connor.\n\nHe had become involved in county lines gangs, which target vulnerable teenagers and use them to supply drugs.\n\nMs Roberts said: \"People will look at us and think it's an unlikely friendship.\n\n\"People will see us as two separate things but we are both grieving. They are both our children.\"\n\nConnor Kirkwood and Mitchell Southern both admitted supplying ecstasy and were jailed last year\n\nMs Kirkwood described how, from the age of 15, Connor went from being a \"presentable young man\" to \"wearing trackies and not speaking to anyone\".\n\nShe knew he was involved in drugs and had reported him to police, but when questioned he would refuse to give any information about the gangs.\n\nDespite police involvement and her constant requests for help, Ms Kirkwood said they were never offered a drug referral or other support.\n\nShe said she had struggled with \"guilt and shame\" over whether she could have prevented Leah's death.\n\n\"I thought where have I gone wrong? How did this happen? What did I do?\" she said.\n\n\"And there's the guilt of my child being involved in someone else's child losing their life.\n\n\"I lost the child that had a passion for sport, was always smiling. I don't see a smile anymore.\n\n\"I have this 19-year-old man. I don't know who he is. I get to see him in bed and why do I get that?\n\n\"That's my guilt because that's not fair.\"\n\nLeah's mum said they had spoken about drugs together but neither of them had heard of MDMA\n\nLeah's mum, who described her daughter as her \"best friend\" said she had felt \"a lot of hatred\" and was initially against the meeting.\n\n\"There was hatred for Connor, for the situation. I thought how is it going to do me any good? I have nothing to say to her,\" she said.\n\nBut she said hearing the other side of the story had helped ease those emotions.\n\n\"I've read about county lines and there's more of an understanding and I'm thinking he was a child, he was 15. He wasn't a 21-year-old dodgy drug dealer.\n\n\"I get how my friends and my family were like: 'why are you meeting her?', but I think it's done us both some good.\"\n\nShe added: \"People who didn't know Leah would probably think she came from a rough family, that her mum didn't care.\n\n\"People have their own thoughts and I had those thoughts about Connor's mum. I didn't realise the story.\"\n\nThe two mothers said they had both been affected by the devastating impact of the drug\n\nBoth women are working together on a campaign called Do You Know MDMA? to get the message out that drugs kill. Ms Roberts has also launched a petition urging the government to make supplying drugs to under-16s a specific criminal offence.\n\nShe said: \"I feel like if we've told our story and tried to educate people then we can't do much more.\n\n\"Leah died and I can't let that be for no reason.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "Wales' health minister says hospitals and GP surgeries are under \"huge pressure\"\n\nPressures on Welsh hospitals are expected to continue until at least mid-October, Wales' health minister has said.\n\nEluned Morgan has asked people to only use A&E services and GP surgeries if absolutely necessary.\n\nSome health boards have already postponed routine surgery and suspended some visits.\n\nIt comes as Public Health Wales reports eight further deaths with Covid, and 2,317 new cases.\n\nIt brings the total in Wales throughout the pandemic to 5,734 deaths and 306,060 cases.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that modelling suggested there could be \"100 new Covid-19 hospital admissions\" every day in Wales by the end of September as that is when experts expect the Delta-variant infection to peak.\n\nThe Covid infection rate in Wales has risen to 557 cases for every 100,000 people - the highest since December last year.\n\nMs Morgan said case numbers \"are likely to continue... until at least the end of September and then we're likely to see a levelling off\".\n\nBecause of the lag between people catching Covid and potentially ending up in hospital, Ms Morgan said this suggests the pressure on hospitals will \"continue at least until about mid-October\".\n\nMs Morgan told BBC's Politics Wales there were many issues to consider regarding vaccination passports\n\nMs Morgan added a \"really difficult\" decision must be made on whether to introduce vaccination passports, as England scraps their plans to do so.\n\nA decision is expected by next Friday on whether the passports will be made mandatory in order to gain entry to some events in Wales. They are being introduced in Scotland from 1 October.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid announced on Sunday that the vaccine passports would not be going ahead in England\n\n\"There are lots of practical and ethical issues we've got to consider around vaccine passports,\" Ms Morgan told BBC Politics Wales.\n\n\"Clearly, there's a hope that suggestions that we may need vaccine passports for nightclubs, for example, may help drive the numbers of young people who may want to take the vaccine up.\"\n\nMore than a fifth of young people aged 16-39 in Wales have yet to receive one dose of the vaccine.\n\n\"We know the [case] rates are incredibly high at the moment amongst young people and so that's why we're very anxious to drive those numbers up,\" Ms Morgan said.\n\nRoutine surgeries have been delayed and many hospitals have limited or cancelled visits\n\nThe Betsi Cadwaladr health board in north Wales announced on Friday it was suspending routine operations and halted most hospital visits.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board has also suspended most patient visits for \"the safety of our patients and staff\" at its facilities in Merthyr Tydfil, Bridgend and Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nAt its height back in January, there were 1,643 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Welsh hospitals, compared to 441 cases earlier this week.\n\nBut the total number of people in Welsh hospitals because of Covid or other reasons is at its highest level since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe health minister said there were \"difficulties getting people out of hospital\" because of a lack of social care staff.\n\nShe said she was having weekly meetings with councils and the health boards to deal with a \"quite critical\" situation.\n\nShe blamed Brexit, \"because we did have a lot of eastern European workers\", and people moving to work in the tourism sector over the summer.\n\nWelsh labour made a manifesto commitment to paying all social care staff the £9.50 an hour real living wage\n\nFewer than half of social care workers earn a \"real living wage\", according to research published by Cardiff University in August 2020.\n\nPaying social care staff the real living wage of £9.50 an hour was a key Welsh Labour manifesto commitment, so Ms Morgan said the government was \"in the process of working with the trade unions to make sure that when we give that living wage that the money actually gets to the people on the frontline\".\n\nIn terms of changing the social care system, she said ministers have \"a long-term ambition\" to introduce free personal care \"but it is going to take us a while to get to that point\".\n\nAn independent report published in 2018 suggested an income tax rise in Wales of between 1% and 3% could be used to fund elderly social care.\n\nAsked if a social care levy was off the table in light of the UK government's National Insurance hike, Ms Morgan said: \"I think it would be very difficult for us to be taxing people twice for the same service.\"", "A friend of the first victim of the serial killer Stephen Port told the police she knew he was responsible, an inquest has heard.\n\nChina Dunning, who went to college with Anthony Walgate, said: \"I was convinced it was the actions of Stephen Port, who I knew at the time as Joe Dean.\"\n\nMr Walgate was found outside Port's flat in Barking, dead from an overdose of the \"date rape\" drug GHB.\n\nPort went on to kill a further three young men.\n\nMs Dunning told the inquest at Barking Town Hall that she raised her concerns with police but felt that because Mr Walgate was young, gay and sometimes worked as an escort, officers might not be convinced.\n\n\"I think they probably assume 'Yeah, he takes drugs as well'. I just wanted to convince them that they shouldn't hold that stereotype. That wasn't what his character was.\"\n\nMr Walgate was found dead by medics outside Stephen Port's flat in Cooke Street\n\nShe said that nine months after Anthony's death she went to Snaresbrook Crown Court to see Stephen Port being sentenced for lying to the police.\n\n\"I knew this person was responsible for my friend's death and I wanted to see who it was and what was going to happen.\"\n\nMs Dunning told the jury she met Det Sgt Martin O'Donnell - one of the officers in charge of investigating the death - and told him Stephen Port's account of what happened was still untrue and that police needed to look at Port's computer.\n\nShe said that Det Sgt O'Donnell told her there were only two people who knew what happened that night and that it was a long and expensive process to seize and analyse a computer.\n\nShe alleges he told her: \"You need to let it go. You are not going to find out\".\n\nThe jury has already heard that by this time the police had had Stephen Port's computer for nearly a year - and they could have seen Stephen Port's browser history, including searches for raping and drugging boys.\n\nAfter killing Mr Walgate, Port went on to kill Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth, and Jack Taylor.\n\nFollowing a trial at the Old Bailey in 2016, Port was found guilty of all four murders and sentenced to a whole-life term.\n\nThe inquest at Barking Town Hall is examining whether police mistakes cost the lives of some of the victims by failing to stop Port sooner.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sixteen arrests were made at junction 31 of the M25 in Essex, near the Dartford Crossing and Lakeside shopping centre\n\nAngry motorists confronted Insulate Britain activists who blocked traffic on two roads in the latest in a series of protests.\n\nEssex Police arrested 35 people at two locations, including at an M25 junction to the east of London.\n\nOfficers detained 16 people after being called to a slip road at junction 31 for Thurrock, just after 08:25 BST.\n\nPolice then arrested 19 people after reports of a further blockade nearby at Stonehouse Lane, Purfleet.\n\nOn what was a 13th day of protests by the group in the past five weeks, the M25 slip road blockage, near the Dartford Crossing, led to many HGV drivers turning around, causing clashes between protesters and angry motorists.\n\nLorry drivers blasted their horns and multiple confrontations occurred, with one protester nearly run over after stopping in front of a blue Hyundai car, whose frustrated driver called out \"this is stupidity\".\n\nMotorists ripped banners out of the hands of demonstrators as they sat or lay down in the road while other protesters glued themselves to the carriageway.\n\nEssex Police removed the protesters and said all the affected roads had reopened by lunchtime\n\nThe force said it had been working to resolve the situation \"quickly and safely\"\n\nSome members of the group were repeatedly dragged off the road by drivers who were pulling on their clothes and backpacks, but they returned to their spots and sat down again.\n\nSome HGV drivers warned that the protests could cause fuel supply problems as tankers would be unable to reach filling stations.\n\nOne driver told LBC news: \"If this protest stays here for much longer, I'm afraid the nightshift driver will not be able to deliver fuel for any garages or anyone.\"\n\nEssex Police removed the protesters and said all the affected roads reopened by lunchtime. The force thanked members of the public for their \"patience and understanding\".\n\nInsulate Britain said about 40 people were at junction 31 and at the nearby A1090 London Road in Purfleet.\n\nInsulate Britain admitted its latest action was in breach of an injunction obtained by the government last month\n\nThe action was Insulate Britain's 13th day of road protests\n\nThe protest group, which has been regularly blocking highways since 13 September, has been calling for the installation of heat-saving measures in social housing by 2025, and all homes by 2030.\n\nIt admitted its latest action was \"in breach\" of an injunction obtained by the government last month.\n\nA spokesman, Liam Norton, said: \"In 10 years' time when fuel crises are catastrophic, when the food has run out and when people are experiencing unsurvivable heatwaves, what would you be wishing you had done now?\"\n\nThe protest caused many vehicles, including HGVs, to stop and turn round\n\nThe government has said it is investing £1.3bn to support people to install energy efficiency measures.\n\nOn Thursday, 35 protesters were arrested after blocking Old Street roundabout in central London and junction 25 of M25 at Waltham Cross in Hertfordshire.\n\nOn 5 October, drivers clashed with protesters at the entrance to the Blackwall Tunnel, which goes under the Thames to the east of the Isle of Dogs, and 38 people were arrested.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters clashed with motorists who blocked the Blackwall Tunnel on 5 October\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The UK has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. Net zero means a country takes as much of these planet-warming gases - such as carbon dioxide - out of the atmosphere as it puts in.\n\nIn March, the government released a new net zero strategy, after a court ruled its previous plan did not contain enough detail about how its climate targets would be met.\n\nBut the government's independent advisers, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), have called the UK's efforts \"worryingly slow\".\n\nThe cost of delivering net zero - and who pays for it - has sparked a political debate. The CCC estimates it will require an extra £50bn of investment per year, by 2030.\n\nWhat progress is being made?\n\nThe UK has been successful in cutting carbon emissions from electricity generation so far. These have fallen by around three-quarters since 1990.\n\nThis is due to a declining use of fossil fuels - coal, oil and gas - for electricity.\n\nMeanwhile the proportion of electricity generated by renewables - like wind and solar - has grown to around 40% in the last few years, up from just over 10% a decade ago.\n\nThe government has pledged that all of the UK's electricity will come from low carbon sources (renewables and nuclear) by 2035.\n\nHowever, reports by the CCC, the National Audit Office and a cross-party group of MPs have warned that the UK risks missing its target, without clearer planning and much faster action.\n\nDespite the push for more renewable energy, the government is granting 100 oil and gas production licences for the North Sea.\n\nIt says it wants to reduce the UK's reliance on imported energy - such as gas - from \"hostile states\" and says some fossil fuels will still be needed when net zero is reached.\n\nBut the CCC says investing in renewables would be a better way to reduce reliance on imports and bring bills down for consumers.\n\nIt says the expansion of fossil fuel production \"is not in line with net zero\".\n\nThe UK still relies heavily on fossil fuels for its total energy needs. Total energy use includes electricity, but also things like petrol cars and gas heating.\n\nBuildings account for about 17% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions, mainly due to burning fossil fuels for heating.\n\nThe government has committed to installing 600,000 heat pumps a year by 2028 to replace gas boilers.\n\nHeat pumps use electricity rather than gas, and are around three times more efficient than a boiler. The government is offering grants of £5,000 to help homeowners in England and Wales install a heat pump.\n\nIn 2022, around 70,000 heat pumps were installed in the UK, leaving the government's 600,000 target \"significantly off track\", according to the CCC.\n\nThe UK has some of the least energy-efficient homes in Europe. Insulation is one of the most effective ways to reduce emissions from housing.\n\nThe government has introduced the Great British Insulation Scheme to help insulate around 300,000 of the poorest-performing homes but the CCC says it needs to go further.\n\nTransport (not including aviation and shipping) accounted for just under a quarter of UK emissions in 2022, making it the largest emitting sector.\n\nThe government says no new fully petrol and diesel cars will be sold from 2030.\n\nBy 2028, it wants 52% of car sales to be electric. In 2022, nearly 17% of car sales were electric. This is ahead of schedule, according to the CCC.\n\nThe government wants 300,000 publicly-accessible charging points for electric cars by 2030.\n\nThe number of public charging points increased to around 37,000 in 2022 - up by nearly a third from 2021. But the rate of deployment will have to rise further, the CCC says.\n\nThe government has allocated nearly £300m for up to 1,400 zero-emission buses through regional schemes, but the CCC says it needs to confirm when it will end the sale of diesel buses.\n\nThe government aims to remove all diesel-only trains by 2040, but the CCC says it needs a clearer plan to achieve this.\n\nOverall, the CCC says there has been \"little progress\" switching to lower carbon modes of travel, such as public transport and active travel, to reduce car demand.\n\nFlying makes up about 7% of overall UK emissions, and shipping about 3%.\n\nThe UK has a strategy for delivering net zero aviation by 2050.\n\nIt has been criticised for relying too much on technologies such as sustainable fuels and zero emissions aircraft that do not yet exist.\n\nAs a result, the CCC says that the government should be looking at how to manage demand rather than allowing it to grow - for example addressing private jet use and providing lower cost rail travel.\n\nIt says there should be no net airport expansion across the UK.\n\nProgress has also been slow to establish a strategy to decarbonise shipping, the CCC says.\n\nAgriculture and land use produce 11% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nThe government released its food strategy in June 2022, but the CCC criticised it for failing to deliver action to drive down emissions from agriculture at the required scale or pace.\n\nIt has also been criticised for not doing more to encourage a switch to a more sustainable diet - eating plant-based foods, for example.\n\nMeat consumption in the UK has been falling though - down 17% in the last decade.\n\nIn February 2023, the government released details of its long-awaited environmental land management schemes for England, replacing the EU common agricultural policy.\n\nThe schemes mean farmers can apply for public money to support activities that benefit the environment.\n\nTrees and peatlands play important roles in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.\n\nUK forest cover is 13%, among the lowest in Europe.\n\nThe government has a target to plant 30,000 hectares of trees a year by 2025.\n\nHowever, annual UK tree planting has not risen above 15,000 hectares since 2001.\n\nThe UK forestry body has warned that there is \"zero chance\" of the UK meeting its target.\n\nIt is estimated that only around 20% of UK peatlands are in a near-natural state, including only 1.3% in England.\n\nThese damaged peatlands are responsible for around 5% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions, whereas healthy peatlands would take up carbon dioxide.\n\nThe government aims to restore around 29,000 hectares of peatland a year across England, Scotland and Wales by 2025. But current levels are less than half this, leaving peatland restoration \"significantly off track\", the CCC says.\n\nHydrogen is a low-carbon fuel that could be used for transport, heating, power generation or energy storage.\n\nThe government says it considers hydrogen to be a critical part of future energy security and decarbonisation. It wants to have a 10GW hydrogen production capacity by 2030.\n\nThe industry is in its infancy, and the government admits it will need \"rapid and significant scale-up\" in the coming years.\n\nThe government has promised a decision on the role of hydrogen in heating by 2026, but the CCC says this delay is holding back potential investment.\n\nIn March 2023 the government announced the first winning projects from the £240m Net Zero Hydrogen Fund.\n\nThe ability to capture carbon before it is released - or take it out of the atmosphere and store it - will be important if the UK is to reach net zero.\n\nThe government is aiming to capture and store between 20 and 30 million tonnes of CO2 a year by 2030.\n\nThe Chancellor recently announced £20bn in investment in carbon capture over the next 20 years, and several projects have been announced.\n\nBut the technology is still emerging and is expensive, and can only capture a portion of emissions.\n\nIndustrial emissions represent about 14% of the UK total.\n\nThe government aims to cut emissions from manufacturing by about two-thirds by 2035.\n\nIt has a scheme to cap the amount of emissions allowed by individual sectors each year, reducing that amount over time.\n\nBut the scheme risks companies shifting production to other countries and therefore not actually reducing their emissions. Small facilities, representing around 40% of industrial emissions, are not included in the scheme.\n\nThe government is also under pressure to respond to the green investment packages announced by the US and EU over the past year.", "Matt Hancock resigned from government in July but remains an MP\n\nFormer Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been given a role with the United Nations as a special representative.\n\nWriting on Twitter, the ex-minister said the job would focus on helping Africa's economy recover from Covid.\n\nIt comes four months after Mr Hancock resigned from his cabinet post for breaking social distancing guidelines by kissing a colleague.\n\nThe Under Secretary General of the UN, Vera Songwe, praised his \"success\" in tackling the UK's pandemic response.\n\nIn a letter posted online by Mr Hancock, Ms Songwe said the \"acceleration of vaccines that has led the UK move faster towards economic recovery is one testament to the strengths that you will bring to this role, together with your fiscal and monetary experience\".\n\nThe announcement also comes on the day a report from MPs was published, claiming the government and its scientists' failure to do more to stop Covid spreading early in the pandemic was one of the country's worst public health failures.\n\nMr Hancock's official title will be \"UN special representative on financial innovation and climate change for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa\".\n\nHis new role will be unpaid and he will continue as a Conservative MP.\n\nMr Hancock said he was \"honoured\" to be appointed and would help \"promote sustainable development\", alongside working on the economic recovery.\n\nMs Songwe said the UN had been working with people across the world on Africa's climate actions and resilient recovery - and that she wanted to appoint Mr Hancock \"given your global leadership, advocacy reach and in depth understanding of government processes through your various ministerial cabinet roles\".\n\nShe added: \"The role will support Africa's cause at the global level and ensure the continent builds forward better, leveraging financial innovations and working with major stakeholders like the G20, UK government and COP26.\"\n\nIn his acceptance letter, which he also posted on Twitter, Mr Hancock wrote: \"As we recover from the pandemic so we must take this moment to ensure Africa can prosper.\"\n\nThe chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, said it was a \"fascinating and important appointment\".\n\nHe added: \"Boosting the economies of Africa is one of the most essential tasks of this generation.\"\n\nMr Hancock announced his resignation in June after the Sun newspaper published pictures and a video of him and Gina Coladangelo - who were both married at the time with three children - kissing.\n\nThe newspaper said the images had been taken inside the Department of Health and Social Care on 6 May.\n\nMatt Hancock resigned as health secretary after pictures were published of him kissing Gina Coladangelo - pictured here with him on 1 May\n\nFollowing the revelations, a number of Conservative MPs, as well as Labour and the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, had called for Mr Hancock to go.\n\nMs Coladangelo also left her role as a non-executive director at the DHSC.\n\nMr Hancock ended his 15-year marriage to his wife, Martha, and the relationship with Ms Coladangelo is understood to be a serious one.", "A \"relentless tirade of racist and homophobic abuse\" aimed at a police officer has been revealed in footage release by the police.\n\nThe blurred footage shows an officer being sworn at, and threatened by a suspect in custody.\n\nSouth Wales Police released the footage as part of Hate Crime Awareness week.\n\nIt said the officer was subjected to the abuse after trying to help a member of the public during a medical emergency.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Jenny Gilmer said the clip was \"unbelievably difficult to listen to\" and was only a 25-second snippet of a three-hour ordeal.", "The UK's largest commercial port says the supply chain crisis has caused a logjam of shipping containers.\n\nThe Port of Felixstowe, which handles 36% of the UK's freight container traffic, blamed the busy pre-Christmas period and haulage shortages.\n\nHowever, it said the situation has been improving over the last few days.\n\nShipping giant Maersk told the BBC it is re-routing some of its biggest ships away from the port.\n\nThe Financial Times first reported on Tuesday that Maersk was re-routing ships away from Felixstowe to other European ports, where smaller vessels will be used for UK deliveries.\n\nLars Mikael Jensen, head of global ocean network at Maersk, told BBC Radio 5 Live's Drive programme that some of its largest 20,000-container ships were waiting outside Felixstowe for between four to seven days.\n\n\"We've taken those measures because we saw, because of the big ships, there is a limit to how many berths they can call in Felixstowe, and because its slower, it took longer to handle every ship,\" he said.\n\n\"Instead of wasting time waiting, we progressed to the next stop, and arranged that the boxes are relayed from that port rather than wait for a week and then discharge.\"\n\nProblems at Felixstowe come as retailers and other groups warn of mounting concern about stocks in the run-up to Christmas trading.\n\nThe port has blamed several factors for the build-up of shipping containers, including the busy pre-Christmas peak, haulage shortages, poor vessel scheduling, and the impact of the pandemic.\n\nOn top of this, there are a high number of empty containers currently sitting at the port. Felixstowe said it is asking shipping lines to remove them as quickly as possible.\n\n\"The vast majority of import containers are cleared for collection within minutes of arriving and there are over 1,000 unused haulier bookings most days,\" the port stressed.\n\n\"However, the situation is improving and there is more spare space for import containers this week, than at any time since the beginning of July, when supply chain impacts first started to bite.\"\n\nIndustry bodies estimate there is a shortage of about 100,000 drivers with several sectors from retailers to domestic refuse collection affected. The government recently drafted in military personnel to help deliver fuel and to issue emergency temporary visa to foreign drivers.\n\nThe shortage has been caused by several factors, including European drivers who went home during the pandemic, Brexit, tax changes and a backlog of HGV driver tests.\n\nTim Morris, head of the Major Ports Group, which represents port operators, said the industry had been had been hit by a whole host of issues, including Brexit border changes, global demand for goods travelling by sea, and the pandemic.\n\n\"It has not been easy and there have been times of real stress on the ports system,\" he said. \"Ports have taken significant action to respond to the challenges and build resilience.\"\n\nThe problem is not just confined to the UK. Ports across the world have also suffered significant delays. Retailers have highlighted particular issues in China and east Asia, where pandemic restrictions and poor weather conditions have affected shipping.\n\nSarah Treseder, chief executive of the trade group UK Chamber of Shipping, said there are reports of dozens of ships forced to wait outside ports in America and Asia.\n\n\"We anticipate the disruption will continue while the underlying market volatility stabilises,\" she said.", "Ireland's foreign minister has accused the UK of repeatedly dismissing EU proposals on the Northern Ireland Protocol before they are published.\n\nThis is happening again this week but it is now \"more serious\", Simon Coveney has warned.\n\nThe protocol is the special Brexit deal for Northern Ireland, which the UK and EU agreed in 2019.\n\nUnionists argue it creates a trade border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nThey say it undermines Northern Ireland's constitutional position as part of the UK.\n\nThe EU will bring forward proposals on Wednesday for reforming the protocol.\n\nThe proposals will focus on easing practical problems with the movement of goods from Britain to Northern Ireland, rather than changing oversight arrangements.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, who has threatened to pull his party out of Stormont over the protocol, said on Monday that this week was important.\n\n\"Let's see what people have to put on the table,\" he said.\n\n\"Let's see that intensive negotiation take place and then we'll make our judgements on the outcome against the tests that we have set and determine what action we should take.\"\n\nMr Coveney told RTÉ's Morning Ireland programme that the UK's dismissals were now \"more serious\", given the comprehensive compromise proposals the EU is bringing forward.\n\n\"Each time the EU comes forward with new ideas, new proposals to try to solve problems, they are dismissed before they are released and that is happening again this week,\" Mr Coveney said.\n\nMaros Šefčovič told an event in Dublin that he hoped talks would begin before the end of October\n\nHe said dismissals were being seen across the EU as \"the same pattern, over and over again\" by the UK.\n\nAt the weekend, Mr Coveney warned UK demands on the Northern Ireland Protocol could cause \"a breakdown in relations\" with the EU.\n\nHe made the comments after the UK reiterated that it wants the European Court of Justice (ECJ) removed from oversight of the deal.\n\nMr Coveney said this was the creation of a new \"red line\" which the EU cannot move on.\n\nThe European Commission said the ECJ's role in the protocol was ground that has been covered \"a million times\".\n\nIts chief spokesperson, Eric Mamer, told a briefing on Monday that the EU's position on this issue remained \"extremely clear\".\n\nHe said it was looking for solutions to the practical issues that affect the daily lives of people.\n\nMr Mamer said the commission wanted to be constructive and open, \"but in the framework of the agreement as it has been signed\".\n\nOn Tuesday, the UK's Brexit Minister Lord Frost will give a speech in which he is expected to tell diplomats that removing the ECJ's role in dispute settlement is necessary to sustain the protocol.\n\nLord Frost is due to give his speech on Tuesday\n\nHe is due to say: \"Without new arrangements in this area the protocol will never have the support it needs to survive.\n\n\"The role of the ECJ in Northern Ireland and the consequent inability of the UK government to implement the very sensitive arrangements in the protocol in a reasonable way has created a deep imbalance in the way the protocol operates.\"\n\nThere are two schools of thought about how this latest negotiation is shaping up.\n\nThe first is that Lord Frost's hard line on the ECJ is standard pre-negotiation tactics, aimed at grinding out another concession or two.\n\nAfter all the Brexit process has always delivered a deal, even at times when it seemed improbable.\n\nThere is another view, hinted at by Simon Coveney, that maybe the UK doesn't want a deal unless it's total victory.\n\nUnder that scenario the UK would go through the motions before triggering Article 16.\n\nIt would use this to gut the protocol while calculating that the EU's ability to retaliate is limited or or at least would take a long time to amount to anything.\n\nWe should find out which view is right by the end of this year.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said on Monday that his party had concerns around the jurisdiction of the ECJ.\n\n\"We do not believe they are fully independent when it comes to arbitrating on issues related to trade between the United Kingdom and the European Union,\" he told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"We recognise why the government has that concern, but the government in the end, they are the negotiating party and they have to press these issues.\"\n\nHowever, the chief executive of Manufacturing NI, Stephen Kelly, said business needed clarity and certainty, not \"spats and ultimatums\".\n\nResponding to the UK's call to have the ECJ removed from oversight of the deal, Mr Kelly said that many businesses across Northern Ireland relied upon single market access enforced by the court to ensure their goods travelled freely and legally right across the EU.\n\nFormer Ulster Unionist Party leader and UUP MLA Steve Aiken said there were concerns particularly around governance of the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nHe said the implications of issues concerning the ECJ, which he said differentiates VAT and state aid rules and regulations, had not yet been seen.\n\n\"Those are real concerns for us,\" he told Radio Ulster's The Nolan Show.\n\nSinn Féin assembly member Declan Kearney said \"we are seeing the goal posts shift once more\" in relation to the UK's negotiation strategy.\n\n\"This may well be a negotiation tactic.\n\n\"We are now approaching the point where hopefully all of these issues can be successfully covered off and that we can in fact see the difficulties with the protocol finally eliminated, and that David Frost is simply trying to up the ante and bring some more heat into the talks process that will follow publication of the European Union proposals.\"\n\nSDLP assembly member Matthew O'Toole said from initial reports it appeared that the EU proposals would go \"further than most people in the UK government and even some in unionism and indeed in business were asking for earlier this year\".\n\n\"That is encouraging, there then needs to be a period of engagement between the UK and the EU to make those work,\" he told Radio Ulster's the Nolan Show.\n\n\"It is deeply disappointing, however, that the UK government has chosen to pick a fight already over proposals that have not yet been published and proposals that by all accounts are going to be substantial.\"\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister said the \"big issue\" was \"the destruction\" of Northern Ireland's links \"with GB and our supply chain\".\n\n\"The people in the Irish Republic wouldn't accept it if two thirds of their economy laws were made in London,\" he said.\n\n\"Northern Ireland shouldn't have to accept the fact that two thirds of the laws governing their economy are made in Brussels. That's the constitutional issue.\"", "Deborah Illman-Roberts now needs crutches to walk after developing long Covid\n\nLong Covid patients in north Wales are helping the area's health board tailor a wide range of treatments to help fellow sufferers.\n\nLong Covid is defined as symptoms continuing for more than 12 weeks after an initial infection.\n\nOne 38-year-old health worker now needs crutches to walk nearly 18 months after she first contracted Covid.\n\nAbout 15% of Covid patients are thought to be affected and, while not all will need ongoing treatment, many will.\n\nThe Long Recovery Programme Group will feature regular meetings between staff and patients at Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board to hear first-hand accounts of health problems.\n\nThey will be able to access treatments and learn how to manage some symptoms themselves.\n\nClaire Jones, therapy lead for long Covid at Betsi, said: \"We've been listening to patients and what their experience is and focussing on what's important to them.\n\n\"What we want is to provide care for patients close to home so they're not travelling here, there and everywhere and going to numerous different appointments. We want to provide that in the community.\n\n\"We're very grateful. They've given up a lot of time, been very open and honest at a time when a lot of them were feeling very unwell themselves and we hope it'll result in a very good service for them.\n\n\"Because of the varying nature of the condition, we need a multidisciplinary team of professionals, such as occupational therapy, dietetics, psychology, speech and language therapy, to make sure we can tailor care to individual needs.\"\n\nDeborah Illman-Roberts, from Prestatyn, is 38 and was working as a healthcare support worker for Denbigh District Nurses in March 2020 when she fell ill with Covid but didn't need hospital treatment.\n\nShe gradually got more tired throughout the year and was diagnosed with long Covid in October 2020, after her mobility started to deteriorate.\n\nBy January 2021, she was getting around with crutches and now also experiences severe fatigue, breathlessness and what she calls \"brain fog\", which sees her struggles to find the right words to say.\n\nShe said: \"Previously I was working full-time; I lived an outdoor life. Now, I can't mobilise without crutches. If I go out, I use my mobility scooter. I was an active working mum and it's destroyed that.\"\n\n\"Day to day, I rely on my wife to care for me. There's a lot of jobs I can't do, we've got aids around the house.\n\n\"There's some support groups on Facebook but nobody knows. You need answers, you want answers, you go to GPs, but they don't know the answers and can't help you.\n\n\"You might go for scans and blood tests, but they all come back normal. It's such an unknown.\"\n\nGuidance for UK health workers describes long Covid as symptoms continuing for more than 12 weeks after an infection - severe or mild - and can't be explained by another cause.\n\nAccording to the NHS, symptoms include:\n\nMs Illman-Roberts said she cried with relief when she heard about the health board's long Covid pathway and was invited to be part of it.\n\n\"I couldn't miss it; it's been such a long and lonely road for me and many others I speak to. To know we could maybe help future sufferers and highlight the condition is massive, it gives us hope for the future that there is help out there,\" she said.\n\n\"The professionals might be saying this is going to be me for good, but at my age and as a mum that's really hard to accept.\n\n\"So, to know there's going to be help out there to look into the condition and find out what's causing all the different symptoms, that's going to be massive for everyone and, hopefully for people that are unfortunate to have the condition, they know there's somewhere they can go for help now.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eluned Morgan says she has never understood politicians who refuse to apologise where it's due\n\nWales' Health Minister Eluned Morgan has apologised for the mistakes made by the Welsh government in its initial handling of the pandemic.\n\nShe was responding to a report by MPs which said the UK's early response to the pandemic is one of the worst ever public health failures.\n\n\"I'm prepared to apologise to all of those who have suffered,\" she said.\n\nThe report said the slow move to lockdown led to a higher initial death toll than if ministers acted sooner.\n\nIt said the slow move into restrictions - backed by UK government scientists and adopted by the UK's central and devolved governments - was \"wrong\" and \"deliberate\".\n\nThe study, written by two House of Commons committees, claimed scientific advisers and government suffered \"a degree of group think\".\n\nWales and the rest of the UK went into lockdown on 23 March - while the policy was controlled by ministers in Cardiff, early on they acted alongside the Westminster government.\n\nThere were 2,289 deaths in Wales due to Covid, and 2,512 deaths involving Covid, in the first wave of the pandemic up to the end of July 2020.\n\nWales went into lockdown on 23 March 2020\n\nOpposition parties reiterated calls for a Wales-only public inquiry, with Plaid Cymru saying the Welsh government \"must take responsibility for its actions\".\n\nIn the Senedd, First Minister Mark Drakeford declined to say whether he agreed the early response was one of the worst ever public health failures in the UK, and said he had not read the report.\n\n\"I've been asked the question many times, 'Were there things that you would have done differently had you known then what you know now?' \" he said.\n\n\"We didn't know those things then, we were following the advice that we had at the time.\"\n\nHe said as \"our knowledge grew\" ministers have \"not hesitated to take our own decisions where we thought that was in the best interests of Wales\".\n\nThere have been a total of 8,262 deaths where Covid was mentioned on the death certificate up to 24 September this year.\n\nSpeaking at a press briefing, Ms Morgan said: \"Of course I'm prepared to apologise to all of those who have suffered during the pandemic.\n\n\"This was a new disease that we'd never seen before. None of us knew how it was going to impact, none of us knew how it was going to spread, none of us had any idea that it could be spread even without showing any symptoms.\"\n\nShe added: \"Of course we made mistakes at the beginning of that process, because of the lack of information and data and knowledge that we have now learned.\n\n\"I think we have a duty and responsibility to say sorry to people where we've made mistakes.\"\n\nBut the minister argued it would have been \"extremely difficult\" to have locked down Wales before England, because of the border and \"because furlough was not available\".\n\nShe said since then, the Welsh government has taken a \"far more cautious approach compared to that of the rest of the United Kingdom\".\n\nBut Ms Morgan denied that the Welsh government had suffered from group think - when a group of individuals reaches a consensus without critical reasoning.\n\nA decision to scrap community testing for coronavirus early in the pandemic was described by the report as a \"serious mistake\".\n\nWales, in common with the rest of the UK, took the same approach. Ms Morgan partly blamed this on a limitation on the number of tests available at the time.\n\nCatherine Griffiths's father Harry died with Covid in his Aberystwyth care home\n\nFigures showed that there were 157% more care home deaths from all causes than there would be normally in April 2020, with 1,171 in total.\n\nThe daughter of a man who died from Covid last year said it was \"good to have an apology\" but said it was \"slightly qualified\".\n\nCatherine Griffiths, whose father Harry Griffiths died with Covid in his Aberystwyth care home, told BBC Wales: \"They didn't know what was happening in the first wave but they knew what was happening in the second wave, my father died in the second wave.\n\n\"They should have protected people they should have acted and learned from countries in the Far East. While we were going into the second wave they were asking people to do quick tests before they enter care facilities, and we weren't doing that.\"\n\nMs Griffiths is part of the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru group, which is calling for a dedicated public inquiry for Wales into decisions made about the pandemic.\n\nThere are calls for a Wales-only public inquiry into the Covid response\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the report showed the \"fatalistic approach at the heart of this Westminster government\" but also called for a Welsh public inquiry.\n\nPlaid health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said: \"The Welsh government must take responsibility for its actions - good and bad, and there should be no avoidance of detailed scrutiny.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Russell George said: \"The pandemic was an unprecedented crisis and as these reports show decision-makers in government followed the science and evidence provided by experts.\"\n\nHe added the report shows \"why we need a Wales-specific Covid inquiry\".\n\nHowever Mark Drakeford argued in the Senedd that the report strengthens the argument for the Welsh \"experience to be properly investigated within the wider UK context\".\n\nThe first minister has backed a UK government inquiry, but has not ruled out a Wales-only effort if he is not satisfied with what is set up by the UK government.\n\nMr Drakeford told the Senedd he was yet to receive a reply to a letter to Communities Secretary Michael Gove on the 10 September setting out a \"series of tests\" the Welsh government would apply \"to give us confidence\".\n\nThe first minister said he was hoping to have a meeting with the prime minister in the coming days, and added he expects devolved governments to be \"properly involved\" in the appointment of the UK government's inquiry chair.\n\nDuring the press conference it was announced that the Welsh government had set a target of offering all 12 to 15-year-olds a Covid vaccine by the end of October.\n\nThe government also said all residents of care homes will have been offered a booster by the same date.\n\nDr Gill Richardson, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Vaccines, said she expected the majority of people over 50 or who have an underlying health condition to have been offered their booster by the end of the year.\n\nA Welsh government statement said the committees' report \"does not scrutinise decisions made by any of the devolved governments in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"Some actions and decisions in the pandemic response were taken at a UK level on a four-nations basis - we have always been open to working together where there are shared decisions and shared responses.\n\n\"We have followed the advice of our medical and scientific advisers and have taken a more cautious approach. Independent reports, by Audit Wales, have shown our approach to testing, for example, was less costly and more efficient than that taken by the UK government.\"", "Mr Mills was 'dumped' by the roadside after being treated with 'no dignity or respect'\n\nA taxi driver who ordered a blind man and his guide dog out of a cab in a row over £2 has been ordered to pay nearly £2,000.\n\nZafar Ali, 68, left Nicholas Mills \"distressed and disorientated\" in an unfamiliar area two miles from his home, magistrates heard.\n\nMr Mills, 59, said he had been quoted £6 for the fare, but during the journey Ali told him it was £2 extra for taking the dog.\n\nAli's taxi licence is to be reviewed.\n\nThe incident happened in Stourbridge, West Midlands, in 2019.\n\nAli, of Vicarage Road, Lye, had denied failing to carry out a booking accepted by his operator, with the reason for that failure being a disabled person was accompanied by an assistance dog.\n\nHe was found guilty in his absence at Dudley Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nMr Mills, who is registered blind and relies on his guide dog Percy to get around, booked a taxi to take him home from a pub on 8 August two years ago.\n\nWhen Mr Mills disputed the fare increase during the journey, Ali ordered his passenger to get out near Stourbridge Golf Club.\n\nThe court heard a club member responded to his calls for help and found him in a \"distressed and disorientated\" state, and drove him home.\n\nMr Mills said he had experienced similar problems with taxi firms and believed Ali should have found him another driver if he did not want the fare.\n\n\"It gets to the stage you don't use a taxi unless you have to,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Whatever firms you use, lots don't really want to take guide dogs.. or they take the carpets out in bigger vehicles and the dogs slide around.\"\n\nAli was fined £1,000 and told to pay court costs of £595. He must also pay £200 compensation and a £100 victim surcharge, totalling £1,895.\n\nKaren Shakespeare, cabinet member for taxi licensing at Dudley Council which is set to review Ali's licence, said: \"Ali treated a vulnerable blind man with no dignity or respect and effectively dumped him on the side of the road, in the dark, with no idea where he was or how he was to get home.\"\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.", "Political and business leaders in Northern Ireland, and further afield, have been giving their reaction to the EU's plan to reduce post-Brexit checks on goods arriving into Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK.\n\nThe proposals include scrapping checks on most food products being shipped to, and remaining in, Northern Ireland from Great Britain.\n\nThe EU has also said the plan will cut customs paperwork by 50%.\n\nThe new plan, which seeks to calm a long-running dispute over a key part of the Brexit agreement, would remove about 80% of spot checks, the EU said.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said the EU are living up to commitments made to business and political leaders\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the proposals were \"a good mark of progress\".\n\nThe party is seeking to recall the Northern Ireland Assembly to demonstrate support for the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nMs O'Neill said the publication demonstrates \"both in word and deed\" that the EU are living up to commitments made to business and political leaders.\n\nHowever, Ms O'Neill said it is now \"up to others whether or not they engage with this process\".\n\n\"The British government and the DUP have dishonestly promoted a false narrative that the protocol does not enjoy the support or consent of the people of the north. That is untrue.\n\n\"The reality is that Brexit does not command the support or consent of the assembly,\" she said.\n\nJeffrey Donaldson said the DUP will \"take time to study the detail of the papers produced\"\n\nThe proposals are a \"starting point\", but appear to fall \"far short of the fundamental change needed\", Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Jeffrey Donaldson has said.\n\nMr Donaldson said the party will \"take time to study the detail of the papers produced\".\n\nHowever, he said there was \"no escaping the reality that the Northern Ireland Protocol has harmed Northern Ireland, both in economic and constitutional terms\".\n\n\"The imposition of the protocol has harmed the balances created by the Belfast Agreement and subsequent agreements and were the situation to remain unaltered would undo the political progress of the last 20 years,\" he said.\n\nColum Eastwood said the proposals present \"a clear landing zone\" to address challenges around the NI Protocol\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood has urged political leaders to embrace the new proposals.\n\nThe Foyle MP said the measures \"go further than expected\" and demonstrate that EU leaders are \"stretching themselves in the interests of people and businesses in Northern Ireland\".\n\nHe said political leaders, particularly those of unionist parties, should \"reflect on the very serious efforts made by the European Commission\" in easing challenges to trade and \"addressing their concerns about democratic deficits\".\n\n\"The DUP, in particular, need to decide if they're on the side of people and businesses here or in the pocket of Boris Johnson,\" he said.\n\n\"There is now a clear landing zone that will address the protocol challenges, allow us to maximise the opportunities and most importantly, expend political energy dealing with the crisis in our health service, our crumbling schools estate and managing the pandemic.\n\n\"We need to grasp that opportunity.\"\n\nStephen Farry said he hoped the proposals could form the basis for an agreement between the UK and EU\n\nIt would be an \"act of folly\" for opponents of the NI Protocol to \"squander the opportunity to provide certainty and stability given by the EU's proposals\", Alliance deputy leader Stephen Farry MP has said.\n\nDr Farry said he hoped the EU's proposals could form the basis for an agreement between the UK and EU which \"addresses practical issues around the protocol in a pragmatic way\".\n\n\"The challenges facing Northern Ireland come from Brexit,\" he said, adding that the protocol is \"the symptom of the problem, not the cause\".\n\n\"It would be an act of supreme folly to squander this chance to move on and indeed to impose even more delusional red-lines,\" he said.\n\nDoug Beattie said he was \"genuinely disappointed\" by what he heard from Maros Šefčovič\n\nIt is \"a step forward but there remains a long way to go\", according to UUP leader Doug Beattie.\n\n\"We were told the protocol negotiations could not be reopened, but we have now proven otherwise. This has been achieved through negotiation, not threats; through engagement not disengagement.\n\n\"The fact that the EU recognises that the protocol isn't working and needs substantial change is a positive development.\n\n\"However, I am genuinely disappointed by what I heard from European Commission Vice-President Maros Šefčovič and the supporting non-papers.\n\n\"Expectations were raised, but the proposals do not match them.\"\n\nJim Allister said the proposals \"can never be acceptable\"\n\nThe EU's latest proposals \"utterly fail the sovereignty test\", TUV leader Jim Allister has said.\n\nMr Allister described the protocol as \"an instrument delivering both economic dislocation and constitutional dislocation within the UK\".\n\nHe said the proposals \"retain us in a foreign single market for goods, under a foreign customs code and VAT regime, ruled by foreign laws and adjudicated upon by a foreign court.\"\n\n\"GB would continue to be decreed a 'third country' vis-a-vis Northern Ireland's trade,\" he said, adding that this \"can never be acceptable\".\n\nThe CBI said it is now time for both sides to find a long-term solution that protects NI-GB trade\n\nThe Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said both the UK and EU had listened to businesses and are aware of the technical solutions needed to protect trade between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.\n\n\"Both sides must now grasp this opportunity to get back round the table - and agree sustainable long-term solutions that work for businesses and communities in Northern Ireland,\" CBI Europe Director Sean McGuire said.\n\nThe NIRC said the proposals must provide \"stability, certainty, simplicity and affordability\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland Retail Consortium (NIRC) has welcomed \"signs of movement from both sides\".\n\nHowever, a spokesperson said if the proposals are to work they must provide \"stability, certainty, simplicity and affordability\" to Northern Ireland's business community.\n\nThey said the NIRC will \"reserve judgement\" on whether these requirements have been met \"until both legal and technical texts have been seen\".\n\n\"As an umbrella group for business, we will have meetings with both the UK Government and the European Commission to discuss these proposals in full and we look forward to understanding how they would keep NI business competitive and ensure choice and affordability for consumers,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nNI businesses would like to see new trade arrangements in place by the end of the year, the FSB says\n\nThe FSB in NI's Roger Pollen said there is now an onus on both sides to negotiate a new trade solution relatively quickly.\n\n\"In terms of the timescale as to when we need to get this sorted, yesterday would have been very nice,\" he said\n\nMr Pollen said under current arrangements many businesses in Northern Ireland are faced with \"vast amounts of bureaucracy\" when bringing goods across from GB.\n\nShould new arrangements be agreed by the UK and EU before Christmas, \"businesses would heave a fairly big sigh of relief\".\n\nLogistics UK have 18,000 members across the UK\n\nSeamus Leheny, a representative of trade body Logistics UK, said companies across the UK are not concerned about the European Court of Justice's (ECJ) role in the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThe UK Government has demanded that the ECJ is removed from its role in the protocol as the arbitrator of trade disputes.\n\nBut Logistics UK policy manager Mr Leheny told BBC News: \"We have got 18,000 members across the UK and we haven't had any representation from any member regarding the ECJ.\n\n\"What people want is solutions to the protocol, they want the protocol to work and that is what we are interested in.\"\n\nHe added: \"What people are looking for, we are in solution mode here, and the logistics industry, we are solution seekers. We want to get these fixes that the EU have proposed.\n\n\"We need to see the legal text obviously to make sure the safeguards are there but people just want to build on this because they see the best way for peace in Northern Ireland is improve people's prospects and livelihoods. That's when I speak to businesses, that's what they want.\"\n\nMairead McGuinness said a deal before Christmas would be \"very desirable\"\n\nEuropean Commissioner and former MEP Mairead McGuinness said the offer was a \"significant step forward\" by the EU and a \"huge opportunity\" for people in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Of course there will be difficult issues and there will be a lot of debate and commentary around this,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"However, I do believe that the idea of getting this resolved by Christmas is attainable and it would be very desirable.\"\n\nBaroness Chapman said Labour would not get rid of the NI Protocol\n\nThe Shadow Minister for Task Force Europe Baroness Jenny Chapman said that \"today could be a day where we take a step forward\" in the process to achieve stability to people in NI and across the UK.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Baroness Chapman said the Labour Party would not get rid of the protocol entirely, but would instead look at the proposals \"in good faith\" and talk to businesses, leaders and elected politicians in Northern Ireland to see if they were sufficient.\n\n\"What isn't the right way is to be antagonistic and pick a fight,\" she added.", "The World Health Organization (WHO) has put forward a list of 26 experts to advise on high-threat pathogens that could jump from animals to humans, sparking the next pandemic.\n\nSeveral of those named served on the WHO mission to Wuhan, China, to try to find out how coronavirus started.\n\nThe WHO made a public call for experts to join the new Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (Sago) last August. There will now be a two-week period of public consultation before the members are confirmed.\n\nDr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO director general, says that while Covid-19 is \"the latest such virus, it will not be the last”.\n\n“Understanding where new pathogens come from is essential for preventing future outbreaks with epidemic and pandemic potential, and requires a broad range of expertise,\" he adds.\n\nSelected from over 700 applications, the 26 proposed Sago members have expertise in areas ranging from epidemiology to biosecurity and public health.\n\nThey reflect “geographic and gender diversity”, says the WHO.", "Care supervisor Charlotte Backhouse supports an elderly client in her own home\n\nShortages of care staff, who support older or disabled people in the community, are causing major problems for hospitals, the BBC has learned.\n\nNHS chief executives say rising numbers of patients are stuck in hospitals in England due to a lack of care staff.\n\nThe situation is \"dire\", according to NHS Providers, which represents health service trusts.\n\nThe government says extra funding and a regular recruitment drive will help boost the care workforce.\n\nCare companies are facing acute problems in recruiting and retaining staff, according to a report which suggests there are now more unfilled care jobs than before the pandemic.\n\nThe annual Skills for Care workforce report is based on data provided by a representative sample of employers of England's 1.54 million care workers.\n\nThe researchers calculate that employers were failing to fill 8% of posts before the pandemic.\n\nFigures obtained since suggest this had fallen to below 6% by June 2020 - but by August this year the trend had reversed with 8.2% of care sector roles unfilled.\n\nThis amounts to more than 100,000 posts with no-one to fill them, says Skills for Care.\n\nIncreasingly, care companies are forced to turn down work supporting patients as they move from hospital back to their own homes or care homes.\n\nThose patients have to stay in hospital longer, putting more pressure on an NHS already struggling with Covid-19 and the waiting list backlog.\n\n\"We've just tipped over the point where delayed discharges are a bigger problem than Covid,\" said one hospital boss who asked not to be named.\n\n\"Roughly 100 beds blocked and domiciliary care providers are handing dozens of [patient care] packages back to the council as they don't have staff to deliver them,\" said another.\n\nA third manager had 140 patients ready to leave hospital, but the carer shortage meant \"patients are dying in hospital when their choice was home, a hospice or nursing home\".\n\nThe anonymous comments from more than 20 hospital bosses were gathered by NHS Providers, in response to a BBC request for information.\n\nThe organisation's deputy chief executive, Saffron Cordery, said the delays are particularly worrying as winter is about to put extra pressure on services.\n\nNot being able to leave hospital when they are ready can delay a patient's recovery and rehabilitation, said Ms Cordery, while those waiting for treatment face backlogs.\n\n\"It's vital that government delivers its commitment to place vital social care services onto a sustainable footing.\"\n\nShe also highlighted the need for \"crucially - a sustainable workforce, properly valued and respected for this vitally important work\".\n\nCare companies say the main factors making it hard to find and keep staff are:\n\nCare manager Tracey Hobson says recruitment agencies are bombarding her with job offers\n\nIn Sheffield, Tracey Hobson, a clinical manager at Northfield Nursing Home, says: \"Recruitment is an absolute nightmare\".\n\n\"You wake up in the morning and you're thinking, you know, I'm not going to be able to ensure that these people get the care that they deserve, and have enough staff to do it.\"\n\nTracey says the sector faces a national staff shortage. She personally receives about 20 messages each day from recruitment agencies, desperate to hire her.\n\n\"You know, I've got a job. I'm looking after people to the best of my ability.\"\n\nIn Buckinghamshire, Dr Kris Owden runs Caremark Aylesbury and is also a doctor who worked on hospital wards during the pandemic.\n\nThe firm pays relatively well and has managed to recruit enough new staff to replace most of those leaving but Dr Owden says they are still overstretched and have to refuse up to eight new people needing care each day.\n\nDr Kris Owden worries about the effect of care worker shortages on the NHS\n\n\"For us to be in this position before the winter, before the Christmas period is terrifying,\" he said.\n\nHe says a properly resourced care system would take pressure off the NHS and wants to see carers paid better, with a proper career structure and recognition of their skills.\n\nAmong his senior staff, supervisor Charlotte Backhouse and manager Vicky Hartgill - who are both normally office-based - are having to step in and do front-line work.\n\nOn top of her regular job, Vicky worked through the weekend and on Monday had an 05:00 start. Although she loves seeing clients, she says she is \"shattered\".\n\nCharlotte Backhouse and her colleague Vicky Hartgill (l) are having to do extra work\n\nShe added: \"We need to be able to recruit, we need to be able to recruit in a safe way and just have a bigger workforce.\n\n\"We do have to pick up the phone and change times. We do have to be creative with the care that we provide - and until we can get some more people through the door to support us, that's the way things will have to stay.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"We appreciate the dedication and tireless efforts of care workers throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.\n\n\"We are providing at least £500m to support the care workforce as part of the £5.4bn to reform social care.\n\n\"We are also working to ensure we have the right number of staff with the skills to deliver high quality care to meet increasing demands.\n\n\"This includes running regular national recruitment campaigns and providing councils with over £1bn of additional funding for social care this year.\"", "Police were called to the scene at Quarry Road, Knockloughrim, at 05:40 BST on Tuesday\n\nA murder investigation is under way after a woman was found in a burning car in Knockloughrim, County Londonderry.\n\nPolice were called to a house at Quarry Road after a car was reported on fire at 05:40 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThe woman, who was in her 50s, died in hospital on Tuesday evening.\n\nA 59-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder. He was also taken to hospital for treatment for burn injuries.\n\nDUP assembly member for the area Keith Buchanan said Knockloughrim was a \"very, very small idyllic place and this sort of thing does not happen.\n\n\"So there's a severe sense of shock in that small rural place - everybody knows everybody else.\"\n\nSinn Féin MLA Emma Sheerin urged anyone with information to contact the police.", "The Covid-19 pandemic has made celebrities out of scientists, who have graced the daily news headlines and gained large social-media followings.\n\nBut this rise in prominence has come with online abuse and even physical harassment.\n\nThe journal Nature surveyed scientists, who described receiving threats of violence after media appearances.\n\nDiscussions about vaccines or the drug ivermectin were common triggers for harassment.\n\nIn the past, scientists have faced abuse when discussing climate change or previous vaccination campaigns.\n\nThe self-selecting survey of 321 people working in fields relevant to Covid found more than a fifth had received threats of physical or sexual violence.\n\nWhile this is not representative of all scientists and cannot accurately reveal the scale of abuse, it provides a glimpse into some of the personal experiences of those who came into the public eye to give information during the global disease outbreak.\n\nSix people who responded to the questionnaire said they had been physically attacked following media appearances.\n\nSome of the more extreme cases have been widely reported. Leading Belgian virologist Prof Marc Van Ranst ended up in a safehouse after being targeted by a far-right trained sniper (since found dead) who despised lockdowns and threatened to kill health professionals.\n\nThe UK’s chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, was assaulted in a park by a 24-year-old estate agent, while two prominent German scientists were posted bottles of clear liquid labelled \"positive\" and a note telling them to drink it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS infectious-diseases doctor Krutika Kuppalli, who gave national media interviews and testified to a congressional committee, told Nature she had received a death threat via a phone call to her home.\n\nAustralian virologist Danielle Anderson, who worked at the Wuhan Institute for Virology and was critical of the theory it might be where the virus had escaped from, received an email telling her to \"eat a bat and die\".\n\nProf Andrew Hill wrote a positive review of anti-parasite drug ivermectin for treating Covid but reversed his stance once he discovered data he had been basing his conclusions on was untrustworthy.\n\nCurrent available evidence suggests ivermectin is unlikely to be very effective for Covid - but Prof Hill has received a barrage of abuse, including accusing him of genocide, which has driven him off social media.\n\n\"I was sent images of Nazi war criminals hanging from lampposts, voodoo images of swinging coffins, threats that my family were not safe, that we would all burn in hell,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"This was happening most days - I opened my laptop in the morning to be confronted with a sea of hate and disturbing threats.\n\n\"There were also threats to my scientific reputation on email.\n\n\"I know many other scientists who have been threatened and abused in similar ways after promoting vaccination or questioning the benefits of unproven treatments like ivermectin.\"\n\nUniversity of Southampton senior research fellow in global health Dr Michael Head said there had been \"a huge amount of abuse aimed at everyone contributing to the pandemic response... includ[ing] NHS front-line staff\".\n\nUniversity College London behavioural scientist Prof Susan Michie said \"disturbing\" online abuse would happen \"most intensively after media engagements and especially after those that address restrictions to social mixing ,the wearing of face masks or vaccination\".\n\nOther scientists surveyed mentioned emails being sent to their employers or their professional reputations being challenged.\n\nBut of those being harassed on their own social media, almost half said they did not tell their employer.\n\nThe Nature survey also found those targeted with the most frequent harassment were most likely to say it had affected their willingness to give media interviews in the future.\n\nFiona Fox, chief executive of the UK Science Media Centre, which provides scientific comment and briefings to journalists, said it was a \"great loss if a scientist who was engaging with the media, sharing their expertise, is taken out of a public debate at a time when we've never needed them so badly\".", "A review of the work of a former locum consultant radiologist in the Northern Trust has identified major discrepancies in 66 images.\n\nThe trust has concluded a review of 13,030 scans and x-rays.\n\nThe review was launched in June after the General Medical Council raised concerns about the locum consultant radiologist's work.\n\nThe highest level of hospital investigation will be carried out into the cases of 17 patients.\n\nThe doctor worked at hospitals run by the Northern Health Trust between July 2019 and February 2020.\n\nMore than 9,000 patients were contacted as part of the review.\n\nThe trust's medical director, Dr Seamus O'Reilly, has said that of the 17 patients, 10 have died since their images were taken.\n\n\"I think it's important to say that patients die for a variety of reasons and it would be entirely wrong at this time to link those deaths to the inaccurate image reporting,\" he said.\n\n\"It is a possibility and the SAI will look very closely at that.\"\n\nThe review identified six images at level one - a major discrepancy where errors or omissions in reporting could have had an immediate and significant clinical impact for the patients concerned.\n\nA further 60 images were level two - a major discrepancy with a probable clinical impact.\n\n\"Most of the images categorised as having Level 1 and Level 2 discrepancies are CT scans but some are MRI scans, chest x-rays and other x-rays,\" said Dr O'Reilly.\n\nHe said images where concerns were classed as level one and level two were reviewed on a weekly basis by a group of experts.\n\nThey also considered some images categorised as level three, where a clinical impact is unlikely.\n\n\"That detailed clinical assessment, which has resulted in 69 patients being called back, was to determine whether any clinical harm occurred as a result of the discrepancies found in the lookback review,\" said Dr O'Reilly.\n\n\"I can confirm that following careful consideration, the clinical assessment group has determined that 17 patients should now be part of a Level 3 Serious Adverse Incident (SAI) review.\"\n\nDr O'Reilly said an independent panel will provide individual case reports for each patient determined to be an SAI, explaining what happened, why it happened, and how this may have had an impact on the patient/relative and if the patient's outcome would have been different had the discrepancy not occurred.\n\nHe added that the panel is expected to make recommendations on how radiology reporting processes may be strengthened to minimise the possibility of similar adverse events occurring in the future.\n\nThe trust said it will now contact affected patients and families to inform them of the pending SAI review and to seek their participation throughout the process.", "Life expectancy has increased in some parts of London, but has fallen elsewhere\n\nMany areas in the north of England have seen life expectancy fall within the last decade, a new study suggests.\n\nDifferences across England have now become stark, say researchers - such as a 27-year gap in life expectancy for a man living in Kensington and Chelsea, compared with Blackpool.\n\nAlthough Covid caused life expectancy to drop, this research suggests it was already in decline in many areas.\n\nResearchers described the trend as \"alarming\".\n\n\"There has always been an impression in the UK that everyone's health is improving, even if not at the same pace,\" said Prof Majid Ezzati from Imperial College London which carried out the study.\n\n\"These data show that longevity has been getting worse for years in large parts of England.\"\n\nThe study, which has been published in The Lancet Public Health journal, analysed all deaths in England between 2002 and 2019. It then worked out the life expectancy for different communities, based on the death records in those places.\n\nIt found that while life expectancy rose in most places during the first decade of the millennium, from 2010 it began to decline in some places.\n\nAreas in London and the home counties still continued on the path of living longer - but life expectancy fell in some urban parts of Leeds, Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool and Blackpool where life expectancy was below 70 for men and 75 for women.\n\nBy 2019, the researchers say there was a 20-year gap in life expectancy between a woman living in Camden (95.4 years) versus a woman living in one area of Leeds (74.7 years).\n\nAnd for men, there was a 27-year gap in life expectancy between areas in Kensington and Chelsea (95.3 years) and parts of Blackpool (68.3 years)\n\nAverage life expectancy in the UK is 79 years for men and just below 83 years for women, according to estimates from the Office for National Statistics.\n\n\"Declines in life expectancy used to be rare in wealthy countries like the UK, and happened when there were major adversities like wars and pandemics,\" said Prof Ezzati.\n\n\"For such declines to be seen in 'normal times' before the pandemic is alarming,\" he said - and he called for action to be taken.\n\nThe researchers say the differences are down to poverty, insecure employment as well as reductions in welfare support and healthcare.\n\nThey are calling on the government to increase investments in public health in areas with lower life expectancy.\n\nThe government has previously pledged to tackle regional inequalities in health as part of its \"levelling-up\" agenda.\n\nIn a speech earlier this year, Boris Johnson addressed the differences in life expectancy, and called it an \"an outrage\".", "A domestic abuse charity has called for an amendment to a new policing bill to recognise the seriousness of violence against women and girls.\n\nRefuge wants sexual violence, domestic homicide and domestic abuse specifically named as crimes that police and other public bodies must develop strategies to prevent.\n\nIt wants the bill's \"serious violence duty\" to include those crimes.\n\nThe Home Office said protecting women and girls was its top priority.\n\nA spokesman said it would consider any amendments to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill - which is currently going through Parliament - as they are raised.\n\nRefuge launched its campaign for the amendment with an event at New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police.\n\nIt brought 16 silhouettes to represent the 16 women said by the Femicide Census to have been killed by former and serving police officers since 2009.\n\nThe charity unveiled its campaign for the amendment with 16 silhouettes for the 16 women it says were killed by former and serving police officers since 2009\n\nIt comes days after Home Secretary Priti Patel said there would be an inquiry into the \"systematic failures\" that allowed Wayne Couzens to continue to be a police officer, despite concerns over his behaviour.\n\nCouzens was sentenced to a whole-life prison term earlier this week after he kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard while he was a serving officer, using his police warrant card.\n\nThe case has reignited debate over women's safety and further scrutiny of policing of crimes against them.\n\nSpeaking at the event, the charity's chief executive Ruth Davison said there was an \"enormous opportunity\" for the home secretary to bring about real change for women and girls by amending the policing bill.\n\nMaking sexual violence, domestic homicide and domestic abuse part of the serious violence duty would give police and other bodies \"the ability to act differently\" to address these crimes, she added.\n\nThe duty requires police, councils, criminal justice and health agencies to work together to prevent and tackle serious violence.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"As Refuge, we've been working on the frontlines of violence against women and girls for years, so we have known it's an epidemic, but it's been hidden behind closed doors.\n\n\"We're saying today enough is enough. These are the words of our own home secretary who said she's going to do everything in her power to end this epidemic.\n\n\"We say these words are really encouraging but they're not enough, what we need now is action.\"\n\nLabour peer Baroness Helena Kennedy QC and the comedian Jo Brand attended the event at New Scotland Yard\n\nBaroness Kennedy, a patron of Refuge, said she intended to table an amendment to the bill in the House of Lords, adding such a change was needed to put violence against women and girls \"at the top level of the commitments and priorities of policing in Britain\".\n\nComedian Jo Brand, who is an ambassador for the charity, called on police to take more seriously the \"hidden epidemic of domestic violence\".\n\nCampaigners say misogyny - prejudice against women - is one of the \"root causes\" of violence against women and have called for it to be made a hate crime in England and Wales.\n\nBut earlier this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he did not support calls to make misogyny a hate crime, insisting there was \"abundant\" existing legislation to tackle violence against women.\n\nIn July, the government unveiled its strategy for tackling violence against women and girls - with measures such as a 24-hour rape and sexual assault helpline, £5m of funding to tackle violence in public places at night, and an online tool on which women and girls can log areas where they have felt unsafe.\n\nIt also saw Deputy Chief Constable Maggie Blyth appointed to the role of a new national policing lead for tackling violence against women and girls.\n\nA Home Office spokesman added: \"Protecting women and girls from violence and abuse is a top priority for this government.\n\n\"That is why the violence against women and girls strategy...sets out the government's ambition to increase support for survivors, bring perpetrators to justice, and, ultimately, reduce the prevalence of violence against women and girls.\"", "Andrew RT Davies took over as leader of the Welsh Conservatives for the second time in January\n\nOne of Wales' most senior Tories is taking a break from front-line politics to deal with mental health issues.\n\nWelsh Conservative Senedd group leader Andrew RT Davies said suffering from flu and Covid \"had an impact on my mental well-being\".\n\nHe said he wanted to be \"open and honest\" about the matter as \"I know many people have struggled, and will do, with their mental health\".\n\nFormer leader Paul Davies will deputise in Mr Davies's absence.\n\n\"Like many men, I've always believed I had a shield of invincibility and like many who have struggled, I've contemplated whether I should make this public,\" Andrew RT Davies said in a statement.\n\n\"However, as a leader, I believe you should set an example and I want to be open and honest - in the good times and the bad - as I know many people have struggled and will do with their mental health.\"\n\nThe statement prompted warm messages of support from party colleagues and political opponents alike, with Paul Davies tweeting: \"Wishing you all the best for a speedy recovery. Get well soon!\"\n\nFirst Minister and Welsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford said: \"I wish Andrew RT Davies all the best for a full and speedy recovery, and thank him for his openness.\n\n\"It's so important we reach out for support when we need it - I hope others are able to follow your example and do the same. There's always room for more kindness in our lives.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"We heard powerful personal accounts of mental health struggles in the Senedd yesterday.\n\n\"Speaking out is brave and should be applauded. My best wishes to you, Andrew.\"\n\nAndrew RT Davies campaigned with Boris Johnson in 2016 when the prime minister was Mayor of London\n\nWelsh Parliament Presiding Officer Elin Jones urged him to \"take your time to get better, that's your priority for now.\n\n\"You'll be missed in your absence by all sides in the Senedd and we'll be glad to see you back and well,\" she added.\n\nIn her message, Tory Member of the Senedd (MS) Janet Finch-Saunders said: \"Hope to see you fully recovered and back when you are good and ready Andrew.\"\n\nSouth Wales Central MS Andrew RT Davies, first elected to Cardiff Bay in 2007, returned as the leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Welsh Parliament for a second time in January.\n\nHe took over from Paul Davies, who resigned from his post after drinking with other politicians in the Senedd, four days into a Wales-wide alcohol ban in licensed premises.", "Brighton and Hove Albion FC said it was helping police with the investigation\n\nA Premier League footballer who was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman has been bailed.\n\nThe Brighton and Hove Albion player, in his 20s, was held at a nightclub in Brighton early on Wednesday.\n\nOn Thursday morning he was released on conditional bail until 3 November while inquiries continue.\n\nA man in his 40s was also questioned and bailed to the same date, Sussex Police said. The woman is receiving specialist support from officers.\n\nBrighton and Hove Albion FC said it was helping police with the investigation.\n\n\"The matter is subject to a legal process and the club is therefore unable to make further comment at this time,\" it added.\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.", "Stirling in Scotland is among the eight longlisted locations (Stirling Castle pictured)\n\nBradford, Stirling, County Durham and Wrexham are among the places in the running for the title of the UK's City of Culture 2025.\n\nThe longlist, unveiled by new Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, also includes Cornwall, Southampton, Derby and Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon.\n\nThe winning city, which will succeed Coventry, will be announced in spring next year.\n\nFor the first time, each listee will receive £40,000 worth of investment.\n\nThey will all work with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to finalise their bids before the shortlist is announced early next year.\n\n\"Winning the UK City of Culture competition has a hugely positive impact on an area, driving investment, creating jobs, and highlighting that culture is for everyone, regardless of their background,\" said Ms Dorries in a statement on Friday.\n\n\"This year's focus is on levelling up access to culture across the country and making sure there is a legacy that continues for generations to come.\"\n\nShe added: \"I look forward to seeing what this brilliant longlist has in store as they continue in the competition.\"\n\nMore places than ever before put in bids to become the next UK City of Culture. An initial list of 20 places was whittled down to eight potential winners by an independent advisory panel.\n\nAll bidders were asked to explain how they would use culture to grow and strengthen their local area, and how they would use it to recover from the impact of Covid.\n\nAs well as Coventry, other previous winners have included Hull and Londonderry.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Scott Morrison (right) did not warn Emmanuel Macron of Australia's plans during a meeting in June\n\nFrance will send its ambassador back to Australia to \"redefine\" relations, after Canberra reneged on a deal to buy French submarines and sparked a row.\n\nLast month, Australia formed the Aukus security pact with the US and the UK - aimed at maintaining Western influence in the Asia-Pacific.\n\nThat saw Australia end a $65bn (£48bn) deal with France to instead access US nuclear-powered submarine technology.\n\nParis called the deal a \"stab in the back\".\n\nSoon after the shock announcement, France recalled its ambassadors from Canberra and Washington DC in protest.\n\nBut while it has sought to mend the rift with the US, France has continued to freeze out Australia.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said French President Emmanuel Macron has refused to take his calls. Australia's trade minister has also been shunned by his French counterpart.\n\nLast week, negotiations over an Australia-EU trade deal were also pushed back, in what was widely interpreted as a result of the row.\n\nFrench officials have said they were blindsided by Canberra, which had maintained talks about the French submarines while working to secure an alternative deal.\n\nFrance's contract to build a fleet of conventionally powered submarines for Australia, dating to 2016, was to be a key part of France's regional engagement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Australia’s ‘risky bet’ to side with US over China\n\nForeign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Wednesday that while his country would \"start afresh\" with Australian relations, it would \"not have an impact in our determination to remain engaged in the Pacific\".\n\nThe returning ambassador to Australia would also \"defend our interests\" over the scrapped submarine contract.\n\nCanberra has already spent over $900m on the French programme and is expected to pay a minimum $288m exit fee for breaking the contract.\n\nAustralia has said it understands France's \"deep disappointment\".\n\n\"Australia values its relationship with France, which is an important partner and a vital contributor to stability, particularly in the Indo-Pacific. This will not change,\" Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said last month.\n\nAukus is widely seen as a response to the growing power of China.", "Minogue said she \"couldn't believe\" the public reaction to the news\n\nSinger Kylie Minogue has confirmed she is moving back to Australia after 30 years of living in the UK.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 2's Zoe Ball she \"couldn't believe\" the public reaction to the news.\n\nBut Minogue said she will \"always\" want to regularly visit the UK after she moves back to the country of her birth.\n\nShe said: \"I've had friends call me, my friend at my local restaurant was like: 'Kylie, what do you mean? You can't go'.\"\n\n\"I said: 'I'm not really going. I've lived here for 30 years, I'm always going to be back.\"'\n\nThe 53-year-old said she does not think \"too much will change\" after her move as she will come back often.\n\n\"I can't not be here, are you kidding?\" she said. \"I have spent a lot of time with my family this year in Australia and it felt really good and I have been talking about that for a while. Don't worry, I will not be a stranger.\"\n\nMinogue's new single is a collaboration with Years & Years singer Olly Alexander\n\nMinogue also discussed the possibility of going on tour again. \"I'm dreaming of doing dates,\" she told the Radio 2 breakfast show host.\n\n\"We are inching closer to being able to do something like that. Patience. I can't wait.\"\n\nMinogue added: \"Keep your disco outfit not too far away. Not at the back of the cupboard.\"\n\nThe singer's new single A Second To Midnight, is a collaboration with Years & Years star Olly Alexander, who recently starred in Channel 4 drama It's a Sin.\n\n\"We shot the video a couple of weeks ago, which was super fun and I just can't wait for people to hear this,\" she said. \"[Alexander is] so sweet and gorgeous\".\n\nMinogue, who shot to fame after appearing in soap opera Neighbours, has had a hugely successful pop career with hits including Love At First Sight, Can't Get You Out of My Head, Slow, I Should Be So Lucky and Spinning Around.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Firms and business groups have criticised the government for what they see as a lack of action to help fix supply chain shortages.\n\nDuring his speech at the Conservative Party, Boris Johnson said a high-wage, high-skilled economy was being created in the wake of Brexit and the pandemic.\n\nBut one business group said firms had been \"left wanting\" on details of a clear plan.\n\nRetailer Iceland said it was \"not helpful\" to make firms the bogeymen.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, Iceland's managing director, Richard Walker, said ambitions on wages \"need to be backed up by action\" to help firms with wider cost increases.\n\n\"It's inevitable that we will see price rises... our margins are very tight and we're not just an endless sponge.\n\n\"Pointing the finger and choosing us as the bogeymen for issues such as HGV driver shortages... is simply not helpful.\"\n\nResponding to Mr Johnson's conference speech, Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) national chair Mike Cherry said that the prime minister's vision did not \"match the current lived realities of small businesses and sole traders\".\n\nMr Cherry said that \"ambitious\" policies to drive growth and reduce tax at the autumn Budget were needed.\n\nSmall firms who face supply chain disruptions, staff shortages and business taxes, Mr Cherry said, had been hoping to hear a \"practical, clear action plan\" from the government, but \"been left wanting\".\n\n\"You have to start with reducing upfront business taxes and costs to unlock investment in training, recruitment and innovation. If you think that process works in reverse, you're putting the cart before the horse\", Mr Cherry added.\n\nShevaun Haviland, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, agreed that what businesses \"urgently\" needed were answers to the problems they are facing \"in the here and now\".\n\n\"The economic recovery is on shaky ground and if it stalls then the private sector investment and tax revenues that the prime minister wants to fuel his vision will be in short supply.\"\n\nAddressing the issue of staff shortages, Ms Haviland said firms \"need much more flexibility\" for people to access training and qualifications.\n\nTony Danker, the head of the CBI business lobby group, said that while the prime minister set out a \"compelling vision\" for the country's economic future, \"ambition\" on wages \"without action on investment and productivity is ultimately just a pathway for higher prices\".\n\nHe added that at a \"fragile moment\" for the economy, companies need \"action on skills, on investment and on productivity\".\n\n\"It's time to get around the table, roll up our sleeves and get things done.\"\n\nBoris Johnson's alleged four-lettered response to those businesses which had concerns about his plans for Brexit is pretty infamous.\n\nHis Conservative Party conference speech was much longer (and expletive-free) but it seems that for some business leaders, it amounted to the same message.\n\nStrikingly, bosses who backed Brexit are now among those most loudly criticising the PM's approach.\n\nMr Johnson is a politician who really doesn't mind ruffling feathers and clearly believes he has the voters on his side.\n\nIt is a risky strategy though for a party which sees itself as the natural home for enterprise and for a government which is likely need private business on side to deliver much of the change it is promising.", "Council tax in England could rise by as much as £220 per year within three years, researchers have said.\n\nThis is to keep local services running and help pay for social care reforms, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) think tank said.\n\nIt comes amid warnings that councils continue to face severe funding pressures due to the pandemic and must find new sources of income.\n\nThe government said it had given them £12bn since the start of the crisis.\n\nUnder current government spending plans, council tax bills will need to rise by at least 3.6% a year just to keep services running at pre-pandemic levels, the IFS said.\n\nThat would mean bills would have to rise by £160 by 2024-25, it said.\n\nBut extra cost pressures that eat into central government grants could easily push up council tax by 5% a year, or £220 by 2024-25, it said.\n\nIn addition, the government's plans for social care, which include capping costs, won't be completely paid for by a planned rise in National Insurance contributions, the IFS said.\n\nThe plans are likely to cost £5bn per year eventually, it said, nearly three times the funding currently allocated.\n\nThe government has made much of the idea that after decades of governments neglecting the increasingly pressing issue of underfunded social care, this was a nettle it was determined to grasp.\n\nWhat's concerning in the IFS report is who might get stung.\n\nA large part of the goal of the social care reforms was to address unfairness in the means-testing system.\n\nBut the IFS report highlights the risk that, without further funding, it could create new unfairness elsewhere.\n\nTo extend publicly-funded care to those who've spent £86,000 of their own money on fees will cost extra, and local authorities may only be able to recoup that by tightening eligibility criteria - so many poorer people lose access.\n\nSecond, the way the funds are allocated to local authorities dates back to 2013.\n\nBecause some areas like Blackpool have seen their populations fall, but others, like Tower Hamlets have seen them jump since then, the risk is that the money won't go where it needs to.\n\nIFS research economist Kate Ogden said: \"The government has stepped up with billions in additional funding for councils to support them through the last 18 months.\n\n\"It is likely to have to find billions more for councils over the next couple of years if they are to avoid cutting back on services, even if they increase council tax by 4% a year or more.\"\n\nShe said that the coming financial year is \"likely to be especially tough\", with ongoing Covid-19-related pressures and squeezes on budgets\n\nShe added that the local government funding system was \"hopelessly out of date\", being based on 2013 population levels, leading to \"unfairness\" in the distribution of resources between councils.\n\nCouncil tax goes towards funding local services such as policing, the fire service and street cleaning. The funding is topped up with grants from central government and business taxes.\n\nHowever, these central government grants were slashed between 2009-10 and 2019-20, especially in areas such as public transport, housing and planning.\n\nThe Local Government Association said councils \"continue to face severe funding and demand pressures that will stretch the local services our communities rely on to the limit\".\n\n\"The significant financial pressures facing local services cannot be met by council tax income alone,\" said LGA chairman James Jamieson. \"Councils are particularly alarmed that the government's solution for tackling social care's core existing pressures appears to be solely through the use of council tax, and the social care precept.\"\n\nMr Jamieson called for local services to be \"the top priority\" in the upcoming Spending Review.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The government has allocated more than £12bn directly to councils since the start of the pandemic - with more than £6bn available to spend as they see fit - recognising that councils are best placed to deal with local issues.\n\n\"We have also taken historic action to fix the social care crisis - the Health and Social Care Levy will raise £12bn a year to fund the NHS and social care.\n\n\"The Spending Review will continue to focus on supporting jobs and delivering the public's key priorities.\"", "Children were among the injured in the earthquake in Balochistan\n\nA powerful earthquake has hit Pakistan's south-western Balochistan province, officials say, killing about 20 people.\n\nThe shallow 5.9-magnitude quake shook sleeping residents at around 03:00 local time (22:00 GMT Wednesday), bringing down dozens of mud houses.\n\nScores of people were injured, most of them in Harnai district, east of the provincial capital, Quetta.\n\nPM Imran Khan has sent condolences and offered aid and compensation.\n\nA number of the dead were reportedly women and children.\n\nThe US Geological Survey said the quake had struck at a shallow depth of 9km, making it potentially more damaging.\n\nRescue operations are under way, and local media reported that military doctors and paramedics had reached the worst-hit areas.\n\nMuch of the damage appears to have affected Harnai district, which is about 100km (60 miles) east of Quetta.\n\nHarnai farmer Rafiullah told Agence France-Presse the quake had knocked him unconscious.\n\n\"When I regained consciousness, I pulled out two of my sons,\" he said, but his youngest boy, aged about one, had been struck by a wooden beam and had died.\n\nThe area also has a large number of coal mines which are vulnerable to collapse and there are reports at least one was badly affected.\n\nLocal officials told BBC Urdu that about 150 people were thought to have been injured, with some rushed to hospital in Quetta in critical condition by army helicopters.\n\nInjured people in Quetta are taken for treatment\n\nOthers were treated on stretchers by medics using phones as torches, Reuters reported.\n\nHundreds of people have been left homeless following the collapse of the mud houses.\n\nVillager Rahamatullah told AFP an aftershock struck around two hours after the main quake and \"nobody dared to go inside his home... people stayed out of their house for the rest of the night\".\n\nZaman Shah said: \"I am 65 years old, but I haven't experienced this kind of a jolt before. It was so destructive, everyone ran out of their houses praying to God.\"\n\nSending his condolences via Twitter, Mr Khan said he had ordered immediate emergency assistance and would provide \"timely relief and compensation\".\n\nFunerals were already taking place on Thursday in small mountain villages and it is unclear if the death toll could rise further.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Malik Ali Raza This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Livestreaming site Twitch says an \"error\" caused the unprecedented leak that posted vast amounts of sensitive data online this week.\n\nThe data appeared to include Twitch's internal code and documents, as well as the payments made to thousands of top streamers.\n\nTwitch now says the breach was caused by a \"server configuration change\" that \"exposed\" some data.\n\nBut it has not confirmed if all the data posted online is genuine.\n\nThe Amazon-owned company said the breach had involved \"a Twitch server configuration change that was subsequently accessed by a malicious third party\".\n\n\"As the investigation is ongoing, we are still in the process of understanding the impact in detail,\" it said.\n\nBut as Twitch streamers and viewers alike scrambled to change passwords, the company also said it:\n\nTwitch's short statement shows the company is in full crisis mode.\n\nInformation-technology (IT) teams and security experts are still trying to understand just how bad the data leak is.\n\nThe explanation for the hack is there was some sort of human error with a \"server configuration\".\n\nIn other words, someone set up the computers that store Twitch's private data incorrectly, making it findable and downloadable to hackers.\n\nWhat the company has not said is when this mistake was made.\n\nSome of the stolen data goes back three years, so there is a chance the servers could have been sitting ducks for some time - or the mistake could have left the door open for only a few days or weeks.\n\nHackers are always searching and scanning for open databases online - or it is even possible someone may have tipped off hackers about the internal IT blunder.\n\nBut making these sorts of mistakes is costly - particularly when you are a target as big as Twitch.\n\nWednesday's leak took the form of a torrent file posted to online forums by an anonymous user.\n\nIts file structure contains folders labelled as containing payout information, business documents, under-the-hood software files and code, and even details of unreleased projects.\n\nAnd the payouts folder contains what appear to be records of payments made to thousands of the biggest streamers on the platform over two years - showing many of the biggest brands are earning millions of dollars.\n\nSeveral streamers told BBC News the payment data was accurate for their own earnings.\n\nAnd that poses problems for the company.\n\n\"A lot more damage is now in store for Twitch,\" Candid Wuest from cyber-security company Acronis, said.\n\n\"The breach is already harming Twitch on all the fronts that count.\"\n\nThe leaked data \"could contain nearly the full digital footprint of Twitch, making it one of the most severe data breaches of late\", he said.\n\n\"Releasing payout reports for streaming clients will not make the influencers happy either,\" Mr Wuest added.\n\nThe download released online is also labelled \"part one\" - suggesting there may be more material yet to be posted to the internet.", "Scotland is facing a \"student housing emergency\" driven by a shortage of available accommodation and soaring rents.\n\nNUS Scotland has warned unprecedented demand has left some homeless and others considering dropping out.\n\nAnecdotal evidence suggests some landlords are asking for six months' rent upfront while others are holding off to make a profit from COP26.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was concerned by the reports.\n\nA spokesman also confirmed it was carrying out a review of purpose-built student accommodation.\n\nStudents returned to campuses across the country last month after a year in which many subjects were taught entirely online due to the pandemic.\n\nKyle MacKinnon has been struggling to find a new property with his old flatmate since he returned to Edinburgh from Harris last month.\n\nThe final year student at Edinburgh Napier University told BBC Scotland: \"So far it has been an absolute nightmare.\n\n\"There has been very few people getting back to us and even fewer viewings.\"\n\nKyle MacKinnon is in the final year of his degree course at Napier University in Edinburgh\n\nMr MacKinnon said when he does get a reply it is to inform him viewings are fully booked or the property is no longer available.\n\nAsked about his current situation, he said: \"Right now I am on my friend's sofa in the west end of Edinburgh.\n\n\"It is a nice area but not very comfortable and not very good for the long term for studying.\"\n\nMr MacKinnon said a lot of his friends and fellow undergraduates have struggled as well.\n\nHe said: \"I have seen jokes on Facebook groups that finding a flat has been harder than their degrees so far.\"\n\nMany find themselves priced out of the market which currently offers, for example, a two-bedroom flat in the Dalry area for £1,300 a month.\n\nMr MacKinnon said students are either targeting private halls as a solution or turning to more affordable areas, such as Leith, despite the longer commute involved.\n\nLast year was a write-off for most when it came to the full \"university experience\".\n\nOnline learning was the norm and there was limited socialising.\n\nNow things are getting slightly closer to normal, this situation with housing is causing concern.\n\nStudents unions say they have never had this many requests for support to help people find places to live.\n\nWe are hearing stories of students sofa-surfing and of those who have nowhere to go at all.\n\nThe long-term plan is to build more accommodation but the short-term solution is less clear.\n\nNUS Scotland president Matt Crilly said he was \"deeply concerned\" about reports students are struggling to find accommodation for the current academic, year.\n\nHe has written to the Scottish government to highlight his concerns.\n\n\"For many students, particularly those studying in the central belt of Scotland, there is currently a lack of safe and affordable accommodation,\" Mr Crilly said.\n\n\"With purpose-built student accommodation full, shortages in the private rented sector, and landlords holding off to make a profit from COP26, I am concerned we have a student housing emergency.\"\n\nMr Crilly said he was aware of some landlords increasing rent for new tenants by hundreds of pounds extra per month.\n\nAnecdotal evidence also suggests some students are being expected to pay six months of rent upfront.\n\nMatt Crilly, president of the National Union of Students in Scotland, wants the Scottish government to intervene\n\nThe NUS president added: \"It is completely unacceptable that any student would be experiencing homelessness and left without accommodation when classes have already started.\n\n\"However, this issue is not unique to the current academic year. Scotland has been dragging its heels on providing adequate and affordable accommodation for students for years, which is why we see large areas with substandard housing dominated by intimidating landlords.\"\n\nMr Crilly urged ministers to \"urgently intervene\" to address the situation and introduce a student housing strategy to ensure no student is left without a roof over their head.\n\nHe also called for rents to be brought under control and for a points-based rent controls system, which is tied to the property rather than the lease, in a bid to stop landlords being able to hike rents between tenancies.\n\nThe Scottish Green's education spokesman Ross Greer described the current situation as \"really grim\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme: \"I am aware of one case of a mature student who, with her child at the moment, is in a homeless shelter because she has been unable to find accommodation.\"\n\nMr Greer said it was the result of a \"perfect storm\" of factors including house in multiple occupation (HMO) licence delays in Scotland, the popularity of short-term Airbnb-style lets and rent increases that have far outstripped the growth in wages.\n\nEarlier this week the programme heard from the parents of students who are struggling to find accommodation.\n\nOne said his son spoke to an estate agent who revealed one flat attracted 600 inquiries.\n\nAnd a mother said her son was currently commuting from Edinburgh to Glasgow for lectures as flat viewings in the city are typically full \"within five minutes.\"\n\nJohn Blackwood, chief executive of the Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL), said: \"We are seeing a chronic shortage of private rented accommodation across Scotland, partly as a result of landlords leaving the sector over the past couple of years which has reduced supply.\n\n\"In addition, landlords warned in 2017 that an unintended consequence of the Private Residential Tenancy (PRT) could be a reduction in accommodation available to students as landlords were no longer able to offer fixed-term leases which matched with term times.\n\n\"As a result, properties which landlords would hold back and market specifically for students are now rented by people as their primary home on a longer-term basis. One of the key aims of the PRT has been achieved but it is students who are suffering.\"\n\nJamie Hepburn, the minister for higher and further education, said the government was concerned about the issues raised by NUS Scotland.\n\n\"While the Scottish Government has no direct role in the provision of student residential accommodation, we would strongly encourage students with those concerns to speak with their college or university,\" he added.\n\n\"We are determined to improve accessibility, affordability and standards across the rented sector and are carrying out a review of purpose built student accommodation.\n\n\"We are also working to deliver a new deal for tenants giving them more secure, stable, affordable tenancies with improved standards of accommodation, new controls on rent and more flexibility to personalise homes.\"", "A stink bug that can spoil crops and infest homes has been trapped in Surrey as part of a monitoring study.\n\nThe brown marmorated stink bug is native to Asia, but has spread to parts of Europe and the US, where it can destroy fruit crops.\n\nA lone stink bug was caught at RHS Garden Wisley this summer within weeks of the setting up of a pheromone trap.\n\nThe adult may be a stowaway brought in on imported goods or part of an undiscovered local population.\n\nDr Glen Powell, head of plant health at RHS Garden Wisley, said the stink bug may become commonplace in gardens and in homes within a decade.\n\n\"This isn't a sudden invasion but potentially a gradual population build-up and spread, exacerbated by our warming world,\" he said.\n\nIt's not yet clear if stink bugs are living undetected in parts of England or are rare visitors that hitch-hike in on imported goods or passenger luggage and survive for only a short time. So far, no eggs or immature bugs have been found that would suggest the bug is breeding and has set up home.\n\nThe bug has been caught only twice before in pheromone traps set up to lure it in by means of a natural chemical - in all cases as lone instances. The previous finds were at Rainham Marshes in Essex and in the wildlife garden of London's Natural History Museum.\n\nAccording to the department for the environment, Defra, the bug has been intercepted in the UK on several occasions - in passenger luggage flown in from the US, clothing and wood imports from the US, and stone imported from China.\n\nThe trap at Wisley is part of a national monitoring project led by a plant science research company, NIAB EMR, in Kent, and funded by Defra.\n\nDr Michelle Fountain, head of pest and pathogen ecology at NIAB EMR, said: \"[The] brown marmorated stink bug represents a significant threat to food production systems in the UK so it is crucial that we continue to monitor any establishment and spread of the pest.\"\n\nA single male stink bug was trapped at Wisley in Surrey this summer\n\nThere are more than 40 species of stink bugs, also known as shield bugs, already present in the UK. Most pose no threat to plant health and are not considered pests.\n\nBrown marmorated stink bugs, which have a distinctive rectangular-shaped head, get their name from the odour they emit when threatened.\n\nIn the US, they can invade houses, clustering in their hundreds, and can be devastating for farmers, destroying fruit such as nectarines and peaches and feeding on a wide range of ornamental trees, vegetables and other plants.\n\nInvasive species cost the UK economy over £1.8bn a year and can threaten the survival of other plants and animals. A Defra spokesperson said: \"The brown marmorated stink bug is not a significant threat to our crops - but as with all pests and diseases we will continue to monitor any threats closely.\"\n\nAnyone finding what they believe to be a brown marmorated stink bug is asked to take a picture and report the sighting at BMSB@niab.com or via email to Entomology@rhs.org.uk.\n\nThe insect can be confused with other species - more information can be found here.", "Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary always insisted the airline acted within the law over refunds\n\nRyanair and British Airways customers who say they are owed refunds because of Covid restrictions on travel could miss out because the competition regulator says the law is unclear.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has closed an investigation into the two airlines, saying there is a \"lack of [legal] clarity\".\n\nInstead of offering refunds, the carriers offered vouchers or rebooking.\n\nThis, the CMA believed, probably broke the law, and a probe was launched.\n\nAlthough some flights went ahead, many customers were prevented from taking them because of restrictions. The CMA said the law needed clarifying.\n\n\"After a thorough examination of relevant law, and the evidence it had gathered during its investigation, the CMA has concluded that the law does not provide passengers with a sufficiently clear right to a refund in these unusual circumstances to justify continuing with the case,\" the regulator said.\n\n\"Consumer protection law sets out that passengers are entitled to refunds when an airline cancels a flight, because the firm cannot provide its contracted services. However, it does not clearly cover whether people should be refunded when their flight goes ahead but they are legally prohibited from taking it.\"\n\nGlobal lockdown restrictions on air travel left many customers claiming ticket refunds and looking to the law for the protection.\n\nBut the CMA said prolonging the case through the courts \"could not be justified given the length of time it would take\".\n\nCMA chief executive Andrea Coscelli has now called for a change in the law, adding he strongly believes people prevented from taking flights due to lockdown should get a full refund.\n\n\"Given the importance of this to many passengers who have unfairly lost out, we hope that the law in this area will be clarified,\" he said.\n\nThe CMA's statement highlighted it had already secured commitments to refund hundreds of millions of pounds for people whose holidays were cancelled due to the pandemic, including from LoveHolidays, Lastminute.com, Virgin Holidays, TUI UK, Sykes Cottages, and Vacation Rentals.\n\nBoth Ryanair and BA welcomed the CMA's move and defended their actions.\n\nRyanair said: \"We operated a limited schedule during UK lockdowns for customers who travelled for essential reasons. Passengers had the option to change their bookings without paying the flight change fee and many availed of this option.\"\n\nAnd BA said: \"During this unprecedented crisis we have acted lawfully at all times, issuing nearly 4 million refunds and offering highly flexible booking policies enabling millions of our customers to change their travel dates or destinations.\"\n\nWere you hoping for a refund from BA or Ryanair? How do you feel about this decision? 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.", "New parents are struggling to access health and family support services for their children a year-and-a-half after the Covid pandemic started, MPs say.\n\nA Commons Petitions Committee report called on the government to urgently put support in place for parents who missed out during lockdown.\n\nThe committee urged the government to publish a \"dedicated Covid-19 recovery strategy for new parents\".\n\nThe government says it recognises the challenges and has increased support.\n\nThe report, the second on the issue from the committee, found the Covid-19 pandemic \"continues to have a significant impact\" on new parents' access to support services and childcare availability.\n\nThe report is called Impact of Covid-19 on new parents: one year on. It said that rather than implementing the committee's recommendations from its first report a year ago - the government \"refused to act on nearly all of them\".\n\nCommittee chair Catherine McKinnell said: \"We have continued to receive petitions highlighting the difficulties new parents, and the services they rely on during the vital early months of their child's life, have continued to face over the last year.\n\n\"It is clear that the impact of the pandemic is still being felt.\n\n\"The government must now reconsider its response and urgently take action to put in place support.\"\n\nShe said it was particularly concerning that no extra funds had been made available to help new parents with mental health issues.\n\nShe added: \"It has been incredibly valuable to hear from petitioners and experts on this subject, and the committee will continue to challenge the government to bring forward the changes we have concluded need to be made.\"\n\nThe committee also sought the views of 8,700 new parents and childcare providers.\n\nThe vast majority of respondents, 93%, said they had not been able to access crucial baby and toddler groups over the past year.\n\nAnd three-quarters said they had not been able to find childcare they could afford.\n\nStacey, a mum from Kent, struggled when health visitor appointments for her newborn baby were mainly held online during lockdown.\n\nStacey says she found it difficult during lockdown with her son, Bellamy\n\nShe had one appointment on the phone but says: \"That level of support I think is severely diminished because you can't physically be there. What if it then leads to problems?\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Newsbeat, she said: \"All of that on top of new mum stress and figuring out this baby who you thought you knew and at every step changes. That was really difficult.\"\n\nStacey thinks there should have been more support for young mums including seminars online to watch if there is a problem, but says they're still not widely available.\n\n\"It's like they haven't learnt from those past 18 months, how difficult it is.\"\n\nRos Bragg, director of charity Maternity Action, commented: \"The situation for new and expectant mothers is really quite desperate in the aftermath of Covid.\n\n\"It's clear from the Petitions Committee report that this group has been disproportionately affected by the fallout from the pandemic - but the government has consistently failed to act.\n\n\"Our helplines are struggling to cope with the volume of calls from pregnant women and new mothers facing unfair redundancies, as maternity discrimination continues to increase sharply.\"\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance which represents childcare providers, says the committee is right to call for a review into early years funding.\n\n\"Substantial further investment into the early years is needed to ensure that providers can deliver affordable, accessible - and crucially, sustainable - early care and education,\" he said.\n\n\"If the government is truly committed to helping families recover from the impact of Covid-19, it must ensure that this includes helping parents of babies and young children to access the services and support they need.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We recognise the challenges faced by new parents during the pandemic, which is why we have increased support for them.\n\n\"This includes expanding specialist mental-health services, making an unprecedented investment in childcare, and introducing parental bereavement leave.\n\n\"We will respond to the committee's recommendations in full in due course.\"", "Pig farmers are facing a \"human disaster\" due to a shortage of abattoir workers, the National Farmer's Union has said.\n\nFarmers are already having to destroy healthy pigs due to a backlog on farms, the union said.\n\nTime is running out for the UK pig sector, the National Pig Association (NPA) warned.\n\nBut a government minister said businesses should pay higher wages and invest in skills.\n\nThe industry blames the shortage of people to slaughter pigs in abattoirs on factors including Covid and Brexit.\n\nThe chronic labour shortage has led to an estimated backlog of 85,000 pigs on farms, with an extra 15,000 being added per week, according to NPA figures.\n\nThe industry association warned on Thursday that \"empty retail shelves and product shortages are becoming increasingly commonplace and Christmas specialities, such as pigs in blankets are already under threat\".\n\n\"The knock-on effect of the staff shortages is having a devastating effect on the country's pig farmers,\" the NPA said.\n\n\"We are already seeing producers up and down the country getting out of pigs or cutting down on numbers because they cannot sustain these losses any longer,\" NPA chief executive Zoe Davies said.\n\n\"Without immediate government intervention, more producers will be pushed over the edge.\"\n\n\"Sadly we are expecting a serious contraction of the UK pig industry,\" she added, saying mainly smaller independent farmers were affected.\n\nAround 600 pigs have already been killed to deal with overcrowding, and a mass cull is the next stage, the industry association has said.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Question Time, National Farmers Union president Minette Batters said the UK is the \"first country in the world facing a cull of healthy livestock\".\n\nShe said pigs were having to be destroyed using either a bolt gun or lethal injection, and added: \"As far as I'm concerned this is the start and it has to be resolved.\n\n\"This is livelihoods and this is people's businesses.\n\n\"This has been a human disaster for those pig farmers who are absolutely distraught.\"\n\nShe said that the government must address labour shortages unless we \"don't want a pig industry in this country\" which she argued would mean \"we will import pig meat that is produced to lower standards.\"\n\nMs Batters said Environment Secretary George Eustice and Cabinet Office minister Stephen Barclay were doing \"everything\" they can, but said she had not been able to see Home Secretary Priti Patel to discuss more migrant visas to address shortages.\n\nBut Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi said the government was working with the industry to find sustainable solutions and that issuing temporary visas was \"not enough\".\n\nHe also said shortages were happening elsewhere in the world.\n\nMr Zahawi added that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was \"right\" to challenge businesses to pay higher wages and invest in skills.\n\nBut a top vet said on Wednesday that Mr Johnson was not taking the prospect of a national pig cull seriously.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. NI Protocol: \"We have to move from the tough political rhetoric\"\n\nThe EU will bring forward new proposals for the Northern Ireland Protocol next week, European Commission Vice President Maros Šefčovič has said.\n\nHe said he hopes they would form the basis for intensive talks with the UK.\n\nThe protocol avoids a hard border on the island of Ireland by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nBut unionists argue it creates a trade border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nThey say it undermines Northern Ireland's constitutional position as part of the UK.\n\nMr Šefčovič told an event in Dublin that he hoped talks would begin before the end of October.\n\nHe said his proposals would be \"very far reaching\" and that he hoped they would be seen as such.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"Significant changes are needed to the Protocol in order to protect the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement and the peace process.\n\n\"We await a formal response from the EU to the proposals set out in our command paper. Any proposals must be subject to genuine negotiation and the commission mustn't take a 'take it or leave it' approach.\n\n\"If solutions cannot be agreed soon, we will need to act using the Article 16 safeguard mechanism to address the disruption that the protocol is causing on the ground\".\n\nTriggering Article 16 would suspend part of the protocol.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC in Brussels, United States national security adviser Jake Sullivan warned the British government that suspending the protocol would be a \"serious risk to stability\".\n\nHe said any possibility of a return to a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland was \"of serious concern to the United States\".\n\nMr Sullivan said both the UK and the EU should work together \"in a constructive way to find a deal and a way forward\".\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) - Northern Ireland's largest unionist party - had warned that it may quit Stormont if its demands over the protocol were not met.\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, the DUP leader said he was \"pleased\" that the EU was to table new proposals, adding that he believed pressure from unionists had \"opened up the protocol\".\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), warned that it may quit Stormont if its demands over the protocol were not met\n\n\"We were told weeks ago that the EU were not in a position where they were ever going to reopen negotiations, so I think we've breached the first wall,\" Sir Jeffrey said.\n\n\"And I think that is the result of unionists standing together and saying: 'Look, we cannot support this protocol; we cannot support an Irish Sea border'.\"\n\nThe DUP leader added: \"I think the pressure we have brought to bear and the steps that have been taken in the last few weeks have focused minds both in London and Brussels and I'm pleased that we've made this level of progress, but we still have a long way to go.\"\n\nMr Šefčovič said the EU was going to \"enormous lengths\".\n\n\"I believe the package of practical solutions that we are putting on the table would be attractive for Northern Ireland and would be, I hope, supported by a majority of stakeholders in Northern Ireland,\" he told the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) in Dublin.\n\nHe said the commitment of the EU to the Good Friday Agreement was \"absolute\" and that the avoidance of a hard border on the island was a \"prerequisite\".\n\nEarlier this week UK Brexit Minister Lord Frost said he was expecting a short, intense negotiation with the EU.\n\nHe told the Conservative party conference that the protocol was \"not working and needs to change\".\n\nIn July, Lord Frost put forward radical proposals for changes to the protocol.\n\nTriggering Article 16, may end up as \"the only way\" forward, he warned.\n\nMr Šefčovič said threats to trigger Article 16 were not helpful.\n\nHe said his proposals were not presented on a \"take it or leave it\" basis and that both the UK and EU would need to get out of their comfort zones.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How Chang'e-5 grabbed rock samples from the lunar surface\n\nThe rock samples brought back from the Moon in December by China's Chang'e-5 mission were really young.\n\nIt's all relative, of course, but the analysis shows the basalt material - the solidified remnants of a lava flow - to be just two billion years old.\n\nCompare this with the samples returned by the Apollo astronaut missions. They were all over three billion years of age.\n\nThe findings are reported in the journal Science.\n\nChina's robotic Chang'e-5 mission was sent to a site on the lunar nearside called Oceanus Procellarum.\n\nIt was carefully chosen to add to the sum of knowledge gained from previous sample returns - the last of which was conducted by a Soviet probe in 1976.\n\nThe laboratory analysis of the basaltic rock gives an age of 1,963 (plus or minus 57) million years\n\nXiaochao Che and colleagues at the Sensitive High Resolution Ion MicroProbe (SHRIMP) Center in Beijing led the Chang'e-5 dating analysis, but worked with a broad international consortium.\n\nThe age data they've produced is fascinating because it proves volcanism continued on the Moon long after one might have expected such a small body to have cooled down and given up the activity.\n\nTheorists will now be thinking through new ideas for what kind of heat source might have sustained the late-stage behaviour.\n\nIt doesn't appear to have been driven by concentrated radioactive decay because the Chang'e-5 samples don't contain a lot of the kind of chemical elements associated with this effect.\n\n\"One of the other options we discuss in the paper is maybe the Moon was able to stay active longer because of its orbital interactions with Earth,\" speculated Dr Katherine Joy, a co-author from the University of Manchester, UK.\n\n\"Maybe the Moon wobbled back and forth on its orbit, resulting in what we call tidal heating. So, a bit like the Moon generates ocean tides on Earth, maybe the gravitational effect of the Earth could stretch and flex the Moon to generate frictional melting,\" she told BBC News.\n\nNothing like Chang'e-5 had been tried since the Soviet Luna-24 mission in 1976\n\nOne really important outcome from the study is the way it helps calibrate the crater-counting technique that is used for dating planetary surfaces.\n\nScientists assume that the more craters they see on a surface, the older that terrain must be; and also, obviously, in the reverse: the presence of very few craters is suggestive of a surface that has only recently been laid or remodelled.\n\nBut this technique has to be anchored in some absolute dates that are derived from measured samples, and for the Moon the chronology was not well constrained between one and three billion years ago.\n\nThe Chang'e-5 material now provides a precise waypoint in the middle of this time period.\n\nProf Brad Jolliff, from Washington University in St Louis, US, is another co-author in the consortium. He's now hoping China will send its next sample return mission to a region on the Moon's farside called South Pole Aitken Basin.\n\nThis vast depression, some 2,500km wide and up to 8km deep, was created by a spectacular impactor very early in lunar history.\n\n\"If Chang'e-6 goes to South Pole Aitken it will give us the age of the oldest big impact basin on the Moon, and that provides a very different part of the calibration, in the range of four to four-and-a-half billion years ago. We don't know what the flux of big impactors was back then, and a sample from the South Pole Aitken Basin region has the potential to answer the question.\"\n\nChang'e-5 marked the start of an astonishing few months for China's national space programme.\n\nWithin six months of the lunar probe returning home with its rock samples on 16 December, another spacecraft had successfully entered orbit around Mars to place a rover on its surface; and Chinese astronauts had begun the occupation of a new space station at Earth.", "Nightclubs have been closed in Northern Ireland since March 2021\n\nThe legal requirement for social distancing in bars and restaurants is to be removed.\n\nNightclubs are also to be allowed to reopen, meaning legal restrictions on dancing in venues will be scrapped.\n\nRestrictions will be lifted from 31 October.\n\nA number of mitigations have been agreed and it is thought businesses will be asked to check for vaccine certificates, but this will not be a legal requirement.\n\nMinisters have also agreed to retain the mandatory wearing of face coverings in certain settings.\n\nIt is understood ministers were advised that moving legal regulations on face coverings into guidance would lead to a 30% decline in their use.\n\nThe industry had argued that social distancing requirements were damaging trade.\n\nThe new rules mean people will be able to move around pubs and restaurants and to eat and drink while standing up.\n\nChanges were also announced to the UK travel red list, which has been cut from 54 countries to seven.\n\nMichelle O'Neill and Paul Givan announced the rule changes at Stormont\n\nFirst Minister Paul Givan welcomed the easing of restrictions, particularly for the the hospitality sector, which he said had been hit hard during the pandemic.\n\n\"I'm pleased that at the end of this month they will be able to operate in a much more sustainable and viable way,\" he said.\n\nMr Givan said the sector benefitted from \"a high level of adherence\" to coronavirus restrictions, adding that he believed this would continue.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she was pleased progress had been made at Thursday's executive meeting, but that people should remain cautious.\n\n\"We're in for an uncertain period ahead and we have to work our way through that as best we can,\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said continuing increasing vaccination rates would also be a \"crucially important\" part of the executive's winter planning.\n\nUnder existing rules, social distancing of at least 1m (3ft) remains a legal requirement in pubs, bars and restaurants in Northern Ireland.\n\nFrom Thursday 14 October the restrictions on the number of people allowed to meet inside a home is to be increased from 15 from four households to 30 from an unlimited number of households.\n\nFrom that date, people attending performances at indoor venues will not have to be seated during the performance.\n\nThe executive is now moving to unlock the final stage of pandemic recovery.\n\nNightclubs will finally get to reopen on Halloween and social distancing - something we've lived with as the norm for the past 18 months - will be scrapped.\n\nIt's perhaps no surprise given how that's already the case in Great Britain and the rules south of the Irish border will end this month too.\n\nBut not everything is changing - face coverings will remain - a sign that for some, caution is still needed with Covid.\n\nThe executive has also warned that if things begin to go in the wrong direction again, vaccine passports could then be deployed.\n\nThe Department of Health will now progress work on the system after agreement with Executive Office officials - but the onus on hospitality businesses will be to prove that a mandatory scheme isn't needed.\n\nJohn Leighton, owner of Bennigan's Bar, Londonderry, said easing restrictions for hospitality was fantastic news, which the sector \"had been waiting on for some time\".\n\nHe said it had been a challenging and stressful time for the sector and that the timing to ease restrictions on 31 October was particularly good for Derry's annual Halloween festival.\n\n\"It means we can get back to enjoying ourselves and not having so many things to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"We can get back to a bit more normality.\"\n\nJanice Gault from the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the restrictions which are being removed had presented \"significant challenges\" for businesses which were trying to become fully operational again.\n\nShe said: \"The industry has traded well to date and our primary focus remains the health and well-being of our staff and customers.\n\n\"Winter trade, in a viable manner within a sustainable framework and without further lockdown, is our aim.\"\n\nIn September, the executive agreed to end social distancing restrictions for shops, theatres and a number of other indoor settings.\n\nThey asked some sectors to put in place mitigations including proof of double vaccination or a negative lateral flow test.\n\nBut this is advice and is not legally enforceable.\n\nRobin Swann is frustrated over plans to introduce a vaccine passport\n\nLast week, Health Minister Robin Swann warned that a delay by the executive in agreeing a vaccine passport policy had limited options for easing more restrictions.\n\nThe Department of Health will now progress work to develop the digital scheme, but ministers will have to decide whether to deploy it.\n\nMs O'Neill said she did not want things to reach that point and hoped businesses would voluntarily comply with executive advice and demonstrate they could work safely.\n\nMinisters also discussed a bid from Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey for £55m in funding to mitigate the end of a £20 weekly uplift for people claiming universal credit.\n\nStormont received an extra £180m from the Treasury in September and that money has yet to be distributed.\n\nThe expectation was that most if not all of that money would go on health spending.\n\nMr Givan and Ms O'Neill made clear that Stormont would face major difficulties - both financially and logistically - of stepping in to top up payments\n\nMr Givan said the Executive had to be \"honest\" with the public about the financial position.\n\n\"Now is not the time to be removing this uplift,\" he said.\n\n\"That is happening though this week and the ability, even if the executive had the funding, to do this [top up the payments] isn't there because we don't have the systems, this is administered directly through the Department for Work and Pensions in London.\n\n\"So we don't have the system. And the ability to finance it - we have to be honest with the public.\"", "Chief executive Alison Rose said NatWest took financial crime extremely seriously\n\nNatWest bank has pleaded guilty to failing to prevent alleged money laundering of nearly £400m by one customer.\n\nNatWest said \"we deeply regret\" failing to \"adequately monitor and therefore prevent money laundering by one of our customers between 2012 and 2016\".\n\nThe state-backed bank, formerly Royal Bank of Scotland, is the first British lender to admit such an offence.\n\nThe case was brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) which alleged the bank failed to monitor suspect activity by a client that deposited about £365m in its accounts over five years, of which £264m was in cash.\n\nThe criminal action, first announced by the FCA in March, was the first against a bank under a 2007 money laundering law.\n\nThe FCA said NatWest failed to adhere to the requirements of anti-money laundering legislation in relation to Fowler Oldfield Ltd's account between 7 November 2013 and 23 June 2016.\n\nFowler Oldfield was a century-old jeweller based in Bradford, and was shut down following a police raid in 2016.\n\nFCA prosecutor Clare Montgomery QC told Westminster magistrates that when Fowler Oldfield was taken on as a client by NatWest, its predicted turnover was said to be £15m per annum.\n\nHowever, it deposited £365m over the space of almost five years.\n\nShe said: \"It was agreed that the bank would not handle cash deposits. However, it deposited £365m, with around £264m in cash.\"\n\nShe said that at its height, Fowler Oldfield deposited up to £1.8m a day.\n\nThe court was told the \"likely sentence is a very large fine\".\n\nNatWest remains 55% taxpayer-owned after receiving a £45bn bailout at the height of the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nChief executive Alison Rose said: \"NatWest has a vital part to play in detecting and preventing financial crime and we take extremely seriously our responsibility to prevent money laundering by third parties.\n\n\"In the years since this case, we have invested significant resources and continue to enhance our efforts to effectively combat financial crime.\"\n\nJonathan Fisher, a senior lawyer at Bright Line Law specialising in money laundering cases, said the FCA had claimed \"a big scalp\".\n\n\"The message sent to financial institutions is clear. If there are failings in your money laundering systems, criminal prosecution may follow. NatWest was sensible to take the hit, and it must now move on.\"", "Environmental group Greenpeace has lost its case against the UK government over a North Sea oil field permit.\n\nPermission to drill the Vorlich site off Aberdeen was given to BP in 2018.\n\nGreenpeace argued in Scotland's highest civil court there had been \"a myriad of failures in the public consultation\" and the permit did not consider the climate impacts of burning fossil fuel.\n\nThe Court of Session ruling means operations will continue at the field. Greenpeace plans to appeal.\n\nIt follows a two-day hearing into the case last month.\n\nProduction from the development started in November after BP was granted approval by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) in 2018.\n\nGreenpeace said it was the first time an offshore oil permit had ever been challenged in court and that if it had won, the case would have had huge ramifications for other sites, such as the planned Cambo field off Shetland.\n\nRuth Crawford QC for Greenpeace said UK Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng had been \"deprived\" of information about the environmental impact of the development.\n\nMs Crawford said Greenpeace wanted proper public participation in important developments such as the Vorlich oilfield.\n\nGreenpeace has campaigned against the Vorlich development\n\nRoddy Dunlop QC, representing the UK government, said the challenges advanced by Greenpeace were \"largely procedural and opportunistic\".\n\nJim Cormack, representing oil firms BP and Ithaca, had previously told hearing that the challenge was \"highly significant\" and if the original decision was overturned, production from the field would have to stop until new consent could be obtained.\n\nHe said the works for which consent was granted had been implemented by BP and Ithaca at a cost of about £230m and the project was fully operational and in the production phase.\n\nThree judges at the Court of Session - Lord President Lord Carloway, Lord Menzies and Lord Pentland - rejected Greenpeace's case.\n\nThe UK government said in a statement: \"We welcome today's judgment which upholds the environmental decisions made by the Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning.\n\n\"While we are working hard to drive down demand for fossil fuels, there will continue to be ongoing demand for oil and gas over the coming years as we transition to lower carbon, more secure forms of energy generated in this country.\"\n\nJohn Sauven, Greenpeace UK executive director, said: \"We will not give up the fight for the climate. Our intention is to appeal this ruling before the Supreme Court.\"\n\nIthaca said in a statement that it welcomed the decision handed down by the Court of Session to dismiss the appeal raised by Greenpeace.", "Armed Forces minister James Heappey and Major General Gerald Strickland lay wreaths during the service in Staffordshire\n\nCommemorations have been held to mark the 20th anniversary of the start of UK military operations in Afghanistan.\n\nWreaths were laid in the UK at exactly 11:00 in Afghan time in remembrance of 457 British personnel killed there.\n\nUK troops left Afghanistan at the end of August, bringing an end to the 20-year war.\n\n\"The hurt never goes away,\" said Claire Hill, whose only son James was killed in 2009. \"We have to believe he did make a difference.\"\n\nThe war in Afghanistan began on 7 October 2001, with American-led coalition airstrikes against airports and terrorist training camps in response to the 11 September terror attacks in the US.\n\nTwo small wreath-laying ceremonies took place place in the UK at 07:30 BST - which was 11:00 in Afghanistan, the traditional time for military remembrance.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said the ceremonies were planned to honour \"the courage and commitment of its people\" during the two decades of conflict.\n\nWreaths dedicated to those who lost their lives in combat in Afghanistan were laid at the Bastion Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.\n\nAt the same time, another wreath was laid at the Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial near the Ministry of Defence in central London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Claire and Brian Hill's only son, L/Cpl James Hill, was killed serving in Afghanistan in 2009\n\nPipe Major Colour Sgt Peter Grant, who led the procession in Staffordshire, said the service was an important moment to reflect on what had happened in Afghanistan.\n\nSpeaking before the service, he told the BBC that having served in Afghanistan, it was \"quite emotional\" to see the names of people he knew on the wall of the Bastion memorial.\n\nC Sgt Grant, who also served as the lone piper at the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral, said: \"It gives me the opportunity to reflect on my time out there, think about the people who have lost their lives, the soldiers who are living with life-changing injuries and also the families who are living through the pain and hardship of losing people out there.\"\n\nThe commemoration comes as veterans and their families try to reckon with the legacy of the war, having watched the Taliban swiftly regain control of Afghanistan as UK and US forces withdrew.\n\nNearly 12 years to the day since L/Cpl James Hill died, his parents Claire and Brian are proud of his service and sacrifice, but also acknowledge the pain of seeing the Taliban return.\n\nRAF trumpeter Sgt Matt Peck, who served in Afghanistan, said it \"meant the world\" to him to be able to play The Last Post at the ceremony\n\nMr Heappey reflected at the Bastion memorial, which mirrors the memorial wall at Camp Bastion in Helmand province, in Afghanistan\n\nPiper Major Colour Sgt Peter Grant led the procession at the service\n\n\"If we were to say that James' life is wasted then that would hurt us all over again, because we have to believe he did make a difference,\" said Mrs Hill. \"They all gave so much. Not just the ones who died but the ones who carry on with injuries.\"\n\nJames was 23 and about to get married when he was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan's Helmand province.\n\n\"It never leaves us, we don't have a son anymore. We don't have any other children. There's an emptiness, there's a hole here that nothing can fill,\" Mrs Hill said. \"The hurt never goes away.\"\n\n\"Remembrance Day for most people is 11 November, but for the likes of us Remembrance Day is every day,\" said Mr Hill.\n\nStuart Tootal - a former colonel who commanded 3rd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment - saw the first serious casualties of the war when he led British troops into Helmand in 2006, and a simple peace support operation became a bloody counter-insurgency conflict.\n\n\"There is no victory here, \" says Stuart Tootal, whose battalion suffered 15 deaths in the first major casualties of the war\n\nHis view of the war now is very clear: \"The intent of what we were trying to do was always right. The concept was flawed: too little, too late. And we quit far too soon.\n\n\"And that is the great tragedy of Afghanistan.\"\n\nWhile Afghanistan had 20 years to see how life could be different, Mr Tootal adds that the opportunity was never fully realised because the Taliban regained power.\n\n\"I don't think we can be very proud of the outcome. We can be proud of what we tried to do as soldiers,\" he said.\n\n\"But in terms of those responsible for the strategic decisions, I don't think there's a great deal to crow about... There is no victory here. You know, we did not win that conflict.\"", "Josef S, who was 21 when he first became a guard at Sachsenhausen in 1942, appears in court\n\nSeventy-six years after the end of World War Two, a former concentration camp guard has gone on trial for assisting in the murder of 3,518 prisoners at Sachsenhausen near Berlin.\n\nJosef S is accused of complicity in the shooting of Soviet prisoners of war and the murder of others with Zyklon B gas.\n\nTime is running out for Nazi-era criminals to face justice and he is the oldest defendant so far to stand trial.\n\nIt was only in recent years that lower-ranking Nazis were brought to trial.\n\nTen years ago, the conviction of former SS guard John Demjanjuk set a precedent enabling prosecutors to charge people for aiding and abetting Nazi crimes in World War Two. Until then, direct participation in murder had to be proven.\n\nIdentified as Josef S, because of German privacy laws, the defendant was led into a specially adapted sports hall at a prison in Brandenburg an der Havel, where the trial began amid strict security.\n\nHe arrived outside the court in a wheelchair, clutching a briefcase, and entered with the aid of a walking frame. He shielded his face with a blue file to stop photographers getting a view.\n\nJosef S has lived in the Brandenburg area for years, reportedly as a locksmith, and has not spoken publicly about the trial.\n\nHis lawyer, Stefan Waterkamp, told the court that the defendant would make no comment at the trial on the allegations against him. He would, however, speak about his personal circumstances at Friday's hearing.\n\nJosef S was 21 when he first became a guard at Sachsenhausen in 1942. Now almost 101, he is considered able to appear in court for up to two and half hours a day. The trial is due to continue until January.\n\nPublic prosecutor Cyrill Klement told the court of the systematic killings at Sachsenhausen between 1941 and 1945. \"The defendant supported this knowingly and willingly - at least by conscientiously carrying out guard duty, which was perfectly integrated into the killing regime.\"\n\nTens of thousands of people died at the camp in Oranienburg, north of Berlin, including resistance fighters, Jews, political opponents, homosexuals and prisoners of war.\n\nA gas chamber was installed at Sachsenhausen in 1943 and 3,000 people were massacred at the camp as the war drew to a close because they were \"unfit to march\". The prosecutor gave details of mass shootings and murders by gas, as well as through disease and exhaustion.\n\nLeon Schwarzbaum survived Sachsenhausen as well as Auschwitz and Buchenwald\n\nThursday's trial was especially important for 17 co-plaintiffs, who include survivors of Sachsenhausen.\n\nChristoffel Heijer was six years old when he last saw his father: Johan Hendrik Heijer was one of 71 Dutch resistance fighters shot dead at the camp.\n\n\"Murder isn't destiny; it's not a crime that can be legally erased by time,\" he told Berliner Zeitung.\n\nLeon Schwarzenbaum, who is a 100-year-old survivor of Sachsenhausen, said this was the \"last trial for my friends and acquaintances and my loved ones who were murdered\" and he hoped it would end in a final conviction.\n\nThere was widespread frustration at Josef S's refusal to give evidence.\n\n\"For the survivors this is yet another rejection, just like it was in the camp. You were vermin,\" said Christoph Heubner of the International Auschwitz Committee.\n\nThomas Walther, the lawyer acting for the co-plaintiffs, said he was not surprised but hoped he would change his mind.\n\nMost Nazi camp guards will not face trial.\n\nNazi SS guard Bruno Dey was convicted last year of complicity in 5,000 murders\n\nThere were 3,000 guards at Stutthof concentration camp alone, and only 50 were convicted. Bruno Dey was convicted of complicity in mass murder there last year and given a suspended sentence,\n\nOnly last week, a Nazi secretary at the Stutthof camp, Irmgard Furchner, was due to go on trial north of Hamburg but escaped from a nursing home hours beforehand.\n\nShe was eventually caught in Hamburg and her trial was rescheduled for 19 October. She was released from custody earlier this week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Holocaust survivors: The families who weren’t meant to live", "Healthcare Inspectorate Wales report found handover delays are increasing the risk to patient safety\n\nLong delays outside hospitals are costing ambulance crews thousands of hours when they are unable to respond to other calls, a new report has found.\n\nIt found frequent delays were having a \"detrimental\" impact on the NHS's ability to care for patients.\n\nA Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) report looked at patient delays between April 2020 and March 2021.\n\nDuring this period, crews had to wait more than an hour to transfer patients on no fewer than 32,699 occasions.\n\n\"It's an entire system issue. I'm not under any illusion that's an easy fix for anyone, but we do need the system to work closely together,\" said Alun Jones, interim chief executive of HIW.\n\nThey key findings of the report include:\n\nThe review was based on assessment, interviews and surveys with more than 400 NHS staff and more than 100 patients.\n\nDelays are causing a risk to patients waiting in ambulances, but also people in need of an ambulance\n\nHIW makes clear that handover delays are not directly an ambulance service problem, but symptomatic of problems across the entire health and social care system.\n\nA&Es become overcrowded when hospital wards are full and hospital wards become full when there are delays in discharging patients.\n\nThe report makes 20 recommendations and says the ambulance service, health boards and Welsh government need to work together to make improvements.\n\nThe ambulance service's Claire Roche said some crews spent entire shifts with the same patient in the back of their vehicle\n\nClaire Roche of the Welsh Ambulance Service said: \"Our emergency ambulance service exists to deliver life-saving immediate care and to take patients promptly to hospital for the necessary treatment.\n\n\"For the Welsh Ambulance Service, this is about getting to the root cause of the issue in order to resolve it, rather than adapting to a situation so that it becomes the new normal.\n\n\"We welcome the fact that Health Inspectorate Wales is shining a light on this issue, and we will continue to work with colleagues in health boards and Welsh government to make improvements.\"\n\nDarren Hughes, director of the Welsh NHS Confederation said the review \"demonstrates the impact that the enormous pressures on the NHS are having\".\n\n\"The NHS in Wales is working relentlessly to cope with current levels of demand and to ensure everyone waiting for care is seen as soon as possible,\" he added.\n\n\"Staff are doing all they can to continue delivering care for those who need it. We thank them and the public for doing all they can to support the NHS.\"\n\nSome ambulance staff have previously told BBC Wales that the pressure has left them \"broken\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"Health boards are responsible for improving ambulance patient handover times and we expect to see them deliver improvement in this area.\n\n\"A broad range of actions are already in place, including recruitment of additional ambulance clinicians, creation of urgent primary care centres and a new national programme to support people to return home from hospital when ready.\"\n\n\"We will continue to work with the chief ambulance services commissioner, WAST and Wales' wider health and care system to improve quality of care, patient experience and staff wellbeing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Williams-Ellis waited two hours for an ambulance after \"life-changing\" burns\n\nChris Williams-Ellis was left with 45% burns after a car he was working beneath caught fire.\n\nHe waited an hour and 18 minutes for an ambulance despite eight 999 calls being made from his home in Brynsaithmarchog, Denbighshire, on 8 September last year.\n\nThe first was made at 14:51 by Mr Williams-Ellis's partner Catherine, followed by seven more from the fire service, the final one being at 16:04.\n\nHis mother, Philomene Williams-Ellis, said on Thursday: \"The ambulance was called and it didn't come.\n\n\"The time it took between when the call was made and when the helicopter landed at Liverpool was just a minute off three hours.\"\n\nChris Williams-Ellis's mother said his flesh was coming off his body as he waited for an ambulance\n\nAs he waited he was looked after by fire crews who were attending.\n\n\"The flesh was coming off his body, he was in absolute agony,\" Ms Williams-Ellis said.\n\n\"All the time Christopher waited he was fully aware of what was happening to him and what was happening around him.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service has met Ms Williams-Ellis to discuss what went wrong.\n\n\"There were 36 ambulances supposed to be on call that day,\" she said.\n\nFour were off \"for various reasons\", she said.\n\n\"Thirty-two were in car parks at various hospitals and they were there for hours and hours.\"\n\nThe reason, she said, was because patients were waiting in the vehicles until there was space for them to be seen in the hospitals.\n\n\"For almost an hour there was not one emergency vehicle available.\"\n\nPhilomene Williams-Ellis says the NHS in Wales is \"not fit for purpose\"\n\nShe said the NHS in Wales was \"not for purpose.\"\n\n\"The person who needs to answer is the minister for health in Wales and the trusts who are running the hospitals.\"\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service NHS trust offered a \"sincere apology\" last year for \"errors\" that contributed to an \"unacceptable\" delay.\n\nMs Williams-Ellis said her son was \"doing really well\".\n\n\"He has life-changing injuries but he is a very positive person with a good attitude.\n\n\"He gets on with it. But there is a lot of anger.\"", "Kate Stradling daughters are still taught at Llanbedr School but her son has since left\n\nParents whose children attend a village school have pledged to take a council to court if it decides to shut it.\n\nLlanbedr school in Powys, founded in 1728, is one of several rural primaries under threat of closure due to council plans to overhaul local education.\n\nKate Stradling, whose two daughters attend with 50 other pupils, said she \"felt sick\" about the proposals.\n\nPowys council said \"difficult decisions\" had to be made and its plans would \"allow learners to thrive\".\n\nIt has decided to press ahead with the closure of the 200-year-old Castle Caereinion school, near Welshpool, which has 25 pupils, and a 37-pupil school at Llanfihangel Rhydithon, near Knighton, which dates back 170 years.\n\nThe future of Llanbedr Primary School, just north of Crickhowell, and seven other schools - whose pupil populations range from 23 to 109 - are also in doubt.\n\nBut a lawyer representing parents at several of the schools has told BBC Wales Live he believed the plans were a breach of a Welsh government policy designed to protect rural schools.\n\nIn 2018, the-then Education Minister Kirsty Williams changed the School Organisation Code to bring in a \"presumption against closure\" of listed rural schools.\n\nMichael Imperato said if Powys went ahead with the closures, the matter would be \"played out in the High Court\" in what would be the first legal test of the revised code.\n\nIt states that the case for closing a rural school must be \"strong\" and all viable alternatives must be \"conscientiously considered\".\n\nPowys council said it had sought independent legal advice to ensure its proposals were robust and said its consultations were held \"in accordance\" with the code.\n\nIt said its smallest schools generally have higher per-pupil budgets than the average, and estimated closing Llanbedr primary would save about £100,000 by 2024.\n\nIn April, Powys council chief executive Caroline Turner said that if the school closed, children would attend schools \"better equipped to meet the requirements of the new national curriculum and that could provide a wider range of educational and extra-curricular opportunities\".\n\nBut Mr Imperato said people felt communities would become unsustainable without these schools.\n\n\"Ways of life in Wales could change forever if good rural schools are allowed to disappear,\" he said.\n\nFi Loftus said it \"would mean the world\" for her children if the school's future was assured\n\nFi Loftus, who has three children at Llanbedr school, said: \"It would mean the world for them to stay open.\n\n\"Also, being a military family, they already have enough disruption in their life, why disrupt a perfect, thriving rural school?\"\n\nParent Kate Stradling, who has two daughters at the school and a son who went there previously, said: \"When I first heard the school was going to close I felt sick.\n\n\"I felt like someone had punched me in the stomach and I just had this sense of fear.\n\n\"And then my second thought was, if that's how I feel as an adult, how's my eight-year-old daughter going to feel?\n\n\"She was distraught, really confused, scared, worried. It really affected her and it even still has affected her to this day - nine months on.\"\n\nMatt Beecham is concerned his daughter may have to return to a school she had already attended\n\nMatt Beecham, who has a daughter in Year 2, said: \"I can't comprehend or put into words how devastated our daughter would be if the school was to close.\n\n\"She loves coming to school and the thought the school might close and she might have to go to another school, quite possibly the school she left previously, is a massive concern to us.\"\n\nPowys council is run by a coalition of independent and Conservative councillors.\n\nPhyl Davies, cabinet member for education, said the council's education strategy would \"help transform the learner experience\" and address the \"significant challenges facing our education in Powys\".\n\n\"These challenges include a high proportion of small schools in the county, decreasing pupil numbers, high number of surplus places, inequality in access to Welsh-medium education, limited post-14 and post-16 offer and inequality in access to special education needs, additional learning needs provision,\" he said.\n\n\"We want the best for all our learners and I believe that this strategy will see us deliver a legacy that will allow learners to thrive and reach their potential and compete with the rest of the world.\"\n\nThe school in Llanbedr dates back almost 300 years\n\nRussell George, Conservative Member of the Senedd for Montgomeryshire, said the Welsh government must ensure \"appropriate funding\" went to councils.\n\n\"If there's going to be a difficulty in delivering the curriculum and the Welsh government aren't appropriately funding schools and local authorities to deliver that curriculum, then the council's got very little choice but to look at altering the way they configure education and having to close smaller schools.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokesman said it had taken \"a number of actions\" to help give children in rural and remote areas \"the best start to their educational journey\".\n\nHe added: \"In recognition of the challenges small and rural schools can face, we also introduced a Small and Rural Schools grant - worth £2.5m per year - which provides funding to encourage innovation, support greater school-to-school working and raise standards.\"", "The government should find £10bn a year to boost universal credit, former Tory minister Steve Baker has said.\n\nThe £20-a-week increase to the benefit officially ended on Wednesday despite warnings about a squeeze on living standards and rising prices.\n\nMr Baker said it should be an \"absolute priority\" to find extra funds as part of the upcoming spending review.\n\nThe government says the benefit boost was always meant to be temporary and it is helping the most needy.\n\nClaims the government is out of touch with the plight of low-income families were fuelled by an interview with the New Statesman on Wednesday by Tory grandee, Sir Peter Bottomley.\n\nHe said MPs need a pay rise as some were struggling financially to cope on an annual salary of just over £80,000.\n\n\"I don't know how they manage. It's really grim,\" he said, arguing that a salary of around £110-£115,000 a year was needed to bring them in to line with GPs.\n\nSpeaking to LBC radio, Mr Bottomley explained he was not arguing for pay rises.\n\nHe said he was trying to make the point that increasing MPs' salaries would make it easier to widen the pool of people interested in switching their careers to become parliamentarians.\n\nHigher wages would make it possible for headteachers and senior executives in nursing to come to sit in Parliament rather than it being the preserve of the independently wealthy, he said.\n\nHis comments come as a social media film emerged of Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey singing (I've Had) The Time of My Life at this week's Conservative conference in Manchester.\n\nLabour called the timing of her karaoke performance, as benefits are cut for millions of people, \"an insult and a disgrace\".\n\nBut Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi said it was \"unfair\" to link the two.\n\nHe told ITV's Good Morning Britain that \"parties and dance-offs and singing is a feature of all party conferences\", and Ms Coffey had also announced the hardship fund at Manchester.\n\nMinisters have admitted that many UK households could face \"a very difficult winter\".\n\nEnergy prices are surging at the same time as the universal credit top-up being withdrawn and taxes are rising to fund the NHS and social care.\n\nBut asked during the Conservative Party conference about the pressure on family incomes, the prime minister told the BBC he was \"not worried\" because supply chain issues will sort themselves out \"rapidly\".\n\nAnd he said the economy was facing the \"stresses and strains\" of a post-Covid recovery as it moves to a \"new approach\" with higher wages and lower immigration.\n\nHe said government schemes, such as a £500m hardship fund, would help those on the lowest incomes.\n\nSpeaking to ITV's Peston, Mr Baker - an influential figure on the right of the Conservative Party - said the government should find £10bn a year to improve universal credit.\n\nSteve Baker says universal credit needs to be reformed\n\nHe said the £20-a-week top-up, which was introduced to help people on low incomes through the pandemic, should be retained.\n\nHe also said he had urged the government to improve the taper rate, which reduces the amount individuals can claim for every extra pound they earn, as an \"absolute priority\".\n\nBut he added that he will vote for whatever the government decides in its Spending Review at the end of this month.\n\nCurrently for every £1 claimants earn over their work allowance their benefit is reduced by 63p.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC News Channel, Shadow Business Secretary, Ed Miliband said Labour was \"not giving up\" on attempts to reverse the cut to universal credit.\n\n\"It beggars belief\" he said ,that in the context of escalating energy prices and tax rises, \"the government is ploughing ahead\" with the cut to the benefit.\n\nPeople are facing a \"double whammy\" and the situation is going to be \"unbearable for so many families\" he added and targeting support through the social security system is the best way to help them.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rashford told BBC Breakfast the situation many now found themselves in \"reminds me of... when I was younger\"\n\nManchester United star Marcus Rashford said receiving an honorary doctorate for his work to tackle child poverty was \"bittersweet\" as it came as the £20 top-up to universal credit ended.\n\nAccepting the award from the University of Manchester, he said removing the temporary increase \"could see child poverty rise to one-in-three children\".\n\nMr Rashford called for an end to what he said was a \"child hunger pandemic\".\n\nNo 10 said the top-up was designed to help in the pandemic's toughest times.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer praised Mr Rashford's \"very, very powerful\" comments and said the government was now \"effectively turning on the poorest\".\n\nHe promised a Labour government would retain the £20 uplift pending an overhaul of the benefits system, including the abolition of universal credit.\n\n\"It would stay, we wouldn't make the cut, we would then replace it with something better,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer: \"This is going to drive families and children into poverty\"\n\nMr Rashford, 23, became the university's youngest recipient of an honorary award at a special ceremony at his club's Old Trafford stadium on Thursday.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, he said the situation many now found themselves in \"reminds me of... when I was younger\".\n\nThe England forward added: \"You've got to decide between - are you going to eat or are you going to be warm in the house?\n\n\"These are decisions that you don't want people to go through, never mind children.\n\n\"And there's other stuff, the price of fuel and electricity and there's actually a shortage of food at the moment... as some of the food banks I work with are experiencing.\n\n\"So there's other things that people are worrying about and, if we can take one less stress off them, it's important.\"\n\nMr Rashford said receiving the honorary doctorate was \"bittersweet\" since it came as \"millions of families across the UK lost a lifeline and a means of staying afloat\".\n\nThe £20-a-week increase to universal credit, which was brought in to support those on low incomes during the pandemic, was withdrawn on Tuesday.\n\nMr Rashford urged MPs to meet those who had been receiving the increased benefit.\n\n\"It's time that representatives got out into communities like mine,\" he said. \"It's time they saw first-hand the true measure of struggle.\n\n\"Covid-19 can no longer be used as an excuse.\"\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Breakfast: \"If you want to carry on with that uplift you need to find £6bn from somewhere.\n\n\"Inevitably that means taxing people on their PAYE, maybe putting the cost of fuel up even more, even though it's at record levels or something else.\n\n\"Nothing is free when you're making these decisions.\"\n\nManchester United's chief operating officer Collette Roche said the club was \"so proud\" of Rashford\n\nIn June 2020, Mr Rashford called on the government to reverse a decision not to provide free school meal vouchers, saying that \"the system isn't built for families like mine to succeed\".\n\nHe was later made an MBE for services to vulnerable children.\n\nIn September, it was announced pupils starting media studies GCSEs would study the impact of his campaigning.\n\nAuthor and broadcaster Lemn Sissay, the university's chancellor, said Mr Rashford being honoured was a \"highlight\" of his tenure.\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\nManchester United's former manager Sir Alex Ferguson, who was previously honoured by the university, joined Mr Rashford's family and friends at the ceremony.\n\nThe striker said \"to be in the presence of a great such as Sir Alex\", and the people who had \"played a huge role in my journey\" was \"special\".\n\nManchester United's chief operating officer Collette Roche said the club was \"so proud\".\n\n\"He is a young man who embodies everything which this club stands for,\" she said.\n\n\"He is humble, he is passionate and he is driven to succeed in everything he does.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said the universal credit top-up was always a \"temporary measure, designed to help claimants through the toughest stages of the pandemic\".\n\n\"But we are now seeing our economy starting to bounce back so our focus is rightly on helping people back into high-quality, well-paid jobs,\" they said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The PHA has told schools the email contains \"a number of important inaccuracies\" about the vaccine.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) has warned post primary schools in Northern Ireland about hoax Covid vaccine consent letters.\n\nSome schools have received emails claiming to come from the NHS, which contain a \"consent checklist\" for vaccination.\n\nThe email asks them to share the checklist with parents and pupils.\n\nBut the PHA said \"the false email and 'consent form' content contains a number of important inaccuracies\".\n\nIt should \"not be forwarded to parents,\" the PHA said.\n\nBBC News NI has been contacted by some principals in Northern Ireland whose schools have received the hoax consent forms.\n\nThey are presented as a form with information to be sent to parents ahead of pupils being given Covid vaccinations.\n\nBelow an \"NHS Vaccines\" logo, the consent form includes claims such as the vaccine being a risk for \"strokes, blindness, deafness, clotting, miscarriages, anaphylaxis and cardiovascular disorders\".\n\nAbout 100,000 12 to 15 year olds in Northern Ireland will be offered a jab by the start of December\n\nAs a result, the PHA has written to schools in Northern Ireland warning them that the material is false.\n\n\"Materials include a branded 'consent form' has the look and feel of authoritative NHS communications using a made up NHS vaccines logo,\" the PHA letter said.\n\nThe agency said that some schools elsewhere in the UK had mistakenly circulated the hoax checklist to parents.\n\n\"Please only forward to parents materials that have come from the PHA or your own Trust school nursing teams,\" the PHA told principals.\n\nThe agency has published guidance on the imminent rollout of the vaccine to 12 to 15 year olds in Northern Ireland.\n\nAbout 100,000 children and young people in Northern Ireland will be offered a jab by the start of December.\n\nThe PHA said that information packs for children and parents would \"be delivered to schools in the second to third week of October to make sure that individuals, or those giving consent on their behalf, have enough information to enable them to make a decision before they give consent\".\n\n\"In Northern Ireland, Covid-19 vaccine for school children is being offered at school by the usual Trust school health nursing arrangements,\" the PHA letter to principals said.\n\n\"Schools will be receiving an information pack with more details from the PHA via the Education Authority school systems very shortly.\"", "New simplified travel rules have come into force in the UK, with the traffic light system replaced by a single red list.\n\nMost fully vaccinated travellers arriving from non-red list countries will no longer have to take a test before setting off for the UK.\n\nAirlines UK said it would make travelling abroad easier and cheaper.\n\nBut those coming from red list destinations must still pay to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days.\n\nUnder the changes, which came into force at 04:00 BST, the green and amber lists have been scrapped.\n\nTesting rules are also being eased for people travelling from non-red list destinations who have been vaccinated in the UK, the EU, the US, or any of 18 other recognised countries.\n\nAnyone under 18 who is resident in those countries can also travel to the UK without testing.\n\nThese groups were already able to avoid self-isolating on their arrival back in the UK.\n\nAll travellers - except children under five years old - will still have to pay for a PCR test two days after arrival.\n\nPeople who are not fully vaccinated will need a pre-departure test and a PCR test on days two and eight after they return, and must self-isolate for 10 days at home.\n\nAnd those arriving from red list countries, including Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines and South Africa, must quarantine for 10 days in a government-approved hotel, at a cost of £2,285 for one adult. Only UK or Irish nationals, or UK residents, are allowed to enter the UK if they have been in a red country in the previous 10 days.\n\nThe red list is due to be updated later this week.\n\nThe government may also announce additions to the list of countries whose vaccination certificates are recognised by the UK.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"We are accelerating towards a future where travel continues to reopen safely and remains open for good, and today's rule changes are good news for families, businesses and the travel sector.\n\n\"Our priority remains to protect public health but, with more than eight in 10 people now fully vaccinated, we are able to take these steps to lower the cost of testing and help the sector to continue in its recovery.\"\n\nThere was a surge in holiday bookings after the government announced the changes last month and the travel sector has welcomed the move.\n\nThe industry previously criticised the government for being too slow to ease and simplify rules on testing and quarantine.\n\nFrom later in October, the government has said fully vaccinated people coming to England will no longer have to take a PCR test two days after arrival and can take a cheaper lateral flow test instead.\n\nNo date has been set for this change but ministers are aiming to have it in place for the half-term school break.\n\nSo far, no other UK nation has followed suit.\n\nScotland has said it will \"align with the UK post-arrival testing regime\" but has not announced further details. The Welsh government said it had \"concerns\" about easing its testing regime.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, which represents UK carriers, said: \"Things are moving in the right direction and the removal of these restrictions will make it easier and cheaper for people to travel.\"\n\nHowever, he said the UK remained \"an outlier on arrivals testing for vaccinated passengers\".\n\nAirlines UK hopes to see more countries removed from the red list at the next update and further mutual recognition of vaccine status for those jabbed in other countries, he added.\n\nWillie Walsh, head of industry body the International Air Transport Association, welcomed the change as a \"positive step\", saying the government's testing and quarantine restrictions had been both unscientific and costly.\n\n\"People have been led to believe that the risk is people flying into the country. The risk was inside the country,\" he said.\n\nAlan French, chief executive at Thomas Cook, said more options would now be available for travellers.\n\n\"They will be more confident if they book the holiday, they can travel safely there and be able to return in a transparent way, which is something they've not been able to do,\" he said.\n\nMr French said since the government announced the changes, three weeks ago, his company had seen bookings more than double.\n\nThe UK recorded 30,439 cases on Sunday, with the total number of cases in the past seven days up one per cent on the previous week.\n\nHowever, the number of Covid deaths and hospital admissions are falling, with 43 deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported on Sunday.\n\nHow will the new system affect you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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 number of countries on the UK Covid travel red list will be cut from 54 to seven, the government says.\n\nSouth Africa, Brazil and Mexico come off the red list, which requires travellers to quarantine in an approved hotel at their cost for 10 full days.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the changes begin on Monday and \"mark the next step\" in opening travel.\n\nThis latest move will be seen as a boost to the airline industry and families separated during the pandemic.\n\nPanama, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Haiti and the Dominican Republic remain on the red list.\n\nPandemic travel rules in the UK have recently been simplified, with the amber list cut, and advice against holidays changed for 32 countries.\n\nBut consumer group Which? warned the changes only reflect requirements for arriving back in the UK.\n\n\"Travellers should be aware that they may still face restrictions on entry to many destinations, especially those under 18 who are not yet vaccinated,\" it said.\n\nArrivals from 37 more destinations will have their vaccination status certificates recognised, meaning they can avoid more expensive post-arrival testing requirements.\n\nVaccinated travellers from Brazil, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, South Africa and Turkey will be treated the same as returning fully-vaccinated UK residents so long as they have not visited a red-list country in the 10 days before arriving in England.\n\nAll arrivals will still complete a passenger locator form.\n\nThe Scottish government said the changes were \"agreed on a four-nation basis\".\n\nThe Welsh government said that they increased opportunities for new infections and variants, but it was adopting them because it was not practical to have its own border policy.\n\nFor British expats Matt and Hannah Pirnie, who have lived in South Africa for a decade, the country's removal from the red list will mean it is easier to see family again.\n\n\"It's been a long pandemic for us. Not seeing family, not being allowed to go back, but more importantly grandparents not being able to come here and see their grandkids. It's been a long two years,\" Matt says.\n\n\"First of all when all the aeroplanes stopped initially - that was quite anxiety provoking - and then to be put on the red list for so long has just been quite hard to wrap your head around why,\" Hannah adds.\n\n\"Taking three children into a prison-like mentality was just a no-go, plus the cost. It's been quite hard really.\"\n\nAnnouncing the latest changes, Mr Shapps said the government was \"making it easier for families and loved ones to reunite\".\n\nHe said that with fewer restrictions \"and more people travelling, we can all continue to move safely forward together along our pathway to recovery\".\n\nIn addition to the shorter red list, the government said passengers would soon be able to use a photograph of a lateral flow test as a minimum requirement to verify a negative result.\n\nThis change - affecting tests taken by eligible fully-vaccinated people from non-red list countries two days after arrival in England - would come into effect in \"late October\", the Department for Transport (DfT) said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA UK government source said the government still aimed to replace the so-called day two \"PCR test on arrival\" with a cheaper lateral flow test by the half-term break, for many schools in England after 22 October.\n\nBut they said the government was still working on a date for when the new testing rule would be introduced.\n\nUnder current rules, travellers must use more expensive PCR tests for their post-arrival day two screening. People who are not fully vaccinated must provide a further PCR test on day eight.\n\nThe DfT said NHS lateral flow devices cannot be used for the purpose of international travel. \"Both pre-departure tests and on arrival tests must be bought from private providers,\" it said.\n\nAirlines and the travel industry praised a \"much-improved system\" but called on ministers to implement changes to testing as soon as possible and consider scrapping tests for passengers arriving from low-risk countries.\n\nA spokesperson for London's Heathrow Airport said the announced changes would \"kick start a global Britain\".\n\n\"However, the missing piece to this is clarity on when cheaper lateral flow tests will be accepted, which is now critical in order to save the half-term getaway for many,\" they said.\n\nA further 40,701 new coronavirus cases were reported in the UK on Thursday, alongside another 122 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe following destinations will be removed from the red list from 04:00 BST on Monday:", "For British expats Matt and Hannah Pirnie, who have lived in South Africa for a decade, the country's removal from the red list will mean it is easier to see family again.\n\n\"It's been a long pandemic for us. Not seeing family, not being allowed to go back, but more importantly grandparents not being able to come here and see their grandkids. It's been a long two years,\" Matt says.\n\n\"First of all when all the aeroplanes stopped initially - that was quite anxiety provoking - and then to be put on the red list for so long has just been quite hard to wrap your head around why,\" Hannah adds.\n\n\"Taking three children into a prison-like mentality was just a no-go, plus the cost. It's been quite hard really.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Newcastle\n\nAmnesty International has urged the Premier League to change its owners' and directors' test \"to address human rights issues\" amid the Saudi Arabian-backed takeover of Newcastle United.\n\nApproval for the takeover from the Premier League could come on Thursday.\n\nA consortium would be in control of the club, not the Saudi state.\n\nThe state has been accused of human rights abuses, which Amnesty International says must be a factor in deciding whether the takeover proceeds.\n\n\"Instead of allowing those implicated in serious human rights violations to walk into English football simply because they have deep pockets, we've urged the Premier League to change their owners' and directors' test to address human rights issues,\" said Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International chief executive.\n\n\"The phrase 'human rights' doesn't even appear in the owners' and directors' test despite English football supposedly adhering to Fifa standards. We've sent the Premier League a suggested new human rights-compliant test and we reiterate our call on them to overhaul their standards on this.\n\n\"As with Formula One, elite boxing, golf or tennis, an association with top-tier football is a very attractive means of rebranding a country or person with a tarnished reputation. The Premier League needs to better understand the dynamic of sportswashing and tighten its ownership rules.\"\n\nThe Public Investment Fund (PIF), which is set to provide 80% of funds for the £300m deal and would be the majority owner, will be seen as separate to the state and therefore allow the takeover to pass the Premier League owners' and directors' test.\n\nHowever, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is also the chair of PIF - he was accused of ordering the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which the Kingdom's leader denies.\n\nKhashoggi's fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, has also urged the Premier League not to allow the move to go through, citing the involvement of the crown prince.\n\nIt is believed a resolution came after Saudi Arabia settled an alleged piracy dispute with Qatar-based broadcaster beIN Sports, which owns rights to show Premier League matches in the Middle East.\n\nBut sources have told BBC Sport that an agreement between the Premier League and the consortium was found prior to the news emerging on Wednesday.\n\nWith PIF deemed a separate entity, that, and any piracy issues, are no longer an impediment to the takeover in the Premier League's view.\n\nMany Newcastle fans want current owner Mike Ashley to leave the club after a 14-year reign, which they believe has been plagued by a lack of investment and ambition.\n\nThe Premier League and Newcastle have declined to comment.\n• None 'Why do people have to do that?!' Ricky Gervais reveals all of his everyday frustrations\n• None Is it time for football to phase out heading?", "In 2007, Spencer Beynon spoke with BBC Wales about his experiences in Iraq\n\nAn ex-soldier who died after being Tasered by officers \"suffered a campaign of harassment\" by police in the years leading up to his death, his father has told an inquest.\n\nPlatoon Sgt Spencer Beynon, 43, from Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, died after officers were called in June 2016 over concerns about his behaviour.\n\nHe was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after tours of Afghanistan and Iraq.\n\nAn inquest is taking place in Llanelli.\n\nThe jury was told he had been discharged from the Royal Welsh Regiment on medical grounds.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police officers responded to a report from a neighbour on 14 June 2016 of a man walking down a road barefoot holding a cannabis pipe, and found Mr Beynon in a nearby street with a neck wound.\n\nHe collapsed after being hit with a Taser, with officers claiming they had deployed the weapon after he had shown \"aggression\" towards them.\n\nMr Beynon died near his home in Llanelli\n\nChristopher Beynon, his father, said in the 18 months prior to his death, officers had repeatedly searched his son's home, causing severe damage to the windows and doors of the property on one occasion.\n\nMr Beynon said he believed his son's mental health was improving, and that he had become interested in Buddhism and was \"more placid\".\n\nBut on the day he died, Christopher Beynon said he arrived home at about 09:30 to find his son behaving \"absolutely nuts\".\n\n\"He was shouting at the top of his voice: 'I love you, I love you, I'm going to make you proud',\" he said.\n\n\"He got down into a prayer then got up and tried to exorcise the devil from me. His mood changed, and a blackness came over him.\"\n\nAfter his son left, Mr Beynon said he called 999 asking for him to be detained under the Mental Health Act while his wife went out to look for him.\n\nHe said he believed the police then told \"a catalogue of lies\" about what had happened, including saying his body had already been taken by an ambulance when it remained under a sheet in the road.\n\nDescribing his son's problems following his return from the war zones, Mr Beynon said: \"Anyone who has lived with PTSD knows it's a horror show. It was for him, and for me, his mother and sister.\n\n\"He was screaming, crying, punching the walls, and locking himself in his room for days on end.\"\n\nA statement from Mr Beynon's girlfriend Victoria Key, who has since died, was also read out.\n\nIn it, she said he began acting strangely a couple of days before he died, saying he saw the devil in people, as well as their dog.", "Prof David MacMillan was awarded the prize for developing a new way of building molecules\n\nA Nobel Prize-winning scientist says his success is down to being Scottish and knowing how to get to a punchline.\n\nProf David MacMillan, who is from North Lanarkshire, told the BBC that growing up in Scotland meant he learned how to convey ideas quickly.\n\nThe professor said he was \"very, very proud\" of his \"working class\" upbringing in New Stevenston.\n\nHe was jointly awarded a Nobel Prize for chemistry with German Scientist Benjamin List earlier this week.\n\nThey were honoured by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which organises the awards, after developing a new way of building molecules.\n\nProf MacMillan, of Princeton University in the United States, said the concept has been used to make medicines faster and has helped with the development of drugs for Alzheimer's, cancer and heart disease.\n\nHe grew up in New Stevenston, near Bellshill, and gained his undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Glasgow before moving to the US for postgraduate studies.\n\nThe scientist said his Scottish upbringing helped him learn how to tell a story and explain concepts quickly.\n\n\"Growing up in Scotland, you learn how to talk and you learn how to tell a joke and you can get to a punchline,\" he said.\n\n\"You can convey ideas quickly from growing up in Scotland - you're good at it.\n\n\"So we were able to convey to people that this was actually a pretty interesting and valuable concept that people could use in science and it certainly helped my career and certainly helped the science move forward, but it wouldn't have happened if I was not Scottish.\"\n\nProf MacMillan moved to the United States after completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Glasgow\n\nProf MacMillan attended New Stevenston Primary School and Bellshill Academy and he praised the \"brilliant\" education he received.\n\nHe said: \"I am one of those people who's incredibly lucky to have come through that system.\"\n\nThe scientist gained his undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Glasgow in 1991, before being awarded a PhD in organic chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, in 1996.\n\nHe studied at Harvard University before beginning his career at the University of California, Berkeley, moving to Caltech and then Princeton in 2006.\n\nAsked to explain his discovery in layman's terms, he told BBC Radio Good Morning Scotland programme: \"If you look around yourself right now, in the studio or at home, everything around you, stuff, is all made by chemical reactions, and how those chemical reactions work is based on this thing called catalysis.\n\n\"We invented these new types of catalysis that allowed you to do things you couldn't do before, to make new materials, new stuff around you.\n\n\"But probably the most important thing immediately is how to make medicines even faster so that's been a great thing.\"\n\nThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Wednesday: \"Building molecules is a difficult art. Benjamin List and David MacMillan are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction: organocatalysis.\n\n\"This has had a great impact on pharmaceutical research, and has made chemistry greener.\"\n\nProf List and Prof MacMillan, who are both 53, will share the prize money of 10 million krona (£842,611).", "UK wholesale gas prices hit a record high before falling after Russia said it was boosting supplies to Europe.\n\nRussia President Vladimir Putin appeared to calm the market after gas prices had risen by 37% in 24 hours to trade at 400p per therm on Wednesday.\n\nUK gas was 60p per therm at the start of the year, but high global demand and reduced supply has driven prices up.\n\nThe high cost of wholesale gas has seen several UK energy firms collapse and halted production across industries.\n\nFollowing Mr Putin's comments on supplies, gas prices dropped to about 257p a therm later on Wednesday.\n\nSusannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the changing gas prices underlined the \"volatility in the market and the nervousness amongst investors about low stockpiles of gas across Europe\".\n\n\"When Putin's promises help calm the storm of rising prices which was pummelling financial markets, it's clear investors are desperate for any gust of good news blowing in,\" she said.\n\nThe surge in prices led to Energy Intensive Users Group, which represents steel, chemical and fertiliser firms, calling on the government to help keep businesses and industries running.\n\nIndustry leaders said surging costs had already resulted in steel production halting \"at times of peak demand\".\n\nLast month, US-owned CF Industries shut two UK sites that produce 60% of the country's commercial carbon dioxide supplies because of the rise in gas prices, before the government stepped in to meet its operating costs for its Teesside plant for three weeks.\n\nThe shut down led to a shortage of carbon dioxide - a by-product of the fertiliser factories - which sparked warnings from food producers and supermarkets of shortages in the supply of fresh produce. The gas is to stun animals for slaughter and in packaging to prolong shelf life.\n\n\"We have already seen the impact of the truly astronomical increases in energy costs on production in the fertiliser and steel sectors,\" said Richard Leese, chairman of the Energy Intensive Users Group.\n\n\"Nobody wants to see a repeat in other industries this winter, given that UK EIIs [energy intensive industries] produce so many essential domestic and industrial products and are intrinsically linked with many supply chains.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: \"We are determined to secure a competitive future for our energy intensive industries and in recent years have provided them with extensive support, including more than £2bn to help with the costs of energy and to protect jobs.\n\n\"Our exposure to volatile global gas prices underscores the importance of our plan to build a strong, home-grown renewable energy sector to further reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.\"\n\nBesides industry struggles, a total of nine energy suppliers have collapsed in recent weeks, which has affected nearly 1.73 million customers in September alone.\n\nThe companies that have gone bust have been mostly smaller firms, which have been unable to deliver price promises to customers because of the surge in gas prices.\n\nFirms going bust has also had a knock on effect to auto-switching services, with Look After My Bills, famous for its popularity on BBC Two's Dragon's Den, \"pausing\" its operations, and fellow auto-switching company Flipper closing down completely.\n\nFlipper said in a statement that it had withdrawn from the market and was closing because it could \"no longer sustain the great savings\" its customers had \"come to expect\".\n\nMeanwhile, Look After My Bills said it was \"temporarily pausing\" its switching service, but would be \"back as soon as we can\" access energy deals \"right\" for customers.\n\nAffected customers have been told they will be switched to a new tariff by energy regulator Ofgem and be contacted by their new supplier.\n\nIt has advised people to take a meter reading and to wait until a new supplier has been appointed before looking to switch to another energy firm.\n\nJonathan Brearley, the boss of Ofgem, has warned that the cost of protecting customers from failing energy providers could lead to higher bills.\n\nA higher energy price cap came into force on Friday, with those on standard tariffs, with typical household levels of energy use, seeing bills go up by £139 to £1,277 a year.\n\nCustomers are protected from sudden hikes in gas prices through the energy price cap, which sets maximum prices and charges for those on a standard or default tariff.\n\nHowever, the next revision of the cap, which will affect bills from the start of April, is likely to rise significantly to reflect the greater costs faced by suppliers.\n\nAnalysts at energy consultancy Cornwall Insight have predicted the next cap will mean the typical household will have an annual bill of £1,600 and the impact of the crisis could be felt into 2023.\n\n\"The explosion of choice and innovation seen in the sector in the last decade by challenger suppliers has been fundamentally altered in a matter of months, and while all eyes will inevitably be on this winter, the need for an enduring solution to ensure that the gains experienced by almost three decades of competition are not lost,\" said its senior consultant, Craig Lowrey.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Islamic State mother Nicole Jack says she would like UK politicians to \"at least try to understand\"\n\nA British woman who joined the Islamic State group with her young children has said UK politicians should \"open your minds\" to allowing them to return.\n\nNicole Jack and her three daughters are currently being held in a detention camp in Syria alongside thousands of wives and children of IS fighters.\n\nShe said they are \"out of sight, out of mind\" and the UK government must not sweep them \"under the carpet\".\n\nThe Home Office said its priority is to ensure the UK's safety and security.\n\nMs Jack and her daughters - aged 12, 9 and 7 - are currently in Syria's Roj camp, where Shamima Begum is also being held.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time, the 34-year-old told the BBC that despite living under IS rule for three years, she was not a security risk to the UK.\n\nThe UK government has been unwilling to let those who joined IS - a group that committed genocide and murder around the world - back to the UK, viewing them as potential national security threats.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicole Jack's daughter: \"I don't like how the camp is dirty\"\n\nMs Jack left London with her husband and her then four young children to join IS in October 2015. She had told relatives her family was leaving for Somalia to start a new life.\n\nIS had already become notorious for its brutality, including public beheadings, before she joined the group. And unlike some recruits from the UK, who joined as teenagers, she was an adult when she left.\n\nShe told the BBC few people will understand her decision to take her children to a dangerous warzone and live under IS rule.\n\nWhen pressed for an answer, she said her husband, Hussein Ali, threatened to split the family up if she refused to travel with him. \"It was about my family being together\", she claimed.\n\nBut the following year her husband died fighting for the militant group.\n\nShe then remarried, to another foreign IS recruit - Trinidadian fighter, Adil de Montrichard - who went on to die in an airstrike, which also killed her 10-year-old son, Isaaq.\n\nShe says she coped with the death of her son by \"knowing that he's in a better place\". \"Anything else can put us on the verge of a breakdown and this is what I can't risk,\" she added.\n\nWhen asked about the group's brutality, she says she was not witness to its worst crimes. She told the BBC: \"I haven't seen a beheading in my life.\"\n\nNicole Jack and her daughters - aged 12, 9 and 7 - are in Syria's Roj camp, where Shamima Begum is also being held\n\nThe BBC also spoke to her 12-year-old daughter, who we are not naming. She said she \"misses her grannies and aunties\" and hopes to return to the UK so she can \"go to school and make friends\".\n\nThe children, who were born in London, attend a makeshift school in the camp, run by Save the Children.\n\n\"I like learning different things, like different languages,\" the 12-year-old said. \"When you learn more things, your brain becomes better and all these kind of things. I want to be smart when I grow up.\"\n\nThere are estimated to be at least 16 British women and between 35 and 60 British children detained in Syrian camps, according to international advocacy groups.\n\nMany of the women in the camp - including Shamima Begum, who left the UK aged 15 with two other east London schoolgirls - have been stripped of their British citizenship.\n\nHowever, international charities are pushing governments to take back more of the children. Ms Jack, who has British and Trinidadian nationality, says she does not know if her citizenship has been removed.\n\nBut she insists she is not prepared to allow her children to return to Britain without her. \"I know for sure if my kids are separated from me they will not be in a stable situation, because we are a unit.\"\n\nThousands of miles away in London, the children's grandmother, hospital nurse Charleen Jack Henry, says the children should be allowed to return.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charleen Jack Henry, Nicole Jack's mother: \"Let her come and face the consequences\"\n\n\"It is not fair and it is not right for these children to be languishing in this place,\" she said, adding that Ms Jack should also be allowed back to \"face the consequences\" in the UK.\n\nBritain has said it is willing to repatriate orphans and unaccompanied children.\n\nKurdish authorities responsible for managing prisons and camps in north-east Syria have repeatedly urged Western governments for support in dealing with foreign IS fighters, as well as their wives and children. They want countries to repatriate their own citizens.\n\nSome countries, like Sweden, Finland, Belgium and Germany, have brought back children and their mothers.\n\nMeanwhile, Save the Children says violence and illness are a daily risk for children living in Syrian camps.\n\n\"These children are experiencing traumatic events that no child should have to go through - and this is after years of living in conflict zones,\" Sonia Khush, director of the charity's Syria response team said. \"It is incomprehensible that they are condemned to this life.\"\n\nThe UK government wouldn't comment specifically on Nicole Jack's case, but said: \"Our priority is to ensure the safety and security of the UK.\"\n\nIt said those who remain in Syria \"include dangerous individuals\" adding: \"It's important that we do not make judgements about the national security risk someone poses based on their gender and age.\"", "The maker of Quality Street and Lion bars has said it is experiencing some supply chain problems ahead of the Christmas period.\n\nBut Mark Schneider, the chief executive of Nestle, told the BBC that it was working hard to make sure products made it on to shelves this winter.\n\nA number of sectors have had problems with their supply chains due to a chronic shortage of HGV drivers.\n\nFactors including global bottlenecks with shipping have also played a part.\n\n\"Like other businesses, we are seeing some labour shortages and some transportation issues but it's our UK team's top priority to work constructively with retailers to supply them,\" he said.\n\nWhen asked whether he could guarantee Quality Street would be in the shops this Christmas he replied: \"We are working hard.\"\n\nNestle, which also makes Aero and KitKat, is the world's largest producer of dairy products - and works with hundreds of thousands of farmers around the world with millions of cows.\n\nAhead of a major climate summit in Glasgow next month, chief executive Mark Schneider was in the UK to launch a range of non-dairy, plant-based alternatives to its milk and chocolate in an attempt to further reduce the company's greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nAgriculture accounts for 20% of the world's greenhouse emissions and methane from belching cows is a major contributor.\n\nAlong with new non-dairy products, Nestle is also working with new types of feed for cattle that produce less methane per litre of milk produced.\n\nMark Schneider said Nestle was working hard to overcome supply chain issues ahead of Christmas\n\nMr Schneider also admitted it was responding to the commercial reality of a market that has seen consumers - particularly those who are younger and more affluent - move away from dairy products to oat and soya-based alternatives.\n\n\"We think less meat and dairy is good for the planet, but it's also good for diet and health, and it is also a big commercial opportunity,\" Mr Schneider said.\n\nHe said that these alternative products would cost more than their dairy equivalents at first but that the cost would come down over time.\n\n\"The first unit is always going to be a little more expensive, this is a hump you have to get over, and then at some point economies of scale kick in making them more affordable as we have seen in electric cars.\n\n\"Some consumers are willing to pay a premium now for products that pave the way for that,\" he said.", "Spencer Beynon's father called 999 on the morning of his son's death, saying he had gone \"absolutely insane\"\n\nA father's plea in a 999 call for his son to be sectioned was not passed to police, an inquest has heard.\n\nIn June 2016, Platoon Sgt Spencer Beynon, 43, from Llanelli, was hit by a Taser fired by officers called over concerns about his behaviour.\n\nHe had been medically discharged from the Army with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after tours of Afghanistan and Iraq.\n\nAn inquest into his death is taking place in Llanelli.\n\nMr Beynon's father Christopher Beynon phoned Dyfed-Powys Police on the morning of his death, saying his son had gone \"absolutely insane\", the inquest heard.\n\nHe told the call handler his son had \"PTSD compounded by constant use of cannabis\" and should be \"sectioned\".\n\nHowever, the call handler did not relay that information to the police, and categorised the report as low priority and drugs-related because Mr Beynon was said to be in possession of cannabis.\n\nMr Beynon died near his home in Llanelli after a neighbour phoned the police\n\nDuring the call, a transcript of which was read to the jury, Christopher Beynon described how he had found his son \"shouting at the top of his voice, 'I love you, I love you, I'm going to make you proud'\".\n\nHe also said his son had tried to exorcise the devil from him, claiming to be a Buddhist monk and that he saw his \"mood change, and a blackness come over him\".\n\nBased on the information that was recorded in the log, officers at Llanelli Police Station chose to take no further action, the inquest was told.\n\nAsked if a different decision should have been taken that day, Sgt Dylan Davies, who was on duty that morning, said: \"No, not based on the intelligence we had.\"\n\nBut he later admitted that had he been aware of all of what Christopher Beynon had told the call handler, he would have sent officers to visit the father.\n\nThe court heard how previous calls made by the family about Spencer Beynon's mental health had resulted in armed police officers being called and him being sectioned under the Mental Health Act.\n\nLater on the day of his death, 14 June 2016, the force responded to a report from a neighbour concerned about a man walking down a road barefoot holding a cannabis pipe.\n\nWitnesses at the time claimed they saw Mr Beynon stab his dog and then himself.\n\nOfficers found him in Maes y Bwlch, an estate near his home, with a neck wound.\n\nHe later collapsed after being hit with a Taser, with officers claiming they had deployed the weapon after he had shown \"aggression\" towards them.", "The armed forces will help the ambulance service from next week\n\nMore than 100 military personnel will help the Welsh Ambulance Service as drivers from 14 October until the end of November.\n\nSupport was sought by the service last month amid rising pressure from Covid.\n\nIt is hoped the assistance will ease this so the ambulance trust can keep providing essential services.\n\nAmbulance chief executive Jason Killens said he was \"proud and grateful\" to be working with the military for the third time since the pandemic began.\n\nA total of 110 personnel will be deployed across Wales from the Army, Navy and RAF.\n\nThey will work as non-emergency drivers to attend lower priority calls to free up ambulance resources for emergency calls where there is an immediate risk to life.\n\nMr Killens said: \"We're proud and grateful to be working alongside the military once again, who did a superb job of assisting us on two occasions previously last year.\n\n\"The pandemic has presented a challenge like no other, but the last couple of months in particular have meant significant and sustained pressures on our ambulance service, including high levels of demand and an increase in Covid-19 related activity.\n\n\"Winter is our busiest time, and having military colleagues on board once more will bolster our capacity and put us in the best possible position to provide a safe service to the people of Wales.\"\n\nAssistance was granted after a Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA) request was made.\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart said: \"Once again the UK's armed forces are playing a key role in the fight against Covid-19 by supporting the critical work of the Welsh Ambulance Service.\n\n\"I am hugely grateful for their commitment and expertise.\n\n\"I would like to extend my gratitude to all those who have worked incredibly hard to ensure our public services deliver for the people of Wales throughout the pandemic.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Williams-Ellis waited two hours for an ambulance after \"life-changing\" burns\n\n\"The deployment of 110 personnel to support the ambulance service will ensure WAST (Welsh Ambulance Service Trust) can continue to deliver their life-saving services,\" he said.\n\nAs well as drivers, three members of the military will help support planning at NHS Wales.\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart said the armed forces would play a key role\n\nIt was revealed on Thursday that delays outside hospitals are costing ambulance crews thousands of hours as they are unable to respond to other calls.\n\nThe armed forces also helped the Welsh Ambulance Service by providing 68 personnel in April 2020 and 120 emergency service staff in December 2020, including medics.\n\nThey supported Wales' vaccine rollout in this year and gave planning advice, delivered PPE and helped with testing in Merthyr Tydfil.", "Last updated on .From the section Newcastle\n\nA Saudi Arabian-backed £305m takeover of Newcastle United has been completed.\n\nThe Premier League has approved the takeover after receiving \"legally binding assurances\" that the Saudi state would not control the club.\n\nInstead the Public Investment Fund (PIF), which will provide 80% of funds for the deal, is seen as separate to the state.\n\nThis is despite the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, being listed as chair of PIF.\n\nThe sale went through after the deal passed the Premier League owners' and directors' test.\n\nThe takeover brings to an end Mike Ashley's 14-year spell as Newcastle United owner.\n\nFans gathered outside Newcastle's St James' Park stadium on Thursday to celebrate the takeover being approved.\n\nPIF have assets of £250bn, making Newcastle one of the richest clubs in the world.\n\nFinancier Amanda Staveley, who fronted the consortium, said the new owners are making a \"long-term investment\" to ensure Newcastle are \"regularly competing for major trophies\".\n\nNewcastle's last major domestic trophy was the 1955 FA Cup.\n• None What's next for Newcastle after £305m takeover?\n\nA Premier League statement said: \"The Premier League, Newcastle United Football Club and St James Holdings Limited have today settled the dispute over the takeover of the club by the consortium of PIF, PCP Capital Partners and RB Sports & Media.\n\n\"The legal disputes concerned which entities would own and/or have the ability to control the club following the takeover. All parties have agreed the settlement is necessary to end the long uncertainty for fans over the club's ownership.\n\n\"The Premier League has now received legally binding assurances that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will not control Newcastle United Football Club.\n\n\"All parties are pleased to have concluded this process which gives certainty and clarity to Newcastle United Football Club and their fans.\"\n\nEverything you need to know - all in one place Scroll through our Newcastle page for all the latest content on the takeover\n\nA deal was initially agreed in April 2020, but the buyers walked away four months later when the Premier League offered arbitration to settle a disagreement on who would control the club.\n\nIt is believed that a resolution came after Saudi Arabia settled an alleged piracy dispute with Qatar-based broadcaster beIN Sports, which own rights to show Premier League matches in the Middle East.\n\nBut sources have told BBC Sport that an agreement between the Premier League and the consortium was reached prior to news emerging on Wednesday that the piracy dispute had been resolved.\n\nThe Saudi Arabian state has been accused of human rights abuses, but with the majority owner PIF deemed a separate entity, that, and any piracy issues, were no longer an impediment to the takeover, in the Premier League's view.\n\nWestern intelligence agencies believe the crown prince ordered the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 - which he denies.\n\nPCP Capital chief executive Amanda Staveley will take a seat on Newcastle's board, while Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of PIF, will act as the club's non-executive chairman.\n\nStaveley told BBC sports editor Dan Roan that PCP Capital took concerns over Saudi Arabia's human rights record \"very seriously\" but reiterated that their partner \"is not that Saudi state, it's PIF\".\n\nWhen asked if this was a case of 'sportswashing' by Saudi Arabia, she said: \"No, not at all, this is very much about the PIF's investment into a fantastic football team and we look forward to growing the club.\"\n\nSaudi Arabia has been accused of human rights abuses and women's rights campaigners have been imprisoned, despite some reform under Mohammed bin Salman, such as an end to the ban on women driving.\n\nHomosexuality is outlawed in the country and the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association says the death penalty is the legally prescribed punishment for same-sex sexual acts in Saudi Arabia.\n\nAmnesty International UK said the takeover is \"an extremely bitter blow for human rights defenders\".\n\n\"We can understand that this will be seen as a great day by many Newcastle United fans,\" said chief executive Sacha Deshmukh.\n\n\"But it's also a very worrying day for anyone who cares about the ownership of English football clubs and whether these great clubs are being used to sportswash human rights abuse.\"\n\nDeshmukh reiterated Amnesty International's call for the Premier League to \"change their owners' and directors' test to address human rights issues\".\n\nKhashoggi's fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, previously urged the Premier League not to allow the move to go through, citing the involvement of the crown prince.\n\nSports Direct chief executive Ashley bought Newcastle for £134m in May 2007.\n\nHe first put the club up for sale in September 2008 amid a series of protests from fans following the resignation of popular manager Kevin Keegan.\n\nNewcastle were relegated from the Premier League that season and again in 2015-16, although returned to the top flight at the first opportunity both times by winning the Championship.\n\nThe Magpies' highest Premier League finish during Ashley's ownership was fifth in 2011-12 under Alan Pardew.\n\nAshley put Newcastle up for sale again in October 2017.\n\nThe club are 19th and winless after seven games this season, with boss Steve Bruce under pressure - a Newcastle United Supporters' Trust (NUST) survey said this week 94% of fans want Bruce to leave.\n\nThe same survey said 93.8% of its members are in favour of the takeover and NUST said in a statement that the sale brought \"the first real hope\" of success to the club \"for many years\".\n\nNUST added it looked forward to working with the owners to \"rejuvenate one of the greatest football clubs in England\".\n• None Our coverage of Newcastle United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Newcastle - go straight to all the best content", "Tory MP Peter Bottomley has stood by comments he made about MPs struggling to get by and needing more pay.\n\nThe MP faced an angry backlash over the claims, with Labour accusing him of being out of touch.\n\nBut Sir Peter said the comments were part of a broader interview in which he also expressed concern about universal credit cuts.\n\nThe £20-a-week top up to the benefit officially ended on Wednesday, despite warnings about rising living costs.\n\nLabour's shadow child poverty secretary Wes Streeting said he was \"genuinely infuriated\" by Sir Peter's comments.\n\n\"We are perfectly well paid, and unfortunately too many MPs on the Conservative side, at the same time as whingeing about very high - relatively high - levels of pay that MPs get in this country, at the same time they are clobbering people who are losing over £1,000 a year, which is 10% of their income in some cases,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nHe added: \"This is my problem with the Tories - it's not that they're evil, bad people who go into work every day thinking 'How can we plunge more kids into poverty?'\n\n\"But, as Peter Bottomley's comments show, they just don't know what life is like for a hell of a lot of people in this country and they make policies that are actively hurting people who are going out, working hard, trying to make the best for their family and are really struggling.\"\n\nBut Sir Peter told the BBC he was not arguing for MP pay rises until after the next general election \"which is probably in three years' time\".\n\nHe said he was trying to make the point that increasing MPs' salaries from the current average of just over £80,000 a year would make it easier to widen the pool of people interested in changing careers to become parliamentarians, without having to take a pay cut.\n\n\"If people can't switch across to being an MP, you're going to exclude a whole lot of people\" he said, such as headteachers and public sector executives.\n\nThe 77-year-old Worthing West MP - the longest serving MP in the Commons - said he also shared concerns expressed by other Tory MPs about the government's benefit cuts although he is not arguing for the universal credit uplift to be made permanent.\n\nHe \"would have agreed to increase universal credit temporarily\" as Chancellor Rishi Sunak did, he said, because it was a way to \"support those hurt most by the pandemic\".\n\nBut he expressed concern at the speed with which it has been removed and said it would have been better to taper the extra money down to \"avoid cutting it off at a cliff-edge\".\n\nConcerns are growing over cost of living rises\n\nConservative peer, Philippa Stroud, a former adviser to Iain Duncan Smith when he was work and pensions secretary, has threatened to force a vote on the universal credit cut in the House of Lords.\n\nAnd speaking on the BBC News Channel, Shadow Business Secretary, Ed Miliband said Labour was \"not giving up\" on attempts to reverse the reduction.\n\n\"It beggars belief\" he said ,that in the context of escalating energy prices and tax rises, \"the government is ploughing ahead\" with the cut to the benefit.\n\nPeople are facing a \"double whammy\" and the situation is going to be \"unbearable for so many families\" he added and targeting support through the social security system is the best way to help them.", "The woman was approached in the Greengate Street car park in Barrow by Gary Shepherd, who was wearing a police-branded lanyard\n\nA man who pretended to be a police officer and attempted to arrest a woman has been jailed.\n\nGary Shepherd was wearing a lanyard with the word \"police\" emblazoned on it when he spoke to the woman in a car park in Barrow on Tuesday evening.\n\nHe said he was arresting her for drug dealing, but she challenged him with the help of a passer-by.\n\nAt Barrow Magistrates' Court Shepherd, 44, admitted impersonating a police officer and was jailed for 22 weeks.\n\nCumbria Police said he approached the woman in Greengate car park at about 18:30 BST but she did not believe he was a genuine police officer.\n\nShepherd fled the scene but was arrested later on Tuesday.\n\nSupt Matt Pearman said it was a \"gravely concerning incident\" especially given the recent case of Sarah Everard, who was murdered by a police officer who detained her under false pretences.\n\nSupt Pearman said: \"To be approached in this way by someone falsely claiming to be a police officer must have been extremely frightening for the victim, particularly coming so soon after the sentencing of Wayne Couzens last week.\"\n\nShepherd initially denied the incident had happened then later said it had been a \"joke\", a police spokesman said.\n\nMagistrates immediately invoked a four-week suspended sentence that Shepherd, of Abbey Road, Barrow, had previously been given for another offence.\n\nHe was sentenced to a further 18 weeks in prison for impersonating a police officer and common assault, which he also admitted.\n\nHis jailing came as Cumbria Police announced a new process for members of the public to confirm the identities of lone officers.\n\nOfficers will provide their collar number to anyone who asks and will contact the control room on the police radio to confirm their identity, location, that they are on duty and the reason they are speaking to someone.\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.", "For the first time, patients with secondary breast cancer in England and Wales are going to be counted in a special audit funded by the NHS.\n\nSecondary breast cancer is when the cancer has already spread to other parts of the body. The condition reached the headlines in September after the death of the singer Sarah Harding.\n\nCampaigners have fought for a decade for this information, which they say will improve patient treatment and support. 11,000 people die each year from breast cancer.\n\nThe BBC met Alina who was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer two years ago.\n\nIf you've been affected by cancer, help and support is available at BBC Action Line.", "Ivermectin has been called a Covid \"miracle\" drug, championed by vaccine opponents, and recommended by health authorities in some countries. But the BBC can reveal there are serious errors in a number of key studies that the drug's promoters rely on.\n\nFor some years ivermectin has been a vital anti-parasitic medicine used to treat humans and animals.\n\nBut during the pandemic there has been a clamour from some proponents for using the drug for something else - to fight Covid and prevent deaths.\n\nThe health authorities in the US, UK and EU have found there is insufficient evidence for using the drug against Covid, but thousands of supporters, many of them anti-vaccine activists, have continued to vigorously campaign for its use.\n\nIvermectin was approved for Covid treatment in Peru in May 2020\n\nMembers of social media groups swap tips on getting hold of the drug, even advocating the versions used for animals.\n\nThe hype around ivermectin - based on the strength of belief in the research - has driven large numbers of people around the world to use it.\n\nCampaigners for the drug point to a number of scientific studies and often claim this evidence is being ignored or covered up. But a review by a group of independent scientists has cast serious doubt on that body of research.\n\nThe BBC can reveal that more than a third of 26 major trials of the drug for use on Covid have serious errors or signs of potential fraud. None of the rest show convincing evidence of ivermectin's effectiveness.\n\nDr Kyle Sheldrick, one of the group investigating the studies, said they had not found \"a single clinical trial\" claiming to show that ivermectin prevented Covid deaths that did not contain \"either obvious signs of fabrication or errors so critical they invalidate the study\".\n\nThe scientists in the group - Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, Dr James Heathers, Dr Nick Brown and Dr Sheldrick - each have a track record of exposing dodgy science. They've been working together remotely on an informal and voluntary basis during the pandemic.\n\nThey formed a group looking deeper into ivermectin studies after biomedical student Jack Lawrence spotted problems with an influential study from Egypt. Among other issues, it contained patients who turned out to have died before the trial started. It has now been retracted by the journal that published it.\n\nThe group of independent scientists examined virtually every randomised controlled trial (RCT) on ivermectin and Covid - in theory the highest quality evidence - including all the key studies regularly cited by the drug's promoters.\n\nRCTs involve people being randomly chosen to receive either the drug which is being tested or a placebo - a dummy drug with no active properties.\n\nSome South Africans took to the streets to demand that the authorities allow ivermectin to be used\n\nThe team also looked at six particularly influential observational trials. This type of trial looks at what happens to people who are taking the drug anyway, so can be biased by the types of people who choose to take the treatment.\n\nOut of a total of 26 studies examined, there was evidence in five that the data may have been faked - for example they contained virtually impossible numbers or rows of identical patients copied and pasted.\n\nIn a further five there were major red flags - for example, numbers didn't add up, percentages were calculated incorrectly or local health bodies weren't aware they had taken place.\n\nOn top of these flawed trials, there were 14 authors of studies who failed to send data back. The independent scientists have flagged this as a possible indicator of fraud.\n\nThe sample of research papers examined by the independent group also contains some high-quality studies from around the world. But the major problems were all in the studies making big claims for ivermectin - in fact, the bigger the claim in terms of lives saved or infections prevented, the greater the concerns suggesting it might be faked or invalid, the researchers discovered.\n\nWhile it's extremely difficult to rule out human error in these trials, Dr Sheldrick, a medical doctor and researcher at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, believes it is highly likely at least some of them may have been knowingly manipulated.\n\nA recent study in Lebanon was found to have blocks of details of 11 patients that had been copied and pasted repeatedly - suggesting many of the trial's apparent patients didn't really exist.\n\nThe study's authors told the BBC that the \"original set of data was rigged, sabotaged or mistakenly entered in the final file\" and that they have submitted a retraction to the scientific journal which published it.\n\nAnother study from Iran seemed to show that ivermectin prevented people dying from Covid.\n\nBut the scientists who investigated it found issues. The records of how much iron was in patients' blood contained numbers in a sequence that was unlikely to come up naturally.\n\nAnd the patients given the placebo turned out to have had much lower levels of oxygen in their blood before the trial started than those given ivermectin. So they were already sicker and statistically more likely to die.\n\nBut this pattern was repeated across a wide range of different measurements. The people with \"bad\" measurements ended up in the placebo group, the ones with \"good\" measurements in the ivermectin group.\n\nThe likelihood of this happening randomly across all these different measurements was vanishingly small, Dr Sheldrick said.\n\nDr Morteza Niaee, who led the Iran study, defended the results and the methodology and disagreed with problems pointed out to him, adding that it was \"very normal to see such randomisation\" when lots of different factors were considered and not all of them had any bearing on participants' Covid risk.\n\nBut the Lebanon and Iran trials were excluded from a paper for Cochrane - the international experts in reviewing scientific evidence - because they were \"such poorly reported studies\". The review concluded there was no evidence of benefit for ivermectin when it comes to Covid.\n\nThe largest and highest quality ivermectin study published so far is the Together trial at the McMaster University in Canada. It found no benefit for the drug when it comes to Covid.\n\nIvermectin is generally considered a safe drug, though there have been some reports of side effects.\n\nCalls over suspected ivermectin poisonings in the US have increased a lot but from a very small base (435 to 1,143 this year) and most of these cases were not serious. Patients have had vomiting, diarrhoea, hallucinations, confusion, drowsiness and tremors.\n\nBut indirect harm can come from giving people a false sense of security, especially if they choose ivermectin instead of seeking hospital treatment for Covid, or getting vaccinated in the first place.\n\nDr Patricia Garcia, a public health expert in Peru, said at one stage she estimated that 14 out of every 15 patients she saw in hospital had been taking ivermectin and by the time they came in they were \"really, really sick\".\n\nLarge pro-ivermectin Facebook groups have turned into forums for people to find advice on where to buy it, including preparations meant for animals.\n\nSome groups regularly contain posts about conspiracy theories of ivermectin cover-ups, as well as pushing anti-vaccine sentiment or encouraging patients to leave hospital if they aren't getting the drug.\n\nThe groups often provide a gateway to more fringe communities on the encrypted app Telegram.\n\nThese channels have co-ordinated harassment of doctors who fail to prescribe ivermectin and abuse has been aimed at scientists. Dr Andrew Hill, from the University of Liverpool, wrote an influential positive review of ivermectin, originally saying the world should \"get prepared, get supplies, get ready to approve [the drug]\".\n\nNow he says the studies don't stand up to scrutiny - but after he changed his view, based on new evidence emerging, he received vicious abuse.\n\nA small number of qualified doctors have had an exaggerated influence on the ivermectin debate. Noted proponent Dr Pierre Kory's views have not changed despite the major questions over the trials. He criticised \"superficial interpretations of emerging trials data\".\n\nDr Tess Lawrie - a medical doctor who specialises in pregnancy and childbirth - founded the British Ivermectin Recommendation Development (Bird) Group.\n\nShe has called for a pause to the Covid-19 vaccination programme and has made unsubstantiated claims implying the Covid vaccine had led to a large number of deaths based on a common misreading of safety data.\n\nWhen asked during an online panel what evidence might persuade her ivermectin didn't work she replied: \"Ivermectin works. There's nothing that will persuade me.\" She told the BBC: \"The only issues with the evidence base are the relentless efforts to undermine it.\"\n\nAround the world it was originally not opposition to vaccines but a lack of them that led people to ivermectin.\n\nThe drug has at various points been approved, recommended or prescribed for Covid in India, South Africa, Peru and much of the rest of Latin America, as well as in Slovakia.\n\nHealth authorities in Peru and India have stopped recommending ivermectin in treatment guidelines.\n\nIn February, Merck - one of the companies that makes the drug - said there was \"no scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against Covid-19\".\n\nIn South Africa, the drug has become a battleground - doctors point out the lack of evidence but many patients desperately want access as the vaccine rollout has been patchy and problematic. One GP in the country described a relative, a registered nurse, who didn't book a coronavirus vaccine she was eligible for and then caught the virus.\n\n\"When she started getting worse, instead of getting proper assessment and treatment, she treated herself with ivermectin,\" she said.\n\n\"Instead of consulting a doctor, she continued with the ivermectin and got home oxygen. By the time I heard how low her oxygen saturation levels were (66%), I begged her daughter to take her to casualty.\n\n\"At first they were reluctant, but I convinced them to go. She passed away a few hours later.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDaniel Craig has capped the launch week of his final James Bond movie by becoming the 2,704th celebrity to be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in California.\n\nIt was unveiled outside 7007 Hollywood Boulevard, in honour of the fictional British spy's code number.\n\nJust yards away is the star of his predecessor as Bond, Sir Roger Moore.\n\nCraig, who has played 007 since 2006, said it was an \"absolute honour to be walked all over in Hollywood\".\n\nThe 53-year-old was introduced by Bond producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, along with his co-star in the latest 007 outing No Time To Die, Rami Malek.\n\nBefore his star was unveiled, Craig said: \"To Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, I thank you from the depth of my heart, without you I would not be here today - thank you for those lovely words. Thank you to Rami for those beautiful, beautiful words.\n\n\"I never thought I would hear myself say this, but it's an absolute honour to be walked all over in Hollywood.\"\n\nNo Time To Die won critical praise and earned the highest opening weekend takings of any Bond movie in the UK - after repeated delays to its release date because of the coronavirus pandemic. The film opens in the US on Friday.\n\nCraig said: \"If happiness was measured by the company we keep, then me being on this pavement surrounded by all of these legends makes me a very, very, very happy man. So thank you very much.\"\n\nMalek, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Queen singer Freddy Mercury in the movie Bohemian Rhapsody, plays supervillain Safin in the latest instalment of Bond's adventures.\n\nSpeaking at the ceremony, he praised Craig as an actor and a colleague.\n\n\"We all know he's a superb actor, he's dedicated, he can handle all his own stunts with one hand tied behind his back and the other holding a Negroni,\" Malek said.\n\nStars on the Walk of Fame are awarded each year by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce\n\n\"But he's as fastidious about his craft as he is about his empathy for everyone around him.\n\n\"He has this ability to hold these two potentially opposing things at the same time - an incredible amount of talent and responsibility and an incredible warmth and acute awareness of what those around him need.\"\n\nCraig also joins fellow Bond actors Pierce Brosnan, David Niven and Barry Nelson on the Walk of Fame, although the late Sir Sean Connery does not have a star.\n\nNiven played Bond in a 1967 version of Casino Royale, a send-up of the spy films, which sees his peacefully retired 007 dragged back into action. Barry Nelson was the first actor to play James Bond on screen in a one-hour TV adaptation of Casino Royale in 1954.\n\nAnti-vaccine demonstrators also attended the ceremony, to protest against Los Angeles passing one of the strictest vaccine mandates in the US.\n\nStars on the Walk of Fame are awarded each year by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, chosen from hundreds of applications.\n\nRecipients also pay a sponsorship fee of $50,000, which pays for the creation and installation of their star, along with the maintenance of the entire attraction.", "The public are being reminded to come forward for their flu jab to maximise their protection ahead of winter.\n\nHealth officials are worried because this will be the first winter Covid and flu circulate fully at the same time.\n\nResearch shows those infected with both viruses are more than twice as likely to die as someone with Covid alone.\n\nMore than 40 million people across the UK - 35 million in England - are being offered a jab this year in the biggest flu vaccination campaign so far.\n\nAnd this includes, for the first time, all secondary-school children up to the age of 16.\n\nAlongside the extended flu campaign, the over-50s and younger adults with health conditions are also being offered a Covid booster jab this autumn and winter.\n\nDr Jenny Harries, head of the newly formed UK Health Security Agency, warned the level of immunity to flu was likely to be lower this winter because very little of the virus had been circulating last year, because of social distancing and lockdown.\n\n\"It is really important people get vaccinated,\" she said.\n\n\"This is the first winter where we will have seasonal flu and Covid co-circulating.\"\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, professor of virology at Imperial College London, told the BBC's Today Programme that it had been trickier to gauge which flu strains to cover with this year's vaccine because cases had been so low last year.\n\n\"The vaccine this year is updated to match what we predict will be the circulating strains,\" she said.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam said \"we need to take this seriously and defend ourselves\" by taking the vaccines when offered.\n\n\"Both these viruses are serious: they can both spread easily, cause hospitalisation and they can both be fatal,\" he said.\n\nFlu kills about 11,000 people on average every winter in England and during the last bad flu winter of 2017-18 the toll was more than double that - with more than 300 deaths a day during the peak.\n\nFlu and the other winter viruses also lead to more than 1,000 hospital admissions a day in winter months - more, currently, than is being seen for Covid.\n\nAnd this winter, respiratory illness could hit very high levels, causing severe strain on the NHS and up to 60,000 deaths, according to a report from the Academy of Medical Sciences.\n\nRespiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the leading cause of hospital admission in the under-fives, is already circulating at much higher levels than normal.\n\nThe winter warning comes as the government launches an advertising campaign, featuring TV medics Dr Amir Khan, Dr Dawn Harper and Dr Karan Ranj, to encourage those eligible to come forward for both the flu and Covid boosters.\n\nThe following groups are among those eligible for winter vaccines:\n\nGP surgeries will contact patients eligible for the free NHS flu vaccine or eligible patients can book an appointment at a pharmacy.\n\nPeople who qualify for the coronavirus booster are being told to wait until they are contacted.\n\nAnyone who is not eligible for a free flu jab can pay for it privately at many pharmacies, at a cost of about £15.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the flu vaccine?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Come on, get out of here! Leave me alone\" – why Abdulrazak Gurnah didn't believe the news at first\n\nTanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has said he was \"surprised and humbled\" to be awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature.\n\nThe Swedish Academy praised Gurnah for his \"uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism\".\n\nThe prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.14m / £840,000).\n\nGurnah, 73, is the author of 10 novels, including Paradise and Desertion.\n\nHe said how grateful he was to the academy, adding: \"It's just great - its just a big prize, and such a huge list of wonderful writers - I am still taking it in.\n\n\"It was such a complete surprise that I really had to wait until I heard it announced before I could believe it.\"\n\nParadise, published in 1994, told the story of a boy growing up in Tanzania in the early 20th Century and was nominated for the Booker Prize, marking his breakthrough as a novelist.\n\n\"Abdulrazak Gurnah's dedication to truth and his aversion to simplification are striking,\" the Nobel Committee for Literature said in a statement.\n\n\"His novels recoil from stereotypical descriptions and open our gaze to a culturally diversified East Africa unfamiliar to many in other parts of the world.\"\n\n\"[His] characters find themselves in a hiatus between cultures and continents, between a life that was and a life emerging; it is an insecure state that can never be resolved.\"\n\nBooks written by Gurnah were displayed as the Academy announced him as the winner in Stockholm\n\nBorn in Zanzibar in 1948, Gurnah arrived in England as a refugee in the late 1960s.\n\nHe was Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent, Canterbury, until his recent retirement.\n\nGurnah is the first black African author to have won the award since Wole Soyinka in 1986.\n\nHe said his award would mean issues such as the refugee crisis and colonialism, which he has experienced, will be \"discussed\".\n\n\"These are things that are with us every day. People are dying, people are being hurt around the world - we must deal with these issues in the most kind way,\" he said.\n\n\"I came to England when these words, such as asylum-seeker, were not quite the same - more people are struggling and running from terror states.\n\n\"The world is much more violent than it was in the 1960s, so there is now greater pressure on the countries that are safe, they inevitably draw more people.\"\n\nIn an interview in 2016, when asked if he would call himself an \"author of postcolonial and/or world literature\", Gurnah replied: \"I would not use any of those words. I wouldn't call myself a something writer of any kind.\n\n\"In fact, I am not sure that I would call myself anything apart from my name. I guess, if somebody challenges me, that would be another way of saying, 'Are you a... one of these...?' I would probably say 'no'. Precisely, I don't want that part of me having a reductive name.\"\n\nThe Nobel Prizes, which have been awarded since 1901, recognise achievement in literature, science, peace and latterly economics.\n\nPast winners have included novelists such as Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison, poets such as Pablo Neruda, Joseph Brodsky and Rabindranath Tagore, and playwrights including Harold Pinter and Eugene O'Neill.\n\nLast year's award was won by American poet Louise Gluck.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The new law has faced opposition both in the courts and on the streets\n\nA US judge has temporarily blocked a new law in Texas that effectively bans women from having an abortion.\n\nDistrict Judge Robert Pitman granted a request by the Biden administration to prevent any enforcement of the law while its legality is being challenged.\n\nThe law, which prohibits women in Texas from obtaining an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted and approved by Republican politicians.\n\nThe White House praised the latest ruling as an important step.\n\n\"The fight has only just begun, both in Texas and in many states across this country where women's rights are currently under attack,\" White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.\n\nTexan officials immediately appealed against the ruling, setting the stage for further court battles.\n\nJudge Pitman, of Austin, wrote in an 113-page opinion that, from the moment the law came into effect on 1 September, \"women have been unlawfully prevented from exercising control over their lives in ways that are protected by the Constitution\".\n\n\"This court will not sanction one more day of this offensive deprivation of such an important right,\" he said on Wednesday.\n\nWhole Woman's Health, which runs a number of clinics in Texas, said it was making plans to resume abortions \"as soon as possible\".\n\nBut the anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life, accused judges of \"catering to the abortion industry\" and called for a \"fair hearing\" at the next stage.\n\nThis is the first legal setback for Texas since the law was implemented.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The impact of the strictest anti-abortion law in the US\n\nPresident Joe Biden's administration took legal action after the conservative-majority Supreme Court declined to prevent Texas from enacting the law. The justice department filed an emergency motion to block enforcement of the law while it pursues legal action.\n\nMr Biden, a Democrat, has described the law as an \"unprecedented assault\" on women's rights, but Texas Governor Greg Abbott has defended it, saying: \"The most precious freedom is life itself.\"\n\nThe \"Heartbeat Act\" bans terminations after the detection of what anti-abortion campaigners call a foetal heartbeat, something medical authorities say is misleading. This effectively bans abortions from as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, at a time when most women will not be aware they are pregnant.\n\nIt is enforced by giving any individual - from Texas or elsewhere - the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past the six-week point. However, it does not allow the women who get the procedure to be sued.\n\nOne doctor who admitted breaking the state's new abortion legislation has already been sued.\n\nWriting for the Washington Post, Dr Alan Braid said he \"acted because I had a duty of care to this patient, as I do for all patients, and because she has a fundamental right to receive this care\".\n\nDespite the injunction, some clinics remain hesitant to resume procedures as there is some uncertainty over whether they could be sued retroactively during the ban.\n\nThe law itself includes a provision that stipulates clinics and doctors may still be liable for abortions carried out while an emergency injunction is in place, legal experts say.\n\nBut whether that provision will be enforceable is unclear, and Judge Pitman said in his ruling that it was \"of questionable legality\".\n\n\"The threat of being sued retroactively will not be completely gone until [the law] is struck down for good,\" Nancy Northup, the president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement.", "Almost 40% of properties in Abersoch are now second homes\n\nThere are calls for a housing association to build affordable homes on land it owns in an area where almost 40% of properties are second homes.\n\nGwynedd councillor Dewi Roberts said North Wales Housing Association could build up to 15 houses on land it owns near Bryn Garmon, in Abersoch.\n\nHe said house prices in Abersoch were a \"huge issue\" for locals.\n\nNorth Wales Housing said it had previously explored developing the site but there were \"a number of barriers\".\n\nBut spokeswoman Lauren Eaton-Jones said it remained \"open to re-exploring options for the best use of that land\".\n\nIn Abersoch, a coastal village on the Llŷn Peninsula, about 39% of homes are second homes.\n\nLocal resident Arthur Roberts, who has lived in the area all his life, said it was \"extremely hard\" for local people to buy homes.\n\n\"For the price of houses, you've got to be talking almost half a million pounds at least, and upwards,\" he explained.\n\n\"Young people, although they're working people, they still haven't got a hope in hell of buying a local home. No chance… it's very sad.\"\n\nCouncillor Dewi Roberts says up to 15 homes could be built on the land owned by the housing association, which is seen in the background\n\nDewi Roberts said there was plenty of land available to build homes on for local people, but nothing was being built.\n\n\"It's really difficult for local people to afford to buy due to the price of homes, which are way beyond the capability of the normal person in Abersoch,\" he said.\n\n\"Here in Bryn Garmon, we have a plot of land with the capacity to build possibly 10 to 15 homes, my concern is we seem to be slow moving on that.\n\n\"There is another small plot down at the entrance of the estate where there are plans, which have been already drawn up, for two houses. Clearly nothing seems to be moving and I'm concerned about that.\"\n\nLocal people have \"no chance\" of buying a home in Abersoch, one resident says\n\nMs Eaton-Jones, of North Wales Housing Association, said: \"We are committed to providing more homes across north Wales and welcome discussions with Gwynedd council and councillor Roberts on the housing challenges in Abersoch.\n\n\"We have previously considered the corner plot site identified by councillor Roberts but there were a number of barriers at the time.\n\n\"In consultation with local people and our partners we remain open to re-exploring options for the best use of that land.\"", "Salma Bi, one of the Hometown Heroes said she really enjoyed being part of the ceremony this morning.\n\nShe promotes grassroots cricket in Birmingham and was one of 14 local heroes to arrive with the baton.\n\nThe dialysis nurse said her daughters would be proud to see her \"be part of history\" and she said it was inspiring to be among so many world-class athletes.", "The gap between private-school fees and state-school per-pupil spending in England has more than doubled over the past decade, the Institute for Fiscal Studies says.\n\nAverage fees, of £13,600, were more than 90% higher than the £7,100 spent on state-school pupils in 2020-21, compared with a gap of 39% in 2009-10.\n\nFor sixth-formers, fees are about three times higher than per-student funding.\n\nThe government says schools are having the biggest funding uplift in a decade.\n\nWhile private-school fees have grown by more than 20% above inflation since 2009-10, state-school per-pupil spending has fallen by 9% in real terms.\n\nAnd the gap in resource levels is probably even larger, the IFS researchers say, as the figures do not include other forms of income for private schools, such as account investment and endowments or gifts.\n\n\"Longstanding concerns about inequalities between private- and state-school pupils, which have come into sharp focus during the pandemic, will not begin to be easily addressed while the sectors enjoy such different levels of resourcing,\" Luke Sibieta said.\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary, Kate Green, said: \"School budgets have been hammered over the last decade, which is holding children back.\n\n\"As state-school class sizes have soared and enriching activities - art, sport, music, drama - have been cut back, the gap with private schools has grown ever wider.\"\n\nAssociation of School and College Leaders general secretary Geoff Barton said: \"It is pretty outrageous that the government has cut funding in real terms to schools and colleges over the past decade, while independent school fees have increased over the same period.\n\n\"The funding gap between the two sectors has always been there of course but the fact it has widened to such a huge extent does stick in the throat.\n\n\"Surely the government should want the same opportunities for all children and young people.\n\n\"It may be naive to think that state education funding could match the independent sector but it surely shouldn't actually go into reverse.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said: \"This government is providing the biggest uplift to school funding in a decade - £14bn in total over the three years to 2022-23.\n\n\"This includes a £7.1bn increase in funding for schools by 2022-23, compared to 2019-20 funding levels.\n\n\"Next year, funding through the schools national funding formula (NFF) is increasing by 2.8% per pupil compared to 2021-22.\n\n\"The NFF continues to distribute this fairly, based on the needs of schools and their pupil cohorts.\"", "Admiral Sir Tony Radakin will take over the position on 30 November\n\nThe head of the navy has been selected as the next chief of Britain's armed forces - the first in 20 years.\n\nBoris Johnson has chosen Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, 55, to take over the position from General Sir Nick Carter.\n\nThe prime minister said the new Chief of Defence Staff had proved himself as an \"outstanding military leader\".\n\nHe is credited with \"overseeing a period of transformation\" in the navy, that has seen \"more ships deployed, for longer, all over the world\".\n\nSir Tony will be responsible for leading and setting strategy for defence, as well as conducting operations and maintaining relationships with other military leaders.\n\nThis year, he oversaw the deployment of the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier and a string of supporting vessels into the Pacific as part of a more aggressive posture towards China.\n\nSir Tony was appointed First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in June 2019\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Admiral Tony will lead the armed forces at a time of incredible change while upholding the values and standards that they are respected for around the world.\n\n\"I know he will bring drive and dedication to the job and I look forward to working with him.\"\n\nThe PM thanked Sir Nick, whose term had come to an end, for his \"decades of steadfast duty spent keeping the UK, its citizens and our allies safe\".\n\nHe added: \"I have valued his wisdom and support through moments of national crisis, including the Covid pandemic.\n\n\"He leaves his post at the end of November with the armed forces in excellent health, ready to face whatever challenges tomorrow brings.\"\n\nWhen Boris Johnson announced extra investment in defence last November, he promised to restore Britain's position as the \"foremost naval power in Europe\".\n\nThe Integrated Defence Review also signalled a \"tilt\" to the Indo Pacific region in recognition of the rising power of China. Maritime power is seen as key to that.\n\nHence the current deployment of the Aircraft Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to the region.\n\nSir Tony was also involved in the early discussions that led to the Aukus agreement - the commitment by the US and UK to help Australia build a new fleet of nuclear powered submarines.\n\nUK defence is also investing heavily in its two new aircraft carriers; four new nuclear armed submarines and a fleet of new frigates.\n\nThe fact that Sir Tony is politically and media savvy has helped.\n\nSome question his lack of operational experience - he's spent more time behind a desk than driving ships.\n\nBut he has delivered for the navy, cutting the number of admirals and increasing the navy's days at sea.\n\nThe prime minister believes he's the man who can help transform the armed forces, and just as important to Boris Johnson, help boost British defence exports.\n\nSir Tony was appointed First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in June 2019.\n\nCommissioned in 1990, his operational service has included responding to tanker disputes in Gulf, security duties in the Falklands, countering smuggling in Hong Kong and the Caribbean, and three command tours in Iraq.\n\nSir Tony said he was \"humbled\" to be selected as the new head of the armed forces.\n\n\"It will be an immense privilege to lead our outstanding people who defend and protect the United Kingdom,\" he added.", "The families outside the Welsh government offices\n\nCampaigners who lost loved ones in the pandemic say they have had an \"incredibly positive\" meeting with the first minister over their call for a Wales-specific public inquiry.\n\nMembers of Covid Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru were invited to the meeting by Mark Drakeford.\n\nThey also discussed topics such as care home deaths and hospital infections.\n\nThe Welsh government said the families agreed to meet Mr Drakeford again and it was the start of \"ongoing dialogue\".\n\nGroup founder Anna-Louise Marsh-Rees believes Wales' handling of the coronavirus pandemic should not be a \"footnote\" in a UK-wide inquiry. But Mr Drakeford has previously said he was \"not in favour of rival inquiries\".\n\nAfter the meeting, Ms Marsh-Rees said it had gone \"really, really well\", and was \"very productive\".\n\n\"He spent an hour and a half with us. It was incredibly positive. The key thing for him now is to get a response to the letter he wrote to [UK cabinet minister] Michael Gove about the shape of the inquiry.\n\n\"The next milestone in his decision-making will be regarding when the chair [of the UK inquiry] is appointed and how involved Wales will be in that decision-making. He listened and was quite emotional.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anna-Louise Marsh-Rees said she had to get answers for her dad and other families in Wales\n\nGroup members said they had given Mr Drakeford \"a tough time\" and \"we didn't let him off the hook\". They said this was \"the beginning of the dialogue\", and he had given them \"confidence\".\n\nMs Marsh-Rees said: \"It was a very productive meeting and we were properly listened to.\"\n\nA second meeting with Mr Drakeford will be held before Christmas.\n\nMs Marsh-Rees lost her father Ian to Covid last October after he was admitted to Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, for a gall bladder infection.\n\nShe previously said it was \"awful\" to watch her father, who had been shielding at home for months to protect himself, \"die gasping for breath\".\n\nShe believes he caught the virus while in hospital and began campaigning for an inquiry after not being satisfied with answers from the health board.\n\nNearly a quarter of people who have died with Covid-19 in Wales were infected in hospital.\n\nMark Drakeford has said a UK probe is more appropriate, but Welsh ministers are considering a Wales-specific inquiry\n\nThe Welsh government has previously stated a UK-wide inquiry was the best option for understanding the experiences of people in Wales.\n\nBut Ms Marsh-Rees said, because the pandemic had raised questions about health and social care, Wales should have its own inquiry because that is where those types of decision were made.\n\n\"We basically want what Scotland is doing - a judge-led inquiry and a human rights-based inquiry,\" she added.\n\nThe Scottish government has confirmed it will hold its own inquiry into the pandemic, despite First Minister Nicola Sturgeon previously stating her preference was for it to be UK-wide.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that inquiry would look at \"all matters related to the handling of the pandemic that are within our devolved competence\".\n\nThe UK public inquiry will not begin until spring 2022, whereas Nicola Sturgeon had called for it to begin this year\n\nThe Welsh government spokesperson said Mr Drakeford had thanked the families for being \"open and honest\" in the meeting.\n\n\"The first minister welcomed the opportunity to meet the families and to listen to their concerns and experiences,\" they said.\n\nPlaid Cymru health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said the Welsh government had \"no excuse\" not to follow suit.\n\n\"We need to look at what happened in detail, and in public, to learns lessons for the future,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Prof Hugh Pennington, who chaired Wales' E. coli inquiry in 2005, has warned that a Wales-specific probe would lead to \"an enormous degree of overlap\".\n\nProf Pennington said focusing solely on decision-making in Wales could result in \"ignoring important information\".\n\nHe also argued that a Welsh inquiry would have more limited powers to make people give evidence.", "The executive is meeting on Thursday to look at the remaining Covid-19 rules\n\nFirst Minister Paul Givan has said he hopes Northern Ireland's government will not have to deploy contingency coronavirus plans to help manage health pressures this winter.\n\nThe executive will meet on Thursday to look at the remaining Covid-19 rules.\n\nThose include social distancing in hospitality venues and mandatory wearing of face coverings.\n\nMr Givan said he hoped there would be the \"headspace\" to approve more relaxations.\n\nThe executive previously agreed that decisions taken at its meeting on 7 October will take effect on 14 October.\n\nThe first minister said officials were continuing to monitor rates of transmission, and that there had been a \"marked decrease\" in the number of hospital admissions.\n\n\"In that context I would hope we can take further steps forward,\" he said.\n\n\"We'll then look to contingency plans should it become necessary - but I hope it isn't.\n\n\"I believe people in our society have the power to take sensible decisions, take their own personal responsibility seriously - all of that will help us avoid having to ever deploy a contingency plan over that winter period.\n\n\"But it is prudent that the executive makes plans for that and has tools at its disposal, should it be required.\"\n\nThe issue of so-called vaccine passports is also likely to be raised again at Thursday's meeting.\n\nLast week, Health Minister Robin Swann warned that a delay by the executive in agreeing a vaccine passport policy had limited options for easing more restrictions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says he wants a \"high-wage, high-skill, high-productivity, and low tax economy\"\n\nBoris Johnson has promised to \"get on with the job\" of uniting and levelling up the UK, in a speech to the Conservative Party conference.\n\nIn an upbeat address peppered with jokes, but light on new policy, the prime minister claimed a high-wage, high-skilled economy was being created in the wake of Brexit and the pandemic.\n\nHe also defended tax rises to pay for the NHS and vowed to fix social care.\n\nThe 45-minute speech was his first to a conference since the pandemic began.\n\nIn it, the prime minister said the overwhelming Conservative general election victory in 2019 placed an onus on his government to deliver change demanded by voters.\n\nThe main theme of his speech was \"levelling up\", with the PM saying that reducing gaps between regions would ease pressure on south-eastern England, while boosting places that felt left behind.\n\nHe also repeated pledges set out at during his party's conference this week in Manchester to crack down on crime, improve transport links and broadband, and reform the housing market.\n\nAnd he sought to reassure Tories anxious about plans to increase National Insurance to pay for the NHS and social care by claiming it was what predecessor Margaret Thatcher would have done, if the economy had been hit by a \"meteorite\" like the pandemic.\n\n\"She would have wagged her finger and said that more borrowing now is just higher interest rates and even higher taxes later,\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister wants a new economic model with better pay and conditions. He wants to persuade voters his is the party to distribute wealth and opportunity more evenly across the UK. He wants people to feel good about the future.\n\nLevelling up has been the slogan repeated by ministers at this conference. We only got a sliver of meat on the bones today. This was a speech thin on policy, big on jokes and rhetorical flourishes.\n\nConservatives love Mr Johnson because he makes them feel good - it's a strategy that is key to understanding his success as a politician.\n\nBut will it be enough? There are some difficult months ahead for many people.\n\nRising prices, supply chain issues, the end of the universal credit top-up and furlough.\n\nMany Conservatives acknowledge the cost of living squeeze - and are worried about the impact.\n\nCritics will accuse the prime minister of ignoring those big issues in favour of what they see as vague promises for the future.\n\nBut the hope in Manchester was that Boris Johnson's unflinchingly upbeat vision of a post-Brexit, post-pandemic Britain is as popular with voters as it is with Tory activists.\n\nThe Conservative conference has taken place amid concerns over rising inflation, supply chain problems, and petrol and worker shortages.\n\nBut Mr Johnson insisted that the present problems were the result of an economic rebound in the wake of Covid shutdowns.\n\nHe added that controls on immigration represented the \"change that people voted for\" in the 2016 Brexit referendum, while also promising to end declining home ownership among young people by building more housing.\n\nHe announced a £3,000-a-year bonus for teachers, as an incentive for struggling areas of England to recruit maths and science specialists. The policy replaces a similar nationwide scheme that has recently been phased out.\n\nDowning Street said the new \"levelling up premium\" would cost £60m, but no details have yet been given over which areas will qualify.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"There is no reason why the inhabitants of one part of the country should be geographically fated to be poorer than others,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"You will find talent, genius, flair, imagination, enthusiasm - all of them evenly distributed around this country. But opportunity is not.\"\n\nMr Johnson referred to Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, who was recently photographed dancing in an Aberdeen nightclub, as \"Jon Bon Govi\" - an allusion to the rock star Jon Bon Jovi.\n\nHe also mocked Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, whom he has frequently dubbed \"Captain Hindsight\".\n\n\"If Columbus had listened to Captain Hindsight, he'd be famous for discovering Tenerife,\" he joked.\n\nBut Sir Keir accused Mr Johnson of \"playing this game where he's pretending that he's just sort of just landed from the Moon and he's looking around and saying, 'Things look pretty awful around here, we need a bit of levelling up, things are so awful'\".\n\nHe told ITV's Peston programme: \"He and the Tories have been in government for 11 years, so we're in this state because of the way that they have governed the country.\"\n\nThe CBI business lobby group said Mr Johnson said set out a \"compelling vision\" but had so far \"only stated his ambition\" on raising wages.\n\nShevaun Haviland, who heads the British Chambers of Commerce, said firms supported the aim of a higher-wage, higher-skill economy but warned: \"This will not happen overnight.\"\n• None Five things we learned at Tory conference\n• None Have these pledges been met?", "Nationwide protests against the Texas ban took place last week\n\nSome Texas abortion clinics have reopened amid fears that a legal ruling which halted the state's near-total abortion ban may be short-lived.\n\nOther clinics have reported that concerns over lawsuits have prevented them from reopening.\n\nOn Wednesday, a US judge temporarily blocked the new law, which effectively bans women from having an abortion.\n\nTexas officials appealed against the ruling, setting the stage for further court battles in the coming months.\n\nAbortion care provider Whole Woman's Health, which runs four clinics across Texas, said it had already resumed offering abortion care on Thursday.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, Amy Hagstrom Miller, the firm's founder, said there had been an immediate spike in inquiries from patients seeking abortions in the wake of the judge's decision.\n\n\"Phone call volume has increased. There's actually hope from patients and staff,\" she said. \"There's a little desperation in that hope. Folks know this opportunity could be short-lived.\"\n\nDistrict Judge Robert Pittman's 113-page ruling earlier this week granted a request from the Biden administration to prevent enforcement of the law while its legality was being challenged.\n\nThis is the first legal setback for Texas since the law - which was drafted and approved by Republican politicians - was implemented.\n\nThe law effectively bans abortions from as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, at a time when most women will not be aware they are pregnant.\n\nDespite the injunction, some clinics remain hesitant to resume procedures as there is uncertainty over whether they could be sued retroactively if the law is re-instated.\n\nThe controversial law can be enforced by any individual from Texas or elsewhere, giving people the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past the six-week point. Women who get the procedure, however, cannot be sued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The impact of the strictest anti-abortion law in the US\n\nThe law includes a provision that stipulates clinics and doctors may still be liable for abortions carried out while an emergency injunction is in place, legal experts say.\n\nIt remains unclear whether such a provision can be enforced, with Judge Pittman saying in his ruling that it is \"of questionable legality\".\n\nMs Miller said that both patients and staff at Whole Woman's Health were worried about the possibility of retroactive lawsuits.\n\nOther abortion clinics said they were taking a cautious approach to resuming abortion care services.\n\nSources within Planned Parenthood's affiliate South Texas - which operates seven clinics in San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley - said that it remained unclear when they would resume providing abortion care.\n\nAmong the factors preventing an immediate restart of services, sources said, are concerns about retroactive lawsuits along with the possibility of trauma for patients who may get an appointment while the emergency injunction is in place but are forced to cancel later.\n\nAn abortion doctor working at an independent facility in Texas - who asked to remain anonymous - told the BBC he and other reproductive specialists were \"not optimistic\" about the possibility of the appeal from Texas officials.\n\n\"We're going right back to where the law was on 1 September. This will be the most conservative appeals court in the US,\" he said, referring to the conservative-leaning Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, where Texas intends to appeal the ruling.\n\n\"They're going to overrule the federal judge, and it's going to go back to where it was, and we're going to be in the same boat.\"\n\nSupporters of the law have harshly criticised the judge's decision.\n\nThe anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life, for example, accused judges of \"catering to the abortion industry\" and called for a \"fair hearing\" at the next stage.", "The requirement for pupils to wear masks in secondary schools was removed earlier this year but schools can reintroduce them\n\nSchools in Cambridgeshire have been asked to reintroduce face masks after a rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nPublic health officials said more than 50% of recent infections in the county were in the 0 to 17-year-old age group.\n\nCambridgeshire has three areas in the top 50 case rates in England, including Peterborough, which had a 32% week-on-week rise in cases.\n\nJyoti Atri, director of public health for the area, said masks were a \"sensible precautionary measure\".\n\nHealth and education officials in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have also recommended social distancing for staff within school buildings.\n\nThey also said staff meetings and non-essential events where parents visit schools should be held virtually, if possible.\n\nPeterborough had one of the highest rises of Covid-19 cases in England\n\nIn the week to 2 October, Fenland had the highest rate in Cambridgeshire with 495 cases per 100,000 people, a 6% week-on-week increase, and the 38th highest rate in England.\n\nPeterborough had the 46th highest rate in England with 482 cases per 100,000 people, and Huntingdonshire was one place behind it with 480 cases per 100,000 people, but that was a 2% week-on-week fall.\n\nEast Cambridgeshire had 444 cases per 100,000 people, a 6% rise, while South Cambridgeshire had 351 cases per 100,000 people, a 23% rise.\n\nCambridge had a 30% week-on-week fall in case rates to 187 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nMs Arti said: \"We know that younger children are less likely to have a poor outcome after being affected by the virus, but they live in families within communities where there are others who may be more clinically vulnerable.\"\n\nShe said the rollout of the vaccine for 12 to 15-year-olds would \"offer school children, teachers and families greater protection\".\n\nDirector of education for Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council, Jonathan Lewis, said the \"aim at all times is to keep schools open and to continue normal education wherever we can\".\n\nAt the start of term, schools in England were advised face coverings were no longer routinely needed for staff or pupils, although they were still recommended in crowded spaces such as on school buses.\n\nBut the Department for Education also said schools could temporarily reintroduce bubble groups and face masks in communal spaces in areas with higher Covid rates.\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.", "High energy costs are forcing manufacturers to warn of higher prices for their goods as they pass on increases to consumers.\n\nIceland boss Richard Walker said higher energy bills and other costs meant price rises were now \"inevitable\".\n\nThe warning came as analysts predicted that household energy bills could rise by hundreds of pounds next year.\n\nThey said the energy price cap, which protects domestic consumers, could soar by £400 in the spring.\n\nCornwall Insight forecasts that the energy price cap will rise to about £1,660 by next summer.\n\nThat is about 30% higher than the record £1,277 level for the cap set for winter 2021-22, which began at the start of October.\n\n\"With wholesale gas and electricity prices continuing to reach new records, successive supplier exits during September 2021 and a new level for the default tariff cap, the Great British energy market remains on edge for fresh volatility and further consolidation,\" said Craig Lowrey, senior consultant at Cornwall Insight.\n\nEnergy regulator Ofgem said the price cap \"will ensure that consumers don't pay more than is absolutely necessary this winter\".\n\nBut if gas prices stay high, the price cap will rise, Ofgem said.\n\nThe regulator said its \"number one priority is to protect customers\", but acknowledged \"this is a worrying time for many people\".\n\nBut while the price cap helps households, there is no such safeguard for businesses, which have to absorb the full impact of rising global energy prices.\n\nMr Walker warned that Iceland's energy bill would go up by £20m next year. Alongside higher salaries to address lorry driver shortages and other new costs, he said grocery prices would have to increase.\n\n\"It's inevitable that we will see price rises,\" he told the BBC. \"The UK supermarket industry is one of the most competitive in the world.\n\n\"Our margins are very very tight and we're not an endless sponge that can just absorb all of these different cost increases.\"\n\nAndrew Large, director general of the Confederation of Paper Industries, said: \"This is a highly inflationary situation for the British economy and members will clearly be in a position where they do try to pass those costs on to consumers where they can.\"\n\nOne paper manufacturer, the Northwood Group, said the industry had been \"left to fend for itself\" in the face of \"horrendous\" knock-on effects from the gas price rise.\n\n\"The spike [in gas prices] that we have seen since January is equivalent to a 550% price increase, which of course destroys any industrial planning,\" said chairman Paul Fecher.\n\nLaura Cohen, chief executive of the British Ceramic Confederation, said many of her member firms could even be forced to stop production \"due to uneconomic higher energy costs\".\n\nThis could cause \"severe damage\" to production facilities such as brick kilns, which could not easily be turned off at short notice, she said.\n\nMeanwhile, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has said that by decarbonising the UK's power supply, the country will protect customers from volatile fossil fuel prices.\n\n\"The UK so far, as many of you know, has made great progress in diversifying our energy mix. But we are still very dependent, perhaps too dependent, on fossil fuels and their volatile prices,\" he told a conference organised by trade body Energy UK.\n\nHe said that the government's recent pledge to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2035 - 15 years ahead of the previous target - would help.\n\n\"Our homes and businesses will be powered by affordable, clean and secure electricity generated here in the UK, for people in the UK,\" Mr Kwarteng said.\n\nThe Energy Shop - a price comparison site - warned people to prepare themselves for even greater increases in household bills.\n\nIt said that the next increase in the price cap, due to come in from 1 April 2022, could be £500 or even higher.\n\nFounder Joe Malinowski warned: \"If things don't settle down soon, increases of £600, £700 or even £800 cannot be ruled out.\"\n\nNine energy suppliers have already collapsed in recent weeks and more could be facing the same fate.\n\nThey were unable to keep their price promises as the wholesale price of gas soared.\n\nTheir customers have already seen annual bill increases of hundreds of pounds when they moved to a new provider and away from whichever low-rate fixed deal their supplier had offered.\n\nSome of the heat was drawn from the crisis on Wednesday when Russia said it would increase gas supplies to Europe.\n\nUK wholesale gas prices hit a record high during the day before falling after the Russian intervention.\n\nBut price volatility could continue as investors remain nervous about low stockpiles of gas across Europe.\n\nIf you feel powerless against international business and politics when watching your domestic energy bill go up, you are in good company.\n\nNormally, customers are urged to get active, search and switch to save money - but not now.\n\nUntil recently, the energy price cap was a backstop, protecting the vulnerable. Now it is the most competitive tariff available.\n\nThe cap is shielding households from the wild fluctuation in prices seen on the wholesale markets, but that is only a crumb of comfort when bills and prices across the board are still expected to see a sharp increase.\n\nSo for now, experts simply advise customers to find ways to save energy, brace themselves and budget for bigger bills. Wrap up for a financial chill that could last longer than the winter.\n\nThe energy price cap sets the maximum price suppliers in England, Wales and Scotland can charge customers on a standard - or default - tariff.\n\nThat includes the fixed daily amount customers pay, plus the price per unit they pay for electricity and gas.\n\nThe cap was increased on 1 October, with about 15 million households facing a 12% rise in energy bills, the biggest jump, to the highest amount, seen since the backstop was introduced in January 2019.\n\nThose on standard tariffs, with typical household levels of energy use, saw an increase of £139 - from £1,138 to £1,277 a year.\n\nPrepayment meter customers with average energy use saw a £153 increase.\n\nThat's a far cry from a year previously when on 1 October 2020, the energy price cap was cut by £84, to £1,042.\n\nWill you be affected by rising energy prices? 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.", "Anyone using a fake pass or test result will be fined, says the Welsh government\n\nAnyone caught using a fake Covid pass or lateral flow test result in Wales will be fined from Monday, the Welsh government has confirmed.\n\nFollowing a Senedd vote, anyone attending a nightclub or large-scale event must carry a Covid pass.\n\nProof of being double-vaccinated or a negative lateral flow test within the last 48 hours will be needed to download the NHS Covid pass.\n\nIt will be an offence to fake a test result or use a counterfeit pass.\n\nThe fixed penalty notice can be reduced to £30 if paid within 14 days. However, if it is not a first offence then the fine will double.\n\nThe fine will double if the person caught with a fake pass is not a first-time offender\n\nThere is no charge to obtain a Covid pass or a lateral flow test - but some people in Wales have been caught out by scams.\n\nThe Welsh government warned people to be on the look out for scams related to Covid passes in a tweet last month.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Welsh Government #KeepWalesSafe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlison Farrar, lead officer for Trading Standards Wales, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Scammers are so quick these days at getting onto anything that sounds legitimate.\n\n\"Because this is so new, no-one knows what the real thing looks like and therefore, if you do get a text or an email of some kind of communication saying this is how you do it, most of us aren't going to be able to tell the difference between the scam and the real thing.\"\n\nMs Farrar said people had already been scammed into paying for a pass after receiving a text or email from a scammer.\n\n\"The warning signs are when they look like they're going to start asking you for your card details, even if they claim they're not going to take any money. Why would they need your banking details otherwise?\"\n\nShe urged people to \"think it through properly\" before clicking links and responding to \"urgent\" requests received from unknown senders.\n\nEight deaths with Covid and 3,400 new cases were reported by Public Health Wales on Thursday.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths in Wales to 5,942, and cases to 372,029.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray says he is \"back in the good books\" at home after his \"stolen\" tennis shoes and wedding ring were found in Indian Wells.\n\nThe British three-time Grand Slam champion had left his shoes with his wedding ring attached under the car his team are using in California in order to dry out after practice.\n\nAfter discovering they were missing the next day, Murray put out an appeal for their return on Instagram, saying he was \"in the bad books at home\".\n\nBut Murray didn't stay there too long, posting another video later on Thursday to celebrate being reunited with his missing items - even if the trainers were no fresher.\n\n\"Huge thanks for all the messages and to everyone for sharing the story,\" said the 34-year-old.\n\n\"I had to make a few calls and chat to the security at the hotel but would you believe it?\n\n\"They still absolutely stink but the shoes are back, the wedding ring is back and I'm back in the good books - let's go!\"\n\nMurray, who is preparing to play at Indian Wells for the first time since 2017, earlier admitted the fact that he ties his wedding ring to his laces while training and playing had completely slipped his mind as he went to buy replacement shoes.\n\n\"My physio said to me 'where's your wedding ring?' I was like 'oh no',\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Murray says he does not feel bad about accepting wildcards as he returns to Indian Wells for the first time since he was world number one.\n\nHe will headline Friday's night session in the Californian desert alongside new US Open champion Emma Raducanu.\n\n\"I'm grateful that they have given me the opportunity to play here,\" he said.\n\n\"But do I feel bad about it? No, I don't feel bad about it.\"\n\nHe is currently outside the world top 100 and has therefore frequently needed wildcards to access tournaments this season.\n\n\"I'd rather get in by right, obviously,\" Murray added.\n\n\"But then I could also argue that the three years I was out injured, I would have rightfully been entered in all of these tournaments.\n\n\"I think after what I have gone through the last three or four years, and what I had achieved in the game beforehand, I don't feel like I need to justify the reasons for why I should get wildcards.\"\n\nMurray, who is yet to beat a top-20 player this season, has lost recently to Stefanos Tsitsipas, Casper Ruud and Wimbledon semi-finalist Hubert Hurkacz.\n\n\"I have also had a number of opportunities in those matches and not quite taken them,\" said Murray, whose fitness has improved markedly since Wimbledon.\n\n\"They are going to snuff out some opportunities that you create, but also there's been some stuff in those matches that I certainly feel I could have done better.\n\n\"I really don't feel like I've been outclassed, or that I have had no chances against them, so there are some positives to take from those losses.\"\n• None Raducanu says it has been a 'very cool three weeks'\n• None 'Why do people have to do that?!': Ricky Gervais reveals all of his everyday frustrations\n• None Is it time for football to phase out heading?", "Virginia Giuffre, then Roberts, was pictured with Prince Andrew in London in 2001\n\nPrince Andrew has been granted access to a sealed document his lawyers believe could help end the sexual abuse case being brought by Virginia Giuffre.\n\nA US judge gave permission for the agreement between Ms Giuffre and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to be shared with the prince's lawyers.\n\nMs Giuffre's lawyers had made the offer to release the document but believe it will be \"irrelevant\" to the civil case.\n\nThe Duke of York, 61, has consistently denied Ms Giuffre's allegations.\n\nMs Giuffre, 38, claims she was sexually assaulted by the prince at three locations including New York City.\n\nAndrew B Brettler, who represents Prince Andrew, had argued at a previous hearing that Ms Giuffre had entered into a \"settlement agreement\" with Epstein that would end her current legal action,\n\nDuring the first pre-trial hearing of the case last month, Prince Andrew's lawyer said the agreement \"releases the duke and others from any and all potential liability\".\n\nThe prince's lawyers have said in court that Ms Giuffre agreed in 2009 not to sue anyone else connected to Epstein when she settled her damages claim against the billionaire sex offender, who died in prison in 2019.\n\nThe precise wording of that deal is currently confidential - sealed by a court.\n\nIn a court document filed on Wednesday, US Judge Loretta Preska agreed to a request from Ms Giuffre's lawyer, David Boies, to provide the duke's legal team with the document.\n\nMr Boies previously said about the document: \"Although we believe that the release is irrelevant to the case against Prince Andrew, now that service has been accepted and the case is proceeding to a determination on the merits, we believe that counsel for Prince Andrew have a right to review the release and to make whatever arguments they believe appropriate based on it.\"\n\nThen known as Virginia Roberts, Ms Giuffre claims she was assaulted by the prince at the London home of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and at Epstein's homes in Manhattan and Little Saint James, in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nHer case claims Prince Andrew engaged in sexual acts without Ms Giuffre's consent, including when she was 17, knowing how old she was, and \"that she was a sex-trafficking victim\".\n\nThe prince has consistently denied the claims and, in 2019, told BBC Two's Newsnight programme: \"It didn't happen.\"\n• None Prince accepts being served with US lawsuit papers", "Sisters Bibaa Henry (left) and Nicole Smallman were found in bushes by friends\n\nThe Met Police has apologised to the family of two murdered sisters for failings in the way it responded when they were reported missing.\n\nDanyal Hussein, 19, killed Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, at Fryent Country Park in Wembley, north-west London, on 6 June 2020.\n\nA missing persons log was incorrectly closed and inquiries were not progressed, an investigation has found.\n\nThe sisters' mother said the apology was 10 months too late.\n\nTheir bodies were found by Ms Smallman's boyfriend the day after they had been reported missing to police.\n\nAn investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) found the Met's response following calls from worried friends and family of the missing sisters was \"below the standard that it should have been\".\n\nMina Smallman, the sisters' mother, said the Met had shown \"incompetent, reprehensible and blatant disregard of agreed procedures regarding missing persons\" during its investigation.\n\nCommissioner Dame Cressida Dick said a better response would have saved their family and friends \"immeasurable pain\".\n\n\"While we know that very sadly Nicola and Bibaa had been murdered in the early hours of Saturday 6 June 2020, before they were reported missing, if we had responded better we may have saved their friends and family immeasurable pain,\" she said.\n\n\"I am very sorry that the level of service we provided fell short.\"\n\nThe pair were reported missing on Saturday, 7 June after attending a birthday celebration the previous evening but an inspector closed the logs after receiving information that was not accurately recorded.\n\nThe pair had been celebrating a birthday before they were killed\n\nThe IOPC said a search by the sisters' families and friends of their last known location led to the discovery of their bodies in Fryent Country Park, Wembley on Sunday - 36 hours after the party.\n\nSpeaking about the apology, the sister's mother said: \"We're not the only parties who suffered mental anguish at the hands of the Met's incompetent, reprehensible and blatant disregard of agreed procedures regarding missing persons.\"\n\nMs Smallman added that the on-duty call handler had made \"inappropriate and manipulating assertions, which led to cancellation of the missing persons report.\n\n\"We're also of the view that his unprofessional comments about the picnic suggests racial profiling, misogyny or classism.\"\n\nDame Cressida said she contacted the family to ask if they would allow her or another senior officer to visit to apologise in person.\n\nHowever, Ms Smallman said: \"Sorry is something you say when you comprehend the wrong you do and take full responsibility for it. Demonstrating that by taking appropriate proportionate action which to our minds is not going to happen.\n\n\"The investigation was not handled appropriately. The apology should have been done face-to-face and not nearly 10 months later.\"\n\nThis is one of the last photographs taken of the sisters, only moments before they were attacked\n\nThe IOPC investigation found an inspector closed the police logs after receiving information about the sisters' possible whereabouts from a family member.\n\nHowever, that information was \"inaccurately\" recorded by a communications supervisor, so the inquiries were not progressed properly.\n\nThe inspector told the IOPC it had been one of \"the most challenging shifts of his career\" with 16 missing persons reports and an under-capacity unit due to the pandemic.\n\nThe force said it agreed its service the weekend the sisters went missing was \"below the standard it should have been\".\n\nIt said no misconduct was found by an officer and two members of police staff but there would be action taken over their performance, which was found to be inadequate.\n\nThere was no suggestion racial bias played any part in how the missing persons reports were dealt with, it said.\n\nResponding to the IOPC report, Barry Gardiner, MP for Brent North, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The Met really does need to have a root and branch reform in the way in which it operates, the way in which it treats people and it needs to ground itself much better in the community.\"\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. Should more Covid restrictions be brought back in Wales?\n\nSome people behaving as if the Covid pandemic is over by ignoring Wales' face mask laws and not social distancing is worrying health chiefs.\n\nWales' case rate is at a record high 716.9 per 100,000 people - the highest of all the UK nations.\n\nIt has led ministers to look at extending Covid passes to more venues.\n\nWales' chief medical officer accepted people had tired of Covid, but warned being tired was \"better than being dead\".\n\nDr Frank Atherton thought extending passes may be of marginal help and urged the public to do their bit.\n\n\"A very significant proportion of the Welsh population is still behaving with extreme caution and realises that we are not out of the woods with this yet, but there is a sense in other places that it is all over,\" he told BBC Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"When we see people not using face coverings, even though it's a legal requirement to do so, that worries me.\n\n\"When we see people crowding into taxis - as I saw down in Cardiff Bay last night - without face coverings and not being challenged, that worries me.\n\n\"When I see leisure centres which are overcrowded and people not social distancing, that really worries me.\n\n\"This is how the virus is spreading and, unless we can, as a society, organise ourselves in a way that we follow the guidance that we know will stop transmission of the virus, then unfortunately some of those more draconian measures and the legislative requirements may have to be brought back in. But that's for ministers.\"\n\nCovid passes have been introduced for large events in Wales but they have split opinion\n\nDr Atherton accepted people were \"really tired\" of the pandemic, but added: \"We're all sick to the back teeth of coronavirus let's be honest, so that's probably a factor, but you know the reality is that, you know, being tired is better than being dead.\"\n\nCompulsory NHS Covid passes were introduced this month for people to legally attend big events or nightclubs in Wales.\n\nHealth Minister Eluned Morgan said the Welsh government would be \"thinking about\" extending to other venues, such as cafes, bars and restaurants, because they were \"hugely\" concerned about the high levels of Covid.\n\nDr Atherton said the move \"may have some marginal benefits\" but added the public could help the situation.\n\nDr Richard Pugh, intensive care consultant at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan, and chairman of the Welsh Intensive Care Society, agreed people needed reminding the pandemic has not gone away.\n\n\"It certainly hasn't from a hospital perspective, from a critical care perspective, it's not gone away at all,\" he said.\n\n\"It feels relentless at the moment - the stress on our healthcare system and heading into what inevitably is going be a very difficult winter ahead of us.\n\n\"This is going to have an impact on all of us, and not necessarily strictly related to Covid, this will have implications for access to healthcare across the system.\"\n\nCovid passes are compulsory for anyone over 18 to enter certain venues and events\n\nCovid passes show people have either tested negative on a lateral flow test, are fully vaccinated against Covid or have had confirmation of a positive test within the last six months which has been followed by the appropriate period of isolation. They are currently compulsory for over-18s to enter:\n\nPHW has started publishing data on the rollout of the vaccine booster programme, with 61% of NHS staff and 58.1% of care home workers having received a third jab.\n\nThe health minister said the booster rollout was \"going according to schedule but we are seeing if there's anything we can do to increase the pace on that\".\n\nLinda Hodges said hardly anyone was wearing masks any longer\n\nThe BBC took to the streets of Rhyl to ask people what they thought about whether people were following the rules.\n\nLinda Hodges, from St Helen's, Merseyside, said: \"There's hardly anyone wearing masks now. They don't mind crowds and standing together.\"\n\nHolly McDonald, from Tamworth, said: \"It does look as though there's more people wearing masks from what we've seen here, it's quite poor in England at the moment.\"\n\nAngela McDonald, also from Tamworth, added: \"I think if people did the basics, sanitising and wearing masks, keeping a distance, then we'd be in the best position to have a normal-ish Christmas, but at the minute it's on a bit of a slippery slope.\"\n\nKathleen Winter said she was looked at \"like I'm weird\" when she wore a mask\n\nKathleen Winter, from Crewe, said: \"You can go in a shop and they've got no mask on, nothing, touching.\n\n\"And I just stand aside and they look at me like I'm weird. I've got my hand sanitiser, the lot, it's not worth it is it?\"\n\nIan Moncrieff, from Liverpool, said: \"A few weeks ago I went to a concert in Liverpool and it was really packed and a single sneeze can go everywhere, so I do think the restrictions need tightening.\n\n\"For outdoor events maybe not so much, but definitely indoor events.\n\n\"I've got vulnerable children, so I do hand washing and I do wear masks when I take them to hospital.\"", "Prince Charles is restarting royal tours, which stopped during the pandemic\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will go on their first royal tour for two years, with a visit to Jordan and Egypt next month.\n\nThe trip will visit holy sites and interfaith events that will promote tolerance between different religions.\n\nClimate change and the importance of girls' education will also be highlighted in the visits to the two Middle Eastern countries.\n\nThis marks the return of overseas royal tours, which stopped in the pandemic.\n\nSuch royal visits are made at the request of the UK government - and this will be to two strategically important countries, where a series of official events will highlight the importance of building bridges between different faiths and cultures.\n\nThe prince will take part in conversations about the value of religious freedom and respect for other people's belief, in countries with holy sites for Muslims, Christians and other religions.\n\nPrince Charles has previously warned against the dangers of religious persecution and extremism - and the threat to Christian communities in the Middle East.\n\nThere will also be a recognition of Jordan's role in taking in so many refugees, including Palestinians and Syrians, in a region that has faced conflict and instability.\n\nThis visit will be in the wake of the United Nations climate change summit, COP26, in Glasgow - and environmental projects will be highlighted, as Egypt has been nominated for the next summit presidency, with COP27 next year.\n\nCamilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, will see work in Jordan to keep girls in education and protect vulnerable children and mothers.\n\nAs well as visits to historic places, there will also be a focus on the importance of teaching craft skills necessary to maintain such cultural sites.\n\nAnd the royal tour will include a showcasing of monuments built for another royal dynasty, with a reception overlooking the Egyptian pyramids.", "The signed trainers were bought by Nick Fiorella, a well-known collector\n\nA pair of trainers worn by the US basketball star Michael Jordan have sold for a record $1.47m (£1.1m) at auction.\n\nJordan used the pair of red and white Nike Air Ships during his first season with the Chicago Bulls in 1984.\n\nThat was the year he and Nike began their collaboration to create his signature brand of clothes and shoes.\n\nThe price is the highest ever paid for game-worn footwear from any sport.\n\nJordan is seen by many as the best player in the history of basketball.\n\nThe shooting guard, who spent most of his career with the Chicago Bulls, became a global icon and helped raise the NBA's profile around the world.\n\nJordan, who retired in 2003, also became the first billionaire player in NBA history.\n\nMichael Jordan - seen here in 1998 - is considered the greatest basketball player of all time\n\n\"This record-breaking result for the Jordan Nike Air Ships affirms the place of Michael Jordan and the Air Jordan franchise at the pinnacle of the sneaker market,\" said Sotheby's Brahm Wachter after Sunday's auction in Las Vegas.\n\nThe signed trainers were bought by Nick Fiorella, a well-known collector.\n\nBefore the auction, they had been estimated to sell for between $1m and $1.5m.\n\nThey are, however, not the most expensive trainers ever sold. That record belongs to the rapper Kanye West, whose Nike Air Yeezy 1 Prototypes fetched $1.8m via a private sale in April.\n\nThe record price for trainers has been broken several times in recent years, and the market now attracts interest from general buyers as well as leading collectors.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Killer Kicks: the secret in your sneakers", "Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen will give evidence to MPs on Monday as part of government plans for social media regulation.\n\nMs Haugen, an American data scientist, worked at Facebook for two years and leaked documents that she said proved Facebook repeatedly prioritised growth over users' safety.\n\nShe met the campaigner Ian Russell, whose 14-year-old daughter died by suicide after viewing disturbing content on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool humiliated Manchester United and their under-pressure manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as they handed out a thrashing in front of a stunned Old Trafford. On a day of acute embarrassment for United and Solskjaer, 10 years and one day since they lost 6-1 at home to Manchester City, Liverpool emphasised the vast gulf between the sides in brutal fashion. Mohamed Salah was predictably their main tormentor as the Egypt forward claimed a hat-trick, the first of which meant he had scored for the 10th successive game. Solskjaer cut a dejected figure as he and his players faced the full fury of their own fans, especially at half time, after an insipid and disorganised performance. The worrying signs were there for United after five minutes as Liverpool sliced them open when Salah set Naby Keita through to score at the Stretford End. Diogo Jota then slid in at the back post unmarked to add a second from Trent Alexander-Arnold's delivery eight minutes later. Liverpool were tearing United apart and the irresistible Salah got his first when he thumped the ball into the roof of the net from Keita's cross then beat David de Gea with a low effort to give Jurgen Klopp's side a four-goal half-time lead. Many Manchester United fans left at the break and Solskjaer's response was to send Paul Pogba on for Mason Greenwood, but on a day when nothing went right for United even that mainly cosmetic move backfired horribly. Salah raced on to Jordan Henderson's superb pass to complete his treble five minutes after the break then Pogba was sent off for a reckless lunge at Keita that saw Liverpool's midfielder taken off on a stretcher. The rest was a formality as Liverpool cruised to victory in front of thousands of empty red seats deserted by the home supporters.\n• None Solskjaer 'won't give up' after thrashing by Liverpool\n• None 'Liverpool are light years ahead of embarrassing Man Utd - and Solskjaer has to take blame'\n• None How social media reacted to Old Trafford rout Liverpool back to their ruthless best Mohamed Salah is now the top-scoring African in Premier League history with 107 goals Liverpool were always going to come back stronger from the suffering of last season, when injuries and the worst run of home form in the club's history saw them drawn into a dogfight for a place in the Champions League. They rallied superbly to finish third and carried that good form into this new campaign, with an ominous composure about Klopp's side from the first day. With Virgil van Dijk back in defence and Salah playing at a level that suggests he is the world's best player, they are a ruthless machine and how United felt that power. Bruno Fernandes actually missed a very good chance to put United ahead before Keita opened the scoring but once Liverpool got ahead, Solskjaer's side had no answer. With Salah as the main weapon, they cut through United at will, reducing both their players and the crowd to nervous agitation every time they went forward. Salah is in the form of his life and this United defence was an open invitation to him and Liverpool's range of attacking options. In the last eight days alone, Liverpool have scored 13 goals in three games on their travels, taking in the 5-0 win at Watford and the 3-2 victory against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League. This was Liverpool looking as formidable, confident and dangerous as they did when they won the title in 2019-20. It is shaping up to be a three-horse race along with Chelsea and Manchester City for the title and this was the performance of true thoroughbreds. The only downside to their day was the injury to Keita, injured in a two-footed challenge by Pogba in what is a cruel blow to the midfielder given he has been showing the best form of his stop-start Liverpool career. What now for Solskjaer? Manchester United have lost by a margin of five or more goals at Old Trafford without scoring themselves for the first time since a 5-0 defeat at home to Manchester City in 1955 under Matt Busby Solskjaer was in defiant mood after United came from two goals down to beat Atalanta in the Champions League but there is a frailty and confusion about this team that means they will constantly fall short - and this inevitably puts further pressure on the manager. There are defeats that carry greater significance than others and the sight of United chasing shadows five goals down while Solskjaer stood helplessly on the touchline being taunted for long periods by joyous Liverpool fans made this one of those days. Any defeat to Liverpool is painful for United fans. When the defeat is as comprehensive as this one and in front of their own supporters, it is a day that will cut deeply to every part of Old Trafford. It was a defensive shambles, with poor communication and lack of understanding about what the team is trying to do cruelly exposed by Liverpool. As a result, this game was effectively over within 13 minutes. Solskjaer has praised the backing of United's fans and the Stretford End largely stuck with him and the team but there is no disguising the fact there were loud jeers at half time and by the time the final whistle sounded, huge sections of the stadium were deserted. There was also a lack of discipline in the United performance, Cristiano Ronaldo perhaps fortunate to escape a red card for kicking out at Curtis Jones while he was on the floor then Pogba - presumably sent on to restore some slight semblance of order - getting one for his challenge on Keita. United have been steadfast in their backing for Solskjaer but the shock waves of this result will have questions being asked more strongly than ever about his position by everyone from the club's hierarchy to their fans.\n• None Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Scott McTominay with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Diogo Dalot with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Curtis Jones (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mohamed Salah with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Fred tries a through ball, but Edinson Cavani is caught offside.\n• None Aaron Wan-Bissaka (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Jordan Henderson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) left footed shot from very close range is blocked. Assisted by Scott McTominay with a headed pass.\n• None Aaron Wan-Bissaka (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Many councils are not paying homecare companies a high enough hourly rate to cover basic costs like travel time between clients, says a report.\n\nIt means, despite losing staff faster than they can be replaced, companies are unable to raise wages, says the Homecare Association.\n\nLow wages and feeling undervalued are key factors leading care staff to quit, says the report.\n\nCouncils say they do not have enough money to pay companies more.\n\nThe Homecare Association, which represents some 2,340 care providers, calculates the true minimum cost of providing an hour of homecare in the UK is £21.43.\n\nThis covers the minimum wage, travel time, pensions, holidays, training, PPE, office staff and 60p for profit or reinvestment in services.\n\nPrivate clients who hire care direct from providers pay an average £24.94 for an hour of homecare, according to separate analysis by software company The Access Group.\n\nBut private clients are a minority, with the bulk of homecare (about 70%) funded by the state, says the Homecare Association.\n\nFreedom of Information data collected for the Association shows the average paid by councils in Great Britain and health boards in Northern Ireland is £18.45.\n\nThe report found that areas with some of the highest levels of deprivation also had the lowest average fee rates for homecare.\n\nSorry, this content does not appear to be working\n\nThe Homecare Association says with some local authorities still buying homecare by the minute, and little or no funding for better pay, it makes it very difficult to compete with other sectors for staff.\n\nRichard Walker, chief executive of Optimo Care Group in South Yorkshire, has tried to improve pay and conditions for staff, but says his efforts are limited by local authority funding levels.\n\n\"We're simply not competing... so I think people go elsewhere...\n\n\"It feels like we're in a harder position now than we've ever been before.\"\n\nRichard estimates that, overall, Optimo's costs outstrip council funding by about 25%, although this varies according to local authority.\n\n\"We're miles away at the moment in terms of the rates that have been paid.\"\n\nThe staff shortage means the company is having to turn away referrals - and he finds not being able to give people the help they require when they need it \"really tough... quite demotivating\".\n\nPay is not \"level with the job you do out there\", says Denise Wickson\n\nAmong his staff is Denise Wickson, a home carer for 16 years.\n\n\"I love the job,\" she says.\n\nBut sometimes she can be up at 05:00 and not finish until 23:00.\n\n\"You never get to switch off, you're always worried, 'Is it covered?'. You get called and they say you're needed to go out. I never say no.\"\n\nDenise says the money is not \"level with the job you do out there\", and some people \"just go elsewhere where it's more money and it's not unsociable hours\".\n\nThe Homecare Association says lack of support in the community can lead to:\n\n\"It makes little sense to neglect people at home in the community, wait until they reach crisis point, then admit them to the most expensive setting of care in an acute hospital,\" says the report.\n\nThe Association wants central government to \"invest properly\" in homecare, raising pay to £11.20 per hour, at a cost of £1.6bn a year across the UK, plus:\n\nThe Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) said: \"Councils may want to pay more for care, but their hands are tied, because they simply do not have the money to do so.\"\n\nAn ADASS spokesperson urged ministers to use Wednesday's Spending Review to invest in care and support at home to \"lift the pressure on family carers, ensure the viability of high quality home care providers, and properly reward the committed, courageous and compassionate people working in social care\".\n\nThe Local Government Association (LGA), which represents councils in England, said: \"Councils work closely with care providers, and understand their concerns about paying a fair price for the cost of care.\n\n\"Such is the scale of funding pressures, this is proving harder to achieve and we urgently need new national funding to meet immediate pressures in the social care system.\"\n\nThe government says a new £162.5m fund will help \"bolster\" the homecare workforce, while the social care levy, announced last month, includes £5.4bn earmarked for social care over the next three years, with £500m to be spent on the workforce.\n\nBut the LGA questions whether the levy will raise enough money to fund crucial reforms, and wants to see a greater share of it go to front-line social care.", "Richard Ratcliffe says his family have been \"caught in a dispute between two states\"\n\nThe husband of the detained British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is beginning a hunger strike in Whitehall, demanding the government does more to secure her release.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been held in Iran for five years on spying charges, recently lost her appeal against a second prison sentence.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe said his wife was \"increasingly distraught\".\n\nThe Foreign Office says it will \"continue to press Iran\" on the issue.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a 43-year-old mother-of-one from London, has been detained in Iran since 2016 and has not seen her daughter for two years.\n\nShe has been serving the second of two prison sentences, this one on parole for a conviction of propaganda against the Iranian regime. She is staying with her mother in Iran - but is not allowed to leave the country.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe has always denied any wrongdoing.\n\nBut now she faces a return to prison, after losing an appeal against the most recent sentence. Mr Ratcliffe said it was only a matter of time before she would be summoned back to jail.\n\nThe hunger strike began on Sunday near to the Foreign Office and Downing Street in London. It is the second time Mr Ratcliffe has used the tactic, after a 15-day hunger strike outside the Iranian embassy in London in 2019.\n\n\"Two years ago I went on hunger strike in front of the Iranian embassy, on the eve of Boris Johnson taking over as prime minister,\" said Mr Ratcliffe in a statement online.\n\n\"We are now giving the UK government the same treatment. In truth, I never expected to have to do a hunger strike twice. It is not a normal act. It seems extraordinary the need to adopt the same tactics to persuade government here, to cut through the accountability gap.\"\n\nHe said that although Iran remained the main country responsible, \"the UK is also letting us down\".\n\n\"It is increasingly clear that Nazanin's case could have been solved many months ago - but for other diplomatic agendas. The PM needs to take responsibility for that.\"\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after she was released from house arrest in Tehran in March 2021\n\nHe added: \"It can be difficult to capture the feeling of a life wasting away, watching prison creep closer while we sit in the PM's in-tray.\"\n\nMr Ratcliffe said he was making four demands from Mr Johnson, including recognising Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe as a hostage, and for the UK to push for an end to hostage-taking when negotiating the Iran nuclear deal.\n\nHe also called for the government to pay the £400m debt that the UK owes Iran, dating back from a deal between the two sides over tanks in the 1970s.\n\nMr Ratcliffe believes his wife has been imprisoned as leverage for the debt.\n\nHe spoke to the new Foreign Secretary Liz Truss earlier this month, but said he was told the government's response was to do nothing yet until Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was returned to prison.\n\n\"For us, reimprisonment is too late, it would mean not seeing Nazanin until 2023,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Ratcliffe: Nazanin speaks to her daughter most days, while under house arrest in Iran\n\nThe MP Tulip Siddiq - who represents the constituency where the Zaghari-Ratcliffes live - called on the government to listen to Mr Ratcliffe.\n\n\"It breaks my heart that my constituent Richard Ratcliffe has once again been forced to go on hunger strike to protest against the government's failure to free Nazanin,\" she said.\n\n\"It should never have come to this. It's time for the government to listen to the demands of Nazanin's family, including paying the debt we owe to Iran, and finally bring her home.\"\n\nAnd the boss of charity Amnesty International called the situation \"incredibly upsetting\".\n\n\"Like Richard, we've grown tired of hearing ministers saying they're 'doing all they can' for Nazanin and other arbitrarily-detained Britons in Iran - it doesn't look like that to us, and it certainly hasn't produced results,\" said Sacha Deshmukh.\n\nHe demanded the government sets out a strategy for getting Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe home, and added: \"We call on Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and other ministers to take the time to come out of their offices to visit Richard at his tent. Ministers need to hear first-hand how desperate this situation is.\"\n\nOn Sunday, a Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"Iran's decision to proceed with these baseless charges against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is an appalling continuation of the cruel ordeal she is going through.\n\n\"Instead of threatening to return Nazanin to prison, Iran must release her permanently so she can return home.\n\n\"We are doing all we can to help Nazanin get home to her young daughter and family and we will continue to press Iran on this point.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Javid says £5.9bn for the NHS is \"new money\" to tackle waiting lists\n\nThe NHS in England is to receive an extra £5.9bn in this week's Budget, the government has announced.\n\nThe money will be used to help clear the record backlog of people waiting for tests and scans, which has been worsened by the pandemic, and also to buy equipment and improve IT.\n\nHealth bodies welcomed the latest pledge but said it would not solve the problem of staff shortages.\n\nSajid Javid, the health secretary, said the funding was \"new money\" and that Mr Sunak would set out exactly where it was coming from during Wednesday's Budget and Spending Review.\n\nMore than five million people are waiting for NHS hospital treatment in England, with hundreds of thousands waiting more than a year.\n\nThe £5.9bn is on top of the £12bn a year that was announced in September..\n\nThat money will be raised through tax increases - the rise in National Insurance and, from 2022, the Health and Social Care Levy - and will be spent on resources such as staffing.\n\nThe £5.9bn will be used to pay for physical infrastructure and equipment - not day-to-day spending.\n\nSome of the £5.9bn - £2.3bn - will be used to fund more diagnostic tests, like CT, MRI and ultrasound scans, the government said.\n\nMore clinics in shopping centres for scans and tests - which the government had already announced - will be opened.\n\nThese will help clear the backlog of tests by the end of this Parliament, the government said.\n\nAlso included in the £5.9bn total is:\n\nA proportionate amount will also go to the health services in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAccess to tests and scans is a real bottleneck in the system at the moment, slowing down the ability of the NHS to work its way through the backlog in routine care and, sometimes, delaying the diagnosis of cancer.\n\nIt has been known for years the NHS does not have enough equipment to carry out tests and scans. And the machines it has are ageing.\n\nThe problems mean as demand has increased, performance has deteriorated.\n\nThe aim is to get these tests done within six weeks of referral, unless it is an urgent cancer case.\n\nBut currently around a quarter of patients wait longer than that. Before the pandemic fewer than 5% did.\n\nThe funding will help, in time, improve the situation.\n\nBut the big issue that it does not tackle is staffing - there is a shortage of specialists to carry out these tests.\n\nAround one in 10 posts are currently vacant.\n\nThere are various reasons for this, including more part-time working, the numbers retiring and problems recruiting internationally because of the pandemic.\n\nBuying new machines is much easier than training, recruiting and retaining staff. Until that is resolved, many are sceptical about what this announcement will actually achieve.\n\nWaiting lists have grown as routine operations were cancelled throughout the pandemic and people who put off seeking help for symptoms come forward.\n\nSome of those in the healthcare sector warned it was not enough to keep up with costs and demand.\n\nChristopher Rigby, an NHS radiographer from Yorkshire, said: \"We haven't got the workforce to staff the hospitals we have now let alone all these new centres.\"\n\nNHS Providers - which speaks for hospital and other NHS trusts - warned the health service needed more staff to deliver services.\n\nA body representing healthcare leaders, the NHS Confederation, said the funding \"falls short of what is needed to get services completely back on track\".\n\nThe NHS is sending out a further two million invites for Covid booster jabs this week.\n\nThe health secretary said \"we should actively be looking at\" making jabs mandatory for NHS staff, as they are for care workers.\n\nMr Javid told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he would wear a face covering during Wednesday's Budget announcement in the Commons.\n\nBut he said now was not time to activate England's \"Plan B\", that would make face masks mandatory in many places.\n\nAre you an NHS professional or patient affected by the NHS backlog? 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 Tennis\n\nUS Open champion Emma Raducanu says \"everyone should be patient\" as she attempts this week to earn a first win since her Grand Slam success.\n\nThe 18-year-old Briton stunned the sport by lifting the title in New York last month, despite never having won a WTA match in her fledgling career.\n\nIn her only game since, she lost in the second round at Indian Wells and on Tuesday plays in the Transylvania Open.\n\n\"I am going to find my tennis, I just need a little bit of time,\" she said.\n\nRaducanu, seeded third in the event, plays Slovenia's world number 124 Polona Hercog at about 17:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nStill without a coach after parting ways with Andrew Richardson, who helped her triumph in New York, she is aiming for a first victory in a WTA event.\n\nRaducanu has lost in the opening round at previous tournaments in Nottingham, San Diego and Indian Wells.\n\n\"I don't think there is any pressure on me,\" said the world number 23. \"I feel like everyone should just be a little patient with me.\n\n\"I feel like I am the same person. I still go out there, approaching the same as before.\n\n\"I am really enjoying my tennis right now. I feel it will be in a great place. In the long term, I know it will be up and down, the past few weeks I have learned a lot about myself.\"\n\nRaducanu hopes to appoint a new coach before the 2022 season and has been training with Johanna Konta's former coach Esteban Carril this month.\n\nThe Spaniard, who helped Konta climb into the world's top 20, is not with Raducanu in Cluj-Napoca this week.\n\nInstead she says she is learning to coach herself in Romania, which is where her father Ian was born.\n\nRaducanu's grandmother lives in Bucharest and the teenager got a warm welcome in Cluj-Napoca, where she spoke in Romanian to the crowd after a practice session at the weekend.\n\n\"I am really excited for the next chapter. This end of the season and the next year I can play on the tour, like a full year, and that is the most exciting thing,\" she added.\n\n\"Patience is key. Because, as I said, there are a lot of lows, where you learn about your game. You adjust to each level gradually.\n\n\"I kind of went from zero to the top of the game. So, it's obviously going to take some time to adjust and adapt but hopefully with some good work I will be able to do that.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Greg Jenner and guests examine the man credited with Britain's first curry house\n• None Besides Gary Neville what frustrates Jamie Carragher most?", "David Henderson was the aircraft's operator since it was bought in 2015\n\nA football agent may have let the flight in which Emiliano Sala died go ahead, even if he knew the pilot was unqualified, Cardiff Crown Court heard.\n\nPlane operator David Henderson told a jury agent William \"Willie\" McKay had a \"preoccupation\" with getting a pilot for the Cardiff-Nantes journey.\n\nSala, 28, and pilot David Ibbotson, 59, died when the private plane crashed.\n\nThe plane plunged into the English Channel in January 2019.\n\nArgentine striker Sala was involved in a multimillion-pound transfer to Cardiff City from Nantes and was travelling between the two clubs at the time of his death.\n\nThe court previously heard Mr McKay - who helped arrange Sala's flight - and Mr Henderson had a working relationship, and Mr McKay got in touch to hire the plane.\n\nMr Henderson, a pilot himself, could not fly the plane as he was holidaying in Paris with his wife.\n\nMr Ibbotson, who Mr Henderson hired, did not hold a commercial pilot's licence, was not allowed to fly at night, and had an expired rating to fly the single-engine Piper Malibu aircraft.\n\nEmiliano Sala's body was recovered, but Mr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, has never been found\n\nOn Monday, Stephen Spence, defending, asked Mr Henderson if he believed Mr McKay would have cared about Mr Ibbotson's lack of qualifications.\n\nMr Henderson said: \"His preoccupation was to get where he wanted to go.\n\n\"I don't know if he wouldn't have cared, but as I say, his preoccupation was to get a pilot. I think he would have gone ahead with the flight anyway.\"\n\nOn Friday, Martin Goudie QC, prosecuting, asked Mr Henderson whether he thought Mr McKay and Sala had a right to know if the pilot was qualified.\n\nMr Goudie accused Mr Henderson of running a \"cowboy outfit\" after he admitted not keeping basic information on the pilots he employed.\n\nThe Piper Malibu aircraft in which the two men died\n\nThe defendant is said to have been the plane's operator because he was in charge of its maintenance and hiring out for the aircraft's owner, Fay Keely.\n\nHe has already pleaded guilty to another charge of attempting to discharge a passenger without valid permission or authorisation.", "The event took place at Fryent Country Park in Wembley\n\nFamily and friends have gathered at a vigil in the north-west London park where two sisters were murdered.\n\nBibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, were stabbed at Ms Henry's birthday party last June by a man who thought he may win the lottery if he killed them.\n\nPeople lit candles and laid flowers at the event, organised by campaign group Reclaim These Streets, on what would have been Ms Smallman's 29th birthday.\n\nMPs and the Mayor of London also attended the vigil.\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\nMother Mina Smallman, a retired Church of England cleric, said she wanted it to be a celebration of her daughters' lives and proceedings began with Brent North MP Barry Gardiner singing Amazing Grace.\n\nIn a speech to the gathered crowds, Ms Smallman said: \"As a teacher and a priest I have given my life over to raising boys and girls that people looked down on and didn't think that they could be anybody.\n\n\"Now I'm doing it for my girls and I'm doing it for every one of the girls here.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Helen Hayes 💙🌹 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I am so tired of old, grey, boring white men telling us how to live our lives.\n\n\"You know nothing changes because they still have the power, they still call the shots.\n\n\"We haven't really gone through the glass ceiling, they've just put a concrete one up. Well, we're bringing in the bulldozers. We're calling it out.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 henny beaumont This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 vigil was also attended by Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and MPs Dawn Butler and David Lammy.\n\nSteve Selley, a family friend of Ms Smallman, praised the support shown at the vigil.\n\nHe said: \"This is exactly what it should have been like at the start.\n\n\"Exactly where we are today with this now should have been done last year and that's what hurts.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Reclaim These Streets This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 4 by Reclaim These Streets\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police have arrested 52 people, dragging some from the road\n\nInsulate Britain has targeted Canary Wharf in east London as it resumes its roadblock campaign after a pause.\n\nDemonstrators from the environmental group obstructed Limehouse Causeway at 08:20 BST.\n\nAbout 60 protesters have also targeted nearby Liverpool Street, Bishopsgate and Upper Thames Street.\n\nPolice have arrested 52 people, dragging some from the road. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps previously branded activists \"glued fools\".\n\nInsulate Britain blocked roads on 14 days over five weeks to 14 October, with some protesters gluing their hands to the carriageway to increase the length of time it took for police to remove them.\n\nThe Department for Transport has applied for more than 100 court injunctions covering the national highway network around London and the South East. Breaches of the injunctions could lead to jail terms.\n\nPolice are removing protesters who have glued themselves to the ground on Bishopsgate\n\nDemonstrators who superglued their hands to the ground on Monday were removed from the road by officers before being arrested and led to police vehicles.\n\nAs she was unglued, one woman said she was \"in agony\".\n\nMembers of the public approached the protesters, with some saying they were \"doing a good job\".\n\nOne of the protesters, Emily, said she had been arrested 14 times for her involvement in demonstrations.\n\nAnother, Tony Hill, 71, said he had travelled from near Kendal in Cumbria to the capital to take part.\n\nHe said: \"I'm here today out of anger, fear and determination. The anger that my government is failing the people of our country.\n\n\"The governments of the world are failing everyone. Everyone says we're at the 11th hour but we're at midnight and nothing substantial is being done by our government and the governments across the world.\"\n\nIn a statement, Insulate Britain said: \"We won't stand by while the government kills our kids.\"\n\nActivist Liam Norton branded the government \"treasonous\", claiming it had \"betrayed\" citizens and was leading the country on a path to \"genocide\".\n\nInsulate Britain, an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion, wants the government to insulate all UK homes by 2030 to cut carbon emissions.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Since 2016 more than 600 reports of officers abusing their powers for sexual purposes have led to over 200 investigations by the IOPC\n\nPolice officers and staff who abuse their position for a sexual purpose have \"no place in policing and will be found out\", a watchdog has warned.\n\nFigures from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) for referrals made in England and Wales last year were nearly double the 2016 numbers.\n\nAbuse of Powers for a Sexual Purpose (APSP) referrals are the largest form of police corruption, the IOPC said.\n\nBetween 2016 and 2020, there were 643 referrals for abuse of position.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs Council defines APSP as: \"Any behaviour by a police officer or police staff member, whether on or off duty, that takes advantage of their position as a member of the police service to misuse their position, authority or powers in order to pursue a sexual or improper emotional relationship with any member of the public.\"\n\nLast year there were 131 referrals and 70 investigations. That compares to 74 referrals in 2016, which led to 10 investigations.\n\nBetween April 2018 and March 2021, 66 police officers and members of staff have faced disciplinary proceedings. Misconduct was proven in 63 cases.\n\nOf the 52 who faced the more serious charge of gross misconduct, 38 are no longer serving and barred from policing for life - six were later convicted of criminal offences.\n\nNot all APSP allegations will be covered by these figures as many incidents will be investigated by the police forces themselves.\n\nIOPC deputy director general Claire Bassett described these cases as an \"appalling abuse of the public's trust\", which has a \"devastating impact on the people involved, who are often in a vulnerable situation\".\n\nShe said: \"The police are there to help them, not exploit them.\n\n\"Recent events we have seen, including the horrific actions of Wayne Couzens, remind us that policing must act to root out this kind of behaviour once and for all.\"\n\nIn 2017 legislation was introduced setting out the criteria in which mandatory referrals to the watchdog should be made, including an explicit reference to APSP, which has led to the steep rise in the number of cases being reported, the IOPC said.\n\nAPSP is the \"single largest form of police corruption\" the watchdog explained, accounting for around a quarter of all referrals and almost 60% of investigations last year.\n\nChief Constable Lauren Poultney from the National Police Chiefs' Council said: \"There is no place in policing for those who abuse their position for a sexual purpose.\"\n\n\"Any case of such abuse is one too many, it is a serious betrayal of what policing stands for and its duty to protect the public.\"\n\nSeparate figures obtained after a Freedom of Information Request by BBC Newsnight show the number of complaints made about police officers accused of sexual misconduct across the UK.\n\nOf the 44 out of 46 UK forces who responded, 2,702 police officers have been accused of sexual misconduct in the last five years.\n\nDisciplinary action taken from these allegations ended with three per cent of cases in criminal court, eight per cent with an officer dismissed and a further eight per cent issued with a reprimand.\n\nNewsnight spoke to a victim of domestic violence who was exploited by a serving officer.\n\nJessica (not her real name) reported she had been blackmailed about sexually explicit images of her being posted on the internet.\n\nAn officer she believed to be investigating repeatedly asked her for the explicit videos and images and sent explicit images of himself in return - including while in uniform.\n\nHe had previously contacted another woman in a similar way and received training about forming inappropriate relationships.\n\nThe officer was dismissed after a police misconduct hearing and barred for five years.\n\nCaroline Nokes MP, chairwoman of the women and equalities committee, told Newsnight officers who exploit vulnerable people should be \"barred forever\".\n\n\"It shouldn't be the case that they can serve a five-year bar and come back. That simply isn't protecting the vulnerable,\" the Conservative MP added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A coal fired power station like this one in Poland are major sources of CO2\n\nThe build-up of warming gases in the atmosphere rose to record levels in 2020 despite the pandemic, according to the World Meteorological Organization.\n\nThe amounts of CO2, methane and nitrous oxide rose by more than the annual average in the past 10 years.\n\nThe WMO says this will drive up temperatures in excess of the goals of the Paris agreement.\n\nThey worry that our warmer world is, in turn, boosting emissions from natural sources.\n\nThe news comes as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was \"touch and go\" whether the upcoming COP26 global climate conference will secure the agreements needed to help tackle climate change.\n\n\"It is going to be very, very tough this summit. I am very worried because it might go wrong and we might not get the agreements that we need and it is touch and go, it is very, very difficult, but I think it can be done,\" he said on Monday.\n\nThe restrictions imposed around the world during the Covid pandemic saw an overall decline in emissions of CO2 of 5.6%.\n\nSo why hasn't that fall been echoed in atmospheric concentrations - which are the subject of this latest data from the WMO?\n\nThere are a number of factors involved.\n\nAround half of emissions from human activity are taken up by trees, lands and oceans. But the absorbing ability of these sinks can vary hugely, depending on temperatures, rainfall and other factors.\n\nMethane is emitted from natural sources such as wetlands and from human activities such as flaring from oil and gas wells\n\nAnother issue is that over the past decade, emissions of CO2 have increased progressively.\n\nSo even though carbon output was down last year, the increase in the level in the atmosphere was still bigger than the average between 2011-2020.\n\nAccording to the WMO's annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, CO2 reached 413.2 parts per million in the atmosphere in 2020 and is now 149% of the pre-industrial level.\n\nThis is bad news for containing the rise in Earth's temperature.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.\n\n\"At the current rate of increase in greenhouse gas concentrations, we will see a temperature increase by the end of this century far in excess of the Paris Agreement targets of 1.5 to 2C above pre-industrial levels,\" said WMO Secretary-General Prof Petteri Taalas. \"We are way off track.\"\n\n\"This is more than just a chemical formula and figures on a graph. It has major negative repercussions for our daily lives and well-being, for the state of our planet and for the future of our children and grandchildren,\" said Prof Taalas.\n\nThe authors say the last time the Earth experienced a comparable concentration of CO2 was 3-5 million years ago, when temperatures were 2-3C warmer and sea level was 10-20 metres higher than it is today.\n\nThe use of nitrogen fertiliser is a major source of nitrous oxide in the atmosphere\n\nOne of the big concerns for researchers is that the ongoing rise in temperatures may actually cause a rise in warming gases from natural sources.\n\nScientists are concerned that this is already happening with methane.\n\nAlthough it has a shorter lifespan than CO2, methane is far more potent as a warming chemical.\n\nAround 60% of the CH4 that ends up in the atmosphere comes from human sources such as agriculture, fossil fuels, landfills and biomass burning.\n\nThe other 40% comes from the activities of microbes in natural sources such as wetlands.\n\nLast year's rise was the biggest increase since global methane levels started rising again in 2007.\n\nThe majority of it was from natural sources.\n\n\"If you increase the amount of precipitation in the areas of the wetlands, and if you increase the temperature, then these methane producing bacteria, produce more methane,\" said Dr Oksana Tarasova from the WMO.\n\n\"So this will only increase in the future because the temperature is going to rise. It's a big concern,\" she told BBC News.\n\nEmpty roads saw carbon emissions from transport plummet during lockdown but atmospheric concentrations still rose\n\nScientists describe these vicious cycles as feedback loops. They are also being observed in the Amazon where researchers earlier this year reported that parts of the rainforest were now emitting more CO2 than they were absorbing.\n\n\"The higher the temperature, the less the precipitation, the more stress goes into the trees,\" said Dr Tarasova.\n\n\"So, trees have increased mortality, they stop taking up CO2. In addition to our own emissions, we will have emissions from our forests.\"\n\nThe WMO is also concerned about the rise in nitrous oxide, which comes from human activities such as the use of nitrogen fertiliser but also from natural sources.\n\nIt has also risen by more than the average over the last ten years.\n\nWith just days left before world leaders gather in Glasgow for COP26, the news on the level of warming gases in the atmosphere is stark.\n\n\"Greenhouse gas measurements are like skidding into a car crash. The disaster gets closer and closer but you can't stop it,\" said Prof Euan Nisbet from Royal Holloway, University of London.\n\n\"You can clearly see the crash ahead, and all you can do is howl.\"", "A joint group of unions is calling for targeted industrial action as part of a long-running dispute\n\nUnions representing rail and council workers have confirmed plans for strike action during the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow.\n\nCleaners, refuse and recycling workers are among staff who could take industrial action from 8 November.\n\nScotRail could also be hit by strikes from 1 November after the RMT's AGM in Leeds rejected the latest pay offer.\n\nThe Scottish government has set a deadline of Wednesday for the rail union to accept its pay offer.\n\nMinisters also said ScotRail will now go ahead and implement the pay rise for members of three other trade unions which accepted its offer, as well as non-unionised ScotRail workers.\n\nTransport Minister Graeme Dey said the government was \"utterly perplexed\" at the RMT position while the union hit back at the \"arbitrary\" Wednesday deadline.\n\nAbout 120 world leaders are expected to attend the crucial United Nations summit from 31 October to 12 November.\n\nA joint trade union group, including Unison, Unite and the GMB, is seeking a £2,000 flat rate pay increase or 6%, whichever is greater, from Scotland's local authority umbrella body Cosla.\n\nIt has now notified councils that it will call on some school cleaners, caterers and janitors along with waste, recycling and maintenance staff to take \"targeted\" strike action during the second week of the summit.\n\nWendy Dunsmore, of Unite, said: \"The incredible professionalism and sacrifice by local government workers has not been recognised during the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nJohanna Baxter, of Unison, said more than half of local government workers earned under £25,000 a year and many were at \"breaking point\".\n\nDrew Duffy, of the GMB union, added: \"It's been over 18 months since any of these key workers had a pay rise and that is a disgrace given the work they have done over the last 18 months.\"\n\nCosla has offered an £850 flat rate rise for the lowest paid staff and 2% for those paid less than £40,000 a year.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We appreciate everything that local government workers have been doing, and continue to do, to support people and communities during the pandemic and as we begin to recover. We continue with ongoing constructive negotiations.\"\n\nEarlier, the AGM of the RMT union confirmed plans for strike action by ScotRail staff from 1 to 12 November, almost the entire duration of the summit.\n\nThe union described the offer of a 2.5% increase this year, 2,2% in 2022 and a one-off £300 bonus for staff working during the summit as \"pitiful\".\n\nThree other rail unions, Unite, Aslef and the TSSA have already accepted the offer.\n\nTransport Minister Graeme Dey said: \"We remain utterly perplexed at the position the RMT leadership is taking here. While we think their action is misguided and does their members no favours, we, of course, respect the right of trade unions to do what they think is appropriate for their membership.\n\n\"But we are clear that this is a fair and good offer that will put cash in the pockets of rail workers who have worked hard during the pandemic. This is evidenced by the fact that the three other rail unions (Aslef, Unite and TSSA) have accepted it.\n\n\"ScotRail, with the full support of the Scottish government, has tried a number of times to reach a deal with the RMT leadership - as of yesterday, the offer being made to its members consisted of a 4.7% pay increase over this and next year, a £300 payment for COP26, an additional payment equivalent to three hours salary for booking on for a Rest Day shift for the rest of the year.\n\n\"That last enhancement was offered just yesterday, and we understood that we were close to agreement with negotiators apparently happy with the offer, RMT leaders have then moved the goalposts.\"\n\nThe RMT said it had been given an \"arbitrary\" deadline to accept the pay offer by Wednesday, but said strikes on both ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper services could still be avoided.\n\nGeneral secretary Mike Lynch said: \"Our message to Nicola Sturgeon, Transport Scotland, Abellio and Serco is that there is still time to resolve the pay disputes but it requires some serious movement, the lifting of bogus deadlines and genuine talks.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has invited Glasgow workers who plan on striking during COP26 to join her in a protest march through the city.\n\nShe said she would be taking part in the Climate Strike march from Kelvingrove Park to George Square.\n\nShe wrote on Twitter: \"On Friday Nov 5 I'll join the climate strike in Glasgow - during #COP26 Climate justice also means social justice and that we leave no one behind.\n\n\"So we invite everyone, especially the workers striking in Glasgow, to join us. See you there!\"\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An exiled officer says the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman is a \"psychopath\".\n\nSaudi Arabia's crown prince suggested using a \"poison ring\" to kill the late King Abdullah, a former top Saudi intelligence official has alleged.\n\nIn an interview with CBS, Saad al-Jabri said Mohammed bin Salman told his cousin in 2014 that he wanted to do so to clear the throne for his father.\n\nThere were tensions within the ruling family at the time over the succession.\n\nThe Saudi government has called Mr Jabri a discredited former official with a long history of fabrication.\n\nIn his interview with CBS's 60 Minutes programme Mr Jabri warned that Crown Prince Mohammed - Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler and the son of King Salman - was a \"psychopath, killer, in the Middle East with infinite resources, who poses threat to his people, to the Americans and to the planet\".\n\nHe alleged that at a 2014 meeting the prince suggested to his cousin Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the then interior minister, that he could arrange the killing of King Abdullah.\n\n\"He told him: 'I want to assassinate King Abdullah. I get a poison ring from Russia. It's enough for me just to shake hand with him and he will be done,'\" Mr Jabri said.\n\n\"Whether he's just bragging... he said that and we took it seriously.\"\n\nHe said the matter was settled privately within the royal court. But he added that the meeting was secretly filmed and that he knew where two copies of the video recording were.\n\nAbdullah died at the age of 90 in 2015 and was succeeded by his half-brother Salman, Mohammed bin Salman's father, who named Mohammed bin Nayef as crown prince.\n\nIn 2017, Mohammed bin Nayef was replaced as heir to the throne by Mohammed bin Salman. He also lost his role as interior minister and was reportedly placed under house arrest before being detained last year on unspecified charges.\n\nMr Jabri fled to Canada after Mohammed bin Nayef was ousted.\n\nHe said in the interview that he was warned by a friend in a Middle Eastern intelligence service that Mohammed bin Salman was sending a hit team to kill him in October 2018, just days after Saudi agents murdered the dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey.\n\nHe alleged that a six-person team landed at an airport in Ottawa but were deported after customs found they were carrying \"suspicious equipment for DNA analysis\".\n\nLast year, Mr Jabri accused the crown prince of attempted murder in a civil suit filed in a US federal court.\n\nThe prince rejected the allegations. He has also denied any involvement in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, although US intelligence agencies assessed that he approved the operation.\n\nKing Abdullah (front left) was succeeded by his half-brother Salman (R) after he died in 2015 at the age of 90\n\nThe BBC has contacted the Saudi government for comment on the allegations.\n\nIn a statement sent to CBS, the Saudi embassy in Washington labelled Mr Jabri as \"a discredited former government official with a long history of fabricating and creating distractions to hide the financial crimes he committed, which amount to billions of dollars, to furnish a lavish life-style for himself and his family\".\n\nMr Jabri is being sued for corruption by various Saudi entities and a Canadian judge has frozen his assets saying there is \"overwhelming evidence of fraud\".\n\nHe denies stealing any government money, saying his former employers rewarded him generously.\n\nIn March 2020, Saudi authorities detained Mr Jabri's son Omar and daughter Sarah in what human rights groups said was an apparent effort to coerce him to return to Saudi Arabia.\n\nLast November, two months after their father sued the crown prince, the siblings were sentenced to nine and six-and-a-half years in prison respectively by a Saudi court after being convicted of money laundering and \"attempting to escape\" the country. They denied the charges.\n\nAn appeals court upheld their sentences in a secret hearing at which they were not present.", "The White House has outlined new rules for foreign travellers to the US, as flight restrictions lift for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020.\n\nThe plan to reopen the US border next month to foreign flights includes a requirement that almost all foreign visitors be vaccinated against Covid.\n\nThe US travel ban has grown to include dozens of countries, including the UK, much of Europe, China and India.\n\nThe travel industry has been asking for US President Joe Biden to lift the ban.\n\nOriginally imposed by Donald Trump, the ban on flights from most foreign countries was extended when Mr Biden took power in January 2021.\n\nThe rule bans most visitors from Brazil, China, South Africa, the UK, the 26 Schengen countries in Europe, Ireland, India and Iran.\n\nThe proclamation signed by Mr Biden on Monday says that airlines will be required to check travellers' vaccination status before they can board departing planes.\n\n\"It is in the interests of the United States to move away from the country-by-country restrictions previously applied during the Covid-19 pandemic and to adopt an air travel policy that relies primarily on vaccination to advance the safe resumption of international air travel to the United States,\" Mr Biden's proclamation says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The mystery of how Long Covid damages our memory\n\nAirlines must confirm that the proof of vaccination comes from an \"official source\" and was received at least two weeks prior. Any vaccines approved by US health regulators will be accepted.\n\nUnvaccinated travellers, including Americans, will have to show a negative Covid test taken within one day of departure.\n\nChildren under the age of 18 will be exempt from the vaccination requirement but must still provide a negative test taken within three days of travel.\n\nThe new restrictions take effect on 8 November.", "A new temporary injunction has been granted against environmental group Insulate Britain after protesters brought parts of London to a standstill.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the injunction covered the \"entire strategic road network\".\n\n\"Tonight this has been granted on a temp basis by the High Court,\" he tweeted on Monday evening.\n\nEarlier police arrested more than 50 people, some glued to the road.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, Mr Shapps accused Insulate Britain, who blocked roads on 14 days over the five weeks to 14 October, of \"risking lives and ruining journeys\".\n\nThere are already three specific injunctions in place against the group.\n\nThe transport secretary tweeted: \"The long term solution lies in changes to the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill, giving additional powers against disruptive protests which target critical national infrastructure.\"\n\nInsulate Britain, an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion, wants the government to insulate all UK homes by 2030 to cut carbon emissions.\n\nMembers of the group targeted London's financial district in Canary Wharf and the City of London during Monday's rush hour, obstructing Limehouse Causeway as well as nearby Liverpool Street, Bishopsgate and Upper Thames Street.\n\nDemonstrators who glued their hands to the ground on Monday were removed from the road by officers before being arrested and led to police vehicles.\n\nProtesters blocked roads in London's financial district on Monday\n\nThe previous injunctions obtained by the government ban the group from demonstrations on the M25, around the Port of Dover and on major roads around London. These orders were granted to National Highways.\n\nIn addition, Transport for London was granted a civil banning order earlier this month to prevent activists obstructing traffic on the city's roads - an order which was extended last week.\n\nBreaches of the injunctions could lead to jail terms. However, so far, the injunctions have failed to put a stop to the protests.\n\nInsulate Britain have also targeted motorways, including the M25\n\nEarlier this month, the group, whose actions have led to angry exchanges with members of the public caught up in traffic disruption, suspended its campaigning for 11 days, from 14 October.\n\nBut protesters vowed to restart its action if Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not deliver \"a meaningful or trustworthy statement\" on improving the insulation in some British homes.\n\nIn a statement following the most recent arrests on Monday, Insulate Britain said: \"We won't stand by while the government kills our kids.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A radio presenter who called Tilly Ramsay a \"chubby little thing\" live on air has apologised to the Strictly Come Dancing star.\n\nNewsbeat's been told Steve Allen got in touch with her last week to say sorry.\n\nIt's after the CBBC presenter, 19, posted a statement on Instagram calling the comments a \"step too far\".\n\nShe was supported online from her Strictly co-stars and other celebrities.\n\nAllen had read out a comment from a listener telling him Tilly - who is the daughter of TV chef Gordon Ramsay - was taking part in Celebrity MasterChef Australia as well as Strictly.\n\nHe responded: \"Is she? Well, she can't blimming well dance, I'm bored with her already.\n\n\"She's a chubby little thing, isn't she? Have you noticed? Probably her dad's cooking, I should imagine.\"\n\nThe 19-year-old directly addressed Allen's comments in an Instagram post saying she \"won't tolerate people that think it's okay to publicly comment and scrutinise anyone's weight and appearance\".\n\nShe said she tries not to pay attention to what's written or said about her, but being \"called out on a national radio station by a 67-year-old man is a step too far\".\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 tillyramsay 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\nFormer Love Island star Dr Alex George - now a government youth mental health ambassador - said he was \"absolutely horrified\".\n\nIn a letter posted on his Instagram to Allen's employer LBC, he called on the broadcaster to \"recognise just how damaging such comments about someone's weight are\".\n\nContinuing \"the discussion about a young person's weight live on air is not acceptable\".\n\nRamsay says she's faced comments about her appearance in the past and that although she is learning to accept herself, words can still hurt.\n\nShe and dance partner Nikita Kuzmin came third on the Strictly Come Dancing leaderboard on Saturday, scoring 36 points.\n\nShe took to Instagram, to thank her followers for \"all the amazing support this past week\".\n\nNewsbeat have contacted her management for a comment.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The bank on St Mary's will close in April 2022\n\nThe only bank on the Isles of Scilly is set to close next year.\n\nLloyds Bank will close its branch on St Mary's on 25 April, 2022.\n\nPhil Moon, who runs a restaurant and takeaway on the island, said the closure had come as a \"shock\" and would make running his business \"more complicated\".\n\nLloyds Bank said the decision was due to changes in customer behaviour meaning the branch was used less often.\n\nMr Moon said: \"We obviously lost Barclays a couple of years ago and Lloyds became the only bank on the island so we never saw this coming.\"\n\nHe said his business regularly used the bank for change stock and for taking cash off the premises for security.\n\n\"It was a shock, and quite an unpleasant one at that, I'm pretty disappointed to be honest; it's going to affect all of us and businesses especially.\"\n\nSteve Sims, the Isles of Scilly councillor for economy, tourism and transport, said: \"It's really sad... and it's another blow against the high street\".\n\nHe added: \"We've got three properties right on the high street really which are now vacant.\"\n\nLloyds Bank said staff would be on hand to advise and support customers.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"A new community banker will be made available to help customers with their everyday banking and customers can also continue to bank locally by visiting the nearby Post Office, which is a short walk away from the branch.\"\n\nMr Moon said using the Post Office would see people \"who just want to do bank transactions\" having to join the queue with those wanting stamps or postal services.\n\n\"It's just going to slow things down and make things more complicated,\" he said.\n\nPostmaster Lindsay Rodger says she is working to find solutions to help customers affected by the closure\n\nLindsay Rodger, Postmaster of the St Mary's Post Office said they were working on finding solutions to help those affected, and making sure there was a \"smooth transition\" for customers.\n\nShe said: \"With the bank closing it will mean the loss of the only ATM on the Isles of Scilly and that is a great area of concern for me.\n\n\"Without that we will struggle to allow cash to foreign visitors, to people with cash point cards, people with independent banks who do not have the banking facilities through the Post Office.\n\n\"And for the vulnerable and the elderly that do not access online.\"\n\nMs Rodgers said she was in the process of looking into the possibility of installing an ATM at the Post Office.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk", "The fund was meant to help developing countries tackle and adapt to the effects of climate change\n\nA key pledge ahead of an upcoming climate change conference has still not been met and the money is not sure to be available before 2023.\n\nThe UK government has set out a new financing plan ahead of next week's climate change conference - COP26.\n\nIt talks of how developed countries hope to deliver $100bn a year in climate finance to developing countries.\n\nThe original aim was for that target to be reached by 2020.\n\nBut the financing plan said the target looked \"unlikely\" to be met but that it was \"confident\" the target would be hit by 2023.\n\nSome environmentalists say the new plan is too little, too late.\n\nCOP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma said: \"This plan recognises progress, based on strong new climate finance commitments. There is still further to go, but this delivery plan, alongside the robust methodological report from the OECD, provides clarity, transparency and accountability.\n\n\"It is a step towards rebuilding trust and gives developing countries more assurance of predictable support.\"\n\nClimate finance plays a critical role in helping developing countries tackle climate change and adapt to its impacts.\n\nIn 2009, developed countries agreed to mobilise $100bn in climate finance per year by 2020, and in 2015 agreed to extend this goal through to 2025.\n\nHowever, the UK COP26 Presidency now says the $100bn goal is likely to fall short in 2021 and 2022 - though is confident it will be met in 2023.\n\nMohamed Nasheed, the former president of the Maldives, said: \"To provide confidence and momentum going into COP26, the $100bn climate finance goal must be met immediately, not in 2023.\n\n\"The financing announcement is extremely disappointing in that it asks us as developing countries to wait even longer for the delivery of a promise that was first made more than a decade ago. I know the UK presidency has worked very hard for this, and I appreciate their efforts, but this is not sufficient to lay the groundwork for a successful outcome at COP26.\n\n\"Unless more progress is made in the next fortnight, we will all be in trouble. \"\n\nThe finance delivery plan was produced by Jonathan Wilkinson and Jochen Flasbarth, environment ministers from Canada and Germany, respectively, at the request of Mr Sharma.\n\nCanadian finance minister Jonathan Wilkinson was keen to stress that in his view the plan would achieve the $100bn goal per year over the 2020-2025 period.\n\nIn some areas of the world, dry conditions will become more frequent in future\n\n\"We have much greater confidence that the goal that was agreed upon will in fact, be achieved, and in fact, it will be overachieved beyond 2023 so I think that's very good news.\n\n\"And I think that, perhaps through this process, we've moved the bar in terms of how we can provide greater confidence and transparency going forward.\"\n\nOn Monday, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson also said it was \"touch and go\" whether the upcoming COP26 global climate conference will secure the agreements needed to help tackle climate change.\n\n\"It is going to be very, very tough this summit. I am very worried because it might go wrong and we might not get the agreements that we need and it is touch and go, it is very, very difficult, but I think it can be done,\" he said.\n\nIn the meantime, the climate crisis continues to deepen: the World Meteorological Organization has said the build-up of warming gases in the atmosphere rose to record levels in 2020 despite the pandemic.\n\nThe amounts - or concentrations - of CO2, methane and nitrous oxide rose by more than the annual average in the past 10 years.\n\n\"Developing countries have been rightfully disappointed that so far developed countries have not delivered on the $100bn pledge that was already given in 2009,\" said the one of the plan's authors, Jochen Flasbarth, Germany's secretary of state for the environment.\n\n\"Hence, I am glad that the process I was honoured to lead jointly with minister Jonathan Wilkinson has created momentum to help complying with the finance commitment overall in the period up to 2025. We are very aware that also after today's release of the Delivery Plan, a lot of work remains.\"\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC goes behind the scenes with Sir David Attenborough on the set of his new documentary, The Green Planet\n\n\"If we don't act now, it'll be too late.\" That's the warning from Sir David Attenborough ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nThe broadcaster says the richest nations have \"a moral responsibility\" to help the world's poorest.\n\nAnd it would be \"really catastrophic\" if we ignored their problems, he told me in a BBC News interview.\n\n\"Every day that goes by in which we don't do something about it is a day wasted,\" he said.\n\nSir David and I were speaking at Kew Gardens in London during filming for a new landmark series, The Green Planet, to be aired on BBC1 next year.\n\nOur conversation ranged from the latest climate science to the importance of COP26 to the pace of his working life.\n\nThe UN climate science panel recently concluded that it is \"unequivocal\" that human activity is driving up global temperatures.\n\nAnd Sir David said that proved that he and others had not been making \"a fuss about nothing\", and that the risks of a hotter world are real.\n\nExtreme weather such as drought will increase as the world gets warmer\n\n\"What climate scientists have been saying for 20 years, and that we have been reporting upon, you and I both, is the case - we were not causing false alarms.\n\n\"And every day that goes by in which we don't do something about it is a day wasted. And things are being made worse\".\n\nBut he said the report had not convinced everyone and that they are acting as a brake on efforts to tackle climate change.\n\n\"There are still people in North America, there are still people in Australia who say 'no, no, no, no, of course it's very unfortunate that there was that forest fire that absolutely demolished, incinerated that village, but it's a one-off'.\n\n\"Particularly if it's going to cost money in the short term, the temptation is to deny the problem and pretend it's not there.\n\n\"But every month that passes, it becomes more and more incontrovertible, the changes to the planet that we are responsible for that are having these devastating effects.\"\n\nHis call for an urgent response reflects the latest scientific assessment that to avoid the worst impacts of rising temperatures, global carbon emissions need to be halved no later than 2030.\n\nThat's why the coming years are described as \"the decisive decade\" and why the COP26 talks are so crucial for getting the world on a safer path now.\n\nAs things stand, emissions are projected to continue rising rather than starting to fall, and Sir David was sounding more exasperated than I've heard before.\n\n\"If we don't act now, it will be too late,\" he said. \"We have to do it now.\"\n\nWe turned to the question of responsibility, a highly contentious issue which will loom large at the conference. Developing countries have for years accused the richest nations, which were the first to start polluting the atmosphere, of failing to shoulder their share of the burden.\n\nThe argument is that they should be making the deepest cuts in carbon emissions and providing help to those who need it most. A long-standing promise of $100bn a year for low carbon development and to build stronger defences against more violent weather has yet to be fulfilled - reaching that total will be a key test of whether COP26 succeeds or fails.\n\nBangladesh, on the UN's list of Least Developed Countries, is battling river erosion due to climate change\n\nFor Sir David, this is one of the most worrying challenges, and he says it would be \"really catastrophic\" if threats to the poorest nations were ignored.\n\n\"Whole parts of Africa are likely to be unliveable - people will simply have to move away because of the advancing deserts and increasing heat, and where will they go? Well, a lot of them will try to get into Europe.\n\n\"Do we say, 'Oh, it's nothing to do with us' and cross our arms?\n\n\"We caused it - our kind of industrialisation is one of the major factors in producing this change in climate. So we have a moral responsibility.\n\n\"Even if we didn't cause it, we would have a moral responsibility to do something about thousands of men, women and children who've lost everything, everything. Can we just say goodbye and say this is no business of ours?\"\n\nFinally I asked about his own hectic workload at the age of 95 - from filming documentaries to addressing the G7 summit, the UN Security Council and the Duke of Cambridge's Earthshot Prize.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.\n\n\"I don't plan very far ahead - as you say, I'm 95. How long can you go on? It isn't within our gift to say those things or to know those things.\n\n\"All I know is that if I get up tomorrow and I feel that I'm able to do a decent day's work, then I shall jolly well do it and be grateful.\n\n\"And the day is going to come when I'm going to get out of bed and say, I don't think I can do that. When that's going to be, who knows? I don't.\"\n\nHaving watched him filming for five hours straight, and remaining not only focused but also good-humoured, I suggested that he still loved what he was doing.\n\n\"At the moment, I feel it would be a waste of an opportunity just to back out and not do the things I think are very important to do in which I am well placed to do.\"\n\nAnd the next major engagement in the Attenborough diary? Nothing less than speaking, virtually or in-person, to what's set to be the largest ever gathering of global leaders on British soil: COP26, in a few days' time.", "Millions of public sector workers are set to see their wages rise next year, after the government confirmed a pay freeze is being lifted.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak will use his Budget on Wednesday to say nurses, teachers and members of the armed forces are among those set to benefit.\n\nA \"temporary pause\" in salary progression was introduced last November as a response to the pandemic.\n\nLabour says tax and price rises mean families face a cost of living crisis.\n\nThe public sector pay freeze was part of the government's response to what it described as the \"economic emergency\" caused by Covid, with only the lowest-paid excluded.\n\nIn his spending review in November 2020, Mr Sunak said he could not justify an across-the-board increase when many in the private sector had seen their pay and hours cut in the crisis.\n\nThe Treasury said exactly how much of a pay rise public sector workers receive depends on the recommendations from the independent pay review bodies, who set the pay for most frontline workforces - including nurses, police officers, prison officers and teachers.\n\nBut asked if public sector pay would rise above inflation, a Downing Street spokesperson said the independent pay review body would consider what the rise should be and that No 10 couldn't \"pre-judge that process\".\n\nSeparately, campaigners for a freeze in fuel duty have been told to expect the tax to be frozen for a twelfth year in a row at Wednesday's Budget.\n\nThe BBC has also been told VAT on household energy would not be cut with the Treasury arguing it would be poorly targeted and that lower income households could be better helped through other schemes.\n\nIn an announcement on Monday, the Treasury said the chancellor would use his forthcoming Budget to say \"the solid economic recovery and encouraging signs in the labour market\" mean the \"pay pause\" can be lifted.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Sunak said: \"The economic impact and uncertainty of the virus meant we had to take the difficult decision to pause public sector pay.\n\n\"And now, with the economy firmly back on track, it's right that nurses, teachers and all the other public sector workers who played their part during the pandemic see their wages rise.\"\n\nBusiness Minister Paul Scully said it was \"important public sector workers are recognised for what they do and are rewarded fairly\".\n\nHe said it was part of a number of measures to help people on low incomes, which also included the rise in the national living wage announced on Monday.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"We know there are pressures. We know this is a difficult time for the economy, for people in the country in terms of the cost of living.\"\n\nThe Treasury said the \"temporary pause\" had helped ensure the gap between public and private sector pay did not widen further during the height of the pandemic.\n\nIt said public sector average weekly earnings rose by 4.5% in 2020/21 whilst private sector wage increases were a third lower than they were pre-crisis, at 1.8%.\n\nOn Tuesday figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that workers and occupations hardest hit by the pandemic saw the biggest rebound in pay in 2021, with employees aged under 21 and those in low-paid work seeing the sharpest dip and recovery.\n\nIt comes at a time of fierce debate about the pressure families are under amid soaring energy bills and price rises for goods in shops.\n\nOpposition MPs have accused the Conservatives of presiding over a cost of living crisis with cuts to universal credit and tax rises to fund the NHS and social care.\n\nThere is disquiet among some Conservative backbenchers too about whether ministers should be doing more to help struggling households.\n\nThere may be an element of relief for some public sector workers that their pay will at at least not be frozen for another year.\n\nBut it may not be enough to lift the bitterness many feel that in the year when many of them were key workers, often risking their health on the frontlines of the pandemic, they're coping with a real terms pay cut.\n\nEven nurses, who've received more than most, have seen their spending power shrink as inflation gets above 3%. And that renewed squeeze on living standards is getting worse with record petrol prices and energy bills driving up the cost of living.\n\nWhat shouldn't be taken at face value is the notion that the government \"can't afford\" to pay more. What a government that issues its own currency decides it can or cannot \"afford\" has no objective economic basis, but is a matter of political choice.\n\nFor example, as the IFS points out, the cost of servicing debt is lower than it was pre-pandemic. In fact, it's the second lowest it's been since the 1950s.\n\nEven if official interest rates rise to 1.25%, they will still be historically low - and that is manageable as long as tax receipts are rising faster than the debt servicing cost.\n\nWith teachers' pay in real terms 8% lower than a decade ago, hospital consultants 9% lower, NHS dentists 32% down, a reality is coming home: you can't get the work done if you can't attract the staff to do it.\n\nThe cost of not allowing pay rises - in the harm it could to the government's other goals such as better public health and education - could have been higher than any pay rise.\n\nThe UK's largest union, Unison, said the pay freeze would continue \"in all but name\" unless government departments get extra money.\n\nIts general secretary Christina McAnea said while there was \"never a good time to freeze public sector pay\", to do so \"at the peak of a pandemic was the height of folly\" while \"staff were doing their all to keep under-pressure services running\".\n\nShe added: \"There can be no decent public services without the people to run them.\n\n\"Pay freezes don't help employers hold on to experienced staff, nor attract new recruits.\n\n\"But if the chancellor doesn't allocate extra money to government departments to fund the much-needed wage rises, the pay freeze will continue in all but name.\"\n\nTorsten Bell of the Resolution Foundation described the announcement as \"blindingly obvious\" adding that it was \"totally inevitable\" the pay freeze would be lifted.\n\n\"What we don't know, is what is going to happen to public sector pay - lifting the freeze is one thing, but a rise could be anything between 0 to a million per cent pay rise.\"\n\nLabour says many of those working on the frontline dealing with Covid are among those being hit by the government's choices.\n\nShadow chief secretary to the Treasury Bridget Phillipson said: \"This Conservative government's choice last year to freeze pay for so many frontline workers, who have been among the real heroes of the pandemic, was damaging and unsustainable.\n\n\"The government must work to ensure a fair settlement and reflect the vital work of all key workers including many who have been burnt out over the course of the pandemic.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has told MPs it was \"not acceptable\" to brief the media ahead of MPs about the Budget.\n\nSir Lindsay said that ministers used to \"walk\" if they briefed about a Budget.", "Medical equipment was visible in the road outside Regency Court\n\nEight men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after two teenage boys died.\n\nEssex Police said officers found three people injured after it had received a number of calls to Regency Court, Brentwood, at about 01:30 BST.\n\nTwo of those have since died, the force said, while the third was treated for non-life threatening injuries.\n\nBrentwood and Ongar's Conservative MP, Alex Burghart, called it a \"very dark day for our town\".\n\nPolice said they were \"working to establish how the boys died\" and post-mortem examinations would take place.\n\nThe BBC understands the boys are suspected to have suffered stab wounds.\n\nPolice were called to an area of Brentwood, Essex, in the early hours of Sunday\n\nDet Ch Insp Andy Clarkson, of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, said: \"We understand there will naturally be shock and concern within the community after such a tragic loss of life.\n\n\"But, at this stage, we do not believe there is any wider threat to the public.\"\n\nForensics officers have been working in a tent beside Regency Court\n\nA neighbour said he had tried to warn police about anti-social behaviour in the area in recent weeks.\n\nMark MacIntosh told the PA news agency he had only just arrived home before he heard shouting and screaming coming from a nearby residence.\n\n\"I realise that what I heard was somebody yelling out in pain who may have lost his life shortly thereafter,\" he said.\n\nHe claimed the area had been dealing with problems which stemmed from a multi-storey car park that overlooks the scene.\n\n\"There's constant anti-social behaviour, drinking, drugs, shouting, fighting,\" he said.\n\n\"I've heard people saying 'I'm going to kill him' up there. I've come down and broken up a knife fight down at the bottom here before.\"\n\nMr MacIntosh said he had warned police \"three weeks ago\" that something bad would happen if they did not arrange \"constant patrols\" of the area.\n\nPolice said two of the three injured boys died\n\nCh Insp Mark Barber, of Essex Police, had earlier said there would be a \"highly-visible police presence\" in Brentwood following the deaths.\n\n\"I am acutely aware that this incident will shock many within the community,\" he said. \"My officers will be there throughout the day - they will be there to reassure you and keep you safe.\n\n\"If you have any concerns or information on the incident then, please, do not hesitate to come forward and speak to them.\"\n\nPolice urged witnesses from Regency Court and central Brentwood to speak to them\n\nMr Burghart said: \"This a very dark day for our town. My deepest condolences to the families of the boys who have so dreadfully lost their lives.\n\n\"I must urge anyone with any information to immediately share it with the police so that justice can be done as swiftly as possible.\"\n\nFlowers have been left at nearby Coptfold Road\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. Watch: Greta Thunberg says she's 'completely different' in private\n\nClimate activist Greta Thunberg has told the BBC that summits will not lead to action on climate goals unless the public demand change too.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview ahead of the COP26 climate summit, she said the public needed to \"uproot the system\".\n\n\"The change is going to come when people are demanding change. So we can't expect everything to happen at these conferences,\" she said.\n\nShe also accused politicians of coming up with excuses.\n\nThe COP26 climate summit is taking place in Scotland's largest city, Glasgow, from 31 October to 12 November.\n\nIt is the biggest climate change conference since landmark talks in Paris in 2015. Some 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions, which cause global warming.\n\nMs Thunberg, who recently launched a global series of concerts highlighting climate change called Climate Live, confirmed she would be attending COP26. She said her message to world leaders was to \"be honest\".\n\n\"Be honest about where you are, how you have been failing, how you're still failing us... instead of trying to find solutions, real solutions that will actually lead somewhere, that would lead to a substantial change, fundamental change,\" she told the BBC's Rebecca Morelle.\n\n\"In my view, success would be that people finally start to realise the urgency of the situation and realise that we are facing an existential crisis, and that we are going to need big changes, that we're going to need to uproot the system, because that's where the change is going to come.\"\n\nMs Thunberg did not believe that UK plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions to reach a target of net zero by 2050 were sufficient, or that the UK was a climate leader.\n\n\"Unfortunately there are no climate leaders today, especially not in the so-called global north. But that doesn't mean that they can't suddenly decide that now we're going to take the process seriously,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking about the targets for reaching net zero - which means not adding to the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - she said that it was a \"good start\", but cautioned that it \"doesn't really mean very much in practice\" if people continued to look for loopholes.\n\nKevin Mtai will be one of many activists attending COP26\n\nCOP26 will be attended by climate activists from across the world.\n\nKevin Mtai, a climate justice campaigner from Kenya, told the BBC that inclusivity at the summit was important.\n\n\"I hope this climate conference is going to be an inclusive conference, to include all voices in the talks. They need to use indigenous people in the talks, marginalised people in the talks, people from the most affected areas,\" he said.\n\n\"It's very important for people from the global south to speak for themselves, not other parts of the globe to speak on their behalf. Because we are the ones who have been affected by climate change, so it's very important we can hear from our own people, with our own ideas, our own voice.\"\n\nFrom her home in Sweden, Ms Thunberg also spoke about her own role as a campaigner.\n\n\"I don't see myself as a climate celebrity, I see myself as a climate activist... I should be grateful because there are many, many people who don't have a platform and who are not being listened to, their voices are being oppressed and silenced.\n\n\"I'm a completely different person when I'm in private. I don't think people would recognise me in private. I'm not very serious in private. I appear very angry in the media, but I am silly in private.\"\n\nWhen asked about why she sang a Rick Astley hit at the launch of Climate Live, she said that it was a climate movement in-joke. She has previously taken part in the internet phenomenon \"rick-rolling\" by tweeting out what she said was a link to a new speech, but actually linked to the music video for the song.\n\n\"Why not? I mean we have internal jokes within the climate movement, where we always rickroll each other.\"", "The finding comes from observation of an X-ray binary - a neutron star or black hole pulling in gas from a companion star\n\nAstronomers have found hints of what could be the first planet ever to be discovered outside our galaxy.\n\nNearly 5,000 \"exoplanets\" - worlds orbiting stars beyond our Sun - have been found so far, but all of these have been located within the Milky Way galaxy.\n\nThe possible Saturn-sized planet discovered by Nasa's Chandra X-Ray Telescope is in the Messier 51 galaxy.\n\nThis is located some 28 million light-years away from the Milky Way.\n\nThis new result is based on transits, where the passage of a planet in front of a star blocks some of the star's light and yields a characteristic dip in brightness that can be detected by telescopes.\n\nThis general technique has already been used to find thousands of exoplanets.\n\nDr Rosanne Di Stefano and colleagues searched for dips in the brightness of X-rays received from a type of object known as an X-ray bright binary.\n\nThese objects typically contain a neutron star or black hole pulling in gas from a closely orbiting companion star. The material near the neutron star or black hole becomes superheated and glows at X-ray wavelengths.\n\nBecause the region producing bright X-rays is small, a planet passing in front of it could block most or all of the rays, making the transit easier to spot.\n\nThe team members used this technique to detect the exoplanet candidate in a binary system called M51-ULS-1.\n\n\"The method we developed and employed is the only presently implementable method to discover planetary systems in other galaxies,\" Dr Di Stefano, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, US, told BBC News.\n\n\"It is a unique method, uniquely well-suited to finding planets around X-ray binaries at any distance from which we can measure a light curve.\"\n\nThe Chandra telescope was launched in 1999 to study X-ray emission from hot regions of the Universe\n\nThis binary contains a black hole or neutron star orbiting a companion star with a mass about 20 times that of the Sun. A neutron star is the collapsed core of what had once been a massive star.\n\nThe transit lasted about three hours, during which the X-ray emission decreased to zero. Based on this and other information, the astronomers estimate that the candidate planet would be around the size of Saturn, and orbit the neutron star or black hole at about twice the distance Saturn lies from the Sun.\n\nDr Di Stefano said the techniques that have been so successful for finding exoplanets in the Milky Way break down when observing other galaxies. This is partly because the great distances involved reduce the amount of light which reaches the telescope and also mean that many objects are crowded into a small space (as viewed from Earth), making it difficult to resolve individual stars.\n\nWith X-rays, she said, \"there may be only several dozen sources spread out over the entire galaxy, so we can resolve them. In addition, a subset of these are so bright in X-rays that we can measure their light curves.\n\n\"Finally, the huge emission of X-rays comes from a small region that can be substantially or (as in our case) totally blocked by a passing planet.\"\n\nMessier 51 is also called the Whirlpool Galaxy because of its distinctive spiral shape\n\nThe researchers freely admit that more data is needed to verify their interpretation.\n\nOne challenge is that the planet candidate's large orbit means it would not cross in front of its binary partner again for about 70 years, quashing any attempts to make a follow-up observation in the near-term.\n\nOne other possible explanation that the astronomers considered is that the dimming has been caused by a cloud of gas and dust passing in front of the X-ray source.\n\nHowever, they think this is unlikely, because the characteristics of the event do not match up with the properties of a gas cloud.\n\n\"We know we are making an exciting and bold claim so we expect that other astronomers will look at it very carefully,\" said co-author Julia Berndtsson of Princeton University, New Jersey.\n\n\"We think we have a strong argument, and this process is how science works.\"\n\nDr Di Stefano said that the new generation of optical and infrared telescopes would not be able to compensate for the problems of crowding and dimness, so observations at X-ray wavelengths would likely remain the primary method for detecting planets in other galaxies.\n\nHowever, she said a method known as microlensing might also hold promise for identifying extra-galactic planets.\n\nThe study has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Astronomy.", "Baldwin was told the weapon was a \"cold gun\" which means the gun is unloaded\n\nActor Alec Baldwin was drawing a revolver across his body and pointing it at a camera during a rehearsal on a US film set when it fired with tragic results, legal documents have revealed.\n\nCinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was injured while filming Rust on Thursday.\n\nAffidavits containing statements from Souza and camera operator Reid Russell have shed more light on what happened.\n\nBaldwin was handed a prop gun and told it was unloaded, court documents said.\n\nSouza was standing behind Hutchins when they were both hit, according to the affidavit.\n\n\"Joel stated that they had Alec sitting in a pew in a church building setting, and he was practicing a cross draw,\" it said.\n\n\"Joel said he was looking over the shoulder of [Hutchins], when he heard what sounded like a whip and then loud pop.\"\n\nThe document said 42-year-old Hutchins was shot in the chest area.\n\n\"Joel then vaguely remembers [Hutchins] complaining about her stomach and grabbing her mid-section. Joel also said [Hutchins] began to stumble backwards and she was assisted to the ground.\"\n\nRussell, who was standing next to Hutchins at the time of the shooting, told officials she said she could not feel her legs.\n\nWhen asked how Baldwin treated firearms on the set, Russell said the actor was very careful, citing an instance when the star made sure a child actor was not near him when a gun was being discharged.\n\nOn Friday, authorities said assistant director Dave Halls had handed the weapon to Baldwin and announced \"cold gun\", indicating it was safe to use.\n\nMeanwhile, Serge Svetnoy, chief electrician for Rust, said in a Facebook post on Sunday he held Hutchins in his arms while she was dying and blamed \"negligence and unprofessionalism\" for her death.\n\nOn Sunday, a crew member who worked with Halls on another project said she had raised safety concerns about him in 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The director who worked with Ms Hutchins on the 2020 action film Archenemy says her death is \"unfathomable\"\n\nMaggie Goll, a prop maker and licensed pyrotechnician, told the Associated Press (AP) he disregarded safety protocols for weapons and pyrotechnics on the set of a TV show and tried to continue filming after the supervising pyrotechnician lost consciousness.\n\nHalls has not returned AP's requests for comment. Goll added: \"This situation is not about Dave Halls... It's in no way one person's fault. It's a bigger conversation about safety on set and what we are trying to achieve with that culture.\"\n\nBoth Souza and Russell also described a walkout by a camera crew shortly before last week's accident in New Mexico.\n\n\"Reid stated that the camera crew was having issues with production involving payment and housing,\" the affidavit said, explaining that six of the crew had left.\n\nThe Santa Fe Sheriff's Office is conducting an investigation into the incident, while the producers are also carrying out an internal investigation.\n\nThe producers have halted work on the set \"at least until investigations are complete\".\n\nThe fatal shooting happened on the set of the Western film Rust in New Mexico\n\nIn a statement read at a candlelight vigil on Saturday, Hutchins's husband Matthew called his wife's death \"an enormous loss\".\n\nHe also posted photos of the pair with their nine-year-old son.\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 mhutchins777 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an Instagram post, Baldwin's wife Hilaria said \"my heart is with Halyna\".\n\n\"It's impossible to express the shock and heartache of such a tragic incident,\" she wrote.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by hilariabaldwin This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I'm not even sure where to start,\" he wrote. \"This has been a tragedy of epic proportions that we are all still processing.\n\n\"There just aren't enough words to express what an immense loss this is. She will be incredibly missed by all of us who knew and admired her.\"", "Logan was found dead in the River Ogmore on 31 July\n\nThe mother of a boy, five, who was found dead in a river has been remanded in custody charged with his murder.\n\nLogan Mwangi, also known as Logan Williamson, was discovered in the River Ogmore in Bridgend county on 31 July.\n\nHis mother Angharad Williamson, 30, from Sarn, appeared via video link at Newport Crown Court where she spoke to confirm her name before the case was adjourned to a later date.\n\nTwo other people have also been charged with Logan's murder.\n\nLogan's stepfather John Cole, 39, also from Sarn, has previously been charged with Logan's murder, as has a 14-year-old boy, who cannot be identified because of his age.\n\nAll three defendants have also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nAngharad Williamson and John Cole have both been charged with Logan Mwangi's murder", "World leaders and negotiators are meeting later this month at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow to set out their latest plans to curb climate change.\n\nMillions of lives could be affected by those large-scale decisions, but how can you play your part at home, and what changes would have the most impact?\n\nThere have been lots of studies on how individual actions can cut help cut greenhouse gases - and many of them differ - but we've based the questions below on research from University of Leeds.\n\nIf you cannot see the quiz, follow this link.\n\nWhat information do we collect from this quiz? Privacy notice.\n\nCorrection 27 October: Question 3 was updated to say that the first option should be switching from a petrol car to an electric car rather than buying an electric car if you were not a car owner already, and that the reference to using public transport as much as possible is in addition to owning a petrol car.\n\n13 December: Several averages were adjusted, including the amount of CO2 equivalent that could be cut by using public transport more frequently, which was increased from 0.6 to one tonne.", "Ed Sheeran attended the Earthshot Prize Awards in London last week\n\nEd Sheeran says he is self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe chart-topping musician said in a post on his Instagram page that he would continue to give planned interviews and performances from home.\n\nSheeran, who lives near Framlingham in Suffolk, said: \"Apologies to anyone I've let down, be safe everyone x.\"\n\nLast week he performed in London as part of the inaugural Earthshot Prize awards, hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nIn his post, Sheeran said: \"Hey guys, quick note to tell you that I've sadly tested positive for Covid, so I'm now self-isolating and following government guidelines.\n\n\"It means that I'm now unable to plough ahead with any in-person commitments for, so I'll be doing as many of my planned interviews/performances I can from my house.\"\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\nHis new album, titled =, is due to be released on Friday.\n\nAs part of the promotion, Sheeran was due to join Apple Music's Zane Lowe next week to play songs from his album and take questions from fans.\n\nSheeran's latest singles Shivers and Bad Habits have both topped the UK chart\n\nLast week it was announced Sheeran would read a CBeebies Bedtime story, telling a story about a boy who has a stutter.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Campaigners are concerned about the impact of sewage discharges on many rivers\n\nTory MPs have been defending themselves from accusations they have given the go-ahead to water companies to dump raw sewage in rivers.\n\nA proposal from the Lords to the Environment Bill that would have placed legal duties on the companies to reduce discharges was defeated by 265 MPs' votes to 202 last week.\n\nThe MPs say safeguards already exist and new measures would cost billions.\n\nCritics say the UK is \"lecturing\" the world while its rivers are polluted.\n\nWith just over a week to go until the UK hosts the COP26 climate summit, there is intense focus on ministers' green credentials.\n\nLast Wednesday, 265 MPs voted with the government to reject an attempt by the House of Lords to toughen up the approach to the discharge of sewage, while 22 Conservative MPs rebelled and voted against the government.\n\nThe move has sparked an uproar on social media.\n\nPeers had tabled an amendment to the Environment Bill that would have forced water companies and the government to demonstrate progressive reductions in discharges of untreated sewage and required them to \"take all reasonable steps\" to avoid using combined sewer overflows.\n\nBut ministers said the changes were unnecessary because safeguards are already contained in the bill.\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today programme, former singer Fergal Sharkey, who now campaigns to clean up the nation's waterways, said it was a \"disgrace\".\n\n\"We're lecturing the rest of the planet on climate change yet the reality is there is not a single river in England that makes good overall environmental health,\" he said.\n\nHe said \"every single river\" in England is polluted and \"a major cause is the water industry dumping sewage\".\n\nHe added: \"The truth is what we are looking at is the result of a massive under-investment in infrastructure for the last 30 years and a complete failure of oversight and regulation of the industry by Ofwat, the environment agency and the government itself.\"\n\nHe said ministers were \"unwilling and incapable\" of dealing with the situation.\n\nConservative Huw Merriman, who voted against the government and for the amendment, said \"what was being proposed by the government wasn't enough\" and he hoped ministers would \"be persuaded\" it was the right way to go.\n\nHe said: \"To have sewage being discharged down streets, when there is too much rain, into the sea\" is \"just absolutely shocking\".\n\n\"It does mean more investment. That may ultimately mean more expensive bills, but we're talking about decades of investment and it's got to happen,\" he said.\n\nBut fellow Conservative, Julie Marson, who voted against the amendment, said \"there is a lot of misinformation floating about\" on the issue and while the proposal itself was \"sound\", its \"fundamental flaw\" was that it \"had no plan as to how this can be delivered and no impact assessment whatsoever\".\n\nShe wrote: \"The preliminary cost of the required infrastructure change was estimated to be between £150bn and £650bn.\n\n\"Unless we asked taxpayers to contribute, most of the water companies who would be carrying out this work would go bankrupt, meaning the work could not be completed anyway.\n\n\"The cost works out at between about £5,000 and £20,000 per household.\n\n\"I felt it would be unfair to sting local people with a bill of this size.\"\n\nShe said the existing legislation already placed a new duty on water companies to continuously monitor the water quality upstream and downstream of a storm overflow and of sewage disposal works.\n\nAnother Conservative, Fay Jones, tweeted that the criticisms of MPs were \"deeply misleading\".\n\nShe wrote: \"It ignores the massive flaw in the amendment (i.e forcing taxpayers to pay up to £600bn to dig up Victorian sewerage system) and the work the government is already doing to reduce discharge from storm overflows.\"\n\nAnd Conservative, John Howell, said in a statement he voted against the amendment because \"it is necessary to be realistic\" given the age of the sewerage systems and the potential disruption to homes and businesses.\n\nThe accusation that he voted to allow water companies to pump raw sewage into rivers \"is far from the truth\", he said.\n\n\"It would be just as fair to say that Liberal Democrat and Labour MPs voted to pump raw sewage into your home given that resolving the problem by their half-baked proposal of sewage discharges would require rebuilding the sewage system and could cost up to £600bn and take many years,\" he added.\n\nWater companies discharged raw sewage into rivers in England more than 400,000 times last year, according to figures published by the Environment Agency.\n\nUntreated effluent, including human waste, wet wipes and condoms, was released into waterways for more than three million hours in 2020.\n\nThe Environment Agency allows water utilities to release sewage into rivers and streams after extreme weather events such as prolonged heavy rain.\n\nThis protects properties from flooding and prevents sewage from backing up into streets and homes.\n\nThe agency says that overflows are \"not a sign that the system is faulty\", and that they are \"a necessary part of the existing sewerage system\".\n\nA government spokesperson said the amount of sewage discharge by water companies into rivers was \"not acceptable\".\n\nThe spokesman added: \"We have made it crystal clear to water companies that they must significantly reduce sewage discharges from storm overflows as a priority.\n\n\"If we do not start to see significant improvements, we will not hesitate to take action through the new measures directly on water companies in the Environment Bill.\n\n\"We have provided over £3bn of investment to tackle pollution in rivers and we expect to see results.\"\n\nThe Environment Bill will return to the Lords on Tuesday, where peers are expected to re-insert the measures before it goes back to the House of Commons later this week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Demonstrators take to the streets of Khartoum to protest against the arrests\n\nDefiant protesters remain on the streets of Sudan after the country's armed forces launched a military coup.\n\nChanting and waving flags, they have blocked roads in the capital Khartoum and around the country following the takeover.\n\nOn Monday coup leader Gen Abdel Fattah Burhan dissolved civilian rule, arrested political leaders and called a state of emergency.\n\nAccording to Reuters, Gen Burhan has said Monday's coup was justified to avoid \"civil war\" and that the detained prime minister will be returned to his home on Tuesday. Earlier, he sought to justify the takeover by blaming political infighting.\n\nThe coup has drawn global condemnation. Diplomats told AFP news agency the UN Security Council is due to meet on Tuesday to discuss the crisis.\n\nTroops are reported to have been going house to house in Khartoum arresting local protest organisers.\n\nThe city's airport is closed and international flights are suspended. The internet and most phone lines are also down.\n\nCentral Bank staff have reportedly gone on strike, and across the country doctors are said to be refusing to work in military run hospitals except in emergencies.\n\nCivilian leaders and their military counterparts have been at odds since long-time ruler Omar al-Bashir was overthrown in 2019.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the military's actions \"are a betrayal of Sudan's peaceful revolution\". The US has halted $700m (£508m) in aid.\n\nAfter a night of protests, demonstrators remained on the streets on Tuesday morning, demanding the return of civilian rule.\n\n\"Civilian rule is the people's choice,\" they chanted as they set up barricades of burning tyres. Many women are also taking part, shouting \"no to military rule\".\n\nThe protests continue despite troops opening fire on demonstrators on Monday.\n\nOne wounded protestor told reporters he was shot in the leg by the army outside the military headquarters, while another man described the military firing first stun grenades, then live ammunition.\n\n\"Two people died, I saw them with my own eyes,\" said Al-Tayeb Mohamed Ahmed. Sudan's doctors' union and the information ministry also wrote on Facebook that the fatal shootings had happened outside the military compound.\n\nPictures from a hospital in the city showed people with bloodied clothing and various injuries.\n\nThousands of people, including many women and children, protested outside the military compound in Khartoum\n\nWorld leaders have reacted with alarm to news of the military takeover.\n\nThe US has joined the UK, EU, UN and African Union, of which Sudan is a member, in demanding the release of political leaders who are now under house arrest.\n\nAmong them are Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and his wife, along with members of his cabinet and other civilian leaders.\n\nBBC Arabic's Mohamed Osman reported from the capital that a special security unit of the military went to the prime minister's home early on Monday morning, and tried to persuade Mr Hamdok to agree to the coup, but he refused.\n\nThe agreement between civilian and military leaders signed in 2019 was designed to steer Sudan towards democracy but has proven fragile with a number of previous coup attempts, the last just over a month ago.\n\nGen Burhan, who was head of the power-sharing council, said Sudan was still committed to the transition to civilian rule, with elections planned for July 2023.\n\nAre you in Sudan? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Major phone networks have agreed to automatically block almost all internet calls coming from abroad if they pretend to be from UK numbers, Ofcom has confirmed.\n\nCriminals have been using internet-based calling technology to make it look like a phone call or text is coming from a real telephone number.\n\nAlmost 45 million consumers were targeted by phone scams this summer.\n\nOfcom said it expected the measures to be introduced at pace as a \"priority\".\n\nSo far, only one operator - TalkTalk - has implemented the new plans. Other phone networks are still exploring methods of making it work.\n\n\"We've been working with telecoms companies to implement technical solutions, including blocking at source, suspicious international calls that are masked by a UK number,\" said Lindsey Fussell, Ofcom's networks and communications group director.\n\n\"We expect these measures to be introduced as a priority, and at pace, to ensure customers are better protected.\"\n\nShe added tackling the phone scams issue was a \"complex problem\" that required a coordinated effort from the police, government, other regulators and industry.\n\nThe move follows months of discussions between Ofcom and the UK telecoms industry.\n\nInternet-based calling technology, also known as Voice Over Internet Protcol (VoIP), is used by millions of consumers globally to make phone calls free or cheaply every year.\n\nPopular services that use this technology include WhatsApp, Skype, Zoom and Microsoft Teams.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph, which first reported the story, cited Whitehall sources that have cast doubt on Ofcom's plans.\n\nThey say blocking traffic from foreign VoIP providers will not work to stop scam texts and calls, because much of the UK still relies on old copper-based networks dating back to the 1970s.\n\nBut some experts the BBC spoke to disagree.\n\nApart from consumers, many businesses also use the VoIP technology for internal corporate phone networks.\n\nWhenever a corporate phone network makes a call, a VoIP provider hands over the call from the internet to the phone networks.\n\nGabriel Cirlig, of US cyber-security company Human, said telecoms companies were not inspecting the traffic they received from VoIP providers, they just let it through on to the network.\n\n\"Recently, because of the ease in implementing your own private-enterprise telephone system, everybody can have access to critical telephone infrastructure,\" Mr Cirlig said.\n\n\"Because of this lower barrier of entry, it is very easy for scammers to build their own systems to spoof mobile numbers - the cyber-criminals are essentially pretending to be legitimate corporate telephone networks in order to have access to legitimate telco infrastructure.\"\n\nHe adds that right now, it is up to the VoIP provider to check whether the calls it is handing over to telecoms networks are actually legitimate.\n\n\"This is not a regional problem or restricted to one type of infrastructure, this is a systemic issue that allows crime to cross any borders,\" said Mr Cirlig.\n\n\"This feature is enabling the VoIP business model so they don't want to stop it.\"\n\nMatthew Gribben, a former consultant to GCHQ, the UK government intelligence agency, agrees. He used to see many scams while monitoring networks for GCHQ.\n\n\"It's fundamentally the foreign VoIP providers that are technologically enabling these gangs to operate, so it will make a huge dent in this,\" he said. \"It doesn't fix everything but it's an excellent step in the right direction.\"\n\nExperts agree that the only way to completely fix the problem is to implement new telephone identification protocols that enable phone networks to authenticate that all calls and text messages actually come a real telephone number.\n\nThe new protocols, known as \"Stir and Shaken\" in a nod to James Bond, were developed by an international standards body, the US-based Internet Engineering Task Force.\n\nUS authorities have ordered mobile operators to implement the protocols by the end of 2021, but Ofcom told the BBC in August that introducing full authentication in the UK would only be possible when the technology that supports voice services is upgraded, which is due to be completed by 2025.\n\nThe Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications said that it cannot impose Stir and Shaken on EU phone networks.\n\nIt is only able to ask mobile operators to block, on a case-by-case basis, access to numbers or services in case of fraud.\n\nHowever, it said it was now discussing whether to implement the protocols.", "Twenty-two people died in the bombing on 22 May 2017\n\nThe decision not to question the Manchester Arena bomber after he returned to the UK from Libya four days before the attack was a mistake, a senior MI5 officer has conceded.\n\nThe officer, referred to as Witness J, told the Manchester Arena Inquiry Salman Abedi was assessed in the months before the 22 May 2017 bombing.\n\nHe said \"no intelligence\" indicating a threat to national security was found.\n\nBut he conceded it was an error not to ask police to question Abedi on 18 May.\n\nThe inquiry has begun looking at what was known about the 22-year-old before the attack, which saw 22 people die and hundreds more suffer injuries in a bombing at the venue on 22 May 2017.\n\nThe hearing was told that from December 2013 to January 2017, Abedi was identified as being in direct contact with three \"subjects of interest\", one who was suspected of planning travel to Syria, one who had links to al-Qaeda and a third who had links to extremists in Libya.\n\nBetween April 2016 and April 2017, he was identified as a second-level contact with three more \"subjects of interest\", all with suspected links to the Islamic State terror group.\n\nWitness J, appearing in court inside a bespoke wooden box and shielded from victims' families to maintain his anonymity, was asked by Paul Greaney QC, counsel to the inquiry, if increased contact with \"a person of an extremist mindset\" would increase \"the concern [someone] might share their mindset?\"\n\nWitness J said it did not \"necessarily follow\" that having contact was \"a cumulative risk\".\n\n\"We have to make very fine judgments about whether someone meets the threshold of investigation,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not sure that... indicates a cumulative risk developing.\"\n\nThe inquiry was told Abedi had himself been made a \"subject of interest\" for five months, but his file was closed in July 2014, due to a \"lack of engagement\" with extremists.\n\nWitness J was asked about two prison visits by Abedi, the second of which was in January 2017.\n\nMr Greaney asked him if the visits, along with the other intelligence, should have led to Abedi being designated a \"subject of interest\" once again.\n\nWitness J said there was \"no intelligence to indicate that the contact was related to Abedi posing a threat to national security\".\n\n\"The decision to not open [an investigation] was a reasonable one,\" he added.\n\nThe hearing was also told that twice in the months prior to the attack, intelligence was received by MI5 about Abedi which was highly relevant to the planned attack but was assessed at the time to relate to non-terrorist criminality.\n\nAbedi's name also hit a \"priority indicator\" during a separate \"data-washing exercise\" as falling within a small number of former subjects of interest who merited further consideration.\n\nThe hearing was also told an assessment on 1 May 2017 had concluded Abedi should be considered for further investigation and a meeting to consider that conclusion was scheduled for 31 May.\n\nWitness J conceded it was a mistake not to ask police to stop and question Abedi on his return to the UK on 18 May.\n\nThe bomber immediately took a taxi to a store of explosives and set about making his final attack preparations.\n\nAsked by Mr Greaney if it had been a missed opportunity, Witness J said stopping him \"would have been the better course of action\".\n\nInquiry chairman Sir John Saunders said MI5 had known Abedi was in contact with terrorist suspects and his father had been involved in such activities in Libya, adding that he looked like an \"obvious candidate\" to be involved in terrorism himself.\n\nWitness J had earlier told the inquiry Abedi's extremist views were \"likely to have been influenced by his father Ramadan Abedi\".\n\nThe court has previously heard Ramadan Abedi has refused to help the inquiry and remains a suspect in the police investigation into the atrocity.\n\nSir John asked Witness J about why Salman Abedi had not been referred to the Prevent counter-extremism scheme when he was closed as a subject of interest in July 2014.\n\nThe witness said consideration of a Prevent referral was not \"policy\" at the time and that it was a \"reasonable\" decision not to refer Abedi.\n\nSir John said it was a government de-radicalisation scheme and \"MI5 didn't take advantage of it\".\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.", "Tesco's website and app are now up and running again, following a service outage that began on Saturday.\n\nThe retail giant's services had crashed after what Tesco said were attempts \"to interfere with our systems\".\n\nThe possible hack at Britain's biggest supermarket began with shoppers unable to order goods and track deliveries.\n\nTesco initially said there was \"an issue\", but in a Sunday update said there had been deliberate disruption.\n\nThe supermarket later confirmed on Twitter that its groceries website and app were back up and running, but it was temporarily using a \"virtual waiting room\" to manage the high volume of traffic.\n\nTesco said the attempts to compromise its systems were made overnight from Friday to Saturday, but was not more specific.\n\nAccording to Downdetector, which monitors website outages, shoppers began reporting issues early on Saturday morning.\n\nThe scale of the problem, and whether the issue was nationwide or only in certain areas, remained unclear on Sunday night.\n\nShoppers complained over the weekend about a lack of information, with many wanting to know how to cancel orders and whether they can get money back.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, a Tesco spokesperson said: \"There is no reason to believe that this issue impacts customer data and we continue to take ongoing action to make sure all data stays safe.\n\n\"Since yesterday, we've been experiencing disruption to our online grocery website and app.\n\n\"An attempt was made to interfere with our systems which has caused problems with the search function on the site. We're working hard to fully restore all services and apologise for the inconvenience.\"\n\nMeanwhile, shoppers were trying to change or cancel deliveries, or switch to other supermarkets.\n\nTesco customer Chris Hodgson, who lives in Stoke-on-Trent, told the BBC the app had not been working properly for \"a couple of days\".\n\nHe picked up his click-and-collect order on Sunday, but had only managed to do half his weekly shopping before the website went down. \"The collection member of staff hadn't been informed of any issues,\" Mr Hodgson said. \"After I showed him the website, he said it was an unusually quiet day.\n\n\"I asked if I could reject the whole order and was informed I could only reject substituted items. I'll have to go out again this afternoon. If you're on a budget it's annoying, it's an inconvenience.\n\n\"Nothing from Tesco, no way of contacting them. Really poor by Tesco,\" he said.\n\nTesco has opened a check-out free store where customers use the app to choose groceries and leave with them\n\nAnother customer, Rebecca, from North Wales, got a delivery of 120 Pepsi drinks on Sunday instead of her order.\n\n\"We were meant to get a week's shop this morning,\" she told the BBC. \"The website was down all yesterday so we couldn't amend or cancel. All we received was 120 cans of Pepsi Max.\"\n\nRebecca, who asked for her surname not to be used, added: \"I'd been going in to the order over and over yesterday, right up until the 11.45 deadline. I didn't try calling, there must be thousands in the same boat.\n\n\"Fortunately someone suggested that Asda had delivery slots for today so I managed to place an order last night (just before their deadline) for enough food for the next few days.\"\n\nTesco initially said on Saturday it was \"working hard to get things back up and running\", and apologised for the inconvenience.\n\nThe firm's online sales have soared recently, especially during lockdown, with the supermarket ramping up capacity.\n\nIts latest financial results say the scale and reach of its online operations are \"unmatched in the UK\", with total sales topping £6bn. Tesco said it had 6.6 million app users.\n\nTesco has faced previous hacks. In 2014 about 2,000 customer accounts were deactivated amid fears login details were compromised, and there was also a cyber attack on the supermarket's bank arm.\n\nBut the problem is becoming more common globally. Earlier this year, international meat manufacturer JBS had to shut down about 25% of its operation. And large swathes of US fuel supply were closed after a ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline.\n\nFew sectors have escaped the attention of cyber-criminals, with airlines, banks, universities, local authorities, utilities and tech giants such as Microsoft all having faced attacks on their computer systems.\n• None Why does the internet keep breaking?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland's industrial past is a source of pride, but it should also be a \"real cause for reflection\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon has called for \"credible action, not face-saving slogans\" to come from next week's COP26 summit in Glasgow.\n\nThe talks have been billed as the \"last best chance\" to limit the rise in the earth's temperature to 1.5C.\n\nIn a speech ahead of the conference, the first minister said concrete action is needed to \"keep 1.5 alive\".\n\nThe UK government said the first minister would play an \"important role\" at COP26.\n\nIt has insisted the summit must \"stick with the goal\" of limiting temperature rises to 1.5C.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the conference can lead the world into a \"green revolution\" and that Scotland can act as a bridge between large and small nations.\n\nAnd she said her government would set out details later this week about how it would \"catch up\" with its own emissions reduction targets, having \"fallen short\" of its last three annual milestones.\n\nShe said: \"Governments at all levels have a responsibility and Scotland is determined to play our full part.\n\n\"Our ability to do that depends on our own climate credibility - Scotland cannot urge other countries to set and meet ambitious targets if we fail to do that ourselves.\"\n\nAs final preparations take place at the SEC, the first minister hopes Glasgow will act as a bridge across the climate divide\n\nMore than 120 world leaders will attend the summit, which takes place at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November.\n\nIn her speech to an audience of young people and students in Glasgow, the first minister called for a \"significant uplift in ambition\" from world leaders - particularly those of the \"biggest emitting countries\" - to act to limit global temperature increases and deliver a fair financial package for developing countries.\n\nShe said: \"We take seriously the responsibility of all governments - at all levels - to show ambition, and to galvanise action. If we do that, we can all contribute towards a successful summit.\n\n\"I have said that small countries can lead the way in this, and they can, but in the coming days, it is the countries which emit the most, who most need to step up. They need to make ambitious pledges to achieve net zero. And those pledges must be backed by credible actions.\"\n\n\"The idea of 'keeping 1.5 alive', cannot simply be a face-saving slogan. It must be real. And there must be progress in Glasgow which makes that outcome more likely.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon also encouraged national governments to match the ambition of cities, regions and state governments, and she said her government would \"help those around the negotiating table to hear from activists in the developed world and from the global South\".\n\nThousands of delegates and hundreds of world leaders will descend on Glasgow for the climate summit\n\nThe Scottish government has set what it describes as world leading targets to cut carbon emissions.\n\nIt has committed to achieving net zero by 2045 with an interim goal of reducing emissions by 75% by 2030.\n\nThese targets have been put into law in Scotland, with ministers describing it as the \"toughest, most ambitious legislative framework on climate change in the world\".\n\nThe snag is the annual progress required to hit these targets has not yet been achieved.\n\nThe latest emissions figures for 2019 suggested Scotland had reduced the amount of carbon it was releasing into the atmosphere by 51.5% compared to 1990 levels. The target for 2019 was 55%.\n\nThe Scottish government has more to do to live up to its ambitions on tackling climate change, and is promising a \"catch up\" plan later this week.\n\nLast week, COP26 President Alok Sharma told the BBC's No Hot Air podcast the aim was to get countries to \"stick with the goals\" of holding the rise in the earth's temperature to 1.5C, as agreed at a COP summit in Paris in 2015.\n\nHe said: \"World leaders came together and said that they would act to limit global temperature rises to well below 2C, aiming for 1.5C and that's what we want to try and achieve.\n\n\"I think Glasgow has to be the moment that the world acts. We've got some commitments but we need to go further.\"\n\nMr Sharma added: \"We need to make sure that we can say with credibility that we've kept 1.5C in reach.\n\n\"Now is the time for all of us to act, but particularly for the biggest emitters - the G20 nations and the developed countries who promised finance to support developing countries - they also need to step up.\"\n\nA spokesman for the UK government said: \"The prime minister has been clear [that] the first ministers will play an important role at COP26.\n\n\"We are working with the Scottish government, Welsh government and Northern Ireland executive to ensure an inclusive and ambitious summit for the whole of the UK.\"\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.", "Francis Wayne Alexander would have been 21 or 22 when he was murdered\n\nA man from North Carolina who vanished in the 1970s has been identified as one of dozens of victims murdered by serial killer John Wayne Gacy.\n\nFrancis Wayne Alexander's remains were among those found in the crawl space of Gacy's Chicago-area home in 1978.\n\nCook County Sheriff Tom Dart ordered eight unidentified victims' bodies to be exhumed in 2011 in an effort to identify them through DNA testing.\n\nAlexander is the third Gacy victim to be identified in the last decade.\n\nHe would have been 21 or 22 when Gacy killed him between 1976 and 1977, Mr Dart's office said.\n\nGacy was convicted of killing 33 young men between 1972 and 1978 and burying them on his property. He was executed in 1994.\n\nHe often lured young men to his home for sex by pretending to be a police officer or promising them construction work.\n\nIn reopening the investigation, Sheriff Dart asked families of youngsters who had vanished between 1970 and Gacy's 1978 arrest to submit saliva samples to compare DNA with the eight victims who were buried without being identified.\n\nMonths later, William George Bundy, a 19-year-old construction worker, was identified as a Gacy victim.\n\nIn 2017, James Byron Haakenson - a missing teenager from Minnesota - was named as another victim.\n\nInvestigators matched DNA samples from Mr Alexander's mother and half-brother to his remains.\n\nAlexander's sister, Carolyn Sanders, thanked the sheriff's office for giving the family \"closure\".\n\n\"It is hard, even 45 years later, to know the fate of our beloved Wayne. He was killed at the hands of a vile and evil man,\" Ms Sanders said.\n\n\"We can now lay to rest what happened and move forward by honouring Wayne.\"\n\nAuthorities say they are unsure how Mr Alexander crossed paths with Gacy, one of America's most infamous serial killers.\n\nHe had moved to Chicago, where he was married for around three months before divorcing in 1975.\n\nIn January 1976, he received a traffic ticket in Chicago. After this, officers found no record of him being alive.\n\nMr Alexander \"lived in an area that was frequented by Gacy and where other identified victims had previously lived\", the sheriff's office said.\n\nPolice say their efforts to identify the other remains are ongoing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lindsay Hoyle says it is “not acceptable\" for ministers to give briefings to the media before Parliament.\n\nThe Treasury has released a deluge of funding announcements, days before the chancellor delivers his Budget on 27 October.\n\nStatements from the government setting out spending for transport, health and education have been put out in the past few days.\n\nCommons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle is furious, telling MPs on Monday it was \"not acceptable\" to brief the media ahead of MPs and on Tuesday that the government was behaving in a \"discourteous manner\".\n\nHe thundered that ministers used to \"walk\" if they briefed about a Budget.\n\nIndeed, in 1947, then-Chancellor Hugh Dalton resigned after he leaked details of his budget to a journalist.\n\nDefending pre-Budget announcements, Treasury Minister Simon Clarke said the government had not commented on the \"substantive tax measures\" that would appear in the Budget.\n\nRishi Sunak's Budget won't all be about displays of generosity. The Treasury has asked departments to identify \"at least 5% of savings and efficiencies from their day-to-day budgets\" and we may hear more about those plans on Wednesday.\n\nThe government has already committed to spending for health, schools, defence and overseas aid so other areas such as local government, justice and further education may face a squeeze on their budgets.\n\nAnd there may be more to some of the seemingly lavish spending pledges than meets the eye.\n\nBeware what you are reading! They sound good, all these announcements in the run up to Budget and Spending Review.\n\nBut they need to be taken with caution. This is the PR blitz seeking good headlines. We don't yet know the detail of exactly what the government is planning.\n\nThe raft of investments will make a difference. But there are questions.\n\nAre the transport links, treatment centres and other projects entirely new or have some parts been announced (with equal fanfare) before now?\n\nCrucially what is happening more broadly to the budgets of the departments getting cash?\n\nA shiny investment in something is great, but is that department's day-to-day spending being squeezed? And what of those areas that aren't getting the handouts?\n\nBest to wait until Wednesday to truly judge the chancellor's largesse.\n\nThe government has announced that England's city regions will receive £6.9bn to spend on train, tram, bus and cycle projects.\n\nThis includes £1.07bn for Greater Manchester, £1.05bn for the West Midlands and £830m for West Yorkshire.\n\nHowever, the figure of £6.9bn only includes £1.5bn of additional spending because the government is including the £4.2bn promised in 2019 alongside funding for buses announced by the prime minister last year.\n\nThe chancellor has refused to be drawn on the future of the eastern leg of High Speed Two, which could be delayed or cancelled to save an estimated £40bn. If built, the extension would cut journey times between London and the North East by 31 minutes. It would also shave 52 minutes off trips between London and Leeds.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will also receive extra funding through the Barnett formula - a mechanism the UK government uses to allocate additional money to the devolved nations when it spends more in England.\n\nNHS England will get £5.9bn to tackle the backlog of people waiting for tests and scans. That covers £2.3bn for diagnostic tests including clinics in shopping centres for scans; £1.5bn on beds equipment and new \"surgical hubs\"; and £2.1bn to improve IT.\n\nHealth bodies welcomed the money but warned it would not solve the problem of staff shortages. According to data published by NHS digital, in June there were 93,806 full-time vacancies across the NHS in England.\n\nMr Sunak is set to announce a rise in the National Living Wage from £8.91 per hour to £9.50, to come into effect from 1 April next year.\n\nThis is a 6.6% increase in the minimum wage for all those aged 23 and over - more than twice the current 3.1% rise in the cost of living.\n\nAssuming a 40 hour week, the new minimum wage amounts to a salary of £1,646 per month or £19,760 a year.\n\nThe increases to the wage rates follow recommendations made by the Low Pay Commission, an independent advisory board.\n\nThe Treasury has also announced it will be lifting a pay freeze imposed on millions of public sector workers last year as a result of the pandemic.\n\nIndependent pay review bodies will recommend how much extra money workers will get early next year.\n\nThe government's major tax change has already been announced, as earlier this year the prime minister told MPs he would introduce a tax in England designed to tackle the NHS backlog caused by the Covid pandemic and later to pay for social care.\n\nHowever, we know a few other changes (or rather lack of changes) that will be announced on Wednesday.\n\nCampaigners for a freeze in fuel duty have been told to expect the levy to be frozen for a twelfth year in a row.\n\nAnd separately, the BBC has been told VAT on household energy would not be cut.\n\nThe health department will get £5bn over the next three years for research and development.\n\nThis includes £95m which will go towards researching methods for treating cancer, obesity and mental health.\n\nThe money will also be spent on developing genome technology which could detect more than 200 conditions in newborn babies.\n\n£2.6bn will be spent on creating 30,000 new school places for children with special educational needs and disabilities.\n\nThe money will also go towards improving school buildings' accessibility and funding new, special provision in free schools England.\n\nThe Budget will also include £1.6bn over three years to roll out new T-levels for 16 to 19-year-olds plus £550m for adult skills in England.\n\nCurrently there are over 6,000 on T-level courses, but the government hopes to ramp up those numbers.\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, warned that the extra money was a \"gamble\" as it was unclear how many would want to take the qualification.\n\nThe government will also spend a further £830m modernising colleges in England.\n\nThe Treasury is allocating £1.8bn for building around 160,000 new homes on derelict or unused land - also known as brownfield sites - in England.\n\nAn extra £9m will also go towards allowing councils to turn neglected urban spaces into \"pocket parks\" roughly the size of a tennis court.\n\nThe chancellor is also expected to confirm £65m for digitising England's planning system.\n\nGrants worth £1.4bn will be given to \"internationally mobile\" companies to invest in UK infrastructure.\n\nThis includes £345m aimed at increasing resilience for future pandemics and £800m for the production of electric vehicles in north-east England and the Midlands.\n\nAs part of the package, a talent network team will aim to attract high-skilled workers to the UK, through \"innovation hotspots\" initially based in San Francisco and Boston in the US and Bengaluru in India.\n\nThe government has announced £500m to support parents and children in England.\n\nThis includes £200m to support families with complex issues; £82m to fund centres in 75 different areas to provide advice for parents; £100m for mental health support for expectant parents; and £50m for breastfeeding support.\n\nLabour has argued that the government previously closed over 1,000 children's centres - known as Sure Start centres - and that this new announcement \"rings hollow\".\n\nMr Sunak defended past cuts, arguing that the new funding would \"create a network of family hubs which are broader than the Sure Start centres\".\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? Do you have any questions for our experts? 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 teenager with a passion for cleaning has turned his love of car washing into a successful business with a celebrity client list.\n\nZykiah, 15, got into car valeting when his family bought him a kit for Christmas after he was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).\n\nHe said he started on family cars, but \"I realised it was something I really loved doing\" and it grew from there.\n\nOCD is a common mental health condition which causes obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours.\n\nIt can affect all ages, but it usually starts during early adulthood, and can be distressing and significantly interfere with people's lives, though treatment can help keep it under control.\n\nZykiah told BBC Breakfast that he first started by cleaning the cars of family and friends at the weekend before asking if he could clean neighbours' cars.\n\nHours after his mother posted in a local residents' group about her son's love of car cleaning, a queue of cars had formed outside the family home.\n\nZykiah now counts Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs as clients after setting up Dirt2Clean Manchester\n\n\"I realised it was something I really loved doing,\" he said.\n\n\"I thought I would start a business and I thought it would just be family and friends' cars at the weekends.\n\n\"It was mad. I got one famous car and it went from there.\"\n\nHe added that he had found car cleaning therapeutic after setting up the business two years ago.\n\nIf you're affected by the issues in this piece, you can find support from BBC Action Line.\n\nHis client list now also includes boxer Tommy Fury and Manchester United footballer Scott McTominay, who Zykiah said was \"a top lad\".\n\nJo said Zykiah had been \"constantly cleaning\" from a young age.\n\n\"I would buy him Hoovers, little cleaning kits when he was six, seven, eight,\" she said.\n\n\"At 13, he got diagnosed with OCD and I said... he is going to turn it into something positive and that's what he has done.\"\n\nA spokesman for OCD Action said: \"We are pleased that Zykiah found his diagnosis of OCD to be a catalyst to starting a successful business.\n\n\"However, we know that for the majority of people who live with OCD, it is a debilitating condition which can cause huge distress. It is also important to know that OCD can get better with the right treatment and support, and we would encourage anybody who is struggling to seek this.\"\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 UN conference will bring 25,000 delegates to Glasgow\n\nScotland's health secretary says there is \"absolutely a risk\" of Covid cases rising after the COP26 summit in Glasgow.\n\nHumza Yousaf said he expects to see a spike in cases after 25,000 delegates descend on the city in a week's time.\n\nMr Yousaf said the Scottish government was not currently considering imposing more restrictions.\n\nHe also stressed that there were many mitigations in place to prevent Covid being transmitted at the conference.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's The Sunday Show Mr Yousaf said that the Scottish government was doing everything it could to limit transmission of the virus during the 12 days of the summit.\n\nHe said: \"We have been working with the UK government and the United Nations (UN) to make COP as safe as we possibly can.\n\n\"Mitigations like daily testing in the blue zone, very strict isolation protocols in place, face coverings being worn in the blue zone and so on. We will do everything we possibly can to make the event because we recognise the climate emergency itself is the biggest public health emergency and crisis that we face globally.\"\n\nHe said: \"There is no public health expert in the world who would say there is no risk in the midst of a global pandemic to have tens of thousand of people descending onto largely one city so there is absolutely a risk of Covid cases rising thereafter but we will do everything we can to mitigate that.\n\n\"Of course we would expect there to be positive cases linked to COP but we are also very, very assured by the protocols we have got in place to be able to isolate those cases as best as we possibly can.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Humza Yousaf said he would expect a rise in coronavirus cases following an event as large as COP26\n\nThe UK government has insisted every measure is being taken to mitigate risk.\n\nCOP President Alok Sharma told BBC Scotland's No Hot Air podcast: \"People want to know we are taking every measure to ensure that COP26 is safe for the participants and also, really importantly, for the people of Glasgow. That is why we have a detailed regime in terms of safety.\n\n\"People will be tested every day before they come into the venue. If they are found to be positive they will have to self-isolate.\n\n\"They will be wearing masks moving around the venue, we will have rigorous cleaning regimes in place and social distancing.\n\n\"We also made an offer to any accredited delegate who wasn't able to get vaccinated in their home nation to say we would support them in that vaccination process.\"\n\nCases in Scotland were on the rise throughout the summer as coronavirus restrictions were relaxed, but began to fall in September as the vaccination programme reached its end with young people included, but the drop has levelled off, with cases in October rarely falling below 2,000 per day.\n\nExperts, including government adviser Prof Devi Sridhar, have raised concerns over a potential increase in cases associated with so many people being in a relatively small area.\n\nResponding to a tweet from a member of the public last week, Prof Sridhar said: \"I could be wrong (and hope I am) but yes. A mass event with major movement of people in and out with an infectious virus will cause an increase in cases.\n\n\"While in the case of Covid will put stress on limited health services. Which triggers need for further restrictions.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Prof. Devi Sridhar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 health secretary said that the Scottish government was not actively considering bringing back restrictions.\n\nBut he did not rule out any measures later in the year. He said restrictions would continue to be reviewed every three weeks but said it would be \"foolish\" to pretend he knew what was going to happen in two or three months' time.\n\nMr Yousaf admitted he was concerned about the months ahead.\n\n\"We can't get away from the fact that this will be the most challenging winter in the NHS's 73-year existence and this is the case across the entire UK,\" he said.\n\nScottish Labour's deputy leader Jackie Baillie called for more action ahead of the summit and before winter pressures increase.\n\nShe said: \"The health secretary simply had no answers to the potential impact of COP26 on our NHS.\n\n\"We are looking down the barrel at a winter of extreme pressure on our NHS and potentially surging levels of Covid.\n\n\"We need action from the health secretary to avoid this, not warm words.\"\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Dr Sandesh Gulhane said that Mr Yousaf was \"unable to provide any confidence that our NHS is prepared\" as delegates started to arrive for COP26.\n\nHe said: \"This event is unlike anything that Scotland has previously hosted, and under the backdrop of Covid there needs to be reassurance that every mitigation is being taken, so health services are not overwhelmed by a surge in cases.\n\n\"The minster needs to focus on stepping up testing and the booster programme to protect capacity within our NHS and those most vulnerable.\n\n\"Humza Yousaf needs to take action if the SNP are serious about managing the potential impact COP26 could have on our NHS.\"\n\nMr Yousaf also strongly denied claims that Scotland's Covid-19 booster vaccine programme was lagging behind.\n\nHe said the rollout started as soon as the Joint Committee on Vaccine and Immunisation (JCVI) had authorised the move.\n\n\"I completely reject the suggestion the booster programme is failing. We are on track to meet the targets I laid out to parliament previously.\n\n\"Groups 1-4, the JCVI priority groups, we are confident of getting vaccinated by mid November. Then groups 5-9 in the months thereafter and absolutely by early next year. Those aged 60-69 can expect letters to be received very soon.\"", "The public spending watchdog will investigate the Financial Conduct Authority over the British Steel pension scandal.\n\nAbout 8,000 steelworkers, many from Wales, collectively transferred about £2.8bn from the firm's scheme when it was restructured in 2017.\n\nA Commons select committee said they were prey to \"vulture\" financial advisors in a \"misselling scandal\".\n\nThe FCA said it was looking forward to working with the National Audit Office.\n\nThe NAO will examine the FCA's plans for supporting steelworkers who may be entitled to redress, and the extent to which compensation is being delivered.\n\nThe NAO said many steelworkers had been given bad advice and may have made poor choices, which could have seen them lose \"significant sums\".\n\nRichard Pugh said the Financial Conduct Authority \"have let steelworkers down\"\n\nPort Talbot steel worker Richard Pugh said the value of his pension had plummeted £20,000 in the past two weeks.\n\nThe 47-year-old said he and other workers \"did not have a clue\" what they were doing when they had to decide on the next steps for their pension arrangements.\n\nThey were given assorted options, including transferring their funds from the British Steel pension scheme altogether.\n\n\"Realistically, a lot of us are financially illiterate when it comes to pensions,\" he said, meaning many steelworkers had been left in an \"extremely vulnerable\" position.\n\n\"We were in the Tata Steel final pension which was gold,\" he said, with some pension pots worth up to £500,000.\n\nHe called the FCA an \"absolute disgrace\".\n\nBlaenau Gwent MP Nick Smith said more than £20m had been paid out to steelworkers by the financial services compensation scheme\n\nThe NAO encouraged people to examine advice they had received and complain if they had any concerns.\n\n\"This investigation will set out the activities the FCA has undertaken to regulate financial advice in the British Steel pension scheme case, its plans for supporting steelworkers who may be entitled to redress, and the extent to which compensation is being delivered,\" it said.\n\nPort Talbot financial advisor Alastair Rush, who has been helping some of those who have suffered, called the investigation \"incredible\" and a \"deal changer\".\n\nHe added: \"The regulator should have been here four-and-a-half years ago, when it was pointed out to them the problems that were unfolding.\"\n\nWhile there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" for some, it was not the case for all.\n\n\"Many will have died not knowing whether there loved ones would have compensation or whether they would be looked after in their retirement.\"\n\nBlaenau Gwent MP, Nick Smith, who had asked the NAO to look into how the regulator handled the scandal, said: \"Justice is needed after one of the biggest financial rip-offs of working people in south Wales and other steel-making areas across the UK.\n\n\"We are now four years into this sad story and still IFA (independent financial advisors) sharks and their introducer cronies are evading criminal penalties.\"\n\nHe said just 1,200 out of the 8,000 steelworkers likely to be affected had complained so far.\n\n\"Furthermore, 85% to 90% of their complaints have been upheld, so a big pool of steelworkers with likely good cause are being left behind.\"\n\nThe results of the NAO inquiry will be published in the spring.\n\nAn FCA spokeswoman said: \"We've introduced new rules to raise the standard of pension transfer advice and we're taking action, both with individual firms and across the sector, to ensure that where consumers lost out because of unsuitable advice they receive compensation.\"", "Forensics officers were working at the Regency Court site on Sunday\n\nTwo boys whose deaths are at the centre of a murder investigation are understood to have been 16, an MP has said.\n\nThree people were found injured in Regency Court, Brentwood, Essex, at about 01:30 BST on Sunday, but two of them died.\n\nEight men were arrested on suspicion of murder, and police remain at the scene.\n\nBrentwood and Ongar's Conservative MP, Alex Burghart, said the teenagers' deaths had \"shaken\" the community.\n\nThe BBC understands the boys are suspected to have suffered stab wounds but police have not yet confirmed this.\n\nEssex Police said post-mortem examinations of the victims would take place \"in the coming days\".\n\nFloral tributes have mounted up at the scene\n\nThe eight arrested men remain in custody and are still being questioned, officers said.\n\nFive of the men arrested - two aged 19, two aged 20 and one aged 49, are from Grays.\n\nTwo men, aged 20 and 21, are from South Ockendon. One man, aged 40, is from Brentwood.\n\nFloral tributes have been building up in the area and a book of condolence was opened at St Thomas's Church.\n\nMP Mr Burghart said: \"We're all pretty shaken in Brentwood after the events of the weekend.\n\n\"We don't really have too many events like this in our town so to lose two 16-year-olds so needlessly and senselessly... has left us all very upset.\n\n\"These incidents are still relatively rare in our town but knife crime is an issue across the country and one that the government takes extremely seriously - but I don't want to speculate too much at the moment as there is a police inquiry going on.\"\n\nMr Burghart said there were \"a lot of questions to be asked\" about the incident.\n\n\"I hope people will take some solace from the fact that police have said they believe this was an isolated incident and that they will be increasing the police presence on the streets in the next few days.\"\n\nInvestigations are continuing into how the two boys lost their lives\n\nFirst light revealed there's still a big police cordon in Brentwood. It's on and around Crown Street, which leads at one end to the High Street with all its nightlife, and down to the junction of Regency Court, which is a cul-de-sac of houses.\n\nAt the cordon this morning bunches of flowers have been building up, some chocolates have been left, as well as tributes and candles.\n\nThere really is a sense of shock in the air here.\n\nOne of the local churches has opened for people to also light candles and last night special prayers were said for the boys who've been killed.\n\nThe Church of England parish church for the area, St Thomas of Canterbury, said on Facebook it would be holding a sung requiem Mass at 19:00 BST on Monday \"to pray for the two teenagers\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Andy Clarkson, of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, said on Sunday: \"At this stage, we do not believe there is any wider threat to the public.\"\n\nDetectives said they were working to establish how the boys died.\n\nDet Ch Insp Stuart Truss, said: \"At the moment, we are exploring numerous lines of inquiry which include assessing hours of CCTV which show the area in question.\n\n\"We also have specially trained family liaison officers in place who are continuing to support the boys' families.\"\n\nPolice were called to the area in the early hours of Sunday\n\nHe re-appealed to \"anyone who was in the Crown Street area of Brentwood between 22:00 on Saturday and 05:00 on Sunday morning to come forward and speak to us if they have not already done so\".\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 Eight murder arrests after two teenage boys die\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\nWhistleblower Frances Haugen has told MPs Facebook is \"unquestionably making hate worse\", as they consider what new rules to impose on big social networks.\n\nMs Haugen was talking to the Online Safety Bill committee in London.\n\nShe said Facebook safety teams were under-resourced, and \"Facebook has been unwilling to accept even little slivers of profit being sacrificed for safety\".\n\nAnd she warned that Instagram was \"more dangerous than other forms of social media\".\n\nWhile other social networks were about performance, play, or an exchange of ideas, \"Instagram is about social comparison and about bodies... about people's lifestyles, and that's what ends up being worse for kids\", she told a joint committee of MPs and Lords.\n\nShe said Facebook's own research described one problem as \"an addict's narrative\" - where children are unhappy, can't control their use of the app, but feel like they cannot stop using it.\n\n\"I am deeply worried that it may not be possible to make Instagram safe for a 14-year-old, and I sincerely doubt that it is possible to make it safe for a 10-year-old,\" she said.\n\nThe committee is fine-tuning a proposed law that will place new duties on large social networks and subject them to checks by the media regulator Ofcom.\n\nAsked if the law was \"keeping Mark Zuckerberg awake at night\", Ms Haugen said she was \"incredibly proud of the UK for taking such a world-leading stance\".\n\n\"The UK has a tradition of leading policy in ways that are followed around the world.\n\n\"I can't imagine Mark isn't paying attention to what you're doing.\"\n\nMs Haugen also warned that Facebook was unable to police content in multiple languages around the world - something which should worry UK officials, she said.\n\n\"UK English is sufficiently different that I would be unsurprised if the safety systems that they developed primarily for American English were actually under-enforcing in the UK,\" she said.\n\nAnd she said that dangerous misinformation in other languages affects people in Britain.\n\n\"Those people are also living in the UK, and being fed misinformation that is dangerous, that radicalises people,\" she warned.\n\nMs Haugen also urged the committee to include paid-for advertising in its new rules, saying the current system was \"literally subsidising hate on these platforms\" because of their algorithmic ranking.\n\n\"It is substantially cheaper to run an angry hateful divisive ad than it is to run a compassionate, empathetic ad,\" she said.\n\nAnd she also urged MPs to require a breakdown of who is harmed by content, rather than an average figure - suggesting Facebook is \"very good at dancing with data\", but pushes people towards \"extreme content\".\n\nMs Haugen appeared at a joint committee of MPs and Lords\n\n\"The median experience on Facebook is a pretty good experience,\" she said.\n\n\"The real danger is that 20% of the population has a horrible experience or an experience that is dangerous,\" she said.\n\nShe warned that employees were unable to report internal concerns at Facebook - something she called a \"huge weak spot\".\n\n\"When I worked on counter-espionage, I saw things where I was concerned about national security, and I had no idea how to escalate those because I didn't have faith in my chain of command at that point,\" she told the committee.\n\nAnd she warned: \"We were told to accept under-resourcing.\"\n\nSimilar problems plague Facebook's Oversight Board, which can overturn the company's decisions on content, she said. She repeated her claim that Facebook has repeatedly lied to its own watchdog, and said this is a \"defining moment\" for the Oversight Board to \"step up\".\n\n\"I don't know what the purpose of the Oversight Board is,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Facebook's Monika Bickert: \"It's in our financial interest to make sure that people have a good experience on our site\"\n\nIt comes as several news outlets published fresh stories based on the thousands of leaked documents Ms Haugen took with her when she left Facebook.\n\nFacebook has characterised previous reporting as misleading, and at one point referred to the leaked documents as \"stolen\".\n\n\"Contrary to what was discussed at the hearing, we've always had the commercial incentive to remove harmful content from our sites,\" a spokesperson said, after Ms Haugen finished giving evidence.\n\n\"People don't want to see it when they use our apps, and advertisers don't want their ads next to it. That's why we've invested $13bn (£9.4bn) and hired 40,000 people to do one job: keep people safe on our apps. \"\n\nThe company said that over the last three quarters it has halved the amount of hate speech seen on Facebook, which it claims now accounts for only 0.05% of all content viewed.\n\n\"While we have rules against harmful content and publish regular transparency reports, we agree we need regulation for the whole industry so that businesses like ours aren't making these decisions on our own,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"The UK is one of the countries leading the way and we're pleased the Online Safety Bill is moving forward.\"\n\nAn avalanche of information emerged on Monday from leaked Facebook documents - and it was hard to keep up.\n\nAllegations include that the social media giant is aware of its role in inciting violence all around the world, or causing harm to its users from US and UK to India and Ethiopia.\n\nA common theme runs through each of the stories. They all suggest a tension between employees raising the alarm about their concerns and a corporate machine that does not appear to be using this to inform its policies.\n\nReporters and journalists have been highlighting many of these same concerns, especially for the past 18 months. I've investigated the human cost of online disinformation and abuse again and again and exposed the damage being done to real people offline using these sites.\n\nBut until these documents were released by Ms Haugen, it was very difficult to know how aware Facebook was of that damage.\n\nThese latest leaks reinforce the idea that it is conscious of it - although it refutes a number of the claims.\n\nAnd it means pressure is mounting on policymakers around the world to do something about it.", "Councils should be able to stop anti-vaccination protesters from demonstrating outside schools by using exclusion orders, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nSir Keir said it was \"sickening\" that protesters were spreading \"dangerous misinformation\" to children.\n\nHe urged the government to \"urgently\" update the law so exclusion zones can be rapidly set up around school gates.\n\nMinisters have also expressed concern about such protests.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said freedom to protest was a fundamental part of democracy, but told the Daily Telegraph: \"It is completely unacceptable for children, teachers, or parents to be intimidated and harassed outside their school by protesters peddling misinformation and dangerous lies about the life-saving vaccine programme.\"\n\nAlmost eight in 10 schools said they had been targeted by anti-vaccine protesters in a recent survey by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) union.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sir Keir Starmer explains why he believes schools need exclusion zones for anti-vax protesters\n\nMost of this had been through emails threatening legal action, but the ASCL said in some cases staff had been threatened with physical harm and on other occasions protesters had gained access to school sites.\n\nEarlier this month, a head teacher at a school in Gateshead said anti-vaccine protesters had left students distressed after showing them pictures of what appeared to be dead children.\n\nSir Keir, who is a former director of public prosecutions, said local authorities should have the power to impose public spaces protection orders immediately, if agreed by the school, leader of the council, and local police chief constable.\n\nSuch orders have been used previously to move on protesters outside abortion clinics, but often are time-consuming to set up.\n\nLabour said the fast-track orders could be in place within five days and stay in place for six months.\n\nSir Keir said: \"The uptake of vaccines among children is far too low and the government's rollout is painfully slow. Everything must be done to get those eligible jabbed as quickly as possible in this public health emergency.\"\n\nAnti-Covid vaccine protests have been reported across Britain - from Glasgow, Cardiff, London and Manchester to Dorset, Telford and Leicester.\n\nThose gathering outside schools think it's wrong to vaccinate children, while some hold wilder unfounded beliefs - such as that the whole pandemic is a hoax.\n\nThe ASCL found at least 420 schools had experienced protests, showing it's not a fringe concern.\n\nBut a large number of protests appear to stem from just a couple of groups on the encrypted messaging app Telegram.\n\nOne organiser said she had visited every secondary school in Hartlepool, while another group can be seen coordinating multiple school visits a day from Kent to Cheshire.\n\nAs well as targeting teachers with sham legal documents, groups organise to hand leaflets out to children featuring QR codes which lead to extremist and conspiracy content.\n\nAs pressure mounts to protect pupils from being harassed outside schools, there is growing discussion on some of these platforms of strategies to intercept children further away from school, walking home or on their way to the bus stop.\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the ASCL union, said schools were already \"under great pressure\" because of disruption from the pandemic and \"the last thing they need is the additional problem of protesters outside their gates\".\n\nCovid vaccines were key to keeping students at school, he said, adding: \"If protesters think otherwise, there are plenty of outlets for them to express their views without resorting to targeting schools.\"\n\nThe ASCL previously said that of the 526 responses from schools eligible for the Covid vaccine programme for 12 to 15-year-olds, 13% had reported seeing demonstrators immediately outside their school. One in five reported protesters in the local area.\n\nSome 18 schools said demonstrators had gained access to the school and protested inside the premises, and 20 said they had received communications threatening physical harm to staff.", "Friends stars including Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Matt LeBlanc have paid tribute to James Michael Tyler, who starred as Gunther in the sitcom, after he died at the age of 59.\n\nTyler was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 2018.\n\nAniston said the show \"would not have been the same\" without Tyler's performance as the Central Perk waiter.\n\n\"Thank you for the laughter you brought to the show and to all of our lives. You will be so missed,\" she said.\n\nTyler's much-loved character worked in the show's coffee house and had a crush on Aniston's character Rachel, who also worked there as a waitress in the show's early seasons.\n\nShe shared an Instagram post which included a photo of Tyler from the set and a clip of the pair in the final episode as Gunther declared his love for the departing Rachel, who turned him down gently.\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 jenniferaniston 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\nCo-star Cox, who played Monica, added her own tribute. \"The size of gratitude you brought into the room and showed every day on set is the size of the gratitude I hold for having known you,\" she wrote.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by courteneycoxofficial 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\nLisa Kudrow, who played Phoebe on the show, offered: \"James Michael Tyler, we will miss you.\" Referencing a line from the show's there tune, she added: \"Thank you for being there for us all.\"\n\nLeBlanc, meanwhile, shared a photo of his character Joey chatting to Gunther in Central Perk.\n\n\"We had a lot of laughs buddy,\" LeBlanc posted. \"You will be missed. RIP my friend.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 3 by mleblanc 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\nDavid Schwimmer, aka Ross, thanked Tyler \"for playing such a wonderful, unforgettable role\" and \"for being such a big hearted gentleman and all around mensch off screen\".\n\n\"You will be missed, buddy,\" he went on.\n\nTyler appeared in almost 150 episodes of the comedy, which ran from 1994 to 2004. Gunther was and remains a hugely popular character among fans.\n\nTyler's manager said the actor \"passed away peacefully at his home in Los Angeles on Sunday morning\".\n\nA statement added: \"The world knew him as Gunther (the seventh Friend)... but Michael's loved ones knew him as an actor, musician, cancer-awareness advocate, and loving husband. If you met him once you made a friend for life.\n\n\"Wanting to help as many people as possible, he bravely shared his story and became a campaigner for those with a prostate to get a... blood test as early as 40-years-old.\"\n\nDavid Crane, who co-created Friends, told the BBC that Tyler started as an extra on the show and was given the role because he could work the coffee machine.\n\n\"As time went on, I think we realised he's funny - a really good actor,\" Crane said.\n\n\"We just kept giving him more and more, and when we realised there was a storyline about his secret love for Rachel, it was just the gift that kept on giving.\"\n\nOn Tyler's comedic timing, Crane added: \"His delivery was impeccable, he was so good that we found ourselves going to him for the punchline for a whole scene or for a whole episode.\n\n\"With just the littlest opportunity he created this indelible character.\"\n\nTyler revisited the Central Perk in 2015 as part of a Warner Bros studio tour\n\nIn May, Tyler made a brief appearance on the Friends reunion special via Zoom.\n\n\"It was the most memorable 10 years of my life, honestly,\" the actor said at the time.\n\n\"I could not have imagined just a better experience. All these guys were fantastic and just a joy to work with. It felt very, very special.\"\n\nWarner Bros Television, one of the co-producers of the sitcom, said Tyler was \"a beloved actor and integral part of our Friends family\".\n\nHe continued to perform in recent years while undergoing treatment for cancer.\n\nHe also starred in two short films - The Gesture and the Word, and Processing - winning best actor awards at film festivals.\n\nIn 2021, his spoken word performance of Stephen Kalinich's poem If You Knew was adapted into a short video to raise awareness for the Prostate Cancer Foundation.\n\nTyler is survived by his wife Jennifer Carno, whom his manager described as \"the love of his life\".", "Petrol prices have hit 142.94p a litre, their highest level to date, according to the RAC motoring organisation.\n\nFuel prices were last around this level in April 2012.\n\nIt is now £15 more expensive to fill up an average family car than a year earlier, said the RAC, which called the new high a \"dark day for drivers\".\n\nThe RAC said the increase was partly due to a doubling of the oil price since last year. Some analysts believe the oil price could rise further.\n\nThe price of unleaded petrol has jumped by 28p a litre since last October, the RAC said, meaning it now costs £78.61 to fill a family car.\n\n\"This will hurt many household budgets and no doubt have knock-on implications for the wider economy,\" a spokesman for the RAC said.\n\nThe organisation said that other costs, aside from oil, had also pushed up fuel prices.\n\nRetailers had increased their profit margins by 2p a litre from around 5.5p in April last year to 7.5p a litre.\n\nThe RAC said retailers, particularly the smaller, independent ones, were trying to rebuild their profits after the steep fall in sales prompted by the first UK lockdown in spring last year.\n\nIn addition to this, the ethanol component of unleaded petrol was doubled to 10% last month in the more eco-friendly E10 fuel, but as ethanol is more expensive than petrol, that added about 1p a litre.\n\nDuty paid on fuel is currently 57.95p a litre, more than the cost of the combined bio and petrol components, which amount to around 50p.\n\nVAT, currently around 24p a litre, is applied on top of all other elements of the petrol price, including duty and the retailer's profit margin.\n\nPetrol and diesel cars are slowly being phased out as part of pledges to tackle climate change.\n\nThe government says it will ban the sale of these from 2030.\n\nThe introduction of the E10 fuel as standard this summer is also part of that drive.\n\nThe Department for Transport says bringing in this new fuel could cut carbon emissions by 750,000 tonnes a year, the equivalent of taking 350,000 cars off the road.", "BBC Radio 1 presenter Adele Roberts has announced she is to undergo surgery for bowel cancer.\n\nRoberts, 42, who hosts Weekend Breakfast, said she was diagnosed at the start of the month and would have surgery to remove a tumour on Monday.\n\n\"So far the outlook is positive and I feel so lucky I can be treated. It's just the start of my journey but I'm going to give it everything,\" she said.\n\nThe former Big Brother star missed both her radio shows this weekend.\n\nThe radio DJ, from Southport, Merseyside, revealed her diagnosis in an Instagram post, saying she had sought medical advice after struggling with her digestion \"for a while\".\n\nShe wrote: \"It's all happened so quickly and I'm so sorry to post something like this on here but I hope it helps anyone who might be worrying, or suffering in silence.\n\n\"As I've learned over the last few weeks, there's no 'normal' with cancer. Sadly it can affect anyone, at any age, anytime. It doesn't discriminate. Early detection can save your life.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm going to have surgery [on Monday] to remove the tumour and then see if I need anymore treatment or if the cancer has spread.\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 adeleroberts This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn her post, she finished by saying: \"The hardest thing wasn't even finding out I had cancer, it was telling my family. It broke my heart.\n\n\"If you know any of them please look after them for me until I can see them again. Especially my Katie (her girlfriend). I worry about her being on her own while I'm away.\"\n\nHer girlfriend, Kate Holderness, also wrote an emotional post on Sunday evening, calling Roberts \"my hero, my world, my love\".\n\nShe explained that she couldn't go with Roberts to the hospital or be there when she wakes up after her operation. \"It's the most horrible feeling desperately wanting her to get in that hospital ASAP but desperately not wanting to be without her.\"\n\nShe said it had been hard to get her head around how \"unfair\" the diagnosis was as Roberts did \"all the things they say help you prevent cancer\" and didn't do the things that were supposed to put you at higher risk.\n\n\"But I now understand it can happen to anyone. Cancer's never fair is it?\"\n\nA Radio 1 statement said: \"Our love and support is with Adele, Kate and their families at this very difficult time.\n\n\"Everyone at Radio 1, along with millions of listeners, wishes her a speedy recovery and we look forward to welcoming Adele back on air soon.\"\n\nSinger Jessie Ware and actress Suranne Jones were among those to send their support to Roberts on Instagram, along with some of her BBC colleagues.\n\nRadio presenter Scott Mills wrote: \"We all love you Adele. It's amazing you posted this. You're awesome and you've got this.\"\n\nRadio 2 broadcaster Sara Cox said Roberts was \"brilliant and brave to share this to help people\", adding that she was sending her \"a thousand gentle hugs\".\n\nAdele Roberts, who was part of the BBC's presenting team for the London Marathon in 2019, has competed twice in the event\n\nRoberts rose to fame after appearing on the third series of Channel 4's Big Brother series in 2002. Contestants that year included ITV's This Morning presenter Alison Hammond, and Jade Goody, who died in 2009 after being diagnosed with cervical cancer.\n\nShe joined the BBC in 2012 as part of the Radio 1Xtra team, before moving to Radio 1 in 2015 to host the Early Breakfast Show. She took over the Weekend Breakfast programme earlier this year.\n\nShe also appeared on ITV's I'm a Celebrity in 2019, and was the first person in that series to be eliminated from the jungle.\n\nMost people with these symptoms do not have bowel cancer, but the NHS advice is to see your GP if you have one or more of the symptoms and they have persisted for more than four weeks.\n\nAnd if you, or someone you know, have been affected by cancer, information and support is available on the BBC's Action Line page.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We want the NHS backlogs to be cleared as fast as possible\"\n\nBoris Johnson chose to visit a hospital he knows only too well to highlight the new funding package for the NHS in England.\n\nHe spent anxious days in intensive care at St Thomas' Hospital in central London in April 2020, seriously ill with Covid.\n\nThe pandemic continues to cast a long shadow over the NHS and that's because of uncertainty over how case numbers and hospital admissions will develop next year.\n\nHospitals have to maintain infection control measures and contingency plans to deal with any further surge in patient numbers.\n\nAnd that has a bearing on how much non-urgent work they can do.\n\nSo that makes it hard to tell how much money will be needed to make inroads on the backlog of operations cancelled at the height of the pandemic.\n\nBreaking down the figures shows that NHS England is getting an extra £6.6bn in the next financial year for day-to-day services, which falls to £3.6bn the following year and then is set at £5.6bn in the next 12 months. This is on top of the five-year settlement announced in 2018 which increased NHS funding by £20.5bn a year in real terms.\n\nThe new funding is intended to cover not only costs of reducing waiting lists but also additional spending linked to Covid.\n\nThere seems to be an underlying assumption that the overall burden on the NHS will be lighter after next year with less virus-related pressure.\n\nMr Johnson was visiting a training centre at St Thomas' and there were no patients being cared for so masks were not required when we sat down for an interview.\n\nHe talked of the nine million extra treatments which, in his view, the NHS could do as a result of the higher funding.\n\nBut there was no attempt to sugar the pill as he added that scale of the challenge could not be underestimated.\n\nI pressed him on whether the number waiting more than a year for a routine operation, at more than 300,000, would come down significantly following the new investment.\n\nHe would not be drawn on a target either on that measure or the waiting list number.\n\nHe acknowledged that \"things may well get more difficult before they get better\".\n\nJudging by the prime minister's responses there is no clear view in Downing Street what will happen to waiting lists.\n\nHe was anxious not to give a hostage to fortune by making predictions on numbers of the direction of travel.\n\nWhitehall officials will have drawn up a range of scenarios with widely varying outcomes.\n\nThe documents accompanying the health and care announcement refer to a 30% increase in hospital activity from pre-pandemic levels, but note that this is an aim rather than a pledge.\n\nMr Johnson seems to be putting his faith in social care investment taking the pressure off hospitals by getting older and frail patients discharged more swiftly.\n\nBut a rapid improvement in outcomes seems highly unlikely with the new social care funding taking time to kick in.\n\nRepresentatives of health service organisations are clear that what has now been promised to the NHS frontline is not sufficient to meet the demands on the service.\n\nThey had called for £10bn more in the next financial year for day-to-day running costs in England.\n\nMatthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said: \"The NHS is grateful for this extra investment and it will help reduce the backlog - the problem is that its only enough to address that backlog and if the costs of Covid continue it won't be enough.\"\n\nWorkforce is another longer term issue which isn't fully addressed in the new policy statement.\n\nMany staff are exhausted and, while willing to work extra hours to get through more operations and procedures, may struggle to keep up the increased workload for a sustained period.\n\nVacancies and rota gaps can't be resolved overnight as training new staff takes several years.\n\nAs the Institute for Fiscal Studies has noted the NHS has historically needed more money than original plans and allocations with patient demand growing more rapidly than expected.\n\nIt is unlikely this time that there will be a departure from precedent.", "Afghanistan is facing the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world, with the country seeing a sharp deterioration in the situation since the Taliban seized power in August.\n\nInternational funds which propped up the country’s fragile economy have been stopped as the world debates how to deal with the Taliban regime.\n\nThe United Nations has issued a stark warning – that millions will die if urgent aid does not reach the country soon.\n\nIn this video, the BBC's Yogita Limaye travels to a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Herat, in the west of the country, and rural areas out of the city, and witnesses first-hand the dire situation on the ground.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The £1.7bn third proposal to built a tidal lagoon in Swansea bay\n\nA Bridgend company is leading plans to build a £1.7bn renewable energy project on Swansea's waterfront.\n\nThis is the third proposal to develop a tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay, and would include a battery factory and a data centre run on renewable energy.\n\nNo tax payers' money would be needed, according to the consortium, but consent will be required from the Welsh government for the energy projects.\n\nThe international consortium is led by DST Innovations, which makes industrial batteries in the United States.\n\nBlue Eden would be developed in three phases over twelve years, starting in 2023 with 1,000 jobs making high tech batteries for energy storage.\n\nThat would be followed by construction of a floating solar energy farm in the Queens Dock area and large data centre powered by an uninterruptable source of renewable energy, which would be a UK first.\n\nThe heat generated by the computer servers in the centre would then heat 5,000 new eco-homes along the waterfront.\n\nThere would also be an oceanic and climate change research centre and 150 floating houses, as seen in the Netherlands.\n\nThe project hopes to support 16,000 jobs across the Swansea Bay city region in the long term.\n\nSwansea council's leader Rob Stewart said: \"I'm delighted that an international consortium led by a Welsh company has developed our Dragon Energy Island vision into a ground-breaking project that delivers so many benefits and builds on the council's ambition to become a net zero city by 2050.\n\n\"Cooperation and support will be required, trying to make sure the permissions and the consents that are needed are in place.\"\n\nFloating eco-homes like this one could be seen on Swansea's waterfront if the plans go ahead\n\nMr Stewart explained that Blue Eden had signed a memorandum of understanding with Associated British Ports and were in discussions with them about acquiring land.\n\nThe projected energy output of the tidal lagoon and floating solar panels are just under 320 megawatts each, which means Welsh government would be responsible for giving consent to these elements.\n\nSwansea council supports the project but Mr Stewart said no public money would be given to it: \"Blue Eden will put Swansea and Wales at the cutting-edge of global renewable energy innovation, helping create thousands of well-paid jobs, significantly cut our carbon footprint and further raise Swansea's profile across the world as a place to invest.\"\n\nAn image by DST of the proposed tidal lagoon including turbines\n\nDST's co-founder and chief executive Tony Miles said: \"Blue Eden is an opportunity to create a template for the world to follow - utilising renewable energy and maximising new technologies and thinking to develop not only a place to live and work, but also to thrive.\"\n\nThe company added it did not any need money from either the UK or Welsh government, or a guaranteed price for the electricity, since all the electricity produced will be used within the Blue Eden development.\n\nMr Miles said he hoped to start building work in two years' time: \"We'd like to break ground in a couple of years, once we've finalised all the studies, and some fairly major investors have injected a lot of capital into this already.\n\n\"We're hoping without too many bad statistics for future sea rises and weather forecasts, it has 120 years of life before somebody comes up with a new version.\"\n\nThe latest project for Swansea Bay differs widely from previous attempts to generate renewable energy there.\n\nIn contrast this is entirely privately funded, does not feed electricity into the National Grid and is different in the way it develops two industries - batteries for the renewable sector and a data centre, saving time and producing an income while the lengthy planning process for the lagoon takes place.\n\nHowever, it is still early days for the project. The battery production is still at the pilot stage and involves using, but not burning, anthracite coal - a sodium solution. DST said it would be less affected by extreme weather than batteries made from lithium.\n\nBlue Eden's plans also depend on customers for the data centre and the company says it has already been contacted by people who are interested.\n\nThe biggest hurdles to the project are permissions from four public sector organisations.\n\nIt needs a license from the Crown Estate to construct the lagoon wall on the sea bed, planning permission for the battery factory, data centre and housing from Swansea Council, permission to generate electricity from Welsh government and a license from Natural Resources Wales.\n\nThe first proposals for a tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay faced detailed criticism from groups that were concerned about its impact on ecology and fish migration from the sea into rivers to spawn.\n\nThe lagoon would produce 320 megawatts of electricity which would power more than 5,000 homes on site, a data centre, an oceanographic and climate change research centre and battery manufacturing plant.\n\nThat size means that it is not big enough to need permission from the UK government.", "The mood of this remarkable day was captured to perfection by the sight of Sir Alex Ferguson puffing out his cheeks with a face like thunder, while Sir Kenny Dalglish sat a few seats away sporting a smile that looked like it might have to be surgically removed.\n\nTwo knights, two old adversaries, two legendary figures at Manchester United and Liverpool epitomising the contrasting emotions of the two clubs and their different directions of travel.\n\nThe meeting between Manchester United and Liverpool, and this was the 208th, carries consequences.\n\nAs the shockwaves of this match reverberated around Old Trafford, the question is whether this result will carry more than most.\n\nThere was a sense of reckoning about this 5-0 Liverpool victory. It was on such a scale and such an embarrassment that it means Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's sympathisers will have an even tougher job claiming the Norwegian manager is up to the task of making Manchester United a serious force once again.\n• None Man Utd thrashed as Liverpool score five at Old Trafford\n• None 'We are rock bottom but too close to give up' - Solskjaer\n• None Who did you rate just 1.75 in our player rater?\n• None How social media reacted to Old Trafford rout\n\nSolskjaer, sadly, looked out of his depth as a United manager alongside Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp.\n\nKlopp stalked the touchline constantly, never satisfied for a second as he delivered regular verbal volleys to his players even when they were five up, while Solskjaer sat in his seat looking shell-shocked and lost.\n\nLiverpool looked light years ahead of United in every aspect of the game. Management. Coaching. Organisation. Tactics.\n\nKlopp has fashioned a formidable unit during his six years in charge while winning the Champions League and the title - while United are a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants affair.\n\nThe gap is vast. Liverpool will be right in the title fight along with Chelsea and Manchester City while United will just have to hope to finish in the top four.\n\nAnd yet should it actually be like this? Should the gap be as wide as it looked at Old Trafford?\n\nUnited's team is full of talented players, as it should be given that Solskjaer has spent £400m, but do they look any closer to Liverpool? Not on this evidence.\n\nUnited's tactical plan, and thus Solskjaer's, looks very much a case of hoping one of his selection of attacking riches comes up with something. Hope and pray. There is no obvious structure or shape.\n\nSolskjaer's team is a collection of talented parts which he shows no sign of bolting together into a coherent unit. In opposition at Old Trafford was the very definition of what United are not.\n\nIt all came together horrendously for United when Diogo Jota made it 2-0 to Liverpool. Harry Maguire and Luke Shaw crashed into each other, allowing Trent Alexander-Arnold to deliver the perfect cross for the Portuguese. The pair have proved reliable for England but this is not the case with United.\n\nSolskjaer has had backing from United's hierarchy. Here £73m Jadon Sancho was on the bench while £89m Paul Pogba appeared fleetingly as a half-time substitute before getting himself sent off 15 minutes later for a very poor challenge on Naby Keita.\n\nThis was a terrible mismatch, Liverpool's ruthless streak sensing instantly that here was an opportunity to rub their great rivals' noses in it. And they did it quite magnificently, unforgivingly.\n\nIt was the first time United have lost by five goals at home without scoring themselves since defeat to Manchester City in February 1955 under Matt Busby.\n\nLiverpool are back to their best after the trauma of injuries and loss of form last season. This was the Liverpool that won the title at a canter in 2019-20. They will not win it at a canter this time - Chelsea and Manchester City are too good for that - but what a threat they will be.\n\nAnd at the head of it, on the pitch at least, is the peerless Salah, now on a par with any player on the planet, a seemingly unstoppable force with his hat-trick meaning he scored for the 10th consecutive game.\n\nIt is that sense of team, however, that sets Liverpool apart. They have the individual brilliance of Salah and so many others but they are welded together tightly.\n\nUnited have plenty of talent but nothing that pulls it all together. This is the job of the manager and at the moment it is beyond Solskjaer.\n\nKlopp, on the other hand, seems to get every big decision right.\n\nWhen Liverpool's teamsheet landed before kick-off, it was missing the influential Fabinho through injury while Klopp left out Sadio Mane to bring in Jota and £35m summer signing Ibrahima Konate was selected ahead of Joel Matip.\n\nEyebrows raised? Yes, but not for long as Jota scored and was a menace throughout while Konate looked perfectly at home alongside Virgil van Dijk, although he will have harder days than this.\n\nFor all the deserved praise delivered in the direction of Klopp and Liverpool, the hot topic with supporters in and around Old Trafford was the future of Solskjaer and whether this was the sort of result a Manchester United manager can come back from.\n\nIt was so chastening that many fans left at half-time and they were swiftly joined by the second shift when Salah made it 5-0 five minutes after the break.\n\nUnited were dreadful when they lost 4-2 at Leicester City eight days ago but this was far worse, far more damaging. It will take a long time for anyone at the club to forget this - and if they do Liverpool fans will be there to gleefully remind them.\n\nThere was optimistic pre-game talk that the sight of Liverpool would inspire Solskjaer and United's players to offer something in the way of serious substance. Instead, they shrunk in front of the challenge. It was an embarrassment.\n\nSolskjaer, in his third full season, is now under more pressure and scrutiny than ever. United's hierarchy have been emphatic in their backing but, after the harrowing 90 minutes they suffered at Liverpool's hands, would it be such a surprise if the thinking changed?\n\nOf course, sacking Solskjaer is easily done but finding a quality replacement is not.\n\nAntonio Conte is available but comes expensively and is high maintenance while the best of the rest are pretty much taken. The much-admired Mauricio Pochettino is at Paris St-Germain.\n\nAnd to inflict a further wound on United, the best are taken by Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea - both Klopp and Guardiola were somehow allowed to escape their grasp and end up in the arms of their fiercest rivals with devastating effect. Thomas Tuchel has already won the Champions League at Chelsea in less than a year.\n\nThis looks like a United management and team that has lost its way.\n\nLiverpool's thrashing put it all into sharp relief and now the question is how long Solskjaer will be allowed to stay at the wheel in the hope of finding a direction.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Almost £2bn will be invested by the government into building new homes on derelict or unused land in England, the chancellor is expected to announce in Wednesday's Budget.\n\nThe government said 160,000 greener homes could be built on brownfield land the size of 2,000 football pitches.\n\nIt also pledged to invest £9m towards 100 urban \"pocket parks\" across the UK.\n\nHowever, concerns have been raised that not enough affordable homes are being built.\n\nNigel Wilson, chief executive of Legal and General, told the BBC's Today programme the £1.8bn investment was the \"right direction of travel\", but was \"not enough scale right now\".\n\nHe warned people living in smaller cities and towns were being \"left behind\" due to not enough homes being constructed.\n\n\"You shouldn't have to be rich to be green,\" he said. \"It's very difficult for poorer people to get on the green (housing) ladder.\n\n\"There's a lot of active listening going on (by the government), but we don't just want CGI housing - we want real housing built across the UK.\"\n\nThe government said the funding was part of its efforts to meet the UK's net zero target by 2050.\n\nIt hopes the plans will help regenerate parts of England and support 50,000 new jobs.\n\nThe proposals also include creating so-called \"pocket parks\" - measuring the size of a tennis court - to create more green spaces.\n\nMore than 2.5 million people across the UK currently live further than a 10 minute walk from their closest green space.\n\nTim Farron, Liberal Democrat spokesperson for housing, said people buying new homes would be \"forced to fork out thousands to upgrade their homes in the future to cut their bills and reduce emissions\".\n\n\"In his Budget, the chancellor should bring forward new standards for greener homes to ensure all new homes are cheap to heat and produce minimal emissions,\" he said.\n\nZoe Nicholson, Green Party leader of Lewes District Council, said building on brownfield sites made sense, but added the government's investment was an \"absurdly small amount of money\".\n\n\"It would be more effective if they handed this £2bn of funding to local authorities, which would allow them to build net zero council homes,\" she said,.\n\n\"This announcement seems to be little more than a gimmick intended to distract us from the fact that their agenda is to simply 'build, build, build' on our countryside to the benefit of greedy developers.\"\n\nThe Labour Party has not responded to requests for comment.\n\nAs well as funding for new housing developments, the chancellor is expected to confirm £65m to develop new software to help with the digitisation of the town planning system.\n\nThe first phase will see the system rolled out to up to 175 local authorities in England.", "Bibaa Henry (left) and Nicole Smallman pictured at Ms Henry's birthday gathering at about 8pm - at which time their killer was on his way to the park\n\n\"Mina. Mina, we found a knife. Mina, I'm going to need you to sit down. I found them. I found them but they've gone.\"\n\nWith those words, Adam Stone extinguished Mina Smallman's last spark of hope that this story could have a happy ending.\n\nOver the previous two days she had become increasingly concerned about the oldest and youngest of her three daughters, unable to reach either Bibaa Henry or Nicole Smallman - the partner of Mr Stone.\n\nThe police had seemed uninterested; Mrs Smallman felt there was a frustrating lack of urgency in searching for the sisters, who had been celebrating Ms Henry's 46th birthday at a country park.\n\n\"I said to the police: 'We don't know if there's been foul play here - we have no idea. We are now 36 hours on and they haven't turned up.'\n\n\"I knew instantly why they didn't care. They didn't care because they looked at my daughter's address and they thought they knew who she was.\n\nMina Smallman, a former archdeacon, believes the police handled the disappearance of her daughters with a lack of urgency\n\nThe news of the murders of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman hit the headlines on Monday 8 June 2020.\n\nThe two sisters had been repeatedly stabbed. Their bodies had been lying behind a line of trees at Fryent Country Park in Wembley, north-west London, since the very early hours of Saturday.\n\nMr Stone and friends who had been with the women at the birthday gathering had already tried to raise the alarm.\n\nHe knew something was wrong when neither woman could be contacted on Saturday. He knew it when Ms Smallman's flatmate said she had not come home, and when he couldn't trace his girlfriend with a phone-finding app, and when he saw that her bank account had not been accessed. He knew it when there was no answer to his frantic knocks at Ms Henry's front door.\n\nHe had telephoned anyone he thought could shed light on the disappearance, including the police. Nothing. The two women had seemingly just vanished.\n\nMs Henry and Ms Smallman were close despite an age gap of nearly 20 years\n\nNina Esmat, a nurse who had been friends with Ms Henry since they were 16, was equally as convinced that something terrible had happened. And so, on Sunday 7 June Ms Esmat and Mr Stone made their separate ways to Fryent Country Park, where Ms Esmat found a pair of Ms Henry's sunglasses.\n\n\"I saw them glinting in the sun and my heart sank. I just knew she would not have left them behind.\" She called the police who told her to take them to a local police station.\n\nMr Stone and his parents continued to search.\n\nHe found another pair of sunglasses, these belonging to Ms Smallman. He left them where they lay, in case the park became acknowledged as the crime scene it was.\n\nMr Stone saw shoes in the undergrowth.\n\nHe had found his girlfriend. The woman he had been with for six years, who had lived with him at his parents' house. The co-owner of their pet bearded dragon.\n\nThe last text message he received from her said: \"I'm dancing in a field.\"\n\nThe blue cushion in this photograph was later found bloodstained at a refuse centre\n\nNow, lifeless, she had been left intertwined with her equally motionless older sister. Their eyes were open, blank and dull. Stab wounds were visible on their bodies.\n\nMr Stone dropped to his knees and screamed.\n\n\"It was like the whole world stopped at that point,\" his mother said.\n\nMr Stone had to break the news to the others. He telephoned Mrs Smallman. He texted Ms Esmat. He used the same phrase: \"I found them. They're gone.\"\n\nThe bodies of Ms Henry and Ms Smallman had been concealed by a treeline at Fryent Country Park\n\nThe events leading up to the attack were pieced together. Detectives soon determined the perpetrator was a stranger. There was no logic to the killing of Ms Henry and Ms Smallman. They were chosen because they were there.\n\nThe evening had started so well. The picnic area had been decked out with blankets and cushions. Ms Esmat was the first to arrive and joined the sisters at the top of the hill.\n\n\"It was a beautiful evening, amazing view, amazing sunset. We were all taking pictures remarking on the sky at night.\"\n\nThey were only there because they had been following the rules. Social distancing meant Ms Henry could not celebrate her birthday indoors. She arranged a small gathering in the open air.\n\nThere was food and drink, music and laughter, fairy lights and friends; and selfies that should have preserved memories of people doing their best to enjoy life during a strange summer of lockdown.\n\nMs Henry \"had the heart of a lion\", her family said\n\nThe sisters, thanks to the senseless actions of an insignificant teenager who thought he could do a deal with a demon, are at risk of being remembered as murder victims, forever associated with something that was done to them rather than by them, something out of their control.\n\nBut Bibaa Henry was a strong woman. She was a mother, a daughter, a sister, a friend and a colleague.\n\nShe fought for what was right; she was a fierce exponent for the more vulnerable members of society.\n\nShe was \"a force of nature\" who lived in Brent in north-west London, an \"exceptional\" senior social worker at Buckinghamshire Council, \"just fantastic to be around\", had \"the biggest personality in the room\" and was a fervent advocate in safeguarding at-risk children and families.\n\nA \"lovely woman who was both serious and fun\", her luminous love for life drew people to her \"like a beacon in the darkness\".\n\nBefore qualifying in social work Ms Henry had a job driving disabled children to their activities. Baby daughter beside her, she would get her young passengers singing and enjoying the journey.\n\nShe was proud of her father, Herman Henry, the ABA featherweight champion of 1982 who set up his own building contracting company.\n\nShe was proud of her mother Mina, who gave up office work to train as a teacher and later joined the priesthood, becoming the Church of England's first black female archdeacon.\n\nShe was barely 5ft tall yet \"had the heart of a lion\" and \"a smile that would put the Blackpool Illuminations to shame\".\n\nNicole Smallman was passionate about her work in documentary-making and theatre\n\nNicole Smallman, 19 years younger than her elder sister, shared many of the same interests, especially in the arts.\n\nLaid-back and approachable, Ms Smallman was a photographer, a University of Westminster graduate and \"a joy to be around\".\n\nIn comparison to Ms Henry's blinding incandescence Ms Smallman's personality was more diffuse; mellow and all-encompassing.\n\nLong-time family friend Ieuan Ledger said: \"You hear about people 'lighting up a room' when they walk in. But that description is almost too harsh for Nikki.\n\n\"When she walked into a room she was like a nightlight. It was subtle, protective, warm.\"\n\nA talented artist, she was passionate about her work in documentary-making and theatre. She was also a singer and an actor with a speaking voice so \"silky smooth\" her teacher said she should do radio or TV presenting.\n\nShe \"saw beauty in everything\", was friendly, enthusiastic and much-loved. Calm and positive, she was a strong supporter of humanitarian and environmental causes.\n\nHer parents, Mina and Christopher, would laughingly agree the baby of the family \"was a child of the '60s\", and beautiful both inside and out.\n\nMs Smallman was \"like a nightlight - subtle, protective and warm\"\n\nMr Ledger's godmother is Mina Smallman. His mother, who went to university with Mrs Smallman, is Nicole's godmother. Mr Ledger and Ms Smallman called themselves \"godsiblings\".\n\n\"We were very close as children - as we became adults it was harder and harder to be as involved but she was still very much in my heart. I had a stuffed tiger she gave me, it was on my shelf well into my 20s.\n\n\"It really didn't sink in until a couple of months later when something snapped inside me and I realised that I was never going to see Bibaa or Nikki again. That was the hardest part.\n\n\"I have moments of blinding realisation. It felt like every bit of news got progressively more traumatic. Police taking selfies.\" (Two officers have been charged with misconduct in public office).\n\nHe added: \"Every single moment there was something new that made it even worse than it was.\"\n\nWhen Mr Ledger heard of the killer's efforts to secure a big lottery win, \"there was a moment of sheer disbelief. To find out it was to do with just trying to win the lottery... it was beyond tragic.\n\n\"It's insulting. If it wasn't bad enough already, such a banal reason - it was insulting and offensive.\"\n\nBibaa Henry celebrated her 46th birthday with a small group of friends. It was her last\n\nMs Smallman arranged the picnic with her big sister\n\nMrs Smallman, who said the greatest fear of any parent is that they will outlive their children, described herself as \"broken beyond words\".\n\n\"The grief we feel is palpable, our beautiful and talented daughters gone.\"\n\nShe later said: \"I think the notion of 'all people matter' is absolutely right, but it's not true. Other people have more kudos in this world than people of colour.\n\n\"That's what gives me purpose - if their lives make a change in the way women are viewed, and black women in particular.\n\n\"In the pecking order of things we are the lowest on the ladder.\"\n\nThis is one of the last photographs taken of the sisters, only moments before they were attacked\n\nThe final images Mrs Smallman's daughters captured on their phones are both haunting and poignant.\n\nWhirling lights and grinning, spinning sisters laughing at each other; stars wheeling overhead as they dance, and the soft apricot glow of London's night sky throwing the trees into gentle silhouette.\n\nBut a teenager lurking just out of shot had also planned his evening - one of spilled blood, horrific violence and pointless sacrifice.\n\nThe very last photograph was taken by the sisters at 01:13. It shows the two women looking distracted and glancing to their left.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The COP26 summit is being held at the SEC in Glasgow\n\nGlasgow's council leader has insisted the city is ready for the COP26 conference - but \"with caveats\".\n\nSusan Aitken denied the city was a mess and said cleansing staff were \"working round the clock\" for the UN summit.\n\nIn a meeting with the Scottish Affairs Committee, she addressed accusations that bins were overflowing and rubbish collectors had suffered rat attacks.\n\nThe SNP councillor told MPs that other cities were dirtier than Glasgow and insisted she was \"not embarrassed\".\n\nMs Aitken said: \"The Cop26 board met last week and the verdict was that we are ready, with caveats.\n\n\"The caveats are mainly technical, some of them have already been resolved\n\n\"None of them were massive, none of them were enough to cause panic.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader, Douglas Ross, asked Ms Aitken whether the \"technical issues\" included cleansing staff being attacked by rats.\n\nHis comments came after the GMB union said it was aware of four binmen being taken to hospital after such attacks.\n\nSusan Aitken said cleansing staff were \"working round the clock\"\n\nMs Aitken admitted that there had been \"small incidents\" after \"very minor contact with a rat\".\n\n\"It's also not something that is unique to Glasgow, it's something that's happening right across the UK - all cities have rats.\"\n\nThe city council leader was giving evidence to the Westminster committee about preparations for the climate summit, which begins on Sunday.\n\nLast week, cleansing staff in Glasgow said they would strike for a week during the conference.\n\nMs Aitken told MPs that 12,000 additional hours had been worked to clean Glasgow ahead of Cop26, with 150 new bins deployed across the city.\n\nThe UN conference will bring 25,000 delegates to Glasgow\n\nShe denied there was a rubbish problem in the city that was \"unique to Glasgow\".\n\nMs Aitken added: \"I reject entirely suggestions that Glasgow is somehow particular in this.\"\n\n\"We are, as are other cities globally, working to address the very serious challenges and impacts that were caused by the pandemic, but we were never going to be able to recover overnight.\n\n\"We are making considerable progress, we're working round the clock to address those issues - particularly in the Cop26 zones in the city - but actually right across the city.\"\n\nMs Aiken said the city's efforts were not just for \"VIPs coming to Glasgow\", but to improve services for residents.\n\nShe added: \"I'm not embarrassed. I'm confident that the visitors coming to Glasgow will see - as they always see - an incredibly vibrant, diverse, and welcoming urban space.\"\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has also said she believes Glasgow \"is ready for Cop26\".\n\nShe said: \"I think there are challenges in Glasgow and challenges in cities across Scotland, the UK, the world - some of them related to Covid, some of them more fundamental than that.\n\n\"I'm not going to stand here and say they don't exist in Glasgow.\n\n\"Glasgow - as it has been with big events in past years - will be an excellent host for Cop26, and that's important.\"\n\nSkip image gallery Tap or click to go through the gallery\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak will lay out the government's latest tax and spending plans on Wednesday 27 October.\n\nIt's the government's second Budget of the year, after one in March, and will coincide with the conclusions of the 2021 Spending Review, which will give details of how government will fund public services for the next three years.\n\nResponding to the most recent public sector finance data this week, the chancellor said: \"At the Budget and Spending Review next week, I will set out how we will continue to support public services, businesses and jobs while keeping our public finances fit for the future.\"\n\nWhat are his options? Here we look at six things to watch out for in the Budget that could affect your personal finances.\n\nEnergy bills are set to rise this winter\n\nThe chancellor is reportedly considering a cut to the 5% rate of value added tax on household energy bills.\n\nThe move would be popular and timely against the background of soaring energy bills this winter and is something the government is now able to do because of Brexit.\n\nBut the move could attract criticism as it would - in effect - mean subsidising fossil fuels ahead of the climate summit.\n\nAlso, a VAT cut on domestic energy bills would cost about £1.5bn a year, which may just be too much for the chancellor.\n\nExtra tax on sparkling wine could be cut\n\nThere are rumours the chancellor is planning to simplify the way that alcohol is taxed in the UK.\n\nThe 2019 Conservative election manifesto promised to review it, so now could be the time.\n\nOne suggestion is to reduce the premium on sparkling wine to the same level as still wine, which could knock 83p off a bottle of Champagne or Prosecco.\n\n\"The government should stop trying to favour certain parts of the industry, instead focusing on removing distortions and creating a simpler system of alcohol taxes targeted at socially costly drinking,\" said Kate Smith, associate director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.\n\nThe drinks levies have been in place since the 1600s and raise £12bn a year for the government.\n\nIf you sell a second home, you'll pay capital gains tax\n\nThere are rumours that the current Capital Gains Tax rates may be tinkered with.\n\nThe tax is paid when people sell assets such as shares or a second home.\n\nIt's been suggested that rates could be aligned more closely with income tax rates, which could mean scrapping the current tax rates of 10% and 20% (or 18% and 28% for property) and instead making everyone pay income tax rates on their gains.\n\nA report by the Office of Tax Simplification, published in November 2020, recommended that CGT rates should be increased to bring them into line with income tax.\n\nBut it would be unlikely to raise significant extra amounts of tax, as it is typically paid by only about 275,000 taxpayers and raises less than £10bn a year.\n\nStudents could be asked to repay their loans sooner\n\nThere are reports that graduates may be asked to start paying back student loans earlier.\n\nThe chancellor could do that by lowering the threshold at which people start repaying their student loans, a move that could save the Treasury about £2bn a year.\n\nCurrently, English and Welsh students who enrolled at university after 2012 pay 9% of everything they earn above £27,295 per year. They repay the same 9% until the loan is fully repaid or until 30 years after graduating.\n\nIf the threshold were reduced to £25,000, it would cost anyone earning more than the current limit an extra £206 a year, while if it were slashed to £20,000, it would cost an extra £656 a year.\n\nMinisters are rumoured to have proposed cutting the threshold to as low as £23,000 and giving graduates 40 years as opposed to 30 to repay their debt.\n\nA worker washing dishes could see their minimum wage rise\n\nIn his March Budget, Mr Sunak announced that the National Living Wage (what the governments call the minimum wage) would increase for workers over the age of 23.\n\nSince then, the government has come under pressure to help employees further - especially as younger workers have been some of the worst hit by the economic downturn.\n\nOne solution the chancellor has been reportedly looking at is to increase the National Living Wage by 5.7% to £9.42 per hour from its current rate of £8.91.\n\nThat would bring it close to the Living Wage Foundation's current recommendation of £9.50 an hour.\n\nThe government could raise cash by cutting tax relief on pension savings for those on high salaries.\n\nBut pension experts warn such a move would not be as simple as it sounds, Steven Cameron, pensions director at Aegon, said: \"A move to a flat rate of pensions tax relief, rather than the current system where relief is based on the rate of income tax paid, would be far from simple to implement.\"\n\nHe said it would be particularly difficult for defined-benefit schemes and could mean medium to high earners, including doctors in public sector schemes, facing big tax bills.\n\n\"Removing higher-rate relief would be a direct attack on middle Britain, leading to people who do the right thing and save for their future being hit with extra tax costs,\" said Tom Selby, head of retirement policy at AJ Bell.\n• None Why is UK inflation so high?", "This year's event will have a reduced capacity of 30,000\n\nEdinburgh's Hogmanay street party will return this year after Covid forced the cancellation of the 2020 event.\n\nThe event, which also will feature the return of the Edinburgh Castle fireworks display, has a reduced capacity of 30,000.\n\nArtists, who have yet to be announced, will perform on the Ross Bandstand to a crowd of 3,500, with the show streamed to the Princes Street audience.\n\nTickets for the event will go on sale on Tuesday.\n\nOrganisers Underbelly said that 7,500 tickets for this year's event will be available at a discounted price for those with an EH postcode.\n\nA four-day programme of events also includes a torchlight procession and concerts at Greyfriars Kirk, including shows by Eddi Reader and Dougie Maclean.\n\nThe last time the event was held in-person, in 2019, the street party was attended by 75,000 people.\n\nLast year's programme of events was held online due to the pandemic.\n\nCity of Edinburgh Council depute leader Cammy Day said: \"Edinburgh is the home of Hogmanay and it is fantastic that this year, as we mark its 29th year, we see the return of in-person events and that celebrations will return to the streets of the capital.\"", "Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Kobe Bryant, said she learned about the death of her husband by seeing \"RIP Kobe\" notifications on her phone.\n\nBasketball star Bryant died with his daughter, 13-year-old Gianna, and seven others in the January 2020 crash.\n\nMs Bryant is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for negligence and invasion of privacy.\n\nShe alleges that officers shared graphic photos of the crash scene, including Kobe and Gianna's bodies.\n\nDuring a deposition, a county attorney asked Ms Bryant when she was first made aware of the crash.\n\nMs Bryant said that she was informed by a family assistant that her husband and daughter had been in a helicopter accident, but that five people had survived. She thought that they were likely among the survivors.\n\nBut then messages started popping up on her phone.\n\n\"I was holding onto my phone, because obviously I was trying to call my husband back, and all these notifications started popping up on my phone, saying 'RIP Kobe. RIP Kobe. RIP Kobe',\" Ms Bryant said, according to a transcript of the deposition.\n\n\"My life will never be the same without my husband and daughter,\" she added.\n\nKobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others died when a helicopter crashed in California last year\n\nIn March, Ms Bryant published the names of Los Angeles County police officers who she said shared graphic photos of the scene of the crash.\n\nShe alleges that one of the officers shared with a bartender photos of Kobe Bryant's body and the others distributed \"gratuitous photos of the dead children, parents, and coaches\".\n\nThe Los Angeles Times newspaper reported in February last year that an internal police investigation found officers shared photos of victims' remains.\n\n\"I don't think it's fair that I'm here today having to fight for accountability,\" Ms Bryant said.\n\n\"Because no one should ever have to endure this type of pain and fear of their family members. The pictures getting released, this is not okay.\"\n\nMs Bryant said that she had asked Sheriff Alex Villanueva to make sure nobody took photos at the scene.\n\nThe sheriff's department has declined to comment on the pending lawsuit.\n\nMs Bryant said that she has kept the clothes her husband and daughter were wearing when they died.\n\n\"And if their clothes represent the condition of their bodies, I cannot imagine how someone could be so callous and have no regard for them or our friends, and just share the images as if they were animals on a street,\" she said.\n\nYou may also be interested in...\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. African basketball stars discuss Kobe Bryant's legacy one year since his death in a helicopter crash.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel Reeves wants to see the government's Plan B implemented now, alongside Plan A\n\nLabour is calling on the government to bring in its Plan B measures to tackle Covid in England, including advice to work from home and compulsory masks.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves also told the BBC the vaccine programme was \"stalling\" and needed to work better.\n\nBut Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the data did not currently suggest \"immediately moving to Plan B\".\n\nThe measures, which aim to protect the NHS from \"unsustainable pressure\", also includes mandatory Covid passports.\n\nPlan A, which is currently in place, involves offering booster jabs to the most vulnerable, a single dose to healthy 12 to 15-year-olds and encouraging unvaccinated people to get jabbed.\n\nThe NHS Confederation and the British Medical Association are among the groups who have called for some restrictions to be reintroduced in England, amid rising cases.\n\nMeanwhile in Wales, ministers are to consider whether to extend the use of Covid passes for a wider range of venues.\n\nMs Reeves told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"I think the first thing is the government have got to do more to make Plan A work.\n\n\"If the scientists are saying work from home and masks, we should do that. So get A working better because the vaccination programme has been stalling, and introduce those parts of Plan B.\n\n\"But there are also things not in A or B that need to be done, like paying statutory sick pay from day one and also better ventilation in public spaces.\"\n\nAsked whether Plan B should be introduced now, she said: \"Yes, but let's not let the government off the hook with Plan A either.\"\n\nA Conservative Party spokesman said it was the third time Labour had changed its position on Plan B in four days.\n\nAppearing on the same programme, Mr Sunak was also asked whether it was time to bring in the government's back-up plan.\n\n\"We're monitoring everything, but at the moment the data does not suggest that we should be immediately moving to Plan B, but of course we will keep an eye on that and the plans are ready,\" he said.\n\nThe chancellor also said reintroducing the furlough scheme was \"not on the cards because we don't envisage having to impose significant economic restrictions in the way that we had to over the last year\".\n\nHe added that the vaccine rollout was the \"first line of defence\" and the booster campaign was the best way to protect people through the winter.\n\nMore than 325,000 booster jabs were given in England on Saturday - the biggest daily figure for boosters yet, NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard tweeted.\n\nProf Adam Finn, a member of the government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said the vaccination programme by itself was not enough \"to bring things under control\".\n\n\"We do need to have people using lateral flow tests, avoiding contact with large numbers of people in enclosed spaces, using masks, all of those things now need to happen if we're going to stop this rise and get things under control soon enough to stop a real meltdown in the middle of the winter,\" he told Sky News' Trevor Phillips On Sunday.\n\nAsked if the government should move to Plan B now, he said: \"Well, some kind of Plan B.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats said it looked \"increasingly likely\" Covid restrictions would have to be reintroduced because of the \"government's bungling and inaction\".\n\nDr Katherine Henderson, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, told the programme emergency departments were \"already struggling to cope\", with large queues of ambulances waiting outside hospitals.\n\nOne in 55 people in England had Covid last week, according to the latest ONS figures, the highest rate since the end of January.\n\nDemands for compulsory mask wearing, vaccine passports and more working from home have been growing - backed by many doctors and people representing NHS trusts.\n\nLabour's position has not been altogether clear on this.\n\nWhen asked by Andrew Marr whether Plan B should be introduced \"now\", shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves agreed. But she also suggested the priority should be accelerating the rollout of booster vaccines to the over-50s and first jabs to teenagers.\n\nOn the same programme, Chancellor Rishi Sunak repeatedly ruled out reimposing stricter measures \"immediately\" - perhaps suggesting a slight change of tone from senior ministers.\n\nThe key measure to watch for is pressure on hospitals.\n\nAs things stand, there are currently 6,405 people being treated for Covid on wards in England. The number has been rising but is still no higher than it was in mid-September - and well below the 34,000 seen in January.\n\nIn minutes of a meeting of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) on 14 October, which were published on Friday, the scientists said restrictions should be prepared for \"rapid deployment\" and that acting earlier could reduce the need for stricter measures over a longer time period.\n\nThey said that out of the government's back-up measures, advising people to work from home was likely to have the most impact on the spread of Covid.\n\nStricter rules are already in place in other parts of the UK, with masks compulsory in some settings in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK reported 39,962 new cases - the first time in 12 days that cases have dropped below 40,000.\n\nThere were also another 72 deaths reported within 28 days of a positive test.", "Police have cordoned off the scene of the blast in Kampala\n\nOne person has been killed and three others injured in a bomb attack in Uganda's capital, Kampala.\n\nThe explosion happened at a bar on Saturday night, killing a 20-year-old waitress and scattering panicked revellers on to the street outside.\n\nThree suspected bombers disguised themselves as customers before planting the explosives under a table, police say.\n\nThe Islamic State group (IS) later said it was behind the attack.\n\nThe explosion comes one week after the UK government issued an alert about terrorism in Uganda.\n\nIt warned British citizens in the East African country - where attacks of this kind are rare - that \"terrorists are very likely to try to carry out attacks\". It advised them to be vigilant at public places, including restaurants and bars.\n\nPolice have cordoned off the scene of the blast - a venue popular for roasted pork and beer in a largely residential area on the city's outskirts.\n\nForensic teams have been scouring the site for evidence\n\nA local mayor told the BBC the community were fearful and wondered why anyone would target their neighbourhood.\n\nPolice spokesman Fred Enanga said the bombers ordered food and drinks at the bar, before placing a plastic bag under a table. The explosion went off moments after they left.\n\nInvestigators have found nails, ball bearings and other metal fragments, Mr Enanga added, suggesting the explosion was caused by an improvised explosive device.\n\nUganda's President Yoweri Museveni said on Twitter that the blast was a terrorist act and promised to catch the perpetrators.\n\n\"The public should not fear, we shall defeat this criminality like we have defeated all the other criminality committed by the pigs who don't respect life,\" he said.\n\nIn 2010, 74 people were killed in bomb blasts that went off at venues in Kampala where football fans were watching the screening of the World Cup final. The masterminds of the attacks, from the Islamist militant group al-Shabab, are serving life sentences.", "There was no legal requirement for fans at this Manic Street Preachers gig in Cardiff to social distance Image caption: There was no legal requirement for fans at this Manic Street Preachers gig in Cardiff to social distance\n\nWales' top doctor has expressed concern that some people are behaving as if the pandemic is over by ignoring Welsh laws on face coverings and not social distancing.\n\nWales' case rate is at a record high of 716.9 cases per 100,000 people - the highest of all the UK nations.\n\nIt has led ministers to look at extending the use of NHS Covid passes for a wider range of venues, such as cafes, bars and restaurants.\n\nWales' chief medical officer Dr Frank Atherton tells BBC Wales: \"A very significant proportion of the Welsh population is still behaving with extreme caution and realises that we are not out of the woods with this yet, but there is a sense other places that it is all over.\"\n\nHe says he worries when he sees people not wearing face coverings or crowding into indoor spaces without observing social distancing.\n\nDr Atherton warns that unless people follow Covid rules, some of the \"more draconian\" measures and laws may have to return.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Demonstrators take to the streets of Khartoum to protest against the arrests\n\nA coup is under way in Sudan, where the military has dissolved civilian rule, arrested political leaders and declared a state of emergency.\n\nProtests have erupted in several cities including the capital Khartoum. Three people are said to have died after being shot by the armed forces.\n\nMilitary and civilian leaders have been at odds since long-time ruler Omar al-Bashir was overthrown two years ago.\n\nLarge numbers of protesters are on the streets of the capital demanding the return of civilian rule, BBC Arabic's Mohamed Osman reports from Khartoum.\n\nMore protesters are expected to join the crowds after calls for action by political parties and professional unions, our correspondent says. Doctors have refused to work at hospitals and institutions under military rule, except in emergencies, he adds.\n\nOne demonstrator, Sawsan Bashir, told AFP news agency: \"We will not leave the streets until the civilian government is back and the transition is back.\"\n\n\"We are ready to give our lives for the democratic transition in Sudan,\" fellow protester Haitham Mohamed said.\n\nArmy and paramilitary troops have been deployed across Khartoum, the city's airport is closed and international flights are suspended. The internet is also down.\n\nAt least three people have been killed and 80 have been injured, the Sudan Central Doctor's Committee wrote on its Facebook page. Those who died had been shot by soldiers, it said.\n\nVideo footage from Khartoum on Monday showed large groups in the streets, including many women. Barricades of burning tyres can be seen, with plumes of black smoke rising in various parts of the city.\n\n\"There is tension and also violence because people tried to go to the army headquarters… they were met with gunshots\", human rights defender Duaa Tariq told the BBC. She added there was fear and confusion in the streets, but also solidarity between the protesters.\n\nWorld leaders have reacted with alarm to the military's move.\n\nPrime Minister Abdallah Hamdok and his wife are among those reported to have been detained and put under house arrest, along with members of his cabinet and other civilian leaders. Their whereabouts are unknown.\n\nThey are part of a transitional government designed to steer Sudan towards democracy after the rule of former president, Omar al-Bashir.\n\nMr Hamdok was reportedly being pressed to support the coup but was refusing to do so, and instead he urged people to continue with peaceful protests to \"defend the revolution\".\n\nProtesters in Khartoum were chanting \"no to military rule\"\n\nGen Burhan had been leading the power-sharing arrangement between military and civilian leaders, known as the Sovereign Council.\n\nIn a televised address, he said infighting between politicians, ambition and incitement to violence had forced him to act to protect the safety of the nation and to \"rectify the revolution's course\".\n\nHe said Sudan was still committed to \"international accords\" and the transition to civilian rule, with elections planned for July 2023.\n\nBut a senior official from the prime minister's office, Adam Elhiraika, told the BBC the coup could lead Sudan back into a civil war, adding the risk was \"extremely high\".\n\nAlthough Sudan remains in a deep economic crisis, it had been receiving more international support. A military takeover will put that at risk.\n\nThe UK's special envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, Robert Fairweather, tweeted that military arrests of civilian leaders were \"a betrayal of the revolution, the transition and the Sudanese people\".\n\nThe African Union, of which Sudan is a member, said it had learned with \"deep dismay\" of the situation, and called for the \"strict respect of human rights\".\n\nThe US, EU, UN and Arab League have also expressed deep concern.\n\nThe military and civilian transitional authorities have ruled together since 2019, when President Bashir was toppled after months of street protests.\n\nThe power-sharing deal between the military and a loose coalition of groups - the Forces for Freedom and Change - saw the launch of the Sovereign Council.\n\nIt was scheduled to rule the country for another year - with the aim of holding elections and transitioning to civilian rule.\n\nBut the deal was always fractious, with a large number of rival political groups - and divisions within the military too.\n\nTensions grew further after a coup attempt attributed to followers of Mr Bashir was foiled in September.\n\nSudan has been unable to find a workable political system since independence in 1956 and has seen numerous coups and coup attempts.\n\nRecent weeks have seen a rapid build-up of tension in Khartoum. A hostile takeover of power is what many in Sudan and beyond have feared could happen anytime. The signs have been all too clear.\n\nA pro-military sit-in right in front of the presidential palace in Khartoum was seen as choreographed to lead to a coup. No attempt was made to disguise its purpose. The protesters demanded that the military overthrow \"failed\" civilian leaders. It was an unusual attempt at legitimising a military takeover, using the guise of a popular protest.\n\nNearly a week later, a counter-protest was held. This time, huge crowds came out in support of the civilian government.\n\nWith more protests called by pro-democracy groups to \"counter a military coup\", Sudan could be set for yet another period of showdown between the armed forces and the people.\n\nThe country has made huge strides in normalising ties with the West and unlocking much-needed funding streams. The promise of transition to democracy has kept many Sudanese and the country's allies hopeful. But all that could be at risk now.", "Near the darkened entrance of Hospital Number One in the city of Vologda in Russia's north-west, an ambulance crew delivers yet another Covid patient, an elderly man struggling to breathe and barely alive.\n\nInside the hospital, the wards are teeming with the sick and the dying. Doctors here say out of 750 patients currently in the hospital with Covid, 700 of them had not been vaccinated.\n\nAcross the country, more than 1,000 people are dying each day, with a total of more than 220,000 deaths so far. These are record numbers for Russia, the worst-hit in Europe.\n\nOne of the key explanations for this record number of cases and deaths is a lack of trust in the Sputnik V and other Russian-made coronavirus vaccines among many in the population.\n\nThis, in part, is the result of many years of scepticism of what the authorities say or do.\n\nIn Vologda just 26% of the population has been vaccinated, one of the lowest levels in the country.", "Sarah Everard was a talented and much-loved young woman, the judge said at Couzens' sentencing\n\nFive police officers are facing misconduct proceedings over messages sent about Sarah Everard's killer Wayne Couzens.\n\nThe police watchdog said it had carried out two investigations into messages sent on WhatsApp and Signal.\n\nThe officers are from four forces: the Metropolitan Police as well as Sussex, Dorset, and Avon and Somerset.\n\nIf proven, the claims could further undermine people's confidence in policing, the watchdog warned.\n\nCouzens, a former Met Police officer, was given a whole life sentence for Ms Everard's murder last month. He abducted her as she walked home from a friend's house in March.\n\nThe murder sparked a discussion over trust in the police, with the Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick saying she was determined to rebuild public confidence.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct - which handles complaints about forces in England and Wales - said it had run two separate investigations into social media messages, and found that a total of five police officers had cases to answer.\n\nIn the first investigation, it looked at claims that a probationary Met officer had shared an \"inappropriate graphic depicting violence against women\" with colleagues on WhatsApp.\n\nThe IOPC said the graphic was intended to refer to Ms Everard's kidnap and murder. Although the officer was off duty at the time, they later worked at a police cordon as part of the search.\n\nThe image was \"highly offensive\" and the officer will now face a misconduct meeting, the IOPC said.\n\nAnother probationary officer, also from the Met, will also face a misconduct meeting for allegedly sharing the graphic and not challenging it.\n\nA misconduct meeting is for cases which could result in a final written warning. It is different to a misconduct hearing, which is for more serious cases of gross misconduct which could result in the officer being dismissed from the force.\n\nThe IOPC also carried out a second investigation, looking at claims that seven officers from different forces shared information about Couzens' prosecution in a chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal.\n\nOne officer from Dorset Police was accused of sharing details of an interview given by Couzens under caution, which was not yet allowed to be reported. That officer will face a gross misconduct hearing.\n\nTwo other officers - from Sussex Police, and Avon and Somerset Constabulary - were also in the Signal conversation and were accused of making unprofessional remarks about Couzens and endorsing comments made by others.\n\nThe Sussex officer had a meeting this week and misconduct was not proven - although the officer was told to undergo \"the reflective practice review process\", the IOPC said.\n\nThe officer from Avon and Somerset Constabulary will face a misconduct meeting in due course.\n\n\"In April this year we warned about the unacceptable use of social media by officers based on a number of cases involving the posting of offensive and inappropriate material,\" said Sal Naseem from the IOPC.\n\n\"We wrote to the National Police Chiefs Council, asking them to remind forces and officers of their obligations under the police Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Behaviour.\n\n\"The allegations involved in these two investigations, if proven, have the capacity to further undermine public confidence in policing. They also once more illustrate the potential consequences for officers and come at a time when policing standards and culture have never been more firmly in the spotlight.\"\n\nThe IOPC said it was continuing to investigate the conduct of five other officers relating to messages sent in a WhatsApp chat group in 2019. The messages were recovered from an old mobile phone discovered during the police investigation into Ms Everard's murder, the IOPC said.\n\nThe IOPC is also still looking into how Kent Police in 2015, and the Met this year, handled allegations of indecent exposure which have been linked to Couzens.", "Bernard Haitink performed at the London Proms in 2019\n\nRenowned Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink has died at his home in London aged 92.\n\nHe led the world's top orchestras in London, Amsterdam, Chicago and Dresden, in a career spanning 65 years.\n\nBorn in Amsterdam in 1929, Haitink won many awards and was a major figure in the UK's classical music scene.\n\nEven in his final months at the podium his performances with the London Symphony Orchestra were described as \"ravishing\".\n\nHaitink made more than 450 recordings and saw his job as to embrace the orchestra without suffocating them.\n\nHis management company announced his death late on Thursday night, saying that one of the most celebrated conductors of his generation had died peacefully at his home.\n\nIt was in the Netherlands where Bernard Haitink forged his reputation as a conductor, starting his musical career as a violinist after spending much of his childhood under Nazi occupation.\n\nHis big break came with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and within six years he was asked to take charge of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam.\n\nFor 27 years he was chief conductor, famed for his performances of Mahler and Bruckner. The Concertgebouw said on Friday it mourned the loss of its \"beloved, honorary conductor\".\n\n\"When he takes up the baton it's as though the electricity is switched on,\" his wife Patricia once said. \"When it's over he's confronted with himself again.\"\n\nHaitink performed with almost all of the world's big orchestras, notably in the UK with the London Philharmonic, Royal Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera.\n\nThe Royal Opera House said he was best known during his period there from 1987-2002 for his interpretation of Wagner. Chief Executive Alex Beard spoke of a true gentleman whose \"quiet authority and profound care and respect for his fellow artists inspired and moved beyond words\".\n\nHaitink's first Prom at the Royal Albert Hall was Bruckner's 65-minute Seventh Symphony in 1966, and 53 years later he performed the same symphony there for the last time.\n\nHaitink was well known in the US for his time at the Chicago and Boston Symphony orchestras and in Germany for leading the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Berlin Philharmonic.\n\nStaatskapelle chief conductor Christian Thielemann said on Friday he was \"one of the most important conductors of our time\".\n\nThe Dutch royal family said in a statement that Haitink's \"drive and musical finesse are unforgettable\", revealing the soul of composers such as Mahler, Bruckner, Beethoven and many others.", "Logan was found dead in the River Ogmore on 31 July\n\nThe mother of a five-year-old boy who was found dead in a river has appeared in court charged with his murder.\n\nLogan Mwangi, also known as Logan Williamson, was discovered in the River Ogmore in Bridgend county on 31 July.\n\nHis mother Angharad Williamson, 30, from Sarn, appeared at Cardiff Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nEarlier, a 14-year-old boy, who cannot be identified because of his age, appeared at Newport Crown Court charged with murder.\n\nLogan's stepfather John Cole, 39, also from Sarn, has previously been charged with Logan's murder.\n\nAngharad Williamson and John Cole have both been charged with Logan Mwangi's murder\n\nAppearing via video link and wearing a black top, she was remanded in custody and is due to appear at crown court next week.\n\nThe teenage defendant was remanded into the care of the local authority ahead of a plea hearing in November.\n\nAll three have also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nTeddies and balloons were left next to the River Ogmore in memory of Logan\n\nFollowing Logan's death, residents left floral tributes, teddies and cards near the part of the river where he was found.\n\nLogan's classmates have described him as a happy boy who liked Spiderman and playing hide and seek.\n\nHis friends were \"heartbroken\" by his death.", "Robin Swann says the hospital system has consistently been operating above capacity\n\nNorthern Ireland is \"facing into the most difficult winter ever experienced\", Robin Swann has warned.\n\nThe health minister said there were \"unscheduled pressures\" facing the health and social care system.\n\nEarlier, Naomi Long said she feared relaxing rules on face coverings in nightclubs may cause a \"significant\" rise in the transmission of Covid-19.\n\nThe justice minister said she was concerned about a \"lack of clarity\" in health advice.\n\nOn Thursday, the executive agreed people will not need to wear masks while dancing in nightclubs when they reopen next Sunday.\n\nSocial distancing laws in hospitality venues will also be scrapped.\n\nHowever, Northern Ireland will not be following England and Wales in easing rules around testing for Covid-19 after international travel.\n\nFrom Sunday, those returning to England will only be required to take a lateral flow test after their arrival but those returning to Northern Ireland will still be required to pay for a more expensive PCR test.\n\nAny decision to move to lateral flow tests will require executive consideration and agreement.\n\nIn a written ministerial statement on Friday, Mr Swann updated assembly members on the pressures facing the health service.\n\n\"Over this summer and into the autumn, the Northern Ireland hospital system has consistently been operating above capacity, with many patients waiting on trollies for admission,\" he said.\n\n\"This situation is unheard of during the summer months and is an indication of the scale of unscheduled pressures likely facing the HSC system this winter.\"\n\nMr Swann detailed funding he had assigned to help support the system, saying he had tabled a bid for an additional £30m from the October monitoring round to add to the £31.5m secured in the June round.\n\nNaomi Long said the impact on messaging around the wearing of face coverings could have \"potential unintended consequences\"\n\nIt is understood Ms Long and Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon both raised concerns about the changes to Covid restrictions at Thursday's executive meeting.\n\nIn a letter to her executive colleagues, obtained by BBC News NI, the justice minister warned that the impact on messaging around the wearing of face coverings could have \"potential unintended consequences\".\n\nShe added: \"Given the extent of Covid transmission in the community, the risk posed by new variants and the high risk nature of nightclub settings, I fear that further relaxation in the wearing of face coverings, particularly when dancing, may lead to a significant increase in transmission.\"\n\nMs Long said she recognised making changes to allow people to stand to eat or drink without masks was \"necessary\", but said that with such relaxations it would be \"practically impossible to maintain high levels\" of enforcement.\n\nThe justice minister said she believed that as a result of the changes, it would be hard to justify \"continued requirements to wear masks in other lower risk settings as a consequence\".\n\nShe also repeated her view that proof of full vaccination and testing should be \"mandatory\" requirements in high-risk environments such as nightclubs.\n\nNightclubs are due to reopen in Northern Ireland on 31 October\n\nIt is understood that work by Stormont's Department of Health on developing a vaccine passport digital system is \"well advanced\".\n\nBut Ms Mallon has said the executive was told if ministers agree to make the scheme mandatory, it could take five to six weeks to put in place the legislation enforcing it.\n\nShe said she was concerned that action from the executive would again be \"too little, too late\".\n\n\"We don't have five to six weeks, we need to be implementing it quickly so that when we need to, we can move on this,\" she said.\n\n\"I voted against reopening hospitality and nightclubs without mandatory passports… we should have this in place, we know vaccines help to protect us.\n\n\"You need to ask other ministers why they don't share that viewpoint in the face of overwhelming evidence.\"\n\nDr David Farren, the chair of the British Medical Association's (BMA) Consultants Committee said the the Executive's decision is \"madness\".\n\n\"I was quoted earlier this week as saying that I haven't seen a health service as busy as this in my 20 years of practice. I stand by that,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback.\n\n\"I don't care if people think we are scaremongering. The reason we are highlighting the data and the cases that are there at the minute is because we don't want to see this fall over.\n\n\"What happens if the health service gets overwhelmed, frankly, is that people will die.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Thursday, First Minister Paul Givan said Northern Ireland was going to be able to \"move forward\" with further easing.\n\n\"We continue to monitor the way in which transmission is spreading, but also the way in which it is spreading in hospitals,\" he said.\n\n\"But nobody wants to go back to what we had before. There are consequences with lockdown, people's mental health and cases of domestic violence that took place.\n\n\"Lockdown is not a solution without consequences - it has very serious consequences, and we all want to avoid that.\"", "The government has blocked a new law to curb businesses' ability to lay staff off and take them back on different - often worse - pay and terms.\n\nThe practice - known as \"fire-and-rehire\" - has caused several industrial disputes.\n\nLabour's Barry Gardiner said the government was \"cowardly\" for using Parliamentary tactics to stop his bill in its tracks.\n\nBut No 10 said it wanted new guidance for companies, rather than a law.\n\nA spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Using threats of firing and rehiring is completely unacceptable as a negotiating tactic. We expect companies to treat their employees fairly.\n\n\"However, there is insufficient evidence to show legislation will stop the practice or will be effective.\"\n\nInstead, the government says it will ask the arbitration service Acas to \"produce more comprehensive clearer guidance to help all employers explore all the options before considering fire and rehire\".\n\nThe government ordered Conservative MPs to oppose the legislation.\n\nBut union chiefs said that amounted to siding with \"bad\" and \"bullying\" bosses.\n\nThe Labour Party ordered its MPs to support the bill, even though the party has said it would go further if it won power and ban fire-and-rehire completely.\n\nBefore voting on the bill itself, MPs voted on a closure motion - essentially a vote on whether to vote on the bill - and due to the government's opposition, it failed to get enough support by 188 votes to 251.\n\nAfter that, MPs were able to resume the debate but \"talked it out\" - meaning members opposing the bill stopped another vote happening by continuing to speak right up to the allotted finishing time for discussion.\n\nThis included 40 minutes at the dispatch box by Business Minister Paul Scully, who said legislation agreed in the context of a pandemic was not \"the right way to reflect the concerns for the long-term issue about workers' rights\", adding: \"We will legislate if we need to, but we'll do it as a last resort, not as a first resort.\"\n\nThe government also came under from its own MPs fire for scheduling a statement on health policy as Fridays are normally reserved for backbench members to put forward their bills.\n\nMr Gardiner's bill now falls to the bottom of the list and is unlikely to progress any further.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, the Labour MP said: \"In politics, it's rare to find something that absolutely everyone agrees on and yet all the way from [former union leader] Len McCluskey to the prime minister himself, everyone agrees fire and rehire is wrong - so why is the government determined to block this Bill?\n\n\"The tactic of filibustering to talk the bill out is cowardly. It seems the government do not wish to be seen actually to vote against the bill itself.\n\n\"They would rather pretend under the cloak of a closure motion that they want to go on talking about it so it simply runs out of time.\"\n\nFire-and-rehire has existed for decades, but the practice has come under more scrutiny recently as more firms hit by the pandemic have used it to reduce their staffing costs.\n\nMr Gardiner's private member's bill said employees should be fully consulted on any fire-and-rehire plans.\n\nIf the employees agreed to it, they could be taken on under new terms, under the proposed new law.\n\nBut if a dispute occurred between staff and a company, an independent committee would decide on whether the fire-and-rehire could go ahead, the bill said.\n\nMr Gardiner told the BBC his plan was a \"practical\" way to deal with the \"worst excesses\" of fire-and-rehire - and said the proposals could become law quickly if supported by the government.\n\nOne Tory MP, Christian Wakeford, supported it in the Commons, telling the House: \"This policy isn't anti-business, it is anti-bad business leaders.\"\n\nBut others on the government benches criticised the bill, with Kevin Hollinrake warning: \"The road to hell is paved with good intentions.\"\n\nTory MP Laura Farris said the rules on fire and rehire needed to be tightened up, but it had to be available as \"an option of last resort\" for companies facing insolvency.\n\nThe government move has led to criticism outside the chamber, with the TUC's general secretary Frances O'Grady saying: \"The government has chosen to side with bad bosses by failing to take action to tackle fire and rehire today.\"\n\nUnite general secretary Sharon Graham added: \"The antics of the Conservative Party today have been a disgrace.\n\n\"They have colluded to stand on the side of bullying bosses and against the interests of workers, showing their real colours, so the hypocrisy of the Tory party was on full display for all to see. They say one thing but do another.\"\n\nThe Department for Business, Enterprise and Industrial Strategy has been asked for a comment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could cooling make survival more likely after cardiac arrest?\n\nTens of thousands of defibrillators across the UK risk being unusable because 999 call handlers do not know about them.\n\nWhen someone has a cardiac arrest, ambulance staff can only direct bystanders to the nearest defibrillator if it is on a central register.\n\n\"That could be the difference between life and death,\" said Adam Fletcher, head of British Heart Foundation Cymru.\n\nA campaign to register defibrillators on The Circuit has now been launched.\n\nSales of defibrillators rose after footballer Christian Eriksen's cardiac arrest during Denmark's opening game of the European Championships in the summer.\n\nThe device - which gives a high-energy electric shock to the heart - was used as part of the emergency action that saved Eriksen's life after he collapsed on the pitch.\n\nOne was also used to help save a football fan who collapsed in the stands during Sunday's Premier League match between Newcastle United against Tottenham Hotspur at St James' Park.\n\nSurvival rates are low in the more than 30,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests each year in the UK, according to the British Heart Foundation (BHF) - with fewer than one in 10 people surviving.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to use a defibrillator and save a life\n\nAndrew Barnett was 46 when he had a cardiac arrest in 2018 while playing in a parents v children football match.\n\nWhen he collapsed, leisure centre staff ran to his aid, with a defibrillator, including Sheila Mott, who opened the defibrillator box while her colleague started mouth to mouth on Andrew.\n\n\"The pads went on him and Ben [her colleague] started to do compressions - then the machine said to halt and it was analysing his body, so we stopped,\" said Sheila.\n\nAndrew Barnett feels lucky he had a cardiac arrest where a defibrillator was available\n\nSheila explained the machine then signalled that a \"shock\" was required.\n\n\"I just pushed the shock button, then it analysed the body again and said to start CPR, which Ben did and we didn't have to shock him again,\" she said.\n\nAndrew, who is involved in the BHF's campaign, added: \"I was really lucky - I was in the right place at the right time, with trained staff who knew where the defibrillator was and it was working.\n\n\"It's a bit of a lottery at the moment. You feel that you were the lucky one, and then you feel really sorry when other people aren't in that position.\"\n\nSheila has been doing first aid training for more than 30 years, and now trains others to use defibrillators, both with Girlguiding and the Royal Life Saving Society.\n\nSheila Mott says the machine expains what needs to be done to help save a person's life\n\n\"I feel quite proud of myself. That's the first time I've used it for life - to save somebody,\" she said. \"But I've always practised every month with them.\n\n\"We do CPR training with Brownies and the older children learn to use the defib. I think it's very, very important it gets across to all age groups - if they cannot manage the compressions on an adult, they might be able to tell somebody how to do it.\"\n\nThe charity, the Resuscitation Council UK, St John Ambulance and Association of Ambulance Chief Executives, said the UK's low survival rate was partly because defibrillators are used in fewer than one in 10 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.\n\nBHF said early CPR and defibrillation could double the chances of surviving and it was often down to 999 call handlers being aware that a defibrillator was nearby.\n\n\"If we don't know a defibrillator is there, we can't send somebody to get it, to potentially save somebody's life,\" said Carl Powell, the clinical support lead for cardiac care with the Welsh Ambulance Service.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shakin' Stevens said he nearly died after a cardiac arrest and now campaigns for more CPR to be taught\n\nWhile the 14 UK ambulance services previously had their own databases, The Circuit will eventually replace these with a new national database.\n\nBut of the 5,500 in Wales that are registered, there is another challenge - more than half risk being redundant without a \"local guardian\" who looks after the defib and makes sure it works.\n\n\"We can't be 100% certain those defibrillators are rescue ready at any one time,\" Mr Powell said.\n\n\"If we deploy one of those defibrillators that doesn't have a guardian, we take it off the system until a guardian checks it.\"\n\nHe explained ambulance staff would make those physical checks when possible, but it was a resource-intensive task for a service already under pressure.\n\n\"It's a question of communities who have worked so hard to get public-access defibrillators, to actually look after them - to make sure the batteries are still functioning or the pads are within date - so that if they're needed in a medical emergency, they're ready to go,\" he said.\n\n\"Unfortunately we hear these stories, where it's turned out there was a defib maybe 100 yards round the corner,\" said Mr Fletcher.\n\n\"But because it wasn't registered, the call handler at the ambulance service couldn't direct that bystander to get it. And that's what we want to end.\n\n\"The current situation is tens of thousands of defibrillators are not currently registered, and the ambulance service don't know where they are which is obviously a big problem.\"\n\nThe Welsh government recently announced £500,000 additional funding for the Welsh Ambulance Service and Save a Life Cymru to buy nearly 500 defibrillators - a condition of which is that they must be registered on The Circuit, with a local guardian.", "The number of rape and sexual assault victims who have waited more than a year for their trial to go through the courts has soared, a report shows.\n\nThe number of such cases rose from 246 to 1,316 - a 435% rise - between March 2020 and June this year, figures in a National Audit Office report suggest.\n\nThe spending watchdog said the crown court backlog could remain a problem for years, severely affecting victims.\n\nThe government said the backlog in England and Wales was stabilising.\n\nIn a highly critical report, the National Audit Office (NAO) said neither the Ministry of Justice nor its courts agency were working together properly to solve the problems which had their roots in pre-pandemic cuts.\n\nLast week Justice Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC he did not know when the backlog would drop below pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAs of June, it was at a record high of nearly 61,000 cases. The NAO is warning there could still be significant delays in 2024.\n\nThe report says that keeping rape and sexual assault victims, witnesses and defendants waiting for more than a year for their cases to be heard puts them at risk of collapse if people withdraw their support.\n\nEarlier this month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said prosecutions for rape and sexual violence were \"going wrong\" and he would \"stop at nothing to get more rapists behind bars\".\n\nHis comments came after the jailing of Wayne Couzens for Sarah Everard's kidnap, rape and murder raised questions about women's trust in the police and the criminal justice system.\n\nThis NAO report is a black-and-white explanation of the problem now facing criminal justice - and how there is a complete lack of certainty over whether the backlogs and delays can be reduced.\n\nWhen the spending watchdog spoke to judges, they said that defendants were more likely to plead not guilty if their trial was to be delayed.\n\nThat may be because they're gambling they're more likely to get off: the longer it takes a case to be heard, the more likely it is that memories fade, evidence is lost or becomes less credible and victims withdraw support.\n\nOne solution is to enlist more part-time judges, also known as Recorders. These are experienced lawyers who for years have been the backbone of a lot of Crown Court business - but their funding was massively cut before the pandemic.\n\nBut there is no guarantee that enough part-time judges are going to be available from next April to make inroads into the backlogs.\n\nWaiting times rose most in London, with the average age of a case increasing by 63% from 164 days to 266 days, the report said.\n\nHead of the NAO Gareth Davies said: \"Despite efforts to increase capacity in criminal courts, it looks likely that the backlog will remain a problem for many years.\n\n\"The impact on victims, witnesses and defendants is severe and it is vital that the Ministry of Justice works effectively with its partners in the criminal justice system to minimise the delays to justice.\"\n\nCrown court capacity was increased by 30% between September 2020 and July 2021 by opening temporary Nightingale courts and modifying existing buildings.\n\nAnd another Nightingale court is to open at a hotel in Warwick, taking the total in England and Wales to 23.\n\nBut the long-term recovery plan relies on funding from the Treasury, said the report, with the Ministry of Justice estimating it needs about £500m more for criminal courts and an extra £1.7bn for legal aid, prisons and probation services.\n\nThe Bar Council, which represents barristers, said the findings were alarming and showed criminal justice was \"at breaking point\".\n\nIn response to the NAO report, David Lammy, shadow justice secretary, said the Tories were \"weak on law and order\" and \"offenders are getting away with it\".\n\nMr Lammy said \"the justice system is on the brink of collapse, and victims are paying for the price\".\n\n\"This report confirms that the Conservatives have no real plan to tackle the record backlog they have created,\" he added.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesman said the report recognised the speed of the government's response to Covid.\n\n\"This meant that - in a matter of months - our buildings were made safe, remote technology was rolled out across all courts, and Nightingale courtrooms opened up and down the country to increase the space available for trials,\" he said.\n\n\"We are already seeing the results, with outstanding cases in the magistrates' courts falling, and in the crown court the backlog stabilising.\"", "“Who are we to tell him what a boy should look like?” parent Stanley Burkhead asked at a board meeting in August\n\nSeven students are suing a Texas school district over its dress-code policy banning boys from having long hair.\n\nSchool officials suspended a 9-year-old boy for a month, barred him from recess and normal lunch breaks as punishment for long hair, the lawsuit claims.\n\nHe and the other students, aged 7 to 17, say the policy violates the constitution and Title IX - a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination.\n\nThe school district said on Thursday it was reviewing the lawsuit.\n\nMagnolia Independent School District \"respects varying viewpoints, and we respect the rights of citizens to advocate for change,\" spokeswoman Denise Meyers said in an email to US media.\n\nThe district, which serves roughly 13,000 students about 40 miles (64km) northwest of Houston, did not return a request for comment from the BBC.\n\nAccording to its dress code policy, boys cannot wear their hair over their eyes, past the bottom of their ears, or past the bottom of a dress shirt collar. Facing backlash this summer, Magnolia defended the policy, saying it \"reflects the values of our community at large\".\n\nThe suit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas (ACLU) on Thursday on behalf of the students, argues the school district \"imposed immense and irreparable harm... solely because of these students' gender\".\n\nIt details a number of punishments given to the students - six boys and one non-binary child - for wearing long hair.\n\nOne, a nine-year-old identified as AC, is Latino, and wears his hair long like his father and uncle as a part of his family's heritage, the suit says. Another, an 11-year-old identified as TM, is non-binary and has worn long hair as a \"critical component\" of their gender expression.\n\nBoth have been subjected to punishments including suspension, denial of extracurricular activities and separation from their peers.\n\n\"This rule is a complete and utter dinosaur,\" said parent Stanley Burkhead, whose son has long hair, at a school board meeting in August.\n\n\"Who are we to tell him who he can't be? Who are we to tell him what a boy should look like?\" he said. A survey by the ACLU of Texas last year found that nearly 500 public school districts in the state have some type of a hair-length policy only for boys.", "One home was completely destroyed in the blast in Ayr\n\nA 16-year-old boy and a 43-year-old woman are in a critical condition after the explosion that destroyed a home in Ayr on Monday.\n\nThey were taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary after the blast while two other members of their family went to other hospitals.\n\nA man, 47, is in a stable condition in Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.\n\nAnd an 11-year-old boy, who is also stable, is being treated at the Royal Hospital for Children.\n\nPolice Scotland said a multi-agency investigation was continuing into the cause of the explosion in the Kincaidston area, which happened at about 19:00.\n\nCh Insp Derrick Johnston, area commander for South Ayrshire, said: \"Our thoughts are very much with those injured in the explosion, their families and people in the community who have been displaced from their homes. I would like to thank everyone for their patience.\n\n\"All partner agencies are working together to find out the cause but this is a complex incident and finding answers will take time. I can assure the public that we are working hard to establish the full circumstances.\"\n\nPolice Scotland, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, South Ayrshire Council, the Health and Safety Executive and SGN are all involved in the response.\n\nEmergency services at the scene on Tuesday\n\nAnyone with information which can help the investigation is asked to contact the police via 101.\n\nPhone footage or private CCTV can be submitted to Police Scotland.\n\nSouth Ayrshire Council said 35 properties remained cordoned off as off 15:30 on Thursday.\n\nThe council said some of the homes had been cordoned off because they had been damaged, while others had varying degrees of debris on or around the property and some were in close proximity to the blast site which is under the control of the emergency services and the utility companies.\n\nHowever, 386 properties had been deemed to be safe following inspections and residents were allowed to return.\n\nThe council said the emergency services were in contact with the residents of the four homes at the epicentre of the blast which have been, or may still have to be, demolished.\n\nOver the next few days, the council will provide a letter to households in the affected area detailing advice and further information in relation to any repairs their homes need.", "The Queen has been told by her doctors to rest for two weeks and only undertake light duties until mid-November.\n\nEarlier this month, she spent a night in hospital for some medical investigations - her first overnight hospital stay in eight years.\n\nBut that followed a particularly busy few weeks of public engagements across the UK for the 95-year-old monarch.\n\nThe Queen began the month at her Balmoral Estate in Scotland, where she helped to plant a tree with the Prince of Wales.\n\nThe pair were promoting their campaign urging people across the UK to plant a tree ahead of the Platinum Jubilee next year. She and Prince Charles met primary school children during the event.\n\nPrince Charles, known as the Duke of Rothesay when in Scotland, planted a tree with his mother for the Queen's Green Canopy campaign\n\nThe monarch spoke with schoolchildren from Crathie Primary at the event\n\nThe following day, the Queen was more than 100 miles away in Edinburgh for the opening of the sixth session of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nIt was the first time she had attended the ceremony without Prince Philip, who died this year aged 99. During her speech, she spoke of her deep affection for Scotland.\n\nA few days later, the Queen held audiences with diplomats from Belize and Greece over video call.\n\nThe same day, she met members of the Canadian Army at Windsor Castle at an event to mark the 150th anniversary of the A and B batteries of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery. She later had a telephone call with Boris Johnson.\n\nThe Queen presented the Captain General's Sword to representatives of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery\n\nThe Queen then travelled to London to attend the launch of the Commonwealth Games baton relay at Buckingham Palace.\n\nIt was her first major event at Buckingham Palace since the Covid pandemic began and she was joined by her youngest son, Prince Edward.\n\nThe Queen placed a message in the baton, which will travel through 72 Commonwealth nations and territories ahead of the Games in 2022\n\nA few days later she attended a church service at Westminster Abbey to mark the centenary of The Royal British Legion.\n\nAccompanied by the Princess Royal, she was seen using a walking stick as she arrived via the Poet's Yard entrance.\n\nThe Westminster Abbey service was thought to be the first time the Queen had used a stick at a major public event\n\nThe Queen welcomed pianist Dame Imogen Cooper to Buckingham Palace, presenting her with The Queen's Medal for Music for 2019.\n\nShe also held three other audiences.\n\nThe Queen's Medal for Music is awarded each year and 2019's went to English classical pianist Imogen Cooper\n\nThe following day, the Queen travelled to Cardiff to open the sixth term of the Senedd.\n\nIt was her first visit to Wales in five years, and she praised the spirit of the Welsh people during the pandemic.\n\nWhile there, she was overheard appearing to say she was irritated by people who \"talk\" but \"don't do\" anything on climate change.\n\nA 21-gun salute in Cardiff Bay marked the Queen's arrival in the city\n\nBy Saturday she was back in England - attending Champions Day at Ascot racecourse in Berkshire.\n\nThe Queen has a lifelong love of horseracing\n\nThe Queen held a virtual audience with the new governor-general of New Zealand Dame Cindy Kiro. The governor-general's role is to act as the Queen's representative in New Zealand.\n\nOn Tuesday she had two virtual audiences during the day with the Japanese ambassador and the EU ambassador.\n\nThen in the evening she was back at Windsor Castle hosting a reception for guests attending the Global Investment Summit, including billionaire business leaders like Microsoft's Bill Gates.\n\nThe Queen was joined by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge at the reception", "The US Supreme Court will allow Texas to maintain a near-total ban on abortions, but will take up the case next month in a rare sped-up process.\n\nThe law, known as SB8, gives any person the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past six-weeks - before most women know they are pregnant.\n\nThe Supreme Court said it will focus on how the law was crafted and whether it can be legally challenged.\n\nIt is considered extraordinarily rare for the top US court to expedite cases.\n\nLower courts have yet to issue final rulings on the so-called Texas Heartbeat Act.\n\nThe controversial law - which makes an exception for a documented medical emergency but not for cases of rape or incest - bans abortion after what some refer to as a foetal heartbeat.\n\nThe American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists says that at six weeks a foetus has not yet developed a heartbeat, but rather an \"electrically induced flickering\" of tissue that will become the heart.\n\nThe Texas law is enforced by giving any individual - from Texas or elsewhere - the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past the six-week point. However, it does not allow the women who get the procedure to be sued.\n\nThe Biden administration has previously said it would ask the court to block the law. Since 1973's landmark Roe v Wade Supreme Court case, US women have had a right to abortions until a foetus is able to survive outside the womb - usually between 22 and 24 weeks into pregnancy.\n\nThe US is one of seven out of 198 countries to allow elective abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, according to the Washington Post.\n\nLawyers for the state of Texas asked the justices on the court to consider overruling the landmark Roe decision, as well as a separate case that affirmed the constitutional right to an abortion. The court did not accept that request.\n\nOral arguments in the case have been set for 1 November. The Supreme Court said that it would wait for those arguments to take place before taking any action.\n\nIn a written dissent, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that the expedited timeframe would offer \"cold comfort\" for women in Texas who are hoping for abortion treatment.\n\nShe was the only one of the Supreme Court's nine judges to advocate blocking the law in the short-term.\n\n\"Women seeking abortion care in Texas are entitled to relief from this court now,\" she wrote. \"Because of the court's failure to act today, that relief, if it comes, will be too late for many.\"\n\nThe law came into effect in Texas on 1 September.\n\nAbortion providers and opponents of the law had called for it to be lifted until the Supreme Court took up the case.\n\nWhole Woman's Health, which operates four clinics in Texas, tweeted that \"the legal limbo is excruciating for both patients and our clinic staff\".\n\nExperts believe that the oral arguments may provide a glimpse into how the Supreme Court will approach other abortion cases.\n\nIn December, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a separate case regarding a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The abortion battle explained in three minutes", "Senior government climate change advisers have warned Boris Johnson against more foreign aid cuts ahead of the COP26 summit, the BBC has learned.\n\nIn a letter to the PM, they expressed \"deep concern\" at the cuts planned by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak next week.\n\nThe experts said the cuts would show the UK was \"neither committed to nor serious about\" helping countries vulnerable to climate change.\n\nThe Treasury said the UK was a \"world leader\" in international development.\n\nThe panel - known officially as the Friends of COP - was appointed by Alok Sharma, the Cop president, to advise the government ahead of next month's summit in Glasgow - and includes some of the most experienced climate experts in the world.\n\nTheir letter - which has been seen by the BBC - said: \"As 'Friends of COP' we are writing to you to express our deep concern at the prospect of further UK aid cuts in the final few days before COP26.\"\n\nIt went on: \"The ability of the UK to act as a genuine, trusted partner for developing countries is of crucial importance to COP26's success. Further implied cuts to overseas aid at the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) would send a signal that the UK is neither committed to, nor serious about, enabling a green global recovery from the pandemic, nor improving the resilience of the most vulnerable to climate change.\"\n\nThe cuts would come as the result of complicated accounting changes planned by the Treasury for next week's Spending Review.\n\nOfficials want to broaden the definition of what counts as overseas aid. Specifically, they want to include complex currency handouts from the International Monetary Fund known as Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), and Covid vaccine donations for poorer countries.\n\nIf these counted towards the government's current overseas aid target of 0.5% of national income, it could mean more than £1bn less is spent on humanitarian and development support.\n\nThe letter says the UK would \"maintain its credibility and maximise the chances of a successful summit\" if it did not classify SDRs and Covid vaccines as foreign aid.\n\nThe fear among climate campaigners is that developing countries will lose trust in the financial promises made by the UK - and other richer nations - to help them adapt their economies to climate change.\n\nMany poorer countries have already voiced their concerns about the UK's previously announced decision to cut aid by more than £4bn this year.\n\nIn a recent report, the Overseas Development Institute warned a \"sleight of hand\" with foreign aid risked sabotaging negotiations in Glasgow.\n\n\"If the Treasury slashes budgetary commitments to climate finance days before COP26 starts, developing countries - which have typically contributed fewer per capita emissions - will rightly question why they should bear the costs of climate action and whether they can trust the pledges of developed countries.\"\n\nThe Friends of COP who have signed the letter include:\n\nA Treasury spokesman said the UK \"is and will remain a world leader in international development\".\n\n\"This year we provided over £10bn towards poverty reduction, climate change and global health security - a greater proportion of our national income than the majority of the G7,\" he said, adding \"we will return to the 0.7% target when the fiscal situation allows\".", "Belarus has been accused of taking revenge for EU sanctions by offering migrants tourist visas, and helping them across its border. The BBC has tracked one group trying to reach Germany.\n\nThe mobile phone camera pans left and right, but no-one moves. The exhausted travellers lie scattered among the trees.\n\nJamil has his head in his hands, his wife Roshin slumped forward next to him. The others look dead.\n\nLate afternoon light slants through the forest, the pine trees forming a dense natural prison. They've been walking since four in the morning.\n\nThe Syrian friends have fought through thickets and waded through foul-smelling swamps to get here. They've already missed their first rendezvous with a smuggler, and they've run out of food and water.\n\nThe Syrians are numb with cold but don't dare light a fire. They've crossed from Belarus into Poland, so have finally made it to the EU. But they're not safe yet. Thousands of others, encouraged by Belarus to cross into Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, have ended up in detention instead. At least seven have died of hypothermia in the Polish forest.\n\nIdris - his head covered to keep warm - records a video in the forest\n\nWe've been tracking Idris and his friends since they left northern Iraq in late September. Idris has recorded their progress on his phone and sent us a series of videos along the way.\n\nThe group are Syrian Kurds, in their 20s, looking to Europe for a better future. They are all from Kobane, the scene of ferocious fighting between Kurdish fighters and Islamic State militants in late 2014.\n\nBut while their motives - political instability at home, fear of conscription, lack of employment - are the familiar refrain of migrants the world over, the route they have taken is new.\n\nIdris admits he might not have tried to leave Syria if Belarus's autocratic leader, Alexander Lukashenko, had not offered a new, apparently safer route.\n\n\"Belarus has an ongoing feud with the EU,\" he told me, when I asked him why he had decided to attempt the journey to Europe. \"The Belarus president decided to open its borders with the EU.\"\n\nIdris was referring to Mr Lukashenko's warning earlier this year, that he would no longer stop migrants and drugs from crossing into EU member states.\n\nThe Belarus president had been infuriated by successive waves of EU sanctions, imposed following his country's disputed 2020 presidential election, the subsequent hounding of political opponents, and the forced diversion of a RyanAir jet carrying an opposition journalist and his girlfriend.\n\nWe used to catch migrants in droves here - now, forget it, you will be catching them yourselves\n\nOfficials in neighbouring Lithuania say they saw warning signs as early as March.\n\n\"It started as indications from the Belarusian government that they are ready to simplify visa proceedings… for 'tourists' from Iraq,\" Lithuania's Deputy Minister of Interior, Kestutis Lancinskas tells us.\n\nInstead of taking hazardous journeys by boat across the Mediterranean, all migrants now need to do is fly to Belarus, drive for several hours to the border, and then simply cross on foot into one of the three neighbouring EU countries - Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.\n\nIn July and August, Lithuania saw 50 times more asylum seekers than in the whole of 2020.\n\n\"The route is obviously a lot easier than going through Turkey and North Africa,\" Idris said.\n\nHe and his friends had started out from Irbil in northern Iraq on 25 September. Idris had been working there and left his wife and twin baby daughters in Kobane, promising they could eventually join him in Europe if he made it.\n\nCollapsed building in Kobane - the scene of ferocious fighting in 2014\n\nThey are part of a generation of Syrians whose lives have been blighted by 10 years of civil war. Idris has already spent time as a refugee in neighbouring Turkey.\n\n\"It's a long story, my friend, and I regret many things,\" Idris told me over the phone when I asked him what motivated him.\n\n\"But nothing's in our control. There's no future for me in Syria.\"\n\nIn one of Idris's first videos, recorded outside Irbil airport, he is clearly upbeat about the journey ahead. They've got their tickets, and seven-day tourist visas for Belarus. They're ready to go.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe process so far had been relatively simple. To find out just how simple, we flew to northern Iraq to meet the people involved.\n\nIrbil is the bustling capital of the country's autonomous Kurdish region. A city of more than one-and-a-half million people, it's home to hundreds of thousands of refugees from neighbouring Syria, as well as other parts of Iraq.\n\nFor many, it's also where the journey to Europe begins.\n\nNot that you'd know that immediately. There are travel agents, to be sure. Lots of them. But this is a word of mouth business, with travel tips disseminated online in Facebook and chat groups.\n\nIn an office strewn with passports - mostly Syrian - Murad took me through the process. Murad is not his real name. Even though his role is not illegal - all he does is arrange the visas and flights to the Belarusian capital Minsk - he doesn't want to be identified.\n\nBack in the summer, with news of Mr Lukashenko's threat to the EU bouncing all over social media, Murad contacted friends in Belarus, asking about the new visa rules.\n\n\"They said 'yes, it's easy now',\" Murad recalled.\n\n\"I knew it's going to be the same as what happened in 2015 with Turkey.\"\n\nIn 2015, Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was also in dispute with the EU. He allowed hundreds of thousands of migrants to pass through his country, until the EU agreed to a €6bn (£5bn) deal to help Ankara meet the cost of the influx.\n\nFor migrants now looking for safe passage via Minsk, Belarusian travel companies initially issued electronic invitations to allow people to board flights for the capital.\n\nBut as cowboy operations started to make money from fake invitations, the rules changed. Now, migrants need a physical visa stamp in their passport before they can book a flight. It takes longer, but still isn't complicated.\n\nNext, a smuggler. This is where it gets expensive.\n\nMurad said he didn't work with smugglers, advising his clients that it's actually cheaper and more reliable to find one when they reach Minsk. But when we met one ourselves, it was on the street outside Murad's office and the two men clearly knew each other.\n\nWe were told that Jouwan - again not his real name - was a veteran smuggler, having arranged trips through Turkey and Greece during the 2015 migration crisis.\n\n\"If you're using a smuggler,\" said Jouwan, \"it's going to cost you a lot. Between $9,000 and $12,000.\"\n\nAfter all, it was an unpredictable journey, Jouwan said.\n\n\"You're going through unknown woods, in a foreign country. Robbers are waiting to snatch your money. The mafia is watching you. There are wild animals on the loose, rivers and swamps to cross. You're leaping into the unknown, even if you're using GPS.\"\n\nAsked about the authorities in Belarus, Jouwan was clear about their role.\n\nWhen Idris and his friends reached the Belarusian capital Minsk, they found it teeming with migrants all beating the same path to Europe. Idris's footage from Minsk airport shows a crammed arrivals hall - passengers sprawled out across the floor waiting to be processed.\n\nIn August, Iraqi Airways bowed to pressure from the EU and cancelled direct flights from Baghdad to Minsk. But migrants continue to arrive on flights from Istanbul, Dubai and Damascus.\n\nLike many who pass this way, Idris and his friends had reservations at Minsk's Sputnik Hotel, which advertises itself as \"ideal for business trips and family holidays\".\n\nOthers have been less fortunate. Footage shared on social media claims to show migrants in sleeping bags, sheltering in a nearby underpass.\n\nWhen I reached Idris by phone, he told me they were in touch with smugglers to take them across the Polish border and on to Germany. Their departure was imminent. Idris acknowledged the challenges ahead.\n\n\"We're crossing the borders illegally. We don't know what will happen. We can't trust anyone, not even our smuggler. We're putting our fate in God's hands.\"\n\nThe trip from Irbil to Belarus, he said, had already cost $5,000 (£3,600) per person, including airfare, hotel reservations and tourist visas. They were still haggling with smugglers about the onward journey.\n\nA day later, we spoke again. There had been a setback. The group had left Minsk too late to meet a smuggler and make it into Poland. They were now at another hotel, close to the border. The costs were piling up. The group had to take two private cars from Minsk, paying $400 for each.\n\nTrepidation was setting in, because for all the expense, the outcome could still be disastrous.\n\n\"We don't know whether we're going to make it or not,\" he told me. \"Are we going to get stuck in the woods, or will it just be a matter of four or five hours [walking], just like the smuggler told us?\"\n\nAnother short video arrived before they set off.\n\n\"Pray for us,\" Idris says into the camera.\n\nAcross Belarus's north-western border, in Lithuania, we found that the prayers and dreams of thousands of migrants like Idris had been shattered. By August, more than 4,000 had made it across a largely unfenced border.\n\nSome made the onward journey to Western Europe, but many were caught. They're now being held in detention centres across the country while Lithuania figures out what to do with them. While some have been granted asylum, so far this has not included any Syrians or Iraqis.\n\nAt Kybartai, in the west, more than 670 migrants have been moved to a converted prison. The authorities are trying to make it as habitable as possible. The warm cells are a definite improvement on the tented camps near the border where the migrants were being accommodated until recently.\n\nBut when we visited, the high walls, razor wire and watchtowers created an unmistakably grim atmosphere. \"I need freedom,\" several people shouted from their cells.\n\nThe inmates were all single men, from more than 20 different countries. Most were Iraqis and Syrians, but others had come from as far afield as Yemen, Sierra Leone and even Sri Lanka.\n\nThe detention centre for migrants at Kybartai in Lithuania\n\nAbbas, from Iraq, said conditions were terrible and the migrants were being treated like criminals.\n\n\"Is it our fault Belarus opened its borders to the EU?\" he asked.\n\nAt the end of his journey he was briefly detained by the Belarusian border guards. But it seemed all they had wanted was a souvenir.\n\n\"They took selfies with us and showed us the way,\" he said.\n\nFed up with his treatment and aware that his $11,000 journey had come to an abrupt, humiliating end, Abbas said he was thinking of going back.\n\n\"But I'm not going to live in Iraq. I'll live in Turkey. I have no idea what's going to happen though. I don't have any money.\"\n\nBut even though the detainees recognised they were pawns in a geopolitical tussle between Belarus and the EU, they mostly thanked Mr Lukashenko for giving them this chance.\n\n\"When I get out, I'm going to get his name tattooed on my arm,\" Azzal, another Iraqi, told me.\n\nThe flow of migrants into Lithuania has now been stemmed, thanks in part to the country's increased border security, assisted by the EU's border management agency, Frontex. But guards also showed us places where the border was still poorly protected, sometimes little more than a gap in the forest.\n\nA section of open border between Lithuania and Belarus\n\nAt one such spot, Belarusian border guards and soldiers sauntered past on the other side, filming us on a mobile phone but avoiding eye contact.\n\n\"In old times we had really good communication about illegal immigrants,\" Vytautas Kuodis, of Lithuania's State Border Guard Service, told me.\n\nAll that ended over the summer. Calls from the Lithuanian side now go unanswered.\n\n\"Mostly they ignore us,\" Mr Kuodis said.\n\nAlthough dozens of migrants still try to cross into Lithuania each day from Belarus, most are now heading for Poland.\n\nIdris and his friends' second attempt to cross the Polish border ended - like their first - in failure.\n\nVideos, shot furtively on Idris's mobile phone, show tense roadside conversations, with voices in Russian, English and Arabic. There was a scary encounter with Belarusian police, who stopped the group, took their passports and told the drivers to return the migrants to Minsk.\n\nThey drove back to the Sputnik Hotel, where the drivers then demanded a fee to recover the group's passports from the police. At the hotel, Idris and his friends now discovered a growing network of smugglers, sorting out accommodation and logistics. And the hotel was full of new arrivals - Syrians, Iraqis and Yemenis.\n\n\"The numbers are increasing every day,\" Idris says in a video shot outside the Sputnik.\n\nTo add to the group's complications, their tourist visas expired, forcing them to check out of the hotel and into a flat.\n\nFinally, 11 days after arriving in Minsk, they tried for a third time to reach Poland, travelling to Brest in the far south-west of Belarus. This time they managed to get to the Polish border, arriving just after midnight. At this point, Belarusian soldiers made a crucial intervention.\n\nJust like Ammar, the teacher detained in Lithuania, and others who have posted on social media over the summer, the Syrians found the Belarusian military eager to assist.\n\nAs the group stood close to the border, soldiers appeared and told them to wait. Minutes later, an armoured car arrived and took them to a military truck, where Idris and his friends found 50 other migrants huddled inside.\n\nThe truck drove for a short while, said Idris. \"Then the soldier asked us to wait, so they could make sure the road to the Polish border was open.\"\n\nThere are fences being put up along the Polish border, though migrants head for places where they are low or non-existent\n\nHe then escorted the entire group for 200m (656ft) and, says Idris, showed them the way to Poland. Idris said the soldier even helped them cross the border.\n\n\"I believe he cut the wire for us.\"\n\nSplitting up into smaller groups, and with a GPS reference to guide them to a rendezvous a few miles inside Poland, the travellers plunged into the forest.\n\nThe videos Idris sent over the next two days show the friends at their lowest ebb, the journey finally taking its toll. The distance they travelled on foot was no more than a dozen miles. But the two-day hike through swamps and dense forest brought them to the edge of exhaustion. At one point, Idris fell into a ditch and hurt his leg, losing the group precious time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFinally, on 9 October, they reached their pick-up point near the Polish town of Milejczyce, where a car was waiting. By dawn they were in Germany, and they split up soon afterwards to go their separate ways. Jamil and Roshin to Frankfurt, Zozan to Denmark to meet her fiancé.\n\nIdris carried on to the Netherlands, where he plans to report to the authorities. He's heard that if he is granted asylum, Dutch family reunification rules will make it possible to bring his wife and twin daughters from Kobane.\n\nBut it's going to take time.\n\n\"I've been researching refugee status in Europe,\" he says. \"I think it will take a year or two.\"\n\nIt's hard to know how many people have made it to their intended destinations since Mr Lukashenko opened his country's doors.\n\nBelarus has denied allegations of inducing migrants to fly there on the false promise of legal entry to the EU, and it blames Western politicians for the situation on the border.\n\nAt least 10,000 migrants are now in detention - in the Baltics, Poland and Germany. For many, it has been a harrowing ordeal. A costly waste of time and money - and in some cases - lives.\n\nAcross affected countries, calls for stricter controls are mounting.\n\nBut so far, there's no sign that Mr Lukashenko is backing down.\n\nRemembering six of the refugees who died trying to cross between Belarus and Poland - outside the Polish embassy in the Netherlands", "The Queen was pictured on Tuesday evening, hosting a Global Investment Summit at Windsor Castle\n\nThe Queen has cancelled a trip to Northern Ireland and has \"reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for the next few days\", Buckingham Palace says.\n\nThe 95-year-old monarch will remain at Windsor Castle but is still expected to attend the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow later this month.\n\nThe Queen is in \"good spirits\" but \"disappointed\" that the visit cannot go ahead, the palace said.\n\nShe was due to begin the two-day trip on Wednesday.\n\nThe nation's longest-reigning monarch has attended a series of events in recent days, hosting a Global Investment Summit at Windsor Castle on Tuesday evening.\n\nEarlier in the day, she held two audiences via video link, greeting the Japanese ambassador Hajime Hayashi and the EU ambassador Joao de Almeida.\n\nOn Monday, she held a virtual audience with the new governor-general of New Zealand, and at the weekend, she attended the races at Ascot.\n\nIt was revealed on Tuesday that the Queen had declined the Oldie of the Year award, from the magazine of the same name, saying: \"You are only as old as you feel\".\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokesman said: \"The Queen has reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for the next few days.\n\n\"Her Majesty is in good spirits and is disappointed that she will no longer be able to visit Northern Ireland, where she had been due to undertake a series of engagements today and tomorrow.\n\n\"The Queen sends her warmest good wishes to the people of Northern Ireland and looks forward to visiting in the future.\"\n\nThe Queen's decision is understood to be unrelated to coronavirus.\n\nBuckingham Palace is keen not to cause any alarm and has stressed that the Queen has \"reluctantly accepted\" the advice of doctors to rest for the next few days.\n\nShe has had a busy schedule of engagements over the past couple of weeks that would test the resilience of many people far younger than her.\n\nI saw her last Tuesday at an event at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIt was the first time she had used a walking stick in public.\n\nShe also took a shorter route into the Abbey.\n\nWe were told this was \"for her own comfort.\"\n\nBut she still looked incredibly well and engaged for a 95-year-old.\n\nIt is clear though that getting older takes its toll on us all and the Queen's diary will be carefully managed going forward.\n\nThe Queen had been due to arrive in Hillsborough in County Down on Wednesday afternoon and attend a church service marking the centenary of the formation of Northern Ireland in Armagh tomorrow.\n\nAn advance team was already in Northern Ireland making preparations for the two-day visit.\n\nMeanwhile, the Prince of Wales was also at Windsor Castle on Wednesday for an investiture ceremony where the chef and TV presenter Mary Berry was made Dame Commander.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, said on Twitter: \"We thank Her Majesty for her good wishes to the people of Northern Ireland and trust that she will keep well and benefit from a period of rest.\n\n\"It is always a joy to have Her Majesty in Royal Hillsborough and we look forward to a further visit in the near future.\"\n\nWishing her well, Ulster Unionist leader Doug Beattie said the Queen had been \"a source of great comfort during Northern Ireland's darkest days and provided lasting leadership as we moved into a new era for all our people\".\n\nPrince Charles held the investiture ceremony for Dame Mary Berry on Wednesday\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said he wished the Queen \"all the very best as she takes a few days' rest\".\n\nChurch leaders in Northern Ireland said in a joint statement that they were sorry she would not attend the Service of Reconciliation and Hope in Armagh, and acknowledged \"the significance of her commitment to the work of peace and reconciliation, which has meant a great deal to people throughout this island\".\n\nThe Queen first travelled to Northern Ireland in 1945, just after the end of World War Two, when she was a princess. If it had gone ahead, this week's trip would have been her 26th visit.\n\nRoyal visits to Northern Ireland during its centenary year have included the first in line to the throne, Prince Charles who went to Belfast in May, and Prince William who visited Londonderry in September.", "Adele has gone back to number one in the UK with the biggest chart figures for almost five years.\n\nHer new single Easy On Me had a record 24 million streams in the UK in its first week as well as 23,500 downloads.\n\nUsing the Official Charts Company's formula, that is equivalent to 217,300 sales - the highest since Ed Sheeran's Shape of You in January 2017.\n\nEasy On Me is the first track from the singer's hotly-anticipated fourth album 30, which will be released next month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Adele describes the emotions she went through making her new track Easy On Me\n\nThe pop superstar recently told Vogue magazine that the album was recorded to help her eight-year-old son understand why she and his father got divorced.\n\nExplaining the lyrics of the first single, in which she sings \"Go easy on me...\", Adele said: \"It's not like anyone's having a go at me, but it's like, I left the marriage. Be kind to me as well.\n\n\"It was the first song I wrote for the album and then I didn't write anything else for six months after because I was like, 'OK, well, I've said it all.\"\n\nThe song is her third UK number one, following Someone Like You in 2011 and Hello in 2016.\n\nIn the album chart, Coldplay's Music of the Spheres became the fastest-selling record of the year so far, with 101,000 chart sales.\n\nIt is Coldplay's ninth UK number one album in a row. Meanwhile My Universe, their collaboration with South Korean boy band BTS has jumped 10 places to number five in the singles rundown.\n\nColdplay recently told the BBC their next tour will partly be powered by a dancefloor that generates electricity when fans jump up and down, and pedal power at the venues.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 October.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nIt dawned on me: Gary Ward left at 03:30 to hike up Stob Dubh and Stob Coire in Glencoe to see the sunrise.\n\nMonster view: Gordon Page said he took this picture of 'beautiful Loch Ness from Fort Augustus'.\n\nWatered down: Niall Fraser The beautifully picturesque Invermoriston Falls on a moody autumn morning.\n\nMushrooming out of control: Audrey Macdonald spotted this stunning array of fungi on an early morning autumnal walk in Nairn.\n\nThe calm before the storm: Heidi Muir took this photo of Ardvasar Marina on Skye looking over to the mainland.\n\nFish supper: Derek Brown took this photograph of a grey heron feeding\n\nEdin-brrrr Castle: Rachel MacSween took this picture of Edinburgh Castle on a cold but clear and beautiful day.\n\nPigment of your imagination: Marianne Mann said the colours were very impressive at Tobermory on the Isle of Mull.\n\nGrave danger: Alistair Stevenson took this picture of a plant taking over a gravediggers hut at St Mungo in Lockerbie.\n\nIn plane sight: Rob Young took this photograph of a low flying USAF MC130 just skimming the trees in the Great Glen near Laggan dam.\n\nOutstanding in your field: Alan Bond took this drone picture of a combine harvester, harvesting the wheat from just behind his house in Stuartfield.\n\nBeak-a-boo: Freck Fraser took a picture of the often shy and reclusive Eurasian Jay, taken in his garden at Belladrum.\n\nEwe funny sheep: Jillian Neil took a picture of her friendly neighbours during a stay in Lindores\n\nSoaperstar: Gayle McIntyre took this picture of a student being hosed down after the Raisin Monday foam fight at the University of St Andrews – the first to be held in two years.\n\nThe fountain of youth: Ryan Laverty's daughter Aria, taking full advantage of the water fountains just recently opened next to the V&A Dundee, as part of the Waterfront renovation project.\n\nOrange you glad it's autumn? Victor Tregubov saw the beautiful colours of the changing leaves near Pitlochry.\n\nLiving on the edge: Pamela MacQueen took this picture on a \"journey to the edge of the world\" to the archipelago of St Kilda.\n\nLamborghini: Lyndsay Saunders took this snap of a Hebridean 'taxi' on the Isle of Harris whilst travelling in her campervan\n\nLittle shredder: Kirsty Brien took this picture of her seven-year-old son, Seth, on Harris where she has moved with her family.\n\nCatch of the day: Chris Boyle took this picture of a salmon leaping at Buchanty Spout, Perthshire.\n\nI have so mushroom in my heart for you: Howard Dodds took this photo of a fly agaric at Carron Valley Reservoir.\n\nGo with the flow: Glenys Norquay said her visit to the Birks of Aberfeldy in Perthshire was full of autumn colour.\n\nFeet first: Lindsey Harper said her son Rory was having so much fun on the zip wire at Crieff Hydro.\n\nSwan Lake: Patrick Hutton said this young swan was dipping its feet in the Musselburgh Lagoon.\n\nThe ghostess with the mostest: Mark Reynolds took this spooky snap of the ruined Jedburgh Abbey and its ghastly face in the windows.\n\nTime to reflect: Seria Hogg took this photo at the start of the Caledonian Canal in Fort William during a cycling trip around Scotland.\n\nHailey Beaupre said this photo of the Quiraing on the Isle of Skye is the best she has ever taken.\n\nDuck giving itself a quack: Shona Finlayson thought it looked like this duck was clapping at at Biggar boating pond.\n\nSquirrel Nutkin: John Kerr took this picture of squirrels looking for nuts at Argaty near Doune on a beautiful calm day.\n\nUnbeleafable: Elaine Malone took this picture of one of the \"new helpers\" at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital community garden.\n\nPeak preview: Richard Cooper waited for 20 minutes for the cloud to clear to reveal a light dusting of snow on the pinnacles of An Teallach.\n\nFairy umbrellas: Liz Hamilton took this picture of these porcelain mushrooms growing on a beech tree at Haddo Country Park, Aberdeenshire.\n\nRed flag: Marianne McKiggan took this picture on Portobello Beach in Edinburgh showing Kinetika Beach of Dreams, an installation of 500 pennant flags.\n\nView from above: Danny McCafferty took this picture of Hope street in Glasgow from his office window.\n\nGood mood: Curtis Welsh took this picture of Armanda, the Highland Cow, quietly chewing her cud and admiring the peaceful and empty golden sands at Hushinish on the Island of Harris.\n\nGo ahead: Margaret Winton said she was \"intrigued\" by the Floating Heads installation at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum in Glasgow.\n\nI'm hearing what you sea: Charlie Scott took this picture of the \"impressive\" waves at Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire.\n\nLeap of faith: Scott Renton took this picture of his daughter, Elspeth, during a trip to Nairn in the October holidays.\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.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Although most adults agree measures such as social distancing and mask-wearing to slow the spread of Covid are important, fewer adults in Britain are still doing it, latest figures reveal.\n\nThe percentage of adults who say they always or often maintain social distancing has fallen - from 63% in mid-July to 39% in mid-October.\n\nAnd 82% say they wear a face covering now, down from 97% in mid-June.\n\nMore than half of working adults are travelling to work, the survey found.\n\nThis is the highest rate for a year.\n\nAcross the four \"hands, face, space\" measures - hand washing, face coverings, social distancing and ventilation - young people saw them as less important than older age groups.\n\nMen were less likely than women to view them as important or very important.\n\nWhile concerns about the effect of coronavirus on people's lives are falling, the percentage of adults thinking that life will never return to normal is rising - up from 3% at the start of 2021 to 12% now.\n\nAnd 30% are not sure when things will return to normal, up from 16% at the beginning of the year.\n\nAt the No 10 press conference on coronavirus this week, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said people \"should\" continue wearing face coverings in some enclosed spaces, despite many Conservative MPs not doing so in the Commons chamber.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen challenged on this apparent double-standard, he said: \"That is a very fair point. As I say, we've all got our role to play in this and we, the people standing up on this stage, we've got our public roles, as secretary of state, as someone in the NHS, as head of UKSHA [UK Health Security Agency], we've got big roles to play.\n\n\"But we've all got a role to play and set an example to set as private individuals as well. It's a very fair point and I'm sure a lot of people have heard you.\"\n\nHe warned: \"With winter soon upon us, these little steps make a big difference and they are more important now than they've ever been.\"\n\nHe said restrictions may need to return if mitigations were too lax: \"If people don't wear masks when they really should in a really crowded place with lots of people they don't normally hang out with.\n\n\"If they're not washing their hands and stuff - it's going to hit us all and it would of course make it more likely we're going to have more restrictions.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Piers Morgan has announced he is to stop hosting his ITV show Life Stories.\n\nIn a tweet on Thursday, the presenter revealed that his former Good Morning Britain colleague Kate Garraway will take over the programme.\n\nThe news comes seven months after Morgan left GMB after controversially criticising the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nLife Stories was his last remaining ITV project. He will now move to host a new global TV show for the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp and Fox News Media.\n\nPiers Morgan's Life Stories began in 2009 and has seen him interview celebrities ranging from Sharon Osbourne and singer Cheryl to then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Piers 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\n\"I'm quitting Life Stories after 12 years and 100 shows,\" he posted of the programme, which has also featured Captain Sir Tom Moore, Katie Price, Sir Richard Branson and Sir Keir Starmer.\n\n\"My final one will be with my fabulous friend Kate Garraway and she will then present the remaining three planned shows of the next series as I leave ITV to host my new global daily show. It's been a blast!\"\n\nIn March, Morgan caused a stir by storming off and then permanently leaving Good Morning Britain following a row over comments he made about the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Piers Morgan: Ofcom decision says \"I was entitled to not believe them\"\n\nMedia regulator Ofcom received a record 58,000 complaints about Morgan's comments that he \"didn't believe a word\" Meghan had told Oprah Winfrey about her mental health in an interview.\n\nBut ITV was cleared by Ofcom, with Morgan saying it was \"ridiculous\" that he had lost his job, and that the ruling was \"a resounding victory for free speech\".\n\nThe presenter's new show will air on the newly-announced talkTV in the UK, Fox Nation in the US, and Sky News Australia.\n\nAn ITV spokeswoman said: \"We would like to thank Piers for over a hundred engaging, compelling and insightful Life Stories over the past 12 years where his interviewees have included the very best names in showbiz, business and politics.\n\n\"We wish him the very best of luck with all of his future ventures. Kate is a brilliant journalist and inquisitive interviewer and we look forward to her forthcoming three shows.\"\n\nKate Garraway is one of the co-anchors of Good Morning Britain\n\nGarraway, who has recently documented her husband's long battle with coronavirus, said she was looking forward to taking over the reins.\n\n\"It's a big job, but I've always loved having the chance to talk to people, both on air and off,\" she said.\n\n\"Everyone has a story to tell and the wonderful thing about this show is that you have the airtime to delve into the areas of guests' lives that the viewers might not know about already.\n\n\"It's also a chance to understand more about the bits we do already know about (both good and bad) and hear it in their own words.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Last Leg host Adam Hills addressed the ongoing problems on 8 October\n\nChannel 4 has said subtitles will be restored to several platforms and high-profile programmes after weeks-long disruption.\n\nIt said \"intensive engineering work\" meant live text descriptions would begin to return for viewers on Sky, Virgin Media and Freeview.\n\nThe Great British Bake Off and The Last Leg will gain subtitles initially.\n\nDeaf charities had called for urgent action after a fire at a broadcast centre affected transmissions.\n\nBroadcasting watchdog Ofcom said it had received around 500 complaints about Channel 4's outage, which cut off subtitles, audio description and sign language services.\n\nChannel 4 said viewers on Freesat would still be unable to access subtitles, as it distributes content to that platform \"in a different way that is not resolved by this change\".\n\nViewers of its website and on demand service All 4 should now begin to see subtitles on flagship programmes after a switch to a back-up system, the channel said.\n\nHundreds of hours of Channel 4 programming have been affected by the outage, which began when fire suppression devices destroyed hard disks at a west London broadcast centre on 25 September.\n\nThe incident at the centre, owned by Red Bee Media, affected other broadcasters like the BBC and Channel 5, although their services were restored sooner.\n\nHearing loss charity RNID warned this week that \"12 million people in the UK who are deaf or have hearing loss have felt excluded and increasingly angry, because the system to provide subtitles and signed content is broken\".\n\nOn Friday, the National Deaf Children's Society said it had written to Ofcom \"asking them to intervene to resolve this completely unacceptable delay\".\n\nChannel 4 said it had been working with RNID to keep deaf viewers updated.\n\nDespite the switch to a back-up system, Channel 4 said audio description and sign-language services \"will remain unavailable until we move to the new system that is being built and tested\".\n\nAlongside issues with accessibility services, other problems have plagued Channel 4's network since the 25 September incident.\n\nThe wrong episode of reality show Married at First Sight UK was played out on E4 by mistake, prompting criticism from loyal fans who had expected to watch the series finale.", "Many French citizens are struggling with record prices at the pump\n\nThe French government has announced a one-off payment of €100 (£84; $116) for each citizen whose monthly net income is €2,000 or less, to help counter the surge in fuel and energy prices.\n\nThe \"inflation allowance\" will go to about 38 million French people automatically, including those who do not drive a car or ride a motorbike.\n\nThe first payments will go to business employees in late December.\n\nCivil servants, students and pensioners will get theirs in early 2022.\n\nThe €100 payment will be tax-free and Prime Minister Jean Castex said it would cost the government €3.8bn (£3.2bn; $4.4bn). That would be far less than the cost of cutting fuel duty, he said.\n\nEurope is facing widespread discontent after world energy prices spiked, largely a result of huge demand from businesses recovering from the long Covid paralysis. The energy market turmoil has had a knock-on effect, disrupting supply chains and causing some shortages of fuel and other consumer goods.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron is six months away from a presidential election and the spike in energy prices threatens to trigger a new wave of mass protests.\n\nThe \"gilets jaunes\" (yellow vest) protests in 2018 escalated from protests over fuel duty to a much wider anti-government movement.\n\nMr Castex said a cap on household gas prices would remain in place until the end of 2022, as world energy prices were expected to fall only gradually.\n\nSome 13 million pensioners and two-thirds of students will be among those who receive the €100. It will also go to about half of all workers, as €2,000 is the average net monthly income.\n\nMotorists have been hit by soaring fuel prices: diesel has risen to a record €1.56 per litre on average in France, and unleaded petrol to €1.62 per litre, the daily Le Monde reports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Actor Alec Baldwin seen outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff's office after he was interviewed by police\n\nA woman has died and a man has been injured after actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on a New Mexico film set for the 19th Century western Rust.\n\nHalyna Hutchins, 42, was shot while working on the set as director of photography. She was flown to hospital by helicopter but died of her injuries.\n\nThe man, 48-year-old director Joel Souza, was taken from the scene at Bonanza Creek Ranch by ambulance.\n\nPolice said they were investigating and that no charges had been filed.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Baldwin, best known for his role as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock and for his portrayal of Donald Trump on sketch show Saturday Night Live, said the incident had involved the misfiring of a prop gun with blanks.\n\nIn a statement to AFP news agency, a Santa Fe sheriff spokesman said Mr Baldwin had spoken to detectives.\n\n\"He came in voluntarily and he left the building after he finished his interviews,\" the spokesman said.\n\nPolice are trying to establish what type of projectile left the prop gun and how. Mr Baldwin was seen outside the sheriff's office in tears, local media reported.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The director who worked with Halyna Hutchins on the 2020 action film Archenemy says her death is \"unfathomable\"\n\nThe actor is a co-producer of the film and plays its namesake, an outlaw whose 13-year-old grandson is convicted of manslaughter.\n\nThe eldest of four brothers, all actors, Mr Baldwin has starred in numerous TV and film roles since the 1980s.\n\nMs Hutchins was from Ukraine and grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle, according to her personal website. She studied journalism in Kyiv, and film in Los Angeles, and was named a \"rising star\" by the American Cinematographer magazine in 2019.\n\nShe was the director of photography for the 2020 action film Archenemy, directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer.\n\n\"I'm so sad about losing Halyna. And so infuriated that this could happen on a set,\" Mr Mortimer said in a tweet.\n\nIn a statement, the International Cinematographer's Guild said Ms Hutchins' death was \"devastating news\" and \"a terrible loss\".\n\n\"The details are unclear at this moment, but we are working to learn more, and we support a full investigation into this tragic event,\" said guild president John Lindley and executive director Rebecca Rhine.\n\nPolice say sheriff's deputies were dispatched to Bonanza Creek Ranch, a popular filming location, at around 13:50 local time (19:50 GMT) after receiving an emergency call about a shooting on the set of Rust.\n\nIncidents such as Thursday's fatal shooting on the Rust film set are extremely rare, but not unheard of.\n\nReal firearms are often used in filming, and are loaded with blanks - cartridges that create a flash and a bang without discharging a projectile.\n\nIn 1993, Brandon Lee - the 28-year-old son of the late martial-arts star Bruce Lee - died on set after being accidentally shot with a prop gun while filming a death scene for the film The Crow. The gun mistakenly had a dummy round loaded in it.\n\nResponding to Thursday's news, Brandon Lee's sister Shannon tweeted: \"Our hearts go out to the family of Halyna Hutchins and to Joel Souza and all involved in the incident on 'Rust'. No-one should ever be killed by a gun on a film set. Period.\"", "The inquest heard how Anthony Rees did not want to wait for his son to help him move the stove\n\nA 78-year-old farmer died while trying to move a 74 stone (470kg) stove, an inquest has heard.\n\nAnthony Rees was moving the Aga cooker at his home in Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd, near Ruthin, Denbighshire, when it fell and crushed him in June.\n\nHis wife Elizabeth Rees said she asked him to wait until their son could help but \"he wanted to get the job done\".\n\nShe said medication he was taking for cancer could have influenced his actions.\n\n\"The medication may have contributed to the accident... it was out of character,\" said Mrs Rees.\n\nThe former deep sea diver, who turned to farming after retiring as a marine operations manager, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer last April.\n\nIn a statement from Mrs Rees, read out at the inquest in Ruthin, she described how her husband had built a four-wheeled trolley to move the stove in June.\n\nShe said she told him to wait until their son Daniel could come to help but he moved it on his own.\n\nThe 470 kg log-burning Aga stove was being removed to be replaced with a new oil-fuelled model\n\n\"I couldn't understand why he had been so keen to go ahead,\" Mrs Rees said.\n\nThe cooker toppled over, pinning Mr Rees to the ground and she was unable to free him.\n\nAfter dialling 999 she called a neighbour, David Heller, who managed to move the cooker while she freed her husband.\n\nParamedics and doctors carried out CPR but he was declared dead at the scene, and the cause of death was given as crush injuries to the chest.", "Covid has severely affected healthcare staff and may have killed between 80,000 and 180,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.\n\nHealthcare workers must be prioritised for vaccines, WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, and he criticised unfairness in the distribution of jabs.\n\nThe deaths occurred between January 2020 and May of this year.\n\nEarlier, another senior WHO official warned a lack of jabs could see the pandemic continue well into next year.\n\nThere are an estimated 135 million healthcare workers globally.\n\n\"Data from 119 countries suggest that on average, two in five healthcare workers globally are fully vaccinated,\" Dr Tedros said.\n\n\"But of course, that average masks huge differences across regions and economic groupings.\"\n\nFewer than one in 10 healthcare workers were fully vaccinated in Africa, he said, compared with eight in 10 in high-income countries.\n\nA failure to provide poorer countries with enough vaccines was highlighted earlier by Dr Bruce Aylward, a senior leader at the WHO, who said it meant the Covid crisis could \"easily drag on deep into 2022\".\n\nLess than 5% of Africa's population have been vaccinated, compared with 40% on most other continents.\n\nThe vast majority of Covid vaccines overall have been used in high-income or upper middle-income countries. Africa accounts for just 2.6% of doses administered globally.\n\nThe original idea behind Covax, the UN-backed global programme to distribute vaccines fairly, was that all countries would be able to acquire vaccines from its pool, including wealthy ones, writes BBC Global Affairs correspondent Naomi Grimley.\n\nBut most G7 countries decided to hold back once they started making their own one-to-one deals with pharmaceutical companies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins looks at the ethics of Western countries rolling out Covid booster jabs while millions globally remain unvaccinated\n\nDr Aylward appealed to wealthy countries to give up their places in the queue for vaccines so that pharmaceutical companies can prioritise the lowest-income countries instead.\n\nHe said wealthy countries needed to \"stocktake\" where they were with their donation commitments made at summits such as the G7 meeting in St Ives this summer.\n\n\"I can tell you we're not on track,\" he said. \"We really need to speed it up or you know what? This pandemic is going to go on for a year longer than it needs to.\"\n\nThe People's Vaccine - an alliance of charities - has released new figures suggesting just one in seven of the doses promised by pharmaceutical companies and wealthy countries are actually reaching their destinations in poorer countries.\n\nThe alliance, which includes Oxfam and UNAids, also criticised Canada and the UK for procuring vaccines for their own populations via Covax.\n\nOfficial figures show that earlier this year the UK received 539,370 Pfizer doses from Covax while Canada took just under a million AstraZeneca doses.\n\nOxfam's Global Health Adviser, Rohit Malpani, acknowledged that Canada and the UK were technically entitled to get vaccines via this route having paid into the Covax mechanism, but he said it was still \"morally indefensible\" given that they had both obtained millions of doses through their own bilateral agreements.\n\nThe UK government pointed out it was one of the countries which had \"kick-started\" Covax last year with a donation of £548m.\n\nThe UK has also delivered more than 10 million vaccines to countries in need, and has pledged a total of 100 million.\n\nThe Canadian government was keen to stress that it had now stopped using Covax vaccines.\n\nThe country's International Development Minister, Karina Gould, said: \"As soon as it became clear that the supply we had secured through our bilateral deals would be sufficient for the Canadian population, we pivoted the doses which we had procured from Covax back to Covax, so they could be redistributed to developing countries.\"\n\nCovax originally aimed to deliver two billion doses of vaccines by the end of this year, but so far it has shipped 371m doses.", "The report pays tribute to care workers' professionalism and resilience\n\nThere will be \"a tsunami\" of people without the care they need this winter unless staff shortages are tackled, England's care watchdog is warning.\n\nSocial care staff are \"exhausted and depleted,\" says Care Quality Commission (CQC) chief executive, Ian Trenholm.\n\nIn a report, the CQC urges immediate work to address the problem of rising numbers of unfilled care sector jobs.\n\nOn Thursday, the government announced an extra £162.5m to boost the adult social care workforce.\n\nThis is in addition to £5.4bn earmarked for social care over the next three years from the government's health and social care levy, which already includes £500m to be spent on the workforce.\n\nThe CQC welcomes the money but has a warning: \"It must be used to enable new ways of working that recognise the interdependency of all health and care settings, not just to prop up existing approaches and to plug demand in acute care.\"\n\nIn its latest State of Health and Social Care in England report, the CQC confirms fears that social care providers are facing a staffing crisis, losing staff to better paid jobs in retail and hospitality, and unable to recruit replacements.\n\nAcross England, numbers of unfilled jobs are rising month on month, the researchers found, from 6% in April to more than 10% in September.\n\nLondon is worst affected with 11% of jobs vacant, followed by the East Midlands at 9.4% and the South West at 9.2%.\n\nThis means care providers are having to limit their services, the researchers found.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Care minister Gillian Keegan: \"We want to get more hours in the system\"\n\nIn Devon, Rebecca Marks, director of Ark Care Homes, says more than one in five of their beds are empty, because they cannot afford to staff them.\n\nShe says current staff are exhausted after the pandemic, and despite the company offering funding for training and qualifications, and paying joining bonuses, \"they are saying: 'You know, I'm going to go and work in a supermarket'\".\n\n\"We need help and we need it fast... whether it's funding to be able to pay our staff higher wages to represent the responsibility and the amazing job that they do, or something different.\n\n\"It's a very difficult place for care providers and care staff, and ultimately our residents.\"\n\nOona Goldsworthy, who oversees five care homes in the south-west of England, told BBC Breakfast she was \"literally throwing everything\" at the problem to try and fill vacancies - including increasing wages.\n\n\"We have to recognise paying carers the minimum wage is just not acceptable any more,\" she said.\n\nIn the measured tones of a regulator, this report makes it clear that a staffing crisis in the long overlooked care system has much broader consequences.\n\nA \"tsunami of unmet need\" is more than a striking phrase. It represents a lack of support that can leave someone who is disabled or in the later years of their life struggling - alone or with family, facing grinding daily difficulties and too often deterioration that ends in crisis.\n\nIt is distressing for those at the heart of it and pressure on an overstretched NHS that with the right support might have been avoided.\n\nThe extra money the government has announced will help, but councils and care organisations have been quick to say it won't be enough.\n\nAnd the suggestion it could lead to tens of thousands of new care staff is likely to be greeted with a wry smile coming just 18 months after the last government recruitment campaign failed to do that.\n\nUnpaid carers who look after relatives at home are among those hit hard by the staffing squeeze.\n\nDorothy Cook cares for her husband Melvin, at home in Bristol. Melvin is in the advanced stages of a degenerative brain disease which has left him unable to wash, dress, shower or feed himself without her help.\n\nFollowing a fall in February, he was in hospital for six weeks, and then spent four months in a rehabilitation unit.\n\nMelvin is meant to have a care package at home but the provider ended it after five weeks, as his condition was too complex for them to manage.\n\nThat was 12 weeks ago, and Dorothy is struggling.\n\n\"It all falls on my shoulders, and I'm on my knees with exhaustion,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"We both feel completely and utterly alone. We feel that nobody cares.\"\n\nCarers UK, which represents unpaid people like Dorothy, says a survey of 8,000 of its members suggests more than half (55%) have lost some or all of the support they need, since the pandemic.\n\nThe government says it will take steps to ensure that unpaid carers have the support, advice and respite they need, with more detail to be published later this year.\n\nCare companies say the main factors making it hard to find and keep staff are:\n\nIn its report, the CQC pays tribute \"to the professionalism and resilience of everyone that works in social care\", but according to chief executive Ian Trenholm: \"Those people cannot be expected to work any harder.\n\n\"If we're to get safely through this winter, there needs to be urgent action.\"\n\nHe says local leaders of health and social care services will need \"to make maximum use of everything they have at their disposal to get safely through the winter... If these things don't happen there is the genuine risk of a tsunami of unmet need, with many people not getting the care that they so desperately need this winter.\"\n\nHe believes the key is more collaboration between services and urges a rapid overhaul: \"We can't be in this position in a year's time. We need to be thinking about what systems will look like in the future.\n\n\"We are really clear, there are no silver bullets, there are no simple answers to what is a very, very complex problem.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said: \"We appreciate the dedication and tireless work of health and social care staff throughout the pandemic.\n\n\"We have provided record levels of investment to support them and will provide £36bn over the next three years for health and social care across the UK.\n\n\"We are working on health and social care reform to ensure we can provide world-leading services and are committed to learning lessons from the pandemic, with a full public inquiry in the spring.\"\n\nShadow minister for social care, Liz Kendall, called the report \"devastating\", saying the government's recent social care announcement would not help.\n\n\"Labour is calling for a ten-year plan of investment and reform,\" to include a new deal to transform pay, training and conditions for care staff, and a shift in focus towards prevention and early intervention, said Ms Kendall.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has backed calls to change the law to give victims of domestic abuse more time to report a crime, the BBC has been told.\n\nThere is currently a six-month time limit for a charge to be brought against someone for common assault.\n\nBut Ms Patel has agreed to extend the timeframe to up to two years.\n\nIt comes after the BBC revealed 13,000 cases in England and Wales had been dropped in five years because the six month limit had been breached.\n\nThe change is expected to come as part of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament.\n\nCampaigners have said the move would be very welcome, but they are waiting to see an official announcement.\n\nCommon assault cases include things like a push, threatening words or being spat at and are normally dealt with at magistrates court.\n\nThe clock starts from the date of the incident, and within the next six months, a victim needs to have come forward and the police have to have carried out their work to secure a charge against the alleged perpetrator, or the case will be dropped.\n\nVictims of domestic common assault are sometimes reluctant to report incidents and the cases can be complex - which is why campaigners say the police should be given more time before having to bring charges.\n\nThe argument for the time limit was to keep the criminal justice system moving, especially when there is now such a backlog of cases to be heard following Covid.\n\nBut Labour MP Yvette Cooper, who chairs the Commons Home Affairs Committee, said the number of incidents being \"timed out\" because of the six month factor was \"shocking\".\n\nThe BBC has been told this time limit will now be extended to two years, and there will be a renewed push to ensure police and prosecutors are alive to incidents of coercive control, which are often linked with incidents of domestic abuse.\n\nMs Cooper said the change would be \"excellent news\", adding: \"Making this simple and practical change would give domestic abuse victims more time to report assault and means stronger action to tackle violence against women and girls - something that is badly needed right now.\"\n\nThree-quarters of all domestic abuse cases - including sexual assaults - are closed early without the suspect being charged, according to a report by HM inspector of constabulary.\n\nAnd just 1.6% of rape allegations in England and Wales result in someone being charged - something the government has said it is \"deeply ashamed\" about.\n\nFigures obtained by the BBC using Freedom of Information from 30 of the 43 police forces in England and Wales, revealed a huge increase in allegations of common assault involving domestic abuse - but a fall in the number of charges being brought.\n\nFrom 2016-17 to 2020-21 there were at least 12,982 cases of common assault that were flagged as involving domestic abuse in which no-one was charged due to the time limit.\n\nIn the same time period, the total number of common assaults flagged as instances of domestic abuse increased by 71% from 99,134 to 170,013.\n\nBut the number of these common assaults that resulted in charges being brought fell by 23%.\n\nA government spokesman said all allegations should be investigated and pursued where possible, and money had been invested into supporting victims of such crimes during the pandemic.", "A new mutated form of coronavirus that some are calling \"Delta Plus\" may spread more easily than regular Delta, UK experts now say.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has moved it up into the \"variant under investigation\" category, to reflect this possible risk.\n\nThere is no evidence yet that it causes worse illness.\n\nAnd scientists are confident that existing vaccines should still work well to protect people.\n\nAlthough regular Delta still accounts for most Covid infections in the UK, cases of \"Delta Plus\" or AY.4.2 have been increasing.\n\nLatest official data suggests 6% of Covid cases are of this type.\n\nExperts say it is unlikely to take off in a big way or escape current vaccines. But officials say there is some early evidence that it may have an increased growth rate in the UK compared to Delta.\n\n\"This sub-lineage has become increasingly common in the UK in recent months, and there is some early evidence that it may have an increased growth rate in the UK compared to Delta,\" the UKHSA said.\n\nUnlike Delta, however, it is not yet considered a \"variant of concern\" - the highest category assigned to variants according to their level of risk.\n\nThere are thousands of different types - or variants - of Covid circulating across the world. Viruses mutate all the time, so it is not surprising to see new versions emerge.\n\nAY.4.2 is an offshoot of Delta that includes some new mutations affecting the spike protein, which the virus uses to penetrate our cells.\n\nThe mutations - Y145H and A222V - have been found in various other coronavirus lineages since the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nA few cases have also been identified in the US. There had been some in Denmark, but new infections with AY.4.2 have since gone down there.\n\nThe UK is already offering booster doses of Covid vaccine to higher risk people ahead of winter, to make sure they have the fullest protection against coronavirus.\n\nThere is no suggestion that a new update of the vaccine will be needed to protect against any of the existing variants of the pandemic virus.\n\nDr Jenny Harries, Chief Executive of the UKHSA, said: \"The public health advice is the same for all current variants. Get vaccinated and, for those eligible, come forward for your third or booster dose as appropriate as soon as you are called.\n\n\"Continue to exercise caution. Wear a mask in crowded spaces and, when meeting people indoors, open windows and doors to ventilate the room. If you have symptoms take a PCR test and isolate at home until you receive a negative result.\"", "Twenty-two people were killed in the May 2017 bombing\n\nA man whose British citizenship was removed due to alleged links to the Manchester Arena bombing has had it returned to him by Home Secretary Priti Patel, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThe man's citizenship was removed in the aftermath of the attack in 2017.\n\nThe original decision was taken by Amber Rudd when she was home secretary.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds were injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nThe mother of one of those murdered said bereaved families \"need answers\" from the home secretary.\n\nThe man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had appealed against the original decision to remove his citizenship at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC), but the case has not proceeded to a full hearing.\n\nA SIAC document, provided to the BBC, reveals Ms Patel instead \"decided to withdraw the decision to deprive the appellant of his British citizenship\".\n\nIt was decided in July 2017 that stripping his British citizenship was conducive to the public good.\n\nIt was alleged the man was an associate of Salman Abedi, might have known about the bombing beforehand, and might have helped in its preparation.\n\nThe man contended that he was subjected to ill treatment outside the UK.\n\nMs Patel informed the court by letter on 25 June this year of her decision, with the move confirmed the following month.\n\nNo reasons have been publicly given.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"The government, working with our world-class police and security and intelligence agencies, will always take the strongest action possible to protect national security and public safety.\"\n\nSalman Abedi in the foyer of the Manchester Arena just seconds before he blew himself up\n\nFamilies of the 22 people murdered in the bombing were not informed of the development.\n\nCaroline Curry, whose 19-year-old son Liam was killed in the attack, told the BBC that \"the secrets have got to stop\".\n\nShe said \"we need answers from Priti Patel\".\n\nSIAC is a semi-secret court and is the venue of appeal for foreign nationals (or those deprived of British citizenship who are deemed also to have foreign nationality) who face detention, deportation or exclusion from the UK on grounds of national security.\n\nMany of the court's hearings and rulings are never made public, even to the appellants themselves, because they include sensitive evidence which the government says it cannot divulge.\n\nThis week, at the public inquiry into the bombing, it emerged that:\n\nNext week, evidence will be heard from MI5 before the inquiry enters three weeks of secret hearings about what the security service knew in advance about the bomber. The victims' families are excluded from the hearings.", "Hutchins was a \"wonderful mother, first and foremost\", a former colleague told the BBC\n\nHalyna Hutchins, the cinematographer who died when actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on a film set, has been remembered as \"an incredible artist\".\n\nHutchins had been working as director of photography on the set of Rust.\n\nAmerican Cinematographer magazine had named her one of its rising stars in 2019, and she previously worked on 2020 independent superhero film Archenemy.\n\nArchenemy director Adam Egypt Mortimer told BBC News the fact she had died on a set was \"really unbelievable\".\n\nHe said: \"Halyna was an incredible artist who was just starting a career I think people were really starting to notice.\n\n\"The fact that she would be killed on a set in an accident like this is unfathomable. It just seems inconceivable.\"\n\nHutchins' most recent post on Instagram, from Tuesday, showed her riding horses on set.\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 halynahutchins 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 Twitter, Alec Baldwin said \"there are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours.\"\n\n\"My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFellow cinematographer Catherine Goldschmidt described Hutchins as \"lovely, warm, funny, charming, outgoing\", and praised her for being \"so talented\".\n\n\"What's so tragic is she's made beautiful films already but when you think about what was ahead of her, that is also so sad,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"She was also a mum, which I think is very difficult,\" Goldschmidt added. \"When I first met her I remember being really impressed, shocked even that this beautiful, creative, outgoing, enthusiastic talented cinematographer also is raising the child.\n\n\"I think for women in this industry it is very difficult. So I was very impressed that she was able to do that.\"\n\nHutchins was described by a friend as a \"rockstar cinematographer\"\n\nAlex Fedosov, who like Hutchins is a Ukrainian film-maker working Hollywood, said she was \"rising fast in her career\" and was \"an artist and a visionary\".\n\n\"She was so talented, a photography director with her own vision, her own strong ideas,\" he told BBC News Ukrainian.\n\n\"When we worked together on set, I was assistant director, I would rush her and say, 'Hurry up, we need to film this'. She would smile calmly but carry on in her own rhythm because she knew what she wanted to achieve.\"\n\nInnovative Artists, the agency that represented her, described her as \"a ray of light\" in a statement.\n\n\"Her talent was immense, only surpassed by the love she had for her family,\" the agency wrote. \"All those in her orbit knew what was coming; a star director of photography, who would be a force to be reckoned with.\"\n\nFedosov added Hutchins was a \"wonderful mother, first and foremost\".\n\nHe also questioned how her death could have happened, saying: \"Standards of safety in the US are very high. There is always an expert on set. There are always checks ahead of filming. Blanks are used sometimes to achieve a better effect on camera but it is always done with high degree of safety.\"\n\nDirector Adam Egypt Mortimer told the BBC that safety on movie sets is paramount. \"The fact that a gun went off and killed Halyna is both shocking from an industry point of view and just absolutely tragic from the point of view of knowing this amazing artist who suddenly not with us.\"\n\nJames Gunn, director of The Suicide Squad and Guardians of the Galaxy, said: \"My greatest fear is that someone will be fatally hurt on one of my sets. I pray this will never happen. My heart goes out to all of those affected by the tragedy today on Rust, especially Halyna Hutchins and her family.\"\n\nDirector and cinematographer Elle Schneider wrote a thread on Twitter about the death of her \"friend and rockstar cinematographer\".\n\n\"I don't have words to describe this tragedy. I want answers. I want her family to somehow find peace among this horrific, horrific loss,\" she said.\n\n\"Women cinematographers have historically been kept from genre film, and it seems especially cruel that one of the rising stars who was able to break through had her life cut short on the kind of project we've been fighting for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by AFI Conservatory This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHutchins was born in Ukraine in 1979 and grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle.\n\nHer website said she spent her upbringing \"surrounded by reindeer and nuclear submarines\".\n\nShe entered the film industry after gaining a degree in international journalism from Kyiv State University. After working on documentaries in the UK, she moved to Los Angeles, where she graduated from the American Film Institute conservatory in 2015.\n\nShe began working her way up in Hollywood, with credits on films including Blindfire, which she described as a \"racially charged cop drama\" written and directed by Mike Nell.\n\nShe also worked on horror feature Darlin', directed by Pollyanna McIntosh, which debuted at the SXSW film festival 2019.\n\nAmerican Cinematographer, a monthly magazine published by the American Society of Cinematographers, interviewed Hutchins in 2019.\n\nShe explained to them why she moved from journalism to cinematography, saying: \"My transition from journalism began when I was working on British film productions in eastern Europe, travelling with crews to remote locations and seeing how the cinematographer worked.\n\n\"I was fascinated with storytelling based on real characters.\"\n\nHer early life as a self-described \"army brat\" meant she was \"already a movie fan because 'there wasn't that much to do outside'\", the magazine added.\n\nIt said she gained \"hands-on shooting experience from documenting her forays into such extreme sports as parachuting and cave exploration\".\n\nAfter her death, the magazine paid tribute to the film-maker, saying: \"We're deeply saddened by the news from Santa Fe regarding the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Safety on the set should always be of paramount concern to everyone, especially when working with firearms.\"", "Logan was found dead in the River Ogmore on 31 July\n\nThe mother of a five-year-old boy who was found dead in a river has been charged with his murder.\n\nAngharad Williamson, 30, from Sarn, becomes the third person to be charged with the murder of Logan Mwangi.\n\nA 14-year-old boy, who cannot be identified because of his age, has also appeared in court charged with murder.\n\nLogan Mwangi, also known as Logan Williamson, was discovered in the River Ogmore in Bridgend county on 31 July.\n\nLogan's stepfather John Cole, 39, from Sarn, has already been charged with the murder.\n\nAngharad Williamson and John Cole have both been charged over the death of Logan\n\nBoth John Cole and Logan's mother Angharad Williamson have also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe 14-year-old has been remanded into care of the local authority.\n\nTeddies and balloons were left next to the River Ogmore in memory of Logan\n\nFollowing Logan's death, residents left floral tributes, teddies and cards near the part of the river where he was found.\n\nLogan's classmates have described him as a happy boy who liked Spiderman and playing hide and seek.\n\nHis friends were \"heartbroken\" by his death.", "Two men have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to administer poison with intent to injure, annoy or aggrieve\n\nPolice say two men have been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into spiking incidents in Nottingham.\n\nNottinghamshire Police has received 15 reports of spiking where the victims believe they were injected with a needle on a night out.\n\nThe force said there had also been 32 reports of people being spiked by having their drink contaminated since 4 September.\n\nThe men, aged 18 and 19, have been released under investigation.\n\nThey were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to administer poison with intent to injure, annoy or aggrieve following information received by police on Wednesday.\n\nA 20-year-old man, arrested earlier this week as part of the investigation, has been released on bail.\n\nEarlier, Lincolnshire Police said it had arrested a 35-year-old man in the early hours of Friday in connection with an attempted drink-spiking at a Lincoln nightclub.\n\nThe suspected offence \"doesn't involve a needle\", the force said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teenager Sarah Buckle woke up in hospital after a suspected spiking incident\n\nThroughout the week, people in Nottingham and other parts of the country have been sharing their experiences of suspected spiking incidents - with some reporting waking hours later to discover evidence of having been injected.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said its investigation had seen officers working \"positively\" with venues and reviewing CCTV footage over the past few days.\n\nSupt Kathryn Craner urged anyone who believed they had been a victim of spiking to come forward.\n\nA boycott of nightclubs is being planned for Wednesday to put pressure on venue owners to tackle the problem.\n\nZara Owen believes she was injected with a needle during a night out in Nottingham\n\nSeveral bars in Nottingham have pledged to give female staff the night off to support the boycott and at least six said they planned to close at 22:00 BST.\n\nEzra Watson, manager of Six Barrel Drafthouse in Hockley, said: \"We've swapped shifts so all our female members of staff can stay in and show their support.\n\n\"It's just solidarity. You can't and shouldn't ignore it.\"\n\nHannah Foxton, a 20-year-old supervisor at The Angel Microbrewery in Hockley - which is also taking part - said: \"We have a lot of young female staff who work here and it's hit home for us quite deeply.\n\n\"I've gone through being spiked before. It is absolutely terrifying - I can't wrap my head round it.\n\n\"It feels like a no-brainer to add our support and our voice to something really important.\"\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.", "Retail sales fell for the fifth month in a row in September, with people spending less in shops despite Covid restrictions easing in the summer.\n\nSales dipped by 0.2% in September, following a 0.6% drop in August, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nNon-food stores were hit hardest by the decline in sales, with customers buying fewer household goods and furniture.\n\nIn contrast, fuel sales rose by 2.9%, pushed up by a spike in demand.\n\nDarren Morgan, director of economic statistics at the ONS, said: \"Household goods were the main driver of this month's decline, with a fall of nearly 10%, while food sales ticked back up after falling last month.\"\n\nHe added that petrol sales exceeded their pre-pandemic levels for the first time in September. Petrol stations reported strong sales during the last week of the month after warnings over delivery problems due to a shortage of lorry drivers.\n\nDespite coronavirus-related restrictions being lifted in the summer, shopping in-store remained subdued.\n\nHelen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium (BRC), said that shop owners would be \"concerned\" by the slump in sales in the run-up to the key Christmas trading period.\n\n\"For the sake of the UK's economic recovery, it is vital that retail sales bounce back as we near the festive season,\" she said.\n\nShe added that labour shortages across supply chains, warehouses, and factories were all putting pressure on retailers ahead of the festive season.\n\nThe proportion of online sales, however, rose to 28.1% in September, from 27.9% the month before - substantially higher than pre-pandemic levels.\n\nDepartment stores also reported an increase in sales of 4.3%.\n\nTony Brown, chief executive of New Start 2020, which owns Beales department stores, told the BBC's Today programme that people's shopping habits had changed since restrictions had eased.\n\n\"There is not much browsing anymore - people come out, they know what they want, they spend and then they go. It is a different dynamic than what it used to be,\" he said.\n\nThe retailer also warned of a \"perfect storm\", saying that high shipping costs, additional customs checks because of Brexit, inflation and the cost of fuel increasing meant that additional costs had to be passed on to customers.\n\nBethany Beckett, UK economist at Capital Economics, said the latest figures suggested the \"economic recovery is fast running out of steam\".\n\nThe fifth monthly fall in sales in September marks the longest continuous drop since records began in 1996, although they remain about pre-pandemic levels.\n\nBut Ms Beckett added: \"Given the backdrop of continued shortages and rising Covid-19 infections, we suspect that retail sales growth will continue to be weak in the coming months.\"\n\nIn the run-up to Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget next week, trade organisations recently called for additional support.\n\nThe BRC, in a joint letter also signed by the CBI and UK Hospitality, called for the reform of business rates charged on non-domestic properties, saying that businesses needed help to rebuild after Covid.", "Second-hand car prices are rising at \"unprecedented rates\", the AA has said, as more people consider buying used cars amid a low supply of new vehicles.\n\nResearch by the motoring group suggests the price of the UK's most popular cars have increased up to 57% since 2019.\n\nThree to five-year-old Ford Fiestas, the most popular on its AA Cars website, were now valued at £9,770 compared to £7,448 two years ago.\n\nIndustry figures said \"nearly new\" used cars were in particular high demand.\n\nPrice rises have been driven by a number of factors.\n\nA global shortage of computer chips used in car production, as well as other materials such as copper, aluminium and cobalt, has led to fewer new vehicles rolling off production lines.\n\nThat has meant more buyers turning to the used-car market.\n\nAA Cars, which compared the prices of three, four and five year-old cars between 2019 and 2021, said demand for some models was so strong that they are increasing in value with age.\n\nAnalysis from the motoring group's website found the price of a three-year-old Mini Hatch in 2021 was 57% higher (£15,367) than a model of the same age in 2019 (£9,811).\n\nMeanwhile, research said the price of a five-year-old Mini Hatch had jumped 15% compared to what a three-year-old model was worth in 2019, meaning the car gained in value despite getting two years older.\n\nAudi A3s saw the biggest jump in prices since 2019 (46.09%), followed by Ford Focuses (43.11%), which were the second most popular car on the AA's website.\n\nThe motoring group said the first easing of coronavirus lockdown restrictions in summer 2020 had \"unleashed demand\" that had been \"pent up\" during the early stages of the pandemic.\n\nIt said a shortage of new cars for sale led many drivers to buy used rather than new, with \"demand pressures pushing up second-hand prices at unprecedented rates\".\n\nJames Fairclough, chief executive of AA Cars, said some popular cars were growing in value \"even as they sit on the driveway\".\n\n\"With the exception of houses and some classic cars, things rarely go up in value as they age,\" he said.\n\nMr Fairclough said despite the price growth in used cars, it was \"still possible to get a good deal\" if people shopped around.\n\nBesides new car supply issues, used-car dealerships have also experienced a shortage of stock as trade-ins have been reduced, according industry figures.\n\nThe rise of online dealers with large advertising budgets such as Cinch, Cazoo and We Buy Any Car has also changed the market.\n\nThe used-car price surge along with rising energy, grocery and transport costs has contributed to the UK's higher inflation rate.\n\nIt has led to the Bank of England warning it \"will have to act\", suggesting interest rates may rise soon.\n\nPeter Smyth, director of family business Swansway Car Dealers, told the BBC \"nearly-new cars\" were now a \"desirable product\" because of the slow supply of new ones.\n\nHe said \"the more expensive cars\" on his forecourts such as Audi Q7s and Land Rovers, were \"selling the fastest\".\n\n\"We are selling less cars for more money,\" he said. \"You cannot replace the stock you have got.\"\n\n\"We look at our prices of our cars on a daily basis and we move them with the market place.\"\n\nMr Smyth said he expected prices to remain high for the next six to 12 months. He added he had been told by manufacturers that next year was going to be \"tight\" due to the shortage of materials such as computer chips.\n\n\"What you will find is manufacturers will have more supply of luxury cars next year than lower end stuff,\" he said. \"They are going to put the chips in the high-value cars where they make the most margin.\"\n\nIn August, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said second-hand car sales in the UK had more than doubled.\n\nPetrol cars made up most of the sales, with Ford Fiestas, Vauxhall Corsas, Ford Focuses and Volkswagen Golfs being the most popular models.\n\nMike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, said that while a buoyant used-car market was \"important, as strong residual values support new car transactions\", it was \"critical we have a healthy new car market to help accelerate fleet renewal by allowing motorists to replace older, less efficient vehicles with the latest, cleanest models\".", "Alec Baldwin said he was fully co-operating with the police\n\nActor Alec Baldwin has expressed his shock and sadness after fatally shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a prop gun on a New Mexico film set.\n\nHe tweeted that he was in touch with her husband and had offered support.\n\n\"My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna,\" he wrote.\n\nMs Hutchins, 42, was shot on the set of the western Rust while working as director of photography.\n\n\"There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"I'm fully co-operating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy occurred.\"\n\nMs Hutchins was flown to hospital by helicopter after the shooting on Thursday afternoon but died of her injuries.\n\nDirector Joel Souza, 48, was injured and taken from the scene at Bonanza Creek Ranch by ambulance.\n\nAn actress in the film, Frances Fisher, tweeted on Friday that Mr Souza had told her that he had been released from the hospital, which was also reported by US media. The hospital declined to comment on Mr Souza's condition, citing privacy laws.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Baldwin, best known for his role as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock and for his portrayal of Donald Trump on sketch show Saturday Night Live, said the incident involved the misfiring of a prop gun with blanks.\n\nPolice are trying to establish what type of projectile left the prop gun and how. Local media reported that Mr Baldwin was seen outside the Santa Fe County sheriff's office in tears.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The director who worked with Halyna Hutchins on the 2020 action film Archenemy says her death is \"unfathomable\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the local district attorney's office told BBC News that the investigation is still its \"preliminary\" stage.\n\n\"At this time, we do not know if charges will be filed,\" said First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies.\n\nThe actor is a co-producer of Rust and plays its namesake, an outlaw whose 13-year-old grandson is convicted of manslaughter.\n\nThe eldest of four brothers, all actors, Mr Baldwin has starred in numerous TV and film roles since the 1980s.\n\nMs Hutchins was from Ukraine and grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle, according to her personal website. She studied journalism in Kyiv, and film in Los Angeles, and was named a \"rising star\" by the American Cinematographer magazine in 2019.\n\nShe was the director of photography for the 2020 action film Archenemy, directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer.\n\n\"I'm so sad about losing Halyna. And so infuriated that this could happen on a set,\" Mr Mortimer said in a tweet.\n\nIn a statement, the International Cinematographer's Guild said Ms Hutchins' death was \"devastating news\" and \"a terrible loss\".\n\n\"The details are unclear at this moment, but we are working to learn more, and we support a full investigation into this tragic event,\" said guild president John Lindley and executive director Rebecca Rhine.\n\nMs Hutchins' talent agency, Innovative Artists, wrote in an Instagram post on Friday that she was \"a ray of light\".\n\n\"Her talent was immense, only surpassed by the love she had for her family.\"\n\nThe agency's statement added it hopes that the fatal incident \"will reveal new lessons for how to better ensure safety for every crew member on set.\"\n\nPolice said sheriff's deputies were dispatched to Bonanza Creek Ranch, a popular filming location, at around 13:50 local time (19:50 GMT) on Thursday after receiving an emergency call.\n\nSuch incidents on film sets are extremely rare, but not unheard of.\n\nReal firearms are often used in filming, and are loaded with blanks - cartridges that create a flash and a bang without discharging a projectile.\n\nIn 1993, Brandon Lee - the 28-year-old son of the late martial-arts star Bruce Lee - died on set after being accidentally shot with a prop gun while filming a death scene for the film The Crow. The gun mistakenly had a dummy round loaded in it.\n\nResponding to Thursday's news, Brandon Lee's sister Shannon tweeted: \"Our hearts go out to the family of Halyna Hutchins and to Joel Souza and all involved in the incident on 'Rust'. No-one should ever be killed by a gun on a film set. Period.\"", "Najin is one of two northern white rhinos left in the world\n\nScientists have retired one of the world's last two northern white rhinos from a breeding programme trying to save the species from extinction.\n\nThe decision to stop harvesting 32-year-old Najin's eggs followed an \"ethical risk assessment\" that considered her age and other factors.\n\nNeither Najin nor her daughter Fatu are able to carry a rhino calf to term.\n\nThe last male of the species died in 2018, but its sperm was collected and has been used to fertilise eggs.\n\nThe procedure involves a team of vets extracting the rhino's eggs, using techniques developed through years of research. The eggs are then sent to an Italian lab for fertilisation, using sperm from two deceased males.\n\nTwelve embryos have been created so far, and scientists hope to implant them into surrogate mothers selected from a population of southern white rhinos.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How technology could help save the northern white rhino\n\nBioRescue, the scientific group leading the scheme, said it had weighed up several risks before deciding to stop harvesting Najin's eggs.\n\n\"Retiring one individual from a conservation programme because of animal welfare considerations is usually not a question to think about for long... but when one individual is 50 percent of your population, you consider this decision several times,\" said head veterinarians Frank Göritz and Stephen Ngulu.\n\nAs well as her advanced age, ultrasound scans had revealed several small, benign tumours on Najin's cervix and uterus, and a cyst on her left ovary.\n\nBut BioRescue said she would remain part of the scheme in other ways, like providing tissue samples for stem cell research.\n\nIt's hoped she can also \"transfer her social knowledge and behaviour\" to future offspring.\n\nNorthern white rhinos been brought to the brink of extinction by poaching and loss of habitat.\n\nNajin was born in a Czech zoo but was moved a decade later to Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, where she has been living under armed protection.\n\nMade of two subspecies: Northern white rhinos and southern white rhinos\n• None Northern:Population two, under armed guard in Kenya\n• None Differences:Northern are slightly smaller and less hairy than southern\n• None Poachers:Target them for their horns to smuggle to Asia for remedies\n• None Rhino horns:Made of keratin - the same substance as fingernails", "Human remains found in a Florida park on Wednesday are those of Brian Laundrie, the fiancé of murdered blogger Gabby Petito, the FBI says.\n\nThe body of Mr Laundrie, who had been missing for over a month, was identified using dental records.\n\nMr Laundrie, who was a person of interest in Gabby Petito's death, returned to Florida last month from a joint road trip without his partner.\n\nHer body was later found in Wyoming, where the couple had been travelling.\n\n\"On October 21, 2021, a comparison of dental records confirmed that the human remains found at the T Mabry Carlton Jr Memorial Reserve and Myakkahatchee Creed Environmental Park are those of Brian Laundrie,\" the FBI said in a statement on Thursday.\n\nA lawyer representing Mr Laundrie's parents released a statement, saying: \"Chris and Roberta Laundrie have been informed that the remains found yesterday in the reserve are indeed Brian's.\n\n\"We have no further comment at this time and we ask that you respect the Laundries' privacy at this time.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, officials said that the remains had been discovered in a part of the park that until recently had been underwater. Other items, including a backpack and notebook belonging to Brian, were also found during the search.\n\nAccording to NBC News, bones and a skull were discovered during the search.\n\nIn a short news conference on Thursday, Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno praised officials for working under \"treacherous conditions\" in the park.\n\nHe described the chest-deep water as being filled with rattlesnakes and alligators.\n\n\"It's not like you're searching a house or a car. These areas are huge and they are covered by water,\" he told reporters gathered outside the closed park.\n\nThe case of Ms Petito, 22, and Mr Laundrie, 23, sparked nationwide media attention.\n\nThe couple had spent their summer on a road trip through national parks, documenting their nomadic \"van life\" trip on social media.\n\nMs Petito's parents reported her missing on 11 September after they were unable to contact her since the end of August.\n\nIt eventually emerged that Mr Laundrie had returned to Florida without Ms Petito on 1 September. Her family repeatedly appealed for her fiancé and his family to co-operate with investigators, but he then went missing himself.\n\nHis parents told police they last saw him on 13 September - when he went hiking alone and never returned.\n\nThe parents, who have been condemned by the Petito family for not doing more to aid investigators, joined the search party on Wednesday. Chris Laundrie, the father, was the person who discovered a bag belonging to his son, the family lawyer told US media.\n\nThe rapid discovery of Mr Laundrie's remains and other evidence following the participation of his parents in the search has led some to speculate that they may have planted his remains or evidence.\n\nHowever, Steve Bertolino, the couple's attorney, told CNN that any suspicion that his clients planted evidence at the scene was \"hogwash\".\n\nHe added that Chris Laundrie had made a chance discovery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Petito's body was eventually discovered in Wyoming on 19 September. A coroner ruled last week that she had been strangled to death and left for weeks before her body was found.\n\nMr Laundrie was not charged with crimes relating to Ms Petito's killing. However, the FBI issued a federal arrest warrant and charged him with fraudulently using her debit card after her death.", "Three fire crews used two hose reel jets and six sets of breathing apparatus to put the fire\n\nThree adults and two children have been taken to hospital after a house fire.\n\nThe cause of the blaze on Burrows Road, Sandfields, Swansea, is now being investigated.\n\nIt broke out at about 23:20 BST on Thursday, with three fire crews using two hose reel jets and six sets of breathing apparatus to put it out.\n\nThe fire at the mid-terrace property was put out in just over an hour, with the condition of the five people unknown.\n\nThe blaze was put out in just over an hour on Burrows Road", "The man accused of killing the MP Sir David Amess will face trial next year.\n\nAli Harbi Ali, 25, is charged with murder and the preparation of terrorist acts, following the attack a week ago.\n\nHe appeared at the Old Bailey on Friday via video-link from Belmarsh prison. A provisional trial date was set for 7 March 2022.\n\nMr Ali, from Kentish Town in north London, wore a grey sweatshirt and lifted up his face mask to confirm his name and date of birth.\n\nSir David, 69, the Conservative MP for Southend West, was stabbed to death during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex.\n\nThe judge, Mr Justice Sweeney, told the Old Bailey the next preliminary hearing in the case would be on 5 November.\n\nMr Ali - who also appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday - was remanded in custody.\n\nThe charges against him allege he murdered Sir David, 69, and prepared acts of terrorism between 1 May 2019 and September this year.", "Lord Field was too unwell to attend the debate in the House of Lords\n\nEx-Labour MP Frank Field has announced his support for assisted dying and revealed that he is dying himself.\n\nLady Meacher read out a statement from Lord Field in the House of Lords, where peers are debating a new bill to legalise terminally ill adults seeking assistance to end their lives.\n\nIt said that he had recently spent time in a hospice and that he was not well enough to attend debates.\n\nLord Field urged other members to back the bill in his absence.\n\nThe 79-year-old spent 40 years as the MP for Birkenhead, and briefly served as minister for welfare reform in Tony Blair's first term in government.\n\nHe built a reputation as one of the most effective backbenchers in the House of Commons, with campaigns against poverty and for curbs on EU immigration.\n\nHe quit Labour's group in Parliament in 2018, saying Jeremy Corbyn's leadership had become \"a force for anti-Semitism in British politics\".\n\nHe was made a non-affiliated, crossbench peer by the Conservative government in 2020, after campaigning in favour of Brexit.\n\nA number of MPs have sent their best wishes to Lord Field, with Health Secretary Sajid Javid calling him \"an amazing, compassionate man\".\n\nHis sentiments were echoed by Tory peer and minister Zac Goldsmith, who described Lord Field as \"a man of immense courage and integrity\", as well as \"an extraordinarily effective and independent-minded parliamentarian\".\n\nLady Meacher told peers: \"Our colleague, Lord Field, who is dying, asked me to read out a short statement.\"\n\nIn the statement, he said he \"had just spent a period in a hospice and I am not well enough to participate in today's debate. Had I been, I would have spoken strongly in favour\".\n\nIt also explained his change of heart on the issue, saying: \"I changed my mind on assisted dying when an MP friend was dying of cancer and wanted to die early before the full horror effects set in, but was denied this opportunity.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The words of the peer, and former Labour MP, are said in the Lords by Lady Meacher.\n\nLord Field said one particular argument against the bill was \"unfounded\", adding: \"It is thought by some the culture would change and people would be pressured into ending their lives.\n\n\"[But] the number of assisted deaths in Australia and the US remains very low - under 1% - and a former supreme court judge in Victoria, Australia, [talking] about pressure from relatives has said it just hasn't been an issue.\"\n\nHe concluded: \"I hope the house will today vote for the assisted dying bill.\"\n\nThe new bill has been proposed by Lady Meacher - a crossbench peer - and would give patients of sound mind, with six months or less left to live, the right to die by taking life-ending medication.\n\nThe person wanting to end their life would have to sign a declaration that was approved by two doctors and signed off by the High Court.\n\nThe bill passed its first stage - known as its second reading - unopposed and will undergo further scrutiny in the House of Lords at a later date.\n\nBut even if it was passed in the Lords, it would not become law unless it was backed by MPs in the Commons, and the government.\n\nLady Meacher and Lord Field are among the peers in favour of the changes, but others have spoken out against the bill, including the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who told BBC Breakfast vulnerable people could face \"intangible\" pressure to end their lives.\n\nSpeaking in Friday's debate, another crossbench peer Lord Curry, also opposed the bill, describing how it would have been a \"tragedy\" if his daughter - who had a learning disability and died aged 42 - had had her life cut short.\n\n\"She breathed her last while we held her hands, a very emotional and precious moment for us,\" he said.\n\n\"If someone at that time had offered an assisted dying, assisted suicide option, I firmly believe that in that heightened emotional state we were in, not thinking rationally, we may have been tempted to agree to her premature death. Had we done that, it'd have troubled us for the rest of our lives.\"", "A new study suggests that severe ivory poaching in parts of Mozambique has led to the evolution of tuskless elephants.\n\nThe study published in Science magazine found that in Gorongosa National Park a previously rare genetic condition had became more common as ivory poaching used to finance a civil war pushed the species to the brink of extinction.\n\nBefore the war, about 18.5% of females were naturally tuskless.\n\nBut that figure has risen to 33% among elephants born since the early 1990s.\n\nSome 90% of Mozambique's elephant population was slaughtered by fighters on both sides of the civil war that lasted from 1977 to 1992. Poachers sold the ivory to finance the vicious conflict between government forces and anti-communist insurgents.\n\nAs in eye colour and blood type in humans, genes are responsible for whether elephants inherit tusks from their parents.\n\nElephants without tusks were left alone by hunters, leading to an increased likelihood they would breed and pass on the tuskless trait to their offspring.\n\nResearchers have long suspected that the trait, only seen in females, was linked to the sex of the elephant. After the genomes of tusked and tuskless elephants were sequenced, analysis revealed that the trend was linked to a mutation on the X chromosome that was fatal to males, which did not develop properly in the womb, and dominant in females.\n\nThe study's co-author, Professor Robert Pringle of Princeton University, pointed out that the discovery could have a number of long-term effects for the species.\n\nHe noted that because the tuskless trait was fatal to male offspring, it was possible that fewer elephants would be born overall. This could slow the recovery of the species, which now stands at just over 700 in the park.\n\n\"Tusklessness might be advantageous during a war,\" Professor Pringle said. \"But that comes at a cost.\"\n\nAnother potential knock-on is changes to the broader landscape, as the study has revealed that tusked and tuskless animals eat different plants.\n\nBut Professor Pringle emphasised that the trait was reversible over time as populations recovered from the brink of elimination.\n\n\"So we actually expect that this syndrome will decrease in frequency in our study population, provided that the conservation picture continues to stay as positive as it has been recently,\" he said.\n\n\"There's such a blizzard of depressing news about biodiversity and humans in the environment and I think it's important to emphasise that there are some bright spots in that picture.\"", "Alison used to be taller than her daughter, Vicci\n\nAlison McDonald had always been taller than her daughter - so when she suddenly shrank below her height, the family knew something was wrong.\n\nThe mother-of-four had spent weeks with an \"excruciatingly painful\" back, but hospital doctors had put it down to nothing more than muscle aches.\n\nThen one day her daughter Vicci Hughes noticed she was \"towering over\" her mother.\n\nWhen they realised Alison was now about four inches shorter than before, she returned to hospital - and was eventually diagnosed with myeloma, an incurable blood cancer.\n\nThe 56-year-old, who lives in Edinburgh, told BBC Scotland how Vicci had noticed the height difference on Alison's birthday.\n\nAlison said: \"It was really weird. I was standing beside my daughter and she said: 'Mum you've shrunk... there is something not right.'\n\n\"So we got a measuring tape against the wall and sure enough I had dropped from 5ft 6in to 5ft 2in. My daughter is 5ft 5in.\n\n\"I got a pang of fright and then noticed part of my spine was sticking out of the middle of my back.\n\n\"I thought, this isn't muscular like they have been telling me, and I need to get help.\"\n\nAlison's hair has been falling out due to chemotherapy so she has now had it shaved off\n\nBack at the hospital, an x-ray showed Alison had several breaks in her spine. She was walking with a stoop and had lost a stone in weight.\n\nShe was given a back brace, but pain in her ribs meant she had to take it off.\n\nIt was not until three months later that a GP intervened and said Alison needed more scans.\n\nAfter a CT scan in April and bone marrow tests, doctors discovered Alison had myeloma.\n\nShe has since had chemotherapy and is now undergoing stem cell treatment in an attempt to double her remission time.\n\nMyeloma eats away at the bone, causing it to fracture - on the spine this then causes it to compress and the person shrinks in size\n\nA spokeswoman for Myeloma UK said the condition was the third most common type of blood cancer, affecting more than 24,000 people in the UK.\n\nBut is it difficult to detect because the symptoms, which include back pain, easily broken bones, fatigue, weight loss and recurring infection, are often linked to ageing or minor conditions.\n\nThe spokeswoman said: \"While it is incurable, myeloma is treatable in the majority of cases.\n\n\"Treatment is aimed at controlling the disease, relieving the complications and symptoms it causes, and extending and improving patients' quality of life.\n\n\"More than half of patients face a wait of more than five months to receive the right diagnosis and around a third are diagnosed through an emergency route. By that point, many of them are experiencing severe or life-threatening symptoms.\"\n\nAlison said she had three unexplained rib fractures 18 months ago, but had not realised that this could have been the start of myeloma.\n\n\"I'm very fortunate my daughter pointed out to me that I had shrunk, or I would have carried on thinking this very painful back was just muscular and I wouldn't have started on any treatment,\" she added.\n\nAlison with two of her four grandchildren, Georgia and Amber\n\nVicci, a police detective who lives in West Lothian, said: \"When I noticed my mum had shrunk I pushed for an x-ray because I could see it was something more than muscular.\n\n\"The x-ray showed breaks in her spine that were akin to something like a horse riding accident, they were severe fractures like in an accident.\n\n\"She then said she had been told her bones had lots of holes in them like Swiss cheese.\n\n\"I felt horrible that she had been carrying on and doing things when she had this. I couldn't believe it.\"\n\nVicci, who is going to have her hair shaved off on Sunday in support of her mum, added: \"My mum doesn't expect a lot out of life. She's not the big adventurer and doesn't go on big holidays.\n\n\"She's quite happy living a simple life with her family. I hope she has a long time left.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Climate change is contributing to extreme weather including storms and flooding in the UK\n\nOn Tuesday, the government set out a number of plans aiming to put the UK on course to achieve its climate goals. Funding for green cars, an end to gas boilers and tree-planting are some of the key announcements. But are they enough?\n\nLet's not be ungenerous: the government's great over-arching green strategy is, on the face of, it a remarkable achievement.\n\nPrevious governments have theoretically espoused the need to live in harmony with the planet - but none has laid down a roadmap as to how that would be achieved.\n\nIt is especially important as Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to welcome world leaders to Glasgow for the vital climate conference known as COP26.\n\nMr Johnson will brandish his sheaf of eco-documents at delegates and offer a challenge: My friends - if we can do it, you can do it.\n\nLet's tackle one and two because they're both sides of the same question.\n\nMr Johnson, for instance, has gained widespread credit for his global leadership in calling a halt to petrol and diesel cars and to gas boilers for home heating.\n\nThe cars announcement has triggered a competitive rush in international car makers who've been preparing for this moment for decades. Motorists can just slip behind the wheel and drive away.\n\nBoilers is a different issue. Heat pumps are expensive and a hassle to fit. The Treasury has agreed to subsidise them at £5,000 a time but the total pot for installations is far too low to make a difference - just 30,000 boilers a year for three years, a trifling number that's not remotely high enough to kick-start an entire industry.\n\nThe business department BEIS wanted to offer more support, but the Treasury ruled it out.\n\nWhat's even worse, from an environmental standpoint, is the lack of funding to help people insulate their homes - because heat pumps simply won't work unless homes are well-coddled.\n\nSo, the heat pumps policy looks like an illusion unless someone sorts out the finances.\n\nThat brings us on to question number two - who will pay for the strategy overall?\n\nThe Chancellor's own document, the Net Zero Review, accepts that the costs of inaction on climate change outweigh the costs of action. This is a significant conclusion.\n\nBut there's a sharp warning from the Treasury about the knock-on effect of the electric car revolution: it leaves an annual £37 billion black hole in its finances because fuel duty will evaporate.\n\nSubstitute taxes such as road pricing would not fill the gap, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned, saying that people might face additional taxes or spending cuts.\n\nNext year the Treasury will launch a review of how the green revolution can be funded fairly across society - this theme is regularly raised by members of the public.\n\nThe report warned that additional borrowing would be ruled out because it would be unfair to the future generations saddled with the bill.\n\nThat means innovative sorts of financing will be needed to fund that difficult but essential work to upgrade homes.\n\nThat could include loans from energy firms or conditions on mortgage lending. No details are provided.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: The BBC's Nick Beake meets young climate activists trying to stop Norway drilling for oil and gas\n\nAnd finally the third question - are the new policies tough enough to help rein back climate change? The prime minister hopes to persuade others to help him freeze temperature rise at 1.5C.\n\nWhen that target was first mooted, scientists considered it the threshold to dangerous climate change. After a year of freak weather events with just 1.1C warming the climate is heating faster than our attempts to control it.\n\nThat's what infuriates environmentalists so much. They say every lever in society must be pulled to face a global threat.\n\nAnd they are contemptuous of a clutch of government policy areas that will allow emissions to actually grow.\n\nThese include building the £120bn rail project HS2, with all its energy-intensive concrete; construction of £27bn worth of roads; allowing the continued sale of gas guzzling SUVs; allowing aviation to grow even though the public wants it curbed; and allowing mining for oil, gas and coal drilling in defiance of international advice.\n\nAny one of these issues could undermine the PM as he touts his green revolution in Glasgow.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.", "Police in the US state of New Mexico are investigating after a woman died and a man was injured after the actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on a film set.\n\nHalyna Hutchins, who was working on the movie Rust as director of photography, was airlifted to hospital but was pronounced dead by medical staff.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Baldwin said the incident involved the misfiring of a prop gun with blanks.\n\nAdam Egypt Mortimer is a film director who worked with Ms Hutchins on the 2020 action film Archenemy.\n\nDescribing the weapon safety procedures films tend to use, he told the BBC what happened is \"unfathomable\".", "Advising people to work from home is likely to have the most impact on stopping Covid spreading this winter, scientists advising the government say.\n\nStricter virus restrictions should now be prepared for \"rapid deployment\", the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said.\n\nIt said \"presenteeism\" - or pressure to be in work - could become an increasing cause of infections in workplaces.\n\nAsked about working from home, the PM said all measures were under review.\n\nBoris Johnson added: \"We do whatever we have to do to protect the public but the numbers that we're seeing at the moment are fully in line with what we expected in the autumn and winter plan.\"\n\nMinisters in England are resisting calls to switch to their winter Plan B that would see measures like compulsory face coverings in certain places.\n\nCovid hospital admissions and deaths across the UK are rising slowly, and the UK has recorded over 40,000 new daily Covid cases for the past ten days.\n\nOn Friday, a further 49,298 coronavirus cases were reported in the UK, alongside 180 new deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nAny advice to work from home would only apply to those who are able to do their job away from the workplace.\n\nIn April 2020, at the height of the first pandemic lockdown, less than half of people in employment, some 46.6%, did some work at home, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nIn minutes of a meeting of scientific advisers on 14 October, published on Friday, they warn that acting earlier rather than later could reduce the need for stricter measures over a longer timeframe \"to avoid an unacceptable level of hospitalisations\".\n\nThey added that any measures introduced must be clearly communicated.\n\nThe advisers, led by Sir Patrick Vallance, say models forecasting the coming winter suggest Covid hospital admissions are \"increasingly unlikely\" to rise above the levels of January 2021 peak.\n\nBut they say they are unsure of the impact of \"waning immunity and people's behaviour\".\n\nThere has been a noticeable dip in people saying they are wearing face coverings and latest figures from the ONS suggest more than half of British working adults are now travelling to work.\n\nSage says making face coverings compulsory in some places is likely to help reduce the spread of Covid as well as other winter viruses, such as flu.\n\nIt also notes the risks of high levels of the virus circulating in the UK, compared with other countries.\n\n\"Cases and admissions are currently at much higher levels than in European comparators, which have retained additional measures and have greater vaccine coverage, especially in children,\" the scientists say.\n\n\"Reducing prevalence from a high level requires greater intervention than reducing from a lower level.\"\n\nAnother worry is the emergence of a new variant that becomes \"dominant globally\", which they call \"a very real possibility\".\n\nThe great Plan B debate for England has moved up another gear.\n\nDemands for more widespread mask wearing, more working from home and vaccine passports have been growing - with the NHS Confederation and the British Medical Association throwing their weight behind measures which the government has branded its Plan B.\n\nMembers of the expert committee Sage, according to minutes of recent meetings, seem to favour acting sooner rather than later - \"earlier intervention may reduce the need for more stringent, disruptive and longer-lasting measures\".\n\nThey pointedly note that cases are much lower in European countries which have tougher rules on masks and vaccine passports.\n\nBoris Johnson said all measures were being kept under review but the focus was still on getting more people vaccinated.\n\nThe government then is resisting pressure for Plan B in England.\n\nBut the notably more cautious tone from Health Secretary Sajid Javid recently suggests that the views of official experts and advisers are having an impact.\n\nThe advisers warn that the prospect of people being infected with Covid, flu and other respiratory viruses this winter could be \"a significant challenge\".\n\nThey say people who show symptoms of an infection should stay at home to stop it spreading to others.\n\nThis message needs to come from government, employers, universities and schools to be most effective, they say.\n\nOne in 55 people in England was infected with coronavirus in the week ending 16 October, according to latest estimates from the ONS - more than at any time since the end of January.\n\nInfections continue to fall in Scotland, and remain flat in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe percentage of people testing positive remained highest for those in school years seven to 11, the ONS estimates showed, ahead of half term for many pupils in England.\n\nIn the week ending 16 October, 7.8% of people in that age group were infected - compared to less than 2% of people in all older age groups.\n\nOfficial government data, which tracks people testing positive, shows that nearly 1,000 people a day are being admitted to UK hospitals with Covid and more than 8,000 in total are in hospital with the illness.\n\nThese figures are way below where they were in January because of protection from the vaccines, but doctors and health leaders have voiced concerns over the lack of curbs to control any further rises.\n\nWhen Mr Johnson was asked on Friday whether a full lockdown, with \"stay at home\" advice and shops closing, was out of the question this winter, he replied: \"I've got to tell you at the moment that we see absolutely nothing to indicate that that's on the cards at all.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS surgeons say they have successfully given a pig's kidney to a person in a transplant breakthrough they hope could ultimately solve donor organ shortages.\n\nThe recipient was brain-dead, meaning they were already on artificial life support with no prospect of recovering.\n\nThe kidney came from a pig that had been genetically modified to stop the organ being recognised by the body as \"foreign\" and being rejected.\n\nThe work is not yet peer-reviewed or published but there are plans for this.\n\nExperts say it is the most advanced experiment in the field so far.\n\nSimilar tests have been done in non-human primates, but not people, until now.\n\nUsing pigs for transplants is not a new idea though. Pig heart valves are already widely used in humans.\n\nAnd their organs are a good match for people when it comes to size.\n\nDuring the two-hour operation at the New York University Langone Health medical centre, the surgeons connected the donor pig kidney to the blood vessels of the brain-dead recipient to see if it would function normally once plumbed in, or be rejected.\n\nThe surgery took a couple of hours\n\nOver the next two-and-a-half days they closely monitored the kidney, running numerous checks and tests.\n\nLead investigator Dr Robert Montgomery told the BBC's World Tonight programme: \"We observed a kidney that basically functioned like a human kidney transplant, that appeared to be compatible in as much as it did all the things that a normal human kidney would do.\n\n\"It functioned normally, and did not appear to be undergoing rejection.\"\n\nThe surgeons transplanted a bit of the pig's thymus gland too, along with the kidney. They think this organ might help stop the human body rejecting the kidney in the long term by mopping up any stray immune cells that might otherwise fight the pig tissue.\n\nA heart transplant recipient himself, Dr Montgomery says there is an urgent need for finding more organs for people on waiting lists, although he acknowledges his work is controversial.\n\n\"The traditional paradigm that someone has to die for someone else to live is never going to keep up.\n\n\"I certainly understand the concern and what I would say is that currently about 40% of patients who are waiting for a transplant die before they receive one.\n\n\"We use pigs as a source of food, we use pigs for medicinal uses - for valves, for medication. I think it's not that different.\"\n\nHe said it was still early research and more studies were needed, but added: \"It gives us, I think, new confidence that it's going to be all right to move this into the clinic.\"\n\nThe family of the recipient, who had wanted to be an organ donor, gave permission for the surgery to go ahead.\n\nUS regulator the FDA has approved the use of the genetically modified pig organs for this type of research use.\n\nDr Montgomery believes that within a decade, other pig organs - hearts, lung and livers - could be given to humans needing transplants.\n\nThe team behind the surgery\n\nDr Maryam Khosravi, a kidney and intensive care doctor who works for the NHS in the UK, said: \"Animal to human transplantation has been something that we have studied for decades now, and it's really interesting to see this group take that step forward.\"\n\nOn the ethics, she said: \"Just because we can doesn't mean we should. I think the community at large needs to answer these questions.\"\n\nA spokesperson for NHS Blood and Transplant, said matching more human donors remained the priority for now: \"There is still some way to go before transplants of this kind become an everyday reality.\n\n\"While researchers and clinicians continue to do our best to improve the chances for transplant patients, we still need everyone to make their organ donation decision and let their family know what they want to happen if organ donation becomes a possibility.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Businesswoman Doreen Lofthouse was known as the \"mother of Fleetwood\"\n\nA coastal town has received a £41m donation from a woman who was involved in the success of Fisherman's Friend cough sweets.\n\nBusinesswoman Doreen Lofthouse, who died in March aged 91, has left her fortune to a charity that aims to develop her Fleetwood hometown.\n\nSince the 1990s, Mrs Lofthouse and her family have given millions of pounds to community projects in Lancashire.\n\nFleetwood Town Council described the donation as \"unbelievable\".\n\nA total of £41.4m was bequeathed to the Lofthouse Foundation, which was set up by Mrs Lofthouse and her family in 1994 to revitalise the town.\n\nThe famous remedy was originally made by Fleetwood pharmacist James Lofthouse in 1865 after three croaky fishermen tried but failed to tell him about their catch of the day.\n\nSince then, the family business has grown to produce about 5 billion lozenges a year, the firm says.\n\nThe current typical look of the sweets is based on the buttons of a dress worn by Mrs Lofthouse, who married one of James Lofthouse's descendants.\n\nKnown as \"the mother of Fleetwood\", she helped spread the word of the menthol and eucalyptus lozenges around the world in the 1960s.\n\nShe was also remembered by her many contributions over the years, including helping to fund floodlights at the local football club, a lifeboat for the RNLI and public artworks such as the \"welcome home\" statue for the families of fishermen.\n\nShe was later awarded an MBE and an OBE for her charity work.\n\nThe Lofthouse family started selling the fiery lozenges to local shops more than 150 years ago\n\nFleetwood Town Council's vice chairman Mary Stirzaker told BBC North West Tonight that Mrs Lofthouse was \"an incredible woman\" and that it was \"overwhelmed by the generosity\".\n\n\"It is an unbelievable amount of money,\" she said.\n\n\"We are hoping the foundation works alongside us to identify projects that will benefit the town for years to come.\n\n\"We have got to keep Fleetwood on the map. I hope that this brings more visitors to our town.\"\n\nSince Mrs Lofthouse's death, people have called for a permanent memorial to be built in her honour.\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\nSuperTed and Fireman Sam would never have been made without cash help from the government, the driving force behind the popular cartoons has said.\n\nIt comes as UK ministers consider if they will continue subsidising children's TV shows for Channel 5, E4 and the Welsh language channel S4C.\n\nSuperTed and Fireman Sam started on S4C before being broadcast in English.\n\n\"They would not have been made without subsidies,\" said Fireman Sam producer and SuperTed creator Mike Young.\n\nLeading presenters, including former Play School anchor Baroness Floella Benjamin, now a House of Lords peer, and former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq have expressed their concern for the future of children's programming if the UK government cut their Young Audiences Content Fund.\n\nIt was set up in 2018 and helps cover the cost of making children's shows for public service broadcasters and it has allocated more than £44m over a three-year trial to support the production of shows on public serving broadcasting channels.\n\nBut there are fears future funding could affected by the UK government's ongoing spending review although the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said no decision had been made.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the singer of the famous Fireman Sam theme tune got just £250!\n\nMike Young, now a Hollywood-based Emmy and Bafta award-winning animator, said he was \"flabbergasted\" that cash for children's content could be cut because, although animation \"is there to be fun, it is at the same time incredibly educational\".\n\n\"It would be a very short-sighted decision and it's a minor investment when compared to some of the money that governments tend to waste in other areas.\"\n\nMr Young, who still makes animations and runs a Los Angeles-based production company, said children's shows were attractive to TV channels and streaming services because \"kids watch content more than adults\".\n\n\"A child will watch the same programme over and over again as part of their learning process,\" he said.\n\n\"Whereas adults will watch, say The Crown once and never watch it again.\"\n\n\"So children's TV shows have a new generation every three years or so, especially in the younger demographics.\n\n\"Plus they're long lasting and earn money from merchandising. I can go down the road now in LA and buy a Fireman Sam toy.\n\n\"If they [UK government] take these grants and subsidies away, it'll put the UK at a tremendous disadvantage to the rest of the world. It'll really set back an industry if this happens.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Potato, Mr Fox, Mr Rabbit - and even Naughty Norman: John Sparkes gets into character\n\nMy Young started his career creating SuperTed, which was broadcast as S4C's first programme when the channel launched in November 1982.\n\n\"In the case of S4C, it's not just making shows for children, it's actually retaining a language and a culture - it goes beyond children's TV programmes,\" he added.\n\nMr Young also played an integral role in making Fireman Sam - Sam Tan in Welsh - a hit on S4C before both animations were translated into English.\n\nDespite both being TV staples for millions of children in the 1980s, well before the creation of the Young Audiences Content Fund, he said both were partly funded by government subsidies of the day.\n\nThe body representing independent TV companies in Wales said, without the government fund, it was \"very doubtful\" that dramas for young people and new animation series would have been commissioned.\n\n\"It is really short-sighted now when we are seeing some really good evidence from dozens of programmes who have been commissioned though this fund and to now look at stopping it is doesn't make sense to me,\" said Gareth Williams, chairman of Teledwyr Annibynnol Cymru.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOne of the beneficiaries of the government fund is producer Nia Ceidiog, Fireman Sam's original scriptwriter, who is making a children's drama with a focus on mental health.\n\n\"It would have been impossible to produce this in the Welsh language had it not been for an award from the YAC fund,\" she said.\n\n\"Drama is expensive and S4C would not have been able to produce drama for children of that standard so having this award - 50% of the budget - is crucial\".\n\nS4C said the fund has helped the Welsh language channel \"invest in productions that otherwise would not have seen the light of day,\" including cult Welsh hit Sali Mali.\n\n\"Whilst S4C has done well from the YAC fund, and whilst S4C would not like to see the end of this important source of money for original content from Wales, its end would not have a negative impact on S4C's wider children's offering,\" it said.\n\n\"Even without the contribution of the YAC fund, S4C is the second biggest commissioner of children's TV programmes.\"", "A California sheriff has said heat and possibly dehydration are to blame for the deaths of a family found on a remote hiking trail in August.\n\nJonathan Gerrish, 45, Ellen Chung, 30, their one-year-old girl Aurelia Miju Chung-Gerrish and dog Oski died due to hyperthermia in Devil's Gulch Valley.\n\nThe announcement comes over two months after rescue crews found their bodies in the Sierra National Forest.\n\nTheir unexplained deaths had puzzled summer hikers in the US West.\n\nIn a news conference on Thursday, the Mariposa County Sheriff's Office said that the family had been found with an empty 85oz (2.5-litre) water bladder, and did not have any other bottles or water filters with them.\n\nTemperatures on the day of their hike rose above 109F (42C), officials say.\n\nAccording to CBS News, the BBC's partner in the US, Mr Gerrish was from the UK and met Ms Chung in San Francisco before moving to the small town of Mariposa in 2020.\n\nTheir bodies were discovered by rescue crews on 17 August in an area south-west of Yosemite National Park after a friend called authorities to report them missing.\n\nThe Mariposa County Sheriff's Office has been working with FBI, environmental researchers and toxicologists to determine what killed the family.\n\nThey had already ruled out death by lightning, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, cyanide, illegal drugs, alcohol, gun \"or any other type of weapon\" or suicide.\n\nThe FBI is still attempting to access the mobile phone owned by Gerrish, Mariposa County Sheriff Jeremy Briese told reporters.\n\nHe added that there is no phone service in the area where they were hiking, and that an earlier fire had burned trees that would normally provide shade in some sections of the steep trail.\n\nConcerns over water quality in the nearby Merced River led to speculation that an algae bloom could have killed them, but officials say there is no evidence that the family drank the river water.\n\nOther dismissed theories included a leak that originated from abandoned gold mines that are common in the Gold Rush region.\n• None Poison algae may have killed family - US police", "The COP26 climate summit is under way in Glasgow - one of the biggest ever world meetings on how to tackle global warming.\n\nBBC News Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris answers some of your questions.\n\nYou can send a question using the form at the bottom of this page.\n\nHow is the average family going to find the extra £20,000 needed to buy an electric vehicle? Nicola Hippisley, London\n\nYou don't necessarily need an extra £20,000 to buy an electric vehicle.\n\nOverall, electric cars have been more expensive than petrol or diesel ones for some time, but the difference has been narrowing.\n\nThe average cost of an electric car in the UK is about £44,000, but you can buy a basic one for less than £20,000. That's partly because the price of the batteries which electric cars use has fallen sharply in recent years.\n\nAt the moment, the price of raw materials is threatening to push battery prices up again, but the industry expects that as electric car sales increase, economies of scale will kick in.\n\nExperts predict that new electric and petrol/diesel cars will cost the same within the next five years. It is also possible to lease an electric vehicle, and there's a growing second-hand market as well, where vehicles are much cheaper.\n\nThe UK government currently offers a grant of up to £2,500 as a discount on the price of certain brand new low-emission vehicles including some electric models.\n\nYou can also claim a grant of up to £350 to help meet the cost of installing a chargepoint at your house if you have dedicated off-street parking. This is available whether you lease your car or own it outright.\n\nSeparately, the Scottish government offers interest-free loans to help people buy brand new or used electric vehicles.\n\nHow will the decisions made at COP26 change our day-to-day lives? I want to know what I can do to help move these policies forward. Matthew Hadley, Harpenden\n\nThe decisions made at COP26 are part of the wider ambition to decarbonise our economies - and that will certainly have an impact on daily life.\n\nThe cars we drive and the way we heat our homes are going to change. Buying an electric vehicle, or getting a heat pump installed at home, is going to become more and more common. The hope - and for many the expectation - is that as these technologies become more established, the costs will come down.\n\nThere are also personal choices to be made about what we eat (the Climate Change Committee which advises the government recommends a 20% reduction per person by 2050 in the amount of beef, lamb and dairy we consume), and how often we fly.\n\nThen there are practical issues like recycling and cutting down on waste as much as possible.\n\nWhy are we still referring to 2050 as some sort of end goal, since very little has changed in the last two decades? Wouldn't 2040 or perhaps even 2030 put a little more urgency into every little step humanity takes? Jake Kettmann, Bega, NSW, Australia\n\nThe year 2050 is the target date set by many countries for reaching net zero emissions of greenhouse gases. But you're not alone in thinking that 2050 is much too far in the future to force some politicians or companies to take action now.\n\nThat's why there are also plenty of interim targets, and the 2020s have been identified as a critical decade for climate action - it can't all be delayed until the 10 years leading up to 2050.\n\nMany of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases have now set targets for 2030, and the UN says overall emissions need to fall by 45% [by that date]compared to 2010 levels, if the aim of limiting global temperature rises to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels is to remain realistic.\n\nAt the moment, though, the world is nowhere near achieving that, even with the new pledges made at COP26.\n\nIf scientists have already considered a 1.5C reduction goal will not be achieved, why don't we set up a new goal, which we may able to achieve? Ana, Vietnam\n\nQuite a few scientists think it may already be too late to restrict the rise in global temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, but they'd rather have an ambitious target to aim for.\n\nThe Paris Agreement in 2015 set the goal of limiting global warming to well below 2C, and preferably to 1.5C. So \"well below 2C\" is already written into law as a secondary target.\n\nThere's also a growing awareness of the need to take action which will make a difference in the next five to 10 years. That's why many of the agreements made at COP26 - to reverse deforestation, for example, or to cut global methane emissions by 30% - set 2030 as their target date.\n\nThe challenge now of course is to turn those promises into practice, and to deliver urgent change.\n\nHow can we be sure the claims made about greenhouse gas emissions can be verified? What independent observer is measuring different countries' attempts to reduce their fossil fuel usage? Lee Gary, Spain\n\nChecking claims made about greenhouse gas emissions is one of the biggest issues for negotiators at COP26.\n\nAt the moment, countries only have to review and update their pledges for cutting emissions every five years. Many people argue that's not often enough, and some of the countries most vulnerable to climate change want to turn it into an annual process to keep the pressure on.\n\nThe role of independent observer is supposed to be filled by UN scientists. But a recent investigation by The Washington Post found multiple examples of flawed or inaccurate data submitted to the UN by individual countries. It is another example of climate promises falling short of what is required, as a process which relies so heavily on data needs to ensure that the data is accurate.\n\nLast month, a UN-backed body launched a scheme to verify net zero claims made by big companies, to ensure that corporate pledges can be easily compared and properly scrutinised.\n\nIs there a way to force countries in the UN, especially China and India, to cut back to net zero by 2050? Can sanctions or similar trade restrictions be used against them? Diana Butungi, Kampala\n\nOnly a few countries have made their net zero pledges legally binding. Many of the national pledges are non-binding targets, but there is a hope that as momentum towards net zero begins to accelerate it will provide an incentive for others to follow.\n\nIt would be possible in theory to impose trade or other sanctions on countries that are moving more slowly, but that could be counter-productive. The focus of meetings like COP26 is to try to encourage international cooperation.\n\nIt's also unfair to put all the blame on countries like India and China for the majority of carbon emissions, even though China is the largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world today and India is the third largest. China and India have huge populations, and much lower emissions per person than more developed countries.\n\nIn any case, it's important to consider the historical role played by European countries and the United States which are responsible for far more cumulative emissions than China or India.\n\nThe damaging effects of emitting CO2 into the atmosphere linger for hundreds of years, and the rich world has acknowledged that it has the primary responsibility for tackling climate change.\n\nAre there plans for governments and countries to invest in carbon-capture technologies on a very large scale? If not, why? Bernath Bence, Netherlands\n\nThe trouble with carbon capture and storage (CCS) is that the technology that does exist, won't be rolled out fast enough to make any significant difference this decade, when greenhouse gas emissions need to fall significantly.\n\nIn 2020, for example, the UK allocated £1bn to a CCS infrastructure fund, with the ambition of capturing the equivalent of 10m metric tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2030.\n\nThat target has already been increased to capturing 20-30m metric tonnes by 2030. But, to put that in perspective, the UK is estimated to have produced the net equivalent of more than 450m metric tonnes of CO2 in 2019.\n\nGovernment investment varies hugely around the world. Countries like Saudi Arabia and Australia are relying very heavily on CCS to allow them to continue producing fossil fuels for the foreseeable future, but that means scaling up the technology in a way which has not yet been proven to work effectively.\n\nHow do agricultural products like rice and sugar contribute to the increase of CO2? What can we do to help reduce emissions? Ng Wee Meng, Singapore\n\nMost forms of agriculture produce CO2 emissions in one way or another.\n\nBeef is widely agreed to be the most carbon-intensive food to produce globally, but there are emissions from sugar and rice - these are connected with factors such as deforestation, animal feed, energy used in processing and transport, and packaging.\n\nOne study estimates that rice, for example, produces the equivalent of 4kg of CO2 emissions for every 1kg of rice produced. Given that 755 million tonnes of rice are produced every year around the world, that is a lot of CO2. On the other hand, rice is an essential staple food feeding billions around the world.\n\nThe best way to help reduce emissions is to try to ensure you eat food which is produced as sustainably as possible - although many people may not have the luxury of that choice.\n\nWould enforcing quotas for meat consumption and flight travels be efficient and feasible? Anonymous, Geneva\n\nMeat eating (especially beef) and travelling by air both have a sizeable environmental impact.\n\nEating one or two hamburgers a week for a year creates the same amount of greenhouse gases as heating a UK home for 95 days.\n\nAnd a return economy flight from London to New York emits about 0.67 tonnes of CO2. That's 11% of the average annual emissions for someone in the UK.\n\nIn theory, enforced quotas for meat consumption or flying would make a difference, but there's little political appetite or support for that to happen. Instead, the focus is on encouraging behavioural change.\n\nThe UK Climate Change Committee - which advises the government - has recommended that people should consume 20% less meat and dairy by 2030, and 35% less by 2050. People are also being urged to think about flying less.\n\nUsing taxation to make certain things more expensive would probably be a more realistic solution than trying to enforce quotas.\n\nWhy can't we have an international fund to help poorer countries attain zero carbon emissions? Robert Patterson, Darlington\n\nThat is partly what the current debate on climate finance is all about.\n\nIn 2009, rich countries said they would provide $100bn (£73bn) every year to the developing world by 2020. But they have been unable to live up to their promise, and they are now suggesting they will only meet that target in 2023.\n\nPoorer countries need this money to help tackle the effects of climate change that they are already facing. But they also need it to make sure their economies become greener as they develop, on a path to net zero carbon emissions.\n\nIf it is people causing climate change, what is being done to stop over-population ? Gaye Schmidt, Perth, Australia\n\nOverpopulation isn't the root cause of climate change. Rather, it's the excessive emission of greenhouse gases that are heating the planet up. And the richest one per cent of the world's population is responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest fifty per cent.\n\nIt is true to say the population of the planet can't keep increasing indefinitely, because there is a finite number of resources available. But excessive consumption has played a larger role in climate change than a growing global population.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.\n\nIs the global capitalist model not at odds with climate change and the need for a greener way of life? Andrew, Exeter\n\nAccording to some experts, such as the economist Lord Stern, climate change can be seen as the great failure of the market.\n\nThis is because businesses have not generally had to pay for the damage they have caused to the environment.\n\nGlobal efforts to tackle climate change over the past two decades have focused more on harnessing capitalism to limit warming - for instance, putting a price on carbon and making the polluter pay, to ensure that emissions are ultimately restricted.\n\nMeanwhile, it's also the case that if there's consumer demand for greener products and services, capitalism will try to meet that demand.\n\nBut there's evidently still a lot of work to be done to make these approaches work.\n\nDoes COP26 really need 25,000 people there? They will generate a lot of CO2, so why can't many elements be online? David, Birmingham\n\nThe pandemic might be seen as the perfect moment for the UN to use technology for negotiations, and it was attempted during a preparatory meeting for COP in June, which ran for three weeks.\n\nUnfortunately, it didn't go well - time-zone and technology challenges made it almost impossible for countries with limited resources, progress was limited and decisions were put off.\n\nAs a result, many developing nations have insisted on having an in-person COP. They feel that it is far easier for their voices to be ignored on a dodgy Zoom connection.\n\nThey also bring a lived experience of climate change that it is critical for rich countries to hear first-hand.\n\nThere's some evidence that this works. In 2015, the presence of island states and vulnerable nations was key to securing the commitment to limit temperature changes to 1.5C in the Paris Agreement.\n\nWhat questions do you have about changes in our climate?\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.", "Sean Flynn was cleared of murder after a trial in 2005\n\nA man who was set to stand trial for the second time accused of murdering his mother has been found dead in Spain.\n\nSean Flynn was cleared of killing Louise Tiffney after a trial in 2005.\n\nMs Tiffney, who was 43, was last seen outside her flat in the Dean Village area of Edinburgh in May 2002.\n\nFollowing extensive searches and repeated appeals from her family, her body was eventually found in 2017 in Longniddry, East Lothian.\n\nLast year prosecutors were given permission to bring fresh prosecution under double jeopardy laws, which mean someone can be tried again on the same charges.\n\nFlynn was accused of murder and attempting to defeat the ends of justice by concealing his mother's body in the boot of a car before driving to woods and disposing of it.\n\nA warrant for his arrest was issued earlier this week when he failed to appear in court.\n\nHis lawyer Aamer Anwar said he had been advised by police in Spain that Flynn, 37, had been found dead after taking his own life.\n\nHe said: \"Any loss of life is a tragedy. Sean Flynn's next of kin has been informed and there will be no further comment.\"\n\nThe body of Louise Tiffney was only found 15 years after she went missing from her home in Edinburgh\n\nPolice Scotland said it had been notified by Spanish police on Thursday about the death of a 38-year-old man in the Alicante region.\n\n\"Formal identification is still to be carried out. However, the family of Sean Flynn have been informed,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"We will continue to work with the Spanish police to establish the full circumstances, but at this time the death is not believed to be suspicious.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was supporting the family of a British man who had died in Peniscola.\n\nLouise Tiffney's disappearance in 2002 sparked a murder hunt that become one of Scotland's most notorious unsolved cases.\n\nHer 18-year-old son Sean Flynn reported her missing the next day, and the search that followed was one of the largest in Scottish police history.\n\nMs Tiffney disappeared four days before Flynn was due to appear in court accused of causing the deaths of a cousin and friend by dangerous driving.\n\nHe admitted crashing a high-powered BMW while speeding through West Lothian and was sentenced to three years and nine months in a young offenders institution.\n\nBack seat passengers Paul Ross and Christopher Magee were killed, but Flynn and his front seat passenger, Mario Gagliardini, escaped with cuts and bruises.\n\nIt was initially thought that Ms Tiffney may have fled her home under the pressure of Flynn facing imprisonment and her sister Lulu grieving for her son.\n\nBut in the investigation that followed, it emerged that Flynn and his mother argued frequently - and had done so on the night that Ms Tiffney was last seen.\n\nFlynn claimed she had \"stormed out\" of their home, but she had not taken her keys, bank cards or cash, or made childcare arrangements for her six-year-old daughter.\n\nDuring their investigation, officers found blood matching Ms Tiffney's DNA in the boot of a car that Flynn drove, along with mud and vegetation.\n\nMobile phone records also showed he was in East Lothian when he claimed to be in Edinburgh.\n\nLouise Tiffney's body was found near Gosford House in East Lothian in 2017\n\nFlynn was still in Polmont Young Offenders' Institution in February 2004, serving his sentence for the fatal car crash, when he was charged with his mother's murder.\n\nDuring a 22-day trial at the High Court in Perth the following year, prosecutors alleged that Flynn snapped and killed Ms Tiffney after arguing with her over the driving case and over his relationship with an older woman.\n\nNeighbours told how they had heard noises on the night Ms Tiffney went missing.\n\nProfessional gambler Brian Rockall, 39, said he heard the sound of someone running across the floor of the flat above him.\n\nHe said: \"It seemed fairly loud, startling. It seemed like someone finally losing it at the end of an argument. It didn't sound like someone was being hurt.\"\n\nFlynn's defence team argued that Ms Tiffney could have taken her own life, and the jury found the charges against him not proven.\n\nPolice had previously searched the 60,000-acre estate in East Lothian\n\nAfter Ms Tiffney's body was found in April 2017, prosecutors sought permission to set aside the acquittal and prosecute Flynn again for her murder.\n\nThe discovery was made by a cyclist near Gosford House in East Lothian.\n\nPolice confirmed that the area around the stately home had been searched by officers during the original inquiry, but the specific area where the body was found had never previously been searched.\n\nOfficers had a theory that the killer had driven to Gosford House to bury Ms Tiffney's body in a shallow grave.\n\nMinute traces of leaves and flowers had been found in a car linked to the investigation, and officers enlisted botanical experts to try and establish where they came from.\n\nDespite an extensive search at Gosford House, the sheer size of the 60,000-acre estate prevented police from finding the body.\n\nAfter the discovery in 2017, Flynn was tracked down in Berlin, where he had made a new home, and he was returned to Scotland.\n\nThe laws on double jeopardy had been changed in 2011 to allow someone to be tried again on the same charges.\n\nIn January last year, three judges agreed to set aside the previous verdict and allow a fresh prosecution to take place.\n\nThat trial had been due to start earlier this week, but Flynn - who had denied the charges - failed to appear at the High Court in Livingston.\n\nThere is an incredible coincidence at the heart of this tragic case.\n\nLouise Tiffney's remains were found very close to a beach where the body of another murder victim was discovered 30 years previously.\n\nThat earlier crime led to a change in Scotland's law on double jeopardy, and that change paved the way for Sean Flynn's second trial over the murder of his mother.\n\nTwo teenage friends, Christine Eadie and Helen Scott, had vanished after a night out in the World's End pub in Edinburgh's Old Town, in October 1977. Their bodies were found the next day.\n\nDecades passed before DNA and dogged police work linked their killings to a convicted murderer, Angus Sinclair, but the first attempt to bring him to justice in 2007 collapsed when a judge ruled there was insufficient evidence and brought the trial to a halt.\n\nThe outcome caused uproar and the ancient law on double jeopardy was changed, allowing a retrial if there was compelling new evidence which substantially strengthened the original case against the accused.\n\nNew DNA evidence put Sinclair back in the dock a second time, in 2014. He was found guilty, handed a 37 year jail sentence and died in prison.\n\nBoth Christine Eadie and Louise Tiffney were last seen alive in Edinburgh. They were found, thirty years apart, within a mile or two of each other, on the coast of East Lothian.\n\nSinclair had left Christine Eadie on the beach at Gosford Bay. Louise Tiffney was discovered in woods beside the road that runs alongside the beach.\n\nIt is just a coincidence, a twist of fate, but if the law had not been changed following the first trial over the World's End murders, Sean Flynn would not have faced a retrial.\n\nUnder the new rules on double jeopardy, the courts judged that the discovery of Louise's remains had substantially strengthened the case against him.\n\nThe World's End murders were solved nearly four decades after Christine and her friend were killed. We don't know what the outcome of Sean Flynn's trial would have been, but there will be no such resolution over the disappearance and death of Louise Tiffney.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer: There is nowhere Green Party can't win\n\nEvery household should be given £320 to help with \"spiralling energy bills\", the Green Party of England and Wales have said at the start of their annual conference in Birmingham.\n\nIn a speech, the party's new leaders said the £9bn plan could be paid for with a windfall tax on all landlords of private rented properties.\n\nCo-leader Adrian Ramsay argued this could help people avoid fuel poverty.\n\nEarlier this month, around 15 million households saw their bills climb by 12%, as the energy cap was raised.\n\nThe energy regulator Ofgem has warned that the cap will go up again next April.\n\nAddressing Green Party activists in Birmingham, Mr Ramsay said their proposal was \"about keeping people safe\".\n\n\"It's about the state responding to market failure, it's about human dignity.\n\n\"Our proposal is what government should be doing to show leadership - it's an issue which shows how climate justice and social justice go hand in hand.\"\n\nThe party says it also wants to introduce a Green New Deal programme, spending £100bn on getting the UK to net zero carbon emissions by 2030 through insulation schemes and renewable energy.\n\nThe Green Party have reasons to be optimistic - they have a record number of councillors, their sister party is in power in the Scottish government, and they're feeling positive about their polling.\n\nRising energy bills and COP26 have got all parties talking about the need to move away from relying on fossil fuels too.\n\nBut they still have only one MP, Caroline Lucas, in Parliament. And more radical green groups like Extinction Rebellion and Insulate Britain - who the new leaders have actively distanced themselves from - have been making more front pages than the party in the last few months.\n\nThe new leaders are adamant they want to be seen as a party not a pressure group - but with every major party now trumpeting green policies, standing out is a key challenge.\n\nShe said people had \"grown tired of choosing the 'least worst' option, of being patronised, ignored and told what to think\".\n\n\"We are tired of a Tory government playing divide and rule, tired of out of touch policies which ride roughshod over people, tired of politics which amount to little more than an old boys' club serving the interests of its pals,\" she added.\n\nAnd she accused Labour of failing the public and failing to \"take a stand on the biggest issues of the day\".\n\nMs Denyer, a former engineer, said the Greens were committed to a pay rise for key workers, a universal basic income and ending the sale of arms to \"oppressive regimes\".\n\nSetting out her party's strategy, she told the conference the Greens could \"win elections in every corner of England and Wales... there is nowhere we can't win\".\n\nCaroline Lucas is the Green Party's only MP in Westminster\n\nMr Ramsay said he wanted to be part of the team that \"gets our second MP elected, and our fourth and our fifth\".\n\nThe pair concluded their speech by telling the audience this was \"the last chance for serious climate action\" and that \"we and only we have what it takes\".\n\nThe Greens are in government in Scotland with the SNP, but their sister party in England and Wales remains a minor voice at Westminster with just one MP.\n\nHowever they have had more success at the local level winning 80 more council seats during elections earlier this year.\n\nThey currently hold 447 seats on 141 different councils.", "Ali Harbi Ali was arrested at the scene of the stabbing\n\nA 25-year-old man has been charged with murder and the preparation of terrorist acts after the fatal stabbing of MP Sir David Amess.\n\nAli Harbi Ali was arrested following the attack at a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on Friday.\n\nSir David, a Conservative MP since 1983, suffered multiple stab wounds and died at the scene.\n\nMr Ali is a British man whose father is a former adviser to Somalia's prime minister.\n\nNick Price, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"We will submit to the court that this murder has a terrorist connection, namely that it had both religious and ideological motivations.\"\n\nMr Ali is accused of visiting the home of one MP, the Houses of Parliament and the constituency surgery of another MP at various times this year as part of reconnaissance for a potential attack.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Ali, from north London, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court. Wearing a grey tracksuit and black-rimmed glasses, he spoke only to confirm his name, age and address.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and is due to appear at the Old Bailey on Friday.\n\nMetropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Matt Jukes sent his \"deepest condolences\" to the family, friends and colleagues of the MP.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Jukes, Assistant Commissioner for the Met Police, said their work continues with Sir David's family remaining in their thoughts\n\n\"Sir David's dedication to his family, his constituents and his community, and his positive impact on the lives of so many has been abundantly clear since his death,\" he said.\n\nSince the killing, a large team of detectives in the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command had been \"working around the clock\" to search several addresses in north London, analyse digital devices and review CCTV, Mr Jukes said.\n\nThere have been no other arrests and police are not seeking anyone else, he added.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has been working with Parliament's security team and the Home Office to review the protection of MPs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV footage showing a man believed to be Ali Harbi Ali, accused of the fatal stabbing of Sir David Amess\n\nPolice forces across the country have also been working with individual MPs about their security in their constituencies.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I hope that the family of David Amess and all those who love him will get the justice they deserve as fast as possible.\"\n\nHe praised the police outreach to MPs on security, but said MPs must not be \"intimidated by this appalling murder into changing the way we conduct our Parliamentary business or the way we work in our constituencies - which I think is the last thing David Amess himself would have wanted\".\n\nOn Tuesday, MPs paid emotional tributes to their colleague, with Mr Johnson saying the killing was a \"tragic and senseless death\" of one of the \"most gentle individuals\" to serve in Parliament.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer praised him as a \"dedicated constituency MP\" and fellow Essex MP Mark Francois called him \"the best bloke I ever knew\".\n\nFloral tributes to Sir David Amess were left outside Parliament", "People gathered on the streets of Southend to pay their respects to Sir David, who had been an MP in Essex since 1983\n\nSouthend has remembered Sir David Amess, a week after he was killed at a constituency surgery.\n\nSir David, 69, was stabbed to death shortly after midday last Friday, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.\n\nResidents and shopkeepers bowed their heads in silence, broken by applause and the release of blue balloons in memory of the Southend West MP.\n\nAli Harbi Ali, 25, is due at the Old Bailey charged with murder and preparing terrorist acts.\n\nPeople on Eastwood Road released blue balloons at the end of the silence\n\nJames Duddridge, the MP for Rochford and Southend East, said: \"It is going to be very difficult not just for the family but for the whole community.\"\n\nAfter the silence, he told mourners: \"Speaking to Jo Cox's family, it took them a long time to recover and we must spend time together as a community and not be afraid to cry and share a cuddle, share a story, to share a funny story as well as a sensible story.\n\n\"I think that is one of the things that the Cox family said was really important - to remember a person and spend time together as a community.\n\nSouthend was granted city status in honour of Sir David, who had lobbied for the title for more than 20 years.\n\nIan Gilbert, leader of Southend Borough Council, said heartwarming stories of Sir David were shared at an \"emotional\" full council meeting on Thursday night.\n\nSir David Amess had campaigned for Southend to be a city for more than 20 years\n\n\"Pretty much everybody who has lived in Southend for some time has a story to share about him, he was part of the fabric of the town and touched many, many people,\" he said.\n\n\"I've been heartened by the way the community, quite spontaneously, has come together to support one another at this difficult time.\n\n\"I hope the honour of being accorded city status, which is something Sir David campaigned on tirelessly for many years, will be something that can help bring the community together and honour his memory.\"\n\nFather Jeffrey Woolnough (left), who had attempted to administer last rites to his friend Sir David, was among those gathered in Leigh-on-Sea\n\nThe silence was organised by local businesses who wanted to pay their respects\n\nA week ago, Sir David was meeting constituents, as he loved to do, at Belfairs Methodist Church. He'd been chatting and laughing with locals outside the church before he was killed.\n\nHe died as he had lived, serving people, for nearly 40 years. He had known five prime ministers.\n\nSo many people I have met in the past few days have stories of how he had helped them. So many here considered him a friend.\n\nThis silence is the idea of businesses from the Belfairs area. There is a parade of shops here where he was so well known, just as he was across the town and the borough, and beyond.\n\nThere is sadness, and a deep shared sympathy with Sir David's wife and children.\n\nPeople in Leigh-on Sea have been remembering Sir David\n\nAmong those gathered was Father Jeffrey Woolnough, who had rushed to the church when he heard that Sir David, a devout Catholic, had been stabbed in the hope of giving him the last rites.\n\nHe was unable to deliver the sacrament as the area had become a crime scene.\n\nHe said Sir David spoke to people from all parties, races and religions, and \"it was such a great gift and it was tireless because it was sincere\".\n\nButcher Tony Phillips, who closed up his shop for the tribute, said: \"We are all just so very sad that he is no longer with us.\n\n\"We used to see him quite regularly. He used to come in to the shop every now and then to see if we had any problems. He will be sadly missed.\"\n\nEstate agent Rob Cooke said: \"Sir David was very much part of the community and obviously we are just gutted with what has happened. I just wanted to pay my respects and to think about him and his family.\n\n\"I think it is going to take quite a long time for the community to recover from what has happened.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "A member of staff at University Hospital Monklands attends to a Covid patient on the ICU ward earlier this year\n\nNHS Lanarkshire has moved to the \"highest risk level\" as its three hospitals are at maximum capacity.\n\nThe military is already providing additional support at University hospitals Hairmyres, Monklands and Wishaw.\n\nBut the health board described occupancy levels as \"critical\" and said the \"sustained pressure\" shows no signs of easing.\n\nIt also confirmed some elective cancer procedures have been cancelled.\n\nEarlier this week, NHS Grampian became the latest Scottish health board to ask for military help amid the pandemic after NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Borders.\n\nNHS Lanarkshire deputy chief executive Laura Ace said: \"We are facing relentless pressures, bed shortages and staff shortages due to sickness, stress and self-isolation and University hospitals Hairmyres, Monklands and Wishaw are all at maximum capacity\n\n\"The safety of our patients and staff is our top priority and we are working through short and medium term actions to increase staffing and also improve the flow of patients out of hospital.\n\n\"The military are providing additional support within our hospitals.\"\n\nThe health board temporarily postponed the majority of non-urgent planned care procedures at the end of August.\n\nBut it has now confirmed the current pressures mean it is having to further stand down elective planned procedures, including some cancer services.\n\nIt added these will be rescheduled \"as soon as possible\".\n\nMs Ace added: \"The current situation is unprecedented and marks a different level of risk for NHS Lanarkshire as a whole and moves our current status to the highest level of risk.\"\n\nEarlier this week the board warned patients on social media to expect long waits at A&E as its hospitals were being overwhelmed by the numbers attending and requiring admission.\n\nMs Ace said: \"To help free up hospital beds, we have also asked for any assistance from family members to allow us to discharge people home or to interim care placements as soon as possible.\n\n\"We know the impact of the current pressures are being felt right across the health and social care system, including GP practices which remain extremely busy.\n\n\"We recognise that our staff are doing everything they can and showing the highest levels of professionalism, commitment and resilience.\"\n\nShe added that it is hoped the move to the highest risk level will help reduce the pressures on our staff and services.", "Mr Bannon's lawyers say he will not co-operate with the inquiry\n\nThe US House of Representatives has voted to hold ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress, opening him up to a potential prosecution.\n\nMr Bannon had defied a summons from a congressional panel investigating the 6 January riot at the US Capitol.\n\nThe House select committee voted to hold him in contempt on Tuesday, before passing the matter to the full chamber.\n\nThursday's vote largely fell along party lines, with 229 voting in favour compared to 202 against the move.\n\nOnly nine Republicans in the Democratic-controlled chamber voted to hold Mr Bannon in contempt.\n\nHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now expected to certify the vote before it is referred to the US Department of Justice, which has the final say on charges.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nA committee investigating the riot has been chasing testimony from Mr Bannon about his communications with Mr Trump before the invasion of the Capitol, as well as any knowledge he may have had of plans to overturn the results of the November 2020 election.\n\nSupporters of Mr Trump stormed the Capitol building and disrupted certification of President Joe Biden's electoral victory. More than 670 people have been arrested.\n\nAs Thursday's vote began, Representative Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the 6 January committee, said Mr Bannon was believed to have \"valuable\" information about the riot.\n\n\"What sort of precedent would it set for the House of Representatives if we allow a witness to ignore us flat out without facing any kind of consequences?\" said the Mississippi Democrat.\n\nIndiana Republican Jim Banks took to the floor of the House to slam the \"illicit criminal investigation into American citizens\" and said Mr Bannon had become a \"boogeyman\" for the Democratic party.\n\nUS Attorney General Merrick Garland, who leads the justice department, testified earlier on Thursday to Congress about the likelihood of criminal charges for Mr Bannon.\n\nMr Garland said that the department will \"apply the facts and the law and make a decision, consistent with the principles of prosecution\".\n\nContempt of Congress cases are notoriously difficult to litigate - the last time such a prosecution took place was in 1983 against a Reagan administration official.\n\nMr Trump has urged former aides and allies to reject requests to testify before the 6 January committee, claiming that his communications from the time are protected by executive privilege - a legal principle that shields many White House missives.\n\nMr Bannon has yet to comment on the proceedings. His attorney has previously said that he will only co-operate if Mr Trump's executive privilege claim is legally resolved.", "The Queen spent Wednesday night in hospital for preliminary medical checks and is now back at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe 95-year-old monarch returned from the private hospital in central London at lunchtime on Thursday and is \"in good spirits\", the palace added.\n\nThe Queen had cancelled a visit to Northern Ireland on Wednesday.\n\nShe was given medical advice to rest for a few days after a busy schedule of public engagements.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said \"everybody sends Her Majesty our very very best wishes\".\n\nHe added he was \"given to understand that actually Her Majesty is characteristically back at her desk at Windsor as we speak\".\n\nIn a statement on Thursday night, Buckingham Palace said: \"Following medical advice to rest for a few days, the Queen attended hospital on Wednesday afternoon for some preliminary investigations, returning to Windsor Castle at lunchtime today, and remains in good spirits.\"\n\nThe Queen travelled by car to the King Edward VII's Hospital in Marylebone, about 19 miles (32km) from Windsor, where she was seen by specialists. Her admittance is understood not to be related to coronavirus.\n\nThe overnight stay was said to be for practical reasons and the Queen was undertaking light duties back at Windsor on Thursday afternoon.\n\nIt is the first time the Queen has stayed in hospital since 2013, when she suffered symptoms of gastroenteritis.\n\nThe King Edward VII's is a private hospital used by senior royals - including the Queen's husband, the late Duke of Edinburgh, who received treatment there earlier this year.\n\nThe news on Wednesday that the Queen would have to cancel a trip to Northern Ireland was always going to cause concern.\n\nDespite looking very well and happy at the numerous events she has attended over the past week, it cannot be forgotten that she is 95 years old.\n\nIt is a tricky balance for the palace to release enough details about the Queen's health to keep the public informed while maintaining the privacy to which she is entitled.\n\nIt was for this reason that the news that she had been taken to hospital for tests was not announced, until a report on the Sun newspaper's front page forced the palace's hand.\n\nPeople will be concerned, but the reassuring guidance remains that she is in \"good spirits\" on her return from hospital and is well enough to undertake some light duties.\n\nIt has been a busy period of official engagements for the Queen.\n\nAn official record of the Queen's diary showed at least 16 formal events during October, and there had been the plans for her to embark on the two-day trip to Northern Ireland this week.\n\nShe was pictured hosting a Global Investment Summit at Windsor Castle on Tuesday evening alongside Mr Johnson.\n\nHowever, on Wednesday a Buckingham Palace spokesman said the monarch had \"reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for the next few days\".\n\nHe said the Queen was \"disappointed that she will no longer be able to visit Northern Ireland\" - which would have involved an overnight stay.\n\nThe Queen began the month in Scotland, planting a tree with the Prince of Wales at the Balmoral Estate on 1 October and attending the opening of the sixth session of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh the following day.\n\nPrince Charles, known as the Duke of Rothesay when in Scotland, planted a tree with his mother to launch a tree-planting initiative\n\nThe following week, she met members of the Canadian military at Windsor Castle on 6 October and attended the launch of the Commonwealth Games baton relay at Buckingham Palace on 7 October.\n\nLast week, on 12 October, she attended a church service to mark the centenary of The Royal British Legion at Westminster Abbey.\n\nShe then travelled to Wales to open the sixth term of the Senedd on Thursday.\n\nBy Saturday she was back in England - attending Champions Day at Ascot racecourse in Berkshire.\n\nAnd on Tuesday evening she was back at Windsor Castle hosting the Global Investment Summit.\n\nThe Queen was pictured alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday\n\nThe Queen is expected to lead a royal delegation to the Glasgow COP26 climate change summit in two weeks' time.\n\nIn reported remarks overheard at an event last week, she appeared to suggest she was irritated by people who \"talk\" but \"don't do\" when it came to protecting the environment.\n\nEarlier this week, the Queen declined a magazine's award of Oldie of the Year, saying \"you are only as old as you feel\".\n\nShe \"politely but firmly\" turned down the award, but sent the Oldie magazine a message with her \"warmest best wishes\".", "Twenty-two people died in the bombing on 22 May 2017\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of a terrorism offence in connection with the Manchester Arena attack.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb at the end of a concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nA 24-year-old man, from Manchester, is being held on suspicion of engaging in the preparation of acts of terrorism or assisting others in acts of preparation.\n\nHe was arrested at Manchester Airport after arriving back in the UK.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said the man, from Fallowfield, remained in custody for questioning.\n\nDet Ch Supt Simon Barraclough said the force remained \"committed to establishing the truth surrounding the circumstances of the terror attack\".\n\n\"Over four years have passed since the atrocity took place but we are unwavering in our dedication to follow each line of inquiry available so that we can provide all those affected by the events at the arena with the answers they rightly deserve,\" he added.\n\nHundreds of people were also injured when Abedi, who died in the bombing, detonated his device in the arena foyer at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nHis younger brother Hashem Abedi was jailed for at least 55 years in August last year after being found guilty of murdering the 22 victims.\n\nHe was also convicted of attempted murder - encompassing the injured people - and conspiring to cause explosions.\n\nThe brothers spent months ordering, stockpiling and transporting the deadly materials required for the attack.\n\nA public inquiry into the attack started in September last year to explore the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the bombing.\n\nThis includes whether the attack could have been prevented, what happened on 22 May 2017, the security arrangements around the arena, the emergency response to the bombing and the radicalisation of Salman Abedi.\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.", "Venues are also planning to train their staff about sexual harassment and public protection\n\nBars in a city are giving their female staff a night off as part of a nightclub boycott following multiple reports of spikings by needle.\n\nAt least five bars in Nottingham confirmed they would also be closing at 22:00 BST on 27 October.\n\nThis is to coincide with a planned boycott in a bid to force nightclubs to take action to tackle the problem.\n\nIt comes as Nottinghamshire Police said they had received 15 reports of spikings by needle since 2 October.\n\nOfficers will be stepping up patrols in the city centre over the weekend, and said there would be more searches at clubs.\n\nEzra Watson, manager of Six Barrel Drafthouse in Hockley, said: \"Following the sad news, as a group of managers we've decided to show our support to the campaign.\n\n\"We've swapped shifts so all our female members of staff can stay in and show their support.\n\n\"It's just solidarity. You can't and shouldn't ignore it.\"\n\nHe added venues would also be training staff on sexual harassment and public protection, and have ordered drink covers.\n\nPolice said the first report of a person being spiked with \"something sharp\" was made on 2 October.\n\nThere have also been 32 reports of people being spiked by having their drink contaminated since 4 September.\n\nThe majority of reports are being made by young women, particularly students, but there have also been reports of young men being potentially spiked too, the force added.\n\nSarah Buckle, 19, came round in hospital to find a pin prick and bruising in her hand\n\nHe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: \"I am determined to get to the bottom of it and I am still keeping an open mind.\n\n\"I want to provide a message that says 'come to town, it is safe, there are lots of places to entertain you'. Nottingham is a good, safe, night out.\"\n\nMike Kill, chairman of the Night Time Industries Association, said the government should hold an inquiry into spiking.\n\n\"My experience of clubs is that there are some fantastic operators that do things very very well,\" he said. \"But as with every industry there are businesses that are not as effective.\n\n\"We want to lift the standard and the consistency.\"\n\nHe said his members had \"definitely\" seen more cases being reported, adding clubs were \"taking our responsibilities here very seriously\" but they cannot solve the problem alone.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has asked police forces for an update on the issue.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Ros Atkins looks at how Europe is getting to grips with its emissions problem.\n\nMore on the climate summit\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.", "US real estate heir Robert Durst has been charged in the 1982 disappearance of his ex-wife, authorities have said.\n\nKathie McCormack Durst's body was never found, and she was legally declared dead in 2017.\n\nA new criminal complaint accuses Durst of second-degree murder in connection with the case.\n\nLast week Durst, 78, was sentenced to life in prison for the 2000 murder of his best friend to stop her talking about his wife's disappearance.\n\nThe new criminal complaint against Durst - the subject of HBO crime documentary series The Jinx - was filed by a state police investigator in Lewisboro, New York.\n\nCiting sources familiar with the matter, the Associated Press has reported that a grand jury has begun hearing witness testimony.\n\nIn a statement sent to the BBC, the Westchester County District Attorney's Office confirmed that a complaint had been filed but provided no further comment.\n\nKathie McCormack Durst was 29 when she vanished in January 1982 following an argument with Durst, who had long claimed that he took her to a train station so that she could return to their Manhattan apartment.\n\nWhile he initially claimed that he spoke with her once she returned, he later admitted that was a lie. Durst divorced McCormack in 1990, citing abandonment.\n\nThe new complaint is based on \"conversations with numerous witnesses and observations of defendants, recorded interviews and observations of Durst's recorded interviews and court testimony in related proceedings\".\n\nThe BBC has reached out to attorneys representing Durst for comment.\n\nRobert Abrams, a spokesman for Kathie McCormack Durst's family, was quoted by the New York Times as saying they were \"unaware\" of the latest criminal complaint, but grateful for the work of the district attorney's office, and told the BBC that they \"are very happy with this development\".\n\nOn 14 October, Durst was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Susan Berman, who was found shot in the head in her Beverly Hills home. Authorities believe she was murdered to prevent her from talking to police about the McCormack case. Durst has denied killing his friend and his lawyers have said he intends to appeal.\n\nProsecutors believe that Durst has murdered three people: Berman, McCormack and Morris Black, an elderly neighbour who discovered Durst's identity in 2001 while he was hiding out in Texas. Durst was later acquitted in the Black case.\n\nJust days after his sentencing in the Berman case, Durst was hospitalised with Covid-19.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak will lay out the government's latest tax and spending plans on Wednesday 27 October.\n\nIt's the government's second Budget of the year, after one in March, and will coincide with the conclusions of the 2021 Spending Review, which will give details of how government will fund public services for the next three years.\n\nResponding to the most recent public sector finance data this week, the chancellor said: \"At the Budget and Spending Review next week, I will set out how we will continue to support public services, businesses and jobs while keeping our public finances fit for the future.\"\n\nWhat are his options? Here we look at six things to watch out for in the Budget that could affect your personal finances.\n\nEnergy bills are set to rise this winter\n\nThe chancellor is reportedly considering a cut to the 5% rate of value added tax on household energy bills.\n\nThe move would be popular and timely against the background of soaring energy bills this winter and is something the government is now able to do because of Brexit.\n\nBut the move could attract criticism as it would - in effect - mean subsidising fossil fuels ahead of the climate summit.\n\nAlso, a VAT cut on domestic energy bills would cost about £1.5bn a year, which may just be too much for the chancellor.\n\nExtra tax on sparkling wine could be cut\n\nThere are rumours the chancellor is planning to simplify the way that alcohol is taxed in the UK.\n\nThe 2019 Conservative election manifesto promised to review it, so now could be the time.\n\nOne suggestion is to reduce the premium on sparkling wine to the same level as still wine, which could knock 83p off a bottle of Champagne or Prosecco.\n\n\"The government should stop trying to favour certain parts of the industry, instead focusing on removing distortions and creating a simpler system of alcohol taxes targeted at socially costly drinking,\" said Kate Smith, associate director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.\n\nThe drinks levies have been in place since the 1600s and raise £12bn a year for the government.\n\nIf you sell a second home, you'll pay capital gains tax\n\nThere are rumours that the current Capital Gains Tax rates may be tinkered with.\n\nThe tax is paid when people sell assets such as shares or a second home.\n\nIt's been suggested that rates could be aligned more closely with income tax rates, which could mean scrapping the current tax rates of 10% and 20% (or 18% and 28% for property) and instead making everyone pay income tax rates on their gains.\n\nA report by the Office of Tax Simplification, published in November 2020, recommended that CGT rates should be increased to bring them into line with income tax.\n\nBut it would be unlikely to raise significant extra amounts of tax, as it is typically paid by only about 275,000 taxpayers and raises less than £10bn a year.\n\nStudents could be asked to repay their loans sooner\n\nThere are reports that graduates may be asked to start paying back student loans earlier.\n\nThe chancellor could do that by lowering the threshold at which people start repaying their student loans, a move that could save the Treasury about £2bn a year.\n\nCurrently, English and Welsh students who enrolled at university after 2012 pay 9% of everything they earn above £27,295 per year. They repay the same 9% until the loan is fully repaid or until 30 years after graduating.\n\nIf the threshold were reduced to £25,000, it would cost anyone earning more than the current limit an extra £206 a year, while if it were slashed to £20,000, it would cost an extra £656 a year.\n\nMinisters are rumoured to have proposed cutting the threshold to as low as £23,000 and giving graduates 40 years as opposed to 30 to repay their debt.\n\nA worker washing dishes could see their minimum wage rise\n\nIn his March Budget, Mr Sunak announced that the National Living Wage (what the governments call the minimum wage) would increase for workers over the age of 23.\n\nSince then, the government has come under pressure to help employees further - especially as younger workers have been some of the worst hit by the economic downturn.\n\nOne solution the chancellor has been reportedly looking at is to increase the National Living Wage by 5.7% to £9.42 per hour from its current rate of £8.91.\n\nThat would bring it close to the Living Wage Foundation's current recommendation of £9.50 an hour.\n\nThe government could raise cash by cutting tax relief on pension savings for those on high salaries.\n\nBut pension experts warn such a move would not be as simple as it sounds, Steven Cameron, pensions director at Aegon, said: \"A move to a flat rate of pensions tax relief, rather than the current system where relief is based on the rate of income tax paid, would be far from simple to implement.\"\n\nHe said it would be particularly difficult for defined-benefit schemes and could mean medium to high earners, including doctors in public sector schemes, facing big tax bills.\n\n\"Removing higher-rate relief would be a direct attack on middle Britain, leading to people who do the right thing and save for their future being hit with extra tax costs,\" said Tom Selby, head of retirement policy at AJ Bell.\n• None Why is UK inflation so high?", "Sheeran's latest singles Shivers and Bad Habits have both topped the UK chart\n\nEd Sheeran will become the latest star to read a CBeebies Bedtime Story, telling a story about a boy who has a stutter, much like he did as a child.\n\nThe musician will read I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott and Sydney Smith.\n\nThe book tells the story of a boy whose father helps him by explaining that the flow of his words is like a river.\n\nSheeran said he was \"delighted\" to read the tale, adding: \"I hope the story helps inspire and support other children who stutter.\"\n\nHe said: \"Growing up, I had a stutter like the boy in I Talk Like a River, so I'm delighted to be reading this story for CBeebies Bedtime Stories, especially as I'm a new dad myself.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCBeebies Bedtime Stories are broadcast weekdays at 18:50 BST on the CBeebies channel and are also available on BBC iPlayer.\n\nNME reported that Sheeran told a New York fundraiser for the American Institute Of Stuttering in 2015 that learning to rap like Eminem helped him get rid of his childhood stutter.\n\nHe said: \"My Uncle Jim told my dad that Eminem was the next Bob Dylan - it's pretty similar, it's all just storytelling - so my dad bought me The Marshall Mathers LP when I was nine years old, not knowing what was on it.\n\n\"I learned every word of it, back to front, by the time I was 10. He raps very fast and melodically and percussively, and it helped me get rid of the stutter.\"\n\nSheeran's story will air on Friday 5 November, following the release of his new album = (Equals).\n\nThe record, which follows his previous albums + (Plus), x (Multiply) and ÷ (Divide), will include Shivers and Bad Habits, both of which reached number one in the UK singles chart earlier this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "David Henderson was the aircraft's operator since its purchase in 2015\n\nThe organiser of the flight in which footballer Emiliano Sala died ran a \"cowboy outfit\", a court heard.\n\nDavid Henderson, 67, of Main Street, Hotham, East Riding of Yorkshire, denies endangering the safety of an aircraft.\n\nSala and pilot David Ibbotson died in the crash in the English Channel in January 2019.\n\nMr Henderson told Cardiff Crown Court he did not know which flight qualifications his pilots had.\n\nDuring cross-examination, Mr Henderson was asked why.\n\n\"What sort of cowboy outfit were you running at this time that you didn't know if your pilot had his ratings or not?\" asked Martin Goudie QC, prosecuting.\n\nIn a message to Mr Ibbotson at the time, Mr Henderson advised the pilot they did not want to \"draw the attention of the [Civil Aviation Authority] CAA\".\n\nReferring to this message, Mr Goudie asked: \"Isn't the true situation that you didn't want anyone looking at how you were running these flights because you knew you were running them illegally?\"\n\nMr Henderson replied: \"There's probably some element of that, yes.\"\n\nRead more on this court case:\n\nEarlier on Friday, Mr Henderson told the jury he had \"definitely not\" pressurised the pilot to fly from Nantes to Cardiff.\n\nWhen it was put to him that he knew that Mr Ibbotson didn't have the qualifications to fly at night, Mr Henderson said: \"I made every attempt to persuade him to get one, but he would have told me if he'd got one.\"\n\nThe prosecution alleges Henderson was \"reckless and negligent\" in allowing Mr Ibbotson to fly because he was not qualified to fly at night and did not have a commercial pilot's licence.\n\nIn a statement made after he was arrested, Mr Henderson said the flights were due to take place during the day and that he expected Mr Ibbotson to comply with his obligations, the court heard.\n\nHe told the jury: \"If he didn't have the rating to fly, I would have expected him not to do so.\"\n\nSala's body was recovered, but Mr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowley, Lincolnshire, has never been found\n\nMr Henderson said he accepted David Ibbotson only had a private pilot's licence rather than a commercial pilot's licence, which would have allowed him to accept money to fly.\n\nHe said Mr Ibbotson was the only one of his pilots who was in that position, but he was a pilot with significant experience of over 20 years.\n\nHe said he did not tell the football agent who had asked him to fly Sala from Nantes that Mr Ibbotson was not qualified to fly because he was confident he was an \"experienced pilot who was keen and enthusiastic and wanted to fly\".\n\nBut Mr Henderson also accepted he knew he was flying in breach of regulations every time Mr Ibbotson was flying as he was being paid when he didn't have a commercial licence.\n\nThe jurors have heard that messages sent by Mr Henderson after the crash included telling aircraft engineer David Smith to \"keep very quiet\", adding: \"Need to be very careful. Opens up a whole can of worms.\"\n\nMr Goudie said: \"We know why you said that, because Mr Ibbotson should never have been on that flight. This is about a cover-up, this text message, isn't it?\"\n\nMr Henderson told the court he was concerned with the wrong information being leaked to the press, and said: \"I was not covering up.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Our past has shaped and scarred us\"\n\nThe head of the Irish Catholic Church has said partition causes him \"a deep sense of loss and sadness\".\n\nArchbishop Eamon Martin was addressing a service to mark the centenary of Ireland being divided and the formation of Northern Ireland.\n\nIn 1921, the island was divided into Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson joined 150 guests from both sides of the border at the event on Thursday.\n\nArchbishop Martin said for the past 100 years, partition had \"polarised people on this island\".\n\n\"It has institutionalised difference, and it remains a symbol of cultural, political and religious division between our communities,\" he said.\n\nHe told the service in Armagh's Church of Ireland Cathedral that he also felt churches could have gone further.\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis and Prime Minister Boris Johnson were among those attending the centenary church service\n\n\"I have to face the difficult truth that, perhaps, we in the churches could have done more to deepen our understanding of each other and to bring healing and peace to our divided and wounded communities,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, the prime minister said: \"It has been very moving to be here today and see the way in which people from very different perspectives have come together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said Northern Ireland was \"an incredible part of the country\" and had \"an amazing future\".\n\nThe prime minister added: \"I am a passionate unionist and, of course, I believe the future is within the United Kingdom.\"\n\nThe Queen had been due to attend the service but was unable to travel for medical reasons.\n\nThe Armagh church service was organised to \"mark the centenaries of the partition of Ireland and the formation of Northern Ireland\".\n\nPresident Higgins said the title of the service made it \"inappropriate\" for him to attend as head of state.\n\nSinn Féin, including Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, also decided not to attend.\n\nHowever, Colum Eastwood, the leader of Northern Ireland's other nationalist party, the SDLP, was present.\n\nAmong others at the service were Northern Ireland First Minister Paul Givan, of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP); DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson; Ulster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie; Alliance leader Naomi Long; Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis and Northern Ireland's chief medical officer Sir Michael McBride.\n\nTwo representatives from the Irish government were also present - Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney, from the Fine Gael party, and chief whip Jack Chambers, from Fianna Fáil.\n\nWith Assembly Speaker Alex Maskey, a Sinn Féin member, not attending, deputy speaker Roy Beggs formally represented the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nThe event, titled \"A Service of Reflection and Hope\", was organised by the leaders of the main Protestant and Catholic Churches.\n\nIt began with the ringing of the cathedral bell before the Dean of Armagh, Rev Shane Forster, sent his good wishes to the Queen.\n\nWelcoming the congregation in both English and Irish, he said: \"Our past has shaped us and scarred us, it has divided us. And, yet, it has also, on occasion, brought us together.\"\n\nThe leaders of Ireland's main churches delivered their personal reflections on the creation of Northern Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Dr David Bruce, said: \"I grieve the times when fear has held us back from building relationships with those with whom we differ.\n\n\"If we are to build a better future, then we must recognise our own woundedness and our responsibility to care for the wounds of one another.\"\n\nDr Ivan Patterson, the president of the Irish Council of Churches, said \"we need to learn\" from the example of young people.\n\n\"They are a generation who want to build peace, a generation who respect and care for this planet in solidarity with the poorest and most vulnerable here and around the world.\"\n\nChurch of Ireland Primate Rev John McDowell said: \"I am hopeful. Hopeful in a new generation who know that the big problems we've landed them with, especially climate change and economic inequality, can only be tackled together.\n\n\"I think there are already signs that the next generation will see the things that we obsessed about as secondary and place their priorities elsewhere.\n\n\"As we lament our failures, sorrows and pain, and recognise our wounded yet living history, may we with a united voice commit ourselves to work together for the common good, in mutual respect and with shared hope for a light-filled, prosperous and peaceful future.\"\n\nThe main sermon was given by Rev Dr Sahr Yambasu, the president of the Methodist Church in Ireland\n\nThe main sermon was given by the president of the Methodist Church in Ireland, Rev Dr Sahr Yambasu, who told the congregation: \"We have come a long way - not just a century but centuries.\n\n\"During that time people have cared for one another and made efforts to build community.\"\n\nBut he added: \"We have also been blighted by sectarian divisions, terrible injustices, destructive violence, and by win-lose political attitudes. And for this, we have cause to lament.\"\n\nDr Yambasu said Thursday's service was an opportunity \"to give thanks and, also, lament; to imagine what could be, and to choose the way forward that can be mutually beneficial\".\n\nThe service included an opening prayer in Irish led by Linda Ervine and Seán Coll.\n\nIntercessions were offered by Prof Mary Hannon-Fletcher and Robert Barfoot, both of whom were injured in the Troubles.\n\nChildren carried a lantern to the altar, a symbol of light and hope for the future.\n\nNorthern Ireland was established in May 1921 after the partition of Ireland.\n\nIt followed decades of turmoil between nationalists, who wanted independence from British rule, and unionists, who wanted to remain in the United Kingdom.\n\nThe border divided the 32-county island into two separate jurisdictions - six counties in the north-east became Northern Ireland, which is still part of the UK. The other 26-county territory became the Irish Free State, but is now the Republic of Ireland.\n\nNationalists, north and south of the border, were infuriated by partition and continued to campaign for independence for the whole island.\n\nMany unionists were also bitterly disappointed, especially those who lived on the southern side and woke up to find themselves in a new state on 3 May 1921.\n\nThe BBC News NI website has a dedicated section marking the 100th anniversary of the creation of Northern Ireland and partition of the island.\n\nThere are special reports on the major figures of the time and the events that shaped modern Ireland available at bbc.co.uk/ni100.\n\nYear '21: You can also explore how Northern Ireland was created a hundred years ago in the company of Tara Mills and Declan Harvey.\n\nListen to the latest Year '21 podcast on BBC Sounds or catch-up on previous episodes.", "It has been warned that schools are facing a \"perfect storm\"\n\nSubstitute teachers have been asked to provide emergency cover in special schools due to a staffing crisis.\n\nThe appeal was made in an email from the Northern Ireland Substitute Teacher Register (NISTR).\n\nOne principal of a special school said a \"perfect storm\" of staff absences meant it had to close early for half-term.\n\nSome special schools have had to cancel classes and ask pupils to stay at home at short notice due to lack of staff.\n\nThe Education Authority (EA) said special schools were facing \"increased challenges in sourcing and recruiting staff\".\n\nNISTR is a database of all substitute teachers in Northern Ireland, which schools use to book staff to cover teaching absences.\n\nAn email to substitute teachers from NISTR earlier this week - obtained by BBC News NI - said there was \"currently a very high demand for qualified teachers to provide emergency cover in special schools\".\n\n\"If you have experience of working with pupils with complex needs OR have an interest in gaining experience in this area AND you have some immediate availability (ie in the next few weeks/months), we would like to hear from you,\" it said.\n\n\"We would also ask substitute teachers who remain registered but have not been actively working at this time to respond if willing to provide short-term emergency support to special schools.\"\n\nThe email asked teachers to contact the emergency resourcing team at the Education Authority (EA) if they were available.\n\nArvalee Special School in Omagh, County Tyrone, closed for the half-term break on Wednesday, two days earlier than planned.\n\nClifton Special School in Bangor, County Down, also told parents in a letter on 11 October that the school was experiencing \"high levels of staff absence due to a number of reasons: sick leave, bereavement, vacancies arising from late confirmation of staffing allocations, injury at work and Covid-related matters\".\n\n\"Until these staff recruitment issues are resolved, it will unfortunately be necessary to close some classes,\" said the letter.\n\nJonathan Gray said on some days almost half of the school's staff had been off\n\nThe principal of Arvalee Special School, Jonathan Gray, told BBC News NI he was devastated that the school had to close early for half-term.\n\n\"We've stayed open for our pupils through two lockdowns and were open for them over some of the summer,\" he said.\n\n\"We have over 80 staff and on some days recently, almost half have been out of school.\n\n\"It's not just our teachers, our classroom assistants are also vital.\n\n\"We need staff who are trained to work in a special school, who can provide intimate care to a child if it's needed or who can recognise when a child might need medical help.\n\n\"I'm standing here in the school and there should be children here too.\n\n\"It's more than Covid, it's things like other staff sickness and reasons for absence but it's created a perfect storm.\"\n\nClaire Smyth said her son Daniel, who has learning difficulties, accesses \"all his main therapies in school\", including physiotherapy and speech and language therapy.\n\nHowever, on a number of days recently he has been informed he cannot go to his school, because it does not have enough staff.\n\n\"It has a huge impact on Daniel, we can see that his behaviour starts to worsen, he is very upset, difficult to settle at home,\" Ms Smyth told BBC Newsline.\n\n\"That poses huge challenges for us in terms of being able to continue to work and also to meet Daniel's needs at home.\"\n\nClaire Smyth said her son Daniel accessed a number of therapies through his school\n\nOne parent of a special school pupil told BBC News NI her son had been told to stay at home for more than a week this term due to school staff shortages.\n\n\"We don't know each day if he'll be going in the next,\" she said.\n\n\"I struggle to understand why a longer term plan can't be put in place.\n\n\"There's also always an underlying feeling that this simply would not be tolerated in mainstream schools.\n\n\"Time and time again, we're told all schools are facing a similar situation - but on the ground we've yet to hear of any other children not being able to go to school because their school doesn't have enough staff.\"\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the EA said \"special schools are currently facing increased challenges in sourcing and recruiting staff\".\n\n\"The limited availability of substitute teaching and non-teaching staff has, in some cases, resulted in a number of class closures,\" they said.\n\n\"Any decision to close a class is a difficult one for schools but it is done in an attempt to mitigate risk.\"\n\n\"EA recognises the difficulty for schools and families in this situation and has taken a range of measures to address the staffing deficit.\"\n\nJustin McCamphill, from NASUWT, said younger teachers were being attracted to other jobs with better salaries\n\nBut Justin McCamphill, national official of the teaching union NASUWT, said it was not only special schools that were affected by staff shortages.\n\n\"We are receiving regular reports from principals that they cannot get substitute teacher cover for absent teachers,\" he said.\n\n\"The main factors are increased demand due to Covid absence, older teachers not wanting to return to the workplace due to fear of catching Covid, but increasingly the reason is that younger teachers are being attracted by secure jobs with better salaries elsewhere.\"\n\n\"The minister of education needs to get a handle on this situation to ensure that the education system can continue to function.\"\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers NI President Graham Gault said he had been warning of a staffing crisis for some time.\n\n\"We predicted a perfect storm of circumstances that would come together to contribute to the serious difficulties that our schools are now facing: staff illness or isolation compounded by other factors, including the unavailability of substitute teachers,\" he said.\n\n\"Special schools will be the first affected, given the very limited numbers of specialist staff available to meet the needs of the children.\n\n\"The problem will, however, impact all schools.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nConservative MPs don't need to wear masks during debates because they know each other, Jacob Rees-Mogg has said.\n\nThe Commons leader said the party's \"convivial, fraternal spirit\" meant they were acting in line with government Covid guidance.\n\nThis guidance says people in England should cover their faces around \"people you don't normally meet\".\n\nTory MPs have largely ditched masks in recent months, but are being urged by opposition parties to wear them.\n\nOn Thursday, Labour's shadow Commons leader Thangam Debbonaire said MPs should wear face coverings to set the \"best example to the public\".\n\nBut Mr Rees-Mogg responded that many Labour MPs had been pictured maskless at the the party's recent annual conference in Brighton.\n\nAnd he claimed they were more likely to cover up \"when there are television cameras around\".\n\nThe SNP's Pete Wishart told Mr Rees-Mogg all MPs should set an example by wearing masks - and that the difference between the Tory and opposition MPs on the issue had become \"comic\".\n\nMr Rees-Mogg joked that the SNP MP might not like \"mixing with his own side\" but the Conservatives \"have a more convivial, fraternal spirit and therefore are following the guidance of Her Majesty's government\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Question Time programme, Conservative vice chairman Andrew Bowie acknowledged that his fellow Tory MPs had been criticised for not wearing masks in Parliament but said the situation with Covid had looked \"very different\" in the first weeks of autumn.\n\nHe said MPs had \"a responsibility to set the tone and set an example\" and that he was \"encouraged\" to see more of his colleagues wearing masks in the House of Commons.\n\nConservative MPs and ministers have mainly stopped wearing masks in the Commons\n\nProfessor Robert West, a health psychologist advising the government as part of the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours (Spi-B), argued that MPs would set an example if they wore masks.\n\n\"Actually people who are ambivalent, it gives them a kind of excuse if you like, to say, 'If they're not doing it why should I do it?'\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One.\n\n\"It's about leadership. And politicians often talk to members of the public and sports personalities and so on about setting a right example for the public and I do think it behoves them to do the same thing.\"\n\nMost MPs from opposition parties have been wearing masks in the Commons chamber since full in-person sittings resumed over the summer.\n\nIn contrast, MPs from Labour and other opposition parties are covering their faces during debate\n\nThe government is still encouraging people in England to wear face coverings in \"crowded and enclosed spaces\", although it is no longer mandatory.\n\nOn Wednesday, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said mask-wearing was one of several measures that could help lower Covid transmission over the winter.\n\nSpeaking at a Covid press conference in Downing Street, he warned restrictions were \"more likely\" to return if people \"don't wear masks when they really should\".\n\nHe said this included \"really crowded\" places \"with lots of people that they don't normally hang out with\".\n\nHis statement came just hours after MPs packed into the Commons chamber for Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nNearly all Conservative MPs, including government ministers, did not wear a face covering during the session.\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Layla Moran said: \"It is utter hypocrisy that the public are rightfully being advised to wear masks while Conservative MPs refuse to do so.\n\n\"Conservative MPs and ministers have a duty to lead by example and take precautions to protect themselves, their colleagues and staff.\"\n\nUnions representing parliamentary staff say their members have been told to wear masks in the chamber, and have called for Tory MPs to do the same.\n\nThe Prospect union has previously accused maskless MPs of \"recklessly undermining\" public health messaging, and urged mask-wearing to be more rigorously enforced.\n\nGMB and Unite have called on Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, who enforces the parliamentary dress code, to refuse entry to maskless MPs.\n\nSir Lindsay has encouraged MPs to continue to wear masks during debates, but has said there is \"no meaningful way\" for him to enforce this as he does not have the right to stop elected MPs entering the Commons.", "Extra funding to deal with the coronavirus pandemic boosted the average spend in Scotland\n\nScotland has the highest spending on schools per pupil of any UK nation, analysis has found.\n\nTeacher pay rises and extra Covid funding reversed spending cuts during the past decade, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said.\n\nIts research found spending per pupil in 2021-22 was estimated to be £7,600 per pupil - more than £800 higher than in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nSpending between 2009-10 and 2014-15 fell by 7% in real terms.\n\nIt then increased by the same percentage over the following five years.\n\nThe biggest increase in the Scottish government's funding for schools was a 6% real terms rise in 2019-20, amounting to an additional £400 per pupil.\n\nThis was driven by a 7% increase of teacher pay scales and a further backdated 3% rise.\n\nIn England, total spending grew by 12% but coincided with a 13% rise in pupil numbers. Spending per pupil was lowest in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Scottish figures include extra Covid spending, not included for other nations, but the IFS said \"even after making plausible adjustments\", core spending per pupil was more than £800 higher in Scotland.\n\nFigures relate to total day-to-day school spending on children aged three to 19 by schools, local authorities and funding agencies.\n\nLuke Sibieta, author of the research at the IFS, said it was important to remember \"higher spending need not automatically translate into better educational outcomes\".\n\nHe added: \"Indeed, international comparisons of test scores suggest numeracy and science scores were declining in high-spending Scotland relative to the OECD average up to 2018.\n\n\"It remains to be seen whether extra spending in Scotland since 2018 will arrest this trend.\"\n\nJosh Hillman, director of education at the Nuffield Foundation that funded the study, said the IFS analysis showed the \"increasing divergence in education policy\" between the UK nations extended to school spending per pupil.\n\nHe added: \"A major cause for concern is that funding for education recovery programmes in response to the pandemic is much lower across all four nations than those being implemented in comparable countries.\"\n\nSNP MSP, and former teacher, Kaukab Stewart said the Scottish government's investment was \"paying off\".\n\n\"School buildings are in the best condition since records began, teacher numbers are higher than they've been since 2008, this year the number of Higher passes was at its highest since devolution, the number of Scottish students accepted to university is at a record high, and much more,\" she said.\n\n\"As we move out of the pandemic and into recovery, it is vital that our schools are put on a footing to continue to get the best for Scotland's young people.\"\n\nClosing the \"poverty-related attainment gap\" was an SNP priority and a further £1bn would be invested in the Scottish Attainment Challenge during this parliament, she added.", "Hannah's father Jeff Royle said his life has been \"agony\" since her death\n\nFailings by NHS 111 contributed to the death of an autistic teenager, a coroner has ruled.\n\nHannah Royle, 16, suffered a cardiac arrest as she was driven to hospital by her parents after a 111 algorithm failed to notice she was seriously ill.\n\nA coroner said her death had exposed a risk people were being misled about the capability of the system and its staff.\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said it would act on the findings and learnings \"where necessary\".\n\nHannah's father Jeff Royle said he regretted dialling 111 and wished he had taken his daughter straight to hospital.\n\n\"I feel so dreadful, that I have let her down and she has been let down by the NHS,\" he said.\n\nHannah with her mother Anne Royle, who administered CPR in the car\n\nOn 20 June 2020, Hannah became unwell with vomiting and diarrhoea. Her parents phoned 111 but were not advised to go to hospital.\n\nThree hours later her condition worsened considerably and her parents phoned again.\n\nThe call handler took advice from a clinical adviser who opted not to call an ambulance and instead told her parents to make their own way to hospital.\n\nHannah went into cardiac arrest on the way to East Surrey Hospital. Despite her mother Anne's CPR efforts, it was too late to save Hannah by the time she arrived.\n\nMr Royle, 56, from Horsham, West Sussex, said: \"I have been in agony knowing that she could have been saved. I live it 24 hours a day. It literally is every waking moment.\"\n\nThe NHS said it will learn lessons \"where necessary\" following Hannah Royle's death\n\nIt was later established Hannah had suffered a gastric volvulus - a rare condition caused by twisted stomach.\n\nCoroner Karen Henderson ruled Hannah died of natural causes, contributed to by neglect.\n\nShe said NHS 111 failed to properly triage Hannah's case, leading to an \"avoidable delay\".\n\nThe coroner warned there was a \"real risk\" that people who phone 111 looking for medical help \"are being misled over the role and capability of the 111 service\".\n\nCall handlers had been renamed health advisers, which \"implies professionalism which is untrue given their underlying skills and unsubstantiated given it is their role to complete an algorithm,\" she added.\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"The NHS expresses its condolences to the family and friends of Hannah and is in the process of answering the coroner's report and will respond within the timeframe set by the coroner.\n\n\"We will now take away the findings and learnings and where necessary act on them with local or national services.\"\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.", "Judi and Graziano had been due to dance to Physical by Olivia Newton-John\n\nLoose Women's Judi Love has been ruled out of Saturday's Strictly Come Dancing after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe presenter is the second contestant to come down with the virus in this series, after Tom Fletcher caught it a day after the first live show.\n\nJudi and dance partner Graziano Di Prima have been in the dance-off for the past two weeks, but have been saved by the judges both times.\n\nThe pair will return next week, \"all being well\", a show spokesperson 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 Judi Love This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Strictly statement said: \"Judi Love has tested positive for Covid-19 and is now self-isolating following the latest government guidelines.\n\n\"While Judi and Graziano will not be taking part in Strictly Come Dancing this weekend, Strictly Come Dancing protocols mean that all being well, they will return the following week.\"\n\nThey had been due to perform the Cha Cha Cha to Physical by Olivia Newton-John on this week's show.\n\nTom and his partner Amy Dowden missed one week after they both tested positive.\n\nMeanwhile, Robert Webb has withdrawn completely, saying he had \"bitten off way more than I could chew\", two years after having open heart surgery.\n\nFormer rugby star Ugo Monye is due back on the dancefloor this Saturday, however, after missing last week's show with back problems.\n\nBruno Tonioli is not among the judges on this year's series\n\nIt was also announced on Thursday that Bruno Tonioli will return to the judging panel for Strictly's 2022 UK arena tour after missing the current TV series due to difficulties travelling to and from America.\n\nThe US-based Italian has been replaced by Anton Du Beke for the TV show, but will be reunited with Craig Revel Horwood and Shirley Ballas next January and February.\n\nTonioli said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to be involved.\n\n\"I've missed my fellow judges, I've missed the glitz and glamour of the tour and I've missed the amazing audiences that come to see us all over the country - I hope you have missed me too,\" he said.\n\n\"I cannot wait to be back alongside Shirley [Ballas], Craig, the celebs and the pros.\"\n\nTonioli is also a judge on Strictly's US equivalent, Dancing with the Stars, and has previously flown back and forth between both shows. But this year he is appearing only on Dancing With The Stars.\n\nStrictly judges (left to right) Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Shirley Ballas and Bruno Tonioli\n\nThe tour will feature performances from some of the celebrities and professional dancers from the current series of the BBC One show.\n\nCommenting on Tonioli's return, Revel Horwood, who will also direct the live shows, said: \"Next year is going to be bigger and better than ever before.\n\n\"With Bruno coming back to join us on the judging panel, this year will be just fab-u-lous.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sarah Everard's murder has led to a closer look at the culture within the police - and now two inquiries have been announced to see what needs to change. Sarah Everard was killed by a serving police officer who falsely detained her in order to abduct her.\n\nBBC Newsnight's Sima Kotecha spoke to five female police officers - two retired and three currently serving - to hear about their experiences in a male-dominated working environment.", "The Scottish government will take over ScotRail from Abellio in March of next year\n\nScotland's rail network will be hit by strikes during the UN climate summit in Glasgow, a union has confirmed.\n\nThe RMT said members who work for ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper will stage industrial action during COP26 in an ongoing row over pay.\n\nScotRail staff will strike from 00:01 on Monday 1 November until 23:59 on Friday 12th November.\n\nThe summit, which is expected to draw thousands of people to Glasgow, runs from 31 October until 12 November.\n\nSleeper staff will strike on Sunday 31 October from 11:59 until 11:58 hours on Tuesday 2 November and again for 48 hours on Thursday 11 November from 11:59.\n\nGMB cleansing workers in Glasgow and Unite's Stagecoach staff have also voted to strike during COP26.\n\nA spokesman for ScotRail said the \"highly damaging\" strike action was \"extremely disappointing\" as it faced a serious financial crisis in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nTransport Minister Graeme Dey told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the RMT was in receipt of a \"very fair\" pay proposal.\n\nBut he added many of its members will have voted for strike action \"unaware of the offer that is now on the table\".\n\nMr Dey also described the two-year deal, which he said has been backed by the three other unions involved, was \"the best offer that can be made in the circumstances\".\n\nIt is the latest stage in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions and proposed cuts to services at the rail operator, which wants to reduce the number of services across Scotland by 300 a day from next May.\n\nReacting to Mr Dey's comments, Michael Hogg from the RMT union said they would not ballot ScotRail workers on the new deal because \"it is not worthy of consideration\".\n\nHe said the new pay offer was 4.7% over two years, but there have to be efficiency savings. That would mean workers having to give up some current terms and conditions in order to get a pay rise, a caveat Mr Hogg branded \"unacceptable\".\n\nThere will be no trains running anywhere in Scotland during COP26 if the strikes go ahead, he confirmed.\n\nThe climate summit will be held at the Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow\n\nScotRail is currently run by Dutch firm Abellio - but will be taken over by a company owned and controlled by the Scottish government in March next year.\n\nThe move was announced by the government earlier this year after Abellio was stripped of its contract three years early amid concern over its performance.\n\nScotRail has been in talks for several weeks with trade unions about pay and conditions. A formal written offer was made to four rail trade unions - Aslef, RMT, TSSA, and Unite the union.\n\nThe company said it had only survived the pandemic due to emergency taxpayer support of more than £400m in \"the most serious financial crisis in our history\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"It's extremely disappointing that the RMT have opted to continue with this highly damaging strike action, particularly when a pay offer, negotiated over several weeks, has been made to the trade unions.\n\n\"We're seeing customers gradually return to Scotland's Railway, but the scale of the financial situation ScotRail is facing is stark.\n\n\"To build a more sustainable and greener railway for the future and reduce the burden on the taxpayer, we need to change. All of us in the railway - management, staff, trade unions, suppliers, and government - need to work together to modernise the railway so that it is fit for the future.\"\n\nTransport Scotland said it welcomed constructive talks between all parties and that a \"significant offer\" has been made by employers since the RMT ballot opened.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We understand that the RMT will now ballot its membership again on the substance of this offer. We hope that RMT members and the other unions will agree and accept this offer, putting to an end existing and proposed industrial disputes and action.\n\n\"Rail workers have played their part in keeping the country moving through the pandemic and we are sure that they will see the importance of the moment and the role they can play in showing the best Scotland's Railway has to offer as we welcome world leaders from across the globe to COP26.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Chris Mitchell of the GMB denied cleansing workers in Glasgow were using the global climate conference as a bargaining chip.\n\nMr Mitchell claimed his members have been \"put in a corner\" by Cosla despite their heroic efforts during the pandemic.\n\nAnd he told Good Morning Scotland the current pay offer of £850 a year would only amount to an extra £6.50 a week, after tax and National Insurance.\n\nMr Mitchell said he acknowledged the importance of COP26 but added: \"Cosla need to realise there is an emergency on their own door step.\"\n• None Why are ScotRail workers striking during COP26?", "How long do you wait to see your GP?\n\nMembers of the BBC NHS Health Check Facebook group report waits of three weeks or more are common.\n\nLisa Johns said: \"Ours book five weeks ahead. For the last three weeks, I've been trying to book a standard appointment and can't get one, as they go in seconds.\"\n\nAnother member posted: \"I booked a non-urgent appointment with my GP last week.... for 22 January 2019.\"\n\nTheir experiences are backed up by statistics.\n\nEarlier this month, NHS Digital published figures showing that, while 40% of patients were seen on the day they booked, just under a fifth waited longer than a fortnight for a routine appointment with a GP or practice nurse.\n\nBut what's the story behind these figures?\n\nHave waits actually got longer?\n\nThe NHS Digital figures show of 307 million appointments booked at practices in England between November 2017 and October 2018:\n\nIt is the first time such figures has been published - so there aren't similar figures to compare them with. But plenty of previous research has found demand on GP services has grown. And experts say they do see waits increasing.\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, head of the Royal College of GPs, said: \"This is a real problem. It's something we predicted. Unfortunately, it's the inevitable consequence of a shortage of GPs.\"\n\nA 2016 Lancet paper said GPs' workload had risen by 16% in the seven years up to 2014, with more frequent and longer GP consultations.\n\nIs it because demands on GPs have increased?\n\nFactors including an ageing population and an increasing number of people with complex medical needs mean the standard appointment often isn't long enough.\n\nDr Kamal Mahtani, a GP and an associate professor in primary care at the University of Oxford, said: \"You've got 10 minutes to talk about their diabetes, their high blood pressure, their mood and look at the patient more holistically.\n\n\"So a GP might end up having to say, 'We've dealt with X and Y today but I'll need to see you again.' And that has a knock-on effect.\n\nPeople were directed to their GP for lots of different things, he said. \"If you're not feeling well, go and see the GP. If you need a flu jab, go and see a GP - as if we're a one-stop shop.\"\n\nBut the RCGP said a lack of GPs was also affecting availability.\n\n\"We're now 1,000 short of the number of GPs we had when they promised 5,000 more - so now we're looking for 6,000,\" an RCGP official said.\n\nIs it safe to wait weeks for an appointment?\n\nSome patients are happy to wait. They might want to see a particular GP whom they know or someone who is familiar with their long-term health problem - it might be something that isn't going to alter over a few weeks.\n\nBut there are fears that others might be at risk from waiting.\n\nCatherine Churcher, another member of the BBC NHS Health Check Facebook group, was concerned that the most vulnerable would be least able to negotiate the system and so be worst affected,\n\n\"There must be lots of people out there who are falling through the net and not being seen because they don't have the strength or fight in them to go up against the current system,\" she said.\n\nProf Stokes-Lampard said: \"There's no hard data that shows patients are coming to harm. But that's my profound concern - that there are things that will be missed.\"\n\nAnd Dr Mahtani said: \"How do you know if the patient's condition isn't getting worse if patients are waiting three weeks? I can't tell you that they're not suffering until I see them.\n\n\"And there's always that risk that the longer waits are causing harm.\"\n\nNo - but Prof Stokes-Lampard warned that even if your practice seemed OK, it was still vulnerable to events at neighbouring GPs.\n\n\"All you need is for the practice down the road to close and then patients would be moved and your practice would be under pressure,\" she said.\n\n\"There is a domino effect. And then it's phenomenally stressful for the doctors at that practice.\"\n\nIs there anything that will help?\n\nGPs say patients can help - by calling in if they can't make an appointment, so it can be freed up for someone else, and by thinking whether they could get the advice they need somewhere else, such as the chemist's or dentist.\n\nThere are various ideas being tried out across general practice too, experimenting with taking some of the administration away from GPs and bringing in other professions, physiotherapists and social workers, into primary care in addition to the specialist nurses that many people are already familiar with.\n\nTechnology can also help - some practices have online systems where patients can book directly.\n\nBut Dr Mahtani said there was no single solution - because each practice had a different mix of patients and different skills among its staff.\n\nBetter funding was key though. \"If you invest in primary care, you will reduce your costs in secondary care - 90% of first contacts are in primary care,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to embrace general practice.\"\n\nWhat's your experience of booking a routine appointment with your GP or practice nurse? Join our group and let us know.", "Since July, infection rates have been bobbling around – with periods of increases followed by drops.\n\nThat is a sign we have reached an equilibrium whereby the amount of immunity in the population keeps the virus in check.\n\nHowever, it is now clear we are seeing the most sustained rise since July, with more than 45,000 new cases reported in the UK today.\n\nThere was always a concern the autumn could prompt a significant rise.\n\nA combination of an increase in mixing with waning immunity could unbalance that equilibrium.\n\nWhat is noticeable about the latest figures is that there are signs infection rates are going up in older age groups and not just in teenagers, certainly in England. That is a worry because of the impact it will have on hospital cases.\n\nBut what remains to be seen is how long this rise lasts – and what the consequences will be.\n\nThe roll-out of boosters will offer more protection to those at highest risk of serious illness.\n\nThe vaccination of children may help drive down overall infection levels.\n\nWith flu just beginning to take-off and a virus called RSV, the leading cause of hospitalisation for respiratory illness among the under fives, at high levels, it is easy to see why there is such concern about what the coming months will bring.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Foster explains how lateral flow tests work and how to do one\n\nLateral flow tests (LFTs) are very good at detecting people most likely to spread Covid-19 and positive results should be trusted, say University College London researchers.\n\nWhen LFTs were introduced, they were criticised for being less accurate than PCR tests, which are analysed in a lab.\n\nBut the study found rapid tests were \"a very useful public health tool\" for stopping the spread of the virus.\n\nOne third of people with Covid can spread it while showing no symptoms.\n\nBased on the UCL research, Prof Irene Petersen, lead study author, said people who get a positive LFT result \"should trust them and stay at home\".\n\nBut government guidance says people must get a follow-up PCR test after a positive LFT to confirm they have Covid - and they can end their self-isolation when they get a negative result in a PCR test.\n\nThere have been recent reports of this happening in south-west England, leaving people unsure whether to isolate or not.\n\nThe UK's Health Security Agency said it was looking into the cause, but there was no evidence of any technical issues with test kits.\n\nProf Petersen said: \"When [Covid is] more common, there is no need to confirm it with a PCR - it's more likely it is a positive,\" she said.\n\nWhen the researchers used a new formula for calculating the rapid test's accuracy, they found LFTs were more than 80% effective at detecting any level of Covid-19 infection and likely to be more than 90% effective at detecting who is most infectious when they use the test.\n\nThis is much higher than previously thought, they say.\n\nProf Michael Mina, from Harvard School of Public Health, also part of the research team, said the LFTs could \"catch nearly everyone who is currently a serious risk to public health\" when viral loads are at their peak.\n\n\"It is most likely that if someone's LFT is negative but their PCR is positive, then this is because they are not at peak transmissible stage,\" he said.\n\nThe rapid tests are widely used in schools, workplaces and for allowing entry to large events to test those with no symptoms.\n\nSince they were introduced in secondary schools in England in March, NHS Test and Trace figures show 103,409 LFT tests have come back positive, 79,000 were matched with a confirmatory PCR and 69,500 of those were confirmed positive (and 7,647 came back negative).\n\nThere was much criticism of the rapid tests when they were first trialled in Liverpool last year because they were directly compared to PCR tests, which were often described as the gold standard.\n\n\"This is like comparing apples and oranges,\" Prof Petersen said.\n\nLateral flow tests and PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests do different things:\n\nThe UCL peer-reviewed study concludes that criticism of LFTs for low sensitivity \"have reached the wrong conclusions\", \"confused policy-making\" and \"damaged public trust in LFTs\".\n\nHealth professionals and the public should be aware of what the tests do, said the researchers, writing in Clinical Epidemiology.\n\nAnd they acknowledge that errors in the way people take the tests or in the way they are processed in the lab could affect results - and these factors were not taken into account in their study.\n\nThe current government guidance says that if you receive a negative follow-up PCR test result, and this PCR test was taken within two days of the positive LFT, you will be told by NHS Test and Trace that you can stop self-isolating.\n\nHowever, it states that you must continue to self-isolate if the PCR result is positive, you choose not to take a follow-up PCR or the test was taken more than two days after the positive LFT.\n\nDr Sophia Makki, incident director for Covid-19 at the UK Health Security Agency, said: \"Around one in three people who have Covid-19 never show any symptoms.\n\n\"Using LFDs (lateral flow devices) help to find asymptomatic cases who have a high viral load and are most likely to pass on the virus to others.\"\n• None Stay at home- guidance for households with possible or confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) infection - GOV.UK The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shoppers can be reassured ministers are doing \"absolutely everything we can\" to fix supply chain issues in the UK, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nIn recent days, several retailers have warned of potential shortages during the Christmas shopping season.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC at the end of G7 meetings in Washington, Mr Sunak blamed global factors for delays seen at ports such as Felixstowe.\n\nIt comes as G7 finance ministers agreed to work together to address the issues.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"I'm confident there'll be a good amount of Christmas presents available for everyone to buy.\"\n\nHis comments came after a container logjam at ports, including Felixstowe, and a shortage of HGV lorry drivers has sparked concerns among businesses, ahead of the most important period of the year for retail spending.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK's largest commercial port said the supply chain crisis has caused a logjam of shipping containers.\n\nThe Port of Felixstowe, which handles 36% of the UK's freight container traffic, blamed the busy pre-Christmas period and haulage shortages.\n\nHowever, it said the situation has been improving over the last few days.\n\nMeanwhile, shipping giant Maersk told the BBC it was rerouting some of its biggest ships away from the port.\n\nShipping giant Maersk has rerouted some ships away from Felixstowe\n\nAt the same time, one of biggest ports in the US will start operating 24 hours a day to try to clear long queues of cargo ships.\n\nThe Port of Los Angeles in California said it will handle more goods at night after a similar move by nearby Long Beach port.\n\nThe ports - which handle 40% of all cargo containers entering the US - have faced months of problems.\n\nMajor US firms such as Walmart and FedEx have also committed to increasing their round-the-clock operations to help clear the jam, the White House said on Wednesday.\n\nMr Sunak was speaking after the G7 agreed to work more closely together to monitor issues facing the movement of goods around the world.\n\nThe meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors discussed the importance of global co-operation to ensure that supply chains are more resilient as the world emerges from the pandemic.\n\nThe G7 (Group of Seven) is an organisation of the world's seven largest so-called advanced economies. They are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US. Ministers and officials from the member countries hold meetings, form agreements and publish joint statements on global events.\n\nShops have been hit by shortages in recent weeks\n\nIn the BBC interview, Mr Sunak largely focused on the situation for industry in the UK - and he said he completely rejected the assertion of the head of UK Steel that the government had created a \"hostile environment\" for industrial investment and levelling up.\n\nBut when asked if he, as chancellor, was prepared to accept that high gas prices would put some heavy industry out of business he said he had to make sure taxpayers' money was protected and that \"it's not the government's job to come in and start managing the price of every individual product\".\n\nMr Sunak said the government would work constructively with businesses after Prime Minister Boris Johnson blamed shortages on UK firms \"mainlining\" migrant labour, pointing to the appointment of the former Tesco boss Sir Dave Lewis as a supply chain tsar.\n\nHowever, the chancellor also said \"everyone\" including Mr Johnson accepts that increasing wages without increasing productivity would be inflationary.\n\nHe said the move to a high wage, high-skill economy advocated by Mr Johnson would \"obviously take time\".", "A committee investigating the 6 January Capitol riot has said it will pursue criminal charges against former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon next week.\n\nMr Bannon had been summoned to testify before the congressional panel investigating the riot on Thursday.\n\nHe did not appear, prompting the head of the committee to schedule a Tuesday vote to hold him in criminal contempt.\n\nIf convicted, Mr Bannon faces a fine and up to one year in prison. Democrats say he is trying to delay the probe.\n\nMr Bannon - a former right-wing media executive who became Mr Trump's chief strategist - was fired from the White House in 2017 and was not in government at the time of the January riot.\n\nBut he has been asked to testify regarding his communication with Mr Trump a week before the incident - as well as his involvement in discussing plans to overturn the election results that saw Joe Biden win the White House.\n\nMr Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol building in Washington, DC on 6 January in a failed bid to overturn the certification of Mr Biden's victory. Hundreds of Mr Trump's supporters have since been arrested for their actions that day.\n\nSubpoena documents quoted Mr Bannon as saying \"all hell is going to break loose tomorrow\" on the eve of the riot, which left five dead.\n\nMr Bannon has repeatedly said he has no plans to appear before the committee.\n\nHe has argued that executive privilege, which shields some presidential communications, protects his discussions with Mr Trump. Mr Bannon's lawyers say he will continue to resist until a court has ruled on the matter.\n\nDemocrats argue that Mr Bannon is employing a delaying tactic in an attempt to push back proceedings until after the midterm elections in November 2022, which may change the balance of power in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Congress.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Democratic-led investigative committee will decide whether to refer the contempt charge for a full House vote.\n\nHouse lawmakers would then have to rule on whether Mr Bannon is in contempt. If the Democratic-majority House votes yes, the case will be referred to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.\n\nWhile this latest development is not surprising, with Democrats controlling both Congress and the presidency, this may be a rare instance where a congressional contempt charge has some teeth.\n\nIt also comes as the Democratic base demand accountability for the Trump administration's actions, calling on their members in Congress to flex their oversight muscles.\n\nIn August, the House investigating committee asked for records relating to the day's events, including communications from Mr Trump, members of his family, his top aides, his lawyers and other former members of his administration.\n\nThe committee has also ordered the testimony of Mr Trump's ex-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows; Dan Scavino, Mr Trump's social media manager; and Kash Patel, a former Pentagon chief of staff.\n\nMr Meadows and Mr Patel were co-operating with the inquiry, committee leaders Democrat Bennie Thompson and Republican Liz Cheney said last week.\n\nUS media report Mr Trump has asked all four former officials to refuse to comply with the inquiry.\n\nOn Friday Mr Trump - who has never conceded losing the election to Mr Biden - accused Democrats in Congress of using the committee to \"persecute their political opponents\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After landing, William Shatner tearfully said the experience had been \"unbelievable\"\n\nHollywood actor William Shatner has become the oldest person to go to space as he blasted off aboard the Blue Origin sub-orbital capsule.\n\nThe 90-year-old, who played Captain James T Kirk in the Star Trek films and TV series, took off from the Texas desert with three other individuals.\n\nMr Shatner's trip on the rocket system - developed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos - lasted about 10 minutes.\n\nThe craft safely landed just after 10:00 local time (16:00 BST).\n\nThose aboard got to experience a short period of weightlessness as they climbed to a maximum altitude just above 100km (60 miles). From there they were able to see the curvature of the Earth through the capsule's big windows.\n\n\"Everybody in the world needs to do this,\" the Canadian actor told Mr Bezos after landing back on Earth. \"It was unbelievable.\"\n\nIn tears, he added: \"What you have given me is the most profound experience. I'm so filled with emotion about what just happened. I hope I never recover from this. I hope I can retain what I feel now. I don't want to lose 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 Blue Origin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Shatner was joined on the flight by Audrey Powers, a Blue Origin vice president; Chris Boshuizen, who co-founded the Earth-imaging satellite company Planet; and Glen de Vries, an executive with the French healthcare software corporation Dassault Systèmes.\n\nThey were given a couple of days' training, although there was nothing really major for them to do during the flight other than enjoy it. The rocket and capsule system, known as New Shepard, is fully automatic.\n\nWhen the capsule touched down in the Texan desert, it was quickly surrounded by ground teams. Mr Bezos himself opened the hatch to check everyone inside was OK.\n\nAfter the immediate celebrations with family and friends, the crew then lined up to receive their Blue Origin astronaut pins.\n\nWilliam Shatner: \"I hope I never recover from this\"\n\nThis was only the second crewed outing for New Shepard. The first, on 20 July, carried Mr Bezos, his brother Mark, Dutch teenager Oliver Daemen; and famed aviator Wally Funk.\n\nAfterwards, Ms Funk, being 82, was able to claim the record for the oldest person in space - a title she has now relinquished to Mr Shatner.\n\nThe launch comes amid claims that Blue Origin has a toxic work culture and failed to adhere to proper safety protocols. The mostly anonymous accusations made by former and present employees have been strenuously denied.\n\n\"That just hasn't been my experience at Blue,\" countered Audrey Powers, who is responsible for mission and flight operations.\n\n\"We're exceedingly thorough, from the earliest days up through now as we've started our human flights. Safety has always been our top priority.\"\n\nWilliam Shatner may have been the first person to go from Star Trek's version of space to the real thing - but three Nasa astronauts have made the opposite journey.\n\nMae Jemison appeared in an episode of TV sequel Star Trek: The Next Generation, while Mike Fincke and Terry Virts turned up in the final episode of Enterprise, the Star Trek prequel series.\n\nAlso providing a link are Gene Roddenberry, the franchise creator, and James Doohan, the actor who played Montgomery \"Scotty\" Scott in the original 1960s series and subsequent films. Both men had their ashes sent into space.\n\nSpace tourism is going through something of a renaissance, currently.\n\nThroughout the 2000s a number of high-value individuals paid to visit the International Space Station (ISS). But these flights, organised under the patronage of the Russian space agency, ceased in 2009.\n\nNow, the sector is being rekindled, and this time it looks more resilient, simply because there are many more private space companies chasing the business, and this should bring down prices for a wider pool of customers.\n\nAs well as the New Shepard trips organised by Jeff Bezos, the British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson is offering rides in his Virgin Galactic rocket plane.\n\nAnd then, of course, there's Elon Musk, whose Dragon capsule will send people orbital, to circle the Earth for several days - as it did for the privately funded Inspiration4 crew last month.\n\nWhile Mr Bezos simply invites some people to fly on New Shepard, he is selling other seats. And whereas Sir Richard Branson puts a ticket price (from $450,000; £330,000) against the journey, the Amazon founder does not disclose the fees paid by the likes of Mr Boshuizen and Mr de Vries.\n\nBlue Origin is planning one more crewed flight this year, with several more crewed flights planned for 2022.\n\nThe crew went to inspect their rocket booster after landing\n• None Shatner in space: 'The most profound experience' Video, 00:01:35Shatner in space: 'The most profound experience'", "Two more UK energy firms have ceased trading amid soaring wholesale energy prices.\n\nPure Planet, which is backed by oil giant BP, and Colorado Energy join a number of small energy firms that have gone bust recently.\n\nPure Planet said it had been caught between rising costs and the UK's energy price cap, which limits what companies can charge consumers.\n\nThis had left its business \"unsustainable\", it said.\n\nCustomers of both companies will be moved to new suppliers.\n\nPure Planet and Colorado Energy are the latest casualties of a global spike in gas prices.\n\nPure Planet supplies gas and electricity to around 235,000 domestic customers, while Colorado Energy has around 15,000 domestic customers.\n\nEnergy regulator Ofgem will now find a new supplier for those customers, who are asked to do nothing until the transfer takes place in the coming weeks.\n\nThe demise of Pure Planet and Colorado Energy takes the number of customers affected by the current wave of energy company collapses across the UK to around two million.\n\nOfgem said on Wednesday that the unprecedented increase in global gas prices in recent weeks was putting financial pressure on suppliers.\n\n\"Ofgem's number one priority is to protect customers,\" said Neil Lawrence, director of retail at Ofgem.\n\n\"I want to reassure affected customers that they do not need to worry: under our safety net we'll make sure your energy supplies continue.\"\n\nMr Lawrence added that if customers have credit, the funds are protected, so customers will not lose the money that is owed to them.\n\nPure Planet said that the government and Ofgem expect it \"to sell energy at a price much less than it currently costs to buy\".\n\n\"This is unsustainable, and therefore, sadly we have had to make the difficult decision to cease trading,\" it said.\n\nPure Planet said it had lost its backing from oil giant BP\n\n\"In our case, despite being hedged until next spring, and having had the backing of BP, Pure Planet faced increasing risks and large potential losses by continuing to operate in this market,\" Pure Planet said.\n\n\"Sadly, this led to BP taking a decision to withdraw its support and we are no longer able to continue.\"\n\nBP said it had worked to support Pure Planet and give financial support through wholesale supply and other funding arrangements.\n\n\"However, despite considerable work over an extended period, we concluded it is no longer commercially viable for BP to continue this relationship and took this difficult decision,\" a BP spokesperson said.\n\nNine suppliers collapsed in September, but business and energy minister Kwasi Kwarteng has ruled out supporting struggling energy firms. Last week, he said more companies could collapse.\n\nThe regulator's price cap, which covers 15 million households across England, Wales and Scotland, protects customers on default tariffs by limiting charges including how much customers pay per unit of energy.\n\nBut providers say they can't pass on rising wholesale gas prices to customers because of the cap.\n\nSuppliers that have recently gone bust include Avro Energy, People's Energy and Green Supplier Limited.\n\nRising prices have had reverberations throughout the supply chain.\n\nBBC Newsnight reported on Wednesday evening that gas shipping firm CNG has written to its energy supplier customers saying that it will no longer supply the wholesale market.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben Chu This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNewsnight economics editor Ben Chu tweeted that CNG had recently had to supply gas to households without being paid by suppliers that have failed, including Utility Point and Avro Energy.\n\nThis has caused a significant amount of financial damage to CNG, Mr Chu said.\n\nCNG leaving the market will put further pressure on small UK energy firms and could speed up their collapse, he added.\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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 suppose you've rung me to talk about the Northern Ireland Protocol...\", comes the weary voice down the phone.\n\nIt's not diplomats or politicians from any particular EU country who greet me like that these days. It's the reaction I get pretty much across the board.\n\nFour years of Brexit negotiations before the UK's final departure in January last year have left the EU with no appetite for more.\n\nMember states are far more focused on struggling with post-Covid economic challenges, soaring gas prices and smouldering intra-EU strife with Poland and Hungary. The last thing EU capitals say they need or want right now is a trade war with the UK.\n\nBut tensions over the Northern Ireland Protocol are real.\n\nBrussels and London agree - though to differing degrees - that the protocol isn't working well for the people of Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Tuesday, the UK's Brexit Minister Lord Frost called for far-reaching changes to the text.\n\nBrussels views this as a demand for a rewrite, and the EU is refusing to renegotiate the protocol's framework.\n\nIt was drawn up as part of the Brexit divorce deal, known as the Withdrawal Agreement. The result of an effort by EU and UK negotiators to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland - dividing Northern Ireland, which is part of post-Brexit UK, from EU member state Ireland.\n\nThe fear was that a customs border between them might endanger the peace process.\n\nAnd that's how Northern Ireland - which is legally part of the UK customs union - ended up also remaining in the EU customs union and single market for goods after Brexit, as set out in the protocol.\n\nThis \"exceptional solution\" as the negotiators saw it, was an attempt to recognise the exceptional case of Northern Ireland, to avoid that hard border with the Republic of Ireland and to safeguard the peace process after Brexit.\n\nBut, to protect the EU's single market from goods potentially flooding in unchecked from the UK, Brussels insisted customs checks needed to be carried out between Great Britain and Northern Ireland - if they weren't going to take place on the island of Ireland.\n\nThis has angered unionists in the North, who feel they are being severed from the United Kingdom.\n\nLord Frost and others in the UK government warn the Protocol is upsetting the delicate political balance in Northern Ireland, thereby endangering the peace process the agreement was supposed to protect.\n\nBut Brussels insists this is an international treaty signed knowingly at the time by the UK government.\n\nIt says it is happy to work on ironing out any day-to-day practical difficulties of the protocol, raised by businesses and civil society in Northern Ireland. But the EU wants to make clear this week that it is not bowing to \"attempts at bullying\" by London, in the words of one European diplomat I spoke to.\n\nThe EU describes its new proposals as \"practical steps to solve concrete problems\".\n\nIt says it wants to ensure the smooth arrival of medicines from Great Britain into Northern Ireland.\n\nBecause it has heard complaints in Northern Ireland that regulations are being made concerning life there, without local involvement, Brussels will undertake this week to consult more with the authorities and businesses there.\n\nLord Frost said on Tuesday that British people \"voted for change and that's what they expect\"\n\nAnd while the EU insists that waiving customs checks altogether would endanger its single market, EU insiders say new measures being suggested this week to reduce the number of checks on goods and animal products travelling from Great Britain to Northern Ireland (and therefore potentially onwards into the EU single market) already go too far for some EU member states.\n\nHowever, for now, Brussels is refusing to engage with Lord Frost's demand to remove the role of the European Court of Justice in the protocol.\n\nThe ECJ is a red rag to many Brexit supporters including in the governing Conservative party.\n\nDavid Frost said on Tuesday he wanted to see the Protocol changed to become \"like a normal treaty in the way it is governed, with international arbitration instead of a system of EU law ultimately policed in the court of one of the parties, the European Court of Justice\".\n\nBut again the EU insists the protocol is no normal treaty.\n\nIt says that Northern Ireland's ongoing participation in the EU customs union and single market means in those areas it is subject to EU regulations and those, in turn, are always policed by the European Court of Justice.\n\nYet there is some wiggle room here.\n\nIn its agreements with sovereignty-minded Switzerland, the EU has an additional layer of oversight - placing the ECJ very much at arm's length.\n\nBut even if Brussels eventually suggested this, would the UK government go for it?\n\nOn Tuesday, Baroness Chapman, shadow Brexit Minister in the Labour Party, accused senior Conservatives of being \"desperate to use a tussle with Brussels\" to distract from what she described as the government's domestic failures - whether on Covid or the current energy crisis.\n\nA number of EU diplomats I've spoken to have echoed this sentiment. They're not convinced the government wants to resolve the protocol situation with Brussels, they say. At least not right away.\n\nThat is an accusation denied by the UK government.\n\nDetails of the proposed changes will be given by European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic later on Wednesday\n\nIn fact, Lord Frost says he's put together the legal text of a \"forward-looking\" new protocol which he has passed to the European Commission for consideration.\n\nFor now, despite some barbed exchanges by individual politicians (take a look at this weekend's Twitter spat between Ireland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney and Lord Frost) both the EU and the UK insist theirs are not take-it-or-leave-it positions.\n\nBoth sides say they're open to discussion over the coming weeks. Lord Frost called on Brussels to be \"ambitious\" and to work together with the UK to agree \"a better way forward\". The EU is calling for \"constructive dialogue\".\n\nThe UK government has threatened to suspend parts of the protocol if it deems that to be necessary.\n\nThe EU assumption is that, even if talks go badly, the UK would be unlikely to take such action before mid-November when the international COP26 climate summit in Glasgow comes to an end.\n\nThis would avoid a big UK moment on the global stage being dominated by headlines about a row with Brussels and the possible endangering of the Northern Ireland peace process.\n\nBut Brussels is readying itself for every eventuality. Key EU member states say they've asked the European Commission to prepare \"targeted retaliation\" if, for example, the UK suddenly stops customs checks on goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain.\n\nOne possibility you hear mentioned is that the EU could start new legal proceedings against the UK and/or suspend parts of its post-Brexit \"zero tariff zero quota\" trade agreement with the UK. The idea would be to target strategic UK markets like whisky or cars \"to send a clear message to London\", according to EU diplomats I've spoken to.\n\nAs bilateral discussions start again in earnest over the Northern Ireland Protocol, there's definite potential for things to get a lot messier.", "Philip Allott was told he should \"consider his position\" by the panel he reports to\n\nA vote of no confidence has been passed in a police boss whose comments about the Sarah Everard case sparked outrage.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Philip Allott said women needed to be \"streetwise\" following Ms Everard's murder by a police officer.\n\nAt a meeting of the panel he reports to, members took turns to urge him to resign and unanimously backed the no-confidence motion.\n\nMr Allott apologised again but insisted he could \"regain people's trust\".\n\nThe county's Police, Fire and Crime panel - made up of nine local politicians and two independent members of the public - has no power to remove Mr Allott.\n\nBut the group urged him to step down following his \"damaging\" remarks.\n\nSelby District Councillor Tim Grogan, a former police officer, said the commissioner's comments would have been \"lamentable\" regardless of who said them.\n\nBut, given Mr Allott's position they were \"frankly... unforgivable, at best naive, crass even, at worst wrong-headed, misguided\", he said.\n\n\"I believe your position is unsustainable. Go - and go now,\" he added.\n\nPanel chairman Councillor Carl Les added: \"Only you can judge the damage done, only you can resign.\n\n\"We cannot make you, we can only make recommendations, and there is a frustration in that.\n\n\"But I think you should consider your position now.\"\n\nMr Allott told the meeting that nothing would ever get done if everyone resigned and he believed he could regain people's trust.\n\nThis was one of the more compelling local government meetings I've watched over the years.\n\nOver the course of a couple of hours, councillors from across North Yorkshire unmuted to have their say on Philip Allott's comments. They roundly condemned them.\n\nA unanimous vote of no confidence and the panel's request for Philip Allott to resign does not mean he has to. The panel does not have that power. In fact, no-one does.\n\nThe panel is now writing to the Home Office to ask for powers of recall for police commissioners to be introduced.\n\nAs it stands, the decision is firmly in Mr Allott's hands.\n\nAttending the meeting remotely from his office, he accepted that his answer to a BBC Radio York interview question was \"a car crash\".\n\n\"I would like to apologise for the impact of that answer to Sarah Everard's family and all the victims of violence,\" he said.\n\nMr Allott said tensions had been high since the furore over his remarks, and accused the media of \"raking over a major mistake\" with continued coverage.\n\nHe told the panel he was undertaking training to help him better understand issues around women's safety and the reaction to his comments.\n\n\"As all of North Yorkshire knows, it was wrong, entirely misconceived (and) grossly insensitive,\" he said.\n\n\"It is not for women or girls to protect themselves, it's for men not to harass, intimidate, assault and murder women.\n\nMore than 800 complaints were made to his office after he told BBC Radio York women should know \"when they can be arrested and when they can't be arrested\". The panel also received 121 complaints.\n\nConservative Mr Allott made the comments after it emerged serving Met Police officer Wayne Couzens had used his warrant card to falsely arrest Ms Everard for breaching coronavirus guidelines.\n\nSarah Everard, originally from York, was killed by serving police officer Wayne Couzens after he falsely arrested her\n\nThe vote follows a letter from almost all of the commissioner's staff saying he had brought the office into \"disrepute\" with his \"misogynistic\" remarks.\n\nIn the letter, staff said they were \"shocked\" a person holding his office \"could hold, let alone voice, such misogynistic views\".\n\nEmployees said his words had undermined their work and impacted upon their relationships with colleagues working for the county's police force and fire service.\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.", "An investigation has been launched into \"organised abuse\" at a special school in London after CCTV was discovered of pupils being physically assaulted and neglected, BBC News has learned.\n\nThe videos, found by staff, show pupils being mistreated in padded seclusion rooms between 2014 and 2017.\n\nOne parent said he didn't know the rooms existed until he collected his \"distressed\" autistic son from one.\n\nThe school said it was working with the police and supporting families.\n\nWhitefield School in Walthamstow, north-east London, has over 300 pupils aged between three and 19, many of whom have severe or complex needs and are unable to communicate verbally.\n\nBBC News has learned that in May a staff member found a significant number of videos showing children in the school's seclusion rooms. In some of the footage, pupils are physically assaulted and neglected.\n\nSecure or seclusion rooms are used in schools when it is thought a pupil needs to be isolated from a classroom during the school day.\n\nIn July, the school wrote to parents about the discovery of evidence of \"alleged child neglect\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has now reviewed a significant amount of CCTV footage and the local authority has launched an investigation into \"organised and complex abuse\" at the school, BBC News has learned.\n\nThis is defined as \"abuse involving one or more abusers and a number of related or non-related abused children\".\n\nIn January 2017 the school was rated inadequate after an Ofsted inspection found a small number of pupils had been placed in secure rooms \"for repeated and prolonged periods of time\".\n\nThe report said while the school referred to them as \"calming rooms\" this was \"not an accurate description of the three secure, padded and bare spaces that are used\".\n\nAll three rooms at Whitefield School were poorly ventilated with doors that could not be opened from the inside, while two had no natural light and children were unable to see outside or hear clearly, according to Ofsted.\n\n\"In a significant number of cases, pupils are placed in the rooms more frequently or for longer periods of time, as their behaviour worsens,\" the report said. It added there was no evidence parents had been told when their child had been placed in the room.\n\nFollowing the inspection, the school wrote to parents telling them it was ending use of the rooms. Later that year the school was inspected again and given an outstanding rating.\n\nOne parent told the BBC he didn't know the rooms existed until he was taken to collect his autistic son from one of the them, following problems with his behaviour.\n\nHe said his son appeared agitated and his shirt was ripped.\n\n\"He was very upset, very distressed\", he added. \"I thought it was diabolical.\"\n\nThe boy's mother said her son would not have been able to communicate any experiences in the rooms because of the nature of his disability. She said she was frequently called by the school about ways to manage his behaviour but use of the rooms was never mentioned.\n\n\"You send your child to school because you expect that they're going to be treated with dignity and respect,\" she said.\n\n\"I think of a 'calming room' as a safe space: beanbags, soft lighting, bubble machines - not padded cells.\"\n\nParents of some pupils at the school who may have spent time in the rooms have been contacted by the London Borough of Waltham Forest, but not been told whether their children have been identified in videos.\n\nBBC News has seen a letter written by the school's head teacher in May 2017 outlining the steps it was taking to address the Ofsted inspection.\n\nIt said it was closing the \"calming rooms\" but no mention was made of footage documenting their use.\n\nThat month a teacher at the school was sacked after a member of the public saw him kick a 17-year-old pupil with autism on a school trip.\n\nA BBC News investigation in 2018 discovered the use of isolation and seclusion rooms varied widely in schools.\n\nIt found some children spent consecutive weeks in isolation booths and more than 5,000 children with special educational needs had attended them.\n\nSeclusion rooms are used in many schools across the country to tackle challenging behaviour and disruption.\n\nBut government guidance says \"a separate room\" should only be used when it is in the best interests of the child and other pupils, and locked rooms should only be considered in \"exceptional circumstances\".\n\nRules around use of seclusion rooms are not strong enough, according to Paul Dix, who has campaigned to ban isolation rooms.\n\nAn example of a padded seclusion room inside a mainstream primary school\n\n\"I don't think they could be more lax\", he said. \"It seems to just rest with the culture and leadership of the individual organisation and nobody really seems too concerned about legislating.\n\n\"It's just ludicrously Victorian to think that putting a child in a locked room is going to do anything but exacerbate the problem.\"\n\nIn response to the BBC, the academy trust which runs the school said it had new leadership since the rooms were used who \"promptly\" reported the videos to the police and local authority after they found them.\n\nIt said it had appointed a new head teacher following the discovery and met with parents of those children who may have been affected.\n\nIt declined to say if the CCTV had been disclosed to Ofsted during its inspection.\n\nOfsted also declined to say if it had observed CCTV cameras during its inspection or asked to review footage.\n\nIn a statement it said it had shared some of its inspection evidence with the police at their request and could not comment further.\n\nThe London Borough of Waltham Forest said it visited the school after Ofsted's January 2017 inspection \"to ensure the safeguarding concerns raised were acted upon immediately\" but only learned pupils had been filmed in the seclusion rooms when the footage was discovered in May 2021.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was investigating \"several allegations of child cruelty\" at the school between 2014 and 2017 but there have been no arrests.\n\nThe government said it was aware of the allegations but could not comment further while a police investigation was under way.", "The UK's largest poultry seller has warned that the price of chicken is set to rise because of supply chain problems.\n\nThe chief executive of 2 Sisters Food Group, Ronald Kers, said that \"in reality food is too cheap\".\n\nMr Kers told the BBC that the price of chicken, the UK's most popular meat, should be higher to reflect the extra costs the business is facing.\n\nThe firm has 600 farms and 16 factories across the UK.\n\nMr Kers told the BBC's Today programme that the company has had to cope with additional costs because of Brexit, Covid, labour shortages and logistics issues.\n\nHe added that the \"significant\" inflated costs of packaging, energy and CO2 were also \"bulking up the price of food\".\n\nOn Wednesday, the founder of 2 Sisters Food Group, Ranjit Boparan, warned that chicken prices would rise by 10%.\n\n\"How can it be right that a whole chicken costs less than a pint of beer?\" he said.\n\nMr Boparan said the days of low prices were \"coming to an end\" and that \"transparent, honest pricing\" was needed because of mounting costs.\n\nThe company has seen its CO2 costs rise by more than 500% in three weeks, while energy costs have increased by more than 450% from a year earlier.\n\nIt also said feed costs at farms have risen by 15%, with commodity costs in the farming process also up by around 20%.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Kers said: \"If you look at the price of chicken now it is £3.50, while a decade ago it was £5 - it should have gone up.\n\n\"People on farms are struggling - we don't have enough people on our factories, farms or enough HGV drivers and as a result we're seeing empty shelves and reduced choice,\" he continued.\n\n\"There's no margin in the whole supply chain\".\n\nThe government's visa scheme for short-term workers meant the company was able to bring in an additional 700 people to secure the volume they needed for Christmas, but Mr Kers said the scheme came \"a little too late and a little too short\".\n\n2 Sisters sells 60% of all turkeys in the country and while Mr Kers said the overall supply chain was \"clearly very fragile\", he advised shoppers to buy \"normally\".\n\nThe firm produces about a third of all the poultry products consumed in the UK and processes more than 10 million birds each week.\n\nRod Adlington at the farm in Coventry\n\nChicken and turkey farmer Rod Adlington, owner of Adlington Ltd, shares Mr Boparan's concerns and has already had to raise the price of his chickens by 8%.\n\n\"We've never ever had to put through a price rise before, but if we don't make these changes we just won't be here in six months,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe company, based in Coventry, sells premium free range chickens retailing at between £15-£20. It sells about 2,000 chickens a week and 10,000 turkeys each Christmas.\n\nThe price of chicken feed has gone up by 20%, and the business has also been hit by higher energy bills and CO2 prices.\n\nTo help deal with the labour shortage, the firm has put up wages by 10-15%. But Mr Adlington says there is still not enough staff.\n\n\"The labour issue is catastrophic at the moment, we just have no people for the factories,\" he says.\n\n\"There's an awful lot of pressure on us and we just can't take it. We need to find a way out of the labour problems.\"\n\nEdward Cayton owns Peck and Yard chicken shop, which has two branches in Manchester and sells 550 kilo of chicken per week.\n\nHe said prices rises have \"already had a knock-on effect\". The firm, which was Manchester's first Asian chicken shop, has had to pay £4-£4.5 per kilo of chicken breast that would have usually cost £2.\n\nMr Cayton said thigh pieces are also up by a third and wings, which usually cost £2.5 from his supplier, have risen to £3.5 per kilo.\n\n\"We can't raise menu prices because no one would pay much more for chicken and I can't reduce staff so the cost is having to come out of our margins\".\n\n\"We just have to do more marketing and encourage people to go out to absorb the increases\".\n\nOne of the key factors affecting the supply chain recently has been the shortage of HGV drivers.\n\nThe shortage has been blamed on a combination of factors, including the coronavirus pandemic, Brexit and tax changes.\n\nAt the end of September, the government announced that it would allow 4,700 visas for HGV drivers to deliver food.\n\nHowever, the first foreign HGV food drivers might not be in the country for another month, according to a source with close knowledge of the process.\n\nUnder the scheme - which is separate to that for HGV fuel drivers - drivers can work in the UK until 28 February.\n\nThe visa scheme opened for applications on Monday. The Home Office has not confirmed the number of visas that have been applied for so far, but several agencies that are recruiting the drivers told the BBC that they were yet to apply for them.\n\nWhen the visa was announced there was concern from some in the industry that it was too short and would not attract drivers.\n\n\"The issue is the shortage of HGV drivers across Europe,\" said one source. \"Offers need to be attractive to encourage drivers to come.\"", "Walruses are a keystone species of the Arctic\n\nA new project aims to get a better idea of the number of walruses on Earth by counting them from space.\n\nVolunteers are being sought to search through thousands of satellite images to see how many of the tusked animals they can spot.\n\nScientists need improved population data as they try to asses how this polar keystone species will be affected by climate change.\n\nWalruses are heavily dependent on sea-ice, which has been in sharp retreat.\n\nThe marine mammals will haul out on to the floes, to use them as a platform on which to rest and raise their young, and as a base from which to launch foraging trips.\n\nA walrus will drop to the seabed to hunt in the muds for clams and other invertebrates, such as snails, soft shell crabs and shrimp.\n\nAll this is being made more difficult as the extent of the seasonal sea-ice declines.\n\nAvailable satellite images can now see features as small as 30cm across\n\n\"We're seeing about a 13% loss in summer sea-ice per decade,\" said Rod Downie, chief polar adviser at environmental campaign group WWF.\n\n\"One of the implications of not having the sea-ice to haul out on is that we're increasingly seeing walruses spend longer on land. And that comes with a number of impacts, which include overcrowding with the potential for calves to be crushed in stampedes. This happens. But also for local food sources to be depleted,\" he told BBC News.\n\nWWF is running the \"Walrus From Space\" project jointly with the British Antarctic Survey, which has expertise in satellite surveys of polar wildlife.\n\nBAS has long counted penguins from orbit, and is also now tracking seals, albatross, and even whales under the water.\n\n\"It's only recently that satellites have had high enough resolution to allow us to count walruses accurately,\" said BAS remote-sensing specialist Peter Fretwell.\n\n\"We'll be using Maxar's WorldView satellite which has a resolution where each pixel is only about 30cm on the ground. That's about the size of an A4 sheet of paper and we can easily count individual animals at that resolution.\"\n\nVolunteers are being directed to an online portal where they'll be shown images and asked, in the first instance, merely to state whether or not the view contains one or more of the tusked pinnipeds.\n\nA second phase, once all \"empty\" pictures have been excluded, will then ask the volunteers to put a dot on every walrus they see.\n\nThe survey, which will run for at least five years, is concentrating on the Atlantic sub-species, and a somewhat isolated group of animals in the Laptev Sea area.\n\nToday's estimate is that these mammals in total probably number around 30,000. The project hopefully will narrow the uncertainties.\n\nSurveys of this kind naturally come with some caveats. For example, the type of satellite being used can't see the Earth's surface when it's cloudy; and walruses aren't static, they move around. But such confounding factors are all taken into account by the methodologies and models used to build population data-sets.\n\nAnd, of course, they're underpinned by the knowledge of indigenous communities who live side-by-side with the walruses.\n\nThe Walrus From Space project is receiving funding support from the People's Postcode Lottery, the Royal Bank of Canada and directly from WWF supporters.\n\nCub scouts have been helping to test the counting portal\n\nThe goal is to recruit more than 500,000 citizen scientists over the next five years. Early volunteers have included cub scouts, who've been testing the counting portal ahead of its live launch.\n\nPhoebe Overton, from the 1st Molesey scout group in Surrey, acknowledged it was tricky to identify the walruses even with the super-sharp pictures.\n\n\"It's quite hard because there are rusty barrels and rocks that look really similar,\" she said.\n\nBut Charlotte Guise, from the nearby 9th Walton-on-Thames group, added, \"it's fun to see the way they live and how many there are, and they are kind of really cool creatures\".\n\nThere is no plan at the moment for the project to try to count the Pacific sub-species of walrus, which may number some 200,000 individuals. Again, this estimate is uncertain.\n\n\"Whilst the Pacific walruses are a lot more numerous, Atlantic walruses are probably spread out over a larger area,\" Dr Downie said. \"And if you include both Atlantic and Laptev, then you're talking about a vast area with many more haul-out sites. So, we're focussing on them, but there'll be other research groups in the Arctic working on the Pacific sub-species.\"\n\nWhen walruses can't haul out on ice they will haul out on land", "A campaign to stop many BTec vocational qualifications being scrapped within two years has won the backing of MPs and Lords from across the parties.\n\nSome 118 have written to Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi asking him to re-think plans to use T-levels to replace them in England.\n\nPeers voted on Tuesday to amend the Skills Bill to demand a four-year transition before funding is removed\n\nThe government said T-levels offer students a route to university or work.\n\nAlthough they are at the same level as BTecs, T-levels are different in their design and include a work placement, which college principals say reduces the time available to re-take core GCSEs such as maths and English.\n\nColleges offering T-levels are likely to make GCSEs in English and maths an entry requirement, which means colleges are unlikely to offer places to those who need to do re-takes.\n\nIf a student does not have the GCSE grades to do A-levels or Btecs, then the entry requirements for the new T-levels will mean they have fewer options.\n\nThe letter to Mr Zahawi is in support of the Protect Student Choice campaign by a coalition of education organisations including many colleges and universities.\n\nBill Watkins, chief executive of the Sixth Form Colleges Association, said the shake-up was far from \"levelling up\".\n\n\"This is a hammer blow for social mobility,\" he said.\n\nCollege principal Graham Pennington worries that some students will not be able to advance in their careers\n\nGraham Pennington, chief executive of Sandwell College Group - which presently offers A-levels, BTecs and T-levels - said if many BTecs are scrapped \"possibly tens of thousands of young people would not have a clear route\".\n\n\"They're going to find it very difficult to come to college and gain qualifications that will help them get further in their life.\n\n\"It's a very risky scenario,\" he added.\n\n\"Lots of young people will find themselves with no real pathway to fulfil their goals and dreams, and that's incredibly sad.\"\n\nT-levels are the government's flagship new technical qualification being phased in over three or four years from 2020.\n\nDesigned with business, they require a minimum of 45 days of work placement.\n\nThree were launched in 2020 and a further seven have started this term.\n\nCadbury College in Kings Norton, Birmingham, offers students a choice of A-levels, BTecs or T-levels - which are equivalent to three A-levels.\n\nJess Cartmell is on a T-level childcare and education course at the college.\n\n\"I like the fact that it's something I definitely want to do and it will definitely take me to where I want to be,\" she said.\n\nAs well as learning about child development and childcare in college, Jess is spending two days a week on a placement in a nursery.\n\nBut she says she was unusual in knowing what she wanted to do at the age of 16.\n\n\"Less than half knew what they wanted to do, I think that's why most people chose BTecs and A-levels.\"\n\nYasna Rezael, who is doing two BTecs in Applied Science and Psychology, said: \"At the beginning of the year I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, so I chose applied science which means I can have a variety of choices at university.\"\n\nWithin a couple of years most 16-year-olds in England will be asked to choose between traditional A-levels or T-levels.\n\nThe letter to Mr Zahawi has been signed by three former Education Secretaries - Lord Baker of Dorking, Baroness Morris of Yardley and Lord Blunkett.\n\nThey argue the move \"will leave many students without a viable pathway after their GCSEs, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds\".\n\nThey are concerned that \"removing the vast majority of BTecs will lead to students taking courses that do not meet their needs, or dropping out of education altogether\".\n\nHigher and further education minister Michelle Donelan said the government would ensure there was a good range of high quality courses.\n\nShe said: \"T-levels are a route to university. They are a highly academic courses that focus on on certain skill levels and they're going to be highly respected not just by business, but by universities.\n\n\"We will ensure there's a good range of courses overall and ensure there is quality.\"", "A judge has ruled that security cameras and a Ring doorbell installed in a house in Oxfordshire \"unjustifiably invaded\" the privacy of a neighbour.\n\nDr Mary Fairhurst claimed that the devices installed on the house of neighbour Jon Woodard broke data laws and contributed to harassment.\n\nThe judge upheld both these claims.\n\nMr Woodard now faces a substantial fine. He claimed he installed the devices in good faith as a deterrent against burglars.\n\nThe origin of the row stems from an invitation from Mr Woodard to his neighbour Dr Fairhurst to have a tour of his home renovations, during which she claimed he showed off his new security system.\n\nThe judgment reads that Dr Fairhurst was \"alarmed and appalled\" to notice that he had a camera mounted on his shed and that footage from it was sent to his smartphone.\n\nA series of disputes about the cameras followed, which resulted in Dr Fairhurst moving out of her home.\n\nIn the judgement it was found that the Ring doorbell captured images of the claimant's house and garden, while the shed camera covered almost the whole of her garden and her parking space.\n\nJudge Melissa Clarke found that audio data collected by cameras on a shed, in a driveway and on the Ring doorbell was processed unlawfully. She noted that at the time it was not possible to turn off the audio recording facility - that happened in an update in 2020.\n\nShe said that she found the audio data that could capture conversations \"even more problematic and detrimental than video data\".\n\n\"Personal data may be captured from people who are not even aware that the device is there, or that it records and processes audio and personal data,\" she said in her judgement.\n\nThat, she said, was in breach of UK data laws - both the UK Data Protection Act and UK GDPR.\n\nAmazon, which made both the doorbell and the cameras, said that customers must \"respect their neighbours' privacy, and comply with any applicable laws when using their Ring device.\"\n\n\"We've put features in place across all our devices to ensure privacy, security and user control remain front and centre - including customisable privacy zones to block out 'off-limit' areas, motion zones to control the areas customers want their Ring device to detect motion, and Audio Toggle to turn audio on and off.\"\n\nBut the judge added: \"Even if an activation zone is disabled so that the camera does not activate to film by movement in that area, activation by movement in one of the other non-disabled activation zones will cause the camera to film across the whole field of view.\"\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office told the BBC: \"Lots of people use domestic CCTV and video doorbells. If you own one, you should respect people's privacy rights and take steps to minimise intrusion to neighbours and passers-by.\"\n\nBut it added: \"In the vast number of cases, there are no issues.\"\n\nHannah Hart, a digital privacy expert at ProPrivacy, said: \"Whilst this case doesn't set a legal precedent, it does continue an ongoing conversation about our changing attitude towards domestic surveillance - and how normalised it has become in our communities.\n\n\"The fact remains that anyone with a Ring doorbell can turn their area of the neighbourhood into a surveillance space due to its video recording functionality and audio processors which are able to pick up sound 40 feet away.\n\n\"This means a small number of residents can effectively transform public spaces into surveillance hotbeds, and even share their recordings with police.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The moment Durst is sentenced to life in prison\n\nUS real estate heir Robert Durst, subject of HBO crime documentary series The Jinx, has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his best friend.\n\nDurst was found guilty of killing Susan Berman in 2000 to stop her talking to police about his wife's disappearance.\n\nThen aged 55, she was found shot in the head in her Beverly Hills home. Police believe he killed two others as well.\n\nIn a victim impact statement in court, Berman's son told Durst \"you murdered the person I was\" when he killed her.\n\nProsecutors called Durst, 78 - who appeared in the Los Angeles court for his sentencing - a \"narcissistic psychopath\". Durst has denied killing his friend.\n\nHis sentence for first-degree murder excludes any possibility of parole, meaning he will now very likely die in prison.\n\nThe crime carries special circumstances, the jury decided, including murder while lying in wait, and murder of a witness.\n\nDurst's lawyers told the judge on Thursday that he intends to appeal his conviction. Durst himself spoke to the judge only once to say \"yes\" when asked if he was waiving his right to appear at a future hearing.\n\nSusan Berman was a crime writer and daughter of a Las Vegas mobster, and had acted as a spokeswoman for Durst when he became a suspect in his wife's disappearance.\n\nBerman's cousin, Denny Marcus, told the judge on Thursday: \"I was robbed… of an absolutely extraordinary, unforgettable brilliant person whose life was savagely taken from her.\"\n\nSareb Kaufman, who considers Berman his mother as she had been dating his father, said: \"I have not had one day off in 21 years from the absolute destruction, grief and pain this has caused me.\"\n\n\"I have lost everything many times over because of him... I have lost and sacrificed more than anyone could possibly know,\" he continued.\n\n\"My mother's murder and the events of the last 40 years will never leave me. Are you satisfied, Bob?\"\n\nDurst's wife Kathleen McCormack, a medical student, went missing in 1982 and is presumed dead.\n\n\"The only hope of redemption you have is to help find Kathy,\" Mr Kaufman added, calling on Durst to reveal the location of McCormack's body.\n\nNew York prosecutors are considering pressing new charges against him in her case, according to US media.\n\nProsecutors have argued that Durst actually murdered three people - the third being an elderly neighbour, Morris Black, who discovered Durst's identity in 2001 while he was hiding out in Texas and pretending to be a mute woman.\n\nDurst was acquitted of murdering Mr Black, successfully arguing he had killed him on the grounds of self-defence before cutting up the body.\n\nDurst is an estranged member of one of New York's wealthiest and most powerful real estate dynasties. His brother Douglas Durst, who testified at the trial, told the court: \"He'd like to murder me.\"\n\nAt the end of The Jinx series, Durst is heard muttering to himself: \"What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.\"\n\nHours before the last episode aired in March 2015, authorities arrested Durst in New Orleans for Ms Berman's murder. Jurors were played the clip during the trial.", "PC Dwyer was found to have breached multiple standards of professional behaviour\n\nA police constable who took two packets of Jaffa Cakes from a charity stall without paying full price has been sacked from West Yorkshire Police.\n\nPC Chris Dwyer paid just 10p for two packets of the snacks from Halifax police station's canteen instead of the correct amount of £1.\n\nThe 51-year-old also tried to \"change and embellish\" his story when quizzed about it, a misconduct hearing found.\n\nHe was found guilty of gross misconduct and given an instant dismissal.\n\nThe misconduct trial had heard the confectionery stall at Halifax police station - set up in aid of a charity trip to Uganda - sold crisps, chocolate and fizzy drinks priced at 50p each.\n\nPC Dwyer went to the tuck shop on 21 January and after putting some money in the cash tin, removed two packets of Jaffa Cakes, the panel heard.\n\nAfterwards, a colleague raised concerns about a potential underpayment by the officer and, when checked, the cash float was found to be only up by 10p.\n\nWhen questioned about the matter, PC Dwyer gave dishonest accounts and his evidence was \"evasive and an attempt to reduce his culpability\", the panel found.\n\nThe officer, who joined West Yorkshire Police in 2017, had denied breaching police standards.\n\nHe initially claimed he had put in five 20p pieces into the cash tin, but later said he could not remember the \"exact denomination\".\n\nPanel chairman Akbar Khan said PC Dwyer's actions were an \"abuse of trust\" and had brought \"discredit on the police and the service\".\n\nHe added: \"The officer is solely to blame for his own conduct, which was dishonest and of a criminal nature.\n\n\"The nature of his dishonesty related to underpaying for items which proceeds were to support a charity to which he was fully aware.\"\n\nPC Dwyer was found to have breached West Yorkshire Police's professional standards in regard to integrity, honesty and discreditable conduct.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: People run for cover as gunfire sounds in Beirut\n\nAt least six people have been killed and 32 others injured by gunfire in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.\n\nIt began during a protest by the Shia Muslim groups Hezbollah and Amal against the judge investigating last year's huge blast at the city's port.\n\nThey said Christian snipers from the Lebanese Forces (LF) faction fired at the crowd to drag Lebanon into strife - a claim denied by the LF.\n\nHuge tension surrounds the probe into the port explosion that killed 219.\n\nHezbollah and its allies claim the judge is biased, but the victims' families support his work.\n\nNo-one has yet been held accountable for the August 2020 disaster, in which swathes of the city were devastated.\n\nIn response to Thursday's shooting, some of Lebanon's worst violence in years, Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced a day of mourning on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, President Michel Aoun said: \"We will not allow anyone to take the country hostage to their own interests.\"\n\nWhat began as a protest outside the Palace of Justice - the main court building - by hundreds of people arguing the investigation had become politicised and demanding the removal of Judge Tarek Bitar escalated remarkably quickly, reports the BBC's Anna Foster in Beirut.\n\nHeavy gunfire erupted in the streets as the crowd passed through a roundabout in the central Tayouneh-Badaro area.\n\nResidents fled as Shia and Christian militia fighters exchanged fire in the streets\n\nLocal residents had to flee their homes and schoolchildren ducked for cover under their desks as men armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers - believed to have been members of Shia and Christian militias - exchanged fire in the streets.\n\nThe clashes continued for several hours before calm was restored.\n\nAt a nearby school, teachers instructed young children to lie face down on the ground with their hands on their heads, a witness told Reuters news agency.\n\nHospital and military sources said some of those killed were shot in the head. They included a woman who was hit by a stray bullet while inside her home.\n\nHezbollah and Amal accused a staunch opponent, the Christian Lebanese Forces party, of being behind the attack on the protesters.\n\nLebanese army soldiers and ambulances rushed to the scene after the gunfire erupted\n\nThe two Shia organisations said demonstrators were \"subject to an armed attack by groups from the Lebanese Forces party that deployed in neighbouring streets and on rooftops, and engaged in direct sniping activity and intentional killing\".\n\nLebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea condemned the violence and appealed for calm.\n\n\"The main cause of these developments lies in the presence of uncontrolled and widespread weapons that threaten the citizens at any time and in any place,\" he tweeted.\n\nMr Mikati called on everyone to \"calm down and not be drawn into sedition for any reason whatsoever\".\n\nThe army said it had deployed troops to search for the assailants, and warned that they would \"shoot at any gunman on the roads\".\n\nHezbollah and Amal supporters had gathered earlier to demand the removal of Judge Tarek Bitar\n\nEarlier on Thursday, a court dismissed a legal complaint brought by two former government ministers and Amal MPs - Ali Hassan Khalil and Ghazi Zaiter - whom Judge Bitar has sought to question on suspicion of negligence in connection with the port explosion.\n\nThe two men, who deny any wrongdoing, accused the judge of bias.\n\nFamilies of the victims had condemned the complaint, which caused the probe to be suspended for the second time in three weeks.\n\nThey have accused the country's political leadership of trying to shield itself from scrutiny.\n\n\"Keep your hands off the judiciary,\" they warned the cabinet on Wednesday after ministers allied to Hezbollah demanded that Judge Bitar be replaced.\n\nThe port blast happened after a fire detonated 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, a combustible chemical widely used as agricultural fertiliser, that had been stored unsafely in a port warehouse for almost six years.\n\nSenior officials were aware of the material's existence and the danger it posed but failed to secure, remove or destroy it.", "An arrow could be seen sticking out of a wall after the attack\n\nFour women and a man were killed and two others wounded when a man used a bow and arrow to attack them in Norway.\n\nPolice first received word of an attack in the town of Kongsberg, south-west of the capital Oslo, at 18:12 local time (16:12 GMT).\n\nA Danish man aged 37 has been arrested and questioned for hours overnight.\n\nPolice said they had previously been in contact with him over fears of radicalisation after he converted to Islam.\n\nThe victims were all aged between 50 and 70, regional police chief Ole Bredrup Saeverud told reporters on Thursday morning.\n\nHe said they were most likely killed after the police first confronted the attacker at 18:18.\n\nReports of the incident were \"horrifying\", said Prime Minister Erna Solberg, hours before she was due to leave office.\n\n\"I understand that many people are afraid, but it's important to emphasise that the police are now in control,\" she said.\n\nThe attacker is said to have launched the assault inside a Coop Extra supermarket on Kongsberg's west side. One of those injured was an off-duty police officer who was in the shop at the time.\n\nA spokesperson for the chain later confirmed a \"serious incident\" at their store, adding that none of their staff were physically injured.\n\nLocal police chief Oyvind Aas confirmed that the attacker had managed to escape an initial confrontation with police before an arrest was finally made at 18:47 local time, 35 minutes after the attack began.\n\nOne witness told local outlet TV2 she had heard a commotion and seen a woman taking cover, then a \"man standing on the corner with arrows in a quiver on his shoulder and a bow in his hand\".\n\n\"Afterwards, I saw people running for their lives. One of them was a woman holding a child by the hand,\" she added.\n\nPolice have told Norwegian news agency NTB that the attacker also used other weapons during the incident, without giving more details on what they were.\n\nThe suspect moved over a large area, and authorities cordoned off several parts of the town. Residents were ordered to stay indoors so authorities could examine the scene and gather evidence. Surrounding gardens and garages were searched with the help of sniffer dogs.\n\nThe attack was Norway's deadliest since far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 people, most of them at a children's Labour Party summer camp on the island of Utoya in July 2011.\n\nKongsberg Mayor Kari Anne Sand said it was a shocking attack that had taken place in an area where many people lived, and that a crisis team would help anyone affected.\n\nDescribing the town as \"a completely ordinary community with completely ordinary people\", Ms Sand said everyone had been deeply shaken by \"this very tragic situation.\"\n\nPolice have cordoned off large parts of the town\n\nThe suspect was taken to a police station in the town of Drammen, where his defence lawyer, Fredrik Neumann, said he was questioned for more than three hours and was co-operating with authorities.\n\nThe suspect had a Danish mother and Norwegian father, he explained.\n\nNorway's outgoing justice minister Monica Maeland told reporters the police did not yet know whether or not it was act of terrorism and could not comment on details emerging about the suspect.\n\nPolice prosecutor Ann Irén Svane Mathiassen told TV2 that the man had lived in Kongsberg for several years and was known to police.\n\nThe attack came on the final day of Erna Solberg's conservative government, and a new justice minister takes over the case on Thursday under a centre-left coalition led by Labour leader Jonas Gahr Store.\n\nMr Store said it was a \"gruesome and brutal act\", hours before announcing his new cabinet.\n\nNorwegian police are not usually armed and after the attack the police directorate ordered all officers nationwide to carry firearms as an extra precaution.\n\nPolice were searching the Huseby area of north-western Oslo on Thursday following reports of a man being seen carrying a bow and arrow. Police stressed no-one had been hurt and there was no threat.\n\n\"The police have no indication so far that there is a change in the national threat level,\" the directorate said in a statement (in Norwegian).", "NHS nurses now feel \"undervalued, disenfranchised and angry\", says the RCN\n\nA nurses' trade union has lodged a formal dispute with the Welsh government over a 3% NHS pay rise.\n\nWales' health minister previously announced the rise recognised \"the dedication and commitment of hardworking NHS staff\".\n\nBut the Royal College of Nursing Wales' (RCN) director said nurses now felt \"undervalued\".\n\nThe Welsh government said it followed recommendations from the NHS Pay Review Body and Dentist Review Body.\n\nRCN Wales director Helen Whyley said a formal trade dispute would warn the government that if it would not open pay negotiations, the trade union body would begin steps towards industrial action.\n\n\"For the past 18 months nursing staff have gone above and beyond in their response to the Covid-19 pandemic, but now they feel undervalued, disenfranchised and angry,\" she said.\n\nMs Whyley said 94% of the trade union body's members who voted in a consultative ballot, voted that a 3% pay rise was \"totally unacceptable\".\n\n\"Despite the first minister announcing £991m of new funding available for NHS Wales, none of it has been earmarked for nurses' pay,\" she said.\n\n\"Patients are waiting for treatment and care and nursing staff are needed to deliver that.\"\n\nShe added on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Nobody wants to rush into any form of industrial action, but my members and nurses, they're really clear: 94% of them voted to say that 3% is not acceptable.\n\n\"We want the government to get back round the table, we want to get this sorted out, we want more nurses to be better valued and stay in our NHS so we can get on with doing what we do well as nurses - caring for patients.\"\n\nShe also called on the Welsh government to address \"over 1,700 vacancies for registered nurses\" in NHS Wales.\n\nRCN Wales board chair Richard Jones said: \"We do not wish to take steps towards industrial action, but the anger and frustration of our members is clear.\"\n\nIn response, the Welsh government said the 3% for NHS staff was a recommendation \"based on evidence submitted by all parties including trade unions\".\n\n\"We hope NHS workers understand how much we value their work and appreciate everything they have done.\"\n\nIt said it has had \"a number of constructive meetings\" on how to \"enhance the pay award for NHS Wales\".\n\n\"While it is disappointing that the RCN felt unable to participate in these discussions, we remain committed to offering a package of enhancements within the funding available.\n\n\"While we want to invest in our workforce we also need to invest in delivering vital NHS services.\"\n\nIt added that on top of the pay rise, it had awarded NHS staff a one-off payment of £735 per person - which after deductions, would be £500 for most.", "The Block Island Wind Farm, located off the Rhode Island coast\n\nThe Biden administration has unveiled plans to expand offshore wind energy in a move that could see turbines built along much of the US coastline.\n\nSeven areas on both coasts and the Gulf of Mexico will be auctioned for wind farms in the next few years, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said on Tuesday.\n\nIt comes as President Joe Biden pushes to reduce US fossil fuel use and expand the green energy economy.\n\nExperts say dramatic action is needed to meet Mr Biden's climate goals.\n\nThe wind farms are part of Mr Biden's plan to generate 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy - enough to power 10m homes - by 2030.\n\nThat goal falls short of the 40GW that the UK is planning. China is aiming to achieve around 73GW by the same date.\n\nThe White House approved the first commercial wind farm in the US off the coast of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts this summer.\n\n\"The Interior Department is laying out an ambitious road map as we advance the administration's plans to confront climate change, create good-paying jobs, and accelerate the nation's transition to a cleaner energy future,\" said Ms Haaland.\n\nThe plan is expected to meet a backlash from some coastal and fishing communities - and it needs approval from state, local and environmental groups before any construction begins.\n\nCommercial fishing companies have argued such offshore wind projects would make it difficult to harvest valuable seafood species, like lobsters. Some conservation groups also fear the large turbines will kill thousands of birds and affect marine life.\n\nPotential building sites could be crossed off the list if they are found to have a negative impact on wildlife, tourism, military activities or other commercial services.\n\nThe announcement comes ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference - Cop26 - which is due to begin in Glasgow on 31 October.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began, and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nIn a related announcement, the Department of Energy said it would increase research into any harmful affects that wind turbines could have on wildlife.\n\n\"In order for Americans living in coastal areas to see the benefits of offshore wind, we must ensure that it's done with care for the surrounding ecosystem,″ said Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins on... The US climate conundrum", "The extent of the influence of LGBTQ charity Stonewall in public bodies across the UK has been revealed in a BBC investigation.\n\nGovernments, Ofcom and the BBC have had their impartiality questioned after involvement in the lobby group's diversity schemes.\n\nA number of high profile organisations have left Stonewall's schemes in recent months amid growing controversy about the influence of the group on public policy.\n\nStonewall says it works for LGBTQ equality and that it is \"deeply disappointing\" that this can still be thought of as controversial.\n\nStonewall operates two schemes which have come under scrutiny in recent months. The \"Diversity Champions\" programme is a service Stonewall provides to employers for a fee, to advise them on diversity and inclusion. The Workplace Equality Index is a public ranking of organisations, which is scored by Stonewall, and does not require a fee to enter.\n\nThe Nolan Investigates podcast sought information on the schemes under Freedom of Information (FOI) laws. The information contained within the documents revealed what the lobby group was asking organisations to do to improve their ranking on the Workplace Equality Index.\n\nSome organisations, including the BBC, refused to release the information on the grounds that it could \"have a detrimental impact on the commercial revenue of Stonewall\".\n\nStonewall declined to take part in the series.\n\nThe documents reveal that the media regulator Ofcom submitted rulings it had made against broadcasters to Stonewall's Workplace Equality Index, which awards points to organisations based on how well they are performing on LGBTQ equality.\n\nOfcom had initially defended the relationship with Stonewall, saying it only related to internal staffing issues, before leaving the Diversity Champions Scheme in August.\n\nHowever, Ofcom continues to submit information to the Workplace Equality Index. Stonewall scores companies and public bodies based on how well they believe they are performing on LGBTQ equality.\n\nFor three consecutive years, the lobby group asked Ofcom to show evidence of work they had done to \"promote LGBT equality in the wider community\". Ofcom cited examples of action they had taken in response to complaints about TV programmes including Harry Hill's TV Burp and local radio stations.\n\nIn 2019, Ofcom told Stonewall \"we have ruled on two instances where transphobic comments made in programmes breached the code\". One such case referred to a radio presenter who said he would be uncomfortable with his six-year-old daughter changing in an environment where the changing rooms were not segregated based on sex, and described a \"transfeminine person\" as \"him, her, him, it\" - for which he had apologised on air.\n\nThe regulator also cited a 2016 judgement on a re-run of Harry Hill's TV Burp on the UKTV television channel Dave, in which the programme parodied a Channel 4 documentary called The Pregnant Man. Ofcom had found the programme was in breach of its broadcasting code.\n\nAn extract from Ofcom's submission to Stonewall's Workplace Equality Index\n\nOfcom did not release the feedback it received from Stonewall.\n\nOfcom told the Nolan Investigates podcast that there was no conflict of interest in its relationship with Stonewall, despite \"stepping back\" from Stonewall's Diversity Champions Scheme after considering whether there was a conflict of interest.\n\nOfcom said: \"Broadcast standards decisions are made by the Broadcast Standards team within Ofcom, wholly independently from any third parties. Our participation in the Stonewall Equality Index has no bearing whatsoever on any of our broadcasting standards decisions.\"\n\nOfcom will continue to submit to Stonewall's Workplace Equality Index scheme, saying it \"is an effective way for employers to measure their progress on LGBTQ+ inclusion in the workplace\".\n\nThe BBC did not release the information requested by Nolan Investigates around its submission to Stonewall's schemes.\n\nHowever, the programme has raised questions about how close the BBC's Diversity and Inclusion department was to Stonewall. Diversity and Inclusion deals with internal staffing issues at the BBC.\n\nConcerns have been raised for some time from senior BBC editorial figures about the risks of the relationship with Stonewall.\n\nStonewall played a central role in an internal BBC \"LGBT Culture and Progression report\" by \"identifying strengths and weaknesses\" for the BBC with regards to LGBT diversity and practices. \"Weaknesses\" included the absence of an Allies programme. Allies programmes are set up with training from Stonewall when the organisations are Diversity Champions.\n\nIn January 2020 the BBC told staff they would \"be working closely with Stonewall over the coming months in preparation for next year's [Stonewall] index\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nancy Kelley: \"I’m comfortable with our direction as an organisation\"\n\nThe podcast reveals that a senior figure in the Diversity and Inclusion department described Stonewall as \"the experts in workplace equality for LGBTQ+ people\" in internal correspondence, in response to questions about the BBC's Allies scheme.\n\nConcerns have been expressed about Stonewall being regarded as \"the\" experts, given the diversity of opinion among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people over Stonewall's policies.\n\nThe department runs an \"Allies training\" course, which was set up in conjunction with Stonewall, to provide guidance to staff. In an Allies training meeting, BBC trainers used language and material around sex and gender which is contested. The \"genderbred person\" - a graphic used by groups like Stonewall to explain sex and gender issues - was presented to staff, with no alternate views presented.\n\nThe Nolan Investigates podcast understands that the Diversity and Inclusion department had a role in the drafting of the latest BBC News style guide around issues of sexuality and gender. The style guide sets a standard for the language used by BBC News, often in contested areas.\n\nThe document defines homosexuality as \"people of either sex who are attracted to people of their own gender\". This is similar to the definition used by Stonewall, and different from the standard dictionary definition, in that it defines attraction as based on gender rather than sex.\n\nThese definitions are at the centre of a fierce debate over sex and gender issues. The document was ultimately signed off by BBC News.\n\nSam Smith, an investigative journalist who left the BBC recently after working there for 25 years, told the podcast she thinks that some people within the BBC are frightened to speak out to say what they really think about Stonewall.\n\nShe also believes the relationship has had an effect on the corporation's output.\n\n\"How can it not have a chilling effect when it is writ large across the BBC that we are a [Stonewall] champion. I can't think of anything else that the BBC has done that's in the same ball park.\"\n\nThe charity has campaigned for trans equality since 2015\n\nShe says: \"The trouble is the impartiality element of this, for people who do not agree with Stonewall's campaigning position on the gender identity issue, it is not nice for an organisation to align itself with Stonewall and Stonewall's mission\".\n\nShe said she had queried the BBC's use of \"political\" and \"campaigning\" language but was told \"the BBC had checked this with Stonewall and Stonewall were fine they were fine with it and therefore the BBC was fine with it\".\n\nThe BBC did not take part in the podcast. In a statement, they said that the BBC \"acts independently in all our aspects of our operations, from HR policy to editorial guidelines and content\".\n\n\"We are not a member of Stonewall, we do not take legal advice from Stonewall and we do not subscribe to Stonewall's campaigning. The charity simply provides advice that we are able to consider.\n\n\"As a broadcaster, we have our own values and editorial standards - these are clearly set out and published in our editorial guidelines. We are also governed by the Royal Charter and the Ofcom broadcasting code.\"\n\nIn a statement, Stonewall told the Nolan Investigates podcast: \"It is completely normal and appropriate for charities to engage with public sector organisations to advocate for their beneficiaries to improve public policy. It is also completely normal and appropriate for charities to support public sector organisations through service provision.\n\n\"We are proud of work to support public sector organisations to create an inclusive workplace for their LGBTQ+ employees. Our guidance to employers supports them to understand the needs of their LGBTQ+ employees and create an inclusive workplace culture through their policies and wider activity.\"\n\nThe Nolan Investigates podcast also examines changes in the language used by governments across the UK after Stonewall requested changes, and looks at the advice provided by Stonewall to public bodies.\n\nCorrection 18th October 2021: An earlier version of this article included a picture caption which said that Stonewall had been campaigning for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights since 1989, which we have amended to make clear that Stonewall has campaigned for trans equality since 2015.\n\nThe Nolan Investigates podcast is available on BBC Sounds", "Dominic Raab became justice secretary in last month's cabinet reshuffle\n\nNew Justice Secretary Dominic Raab has told the BBC he can't promise when unprecedented delays in prosecuting and jailing criminals will be solved.\n\nIn an exclusive interview, Mr Raab said he hoped Crown Court backlogs in England and Wales would fall within 12 months.\n\nBut he could not say when they would reach pre-pandemic levels.\n\nMore than 60,000 Crown Court trials waiting to be heard with many serious cases being listed now in late 2023.\n\nMr Raab, who is also the deputy prime minister, said he acknowledged that some victims faced agonising waits for justice.\n\nHis comments about the challenges the government faces came during a visit to HM Prison High Down, to inspect body scanners.\n\nAcross the entire male prison estate, scanners have intercepted 10,000 attempts to smuggle phones, drugs and other contraband in just over a year.\n\nThe former foreign secretary was made justice secretary last month amid what critics say is an unprecedented crisis in criminal justice.\n\nThat caseload is approximately 22,000 higher than before the pandemic - when the backlogs had already been rising, following cuts to prosecutions and \"sitting days\", which reduces the number of Crown Courts that can operate at any one time.\n\nAbout a quarter of victims have been withdrawing from investigations and prosecutions - a figure that rises to 42% for rape. Critics say delays mean they have lost trust in the system.\n\nFormer justice secretary Robert Buckland said earlier this year that cuts as well as Covid had contributed to the backlog - but his successor told the BBC that he hoped a corner was now being turned.\n\n\"In the Crown Court ... we are just starting to see the backlog flattening,\" said Mr Raab.\n\nAsked if the backlog would be below pre-pandemic levels a year from now, he replied: \"I don't think we will be that far forward.\n\n\"We need to drive down, we have got the plan working with the judiciary to drive this forward as quickly as we conceivably can.\n\n\"We're going to reduce the backlog within six to 12 months, I can't give you a precise figure... it depends on lots of moving parts but I am confident we will make progress.\"\n\nThe government has repeatedly promised since 2014 to introduce a \"Victims' Law\" that would set minimum standards of treatment for them in the criminal justice system.\n\nThat legislation had been expected this Autumn but Mr Raab said he would be reviewing the work before final proposals were put out to consultation.\n\n\"I totally understand if on top of the injury you have suffered you have to wait agonisingly for a trial.\n\n\"The only reassurance we can give is to demonstrate that we are on the case.\"\n\nOn Thursday, the justice secretary was told of another problem in criminal justice - when inspectors gave him 28 days to come up with an urgent plan to improve Oakhill secure training centre, which holds some of the most serious child offenders.\n\nDavid Lammy, shadow justice secretary, said: \"The Tories allowed this backlog to build up even before the pandemic. It's now clear the Justice Secretary has no idea when these delays will be cleared and no plan to make that happen. [He] needs to get a grip, stop making excuses, and set out a timetable for clearing the backlog.\"", "Liverpool and England legends led the tributes to Roger Hunt at the funeral of the club's record league goalscorer.\n\nKnown as \"Sir Roger\" to Reds fans, he died at the age of 83 in September.\n\nHundreds of Liverpool fans gathered at Anfield as the funeral cortege paused outside the ground ahead of a service at Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral at 11:00 BST.\n\nHunt scored 244 goals for the club and the striker was part of England's 1966 World Cup-winning side.\n\nHis wife Rowan, children David and Julie, stepchildren Katie and Wayne and extended family were joined by about 400 mourners.\n\nLiverpool legends Roy Evans, Kevin Keegan, Ian Callaghan and Ian Rush also joined senior executives from the club for the hour-long service of celebration.\n\nThe coffin, draped in a red Liverpool flag, left the cathedral as the club's anthem You'll Never Walk Alone played before departing for a private ceremony at Anfield Crematorium.\n\nEx-England manager Keegan said Hunt was part of the \"exclusive\" club of players who had scored more than 200 league goals for Liverpool.\n\n\"He was a World Cup winner in 1966. He was Liverpool's top scorer for eight years. He scored the first goal on Match of the Day. He scored five hat-tricks in a season. I could go on and on,\" he told the congregation.\n\nHunt's England World Cup strike partner Sir Geoff Hurst was not present at the service but his eulogy was read by Liverpool's club chaplain Bill Bygroves.\n\n\"Roger was a great player, a very special person and a class act who I was privileged to have as my strike partner but - more importantly - my friend,\" he said.\n\nComedian and Liverpool fan Jimmy Tarbuck, who was friends with Hunt, also paid tribute at the service.\n\n\"To be born a gentleman is an accident, to die one is an achievement,\" he said.\n\n\"Thanks for all the pleasure I got from watching you, it was just a joy. I am honoured to be called a friend of yours.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLiverpool fan Vince Tolley said he travelled from Southend in Essex to pay tribute to his \"idol\" Hunt.\n\n\"I used to have a Liverpool shirt in those days in the 60s it was just an ordinary red shirt with a white cuff and my mum actually put the number eight on the back for me,\" he said.\n\nPaying tribute last month, Reds manager Jurgen Klopp said Hunt \"comes second to no-one in his importance in the history of Liverpool FC\".\n\n\"I am told the Kop christened him 'Sir Roger' for all his achievements. A goalscorer who never stopped working to help his team-mates, I believe he would have fitted well within our current team,\" he said.\n\nFormer Liverpool players Ian Rush and Roy Evans were among the mourners\n\nScores of Liverpool fans have joined former players and family members at the funeral.\n\nAmong those paying tribute at the service was his England World Cup strike partner Sir Geoff Hurst.\n\nIn a message, he said: \"What a player he was. Up there with Kenny Dalglish, Ian Rush, Kevin Keegan and Mo Salah.\"\n\nComedian and Reds fan Jimmy Tarbuck told me: \"He was our Bobby Moore. I loved him.\"\n\nEx-Liverpool striker David Johnson said Hunt was his hero when he was growing up, adding: \"If I scored it wasn't me scoring, it was Roger.\"\n\nFormer Liverpool player and England manager Kevin Keegan said the striker was one of his two favourite players of all time.\n\nAt the start of the funeral Rev Dr Neil Barnes described Hunt as a \"national icon\".\n\nOne fan said although he was never officially knighted, the Kop called him \"Sir\" Roger Hunt, and that probably meant more to him.\n\nBorn in Golborne in Cheshire on 20 July 1938, Hunt signed for Liverpool in 1958 and made his 492nd and final appearance for the club in 1969.\n\nUnder legendary manager Bill Shankly he helped the club out of the Second Division in 1962 by scoring 41 goals in as many games.\n\nLiverpool then won the First Division in 1964 and 1966 either side of a first FA Cup win in 1965.\n\nLiverpool anthem You'll Never Walk Alone was played at the service\n\nHunt also had a successful three seasons with Bolton Wanderers after leaving Anfield in 1969.\n\nThe forward won 34 England caps, scoring 18 international goals after making his debut in 1962 when Liverpool were in English football's second tier.\n\nHe played in every game of the 1966 World Cup and scored three times to help England out of their group.\n\nThe funeral took place at Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Domino's Pizza says it intends to hire more than 8,000 drivers in the UK and Ireland in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nThe fast-food chain has already recruited thousands of workers in the past year or so to keep up with demand.\n\nThe latest move comes as a nationwide shortage of goods vehicle drivers continues to plague the UK economy.\n\nDomino's said it offered good long-term prospects, as more than 90% of store managers had started in the kitchen or as delivery drivers.\n\nIt also stressed that most of the jobs on offer were permanent and not just for Christmas.\n\nHowever, it may still have a struggle recruiting the workers it needs, according to analysis by job site Indeed.\n\nAt the start of this month, the share of searches being made for seasonal roles by jobseekers was 27% lower than in the same period in 2019 and down 33% on its 2018 level.\n\nIn June, Domino's said it was hiring 5,000 cooks and delivery drivers, as staff who joined during the pandemic headed back to former roles after Covid restrictions eased.\n\nDomino's operations director Nicola Frampton said 2021 had been a busy year for the firm so far, but the busiest period was \"just around the corner\".\n\n\"Our delivery drivers are vital to the service we provide our customers and the success of our business, so we're really keen to hear from those wanting to join.\"\n\nAt the same time, Domino's said sales in the 13 weeks to 26 September were up 8.8% on a like-for-like basis to £375.8m.\n\nOrders collected from stores rose 40.3% and are now at 82% of pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe chain said it was still on target to open 30 new stores this year, having opened five in the latest trading period.\n\nThe company said it sold seven pizzas each second over the 13 weeks, with online orders peaking at 13 a second on 3 July during England's match against Ukraine in the Euro 2020 football tournament.\n\nBut it also warned that supply chain problems and rising staff wages were starting to have an effect.\n\n\"We have seen some impact from the well-publicised pressures on labour availability and food cost inflation, which we expect to extend into next year, but continue to take proactive, preventative measures to ensure our world-class supply chain service levels are maintained and that cost increases are constrained.\"", "Hazrat Wali died in hospital following the attack on Craneford Way\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been arrested after a teenager was stabbed to death on a playing field in south-west London.\n\nPolice found Hazrat Wali, 18, fatally injured in Craneford Way, Twickenham, at 16:45 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThe Richmond upon Thames College student was taken to hospital but died an hour later.\n\nThe Met said the 16-year-old boy had been arrested on suspicion of murder and remained in custody.\n\nMr Wali was found with stab injuries at the park on Tuesday afternoon\n\nThe principal of the college Jason Jones has paid tribute to Mr Wali, who was from Notting Hill, saying he would be remembered \"fondly as a bright and polite young man, well liked by staff and his close-knit group of friends\".\n\nDr Jones added: \"This loss is sure to raise many emotions, concerns, and questions for our students, parents, staff and local community.\n\n\"Safety remains our number one priority and we will continue to do all we can to keep our students safe at college.\"\n\nScotland Yard said a post-mortem examination was set to take place on Friday.\n\nThe force has appealed for anyone with information or footage of the attack to get in touch.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pair performing on the first episode of this year's show\n\nComedian Robert Webb and his dance partner, Dianne Buswell, are withdrawing from Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nPeep Show star Webb, who had open heart surgery two years ago, made the decision due to ill health.\n\nHe said he had an urgent consultation with his heart specialist after experiencing symptoms and she recommended he pull out of the series.\n\nA Strictly spokeswoman said the BBC One show would continue as normal this weekend, despite Webb's departure.\n\nWebb, 49, said he was \"extremely sorry\" to have to leave the competition, adding: \"It became clear that I had bitten off way more than I could chew for this stage in my recovery.\"\n\n\"I'm proud of the three dances that Dianne Buswell and I managed to perform and deeply regret having to let her down like this,\" he said.\n\n\"I couldn't have wished for a more talented partner or more patient teacher, and it's a measure of Dianne's professionalism and kindness that I was able to get as far as I did.\"\n\nHe thanked everyone who had voted for him and his dance partner, saying he was \"especially touched\" by the support from fellow heart patients - and that he had perhaps been \"too eager to impress them\".\n\nHe said they would know \"that recovery doesn't always go in a straight line\", adding that \"it was always going to be a difficult mountain to climb\".\n\n\"I leave knowing that Strictly viewers are in very safe hands and I'll be cheering for my brother and sister contestants all the way to Christmas,\" he said. \"Despite this sad ending, it has been a genuine honour to be part of this huge, joyful and barking mad TV show.\"\n\nIn a video played on BBC Two's It Takes Two, which announced the news, he said he would \"miss learning new dances and being able to do new dances... it's been a ride\".\n\nRobert Webb, fifth from left, with some of the other stars of this year's show\n\nBuswell said she was a \"massive fan\" of Webb's, had been delighted to learn he was joining the show and being partnered with him was the \"icing on the cake\". She said they had worked hard \"and had a good laugh along the way\".\n\nShe added: \"I know Robert had a lot more to give to the competition but his health of course comes first and I wish him a speedy recovery. I feel lucky to have danced with him and to call him a friend.\"\n\nFellow contestants also sent their best wishes, with BBC Breakfast's Dan Walker saying it had \"been wonderful to watch them enjoying every dance each week\".\n\nStrictly's executive producer Sarah James thanked the pair for the \"commitment, creativity and joy they brought to the show\".\n\nShe said they were \"so sad\" but completely understood and supported his decision, adding that everyone on Strictly sent \"love and best wishes for his continued recovery\".\n\nWebb and Buswell had performed three dances together, most recently as Kermit and Miss Piggy in last weekend's Movie Week show.\n\nThey danced a quickstep to The Muppet Show theme, from The Muppets Movie, on Saturday night and scored 25 points from the judges. Viewers gave them enough votes to avoid the dance off, broadcast on Sunday.\n\nWebb, who previously became a fan favourite with a Flashdance routine on Let's Dance for Comic Relief, had said it was his health condition that made him want to sign up for Strictly.\n\n\"It's partly my age, and it's partly that nearly two years ago I had quite a big-deal health thing,\" he told the BBC before the live shows began. \"I had to have open heart surgery, so since then I think my attitude is basically, this is no time to be cool, sitting at the edges watching the other people do the dancing.\"", "Nine Moscow restaurants have received prestigious Michelin stars for their food\n\nIt's been described as one of the Russian capital's best-kept secrets: Moscow's restaurants are excellent.\n\nMichelin has published a Moscow Guide, heaping praise on Russian chefs and serving up its prestigious awards. Seven restaurants received one star. Two were awarded two stars.\n\n\"Inspectors have been particularly seduced by the high-quality local produce,\" said Gwendal Poullennec, Michelin Guide International Director.\n\n\"I'm super happy,\" chef Ivan Berezutsky told the BBC. \"It's the favourite moment of my professional life. It's a fantastic moment for Moscow and for Russia.\"\n\nIvan and his brother Sergey are the twin chefs of Twins Garden. Their restaurant received two stars, plus an extra Green star award for sustainable practices.\n\nHow times have changed. When I lived in Moscow in the 1980s, eating out was a chore and a challenge. Restaurants had a reputation for surly service, poor choice and less than appetizing fare. I'll never forget the \"Closed for Lunch\" sign often hung on restaurant doors.\n\nToday the choice of cuisine is mindboggling. Moscow has everything from gastropubs to kosher cafes. Ethiopian, Brazilian, Vietnamese - you name it, you can find it here. Soviet service (thank goodness) is a thing of the past. And food quality is generally very good.\n\nMoscow authorities hope the new Michelin Guide will project a more positive image of the Russian capital\n\nMichelin believes that Moscow could become a new culinary destination for tourists and travellers. And if it does? Some think that foreigners flocking here for the food might somehow ease political tensions between Russia and the West.\n\n\"We are so separate right now, unfortunately,\" says chef Vladimir Mukhin of the White Rabbit restaurant, which received a Michelin star. \"It's like if you have a problem with your wife, but you have breakfast with her at the same table, then you have a future. The table can unite everyone.\"\n\nThe authorities here are hoping that the Michelin Moscow Guide 2022 will project a more positive image of the Russian capital.\n\n\"I am proud that Moscow's restaurants have become a calling card for our wonderful city,\" said Moscow's Mayor Sergei Sobyanin at a ceremony near the Kremlin.\n\nBut while the belief is that a gastronomic calling card can bring in more tourists, there's just one problem.\n\nAlthough Russia has taken a great leap forward in terms of cafes and restaurants, the picture is less positive in other areas: like the state of democracy and the high level of anti-western rhetoric here.\n\nIt's things like that which may reduce the appetite of foreign tourists to visit Russia.", "Rich Myers said he would have to stop selling his \"best-selling\" raspberry glazed donut cookies\n\nA bakery has had to stop producing its bestselling biscuit after officials found the treats were topped with illegal sprinkles.\n\nGet Baked in Leeds withdrew its raspberry glazed donut cookies, which contained a banned food colouring.\n\nOwner Rich Myers branded the decision \"ridiculous\" and said alternative sprinkles on the market were \"rubbish\".\n\nWest Yorkshire Trading Standards said the imported decoration had fallen foul of UK regulations.\n\nMr Myers said: \"I know it sounds like a small thing but it is a big deal for my business - we used them a lot.\n\n\"Our best-selling cookie, we're not going to be able to sell them any more. For a small independent business that only has a small menu, it's a problem.\"\n\nTrading Standards said the E127 food colouring, also know as Erythrosine, is only approved for use in the UK and EU in cocktail cherries and candied cherries.\n\nThe ingredient has been linked to problems with hyperactivity and behavioural issues in children and a US study suggested an increased risk of thyroid tumours when tested on male rats.\n\n\"[The inspector] said they'd had reports of us using illegal sprinkles and I actually laughed by mistake, then realised he was being serious,\" Mr Myers said.\n\n\"To whoever reported us to Trading Standards, all I have to say is: 'Dear Lord, what a sad little life Jane'.\"\n\nHe said he sourced the US-made cake toppers from a UK-based wholesaler, adding that other products on the market were not as good.\n\n\"British sprinkles are rubbish,\" he said.\n\n\"They run and aren't bake-stable. The colours aren't vibrant and they just don't look very good.\"\n\nThe bakery uses the decorations on a number of products\n\nMr Myers' plight was recognised by two former Great British Bake Off contestants, who sympathised with his desire to obtain suitable ingredients.\n\nEdd Kimber, 2010 winner, agreed supermarket sprinkles were \"not as good\".\n\n\"It is what he's designing his product around, so I feel his pain,\" he added.\n\nFellow contestant Hermine Dossou, who was a semi-finalist in the 2020 show, called on sprinkle makers in the UK to \"step up their game\".\n\n\"I get where Trading Standards is coming from, but it comes back to the everything in moderation argument,\" she said.\n\nA spokesperson for West Yorkshire Trading Standards said: \"We can confirm that we have advised the business concerned the use of E127 is not permitted in this type of confectionery item.\n\n\"We stand by this advice and would urge all food business operators, when seeking to use imported foods containing additives, to check that they are permitted for use in the UK.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A community hoping to take over Britain's remotest mainland pub has won more than £500,000 in funding.\n\nThe Old Forge in Inverie is on the Knoydart Peninsula in Lochaber.\n\nThe only way of reaching the village - and its pub - is by walking 18 miles (29km) or making a seven-mile (11km) sea crossing.\n\nThe Old Forge went up for sale earlier this year for offers over £425,000, and the community has now won £508,000 from the Scottish Land Fund.\n\nKnoydart's coast and mountains have been described as mainland Britain's last wilderness.\n\nThe pub's Belgian owner Jean-Pierre Robinet revealed in January he was selling up after running the business for 10 years.\n\nThe small community of just over 100 people held a consultation on a community buyout.\n\nSeventy took part, with almost all backing the idea, and The Old Forge Community Society was set up.\n\nAlthough the group has secured the funding it does not mean it will be the winning bidder.\n\nThe award is part of more than £1.1m of funding for eight groups, aimed at putting local assets in the hands of local communities.\n\nThe list was announced by the Scottish government's land reform minister, Mairi McAllan, during Community Land Week.\n\nShe said: \"All across Scotland, communities are taking ownership of the land and buildings that matter to them with the support of the Scottish Land Fund.\n\n\"I know how hard people will have worked to develop their projects and to achieve this success, and I look forward to seeing the benefits for their communities.\"\n\nOther projects awarded funding were in Port Bannatyne, Canna, Easter Breich, the Western Isles, Shetland, Stirling and Renfrewshire.\n\nThe only way of reaching Inverie - and its pub - is by walking 18 miles or making a seven-mile sea crossing", "Restocking popular Barbie dolls is likely to be a problem, says The Entertainer.\n\nOne of the UK's biggest toy retailers is warning delays at UK ports will result in shortages this Christmas.\n\nGary Grant, boss of The Entertainer, said it would get harder to get stock to the right places at the right time.\n\nBarbie dolls and Paw Patrol toys are among the children's favourites he expects to run out fast.\n\nThe government said that Felixstowe had reported \"improved capacity over the past few days\".\n\nA container logjam at ports, including Felixstowe, and a shortage of HGV lorry drivers has sparked widespread concern among retailers about future stocks.\n\nMr Grant said his 170 shops are looking \"very full right now\". But he added that demand \"will outstrip availability\" because there aren't enough drivers to move the company's stock.\n\n\"There'll never be toy shops with no toys. There will be toy shops without all the toys that they would normally expect to have due to the shortages, and that is largely down to transportation and warehouse issues, rather than there being a shortage of toys.\"\n\nThe shortage of drivers means that shipment containers are being offloaded but left stacked on the quayside waiting for collection. The dearth of drivers also means there is a delay in returning empty containers for re-use.\n\nThe problems come at the busiest time of the year for retailers, when most goods are imported from Asia to sell during Christmas trading.\n\nThomas O'Brien, managing director of Leeds-based toy designer Boxer Gifts, which manufacturers its products in China, said there's \"plenty of stock\" but the real problem is that \"everything takes longer and is horrendously more expensive\" which means the company \"will be struggling to keep price increases to anything lower than 10%\".\n\nItems that are in short supply include a sloth soft toy and the moody cow stress ball.\n\n\"Ironically the moody cow which we're short of is almost a nice acronym for how feel at the moment,\" he added.\n\nThe 'Moody Cow' stress ball is in short supply at the moment.\n\nWhile there are alternative toys, Mr O'Brien said the firm has lost six weeks of \"planning time\" to be able to re-stock at short notice.\n\nHe said containers shipped from Qingdao, China to Felixstowe are costing him $15,000 (£11,003) rather than the normal rate of $2,500 in 2020.\n\nEntrepreneur Jack Griffiths, co-founder of loungewear company Snuggy, said he is expecting containers on five different ships, holdings £1m worth of Christmas items, to arrive over the next week but they will now be delayed by three weeks.\n\n\"We're seasonal and we have to make the most of these months, 80% of our turnover comes from October to February.\"\n\nIn November, the business usually takes £500,000 worth of sales which Mr Griffiths said he \"probably won't be able to get in if we don't get that stock in time\".\n\nThe company has already run out of the SnuggyPod product which was due to arrive two weeks ago. Mr Griffiths said the product \"probably won't arrive for three weeks at Felixstowe and then it'll take three weeks to get them out of the port due to the driver issues\". He added that because the SnuggyPod is the firm's original design, there aren't any alternatives.\n\n\"As the weeks go by I can only see it getting worse which is just something we don't want to think about\".\n\nMr Griffiths anticipates he will have to get products shipped by railway and air rather than sea. It comes after £400,000 worth of his stock was delayed earlier in the year when it got stuck on the Ever Given ship which blocked the Suez Canal.\n\nMr Griffiths said that because the SnuggyPod is an original design, there aren't any alternatives.\n\nSteve Parks, director at Seaport Freight which deals with food shipments from overseas as well as other goods, says moving products from Rotterdam port to Felixstowe is delaying goods by two to three weeks.\n\n\"So things like coconut milk, frozen fish and carpets are being delayed from China.\"\n\nWhile Mr Parks said Britain's shortfall in HGV drivers is \"largely\" to blame for the congestion at the port, other countries are experiencing problems, including the US and China.\n\n\"This is absolutely the worst period I have known, ever,\" he said. \"We can't get space on ships coming out of the Far East.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said that fluctuating capacity at ports \"has been exacerbated by the ongoing global container and HGV driver shortages\".\n\n\"All ports across the UK remain open to shipping lines with Felixstowe reporting improved capacity over the past few days and the government continues to work closely with the freight industry, to tackle the challenges faced by some ports this autumn,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nAndrew Goodacre, chief executive of the British Independent Retailers Association, said there was \"no need to panic buy\" but advised customers to start their normal shopping process earlier.\n\n\"If you see something you want, now is the time to buy as retailers have most of their Christmas stock, but we can't guarantee having supplies of everything over the next few weeks\".\n\n\"It's a challenge for small retailers because they don't have the cash to stockpile,\" he added.\n\nThe UK's biggest commercial port Felixstowe told the BBC that it currently had 50,000 containers which were waiting to be collected, due to a shortage of HGV lorry drivers.\n\nOfficials at the port have asked the shipping lines to reduce their empty container stocks as \"quickly as possible\".\n\n\"It's not the port of Felixstowe affecting the supply chain, it's the supply chain affecting the port of Felixstowe,\" it said, adding that the problems are \"similar at all major UK ports\".\n\nDanish shipping giant Maersk has been forced to divert some of its larger ships from Felixstowe to ports in the Netherlands and Belgium to avoid delays. Smaller ships are then transporting the goods to the UK.\n\nA spokesman for the port of Rotterdam said it has been busy over the last couple of weeks, but said: \"It's more to do with Covid than anything else because of the balance of empty and full containers being in the wrong place.\"\n\nThe pandemic is also being blamed in part for bottlenecks at US ports. President Joe Biden will meet with major US retailers as well as the bosses of ports on Wednesday to address the issues.\n\nSultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, chief executive Dubai-based DP World, the global logistics giant which operates out of Southampton and London Gateway, said \"nobody knows how long it's going to take\" to resolve the congestion and shipping container shortages.\n\n\"I think it's going to take a long time,\" he said, adding: \"The problem is complicated because you have a backlog of cargo.\"\n\nThe UK Ports Association trade group, said most UK ports were operating normally but that the shortage of drivers meant \"some delays\".\n\n\"This has meant that some freight is not being collected as rapidly as it would normally. The situation is impacting all types of ports, not just container terminals.\n\nIndustry bodies estimate there is a shortage of about 100,000 drivers. It has been caused by several factors, including European drivers who went home during the pandemic, Brexit and a backlog of HGV driver tests.\n\nThe government recently drafted in military personnel to help with the driver shortages and deliver fuel. Emergency temporary visas have also been issued to foreign drivers.\n\nConservative Party chair Oliver Dowden told the BBC that the government was increasing the number of people having tests and that he would \"expect that number to increase as we approach Christmas\".\n\nAsked about potential Christmas shortages, he told Sky news: \"The situation is improving, I'm confident that people will be able to get their toys for Christmas.\"", "Claudia Webbe was found guilty of using a misogynistic insult and threatening a woman with acid\n\nAn MP who made threatening phone calls to a woman because she was jealous of her relationship with her partner has been found guilty of harassing her.\n\nClaudia Webbe, 56, a former Labour MP for Leicester East, who is now independent, was found guilty of one charge of harassment.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court heard she made several calls over two years and threatened the woman with acid.\n\nAfter the verdict, Webbe said she was \"deeply shocked\" and would appeal.\n\nThe prosecution said Webbe, of Islington, north London, made 16 calls to 59-year-old Michelle Merritt, a friend of her partner Lester Thomas, between September 2018 and April last year.\n\nThe court heard on one occasion she made an \"angry\" call, used a derogatory term and added: \"You should be acid.\"\n\nIn another she threatened to send naked photos and videos of Ms Merritt to her family and made silent calls from a withheld number, the hearing was told.\n\nDuring cross-examination on Wednesday, Webbe, who was suspended by the Labour party, said she had never met Ms Merritt and \"there was no reason for any falling out\".\n\nShe claimed a recorded phone call on 25 April in which Webbe was heard saying \"get out of my relationship\" 11 times was taken out of context.\n\nWebbe said it had been during a heated argument with Mr Thomas over breaching the Covid-19 lockdown with Ms Merritt.\n\n\"I simply called her and asked her not to break lockdown with Lester,\" she said.\n\n\"She was breaking the rules and I was just pointing it out. I'm the victim.\"\n\nWebbe claimed she was a victim of \"domestic abuse and coercive control\" and was being \"goaded and gaslighted\" during the row, which resulted in police being called after a neighbour reported her screams.\n\nShe confirmed she was still in a relationship with Mr Thomas and they were engaged.\n\nWebbe told the court she was still with her partner Lester Thomas\n\nWebbe previously said: \"I have spent my lifetime campaigning for the rights of women, for challenging this type of behaviour and this is not something that is in my character and not something I would ever do.\"\n\nPaul Hynes QC representing Webbe read out character references from former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott.\n\nMs Abbott said the defendant was \"very committed to working to support women\", describing her \"warm, empathetic manner\" and added: \"I regard her as a very honest woman.\"\n\nWhile Mr Corbyn said she was \"very committed to ensuring the administration of justice is done\" and prepared to \"state uncomfortable truths when it matters\".\n\nHowever, District Judge Paul Goldspring said he had found Webbe \"untruthful\" in her evidence.\n\n\"Some of the things she said I believe were made up on the spur of the moment,\" he said.\n\n\"Some things she said in the witness box just don't bear scrutiny.\n\n\"In short, I find Ms Webbe to be vague, incoherent and at times illogical.\"\n\nHe released Webbe on unconditional bail but warned her that she could face prison when she is sentenced on 4 November.\n\n\"Threatening to throw acid at somebody and to send intimate photographs to family members crosses the custody threshold,\" he added.\n\nAfter the verdict, Webbe said: \"I am innocent and will appeal this verdict. As I said in court and repeat now, I have never threatened violence nor have I ever harassed anyone.\"\n\nHer lawyer, Raj Chada, added: \"The recording of the call Ms Webbe made has been taken out of context. We are sure that Ms Webbe will be vindicated at an appeal.\"\n\nLisa Rose from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Webbe's \"persistent nuisance behaviour caused considerable distress and alarm to her victim who became genuinely concerned for her safety\".\n\n\"No-one should have to endure this sort of harassment,\" she added.\n\nThe Labour Party called on Webbe to step down after the verdict.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"The Labour Party strongly condemns Claudia Webbe's actions and she should now resign.\"\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.", "New rules allowing travellers returning to England to take lateral flow tests instead of more expensive PCR tests will come into force on 24 October.\n\nThe government says the changes will take effect in time for families returning from half term breaks.\n\nFully vaccinated passengers will be told to upload photos of their Covid-19 tests for verification.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said it would make travel easier and simpler.\n\nThe travel industry had said it was vital to make the changes to the Covid travel tests in time for the half term holiday.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said: \"This is great news and we're pleased to get it over the line in time for the crucial half term period, which will be a massive relief to families desperate to get away this autumn.\"\n\nAlong with last week's reduction of the travel red list and the recognition of vaccinations administered in more foreign countries, the change is \"a major step forward that will support the desperately needed recovery of our sector,\" he said.\n\nThe changes come as the UK continues to record the highest level of Covid-19 infections and deaths in western Europe, with another 45,066 cases recorded on Thursday - the largest number since late July.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Foster explains how lateral flow tests work and how to do one\n\nA further 157 deaths were also recorded.\n\nPolicy on travel is devolved, but Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have previously aligned with policy in England, citing the practicalities of the shared border.\n\nBut Wales criticised replacing PCR tests, which are often described as the gold standard for Covid testing, with lateral flow tests, saying that along with other relaxed measures it would \"considerably increase\" the risk of new variants coming into the country.\n\nUnder the existing system, PCR tests taken on day two after returning to England can cost about £75 per person.\n\nWhen the changes come into effect, anyone who receives a positive result from their lateral flow test will be required to self-isolate and to take a free PCR test to confirm it.\n\nTravellers due to arrive in England from 24 October onwards will be able to order their lateral flow tests from 22 October, when a list of approved providers will be published on the gov.uk website.\n\nNHS Test and Trace tests - which can be ordered for free - cannot be used for international travel, the government said.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"We want to make going abroad easier and cheaper, whether you're travelling for work or visiting friends and family.\"\n\nHe said the change was made possible by the high levels of vaccination, which means \"we can safely open up travel as we learn to live with the virus\".\n\nMr Shapps said: \"Taking away expensive mandatory PCR testing will boost the travel industry and is a major step forward in normalising international travel and encouraging people to book holidays with confidence.\"\n\nDoes this change come in time for your holiday? Did you decide not to travel this year due to the cost of testing? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also 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 consultation has opened on a \"significant\" redrawing of Scotland's electoral map, with widespread changes to Westminster constituencies.\n\nPopulation changes mean Scotland is due to lose two MPs as part of the review, while England will gain ten.\n\nMajor alterations are to be made to boundaries across the country to ensure seats are roughly equal.\n\nA series of consultations and public hearings will be held, and the plans will need to be confirmed by MPs.\n\nMore sweeping changes which would have seen the House of Commons reduced from 650 seats to 600 were considered in 2017, but were ultimately scrapped.\n\nBy law, the electoral map needs to be reviewed on a regular basis to keep it up to date with demographic changes - for example, so that fast-growing urban areas have enough representatives, and so that MPs all represent a similar number of voters.\n\nThe current set of Westminster boundaries have been in place since 2005, when Scotland dropped from 72 constituencies down to 59.\n\nThe review is carried out by independent boundary commissioners in each part of the country according to a strict set of rules based on how big each seat should be in terms of population and geographical size.\n\nAside from island constituencies like Orkney and Shetland, which are protected, each seat should comprise between 69,724 and 77,062 voters.\n\nOnly 18 of Scotland's current constituencies fit this quota, and only nine will be untouched by the review.\n\nConstituencies in mainland Scotland would see major alterations to electoral map boundaries\n\nIt was announced in January that the quota for constituency size meant Scotland would have two fewer MPs than under previous boundaries. England would gain ten, while Wales would lose eight.\n\nThe proposals from the Boundary Commission for Scotland underline how this could work in practice, with one seat taken from the Glasgow area and another from the area covering Aberdeenshire, Moray and the Highlands.\n\nThese are not the only changes planned, however, with \"significant\" alterations needed to adhere to the strict limits on the number of electors in each area and ensure fairness at the ballot box.\n\nProf Ailsa Henderson - one of the boundary commissioners - pointed out that Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross currently has almost 47,000 voters - while Linlithgow and East Falkirk has 88,000.\n\nShe said this meant that \"votes in small constituencies can be worth the equivalent of two votes in the larger constituency\", adding: \"If everyone is selecting representatives to the same legislature, but their votes are worth more based purely on where they live, then that is obviously a problem.\"\n\nThe boundary commissioners have to sketch out new constituency lines across an incredibly nuanced framework of geographical features, population centres, council wards and historical communities.\n\nAnd, as the eight-week consultation will underline, they also have to think about people.\n\nPast reviews have elicited a vast range of responses, from fury to incomprehension. People invest part of their personal identity into where they're from and indeed where they're not from, and are often suspicious of change.\n\nFor example, the ultimately binned 2017 review attracted a deluge of comments from people in Perthshire and Fife who really didn't like the idea of sharing a constituency - one of whom threatened to leave the country altogether if the changes went through.\n\nThere will also be the usual predictable political posturing from parties seeking to paint the non-partisan exercise as some kind of gerrymandering.\n\nBut at the end of the day, times change and populations are not static. At times the commissioners might have a difficult and seemingly thankless task on their hands - but they argue it is a necessary one to ensure our elections are fair.\n\nThe commission is carrying out an eight-week consultation on the proposals, before a series of public hearings are held in early 2022.\n\nThe plans will be refined ahead of a further consultation later that year, with recommendations to be submitted to parliament by July 2023.\n\nThe next Westminster election is expected the following year, although that could still change.\n\nThe Boundary Commissions for England and Wales have already begun initial consultations, while another will get underway in Northern Ireland later this year.\n\nLord Matthews - a senior judge and deputy chairman of the Boundary Commission for Scotland - said: \"I believe this is a promising start to delivering the requirements of the new rules that mean the number of constituencies in Scotland will reduce from 59 to 57, and that each mainland constituency must have broadly the same number of electors.\n\n\"Today is the beginning of a process, and we now want to hear the views of the public. We strongly encourage voters to make their views heard.\"\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. Highlights from the Queen's visit to the Senedd\n\nThe Queen has officially opened the Welsh Assembly saying it marked a \"further significant development in the history of devolution in Wales\".\n\nShe was greeted with music and poetry as she arrived at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay at about 11:30 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThe Only Boys Aloud choir, harpist Anne Denholm and the National Youth Choir of Wales were among the performers.\n\nFirst Minister Carwyn Jones said all AMs had a duty to work together to \"deliver for the people we serve\".\n\nAddressing politicians in the Senedd as she opened the fifth Welsh Assembly, the Queen said the institution was \"an achievement in which all who care about Wales can take pride\".\n\n\"Your responsibilities are great and the expectations are high, but I have no doubt you will continue to succeed as you discharge these new duties,\" she said.\n\nThe Queen and Duke of Edinburgh arrived at the Senedd followed by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall\n\n\"I wish you every success as you prepare to meet the challenges of these constitutional changes, and to help realise the potential of the assembly for future generations.\"\n\nFirst Minister Carwyn Jones emphasised that \"no single party\" had a majority in the assembly chamber.\n\n\"No individual has a monopoly on good ideas and no person should feel excluded from out work,\" he said.\n\n\"It's required of us all, a duty, to be true to our values and to respect the mandate on which we were elected but ultimately to work together.\n\n\"To discuss, to compromise and to act in a respectful way that allows us all, collectively, to deliver for the people we serve.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen praises the 'remarkable record of achievement' of the assembly\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall also attended the royal opening.\n\nChildren and young people from a range of schools and organisations across Wales gathered on the steps of the Senedd to welcome them.\n\nA new poem by the National Poet of Wales, Ifor ap Glyn was also presented to mark the Queen's 90th birthday.\n\nPresiding Officer Elin Jones urged AMs to show \"passion in our debate, prudence in conciliation\".\n\n\"We have been elected by the people of this country, and we commit to being their voice and to providing the standard of service and leadership they deserve and demand of us,\" she added.\n\nThe mace was carried into the Senedd chamber by assembly security manager Chetan Patel, before Ms Jones officially welcomes the royal visitors.\n\nA large screen outside the Senedd relayed proceedings to members of the public, who were invited inside for free Welsh cakes and tours of the building after the ceremony.\n\nThe Queen's arrival in Cardiff was marked by a 21-gun salute\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall later attended a reception with AMs at the Wales Millennium Centre, and viewed the field of poppies outside its entrance which commemorates soldiers who died in World War One.\n\nThe Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh also opened a new £44m brain research centre at Cardiff University.\n• None BBC One Wales: Royal Opening of the Assembly\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Oliver Barker brought down the hammer on the record sale\n\nA Banksy artwork which shredded itself at a previous auction has sold for a record £16m.\n\nLove is in the Bin was what remained of the artist's live destruction of his piece Girl with Balloon, which sold for £1m in 2018.\n\nIt went under the hammer at Sotheby's in London on Thursday, selling for £16m - vastly over its £4-6m guide price.\n\nThe sale, which saw nine bidders battle for around 10 minutes, beats the previous record of £16.8m set for Banksy in March.\n\nAfter closing bidding, auctioneer Oliver Barker joked he was relieved that the artwork was \"still there\".\n\nBefore opening the bidding, Mr Barker said that the painting became an \"unexpected piece of performance art\" when it shredded in the same auction room after being sold to a \"private European investor\" three years ago.\n\nOpening bids at £2.5m, its price tag hit £10m within minutes as numerous offers were placed.\n\nBidding then gradually climbed to a record £15m as the race progressively narrowed down between fewer bidders.\n\nThere were a few tentative moments after bidder Nick Buckley Wood, representing a private investor, waited to see if anyone would outdo his client's £16m offer.\n\nA shake of the head from his rival finally indicated they were out of the running.\n\nMr Barker said: \"At £16m ladies and gentlemen we are selling the Banksy at Sotheby's.\n\n\"You were here for this fantastic moment.\"\n\nHe then drew laughter from the audience after saying: \"I can't tell you how terrified I am to bring down this hammer.\"\n\nIn keeping with his irreverent guerrilla style, Love is in the Bin saw Banksy poke fun at the art world.\n\nSotheby's contemporary art chairman Alex Branczik said the stunt \"did not so much destroy an artwork by shredding it, but instead created one\".\n\n\"Today, this piece is considered heir to a venerated legacy of anti-establishment art,\" he added, labelling it as \"the ultimate Banksy artwork and a true icon of recent art history\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The anonymous artist uploaded a video of the destruction onto Instagram but soon deleted the post\n\nBack in 2018, moments after the hammer fell at the auction, alarms sounded and the canvas dropped through a hidden shredder built into the bottom.\n\nThe unnamed European woman who bought the piece said: \"At first I was shocked, but I realised I would end up with my own piece of art history.\"\n\nFormer BBC arts editor Will Gompertz wrote at the time that he believed Love is in the Bin would go on to be seen as \"one of the most significant artworks of the early 21st Century\".\n\n\"It is not a great painting that can be compared to a late Rembrandt, or a sculpture to sit alongside Michelangelo's David, but in terms of conceptual art emanating from [Marcel] Duchamp's Dadaist sensibility, it is exceptional,\" he added.\n\n\"It was brilliant in both conception and execution.\"\n\n\"What is Love is in the Bin?\" he asked. \"Is it a painting? Or, is it now a piece of conceptual art? Or should it be classified as a sculpture? Or is it rubbish?\n\n\"Who decides? Who knows? Duchamp would say it is up to you to decide.\"\n\nThe piece had been on permanent loan to the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart museum in Germany since March 2019.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen spoke about her affection for Scotland and the challenges of Covid\n\nThe Queen has spoken of her \"deep and abiding affection\" for Scotland as she officially opened the sixth session of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood.\n\nHer Majesty was joined at the ceremony by Prince Charles and Camilla, The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay.\n\nIt was the first time she had attended the ceremony without Prince Philip, who died this year aged 99.\n\nAs at the last opening in 2016, The Queen was greeted by Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nAfterwards she met people nominated as \"local heroes\" for their work in the community during the Covid pandemic.\n\nAt the start of the ceremony, Her Majesty addressed MSPs gathered in the debating chamber.\n\nShe congratulated the parliament for being able to mark the new session safely in a \"very trying period\", and noted that it had been at the heart of Scotland's response to the pandemic.\n\n\"As we all step out from adverse and uncertain times, occasions such as this today provide an opportunity for hope and optimism,\" Her Majesty said.\n\n\"Marking this new session does indeed bring a sense of beginning and renewal.\"\n\nShe urged MSPs to work together despite their differences of opinion.\n\nCelebrating people who have made an \"extraordinary contribution\" during the pandemic, The Queen noted the \"countless examples of resilience and goodwill\" that have made a difference to others.\n\nShe told the chamber: \"I have spoken before of my deep and abiding affection for this wonderful country and of the many happy memories Prince Philip and I always held of our time here.\n\n\"It is often said that it is the people that make a place and there are few places where this is truer than it is in Scotland, as we have seen in recent times.\"\n\nThe monarch, who has been on her annual break at Balmoral Castle, will return to Scotland next month for COP26, when the \"eyes of the world\" will be on Glasgow.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament has a key role to \"help create a better, healthier future for us all and engage with the people they represent, especially our young people\", The Queen added.\n\nThe Queen was greeted at the Scottish Parliament by Edinburgh Lord Provost Frank Ross\n\nMs Sturgeon and the Scottish Parliament's presiding officer Alison Johnstone both reflected on the new diverse nature of the new parliament.\n\n\"I'm heartened that this parliament is the most diverse that we have ever returned,\" Ms Johnstone said in her opening remarks, noting the first women of colour elected to the chamber.\n\n\"I wish it hadn't taken so long,\" she added.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the chamber better reflected Scotland as a nation \"proud to call itself simply home for everyone who chooses to live here\".\n\nShe said all parties had more to do but there were more women, people of colour and people with disabilities in the Parliament than ever before.\n\nResponding to the Queen's speech, the First Minister offered the parliament's \"deep sympathy and shared sorrow at your loss\" and thanked her for being a \"steadfast friend of our parliament since its establishment in 1999\".\n\nMs Sturgeon continued: \"As we battle through the storm of a global pandemic, hope and the hankering for change is perhaps felt more strongly by more people than at any time in our recent history.\n\n\"That gives this Parliament a momentous responsibility and a historic opportunity.\n\n\"Covid has been the biggest crisis to confront the world since the Second World War - it has caused pain and heartbreak, it has exposed and exacerbated the inequalities within our society.\n\n\"But it has also revealed humankind's boundless capacity for inventiveness, solidarity and love.\n\n\"And for those of us in public service, it has reminded us that with collective political will, changes that we might previously have thought impossible or just too difficult can indeed be achieved.\n\n\"In the months ahead, we must take the same urgency and resolve with which we have confronted this pandemic and apply it to the hard work of recovery and renewal, to the task of building a fairer and greener future for this and the generations who come after us.\"\n\nDue to ongoing Covid restrictions, only invited guests were able to attend.\n\nThey watched a recorded programme of music and entertainment which organisers said reflected \"the rich diversity of Scotland's communities\".\n\nThe newly-appointed Makar, or national poet, Kathleen Jamie recited a poem specially written for the event.\n\nThe Royal Conservatoire Brass performed Fanfare for the Opening of Parliament 2021 from Glasgow Cathedral.\n\nMichael Biggins, BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2021, also performed Ae Fond Kiss by Robert Burns from the BBC Pacific Quay building in Glasgow.\n\nScottish Parliament clerk Rea Cris carried the mace ahead of The Queen as she entered the debating chamber.\n\nMs Cris said: \"It is an honour for me to take on this role within the parliament.\n\n\"The mace is part of the parliament's history and tradition, but the principles engraved on the mace continue to inspire our work today. Compassion is one that inspires me the most.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Prince William says the world's greatest minds are needed to \"repair this planet, not find the next\"\n\nPrince William has suggested entrepreneurs should focus on saving Earth rather than engaging in space tourism.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said great brains and minds should be \"trying to repair this planet, not trying to find the next place to go and live\".\n\nHe also warned about a rise in \"climate anxiety\" among younger generations.\n\nWilliam spoke to the BBC's Newscast ahead of the first Earthshot Prize to reward those trying to save the planet.\n\nThe prize's name is a reference to the \"moonshot\" ambition of 1960s America, which saw then-President John F Kennedy pledge to get a man on the moon within a decade.\n\nSpeaking about the current space race and the drive to promote space tourism, William said: \"We need some of the world's greatest brains and minds fixed on trying to repair this planet, not trying to find the next place to go and live.\n\n\"I think that ultimately is what sold it for me - that really is quite crucial to be focusing on this [planet] rather than giving up and heading out into space to try and think of solutions for the future.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Hollywood actor William Shatner became the oldest person to go to space as he blasted off aboard the Blue Origin sub-orbital capsule developed by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.\n\nSir Richard Branson and Elon Musk are also building up space businesses.\n\nWilliam told Newscast's Adam Fleming he had \"absolutely no interest\" in going as high as space, adding there was a \"fundamental question\" over the carbon cost of space flights.\n\nThe BBC's Adam Fleming interviewed Prince William on the Newscast podcast\n\nHe warned there was \"a rise in climate anxiety\" among young people who whose \"futures are basically threatened the whole time\".\n\n\"It's very unnerving and it's very, you know, anxiety making,\" he said.\n\nThe father-of-three challenged adults to channel their inner child to \"remember how much it meant to be outdoors and what we're robbing those future generations of\".\n\nWilliam also said his father, Prince Charles, had a \"rough ride\" when warning about climate change, adding: \"It's been a hard road for him.\"\n\nHe said Charles, inspired by his father, the late Duke of Edinburgh, \"talked about climate change a lot more, very early on, before anyone else thought it was a topic\".\n\nThe duke added that \"it would be an absolute disaster if [Prince] George is sat here talking\" about saving the planet in 30 year's time.\n\nFive winners of the Earthshot Prize, each receiving £1m, will be announced in a ceremony later this month.\n\nPrince William does Newscast is broadcast on Thursday 14 October. You can watch it on BBC One and the News Channel. You can listen to it BBC Radio 5 Live and on BBC Sounds from 12:00 BST.", "The Queen has visited the Cardiff Bay parliament several times since its formation\n\nThe Home Office advised against the Queen opening the future Welsh Assembly ahead of the devolution referendum in 1997, newly released papers show.\n\nAn official wrote such an event would not be appropriate, with the body not able make new laws at the start.\n\nAs it would be \"wholly subordinate\" to Westminster \"no question of direct relations with the sovereign would arise\", she wrote.\n\nThe monarch went on to attend the official opening of the body in 1999.\n\nThe 1997 files from the National Archives files also show that former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair was urged to visit Wales to bolster support in the vote on whether to set up the Welsh Assembly.\n\nAfter the referendum took place a senior official blamed what he called the Welsh \"language mafia\" for the narrow result.\n\nThe assembly changed its name to the Welsh Parliament/Senedd Cymru in 2020.\n\nIt was established in 1999 following the referendum in September 1997, with 50.3% of voters supporting Yes and 49.7% voting No, on a turnout of 50.22%.\n\nWhen it was created it could not pass its own bills into law, but that changed in 2011 following a further referendum.\n\nA letter from a senior civil servant to the then Wales Office, dated 19 June 1997, said: \"Although it is intended that The Queen or Her representative should formally open the Scottish Parliament, we do not think that the same treatment would be appropriate for the Welsh Assembly, which has no primary legislative functions.\"\n\nIt added that there had been no discussion about it at a cabinet sub-committee on devolution, \"presumably because it was assumed that as a body wholly subordinate to the Westminster Parliament no question of direct relations with the sovereign would arise\".\n\nThe monarch, together with the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Charles, opened the Assembly on 27 May 1999.\n\nShe has visited the Cardiff Bay parliament on several occasions since, including the official opening of the Senedd building in 2007, and at the start of the last term in 2016.\n\nWelsh ministers also became appointees of the Crown in 2007.\n\nThe Queen officially opened the Senedd building in 2007\n\nThe papers also show that a Downing Street official had urged Tony Blair to visit Wales ahead of the 1997 referendum to campaign for the assembly's creation.\n\nThe official said Welsh public opinion was \"finely balanced\" and Mr Blair should do his \"July regional tour there\".\n\nHowever, the official added: \"Watch out for the Welsh National Show. This is a ghastly cows and National Costume affair.\"\n\nThe former prime minister went on to take part in the pro-devolution campaign, visiting south Wales in July 1997.\n\nThe documents released by the National Archives also included a confidential memo which identified a number of issues with the Yes campaign, proffering suggestions on why the result was not more clear cut.\n\nIt highlighted an \"absence of clear political direction\" and \"no clear campaign strategy\".\n\nThe memo also suggested the campaign failed to adequately counter the accusation from the \"no\" campaign that people \"will be forced to speak Welsh\".\n\nPeter Hain, the parliamentary under-secretary for Wales, was said to be \"particularly concerned about the need to reform Wales' Labour Party\" to ensure it was both \"better at campaigning\" and offered \"proper opportunities for women candidates\".\n\nAnd Pat McFadden, a Downing Street aide who would become a Labour MP in 2005, agreed attacks over cost and allegations of an assembly creating \"jobs for the boys\" were successful \"because we could not advance a good positive reason for having an Assembly\".\n\nHe said: \"In other words, the cost would have been more defensible if it was for something people thought was worth having.\"\n\nHe added, in his note to Jonathan Powell, Mr Blair's chief of staff: \"On the Welsh language you know my view - this scared people in much of Wales who already resent the language mafia.\"\n\nMr Blair later said he \"steamrolled\" devolution into being in Wales despite objections from many within his party.", "Europe's northernmost country, the Kingdom of Norway is famed for its mountains and spectacular fjord coastline, as well as its history as a seafaring power.\n\nIt also enjoys one of the world's highest standards of living, in large part due to the discovery in the late 1960s of offshore oil and gas.\n\nIt is a major oil exporter and has resisted the temptation to splurge its windfall, choosing instead to deposit the surplus wealth into its oil fund - now the world's largest sovereign wealth fund.\n\nWhat to do with the money is a hot political issue: whether to use more of it to improve infrastructure or keep it for a rainy day and future generations.\n\nNorway plays an active international role. It has mediated between Israel and the Palestinians as well as in the Sri Lankan conflict, and has participated in military action in Afghanistan and Libya. Ex-premier Jens Stoltenberg is Nato's secretary general.\n\nIt defies a global ban on commercial whaling, along with Japan and Iceland.\n\nCrown Prince Harald became king on the death of his father Olav V in 1991. Born in 1937, he fled with his mother and siblings to the United States after the German invasion in 1940, while his father and grandfather, the then King Haakon VII, joined the government in exile in London.\n\nKing Harald is a keen sportsman, and represented Norway with distinction as a yachtsman at the Tokyo, Mexico and Munich Olympics. He caused some controversy by marrying a commoner, rather than a royal princess.\n\nThe king has clearly defined constitutional duties. Apart from being head of the armed forces and Church of Norway, he chairs the Council of State once a week. He appoints the government according to which party commands the largest number of seats in parliament, or else on the advice of the head of parliament and the prime minister of the day.\n\nKing Harald has continued the royal family's tradition of unpretentious public duty, and serves as a symbol of the country's strong sense of national identity.\n\nJonas Gahr Store's centre-left Labour Party won the greatest number of seats in the September 2021 general election, but not enough to form a majority government.\n\nIn alliance with the agrarian Centre Party, he leads a minority coalition government, which are common in Nordic countries..\n\nErna Solberg, who had been prime minister since 2013 resigned after her Conservative party ended up with the second-largest number of seats.\n\nStore, like his political mentors Gro Harlem Brundtland and Jens Stoltenberg, is associated with the business-friendly right wing of the Labour Party.\n\nThe media are free and journalists do not face censorship or political pressure, says Reporters Without Borders.\n\nSailors on a replica Viking boat recall an era when their forebears traded and raided across Europe\n\nCirca 800-1050 - Viking Age, in which Scandinavians go on plundering expeditions abroad. Some Norwegians settle at their destinations, including Scotland and Greenland.\n\n1905 - Norwegian parliament, the Storting, proclaims independence from Sweden. Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King.\n\n1940 - German forces invade Norway in April, attacking important ports. fighting lasts for two months.\n\nThe Royal Family and the government flee to Britain in June. A government-in-exile is set up in London. Vidkun Quisling proclaims himself head of government in Norway.\n\n1941 - Quisling introduces martial law due to widespread resistance and acts of sabotage by the Norwegian people.\n\n1945 - German forces in Norway surrender in May. The King returns to Norway in June. Quisling is tried and executed for treason. Norway becomes a charter member of the United Nations.\n\n1959 - Norway becomes founder member of the European Free Trade Association (Efta).\n\nLate 1960s - Oil and gas deposits discovered in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. By the early 1980s they constitute nearly one-third of Norway's annual export earnings.\n\n1970s - Exploitation of oil and gas deposits begins. By the early 1980s they constitute nearly one-third of Norway's annual export earnings.\n\n1994 - Norwegians for the second time reject membership of the European Union in a referendum, by a margin of about 5%.\n\n2011 - Extreme right-winger Anders Behring Breivik carries out a bomb attack and mass shooting, killing more than 70 people in the worst massacre in Norway's modern history.\n\n2016 - The Lutheran Church - to which three-quarters of Norwegians belong - adopts a new liturgy allowing gay couples to marry in church weddings.\n\nThe Northern lights over Tromso in northern Norway\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Queen has officially opened the sixth term of the Senedd - Welsh Parliament, but ahead of the devolution referendum in 1997, she was advised against opening the future Welsh Assembly, recently released papers show.\n\nAn official wrote such an event would not be appropriate, with the body not able make new laws at the start.\n\nAs it would be \"wholly subordinate\" to Westminster, \"no question of direct relations with the sovereign would arise\", she wrote.\n\nThe monarch went on to attend the official opening of the body in 1999.\n\nThe 1997 files from the National Archives also show that former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair was urged to visit Wales to bolster support in the vote on whether to set up the Welsh Assembly.\n\nAfter the referendum took place, a senior official blamed what he called the Welsh \"language mafia\" for the narrow result.\n\nThe assembly changed its name to the Welsh Parliament - Senedd Cymru in 2020.\n\nIt was established in 1999 following the referendum in September 1997, with 50.3% of voters supporting Yes and 49.7% voting No, on a turnout of 50.22%.", "Anthony Kemp told police he would rather spend his last years in prison than sleep on the streets\n\nA homeless man who walked into a police station to admit to a killing he committed almost 40 years ago has been jailed for life for murder.\n\nAnthony Kemp was 21 when he bludgeoned Christopher Ainscough with a marble ashtray after they met on a night out in London in December 1983.\n\nNow aged 59, Kemp confessed to the killing in July, telling police \"I'm not going to sleep on the streets.\"\n\nHe was sentenced at the Old Bailey to a minimum of 15 and a half years in jail.\n\nThe court previously heard Mr Ainscough, 50, had invited Kemp back to his home in Kilburn in the early hours of the morning and was on the sofa when he was attacked.\n\nHis body was found after the head waiter failed to turn up for work at a restaurant in the City.\n\nChristopher Ainscough moved to London from Ireland in the 1950s\n\nThe original murder investigation was closed in 1985 when no leads were found, but was reopened after Kemp confessed to the killing.\n\nOn 28 July he turned up at Chiswick police station and began throwing stones at the window.\n\nHe then told an officer he had murdered someone 40 years ago, explaining that: \"I'd rather do the last few years of my life in bang-up than sleep on the streets.\"\n\nThe court heard that Kemp told police he \"bashed\" his victim's \"brains in\" during an argument, but he did not know what had sparked the row.\n\nHe retracted his confession three days later after being released on bail and blamed the murder on his accomplice from an aggravated burglary in 1988, who had killed himself in prison.\n\nHowever, police matched Kemp's DNA to that left on a cigarette butt in Mr Ainscough's sitting room and he later pleaded guilty to murder.\n\nSentencing Kemp, Judge Mark Dennis QC said: \"This was a wholly unjustified, brutal killing that led to the death of a harmless, well respected, good-natured man who had befriended you and caused you no harm.\"\n\nIn a victim statement read in court, a close friend of Mr Ainscough, who asked not to be named, described him as \"a kind, generous, caring and funny man\" who \"had the extraordinary ability to get on with anybody and everybody\".\n\n\"The brutality of what was done has haunted me,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Gerry Robinson was knighted in 2003 for services to the arts and business\n\nBusinessman and broadcaster Sir Gerry Robinson has died at the age of 72.\n\nSir Gerry, a former chairman and chief executive of Granada TV, died at Letterkenny University Hospital, County Donegal, in the Republic of Ireland on Thursday.\n\nHe was knighted in 2003 for services to the arts and business.\n\nAs a broadcaster, he presented a number of series for the BBC including I'll Show Them Who's Boss in 2004 and Can Gerry Robinson Fix The NHS? in 2007.\n\nIn 2011, he presented the BBC television show Can't Take It with You, which helped people to write their wills.\n\nOne of 10 siblings, Sir Gerry was born in October 1948.\n\nHe grew up in Dunfanaghy, County Donegal, before moving to England as a teenager.\n\nSir Gerry Robinson was chairman of Granada TV from 1996 until 2001\n\nDuring a career which began in 1965, when he joined Matchbox Toys as an accounting clerk, Sir Gerry went on to serve as chairman of drinks giant Allied Domecq, BSkyB and ITN as well as the Arts Council England.\n\nHe joined Granada in 1991 as chief executive and was chairman from 1996 until 2001.\n\nIn 2010, he accused politicians in Northern Ireland of lacking the will to make tough decisions to improve the health service.\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\nSir Gerry and his wife Lady Heather Robinson have lived on Oakfield Park Estate in Raphoe, County Donegal, since 1998, where they opened a botanical garden and a narrow gauge railway.", "Residents in the small Norwegian town of Kongsberg have given their reaction to a bow and arrow attack that left five people dead.\n\nThe suspect, a 37-year-old Danish citizen named Espen Andersen Brathen, is accused of killing four women and a man on Wednesday night.\n\nNorway's security service (PST) said it appears to have been an act of terror.\n\nRead more: Norway attack appears to be terrorism - officials", "Last updated on .From the section Sport Africa\n\nKenyan world record holder Agnes Tirop has been found stabbed to death at her home in the western town of Iten, with police treating her husband as a suspect.\n\nThe two-time World Athletics Championships bronze medallist, who finished fourth in the Olympic 5,000m final two months ago, was 25.\n\nLast month, Tirop set the world record for a women's only 10km road race in Germany.\n\nA criminal investigation is now underway into her death, with police saying her husband has gone missing.\n\nOn Wednesday, crime scene investigators were at the house of Tirop, who police say was reported missing by her father on Tuesday night.\n\n\"When [police] got in the house, they found Tirop on the bed and there was a pool of blood on the floor,\" Tom Makori, head of police for the area, said.\n\n\"They saw she had been stabbed in the neck, which led us to believe it was a knife wound, and we believe that is what caused her death.\n\n\"Her husband is still at large, and preliminary investigations tell us her husband is a suspect because he cannot be found. Police are trying to find her husband so he can explain what happened to Tirop.\"\n\nMakori added that police believe that CCTV in the house may be able to help with their investigation.\n\nTirop was also found dead with a stab wound to her stomach, sources have told the BBC.\n\n\"Athletics Kenya are distraught to learn about the untimely death of World 10,000m bronze medallist Agnes Tirop,\" the country's athletics body said in a statement.\n\n\"We are still working to unearth more details surrounding her demise. Kenya has lost a jewel who was one of the fastest-rising athletics giants on the international stage, thanks to her eye-catching performances on the track.\"\n\nTirop's first taste of international success saw her win the world junior 5,000m bronze in 2012 and 2014, as well as a world junior cross country silver in 2013.\n\nTwo years later, during a rapid ascent, she won the senior World Cross Country championships in China, becoming the second-youngest woman after Zola Budd to claim gold.\n\nAt the 2020 Olympic Games in August, Tirop finished just outside the medal places for the women's 5,000m, trailing Ethiopia's bronze medallist Gudaf Tsegay by 0.75 seconds.\n\n\"It is unsettling, utterly unfortunate and very sad that we've lost a young and promising athlete who, at a young age of 25 years, had brought our country so much glory,\" Kenya's president Uhuru Kenyatta said.\n\n\"It is even more painful that Agnes, a Kenyan hero by all measures, painfully lost her young life through a criminal act perpetuated by selfish and cowardly people.\"\n\n\"I urge our law enforcement agencies to track down and apprehend the criminals responsible for the killing of Agnes so that they can face the full force of the law,\" the head of state added.\n\nAs well as her 10,000m bronze medals at both the 2017 and 2019 World Athletics Championships, Tirop also impressed off the track.\n\nIn September, she set a time of 30 minutes and one second in Herzogenaurach, Germany, as she took 28 seconds off the old 10km road race record set in 2002.\n\nFormer double Olympic champion and World Athletics president Sebastian Coe led tributes from the sport, describing Tirop as \"one of the world's best female distance runners over the past six years\".\n\nHe added: \"Athletics has lost one of its brightest young stars in the most tragic circumstances. This is a terrible blow to the entire athletics community, but especially to her family, her friends and Athletics Kenya and I send them all our most heartfelt condolences.\"\n\nInternational Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach called her \"a young and bright talent,\" who \"gave hope and inspiration to so many people,\" while the athlete's sponsor Adidas said Tirop's \"legacy will forever live on in our memory\".\n\nMichel Boeting, who has acted as a sports agent for many of Kenya's leading runners, tweeted : \"We will never again see that majestic running style. We will never again see you raising your arms in celebration.\n\n\"But the worst is we will never see your beautiful smile again. You were Royal. It was a pleasure knowing you.\"", "Ian Paisley, seen here with Boris Johnson on a visit to a bus factory in 2016, said the PM had agreed tot he protocol 'for the semantics'\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he would tear up the Northern Ireland Protocol shortly after he made the EU deal, DUP MP Ian Paisley has claimed.\n\nThe PM reportedly made the remarks before MPs voted on the deal in 2019.\n\nThe claims followed comments from Boris Johnson's ex-adviser who said the plan was to \"ditch the bits we didn't like\".\n\nThat prompted the Irish deputy PM to warn countries considering trade deals with the UK that it is a nation that \"doesn't necessarily keep its word\".\n\nThe protocol, agreed by the EU and UK in the Brexit deal, keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and allows free-flowing trade with the EU.\n\nBut the UK now says the arrangement imposes too many barriers, as it means goods arriving in Northern Ireland from Britain face checks and controls.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM told me he planned to 'tear up' NI Protocol\n\nOn Wednesday, the EU revealed its plan to reduce checks on those goods.\n\nThe proposals include scrapping checks on most food products being shipped to, and remaining in, Northern Ireland from Great Britain.\n\nThe EU said their new plan would remove about 80% of spot checks and cut customs paperwork by 50%.\n\nHowever, the measures fall short of UK demands to fundamentally change the protocol by removing the European Court of Justice (ECJ) from an oversight role.\n\nThe UK government said it was studying the detail of the EU's proposals.\n\n\"Boris Johnson did tell me personally that he would, after agreeing to the protocol, he would sign up to changing that protocol and indeed tearing it up, that this was just for the semantics,\" Mr Paisley told the BBC's Newsnight programme.\n\n\"Now that comment has been verified by another source [Dominic Cummings] much closer to Boris Johnson within his own government,\" added the North Antrim MP.\n\nThe conversation between Mr Johnson and Mr Paisley allegedly took place just before the first House of Commons vote on the Brexit withdrawal agreement in October 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leo Varadkar casts doubt on the trustworthiness of the British government.\n\nOn Tuesday, Downing Street's former strategy chief Dominic Cummings tweeted that he had planned in the autumn of 2019 to get the prime minister to \"ditch bits\" of the Brexit deal.\n\nIn a series of tweets, Mr Cummings - who has turned against Mr Johnson since being removed from Downing Street at the end of 2020 - claimed the prime minister never understood what the withdrawal agreement really meant.\n\nHe also dismissed suggestions that abandoning elements of the deal would mean breaking international law.\n\n\"Our priorities meant e.g. getting Brexit done is 10,000 times more important than lawyers yapping re international law in negotiations with people who break international law all the time,\" he said.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol is part of the Brexit deal: It is an agreement that means goods can pass freely across the Irish border. Basically, lorries don't have to stop and prove their goods follow EU rules when they go between Northern Ireland (in the UK) and the Republic of Ireland (in the EU).\n\nIt means Northern Ireland still follows some EU rules: As the rest of the UK (England, Scotland, Wales) no longer follow EU trade rules, some goods from there have to be checked when they arrive in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut some goods from Britain can't enter Northern Ireland at all: EU rules don't allow certain products, like chilled sausages, to enter its market. A grace period, where the rules don't apply, has been in place since January but no long-term solution has been found.\n\nThe tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister), Leo Varadkar, said Mr Cummings' claims \"must resonate around the world\".\n\n\"Essentially now what Dominic Cummings is saying is that this is a country that makes treaties, that strikes agreements and then intends to renege on them,\" he added.\n\n\"Don't make any agreement with the British government; don't sign any treaty with the United Kingdom, until you can be confident that this is a country that can honour its promises.\"\n\nHowever, when asked about Mr Cummings claims, Brexit negotiator Lord Frost said: \"We all understood extremely well what the deal meant, it delivered on democracy, took the UK out of the EU whole and entire, and it was a very good deal.\"\n\nBut he said it now had to be changed because it was \"undermining the Belfast Good Friday Agreement, not supporting it\".\n\n\"The problem with the protocol at the moment is that EU law, with the European Court of Justice as the enforcer, is applied in Northern Ireland without any democratic process. That has to change if we are to find governance arrangements people can live with,\" he said.\n\nSinn Féin's deputy leader Michelle O'Neill has urged a recall the Northern Ireland Assembly to demonstrate support for the NI Protocol, following the EU's proposal.\n\nThe European Commission's Maros Šefčovič will speak with Stormont's political leaders about the plan later.", "Carbon emissions are rebounding strongly and are rising across the world's 20 richest nations, according to a new study.\n\nThe Climate Transparency Report says that CO2 will go up by 4% across the G20 group this year, having dropped 6% in 2020 due to the pandemic.\n\nChina, India and Argentina are set to exceed their 2019 emissions levels.\n\nThe authors say that the continued use of fossil fuels is undermining efforts to rein in temperatures.\n\nWith just two weeks left until the critical COP26 climate conference opens in Glasgow, the task facing negotiators is stark.\n\nOne of the key goals of the gathering is to take steps to keep the important 1.5C temperature threshold alive and within reach.\n\nFlooding has taken place in many parts of China across 2021\n\nWith the world currently around 1.1C warmer than pre-industrial times, limiting future incremental increases is extremely challenging.\n\nIf Glasgow is going to succeed on this question, then the countries that create the most carbon will have to put ambitious policies into place.\n\nThe evidence from this new report is that it isn't happening fast enough.\n\nThe G20 group is responsible for around 75% of global emissions, which fell significantly last year as economies were closed down in response to Covid-19.\n\nBut this year's rebound is being powered by fossil fuel, especially coal.\n\nAccording to the report, compiled by 16 research organisations and environmental campaign groups, coal use across the G20 is projected to rise by 5% this year.\n\nThis is mainly due to China who are responsible for around 60% of the rise, but increases in coal are also taking place in the US and India.\n\nCoal use in China has surged with the country experiencing increased demand for energy as the global economy has recovered.\n\nCoal prices are up nearly 200% from a year ago.\n\nThis in turn has seen power cuts as it became uneconomical for coal-fired electricity plants generate electricity in recent months.\n\nWith the Chinese government announcing a change in policy this week to allow these power plants to charge market rates for their energy, the expectation is that this will spur even more coal use this year.\n\nWhen it comes to gas, the Climate Transparency Report finds that use is up by 12% across the G20 in the 2015-2020 period.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.\n\nWhile political leaders have promised that the global recovery from Covid should have a green focus, the financial commitments made by rich nations don't bear this out.\n\nOf the $1.8tn that has been earmarked for recovery spending, just $300bn will go on green projects.\n\nTo put that figure into context, it almost matches the $298bn spent by G20 countries in subsidising fossil fuel industries in the eighteen months up to August 2021.\n\nThe report also points to some positive developments including the growth of solar and wind energy in richer countries, with record amounts of new capacity installed across the G20 last year.\n\nRenewables now supply around 12% of power compared to 10% in 2020.\n\nPolitically, there has been significant progress as well with the G20 group as the majority recognise that net zero targets are needed for around the middle of this century.\n\nAll members of the group have agreed to put new 2030 carbon plans on the table before the Glasgow conference.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Reality Check explains how to cut your carbon footprint\n\nHowever, China, India, Australia and Saudi Arabia have not yet done so.\n\n\"G20 governments need to come to the table with more ambitious national emission reductions targets. The numbers in this report confirm we can't move the dial without them - they know it, we know it - the ball is firmly in their court ahead of COP26,\" said Kim Coetzee from Climate Analytics, who coordinated the overall analysis.\n\nThere are expectations that both India and China will submit new national plans before the meeting in Glasgow, which could give a significant boost to attempts to keep the 1.5C target in view.\n\nThe G20 group will meet in Rome in the days leading up to COP26 and the UK minister who will lead the talks has in recent days urged the leaders of these countries to now step up.\n\n\"It is leaders who made a promise to the world in Paris six years ago, and it is leaders that must honour it,\" said Alok Sharma.\n\n\"Responsibility rests with each and every country, and we must all play our part. Because on climate, the world will succeed, or fail, as one.\"", "The government is to allow 800 foreign abattoir workers into the UK on temporary visas, after warnings from farmers of mass culls.\n\nIt previously said businesses should pay higher wages and invest in skills.\n\nThe shortage of butchers has already seen farmers destroy 6,600 healthy pigs due to a backlog on farms, the National Pig Association (NPA) said.\n\nThe government also announced plans to allow thousands more HGV deliveries to address a chronic driver shortage.\n\nThe meat industry blames the butcher shortage on factors including Covid and Brexit.\n\nThousands of healthy pigs have been culled since last week, when the tally was about 600.\n\nLast week, the National Farmer's Union (NFU) warned that pig farmers were \"facing a human disaster\" due to the shortage of butchers.\n\nIt said that \"empty retail shelves and product shortages are becoming increasingly commonplace and Christmas specialities such as pigs in blankets are already under threat\".\n\nThe government is temporarily extending its seasonal workers scheme to pork butchers, it said.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said the new measures were only temporary, not a long term solution\n\nUp to 800 pork butchers will be eligible to apply until the end of the year for six-month visas.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said: \"A unique range of pressures on the pig sector over recent months, such as the impacts of the pandemic and its effect on export markets, have led to the temporary package of measures we are announcing.\n\n\"This is the result of close working with industry to understand how we can support them through this challenging time.\"\n\nThe government added that the temporary visas \"are not a long term solution and businesses must make long term investments in the UK domestic workforce to build a high-wage, high-skill economy, instead of relying on overseas labour\".\n\nAlongside the temporary visas, the government announced a package of measures for the industry, including:\n\nIt said there had been \"a suspension of approval to export to China for some UK pork establishments\" and that it was working with the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board to identify other export markets.\n\nThe extension of visa requirements for butchers follows the announcement of temporary visas for lorry drivers and poultry workers, as the government seeks to limit disruption in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nBut the first foreign HGV drivers brought in on the new visa scheme may not arrive for another month, sources told BBC transport correspondent Carrie Davies.\n\nThe visa scheme for HGV drivers to deliver food, opened for applications on Monday.\n\nThe Home Office has not confirmed the number of visas that have been applied for so far, but several agencies that are recruiting the drivers told the BBC that they were yet to apply for them.\n\nMore heavy good vehicle drivers are being trained after the government simplified the qualification process in September\n\nA chronic shortage of lorry drivers, which the haulage industry has said is due to factors that include Covid and Brexit, has affected businesses including petrol stations and supermarkets.\n\nThe government announced on Thursday that it planned to temporarily allow lorries from the EU to make more deliveries, as part of efforts to address the shortage.\n\nAt the moment, EU lorries can only make two \"cabotage\" trips per week.\n\nCabotage refers to loading or unloading goods in one country when a vehicle is registered in another country.\n\nThe government wants to relax this rule to temporarily allow EU lorries to make unlimited pick-ups and drop-offs within a two week period.", "Demolition has begun of a block of houses on Wales' most polluted street.\n\nNitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels on Hafodyrynys Road, near Crumlin, Caerphilly county, have been the highest in the UK outside central London.\n\nCaerphilly council bought the 23 homes after price agreements with the owners.\n\nThe work had been due to begin in May but the council said it had to be postponed twice due to the pandemic.\n\nThe site was prepared for demolition to start after gas supplies were removed.\n\nMartin Brown, who lived at Woodside Terrace on Hafodyrynys Road for 50 years, said: \"My wife Patricia's crying her eyes out at home but I'm happy it's finally happening.\n\n\"The houses might be going, but we've got memories of our time here, good and bad.\n\n\"But they did need to come down.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's just upsetting to see people in, what I still call my house, people going in there, without permission...\"\n\nHafodyrynys Road was named the UK's most polluted street outside central London in 2016 due to recorded nitrogen dioxide levels.\n\nPollution gets trapped between the houses and trees opposite from vehicles travelling between Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent and parts of Caerphilly county.\n\nThe purchase of the properties was agreed by the council's cabinet in 2019.\n\n\"It's been a long time coming and it's been a difficult process to get here but we need to improve air quality in the area, and this is the best way to do that,\" said Philippa Marsden, leader of Caerphilly council.\n\nWales' most polluted stretch of road is on the main route between Pontypool and Newbridge\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Insulate Britain protesters blocked the M25 in Essex in September\n\nProtesters who block major roads during the UN climate conference in Glasgow will be moved and may face arrest, police have said.\n\nPolice Scotland said this would apply even if the COP26 protests are peaceful as they could be unlawful and unsafe.\n\nDep Ch Con Will Kerr told BBC Scotland officers have a \"whole range of tactics\" to use in such circumstances.\n\nAlthough disruption is expected, DCC Kerr insisted emergency services would still respond to those who need them.\n\n\"Some protesters will inevitably try and block some roads. If it's not a main arterial route, we'll take a sensible proportionate approach to it,\" he said.\n\n\"If it's a main route, if it involves movement plans for the world leaders, if it involves major disruption to the life of the city, then we will move in and if the protesters won't move, we will remove them.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Will Kerr said police will move protesters who block major routes\n\nAsked how quickly the police would move people, he said: \"It depends on how many people, what the environment is, but it also depends on how quickly we need to move for the safety of the protesters themselves.\n\n\"Running on to major roads to try and block it is a very unsafe thing to do. If we need to step in quickly, we will step in quickly.\"\n\nThe force said that because the UN actively encourages protest, certain groups have been accredited and assigned a time and venue to gather.\n\nPolice Scotland has met with a number of groups to discuss how the event will be policed, including Extinction Rebellion.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Bernie Higgins said there was \"no one size fits all to protest\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Bernie Higgins (left) and Deputy Chief Constable Will Kerr (right) briefed the media on policing plans for COP26\n\n\"Some groups will do a lie in,\" he said. \"If people want to go to George Square and lie down, crack on, because you're really not going to have much impact on the conference.\n\n\"If however you decide to try and shut the Kingston Bridge then that's really, really dangerous for yourself, it's really, really dangerous to other road users and potentially it would prevent ambulances responding to calls so we would move very swiftly to clear that area and it would result in arrests.\"\n\nHe added that police could put diversions in place if protesters block minor routes.\n\nA number of roads will already be closed during the climate summit\n\nAbout 10,000 officers will be deployed each day to the conference in Glasgow next month, where around 120 world leaders and heads of state are expected to attend.\n\nEvery force in the UK will assist Police Scotland with operations, including British Transport Police, the Civil Nuclear Constabulary and Ministry of Defence police.\n\nSpecialist resources such as firearms officers, dog handlers, mounted branch, search teams and the marine unit will be used.\n\nSignificant events during the conference, running from 31 October to 12 November, include the two-day world leaders summit on 1-2 November and the youth event on 5 November.\n\nPolice Scotland also expect 100,000 people to attend a climate rally on 6 November in the city centre.\n\nThe style of policing throughout the event will be \"friendly, fair and accommodating\", according to the force.\n\nIn addition to road closures, DCC Kerr said there was potential for \"further disruption\" if pressure on agencies and services becomes \"more acute\".\n\nHowever he stressed: \"I can reassure the public that if they need an emergency response from us they will get it.\"\n\nDCC Kerr added: \"There's no straightforward, simple or single answer to the complex problem of tens of thousands of people and well over 100 world leaders moving about a city over a compressed period of time.\n\n\"Our principal and simple objective is relatively straight forward, to run a safe and secure environment in which the conference can take place. We are very confident the conference will take place in that secure environment.\"\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.\n• None What was agreed at COP26?", "The Police, Fire and Crime panel had urged him to consider his position\n\nA police boss whose comments on the Sarah Everard case sparked outrage has resigned hours after a no-confidence vote.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Philip Allott had faced sustained criticism for urging women to be \"streetwise\" in a radio interview.\n\nThe backlash culminated in the unanimous vote passed by the county's Police, Fire and Crime panel.\n\nIn response Mr Allott said he would \"do the decent thing\" and leave his post.\n\nThe Conservative commissioner had faced multiple calls to stand down since 1 October, when he told BBC Radio York that women should educate themselves about powers of arrest, saying they should know \"when they can be arrested and when they can't be arrested\".\n\nHe made the comments after it emerged serving Met Police officer Wayne Couzens had used his warrant card to falsely arrest Ms Everard for breaching coronavirus guidelines.\n\nMembers of North Yorkshire's Police, Fire and Crime panel had echoed calls for Mr Allott to quit and urged him to \"go now\" at a meeting prior to Thursday's no-confidence vote.\n\nIn an open letter issued hours later, Mr Allott said he had spent the past two weeks trying \"to rebuild trust and confidence in my work as commissioner\".\n\nAnnouncing his resignation, he wrote: \"Following this morning's meeting of the Police and Crime Panel it seems clear to me that the task will be exceptionally difficult, if it is possible at all.\n\n\"It would take a long time and a lot of resources of my office and the many groups who do excellent work supporting victims.\"\n\nCarl Les, the Conservative leader of North Yorkshire County Council and chair of the panel, said Mr Allott had done the right thing.\n\n\"Clearly the remarks he made had a catastrophic effect on trust and confidence in his role and him personally,\" he said.\n\nSarah Everard, originally from York, was killed by serving police officer Wayne Couzens after he falsely arrested her\n\nMr Allott, in his resignation letter, said he apologised \"unreservedly\" for his remarks, which did not reflect his views.\n\n\"I misspoke and I am devastated at the effect that this has had on victims of crime and the groups that support them,\" he said.\n\n\"I have tried to say this again and again but I recognise that what I have said has not always been heard as I intended.\"\n\nThe letter will be submitted to officials, kicking off the process of installing a temporary replacement for Mr Allott.\n\nAfter his resignation letter was made public, Mr Allott tweeted that he had \"become the story\" and was a \"distraction\" to protecting victims of violence.\n\nHe added: \"Doing what's right is hard!\"\n\nHis resignation has highlighted the difficulties of removing a commissioner from office.\n\nMr Les said he thought it was \"perverse\" that the commissioner could remove a chief police officer, but could not himself be removed.\n\n\"I think in the same way that MPs are subject to a recall mechanism I think commissioners should be subject to something similar.\"\n\nLabour's Shadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said it was \"absolutely right\" that Mr Allott had resigned.\n\nMr Thomas-Symonds added: \"His awful comments show that misogyny needs tackling and the community response to them shows it will no longer be tolerated.\"\n\nHe said there was a lack of leadership from the Conservative Party which should have pushed him to resign earlier.\n\nThe Women's Equality Party said Mr Allott's resignation showed the \"power of protest\", but added he should have resigned earlier after making the remarks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Women's Equality Party This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nYork Central Labour MP Rachael Maskell said the government had been too slow to respond to the furore that had engulfed Mr Allott following his remarks. She tweeted: \"Women must be listened to.\"\n\nMeanwhile, West Yorkshire's Labour mayor Tracy Brabin said her thoughts were with Ms Everard's family, who live in York and were Mr Allott's constituents. She tweeted: \"Finally. The right decision.\"\n\nThe North Yorkshire branch of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), which had earlier said members were \"outraged\" by Mr Allott's comments, also welcomed his resignation.\n\nIn a tweet, the FBU said: \"Hopefully his resignation will offer some comfort for Sarah Everard's Family and friends and all those affected by his disgraceful comments.\"\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.", "Whistleblower Frances Haugen warned about the risks to children from Facebook's products\n\nThe data-privacy watchdog has written to a Facebook whistleblower, requesting her full evidence to see whether the technology company has broken UK law.\n\nThe information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, says she wants to analyse the documents from a UK perspective, particularly relating to children.\n\nFormer Facebook employee Frances Haugen claimed the social-media company hid \"behind walls\" about how it used data.\n\n\"Most of us just don't recognise the false picture of the company that is being painted,\" he said.\n\nMs Denham, who is stepping down next month, told BBC News: \"We're looking very closely about what is publicly available right now from Frances's testimony - but I've also written to her to ask for access to the full reports of her allegations.\n\n\"Because what I want to do with that information is analyse it from the UK's perspective - are these harms applicable in the UK, especially through the lens of children?\n\n\"We have rolled out a new children's code, which specifies design consideration to protect kids online.\n\n\"I want to see if these allegations point to any contravention of UK law and then I will take action.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elizabeth Denham promised to take action if the evidence showed Facebook had contravened UK law\n\nThe whistleblower claimed Facebook's products could pose a risk to children's mental health and stoke divisions in society.\n\n\"Facebook's closed design means it has no real oversight,\" Ms Haugen, who used to work on the company's algorithmic products, told a US Senate committee.\n\n\"Only Facebook knows how it personalises your feed for you.\n\n\"Facebook hides behind walls that keep researchers and regulators from understanding the true dynamics of their system.\"\n\nMs Haugen is to give evidence to the UK Parliament's online safety bill committee on 25 October.\n\nElizabeth Denham has done far more than most to rein in big tech. But she is alarmed at the mismatch in power between democracies and Silicon Valley - and efforts to politicise the regulator she leaves.\n\nFor the past five years, stories about the harms caused by social media giants have followed a wearisome and familiar pattern.\n\nFirst, scandal erupts. Next, the cry goes up: Something Must Be Done! (See also: Up With This We Will Not Put!)\n\nThen, reflecting headlines and noise on (ironically) social media, a meeting is convened, for which ambassadors of the tech giants are summoned.\n\nFinally… not much happens.\n\nThis pattern has been seen over and over and over again.\n\nAnd the common theme in these stories is how some big societal harm often falls between regulators, with Ofcom, the Advertising Standards Authority, and the Competition and Markets Authority, all sticking understandably to their remits.\n\nElizabeth Denham, the information commissioner who steps down next month, has been something of an antidote to this pattern.\n\nRead more from Amol Rajan here.", "Diplomat João Vale de Almeida was previously the EU's ambassador to the US and UN\n\nThe EU has gone the extra mile by offering a fix to the row about trade in Northern Ireland, a senior EU official has said.\n\nJoão Vale de Almeida - who is the EU's ambassador to the UK - told the BBC the bloc's proposals were \"unprecedented\".\n\nThe EU has suggested changing part of the Brexit deal that specifically covers Northern Ireland. Both sides agree it has problems.\n\nThe UK and EU will now hold three weeks of talks to discuss the suggestions.\n\nWhen the Brexit deal was agreed less than two years ago, the two sides signed up to the Northern Ireland Protocol - the part that aimed to stop checks along the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nInstead, the trade checks take place when goods arrive into Northern Ireland from Great Britain.\n\nBut two years on, both sides admit there are problems with the protocol. The UK says the current arrangement imposes too many barriers, and the EU recognises it has caused problems for businesses in Northern Ireland.\n\nTheir suggested solutions differ, however, with the UK wanting a completely new protocol, while the EU wants to adapt the current one.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the lorry journey from England to NI\n\nOn Wednesday, the EU published its plan of how the protocol could be amended - cutting the number of spot checks by 80% and also halving the amount of customs paperwork.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Two's Newsnight, Mr Vale de Almeida, who became the ambassador to the UK last year, said: \"What we have presented in Brussels today is unprecedented. And I have been working for the EU for almost 40 years now.\n\n\"What we have done today goes very far. We went the extra mile to address the problems that were created by Brexit in Northern Ireland, which the protocol tries to mitigate.\"\n\nHe insisted that the EU's suggestions did not represent it giving way to the UK government. \"These are not concessions, these are proposals that we make out of our own initiative,\" he said.\n\n\"Why should they be concessions? We're not forced to propose this, we proposed this because we realised that there are problems in Northern Ireland and we care about Northern Ireland, we want the protocol to work.\"\n\n\"We are not renegotiating the protocol, we are adapting the protocol,\" he said.\n\nAfter the EU set out its plans on Wednesday, the UK said it would study the detail and the next step should involve rapid and intensive talks to see if a solution could be found.\n\nBut disagreements could still remain, including over the role of the European Court of Justice - the EU's highest court - in Northern Ireland.\n\nBoth sides previously agreed that the ECJ can police matters of EU law in Northern Ireland, as Northern Ireland will be staying in the EU's single market for goods. So, for example if there was a dispute around complying with applicable EU law, the EU could take the UK to the ECJ.\n\nBut the UK's Brexit minister Lord Frost previously said he wants the ECJ's role to be removed.\n\nMr Vale de Almeida said the EU had gone to the limits of what it could offer.\n\nAsked about the ECJ issue on Newsnight, Mr Vale de Almeida - who is Portuguese - said: \"There is no single market without the European Court of Justice.\n\n\"It's the referee of the single market.\n\n\"So if Northern Ireland wants to have access to single market for goods... and at same time have access to the British market, it's a unique position in the world... there has to be a European Court of Justice. One does not go without the other.\"\n\nTalks between the EU and UK on the new proposals are now likely to go on for several weeks.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol is part of the Brexit deal: It is an agreement that means goods can pass freely across the Irish border. Basically, lorries don't have to stop and prove their goods follow EU rules when they go between Northern Ireland (in the UK) and the Republic of Ireland (in the EU).\n\nIt means Northern Ireland still follows some EU rules: As the rest of the UK (England, Scotland, Wales) no longer follow EU trade rules, some goods from there have to be checked when they arrive in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut some goods from Britain can't enter Northern Ireland at all: EU rules don't allow certain products, like chilled sausages, to enter its market. A grace period, where the rules don't apply, has been in place since January but no long-term solution has been found.", "Climate protest group Insulate Britain, which has caused disruption to major roads during the last five weeks, is to suspend its campaigning for 11 days.\n\nThe activists have blocked motorways and roads in the London area, including the M1 and M25, and Thames crossings.\n\nIn an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the group says it will halt its \"campaign of civil resistance\" until 25 October.\n\nInsulate Britain said it \"profoundly\" acknowledges the disruption caused.\n\nAfter a member of the group attempting to deliver the letter was turned back from the gates in Downing Street, Insulate Britain said it would post it to Mr Johnson.\n\nInsulate Britain is a recently-launched group that calls for a national programme to ensure homes are insulated by 2030, which government experts on climate change say is essential to meet targets on reducing carbon emissions.\n\nHundreds of members of the group have been arrested and there have been angry exchanges with some drivers caught up in 14 separate days of protests.\n\nIn the latest incident, Essex Police arrested a number of the group's supporters after they blocked a slip road at junction 31 of the M25 on Wednesday, near the Dartford Crossing.\n\nThe government has taken out court injunctions to try to prevent further action and new powers targeting such protests have been announced.\n\n\"Sitting on roads & preventing everyone else from going about their lawful business is downright dangerous & counterproductive. Rather than apologising to the motorist now and returning in a week & a half, they must call off their reckless campaign forever, \" he tweeted.\n\nMembers of the group attempted to hand in their letter to the prime minister at Downing Street\n\nInsulate Britain says its protests were being suspended ahead of the United Nations COP26 climate conference. The UK is hosting the summit in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November, where 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions by 2030.\n\nReferring to the disruption caused in the past five weeks, the group says in its letter to the prime minister: \"We cannot imagine undertaking such acts in normal circumstances. But the dire reality of our situation has to be faced.\"\n\nInsulate Britain said it will restart its action if Mr Johnson does not deliver \"a meaningful or trustworthy statement\" on improving the insulation in some British homes.\n\nBiff Whipster, a retail worker and member of the group who was turned away from the gates at Downing Street, said: \"We want to now give the government a bit of breathing space so they don't feel under pressure.\"\n\nHe said they had \"made our voices heard\" but unless they heard from the prime minister in the next 10 days, they would would resume \"blocking roads, blocking motorways and breaking court injunctions\".", "Political and business leaders in Northern Ireland, and further afield, have been giving their reaction to the EU's plan to reduce post-Brexit checks on goods arriving into Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK.\n\nThe proposals include scrapping checks on most food products being shipped to, and remaining in, Northern Ireland from Great Britain.\n\nThe EU has also said the plan will cut customs paperwork by 50%.\n\nThe new plan, which seeks to calm a long-running dispute over a key part of the Brexit agreement, would remove about 80% of spot checks, the EU said.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said the EU are living up to commitments made to business and political leaders\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the proposals were \"a good mark of progress\".\n\nThe party is seeking to recall the Northern Ireland Assembly to demonstrate support for the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nMs O'Neill said the publication demonstrates \"both in word and deed\" that the EU are living up to commitments made to business and political leaders.\n\nHowever, Ms O'Neill said it is now \"up to others whether or not they engage with this process\".\n\n\"The British government and the DUP have dishonestly promoted a false narrative that the protocol does not enjoy the support or consent of the people of the north. That is untrue.\n\n\"The reality is that Brexit does not command the support or consent of the assembly,\" she said.\n\nJeffrey Donaldson said the DUP will \"take time to study the detail of the papers produced\"\n\nThe proposals are a \"starting point\", but appear to fall \"far short of the fundamental change needed\", Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Jeffrey Donaldson has said.\n\nMr Donaldson said the party will \"take time to study the detail of the papers produced\".\n\nHowever, he said there was \"no escaping the reality that the Northern Ireland Protocol has harmed Northern Ireland, both in economic and constitutional terms\".\n\n\"The imposition of the protocol has harmed the balances created by the Belfast Agreement and subsequent agreements and were the situation to remain unaltered would undo the political progress of the last 20 years,\" he said.\n\nColum Eastwood said the proposals present \"a clear landing zone\" to address challenges around the NI Protocol\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood has urged political leaders to embrace the new proposals.\n\nThe Foyle MP said the measures \"go further than expected\" and demonstrate that EU leaders are \"stretching themselves in the interests of people and businesses in Northern Ireland\".\n\nHe said political leaders, particularly those of unionist parties, should \"reflect on the very serious efforts made by the European Commission\" in easing challenges to trade and \"addressing their concerns about democratic deficits\".\n\n\"The DUP, in particular, need to decide if they're on the side of people and businesses here or in the pocket of Boris Johnson,\" he said.\n\n\"There is now a clear landing zone that will address the protocol challenges, allow us to maximise the opportunities and most importantly, expend political energy dealing with the crisis in our health service, our crumbling schools estate and managing the pandemic.\n\n\"We need to grasp that opportunity.\"\n\nStephen Farry said he hoped the proposals could form the basis for an agreement between the UK and EU\n\nIt would be an \"act of folly\" for opponents of the NI Protocol to \"squander the opportunity to provide certainty and stability given by the EU's proposals\", Alliance deputy leader Stephen Farry MP has said.\n\nDr Farry said he hoped the EU's proposals could form the basis for an agreement between the UK and EU which \"addresses practical issues around the protocol in a pragmatic way\".\n\n\"The challenges facing Northern Ireland come from Brexit,\" he said, adding that the protocol is \"the symptom of the problem, not the cause\".\n\n\"It would be an act of supreme folly to squander this chance to move on and indeed to impose even more delusional red-lines,\" he said.\n\nDoug Beattie said he was \"genuinely disappointed\" by what he heard from Maros Šefčovič\n\nIt is \"a step forward but there remains a long way to go\", according to UUP leader Doug Beattie.\n\n\"We were told the protocol negotiations could not be reopened, but we have now proven otherwise. This has been achieved through negotiation, not threats; through engagement not disengagement.\n\n\"The fact that the EU recognises that the protocol isn't working and needs substantial change is a positive development.\n\n\"However, I am genuinely disappointed by what I heard from European Commission Vice-President Maros Šefčovič and the supporting non-papers.\n\n\"Expectations were raised, but the proposals do not match them.\"\n\nJim Allister said the proposals \"can never be acceptable\"\n\nThe EU's latest proposals \"utterly fail the sovereignty test\", TUV leader Jim Allister has said.\n\nMr Allister described the protocol as \"an instrument delivering both economic dislocation and constitutional dislocation within the UK\".\n\nHe said the proposals \"retain us in a foreign single market for goods, under a foreign customs code and VAT regime, ruled by foreign laws and adjudicated upon by a foreign court.\"\n\n\"GB would continue to be decreed a 'third country' vis-a-vis Northern Ireland's trade,\" he said, adding that this \"can never be acceptable\".\n\nThe CBI said it is now time for both sides to find a long-term solution that protects NI-GB trade\n\nThe Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said both the UK and EU had listened to businesses and are aware of the technical solutions needed to protect trade between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.\n\n\"Both sides must now grasp this opportunity to get back round the table - and agree sustainable long-term solutions that work for businesses and communities in Northern Ireland,\" CBI Europe Director Sean McGuire said.\n\nThe NIRC said the proposals must provide \"stability, certainty, simplicity and affordability\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland Retail Consortium (NIRC) has welcomed \"signs of movement from both sides\".\n\nHowever, a spokesperson said if the proposals are to work they must provide \"stability, certainty, simplicity and affordability\" to Northern Ireland's business community.\n\nThey said the NIRC will \"reserve judgement\" on whether these requirements have been met \"until both legal and technical texts have been seen\".\n\n\"As an umbrella group for business, we will have meetings with both the UK Government and the European Commission to discuss these proposals in full and we look forward to understanding how they would keep NI business competitive and ensure choice and affordability for consumers,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nNI businesses would like to see new trade arrangements in place by the end of the year, the FSB says\n\nThe FSB in NI's Roger Pollen said there is now an onus on both sides to negotiate a new trade solution relatively quickly.\n\n\"In terms of the timescale as to when we need to get this sorted, yesterday would have been very nice,\" he said\n\nMr Pollen said under current arrangements many businesses in Northern Ireland are faced with \"vast amounts of bureaucracy\" when bringing goods across from GB.\n\nShould new arrangements be agreed by the UK and EU before Christmas, \"businesses would heave a fairly big sigh of relief\".\n\nLogistics UK have 18,000 members across the UK\n\nSeamus Leheny, a representative of trade body Logistics UK, said companies across the UK are not concerned about the European Court of Justice's (ECJ) role in the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThe UK Government has demanded that the ECJ is removed from its role in the protocol as the arbitrator of trade disputes.\n\nBut Logistics UK policy manager Mr Leheny told BBC News: \"We have got 18,000 members across the UK and we haven't had any representation from any member regarding the ECJ.\n\n\"What people want is solutions to the protocol, they want the protocol to work and that is what we are interested in.\"\n\nHe added: \"What people are looking for, we are in solution mode here, and the logistics industry, we are solution seekers. We want to get these fixes that the EU have proposed.\n\n\"We need to see the legal text obviously to make sure the safeguards are there but people just want to build on this because they see the best way for peace in Northern Ireland is improve people's prospects and livelihoods. That's when I speak to businesses, that's what they want.\"\n\nMairead McGuinness said a deal before Christmas would be \"very desirable\"\n\nEuropean Commissioner and former MEP Mairead McGuinness said the offer was a \"significant step forward\" by the EU and a \"huge opportunity\" for people in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Of course there will be difficult issues and there will be a lot of debate and commentary around this,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"However, I do believe that the idea of getting this resolved by Christmas is attainable and it would be very desirable.\"\n\nBaroness Chapman said Labour would not get rid of the NI Protocol\n\nThe Shadow Minister for Task Force Europe Baroness Jenny Chapman said that \"today could be a day where we take a step forward\" in the process to achieve stability to people in NI and across the UK.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Baroness Chapman said the Labour Party would not get rid of the protocol entirely, but would instead look at the proposals \"in good faith\" and talk to businesses, leaders and elected politicians in Northern Ireland to see if they were sufficient.\n\n\"What isn't the right way is to be antagonistic and pick a fight,\" she added.", "Care supervisor Charlotte Backhouse supports an elderly client in her own home\n\nShortages of care staff, who support older or disabled people in the community, are causing major problems for hospitals, the BBC has learned.\n\nNHS chief executives say rising numbers of patients are stuck in hospitals in England due to a lack of care staff.\n\nThe situation is \"dire\", according to NHS Providers, which represents health service trusts.\n\nThe government says extra funding and a regular recruitment drive will help boost the care workforce.\n\nCare companies are facing acute problems in recruiting and retaining staff, according to a report which suggests there are now more unfilled care jobs than before the pandemic.\n\nThe annual Skills for Care workforce report is based on data provided by a representative sample of employers of England's 1.54 million care workers.\n\nThe researchers calculate that employers were failing to fill 8% of posts before the pandemic.\n\nFigures obtained since suggest this had fallen to below 6% by June 2020 - but by August this year the trend had reversed with 8.2% of care sector roles unfilled.\n\nThis amounts to more than 100,000 posts with no-one to fill them, says Skills for Care.\n\nIncreasingly, care companies are forced to turn down work supporting patients as they move from hospital back to their own homes or care homes.\n\nThose patients have to stay in hospital longer, putting more pressure on an NHS already struggling with Covid-19 and the waiting list backlog.\n\n\"We've just tipped over the point where delayed discharges are a bigger problem than Covid,\" said one hospital boss who asked not to be named.\n\n\"Roughly 100 beds blocked and domiciliary care providers are handing dozens of [patient care] packages back to the council as they don't have staff to deliver them,\" said another.\n\nA third manager had 140 patients ready to leave hospital, but the carer shortage meant \"patients are dying in hospital when their choice was home, a hospice or nursing home\".\n\nThe anonymous comments from more than 20 hospital bosses were gathered by NHS Providers, in response to a BBC request for information.\n\nThe organisation's deputy chief executive, Saffron Cordery, said the delays are particularly worrying as winter is about to put extra pressure on services.\n\nNot being able to leave hospital when they are ready can delay a patient's recovery and rehabilitation, said Ms Cordery, while those waiting for treatment face backlogs.\n\n\"It's vital that government delivers its commitment to place vital social care services onto a sustainable footing.\"\n\nShe also highlighted the need for \"crucially - a sustainable workforce, properly valued and respected for this vitally important work\".\n\nCare companies say the main factors making it hard to find and keep staff are:\n\nCare manager Tracey Hobson says recruitment agencies are bombarding her with job offers\n\nIn Sheffield, Tracey Hobson, a clinical manager at Northfield Nursing Home, says: \"Recruitment is an absolute nightmare\".\n\n\"You wake up in the morning and you're thinking, you know, I'm not going to be able to ensure that these people get the care that they deserve, and have enough staff to do it.\"\n\nTracey says the sector faces a national staff shortage. She personally receives about 20 messages each day from recruitment agencies, desperate to hire her.\n\n\"You know, I've got a job. I'm looking after people to the best of my ability.\"\n\nIn Buckinghamshire, Dr Kris Owden runs Caremark Aylesbury and is also a doctor who worked on hospital wards during the pandemic.\n\nThe firm pays relatively well and has managed to recruit enough new staff to replace most of those leaving but Dr Owden says they are still overstretched and have to refuse up to eight new people needing care each day.\n\nDr Kris Owden worries about the effect of care worker shortages on the NHS\n\n\"For us to be in this position before the winter, before the Christmas period is terrifying,\" he said.\n\nHe says a properly resourced care system would take pressure off the NHS and wants to see carers paid better, with a proper career structure and recognition of their skills.\n\nAmong his senior staff, supervisor Charlotte Backhouse and manager Vicky Hartgill - who are both normally office-based - are having to step in and do front-line work.\n\nOn top of her regular job, Vicky worked through the weekend and on Monday had an 05:00 start. Although she loves seeing clients, she says she is \"shattered\".\n\nCharlotte Backhouse and her colleague Vicky Hartgill (l) are having to do extra work\n\nShe added: \"We need to be able to recruit, we need to be able to recruit in a safe way and just have a bigger workforce.\n\n\"We do have to pick up the phone and change times. We do have to be creative with the care that we provide - and until we can get some more people through the door to support us, that's the way things will have to stay.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"We appreciate the dedication and tireless efforts of care workers throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.\n\n\"We are providing at least £500m to support the care workforce as part of the £5.4bn to reform social care.\n\n\"We are also working to ensure we have the right number of staff with the skills to deliver high quality care to meet increasing demands.\n\n\"This includes running regular national recruitment campaigns and providing councils with over £1bn of additional funding for social care this year.\"", "More than 140,000 people signed a petition calling for the return of the Night Tube\n\nThe Night Tube is to reopen on two London Underground lines.\n\nServices between 01:00 and 05:30 will begin on the Central and Victoria lines from 27 November.\n\nThousands signed a petition demanding its resumption in the wake of Sarah Everard's murder, which highlighted the issue of women's safety.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said the Night Tube would \"make a huge difference to people travelling around our city at night\".\n\n\"I know how important this is to London's thriving night-time economy, to London's recovery and to the confidence and safety of everyone travelling home at night, particularly women and girls,\" he added.\n\n\"I am determined to make our city as safe as possible for all Londoners.\"\n\nLast trains in central London currently leave at 01:00 BST and restart at 05:30\n\nMr Khan said the Central and Victoria lines were selected \"because they're the busiest\" and \"people have more confidence using the busiest lines\".\n\nOther lines will reopen once enough staff are available, he added.\n\nThe Night Tube, which first began in August 2016 and ran on selected lines on Fridays and Saturdays, was halted when lockdown began last year.\n\nServices were suspended because drivers were needed for daytime services.\n\nElla Watson says the recent killings of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa on London's streets have highlighted why some women fear walking alone\n\nLast trains in central London currently leave at 01:00 and restart at 05:30.\n\nElla Watson, whose petition to reinstate the Night Tube has more than 140,000 signatures, said she had started her campaign as the recent killings of Ms Everard and Sabina Nessa had highlighted why some women fear walking alone.\n\nWhile both were out at a time when regular Tube services were running, the issue of women's safety at night has been heightened in the wake of their deaths.\n\nMs Watson described the reopening of the service as a \"testament to the fact petitions do work, as if enough people get behind them they can't be ignored\".\n\n\"This is really positive,\" she said. \"It's a great start to enhancing women's safety but we need to ensure that more lines open across the whole capital.\n\n\"The goal of the petition was to reinstate the Night Tube for everyone, whether they're on the Northern line or the Jubilee, so I'm not ready to give up the campaign just yet.\"\n\nThe Night Tube was suspended during the pandemic as passenger numbers fell\n\nMared Parry, a journalist who launched a separate petition calling for the return of the Night Tube, said she was \"over the moon about\" about the return of the service.\n\n\"I knew this was something that people all across London were frustrated about - we were being urged to go out and help the economy get back on its feet but were ultimately left out in the cold and to our own devices.\"\n\nTransport for London (TfL) said the pandemic limited its ability to train new drivers.\n\nRail bosses recently offered Night Tube drivers the opportunity to convert from their part-time roles to permanent full-time positions.\n\nMick Lynch, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, said it was vital that TfL reached an agreement with union reps on rosters which \"don't leave staff burnt out and exposed to intolerable pressures\".\n\nMr Lynch also said that prior to its suspension, the Night Tube was \"a magnet for violent, abusive and anti-social behaviour\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Microsoft is shutting down its social network, LinkedIn, in China, saying having to comply with the Chinese state has become increasingly challenging.\n\nIt comes after the career-networking site faced questions for blocking the profiles of some journalists.\n\nLinkedIn will launch a jobs-only version of the site, called InJobs, later this year.\n\nBut this will not include a social feed or the ability to share or post articles.\n\nLinkedIn senior vice-president Mohak Shroff blogged: \"We're facing a significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements in China.\"\n\nAnd the firm said in a statement: \"While we are going to sunset the localised version of LinkedIn in China later this year, we will continue to have a strong presence in China to drive our new strategy and are excited to launch the new InJobs app later this year.\"\n\nLinkedIn had been the only major Western social-media platform operating in China.\n\nWhen it launched there, in 2014, it had agreed to adhere to the requirements of the Chinese government in order to operate there, but also promised to be transparent about how it conducted business in the country and said it disagreed with government censorship.\n\nRecently, LinkedIn blacklisted several journalist accounts, including those of Melissa Chan and Greg Bruno, from its China-based website.\n\nMr Bruno, who has written a book documenting China's treatment of Tibetan refugees, told Verdict he was not surprised the Chinese Communist Party did not like it but was \"dismayed that an American tech company is caving into the demands of a foreign government\".\n\nUS senator Rick Scott called the move a \"gross appeasement and an act of submission to Communist China\", in a letter to LinkedIn chief executive Ryan Roslansky and Microsoft boss Satya Nadella.\n\nIt's hard to pinpoint whether LinkedIn's move was driven by the pressure from China, or that from the US. It could be both, as the Chinese government has been tightening its grip over the internet, and meanwhile, LinkedIn has drawn growing criticism in America for bowing to Beijing's censorship rules.\n\nLinkedIn launched its Chinese version in 2014, hoping to tap into the country's huge market.\n\nSeven years on, it has struggled against local competitors and run into regulatory problems. In March, LinkedIn was reportedly punished by the Chinese regulator for failing to censor political content, resulting in a suspension of new user registration for 30 days. Other than controversy over censorships, the platform has been used by Chinese intelligence agencies as a recruitment tool.\n\nIn a letter to the platform's users in China today, President of LinkedIn China Lu Jian pledges that the site will continue to \"connect global business opportunities\".\n\nBut LinkedIn's shutdown in China shows an opposite trend. The country's heavily controlled internet has drifted further away from the rest of the world, and it's increasingly challenging for global business operating in China to bridge the deep divide.", "The Covid-19 pandemic has made celebrities out of scientists, who have graced the daily news headlines and gained large social-media followings.\n\nBut this rise in prominence has come with online abuse and even physical harassment.\n\nThe journal Nature surveyed scientists, who described receiving threats of violence after media appearances.\n\nDiscussions about vaccines or the drug ivermectin were common triggers for harassment.\n\nIn the past, scientists have faced abuse when discussing climate change or previous vaccination campaigns.\n\nThe self-selecting survey of 321 people working in fields relevant to Covid found more than a fifth had received threats of physical or sexual violence.\n\nWhile this is not representative of all scientists and cannot accurately reveal the scale of abuse, it provides a glimpse into some of the personal experiences of those who came into the public eye to give information during the global disease outbreak.\n\nSix people who responded to the questionnaire said they had been physically attacked following media appearances.\n\nSome of the more extreme cases have been widely reported. Leading Belgian virologist Prof Marc Van Ranst ended up in a safehouse after being targeted by a far-right trained sniper (since found dead) who despised lockdowns and threatened to kill health professionals.\n\nThe UK’s chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, was assaulted in a park by a 24-year-old estate agent, while two prominent German scientists were posted bottles of clear liquid labelled \"positive\" and a note telling them to drink it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS infectious-diseases doctor Krutika Kuppalli, who gave national media interviews and testified to a congressional committee, told Nature she had received a death threat via a phone call to her home.\n\nAustralian virologist Danielle Anderson, who worked at the Wuhan Institute for Virology and was critical of the theory it might be where the virus had escaped from, received an email telling her to \"eat a bat and die\".\n\nProf Andrew Hill wrote a positive review of anti-parasite drug ivermectin for treating Covid but reversed his stance once he discovered data he had been basing his conclusions on was untrustworthy.\n\nCurrent available evidence suggests ivermectin is unlikely to be very effective for Covid - but Prof Hill has received a barrage of abuse, including accusing him of genocide, which has driven him off social media.\n\n\"I was sent images of Nazi war criminals hanging from lampposts, voodoo images of swinging coffins, threats that my family were not safe, that we would all burn in hell,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"This was happening most days - I opened my laptop in the morning to be confronted with a sea of hate and disturbing threats.\n\n\"There were also threats to my scientific reputation on email.\n\n\"I know many other scientists who have been threatened and abused in similar ways after promoting vaccination or questioning the benefits of unproven treatments like ivermectin.\"\n\nUniversity of Southampton senior research fellow in global health Dr Michael Head said there had been \"a huge amount of abuse aimed at everyone contributing to the pandemic response... includ[ing] NHS front-line staff\".\n\nUniversity College London behavioural scientist Prof Susan Michie said \"disturbing\" online abuse would happen \"most intensively after media engagements and especially after those that address restrictions to social mixing ,the wearing of face masks or vaccination\".\n\nOther scientists surveyed mentioned emails being sent to their employers or their professional reputations being challenged.\n\nBut of those being harassed on their own social media, almost half said they did not tell their employer.\n\nThe Nature survey also found those targeted with the most frequent harassment were most likely to say it had affected their willingness to give media interviews in the future.\n\nFiona Fox, chief executive of the UK Science Media Centre, which provides scientific comment and briefings to journalists, said it was a \"great loss if a scientist who was engaging with the media, sharing their expertise, is taken out of a public debate at a time when we've never needed them so badly\".", "Stormont politicians have joined a North-South Ministerial Council (NSMC) meeting, the first since the Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) boycott was ruled unlawful.\n\nIt went ahead after First Minister Paul Givan agreed to the agenda.\n\nHe said it was in line with his party's position, which allows for meetings on health issues.\n\nThe DUP refuses to attend north-south talks in protest against the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThe protocol is part of the Brexit deal agreed in 2019 and was introduced to help prevent checks along the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe DUP boycott, announced by party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson last month, was ruled unlawful by a high court judge on Monday.\n\nWhen asked on Thursday whether the DUP would continue their boycott, Sir Jeffrey told BBC Radio Foyle \"our position remains as it has been\".\n\nFirst Minister Paul Givan has rejected criticism of the DUP for not attending previous north-south meetings\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann is due to meet his Republic of Ireland counterpart, Stephen Donnelly at the meeting.\n\nWhile Sir Jeffrey had promised health meetings would go ahead, other meetings have been cancelled.\n\nThe DUP has said it is considering Monday's judgement.\n\n\"We will take a view on how we respond to that [court ruling] and I will speak to my senior leadership team,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile a €1bn (£849m) peace funding package has been approved by the NSMC after the executive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Dept of Finance\n\nFinance Minister Conor Murphy welcomed the approval of the Peace Plus Programme.\n\nHe said it would provide fund for various projects.\n\n\"This will include our health sector, with significant investment in supporting healthy and inclusive communities - which is particularly important in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic,\" he said.\n\n\"Today's approval marks a key milestone in the Peace Plus Programme which will help deliver economic regeneration, investment in young people, the environment and further support peace and reconciliation initiatives,\" he added.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis also welcomed the funding, saying, in a tweet, that it was \"great progress\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Brandon Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Flowers and tributes to the child have been left at the roadside in Llanelli\n\nA 23-year-old woman has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a child was killed in a crash.\n\nThe car crash happened at Heol Goffa crossroads in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, at about 21:00 BST on Friday.\n\nLucy Dyer, of Heulwen Terrace, Llanelli, was also charged with drink driving and has been remanded in custody.\n\nFlowers, toys and tributes have been left at the scene of the crash.\n\nThe crash involved a blue BMW 3 Series and a blue Vauxhall Vectra. The woman and the child were in different cars.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said specially trained officers were supporting the child's family.\n\nOfficers are supporting the child's family, police say\n\nThe crash happened at the Heol Goffa crossroads in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire", "Archbishop of Bamako Jean Zerbo thanked Malian authorities for helping to free Sister Gloria\n\nPope Francis has met a Colombian nun who was freed on Saturday by Islamists in Mali after more than four years as a hostage, a Vatican spokesman has said.\n\nAfter travelling to Rome, Gloria Cecilia Narváez met the Pope on Sunday before the celebration of a Mass.\n\nThe nun was taken hostage in 2017 while working as a missionary in Koutiala, about 400km (248 miles) east of Mali's capital Bamako.\n\nIt is not clear whether a ransom was paid to secure her release.\n\nThe office of Mali's president said the nun's release had come after more than four-and-a-half years of \"combined effort of several intelligences services\".\n\nIt also praised her for \"courage and bravery\".\n\nSister Gloria, 59, said on state TV she was grateful to Malian authorities \"for all the efforts you've made to liberate me\".\n\nShe added: \"I am very happy, I stayed healthy for five years, thank God\".\n\nThe Archbishop of Bamako, Jean Zerbo, also thanked \"Malian authorities and other good people who made this release possible.\"\n\nSister Gloria appeared on state TV with the archbishop of Bamako Jean Zerbo (C) and and Mali's interim president Colonel Assimi Goita\n\nThere had been irregular reports of her safety over the years. Earlier this year, two Europeans who managed to escape captivity reported that she was well.\n\nIn March, her brother received a letter from her confirming she was still alive. He told AFP news agency earlier this year that the note had been written in block capitals \"because she always used capital letters\", and contained the names of their parents, ending with her signature.\n\nMali has been struggling to contain a growing Islamist insurgency that first emerged in the north of the country in 2012. Kidnappings in particular have become more common in the former French colony as the security crisis has deepened.\n\nAccording to a non-governmental organisation, Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, more than 935 people have been abducted in the country since 2017.\n\nHowever, Colonel Assimi Goita, who led a military coup that removed the country's civilian government last year, has sought to assure Malians and the international community that efforts are under way to secure the release of all those still being held.\n\nFrench troops have been leading operations against Islamist groups in the region since 2014, however President Emmanuel Macron announced in June that operations would be reduced over the coming year.\n\nThis has reportedly led to the Malian government turning to the Russian mercenary collective, the Wagner group, for assistance. The secretive group has been involved in conflicts across Africa, including fighting with a rebel general, Khalifa Haftar, in Libya.", "The country is now dependent on personal generators after the grid shut down\n\nLebanon has been left without electricity, plunging the country into darkness amid a severe economic crisis.\n\nA government official told Reuters news agency the country's two largest power stations, Deir Ammar and Zahrani, had shut down because of a fuel shortage.\n\nThe power grid \"completely stopped working at noon today\" and was unlikely to restart for several days, they said.\n\nFor the past 18 months Lebanon has endured an economic crisis and extreme fuel shortages.\n\nThat crisis has left half its population in poverty, crippled its currency and sparked major demonstrations against politicians.\n\nA lack of foreign currency meanwhile has made it hard to pay overseas energy suppliers.\n\nMany Lebanese people already depend on private diesel-powered generators for power. These however have become increasingly expensive to run amid the lack of fuel, and cannot cover for the lack of a nationwide power grid.\n\nPeople were often receiving just two hours of electricity a day in the country before this latest shutdown.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Anna Foster This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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, Lebanon's state electricity company also confirmed the shutdown of the two power plants, which together provide some 40% of the country's electricity.\n\nTheir closure led to the \"complete outage\" of the power network, the statement reportedly said, \"with no possibility of resuming operations in the meantime\".\n\nAl Jazeera reports protests in the northern town of Halba, outside the offices of the state power company, as well as residents blocking roads with burning tyres in the city of Tripoli.\n\nThe country is also grappling with the aftermath of the Beirut blast in August 2020, which killed 219 people and injured 7,000 others.\n\nAfter the explosion its government resigned, leaving political paralysis. Najib Mikati became prime minister in September, more than a year after the previous administration quit.\n\nLast month the militant group Hezbollah brought Iranian fuel into the country to ease shortages. Its opponents say the group is using the fuel delivery to expand its influence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre is one of the world's most prestigious theatres.\n\nA Russian actor has been crushed to death during a set change at Moscow's world famous Bolshoi Theatre as it performed the opera Sadko.\n\nIt is believed Yevgeny Kulesh went in the wrong direction during the descent of a ramp and was trapped under it.\n\nFootage appeared to show panicked performers pleading with staff to lift the prop. Onlookers attempted to revive Mr Kulesh, but were unsuccessful.\n\nInvestigators say they are probing the circumstances surrounding the death.\n\nIn a statement issued on Saturday evening, the Bolshoi said: \"The performance was immediately stopped, the audience was asked to leave the hall.\"\n\nShocked spectators said on social media that they had initially believed that the accident was a staged trick.\n\nHowever, the reality of the incident quickly became apparent when performers reacted in horror and some on stage shouted \"call an ambulance, there is blood\".\n\nLocal media said Mr Kulesh had been a performer at the theatre since 2002.\n\nIt is not the first tragic incident to hit the world-renowned theatre.\n\nIn July 2013, a senior violinist died after falling into the orchestra pit. Viktor Sedov was a veteran of the opera house's orchestra, having played there for four decades,\n\nAnd in 2011 a Moscow court jailed Ballet soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko for six years after he was found to have organised an acid attack on the company's artistic director, Sergei Filin, outside his Moscow flat, badly damaging his eyesight.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Anti-vaxxers told me I was wrong to get jab'\n\nIt is \"not acceptable\" for anti-vax protesters to intimidate people outside Covid vaccination centres, the first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford was speaking after a 15-year-old girl and her mum were confronted by protesters in Cardiff while going for a jab on Saturday.\n\nGrace Baker-Earle said the experience \"hit a spot\" as she uses a wheelchair since contracting Covid.\n\nOther parents said they felt \"shaken up\" by protesters.\n\nSouth Wales Police said officers attended and one arrest was made.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"People are entitled to protest, people are entitled to express their view.\n\n\"They're not entitled to do it in a way that intimidates others.\n\n\"It has been lifechanging for Grace, we are hoping she will get better,\" her mother says\n\n\"When you're talking about harassment, it's not what the person who is making the protests thinks about it, it's the impact that has on the individual.\n\n\"Very clearly in this case, that young woman felt intimidated.\"\n\nMr Drakeford told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that the \"enforcement authorities... need to be prepared to step in\".\n\n\"They are right to say that people have a right to protest and so on, but they need to think about it in terms of the impact that will have on the individual who is being, in this case, directly approached by a group of people.\"\n\nGrace now needs a wheelchair to go more than 50 yards, since she had Covid last year\n\nGrace's mother, Angela, said \"it was incredibly unpleasant\" experience when the protesters accused her of using her daughter \"as a lab rat\" at Cardiff's Bayside mass vaccination centre.\n\nMs Baker-Earle, from Cowbridge, in the Vale Glamorgan, said 15 protesters walked in front of her car and she had to tell one man to \"step back\".\n\nGrace had vomiting and diarrhoea for 10 days and lost half a stone after catching Covid-19\n\n\"He was within two feet of me, looked at me as if I was stupid. I told them: 'You have literally surrounded my car'.\"\n\nShe said a vaccination centre steward then came out and checked she and her daughter were safe.\n\nMeanwhile, another parent, Melissa Ringham has called for more protection for people entering vaccination centres.\n\nShe said her 15-year-old daughter and herself felt \"shaken up\" after being targeted by protesters yesterday at the Bayside vaccination centre.\n\nThe 42-year-old mother, from Barry, said they were followed by a protester \"walking behind us\" and \"wouldn't leave us be\" as they walked up to the vaccination centre entrance.\n\n\"He got into my daughter's personal space and started shouting at her. I said: 'Stop, please don't speak to her like that.' I also raised my hand out to say stop,\" she said.\n\n\"It was very upsetting to see how upset my daughter was, she didn't have to witness that.\n\n\"As we walked out, we had one woman screaming at us: 'Shame on you - you're killing your daughter'.\"\n\nMs Ringham also said a nurse inside the vaccination centre told her \"many were too scared to walk into the building\".\n\nCardiff and Vale health board has be asked to comment.\n\nOn Sunday, South Wales Police confirmed a 61-year-old man from Newport was arrested, and released on bail, for racially aggravated offences.\n\nThe vaccine has been offered to 12 to 15 year olds in Wales since 4 October.", "The BBC's Moscow correspondent, Sarah Rainsford, was recently expelled from Russia, a country she first began visiting in her teens as a student and has reported on since the start of Vladimir Putin's presidency.\n\nNow she's been barred for life, declared a 'security threat'.\n\nThe move comes during an unprecedented assault on rights and freedoms in Russia, where critics of the Kremlin are increasingly being labelled as hostile 'agents' of the West.", "A ballot box had to be brought to Mr Zeman so he could vote in the election due to his ill health\n\nCzech President Milos Zeman has been taken to hospital amid political upheaval after a surprise opposition win in parliamentary elections.\n\nThe 77-year-old is a heavy smoker and former heavy drinker who uses a wheelchair and suffers from diabetes.\n\nHe was due to lead talks on forming a new government after Saturday's vote.\n\nPrague's Central Military Hospital director said Mr Zeman was in intensive care for complications from a known condition.\n\n\"We know the diagnosis precisely, which allows us to target treatment,\" director Miroslav Zavoral said, but added that he would not give any further details per the president's request.\n\nMr Zeman's office has previously said he is suffering from exhaustion and dehydration, after spending eight days in hospital last month.\n\nThe president was taken to hospital from the presidential chateau outside the capital Prague on Sunday morning, shortly after a meeting with Prime Minister Andrej Babis.\n\nFootage broadcast by Czech media show staff holding up his head as he entered the hospital.\n\nWhen President Zeman spent eight days in hospital in September, journalists asked the president's mercurial spokesman Jiri Ovcacek for an official explanation. For two days there was no response. Finally, the silence was broken with the following cryptic tweet:\n\n\"I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me. I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about\": Psalm 3, 5-7.\n\nIt is fair to say that the Czech journalistic community - some of whom are blacklisted by the president's office - has developed a certain degree of scepticism at the official statements emanating from Prague Castle.\n\nFor weeks we have been told September's visit was a scheduled one, to treat exhaustion and dehydration.\n\nBut last week several media outlets - including the country's public broadcaster, Czech Radio - quoted seven independent sources familiar with his condition who said he was suffering from ascites, a build-up of abdominal fluid usually associated with cirrhosis of the liver. Mr Zeman has been a heavy drinker throughout his life.\n\nMr Ovcacek released a statement dismissing the claims as lies and disinformation, motivated by political activism and hatred of Mr Zeman.\n\nBut distressing footage of the president being wheeled into hospital - apparently unconscious, his head held up by a bodyguard and his wife and daughter with him - will do nothing to allay public concerns, at a time of political vacuum.\n\nPrime Minister Babis and his populist ANO party had sought re-election on Saturday after four years in power. But they were beaten in the poll by the centre-right coalition Spolu (meaning Together), which took 27.8% of the vote compared to ANO's 27.1%.\n\nSpolu has announced talks with the liberal Pirates/Mayors coalition known as PirStan to form a government. Together the two groups control 108 of the parliament's 200 seats.\n\nHowever President Zeman said before the election he would pick the winner of the largest individual party, not coalition, to form the next government.\n\nBecause ANO took the most votes of any one party, this would be Prime Minister Babis - an ally of President Zeman's.\n\nThe president announced his plan to vote for the billionaire prime minister ahead of the poll. Due to his ill health however, a ballot box had to be brought to him so he could take part in Saturday's election.\n\nAccording to Reuters news agency, the Czech constitution grants the lower house of the parliament the authority to appoint the prime minister if the presidential position is vacated.\n\nA controversial figure, Mr Zeman is known for making divisive remarks and using strong language. In June he was sharply criticised for calling transgender people \"disgusting\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video from 2017 asks whether Andrej Babis is the Czech Donald Trump", "Abdul Qadeer Khan was put under house arrest until 2009\n\nThe man regarded as the \"father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb\", Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, has died aged 85 after being hospitalised with Covid-19.\n\nDr Khan was hailed as a national hero for transforming his country into the world's first Islamic nuclear power.\n\nBut he was also notorious for having smuggled nuclear secrets to states including North Korea and Iran.\n\n\"He was loved by our nation bec[ause] of his critical contribution in making us a nuclear weapon state,\" the prime minister tweeted.\n\nKnown as AQ Khan, the scientist was instrumental in setting up Pakistan's first nuclear enrichment plant at Kahuta near Islamabad. By 1998, the country had conducted its first nuclear tests.\n\nComing shortly after similar tests by India, Dr Khan's work helped seal Pakistan's place as the world's seventh nuclear power and sparked national jubilation.\n\nBut he was arrested in 2004 for illegally sharing nuclear technology with Iran, Libya and North Korea.\n\nThe revelations that he had passed on nuclear secrets to other countries shocked Pakistan.\n\nIn a televised address, Dr Khan offered his \"deepest regrets and unqualified apologies\".\n\nDr Khan was pardoned by Pakistan's then-president, Pervez Musharraf, but he was held under house arrest until 2009.\n\nThe leniency of his treatment angered many in the West, where he has been dubbed \"the greatest nuclear proliferator of all time\".\n\nBut in Pakistan he remained a symbol of pride for his role in boosting its national security.\n\n\"He helped us develop nation-saving nuclear deterrence and a grateful nation will never forget his services,\" President Arif Alvi said.\n\nThe fact AQ Khan could be described as one of the most dangerous men in the world by Western spies but also be lauded as a hero in his homeland tells you much about not just the complexity of the man himself but also how the world views nuclear weapons.\n\nAQ Khan was responsible, perhaps, more than any other individual for aiding the spread of nuclear weapons technology. He helped his own country's nuclear programme but then spread some of the know-how to others, including Iran, North Korea and Libya. The extent to which this was motivated by money, ideology or orders from Pakistan's leadership has always been murky.\n\nFor Western countries stopping the spread of nuclear weapons has been a top priority, and the CIA and MI6 helped take down Khan's network.\n\nBut within Pakistan he was a revered figure, seen as having helped build his country's defences against India.\n\nAnd more broadly, he and others would question why Western countries should be allowed to have nuclear weapons for their security while denying the same ability to others.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Blackford calls on UK government to \"nurse\" businesses through the energy crisis\n\nIan Blackford, the SNP's Westminster leader, has called on the UK government to \"nurse\" businesses through the energy crisis.\n\nHe described the situation facing the UK as a \"perfect storm\".\n\nWholesale gas prices have risen 250% since January and there are warnings some industrial sectors may have to shut down operations.\n\nUK Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has defended the government's handling of the crisis.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News' Trevor Phillips on Sunday, he would not rule out a price cap for businesses and said his department was talking to industry to see what solutions would work.\n\nBut he denied reports he asked for \"billions\" from the Treasury to subsidise energy intensive industries.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show, Mr Blackford warned that energy prices could go up further.\n\nOfgem has already warned that householders face \"significant rises\" in energy prices next spring when the price cap, which limits how much energy providers can charge per unit, is due to be changed.\n\nTwelve domestic energy supply firms have failed in the last 13 months as they paid more for their gas then they were able to charge. Their customers have been moved to alternative providers.\n\n\"Now we know this is not going to go away quickly and actually if you end up in a situation that more energy providers have to hedge by buying additional supplies, all we are actually doing is forcing energy prices up even more and more,\" Mr Blackford said.\n\n\"There's a real issue about some larger providers being in quite a delicate situation and the impact that it's going to have. Government can't walk away from its responsibilities.\"\n\nHe said that if factories closed, it would have wider repercussions on the supply chain and unemployment levels.\n\nThe Energy Intensive Users Group - which represents firms which use a lot of energy - has said measures were needed \"right now\" to stop shut downs having a wider impact.\n\nAnd businesses in the ceramics industry have said they may be forced to scale back or stop production due to the rise in gas prices.\n\n\"Government has to recognise we have a responsibility to nurse businesses through this to provide short term support,\" Mr Blackford said.\n\n\"If we end up in a situation where steel production stops in the west coast of Scotland, that helps nobody.\n\n\"We have got to make sure that companies have got the assistance they need in the short term while we get through this. If not we are going to pay the price because we're going to end up with high unemployment, we are going to end up with supply constraints.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Kwarteng, asked on the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show if he was going to give extra help to energy-intensive industries, like steel, said: \"We're looking to find a solution.\"\n\nTold that that sounds like a yes, the minister replied: \"No, that doesn't sound like yes at all. We already have existing support and we're looking to see if that's sufficient to get us through this situation.\"\n\nHe added: \"I've been very clear we're not going to bail out failing energy suppliers.\"\n\nOn being informed of the Business Secretary's position, Mr Blackford said: \"This is like Thatcher all over again, isn't it?\"\n\nAsked whether the Scottish government would support those affected by rising energy crisis, he said: \"The Scottish government is already doing what it can and in particular we are making sure that we are trying to react against fuel poverty, we are trying to make sure vulnerable families, children with disabilities and so on are being supported.\n\n\"We can't fix every problem that emerges from Westminster.\"\n\nHe added: \"I want to do as much as we can but our budget is constrained and let's remember that we don't have the borrowing powers that Westminster has. We would fix this - give us the powers to do it and we would make sure we would give businesses the necessary support.\"", "Miriam Groot is a food blogger known as The Veggie Reporter\n\nA vegan food blogger from the Netherlands has won the World Porridge Making Championships.\n\nMiriam Groot, 25, who runs a blog call The Veggie Reporter, beat competitors from around the world.\n\nShe used pinhead oatmeal, mushrooms and vegan cheese to create Oatmeal Arancini - deep fried balls of risotto, rolled in breadcrumbs and deep fried in oil.\n\nThe annual competition, traditionally held in Carrbridge in the Highlands, has been run online since last year.\n\nCompetitors were asked to submit a video of themselves making their favourite oaty dish.\n\nThey were judged on appearance, execution, originality, flair and virtual taste - reflecting which dishes the judging panel most wanted to try.\n\nCoinneach MacLeod - better known as the Hebridean Baker - and Aaron Leung, a video producer from New Jersery, were joint runners up.\n\nMr MacLeod's Baked Oat Alaska was made with honey, oat and raspberry sponge, topped with pinhead oatmeal brittle ice cream and chocolate ice cream, all encased in a baked meringue.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Leung's savoury Japanese fusion Golden Omuoats dish included a spicy pork and oatmeal mince, served under an omelette and topped with a curry sauce which included chocolate.\n\nCoinneach MacLeod, from the Isle of Lewis, made Baked Oat Alaska\n\nCharlie Miller, from Carrbridge Community Council which organises the competition, said: \"While we were disappointed that we couldn't have the competition in person again this year, the response was amazing, with the highest level of international interest we've ever had.\n\n\"The judging was very close, with only six points separating the top 10. Congratulations to our top 10, and especially to Miriam, Aaron and Coinneach for your excellent entries. We hope to see you all in Carrbridge this time next year.\"\n\nThe top 10 included two Americans, one Canadian, two Australians, one each from Germany and the Netherlands, two from England and one from Scotland.\n\nOther dishes included a cranachan ice cream sundae, banana oat pancakes, an oatmeal banana split, and a dessert porridge inspired by the Sacher Torte chocolate cake.", "The energy price cap protecting households from sharp rises in gas prices is \"not fit for purpose\", suppliers have said.\n\nNatural gas prices are at record highs, which has led to some domestic energy firms failing as they are paying more for gas than they are able to charge.\n\nSuppliers have warned that consumers could face a \"huge cost\" from these firms going out of business.\n\nThere are also calls for an energy price cap to help small businesses.\n\nGas prices are at record highs as economies around the world begin to recover from the Covid pandemic.\n\nDomestic customers are partly protected from sharp rises by a price cap - which sets the maximum price suppliers in England, Wales and Scotland can charge customers on a standard tariff - although energy regulator Ofgem has warned that households will see further \"significant rises\" in the spring, when the cap is reviewed.\n\nLast month, nine energy companies went out of business, forcing 1.7 million customers to move to new suppliers and on to higher rates.\n\nPaul Richards, chief executive of Together Energy, which he said is currently making losses, told the BBC that while he supported a price cap to protect customers, the current mechanism \"is not fit for industry, nor is it fit for customers\".\n\n\"Crazy, just crazy\" is how the nursery and soft play owner Gordon Foster describes the sharp rise in energy prices, shaking his head in dismay.\n\nBusinesses typically fix their energy bills a few years in advance, known as \"hedging\".\n\nMr Foster is one of the unlucky ones whose energy contract is up for renewal, and at the moment he's looking at paying eight times his current rate, taking up a contract that would tie him in for years.\n\nThe alternative is paying sky high prices now without a contract, and keeping his fingers crossed that prices will stabilise.\n\nFor him, as for others, this sudden jump in costs makes parts of the business unviable, and certainly means he has to put his prices up for his customers.\n\nWhile households might have an energy cap in place to protect them from such eye-watering spikes in global markets, we are all exposed to the impact of such costs for businesses. Ultimately they feed through to everyone.\n\nHe said while the cap protected customers in the short term, he thought there was somewhere between £1bn and £3bn in costs which would be spread back across business and households as a result of failed suppliers.\n\nDerek Lickorish, chairman of Utilita Energy, which has more than 800,000 customers, said there was no doubt there would be a cost paid by consumers for failed firms.\n\n\"The government has to look at the means by which they can support not only energy suppliers, but also big industry,\" he said.\n\nMr Lickorish said he would like to see the price cap reviewed four times a year, rather than the current two, and for a longer period of gas prices to be considered in setting it.\n\nStephen Murray, head of energy, commercial and partners at Moneysupermarket.com, said that while the usual advice for consumers was to shop around, for now it was to stay put, with those on a fixed deal likely to be better off.\n\nThe price cap provided \"some level of protection\", he said, but \"that comes at a cost and we've seen that through failed suppliers\".\n\nBusiness group the British Chambers of Commerce has called for a similar cap to be introduced for the energy bills of small and medium sized businesses - those with 250 employers or fewer.\n\nThese firms mostly buy their energy several years in advance, so those whose contracts are due for renewal now are facing a \"difficult time\", it said.\n\nThe group's co-executive director Claire Walker said the increasing pressure on these sized businesses was \"becoming dire\" and said that a price cap would give them the confidence to maintain normal business activities.\n\nDave Dalton, chief executive of British Glass, said he thought a cap would help but was probably \"too little, too late\" and that an \"immediate intervention\" was needed.\n\nThe government said it was in regular contact with business groups to explore ways to manage the impact of global prices.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng met leaders from heavy industry on Friday amid warnings that some sectors could have to shut down, but they failed to find any solutions.\n\nLabour has accused the government of being in denial about gas prices, with wholesale prices rising 250% since January.\n\nA number of Conservative MPs have called for the government to take action, and the Energy Intensive Users Group - which represents firms that use a lot of energy - said measures were needed \"right now\".\n\nThe group's chair Dr Richard Leese said that energy-heavy industries were \"intrinsically linked\" and if some sectors were forced to shut down, it would have a knock-on impact.\n\n\"We've seen the curtailment in production in the steel and fertiliser sector - that's had a knock-on impact into the supply chains in the industrial supply chains and domestic supply chains,\" he said.\n\nUK Steel boss Gareth Stace said he was \"baffled\" that the UK government had failed to find solutions because governments in the rest of Europe had stepped in to support industry - although they faced lower energy costs than in the UK.", "Tsai Ing-wen was speaking at Taiwan's National Day celebrations in its capital Taipei\n\nTaiwan will not bow to pressure from China and will defend its democratic way of life, President Tsai Ing-wen has said in a defiant speech amid heightened tensions over the island.\n\nHer remarks on Taiwan's National Day came after China's President Xi Jinping vowed to \"fulfil reunification\".\n\nTaiwan considers itself a sovereign state, while China views it as a breakaway province.\n\nBeijing has not ruled out the possible use of force to achieve unification.\n\nChina has sent a record number of military jets into Taiwan's air defence zone in recent days. Three Chinese planes, including two fighter jets, crossed into the zone on Sunday, Taiwan's defence ministry said.\n\nMs Tsai was re-elected by a landslide last year on a promise to stand up to Beijing. In her speech on Sunday, she said Taiwan was \"standing on democracy's first line of defence\".\n\nShe said the island would not \"act rashly\" but would bolster its defences to \"ensure that nobody can force Taiwan to take the path China has laid out for us\".\n\nThat path, she said, offered \"neither a free and democratic way of life for Taiwan nor sovereignty\" for its 23 million people.\n\n\"The more we achieve, the greater the pressure we face from China,\" she said.\n\nShe added that China's military flights into Taiwan's air defence zone had seriously affected national security and aviation safety, and described the situation as being \"more complex and fluid than at any other point in the past 72 years\".\n\nMs Tsai also repeated an offer to talk with Chinese leaders on an equal footing, a suggestion Beijing - which brands her a \"separatist\" - has so far rejected.\n\nHer speech was followed by a flypast of Taiwanese fighter jets.\n\nOne man watching Ms Tsai's speech told AFP news agency Taiwanese people could not accept unification with China.\n\n\"China is presently rather authoritarian. Especially under Xi Jinping, its gotten worse. Reunification is not appropriate now,\" another said.\n\nOn Saturday, China's President Xi said unification should be achieved peacefully, but warned that the Chinese people had a \"glorious tradition\" of opposing separatism.\n\n\"The historical task of the complete reunification of the motherland... will definitely be fulfilled,\" he added.\n\nFollowing Ms Tsai's speech on Sunday, China's Taiwan Affairs Office said she had \"advocated Taiwan independence, incited confrontation, cut apart history and disputed facts\".\n\nDespite the recent heightened tensions, relations between China and Taiwan have not deteriorated to levels last seen in 1996 when China tried to disrupt presidential elections with missile tests and the US dispatched aircraft carriers to the region to dissuade them.\n\nThe US has a longstanding \"One China\" policy under which it recognises China rather than Taiwan.\n\nBut this agreement also allows Washington to maintain a \"robust unofficial\" relationship with Taiwan. The US sells arms to Taiwan as part of Washington's Taiwan Relations Act, which states that the US must help Taiwan defend itself.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC this week, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the US would \"stand up and speak out\" over any actions that might \"undermine peace and stability\" across the Taiwan Strait.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jake Sullivan tells the BBC that the US will \"stand up for our friends\"", "Police said the collision, involving a bronze Toyota Hilux, took place in Lenham Road, Headcorn\n\nFour people have been killed and a teenage boy seriously injured in a crash on a country lane.\n\nKent Police said a bronze Toyota Hilux crashed in Lenham Road, Headcorn, at about 00:55 BST on Sunday.\n\nFour people, aged 18, 19, 25 and 44, who were inside the vehicle, were declared dead at the scene.\n\nA 15-year-old boy, who was a passenger in the car, was taken to a London hospital with life-threatening injuries, the force added.\n\nAnyone who witnessed the crash, or has CCTV, mobile phone or dashcam footage, is asked to contact Kent Police.\n\nA 15-year-old boy was taken to hospital after the crash\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Border Force intercepted more than 160 boats off Dover in Kent in September\n\nForty small boats with 1,115 migrants on board have crossed the Channel in two days, the Home Office has said.\n\nOn Saturday, Border Force picked up 491 migrants on 17 boats, while the French authorities prevented 114 people from making the crossing.\n\nOn Friday 624 people crossed on 23 boats, with 300 more being stopped by the French authorities.\n\nIn September, more migrants crossed than in any other previous month since the crisis began.\n\nSome 3,879 migrants made the crossing in September.\n\nMore than 18,000 people have made the crossing from France to England in small boats so far this year, compared to just over 8,460 in 2020, according to Home Office figures.\n\nOn Saturday the French interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, visited Calais to see what was being done to try and stop migrants crossing the English Channel by boat.\n\nIn July, a £54m deal was announced between the UK and France which would see France doubling the number of police patrolling its beaches to stem the number of migrant crossings.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel recently threatened to withhold the funding unless more people were stopped from reaching the UK.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said 89 people on board five boats had also made the crossing on Thursday.\n\nHe said: \"This year record numbers of people have put their lives in the hands of ruthless people smugglers and risked perilous channel crossings from French beaches.\n\n\"Joint cooperation with the French has led to nearly 300 arrests, 65 convictions and prevented more than 13,500 crossings. But with hundreds still risking their lives and making the crossing, all sides must do more.\"\n\nThe English Channel is one of the most dangerous and busiest shipping lanes in the world.\n\nMany migrants come from some of the poorest and most chaotic parts of the world, and many ask to claim asylum once they are picked up by the UK authorities.\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.", "Lord Frost will use a speech next week to reiterate that the UK wants the European Court of Justice (ECJ) removed from oversight of the NI Protocol.\n\nThe EU will bring forward proposals on Wednesday for reforming the protocol.\n\nThey will focus on easing practical problems, rather than changing oversight arrangements.\n\nBut the Brexit minister will say: 'Without new arrangements in this area the protocol will never have the support it needs to survive\".\n\nThe protocol is a special Brexit deal for Northern Ireland, agreed by the UK and EU in 2019.\n\nIt avoids a hard border on the island of Ireland by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nThat creates a new trade border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThis has caused practical difficulties for some businesses while unionists say it undermines Northern Ireland's constitutional position as part of the UK.\n\nThe UK government also wants to reverse its previous agreement on the oversight role of the ECJ, which is the EU's highest court.\n\nIn a paper published in July, the government said it had only agreed to the ECJ's role because of the \"very specific circumstances\" of the protocol negotiation.\n\nIt now wants a new governance arrangement in which disputes should be \"managed collectively and ultimately through international arbitration.\"\n\nThe ECJ is the supreme interpreter of the rules of the single market.\n\nAs the protocol works by keeping Northern Ireland in the single market for goods, the EU says removing the ECJ would simply unravel the protocol.\n\nSpeaking last week, European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic said: \"I find it hard to see how Northern Ireland would stay or would keep the access to the single market without oversight of the European Court of Justice.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said he believes the Northern Ireland Protocol could \"in principle work\" if it was \"fixed\".\n\nLord Frost is expected to address that issue when he makes a speech to diplomats in Portugal on Tuesday.\n\nHe will say: \"The commission have been too quick to dismiss governance as a side issue. The reality is the opposite.\n\n\"The role of the ECJ in Northern Ireland and the consequent inability of the UK government to implement the very sensitive arrangements in the protocol in a reasonable way has created a deep imbalance in the way the protocol operates.\"\n\nWhen the EU publishes its proposals next week that is expected to lead to a new round of negotiations.\n\nBoth sides have suggested there will be short, intense talks process beginning in late October or early November.\n• None PM says NI Protocol could work if it was 'fixed'", "The last four remaining cooling towers at the former Eggborough Power Station in North Yorkshire have been demolished.\n\nThey were brought down just after 09:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nFour of the eight concrete structures, which stood 300ft (90m) high, were demolished in August as part of plans to redevelop the site after the plant closed in 2018.\n\nThe towers have been a landmark for more than 50 years in an area where all four Yorkshire counties - North, South, East and West - meet.", "Abby, not her real name, called the system \"harrowing\"\n\nA traumatised domestic abuse victim has said her experience of the justice system was so bad it was \"like the abuse has continued\".\n\nAbby, not her real name, branded the system \"harrowing\" and felt she had to \"constantly prove that I'm innocent\".\n\nA rape charity said some victims waited years for their cases to reach court.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it had invested hundreds of millions of pounds to \"restore swift access to justice in Wales\".\n\nAbby alleges her partner beat her, left her with broken bones, abused her emotionally and controlled her finances. The Crown Prosecution Service decided not to prosecute.\n\nThe experience of pressing charges was \"emotionally draining,\" she said, adding that constantly being asked to recount the abuse was \"traumatic\".\n\nShe said she felt she had to \"constantly prove that I'm innocent\"\n\n\"It was absolutely horrific,\" Abby, from south-west Wales, said.\n\n\"I could feel myself shaking because I didn't know what was going to happen.\n\n\"Not once have I felt that I've been treated like a survivor, I've felt I've had to constantly prove that I'm innocent,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't feel safe. And I don't have the confidence in the courts to put my children's safety first.\n\n\"The issue was male violence, not female behaviour, and that needs to be recognised.\"\n\nSarah Thomas, of Merthyr Tydfil-based rape charity New Pathways, said delays in getting justice is one of the biggest challenges for survivors.\n\nSarah Thomas, of charity New Pathways, said there were the \"significant\" delays in getting justice\n\n\"They feel forgotten, they feel lost in the system, that they're not important, and that the system is set up for their perpetrator,\" she said.\n\nShe said some women wait three years for their case to get to court, leaving some feeling unable to continue with the case.\n\nGwendolyn Sterk, of Welsh Women's Aid, said she wanted a system that prioritised survivors and implemented restraining orders better.\n\nShe said many did not report abuse as it was easy for perpetrators to \"continue the harassment of the woman\" during court cases.\n\nVictim's Commissioner Dame Vera Baird QC said violent crimes against women and girls were prosecuted \"extraordinarily weakly\" in England and Wales.\n\nDame Vera Baird QC says violent crimes against women are prosecuted \"extraordinarily weakly\"\n\nThe crime survey for England and Wales, considered an accurate assessment of crimes committed, estimated just 16% of raped or sexually assaulted women report it to police.\n\nHome Office figures show just 1.6% of such cases that get to court result in a conviction.\n\nDame Vera said she wanted abuse given the same priority as terrorism.\n\n\"There needs to be an urgent, a powerful and a relentless drive to change, not only police attitudes, but criminal justice attitudes and indeed public attitudes,\" she said.\n\nIn Wales, 22 magistrates' courts have closed and there are currently 17,726 cases outstanding as Covid puts extra pressure on the system.\n\nThe Magistrates' Association has prioritised cases such as domestic violence where people are in danger, and the courts have been holding remote hearings to clear the Covid-induced backlog.\n\nRape prosecutions have fallen 59% in the last five years.\n\nIn June the UK government published a plan to improve that.\n\nVictims and youth justice shadow minister Anna McMorrin, Labour MP for Cardiff North, said the criminal justice system was failing women and girls \"at every turn\", and labelled it a \"national scandal\".\n\nAnna McMorrin has called for cross-party co-operation to improve women and girls' experience with the justice system\n\nShe called for cross-party co-operation on the issue, and for the Victim's Bill, a proposed law currently being debated in Parliament, to be brought forward.\n\nLast week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said targets to return to 2016 levels of prosecutions would be \"incredibly tough\" to meet.\n\nThe MoJ said it planned to spend £151m on victims, including an extra £50m to increase support for victims of rape and domestic abuse.\n\nA pilot scheme for rape and sexual violence survivors to have their cross-examinations recorded before trial has also recently been extended.\n\nAn MoJ spokesman said: \"The impact of the pandemic was vast and unprecedented but we are already cutting backlogs in magistrates' and crown courts across Wales.\n\n\"We are investing hundreds of millions to restore the swift access to justice that victims deserve, while building back faith in the system by introducing a new victims' law and boosting vital support services.\"", "The World Conker Championships first took place in Ashton, Northamptonshire, in 1965\n\nAbout 2,000 people flocked to watch the return of the World Conker Championships.\n\nThe event was cancelled last year due to Covid-19, but returned to see 2019 champion Jasmine Tetley retain her title.\n\nThe championships, which took part in Southwick, Northamptonshire, have been running since 1965.\n\nOrganiser Charles Whalley, from Ashton Conker Club, said the day out had been \"a real treat\" for people.\n\nAs well as retaining her overall title, Ms Tetley also headed up the event's winning team, named 'We Came, We Saw, Jasmine Conkered'.\n\nAdy Hurrell won the men's event. In all, 250 people competed in the championship.\n\nJasmine Tetley led 'We Came, We Saw, Jasmine Conkered' to the team championship title\n\nMr Whalley said extra measures had been put in place to mitigate against coronavirus.\n\n\"It's outside, we had more space and more places for people to sit down, away from the competitors, hand sanitisers everywhere, we've done as much as we can,\" he said.\n\n\"Competitors have to be a metre apart, anyway. We're meeting all the guidelines.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Mr Airey said he was happy the actor had allowed them to share details of his donation\n\nFilm star Daniel Craig has donated £10,000 to three fathers who have set out on a 300-mile walk to raise funds for a suicide prevention charity after their daughters took their own lives.\n\nAndy Airey, Mike Palmer and Tim Owen's \"Three Dads Walking\" trek will see them walk between their homes in Cumbria, Greater Manchester and Norfolk.\n\nThey are raising money for the Papyrus charity.\n\nThey said the donation from the James Bond actor was \"amazing\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three dads united by daughters' suicides take on challenge\n\nMr Airey said he was happy that the actor had let them share the news of his generosity.\n\n\"Allowing us to shout about it is fantastic news, especially as he's just about the most famous film actor in the world at the moment, isn't he?\" he said.\n\nThe trio, who set out earlier, will be walking about 20 miles a day between Mr Airey's home, near Cumbria, Mr Palmer's house in Sale, Greater Manchester, and Mr Owen's property in Shouldham, Norfolk.\n\nThey expect to complete the challenge on 23 October.\n\nMr Airey, whose 29-year-old daughter Sophie took her own life in 2018, said they had \"three different stories to tell, but each has the same tragic ending; the devastating loss of a daughter to suicide\".\n\n\"Daniel Craig has clearly been moved by the indescribable pain we and our families are suffering and wants to help us to bring something positive out of the utter devastation,\" he added.\n\nMr Palmer, whose daughter Beth died in 2020, said being part of the challenge was \"not a club I want to belong to, but [it gives us] an opportunity to fight back and maybe make a difference.\n\n\"We hope that by linking our three homes and telling our three daughters' very different stories, we will put a spotlight on young mental health.\"\n\nAs well as fundraising, the trio want to raise awareness of the help and support available\n\nMr Owen added that \"strongly\" believed that \"in a moment of darkness\", his 19-year-old daughter Emily \"made a wrong decision\" last year.\n\n\"Had she just taken time to think or to speak to someone, her decision and my family's lives would be on another path,\" he said.\n\n\"Instead, she decided she could no longer go on, leaving behind a devastating ripple effect on her family and friends.\"\n\nIf you're affected by the issues in this piece, you can find support from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The three dads united by their daughters' suicides. Video, 00:04:00The three dads united by their daughters' suicides\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. 'Anti-vaxxers told me I was wrong to get jab'\n\nA 15-year-old girl and her mum say they were intimidated by anti-vax protesters outside a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nGrace Baker-Earle, who uses a wheelchair after contracting Covid, was confronted after receiving the jab at Cardiff's Bayside mass vaccination centre.\n\nHer mum Angela said protesters accused her of using Grace \"as a lab rat\".\n\nSouth Wales Police said officers attended a protest in the area at 10:50 BST and remained in attendance.\n\nThe force said no arrests had been made.\n\nThe vaccine has been offered to 12 to 15-year-olds in Wales since 4 October.\n\nGrace now needs a wheelchair to go more than 50 yards after she had Covid last year\n\nMs Baker-Earle said the confrontation was \"just horrible\" and \"incredibly intimidating\", and happened while getting her daughter's wheelchair into her car - something she needs since developing Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME).\n\nThe 44-year-old said a protester claimed it was \"ridiculous\" to get the jab.\n\n\"I said my daughter is using a wheelchair because of Covid,\" Ms Baker-Earle said.\n\n\"[A protestor] said: 'She'll have immunity, you shouldn't be getting the vaccine since you have natural immunity. You shouldn't be using her as a lab rat'.\n\n\"It has been lifechanging for Grace, we are hoping she will get better,\" her mother says\n\nMs Baker-Earle, from Cowbridge, in the Vale Glamorgan, said the 15 protesters walked in front of her car and she had to tell one man to \"step back\".\n\n\"He was within two feet of me, looked at me as if I was stupid. I told them: 'You have literally surrounded my car'.\"\n\nShe said a vaccination centre steward then came out and checked she and her daughter were safe.\n\nGrace said the confrontation \"hit a spot\" because of how much Covid has affected herself and family.\n\n\"I think I was sad more than anything because it's something I still live with, it takes up every second of my day,\" she said.\n\n\"I was excited to have it done - to have people tell you as you come out that what you're doing is wrong and to have people invading your personal space, it wasn't nice.\"\n\nAngela Baker-Earle was in hospital with Covid and pneumonia last year, while Grace was \"very poorly\"\n\nMs Baker-Earle said she was in hospital with Covid and pneumonia last November, around the same time Grace also had the virus.\n\n\"Grace was very unwell for a couple of weeks, she lost half a stone and was really poorly - she weighed 6.5 stone (41kg) to begin with.\n\n\"A cardiologist has said although Grace had a virus earlier in March, having Covid pushed it over into having ME.\"\n\nME is a chronic neurological condition which means day-to-day tasks can be \"exhausting\" for Grace, she added.\n\n\"People were so dismissive of such a serious thing we are dealing with, which makes my blood boil,\" she added.\n\n\"There are 12-year-olds going down there to be faced with that - a whole line of people, it is disgusting.\"\n\nGrace had vomiting and diarrhoea for 10 days and lost half a stone after catching Covid-19\n\n\"Now she has to use a wheelchair to go more than 50 yards, and has an extremely elevated heart rate,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been lifechanging for Grace, we are hoping she will get better. This is all off the back of Covid in November.\"\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers (CMOs) have said healthy children aged 12 to 15 should be offered one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nThe advice, they say, reflects evidence on the mental health and long-term prospects for young people, the effect on education and the marginal benefit to health.\n\nThe Welsh government has emphasised that the vaccine is a choice for each individual to make.\n\nIt said all children aged 12 to 15 in Wales will be offered a Covid vaccine by the end of October.\n\nWales' Health Minister Eluned Morgan said studies showed children were at some risk of developing long Covid despite low hospital admission rates.", "Pope Francis officially launched the process at a Mass in the Vatican\n\nPope Francis has launched what some describe as the most ambitious attempt at Catholic reform for 60 years.\n\nA two-year process to consult every Catholic parish around the world on the future direction of the Church began at the Vatican this weekend.\n\nSome Catholics hope it will lead to change on issues such as women's ordination, married priests and same-sex relationships.\n\nOthers fear it will undermine the principles of the Church.\n\nThey say a focus on reform could also distract from issues facing the Church, such as corruption and dwindling attendance levels.\n\nPope Francis urged Catholics not to \"remain barricaded in our certainties\" but to \"listen to one another\" as he launched the process at Mass in St Peter's Basilica.\n\n\"Are we prepared for the adventure of this journey? Or are we fearful of the unknown, preferring to take refuge in the usual excuses: 'It's useless' or 'We've always done it this way'?\" he asked.\n\nThe consultation process, called \"For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission\", will work in three stages:\n\nThe Pope is expected then to write an apostolic exhortation, giving his views and decisions on the issues discussed.\n\nDiscussing his hopes for the Synod, Pope Francis warned against the process becoming an intellectual exercise that failed to address the real-world issues faced by Catholics and the \"temptation to complacency\" when it comes to considering change.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?\"\n\nThe initiative has been praised by the progressive US-based National Catholic Reporter newspaper, which said that while the process might not be perfect \"the Church is more likely to address the needs of the people of God with it than without it\".\n\nHowever, theologian George Weigel wrote, in the conservative US Catholic journal First Things, it was unclear how \"two years of self-referential Catholic chatter\" would address other problems the Church such as those who are \"drifting away from the faith in droves\".\n\nMuch of the reporting of this two-year consultation has focused on some of the issues that often appear to dominate reporting on the Catholic Church: the role of women for example, and whether they will ever be ordained as priests (the Pope says \"no\").\n\nWhile those topics are often of concern to some Catholics, other areas which traditionally dominate Catholic social teaching, such as alleviating poverty, and increasingly, climate change, will likely play a greater part, as will how the Church is run. In reality, any issue can be raised.\n\nDon't expect any sudden changes to Church rules though. It's true that some Catholics do want to see a different kind of institution, but for Pope Francis, allowing ordinary worshippers to have their concerns (eventually) raised at the Vatican - even if their bishops disagree with them - is a huge step change for this 2000 year-old religion.", "Researchers say the UK has little room for nature due to development and agriculture\n\nThe UK is one of the world's most nature-depleted countries - in the bottom 10% globally and last among the G7 group of nations, new data shows.\n\nIt has an average of about half its biodiversity left, far below the global average of 75%, a study has found.\n\nA figure of 90% is considered the \"safe limit\" to prevent the world from tipping into an \"ecological meltdown\", according to researchers.\n\nThe assessment was released ahead of a key UN biodiversity conference.\n\nBiodiversity is the variety of all living things on Earth and how they fit together in the web of life, bringing oxygen, water, food and countless other benefits.\n\nProf Andy Purvis, research leader at the Natural History Museum in London, said biodiversity is more than something beautiful to look at.\n\n\"It's also what provides us with so many of our basic needs,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It's the foundation of our society. We've seen recently how disruptive it can be when supply chains break down - nature is at the base of our supply chains.\"\n\nThe new tool uses the Biodiversity Intactness Index to estimate the percentage of natural biodiversity that remains across the world and in individual countries.\n\nThe UK's low position in the league table is linked to the industrial revolution, which transformed the landscape, the researchers said.\n\nThe UK has seen relatively stable biodiversity levels over recent years, albeit at a \"really low level,\" team researcher Dr Adriana De Palma explained in a news briefing.\n\nThe assessment was released on the eve of the UN Biodiversity Conference, COP 15, hosted by China, a mega-diverse country with nearly 10% of plant species and 14% of animals on Earth.\n\nWorld leaders are attending week-long virtual talks seen as pivotal in raising ambition for slowing the loss of nature ahead of face-to-face talks in Kunming, China, in April next year and the climate conference in Glasgow at the end of the month.\n\nAndrew Deutz, global policy lead of international conservation charity, the Nature Conservancy, said the gathering momentum behind nature had not come a moment too soon.\n\n\"As with the accelerating climate emergency, what happens over the next year will - to a large extent - set humanity's course for the rest of the decade; and what happens this decade is likely to define our prospects for the rest of this century,\" he said.\n\nAt the summit in Kunming - taking place in a two-part format due to pandemic disruption - world leaders will negotiate a framework for protecting nature and species for the next decade.\n\nThe draft agreement aims to conserve at least 30% of the world's lands and oceans, and increase funding for the conservation of nature.\n\nBut elements of the draft lack ambition, according to a report by MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee.\n\nThe global biodiversity framework replaces the plan for the last decade, which missed all 20 targets.\n\n\"To play our part, we need the UK to step up and turn our global promises into action at home, to show that we are not going to let another lost decade for nature slip past,\" said Beccy Speight, chief executive of the RSPB.\n\nBiodiversity is declining faster than at any time in human history. Since 1970, there has been on average almost a 70% decline in the populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians.\n\nIt is thought that one million animal and plant species - almost a quarter of the global total - are threatened with extinction.", "Sebastian Kurz said he would fight the charges against him\n\nAustria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has stepped down, after pressure triggered by a corruption scandal.\n\nHe has proposed Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg as his replacement.\n\nMr Kurz and nine others were placed under investigation after raids at a number of locations linked to his conservative People's Party (ÖVP).\n\nHe denies claims he used government money to ensure positive coverage in a tabloid newspaper.\n\nThe allegations this week took his coalition government to the brink of collapse after its junior partner, the Greens, said Mr Kurz was no longer fit to be chancellor.\n\nThe Greens began talks with opposition parties, who were threatening to bring a vote of no confidence against the chancellor next week.\n\nGreens leader and Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler welcomed Mr Kurz's resignation and indicated he would be willing to work with Mr Schallenberg, saying they had a \"very constructive\" relationship.\n\n\"What's required now is stability. To resolve the impasse I want to step aside to prevent chaos,\" Mr Kurz said as he announced his resignation.\n\nHe said he would remain leader of his party, and continue to sit in parliament.\n\n\"First and foremost, however, I will of course use the opportunity to disprove the allegations against me,\" he added.\n\nAlthough he is no longer chancellor, Mr Kurz will still be a major figure in Austrian politics.\n\nAs leader of his party, he will be present at cabinet meetings. The head of the opposition Social Democrats says he will be pulling the strings as a shadow chancellor.\n\nOther observers point to his close relationship with Alexander Schallenberg, a career diplomat who worked with Mr Kurz when he first entered government as foreign minister.\n\nSome members of Mr Kurz's party are hoping his resignation will be temporary and he will be able to stage a comeback.\n\nOther Austrians say the two corruption investigations, and the collapse of his last coalition government with the far-right Freedom Party in 2019, mean it is time for Mr Kurz to leave politics altogether.\n\nMr Kurz became leader of the ÖVP in May 2017 and led his party to victory in elections later that year - becoming, at the age of 31, one the world's youngest ever democratically elected heads of government.\n\nThe corruption allegations relate to the period between 2016 and 2018, when finance ministry funds were suspected to have been used to manipulate opinion polls in favour of the ÖVP that were then published in a newspaper.\n\nWhile no newspaper was named by prosecutors, the tabloid daily Österreich put out a statement on Wednesday denying media reports it had taken taxpayers' money for advertising in exchange for publishing the favourable polls.\n\nMr Kurz, nine other individuals and three organisations have been placed under investigation \"on suspicion of breach of trust ... corruption ... and bribery ... partly with different levels of involvement\", the Prosecutors' Office for Economic Affairs and Corruption said on Wednesday.\n\nEarlier in the day, prosecutors carried out raids at the chancellery, the finance ministry and homes and offices of senior aides to the chancellor.\n\nMr Kurz has called the allegations against him \"baseless\".\n\nHe also denies wrongdoing in a separate investigation he was placed under in May over allegations he had made false statements to a parliamentary commission.", "UK demands on the Northern Ireland Protocol could cause \"a breakdown in relations\" with the EU, Ireland's foreign minister has warned.\n\nSimon Coveney made the comments after the UK reiterated that it wants the European Court of Justice (ECJ) removed from oversight of the deal.\n\nMr Coveney said this was the creation of a new \"red line\" which the EU cannot move on.\n\nThe EU will bring forward proposals on Wednesday for reforming the protocol.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol is the special Brexit deal for Northern Ireland, which the UK and EU agreed in 2019.\n\nThe EU proposals will focus on easing practical problems with the movement of goods from Britain to Northern Ireland, rather than changing oversight arrangements.\n\nHowever, on Tuesday, the UK's Brexit Minister Lord Frost will give a speech in which he is expected to tell diplomats that removing the ECJ's role in dispute settlement is necessary to sustain the protocol.\n\nLord Frost is due to give his speech on Tuesday\n\nHe is due to say: \"Without new arrangements in this area the protocol will never have the support it needs to survive.\n\n\"The role of the ECJ in Northern Ireland and the consequent inability of the UK government to implement the very sensitive arrangements in the protocol in a reasonable way has created a deep imbalance in the way the protocol operates.\"\n\nThe protocol keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and the ECJ acts as the supreme interpreter of the single market's rules.\n\nIn 2019, the UK agreed to the ECJ's role, but in July this year the government said it had only done that because of the \"very specific circumstances\" of the protocol negotiation.\n\nIt now wants a new governance arrangement in which disputes would ultimately be resolved by an independent arbitrator.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Mr Coveney suggested the UK position would not help resolve practical problems.\n\nHe said: \"EU working seriously to resolve practical issues with implementation of Protocol - so UKG creates a new \"red line\" barrier to progress, that they know EU can't move on…. are we surprised?\"\n\nHe added that the \"real question\" was: \"Does UKG actually want an agreed way forward or a further breakdown in relations?\"\n\nLord Frost later responded to Mr Coveney on social media, saying he would prefer \"not to do negotiations on Twitter\" but that \"the issue of governance and the ECJ is not new\".\n\n\"We set out our concerns three months ago in our 21 July Command Paper. The problem is that too few people seem to have listened.\"\n\nAs the protocol works by keeping Northern Ireland in the single market for goods, the EU has said removing the ECJ would simply unravel the whole arrangement.\n\nMr Šefčovič told an event in Dublin that he hoped talks would begin before the end of October\n\nSpeaking last week, European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic said: \"I find it hard to see how Northern Ireland would stay or would keep the access to the single market without oversight of the European Court of Justice.\"\n\nWhen the EU publishes its proposals next week that is expected to lead to a new round of negotiations.\n\nBoth sides have suggested there will be short, intense talks process beginning in late October or early November.", "Packham said \"two masked men\" drove a vehicle to his gates and set it on fire in the early hours of Friday\n\nWildlife expert Chris Packham has vowed that intimidation will not stop him from campaigning after a suspected arson attack at his home.\n\nThe broadcaster said two masked men set a vehicle on fire at the gate of his New Forest home at about 00:30 BST on Friday, causing extensive damage.\n\nHe said the attack was the \"cost\" of online abuse he receives, but added it would not sway him from his causes.\n\nHampshire Police said it was investigating the fire.\n\nIn a video on Twitter, Packham questioned if the men were members of one of a number of conservation organisations and rural groups \"or some of my internet trolls, who fill my timeline with hate?\"\n\nHe said he received many defamatory and libellous comments online, but those who posted them were getting away with it because the law, \"as it stands, means that I am unable to take any action against this form of harassment\".\n\nHe said it was a frustrating situation, which came at a cost.\n\n\"Perhaps the cost is having my gate burned down, causing thousands of pounds' worth of damage,\" he added.\n\nThe fire came a day before Packham delivered a 100,000 signature petition to Buckingham Palace\n\nHe said he had previously had dead animals left at his home, including foxes and badgers, but actions against him had now escalated \"to damaging that property\".\n\nHowever, he said he would not bow to the pressure to support activities he did not agree with, such as \"illegal shooting\" and trail hunting.\n\n\"If you think that by burning down those gates that I'm suddenly going to become a supporter... then you're wrong,\" he said.\n\n\"I will just carry on, because I have no choice. I cannot and will not let your intimidation sway me from my cause.\"\n\nIn 2019, the BBC Springwatch presenter spoke about a \"very calculated\" death threat he received after campaigning for measures to protect birds from being shot.\n\nThe fire at his property came a day before he delivered a 100,000 signature petition to Buckingham Palace, which called on the Royal Family to conserve nature on their estates and reintroduce animals like beavers and wild boar.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Scotland\n\nScott McTominay sparked bedlam at Hampden as his stoppage-time winner against Israel kept Scotland on course for the World Cup qualifying play-offs.\n\nThe Manchester United midfielder bundled in his first Scotland goal after Eran Zahavi's brilliant free-kick and a Munas Dabbur finish twice had the visitors ahead in a thrilling contest.\n\nJohn McGinn briefly levelled with a superb strike before Lyndon Dykes - having had a weak penalty saved - volleyed an equaliser belatedly awarded after a VAR check after the break.\n\nScotland's concerted pressure looked set to fall short until McTominay pounced to leave his side two wins from a play-off spot, with trips to the Faroes Islands and Moldova up next.\n\nVictory moves Steve Clarke's men four points clear of Israel with three games to play in the battle to finish runners-up to Denmark.\n• None Podcast: 'I don't care if it went off McTominay's Adam's apple'\n\nThe unbridled elation at full-time was befitting of Scotland's first full house at Hampden since England's visit in June 2017. It was also in marked contrast to the despondency felt by those fans after a dreadful and error-strewn first 45 minutes.\n\nThe pre-match air of optimism and expectation was quickly doused when Zahavi bent a terrific free-kick into the top corner after just five minutes for his 26th goal in his last 28 caps.\n\nThe PSV Eindhoven attacker's finishing prowess should have been no surprise to Scotland in their seventh meeting with Israel in three years. Yet the free-kick was a needless concession from Jack Hendry, and the mistakes kept piling up before the break.\n\nThe damage could have been doubled when McTominay - back from injury to replace the suspended Grant Hanley in the back three - was caught out by a long ball and only Manor Solomon's poor touch when clean through let Scotland off the hook.\n\nThe goal stunned Scotland, who had threatened through Che Adams in the opening minute before completely losing momentum. Simple passes were going astray and the hosts struggled to put coherent attacks together.\n\nScotland needed something special - and McGinn provided it, giving former Hibernian goalkeeper Ofir Marciano no chance with a sublime curled finish from 20 yards after a flowing move driven by Andy Robertson.\n\nHowever, within two minutes, Scotland were trailing again. Another needless free-kick proved their undoing, this time McTominay the culprit, with Dabbur stabbing home after Craig Gordon had kept out Dor Peretz's effort.\n\nDykes should have ensured the sides went in level at the break, after Bibras Natkho slid in on Billy Gilmour as the midfielder latched on to Marciano's punched clearance just inside the box.\n\nBut the QPR striker - Scotland's match-winner in their previous two games - sent his penalty straight down the middle, where Marciano stayed put and saved with his foot.\n\nScotland - knowing how costly a draw would be to their qualification hopes - were much improved after the break and got a quick reward as Dykes made amends when he volleyed in Robertson's cross.\n\nEven that was fraught with worry for the Tartan Army, though, as referee Szymon Marciniak initially disallowed the goal for a high challenge on Ofri Arad, who had attempted to head clear, before reversing the decision after consulting the pitchside monitor.\n\nScotland were indebted to Gordon for preventing them falling behind again, the goalkeeper denying Zahavi, but Clarke's side had the momentum and Tierney planted a cross on to Dykes' head eight yards out, with Marciano shovelling clear.\n\nThe Israel keeper was then fortunate to be given a free-kick for a challenge by Dykes after his spill from a cross was knocked into the net by Tierney.\n\nScotland kept piling on the pressure but agony beckoned when McGinn was foiled in the closing stages by Marciano, before McTominay chose an opportune moment to open his international account.\n\nJack Hendry glanced on a corner in the Israel box and McTominay did the enough from a yard or two out to edge his side closer to the play-offs as Hampden erupted in delight.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nScotland's ability to put their supporters through the mill knows no bounds, yet the scenes at the end made all the suffering worthwhile.\n\nIt was a comeback of sheer tenacity from Clarke's side, whose first-half display was as bad as they've played under him.\n\nTo turn it around took plenty of guts and sheer doggedness. With Robertson rampaging forward and Billy Gilmour much more prominent in midfield, the hosts turned the screw on an Israel side who had been given far too much freedom.\n\nDefensive issues remain - is McTominay best suited at centre-back? - but those are for another day.\n\nWhat they said\n\nScotland head coach Steve Clarke: \"I told them at half-time - if you do want to lose the game, you're doing it in the perfect fashion.\n\n\"The talk at half-time was really just - we have to play it our way. We have to play with more tempo, a little bit more ambition, control the game better and we did that from the start of the second half more or less to the 96th minute. We got our reward.\"\n\nScotland midfielder John McGinn: \"The fans played a huge part. They could have easily went to the pub last five but they decided to stick with us. It was probably as good an atmosphere as I've heard here for years.\n\n\"I didn't think it would take me 39 caps to play in front of a full house at Hampden but certainly a night I will never forget and it was made extra special with a goal and three points.\"\n• None McTominay's 94th-minute goal was Scotland's first stoppage-time winner since Stephen McManus netted against Liechtenstein in September 2010.\n• None Dykes is only the second Scotland player to score in three consecutive World Cup qualifiers after Mo Johnston, who netted in five between September 1988 and April 1989.\n• None Scotland have won three consecutive home World Cup qualifiers for the first time since winning all five leading up to the 1998 finals.\n• None McGinn (10) has scored more home goals in qualifying matches (World Cup/Euros) than any other Scotland player.\n• None No player has scored more goals in the European World Cup 2022 qualification process than Israel's Eran Zahavi (seven). He has also scored in three of his four previous appearances against Scotland at Hampden.\n\nScotland will go for the two wins they need against the Faroe Islands in Torshavn on Tuesday (19:45 BST) and Moldova away next month. Should they slip up, another chance comes when they end the campaign at home to Denmark.\n• None Goal! Scotland 3, Israel 2. Scott McTominay (Scotland) with an attempt from the left side of the six yard box to the top left corner. Assisted by Jack Hendry following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Jack Hendry (Scotland) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by John McGinn with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. John McGinn (Scotland) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ryan Christie with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. John McGinn (Scotland) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ryan Christie.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lyndon Dykes (Scotland) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by John McGinn.\n• None Nathan Patterson (Scotland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. John McGinn (Scotland) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Billy Gilmour (Scotland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The outage forced many people to switch to generators\n\nPower has been restored in Lebanon, officials say, after a 24-hour shutdown of the country's energy supply.\n\nThe energy ministry says the central bank has granted it $100m (£73m) of credit to buy fuel and keep its power stations operating.\n\nThe power grid shut down yesterday and officials said it was unlikely to restart for several days.\n\nFor the past 18 months Lebanon has endured an economic crisis and extreme fuel shortages.\n\nThat crisis has left half its population in poverty, crippled its currency and sparked major demonstrations against politicians.\n\nA lack of foreign currency has made it hard to pay overseas energy suppliers.\n\nZahrani is one of Lebanon's largest power plants (file image)\n\nThe total outage began at midday on Saturday when Lebanon's two biggest power stations shut down because of fuel shortages.\n\nBut in a statement on Sunday, the state electricity provider said it is now delivering the same level of power as it was before the outage.\n\nBut even before the latest shutdown people were often receiving just two hours of electricity a day.\n\nSaturday's blackout meant the whole of Lebanon was depending on private diesel-powered generators for power.\n\nThese however have become increasingly expensive to run amid the lack of fuel, and cannot cover for the lack of a nationwide power grid.\n\nThe army has agreed to hand over some of its fuel to get the power stations working again until more can be imported.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Olivier Rousteing's Instagram photo showed injuries he suffered last year, he said\n\nCelebrated French fashion designer Olivier Rousteing has revealed he was injured following an accident at his home last year, sharing a picture of himself in heavy bandages.\n\nRousteing, the creative director of fashion house Balmain, shared the news in an Instagram post on Saturday.\n\n\"Exactly a year ago, the fireplace inside my house exploded,\" he wrote.\n\nHe woke the next day at the Hôpital Saint Louis in Paris, and has since been recovering from his injuries.\n\nRousteing said his insecurities and fashion's \"obsession with perfection\" had stopped him from revealing all before now.\n\n\"To be honest I am not really sure why I was so ashamed,\" he wrote. As he recovered he had hidden his injuries with long sleeves and jewellery during interviews.\n\n\"Now, a year later - healed, happy and healthy,\" he wrote. He thanked the medical staff who had treated him despite \"dealing with an incredible number of Covid cases at that same time\", and spoke about how lucky he now felt.\n\n\"There is always the sun after the storm.\"\n\nThe designer, pictured here at Paris Fashion Week earlier this month, says he is \"healed, happy and healthy\"\n\nFellow fashion designers, models and other celebrities were among those to offer their support in response to Rousteing's post.\n\nThe designer Donatella Versace wrote she was \"so glad\" he was safe. \"Let love rule,\" said musician Lenny Kravitz.\n\nKim Kardashian West wrote \"I love you\", while her mother Kris Jenner said she was \"beyond proud\" of Rousteing, adding that his \"message of hope and strength and focus and love will always inspire everyone who you come in contact with\".\n\nRousteing took up his post as Balmain's creative director in 2011 at the age of just 25. According to a profile in Out Magazine the brand grew between 15% and 20% between 2012 and 2015.\n\nHe has opened boutiques in London and New York, the company's first outside Paris.\n\nA 2019 Netflix documentary, Wonder Boy, looked at his career and followed him as he searched for his biological mother.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is facing an uncertain winter with the spread of coronavirus and the flu, the head of the Health Security Agency Jenny Harries has said.\n\nPeople are at \"more significant risk of death and of serious illness if they are co-infected\" with both viruses, she told the BBC.\n\nShe said: \"It's a more uncertain year but I certainly would be encouraging everybody to go and get their vaccine.\"\n\nMore than 40 million people in the UK are being offered a flu jab this year.\n\nFor the first time this includes all secondary school children up to the age of 16.\n\nThe over-50s and younger adults with health conditions are also being offered a Covid booster jab this autumn and winter.\n\nDr Harries, former deputy chief medical officer for England, told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"This is probably the first season where we will have significant amounts of Covid circulating as well as flu.\n\n\"People's behaviours have changed, we are mixing more, winter weather is coming along, everybody is going into enclosed spaces.\"\n\nShe said because of social distancing and other measures during the pandemic the public has not had the flu exposure they usually would, \"so people are susceptible\".\n\nFlu kills about 11,000 people on average every winter in England and during the last bad flu winter of 2017-18 the toll was more than double that - with more than 300 deaths a day during the peak.\n\nResearch shows those infected with both viruses are more than twice as likely to die as someone with Covid alone.\n\nA report from the Academy of Medical Sciences suggests that respiratory illness could hit very high levels this winter, causing severe strain on the NHS and between 15,000 and 60,000 deaths.\n\nThe latest government figures released on Sunday show the UK recorded new 34,574 Covid cases.\n\nThere were also 38 deaths recorded within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total number of people to die in the past week to 785.\n\nDr Harries said the current number of deaths from Covid was not seen as \"acceptable\" officials were still \"taking it extremely seriously\".\n\nShe told the Andrew Marr show: \"We are starting to move to a situation where, perhaps Covid is not the most significant element and many of those individuals affected will of course have other comorbidities which will make them vulnerable to serious illness for other reasons as well.\"\n\nShe said the \"extremely good vaccine uptake\" was preventing \"very significant amounts of hospitalisation and death\".\n\nBut Dr Harries said it was now \"one of the most difficult times to predict what will come\" with coronavirus.\n\n\"We have different levels of vaccination, we have a little bit of immunity waning in older individuals, which is why we're now starting to put in a Covid booster vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"We have slightly different effectiveness in different vaccinations that have been provided.\"\n\nShe added that it appeared the global dominance of the Delta variant had seen other coronavirus variants \"become extinct\".\n\nBut the public needed to \"stay alert\" as it was \"still very early days of a new virus\".\n\nThe following groups are among those eligible for winter vaccines:", "People will have to get used to higher food prices, the boss of Kraft Heinz has told the BBC.\n\nMiguel Patricio said the international food giant, which makes tomato sauce and baked beans, was putting up prices in several countries.\n\nUnlike in previous years, he said, inflation was \"across the board\".\n\nThe cost of ingredients such as cereals and oils has pushed global food prices to a 10-year high, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.\n\nKraft Heinz has increased prices on more than half its products in the US, its home market, and Mr Patricio admitted that is happening elsewhere too.\n\n\"We are raising prices, where necessary, around the world,\" he said.\n\nDuring the pandemic, many countries saw production of raw materials, ranging from crops to vegetable oils, fall. Measures to control the virus, as well as illness, limited output and delivery.\n\nAs economies have restarted, the supply of these products hasn't been able to keep up with returning demand, leading to higher prices. Higher wages and energy prices have also added to the burden for manufacturers.\n\nMr Patricio said this broad range of factors was contributing to the rising cost of food.\n\n\"Specifically in the UK, with the lack of truck drivers. In [the] US logistic costs also increased substantially, and there's a shortage of labour in certain areas of the economy.\"\n\nKraft Heinz chief executive, Miguel Patricio, says consumers need to get used to higher food prices\n\nMr Patricio said that consumers would need to get used to higher food prices, given that the world's population was rising whilst the amount of land on which to grow food was not.\n\nIn the longer term \"there's a lot to come in technology to improve the effectiveness of farmers\" that will help, he said.\n\nNot all cost increases should be passed on to consumers, Mr Patricio said. Firms would have to absorb some of the rise in costs.\n\n\"I think it's up to us, and to the industry, and to the other companies, to try to minimise these price increases,\" he said.\n\nBut big food producers like Kraft Heinz, Nestle and PepsiCo \"will most likely have to pass that cost on to consumers\" according to Kona Haque, head of research at the agricultural commodities firm ED&F Man.\n\n\"Whether it's corn, sugar, coffee, soybeans, palm oil, you name it, all of these basic food commodities have been rising,\" she said.\n\n\"Poor harvests in Brazil, which is one of the world's biggest agricultural exporters, drought in Russia, reduced planting in the US and stockpiling in China have combined with more expensive fertiliser, energy and shipping costs to push prices up.\"\n\nBut she said food producers would all be affected and would therefore all be raising prices in similar ways: \"because it's so widespread that everyone will do it, meaning they probably won't lose customers\".\n\nThis week PespsiCo warned it was also facing rising costs on everything from transport to raw ingredients, and said that further prices rises were likely at the start of next year.\n\nHowever, as well as pushing up costs, the pandemic did help boost sales for some Kraft Heinz brands, Mr Patricio said, because staying in meant \"people are cooking far more than they were before\".\n\nCustomers in the UK bought more Heinz Baked Beans, while customers in the US bought more Kraft Mac & Cheese. Overall sales rose 1.6% to $13bn in the first half of this year, representing a slight slowdown. The results were described by Erin Lash, at the investment firm Morningstar, as \"still quite impressive relative to the comparable pre-pandemic period in 2019\".\n\nThe company is also undergoing an extensive restructuring under Mr Patricio, involving selling some old, and buying some new brands, which Ms Lash said was \"narrowing its focus and increasing its spending on innovation and marketing\" which would support future sales.\n\nMr Patricio said the firm was also spending significant sums on developing new packaging to meet its aims on reducing plastic waste.\n\nMost of the 650 million bottles of ketchup the firm sells every year are plastic, for example. But Mr Patricio said the firm was \"encouraging\" customers to buy glass bottles even though they are less convenient \"because you have to tap on the bottom\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working hard, not only on the plastic bottles, but everywhere in our footprint that has plastic.\"\n\nThe pandemic led to a shortage of ketchup sachets as demand for takeaways soared\n\nCampaigners against plastic waste would like to see a reduction in the use of single serving sachets.\n\nHowever following a shortage of sachets during the pandemic, as consumers bought more takeaways from restaurants, Kraft Heinz has invested in expanding production of them by 30%.\n\n\"Thanks God we did that, because now we don't have that [shortage] problem anymore\", said Mr Patricio. But he said the company was working on a solution \"to cutting the amount of plastic they use\".\n\nYou can watch Miguel Patricio's full interview on \"Talking Business with Aaron Heslehurst\" on BBC World News on Sunday 10 October at 05:30 and 16:30 GMT, Monday 07:30 GMT and 16:30 GMT and Thursday at 07:30 GMT.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 2017: The BBC's Pallab Ghosh reports on an invention that means the ketchup \"just glides out\"", "Kwasi Kwarteng has said that the energy price cap will stay, despite calls from suppliers for the cap to be scrapped amid soaring gas prices.\n\nSpeaking to Andrew Marr, the business secretary said that energy supply was a global issue but consumers would continue to be protected with the cap.", "Tyson Fury delivered a thrilling 11th-round knockout of Deontay Wilder to retain his WBC heavyweight crown as their trilogy bout produced another classic on an electric night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.\n\nTwenty months since Fury dethroned the American, the 33-year-old had to show all his resolve and resilience to extend his undefeated professional record to 32 fights after twice being floored in the fourth round.\n\nFury sent his opponent sprawling in an explosive third only to see Wilder recover, and the Briton found himself on the end of the Bronze Bomber's huge right hand twice in quick succession.\n\nWilder was hanging on by the end of the seventh but was still in a gruelling fight come the 10th, when Fury knocked him down once more, before delivering the final blow in the 11th to bring this particular chapter of heavyweight boxing to a close.\n\n\"I was down a couple of times, I was hurt. Wilder is a strong puncher,\" said Fury of his opponent, who was taken to hospital as a precaution after the fight.\n\n\"It was a great fight. I will not make any excuses. Wilder is a top fighter, he gave me a run for my money. I always say I am the best fighter in the world and he is the second best.\n\n\"Don't ever doubt me. When the chips are down I can always deliver.\"\n• None I am greatest heavyweight of my era - Fury\n\nFury shows he is never beaten\n\nThis might not have been the fight Fury wanted but, after a controversial draw in their first meeting in 2018 and seventh-round stoppage from Fury last time out, it again delivered the blockbuster battle the Las Vegas crowd was craving.\n\nTensions had been simmering throughout fight week and only continued to bubble as Wilder's delayed entrance left the arena waiting, before the lights finally went down and the American, who listed his elaborate and heavy ring-walk outfit as one of the excuses for his loss to Fury last year, emerged in a more understated fur-lined gown.\n\nBut what's a few minutes when a classic tussle is more than a year in the making?\n\nFury, dressed as a Roman centurion, followed to a backdrop of AC/DC as both fighters stepped inside the ropes for the first time since their explosive meeting at the MGM Grand in February 2020.\n\nThat was pre-pandemic and the Morecambe-based boxer was buoyed by the thousands of UK fans who had flooded to Las Vegas to support their charge, although travel restrictions meant there was never going to be the boisterous following for the British hopeful this time.\n\nBut the local support could not help but be wowed by Fury once more as he again proved that, despite finding himself on the canvas, you can never write this man off.\n\nWilder came out looking to dictate from the opening bell with a series of jabs to the body as Fury took his time to size up a remodelled opponent, one new trainer Malik Scott says has more in his toolbox than previously shown.\n\nWilder's new regime came amid question marks around Fury's own preparation - the original summer fight date was scrapped when he contracted Covid-19 and quickly rescheduled for October, and Fury then had to rush home to the UK to be with wife Paris for the birth of their sixth child, Athena.\n\nThe American had also closed the gap in terms of weight, and despite Fury carrying 39lbs more than his opponent both were the heaviest of their professional careers - Fury at 19st 11lbs and Wilder 17st.\n\nIt was Fury who began to dominate after Wilder's brisk opening exchange and a huge left-right combination sent the Alabaman to the ground.\n\nThe 35-year-old survived the count and, rejuvenated by the bell, felled Fury with a mammoth right of his own in the fourth and followed with another to send the champion tumbling twice in the same round for the first time in his career, as the anticipation of an upset grew.\n\nFury, though, rose and a determined Wilder had been hanging on for several rounds when he was knocked down again in the 10th, before the champion finally landed a right that ended the fight after 11 enthralling rounds.\n\nFury climbed on to the ropes in celebration and was not done entertaining there, taking the mic in what has become his customary style to serenade the crowd with a victory song.\n\n'I am the greatest heavyweight champion of my era'\n\nFury has passed every challenge thrown his way but to become the first undisputed heavyweight world champion since Lennox Lewis in 2000 he will need to take the titles held by Oleksandr Usyk.\n\nThe Ukrainian looks set to face Anthony Joshua in a rematch first to see if the Briton can win back his WBF, IBF and WBO crowns, but in Fury's mind there is no doubt as to who is the greatest heavyweight of this enticing era.\n\n\"I have proved time and again that I can never be written off,\" he said. \"I didn't have my best performance but I pulled it out of the bag when it needed to be done.\n\n\"He did keep getting up but it was that final right hand to the side of the head that finished him.\n\n\"I wasn't hurt. You get hit, you wake up on the floor. I got up and was very conscious the whole time. I was one punch away from knocking him out in the whole fight.\n\n\"I am the greatest heavyweight champion of my era, without a doubt. Number one. If you play with fire long enough you will get burned.\"\n• None David Olusoga looks at an enduring relationship and forgotten history", "Lava from the Cumbre Vieja volcano, which has been erupting since 19 September, has destroyed more homes and buildings.\n\nEarlier this week, two new vents that opened up in the volcano caused further eruptions. One local volcano expert has said the newly opened fissures have partially collapsed, causing the lava to flow in multiple directions.\n\nAuthorities have closed the local airport for the second time since the volcano started to erupt.", "Funerals were held on Saturday for victims of a suicide attack\n\nUS officials have met Afghanistan's ruling Taliban for their first face-to-face talks since Washington pulled its troops from the country in August.\n\nThe talks in Qatar are focusing on issues including containing extremist groups, the evacuation of US citizens and humanitarian aid, officials say.\n\nThe US insists the meeting does not amount to recognition of the Taliban.\n\nIt comes a day after Afghanistan suffered its deadliest attack since US forces withdrew.\n\nThe suicide bombing at a mosque in the northern city of Kunduz killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 100 others.\n\nThe Said Abad mosque was used by the minority Shia Muslim community in the Sunni Muslim-majority country. The Islamic State group said it was behind the attack.\n\nSpeaking after the talks with the US opened in Qatar, Afghanistan's Taliban-appointed Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said the two sides had agreed to uphold the terms of the Doha agreement signed in 2020.\n\nThe deal includes broad obligations on the Taliban to take steps to prevent groups such as al-Qaeda from threatening the security of the US and its allies.\n\nMr Muttaqi said US officials had also told the Taliban they would help in delivering Covid vaccines and humanitarian aid.\n\nThe US has not yet commented on the details of Saturday's talks, but a state department spokesperson previously said officials would use the meeting to press the Taliban to respect women's rights, form an inclusive government and allow humanitarian agencies to operate.\n\nThe meeting is set to continue on Sunday.\n\nMr Muttaqi told reporters that the Islamist group wanted to improve relations with the international community but also warned that nobody should interfere with any country's internal policies.\n\nAmerican officials have said the talks are a continuation of engagement with the Taliban on matters of national interest, not about giving legitimacy to the group's government.\n\nAs the talks were taking place in the Qatari capital Doha, in Afghanistan funeral ceremonies were being held for the victims of Friday's attack.\n\n\"[We] bury the bodies next to each other because we have no choice, and we have to prepare mass graves,\" one mourner said.\n\nThe United Nations said Friday's bombing was a \"third deadly attack this week apparently targeting a religious institution\" and was part of a \"disturbing pattern of violence\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pictures show the scene at the mosque after the suicide bomb attack", "Mrs Luttrell was only able to see her husband via a video-link while he was being treated\n\nA cancer patient whose wife was told he might not wake from a coma he was put in while being treated for Covid-19 has been called \"a cat with nine lives\" by doctors after making a speedy recovery.\n\nPaul Luttrell, who has myeloma cancer, went to Bristol's Southmead Hospital on 27 July and was placed in a coma.\n\nHis wife Dalma said she was \"very much prepared for the worst\", but the 52-year-old woke after 11 days and left hospital a month after arriving.\n\nShe said it was \"unbelievable\".\n\nMr Luttrell, from Frome, was sent to the hospital after nurses noticed he was \"very unwell\" and had to put him on oxygen whilst on a routine dialysis visit.\n\n\"They put me into an induced coma for 11 days and it took me a week to fully wake up,\" he said.\n\n\"When I did, I asked doctors to call Dalma.\n\n\"They couldn't believe it.\"\n\nMr Luttrell said he hoped his story will show that the dangers of Covid-19 still exist\n\nMrs Luttrell said following conversations with her husband's doctors, she had \"very much prepared for the worst\".\n\nShe also said the medical team had warned her that as he was in a coma, he would probably need a long recovery time if he survived.\n\nHowever, within two weeks ,she said she \"had a call from him\", adding: \"It was unbelievable.\"\n\nMr Luttrell, who had been double vaccinated, said though he had had lucid dreams whilst in the coma of \"terrible things\", after he woke, he could walk \"my stairs at home to go to dialysis\" within a week.\n\n\"My haematologist and doctors said I was a cat with nine lives,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he said he felt lucky to be alive and was worried that about \"people still not taking [coronavirus] seriously\".\n\n\"Get vaccinated,\" he said, adding: \"Covid is very real.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Liberty Steel has secured a £50m cash injection which it says will safeguard 660 jobs at its plant in Rotherham.\n\nThe deal is part of a wider restructure of GFG Alliance, Liberty's owner, which was forced to seek funding when its key lender, Greensill Capital, collapsed.\n\nGFG Alliance said the cash would allow the Rotherham plant to reopen this month after being closed since spring.\n\nCommunity, the steelworkers' union, said it was \"overdue\" but was \"an important step in the right direction\".\n\nJeffrey Kabel, GFG's chief transformation officer, said: \"The injection of £50m of shareholder funds into Liberty Steel UK is an important step in our restructuring and transformation.\n\n\"It will help to create sustainable value, ensure that Liberty has the ability to raise and deploy capital quickly in the UK and enable our businesses to demonstrate their potential and agree long-term debt restructuring.\"\n\nAt the beginning of the year, Liberty Steel employed 3,000 steelworkers in the UK.\n\nBut its future was thrown into doubt when Greensill collapsed in early March. GFG has been struggling to raise new financing since then, while the majority of its workers have been on furlough.\n\nIn April, GFG approached the government for help, but the request was rejected by Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng.\n\nGFG, one of the UK's largest industrial groups, is owned by businessman Sanjeev Gupta.\n\nA further 2,000 people work at other GFG steel sites in the UK.\n\nGFG said the cash injection would allow Liberty Steel (LSUK) to restart its electric arc furnace at Rotherham.\n\n\"Production ramp-up will commence in October 2021 with a plan to reach 50,000 tonnes per month as soon as possible,\" it added.\n\n\"The restart of operations will enable colleagues to return to work, setting the platform for LSUK's longer-term refinancing and delivery of its plan to expand Rotherham's capacity, creating a two million tonnes per annum green steel plant.\"\n\nNews of the move was welcomed by industry body UK Steel.\n\nA spokesperson said it was \"really good news for not only the company, but those many thousands of workers and their families, the communities where those jobs a located and of course the whole of the UK steel sector\".\n\n\"Our friends at Liberty Steel can now fire up those furnaces, make the steel that this economy needs and most importantly give some certainty to the well-paid and highly-skilled workforce.\"\n\nBut the spokesperson added: \"The last thing the sector needs now is for government to merely sit on its hands and risk an energy crisis becoming a steel industry crisis.\"\n\nUK Steel called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to intervene on the industry's behalf \"before it is too late\".\n\nRoy Rickhuss, general secretary of Community, said the deal \"demonstrates that GFG can raise funds for the UK\".\n\n\"Huge challenges remain,\" Mr Rickhuss said. \"But the workforce is ready to get back to making the best steels money can buy and the £50m injection will enable us to restart steelmaking.\"\n\nMeanwhile, plans are proceeding to sell off GFG's Speciality Steel business, which employs about 750 staff at plants in South Yorkshire.\n\nGFG said the cash lifeline would help Speciality Steel to \"establish a stable operating environment and create an attractive asset\".\n\nFurther afield, GFG said it had also agreed a debt restructuring for Liberty's Australian division with Credit Suisse Asset Management.\n\nGreensill's heavy exposure to Mr Gupta's business had prompted Credit Suisse to freeze withdrawals from up to £10bn worth of funds held as security.", "Britain's Tyson Fury crowned himself the \"greatest heavyweight of my era\" after retaining his WBC crown in a classic fight with Deontay Wilder.\n\nThe 33-year-old stopped Wilder in the 11th round after twice being knocked down himself in a thrilling third meeting between the pair.\n\nIt followed a heated build-up during fight week as both fighters goaded one another in a vicious war of words.\n\n\"I have proved time and again that I can never be written off,\" said Fury.\n\n\"I didn't have my best performance but I pulled it out of the bag when it needed to be done.\n\n\"I am the greatest heavyweight champion of my era, without a doubt. Number one. If you play with fire long enough you will get burned.\"\n\nThe first fight in 2018 finished in a controversial draw, before the unbeaten Fury won their second outing with a seventh-round stoppage 20 months ago.\n\nAfter inflicting just the second defeat of Wilder's career on Saturday, Fury said the American did not want to engage with him afterwards and promptly left the arena.\n\n\"I went over and said well done and he said he didn't want to show any sportsmanship or respect,\" said Fury. \"Very surprised by that. He's an idiot.\n\n\"I pray for him. I am thankful that we all get out of the fight in one piece and get to go to our families.\"\n\nWilder, who was taken to hospital as a precaution after the fight, confessed he \"wasn't good enough\" on the night.\n\n\"I'm not sure what happened,\" he added. \"I know that in training he did certain things, and I also knew that he didn't come in at 277lbs to be a ballet dancer.\n\n\"He came to lean on me, try to rough me up and he succeeded.\"\n\nBoth fighters weighed in at the heaviest in their careers and, although Fury had 39lbs on his opponent, the Morecambe fighter said he believed Wilder, at 17st, was too heavy.\n\n\"It was a great fight,\" said Fury. \"I will not make any excuses. Wilder is a top fighter, he gave me a run for my money.\n\n\"I always say I am the best fighter in the world and he is the second best. Don't ever doubt me. When the chips are down I can always deliver.\"\n\nFury added: \"Before I start thinking about fighting other men I will bask in this victory.\n\n\"This was one of my greatest wins. I got off the floor to do it. I am the big dog in the division.\"\n\nFury leapt onto the ropes when Wilder went down in the 11th, knowing he had won the fight, and the British fighter sad he was \"proud\" of his performance.\n\n\"There were some shaky moments in there but I never lost faith,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I continued on and persevered and got that single punch knockout. As soon as I landed it I jumped on the ropes. I knew he was not getting back up from that.\n\n\"It was a great trilogy and you need a good dance partner for trilogies and he has been a good dance partner but there is no rematch clause, it is done. Wilder is done. There is no more Deontay Wilder.\"\n\nBoxing expert Steve Bunce added: \"When he is determined, he is untouchable. When he went down in the fourth those were heavy knockdowns. His eyes were glazed in the fifth but he managed to turn it around. He is an extraordinary human.\n\n\"It was a rollercoaster and the reason it got to the 11th round was because of Wilder's guts, heart and desire. He might not be everyone's cup of tea but he is brave and he is fearless.\"\n\nFury's promoter Bob Arum has seen it all in his long career in boxing, but he described this fight as the best he has seen.\n\n\"I've been in this business 57 years promoting fights and I truly have to say I have never seen a heavyweight fight as magnificent as this,\" he said.\n\n\"I am so proud of the man on my right. He's showed heart, ability, he is truly a fighting man.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Bunce added: \"It is the best fight I have seen in the flesh and the best I have ever watched on film.\n\n\"I am not sure how to describe it. I was maybe five feet from the ring. I sat there with my jaw on my chin. Rocky is like the Teletubbies compared to what you witnessed tonight!\"\n• None David Olusoga looks at an enduring relationship and forgotten history", "The migrants rescued by Guatemalan police on Saturday.\n\nPolice in Guatemala have rescued 126 migrants who were abandoned inside a shipping container at the side of a road.\n\nThey were found at dawn between the towns of Nueva Concepción and Cocales after locals reported hearing screams inside the trailer.\n\nAuthorities believe they were abandoned by smugglers who had been paid to take them to the US via Mexico.\n\nMore than 100 of those discovered are from the crisis-hit nation of Haiti.\n\nThere were also people from Nepal and Ghana.\n\nSpeaking after the discovery, a police spokesperson said: \"We heard cries and knocks coming from inside the container. We opened the doors and found inside 126 undocumented people.\"\n\nOfficers gave the migrants first aid before escorting them to a shelter run by the Guatemalan Migration Institute.\n\nA spokeswoman for Guatemala's migration authority, Alejandra Mena, said that the migrants had arrived in Central America in Honduras and from there begun to make the treacherous journey north to the US.\n\nThey will now be transported back to the border with Honduras and handed over to authorities.\n\nThe discovery comes just a day after Mexican authorities detained 652 migrants, including some 350 children, travelling in three refrigerated double-trailer trucks near the US southern border.\n\nSoldiers at a military checkpoint in Tamaulipas searched the trucks after hearing voices inside.\n\nThe incident reflects growing concerns over the amount of migrants, among them large numbers of Haitians, taking significant risks in their attempts to reach the US.\n\nSince the start of 2021, more than 50 migrants have died while trying to cross a jungle corridor called the Darien Gap in Panama, on the border with Colombia, according to the Panamanian prosecutor's office.\n\nHaiti has suffered from years of instability, culminating in the assassination of President Jouvenal Moïse in July. The following month, the country was hit by a deadly earthquake.\n\nThousands of Haitians had already left the country, seeking work in countries across Latin America.\n\nMany have begun attempting to reach the US in the belief that they qualify for Temporary Protected Status, a temporary right to remain in the country which has been extended to Haitians already living in the US but not to new arrivals.\n\nLast month about 13,000 Haitians gathered under a bridge connecting Del Rio in Texas to Ciudad Acuña in Mexico. Since then the US has deported more than 7,500 people to Haiti, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).\n\nThe US special envoy for Haiti, Daniel Foote, resigned in protest over the deportations, saying that returning people fleeing an earthquake and political instability was \"inhumane\".\n\nBut the US Department of Homeland Security's Marsha Espinosa reiterated that \"our borders are not open, and people should not make the dangerous journey\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has not committed to any additional government help for businesses struggling amid record gas prices.\n\nSome industries have warned firms could be forced to shut down operations.\n\nMr Kwarteng said he was working closely with the chancellor over possible support for energy intensive sectors - but a Treasury source denied this.\n\nThe business secretary said domestic customers would not see a change to the energy price cap this winter.\n\nAsked on BBC One's Andrew Marr programme whether there would be additional government help for energy-intensive companies, Mr Kwarteng described the situation as \"critical\" and said he was \"looking to find a solution\".\n\nWhen Andrew Marr suggested this sounded like a \"yes\" the business secretary said: \"No, it doesn't sound like yes at all.\n\n\"We already have existing support and we're looking to see whether that's sufficient to get us through this situation.\"\n\nSpeaking to Times Radio Mr Kwarteng, who met leaders from heavy industry on Friday, said he was not going to commit to \"any firm figure or subsidy\" for companies.\n\nAsked about whether the government would ensure factories would not have to close if they could not pay for gas he said it was a commercial decision and \"up to them\".\n\nHe added: \"We are not in the business of bail-outs. What we are in the business of is ensuring security of supply and that is what I am focused on.\"\n\nCEO of British Glass Dave Dalton, who was at Friday's meeting with Mr Kwarteng, said some of the confederation's \"significant\" members were \"teetering on the edge\".\n\n\"I think some companies are staring down the ability to survive, absolutely - ultimately that obviously cascades on to jobs and impacts on the consumer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nGareth Stace, director general of UK Steel, said he was frustrated by the lack of action to support businesses.\n\nHe told the BBC that without help in the next week or so, there would be \"significant and permanent damage to the UK steel sector\".\n\nUnite leader Sharon Graham said the country was \"contemplating factory shutdowns across viable manufacturing and businesses\" and that workers were \"worried sick\".\n\nBusinesses have been shouting louder and louder for support through this period of soaring energy prices.\n\nThis morning, the business secretary told the BBC he was listening to their concerns - but would not commit to any extra support.\n\nThose industries that use a lot of energy for manufacturing say that the time for working out a way forward has long gone.\n\nThe director general of UK Steel, Gareth Stace, expressed his frustration, saying pauses in steel production will only increase.\n\nThe government says the current situation emphasises the need for a revolution in how we generate energy, moving towards home-grown renewables.\n\nBut that's little comfort for those businesses dependent on energy from fossil fuels now, competing with intense demand in a global market.\n\nOn the Andrew Marr show, Mr Kwarteng denied asking for \"billions\" from the Treasury to subsidise energy-intensive businesses and said supply itself was \"not an issue\".\n\nA Treasury source said the business secretary had been \"mistaken\" to say that he had been working on possible support measures with the Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nBridget Phillipson, Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said the government \"needs to get a grip\" and called for \"urgent answers on who exactly is running the show\".\n\n\"The two key government departments responsible for the current cost of living crisis have spent this morning infighting about whether they were in talks with each other. What a farce,\" she said.\n\nShe also accused the government of having \"put its out of office on\", referring to reports that the prime minister is on holiday in Spain.\n\nA number of Conservative MPs have called for the government to take action to support heavy industry.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford called on the UK government to \"nurse\" businesses through the crisis, describing it as a \"perfect storm\".\n\nThe domestic consumer energy price cap, which is reviewed every six months, sets the maximum level a supplier can charge a consumer on a standard tariff in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nMr Kwarteng told Marr that protecting consumers was his \"first and foremost objective\" and as such the price cap would stay at its current level until its next update which is due to in April.\n\nSome suppliers say the cap is just delaying an inevitable increase in consumer prices and should be reviewed more regularly.\n\nEnergy regulator Ofgem has warned households will see further \"significant rises\" in the spring, when the cap is reviewed.\n\nAsked by Marr if he was sure the lights would stay on this winter, Mr Kwarteng said \"yes, I am\".\n\nDue to high gas prices household energy suppliers have been forced to sell gas for less than they can buy it due to the price cap, leading some to fail.\n\nLast month, nine domestic energy supply companies went out of business, forcing 1.7 million customers to move to new suppliers and on to higher rates.\n\nPaul Richards, chief executive of Together Energy, which he said is currently making losses, said while he supported a price cap to protect customers, the current mechanism \"is not fit for industry, nor is it fit for customers\".\n\nHe said it protected customers in the short term but somewhere between £1bn and £3bn in costs would be spread back across business and households as a result of suppliers going bust.\n\nThe founder of OVO Energy Stephen Fitzpatrick told Marr that it has been \"too easy\" for companies to enter the energy market and that there will be more companies in difficulty.\n\nHe said the market was a complicated one, and he thought some people had not understood the risks.", "High energy costs are forcing manufacturers to warn of higher prices for their goods as they pass on increases to consumers.\n\nIceland boss Richard Walker said higher energy bills and other costs meant price rises were now \"inevitable\".\n\nThe warning came as analysts predicted that household energy bills could rise by hundreds of pounds next year.\n\nThey said the energy price cap, which protects domestic consumers, could soar by £400 in the spring.\n\nCornwall Insight forecasts that the energy price cap will rise to about £1,660 by next summer.\n\nThat is about 30% higher than the record £1,277 level for the cap set for winter 2021-22, which began at the start of October.\n\n\"With wholesale gas and electricity prices continuing to reach new records, successive supplier exits during September 2021 and a new level for the default tariff cap, the Great British energy market remains on edge for fresh volatility and further consolidation,\" said Craig Lowrey, senior consultant at Cornwall Insight.\n\nEnergy regulator Ofgem said the price cap \"will ensure that consumers don't pay more than is absolutely necessary this winter\".\n\nBut if gas prices stay high, the price cap will rise, Ofgem said.\n\nThe regulator said its \"number one priority is to protect customers\", but acknowledged \"this is a worrying time for many people\".\n\nBut while the price cap helps households, there is no such safeguard for businesses, which have to absorb the full impact of rising global energy prices.\n\nMr Walker warned that Iceland's energy bill would go up by £20m next year. Alongside higher salaries to address lorry driver shortages and other new costs, he said grocery prices would have to increase.\n\n\"It's inevitable that we will see price rises,\" he told the BBC. \"The UK supermarket industry is one of the most competitive in the world.\n\n\"Our margins are very very tight and we're not an endless sponge that can just absorb all of these different cost increases.\"\n\nAndrew Large, director general of the Confederation of Paper Industries, said: \"This is a highly inflationary situation for the British economy and members will clearly be in a position where they do try to pass those costs on to consumers where they can.\"\n\nOne paper manufacturer, the Northwood Group, said the industry had been \"left to fend for itself\" in the face of \"horrendous\" knock-on effects from the gas price rise.\n\n\"The spike [in gas prices] that we have seen since January is equivalent to a 550% price increase, which of course destroys any industrial planning,\" said chairman Paul Fecher.\n\nLaura Cohen, chief executive of the British Ceramic Confederation, said many of her member firms could even be forced to stop production \"due to uneconomic higher energy costs\".\n\nThis could cause \"severe damage\" to production facilities such as brick kilns, which could not easily be turned off at short notice, she said.\n\nMeanwhile, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has said that by decarbonising the UK's power supply, the country will protect customers from volatile fossil fuel prices.\n\n\"The UK so far, as many of you know, has made great progress in diversifying our energy mix. But we are still very dependent, perhaps too dependent, on fossil fuels and their volatile prices,\" he told a conference organised by trade body Energy UK.\n\nHe said that the government's recent pledge to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2035 - 15 years ahead of the previous target - would help.\n\n\"Our homes and businesses will be powered by affordable, clean and secure electricity generated here in the UK, for people in the UK,\" Mr Kwarteng said.\n\nThe Energy Shop - a price comparison site - warned people to prepare themselves for even greater increases in household bills.\n\nIt said that the next increase in the price cap, due to come in from 1 April 2022, could be £500 or even higher.\n\nFounder Joe Malinowski warned: \"If things don't settle down soon, increases of £600, £700 or even £800 cannot be ruled out.\"\n\nNine energy suppliers have already collapsed in recent weeks and more could be facing the same fate.\n\nThey were unable to keep their price promises as the wholesale price of gas soared.\n\nTheir customers have already seen annual bill increases of hundreds of pounds when they moved to a new provider and away from whichever low-rate fixed deal their supplier had offered.\n\nSome of the heat was drawn from the crisis on Wednesday when Russia said it would increase gas supplies to Europe.\n\nUK wholesale gas prices hit a record high during the day before falling after the Russian intervention.\n\nBut price volatility could continue as investors remain nervous about low stockpiles of gas across Europe.\n\nIf you feel powerless against international business and politics when watching your domestic energy bill go up, you are in good company.\n\nNormally, customers are urged to get active, search and switch to save money - but not now.\n\nUntil recently, the energy price cap was a backstop, protecting the vulnerable. Now it is the most competitive tariff available.\n\nThe cap is shielding households from the wild fluctuation in prices seen on the wholesale markets, but that is only a crumb of comfort when bills and prices across the board are still expected to see a sharp increase.\n\nSo for now, experts simply advise customers to find ways to save energy, brace themselves and budget for bigger bills. Wrap up for a financial chill that could last longer than the winter.\n\nThe energy price cap sets the maximum price suppliers in England, Wales and Scotland can charge customers on a standard - or default - tariff.\n\nThat includes the fixed daily amount customers pay, plus the price per unit they pay for electricity and gas.\n\nThe cap was increased on 1 October, with about 15 million households facing a 12% rise in energy bills, the biggest jump, to the highest amount, seen since the backstop was introduced in January 2019.\n\nThose on standard tariffs, with typical household levels of energy use, saw an increase of £139 - from £1,138 to £1,277 a year.\n\nPrepayment meter customers with average energy use saw a £153 increase.\n\nThat's a far cry from a year previously when on 1 October 2020, the energy price cap was cut by £84, to £1,042.\n\nWill you be affected by rising energy prices? 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.", "Cass Ezeji says felt \"lost\" at Gaelic school but has since gained an appreciation of her education\n\nGaelic speakers of African and Caribbean descent have shared their experiences of the language in a new BBC Alba documentary.\n\nGlaswegian student and musician Cass Ezeji says some people she meets think it is unusual she is fluent in Gaelic and also has African heritage. Her paternal grandfather is Nigerian.\n\nGrowing up, Cass went to the Glasgow Gaelic School, Sgoil Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu, which teaches at both primary and secondary school levels.\n\nCass' parents, who do not speak Gaelic, chose the school because they thought she would get a good education there.\n\nBut Cass says she felt \"a little lost\" in immersive Gaelic-medium education, and among peers whose families were from the Highlands and Islands - the Western Isles are Gaelic's \"heartland\".\n\nShe says she argued with her mum about having to go to the school, and even felt angry about it.\n\nThe 27-year-old says: \"The impression I had when I left school was that I didn't feel part of the Gaelic world.\n\n\"I didn't see myself represented in the culture so there was something of a disconnect.\"\n\nBut she says she has since gained an appreciation of her education and describes herself as an Afro-Gael.\n\nThrough making the documentary, which also examines racism and Scotland's historical links with the slave trade, Cass met other women of African and Caribbean descent who are also Gaelic speakers.\n\nAmina Davidson says she loves being part of Scotland's traditional music scene\n\nThey include Amina Davidson, a traditional musician who lives in the Partick area of Glasgow.\n\nDuring the first lockdown last year, she joined her neighbour Robert Robertson - singer with the Scottish band Tide Lines - in singing the Gaelic song Teann a-Nall from the windows of their tenements to entertain other residents. A video of the performance on social media went viral.\n\n\"It now has 1.5 million views,\" says Amina.\n\nThe singer says she enjoys being part of the traditional Scottish and Gaelic music scene, adding: \"It's a small, friendly world which I enjoy.\n\n\"Everyone knows one another and there are lots of traditional musicians in this area where I live.\"\n\nCarrie Prescott says people sometimes find it unusual that she speaks Gaelic\n\nCarrie Prescott, of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, started learning Gaelic as an adult as part of a degree and is actively involved in the language and culture.\n\nShe says: \"Sometimes when I'm at Gaelic events, or I'm speaking to somebody, and it transpires that I speak Gaelic they find it very unusual.\n\n\"They're not expecting us to be able to speak Gaelic.\"\n\nTawana Maramba, of Tranent, East Lothian, is a student and Gaelic singer.\n\nHer parents are from Zimbabwe and they raised her to speak their Shona language, but also encouraged her interest in other languages and placed her in a Gaelic-medium education primary school.\n\nCass and Tawana Maramba, second right, and the Maramba family\n\nShe says: \"In high school the only Gaelic-medium subject was Gaelic language, but in primary school every subject was in Gaelic.\n\n\"That was so good in primary school because it meant that we spoke Gaelic every day.\"\n\nTawana now teaches Gaelic singing and participates at the Royal National Mod, an annual celebration of the language and culture.\n\nLast year, she appeared in a Gaelic short film about Eliza Junor, a girl from Guyana and the descendant of slaves who grew up in Fortrose in the Highlands in the early 19th Century.\n\nTawana says: \"I feel some people react like: 'Oh you speak Gaelic?'\n\n\"But I'm quite proud of that. It plays a huge part in my life.\"\n\nThe documentary, Trusadh: Afro-Gàidheil - Afro-Gaels, will be shown on BBC Alba on Monday at 21:00 and will later be available on iPlayer.", "Eilish would be Glastonbury's first female headliner since Adele in 2016\n\nBillie Eilish has been announced as the first headliner for the 2022 Glastonbury Festival.\n\nThe pop star first hinted at the news on Instagram, where she posed in a Glastonbury hoodie, with the caption \"2022\".\n\nGlastonbury organiser Emily Eavis later confirmed the booking, and said the 20-year-old would be \"the youngest solo headliner in our history.\"\n\n\"This feels like the perfect way for us to return and I cannot wait!\"\n\nEilish will also be the first female headliner since 2016 - although Taylor Swift was booked to play in 2020, before the Covid pandemic put an end to the summer festival season.\n\nGlastonbury was also cancelled this year, although organisers staged a virtual event with artists including Coldplay, Wolf Alice and Jorja Smith.\n\nThe star dropped the hint in a not-so-cryptic post to her Instagram Story\n\nEilish's first appearance at Glastonbury in 2019 was hailed as a triumph by critics.\n\nThe NME called it a \"once-in-a-generation\" show, while Variety called it a \"mesmerising\" and \"life-affirming\" performance.\n\nDressed in a Stella McCartney outfit, the singer bounded around the stage as fans sang back every word of songs like Bad Guy, All The Good Girls Go To Hell and You Should See Me In A Crown.\n\nDuring Ocean Eyes, she sat cross-legged on the stage and asked fans to give the show their full attention.\n\n\"If you want to film me, that's OK - but put the phone next to your face and look me in the eye.\n\n\"Because we're right here now together and this is the only moment we ever get together, ever.\"\n\nShe needn't have worried. Approximately 40,000 rapt fans watched her every move. Not bad, when you consider her set had been upgraded from the 10,000-capacity John Peel tent just weeks before the festival.\n\nThe festival revealed its first poster for 2022\n\nSince then, Eilish has gone on to win multiple Brit and Grammy Awards for her debut album, When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go, and recently topped the charts with the follow-up, Happier Than Ever.\n\nLast week, the star was in London for the premiere of the James Bond film, No Time To Die, for which she wrote the theme song.\n\nEavis, who made a point of watching Eilish at the side of the stage in 2019, said she \"couldn't be happier\" to welcome the star back to Worthy Farm.\n\nThe festival also posted its first line-up poster for 2022... featuring just one name.\n\nEilish will be 20 years and six months old when she hits the Pyramid stage next June - just three months older than Mark Hamilton of the Northern Irish band Ash when they headlined in 1997.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City have made a complaint to Liverpool after alleging a home fan spat at their backroom staff in the first half of the 2-2 draw at Anfield.\n\nManager Pep Guardiola said he was not aware of the incident at the time but was subsequently notified.\n\n\"[The staff] told me but I didn't see it,\" he said after a game in which his side twice came from behind to draw.\n\n\"I'm pretty sure Liverpool FC will take measures against this person. I know they are greater than this behaviour.\"\n\nIt is understood Liverpool are investigating the incident and are looking at CCTV footage from that area of the ground.\n\nIn a thrilling game on Merseyside, City twice came from behind to claim a point, with Kevin de Bruyne levelling the second time after Mohamed Salah's superb solo goal had put the Reds ahead.\n\nIt was not without on-field controversy, though, with Guardiola furiously remonstrating with the officials for what he felt should have been a second yellow card and dismissal for Liverpool full-back James Milner.\n\nMilner's foul on Bernardo Silva, just before Salah's goal, went unpunished, with Guardiola later booked for his protests.\n\nThe draw leaves City third in the table on 14 points, a point and a place worse off than Liverpool and two points behind leaders Chelsea.\n• None Our coverage of Manchester City is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything City - go straight to all the best content", "An Edinburgh woman who was assaulted in the street when she was a teenager has discovered her assailant went on to attack two others.\n\nJenna Pike was 16 when a man approached her from behind, attacked her and squeezed her throat until she started to black out.\n\nNine years later, advances in DNA technology have linked her attack to two others.\n\nThe man went on to sexually assault one woman and rape another in 2015.\n\nMs Pike has waived her anonymity in a bid to help trace the man responsible for the attacks.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland she was coming home from a party in the early hours of 28 October 2012 when she heard someone behind her.\n\nShe said: \"It was the road I walk home all the time. I became aware of a man about six feet behind me.\n\n\"Thinking I was just blocking the road, I stepped aside and I guess I ruined his plan to surprise me.\n\n\"The next thing I knew he had spun me round, pulled me to the ground and put his hands around my throat trapping my arms and my hands so I couldn't pull him off me and started putting pressure on my neck to the point where I was blacking out.\"\n\nShe was not sexually assaulted but since then has been unable to walk alone day or night. No one has ever been charged for the crime.\n\nNow in her 20s, she considers herself \"lucky\" her attacker suddenly stopped and ran off.\n\nJenna pike wants other women to come forward if the same thing has happened to them or they know any man who fits the description\n\nEarlier this year, police in the capital made social media appeals for information as part of a renewed investigation into the 2015 incidents.\n\nA 21-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in Craiglockhart Quadrant on 5 August that year and, just over three weeks later, a 19-year-old woman was raped in the Newmills Road area.\n\nJenna Pike was attacked in Colinton Road. All three are in the south-west of Edinburgh.\n\nAfter seeing the appeals, Ms Pike contacted police.\n\nShe said: \"I read it and just thought this area is similar, the situation with it being a lone female and then one male and I thought the age and description was so similar and I thought I might waste someone's time - but I might not.\n\n\"It turned out they hadn't made that connection and it subsequently was the same male who had committed a further two assaults.\"\n\nIn the wake of the sentencing of Sarah Everard's killer, Wayne Couzens and public anger surrounding her murder, Ms Pike is asking women to come forward if they have experienced similar attacks in a bid to trace her attacker.\n\n\"I want to encourage anybody else who has been in a similar situation to phone in, check and make sure it isn't the same person. If you didn't report it then, report it now,\" she said.\n\n\"It helps us get an understanding of what this guy's been up to. Two-and-a-bit years is a long time to not have done anything and it makes me really concerned whether he has gone on to do more. Because it is definitely an escalation from what happened to me to his last attack.\"\n\nShe is concerned that other women could also have been victims of his who have not come forward.\n\nShe said: \"I wasn't affected as badly as the other two women. I guess I will never know if that was his end goal or whether he was just seeing how far he could push a human but I was let go of, he let me go and he walked back up the road like nothing had happened.\"\n\nOfficers at the scene of the rape in Newmills Road, Balerno, in August 2015\n\nShe made this appeal: \"Maybe there's a niggle in the back of your mind, someone has said something to you at some point that didn't quite click then, but is making you think about it now. Maybe a family member you know wasn't always around in the middle of the night as he seemed to enjoy a late-night walk and just women in general if something has happened to you whether you think it's related to this or not, report it now.\n\n\"It makes me annoyed more so that he has lived his life scot-free. He is not worried. It makes me concerned that he could be in a relationship, he could have a child even. He is capable of anything.\n\nDetectives have a full DNA profile of the suspect thanks to more sensitive testing systems and the ability to test smaller amounts of material. Samples taken at the time were retested and the 2012 attack was linked to the two three years later. His profile has not been matched on any databases so far.\n\nDet Insp John Pleasance thanked Ms Pike for her bravery in waiving her right to anonymity\n\nDet Insp Jon Pleasance, the investigating officer for the renewed inquiries, said: \"I want to sincerely thank Jenna for bravely speaking out.\n\n\"Using advanced DNA technology we've been able to review the forensics from Jenna's case and determine that these attacks are all linked.\n\n\"It's incredibly concerning that the man responsible was targeting lone women as far back as 2012, especially given what we know now.\n\n\"It leads me to believe, due the proximity of these incidents, that the answer may very well lie in the local community.\n\n\"Anyone who can help is strongly asked to come forward, no matter how small the information or their concerns may seem. We have the ability to very quickly rule people out of our investigation.\"\n\nThose with information can contact Police Scotland or pass tips anonymously to the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many petrol stations in the South East that have had fuel - such as this one in Ashford, Kent - have seen long queues\n\nPetrol supplies are still not getting to London and south-east England, with more than a fifth of forecourts still dry, retailers have said.\n\nThe Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) said it hoped the Army driving tankers would help increase fuel deliveries.\n\nBut it said the \"crisis is virtually at an end\" in Scotland, Wales, the North and Midlands.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson earlier did not rule out supply chain problems continuing until Christmas.\n\nBrian Madderson, chairman of the PRA, said: \"The fuel is still not going to the pumps that need it most in London and the South East.\"\n\nOn Sunday morning up to 22% of filling stations in the UK's most populous region were dry and only 60% had both grades of fuel available. The PRA said only 6% of stations were dry in the Midlands, northern England and Scotland.\n\nMr Madderson said the PRA, which represents nearly 5,500 of the UK's 8,000 filling stations, was \"disappointed that no concerted action is being taken to address the supply problems\" in the South.\n\nFilling stations need to get more information ahead of time about deliveries, he said.\n\nHowever, he said in the North there was a \"plentiful supply at filling stations\" and little queuing.\n\nMr Madderson added he hoped the army being deployed \"will help to increase fuel deliveries\".\n\nFrom Monday military personnel will start to be available for hauliers to use, with more than 65 drivers available initially.\n\nThere are plans for 200 members of the army to be deployed in total, including 100 drivers.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"Stocks in London and the South of England have been recovering at slightly slower rates than other parts of the UK, so we have begun deploying military personnel to boost supply in these areas.\"\n\n\"More than half of those who have completed training to make fuel deliveries are being deployed to terminals serving London and the South-East of England.\"\n\nSupermarket Sainsbury's said it was still seeing \"high demand\" for fuel at its petrol stations.\n\n\"We're working closely with our supplier to maintain supply and all our sites continue to receive fuel,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nMany sectors of the UK economy, including food firms and petrol retailers, have been affected by a chronic shortage of lorry drivers, which the haulage industry has blamed on factors including Covid, Brexit, an aging workforce, and tax changes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: The \"big lever marked uncontrolled immigration\" will not be pulled to solve the driver shortage\n\nOn Sunday Boris Johnson told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that labour market problems would not be solved by pulling \"the big lever marked uncontrolled immigration\" to allow in large numbers of foreign workers.\n\nHe insisted the lack of lorry drivers was not just a problem for the UK, and claimed the US, China, and some countries in Europe were having similar issues.\n\nHowever, there have been no reports of fuel problems or interruptions to food supply linked to driver shortages in those countries.\n\nThe rush of people filling up their cars in the past week was triggered by reports that a shortage of tanker drivers was affecting deliveries.\n\nThe prime minister said the UK economy was going through a \"period of adjustment\" and the way to get more HGV drivers was for the industry to ensure they were \"decently paid\".\n\nHe added: \"We have got to make sure people come on stream as fast as we practically can.\n\n\"When people voted for change in 2016, when they voted for change again in 2019 as they did, they voted for the end of a broken model of the UK economy that relied on low wages and low skills and chronic low productivity. We are moving away from that.\"\n\nMore than a week on from the first forecourt queues and closures, what began as a problem mainly affecting Southern parts of the country has returned to being just that.\n\nFollowing limited supply issues caused by a tanker driver shortage, pleas not to panic buy were seemingly ignored. The resulting crisis has shown the impact a sudden hike in demand can have on the finely balanced supply chain.\n\nMeasures aimed at helping the distribution system cope have included temporarily relaxing competition laws, so oil firms could better share information and target fuel deliveries.\n\nThe situation appears to have improved markedly in many regions of the UK but less so in the densely-populated capital and the South East.\n\nBusinesses, the government and of course millions of motorists will hope the deployment of military drivers from Monday helps to plug remaining gaps.", "The alleged assault took place in a bar at The Midland hotel, at the Conservative party conference in Manchester.\n\nThe Conservatives say they are \"working with the police\" after an energy boss attending their party conference said she was \"violently assaulted\" by a man.\n\nClementine Cowton, director of external affairs at Octopus Energy Group, told a fringe event the incident happened in the bar of The Midland hotel in Manchester.\n\nThe party member involved has been suspended and had his pass revoked.\n\nThe Conservatives say the behaviour is \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nAccording to a report in The Times newspaper, Ms Cowton was in the hotel bar - one of the main destinations at the autumn political gathering - when a drunk man in his 30s, sat in a seat vacated by her friend.\n\nShe said he made her so uncomfortable that she asked him \"several times politely to leave\" and when he refused to do so, she took his phone and dropped it on the floor.\n\n\"He went to retrieve it and then he came back and attacked me,\" Ms Cowton told the paper.\n\nAccording to the report, Ms Cowton said the man tried to punch her but was stopped by others in the bar, with the resulting scuffle ending up with her glass being smashed.\n\n\"He was very intoxicated and I felt a bit unsafe around him\", she added.\n\nAnd in a video posted on the ConservativeHome website, Ms Cowton told the guests in the audience she was \"sorry to dump this on everyone, it's a bit of a surprise\".\n\nBut she said she wanted to take the opportunity to highlight how \"women are often unsafe in places where other people feel safe\".\n\nAnd she said it was \"really important that we start to take that much more seriously as a society and starting with the police\".\n\n\"I'm fine by the way, don't worry\" she added.\n\nA Conservative spokeswoman said the man's party membership has been suspended.\n\n\"This behaviour is completely unacceptable and the party has revoked the pass of the individual concerned and is working with the police\", she added.\n\nIn a statement, Greater Manchester Police said they responded to reports of an assault on a woman at The Midland hotel at around 00:30 BST on Monday.\n\nThey said there were no reports of any injuries and no arrests were made but a man was identified and had his conference pass removed.\n\nThe investigation into what happened is ongoing they said, adding: \"Women's safety is a top priority, and something we continue to take incredibly seriously.\"\n• None Party conferences: What to expect this year", "John Swinney has said the new vaccine passport app is now functioning well despite the nightclub industry brandishing it a \"shambles\".\n\nThe scheme to allow only fully-vaccinated people to attend some large events had suffered teething problems.\n\nBut the deputy first minister revealed that 280,000 QR codes for the scheme had been downloaded by Sunday.\n\nRepresentatives of the nightclub sector have claimed \"confusion reigns\" for club operators.\n\nMany venues did not ask for proof of vaccination over the weekend because of the bugs in the app, while others reported low numbers of people with the new vaccine passport on their phones.\n\nThe Scottish government had previously announced there would no enforcement of the new rules until 18 October, to give venues a chance to get their procedures up and running.\n\nMr Swinney told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the \"system is functioning well now and has been since during the day on Friday\".\n\nHe added: \"The early hours were slow because of the demand on the system. Up until 4pm yesterday over 280,000 QR codes had been downloaded through the app enabling people to access their Covid certification.\"\n\nMr Swinney acknowledged there were still a \"very small number of cases\" where people were unable to download a QR code as proof of vaccination.\n\n\"We'll try to resolve those issues with individuals, but ultimately the fallback may well be that individuals have to use the paper copy,\" he said.\n\nMany people reported problems registering with the scheme on Friday\n\nUnseated outdoor events with more than 4,000 attendees need to carry out a \"reasonable number\" of spot checks under the passport scheme, while nightclubs and smaller venues will be required to conduct more rigorous checking.\n\nMany people took to social media on Friday to complain of problems with the vaccine certification app which only became available to download about 12 hours before the scheme started at 05:00 that morning.\n\nThe Scottish government then increased capacity on the servers which support the app.\n\nMike Grieve, chairman of the Night Time Industries Association, and director of the Sub Club in Glasgow, described the government's suggestion the app had teething problems as the \"understatement of the century\" and said he felt the scheme was a \"complete shambles\".\n\nHe added: \"The messaging on this from the Scottish government is abysmal. Nobody knows what is going on, confusion reigns and we're stuck with trying to enforce this on the streets.\n\n\"This app was rolled out at 5pm on Thursday evening to come into force less than 12 hours later and by Friday evening almost everyone we spoke to had no idea what was required.\n\n\"Most people believed that the government's decision to push back on enforcement was a delay to the scheme coming into force, which of course it wasn't.\"\n\nMr Grieve said that the Sub Club was full to its 410 capacity on Friday night but only six people attending had the new vaccine app.\n\nFootball clubs hosting three premier league matches this weekend said no fans would be turned away for not having proof of vaccine status in the wake of the issues with the app.\n\nA number of nightclubs did the same at the weekend and did not ask people for proof of vaccination, according to the Night Time Industries Association.", "The Little Britain actor and writer has penned a raft of children's novels and short stories\n\nA David Walliams story about a Chinese boy is to be removed from one of his children's books after criticism that it contained \"harmful stereotypes\".\n\nA new edition of The World's Worst Children will be released next year without the story Brian Wong, Who Was Never, Ever Wrong.\n\nThe move comes after podcaster Georgie Ma complained the book was \"normalising jokes on minorities from a young age\".\n\nAfter meeting Ma, its publishers confirmed the story would be replaced.\n\nThe book featured short stories about 10 characters including Nigel Nit-Boy, Grubby Gertrude and Bertha the Blubberer. It sold more than 450,000 copies in the UK when it was published in 2016, with two sequels and other spin-offs released since.\n\n\"In consultation with our author and illustrator [Tony Ross] we can confirm that a new story will be written to replace 'Brian Wong' in future editions of The World's Worst Children,\" a statement from HarperCollins Children's said.\n\n\"The update will be scheduled at the next reprint as part of an ongoing commitment to regularly reviewing content.\"\n\nSpeaking to The Bookseller, Ma explained: \"'Wong' and 'wrong' are two words that are commonly used in playgrounds to pick on someone if their surname is Wong.\n\n\"Even just the way Brian has been illustrated. He wears glasses, he looks like a nerd, he's got small eyes... they're all harmful stereotypes.\"\n\nShe added: \"The overall character plays on the model minority myth where Chinese people are nerdy, swotty and good at maths, we're not confrontational and we're high achievers.\n\n\"It was just really disappointing to read about that. Personally for me, because I have a toddler, I don't want her being absorbed in these stories where Chinese culture is misrepresented.\"\n\nHaving criticised the character on Instagram earlier this year, Ma said she was now \"grateful\" to the publishers for \"listening and taking action\".\n\nTwo years ago, Walliams removed a word used to refer to people of restricted growth - the nickname given to a character called Miss Midge in the book Ratburger - after a complaint from the organisation Little People UK. It remained on his website.\n\nWalliams, who rose to fame on sketch show Little Britain before becoming a highly successful children's author, has not commented.\n\nHe and his TV writing partner Matt Lucas apologised last year for having played characters of different ethnic backgrounds in the popular BBC series.\n\nThey used blackface make-up in some sketches and the programme was removed from BBC iPlayer, Netflix and BritBox after objections resurfaced.\n\nThe pair said they were \"very sorry\" and that they \"regret that we played characters of other races\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Actor and presenter John Barrowman will no longer appear on skating series Dancing On Ice, ITV has announced.\n\nA former contestant on the show, Barrowman has been a judge since 2019.\n\nITV thanked him for \"two brilliant years\" and said he would continue to host its All Star Musicals specials.\n\nBarrowman has previously apologised for exposing himself to colleagues on the sets of other shows, and his behaviour came under renewed scrutiny earlier this year.\n\nIn May, he said he understood his \"exuberant behaviour\" may have caused \"upset\".\n\nHe told The Guardian his \"high-spirited behaviour\" was \"only ever intended in good humour to entertain colleagues on set and backstage\".\n\nHe first apologised in 2008, and earlier this year added that since that time, \"my understanding and behaviour have also changed\".\n\nIn May, a video featuring him was removed from an immersive Doctor Who theatre show, and a planned Torchwood audio story was scrapped.\n\nOn Sunday, an ITV spokesperson said: \"We thank John Barrowman for two brilliant years on the Dancing On Ice panel and are pleased to be working with him again as host of the forthcoming All Star Musicals specials.\"\n\nThe BBC has asked his representatives for a comment about his departure from Dancing on Ice.\n\nMeanwhile, the first contestants have been announced for the next series, which will be on air in the new year.\n\nThe 12 celebrities will include Coronation Street's Sally Dynevor and former Happy Mondays dancer Bez.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tyler Higgins has been jailed after pleading guilty to two counts of rape\n\nA man who raped a woman in a city centre park has been given a 15-year extended sentence.\n\nTyler Higgins, of Brithdir Street in Cathays, Cardiff, pleaded guilty to two counts of rape in the city's Bute Park.\n\nCardiff Crown Court heard the attack happened during the early hours of 15 July.\n\nHiggins, 20, was jailed for 10 years and will spend five years on licence because of his risk of causing serious harm to the public.\n\nThe court heard he \"confused, disorientated and took advantage\" of his victim, who was enjoying a night out with friends.\n\nJudge David Wynn Morgan described the rape as \"cold-blooded\" and said the victim \"thought she was going to die\".\n\nIn a victim impact statement, the woman said the rape left her \"scared of doing anything\" by herself.\n\nCardiff Crown Court heard the victim was visiting the city with friends and staying in a hotel near Queen Street.\n\nAfter visiting some bars, she went to a house party in Cathays with a friend.\n\nUpon leaving, the woman stopped on Cathays Terrace and asked Higgins for directions to her hotel.\n\nCCTV showed him walking in one direction before changing direction after spotting the woman.\n\nMatthew Roberts, prosecuting, said Higgins walked with the woman at 02:44 BST and told her the hotel was 10 minutes away.\n\nCCTV showed Higgins leading his victim to the entrance of Bute Park\n\nFurther CCTV evidence revealed he took her away from the city centre and towards the entrance of Bute Park, near the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.\n\nMr Roberts said Higgins told the woman there was a short cut, at which point the victim \"felt uncomfortable\" and thought \"something bad\" was going to happen.\n\nIn the park, Higgins stepped in front her and asked her for a kiss, but she refused and said she wanted to get back to her hotel.\n\nAs the pair approached an exit on to Castle Street, Mr Roberts said this was the last opportunity for Higgins to rape the woman.\n\nHiggins put his hand around her neck and \"slammed\" her to the floor. He was too strong for her she was unable to fight him off, the court heard.\n\nHiggins told the woman there was a short cut through Bute Park before attacking her\n\nMr Roberts said Higgins' victim \"thought she was going to die\" and tried to speak \"but no words came out\".\n\n\"She again tried to push the defendant off with her hands and tried to pull his hair,\" he added\n\n\"It was clear that she could not overpower the defendant at all, so in fact she pretended that what he did was OK. It patently wasn't.\"\n\nHiggins giggled as he raped his victim, the court heard, and apologised after the attack, saying he \"sometimes gets like that\".\n\nThe victim suffered injuries to her body in the attack, which Higgins initially denied when he was arrested.\n\nHe admitted rape once he was shown DNA evidence.\n\nAt Cardiff Crown Court, Judge David Wynn Morgan described the incident as \"cold blooded\"\n\nThe woman said she used to be \"sociable, a happy and positive person,\" but now feels \"completely different\".\n\nShe said recently she was watching TV when she had a flashback.\n\n\"I immediately felt dirty and felt a lot of sadness and felt emotional,\" she said.\n\n\"This is something I cannot control. I immediately overthink and question myself about the incident and whether there's anything I could have done to stop it.\n\n\"The visions make me feel as though I don't have any freedom. Making me feel trapped in my thoughts.\"\n\nHashim Salmman, defending, said Higgins was an only child and made to leave home by his step-father at 16.\n\nHis relationship with his mother had broken down and his client was remorseful and had \"strong feelings of regret and shame\".\n\n\"He has caused untold damage and he wishes he could take back what he did,\" Mr Salmman said.\n\nJudge Wynn Morgan said Higgins treated the young woman \"as an object\".\n\n\"The victim was alone, unaware of her geography, confused and intoxicated,\" he said.\n\n\"So far as culpability is concerned there was a significant degree of planning, indeed almost cunning.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ozy's chief executive Carlos Watson was a former news anchor for CNN\n\nIn an about-turn, the scandal-hit US media firm Ozy Media has re-launched just days after it shut itself down.\n\nBoss Carlos Watson told broadcaster NBC that the firm was \"open for business\" again and this was its \"Lazarus moment\" - referring to the biblical character brought back to life by Jesus.\n\nOzy shut on Friday after reports its co-founder had deceived potential investors during a conference call.\n\nMajor advertisers cut ties and its chairman Marc Lasry stepped down.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Watson told NBC that the previous week had been \"traumatic\" and \"heartbreaking\".\n\nHowever, he said the media firm had a change of heart: \"Over the weekend we spoke to advertising partners, we talked to our readers, our viewers our investors.\n\n\"I think Ozy is part of this moment. I think what we do... has a place.\"\n\nLaunched in California in 2013, Ozy Media produces left-leaning podcasts, television series and events. The firm has won an Emmy for its work.\n\nIn late September, the New York Times reported that co-founder Samir Rao impersonated a senior leader at YouTube during a conference call with Goldman Sachs in February. At that point the investment bank was considering making a $40m investment in the media company.\n\nMr Rao reportedly claimed that Ozy's videos were highly popular on YouTube.\n\nAccording to the Times, the investors realised something was wrong and did not go through with the deal. Mr Watson later apologised and Mr Rao was allowed to stay at the firm.\n\nAmid growing scrutiny last week, Ozy began an internal investigation and Mr Rao took a leave of absence.\n\nFomer BBC News presenter Katty Kay called the allegations against the firm \"troubling\"\n\nIt prompted veteran journalist Katty Kay - who joined Ozy in June after 30 years at the BBC - to quit, followed by Mr Lasry. Ford and Ally Financial cut ties with the media firm, amongst other advertisers.\n\nMr Watson told NBC that what Mr Rao had done was \"sad\" and \"wrong\".\n\nHe accepted that it was a \"fair question\" as to whether people would be able to trust him again as chief executive. The latest scandal is just one in a long string of allegations that has emerged, including claims the firm inflated its audience figures.\n\nMr Watson said he had been given \"incredibly bad advice\" last week \"to go silent\", when he should have engaged with the press.\n\nAs a result, he said \"half truths\", inaccuracies and \"cheap shots\" were reported in the media and that Ozy was not a \"house of cards\".\n\nMr Watson added Ozy intended to \"own\" the mistakes that had come to light around its use of data and marketing.\n\nThe firm could struggle to get back on its feet. It has lost most of its staff and only two people are currently on its board - Mr Watson and Michael Moe, founder of the Silicon Valley investment company GSV Holdings, which backs Ozy.\n\nIn a statement, Ozy told the BBC it was reaching out to its team to encourage them to return. It added that its newsletters will resume this week and TV production at the end of the month.\n\nThe firm added that several advertising partners had expressed excitement about the firm re-launching and intended to meet with Ozy in the coming days to discuss \"next steps\".\n\nOzy spokesman Phil Singer told the BBC: \"The bottom line is that we hit a bump in the road, but are committed to getting past this moment and renewing our commitment to being the kind of media company that delivers amazing content about topics and people that are too often overlooked.\"", "Scientists who discovered how our bodies feel the warmth of the sun or the hug of a loved one have won the Nobel Prize.\n\nDavid Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, from the US, share the 2021 prize in Medicine or Physiology for their work on sensing touch and temperature.\n\nThey unpicked how our bodies convert physical sensations into electrical messages in the nervous system.\n\nTheir findings could lead to new ways of treating pain.\n\nHeat, cold and touch are crucial for experiencing the world around us and for our own survival.\n\nBut how our bodies actually do it had been one of the great mysteries of biology.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Nobel 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. End of twitter post by The Nobel Prize\n\nThomas Perlman, from the Nobel Prize Committee, said: \"It was a very important and profound discovery.\"\n\nProf David Julius's breakthrough, at the University of California, San Francisco, came from investigating the burning pain we feel from eating a hot chilli pepper.\n\nHe experimented with the source of a chilli's heat - the chemical capsaicin.\n\nHe discovered the specific type of receptor (a part of our cells that detects the world around them) that responded to capsaicin.\n\nFurther tests showed the receptor was responding to heat and kicked in at \"painful\" temperatures. This is what happens, for example, if you burn your hand on a cup of coffee.\n\nThe discovery led to a flurry of other temperature-sensors being discovered. Prof Julius and Prof Ardem Patapoutian found one that could detect cold.\n\nMeanwhile, Prof Patapoutian, working at the Scripps Research institute, was also poking cells in a dish.\n\nThose experiments led to the discovery of a different type of receptor that was activated in response to mechanical force or touch.\n\nWhen you walk along a beach and feel the sand under your feet - it is these receptors that are sending signals to the brain.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by The Nobel 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. End of twitter post 2 by The Nobel Prize\n\nProf Patapoutian actually missed multiple attempts by the Nobel Prize committee to let him know he was a winner. His phone was set to do-not-disturb so the flurry of phone calls from Sweden (at 0200 California time) went unanswered.\n\n\"They somehow got to my 94 year old father who lives in Los Angeles and he was able to call me and wake me up and tell me the news, which was ended up being a fantastic way to find out,\" he said.\n\nThese touch and temperature sensors have since been shown to have a wide role in the body and in some diseases.\n\nThe first heat sensor (called TRPV1) is also involved in chronic pain and how our body regulates its core temperature. The touch receptor (PIEZ02) has multiple roles, from urinating to blood pressure.\n\nThe Prize Committee said their work had \"allowed us to understand how heat, cold and mechanical force can initiate the nerve impulses that allow us to perceive and adapt to the world around us.\"\n\nIt added: \"This knowledge is being used to develop treatments for a wide range of disease conditions, including chronic pain.\"\n\nThe pair will share the 10m Swedish kronor (£845,000) prize.\n• None Is the chilli pepper friend or foe?\n• None The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The furlough scheme closes on Thursday, with uncertainty ahead for people who have not yet fully returned to work.\n\nNearly one million workers were expected to be on the scheme at the end of September, according to research by the Resolution Foundation.\n\nOf those on furlough in late July, about half on the scheme were able to work some of the time, the HMRC says.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic, it has helped pay the wages of 11.6 million workers.\n\nBut many forecasters, including the Bank of England, are expecting a small rise in unemployment as it ends.\n\nThe chancellor said he was \"immensely proud\" of the near £70bn scheme, but now was the right time to close it, despite calls for further support from some badly-hit companies.\n\nThe travel sector has suffered more than most during the pandemic, with businesses being affected by changing restrictions and lower consumer confidence.\n\nMark Andrew, the director of Animal Aircare, which helps pets travel overseas via Gatwick Airport, said some of his staff may be made redundant if business does not improve.\n\nThe firm has not yet had to lay off staff, which Mr Andrew said was \"purely down to furlough\".\n\n\"Furlough ending means there's a real question mark for our business. We're still waiting for Gatwick to pick up... it seems the airline industry is not buoyant enough yet,\" he said.\n\nAlthough the end of the scheme comes amid a record number of job vacancies, Fidelity International's investment director, Maike Currie, told the BBC that \"no-one really knows what is next\".\n\n\"I think what we can be certain of is that we'll see under-employment, where employees return to work but possibly not on a full-time basis and that they might need to supplement their income.\"\n\nFurlough was introduced in March 2020 after Covid-19 forced large parts of the UK economy to close.\n\nOfficially known as the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, it saw the government pay towards the wages of people who could not work, or whose employers could no longer afford to pay them, up to a monthly limit of £2,500.\n\nAt first it paid 80% of their usual wage, but in August and September it paid 60%, with employers paying 20%.\n\nThere have been big recruitment drives for hospitality staff, HGV drivers and warehouse workers as businesses get back on their feet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Abi is finally back to work after 18 months on furlough and says it feels 'amazing'\n\nLatest official figures show the UK's economy grew by 5.5% between April and June - revised up from the initial estimate of 4.8%.\n\nThe uplift was largely driven by household spending rebounding after lockdowns, although many firms are now being held back by current labour shortages.\n\n\"Any hope that the end of the furlough scheme might be the magic wand to solve the supply chain crisis is likely to be wishful thinking,\" said Susannah Streeter, from Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\nThere is likely to be a big mismatch of skills and experience between those leaving the furlough scheme and the jobs on offer, she added.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke told the BBC: \"We think there are probably two million fewer people unemployed than would have been the case if this scheme hadn't been introduced.\n\n\"I think it's done an enormous amount to shield our economy and our society from the worst of Covid.\"\n\nThe scheme has also been praised by the Resolution Foundation think tank as a \"great success\".\n\nIts senior economist Dan Tomlinson said furlough had been \"as critical to fighting the Covid crisis as nationalising the banks was to fighting the global financial crisis\".\n\nBut the foundation's recent research suggested that a small rise in unemployment was a \"real risk\" for those still on the scheme as it ends, particularly older workers or those in the travel sector.\n\nWhen the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme started, it was described as a bridge over the pandemic uncertainty.\n\nIt has succeeded in keeping the official unemployment numbers at less than half pre-pandemic expectation. For that reason it has proven value for money, despite costing over £68bn.\n\nBut there is now some uncertainty over the fate of the million or so workers still having their wages subsidised.\n\nNew analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies points to regional differences, with London workers for example the most likely still to be furloughed. Older workers are also disproportionately still on the scheme.\n\nIndustries that are yet to return to normal, such as the airport sector, had called for the scheme to be kept in some form. Unions also argue that the UK should follow Germany in maintaining a form of the scheme for future crises.\n\nCertainly a precedent has been set in that the government is willing to spend billions on wage increases if large-scale increases in unemployment are avoided.\n\nAlthough a million vacancies do not map on to the same number still on furlough, it is clear that many industries are having to welcome back more furloughed workers. Partly out of fear of being caught out by worker shortages later down the line.\n\nFor many of those returning to work, conditions will not be the same as pre-pandemic.\n\nJess Pitman was furloughed from her job as marketing manager at a travel firm two weeks after the scheme was introduced.\n\nThe company she works for specialises in organising trips abroad to raise money for charities, but travellers cancelled their plans when Covid hit.\n\nThe firm's payroll has been reduced from 27 to just five and the 29-year-old will return to work part-time, topping up her income with freelance work.\n\nJess Pitman works for a travel firm, which organises fundraising trips for charity\n\n\"I feel really torn about the end of furlough, and I'm really sad for the travel industry as a whole,\" Jess said.\n\n\"I know a lot of people in the industry will be made redundant... I think we'll lose a lot of talented people, which is really disappointing.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Association of British Travel Agents (Abta) warned that companies in the sector still face \"extreme difficulties\" because of continued travel restrictions.\n\nAbta called for sector-specific support for smaller firms in particular, who have lost two summers of sales, as well as those which specialise in destinations still subject to red list rules.\n\n\"The government needs to look at how it can support these businesses... through a package of tailored financial support,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nElsewhere, the Federation of Small Businesses also cited concerns over a \"colder environment\" for business.\n\nEmployers and workers alike will have to cope with the end of the furlough scheme, as well as the scrapping of an incentive for hiring apprentices, rising energy bills and the planned cut to Universal Credit in October.\n\nHowever, the Treasury said generous support was being provided through its \"Plan for Jobs\", which it said was part of a £400bn spending package.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said he was \"immensely proud of the furlough scheme, and even more proud of UK workers and businesses whose resolve has seen us through an immensely difficult time\".\n\nAre you using the furlough scheme? How will you or your business be affected by the scheme ending? 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.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nKevin de Bruyne's deflected late equaliser gave Manchester City a fully deserved point after a moment of genius by Mohamed Salah looked to have earned Liverpool victory in an Anfield thriller.\n\nReigning champions City and Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool were each hoping to take over from Chelsea at the top of the table, but this result means Thomas Tuchel's side stay clear at the Premier League summit.\n\nCity dominated the first half but wasted a host of chances and were punished when Sadio Mane was the beneficiary of more Salah brilliance to apply a clinical finish to put Liverpool ahead after 59 minutes.\n\nLiverpool's lead lasted just 10 minutes until Phil Foden, who tormented the struggling James Milner throughout, took a pass from Gabriel Jesus and fired a low, angled finish across Alisson at the Kop end.\n\nCity manager Pep Guardiola was nursing an understandable sense of injustice after Milner somehow escaped a second yellow card for blatantly upending Bernardo Silva, before Anfield exploded in joy after 76 minutes when Salah slalomed his way beyond a succession of City defenders to power home a stunning finish.\n\nCity's performance merited at least a point and secured it when De Bruyne's shot took a deflection off Joel Matip to beat Alisson with nine minutes left.\n\nThe Reds should have won it with five minutes remaining but Fabinho's goalbound shot was kept out by Rodri's sensational block.\n\nLiverpool have bullied City at Anfield in the past but the tables were turned here in the first half, the champions dominating possession and pinning the hosts back in a manner rarely seen under Klopp in recent seasons.\n\nKlopp's side needed a spark to return to at least something like their normal selves and it was talisman Salah who provided it with a virtuoso second-half performance.\n\nThe Egyptian first of all showed his class to set up Mane for a goal that was against the overall run of play but was the result of Liverpool increasing the pace at the start of the second half. Salah's run and pass was sheer perfection and his attacking partner gratefully accepted the invitation to finish in style.\n\nAnd after the excellent Foden drew City level, Salah scored a goal that will live long in the memory as he twisted and turned in between a host of City defenders before lashing an unstoppable finish past Ederson.\n\nIt was a goal worthy of winning any match, but in reality Liverpool could not complain at only getting a point as they struggled to exert their authority.\n\nSalah's masterclass, however, showed once again that he truly belongs among the game's elite.\n\nFoden's importance for City was also emphasised as he gave Milner a nightmare for the 78 minutes the Liverpool veteran was on the pitch, and scored a crucial equaliser just as The Kop sensed their side had finally established supremacy.\n\nMilner, in at right-back with Trent Alexander-Arnold injured, simply could not cope with Foden, escaping with a foul on the edge of the area that was not given then being booked for hauling the youngster down in desperate fashion.\n\nCity were clearly determined to probe the right-hand side of Liverpool's defence where Milner was not actually receiving too much assistance, and it was no surprise that Foden found himself in space to give Allison no chance with a fine finish to level.\n\nThis was a good response from City to their midweek Champions League loss to Paris St-Germain, although once against questions will be raised about the lack of a recognised striker when a host of first-half chances were not taken.\n\nCity's play was measured and, with Ruben Dias and Aymeric Laporte solid at the back, it took those two moments of rare skill by Salah to unlock them.\n\nIt would have been harsh on City had they not got at least a point and Guardiola's joy was obvious when De Bruyne got the leveller, albeit he was running hot with fury at the time after referee Paul Tierney decided against giving that second yellow card to Milner - earning one himself as his vociferous protests continued after Salah had restored Liverpool's lead.\n\nCity have performed impressively against the two teams widely regard as their closest Premier League title rivals in the last eight days, winning at Chelsea then coming away with a point at Anfield.\n\nGuardiola will regard four points as a reasonable return and will be highly satisfied that his team could have had the maximum, even pressing for a winner in the closing moments.\n\nThe most decisive contribution in this frantic finale, however, came from Rodri as he somehow blocked Fabinho in a packed goalmouth when he looked certain to score the match-winner.\n\nHe made a crucial intervention and Guardiola was all smiles again at the final whistle.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fabinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Mohamed Salah with a cross.\n• None Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Kyle Walker (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Fabinho (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2, Manchester City 2. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2, Manchester City 1. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Curtis Jones. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Cressida Dick: \"My job now is to lead the Met through a difficult time\"\n\nAn independent review is set to be carried out into the Met Police's standards and culture after the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard.\n\nCommissioner Dame Cressida Dick, who has rejected calls to resign, said it would be led by a high profile person.\n\nThe force has faced questions ever since Wayne Couzens, a serving police officer, killed the 33-year-old.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said there was a \"massive job\" to do in restoring women's confidence in the police.\n\nLast week, Couzens, 48, was jailed for a full-life term for the brutal attack.\n\nHe abducted the marketing executive in March as she walked home from a friend's house under the guise of an arrest, before raping and killing her. He later burned her body.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Dame Cressida said Ms Everard's murder had made \"everyone in the Met furious and we depend on public trust\".\n\n\"In this country policing is done by consent and undoubtedly the killing of Sarah and other events has damaged public trust,\" she said, adding she was determined to rebuild it.\n\nSarah Everard's murder sparked calls for more action to tackle violence against women\n\nDame Cressida said the review would specifically look into its internal culture and its professional standards such as systems, processes, leadership and training.\n\nShe also called for a national review of police vetting standards.\n\nIt comes as Labour raised concerns about checks on parliamentary police in a letter to security officials.\n\nAn ongoing Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) review of how Couzens became a Met officer has found that vetting procedures missed that two of his previous cars had been linked to allegations of indecent exposure.\n\nCouzens was known as \"the rapist\" by former colleagues at the Civil Nuclear Constabulary because he made female colleagues feel so uncomfortable, and had been accused of indecent exposure in 2015, and in the days before the murder.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct is now investigating \"offensive and abusive\" sexist messages shared by a WhatsApp group that involved Couzens.\n\nFormer Met Police detective Paige Kimberley won an employment tribunal against the force last month, after a job offer was withdrawn when she complained about \"vulgar and sexist\" WhatsApp group messages involving police officers.\n\nMs Kimberley said the group, which did not involve Couzens, was set up to \"facilitate working practices\".\n\nOver time the comments became \"more sexualised, and more and more derogatory towards women\", she said.\n\n\"When I was approached to go back to work... I did bring up the WhatsApp group, I did say that it needed to be addressed,\" she said.\n\n\"And the next day I was told there was no position available for me.\"\n\nMs Kimberely, who reached the rank of deputy superintendent, said: \"What has really shocked me is that the extent to which the Met fought me, the way the Met have defended this.\n\n\"They clearly do think it's okay.\"\n\nThe review will look into the internal culture of the Met Police\n\nBaroness Nuala O'Loan, whose inquiry into Daniel Morgan's murder concluded that the Met was \"institutionally corrupt\", said the murder of Ms Everard raised similar issues.\n\nShe said: \"We said that in their failure to be honest, for reputational reason, the conduct of senior officers of the Metropolitan Police, and of the institution, was corrupt. It was all about protecting the Met.\n\n\"Can you trust when you don't see actions to address the problems which you've pointed out to them?\"\n\nDame Cressida said: \"I absolutely recognise the grave level of public concerns and the need to take urgent action.\n\n\"I hope the announcement today of an independent person to work with us helps demonstrate how seriously we take this and our commitment to making the changes needed.\"\n\nWhen asked if she offered to resign, Dame Cressida said: \"People will be entitled to their opinion. I've got a job to do, I'm getting on with it. My job now is to lead the Met.\"\n\nEarlier, the prime minister rejected calls for an immediate public inquiry from the chairwoman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, Yvette Cooper, who said there should be one into the vetting process used by the Met Police when recruiting officers.\n\nDame Cressida Dick has rejected calls to resign after the murder of Sarah Everard\n\nMr Johnson said the investigations by the Met and police watchdog should be allowed to proceed.\n\nHe added although the government was investing in CCTV and street lighting, the culture of policing had to change and that more women should be recruited as police officers.\n\n\"I want to be clear, I believe people should be confident in the police,\" he said.\n\n\"I believe police officers, men and women up and down the country, will be absolutely sickened by what has happened, and they will be doing everything they can, and I know they do everything they can to help and reassure the public. So, it is vital that the public trust the police.\"", "Obesity has been linked to deprivation\n\nFunding for healthy-lifestyle support such as stop-smoking and obesity clinics has been cut by a quarter in six years in England, research shows.\n\nThe Health Foundation said councils had received £3.3bn to run these services this year - £1bn less than in 2015-16, once inflation was accounted for.\n\nThe cut threatened the government's levelling-up agenda to spread wealth and opportunity more fairly, it added.\n\nBut the government said it was \"absolutely committed\" to the policy.\n\nA spokesman for the government added the newly-launched Office for Health Improvement and Disparities would play a crucial role in levelling up.\n\nDetails on future funding is expected to be announced later in the autumn.\n\nThe release of the Health Foundation analysis comes ahead of Health Secretary Sajid Javid's speech to the Conservative Party Conference on Tuesday.\n\nIt found while spending on the NHS had increased, funding given to councils for public health had been cut by 24% in the past six years.\n\nAnd in Blackpool - the most deprived area of the country - that meant £43 less per person per year was being spent on key public-health services.\n\nThe Health Foundation said these services were key to ensuring people remained in good health to get the most out of life.\n\nBut it pointed out people in the poorest areas could expect to live nearly 20 fewer years in good health than their peers in wealthier areas - a gap likely to have been made worse during the Covid pandemic.\n\nJo Bibby, from the Health Foundation, said ministers had already acknowledged levelling up health was fundamental to levelling up economically.\n\n\"A healthy and productive population will be essential to the country's future prosperity,\" she said.\n\n\"But ongoing cuts to the public-health grant run counter to this agenda and will ultimately serve to further entrench health inequality.\"\n\nThe Health Foundation said £1.4bn extra would be needed by 2024-25 to rectify these cuts.\n\nIts call was supported by the Association of Directors of Public Health, which has published a letter signed by more than 50 leading health charities and groups.\n\nADPH interim president Prof Jim McManus said: \"The public-health grant has been cut, cut and cut again, undermining the leadership and services that are essential to improving health and reducing inequalities.\"", "Mr Flynn wants more to be done to reduce the back-log of drivers waiting for tests\n\nA lack of examiners is largely to blame for the UK shortage of HGV drivers, a lorry driving instructor has said.\n\nSteven Flynn, who runs Carmel Driving School in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, said he has dozens of drivers waiting to take their tests.\n\nWaiting times and delayed paper work contributed to the \"heart-breaking\" situation, he said.\n\nThe Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency said it was \"tackling this issue through increasing testing\".\n\nThe shortage of HGV drivers is due to a combination of Covid, Brexit and other factors, and has led to growing concerns about deliveries of food and fuel.\n\nFor Mr Flynn, the problem is there are not enough examiners available to book tests.\n\n\"There hasn't been an investment in examiners in the last few years and the pandemic hasn't helped either... but they could do a lot more than what they actually are doing,\" he said.\n\n\"We've got in excess of at least 30 to 35 people waiting to go for their tests. We have enough vehicles, we have enough instructors, but we simply don't have the tests.\"\n\nMr Flynn said that after spring's lockdown, some of his drivers had to wait three months to book a test.\n\nAlthough the situation has now \"massively improved\", he said the waiting times are still \"too long\", claiming more examiners would have helped.\n\n\"We have built brand-new facilities here and all we would need is an examiner to come,\" he said.\n\n\"The test centre is just around the corner - which they're proposing to close - and some of the days there aren't any examiners there, simply because of the lack of investment in examiners.\"\n\nMr Flynn said he cannot expand the business and employ more instructors until more tests become available.\n\nHe also said booking tests online was not always possible, and it was \"heart-breaking\" spending up to two hours every day on hold, trying to book by phone.\n\nWhile testing is covered by the DVSA, Mr Flynn said waiting for documentation was also a serious problem, with \"paperwork taking weeks and weeks\" to come back from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).\n\nAndrew Lloyd, national officer for the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, said the DVLA must take responsibility.\n\nHe said: \"If there is anyone waiting for their driver's licence from DVLA, just to let you know PCS asked DVLA management a number of months ago now to prioritise key workers' driver's licences and correspondence. That would include lorry drivers. DVLA have not even bothered to respond to their trade union. This crisis is on the DVLA management.\"\n\nA DVLA spokesman said there were no delays in processing HGV provisional licence applications which were currently being issued in about five days, adding: \"We are looking at ways to speed up this process even further.\"\n\nHe added: \"More complex transactions, for example if medical investigations are needed as part of a driving licence application, may face longer delays.\n\n\"We have made it a priority to process provisional and vocational HGV licences as quickly as possible.\"\n\nLlew Jones Coaches' director says more and more drivers are finding work elsewhere and not returning to the industry\n\nIn the Conwy Valley, Llew Jones Coaches has had to suspend part of one of its bus routes \"due to a lack of driving staff\".\n\nSteve Jones, managing director, said Covid had seen an increase in the number of drivers retiring from the industry and \"so very few new people have come into the industry\" due to limited training in that period.\n\nMr Jones said they were \"running about 10 drivers short of where we would want to be\" and called for a simpler process of acquiring a test and dealing with the governing agencies.\n\n\"We need to reduce the red tape and get people through quicker,\" he said.\n\n\"We need more examiners so we can get more tests through,\" says Steve Jones\n\nThe DVSA said it recognised the haulage industry fuels the economy and had \"listened to its concerns about the current lorry driver shortage\".\n\n\"We have responded by doing all we can to support the industry in tackling this issue through increasing lorry driver testing,\" it said.\n\nCurrent waiting times for vocational tests were on average 3.3 weeks, compared with a pre-Covid rate of 2.7 weeks.\n\nAnd 3,000 vocational tests were being done a week, compared with 2,000 pre-Covid, the DVSA said.", "North Korea has restored communication lines with the South, months after it cut a cross-border hotline.\n\nThe move comes days after the country's leader Kim Jong-un said he was willing to restore communication as a conditional olive branch.\n\nHowever, Pyongyang also said the restoration of their relationship was dependent on the \"attitude of South Korean authorities\".\n\nNorth Korea has also recently been ramping up its military tests.\n\nIt has fired four missiles in less than a month - a sign that it has no intention of slowing down its arms development.\n\nOn Monday morning, South Korea's unification ministry said officials from both Koreas exchanged their first phone call since August.\n\n\"With the restoration of the South-North communication line, the government evaluates that a foundation for recovering inter-Korean relations has been provided,\" the ministry said in a statement.\n\nCommunication hotlines between the two sides have been cut - and restored - several times.\n\nIn 2020, after a failed summit between the North and South, Pyongyang blew up an inter-Korean border office that had been built to improve communications.\n\nIn the same year, North Korea severed all communication lines with the South, including a hotline between both leaders and military communication channels after tensions worsened.\n\nThe hotline was briefly restored this August but cut again after South Korea participated in joint military exercises with the US.\n\nNorth and South Korea are technically still at war because no peace agreement was reached when the Korean War ended in 1953.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does North Korea keep launching missiles?\n\nThe North has repeatedly accused South Korea of double standards over military activities.\n\nSouth Korea recently tested its first submarine-launched ballistic missile, which it said was needed as deterrence against North Korea's \"provocations\".\n\nThe US has been calling for North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, and Pyongyang's relationship with President Joe Biden's administration has so far been fraught with tension.\n\nBut Pyongyang seems determined to prove it will continue to develop new weapons systems, saying they are needed for its own self-defence.", "A private plane has crashed into an empty office block in the northern Italian city of Milan, killing all eight people on board.\n\nThe plane, which was bound for the island of Sardinia, came down after taking off from Milan's Linate airport.\n\nThe pilot was Romanian billionaire Dan Petrescu, 68. He died alongside his wife and their son, Italian media say.\n\nRead more: Eight killed as plane crashes into Milan building", "Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back up and running after an outage that lasted almost six hours, Facebook says.\n\nIt blamed an internal technical issue, which not only affected Facebook's services, but reportedly also employees' work passes and email.\n\nThe services were down from about 16:00 GMT until around 22:00 on Monday.\n\nBut the company said there was \"no evidence that user data was compromised\".\n\nSheera Frenkel, the New York Times' technology reporter, told the Today programme part of the reason it took so long to fix was because \"the people trying to figure out what this problem was couldn't even physically get into the building\" to work out what had gone wrong.\n\nIn a statement, Facebook said that the faulty configuration change affected the company's internal tools and systems which complicated attempts to resolve the problem.\n\nDowndetector, which tracks outages, said some 10.6 million problem reports around the world. However, the real number of people affected is much higher: more than 3.5 billion people use Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and Whatsapp.\n\nMany found themselves cut off from family and friends they interact with over the various services, while small businesses which use social media to connect with customers were faced with the prospect of an unexpected financial hit.\n\nAccording to the business website Fortune, it also cost Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg an estimated $6bn (£4.4bn) at one point as shares plummeted.\n\nMr Zuckerberg has apologised to those affected by the outage.\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 Mark 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\nSome people also reported problems using Facebook's virtual reality headset platform, Oculus, and apps which require Facebook logins were affected, including Pokémon Go.\n\nAn outage of this scale for such a long time is rare. A disruption in 2019 left Facebook and its other apps mostly inaccessible across the world for more than 14 hours.\n\nSeveral other tech companies, including Reddit and Twitter, poked fun at the social media giant's predicament - prompting responses from the affected apps.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Instagram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 disruption comes the day after an interview with a former Facebook employee who leaked documents about the company.\n\nFrances Haugen told CBS news on Sunday that the company had prioritised \"growth over safety\".\n\nOn Tuesday she will testify before a Senate subcommittee in a hearing titled \"Protecting Kids Online\", about the company's research into Instagram's effect on the mental health of young users.\n\nMany outages get resolved fairly quickly. They are often localised too, with some people unable to open a website that can be viewed in another country.\n\nThis outage, however, was global, and affected all of Facebook's many spin-offs.\n\nThe length of time it was off grid is also unusual. There were reports of \"mayhem\" in Facebook headquarters, as technicians scrambled to fix the problem.\n\nInteresting too that the outage hampered Facebook's ability to tackle the crash - bringing down internal tools needed to remedy the problem.\n\nIt should also be said that Facebook's statement is carefully written. It doesn't rule out foul play.\n\nThe week had already started off badly - after the whistleblower in the \"Facebook Files\" revelations revealed herself on Sunday.\n\nBut a bad week has become a terrible one for the social network.", "Beaches have been closed and residents have been told to avoid the shoreline\n\nAn oil slick off the coast of California has started washing ashore, killing fish, contaminating wetlands and closing beaches.\n\nAbout 3,000 barrels of oil have spread over an area covering 13 square miles (33 sq km), off the Orange County coast.\n\nHuntington Beach Mayor Kim Carr said portions of the coastline were covered in oil.\n\nAn investigation into the pipeline breach that caused it is under way.\n\nThe slick, about five miles off the coasts of Huntington Beach and Newport Beach, was discovered on Saturday morning.\n\nIt is thought to be one of the largest oil spills in the state's recent history, according to the Associated Press news agency.\n\nAuthorities are now attempting to contain the oil by using protective booms - a type of floating barrier. Divers are also working at the scene to determine how the leak occurred.\n\nThe US Coast Guard has so far deployed 14 boats to conduct oil recovery operations, and three to enforce a safety zone in the area. Four aircraft have also been dispatched to conduct assessments of the spill.\n\n\"Wildlife is dying. It's very sad,\" Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley told CBS News. She added that there were reports of dead animals along the shore and that Talbert Marsh, an ecological reserve had also suffered \"significant damage\".\n\nOn Monday morning, the Coast Guard said that approximately 3,150 gallons (14,320 litres) of oil have so far been recovered from the water.\n\nSome 3,000 barrels of oil have spread over an area of the Orange County coast\n\nAmplify Energy Corp, which owns three off-shore platforms, said it stopped operations and shut its pipeline on Saturday.\n\nCEO Martyn Willsher said the pipeline had been suctioned to ensure that no more oil would spill.\n\nThe area, 40 miles (64km) south of Los Angeles, is extremely popular with surfers. Beaches have been closed and the last day of the Pacific Airshow was cancelled.\n\nResidents have been told not to approach animals affected by the spill and to instead call authorities.\n\nAdditionally, officials in Orange County issued a health advisory recommending that anyone who may have encountered contaminated materials seek medical attention.\n\nThe spill is thought to have been caused by a pipeline breach\n\nMichelle Steel, a Republican representative for part of the affected area, has asked President Joe Biden to declare a major disaster, which would allow for funds to help with clean-up operations.\n\nIn 2010, the Deep Water Horizon incident off the Gulf of Mexico saw nearly 300,000 tonnes of oil spill, resulting in the death of thousands of species ranging from plankton to dolphins.\n\nThere were also other longer-term impacts on marine life including impaired reproduction, reduced growth, lesions and disease.\n\nThe spill occurred off the coast of Huntington Beach, California", "Daniel was attacked after a night out in Manchester in 2015\n\nA victim of the UK's most prolific rapist Reynhard Sinaga has spoken of the sheer horror at discovering he had been attacked by the sexual predator.\n\nSinaga was jailed for life last year after being convicted of drugging and raping 48 men in his Manchester flat.\n\nPolice believe the post-graduate student had targeted more than 200 men.\n\nDaniel, the first victim to waive his right to anonymity, said he \"couldn't remember anything\" when he woke up in Sinaga's flat.\n\nIt was only when Greater Manchester Police detectives showed him photographs of the attack two years later that he found out he had been raped.\n\n\"It is just horrible to see yourself that vulnerable in photographs that someone else has taken,\" he said.\n\n\"You can see I am comatose... I look dead.\"\n\nSinaga is serving a minimum of 40 years in jail after being convicted of 159 sexual offences in January 2020.\n\nThe 38-year-old, originally from Indonesia, \"stalked\" his victims who had became separated from friends on nights out before leading them to his Princess Street flat in Manchester city centre.\n\nGMP have released a custody photograph taken of Sinaga, showing injuries he received after his final victim awoke during the attack\n\nSpeaking in BBC Two documentary Catching a Predator, Daniel said he decided to speak out to help other victims.\n\n\"To say as a man I have been raped is a hard thing,\" he said.\n\n\"It makes you feel so vulnerable.\"\n\nDaniel had been on a night out in Manchester in 2015 celebrating his birthday with his partner and friends when they left to get a taxi home.\n\n\"I needed to go to the toilet so I went up an alleyway. I don't remember anything after that,\" he said.\n\nThe following morning he woke up on a sofa fully dressed feeling \"groggy\" and said he \"could not remember anything\".\n\n\"Then I saw someone's feet walking round and I just froze,\" he said.\n\n\"And then they left the room and I just got up and ran out the door.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by any issues raised in this story, support and information is available at BBC Action Line.\n\nDaniel said he never considered reporting it to police because he was \"doubting himself\", \"felt stupid\" and \"didn't have a clue what had happened\".\n\nIt was only when a detective working on the Sinaga investigation - which was launched in June 2017 - came to see him that the truth of those missing hours emerged.\n\n\"I could see the way she looked at me [that] she recognised me,\" he said.\n\nDaniel said she showed him photographs of the attack, adding: \"There was no denying it was me. You could see my tattoo.\"\n\n\"There is a bit of relief because you know what has happened finally and you can make sense of it but probably not the relief you want,\" he said.\n\nDet Con Dorothy Orr and Det Sgt Kimberley Hames-Evans worked on the Sinaga investigation\n\nSinaga was caught when one victim regained consciousness during the assault and fought him off before reporting it to police.\n\nWhen officers seized Sinaga's phone they found he had filmed each of his attacks - amounting to hundreds of hours of footage - and launched the largest rape inquiry in British history.\n\nDet Sgt Kimberley Hames-Evans said the footage found on the phone was \"horrendous\".\n\n\"There were videos upon videos of young men being sexually abused and raped,\" she said.\n\n\"We get lots of reports of rape but seldom do you actually see one happen with your own eyes.\"\n\nDet Sgt Hames-Evans had to travel the \"length and breadth of the country, even overseas\" telling people what Sinaga had done to them.\n\n\"They just went very quiet and you [could] see the colour drain from their face. Just an 'oh my God' look on their face,\" she said.\n\n\"And I knew giving them that information that I've just ruined this person's life and you could see it.\"\n\nDaniel said he decided to speak out to help other victims\n\nDet Con Dorothy Orr said the videos were \"shocking\" and \"horrific\", particularly because of the \"helplessness\" of the victims.\n\n\"When someone can take advantage of someone when they are physically ill and vomiting it is hideous,\" she said.\n\nIain Simkin, lead prosecutor in the case against Sinaga, described him as \"savage\" and said in one of the videos he filmed himself raping two men in his flat for hours.\n\nHe said it was \"worse than a Gothic horror story\".\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service barrister said he hoped the case had raised awareness of male rape, describing it as \"a graphic representation of the worst parts of human nature\".\n\nDaniel said he had been offered counselling \"but nothing has been as helpful as talking to my dad\".\n\n\"Men don't talk about male rape but his response was amazing,\" he said.\n\nYou can watch Catching a Predator on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Wednesday 6 October and afterwards on BBC iPlayer.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Dale Morgan admitted the killing took place sometime between December and February\n\nA man who murdered his mother with a hammer and continued to live in her home with the body for two months, has been jailed for life.\n\nDale Morgan, 43, carried out the \"sustained and brutal\" attack on 68-year-old Judith Rhead in December 2020.\n\nHer decomposing body was partially clothed with a plastic bag tied over her head, Swansea Crown Court heard.\n\nMorgan, of Honeyborough Green, Neyland, will serve a minimum of 21-and-a-half years after pleading guilty to murder.\n\nThe former scout leader admitted the killing happened sometime between 10 December 2020 and 20 February 2021.\n\nJudge Paul Thomas QC described it as a \"savage and sustained attack against a defenceless woman, your mother\".\n\nThe court heard Morgan pretended to his mother's friends and neighbours that she was either isolating at home because of Covid-19, was ill or was in hospital.\n\nBut police went to her home on 20 February after being contacted by her concerned friends.\n\nJudith Rhead's body was found partially clothed with a plastic bag tied over her head\n\nPaul Lewis QC, prosecuting, said the evidence suggested Morgan killed his mother on a date between 11 and 18 December.\n\n\"It is plain the defendant bludgeoned his mother repeatedly with a hammer,\" he said.\n\n\"She was slumped in a kneeling position against the bed and her right hand and forearm were on the bed and she was partially clothed, and a plastic bag had been placed over her head and had been tied in place with an electrical cable.\n\n\"There was bloodstaining on the bed and at the foot of the bed officers found a hammer.\n\n\"It was clear to the officers that the body of Mrs Rhead had been there for some time and her body had started to decompose.\"\n\nA note written by Mrs Rhead said: \"Huge lies ie car, work had been furloughed, stealing money, stealing medication, drug addiction, opiates.\"\n\nMr Lewis said: \"It is clear from the note that prior to her death she had concerns about the defendant taking money from her.\"\n\nThe court heard Mrs Rhead had been struck on the head 14 times.\n\nMr Lewis said: \"Only the defendant knows why he killed his mother, and he has never ventured an account.\n\n\"Another possible theory is that his mother confronted him because he was stealing, and in order to prevent her from taking steps, he killed her. We simply do not know.\"\n\nJudith Rhead's body was found at a property on Market Street in February\n\nMorgan was arrested later that day and has been in custody since, pleading guilty to murder at a hearing on 31 August.\n\nSentencing, Judge Thomas told only-child Morgan his mother stuck up for him when he previously stole from her.\n\n\"She tried to help you with your problems,\" he said. \"She worried about your substance misuse, and she let you live with her despite the disruption and anxiety your presence in the house no doubt caused her.\n\n\"In short, you were pretty much her life. You repaid those 43 years of devotion by bludgeoning her to death with a hammer. Not once, not twice, but no fewer than 14 times to the head, intending to kill her.\n\n\"She was, on that day, when you had that hammer in your hand, entirely at your mercy.\n\n\"Although she probably begged you for it, you showed none. It was a savage, sustained attack on a defenceless, vulnerable woman - your own mother.\n\n\"Even after you had killed her, your callous attitude continued, and you tied a plastic bag around her head and left her lifeless body slumped in the bedroom.\n\n\"You did not even afford her the dignity of a timely burial. You just left her to decompose while others fretted about her whereabouts.\"\n\nSenior investigating officer, Det Supt Jayne Butler, said: \"Judith Rhead was the victim of an horrific attack.\n\n\"The fact that it was at the hands of her own son and in her own home only adds to the cruelty and horror of what she went through.\"\n\nA family statement said: \"We cannot come to terms with what has happened to Judith and we never will.\n\n\"Judith was a well-respected woman in her community and with a wide circle of friends.\n\n\"She was such a gentle person, who did not deserve to die in such a horrific way.\n\n\"This is something that will haunt our family for the rest of our lives.\"", "Sarah-Jane has sickle-cell disease, lives with constant pain and needs a blood transfusion every six weeks\n\nThe first new sickle-cell treatment in 20 years will help keep thousands of people out of hospital over the next three years, NHS England has said.\n\nSickle-cell disease is incurable and affects 15,000 people in the UK.\n\nAnd the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence said the hope of reducing health inequalities for black people, who are predominantly affected and often have poorer health outcomes due to a number of social factors, made the drug worth recommending.\n\nIt called it \"an innovative treatment\".\n\nThe drug, crizanlizumab, made by Novartis, is injected into a vein and can be taken on its own or alongside standard treatment and regular blood transfusions.\n\nAnd in a trial, patients taking the crizanlizumab had a sickle-cell crisis 1.6 times a year on average, compared with nearly three times a year normally.\n\nThese painful episodes, which can require hospital treatment and lead to other health complications, are caused by by sickle-shaped red blood cells blocking the small blood vessels .\n\nBut because the trial was small and lasted only a year, it remains unknown how long the benefits last for - and that makes it difficult to judge how cost-effective crizanlizumab is.\n\nNevertheless, NICE, which recommends treatments in England and Wales, is recommending its use for over-16s, albeit under a special arrangement rather than routinely, on the NHS.\n\nAnd additional data on the treatment will be collected through clinical trials.\n\nThe charity Sickle Cell Society said the new treatment brought \"new hope\" for people living with the world's most common genetic blood condition.\n\nNHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard said: \"The moment that a new drug comes that is approved to be used, our job is to make sure that we can do a deal to ensure it's affordable and get it out as quickly as possible.\"\n\nSarah-Jane has to rely on a whole range of medication to manage her sickle-cell disease, including very strong painkillers\n\nDiagnosed at birth, Sarah-Jane Nkrumah, 27, had her first crisis aged six months and has chronic pain in her joints.\n\n\"Every day is pain,\" she says.\n\n\"I don't remember the last time I had zero pain.\"\n\nSarah-Jane prefers to take breaks from taking painkillers - but some days cannot get out of bed.\n\n\"You just have to try and manage it,\" she says.\n\n\"It's all about having a lot of mental strength and support.\"\n\nAnd every six weeks, she has a blood transfusion to boost her energy levels.\n\n\"I feel weak and exhausted leading up to them and refreshed and stronger afterwards,\" she says.\n\n\"Thanks to donors, I get a chance to live another day.\"\n\nSarah-Jane had to give up her ambition to become a nursery teacher because it put her at risk of serious infection.\n\n\"Now, I have found my true purpose and love spreading awareness of sickle-cell disease,\" she says.\n\nMeindert Boysen, deputy chief executive and director of the Centre for Health Technology Evaluation, at NICE, said: \"Treatment for sickle-cell disease has been limited for years and there has been a lack of treatments for patients whose lives are affected by the condition.\n\n\"Crizanlizumab... has shown the potential to improve hundreds of lives and we are delighted to be able to recommend it as the first new treatment for sickle cell disease in two decades.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Will Renwick finished his month long journey at Conwy Castle on Monday\n\nA runner who climbed 189 mountains in a month said he felt \"incredible\" after he raised almost £10,000 for charity.\n\nWill Renwick completed his run at Conwy Castle on Monday, after clocking up at least 24 miles a day over a month.\n\nThe challenge he set himself was to run up every mountain peak over 2,000ft (600m) in Wales.\n\nHe said the 500 mile route was fuelled by instant mash, noodles and chocolate, and despite the lows, the money raised for charity made \"every mile worth it\".\n\nWill, from Llancarfan in the Vale of Glamorgan, initially set out to raise £2,000 for charity Mind Over Mountains, but has raised almost £10,000.\n\nThe 31-year-old said being outdoors had always helped him mentally and fundraising spurred him on and \"put miles in my tank\".\n\n\"The whole thing has been a challenge right to the bitter end,\" he said, adding the weather \"was not on my side.\"\n\n\"I told everyone I'd be at the castle and I rocked up two hours late.\n\n\"I'm worn out, all my injuries have flared up but I just can't believe I have finished.\n\n\"It hasn't sunk in and it only will when I'm sunk into a nice warm bath.\"\n\nThe YouTuber and editor of Outdoors Magic has been documenting his journey on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Will Renwick\n\nHis first challenge was as a long-distance walker, when he completed the 870-mile Wales Coast Path in 63 days.\n\nNow Will runs ultra-marathon distances and recently completed the 100-mile route around the Isle of Man.\n\nBut he said this challenge had been the toughest physically and mentally.\n\nRed sky over Maesglase mountain in Snowdonia - and a curious sheep\n\n\"One of the reasons I set out on this challenge was to have a huge adventure in my own country and see all the different sides of it,\" he said.\n\n\"Wales is really spectacular. I live in a wonderful country and I can't get enough of it. It's been amazing to explore.\"\n\nHe said the people he has met across Wales have helped spur him on with their acts of kindness as simple as a cup of tea.\n\nThe highlight, he said, was the moment after a long day when he had camped and \"just take in the surroundings and think, wow I am very lucky to be right here right now.\"\n\nWill Renwick takes a dip at Abergynolwyn, near Tywyn, Gwynedd\n\nHowever, he said the journey has been tough, especially after a spell of windy and wet weather.\n\n\"There have been a lot of lows but it is all worth it to stand here at the finish line to be cheered on by strangers and raised money for a charity for such amazing things.\n\n\"I can't believe how the money has just gone up and if it makes a difference to one person's life then every mile will be worth it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "PC David Carrick is currently suspended from duty\n\nA Metropolitan Police officer accused of raping a woman he met on Tinder has been remanded in custody.\n\nPC David Carrick, 46, of Stevenage, Hertfordshire, appeared before St Albans Magistrates' Court on Monday morning.\n\nThe court was told he \"emphatically denies\" attacking a woman after the pair went for drinks in St Albans.\n\nMr Carrick, who is currently suspended from duty, is due to appear at St Albans Crown Court on 1 November.\n\nHe was off-duty at the time of the alleged offence in September last year, police said.\n\nMr Carrick appeared at court via videolink from a police station in Stevenage, wearing a white collared shirt, and spoke only to confirm his identity.\n\nThe court heard he is alleged to have taken the woman back to a Premier Inn after visiting two pubs in St Albans.\n\nThe attack is alleged to have taken place the following morning.\n\nDefending Mr Carrick, Ryan Dowding said: \"He emphatically denies the allegations.\"\n\nHe was charged by Hertfordshire Constabulary on Sunday after his arrest on Saturday.\n\nScotland Yard said Mr Carrick was based within the Met's Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command.\n\nThis is the same unit where the murderer of Sarah Everard, Wayne Couzens, had worked.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said: \"I am deeply concerned to hear the news that an officer from the Met's Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command has been arrested and now charged with this serious offence.\n\n\"I fully recognise the public will be very concerned, too.\n\n\"Criminal proceedings must now take their course so I am unable to comment any further at this stage.\"\n\nThe Met said Mr Carrick had been suspended from duty and added that a referral had been made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nA spokesman for the IOPC confirmed a referral had been made to them over the weekend and it was being assessed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The chairman of supermarket chain Morrisons has insisted the supermarket will be able to deliver a \"good\" Christmas for customers despite supply chain issues.\n\nAndy Higginson said he was \"not worried\" about logistical issues with supermarkets supplying products.\n\nHe said the issues were \"well publicised\" and \"slightly overblown\".\n\nHis comments come just two days after US private equity firm CD&R won an auction to buy Morrisons.\n\nThe £7bn ($9.5bn) bid for the UK's fourth-largest supermarket chain from Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) just trumped an offer from rival suitor Fortress.\n\nThe takeover will mark a return to the UK grocery sector for Terry Leahy, the former chief executive of Tesco, who is a senior adviser to CD&R.\n\nThere has been speculation that Mr Leahy will become the new chairman of Morrisons, as Mr Higginson will stand down from his post once the deal with CD&R is completed.\n\nMorrisons owns a quarter of its suppliers, including fisheries and meat production operations, and Mr Higginson said that was one of the reasons the private equity firm had found the business attractive.\n\n\"Private equity gets a bit of a bad rap sometimes,\" Mr Higginson said.\n\nHe added that private equity is \"focused on growth and trying to grow businesses - it's the way they make returns... and that's very much the case here\".\n\nThe supermarket chain has arrangements with 2,700 British farmers, who deliver livestock and produce directly to its 17 food processing facilities, which supply 493 stores.\n\n\"Supply chains in the UK are incredibly efficient and I'm sure we'll be able to deliver a great Christmas for customers as we go through,\" Mr Higginson added.\n\n\"I think it'll be a good Christmas for people, I think they'll want to treat themselves\".\n\nRewind to the start of the summer, and the supermarket chain Morrisons is a stock market plodder, a company to be invested in for its healthy dividend rather than any hope of a big rise in the share price. It's a British supermarket, and we all know that the UK grocery market is fiercely competitive with big players that are well-entrenched and little hope of rapid growth.\n\nThat was the orthodoxy, and the events of the past four months have made it look a little silly. Then, Morrisons shares hovered around 180p. On Saturday, a private-equity-led consortium won an auction to buy the company at 287p a share. Those fund managers who dismissed Morrison's prospects and chose not to own the shares have missed out on a pound-a-share payday.\n\nWhat did the City miss? According to Andy Higginson, Morrison's outgoing chairman - like the company's other non-executive directors, he will leave when the deal is completed - the Square Mile's fund managers could not see the \"inherent strength\" of the chain, which owns many of its store freeholds, has its own food production assets, and a pension scheme in surplus.\n\nMr Higginson said Morrisons was not alone in having been undervalued, describing it as a \"sector problem\". That idea that supermarkets in general are neglected by the City raises the intriguing prospect that other chains may find themselves being wooed by private investor groups.\n\nLast month, the supermarket warned that it expected the UK's lorry driver shortage to push up prices this year. It said the lack of drivers, plus higher freight charges and commodity prices, could lead to higher prices.\n\nHowever, it also said it would seek to mitigate those and other potential cost increases, such as any incurred in maintaining good product availability.\n\nMorrisons was founded in Bradford in 1899 - where it still has its headquarters. The group has almost 500 shops and more than 110,000 staff.\n\nThe business was founded by William Morrison, and his son, the late Sir Ken Morrison, ran the business for 50 years.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak at the Conservative conference in Manchester\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has said there is no \"magic wand\" to make disruption to fuel and food supplies disappear overnight.\n\nHe told the BBC supply problems were global, and ministers were doing everything they can to mitigate them.\n\n\"Pragmatic controlled immigration\" could be part of the short-term solution, he said.\n\nHe was speaking ahead of addressing the Conservative party conference amid concerns over living standards.\n\nThe Chancellor's first in-person speech to Tory members comes against a backdrop of rising food and energy prices, alongside cuts to universal credit benefits and tax rises to fund the NHS and social care.\n\nSupply chain issues are continuing to affect several sectors, with the military due to begin driving fuel to petrol stations.\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Sunak said \"challenges\" to supply chains are not unique to the UK but were a problem across the world as a result of lockdowns and the rapid re-opening of economies.\n\nBut he said the government was doing \"everything we can to mitigate the bits of that that we can\".\n\n\"There are things that we can do and should do and it is reasonable that people expect us to do what we can,\" he said.\n\n\"Whether it's short-term visas, speeding up testing capacity for HGV drivers, of course we should do all those things and we are doing all those things, but we can't wave a magic wand and make global supply chain challenges disappear overnight.\"\n\nBut he said the problems \"we are seeing at the moment will be transitory and will pass through the system\".\n\nPM Boris Johnson also insisted supply problems were part of an international trend, telling reporters they were due to the global economy \"coming back to life\" after Covid shutdowns.\n\n\"There's a shortage of lorry drivers actually around the world,\" he added.\n\nThe prime minister tried on Sunday to present this as short-term pain as part of what he believes will be very significant long-term gains because of Brexit.\n\nNow, the prime minister and other ministers would not say, 'oh, suck it up, enjoy the fact that you have to queue for petrol'.\n\nBut they have, in the last few days, woven this narrative: to take some of the things that we see happening, acutely, whether in agriculture, whether in fuel supply - and to turn them into this story of short-term pain for a long-term gain.\n\nThat was not Rishi Sunak's language.\n\nHe talked rather soberly about global supply shortages, things that the government can mitigate, clearly he believes the government does have a role.\n\nBut he was very different in tone, which was something on the day of a big chancellor's speech at this conference, very well worth noting.\n\nIn his speech later, Mr Sunak will say the best protection against cost of living challenges is to give people the skills and opportunities to get better paid work.\n\nThe chancellor will commit £500m to renew job support programmes and promise to \"double down\" on help for the jobs market after Covid.\n\nHe will also promise to reshape the economy around technology and scientific innovation.\n\nAhead of his speech, Mr Sunak praised the UK's economic recovery but warned the \"job is not done yet\".\n\n\"At the start of this crisis I made a promise to do whatever it takes, and I'm ready to double down on that promise now as we come out of this crisis,\" he said.\n\nHe will also promise to make the UK the \"the most exciting place on the planet\" through better infrastructure and improved skills.\n\nActivists queued earlier for a space to watch Rishi Sunak's speech, the biggest of the conference so far\n\nHis speech will come on the second day of conference, and he will say the Kickstart Scheme - which subsidises eligible jobs for young people on universal credit - will be extended by three months to March 2022.\n\nThe scheme, launched in September last year, was allocated £2bn in funding to create 250,000 jobs by the end of 2021.\n\nHowever, only 76,900 have actually started Kickstart roles, according to latest figures, with 196,300 roles in total made available for youngsters to apply for.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses had been calling for the scheme to be extended, amid reports that firms had encountered delays and found the scheme slow.\n\nMr Sunak will also announce the extension of the JETS scheme to help long-term unemployed people on universal credit until September 2022.\n\nA separate scheme paying employers £3,000 per apprentice they take on will also be prolonged by four months until the end of January.\n\nAnd the government is promising more help finding work for those coming off the furlough scheme, which closed last week, having paid the wages of 11.6 million workers during the pandemic.\n\nThe various extensions will be paid for with £500m of funding, with the Treasury saying that details will be confirmed at the Spending Review on 27 October.\n\nLabour's shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Reynolds said the government's plan to support jobs was \"struggling\" and had \"failed to hit its original targets\".\n\n\"An extended deadline will do nothing to compensate for the chancellor's tax rises, cost of living crisis and cuts to universal credit,\" he added.", "Dame Cressida Dick has faced calls to resign after the murder of Sarah Everard\n\nThe home secretary will be watching the Metropolitan Police chief \"very closely\" over the vetting of officers in light of Sarah Everard's murder, Solicitor General Alex Chalk has said.\n\nMs Everard was killed by Wayne Couzens - a serving police officer - in March, leading to questions for the force over its failure to stop him.\n\nA number of politicians have called for Commissioner Cressida Dick to resign.\n\nMr Chalk warned Ms Patel would be keeping a close eye on the situation.\n\nCouzens was jailed for a full-life term on Thursday after details emerged of the brutal attack.\n\nHe abducted the 33-year-old as she walked home from a friend's house under the guise of an arrest, before raping and killing her.\n\nDame Cressida said she recognised that a \"precious bond of trust\" had been damaged by Couzens, who had \"brought shame on the Met\".\n\nBut she soon faced calls to resign, with Labour MP Harriet Harman saying women's confidence in the police \"will have been shattered\" by the case.\n\nMs Patel said she would \"continue to work with\" Dame Cressida, and continue to hold her and the Met to account \"as everybody would expect me to do\".\n\nSpeaking at a Conservative Young Women's event at the party's conference, Mr Chalk told the BBC that the police commissioner needed to look at the vetting issue that allowed Couzens to \"slip through the net\".\n\nHe said a lot of people would be concerned by the case, and \"want to be absolutely satisfied that things are about to improve\".\n\nBut he also issued a warning to Ms Dick that she may not keep the confidence of the home secretary if the issue was not sorted out.\n\n\"[Priti Patel] says she has confidence in her, but I suspect the home secretary will be watching very closely to see that the vetting issue is properly investigated and scrutinised,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the Speaker of the House of Commons has asked for an urgent meeting with the Met after it was confirmed Couzens was on duty five times at Parliament last year.\n\nSir Lindsay Hoyle said it was \"extremely concerning\" and also raised questions about police vetting policy.\n\nThe Met confirmed Couzens was on armed protection duties at Parliament between February and July 2020.", "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)", "For the past 18 months the government has been subsidising the wages of employees hit by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe furlough scheme was the centrepiece of Chancellor Rishi Sunak's \"unprecedented\" intervention in the economy, designed to stave off a wave of job losses as the country closed down in the face of the virus.\n\nIt protected the incomes of millions of people across the UK working sectors that could no longer operate, such as live music, nightclubs, the travel industry, business events, hospitality and retail businesses.\n\nNow that scheme is ending, requiring firms to shoulder full responsibility for those employees again or let them go.\n\nDuring the lifetime of the scheme about 11.6 million jobs were supported, with a steep take-up in the first few months especially.\n\nThat doesn't mean the government was ever paying 11 million people's wages at the same time.\n\nAccording to data from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), the number of people on furlough peaked at 8.9 million on 8 May last year. It then fell steadily until late 2020, when it picked up again, without ever hitting the heights of the first lockdown.\n\nSince then, numbers have continued to fall, although around 1.6 million were still relying on the scheme at the end of July, the last date for which figures are available from HMRC.\n\n\"To all those at home right now, anxious about the days ahead, I say this: you will not face this alone,\" the chancellor said, announcing the furlough scheme in March 2020.\n\nAlthough he has since become one of the country's best-known politicians, Mr Sunak was fairly new in his post at the time, and he had just kicked off his chancellorship with a Budget that included a jawdropping a £30bn package to boost the economy and get the country through the virus outbreak.\n\nBut it turned out to be nowhere near enough. The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, to give furlough its official title, along with other support measures, would end up incurring a far bigger bill, requiring the government to borrow much more than it would in normal times, month after month.\n\nUnder the scheme, the government initially paid 80% of the wages of people who could not work, or whose employers could no longer afford to pay them, up to a monthly limit of £2,500.\n\nBut by the end of the scheme the government was contributing only 60%, with employers shouldering a 20% share themselves\n\nOverall it cost the government nearly £70bn, but has been praised by the Resolution Foundation think-tank as a \"great success\", protecting people's living standards and preventing what many feared would be a catastrophic rise in unemployment.\n\nWhile workers were furloughed in every age group it was younger workers who accounted for a large proportion of those on furlough.\n\nYounger people were more likely to be employed in the sectors of the economy worst hit by the coronavirus lockdown measures including hospitality and retail.\n\nSince March 2020, more women than men have been furloughed although according to the latest figures more men remained on furlough towards the end of the scheme.\n\nSome sectors of the economy made more use of the furlough scheme than others.\n\nWith pubs and restaurants particularly badly affected by coronavirus curbs, the hospitality industry saw a high number of workers furloughed.\n\nAnd non-essential shops were closed at the height of the lockdown, so retailers made big claims on the government's resources. However, some large employers in that sector, notably supermarkets - who remained open during lockdowns, have since repaid the cash.\n\nPeople working in the arts, entertainment and other leisure activities were also more likely to find themselves on furlough than those in other walks of life.\n\nThe scheme was designed to keep people connected to jobs that would return after the pandemic peak passed.\n\nHowever over the last 18 months some of those on furlough have been made redundant, especially during the period late last year when it looked as though the furlough scheme was coming to an end.\n\nIn recent months, as the economy reopened and continued to grow, the number of redundancies has fallen.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation has described the furlough scheme overall as \"a very successful and well-implemented policy intervention\".\n\nBut its recent research suggested there remained a \"real risk\" to the jobs of those still on the scheme as it ends, particularly for those in parts of the travel sector, which still hasn't returned to normal operation, and for older workers.\n\nAnd doubts have been voiced in other quarters over some aspects of the scheme.\n\nIt has drawn fire from the Commons Public Accounts Committee, which wants all firms benefiting from the scheme to be named publicly in the interests of transparency.\n\nThe committee has spoken dismissively of \"hastily drawn up economic support schemes\" that provided \"unacceptable room for fraud against taxpayers\".\n\nHMRC, which administered the furlough scheme, has suggested that up to 10% of the money delivered by the scheme to mid-August 2020 - £3.5bn - may have been paid out in fraud or error.\n\nApart from that, there is the question of whether it has delayed the process of people making the shift from jobs that are no longer viable to take up new opportunities.\n\nThe number of vacancies fell sharply during the early stages of the pandemic, but job vacancies are now considerably up on last year with staff shortages affecting several sectors.\n\nSome have blamed furlough for keeping workers out of action during the last few months, waiting to see if their old jobs will still be there for them, when some firms have been desperately trying to recruit new workers.\n\nAre you coming to the end of your furlough? 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.", "Courts will get new powers to stop disruptive activists attending protests, the home secretary has said.\n\nIn a Tory conference speech, Priti Patel said new orders would stop the \"small minority of offenders\" intent on \"causing disruption\".\n\nA Tory source said they will target people with a \"history of disruption\", or those likely to commit crime.\n\nClimate activists blocking roads have previously been warned they could face fines and up to six months in prison.\n\nProtests from Insulate Britain have continued in recent days, despite three court injunctions banning activists blocking the M25, and other major roads in London.\n\nOn Tuesday the High Court heard that more than 100 protesters associated with the group have now been served with injunctions.\n\nThe group has apologised for disruption - but added that \"the reality of our situation\" on climate change has to be faced.\n\nIn her conference speech in Manchester, Ms Patel unveiled plans to increase the maximum sentence for disruption of a motorway.\n\nShe also announced a new criminal offence for interfering with critical national infrastructures such as roads, railways and newspaper printing presses.\n\nPolice are also expected to be given wider stop and search powers allowing officers to inspect activists for \"lock on\" equipment used to prevent them from being moved.\n\nThe new measures to be announced by Ms Patel are to be included in the Police, Crime, Courts and Sentencing Bill currently going through Parliament.\n\nMs Patel said the actions of climate activists, who in recent weeks have blocked the M1, M4 and M25, \"amounted to some of the most self-defeating environmental protests this country has ever seen.\"\n\n\"Freedom to protest is a fundamental right our party will forever fight to uphold. But it must be within the law,\" she added.\n\nThe campaign by Insulate Britain has been running for over three weeks and has led to hundreds of arrests.\n\nThe group wants the government to insulate all UK homes by 2030 to help cut carbon emissions.\n\nOn Tuesday, the High Court heard that 111 activists associated with the group had been served with injunctions.\n\nA hearing on the injunctions has been adjourned to next week, after government lawyers argued all three should be dealt with together.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, an Insulate Britain spokesman said the group \"wishes to profoundly apologise for the disruption caused over the past three weeks.\"\n\nHe added: \"We cannot imagine undertaking such acts in normal circumstances. But we believe that the reality of our situation has to be faced.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson described Insulate Britain activists as \"irresponsible crusties\".\n\nHe told LBC: \"There are some people who call those individuals legitimate protesters.\"\n\nHe added: \"They are not. I think they are irresponsible crusties who are basically trying to stop people going about their day's work and doing considerable damage to the economy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Motorist: \"I need to go to the hospital, please let me pass. This isn't OK... how can you be so selfish?\"\n\nOn Monday, Insulate Britain activists were confronted by angry drivers as they blocked more London roads, including the entrance to the Blackwall Tunnel, Wandsworth Bridge, Arnos Grove and the Hanger Lane gyratory.\n\nIn a video captured by LBC, a motorist told demonstrators she was desperate to see her 81-year-old mother in hospital, asking them: \"How can you be so selfish?\"\n\nIn other footage shared by Talk Radio, angry motorists at Wandsworth Bridge were filmed dragging protesters out of the road, where an ambulance appeared to be blocked.\n\nBut in an open letter to Ms Patel, Insulate Britain said: \"You can throw as many injunctions at us as you like, but we are going nowhere.\"\n\nOne activist told BBC News: \"We have tried lobbying, we have tried targeting political leaders, government departments, people have been doing this for two, three, four, five decades, without any success at all.\n\n\"We know through history that disruptive direct actions work. The government are forcing our hand because they are not taking the biggest threat to humanity seriously.\"\n\nMembers of Insulate Britain held banners outside the Royal Courts of Justice earlier\n\nMeanwhile, Dominic Raab used his first speech as the new justice secretary to promise £183m with the aim of doubling the number of offenders in England and Wales on electronic tags by 2025.\n\nHe told delegates this included an expansion in the \"game-changing\" use of alcohol-monitoring ankle tags on offenders, to see if they breach court-ordered drinking bans.\n\nMr Raab, who was also made deputy prime minister in last month's cabinet reshuffle, also pledged £90m to pay for more hours of community payback by offenders.\n\nReferencing the \"harrowing\" murder of Sarah Everard, he also vowed to make tackling violence against women and girls his \"number one priority\".\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? Share your stories and video 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 secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires has been exposed in one of the biggest leaks of financial documents.\n\nSome 35 current and former leaders and more than 300 public officials are featured in the files from offshore companies, dubbed the Pandora Papers.\n\nThey reveal the King of Jordan secretly amassed £70m of UK and US property.\n\nThey also show how ex-UK PM Tony Blair and his wife saved £312,000 in stamp duty when they bought a London office.\n\nThe couple bought an offshore firm that owned the building.\n\nThe leak also links Russian President Vladimir Putin to secret assets in Monaco, and shows the Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis - facing an election later this week - failed to declare an offshore investment company used to purchase two villas for £12m in the south of France.\n\nIt is the latest in a string of leaks over the past seven years, following the FinCen Files, the Paradise Papers, the Panama Papers and LuxLeaks.\n\nThe examination of the files is the largest organised by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), with more than 650 reporters taking part.\n\nBBC Panorama in a joint investigation with the Guardian and the other media partners have had access to nearly 12 million documents and files from 14 financial services companies in countries including the British Virgin Islands, Panama, Belize, Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Switzerland.\n\nSome figures are facing allegations of corruption, money laundering and global tax avoidance.\n\nBut one of the biggest revelations is how prominent and wealthy people have been legally setting up companies to secretly buy property in the UK.\n\nThe documents reveal the owners of some of the 95,000 offshore firms behind the purchases.\n\nIt highlights the UK government's failure to introduce a register of offshore property owners despite repeated promises to do so, amid concerns some property buyers could be hiding money-laundering activities.\n\nThe Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his family, who have been accused of looting their own country, are one example.\n\nThe investigation found the Aliyevs and their close associates have secretly been involved in property deals in the UK worth more than £400m.\n\nTap to see the UK offshore property empires of foreign heads of state The King of Jordan has luxury homes in Malibu and Washington DC, plus eight properties in London and south-east England In Malibu, California, he spent on three clifftop mansions The king’s property portfolio also includes apartments in Washington DC, where his son attended university And in the UK, King Abdullah’s properties include these two near Buckingham Palace. He owns the building on the left and three flats in the building on the right Azerbaijan’s ruling Aliyev family, , have built a vast offshore network to hide their money The files expose how the Aliyev family and close associates were involved in property deals in the UK This includes a £33m property in central London bought for the president’s 11-year-old son They also sold a property for £66m in 2018, having paid £35m for it 10 years earlier\n\nThe revelations could prove embarrassing for the UK government, as the Aliyevs appear to have made a £31m profit after selling one of their London properties to the Crown Estate - the Queen's property empire that is managed by The Treasury and raises cash for the nation.\n\nMany of the transactions in the documents involve no legal wrongdoing.\n\nBut Fergus Shiel, from the ICIJ, said: \"There's never been anything on this scale and it shows the reality of what offshore companies can offer to help people hide dodgy cash or avoid tax.\"\n\nHe added: \"They are using those offshore accounts, those offshore trusts, to buy hundreds of millions of dollars of property in other countries, and to enrich their own families, at the expense of their citizens.\"\n\nThe ICIJ believes the investigation is \"opening a box on a lot of things\" - hence the name Pandora Papers.\n\nThe leaked financial documents show how the King of Jordan secretly amassed a property empire in the UK and US worth more than £70m (over $100m).\n\nThey identify a network of offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands and other tax havens used by Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein to buy 15 homes since he assumed power in 1999.\n\nThey include £50m on three adjacent ocean view properties in Malibu, California, and properties in London and Ascot in the UK.\n\nHis property interests have been built up as King Abdullah has been accused of presiding over an authoritarian regime, with protests taking place in recent years amid austerity measures and tax rises.\n\nLawyers for King Abdullah said all the properties were bought with personal wealth, which he also uses to fund projects for Jordan's citizens.\n\nThey said it was common practice for high profile individuals to purchase properties via offshore companies for privacy and security reasons.\n\nAmong the other revelations in the Pandora Papers:\n\nThere is no suggestion in the Pandora Papers that Tony and Cherie Blair were hiding their wealth.\n\nBut documents show why stamp duty was not payable when the couple bought a £6.45m property.\n\nThe former Labour prime minister and his barrister wife Cherie acquired the building in Marylebone, central London, in July 2017 by buying the offshore company that owned it.\n\nIt is legal to acquire properties in the UK in this way and stamp duty does not have to be paid - but Mr Blair has previously been critical of tax loopholes.\n\nThe townhouse in Marylebone, central London, is now home to Mrs Blair's legal consultancy, which advises governments around the world, as well as her foundation for women.\n\nMrs Blair said the sellers had insisted they buy the house through the offshore company.\n\nShe said they had brought the property back under UK rules and will be liable to pay capital gains tax if they sell it in future.\n\nThe ultimate owners of the property were a family with political connections in Bahrain - but both parties say they did not initially know who they were dealing with.\n\nThis Mayfair building was sold to a front company in 2009\n\nOther documents show how Azerbaijan's ruling Aliyev family have secretly acquired UK property using offshore companies.\n\nThe files show how the family - long accused of corruption in the European nation - bought 17 properties, including a £33m office block in London for the president's 11-year-old son Heydar Aliyev.\n\nThe building in Mayfair was bought by a front company owned by a family friend of President Ilham Aliyev in 2009.\n\nIt was transferred one month later to Heydar.\n\nThe research also reveals how another office block owned by the family nearby was sold to the Crown Estate for £66m in 2018.\n\nThe Crown Estate said it carried out the checks required in law at the time of purchase but is now looking into the matter.\n\nThe UK government says it is cracking down on money laundering with tougher laws and enforcement, and that it will introduce a register of offshore companies owning UK property when parliamentary time allows.\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. More 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 man lost his finger while trying to climb a fence near a parking area in Lower Bannister Street, Southampton\n\nPolice have traced the owner of a severed finger found outside a block of flats.\n\nThe finger was discovered near a parking area in Lower Bannister Street, Southampton, on Saturday morning.\n\nPolice had appealed for the man to come forward after he lost the finger while trying to climb a fence after getting trapped in a courtyard area.\n\nHampshire Constabulary said the man was receiving treatment at hospital in Salisbury after seeking assistance.\n\nA force spokesman said he had wandered off following the incident, after being given a towel by a resident.\n\nEarlier the force said it feared he may have lost a lot of blood.\n\nBut the spokesman said: \"We are pleased to say that the man who lost part of his finger in Southampton has now been traced.\n\n\"The 28-year-old is receiving treatment at hospital in Salisbury for his injury after seeking medical assistance himself.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Canadian actor famously played Captain James T Kirk of the USS Enterprise\n\nThe actor who played Captain Kirk in the Star Trek series is set to embark on a real-life journey into space.\n\nUS tech billionaire Jeff Bezos's space travel company Blue Origin confirmed that William Shatner would be blasting off from Texas on 12 October.\n\nAged 90, the actor will become the oldest person to have flown into space.\n\n\"I've heard about space for a long time now. I'm taking the opportunity to see it for myself. What a miracle,\" Shatner said in a statement.\n\nShatner will be joining three other people aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket for the company's second human spaceflight.\n\nAmazon founder Jeff Bezos joined the first crewed flight in July, along with his brother, an 82-year-old pioneer of the space race and an 18-year-old student.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment Jeff Bezos and crew launch into space on the first human flight of New Shepard\n\nAs with the previous flight, the October voyage is expected to last about 10 minutes and will take the crew just beyond the Karman Line - the most widely recognised boundary of space which lies 100km (60 miles) above the Earth.\n\nBlue Origin said its vice president of mission and flight operations, Audrey Powers, would also be on board the flight, as well as a former Nasa engineer and the co-founder of a software company specialising in clinical research.\n\nA Canadian actor, Shatner famously played Captain James T Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the original Star Trek TV series in the 1960s, and later appeared in films of the franchise.\n\nReports in 2013 said he had turned down Sir Richard Branson's offer to fly him into space with Virgin Galactic - the billionaire's space travel company which took Sir Richard to the edge of space in July.\n\nSir Richard told The Sun newspaper at the time it was because Shatner has a fear of flying. But in 2011 the actor said he had turned down the offer because the billionaire allegedly wanted him to pay for the journey.\n\n\"He wanted me to go up and pay for it and I said: 'Hey, you pay me and I'll go up. I'll risk my life for a large sum of money.' But he didn't pick me up on my offer,\" Shatner told reporters.\n\nThe Star Trek star will not however be the first original cast member to leave the planet.\n\nLast year The Times revealed that the ashes of James Doohan, who played Montgomery \"Scotty\" Scott, were smuggled on board the International Space Station in 2008, three years after Doohan's death.\n\nNew Shepard, built by Bezos' company Blue Origin, is designed to serve the burgeoning market for space tourism.\n\nDubbed \"NewSpace\", an increasing number of entrepreneurs are joining in the race to create cheap, commercialised space travel.\n\nBezos's Blue Origin hit headlines in recent days after 21 current and former employees claimed it had ignored safety concerns to gain an advantage in the space race, and complained of a culture of sexism.\n\nBlue Origin rejected the charges and said it stands by its safety record.", "New simplified travel rules have come into force in the UK, with the traffic light system replaced by a single red list.\n\nMost fully vaccinated travellers arriving from non-red list countries will no longer have to take a test before setting off for the UK.\n\nAirlines UK said it would make travelling abroad easier and cheaper.\n\nBut those coming from red list destinations must still pay to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days.\n\nUnder the changes, which came into force at 04:00 BST, the green and amber lists have been scrapped.\n\nTesting rules are also being eased for people travelling from non-red list destinations who have been vaccinated in the UK, the EU, the US, or any of 18 other recognised countries.\n\nAnyone under 18 who is resident in those countries can also travel to the UK without testing.\n\nThese groups were already able to avoid self-isolating on their arrival back in the UK.\n\nAll travellers - except children under five years old - will still have to pay for a PCR test two days after arrival.\n\nPeople who are not fully vaccinated will need a pre-departure test and a PCR test on days two and eight after they return, and must self-isolate for 10 days at home.\n\nAnd those arriving from red list countries, including Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines and South Africa, must quarantine for 10 days in a government-approved hotel, at a cost of £2,285 for one adult. Only UK or Irish nationals, or UK residents, are allowed to enter the UK if they have been in a red country in the previous 10 days.\n\nThe red list is due to be updated later this week.\n\nThe government may also announce additions to the list of countries whose vaccination certificates are recognised by the UK.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"We are accelerating towards a future where travel continues to reopen safely and remains open for good, and today's rule changes are good news for families, businesses and the travel sector.\n\n\"Our priority remains to protect public health but, with more than eight in 10 people now fully vaccinated, we are able to take these steps to lower the cost of testing and help the sector to continue in its recovery.\"\n\nThere was a surge in holiday bookings after the government announced the changes last month and the travel sector has welcomed the move.\n\nThe industry previously criticised the government for being too slow to ease and simplify rules on testing and quarantine.\n\nFrom later in October, the government has said fully vaccinated people coming to England will no longer have to take a PCR test two days after arrival and can take a cheaper lateral flow test instead.\n\nNo date has been set for this change but ministers are aiming to have it in place for the half-term school break.\n\nSo far, no other UK nation has followed suit.\n\nScotland has said it will \"align with the UK post-arrival testing regime\" but has not announced further details. The Welsh government said it had \"concerns\" about easing its testing regime.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, which represents UK carriers, said: \"Things are moving in the right direction and the removal of these restrictions will make it easier and cheaper for people to travel.\"\n\nHowever, he said the UK remained \"an outlier on arrivals testing for vaccinated passengers\".\n\nAirlines UK hopes to see more countries removed from the red list at the next update and further mutual recognition of vaccine status for those jabbed in other countries, he added.\n\nWillie Walsh, head of industry body the International Air Transport Association, welcomed the change as a \"positive step\", saying the government's testing and quarantine restrictions had been both unscientific and costly.\n\n\"People have been led to believe that the risk is people flying into the country. The risk was inside the country,\" he said.\n\nAlan French, chief executive at Thomas Cook, said more options would now be available for travellers.\n\n\"They will be more confident if they book the holiday, they can travel safely there and be able to return in a transparent way, which is something they've not been able to do,\" he said.\n\nMr French said since the government announced the changes, three weeks ago, his company had seen bookings more than double.\n\nThe UK recorded 30,439 cases on Sunday, with the total number of cases in the past seven days up one per cent on the previous week.\n\nHowever, the number of Covid deaths and hospital admissions are falling, with 43 deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported on Sunday.\n\nHow will the new system affect you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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.", "Children aged between 12 and 15 will be offered vaccination by the end of term, Eluned Morgan says\n\nAll 12 to 15-year-olds in Wales will be offered a Covid vaccine by the end of the October half-term, the Welsh health minister has said.\n\nThe rollout is due to gather pace this week with all health boards providing jabs, mostly at mass vaccination centres and others in schools.\n\nSome of the most vulnerable children have already received the vaccine.\n\nFamilies have been encouraged to discuss the choice to help make an informed decision.\n\nLast month the UK's vaccine advisory body JCVI refused to give the green light to vaccinating healthy 12-15 year olds on health grounds alone.\n\nIt said children were at such a low risk from the virus that jabs would offer only a marginal benefit.\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers then said healthy children aged 12 to 15 should be offered one dose of a Covid vaccine as it would help reduce disruption to education.\n\nHealth Minister Eluned Morgan said studies showed children were at some risk of developing long Covid despite low hospital admission rates.\n\n\"Vaccines remain our strongest defence from the virus, helping prevent harm and stopping the spread of Covid-19,\" she said.\n\n\"Some studies show one in seven children who have been infected with the virus are thought to have also developed long Covid.\n\n\"We have provided resources and information to help this age group make an informed choice about vaccination. I encourage parents, guardians, children and young people to discuss the vaccination together,\" she said.\n\nGill Richardson, deputy chief medical officer for vaccines, said: \"We have seen the benefits that come from having as many people as possible vaccinated.\n\n\"After careful consideration of the evidence, the four UK chief medical officers recommended the vaccination of healthy 12 to 15-year-olds after consultation with experts, such as the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.\n\n\"They concluded that the health benefits, combined with the additional benefits of reducing educational disruption and effects on mental health meant that vaccination should be offered.\n\n\"Children and their families will be receiving links to information with their invitation letters so they can make an informed decision about whether or not to have the vaccine,\" she said.\n\nLast month the chief medical officers agreed a single dose would help to reduce disruption to education.\n\nThe recommendation that only one dose be given is related to the very rare risk of a condition called myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle.\n\nThe risk is tiny after one vaccine dose and slightly higher after two, with 12 to 34 cases seen for every one million second doses.\n\nTheir decision came after the UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said there was not enough benefit to warrant it on health grounds alone for most children.\n\nEithne Hughes, director of the Association for School and College Leaders Cymru, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers schools were already being targeted.\n\n\"There have been anti-vax campaigners, who are very, very well coordinated, who have made direct threats to head teachers by phone, by letter - confettis of letter with quasi-legal challenges threatening court action and huge fines, fake NHS consent letters to try and trick schools into sending those out to parents with misinformation.\"\n\nShe said it had caused a \"real upset in the system\".\n\n\"Let's be really clear about this, the virus is the enemy, not Public Health Wales, not the school, and college leaders are doing their very best to educate learners and get everything back on track again,\" she said.\n\n\"So it's deeply disappointing and if these people are listening, I would urge them to desist.\"\n\nTrefor Jones, head teacher at Ysgol Y Creuddyn in Penrhyn Bay, Conwy, said he had received letters from people opposed to children having a Covid vaccine.\n\nHe said: \"It is concerning... It does reference various legal processes they want to take, so yes, it is a challenge...\n\n\"To be targeted in this way is a little disappointing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Iain Duncan Smith said he was attacked while walking to a meeting outside the Conservative Party's conference\n\nA former leader of the Conservatives has told the BBC he is fine after he was attacked during party conference.\n\nSir Iain Duncan Smith said he was walking to a meeting in Manchester city centre when a group of people called him \"Tory scum\" and tried to hit him with a traffic cone.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said officers were on the scene \"within minutes\" and five people had been arrested.\n\nSir Iain said he was \"big enough and old enough\" to just \"carry on\".\n\nThe incident took place on Portland Street around 16:00 BST, according to the force.\n\nThe MP said he had left the main conference venue to attend a fringe event when he was recognised by a group of people.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"They then decided to follow me and started shouting abuse, such as 'Tory scum' and any other reason they could think of.\n\n\"I carried on walking and when I was getting close to the place [where I had a meeting] someone came up with one of those rather heavy traffic cones and tried to smack me with it in the back of the head.\"\n\nSir Iain said he managed to get hold of the cone and, for a moment, the group moved away.\n\n\"But then they carried on with the expletives,\" he added.\n\n\"I then went into a meeting so I didn't see what happened next but I understand a police officer had been following them, and I gave a statement later.\"\n\nThe police confirmed the incident, adding: \"Following a short foot pursuit three men and two women have been arrested in connection with it, and remain in custody for questioning.\n\nAnd Sir Iain said he was \"fine\", adding: \"I am big enough and old enough to know when something like this happens, you just carry on.\"", "Thousands were evacuated from coastal areas in Oman\n\nAt least 13 people have been killed after tropical cyclone Shaheen battered parts of Oman and Iran.\n\nThere was widespread flooding along Oman's northern coast as the storm made landfall on Sunday, bringing heavy rain and winds of up to 150km/h (93 mph).\n\nOmani authorities reported the deaths of seven people in North al-Batinah province on Monday. Four others drowned or were killed in landslides on Sunday.\n\nIn Iran, state media said the bodies of two fishermen had been found.\n\nThree other fishermen remain missing off the coast of the south-eastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, near the border with Pakistan. Iran's deputy parliamentary speaker initially said that six people were killed.\n\nInfrastructure, including electrical facilities and roads, was also damaged.\n\nParts of the United Arab Emirates were placed on standby as the storm moved south-westwards over land on Monday and weakened. Residents of al-Ain were told to avoid leaving home except for emergencies.\n\nAt least 11 people were killed in Oman, as a result of flooding and landslides\n\nIt is rare for storms of this power to hit Oman's northern Arabian Sea coast.\n\nAuthorities said 369mm (14.5 inches) of rain fell on al-Khaboura, north-west of Oman's capital city, Muscat, while more than 200mm was recorded in Muscat itself.\n\nShaheen's high winds also caused waves of up to 10m (32ft) along the coast.\n\nBefore the cyclone made landfall on Sunday, the National Committee for Emergency Management (NCEM) reported that a child who had been swept away by water in Muscat province had been found dead.\n\nTwo Asian workers were also killed by a landslide in an industrial zone.\n\nOn Monday, the NCEM announced that the body of a missing person had been found in Wadi al-Silil, in South al-Batinah province, and that six others had died in North al-Batinah.\n\nStreets in Oman's capital, Muscat, and elsewhere on the coast were submerged\n\nOman's state news agency reported the armed forces were continuing to rescue people who had been trapped by floodwater.\n\nIt added that they were also restoring damaged roads to get aid into the areas that needed it.\n\nMore than 5,000 people were moved into some 80 shelters set up in affected provinces.\n\nThe National Multi Hazard Early Warning System had alerted residents that there was still a risk of thunderstorms as the bad weather moved inland. People were urged to avoid wadis - valleys and ravines found in the region - and other low-lying areas.", "Boris Johnson has led tributes to the former head of the Royal Marines, who died on Saturday at the age of 54.\n\nMajor General Matthew Holmes, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was Commandant General Royal Marines from 2019 until April this year.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation into the circumstances of his death.\n\nThe defence secretary said Maj Gen Holmes \"embodied the spirit of our armed forces\".\n\nHe had been awarded a CBE in 2019 and was a pallbearer at the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral at Windsor Castle in April.\n\nMr Johnson tweeted: \"I am very saddened to learn of the death of Major General Matt Holmes. My thoughts are with Matt's family and friends at this difficult time, as well as the Royal Marines and Royal Navy who I know will feel this loss keenly.\"\n\nGen Holmes, who lived in Hampshire, commanded 42 Commando Royal Marines from 2006 to 2008. He was appointed as a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order for his leadership on operations in Afghanistan in 2007, receiving the honour from the Queen at Buckingham Palace.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said: \"Across defence, we mourn the tragic loss of one of our own. Major General Matt Holmes embodied the spirit of our armed forces, serving with distinction and rigour for over 30 years.\n\n\"I shall always be grateful for Matt's assistance in leading the Marines through the reforms of the Future Commando Force.\n\n\"My sincerest condolences lie with Matt's family and those closest to him.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said he had a distinguished career, which also included operational tours in Northern Ireland and Kosovo.\n\nFirst Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, said he was a \"devoted former Commandant General who had served the nation, the Royal Navy and his beloved Corps with distinction\".\n\n\"Matt was also a dear friend to many, and a close friend of mine for over 20 years,\" he said, offering his \"deepest sympathy\" to his family. \"Their loss is the greatest and most painful: we will be there for them now and always.\"\n\nCommandant General Royal Marines Lieutenant General Rob Magowan said of his predecessor: \"We are one family, together, just as we learned, and as we trained, alongside each other at the Commando Training Centre. Once a marine, always a marine.\"", "Emily Ratajkowski appeared alongside Robin Thicke in the music video for Blurred Lines\n\nAmerican supermodel Emily Ratajkowski has alleged she was sexually assaulted on the set of the music video for the hit song Blurred Lines.\n\nIn her upcoming book, the 30-year-old accuses singer Robin Thicke of groping her without consent during filming of the 2013 video.\n\nThicke, 44, has not yet responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThe allegations, first reported in the Sunday Times newspaper, feature in Ratajkowski's forthcoming book My Body.\n\nThe 30-year-old claims Thicke \"returned to the set a little drunk to shoot just with me\".\n\n\"Out of nowhere, I felt the coolness and foreignness of a stranger's hands cupping my bare breasts from behind. I instinctively moved away, looking back at Robin Thicke,\" she writes.\n\nThe model said she felt \"humiliation pump through [her] body\".\n\nRatajkowski appeared in the video alongside Thicke, singer Pharrell Williams and rapper TI.\n\nThe video's director, Diane Martel, told the Sunday Times that she recalled the alleged incident.\n\n\"I remember the moment that he grabbed her breasts. He was standing behind her as they were both in profile,\" she was quoted as saying.\n\nThe director said Thicke later apologised.\n\nRobin Thicke has not responded to the allegations made in the forthcoming book\n\nBlurred Lines topped charts around the world, becoming the UK's most-downloaded song of all time in 2014.\n\nBut its lyrics and music video have been criticised by some who claimed they referred to non-consensual sex. Pharrell later admitted he was \"embarrassed\" by the lyrics.\n\nThicke has defended the video, telling the BBC in 2013 his critics didn't \"get\" the song.\n\nAnd in 2015, he told the New York Times that the lyrics were not intended to have sexual connotations. \"I have never and would never write a song with any negative connotation like that,\" he said.", "Thousands of paedophiles have operated within the French Catholic Church since 1950, the head of a panel investigating abuses by church members says.\n\nJean-Marc Sauvé told French media that the commission had found evidence of 2,900 to 3,200 abusers - out of a total of 115,000 priests and other clerics.\n\n\"That is a minimal estimate,\" he added.\n\nThe commission is to release a lengthy report on Tuesday. It is based on church, court and police archives, as well as interviews with victims.\n\nThe inquiry was commissioned by the French Catholic Church in 2018, following a number of scandals in other countries.\n\nMr Sauvé, a senior civil servant, told France's Le Monde newspaper that the panel had handed over evidence to prosecutors in 22 cases where criminal action could still be launched.\n\nHe added that bishops and other senior church officials had been told of other allegations against people who were still alive.\n\nCommission members included doctors, historians, sociologists and theologians. More than 6,500 victims and witnesses were contacted over two and a half years. The final report is 2,500 pages long.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigitte, a survivor of child sex abuse by a chaplain, explains why she is ready to speak now (From 2019)\n\nChristopher Lamb, of the Roman Catholic publication The Tablet, told the BBC that abuse scandals had plunged the Church into \"its greatest crisis in... 500 years\".\n\nEarlier this year Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church's laws to explicitly criminalise sexual abuse, in its biggest overhaul of the criminal code for decades.\n\nThe new rules make sex abuse, grooming minors, possessing child pornography and covering up abuse an offence under Canon Law.", "Tony Blair's New Labour received £1m from Formula One tycoon Bernie Eccleston months before coming to power Image caption: Tony Blair's New Labour received £1m from Formula One tycoon Bernie Eccleston months before coming to power\n\nAt the start of his premiership, Tony Blair faced criticism over his interactions with Formula One tycoon Bernie Eccleston.\n\nNew Labour had received £1m from Mr Eccleston months before coming to power in 1997, with another possible chunk on the way. It was later revealed that he had met Mr Blair to lobby him to exempt F1 from a tobacco advertising ban.\n\nA \"cash for honours\" scandal hit Tony Blair's government in 2006, when it emerged that a number of large secret loans had been made to the Labour Party before the 2005 general election. Some of the lenders had subsequently been nominated for the House of Lords.\n\nTony Blair became the first prime minister to be questioned by the police during an investigation. However, the long and expensive probe led to no charges from the CPS.\n\nOffering seats in the House of Lords is still a controversial issue. In 2020 Prime Minister Boris Johnson nominated Peter Cruddas - who had given £50,000 to Mr Johnson's campaign to be party leader - for a seat in the House of Lords, going against official advice.\n\nA businessman who was later convicted for perjury became the Liberal Democrats' largest donor in 2005, giving £2.4m to the party. The party faced criticism for not returning the donation, despite Michael Brown not being a registered UK voter and donating through a newly-created company.\n\nIt's not always wealthy individuals. This summer the police launched an investigation into the SNP's finances after the party had raised money in a crowdfunding drive. Donors had complained about how the money went on to be used.", "Russia's Vladimir Putin (left), Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev (centre) and the King of Jordan (right) are all linked to the files\n\nSeveral world leaders have denied wrongdoing after featuring in a huge leak of financial documents from offshore companies.\n\nDubbed the Pandora Papers, the 12 million files constitute the biggest such leak in history.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin and Jordan's King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein are among some 35 current and former leaders linked to the files.\n\nBoth have issued statements saying they have done nothing wrong.\n\nJordan's royal palace said it was \"not unusual nor improper\" that King Abdullah owned property abroad.\n\nLeaked documents show the leader secretly spent more than £70m ($100m) on a property empire in the UK and US since taking power in 1999.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov meanwhile questioned the reliability of the \"unsubstantiated\" information, after it detailed hidden wealth linked to President Putin and members of his inner circle.\n\n\"For now it is just not clear what this information is and what it is about,\" he told reporters, adding that \"we didn't see any hidden wealth of Putin's inner circle in there\".\n\nThe data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington DC, which has been working with more than 140 media organisations on its biggest ever global investigation.\n\nBBC Panorama and the Guardian have led the investigation in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One rule for the rich, another for ordinary people'\n\nOther leaders linked to the leak include:\n\nIn a tweet thread, the Czech prime minister said the allegations are an attempt to influence elections scheduled for this week and insisted he has \"never done anything wrong or illegal\".\n\nMr Kenyatta said the investigation \"will go a long way in enhancing the financial transparency and openness that we require in Kenya and around the globe\", and promised to \"respond comprehensively\" to the leak once he returned from a state visit abroad.\n\nThe Pandora Papers show no evidence that the Kenyatta family stole or hid state assets in their offshore companies.\n\nAnd a statement from Mr Piñera's office said he denied taking part in or having any information on the sale of the Dominga mining project.\n\nPresident Aliyev and his family did not respond to attempts to contact them, according to The Guardian.\n\nMeanwhile Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has vowed to investigate citizens linked to the Pandora Papers. Hundreds of Pakistanis, including members of Mr Khan's cabinet, are linked to the leak.\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 which has led one of the 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.\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)", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Rishi Sunak: \"Our recovery comes with a cost\"\n\nRishi Sunak has told Conservative party members that future tax cuts are conditional on repairing the UK's public finances after Covid.\n\nIn his first conference speech as chancellor, he said he wanted lower taxes - but funding the pandemic recovery \"comes with a cost\".\n\nVowing that \"we need to fix our public finances\", he said allowing borrowing to rise further would be \"immoral\".\n\nThe comments come three weeks before his autumn Budget on 27 October.\n\nHe also told party delegates that leaving the EU was in the UK's long-term interests, despite current disruption to fuel and food supplies.\n\nAnd he added he was \"proud\" to have backed Brexit, in spite of warnings before the 2016 referendum it could end his political career.\n\nMr Sunak's speech comes amid a difficult backdrop of rising food and energy prices, alongside supply chain disruption caused by a shortage of lorry drivers.\n\nThe government has so far rejected demands from the haulage industry for it to increase the 5,000 temporary visas it plans for foreign drivers to plug shortfalls.\n\nIn his speech, Mr Sunak insisted that despite \"challenges\", Brexit would foster a \"culture of enterprise\" and help the UK adapt to the modern world.\n\nHe also defended raising taxes to pay for the NHS and social care, insisting that it would be \"irresponsible\" to pay for investment with higher borrowing instead.\n\nHe told delegates the country should be grateful for \"sound Conservative management\" of the economy by his predecessors since 2010.\n\nAnd whilst he acknowledged tax rises were unpopular and perceived as \"un-Conservative\", he said they were a better option than more debt.\n\n\"I'll tell you what is un-Conservative: Unfunded pledges, reckless borrowing, and soaring debt,\" he added.\n\n\"Yes, I want tax cuts. But in order to do that, our public finances must be put back on a sustainable footing.\"\n\nThere was no whizz-bangery in the chancellor's speech - no cranking of the huge economic levers on tax or spending, no huge headline grabbing policy.\n\nAnd, a little like Rishi Sunak himself, it was quite short.\n\nThis felt like the first draft of Sunak-ism: where the chancellor has come from, what he's all about, where he might go in the future, to an audience where many will wonder if he might one day be prime minister.\n\nThere were repeated references to his time in California, that spot so often associated with sunshine and innovation.\n\nAfter the public spending splurges of the pandemic, he portrayed himself as a traditional Conservative: cautious in how taxpayers' money is spent, drawn to cut taxes when he can - even though he's put them up.\n\nThis hoodie-wearing chancellor - although he did wear a suit for his speech - made 16 references to the \"future,\" including the line \"the future is here.\"\n\nWhom could he have been referring to?\n\nAgainst the backdrop of the withdrawal of a £20-a-week universal credit top-up, Mr Sunak also attacked Labour - which opposes the cut - for wanting struggling families to \"lean ever more on the state\".\n\n\"Is the answer to their hopes and dreams just to increase their benefits?,\" he asked, adding: \"Be in no doubt, that is the essence of the Labour answer\".\n\n\"Not only does Labour's approach not work in practice, it is a desperately sad vision for our future.\"\n\n\"But there is an alternative. An approach focused on good work, better skills, and higher wages.\"\n\nMr Sunak also announced the government would give funding to double the number of Turing research fellows investigating the potential of artificial intelligence.\n\nHe also committed £500m to renew job support programmes set up during the Covid pandemic, after the end of the furlough scheme last month.\n\nThe Kickstart Scheme - which subsidises eligible jobs for young people on universal credit - will be extended by three months to March 2022.\n\nAnd the JETS scheme, which helps long-term unemployed people on universal credit, will be prolonged until September 2022.\n\nThe Treasury said that details will be confirmed at the Spending Review, which will take place alongside the Budget later this month.", "About 200 servicemen and women from the Army and RAF have been drafted in to deliver fuel.\n\nOne in five forecourts in London and the south-east of England is still without fuel, the body that represents independent fuel sellers has said.\n\nThe Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) said there had been a \"marked improvement\" across the rest of the UK thanks to \"steady deliveries\".\n\nBut conditions in the South East are \"still challenging\", the PRA said.\n\nThe improvement in supplies has led to forecourt firm EG Group to remove its £30 cap on buying fuel at its sites.\n\nIt said purchases were returning to normal levels in the majority of places, apart from the south of England.\n\nHowever, the company, which has about 400 sites in the UK, added it expected supply issues to ease \"in the coming days\" due to the military driving tankers to restore supplies.\n\nAbout 200 servicemen and women from the Army and RAF have been drafted in to deliver fuel from depots to forecourts.\n\nThe PRA said the situation around London and the South East was \"still challenging\". In these areas, it said 62% of the sites surveyed had both grades of fuel available, 18% had only one grade and 20% were dry.\n\nIn the rest of the country, the trade body said 86% of sites had both grades of fuel \"thanks to steady deliveries and stabilising demand\", with 6% having only one grade and 8% being dry.\n\n\"We are grateful for the support lent by the government through their provision of military drivers, although further action must be taken to address the needs of disproportionately affected areas,\" said Gordon Balmer, executive director of the PRA.\n\nThe PRA represents the interests of the independent filling stations across the UK, which account for nearly 5,500 of the UK's 8,380 forecourts.\n\nThe government has been criticised for not deploying the military earlier after panic-buying led to chaos and queues on some petrol station forecourts.\n\nMore than 65 drivers will start work, with plans to increase this to 200 personnel to be deployed in total, including 100 drivers.\n\nThe drivers have undertaken refresher training with the fuel delivery firm, Hoyer in order to take on the work.\n\nHoyer said the training included company safety procedures as well as equipment familiarisation and forecourt driving manoeuvres.\n\nA government spokesperson said there were signs of improvement in average forecourt stocks across the UK, adding that demand was \"continuing to stabilise\".\n\n\"More than half of those who have completed training to make fuel deliveries are being deployed to terminals serving London and the South-East of England, demonstrating that the sector is allocating drivers to areas most affected in this first phase from Monday,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThe crisis began more than 10 days ago when BP said it had run out of petrol in a number of its outlets. That prompted motorists to fill up more than usual, leaving deliveries unable to keep up with demand.\n\nMany sectors of the UK economy, including food firms and petrol retailers, have been affected by a chronic shortage of lorry drivers, which the haulage industry has blamed on factors including Covid, Brexit, an aging workforce, and tax changes.\n\nDavid Charman, who runs Parkfoot Garage in West Malling in Kent, told the BBC's Today programme there was a big task ahead to restore supplies.\n\n\"This is not panic-buying anymore, this is people that have waited as long as they possibly can and now they have no fuel. We're having to push cars that are in the queue to get to our site because they've run out of fuel,\" he said.\n\n\"We didn't have the normal two days of stock underground... because of Covid but we were still managing the situation perfectly well. But now, when we're all empty, it needs a huge influx of fuel deliveries to everybody, not just to me, to ensure that we can get through this.\"\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? Share your stories and video 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. Firefighters and police attend the scene as plane hits Milan building\n\nA private plane has crashed into an empty office block in the northern Italian city of Milan, killing all eight people on board.\n\nThe plane, which was bound for the island of Sardinia, came down after taking off from Milan's Linate airport.\n\nThe pilot was Romanian billionaire Dan Petrescu, 68. He died alongside his wife and their son, Italian media say.\n\nThe crash set the office block and several parked cars on fire. No-one on the ground was injured.\n\nAn investigation into the cause of the crash has been launched.\n\nSome witnesses say the single-engine Pilatus PC-12 was already on fire when it went down.\n\n\"I heard the sound of a plane above me as if the plane was shutting down its engine,\" local man Giuseppe told Reuters news agency.\n\n\"Then I heard a very loud explosion, the windows of our house started to shake so I opened the window and saw a huge cloud of smoke rising,\" he added.\n\nPetrescu, a property developer, was one of Romania's richest men. Besides him, his wife and their 30-year-old son, a child is also reported to be among those killed.", "Craig has starred in five Bond films\n\nDaniel Craig's final film as James Bond has notched up the highest opening weekend UK takings of any 007 movie.\n\nCraig's fifth outing as 007 made £25.9m between Friday and Sunday, according to box office trackers Comscore.\n\nIt beat Skyfall's first weekend takings of £20.2m and Spectre's £19.8m. Those films sit at numbers two and three in the all-time UK box office chart.\n\nMany in the industry are hoping No Time to Die will kickstart the box office after cinemas shut during the pandemic.\n\nIt was directed by US film-maker Cary Joji Fukunaga and also stars Lea Seydoux, Rami Malek and Lashana Lynch.\n\nMost critics praised the film, with many giving five-star reviews after its premiere at the Royal Albert Hall earlier this week. But some suggested the movie did not quite justify its 163-minute running time.\n\nUniversal said No Time to Die opened in 772 cinemas in the UK and Ireland on Thursday - 25 more than the previous record-holder, Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, in 2019.\n\nWhen Skyfall made its big screen debut nine years ago, it opened in 587 cinemas.\n\nFocus will soon switch to how No Time to Die performs on the other side of the Atlantic when the film opens there on 8 October.\n\nOther major countries yet to experience 007's latest adventures include France, Russia, China and Australia, with release global dates scheduled for later this month and November.\n\nThe box office market in the US and Canada currently appears to be in rude health, with Venom: Let There Be Carnage taking $90.1m (£66.3m) on its debut this weekend, setting a new pandemic-era record.\n\nThe supervillain sequel starring Tom Hardy also beat the original film's first weekend haul of $80.1m in 2018.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Frances Haugen: \"If Facebook change the algorithm to be safer... they'll make less money\"\n\nA former Facebook whistleblower responsible for a series of bombshell leaks has revealed her identity.\n\nFrances Haugen, 37, who worked as a product manager on the civic integrity team at Facebook, was interviewed on Sunday by CBS.\n\nShe said the documents she leaked proved that Facebook repeatedly prioritised \"growth over safety\".\n\nFacebook said the leaks were misleading and glossed over positive research conducted by the company.\n\nIn the interview, on CBS's 60 Minutes programme, Ms Haugen said she had left Facebook earlier this year after becoming exasperated with the company. Before departing, she copied a series of internal memos and documents.\n\nShe shared those documents with the Wall Street Journal, which has been releasing the material in batches over the last three weeks - sometimes referred to as the Facebook Files.\n\nRevelations included documents that showed that celebrities, politicians and high profile Facebook users were treated differently by the company. The leaks revealed that moderation policies were applied differently, or not at all, to such accounts - a system known as XCheck (cross-check).\n\nAnother leak showed that Facebook was also facing a complex lawsuit from a group of its own shareholders.\n\nThe group alleges, among other things, that Facebook's $5bn (£3.65bn) payment to the US Federal Trade Commission to resolve the Cambridge Analytica data scandal was so high because it was designed to protect Mark Zuckerberg from personal liability.\n\nBut it's allegations about Instagram that have been particularly worrying to US politicians.\n\nInternal research by Facebook (which owns Instagram) found that Instagram was impacting the mental health of teenagers but did not share its findings when they suggested that the platform was a \"toxic\" place for many youngsters.\n\nAccording to slides reported by the Wall Street Journal, 32% of teenage girls surveyed said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse.\n\nMs Haugen will testify before a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday in a hearing titled \"Protecting Kids Online\", about the company's research into Instagram's effect on the mental health of young users.\n\nLast week, a Facebook executive testified to US senators that the leaks had failed to highlight the positive impact the platform had on teens.\n\nHowever, Ms Haugen was damning in her assessment of her former employer.\n\n\"There were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook,\" she said.\n\n\"Facebook over and over again chose to optimise for its own interests, like making more money.\"\n\nFacebook strongly denied that claim, saying it had spent significant sums of money on safety.\"To say we turn a blind eye to feedback ignores these investments, including the 40,000 people working on safety and security at Facebook and our investment of $13 billion (£9.6 billion) since 2016,\" said Lena Pietsch, Facebook's director of policy communications.\n\nMs Haugen also talked about the deadly Capitol Hill riots in January - claiming that Facebook helped fuel the violence.\n\nShe said Facebook turned on safety systems to reduce misinformation during the US election - but only temporarily.\n\n\"As soon as the election was over they turned them back off, or they changed the settings to what they were before, to prioritise growth over safety, and that really feels like a betrayal of democracy.\"\n\nAppearing on CNN, Vice President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg said it was ludicrous to suggest Facebook was responsible for the riots.\n\n\"I think it gives people false comfort to assume that there must be a technological, or technical, explanation for the issues of political polarisation in the United States,\" he said.", "Abortion was legalised in Northern Ireland last year but services are still limited\n\nStormont departments have \"no duty\" to follow a government direction to set up abortion services in NI, the High Court in Belfast has heard.\n\nThe remarks were made by John Larkin QC during the start of a second legal challenge over abortion laws.\n\nIn July, political disagreement in the executive led the government to impose a deadline to establish services by next March.\n\nBut Mr Larkin said there was a \"screamingly obvious\" gap in the law.\n\nThe formal direction was issued by Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis in a bid to force Stormont to make progress.\n\nIt put in place a timetable on Stormont's Department of Health to bring proposals for commissioned services to executive ministers.\n\nIt also directed that there should be \"immediate support\" for interim early medical abortion services in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (Spuc) is challenging the move, arguing that Mr Lewis has imposed a power grab on Stormont by overriding the devolution settlement.\n\nMr Larkin QC - Northern Ireland's former attorney general - is acting on behalf of Spuc.\n\nOn Monday, he argued there was a \"fundamental lacuna\" in how the regulations were drawn up by the Northern Ireland Office.\n\nHe said there had been no creation of a duty when the laws were drafted.\n\n\"Here we have a minister of the Crown issuing a direction, with no status given to the direction and no-one is obliged to respond in the terms of the direction,\" he told the court.\n\n\"In the absence of that, the rule of the requirement is precisely that, to ignore it.\"\n\nHe argued the formal direction had omitted details specifying the requirement for the Northern Ireland Executive, or Stormont departments individually, to comply.\n\n\"A minister of the Crown cannot boss people about unless the law gives them power to do it and act in accordance with his edict, and this doesn't.\n\n\"The Northern Ireland Office may wish such a provision had been made, it may be bitterly regretting it now, but in these regulations as it stands there is no obligation to comply with them.\"\n\nAbortion is a matter devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nBut in 2019 a vote by MPs at Westminster - during the suspension of devolution - brought about significant changes to Northern Ireland's abortion laws.\n\nStormont's institutions returned three months later and remained under a responsibility to establish a permanent, central abortion service.\n\nBut health trusts have been only carrying out limited services, meaning some women seeking an abortion beyond 10 weeks in their pregnancy have had to travel to Great Britain to access services.\n\nThe Department of Health has maintained that the matter is \"controversial\" and any decision on abortion services must be made by the whole executive.\n\nIn May, proposals from Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) Health Minister Robin Swann on commissioning of services were blocked by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).\n\nThe party is opposed to abortion and has previously criticised Mr Lewis for taking powers to act, saying it would have \"serious consequences for devolution\".\n\nSinn Féin, the SDLP and Alliance have said they would support the commissioning of services being imposed by Westminster, if it remains stalled by the executive.\n\nIn July, Mr Lewis said the \"ongoing stalemate\" had left him with no choice but to intervene, to uphold international human rights obligations.\n\nThe secretary of state is already facing a separate judicial review taken by Northern Ireland's Human Rights Commission, which has criticised both Stormont and Westminster over the delay in implementing full abortion services.\n\nThat case was heard in May.\n\nThis latest challenge is scheduled to last for two days, but it could be several months before judgement is delivered in both cases.\n\nThe Department of Health has said in line with the secretary of state's direction, it is preparing proposals on commissioning of abortion services that will be submitted to the executive later this year or in early 2022.", "Economy Minister Gordon Lyons urged anyone who hasn't yet applied for a voucher to \"do so now\"\n\nThe first 100,000 \"Spend Local\" cards will be posted on Monday to applicants of the Northern Ireland Executive's high street voucher scheme.\n\nMore than 970,000 people have applied for a £100 voucher since applications opened.\n\nEconomy Minister Gordon Lyons said Monday marked \"the next significant step\" of the Spend Local scheme.\n\nEveryone aged 18 and over can apply for a card to use in various businesses before the end of November.\n\nMr Lyons said he was delighted the process to issue the pre-paid cards was \"well under way\" and that the first applicants would soon be able to use their cards.\n\n\"This will deliver the timely boost that they need to help them emerge from the economic shock caused by the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said demand for the vouchers was \"unprecedented\" and he encouraged those yet to apply to \"do so now on NI Direct\".\n\nVoucher holders have until the end of November to spend them\n\nThe objective of the £145m high street scheme is to support local businesses across Northern Ireland adversely affected by the drop in footfall due to the pandemic, according to the Department for the Economy.\n\nMr Lyons encouraged those who receive a voucher to adhere to the \"spend local\" messaging.\n\n\"Please use your card to support your local shops, hospitality and other services which have been most affected by the Covid-19 restrictions,\" he said.\n\nThe cards can be used in any shop with a card machine but cannot be used online or for gambling or legal services like penalties.\n\nA phone application service will open on 11 October for anyone who does not have access to the internet.\n\nThe online and phone application processes will remain open until 25 October.\n\nIt is hoped the voucher scheme will encourage more people to go out to shops, which could help the economic recovery.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton is launching a scheme that aims to boost the recruitment of black teachers in science, technology and maths (STEM) subjects.\n\nThe project arises from the Hamilton Commission report addressing the lack of diversity in UK motorsport.\n\nHamilton said the scheme \"focuses on identifying the best way to attract black talent to STEM teaching roles\".\n\nThe Formula 1 world champion hopes it will \"create a framework the wider education industry can implement\".\n\nThe initial two-year programme, in partnership with education charity Teach First, is to pilot a range of new approaches to identify best practices when recruiting black STEM teachers.\n\nIt aims to support the recruitment and training of 150 black STEM teachers to work in schools serving disadvantaged communities in England.\n\nBritish seven-time world champion Hamilton said the move \"is another step towards addressing barriers preventing young black students' engagement with STEM, as identified in the Hamilton Commission report\".\n\nHe added: \"We know representation and role models are important across all aspects of society, but especially when it comes to supporting young people's development.\"\n\nThe programme is the first partnership announced by Hamilton's Mission 44 scheme, which was set up earlier this year to \"support, empower and champion young people from under-served communities\".\n\nThe Hamilton Commission, whose findings were published earlier this year, found that only 2% of teachers are from black backgrounds and that 46% of schools in England have no racially diverse teachers at all.\n\nThe data revealed that 1.1% of teachers are black African, compared with a 2.1% representation in the working-age population. The commission found that 78.5% of the working-age population are white British with 85.7% of teachers falling within that category.\n\nIt found that black STEM teachers were important to the engagement of young black students with these subjects.\n\nHamilton said he had no black teachers at all throughout his time in education and he believes that if he had had a teacher who had understood his background better, he would have achieved greater success in his studies.\n• None Trained to protect others but can these fighting witches protect themselves?", "A man attacked two people in a pub on Glasshouse Street\n\nA man has been charged with grievous bodily harm after four people were injured in a hammer attack in Soho.\n\nThe accused, Morteza Ahmadi, 38, is also charged with causing actual bodily harm, sexual assault and possessing an offensive weapon, namely a hammer.\n\nTwo women - one in her 20s and one in her 30s - were attacked with a hammer in Regent Street, central London, at about 23:00 BST on Friday, police said.\n\nMr Ahmadi, of no fixed address, is due at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe attacker then entered a pub on Glasshouse Street, in central London, and attacked a woman in her 40s and a man in his 50s.\n\nSecurity staff restrained the man who was then arrested by police.\n\nAll four victims have since been released from hospital.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A nurse has pleaded not guilty to murdering eight babies and attempting to murder another 10.\n\nLucy Letby, 31, is accused of murdering five boys and three girls at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nShe is also accused of the attempted murder of five boys and five girls.\n\nMs Letby, of Arran Avenue in Hereford, repeated \"not guilty\" to all 18 charges as she appeared at Manchester Crown Court via video-link.\n\nShe is due to go on trial in October 2022.\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.", "Lars Vilks was under police protection because of his 2007 image of the Prophet Muhammad as a dog\n\nSwedish artist Lars Vilks, who sketched the Prophet Muhammad's head on a dog's body, has died in a traffic accident.\n\nVilks was reported to be travelling in a civilian police vehicle which collided with a truck near the town of Markaryd in southern Sweden.\n\nInvestigators said the collision, which also killed two police bodyguards, showed no signs of foul play.\n\nThe 75-year-old artist had been living under police protection after receiving death threats over the cartoon.\n\nThe cartoon, published in 2007, offended many Muslims who regard visual representation of the Prophet as blasphemous. It came a year after a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet.\n\nIt is currently unclear what caused the accident\n\nAfter the accident, a large fire broke out and a number of emergency vehicles attended the scene. The driver of the truck was injured and taken to hospital, where he was questioned by investigators.\n\nA statement from police said it was still unclear how the collision occurred, but initially there was nothing to suggest that anyone else was involved.\n\n\"This is being investigated like any other road accident. Because two policemen were involved, an investigation has been assigned to a special section of the prosecutor's office,\" a police spokesperson told news agency AFP, adding that there was no suspicion of foul play.\n\nOne eyewitness told the Aftonbladet newspaper that the car Vilks was thought to be in seemed to lose control and came over to his side of the motorway at high speed. The truck in front did not have time to swerve and then they collided with a loud bang at \"incredible speed\", he told the newspaper.\n\nStefan Sinteus, chief of the South Sweden regional investigation unit, told a press conference that officers were attempting to determine why the car had swerved off the road.\n\n\"We don't know yet the reason why the bodyguard car was on the wrong side of the road,\" he said. \"But we're talking to witnesses, we have found remnants of tyres on the E4 road before the accident so we're looking into the possibility that it could have been a tyre explosion or something similar.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks says he that was probably the target of the attack in the cafe in Copenhagen\n\nVilks made headlines around the world after his 2007 cartoon caused outrage, leading then Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt to meet ambassadors from 22 Muslim countries in an attempt to defuse the situation.\n\nShortly afterwards, al-Qaeda in Iraq offered a $100,000 (£73,692) reward for his murder.\n\nIn 2015, Vilks attended a debate on free speech that was targeted in a gun attack in Copenhagen. He said he was probably the target of the attack, which killed a film director.\n\nBut police said on Monday there had been no new threats made against him recently.\n\nAlthough he is most famous for his sketch of Muhammad as a dog, Vilks was an artist and activist who often worked with paint or created installations.\n\nOne of his creations was a sculpture made of driftwood in a nature reserve in southern Sweden which he erected without permission and which triggered a lengthy legal battle.", "An electrical implant that sits in the skull and is wired to the brain can detect and treat severe depression, US scientists believe after promising results with a first patient.\n\nSarah, who is 36, had the device fitted more than a year ago and says it has turned her life around.\n\nThe matchbox-sized pack in her head is always \"on\" but only delivers an impulse when it senses she may need it.\n\nThe experimental study is described in Nature Medicine journal.\n\nThe researchers, from University of California, San Francisco, stress it is too soon to say if it might help other patients, like Sarah, with hard-to-treat depression, but they are hopeful and plan more trials.\n\nSarah is the first person to have had the experimental therapy.\n\nShe'd had a succession of failed treatments, including anti-depressants and electroconvulsive therapy in recent years.\n\nThe surgery may sound daunting, but Sarah said the prospect of gaining \"any kind of relief\" was better than the darkness she had been experiencing.\n\nSarah says the device has helped her depression\n\n\"I had exhausted all possible treatment options.\n\n\"My daily life had become so restricted. I felt tortured each day. I barely moved or did anything.\"\n\nThe surgery involved drilling small holes in her skull to fit the wires that would monitor and stimulate her brain.\n\nThe box, containing the battery and the pulse generator, was tucked into the bone, beneath her scalp and hair.\n\nThe procedure took a full working day and was done under general anaesthetic, meaning Sarah was unconscious throughout.\n\nSarah says when she woke, up she felt euphoric.\n\n\"When the implant was first turned on, my life took an immediate upward turn. My life was pleasant again.\n\n\"Within a few weeks, the suicidal thoughts disappeared.\n\n\"When I was in the depths of depression all I saw is what was ugly.\"\n\nA year on, Sarah remains well, with no side-effects.\n\n\"The device has kept my depression at bay, allowing me to return to my best self and rebuild a life worth living.\"\n\nShe can't feel the device as it fires, but says: \"I could probably tell you within 15 minutes that it has gone off because of a sense of alertness and energy or the positivity I will feel.\"\n\nResearcher Dr Katherine Scangos, who is a psychiatrist at the university, said the innovation was made possible by locating the \"depression circuits\" in Sarah's brain.\n\n\"We found one location, which is an area called the ventral striatum, where stimulation consistently eliminated her feelings of depression.\n\n\"And we also found a brain activity area in the amygdala that could predict when her symptoms were most severe.\"\n\nThe scientists say a lot more research is needed to test the experimental therapy and determine if it can help more people with severe depression, and perhaps other conditions too.\n\nDr Scangos, who has enrolled two other patients in the trial and hopes to recruit nine more, said: \"We need to look at how these circuits vary across patients and repeat this work multiple times.\n\n\"And we need to see whether an individual's biomarker or brain circuit changes over time as the treatment continues.\n\n\"We didn't know if we were going to be able to treat her depression at all because it was so severe.\n\n\"So in that sense we are really excited about this. It's so needed in the field right now.\"\n\nDr Edward Chang, the neurosurgeon who fitted the device, said: \"To be clear, this is not a demonstration of efficacy of this approach.\n\n\"It's really just the first demonstration of this working in someone and we have a lot of work ahead of us as a field to validate these results to see if this actually is something that will be enduring as a treatment option.\"\n\nProf Jonathan Roiser, a neuroscience expert at University College London in the UK, said: \"Although this kind of highly invasive surgical procedure would only ever be used in the most severe patients with intractable symptoms, it is an exciting step forward due to the bespoke nature of the stimulation.\n\n\"It is likely that if trialled in other patients, different recording and stimulation sites would be required, as the precise brain circuitry underlying symptoms probably varies between individuals.\n\n\"As there was only one patient and no control condition, it remains to be seen whether these promising results hold in clinical trials.\"\n• None Coming off anti-depressants may not cause relapse\n• None Get help from a mental health charity - NHS The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of runners have taken part in this year's Belfast City Marathon.\n\nMore than 5,700 entered what was the first marathon to be held in the city since 2019, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe race began at 09:00 BST on Sunday on Prince of Wales Avenue in the Stormont Estate.\n\nIrish Olympian Mick Clohisey was the first across the line in Ormeau Park, while Fionnuala Ross was first in the women's race.\n\nThe 26.2 mile-long (42.1 km) race took runners across east, north, west and south Belfast, before finishing in Ormeau Park.\n\nRoads along the route closed at 06:00 and reopened again once all runners had passed.\n\nIt was the first time the marathon had been held in October. The event normally takes place in May but was delayed due to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Barra Best This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Barra Best\n\nA relay and wheelchair race following the same route of the marathon also took place, along with a 2.5 mile (4km) fun run and an 8 mile (12.8km) walk.\n\nIt was Northern Ireland's largest mass participation sporting event since the pandemic began.\n\n\"It wasn't quite clear whether we could go ahead or not for quite a while and to some extent we took a little bit of a risk in deciding it could go ahead,\" Belfast City Marathon chairman John Allen said.\n\n\"It has been relatively more low-key because because of that slight risk.\"\n\nMr Allen said the record number of entrants this year was due to some people's entries being deferred from 2020.\n\n\"They entered originally about a year or so ago and we had to move their entries forward,\" he said.\n\nNo top international runners took part this year, according to Mr Allen.\n\nKenya's Joel Kositany won the event for the fourth time in 2019, crossing the finish line with a time of two hours 18 minutes and 40 seconds.\n\nMeanwhile Caroline Jepchirchir, also from Kenya, set the fastest ever women's time in Belfast, with a 2:36.38 clocking, as she repeated her 2018 win.\n\nOn Sunday morning, Belfast City Marathon apologised on social media \"for the lengthy waits experienced for many\" when picking up race packs on Saturday.\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 Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon 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\nAnger was voiced on social media on Saturday as a number of people booked to take part said they had to queue for several hours to pick up their race packs.\n\nMarathon organisers posted online that there were large queues and asked people to be patient.\n\nRace organisers were forced to apologise in 2019 after admitting the course was 0.3 miles longer than it should have been.\n\nIn a statement at the time, then chairman David Seaton said \"protocols will be put in place to ensure this never happens again\".", "Tony and Cherie Blair did not have to pay £312,000 in stamp duty when buying a £6.45m London townhouse, leaked documents show.\n\nThe ex-Labour prime minister and his barrister wife bought the property as an office for her business in 2017 by buying the offshore firm that owned it.\n\nMrs Blair said the sellers had insisted the building was sold in this way but they had brought it under UK control.\n\nShe said they would be liable to pay capital gains tax if they sell it.\n\nWhen the property was put up for sale, the ultimate owners were a family with political connections in Bahrain - but both parties say they did not initially know who they were dealing with.\n\nMrs Blair said her husband's only involvement in the transaction was that the mortgage for the property used their joint income and capital.\n\nThe revelation is contained in the Pandora Papers, a leak detailing the work of companies offering offshore financial services in the British Virgin Islands, Singapore, Panama, Belize, Switzerland and other countries.\n\nBBC Panorama in a joint investigation with the Guardian and other media partners have had access to nearly 12 million documents and files.\n\nSince leaving Downing Street in 2007, the Blairs have built up a significant property portfolio. Altogether they are reported to have spent more than £30m on 38 residential properties before they bought the office.\n\nDocuments show how the way the property in Harcourt Street, Marylebone, was acquired in July 2017 saved the Blairs a bill for stamp duty.\n\nThe four-floor building is now home to Mrs Blair's legal advisory firm, Omnia Strategy, and her foundation for women.\n\nThe previous owner of Harcourt Street is listed in UK Land Registry records as Romanstone International Limited - a British Virgin Islands firm.\n\nRomanstone itself had been owned by another BVI company, whose shareholders were members of the Al Zayani family. Among them was a minister in Bahrain's government - Zayed Rashid Al Zayani, Bahrain's minister for industry, commerce and tourism.\n\nThe leaked documents show the Blairs bought the building by setting up a UK company to acquire Romanstone. Mr and Mrs Blair each held a 50% stake in the British company. They closed the offshore company after the purchase.\n\nBuying the property in this way meant the Blairs did not have to pay stamp duty.\n\nStamp duty is paid by the purchasers of a property or land over a certain price.\n\nThe tax is not paid when a company owning a property is acquired because the shareholder of a company is switching hands, rather than the actual ownership of the property.\n\nTony and Cherie Blair bought the four-floor building in 2017\n\nNo laws were broken in buying the Harcourt Street office but Mr Blair had previously been critical of tax loopholes, once saying \"the tax system is a haven of scams, perks, City deals and profits\".\n\nIn his first speech as Labour leader in 1994, Mr Blair said: \"Millionaires with the right accountant pay nothing while pensioners pay VAT on fuel.\n\n\"Offshore trusts get tax relief while homeowners pay VAT on insurance premiums. We will create a tax system that is fair which is related to ability to pay.\"\n\nRobert Palmer from campaign group Tax Justice UK told Panorama: \"It partly doesn't look great because most people cannot do the same thing… even if what the Blairs did was perfectly legal, perfectly legitimate in the business world, it feels instinctively really unfair because they got access to an advantage, a potential advantage that the rest of us don't have.\"\n\nMrs Blair stressed that Harcourt Ventures had been formed to bring Romanstone and its building under UK tax and regulatory rules.\n\nShe said: \"It is not unusual for a commercial office building to be held in a corporate vehicle or for vendors of such property not to want to dispose of the property separately.\"\n\nThe Blairs said \"the acquisition of a company comes with different tax consequences\" and they \"will of course be liable for capital gains tax on resale\".\n\nLawyers for the Al Zayani family say their companies have complied with all UK laws past and present.\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. More 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)", "A huge leak of financial documents has put the spotlight on the hidden assets of some of the world's most powerful people.\n\nUnsurprisingly, the Pandora Papers have hit headlines worldwide. But what's the reporting like in some of the countries where leaders' financial dealings have been exposed?\n\nThe Pandora Papers revealed that King Abdullah II of Jordan secretly spent more than £70m ($100m) on a property empire in the UK and US.\n\nBut stories on the leak were notably absent in Jordan where - observers say - local media censor themselves and avoid subjects that are implicitly off limits.\n\nOn Monday morning, the state-run Petra news agency, as well as the privately-owned Al-Ghad, Al-Dustour and Jordan Times newspapers, were all leading instead on the king's comments about democratic reforms in the country.\n\nThey were also prioritising stories about King Abdullah meeting the World Bank president, and his first phone call with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad since the start of the Syrian civil war a decade ago.\n\nLawyers for King Abdullah said he used his personal wealth to buy the homes and there was nothing improper about him using offshore firms to do so.\n\nThe palace also put out a statement saying that it was \"no secret\" that the king owned a number of properties abroad.\n\n\"Any allegations that link these private properties to public funds or assistance are baseless and deliberate attempts to distort facts,\" it said.\n\nThere was also deafening silence over the leak in much of the media in Kenya, where the family of President Uhuru Kenyatta were revealed to have secretly owned a network of offshore companies for decades.\n\nThe Star newspaper was leading with the story on its website, under the headline \"No evidence Kenyatta's stole state assets - Pandora Papers\". Others either did not cover it at all, or put the focus outside of Kenya.\n\nThe country's leading daily newspaper The Nation published a story written by a news agency with the headline \"Pandora Papers expose leaders' offshore millions\", using a picture of Jordan's king. The story included four lines about the Kenyattas.\n\nCitizen TV - the biggest TV station in Kenya - also published agency copy on its website, in which the revelations about Mr Kenyatta's family were at the end.\n\nThe Standard and The People Daily newspapers did not publish the findings on their websites.\n\nHowever, the leak was sparking a lot of conversation on social media in Kenya, with the hashtag #PandoraPapers and #client 13173 - the code name the Kenyattas were given by their asset managers - trending on Twitter.\n\nMr Kenyatta's family have not yet responded to requests for comment.\n\nThe leak linked Russian President Vladimir Putin to secret assets in Monaco.\n\nHowever, Russia's main Sunday evening TV news reviews made no mention of the allegations, which were published shortly before the programmes aired.\n\nThe Russian part of the investigation was published by the website Vazhnyye Istorii (Important Stories). The English-language Moscow Times news site had the Pandora Papers as its top story on Monday, with the headline: \"Leaked papers link Putin associates to offshore dealings\".\n\nRussian social media users have also been talking about the revelations.\n\nHowever a number of media outlets steered stories away from President Putin. The state-owned Gazprom-Media's NTV aired a brief report on the investigation on Monday morning, focusing on allegations against foreign officials, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nMeanwhile, state news agency Tass highlighted findings related to the US being used as a tax haven.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday called the findings \"a collection of fairly groundless claims\".\n\nThe Pandora Papers revealed that Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky transferred his stake in a secret offshore company just before he won the 2019 election.\n\nUkraine's Slidstvo.info website published an investigation based on the data obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and the English-language Kyiv Post had the findings as its top story with the headline: \"Pandora Papers reveal offshore holdings of Zelensky and his inner circle\".\n\nHowever, it was not a major story in most Ukrainian media.\n\nThe findings were widely discussed online, including in a number of blogs, with many arguing that the revelations would not affect Mr Zelensky's popularity.\n\nThe papers revealed that Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis - who is facing an election later this week - failed to declare an offshore investment company used to purchase two villas for £12m in the south of France.\n\nThe findings were initially published by Investigace.cz, and then picked up by a number of media outlets, including the Pravo newspaper, which ran the story on its front page.\n\nMr Babis' denial of having done anything illegal was being widely reported on Monday.\n\nThe Novinky news site also quoted opposition figure Petr Fiala as calling for answers.\n\n\"Andrej Babis must prove that he used taxed money for the transaction. If not, he has no right to be in politics and take care of taxpayers' money,\" he said.\n\nBut despite the leak being widely covered, most media focus has remained on general election coverage. It is not clear whether the leak will have an impact on the outcome of the vote.\n\nThe leak found that Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's inner circle, including cabinet ministers and their families, secretly own companies and trusts holding millions of dollars.\n\nAll of Pakistan's major newspapers covered the revelations.\n\nThe leak was discussed on Pakistan's Dunya TV talk show \"Think Tank\" on Sunday. The website of Dawn newspaper - the largest and oldest English-language newspaper in Pakistan - was leading on Monday with a number of stories about the Pandora Papers and the Pakistani findings.\n\nThe coverage has been met with cautious or defensive reactions from those who were named.\n\nMr Khan said his government would investigate all citizens mentioned in the report.\n\n\"We welcome the Pandora Papers exposing the ill-gotten wealth of elites, accumulated through tax evasion & corruption & laundered out to financial 'havens',\" he tweeted.\n\nThree presidents and 11 former presidents from Latin America have been mentioned in the investigation. One of them is Ecuador's Guillermo Lasso, a former banker, who replaced a Panamanian foundation that made monthly payments to his close family with a trust based in South Dakota, in the US, in 2017.\n\nReacting to the revelations, Mr Lasso said all his investments, in and out of Ecuador, were legal.\n\nThe news involving the president is the main headline on the website of newspaper Expreso, but many Ecuadorean outlets have given it little or no coverage.\n\nThe website of newspaper El Universo ran several items about the findings, including those related to the president. They also reported on the revelation that Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, a star in Latin America, has a \"property empire\" in Florida of an estimated value of up to $120m.\n\nAnother Latin American leader mentioned in the papers is Chile's President Sebastián Piñera, a billionaire businessman, who is accused of selling a copper and iron mine in an environmentally sensitive area to a childhood friend, as detailed in Spain's El País newspaper.\n\nIn 2010, nine months after Mr Piñera took office, his family sold their shares in the mine for $152m. Part of the deal took place in the British Virgin Islands.\n\nThe Chilean presidency said Mr Piñera had no role in, or information about, the sale of the mining project, and that he had not been involved in the management of any company for more than 12 years.\n\nMany Chilean outlets are covering the leaks, with the website of newspaper La Nación giving a lot of prominence to local reaction, with Senator Manuel José Ossandón, who belongs to the president's party, calling for an investigation.\n\nThe Pandora Papers showed that the law firm founded by Cyprus's President Nicos Anastasiades appears to have provided fake owners to disguise the real owner of a series of offshore companies - a former Russian politician who had been accused of embezzlement.\n\nThe findings were given prominent coverage on many Cypriot news sites, including the Greek-language Politis and Phileleftheros.\n\nOther documents showed how Azerbaijan's ruling Aliyev family have secretly acquired UK property using offshore companies.\n\nThe files show how the family - long accused of corruption in the European nation - bought 17 properties, including a £33m office block in London for the president's 11-year-old son, Heydar Aliyev.\n\nThe leak received little or no coverage in most of the country's media outlets. However, the daily Azerbaijani newspaper Azadliq - which is not accessible inside the country - was leading with the story on its website on Monday.\n\nThe findings related to British officials were widely reported in UK media.\n\nThe leaked documents showed how the former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife, Cherie, bought a London property in an offshore deal that saved them £312,000 in stamp duty.\n\nMrs Blair said the sellers had insisted the building was sold in this way but they had brought it under UK control. She said they would be liable to pay capital gains tax if they sell it.\n\nThey also showed how prominent Conservative Party donor Mohamed Amersi worked on a series of controversial deals for a Swedish telecoms company that was later fined £700m in a US prosecution. Mr Amersi denies any wrongdoing.\n\nThe Guardian and i newspapers both led with reports about the Pandora Papers on their front pages on Monday.\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 which has led one of the 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)", "Windows 11 features a simplified design and changes to the Start menu\n\nWindows 11, the latest version of Microsoft's computer operating system, launches worldwide on Tuesday as a free upgrade for Windows 10 users.\n\nWindows chief product officer Panos Panay, told the BBC the latest version was built to be \"clean and fresh and simpler\" for the user.\n\nHe promised that the new operating system would not be an \"extreme departure\" from what people know.\n\nAnd even the least tech-savvy users can upgrade easily, he added.\n\n\"I use the frame of my father - he's 89,\" Mr Panay said. \"I'm so excited for him to hit that button and upgrade, you have no idea.\n\n\"Not because he's my dad - because I just want it to be easy for him.\"\n\nHe said expert users had already tested it extensively through Window's Insider trial programme and was confident there would be no teething issues, adding the upgrade is \"ready now\".\n\nWindows 11 has some significant design changes, along with some alterations on how the system works under the hood.\n\nBy default, the Start menu is centred on screen, along with icons in the taskbar. When clicked on, the Start button opens a menu of frequently used apps.\n\nIn some ways, it mimics the appearance of a smartphone app menu or launcher. Microsoft has also dropped the \"tiles\" which were present on Windows 10's start menu.\n\nMr Panay said the team had learned from Windows 8, which got rid of the start menu entirely, upsetting many users.\n\n\"You learn from that, of course, and then you adapt,\" he said.\n\nMr Panay is Microsoft's chief product officer for Windows and Devices\n\nDeveloping Windows 11's interface involved watching how people use their computers - \"what they want to click on, where their eyes are on the machine when they come into our labs,\" he explained.\n\n\"You get this confidence of learning from history,\" he added.\n\nFor Windows 11, \"the Start button is right there. It's right in the middle of the screen. It's not gone.\"\n\nWhen Windows 10 came out, Microsoft declared it would be the \"last version\" of the system. That has obviously changed.\n\n\"We're in a time where there is a bit of a new era for the PC happening right now,\" Mr Panay said.\n\n\"I think Windows 11 kind of stamps that moment and it is a signal for that moment.\"\n\nAcross the operating system, the design favours rounded corners, and has simplified most menus and folder views. And there are new, improved options for arranging windows and \"snapping\" them into grids.\n\nWidgets, a major selling point of 2007's Windows Vista, also make a comeback - but instead of \"floating\" on the screen where the user puts them, they live in a sidebar on the left, and are also linked to Microsoft services.\n\nThe new widgets panel keeps all the data contained to a side panel rather than across the desktop\n\nSome changes go deeper than the interface and design.\n\nSystem integrations for Microsoft Teams - replacing Skype - and the Xbox app both feature heavily in Microsoft's advertising.\n\nThe Microsoft Store - the Windows version of an app store - has been completely redesigned and will allow third-party apps to sell inside it, without taking a substantial cut.\n\nAnd one new feature which raised eyebrows in the technology world was that Windows 11 would run Android smartphone apps through the Amazon app store.\n\nEarly adopters have reported that the in-built search function of the new version is significantly faster on most devices - but also that it favours Microsoft's own services, Bing and the Edge browser, when delivering web results.\n\nFor gamers, Microsoft promises that its new drive technology - Direct Storage - will lead to much better loading times in games by allowing a graphics card to access storage drives without going through the central processor.\n\nBut that feature, like some others, needs newer hardware to work.\n\nAs a result, not every computer will see all the potential advantages to upgrading - and some machines may not be able to upgrade at all.\n\nThe minimum requirements include a type of security chip - called a TPM - only installed on modern computers.\n\n\"If your device does not meet these requirements, you may not be able to install Windows 11 on your device and might want to consider purchasing a new PC,\" Microsoft says.\n\nThe company has just launched a range of its own new hardware devices to coincide with the new Windows version.\n\nBut users already running Windows 10 do not need to go to this expense if the computer is still working. Windows 10 will continue to be supported and receive security updates until October 2025.", "Adele's last high-profile appearance was as host of NBC's Saturday Night Live almost a year ago\n\nAdele has heightened speculation that she is about to release her first new music since 2015, after updating her website and social media pages.\n\nThe star's Twitter and Instagram images were changed to a blue and turquoise pattern, while her old website was scrubbed and replaced with a link urging fans to sign up for information.\n\nIt comes after the number 30 was projected onto several buildings around the world over the weekend. Fans are predicting this will be the name of her fourth album - after 19, 21 and 25.\n\nThe mysterious projections have been spotted on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Colosseum in Rome, Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, Amsterdam's Nemo Museum and New York's Empire State Building.\n\nThe logo has also reportedly appeared in Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Poland, Ireland, Italy, Canada, Malaysia, South Korea and the UK.\n\nAlthough they have not officially been confirmed as being linked to Adele, the images appear to use the font she has favoured on her previous albums.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by #ADELE30 IS COMING!!!! This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 singer hinted that her fourth album would be called 30 in a 2019 Instagram post, jokingly telling fans: \"30 will be a drum and bass record to spite you all.\"\n\nUsing the title would also connect the album to Adele's previous pattern of naming records after a pivotal year in her life.\n\nShe has previously said she would retire the system, saying that she had settled into family life.\n\nBut the singer separated from her ex-husband Simon Konecki when she was 30 (she is now 33) and has subsequently kept a low public profile.\n\nThe one exception was a stint hosting US comedy show Saturday Night Live last year.\n\nAt the time, she addressed the rumours that new music was imminent.\n\n\"I know there's been a lot of chatter about me just being the host. Like, 'Why isn't she the musical guest?' and stuff like that,\" she said.\n\n\"And there's a couple of reasons. My album's not finished, and I'm also too scared to do both… I'd rather just put on some wigs, have a glass of wine or six and just see what happens.\"\n\nFraser T Smith, who co-wrote Adele's global smash hit Set Fire To The Rain, recently told the BBC he \"didn't know\" whether the star's new album was complete.\n\n\"Adele is incredibly secretive, and I think that that's the way you want it - building that suspense,\" he said.\n\n\"A testament to her is that you just don't know the next direction she'll take. It could be R&B, it could be rock, it could the ballads.\n\n\"But whatever it's going to be, it will be of the highest standard.\"\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 AdeleVEVO 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\nAdele's last album, 25, was also announced with a mysterious marketing campaign. Viewers of The X Factor in the UK were surprised during an advertising break when a 30-second excerpt of a new song (later revealed to be Hello) was broadcast against a blank screen.\n\nThe album went on to sell more than 3.5 million copies in the UK alone, making it the country's 14th best-selling record of all time.\n\nIt also broke sales records in the US and won the star a Grammy for album of the year - which she memorably tried to give to Beyoncé.\n\n\"I can't possibly accept this award,\" she said through tears. \"My artist of my life is Beyoncé. And [her] album to me, the Lemonade album, is just so monumental.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Adele sings and jokes about weight as she hosts SNL", "A businessman whose companies have backed 34 Tory MPs made millions from an allegedly corrupt Russian pipeline deal, leaked files show.\n\nFormer oil executive Victor Fedotov owns a firm currently seeking UK government approval for a controversial energy link between the UK and France.\n\nA BBC investigation shows he secretly benefitted from the alleged $4bn fraud in Russia.\n\nHis lawyers said \"there is no evidence whatsoever\" he behaved improperly.\n\nThe revelations come from the Pandora Papers, a leak of 11.9 million offshore files obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). An investigation of the documents in the UK has been led by BBC Panorama and The Guardian .\n\nThe BBC discovered documents revealing Mr Fedotov as a secret owner of a company called VNIIST that benefitted from hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts from Transneft, the Russian state-owned oil and gas pipeline company.\n\nA 2008 audit report suggested Transneft had lost huge sums to corruption and that one of the contractors that had benefitted was VNIIST.\n\nIt was alleged VNIIST was paid for work it hadn't carried out and that Transneft had lost around $143 million in just two contracts.\n\nThe audit report was leaked to Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny who estimated $4bn had been embezzled. No charges were brought against any of those involved.\n\nWhat the audit report did not reveal was that one of Mr Fedotov's secret business partners in VNIIST was the President of Transneft, Semyon Vainshtok. The documents in the Pandora Papers show he was secretly benefitting from contracts Transneft had awarded.\n\nThey reveal a scheme to funnel profits from the Transneft deals through layers of companies in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Malta and the British Virgin Islands under the ownership of trusts of which Mr Fedotov and Mr Vainshtok were secret beneficiaries. A second Transneft executive was also profiting from the cash.\n\nThe files show millions of dollars flowing into the trusts and that by 2007 Mr Fedotov's trust held some $97m in assets.\n\nThe evidence suggests some of the money from Transneft ended up paying for Mr Fedotov's £7m house in the English countryside.\n\nAndrew Mitchell QC told Panorama the scheme appeared to be \"a pure attempt to slice money out of government and, when you factor in that the CEO of the government-owned entity organised and did the subcontracting with a couple of mates, um, that's fraud.\"\n\nMr Vainshtok's lawyers said the allegations of fraud were \"unfounded\" and made for \"political purposes\".\n\nThey said: \"The allegations were investigated at the time by the Audit Committee of Russia, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia and the General Prosecutor's office in Russia, who all found that there was no basis for making the allegations, and no grounds to take any action against our client.\"\n\nMr Fedotov's lawyers said the 2008 audit report is not an official reliable document and that he denies any allegation of wrongdoing.\n\nBut it is not just property that Mr Fedotov has funded in the UK. His money has funded the Conservative Party.\n\nLast year Mr Fedotov was revealed to be the owner of Aquind, the company behind a £1.24bn project to build an electricity cable linking the UK to France. Aquind is currently seeking UK government approval for the project and a decision will be made in weeks.\n\nHis connection to Aquind has been hidden through an exemption to UK company laws granted to people with personal security concerns.\n\nMr Fedotov is now identified on the company's public records, alongside Alexander Temerko, the Ukraine-born public face and part owner of Aquind.\n\nMr Temerko is a Conservative Party activist and personal friend of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nHe is a regular at Conservative Party fundraisers and has personally donated more than £700,000 to the party.\n\nResearch by the BBC has established that in addition to Mr Temerko's donations to the Conservative Party, Mr Fedotov's businesses have donated another £700,000 to 34 MPs and their local parties since the Aquind project began.\n\nAquind's relationship with the Conservative Party does not end there.\n\nLord Callanan, currently a business minister responsible for corporate responsibility, is a former director of the company, while former minister Lord James Wharton took up a role as a paid adviser when he lost his House of Commons seat in 2017.\n\nIn an interview for the BBC, journalist Peter Oborne says this raises questions about Aquind. He says \"You have to ask yourself why … Aquind feels it needs to go to such elaborate efforts and spend such money and so much time to get access to the Conservative Party.\"\n\nA Conservative spokesman said donations are properly and transparently declared and the party \"perform compliance checks in line with the … legislation and requirements enacted by the last Labour government\".\n\nThe spokesman said \"Fund raising is a legitimate part of the democratic process. Government policy is in no way influenced by the donations the Party receives\" and that the party is \"motivated by the priorities of the British public, acting in the national interest\"\n\nLawyers for Aquind and Mr Temerko said their donations were \"entirely lawful, properly declared and have not been made in return for any special treatment\". They said there was \"no evidence that funds were embezzled\" from Transneft.\n\nMr Fedotov \"denies any allegation of wrongdoing\" and says that he \"has never had any interest in British politics and has operated in an open and transparent manner throughout the course of his career.\"\n\nAquind announced its plan to build an electricity cable under the English Channel in 2016.\n\nThe proposed route starts at an electricity substation in Lovedean, near Portsmouth, and ends up near Le Havre in Normandy, France.\n\nIt is not the first of its kind. Another cable was laid undersea between the two countries in 1986.\n\nBut if the new one comes online, it is expected to provide two gigawatts to the UK National Grid, enough to power four million homes.\n\nLocals protesting against the project claim the construction will destroy allotments and wildlife habitats.\n\nResidents in Portsmouth protested against the construction of the Aquind Interconnector\n\nLocal MP Penny Mordaunt has joined them, delivering a petition to the government in June, calling for the proposals to be rejected by the government.\n\nShe has said it would be \"strategically wrong\" to go ahead with a project that would make the UK \"reliant on another country [France] to power us\".\n\nStephen Morgan, Labour MP for Portsmouth South, is worried about the inclusion of communications and data cables as part of the underwater connector. He has said that having these cables that are \"available for hire by third-party clients…raises similar concerns to those about the UK's 5G network and Huawei\".\n\nThe company submitted its plans in 2019 and the decision now sits with Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng. His predecessor Alok Sharma recused himself from the decision following revelations he had shared a table with Mr Temerko at a Conservative fundraising event.\n\nFormer energy minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan also recused herself after her local party group received several donations from Aquind and Mr Temerko.\n\nIn 2019 Conservative MP David Morris was found to have breached parliamentary rules when he spoke in favour of Aquind in the House of Commons, only weeks after having received a £10,000 donation from the company.\n\nGavin Millar QC, an elections expert, said: \"The question is: if you're a political party in government, why aren't you recognizing the risk that there's a connection between the money you're receiving and the person who's giving that money? \"\n\nHe added: \"It's in their interests not to look too hard. And it's lucrative to not look hard if you're good at raising the money.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) told the BBC Lord Callanan has recused himself from any decisions relating to Aquind.\n\nA spokesperson for the Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said: \"The Secretary of State is currently considering the Planning Inspectorate's report on the application for development consent for the proposed project.\n\n\"No decision has yet been taken. The decision will be made solely by the Secretary of State who has a quasi-judicial role in determining this planning application.\"\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 which has led the biggest ever global investigation.More 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.\n\nWatch Pandora Papers: Political Donors Exposed on BBC One at 19.35 BST on Monday (UK viewers only) or later on iPlayer", "Bernard Tapie faced great highs and lows in his colourful career\n\nOne of France's most recognisable figures, the businessman, sports club owner and politician Bernard Tapie, has died at the age of 78.\n\nTapie, who had battled stomach cancer for the past four years, died peacefully, surrounded by his family, they said in a statement.\n\nAt one time he owned Adidas, Olympique Marseille and was a minister under President Francois Mitterrand.\n\nHe also had a string of legal problems and served time in jail.\n\nTapie's wife Dominique and his family announced his death with \"immense sadness\". They said he wished to be buried in Marseille, \"the city of his heart\".\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron was among the many to pay tribute to him, saying his \"ambition, energy and enthusiasm... were a source of inspiration for generations of French people\".\n\nOlympique de Marseille won the French Championship five times while Tapie was president, and took home the UEFA Champions League in 1993\n\nBernard Tapie grew up in the working class suburbs of Paris.\n\nHe began his career as a singer, then a race car driver - before discovering a talent for buying up failing businesses and selling them on, the BBC's Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.\n\nHe demonstrated his wealth by buying the Olympique de Marseille football club, which won the French championship while he was their owner. However, he was accused of match-fixing and the club was stripped of its league championship title and later relegated to a lower division.\n\nHe also bought a cycling team that twice won the Tour de France, was the majority shareholder of the sportswear brand Adidas and owned a number of newspapers.\n\nIn the 1990s, he dabbled in politics, briefly became urban affairs minister and later elected as a leftist French and European parliament MP in Marseille.\n\nIn 1984, Tapie (right) sang one of his old songs on a TV show hosted by Sacha Distel (left)\n\nHe also had a lifelong interest in entertainment. In 1966, aged 23, he recorded songs under the name Bernard Tapy, but failed to make much of impact.\n\nHe returned to singing in the 1980s, after making his name as a corporate raider, and collaborated with acclaimed songwriter Didier Barbelivien.\n\nIn the 1990s, he appeared in major films including Claude Lelouch's Men, Women: A User's Manual, as well as plays. Over the past 20 years he has starred as a police inspector in a TV drama and hosted a number of chat shows.\n\nBernard and Dominique Tapie at the unveiling of a new theatre in Paris in 2007\n\nTapie's late career as a showman took off as his empire crumbled amid a string of legal problems from the late 1990s.\n\nHe served time in jail for match fixing and other charges concerning corruption, tax fraud and misuse of corporate assets.\n\nEarlier this year, he and his wife were attacked in a violent burglary at their home.\n\nBernard Tapie faced the ups and downs of his life always with panache, our correspondent notes, and he was an admired and fascinating figure until the end.", "The Conservative Party is facing fresh questions about donations made by the wife of a former Russian minister.\n\nLubov Chernukhin is one of the biggest donors to the Tories, giving more than £1.8m since 2012.\n\nLeaked documents reveal her personal wealth comes from her husband Vladimir. He has been financially linked to people who were close to the Kremlin.\n\nMrs Chernukhin's lawyers say she is a British citizen and is entitled to do as she wishes with her money.\n\nHer donations to the Conservative Party have given the 48-year-old access to figures at the top of UK government.\n\nMrs Chernukhin's winning auction bids have seen her play tennis with Boris Johnson and dine with Theresa May, when she was prime minister.\n\nBut until now, very little has been known about the Chernukhins' wealth and where it comes from.\n\nThe documents in the Pandora Papers leak of internal files and correspondence from offshore financial firms show the couple are linked to a network of 32 companies, three trusts and more than £100m in assets.\n\nThe documents indicate that Mrs Chernukhin's wealth comes from her husband, with one email describing her as being \"financially supported by her husband\", and another as \"a housewife\".\n\nOne document shows Mr Chernukhin's offshore company loaned £4m to his wife's UK company.\n\nThe latest revelations follow separate allegations about two businessmen linked to donations to the party.\n\nWorking with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the Guardian, BBC Panorama has had access to almost 12 million documents files from 14 companies in countries including the British Virgin Islands, Belize, Cyprus and Switzerland.\n\nThe Conservative Party say all donations have been properly and lawfully declared and followed all the rules.\n\nAsked about the revelations about party donors that have emerged from the Pandora Papers investigation, the prime minister said all party donations are \"'vetted in the normal way in accordance with rules set up by the Labour government\", adding: \"So we vet them the whole time\".\n\nThe main political parties including Labour and the Liberal Democrats have all faced calls to hand donations back over the years.\n\nMeanwhile, in response to the claims, Transparency International UK says that vetting process for all political donors in the UK is \"little more than a box-ticking exercise\".\n\n\"It's easy to evade the rules or not look too closely. We must do better,\" they add.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said HM Revenue & Customs will examine the leaked papers \"to see if there's anything we can learn\".\n\nTap to see the Chernukhins’ UK property owned through offshore firms Lubov Chernukhin is one of the biggest female donors in British political history, but concerns have been raised about her political contributions Lubov’s husband Vladimir is behind an offshore company that owns this home near London’s Regent's Park Their country estate in Oxfordshire, , is held via an offshore firm And through another overseas company, they used to own this building in London’s affluent Mayfair district, now\n\nThe Russian-born Chernukhins are both now British citizens.\n\nPandora Papers documents reveal how they secretly acquired properties in the UK through offshore companies.\n\nThey purchased a house overlooking Regents Park in London now worth £38m, as well as a mansion in Oxfordshire bought for £10m.\n\nMr Chernukhin, 52, a former deputy minister of finance under Vladimir Putin left Russia for London in 2004 after being sacked by the president.\n\nThe Pandora Papers investigation found evidence that suggests Mr Chernukhin abused his position as the government appointed head of a state bank to advance his private business interests.\n\nIn evidence to a court hearing in London in 2018, Mr Chernukhin testified how he had reached an arrangement with the former mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, to secure planning permission for a development he had a secret personal interest in.\n\nIn return Mr Chernukhin told the court he proposed helping the mayor in relation to two other development sites in Moscow in which his bank had an interest.\n\nHe told the court: \"As a part of negotiations or agreement with them how to proceed, we agreed... that I will help them\", \"and Mr Luzhkov will help me\".\n\nAndrew Mitchell QC, a leading corruption barrister, told Panorama: \"That's a conflict, there's no two ways about it. Here is a man who's chairman of the bank, using the bank as a mean by which he enhances his own personal wealth. And that has corruption written all over it.\"\n\nPandora Papers files also show Mr Chernukhin has carried on doing business with people close to the Kremlin.\n\nThey reveal his secret involvement in a property deal in St Petersburg in 2017, in which his partner was the wife of a then Russian government minister. He sold his stake in the property the following year for $30m, the documents show.\n\nQuestioned in 2018 about the Chernukhin's wealth, Mr Johnson - then foreign secretary - said \"all possible checks have been made and... will continue to be made\" on donations.\n\nAsked whether the donations to the Conservatives should be declared as coming from Mr Chernukhin as well, political law expert Gavin Millar QC said: \"If it's joint money, if it's family money, why isn't he willing to have his name alongside hers in the quarterly return to the Electoral Commission, publicly identified as a donor, and the source of the money?\"\n\nHe added: \"When you've got somebody who's a prominent associate of people who are connected with the Kremlin and… with Russian government, you would have thought any British political party… would start to investigate it and ask why that money is being given.\"\n\nLawyers for the Chernukhins said Panorama's interpretation of the court case involving Mr Chernukhin was a \"gross mis-characterisation\".\n\nThey said \"the suggestion that he acted improperly whilst an official of the state is wholly untrue\" and he \"has not accumulated his wealth.... in a corrupt manner\".\n\nThe lawyers said it was not accepted that any of Mrs Chernukhin's political donations have been funded by improper means or affected by the influence of anyone else.\n\nLabour and the Liberal Democrats have both said the Tories should return the money donated by Mohamed Amersi.\n\nInvestigations by the BBC and its media partners have indicated the businessman was involved in negotiations for Swedish telecoms company Telia that resulted in $220m being paid to a Gibraltar-based company controlled by the daughter of the then president of Uzbekistan. The payment was described by the US authorities as a \"$220m bribe\".\n\nMr Amersi has denied wrongdoing and his lawyers said the offshore company had been \"vetted and approved by Telia\" and that its involvement \"did not raise any red flags\" to him.\n\nRepresentatives for Mr Amersi said on Monday he had \"never knowingly facilitated corrupt transactions\" and the Pandora Papers reports sought to \"embarrass the Conservative Party\".\n\nLiberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Christine Jardine said: \"The Electoral Commission should launch an immediate investigation into these allegations.\"\n\nThe Labour Party chairwoman Anneliese Dodds said the allegations were \"concerning\".\n\nReferring to comments by Mr Amersi earlier this year that high-spending donors have been able to gain meetings with the prime minister and chancellor, she added: \"The Conservatives should return the money he donated to them and come clean about who else is getting exclusive access\".\n\nElsewhere, the Russian government has dismissed allegations of financial impropriety involving President Putin contained in the documents leak.\n\nOther world leaders, including Jordan's King Abdullah, and the Czech Prime Minister, Andrej Babis, have also rejected allegations concerning the secret purchase of properties using offshore companies.\n\nPakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has said his government will investigate citizens linked to the leak. Hundreds of Pakistanis, including members of Mr Khan's cabinet, are said to have had secretly moved wealth through offshore companies.\n\nUpdate 3 December 2021: Following publication, Mr and Mrs Chernukhin have made legal complaints about this article. They say that the article is defamatory of them. In their complaint, they have told the BBC that no deal (corrupt or otherwise) was ultimately concluded with Mayor Luzhkov in respect of the properties in Moscow.\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. More 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.\n\nWatch Pandora Papers: Political Donors Exposed on BBC One at 19.35 BST on Monday (UK viewers only) or later on iPlayer", "The lifeboat at Harwich returned to base after taking part in a search\n\nTwo men travelling in a small boat in the North Sea have been rescued while a search for a third person has ended.\n\nThe Home Office said two Somali nationals were rescued and a dinghy recovered during a search off the Harwich coast in Essex on Monday.\n\nA spokesperson said the rescued men were being processed within the immigration rules.\n\nBorder Force and RNLI lifeboat crews were involved in the search co-ordinated by the Coastguard.\n\nThe Home Office said the \"extensive\" search and rescue operation for a man reported to have entered the water concluded at about 14:00 BST.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"While the investigation into this incident continues, it is a reminder of the extreme dangers of crossing the Channel in small boats and the callous disregard for life shown by the criminal gangs.\"\n\nThe government department added it remained \"determined to do everything we can to prevent people dying in the Channel\".\n\nHM Coastguard said it sent the coastguard helicopter to the incident off Harwich\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said a helicopter and a plane were involved in the search.\n\nIt is understood RNLI lifeboats were launched from Harwich, Frinton and Walton to help in the search on Monday and again on Tuesday morning.\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.\n\nFlooding triggered by a powerful storm has overwhelmed the Sicilian city of Catania, killing at least two people.\n\nFierce storms battered southern Italy for a third day on Tuesday, leaving roads completely submerged in parts of the island of Sicily.\n\nDramatic video from Catania showed water gushing through the streets as floods engulfed the city.\n\nForecasters say eastern Sicily is being hit by a rare Mediterranean hurricane, known as a Medicane.\n\nItaly's Department for Civil Protection issued its most severe weather warning for parts of Sicily and neighbouring Calabria on Tuesday.\n\nThe agency warned of potential risk to life and damage to property from heavy rain, thunderstorms and gale force winds in those areas.\n\nScientists say climate change caused by human activity is making extreme weather events more frequent and intense.\n\nThe mayor of Catania, Salvo Pogliese, said eastern parts of Sicily were experiencing exceptional weather events \"unprecedented\" in their intensity.\n\nCiting the \"seriousness of the situation\", the mayor ordered the closure of all businesses in Catania except essential services until midnight on Tuesday.\n\n\"I urge the entire population to not leave home except for emergency reasons, because roads are overrun by water,\" the mayor posted on Facebook.\n\nThe streets in the centre of Catania were flooded after heavy rain\n\nItalian media reported the death of a 53-year-old man who was found under a car after torrential rains swept through the town of Gravina, north of Catania.\n\nThe deaths come after the body of a 67-year-old man was found on Monday. Rescuers are still searching for his 54-year-old wife, who was swept away along with her husband by flood waters in the town of Scordia, also near Catania, on Sunday.\n\nThe rain has deluged historic parts of Catania, turning its Via Etnea high street into a river and its squares into lakes.\n\nForecasters say a rare Mediterranean storm is pounding eastern parts of Sicily\n\nA blackout has left homes and businesses without electricity, while schools have been closed in the city and nearby towns.\n\nLa Repubblica newspaper said flooding forced the evacuation of some buildings belonging to Catania's Garibaldi hospital.\n\n\"The emergency situation is widespread and extremely critical and it does not seem to be improving,\" a spokesman for the fire service told Reuters news agency.\n\nItalian weather website iLMeteo said the storm was expected to gradually worsen throughout the week, bringing more heavy rains and flooding on Thursday and Friday.\n\nOnly a medical emergency led me to leave home this morning, while a Medicane (a so-called Mediterranean Hurricane) hit Catania and surrounding areas.\n\nWith my toddler and my pensioner dad, I reached my GP in Gravina di Catania with my Fiat Panda never going faster than 12mph (20kph).\n\nWe had to reverse a couple of times and find alternative routes when the streets turned into rivers and lakes, with the water from blocked drains reaching my window. Some road drains are still clogged by the volcanic ash from nearby Mount Etna, which has erupted 52 times this year.\n\nI had no idea that a 53-year-old man had died minutes before in the same area, swept away from his car after a minor car accident.\n\nI returned home as soon as possible, relieved to be safe and sound but worried about my loved ones still at work in Catania city centre. I know many of them decided to stay safe indoors at their workplace, even after their working hours, waiting for the storm to pass.\n\nBusinesses and schools have been ordered to close in Catania", "Sisters Bibaa Henry (left) and Nicole Smallman were found in bushes by friends\n\nThe Met Police has apologised to the family of two murdered sisters for failings in the way it responded when they were reported missing.\n\nDanyal Hussein, 19, killed Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, at Fryent Country Park in Wembley, north-west London, on 6 June 2020.\n\nA missing persons log was incorrectly closed and inquiries were not progressed, an investigation has found.\n\nThe sisters' mother said the apology was 10 months too late.\n\nTheir bodies were found by Ms Smallman's boyfriend the day after they had been reported missing to police.\n\nAn investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) found the Met's response following calls from worried friends and family of the missing sisters was \"below the standard that it should have been\".\n\nMina Smallman, the sisters' mother, said the Met had shown \"incompetent, reprehensible and blatant disregard of agreed procedures regarding missing persons\" during its investigation.\n\nCommissioner Dame Cressida Dick said a better response would have saved their family and friends \"immeasurable pain\".\n\n\"While we know that very sadly Nicola and Bibaa had been murdered in the early hours of Saturday 6 June 2020, before they were reported missing, if we had responded better we may have saved their friends and family immeasurable pain,\" she said.\n\n\"I am very sorry that the level of service we provided fell short.\"\n\nThe pair were reported missing on Saturday, 7 June after attending a birthday celebration the previous evening but an inspector closed the logs after receiving information that was not accurately recorded.\n\nThe pair had been celebrating a birthday before they were killed\n\nThe IOPC said a search by the sisters' families and friends of their last known location led to the discovery of their bodies in Fryent Country Park, Wembley on Sunday - 36 hours after the party.\n\nSpeaking about the apology, the sister's mother said: \"We're not the only parties who suffered mental anguish at the hands of the Met's incompetent, reprehensible and blatant disregard of agreed procedures regarding missing persons.\"\n\nMs Smallman added that the on-duty call handler had made \"inappropriate and manipulating assertions, which led to cancellation of the missing persons report.\n\n\"We're also of the view that his unprofessional comments about the picnic suggests racial profiling, misogyny or classism.\"\n\nDame Cressida said she contacted the family to ask if they would allow her or another senior officer to visit to apologise in person.\n\nHowever, Ms Smallman said: \"Sorry is something you say when you comprehend the wrong you do and take full responsibility for it. Demonstrating that by taking appropriate proportionate action which to our minds is not going to happen.\n\n\"The investigation was not handled appropriately. The apology should have been done face-to-face and not nearly 10 months later.\"\n\nThis is one of the last photographs taken of the sisters, only moments before they were attacked\n\nThe IOPC investigation found an inspector closed the police logs after receiving information about the sisters' possible whereabouts from a family member.\n\nHowever, that information was \"inaccurately\" recorded by a communications supervisor, so the inquiries were not progressed properly.\n\nThe inspector told the IOPC it had been one of \"the most challenging shifts of his career\" with 16 missing persons reports and an under-capacity unit due to the pandemic.\n\nThe force said it agreed its service the weekend the sisters went missing was \"below the standard it should have been\".\n\nIt said no misconduct was found by an officer and two members of police staff but there would be action taken over their performance, which was found to be inadequate.\n\nThere was no suggestion racial bias played any part in how the missing persons reports were dealt with, it said.\n\nResponding to the IOPC report, Barry Gardiner, MP for Brent North, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The Met really does need to have a root and branch reform in the way in which it operates, the way in which it treats people and it needs to ground itself much better in the community.\"\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. Afro comb designer would have \"loved to be taught by a black woman\"\n\nA woman launching an innovative new comb for afro hair wants to use her experience to get other young black women into engineering.\n\n\"I would have loved a young me to have been taught by a black woman,\" said Swansea-based Youmna Mouhamad.\n\nShe received an enterprise fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering to help her develop the product.\n\nFewer than 2% of engineers are women from ethnic minorities.\n\n\"I want to be part of the change, so that a young person that comes after me is in a place where they feel much more heard and much more accepted,\" said Youmna.\n\nShe was doing a PhD in physics when she first got the idea for the Nyfasi Deluxe Detangler, which provides an easier way of conditioning natural afro hair.\n\nYoumna supported her studies by working as a nanny and the little girl she looked after used to cry with pain when her hair was washed and conditioned.\n\n\"The whole house would be full of tears,\" she remembers. \"I wanted her to have a better experience.\n\n\"I shifted to engineering because I always had a desire to work on things that I can touch with my hands, and I love the process of taking an idea and actually creating something.\"\n\nEngineer and businesswoman Youmna Mouhamad wants young women from ethnic minorities to follow in her footsteps\n\nOnce Youmna had developed a prototype she looked for women with afro hair to join a focus group to test it.\n\nLenient and her nine-year-old daughter, Goodness, were among the volunteers.\n\n\"I have got three girls and I do their hair myself,\" said Lenient.\n\n\"The washing process is dreadful because they don't want to. Why? Because it's quite painful for them, especially the combing part.\"\n\n\"And this detangler, the first time I tried it, it was really easy.\"\n\nGoodness agreed, adding: \"The normal comb feels like someone is pulling your hair, when it's tangled it hurts. But with this comb, it's very soft and easy to untangle.\"\n\nFocus group volunteer Charlotte Ajomale-Evans says Youmna is already mentoring her\n\nWhile Youmna is excited about the rave reviews, she doesn't just want to launch a new business, she also wants to be a role model for other women from ethnic minorities to follow in her footsteps.\n\n\"My huge passion in personal development is actually empowering other people.\"\n\nShe says her experience as a black woman student in science and technology was difficult at times.\n\n\"When I was going through it, I thought it was me. I didn't think it was the environment.\n\n\"But when I spoke to other [black] students, it really got to me because it was like 'oh my God, you know, it's not you!'\n\n\"I never had a single black teacher, and that does a lot because of the simple fact of saying 'if she can be there, so can I'.\"\n\nThe comb aims to detangle hair without the tears\n\nYoumna is being mentored in launching her business by Prof Dylan Jones-Evans at the University of South Wales.\n\nHe hopes Youmna's success will encourage more people from ethnic minorities into entrepreneurship in Wales and the rest of the UK.\n\n\"Many of them don't have the right role models, but slowly that's changing,\" he says\n\n\"I see Youmna over the next few years - and she is already - being a role model for so many people.\"\n\nAnother volunteer in the focus group, Charlotte Ajomale-Evans, said Youmna was already mentoring her.\n\n\"I just made friends with her and she's taken me on board and taught me a lot about developing and speaking out, especially in regard to racism.\"\n\n\"And she's also taught me to look after my hair, which is quite important.\"", "The Queen has been told by her doctors to rest for two weeks and only undertake light duties until mid-November.\n\nEarlier this month, she spent a night in hospital for some medical investigations - her first overnight hospital stay in eight years.\n\nBut that followed a particularly busy few weeks of public engagements across the UK for the 95-year-old monarch.\n\nThe Queen began the month at her Balmoral Estate in Scotland, where she helped to plant a tree with the Prince of Wales.\n\nThe pair were promoting their campaign urging people across the UK to plant a tree ahead of the Platinum Jubilee next year. She and Prince Charles met primary school children during the event.\n\nPrince Charles, known as the Duke of Rothesay when in Scotland, planted a tree with his mother for the Queen's Green Canopy campaign\n\nThe monarch spoke with schoolchildren from Crathie Primary at the event\n\nThe following day, the Queen was more than 100 miles away in Edinburgh for the opening of the sixth session of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nIt was the first time she had attended the ceremony without Prince Philip, who died this year aged 99. During her speech, she spoke of her deep affection for Scotland.\n\nA few days later, the Queen held audiences with diplomats from Belize and Greece over video call.\n\nThe same day, she met members of the Canadian Army at Windsor Castle at an event to mark the 150th anniversary of the A and B batteries of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery. She later had a telephone call with Boris Johnson.\n\nThe Queen presented the Captain General's Sword to representatives of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery\n\nThe Queen then travelled to London to attend the launch of the Commonwealth Games baton relay at Buckingham Palace.\n\nIt was her first major event at Buckingham Palace since the Covid pandemic began and she was joined by her youngest son, Prince Edward.\n\nThe Queen placed a message in the baton, which will travel through 72 Commonwealth nations and territories ahead of the Games in 2022\n\nA few days later she attended a church service at Westminster Abbey to mark the centenary of The Royal British Legion.\n\nAccompanied by the Princess Royal, she was seen using a walking stick as she arrived via the Poet's Yard entrance.\n\nThe Westminster Abbey service was thought to be the first time the Queen had used a stick at a major public event\n\nThe Queen welcomed pianist Dame Imogen Cooper to Buckingham Palace, presenting her with The Queen's Medal for Music for 2019.\n\nShe also held three other audiences.\n\nThe Queen's Medal for Music is awarded each year and 2019's went to English classical pianist Imogen Cooper\n\nThe following day, the Queen travelled to Cardiff to open the sixth term of the Senedd.\n\nIt was her first visit to Wales in five years, and she praised the spirit of the Welsh people during the pandemic.\n\nWhile there, she was overheard appearing to say she was irritated by people who \"talk\" but \"don't do\" anything on climate change.\n\nA 21-gun salute in Cardiff Bay marked the Queen's arrival in the city\n\nBy Saturday she was back in England - attending Champions Day at Ascot racecourse in Berkshire.\n\nThe Queen has a lifelong love of horseracing\n\nThe Queen held a virtual audience with the new governor-general of New Zealand Dame Cindy Kiro. The governor-general's role is to act as the Queen's representative in New Zealand.\n\nOn Tuesday she had two virtual audiences during the day with the Japanese ambassador and the EU ambassador.\n\nThen in the evening she was back at Windsor Castle hosting a reception for guests attending the Global Investment Summit, including billionaire business leaders like Microsoft's Bill Gates.\n\nThe Queen was joined by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge at the reception", "Forensics officers were working at the Regency Court site on Sunday\n\nDetectives investigating the deaths of two boys have released five men initially arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe two teenagers were found fatally injured in Regency Court, Brentwood, at about 01:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nEssex Police said three men, aged 19, 20 and 21, are still being questioned in connection with the deaths.\n\nFour other men have been released and face no further action. A fifth man was released under investigation.\n\nAlex Burghart, the Conservative MP for Brentwood and Ongar, said the boys who died were both 16 years old.\n\nThe BBC understands they are suspected to have suffered stab wounds but this has not been confirmed by police.\n\nDet Ch Inspector Stuart Truss said: \"Our investigation is progressing well and we are building a picture of the circumstances which led up to the boys' death.\n\n\"We have seized more than 200 hours of CCTV footage and are now methodically going through it.\"\n\nHe said it was being treated as an isolated incident with no risk to the wider public but that extra police patrols were under way to reassure people in the 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.", "Emily Maitlis has been harassed by Edward Vines since the 1990s, a court heard\n\nA stalker who has had a \"persistent and obsessive fixation\" with Emily Maitlis for more than 25 years has written more letters to her from jail, a court has heard.\n\nJurors were told Edward Vines expressed his \"unrequited love\" for the BBC Newsnight presenter in recent letters.\n\nNottingham Crown Court heard he would \"continue to brood and to write letters in prison\", unless she spoke to him about \"her behaviour in 1990\".\n\nVines met Ms Maitlis while they were studying at Cambridge University\n\nVines is accused of six counts of attempting to breach a restraining order between May 2020 and September 2021 by writing from HMP Nottingham.\n\nThe court heard Vines attempted to breach his restraining order - to not contact Ms Maitlis, her husband, children or parents - by writing to Ms Maitlis and her mother.\n\nHowever, all six letters were intercepted by prison staff.\n\nJurors were also told Vines had \"systematically and with increasing frequency\" breached two separate restraining orders imposed on him in 2002 and 2009.\n\nProsecutor Ian Way said the case had a \"long and unhappy history\".\n\nHe said: \"His compulsive behaviour towards her resulted in a conviction against him before the West London Magistrates' Court on the 19th September 2002 for pursuing a course of conduct which amounted to harassment.\"\n\nHe said Vines pleaded guilty and was made the subject of a restraining order prohibiting him from having any contact with Ms Maitlis.\n\nAfter he sent Ms Maitlis two e-mails in 2008, a new restraining order was put in place to include Ms Maitlis, her husband, children and parents in 2009.\n\nHe now has a total of 12 breaches to his name and seven separate prosecutions, excluding the current alleged offences, the court heard.\n\nThe court heard Vines has a total of 12 breaches to his name, excluding the current alleged offences\n\nTalking about the content of a six-page hand-written letter penned by Vines in December last year, Mr Way said he wrote about how he felt Ms Maitlis owed him a response as to what had happened between them at university in 1990.\n\nMr Way added: \"He expressed his unrequited love for her and criticised her for not responding to his constant questioning.\n\n\"He accused her of lying about him in a statement which had resulted in everyone taking her side to his detriment, stating that he had been badly represented in the past and could not appeal as a result.\"\n\nAddressing the jury, he said: \"It is not reasonable to constantly attempt to communicate with someone who does not want to hear from you.\"\n\nMr Way added: \"The prosecution case is incredibly straightforward.\n\n\"It is not about whether she is being harassed. It is whether he has an excuse to breach the order and the crown say he does not.\"\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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEx-minister Owen Paterson could be suspended from the Commons for 30 days after an MPs' watchdog found he had \"repeatedly\" used his position as an MP to benefit two companies who paid him as a consultant.\n\nThe watchdog described his actions as \"an egregious case of paid advocacy\".\n\nIn reply, the Conservative MP said: \"The process I have been subjected to does not comply with natural justice.\"\n\n\"I am not guilty and a fair process would exonerate me,\" he added.\n\nMr Paterson said the process was \"a major contributory factor\" in the death of his wife, Rose, who took her own life last year.\n\nThe committee said the allegations related to events which took place before Mrs Paterson's death.\n\nThe Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Stone opened an investigation into the North Shropshire MP following accusations he had lobbied on behalf of two companies who employed him.\n\nHer report said he was a paid consultant to Randox and Lynn's Country Foods and had made approaches to the Food Standards Agency and Department for International Development ministers about the companies.\n\nThe commissioner also found Mr Paterson had breached the MPs' code of conduct by using his parliamentary office on 16 occasions for meetings relating to his outside business interests between October 2016 and February 2020 - and in sending two letters relating to business interests on House of Commons headed notepaper.\n\nThe report noted that there was no immediate financial benefit secured by the two companies, but that Mr Paterson's approaches could \"clearly have conferred significant benefits on Randox and Lynn's in the long term and even in the short term secured meetings that would not have been available without Mr Paterson's involvement\".\n\nThe Standards Committee recommended that Mr Paterson, who is a former Northern Ireland Secretary, be suspended from Parliament for 30 sitting days, which will now be debated.\n\nIf an MP is suspended for more than 10 sitting days by a parliamentary committee, this can automatically trigger a recall petition - something which could lead to a by-election in their seat.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the former environment secretary said he was \"absolutely stunned\" by the report's recommendations.\n\nHe said he had wanted to alert the environment department about carcinogenic products in milk and ham, defending his actions as \"absolutely right\" and arguing that it had \"saved lives\".\n\n\"If it happened again this morning, I would do it again,\" he added.\n\nThe MP accused the commissioner and the committee of not talking to him until months into the investigation and failing to hear from his 17 witnesses.\n\nHe claims he was pronounced guilty by the commissioner \"without being spoken to\" and that \"no proper investigation was undertaken\".\n\nThe BBC has been told the committee interviewed Mr Paterson and reviewed all the witness statements he provided, while the commissioner offered Mr Paterson an interview but he didn't proceed with it.\n\nA spokesperson for Randox said it was aware of the report, adding: \"Randox does not wish, or need, to comment on this investigation. This is a matter for Mr Paterson and the relevant parliamentary authorities.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Lynn's Country Foods said the company would not be making a statement.\n\nIn Mr Paterson's response to the committee report he said: \"I lost my beloved wife of 40 years and this process was a major contributory factor.\"\n\nHe said the way the investigation was conducted \"undoubtedly played a major role\", saying: \"Rose would ask me despairingly every weekend about the progress of the inquiry, convinced that the investigation would go to any lengths to somehow find me in the wrong.\"\n\nMr Paterson told the BBC the investigation had \"destroyed the last quarter of my life\" and that his wife had been \"very rattled\" by the inquiry.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Owen Paterson says his family has been left in \"anguish and misery\" after his wife took her own life\n\nIn the report, the committee said it was \"painfully conscious that Mr Paterson lost his wife in tragic circumstances in June 2020\".\n\n\"We wish to express our deepest sympathy to him for his loss - this last year must have been very distressing for him and we have taken these circumstances fully into account in considering Mr Paterson's conduct during the period of the investigation.\"\n\nHowever, the committee said the allegations related to conduct prior to Mrs Paterson's death and that \"it is these allegations on which we are required to adjudicate, impartially, without fear or favour, and with a sole eye to the rules of the House and the requirements of natural justice\".\n\nIt added that it was \"very possible that grief and distress caused by this event has affected the way in which Mr Paterson approached the Commissioner's investigation thereafter\".\n\nThe committee also noted other mitigating factors including Mr Paterson's ill health.\n\nThe committee said Mr Paterson's \"evident passion for and expertise\" in food and farming was \"admirable\" but warned it should be \"channelled within the rules of the House\".\n\nListing \"aggravating factors\" that influenced the recommended punishment for Mr Paterson, it said: \"No previous case of paid advocacy has seen so many breaches or such a clear pattern of behaviour in failing to separate private and public interests.\"\n\nIt added that \"Mr Paterson's financial remuneration from Randox and Lynn's amounted to nearly three times his annual parliamentary salary\" and that during the investigation Mr Paterson had \"made serious, personal, and unsubstantiated allegations against the integrity of the commissioner and her team\".", "Tom Hanks typed a letter to Tom Hodges calling him his \"hero\"\n\nAn Edinburgh bookshop owner has been hailed a hero by Hollywood actor Tom Hanks for \"keeping typewriters alive\".\n\nTom Hodges typed a letter to the film star this summer and received a reply from the actor praising his work.\n\nThe 35-year-old has invited Hanks to visit his shop, Typewronger Books, while the National Museum of Scotland's typewriting exhibition is on show.\n\nMr Hodges, Scotland's only typewriter mechanic, said he was \"overjoyed\" to receive the letter.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"The reason this is cool for me is not the same as it is for everyone else.\n\n\"He might be a big Hollywood actor but for me it's all about his love of typewriters.\n\n\"There are a few typewriter geeks, such as Ben Aleshire in New Orleans and Luke Winter who has the Glasgow Story Wagon, but Tom Hanks gets the crown.\"\n\nTom Hanks has collected typewriters since he was a teenager\n\nMr Hodges typed the letter to Hanks about two months ago from his grandfather's old Remington Noiseless typewriter explaining all about his life and how he came to be a typewriter mechanic and \"geek\". He also inserted an origami dragon that he had made.\n\nMr Hodges said: \"I told him how I had run away from Edinburgh to live a Bohemian life in Paris and lived as a Tumbleweed at the Shakespeare and Company bookshop.\n\n\"It is a bookshop in Paris where you can sleep and live there. You turn up and if they have a space you can stay.\n\n\"The tradition there is to be kind to strangers lest they be angels in disguise. I arrived dressed like a mad parrot in all my colours and floor-length coat.\n\n\"I think it was a very good disguise as they let me stay. It has lots of nooks and crannies you can sleep in.\n\n\"They had old decrepit typewriters and it was there I taught myself to fix them so I could encourage the other Tumbleweeds to write on them.\"\n\nThe letter from Tom Hanks includes an x'd out mistake\n\nOn headed notepaper from the set of the Baz Luhrman-directed Elvis biopic, Hanks celebrated Mr Hodges for \"battling against the giants to sell the best of books - and keep typewriters alive\" as he hinted he may pay the capital a visit in the near future.\n\nMr Hodges said he was very curious when the letter arrived at his shop.\n\n\"I had no idea it was from him,\" he said. \"I get letters from all over the world and then I saw the letterhead and thought 'interesting'.\n\n\"Then inside it said Tom Hodges you are my hero and I flipped to the bottom and there was Tom Hanks' name.\n\n\"It was a proper type-written letter with his mistakes x'd out.\n\n\"Typewriter mechanics hate Tipp-ex because it gets in the mechanics so it was great to see he had x'd out his mistakes instead.\"\n\nHanks' letter had the insignia of The King's notorious manager Colonel Tom Parker - set to be portrayed by the actor in the film due for release next year - as he wrote the letter from that set.\n\nIn a 2019 interview with the New York Times, Hanks said he had collected typewriters since he was a teenager.\n\nAt one point he had hundreds of the machines, which he described as \"brilliant combinations of art and engineering.\" He now has 120.\n\nMr Hodges said: \"I hope he gets to see the [typewriter] exhibition at one point.\n\n\"It would be lovely to meet him. He seems like a really wonderful man.\n\n\"I would want to talk to him about typewriters an awful lot.\n\n\"I'm overjoyed with his letter, it's a marvellous thing.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nUS Open champion Emma Raducanu says \"everyone should be patient\" as she attempts this week to earn a first win since her Grand Slam success.\n\nThe 18-year-old Briton stunned the sport by lifting the title in New York last month, despite never having won a WTA match in her fledgling career.\n\nIn her only game since, she lost in the second round at Indian Wells and on Tuesday plays in the Transylvania Open.\n\n\"I am going to find my tennis, I just need a little bit of time,\" she said.\n\nRaducanu, seeded third in the event, plays Slovenia's world number 124 Polona Hercog at about 17:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nStill without a coach after parting ways with Andrew Richardson, who helped her triumph in New York, she is aiming for a first victory in a WTA event.\n\nRaducanu has lost in the opening round at previous tournaments in Nottingham, San Diego and Indian Wells.\n\n\"I don't think there is any pressure on me,\" said the world number 23. \"I feel like everyone should just be a little patient with me.\n\n\"I feel like I am the same person. I still go out there, approaching the same as before.\n\n\"I am really enjoying my tennis right now. I feel it will be in a great place. In the long term, I know it will be up and down, the past few weeks I have learned a lot about myself.\"\n\nRaducanu hopes to appoint a new coach before the 2022 season and has been training with Johanna Konta's former coach Esteban Carril this month.\n\nThe Spaniard, who helped Konta climb into the world's top 20, is not with Raducanu in Cluj-Napoca this week.\n\nInstead she says she is learning to coach herself in Romania, which is where her father Ian was born.\n\nRaducanu's grandmother lives in Bucharest and the teenager got a warm welcome in Cluj-Napoca, where she spoke in Romanian to the crowd after a practice session at the weekend.\n\n\"I am really excited for the next chapter. This end of the season and the next year I can play on the tour, like a full year, and that is the most exciting thing,\" she added.\n\n\"Patience is key. Because, as I said, there are a lot of lows, where you learn about your game. You adjust to each level gradually.\n\n\"I kind of went from zero to the top of the game. So, it's obviously going to take some time to adjust and adapt but hopefully with some good work I will be able to do that.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Greg Jenner and guests examine the man credited with Britain's first curry house\n• None Besides Gary Neville what frustrates Jamie Carragher most?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chaotic scenes at Kabul airport as people try desperately to flee\n\nAfghans, including former officials and activists, are calling on the UK government to announce when its new resettlement scheme will open.\n\nMany fearful for their safety under the Taliban regime say they are worried for their lives while they wait to find out if they are eligible to come to the UK.\n\nOne man currently in hiding in the country told the BBC: \"The more we wait the more in danger we are.\"\n\nMinister Victoria Atkins told MPs the scheme was not being paused.\n\nThe Home Office minister said: \"While we appreciate the need to act quickly it is also important that we do this properly and ensure any scheme meets the needs of those it is being set up to support.\"\n\nMeanwhile, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy has written to Foreign Secretary Liz Truss to raise \"serious concerns\", saying that months after the official evacuation ended thousands of people are still stranded in Afghanistan.\n\nMs Truss faces questions from MPs in Parliament on Tuesday, the first time in her new role.\n\nThe government announced a new Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) on 18 August, and committed to re-house 5,000 vulnerable Afghans in the UK in the first year, and 20,000 in the coming years. It is not yet open.\n\nThat scheme is separate to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) that launched on 1 April to resettle people who worked for the UK in Afghanistan.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to Afghans who are waiting to find out if they will be eligible for the scheme, one who talks about his family home being raided by the Taliban, and another who reports family members being threatened.\n\nAll their names have been changed to protect their anonymity.\n\nMohammed, who is in hiding in Afghanistan, is an alumnus of the Chevening scholarship scheme, the government programme that funds masters degrees at UK universities for foreign students with leadership potential.\n\nIn August, he and other Chevening alumni were told they - and current scholars - would be a priority for the first wave of evacuations and provided the UK government with their details.\n\nBut they are not sure if they will be eligible for the new ACRS scheme.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The fact that it has taken so long is one concern, but the fact we don't even know if we will be considered for the scheme is a bigger concern for us.\"\n\nHe fears that \"the more we wait the more in danger we are, the more risk we face\" and worries that because Chevening scholars and alumni were previously prioritised for evacuation they have been identified as a group with a strong affiliation to the UK.\n\n\"It's been more than a month now that I and many other Chevening alumni like me are hiding in our houses and we are fearing persecution if we step out.\n\n\"We are trying to limit our interactions - we have had very limited interaction with our friends and relatives.\"\n\nHe added that if \"you go out and you talk to someone and they find you - it's over for you\".\n\n\"If I stay here - that's the end of life. I can't go out, I can't get a job, I can't work, study - nothing at all. That's something to think about later. Right now - it's our lives that are in danger.\"\n\nAmina is also a Chevening alumni and feels particularly at risk from the Taliban because of her work as a women's rights campaigner and because she is from the Hazara community - an ethnic group who have been persecuted.\n\n\"The thing that makes me really worried is that they know about my identity, my background in Afghanistan, and my work experience. I'm a Chevening scholar alumni, before I was a women's rights advocate.\"\n\nAmina was contacted by the Home Office in the summer - identified as an individual at risk - and provided them with all the details of her and her dependents. But she says she hasn't heard back from the UK government since mid-August.\n\nAhmad worked for the Afghan government security services and is currently hiding in Afghanistan. He shared videos with BBC News that show his family home after being raided by the Taliban.\n\nHe received an email on 20 August from the Foreign Office asking for his details but he has not heard from them since.\n\n\"On the fourth day of the Taliban in Kabul, we left our home and hid in a safe and secret place since then because my mother was also an adviser to the intelligence service department of Afghanistan.\"\n\nHe said his \"main fear\" is that the Taliban will arrest, torture or kill former government employees.\n\nA Taliban fighter stands guard at the market in Kabul\n\nAli also worked for the Afghan government and gave his details to the Home Office one and a half months before leaving Afghanistan but had no response. After Kabul fell to the Taliban he fled to a third country, gave the Home Office his details, and was told he was a priority for evacuation - but has not had contact since.\n\nHis family are still in Afghanistan and he says they have been threatened by the Taliban.\n\n\"Every single, or every two days, they are going to our offices, to our homes to find us or to find one of our family members. Every single day I worry about their lives, about their security.\n\n\"I fought many years against the Taliban - it was also about ISIS, al-Qaeda who were a big worry for Afghanistan and a big worry for the world.\n\n\"The world did not remain a good soldier and a good friend to Afghanistan. Especially to people like me who were in the frontline and who were defending the world from terrorism.\"\n\nMs Nandy said: \"Many of them [Afghans waiting to hear] are people who helped us, British nationals, or the dependents of those who helped us - who are now being targeted by the Taliban and in some cases hunted door to door,\" she said.\n\nShe said when Parliament was recalled in August the \"only concrete commitment\" the prime minister and former foreign secretary Dominic Raab made was \"to respond to every email from members of parliament raising urgent cases of people who were stranded in Afghanistan\".\n\nShe said: \"They promised to do that by the beginning of September, that promise was not met, now the Foreign Office is writing to MPs asking them not to raise cases any more and signposting them to a scheme run by the Home Office that isn't even open yet.\"\n\nShe has written to the new foreign secretary to ask her to \"get a grip on the mess that she was left when she took office\".\n\nForeign Affairs committee chair Tom Tugendhat said: \"Those who stood with us now need us to stand with them but every day of delay costs lives. We've been pressing the government for clarity urgently to protect our friends and their families.\"\n\nIn the Commons, Conservative MP Caroline Nokes said Afghans who had arrived in the UK were \"desperately\" looking for information on how the ACRS was going to work to help family members join them.\n\nAnd Green Party MP Caroline Lucas told the BBC that when she told the Foreign Office about British nationals still stranded she was met with \"deafening silence\".\n\n\"Of the seven British nationals I have been in contact with who are still in Afghanistan, none of them according to the responses I've received, were actually registered with the FCDO as being British nationals stranded in Afghanistan,\" she said.\n\n\"This is despite me sending multiple messages to the FCDO and Home Office, and most of the British nationals also making enquiries directly themselves to the FCDO contact points in the public domain.\"\n\nOne former ambassador to Afghanistan, Sir Nick Kay, said he has \"daily\" requests from Afghans in hiding \"in very perilous situations\" asking for help: \"At the moment all I can do is point them towards the Home Office website for the ACRS.\n\n\"Very high up on the screen there is the simple statement that 'this scheme is not yet operational'.\n\n\"There is no date for when they can apply. And there is no clarity for the criteria there will be for the scheme.\n\n\"So really I feel frustrated but, more than that, these Afghans feel incredibly at risk, their lives have been turned upside down, they would just like some clarity from the UK government, a clear timeframe and some action rather than just the words.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has told MPs the Budget begins the work to prepare for a new economy post Covid, as he delivers his speech in the Commons.\n\nSpending plans for transport, health and education have been unveiled in the press.\n\nMr Sunak is under pressure to help people with the cost of living.\n\nSources say he will adjust the universal credit taper rate, meaning those working will be able to take home more of the money they earn.\n\nA £20 a week top up to the benefit was cut earlier this month, but details of any changes have yet to be announced.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer will not be responding to the Budget, as the leader of the opposition is normally expected to do, as he is isolating after testing positive for Covid. Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves will set out Labour's response instead.\n\nAccording to Downing Street, Mr Sunak told the cabinet on Wednesday morning that his Budget \"will deliver a stronger economy for the British people\" with the \"levelling-up\" agenda - spreading prosperity around the country - a \"golden thread\" running through it.\n\nThe chancellor is under pressure to reveal more about the economic outlook, with government debt soaring to record peace time levels in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nAnd he will deliver a three-year spending review alongside his Budget.\n\nThe Treasury has asked departments to find \"at least 5% of savings and efficiencies from their day-to-day budgets\" - so it is clear not every area will get the same treatment.\n\nPolicies already unveiled from the chancellor's Budget include:\n\nYou can read more on the announcements the government has already made here.\n\nOne of the pre-announced policies is the end to a pay freeze for public sector workers - such as teachers, nurses and police officers - but ministers have so far refused to say whether it will be a real-terms rise by being higher than inflation.\n\nPay for most frontline workforces is set by independent pay review bodies and No 10 has said it could not \"prejudge that process\".\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle was furious about the number of spending plans that were given to the media before Mr Sunak's big speech - they are traditionally meant to be announced in Parliament so MPs can challenge and scrutinise them. Deputy Speaker Eleanor Laing echoed the reproof just before the Chancellor got to his feet.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said they \"recognised the importance of parliamentary scrutiny\" and they \"always listen very carefully to the Speaker\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Lindsay Hoyle says it is “not acceptable\" for ministers to give briefings to the media before Parliament.\n\nWhisper it. After the economy took an absolute hammering during the pandemic, might the chancellor tomorrow actually be in a much cheerier political mood than he could have predicted?\n\nDuring his Budget warm-up in the last few days, Rishi Sunak has already totted up promises of around an extra £20bn of spending, as well as announcing how some of the cash that was already promised is going to be carved up.\n\nHold on for a second though. On the specifics, there is no guarantee that unfreezing the wages of 2.5 million workers in England will mean they get pay rises that aren't eroded by inflation.\n\nThe same goes for increases for workers on low pay, and cuts to universal credit will pinch too.\n\nHaving treated us all to cosy snaps of him and his Labrador, Nova, and him hard at work in his athleisure wear, Rishi Sunak wants to give the political impression that he's a chancellor we can all be comfortable with - careful with our money, but not afraid to spend it on things that matter, who has modern Tory instincts, but won't ditch the party's traditions.\n\nBut remember Budget warm-ups are just that. However many announcements there have already been, however carefully the photographs of the prep have been thought through and selected, what matters is what he actually says at lunchtime on Wednesday.\n\nWhat matters are the numbers - what's in black and white - in the end.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nSir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"The Budget must take the pressure off working people.\n\n\"With costs growing and inflation rising, Labour would cut VAT on domestic energy bills immediately for six months.\n\n\"Unlike the Tories, we wouldn't hike taxes on working people and we'd ensure online giants pay their fair share.\"\n\nEx-Tory chancellor Philip Hammond told BBC Newscast the government should not use higher wages as \"a bung\" to secure the support of low income voters.\n\n\"The instinct to send a message to business that we need to invest more capital rather than just relying on cheap labour, I think is the right instinct, I would support that,\" he said.\n\nAdam Scorer, chief executive of fuel poverty charity National Energy Action, warned it was going to be a \"brutal and bitter winter for millions of householders\" who were unable to bear the costs of energy price rises.\n\nHe called for the chancellor to find a way to put some of the extra tax receipts raised by the price increases back in the pockets of the most vulnerable.", "Lowri Davies has taken part in protests in the Swansea area\n\nA Black Lives Matter activist said her trust was \"destroyed\" when police tried to recruit her as an informant.\n\nSwansea University law student Lowri Davies said she was called in March by a covert officer.\n\nThe anti-racism campaigner said she was confused to be asked to give details of far-right activists protesting at Black Lives Matter demonstrations.\n\nSouth Wales Police said a complaint referring to contact made by a covert officer was being considered.\n\nMs Davies received the call from the woman \"out of the blue\" on a Tuesday morning.\n\n\"She says that she is a covert police officer and she works for informants, usually with drugs and burglary and, in my case, the protests,\" she said.\n\n\"And she said that she was interested in other groups turning up and causing chaos in our protests and being not from our movement.\n\n\"But to be honest, I knew that this was a ruse, because what would I know about other groups... I've got no information on that - I'm a part of Black Lives Matters Swansea - the alt-right is not something that I'm very aware of.\"\n\nMs Davies did not think that by being an activist police would get in touch with her\n\nMs Davies said a meeting was arranged with the woman and a superior officer the following day.\n\nShe added: \"I was absolutely terrified, I can't really explain how terrified I was, I was so terrified that I just went completely numb.\"\n\nMs Davies spent 90 minutes with the officers and was asked about her family, BLM and the alt-right. She said she did not respond to follow-up phone calls.\n\nShe said the experience made her question herself, and she now had a \"vetting process\" in her head when new people came into her life.\n\nShe said she had a good working relationship with police on protests, but added: \"For them to turn around and almost 'good cop, bad cop' me really destroyed what I thought was going on.\"\n\nShe said she was surprised police would want to infiltrate her group.\n\n\"It really hits home when it's in the UK, and especially in Swansea. We're a small non-violent group... it was really, really confusing, scary and baffling,\" Ms Davies added.\n\nProtests have increased following the murder of George Floyd y a white police officer\n\nTim Brain, a former chief constable of the Gloucestershire force who now writes on police matters, said use of informants was now a \"highly regulated field\".\n\n\"They have to be recruited under a very strict regime where there is an authorising officer, a handler and a controller so there's a lot of oversight about the recruitment and the way an informant - or as they're now properly called, a covert human intelligence source - operates,\" he said.\n\n\"Think in terms of the old British crime dramas of the '70s or even the '80s and just forget all of that - the recruiting and the handling of a covert human intelligence source is now specialist work by a specialist unit within a police force.\"\n\nIn a statement, South Wales Police said it would \"neither confirm nor deny any specific details in relation to this matter\".\n\n\"A complaint has been received which refers to contact made by a covert officer. This is currently being considered by the force's professional standards department and therefore it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time,\" it said.\n\n\"The use of informants is a well-established and highly regulated tactic used by police forces across the country to protect the public. Their use is controlled within strict legal parameters by trained specialised staff and the accountability and protection of the informant and the public is paramount.\n\n\"Protest organisers have an obligation to liaise with police forces and South Wales Police has a proven track record in working with organisers to facilitate lawful protest while minimising disruption to the wider public.\"", "Sizewell C (lighter grey on the right) would be built next to Sizewell B\n\nFunding rules paving the way for a new major nuclear power station have been announced by the Business and Energy Secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng.\n\nThe move is the latest stage in efforts to build the £20bn Sizewell C project in Suffolk.\n\nThe proposed plant is still subject to planning approval, but until now, the Treasury has been uncertain of how to pay for it.\n\nEven if the project is approved, it still faces strong local objections.\n\nThe government said the new financing model could help cut the cost of new nuclear power projects in Britain, saving consumers more than £30bn on each new large-scale station.\n\nThe proposals include electricity customers paying for part of nuclear schemes' costs upfront through bills.\n\nThe new model, known as RAB (Regulated Asset Base), has already been used to finance some large infrastructure projects, including the £4.2bn Thames Tideway \"super-sewer\".\n\nIt allows investors to receive returns before the projects have been completed.\n\nThe Treasury was initially reluctant to use the RAB model.\n\nNot only does it add money to consumer bills over the lifetime of the project, but it also leaves consumers vulnerable to cost overruns, which have plagued previous nuclear developments.\n\nHowever, contractor EDF Energy has been adamant that lessons learned on previous projects - and the fact that it is building an identical plant at Hinkley Point - have largely mitigated those risks, says BBC business editor Simon Jack.\n\nMr Kwarteng said the new funding model was a better way to finance such projects.\n\n\"The existing financing scheme led to too many overseas nuclear developers walking away from projects, setting Britain back years,\" he said.\n\n\"We urgently need a new approach to attract British funds and other private investors to back new large-scale nuclear power stations in the UK.\"\n\nEmployers' organisation the CBI said the new financing model was \"a crucial step in building a secure, affordable and greener energy system in the years ahead\".\n\n\"Getting new projects off the ground will be a huge boost to supply chains and can deliver jobs right across the UK,\" said Tom Thackray, director of the CBI's decarbonisation programme.\n\nThe Nuclear Industry Association said it would add a small levy to bills of no more than a few pounds during the early phase of construction and less than £1 a month over the course of a project.\n\nIt \"warmly welcomed\" the plan, adding it would also bring substantial savings in terms of CO2 emissions worth £526m a year at today's carbon prices, or £18 per year for every UK household.\n\nBut the high cost of big nuclear plants and the plummeting cost of renewables such as offshore wind make the project controversial.\n\nHowever, the enormous amount of low-carbon non-intermittent electricity that it produces is considered by the government to be an essential part of the UK's future energy mix as existing nuclear plants are phased out.\n\nThe recent intermittency of wind power has also made the case in ministers' minds for an \"always on\" part of the energy supply, our business editor adds.\n\nTogether, Hinkley and Sizewell C are expected to produce 14% of the UK's current electricity needs, but they are unlikely to be operational until the late 2030s.\n\nThe new funding plan has been greeted with dismay by campaigners against the proposed plant.\n\nAlison Downes of Stop Sizewell C described it as \"a desperate measure to attract investment\" for \"a project so toxic that no one wants to pay for it\".\n\nShe added: \"Compared to other energy solutions, Sizewell C is an expensive distraction - too damaging, too slow for our climate emergency and with serious question marks over its reactor technology.\"", "Ramadan Abedi left the UK for Libya with his wife a month before the Manchester Arena attack\n\nThe parents of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi are still living in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, where they are under surveillance by Libyan authorities, the BBC has confirmed.\n\nA Libyan security source said there is no evidence against the parents.\n\nBut the source added: \"We are watching the family, constantly. If anything happens we will know.\"\n\nRamadan Abedi and his wife Samia Tabbal are suspects in the case. They have not been charged with an offence in the UK.\n\nThe pair left the UK for Libya in April 2017, a month before the attack.\n\nRamadan was detained in Tripoli two days after the attack, but later released.\n\nA senior MI5 officer told the Manchester Arena Inquiry on Monday that he was \"likely\" to have influenced his son's extremist beliefs. In the past he has denied having links with Islamist militant groups or having any knowledge of the attack.\n\nHis fingerprints were found inside a car used by Salman Abedi and his brother Hashem to store explosives and bomb-making material.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nAs bereaved parents in Manchester keep searching for answers, and for justice, here in Tripoli the bombers' parents are keeping a low profile.\n\nBBC news has confirmed they still come and go from the family home on the outskirts of Tripoli, sometimes staying for a few days, sometimes for a week.\n\nThe two-storey house sits behind a breeze block wall down a rough side road. When we visited the house the tall metal gates were chained shut.\n\nThe only thing visible inside was an upturned wheelbarrow in the front yard. But a neighbour - who did not want to be identified - told us that Mr Abedi and his wife had been at the house just days before.\n\nThe Abedi family home is on the outskirts of Tripoli\n\nThe couple have refused to engage with the Manchester Arena inquiry, as has their oldest son Ismail. He managed to fly out of the UK on 29 August, evading a scheduled appearance. He missed a flight the day before, having been delayed by questioning from the police.\n\nSince then his whereabouts are unconfirmed, but there is speculation he may have come to Libya, where he has an extended family network.\n\nLibya's foreign minister Najla El-Mangoush - who is British born herself - told the BBC authorities in Libya and in Britain are in contact on this issue.\n\n\"I think there is collaboration between the general attorney office, and some figures in England related to this issue,\" she said.\n\n\"I am not sure if there is any positive outcome. We respect the judicial system and we don't want to interfere, but also we are willing to collaborate from a political perspective if there is anything we can do from our side.\"\n\nOfficials in Libya are keen to stress their willingness to co-operate with requests for help from Britain - if they receive any. Asked if she was aware of any requests for assistance with other possible suspects who might be in Libya, the minister replied \"not recently\".\n\nLibya extradited the bomber's brother Hashem Abedi in 2019. \"He didn't expect to be handed over to the British,\" a source in Libya told the BBC.\n\nHe is now serving 55 years for his role in the attack.", "Since 2016 more than 600 reports of officers abusing their powers for sexual purposes have led to over 200 investigations by the IOPC\n\nPolice officers and staff who abuse their position for a sexual purpose have \"no place in policing and will be found out\", a watchdog has warned.\n\nFigures from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) for referrals made in England and Wales last year were nearly double the 2016 numbers.\n\nAbuse of Powers for a Sexual Purpose (APSP) referrals are the largest form of police corruption, the IOPC said.\n\nBetween 2016 and 2020, there were 643 referrals for abuse of position.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs Council defines APSP as: \"Any behaviour by a police officer or police staff member, whether on or off duty, that takes advantage of their position as a member of the police service to misuse their position, authority or powers in order to pursue a sexual or improper emotional relationship with any member of the public.\"\n\nLast year there were 131 referrals and 70 investigations. That compares to 74 referrals in 2016, which led to 10 investigations.\n\nBetween April 2018 and March 2021, 66 police officers and members of staff have faced disciplinary proceedings. Misconduct was proven in 63 cases.\n\nOf the 52 who faced the more serious charge of gross misconduct, 38 are no longer serving and barred from policing for life - six were later convicted of criminal offences.\n\nNot all APSP allegations will be covered by these figures as many incidents will be investigated by the police forces themselves.\n\nIOPC deputy director general Claire Bassett described these cases as an \"appalling abuse of the public's trust\", which has a \"devastating impact on the people involved, who are often in a vulnerable situation\".\n\nShe said: \"The police are there to help them, not exploit them.\n\n\"Recent events we have seen, including the horrific actions of Wayne Couzens, remind us that policing must act to root out this kind of behaviour once and for all.\"\n\nIn 2017 legislation was introduced setting out the criteria in which mandatory referrals to the watchdog should be made, including an explicit reference to APSP, which has led to the steep rise in the number of cases being reported, the IOPC said.\n\nAPSP is the \"single largest form of police corruption\" the watchdog explained, accounting for around a quarter of all referrals and almost 60% of investigations last year.\n\nChief Constable Lauren Poultney from the National Police Chiefs' Council said: \"There is no place in policing for those who abuse their position for a sexual purpose.\"\n\n\"Any case of such abuse is one too many, it is a serious betrayal of what policing stands for and its duty to protect the public.\"\n\nSeparate figures obtained after a Freedom of Information Request by BBC Newsnight show the number of complaints made about police officers accused of sexual misconduct across the UK.\n\nOf the 44 out of 46 UK forces who responded, 2,702 police officers have been accused of sexual misconduct in the last five years.\n\nDisciplinary action taken from these allegations ended with three per cent of cases in criminal court, eight per cent with an officer dismissed and a further eight per cent issued with a reprimand.\n\nNewsnight spoke to a victim of domestic violence who was exploited by a serving officer.\n\nJessica (not her real name) reported she had been blackmailed about sexually explicit images of her being posted on the internet.\n\nAn officer she believed to be investigating repeatedly asked her for the explicit videos and images and sent explicit images of himself in return - including while in uniform.\n\nHe had previously contacted another woman in a similar way and received training about forming inappropriate relationships.\n\nThe officer was dismissed after a police misconduct hearing and barred for five years.\n\nCaroline Nokes MP, chairwoman of the women and equalities committee, told Newsnight officers who exploit vulnerable people should be \"barred forever\".\n\n\"It shouldn't be the case that they can serve a five-year bar and come back. That simply isn't protecting the vulnerable,\" the Conservative MP added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An exiled officer says the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman is a \"psychopath\".\n\nSaudi Arabia's crown prince suggested using a \"poison ring\" to kill the late King Abdullah, a former top Saudi intelligence official has alleged.\n\nIn an interview with CBS, Saad al-Jabri said Mohammed bin Salman told his cousin in 2014 that he wanted to do so to clear the throne for his father.\n\nThere were tensions within the ruling family at the time over the succession.\n\nThe Saudi government has called Mr Jabri a discredited former official with a long history of fabrication.\n\nIn his interview with CBS's 60 Minutes programme Mr Jabri warned that Crown Prince Mohammed - Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler and the son of King Salman - was a \"psychopath, killer, in the Middle East with infinite resources, who poses threat to his people, to the Americans and to the planet\".\n\nHe alleged that at a 2014 meeting the prince suggested to his cousin Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the then interior minister, that he could arrange the killing of King Abdullah.\n\n\"He told him: 'I want to assassinate King Abdullah. I get a poison ring from Russia. It's enough for me just to shake hand with him and he will be done,'\" Mr Jabri said.\n\n\"Whether he's just bragging... he said that and we took it seriously.\"\n\nHe said the matter was settled privately within the royal court. But he added that the meeting was secretly filmed and that he knew where two copies of the video recording were.\n\nAbdullah died at the age of 90 in 2015 and was succeeded by his half-brother Salman, Mohammed bin Salman's father, who named Mohammed bin Nayef as crown prince.\n\nIn 2017, Mohammed bin Nayef was replaced as heir to the throne by Mohammed bin Salman. He also lost his role as interior minister and was reportedly placed under house arrest before being detained last year on unspecified charges.\n\nMr Jabri fled to Canada after Mohammed bin Nayef was ousted.\n\nHe said in the interview that he was warned by a friend in a Middle Eastern intelligence service that Mohammed bin Salman was sending a hit team to kill him in October 2018, just days after Saudi agents murdered the dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey.\n\nHe alleged that a six-person team landed at an airport in Ottawa but were deported after customs found they were carrying \"suspicious equipment for DNA analysis\".\n\nLast year, Mr Jabri accused the crown prince of attempted murder in a civil suit filed in a US federal court.\n\nThe prince rejected the allegations. He has also denied any involvement in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, although US intelligence agencies assessed that he approved the operation.\n\nKing Abdullah (front left) was succeeded by his half-brother Salman (R) after he died in 2015 at the age of 90\n\nThe BBC has contacted the Saudi government for comment on the allegations.\n\nIn a statement sent to CBS, the Saudi embassy in Washington labelled Mr Jabri as \"a discredited former government official with a long history of fabricating and creating distractions to hide the financial crimes he committed, which amount to billions of dollars, to furnish a lavish life-style for himself and his family\".\n\nMr Jabri is being sued for corruption by various Saudi entities and a Canadian judge has frozen his assets saying there is \"overwhelming evidence of fraud\".\n\nHe denies stealing any government money, saying his former employers rewarded him generously.\n\nIn March 2020, Saudi authorities detained Mr Jabri's son Omar and daughter Sarah in what human rights groups said was an apparent effort to coerce him to return to Saudi Arabia.\n\nLast November, two months after their father sued the crown prince, the siblings were sentenced to nine and six-and-a-half years in prison respectively by a Saudi court after being convicted of money laundering and \"attempting to escape\" the country. They denied the charges.\n\nAn appeals court upheld their sentences in a secret hearing at which they were not present.", "The White House has outlined new rules for foreign travellers to the US, as flight restrictions lift for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020.\n\nThe plan to reopen the US border next month to foreign flights includes a requirement that almost all foreign visitors be vaccinated against Covid.\n\nThe US travel ban has grown to include dozens of countries, including the UK, much of Europe, China and India.\n\nThe travel industry has been asking for US President Joe Biden to lift the ban.\n\nOriginally imposed by Donald Trump, the ban on flights from most foreign countries was extended when Mr Biden took power in January 2021.\n\nThe rule bans most visitors from Brazil, China, South Africa, the UK, the 26 Schengen countries in Europe, Ireland, India and Iran.\n\nThe proclamation signed by Mr Biden on Monday says that airlines will be required to check travellers' vaccination status before they can board departing planes.\n\n\"It is in the interests of the United States to move away from the country-by-country restrictions previously applied during the Covid-19 pandemic and to adopt an air travel policy that relies primarily on vaccination to advance the safe resumption of international air travel to the United States,\" Mr Biden's proclamation says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The mystery of how Long Covid damages our memory\n\nAirlines must confirm that the proof of vaccination comes from an \"official source\" and was received at least two weeks prior. Any vaccines approved by US health regulators will be accepted.\n\nUnvaccinated travellers, including Americans, will have to show a negative Covid test taken within one day of departure.\n\nChildren under the age of 18 will be exempt from the vaccination requirement but must still provide a negative test taken within three days of travel.\n\nThe new restrictions take effect on 8 November.", "The Queen was pictured during a video call from Windsor Castle on Tuesday\n\nThe Queen will not attend the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow following medical advice to rest.\n\nThe 95-year-old monarch underwent preliminary medical checks in hospital last Wednesday after cancelling a visit to Northern Ireland.\n\nShe resumed public engagements on Tuesday by meeting ambassadors via video link from Windsor Castle.\n\nBuckingham Palace said she \"regretfully\" decided not to attend a reception at the summit.\n\nBut the palace said she would deliver her address to delegates using a recorded video message instead.\n\nThe Queen was due to travel to Scotland as part of a string of COP26 engagements by senior members of the Royal Family including the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge between 1-5 November.\n\nThe other royals will still attend the summit.\n\nIt is understood that the monarch very much wants COP26 to result in meaningful action on climate change from participating nations, and hopes her absence will not be used by others as a reason not to attend.\n\nThe Queen was overheard at the opening of the Welsh Parliament earlier this month saying it was \"really irritating\" when people talk but don't act on climate issues.\n\nSir Peter Westmacott, a former UK ambassador to the US, said the cancellation was a \"blow\" to the summit, but argued the substance of the talks should not be affected.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said the Queen's attendance would have been the \"icing on the cake\" but it was still a \"very important opportunity\" for Prince Charles to speak alongside other senior royals.\n\nThe Queen smiled as she greeted the South Korean and Swiss ambassadors during video calls\n\nIn photographs released on Tuesday, the Queen was seen smiling on camera as she greeted the South Korean and Swiss ambassadors, who were speaking to her from Buckingham Palace.\n\nShe also spoke to Chancellor Rishi Sunak by phone on Tuesday evening ahead of his Budget unveiling on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThe photographed video calls were the first occasions she had been seen since she hosted an investment summit at Windsor Castle on the evening of 19 October.\n\nThe following day, Buckingham Palace said the monarch had \"reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for the next few days\".\n\nThe Queen was pictured alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson last Tuesday evening\n\nA cancelled trip to Northern Ireland and a night in hospital last week were followed by reassurances that this would only mean a rest and recharging of the royal batteries ahead of the COP26 summit.\n\nThat trip to Glasgow has now been cancelled too. It was a big moment in the royal calendar and it's a decision that would not have been taken lightly.\n\nOnly on Tuesday morning the 95-year-old Queen was shown back at work and sending a signal that all was well.\n\nHer meetings on Tuesday were held on video - and a video message will be sent to the Glasgow summit - so perhaps this will be more of how we'll see the monarch in future.\n\nShe will be more online, while those in-line will take up more of the public responsibilities.\n\nThe Queen spent the night of 20 October in a London hospital before returning the next day to Windsor Castle, where she was said to be \"in good spirits\".\n\nShe did not attend a church service at Windsor on Sunday.\n\nIt has been a busy period of official engagements for the Queen.\n\nAn official record of her diary showed at least 16 formal events during October.\n\nShe has been seen using a walking stick at recent public events, including at a Westminster Abbey service and when she opened the sixth term of the Senedd in Wales.\n\nIn its latest statement, the palace said: \"Following advice to rest, The Queen has been undertaking light duties at Windsor Castle.\n\n\"Her Majesty has regretfully decided that she will no longer travel to Glasgow to attend the evening reception of COP26 on Monday, 1 November.\"\n\nThe statement concluded: \"Her Majesty is disappointed not to attend the reception but will deliver an address to the assembled delegates via a recorded video message.\"\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.", "A new temporary injunction has been granted against environmental group Insulate Britain after protesters brought parts of London to a standstill.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the injunction covered the \"entire strategic road network\".\n\n\"Tonight this has been granted on a temp basis by the High Court,\" he tweeted on Monday evening.\n\nEarlier police arrested more than 50 people, some glued to the road.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, Mr Shapps accused Insulate Britain, who blocked roads on 14 days over the five weeks to 14 October, of \"risking lives and ruining journeys\".\n\nThere are already three specific injunctions in place against the group.\n\nThe transport secretary tweeted: \"The long term solution lies in changes to the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill, giving additional powers against disruptive protests which target critical national infrastructure.\"\n\nInsulate Britain, an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion, wants the government to insulate all UK homes by 2030 to cut carbon emissions.\n\nMembers of the group targeted London's financial district in Canary Wharf and the City of London during Monday's rush hour, obstructing Limehouse Causeway as well as nearby Liverpool Street, Bishopsgate and Upper Thames Street.\n\nDemonstrators who glued their hands to the ground on Monday were removed from the road by officers before being arrested and led to police vehicles.\n\nProtesters blocked roads in London's financial district on Monday\n\nThe previous injunctions obtained by the government ban the group from demonstrations on the M25, around the Port of Dover and on major roads around London. These orders were granted to National Highways.\n\nIn addition, Transport for London was granted a civil banning order earlier this month to prevent activists obstructing traffic on the city's roads - an order which was extended last week.\n\nBreaches of the injunctions could lead to jail terms. However, so far, the injunctions have failed to put a stop to the protests.\n\nInsulate Britain have also targeted motorways, including the M25\n\nEarlier this month, the group, whose actions have led to angry exchanges with members of the public caught up in traffic disruption, suspended its campaigning for 11 days, from 14 October.\n\nBut protesters vowed to restart its action if Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not deliver \"a meaningful or trustworthy statement\" on improving the insulation in some British homes.\n\nIn a statement following the most recent arrests on Monday, Insulate Britain said: \"We won't stand by while the government kills our kids.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The boy used the proceeds from his website scam to invest in Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies\n\nA boy who set up a fake website as part of a \"sophisticated cyber fraud\" has had more than £2m of cryptocurrency seized by police.\n\nThe 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, used it to dupe users of a digital gift voucher site into entering their personal details.\n\nHe stole £6,500 worth of vouchers and used the proceeds to buy Bitcoins, Lincoln Crown Court heard.\n\nSam Skinner, prosecuting, said the boy had set up the fake website from his bedroom in April 2020.\n\nIt was almost identical to the official site of Love2Shop, which sells gift vouchers, the court heard.\n\nHe then paid to advertise on Google, which resulted in the bogus site appearing above the genuine site when people searched for it.\n\n\"People were duped into clicking on his website thinking they were accessing the official site,\" the prosecutor said.\n\nThe court was told the boy took the site down after a week just as Love2Shop began investigating him following a complaint from a customer.\n\nHowever, the teenager, from south Lincolnshire, used the proceeds to buy Bitcoins and other cryptocurrency, which subsequently soared in value, the court was told.\n\nFollowing his arrest in August 2020, police found 48 Bitcoins and a smaller number of other coins.\n\n\"At the time they were worth £200,000. They are now worth a little over £2 million,\" Mr Skinner said.\n\nThe subsequent police investigation also found over 12,000 credit card numbers stored on the boy's computer and details of 197 PayPal accounts, he told the court.\n\nThe teenager, who is now studying A-levels, admitted charges of money laundering between 9 and 16 April 2020 and fraud totalling £6,539 by false representation.\n\nJudge Catarina Sjolin Knight ruled that he benefited from his crimes by £2,141,720 and ordered that amount to be confiscated from his assets.\n\n\"If he was an adult he would be going inside,\" she said.\n\nShe told the defendant: \"You have a long-standing interest in computers. Unfortunately, you used your skills to commit a sophisticated fraud.\"\n\nA Bitcoin is basically a computer file which is stored in a digital wallet app on a smartphone or computer.\n\nIt could be described as an online version of cash, which you can use to buy products and services, but it is not controlled by the government or banks.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The fund was meant to help developing countries tackle and adapt to the effects of climate change\n\nA key pledge ahead of an upcoming climate change conference has still not been met and the money is not sure to be available before 2023.\n\nThe UK government has set out a new financing plan ahead of next week's climate change conference - COP26.\n\nIt talks of how developed countries hope to deliver $100bn a year in climate finance to developing countries.\n\nThe original aim was for that target to be reached by 2020.\n\nBut the financing plan said the target looked \"unlikely\" to be met but that it was \"confident\" the target would be hit by 2023.\n\nSome environmentalists say the new plan is too little, too late.\n\nCOP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma said: \"This plan recognises progress, based on strong new climate finance commitments. There is still further to go, but this delivery plan, alongside the robust methodological report from the OECD, provides clarity, transparency and accountability.\n\n\"It is a step towards rebuilding trust and gives developing countries more assurance of predictable support.\"\n\nClimate finance plays a critical role in helping developing countries tackle climate change and adapt to its impacts.\n\nIn 2009, developed countries agreed to mobilise $100bn in climate finance per year by 2020, and in 2015 agreed to extend this goal through to 2025.\n\nHowever, the UK COP26 Presidency now says the $100bn goal is likely to fall short in 2021 and 2022 - though is confident it will be met in 2023.\n\nMohamed Nasheed, the former president of the Maldives, said: \"To provide confidence and momentum going into COP26, the $100bn climate finance goal must be met immediately, not in 2023.\n\n\"The financing announcement is extremely disappointing in that it asks us as developing countries to wait even longer for the delivery of a promise that was first made more than a decade ago. I know the UK presidency has worked very hard for this, and I appreciate their efforts, but this is not sufficient to lay the groundwork for a successful outcome at COP26.\n\n\"Unless more progress is made in the next fortnight, we will all be in trouble. \"\n\nThe finance delivery plan was produced by Jonathan Wilkinson and Jochen Flasbarth, environment ministers from Canada and Germany, respectively, at the request of Mr Sharma.\n\nCanadian finance minister Jonathan Wilkinson was keen to stress that in his view the plan would achieve the $100bn goal per year over the 2020-2025 period.\n\nIn some areas of the world, dry conditions will become more frequent in future\n\n\"We have much greater confidence that the goal that was agreed upon will in fact, be achieved, and in fact, it will be overachieved beyond 2023 so I think that's very good news.\n\n\"And I think that, perhaps through this process, we've moved the bar in terms of how we can provide greater confidence and transparency going forward.\"\n\nOn Monday, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson also said it was \"touch and go\" whether the upcoming COP26 global climate conference will secure the agreements needed to help tackle climate change.\n\n\"It is going to be very, very tough this summit. I am very worried because it might go wrong and we might not get the agreements that we need and it is touch and go, it is very, very difficult, but I think it can be done,\" he said.\n\nIn the meantime, the climate crisis continues to deepen: the World Meteorological Organization has said the build-up of warming gases in the atmosphere rose to record levels in 2020 despite the pandemic.\n\nThe amounts - or concentrations - of CO2, methane and nitrous oxide rose by more than the annual average in the past 10 years.\n\n\"Developing countries have been rightfully disappointed that so far developed countries have not delivered on the $100bn pledge that was already given in 2009,\" said the one of the plan's authors, Jochen Flasbarth, Germany's secretary of state for the environment.\n\n\"Hence, I am glad that the process I was honoured to lead jointly with minister Jonathan Wilkinson has created momentum to help complying with the finance commitment overall in the period up to 2025. We are very aware that also after today's release of the Delivery Plan, a lot of work remains.\"\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC goes behind the scenes with Sir David Attenborough on the set of his new documentary, The Green Planet\n\n\"If we don't act now, it'll be too late.\" That's the warning from Sir David Attenborough ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nThe broadcaster says the richest nations have \"a moral responsibility\" to help the world's poorest.\n\nAnd it would be \"really catastrophic\" if we ignored their problems, he told me in a BBC News interview.\n\n\"Every day that goes by in which we don't do something about it is a day wasted,\" he said.\n\nSir David and I were speaking at Kew Gardens in London during filming for a new landmark series, The Green Planet, to be aired on BBC1 next year.\n\nOur conversation ranged from the latest climate science to the importance of COP26 to the pace of his working life.\n\nThe UN climate science panel recently concluded that it is \"unequivocal\" that human activity is driving up global temperatures.\n\nAnd Sir David said that proved that he and others had not been making \"a fuss about nothing\", and that the risks of a hotter world are real.\n\nExtreme weather such as drought will increase as the world gets warmer\n\n\"What climate scientists have been saying for 20 years, and that we have been reporting upon, you and I both, is the case - we were not causing false alarms.\n\n\"And every day that goes by in which we don't do something about it is a day wasted. And things are being made worse\".\n\nBut he said the report had not convinced everyone and that they are acting as a brake on efforts to tackle climate change.\n\n\"There are still people in North America, there are still people in Australia who say 'no, no, no, no, of course it's very unfortunate that there was that forest fire that absolutely demolished, incinerated that village, but it's a one-off'.\n\n\"Particularly if it's going to cost money in the short term, the temptation is to deny the problem and pretend it's not there.\n\n\"But every month that passes, it becomes more and more incontrovertible, the changes to the planet that we are responsible for that are having these devastating effects.\"\n\nHis call for an urgent response reflects the latest scientific assessment that to avoid the worst impacts of rising temperatures, global carbon emissions need to be halved no later than 2030.\n\nThat's why the coming years are described as \"the decisive decade\" and why the COP26 talks are so crucial for getting the world on a safer path now.\n\nAs things stand, emissions are projected to continue rising rather than starting to fall, and Sir David was sounding more exasperated than I've heard before.\n\n\"If we don't act now, it will be too late,\" he said. \"We have to do it now.\"\n\nWe turned to the question of responsibility, a highly contentious issue which will loom large at the conference. Developing countries have for years accused the richest nations, which were the first to start polluting the atmosphere, of failing to shoulder their share of the burden.\n\nThe argument is that they should be making the deepest cuts in carbon emissions and providing help to those who need it most. A long-standing promise of $100bn a year for low carbon development and to build stronger defences against more violent weather has yet to be fulfilled - reaching that total will be a key test of whether COP26 succeeds or fails.\n\nBangladesh, on the UN's list of Least Developed Countries, is battling river erosion due to climate change\n\nFor Sir David, this is one of the most worrying challenges, and he says it would be \"really catastrophic\" if threats to the poorest nations were ignored.\n\n\"Whole parts of Africa are likely to be unliveable - people will simply have to move away because of the advancing deserts and increasing heat, and where will they go? Well, a lot of them will try to get into Europe.\n\n\"Do we say, 'Oh, it's nothing to do with us' and cross our arms?\n\n\"We caused it - our kind of industrialisation is one of the major factors in producing this change in climate. So we have a moral responsibility.\n\n\"Even if we didn't cause it, we would have a moral responsibility to do something about thousands of men, women and children who've lost everything, everything. Can we just say goodbye and say this is no business of ours?\"\n\nFinally I asked about his own hectic workload at the age of 95 - from filming documentaries to addressing the G7 summit, the UN Security Council and the Duke of Cambridge's Earthshot Prize.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.\n\n\"I don't plan very far ahead - as you say, I'm 95. How long can you go on? It isn't within our gift to say those things or to know those things.\n\n\"All I know is that if I get up tomorrow and I feel that I'm able to do a decent day's work, then I shall jolly well do it and be grateful.\n\n\"And the day is going to come when I'm going to get out of bed and say, I don't think I can do that. When that's going to be, who knows? I don't.\"\n\nHaving watched him filming for five hours straight, and remaining not only focused but also good-humoured, I suggested that he still loved what he was doing.\n\n\"At the moment, I feel it would be a waste of an opportunity just to back out and not do the things I think are very important to do in which I am well placed to do.\"\n\nAnd the next major engagement in the Attenborough diary? Nothing less than speaking, virtually or in-person, to what's set to be the largest ever gathering of global leaders on British soil: COP26, in a few days' time.", "Conservative MPs were mostly mask-free on Tuesday\n\nFace coverings have been made mandatory for everyone working in the House of Commons except MPs.\n\nIn updated guidance, the Commons authorities said all staff, visitors, contractors and press must cover their faces to combat the spread of Covid.\n\nBut it remains up to individual MPs to decide whether to follow suit - and many Conservatives have chosen not to.\n\nSajid Javid has said he will wear a mask for Wednesday's Budget when the chamber will be packed.\n\nBut the health secretary said on Monday it was a \"personal decision\" for ministers and backbenchers as to whether they did too.\n\nMPs are not employed by the Commons authorities and cannot be forced to wear masks.\n\nThey have been encouraged to do so by Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle - but unions representing Parliamentary workers have urged him to take a tougher line.\n\nMost opposition parties, including Labour, the Lib Dems and the SNP have decided to cover their faces during debates.\n\nBut Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg last week said Conservatives did not need to do so because they knew each other well, and this meant they were complying with government guidance.\n\nAnd he claimed Labour MPs only wore masks when the television cameras were around.\n\nThe latest official guidance says people in England should cover their faces around \"people you don't normally meet\".\n\nIt comes as the World Health Organisation (WHO) urged MPs to wear masks during Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget speech, when there is likely to be standing room only in the Commons chamber.\n\nDr David Nabarro, the WHO's special envoy for Covid-19, told Sky News that \"everybody\" should be wearing masks in close confinement with other people, \"including our leaders\".\n\n\"This virus, it is absolutely unstoppable, it gets everywhere, and so we have to do everything we possibly can to stop it.\n\n\"And one of the best ways to stop it is a well-fitting surgical mask properly over your face, pushed in over your nose, covering everything, and that reduces the risk to others and the risk to you.\n\n\"If it works, why on earth don't people use it? It's not a party political issue - this virus doesn't vote.\"\n\nGarry Graham, deputy general secretary of the union Prospect, said the public looked to MPs to set an example.\n\n\"It's welcome that House authorities are finally catching on to what unions have been saying, that it's too early to relax. But we're still left in the ludicrous situation where MPs do as they please on masks while everyone else does the right thing,\" he said.\n\n\"Continuously changing an already inconsistent message is a recipe for non-compliance and increased risk to everyone.\"", "Millions of public sector workers are set to see their wages rise next year, after the government confirmed a pay freeze is being lifted.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak will use his Budget on Wednesday to say nurses, teachers and members of the armed forces are among those set to benefit.\n\nA \"temporary pause\" in salary progression was introduced last November as a response to the pandemic.\n\nLabour says tax and price rises mean families face a cost of living crisis.\n\nThe public sector pay freeze was part of the government's response to what it described as the \"economic emergency\" caused by Covid, with only the lowest-paid excluded.\n\nIn his spending review in November 2020, Mr Sunak said he could not justify an across-the-board increase when many in the private sector had seen their pay and hours cut in the crisis.\n\nThe Treasury said exactly how much of a pay rise public sector workers receive depends on the recommendations from the independent pay review bodies, who set the pay for most frontline workforces - including nurses, police officers, prison officers and teachers.\n\nBut asked if public sector pay would rise above inflation, a Downing Street spokesperson said the independent pay review body would consider what the rise should be and that No 10 couldn't \"pre-judge that process\".\n\nSeparately, campaigners for a freeze in fuel duty have been told to expect the tax to be frozen for a twelfth year in a row at Wednesday's Budget.\n\nThe BBC has also been told VAT on household energy would not be cut with the Treasury arguing it would be poorly targeted and that lower income households could be better helped through other schemes.\n\nIn an announcement on Monday, the Treasury said the chancellor would use his forthcoming Budget to say \"the solid economic recovery and encouraging signs in the labour market\" mean the \"pay pause\" can be lifted.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Sunak said: \"The economic impact and uncertainty of the virus meant we had to take the difficult decision to pause public sector pay.\n\n\"And now, with the economy firmly back on track, it's right that nurses, teachers and all the other public sector workers who played their part during the pandemic see their wages rise.\"\n\nBusiness Minister Paul Scully said it was \"important public sector workers are recognised for what they do and are rewarded fairly\".\n\nHe said it was part of a number of measures to help people on low incomes, which also included the rise in the national living wage announced on Monday.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"We know there are pressures. We know this is a difficult time for the economy, for people in the country in terms of the cost of living.\"\n\nThe Treasury said the \"temporary pause\" had helped ensure the gap between public and private sector pay did not widen further during the height of the pandemic.\n\nIt said public sector average weekly earnings rose by 4.5% in 2020/21 whilst private sector wage increases were a third lower than they were pre-crisis, at 1.8%.\n\nOn Tuesday figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that workers and occupations hardest hit by the pandemic saw the biggest rebound in pay in 2021, with employees aged under 21 and those in low-paid work seeing the sharpest dip and recovery.\n\nIt comes at a time of fierce debate about the pressure families are under amid soaring energy bills and price rises for goods in shops.\n\nOpposition MPs have accused the Conservatives of presiding over a cost of living crisis with cuts to universal credit and tax rises to fund the NHS and social care.\n\nThere is disquiet among some Conservative backbenchers too about whether ministers should be doing more to help struggling households.\n\nThere may be an element of relief for some public sector workers that their pay will at at least not be frozen for another year.\n\nBut it may not be enough to lift the bitterness many feel that in the year when many of them were key workers, often risking their health on the frontlines of the pandemic, they're coping with a real terms pay cut.\n\nEven nurses, who've received more than most, have seen their spending power shrink as inflation gets above 3%. And that renewed squeeze on living standards is getting worse with record petrol prices and energy bills driving up the cost of living.\n\nWhat shouldn't be taken at face value is the notion that the government \"can't afford\" to pay more. What a government that issues its own currency decides it can or cannot \"afford\" has no objective economic basis, but is a matter of political choice.\n\nFor example, as the IFS points out, the cost of servicing debt is lower than it was pre-pandemic. In fact, it's the second lowest it's been since the 1950s.\n\nEven if official interest rates rise to 1.25%, they will still be historically low - and that is manageable as long as tax receipts are rising faster than the debt servicing cost.\n\nWith teachers' pay in real terms 8% lower than a decade ago, hospital consultants 9% lower, NHS dentists 32% down, a reality is coming home: you can't get the work done if you can't attract the staff to do it.\n\nThe cost of not allowing pay rises - in the harm it could to the government's other goals such as better public health and education - could have been higher than any pay rise.\n\nThe UK's largest union, Unison, said the pay freeze would continue \"in all but name\" unless government departments get extra money.\n\nIts general secretary Christina McAnea said while there was \"never a good time to freeze public sector pay\", to do so \"at the peak of a pandemic was the height of folly\" while \"staff were doing their all to keep under-pressure services running\".\n\nShe added: \"There can be no decent public services without the people to run them.\n\n\"Pay freezes don't help employers hold on to experienced staff, nor attract new recruits.\n\n\"But if the chancellor doesn't allocate extra money to government departments to fund the much-needed wage rises, the pay freeze will continue in all but name.\"\n\nTorsten Bell of the Resolution Foundation described the announcement as \"blindingly obvious\" adding that it was \"totally inevitable\" the pay freeze would be lifted.\n\n\"What we don't know, is what is going to happen to public sector pay - lifting the freeze is one thing, but a rise could be anything between 0 to a million per cent pay rise.\"\n\nLabour says many of those working on the frontline dealing with Covid are among those being hit by the government's choices.\n\nShadow chief secretary to the Treasury Bridget Phillipson said: \"This Conservative government's choice last year to freeze pay for so many frontline workers, who have been among the real heroes of the pandemic, was damaging and unsustainable.\n\n\"The government must work to ensure a fair settlement and reflect the vital work of all key workers including many who have been burnt out over the course of the pandemic.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has told MPs it was \"not acceptable\" to brief the media ahead of MPs about the Budget.\n\nSir Lindsay said that ministers used to \"walk\" if they briefed about a Budget.", "A mass was held for Sir David Amess on the day he was killed\n\nThe funeral of Tory MP Sir David Amess will be held at Westminster Cathedral next month, it has been confirmed.\n\nCardinal Vincent Nichols, the leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales, will preside over the service on 23 November.\n\nThe details were confirmed to MPs, peers and staff who attend Catholic services in Parliament.\n\nThe Southend West MP was stabbed to death while meeting constituents in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on 15 October.\n\nAli Harbi Ali, 25, from London, has been charged with Sir David's murder and preparing terrorist acts.\n\nSir David Amess had long campaigned for his beloved Southend to be made a city - a wish that was posthumously granted\n\nOn 18 October MPs attended a memorial service at St Margaret's Church in Westminster to offer tributes to Sir David.\n\nThe Catholic MP was married with five children.\n\nAt the time of his killing a local priest, Father Jeffrey Woolnough, was prevented from entering Belfairs Methodist Church, to administer the sacrament of the sick, as it was a crime scene.\n\nHe said he felt forced to delete his Twitter account after being accused of not doing enough to offer last rites to the dying MP.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Current plans to cut carbon emissions don't work quickly enough, says the UN\n\nNational plans to cut carbon fall far short of what's needed to avert dangerous climate change, according to the UN Environment Programme.\n\nTheir Emissions Gap report says country pledges will fail to keep the global temperature under 1.5C this century.\n\nThe Unep analysis suggests the world is on course to warm around 2.7C with hugely destructive impacts.\n\nBut there is hope that, if long term net-zero goals are met, temperatures can be significantly reined in.\n\nJust a few days before COP26 opens in Glasgow, another scientific report on climate change is \"another thundering wake-up call\", according to the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres.\n\nStreet art in Glasgow where COP26 begins in a few days time\n\nThis week, we've already had a study from the WMO showing that warming gases were at a new high last year, despite the pandemic.\n\nNow in its 12th year, this Emissions Gap report looks at the nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) or carbon-cutting plans that countries have submitted to the UN ahead of COP.\n\nThese pledges run up to 2030 and have been submitted by 120 countries. Unep has also taken account of other commitments to cut warming gases not yet formally submitted in an NDC.\n\nThe report finds that when added together, the plans cut greenhouse gas emissions in 2030 by around 7.5% compared to the previous pledges made five years ago.\n\nThis is nowhere near enough to keep the 1.5C temperature threshold within sight, say the scientists who compiled the study.\n\nTo keep 1.5C alive would require 55% cuts by the same 2030 date. That means the current plans would need to have seven times the level of ambition to remain under that limit.\n\n\"To stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, we have eight years to almost halve greenhouse gas emissions: eight years to make the plans, put in place the policies, implement them and ultimately deliver the cuts,\" said Inger Andersen, executive director of Unep.\n\nAccording to the authors, the current pledges would see the world warm by 2.7C this century, a scenario that Antonio Guterres calls a \"climate catastrophe\".\n\nHe believes the report highlights the failures of political leaders.\n\n\"The emissions gap is the result of a leadership gap,\" he said at the launch of the study.\n\n\"But leaders can still make this a turning point to a greener future instead of a tipping point to climate catastrophe.\"\n\nAs Mr Guterres suggests, there are some hopeful signs in the report.\n\nFires in California are continuing to burn, made worse by a changing climate\n\nAround 50 countries plus the EU have pledged a net zero target for the middle of this century.\n\nThese strategies cover over half of greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nThe Unep analysis finds that if these plans were implemented fully, this could shave 0.5C off the temperature rise by 2100.\n\nThis would bring the global temperature level down to 2.2C, which would see dramatic and deadly impacts from warming but would be a step in the right direction from where the world is currently headed.\n\nThe problem, though, is that many of these net zero goals are ambiguous, say the authors - particularly among the world's 20 richest nations, where a dozen long-term plans are said to be quite vague.\n\nMany delay significant cuts until after 2030, raising serious doubts about whether they can really deliver net zero just 20 years later.\n\nAnother hopeful sign relates to methane. The report also says there is great potential to make progress on these emissions, which are the second largest source of warming.\n\nUp to 20% of these emissions from fossil fuels, from waste and from agriculture could be curbed at low or no cost.\n\nBoats on a lake where the water level has fallen significantly due to drought\n\nHowever, the opportunity to develop a far greener world as the world recovers from Covid is in danger of being lost, say the authors.\n\nThey find that around 20% of recovery investments will support renewables and the green economy.\n\n\"The huge sums spent to recover economies from Covid-19 are a once-in-a-generation opportunity to boost low-carbon technologies and industries. In most cases, this opportunity is not being taken,\" said Brian O'Callaghan, project manager of the Oxford University Economic Recovery Project, and an author on the Unep report.\n\n\"This is a particular slap in the face for vulnerable nations who are suffering the worst consequences of climate change…we remain without a commitment from the highest emitters to cover the loss and damage that they have brought on the world.\"", "The finding comes from observation of an X-ray binary - a neutron star or black hole pulling in gas from a companion star\n\nAstronomers have found hints of what could be the first planet ever to be discovered outside our galaxy.\n\nNearly 5,000 \"exoplanets\" - worlds orbiting stars beyond our Sun - have been found so far, but all of these have been located within the Milky Way galaxy.\n\nThe possible Saturn-sized planet discovered by Nasa's Chandra X-Ray Telescope is in the Messier 51 galaxy.\n\nThis is located some 28 million light-years away from the Milky Way.\n\nThis new result is based on transits, where the passage of a planet in front of a star blocks some of the star's light and yields a characteristic dip in brightness that can be detected by telescopes.\n\nThis general technique has already been used to find thousands of exoplanets.\n\nDr Rosanne Di Stefano and colleagues searched for dips in the brightness of X-rays received from a type of object known as an X-ray bright binary.\n\nThese objects typically contain a neutron star or black hole pulling in gas from a closely orbiting companion star. The material near the neutron star or black hole becomes superheated and glows at X-ray wavelengths.\n\nBecause the region producing bright X-rays is small, a planet passing in front of it could block most or all of the rays, making the transit easier to spot.\n\nThe team members used this technique to detect the exoplanet candidate in a binary system called M51-ULS-1.\n\n\"The method we developed and employed is the only presently implementable method to discover planetary systems in other galaxies,\" Dr Di Stefano, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, US, told BBC News.\n\n\"It is a unique method, uniquely well-suited to finding planets around X-ray binaries at any distance from which we can measure a light curve.\"\n\nThe Chandra telescope was launched in 1999 to study X-ray emission from hot regions of the Universe\n\nThis binary contains a black hole or neutron star orbiting a companion star with a mass about 20 times that of the Sun. A neutron star is the collapsed core of what had once been a massive star.\n\nThe transit lasted about three hours, during which the X-ray emission decreased to zero. Based on this and other information, the astronomers estimate that the candidate planet would be around the size of Saturn, and orbit the neutron star or black hole at about twice the distance Saturn lies from the Sun.\n\nDr Di Stefano said the techniques that have been so successful for finding exoplanets in the Milky Way break down when observing other galaxies. This is partly because the great distances involved reduce the amount of light which reaches the telescope and also mean that many objects are crowded into a small space (as viewed from Earth), making it difficult to resolve individual stars.\n\nWith X-rays, she said, \"there may be only several dozen sources spread out over the entire galaxy, so we can resolve them. In addition, a subset of these are so bright in X-rays that we can measure their light curves.\n\n\"Finally, the huge emission of X-rays comes from a small region that can be substantially or (as in our case) totally blocked by a passing planet.\"\n\nMessier 51 is also called the Whirlpool Galaxy because of its distinctive spiral shape\n\nThe researchers freely admit that more data is needed to verify their interpretation.\n\nOne challenge is that the planet candidate's large orbit means it would not cross in front of its binary partner again for about 70 years, quashing any attempts to make a follow-up observation in the near-term.\n\nOne other possible explanation that the astronomers considered is that the dimming has been caused by a cloud of gas and dust passing in front of the X-ray source.\n\nHowever, they think this is unlikely, because the characteristics of the event do not match up with the properties of a gas cloud.\n\n\"We know we are making an exciting and bold claim so we expect that other astronomers will look at it very carefully,\" said co-author Julia Berndtsson of Princeton University, New Jersey.\n\n\"We think we have a strong argument, and this process is how science works.\"\n\nDr Di Stefano said that the new generation of optical and infrared telescopes would not be able to compensate for the problems of crowding and dimness, so observations at X-ray wavelengths would likely remain the primary method for detecting planets in other galaxies.\n\nHowever, she said a method known as microlensing might also hold promise for identifying extra-galactic planets.\n\nThe study has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Astronomy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Demonstrators take to the streets of Khartoum to protest against the arrests\n\nDefiant protesters remain on the streets of Sudan after the country's armed forces launched a military coup.\n\nChanting and waving flags, they have blocked roads in the capital Khartoum and around the country following the takeover.\n\nOn Monday coup leader Gen Abdel Fattah Burhan dissolved civilian rule, arrested political leaders and called a state of emergency.\n\nAccording to Reuters, Gen Burhan has said Monday's coup was justified to avoid \"civil war\" and that the detained prime minister will be returned to his home on Tuesday. Earlier, he sought to justify the takeover by blaming political infighting.\n\nThe coup has drawn global condemnation. Diplomats told AFP news agency the UN Security Council is due to meet on Tuesday to discuss the crisis.\n\nTroops are reported to have been going house to house in Khartoum arresting local protest organisers.\n\nThe city's airport is closed and international flights are suspended. The internet and most phone lines are also down.\n\nCentral Bank staff have reportedly gone on strike, and across the country doctors are said to be refusing to work in military run hospitals except in emergencies.\n\nCivilian leaders and their military counterparts have been at odds since long-time ruler Omar al-Bashir was overthrown in 2019.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the military's actions \"are a betrayal of Sudan's peaceful revolution\". The US has halted $700m (£508m) in aid.\n\nAfter a night of protests, demonstrators remained on the streets on Tuesday morning, demanding the return of civilian rule.\n\n\"Civilian rule is the people's choice,\" they chanted as they set up barricades of burning tyres. Many women are also taking part, shouting \"no to military rule\".\n\nThe protests continue despite troops opening fire on demonstrators on Monday.\n\nOne wounded protestor told reporters he was shot in the leg by the army outside the military headquarters, while another man described the military firing first stun grenades, then live ammunition.\n\n\"Two people died, I saw them with my own eyes,\" said Al-Tayeb Mohamed Ahmed. Sudan's doctors' union and the information ministry also wrote on Facebook that the fatal shootings had happened outside the military compound.\n\nPictures from a hospital in the city showed people with bloodied clothing and various injuries.\n\nThousands of people, including many women and children, protested outside the military compound in Khartoum\n\nWorld leaders have reacted with alarm to news of the military takeover.\n\nThe US has joined the UK, EU, UN and African Union, of which Sudan is a member, in demanding the release of political leaders who are now under house arrest.\n\nAmong them are Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and his wife, along with members of his cabinet and other civilian leaders.\n\nBBC Arabic's Mohamed Osman reported from the capital that a special security unit of the military went to the prime minister's home early on Monday morning, and tried to persuade Mr Hamdok to agree to the coup, but he refused.\n\nThe agreement between civilian and military leaders signed in 2019 was designed to steer Sudan towards democracy but has proven fragile with a number of previous coup attempts, the last just over a month ago.\n\nGen Burhan, who was head of the power-sharing council, said Sudan was still committed to the transition to civilian rule, with elections planned for July 2023.\n\nAre you in Sudan? Tell us about your experience of recent events 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.", "Firefighters, pictured at a Grenfell anniversary event, say building owners must plan for evacuations\n\nThere was an \"unjustified reliance\" on firefighters to evacuate Grenfell Tower on the night of the fatal fire, a union has told the inquiry into the disaster.\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union said building owners and managers should draw up evacuation plans to prevent future catastrophes.\n\nUnion lawyer Martin Seaward said there was a \"near total failure\" of fire safety measures at Grenfell Tower.\n\nThe June 2017 disaster at the west London tower block killed 72 people.\n\nThe comments came on the final day of closing statements in a section of the inquiry focusing on the fire safety measures in the building, its management, risk assessment and the communication with residents.\n\nMr Seaward criticised the approach to fire safety taken by the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO).\n\nHe told the inquiry on Tuesday the \"hazardous rainscreen cladding system\" should have been identified as a risk and removed by April 2016.\n\n\"Additionally, the near total failure of all the active and passive fire safety measures allowed the rapid deterioration of conditions inside the tower, which grossly impeded the firefighters' operations, including search and rescue,\" Mr Seaward said.\n\nThe fire in Grenfell Tower broke out in June 2017, killing 72 people\n\nMr Seaward added if the fire risk management system from the tenant management organisation had worked \"most, if not all\" of the people who died would have been saved.\n\nThe lawyer argued to the inquiry the safety plans were characterised by an \"unjustified reliance\" on the London Fire Brigade to evacuate residents, \"including those especially at risk in the event of fire in Grenfell tower\".\n\nMr Seaward said: \"Of course, the fire and rescue service will attend and do its best at any fire or other emergency, but fire safety depends on everyone doing their bit.\n\n\"That very much includes responsible persons developing and practising building-specific evacuation plans for residents, including personal emergency evacuation plans for those especially at risk, in the same way that employers do in office blocks or factories.\"\n\nAnne Studd QC, representing London Mayor Sadiq Khan, told the inquiry the tenant management organisation did \"very little\" to see if Grenfell was suitable for the stay put strategy in its fire assessments and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council (RBKC) had limited oversight of them.\n\n\"The evidence before you, Mr Chairman, has demonstrated a culture of failings in transparency and candour by the KCTMO, which, coupled with a lack of intrusion from RBKC, was a toxic combination,\" she said.\n\nJames Maxwell-Scott QC, representing the council, told the inquiry it \"apologised unreservedly\" again for council failings before the disaster.\n\nThe failings included the number of council officers devoted to monitoring the KCTMO being \"insufficient\" and its housing commissioning team not making enough use of the corporate health and safety team's expertise to \"prevent issues falling between the gaps,\" he said.\n\nThe lawyer added the KCTMO was an independent, managing agent of Grenfell Tower which was at an \"arm's length\" from the council, which was the building's landlord.\n\n\"The council fully admits that it retained some control over the tower, and therefore continued to have some responsibilities for it under the Fire Safety Order. But those responsibilities are better described as residual ones than shared primary ones,\" he told the inquiry.", "The price of a pint of beer will have to rise by as much as 30p to help pay for higher wages and energy costs, one pub company has warned.\n\nAs the government prepares to unveil its Budget, City Pub Group said price rises were \"the only way forward\".\n\nOn Monday, the government said the National Living Wage would rise to £9.50 per hour in April for those over 23 years old.\n\nClive Watson, the chain's boss, said this would cost it about £1m a year.\n\nOther pub owners echoed Mr Watson's warning, with industry bodies calling for help for the sector.\n\nEmma McClarkin, chief executive of the British Beer & Pub Association, said that while increases to the minimum wage and the minimum living rate would be \"welcomed\" by many staff in pubs, it was a further cost increase for pubs who were \"still struggling to recover and face an uncertain future\".\n\n\"It makes beer duty, business rates and VAT cuts in the Budget on Wednesday all the more important for the viability of our sector,\" she added.\n\nWetherspoons, however, has announced it will cut drink prices next month on a range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.\n\nBecks bottles and whisky measures will be sold for 99p at some branches. Wetherspoons said prices will be reduced at all of its almost 900 pubs but the discounts will vary.\n\nIn October, JD Wetherspoon reported a record annual loss after Covid lockdowns saw its pubs shut for 19 weeks.\n\nThe firm was also recently affected by a shortage of some beer brands, caused by driver shortages due to a combination of Covid and Brexit.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak's latest Budget, to be delivered later, comes as the pub trade is still recovering from lockdown measures imposed during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCity Pub Group weathered the financial storm thanks to government assistance, putting 99% of its staff on furlough during the pandemic.\n\n\"That's basically kept the industry on life support, but we're coming off life support now and we need to be able to have a road to recovery,\" Mr Watson told the BBC.\n\nLast month, the group, which owns 45 pubs, reported that sales had been above 90% of pre-pandemic levels since Covid restrictions were eased in May.\n\nBut now it faces further challenges - not just minimum wage rises, but also higher energy and food costs, as well as employers' national insurance contributions going up next April.\n\nThe price of beer \"would probably have to go up by 25 to 30p a pint\" to take account of all that, Mr Watson said.\n\n\"We want to do our bit - it's very important, but at the same time we don't want everything going up the whole time, because all that will do is stoke inflation,\" he added.\n\nUK inflation is expected to rise above 4% by the end of this year.\n\nWhile Mr Watson said increases to the minimum wage were a \"good idea\", he warned that those increases could be \"gobbled up by other inflationary pressures\".\n\nHe said a more effective measure would be for the government to cut VAT as a way of reducing the cost of living.\n\nThe hospitality industry currently benefits from a reduced VAT rate of 12.5%, but that is due to revert to 20% in April.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of the trade group UK Hospitality, said the VAT tax rise would be \"unsustainable\" and mean that businesses would have \"no option\" but to pass the cost on to customers.\n\n\"We are facing into considerable headwinds with a bubble of inflationary pressures coming through the supply chain, as well as wage rate inflation,\" she added.\n\nMartin Greenhow said wage increases would cost his business thousands\n\nMartin Greenhow, managing director at Mojo, a chain of six pubs in the north of England, said supply chain costs were \"certainly putting pressure\" on the business.\n\n\"If costs go up, prices go up, it's fairly inevitable,\" he said.\n\nAll of the 89 staff the firm employs are currently on or above the National Living Wage.\n\n\"The coming increase will of course affect everyone, as those above it will also expect to see a pro-rata increment which will cost the business thousands,\" he explained.\n\nMr Greenhow said that these staffing and supply costs would \"inevitably be passed on to the consumer\".\n\n\"Furlough and grants helped us survive, but essentially our survival was achieved by huge borrowings, which represent another cost to the business and therefore another inflationary driver.\"\n\nThe Cock in Ringmer is one of Ian Ridley's pubs\n\nIan Ridley runs three pubs and the majority of his 50 staff earn the National Living Wage.\n\n\"Something's got to give, we cannot absorb these cost pressures,\" he explained.\n\nAlthough he has not worked through the cost projections for next year yet, Mr Ridley estimates the price of a pint could rise by 20p.\n\n\"When we're trying to encourage customers to come back and we're compete with supermarkets on booze, higher prices are not going to help us,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe wage increases will mean an estimated £20,000 of extra costs, in addition to higher food, transport and brewery bills.\n\nRising energy costs are causing concern and Mr Ridley said the VAT hike in April and business tax rates were another \"huge worry\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nEmma Raducanu fought back at the Transylvania Open to earn her first win since becoming the US Open champion.\n\nBut the world number 23, seeded three in Romania, had the perfect response against Slovenia's Polona Hercog, 30.\n\nPlaying in her father Ian's homeland for the first time, Raducanu won 4-6 7-5 6-1 to move into the second round.\n\nDespite being a Grand Slam champion, this was her first WTA tour win - although no fans were present in Cluj-Napoca to see it because of Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nRaducanu smiled and laughed throughout her post-match interview, during which she spoke almost entirely in Romanian and was even asked about her favourite local dish.\n\n\"This means a lot to play in my dad's country,\" she said. \"It feels like a huge win.\n\n\"It is a shame there aren't fans here, but I hope they were watching and I just wanted to do them proud.\n\n\"I was on a losing streak so I am really pleased to have come through that. It's my first win, I knew that in my head, so I was battling really hard to get on the board.\"\n\nRaducanu, still looking for a new coach after parting with Andrew Richardson following her US Open triumph, asked for patience before the WTA 250 event.\n\nYet, playing a far more experienced opponent in a match lasting two hours and 29 minutes, she managed to prevail.\n\nThe teenager charged into a 3-0 lead, but Hercog, ranked 124 in the world, won both of her break points to fight back and take the last five games of the first set.\n\nRaducanu regrouped in the second and began to show some of the grit and shot selection that led her to that thrilling victory in New York.\n\nHercog staved off three break points in the fourth game of the set, before Raducanu saved one in each of her last two service games to make it 6-5.\n\nThe Briton then clinched the set after Hercog sent a forehand long on the last of three break points, before breezing through the first five games of the third set.\n\nHercog finally held serve after saving two match points and had a break point in the next game, but Raducanu recovered to win it with an ace and set up a match with Romania's world number 106 Ana Bogdan, 28.\n\n\"I am really proud of how I fought,\" Raducanu added. \"That is a big learning thing for me.\n\n\"The key was to try to stay mentally composed. I knew I wasn't playing very well so I just needed to keep going one point at a time and giving myself a chance by holding serve.\"\n\nCameron Norrie continued his winning streak by beating Marton Fucsovics 7-6 (4) 6-1 in the first round of the Vienna Open.\n\nThe British number one was playing his first match since his breakthrough victory at Indian Wells earlier this month and the 26-year-old came out on top against the Hungarian for a seventh straight success.\n\nIt was also Norrie's 11th in 12 matches and the world number 14 will play sixth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada in the next round.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Is Coca-Cola's pledge to tackle plastic waste on track?\n• None The comedian's bold and outrageous way to make sense of the world we live in", "Last updated on .From the section Rangers\n\nFormer Rangers, Everton and Scotland manager Walter Smith has died at the age of 73.\n\nSmith achieved legendary status at Ibrox, with 21 trophies in two spells making him the second most successful Rangers boss ever behind Bill Struth.\n\nHe won the latter seven titles of Rangers' nine-in-a-row run in the 1990s and returned to Ibrox in 2007.\n\nBetween those stints, he had four years at Everton and two with Scotland before being enticed back to the Glasgow club.\n• None 'No Rangers manager comes close to Smith'\n\nHis second spell in charge delivered three more titles and a Uefa Cup final appearance, in 2008.\n\nHis death comes in the same year Rangers clinched their first top-flight title since Smith's final season in charge in 2011.\n\nPosted with a picture of him and Smith on Instagram, Rangers manager Steven Gerrard said: \"Thank you for all your wisdom, support and friendship. You meant the world to everyone at Rangers.\"\n\nIn a club statement announcing the news, chairman Douglas Park added: \"It is almost impossible to encapsulate what Walter meant to every one of us at Rangers.\n\n\"He embodied everything that a Ranger should be. His character and leadership was second to none, and will live long in the memory of everyone he worked with during his two terms as first team manager.\n\n\"I spoke with Walter as recently as last weekend. Even when he was battling illness, he was still able to provide advice and support. For that, I am personally grateful. I know that he continued also to maintain dialogue with senior members of staff, including our manager, Steven Gerrard.\n\n\"Walter will be sorely missed by all of us at Rangers. For Rangers supporters, he was much more than just a football manager. Walter was a friend to many, a leader, an ambassador and - most of all - a legend.\"\n\nAlly McCoist, who played in Smith's 1990s Ibrox team and was later his assistant manager with Scotland and Rangers, told Talksport: \"He was my boss, my coach, my second father and then turned into one of my best friends.\n\n\"The loss is absolutely incredible. He was the best husband, father, friend, everything you want from a man. I can't tell you how devastated I am.\"\n\nFormer Everton defender Alan Stubbs also paid tribute, telling BBC Radio 5 live: \"Walter gave me the opportunity to fulfil my dream to sign for Everton and become captain.\"\n\nAs a defender, Smith played more than 200 games for Dundee United, where he began his coaching career under Jim McLean at the age of 29 when a pelvic injury forced him to retire early.\n\nHe also turned out for Dumbarton and was assistant to Sir Alex Ferguson at the 1986 World Cup, but it was as a manager where Smith made his mark.\n\nAfter moving from Tannadice to Rangers in 1986 as Graeme Souness' number two, he took sole charge in 1991 and embarked on a near-decade of dominance - including the domestic treble in 1993 - to equal Celtic's record of nine successive titles in 1997. He was awarded an OBE for services to football the same year.\n\nSmith assisted Ferguson once again in 2004, joining Manchester United's coaching staff.\n\nFollowing the end of his second stint as Rangers manager, Smith had a three-month spell as Ibrox chairman in 2013 but resigned the position after a period of bitter infighting within the boardroom.\n\nRangers confirmed in March that Smith was recovering in hospital following an operation.\n\nAnd his passing comes 10 months after McLean, whom he assisted over a long spell at Dundee United, died at 83.\n\n\"Walter leaves behind a wife, children and grandchildren, all of whom are in our thoughts and prayers at this difficult time,\" added Park.\n\nRangers, who host Aberdeen on Wednesday, asked for the Smith family's privacy to be respected.\n\nAnd Everton said in a statement: \"Everton Football Club is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of the club's former manager, Walter Smith OBE.\n\n\"The Scot was a tremendously popular figure at Everton, players and staff unanimously warming to Smith's genial and empathetic nature.\"", "Virginia Giuffre, then Roberts, was pictured with Prince Andrew in London in 2001\n\nThe Duke of York must answer questions in a civil sex assault case in the US by mid-July next year, a US judge ruled.\n\nVirginia Giuffre, 38, has accused Prince Andrew of sexually assaulting her in New York in 2001.\n\nThe duke, the Queen's 61-year-old second son, has consistently denied the allegation.\n\nDepositions - out-of-court testimony - in the case must be submitted by 14 July, district judge Lewis Kaplan said.\n\nIn the US depositions see witnesses interviewed under oath by the other side's lawyers about their version of events.\n\nThe judge also ruled in the scheduling order, which is signed by lawyers for both parties, that a pre-trial order, which sets out the course of the case, is due by 28 July.\n\nNo additional parties will be allowed to join the case after 15 December, the order says.\n\nIn September the duke's US lawyers accepted he had been served with legal papers relating to the case, after a dispute over whether he had been formally notified of the civil claim against him.\n\nMs Giuffre, who was also an accuser of the billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, claims she was sexually assaulted by the prince at three locations, including in New York City.\n\nIn 2019 US financier Epstein was found dead in his cell in New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center.\n\nMs Giuffre, who was then known as Virginia Roberts, says she was assaulted by the prince at the London home of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and at Epstein's homes in Manhattan and Little Saint James, in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nHer case claims Prince Andrew engaged in sexual acts without Ms Giuffre's consent, including when she was 17, knowing how old she was, and \"that she was a sex-trafficking victim\".\n\nThe prince has consistently denied the claims and, in 2019, told BBC Two's Newsnight programme: \"It didn't happen.\n\n\"I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened.\n\n\"I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.\"\n\nEarlier this month the Metropolitan Police said it would not take any further action against the duke after a review prompted by Ms Giuffre.", "Cumbria's director of public health is urging the government to bring in its Plan B measures for tackling Covid in England, including mandatory face masks in some public places.\n\nColin Cox tells BBC Radio Cumbria: \"It seems to me we've been at a level of infection for quite some time that has been much higher than we would have accepted before, and we're accepting a higher rate of infection because it is not translating into a massive rate of hospitalisations and deaths.\"\n\nHowever, he adds that there are more than 60 people currently in hospital with Covid in Cumbria, which \"still adds very substantially to the burden on the NHS\".\n\nThe NHS Confederation and the British Medical Association are among the groups to have called for some restrictions to be reintroduced in England, amid rising cases.\n\nBut the government has said the data does not suggest \"immediately moving to Plan B\".\n\nRead more: What is Plan B?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Demonstrators take to the streets of Khartoum to protest against the arrests\n\nSudan's coup leader, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has said the military seized power on Monday to prevent \"civil war\".\n\nHe added that the deposed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok was being kept at the general's house \"for his own safety\", but has now returned home.\n\nProtests are continuing for a second day in the capital, Khartoum, with roads, bridges and shops closed. Phone and internet lines are also disrupted.\n\nAt least 10 people are reported to have been killed since the unrest began.\n\n\"The dangers we witnessed last week could have led the country into civil war,\" Gen Burhan told a news conference earlier on Tuesday.\n\n\"The prime minister was at his house but we feared that he will be harmed,\" he added.\n\n\"I was with him last night... and he is going about his life... he will return to his home when the crisis is over and all threats are gone.\"\n\nThe general said he had dissolved civilian rule, arrested political leaders and called a state of emergency as political groups had been inciting civilians against the security forces.\n\nThe BBC's Mohamed Osman in Khartoum says the fact that Gen Burhan has prepared a long list of ministers, as well as promising to announce top judicial appointments within two days, suggests extensive planning prior to the coup.\n\nThe take over has drawn global condemnation. The US, the UK, EU, UN and African Union, of which Sudan is a member, have all demanded the immediate release of all arrested political leaders which includes members of Mr Hamdok's cabinet.\n\nUN chief Antonio Guterres said Sudan was among an \"epidemic of coups d'etats\" affecting Africa and Asia, and he urged the world's \"big powers\" to band together for \"effective deterrence\" through the UN Security Council.\n\nMeanwhile, the US has halted $700m (£508m) in aid to Sudan and the EU has threatened to do the same. Both are demanding the restoration of the civilian government without preconditions.\n\nSince Monday, troops are reported to have been going house to house in Khartoum arresting local protest organisers.\n\nOur correspondent says thousands more people have joined the protests in the capital, mainly in residential neighbourhoods near the city centre.\n\nThe city's airport is closed and all flights are cancelled until Saturday.\n\nStaff at the country's central bank have reportedly gone on strike, and doctors across Sudan are said to be refusing to work in military-run hospitals except in emergencies.\n\nProtesters have been chanting slogans against the military\n\nCivilian leaders and their military counterparts have been at odds since long-time ruler Omar al-Bashir was overthrown in 2019.\n\nA power-sharing agreement between civilian and military leaders was designed to steer Sudan towards democracy but has proven fragile with a number of previous coup attempts, the last just over a month ago.\n\nGen Burhan, who was head of the power-sharing council, said Sudan was committed to the transition to civilian rule, with elections planned for July 2023.\n\nAre you in Sudan? Tell us about your experience of recent events 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.", "Premier Inn owner Whitbread has said it will pay millions in wage rises and bonuses to try to combat what it calls persistent staff shortages.\n\nThe chain said hospitality-wide labour shortages meant a \"material number of vacancies\" remained unfilled.\n\nHigher pay rates will cost Whitbread £12m-£13m, it said, while it is also paying £10m in retention bonuses.\n\nRecent official figures show vacancies at a record, with hospitality seeing some of the biggest shortages.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said vacancies reached 1.1 million between July and September, the highest level since records began in 2001.\n\nThe Institute for Employment Studies said this month that labour shortages were affecting the whole economy.\n\nMany firms are being forced to pay signing on bonuses, or raise pay rates to tempt staff to work for them.\n\nStaff costs are among a host of price pressures facing businesses and Whitbread also pointed to rising utility costs.\n\nHowever, the company said its recovery in recent months had been better than expected, and UK demand had been \"very strong\" since 17 May when Covid restrictions were eased to allow leisure overnight stays at its hotels.\n\nIt added that it now expects revenue-per-room rates to return to pre-pandemic levels next year.\n\nAt the start of this month Whitbread announced a pay increase for its UK-based hourly-paid staff.\n\nIt needs to add 2,000 staff to its current head count of 30,000, including in housekeeping, reception and kitchens.\n\nChief executive Alison Brittain said: \"Whitbread traded significantly ahead of the market in the UK during the first half of the year.\n\n\"The operating environment during the summer and into autumn has been challenging largely as a result of our very high occupancy levels, market-wide supply chain issues and a tighter labour supply in the hospitality sector.\"\n\nIts revenue remains 39% down on the same period pre-pandemic two years ago, but it has more than doubled since last year.\n\nPre-tax losses in the first half of the year narrowed from £724.7m last year to £19.3m, but this was still well down on the profit of £219.9m made before the pandemic.", "The government has been blamed for failing to reduce demand for flying and meat-eating as part of its plans to rein in climate change.\n\nThe Climate Change Committee advisory body says ministers also have not shown how to achieve their ambition of cutting the demand for road travel.\n\nIt warns a “techno-centric” approach to cutting emissions adopted by the prime minister has a high risk of failure.\n\nBut a report from the committee praised the government's Net Zero Strategy.\n\nA government spokeswoman welcomed the CCC’s generally positive response to the Net Zero Strategy and said it would meet all its climate change goals.\n\nBoris Johnson has regularly promised that climate change can be tackled without what he calls “hairshirtery”.\n\nMany experts agree technology is needed but say behaviour must change too.\n\nThey judge that the demand for high-carbon activities must be cut for the UK to meet climate targets in the 2030s.\n\nThe report from the CCC - an independent body advising the UK and devolved governments on emissions targets - comes ahead of the COP26 climate summit which will be held in Glasgow from Sunday.\n\nIt says: \"There is less emphasis on reducing demand for high carbon activities than in the CCC's scenarios.\n\n\"The government does not include an explicit ambition on diet change, or reductions in the growth of aviation, and policies for managing travel demand have not been developed to match the funding that has been committed.\"\n\nThe committee added: \"These remain valuable options with major co-benefits and can help manage delivery risks around a techno-centric approach. They must be explored further with a view to early action.\"\n\nNick Eyre, Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at the University of Oxford, went even further.\n\nWith reference to the PM's \"hairshirtery\" jibe, he told a COP26 media briefing: \"The PM's headline about not changing the way we use energy is not just helpful - it's unrealistic.\n\n\"We won't reach climate goals unless there's a combination of technology and behaviour change.\"\n\nThe government’s over-arching Net Zero climate plans unveiled last week showed how almost every sector of the economy should virtually eliminate planet-heating carbon emissions by 2050.\n\nBut on the eve of the Budget the committee warns that the Treasury still lacks policies to cut emissions.\n\nIt has not explained, for instance, how finances can be raised for a massive investment in clean electricity, or how a great home insulation programme will be prompted and supported.\n\nThe committee said: \"Currently vague plans must be quickly pinned down for improving home energy efficiency for the 60% of UK households that are owner-occupiers but not in fuel poverty.\"\n\nMore policies are needed, too, to curb emissions from land use and farming, it says.\n\nThe criticisms are tempered by praise for the sweeping nature of the government’s Net Zero Strategy, which is thought to be the first in the world to demonstrate how emissions can be cut across the board.\n\nThe report says the strategy is achievable and affordable, and will create many jobs.\n\nCCC chairman Lord Deben said: “This is a genuine step forward. The UK was the first major industrialised nation to set Net Zero into law – now we have policy plans to get us there.\n\n“Ministers have made the big decisions – to decarbonise the power sector by 2035, to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles, to back heat pumps for homes.\n\n“They have proposed policies to do it. I applaud their ambition but now they must deliver these goals and fill in the remaining gaps in funding and implementation.”\n\nThis may prove easier said than done, because there is currently a gulf between the government’s climate promises and its achievements.\n\nThe CCC recently judged that ministers had only achieved around a fifth of the carbon cuts needed to meet previous climate targets.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"We value the Climate Change Committee's expert advice as we work to implement our comprehensive plan to finish the job and eradicate the UK's contribution to climate change by 2050.\n\n\"As the committee rightly highlights, our world-leading Net Zero Strategy builds on the UK's proven track record of having decarbonised faster than any other G7 country in recent decades.\"", "Francis Wayne Alexander would have been 21 or 22 when he was murdered\n\nA man from North Carolina who vanished in the 1970s has been identified as one of dozens of victims murdered by serial killer John Wayne Gacy.\n\nFrancis Wayne Alexander's remains were among those found in the crawl space of Gacy's Chicago-area home in 1978.\n\nCook County Sheriff Tom Dart ordered eight unidentified victims' bodies to be exhumed in 2011 in an effort to identify them through DNA testing.\n\nAlexander is the third Gacy victim to be identified in the last decade.\n\nHe would have been 21 or 22 when Gacy killed him between 1976 and 1977, Mr Dart's office said.\n\nGacy was convicted of killing 33 young men between 1972 and 1978 and burying them on his property. He was executed in 1994.\n\nHe often lured young men to his home for sex by pretending to be a police officer or promising them construction work.\n\nIn reopening the investigation, Sheriff Dart asked families of youngsters who had vanished between 1970 and Gacy's 1978 arrest to submit saliva samples to compare DNA with the eight victims who were buried without being identified.\n\nMonths later, William George Bundy, a 19-year-old construction worker, was identified as a Gacy victim.\n\nIn 2017, James Byron Haakenson - a missing teenager from Minnesota - was named as another victim.\n\nInvestigators matched DNA samples from Mr Alexander's mother and half-brother to his remains.\n\nAlexander's sister, Carolyn Sanders, thanked the sheriff's office for giving the family \"closure\".\n\n\"It is hard, even 45 years later, to know the fate of our beloved Wayne. He was killed at the hands of a vile and evil man,\" Ms Sanders said.\n\n\"We can now lay to rest what happened and move forward by honouring Wayne.\"\n\nAuthorities say they are unsure how Mr Alexander crossed paths with Gacy, one of America's most infamous serial killers.\n\nHe had moved to Chicago, where he was married for around three months before divorcing in 1975.\n\nIn January 1976, he received a traffic ticket in Chicago. After this, officers found no record of him being alive.\n\nMr Alexander \"lived in an area that was frequented by Gacy and where other identified victims had previously lived\", the sheriff's office said.\n\nPolice say their efforts to identify the other remains are ongoing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lindsay Hoyle says it is “not acceptable\" for ministers to give briefings to the media before Parliament.\n\nThe Treasury has released a deluge of funding announcements, days before the chancellor delivers his Budget on 27 October.\n\nStatements from the government setting out spending for transport, health and education have been put out in the past few days.\n\nCommons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle is furious, telling MPs on Monday it was \"not acceptable\" to brief the media ahead of MPs and on Tuesday that the government was behaving in a \"discourteous manner\".\n\nHe thundered that ministers used to \"walk\" if they briefed about a Budget.\n\nIndeed, in 1947, then-Chancellor Hugh Dalton resigned after he leaked details of his budget to a journalist.\n\nDefending pre-Budget announcements, Treasury Minister Simon Clarke said the government had not commented on the \"substantive tax measures\" that would appear in the Budget.\n\nRishi Sunak's Budget won't all be about displays of generosity. The Treasury has asked departments to identify \"at least 5% of savings and efficiencies from their day-to-day budgets\" and we may hear more about those plans on Wednesday.\n\nThe government has already committed to spending for health, schools, defence and overseas aid so other areas such as local government, justice and further education may face a squeeze on their budgets.\n\nAnd there may be more to some of the seemingly lavish spending pledges than meets the eye.\n\nBeware what you are reading! They sound good, all these announcements in the run up to Budget and Spending Review.\n\nBut they need to be taken with caution. This is the PR blitz seeking good headlines. We don't yet know the detail of exactly what the government is planning.\n\nThe raft of investments will make a difference. But there are questions.\n\nAre the transport links, treatment centres and other projects entirely new or have some parts been announced (with equal fanfare) before now?\n\nCrucially what is happening more broadly to the budgets of the departments getting cash?\n\nA shiny investment in something is great, but is that department's day-to-day spending being squeezed? And what of those areas that aren't getting the handouts?\n\nBest to wait until Wednesday to truly judge the chancellor's largesse.\n\nThe government has announced that England's city regions will receive £6.9bn to spend on train, tram, bus and cycle projects.\n\nThis includes £1.07bn for Greater Manchester, £1.05bn for the West Midlands and £830m for West Yorkshire.\n\nHowever, the figure of £6.9bn only includes £1.5bn of additional spending because the government is including the £4.2bn promised in 2019 alongside funding for buses announced by the prime minister last year.\n\nThe chancellor has refused to be drawn on the future of the eastern leg of High Speed Two, which could be delayed or cancelled to save an estimated £40bn. If built, the extension would cut journey times between London and the North East by 31 minutes. It would also shave 52 minutes off trips between London and Leeds.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will also receive extra funding through the Barnett formula - a mechanism the UK government uses to allocate additional money to the devolved nations when it spends more in England.\n\nNHS England will get £5.9bn to tackle the backlog of people waiting for tests and scans. That covers £2.3bn for diagnostic tests including clinics in shopping centres for scans; £1.5bn on beds equipment and new \"surgical hubs\"; and £2.1bn to improve IT.\n\nHealth bodies welcomed the money but warned it would not solve the problem of staff shortages. According to data published by NHS digital, in June there were 93,806 full-time vacancies across the NHS in England.\n\nMr Sunak is set to announce a rise in the National Living Wage from £8.91 per hour to £9.50, to come into effect from 1 April next year.\n\nThis is a 6.6% increase in the minimum wage for all those aged 23 and over - more than twice the current 3.1% rise in the cost of living.\n\nAssuming a 40 hour week, the new minimum wage amounts to a salary of £1,646 per month or £19,760 a year.\n\nThe increases to the wage rates follow recommendations made by the Low Pay Commission, an independent advisory board.\n\nThe Treasury has also announced it will be lifting a pay freeze imposed on millions of public sector workers last year as a result of the pandemic.\n\nIndependent pay review bodies will recommend how much extra money workers will get early next year.\n\nThe government's major tax change has already been announced, as earlier this year the prime minister told MPs he would introduce a tax in England designed to tackle the NHS backlog caused by the Covid pandemic and later to pay for social care.\n\nHowever, we know a few other changes (or rather lack of changes) that will be announced on Wednesday.\n\nCampaigners for a freeze in fuel duty have been told to expect the levy to be frozen for a twelfth year in a row.\n\nAnd separately, the BBC has been told VAT on household energy would not be cut.\n\nThe health department will get £5bn over the next three years for research and development.\n\nThis includes £95m which will go towards researching methods for treating cancer, obesity and mental health.\n\nThe money will also be spent on developing genome technology which could detect more than 200 conditions in newborn babies.\n\n£2.6bn will be spent on creating 30,000 new school places for children with special educational needs and disabilities.\n\nThe money will also go towards improving school buildings' accessibility and funding new, special provision in free schools England.\n\nThe Budget will also include £1.6bn over three years to roll out new T-levels for 16 to 19-year-olds plus £550m for adult skills in England.\n\nCurrently there are over 6,000 on T-level courses, but the government hopes to ramp up those numbers.\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, warned that the extra money was a \"gamble\" as it was unclear how many would want to take the qualification.\n\nThe government will also spend a further £830m modernising colleges in England.\n\nThe Treasury is allocating £1.8bn for building around 160,000 new homes on derelict or unused land - also known as brownfield sites - in England.\n\nAn extra £9m will also go towards allowing councils to turn neglected urban spaces into \"pocket parks\" roughly the size of a tennis court.\n\nThe chancellor is also expected to confirm £65m for digitising England's planning system.\n\nGrants worth £1.4bn will be given to \"internationally mobile\" companies to invest in UK infrastructure.\n\nThis includes £345m aimed at increasing resilience for future pandemics and £800m for the production of electric vehicles in north-east England and the Midlands.\n\nAs part of the package, a talent network team will aim to attract high-skilled workers to the UK, through \"innovation hotspots\" initially based in San Francisco and Boston in the US and Bengaluru in India.\n\nThe government has announced £500m to support parents and children in England.\n\nThis includes £200m to support families with complex issues; £82m to fund centres in 75 different areas to provide advice for parents; £100m for mental health support for expectant parents; and £50m for breastfeeding support.\n\nLabour has argued that the government previously closed over 1,000 children's centres - known as Sure Start centres - and that this new announcement \"rings hollow\".\n\nMr Sunak defended past cuts, arguing that the new funding would \"create a network of family hubs which are broader than the Sure Start centres\".\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? Do you have any questions for our experts? 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.", "The Covid pass scheme could be widened, as ministers consider how to combat infection rates in Wales\n\nCovid rates in Wales have hit another new record high, according to health officials.\n\nFigures published on Tuesday showed a rate of 719.9 cases for every 100,000 people over the last seven days.\n\nThe number of Covid cases in Wales remains the highest infection rate of all the UK nations.\n\nBut one of the heads of Public Health Wales said he felt the levels of infection were beginning to slow.\n\n\"We are looking at fairly high rates compared to other times in the pandemic response,\" accepted Dr Fu-Meng Khaw, who is the national director of health protection at PHW. \"But I feel that we are plateauing.\"\n\nHe said the daily number of cases in Wales stood between 2,500 and 3,000 new infections.\n\nDr Khaw said all the models looking at the latest wave of Covid suggested it would begin to fall in the near future, despite the current high levels.\n\n\"I am confident that over the coming weeks we will start seeing a drop,\" he told BBC Wales.\n\nIt follows a warning that some people are behaving as if the Covid pandemic is over - ignoring Wales' face mask laws and not social distancing.\n\nSchool-age students are showing the highest levels of Covid, says PHW\n\nThe latest number of positive cases reported by Public Health Wales (PHW) was 5,228 between Friday morning and Monday morning.\n\nA further 31 deaths with Covid-19 have also been recorded, with 6,117 people dying with the virus since the start of the pandemic in Wales, according to PHW figures.\n\nThe health body said due to a technical issue reporting figures on Tuesday, not all cases of Covid reported in Wales in the last 72 hours had been flagged as new, and it was likely there had been about 8,000 actual new cases over the period.\n\nDr Khaw said the highest levels of Covid transmission were being seen among young adults and children in Wales.\n\nHe also said the rate of hospital admissions from Covid was increasing, and was being carefully monitored to ensure it was not down to new variants of the disease.\n\nBut he stressed there was \"no evidence\" that a new \"variant of concern\" was in circulation in Wales at the moment.\n\nThe highest infection rate is in Blaenau Gwent, at just under 1,330 cases per 100,000 over the last seven days.\n\nNeighbouring counties in the Aneurin Bevan health board area also share high levels of Covid, with both Torfaen and Caerphilly nudging over the 1,000 infection rate.\n\nWrexham has Wales' lowest rate, at 368.5 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nCovid passes were introduced across Wales at the start of October for nightclubs and large events\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was \"right to be concerned\" about the current Covid rates.\n\n\"There is far too much coronavirus circulating in the community\", he said.\n\nThe Welsh government will announce its latest response to the pandemic on Friday, as part of a three-week review.\n\nBut ministers have said they were not considering moving into \"Covid Urgent\" - where social and business restrictions could be reintroduced.\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford added that if numbers continued to rise \"we would all have to be asking ourselves serious questions about what we would need to do to bring numbers of that sort back under control\".\n\nHealth Minister Eluned Morgan has already indicated they will consider whether the Covid Pass scheme introduced at the start of October should be widened.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhistleblower Frances Haugen has told MPs Facebook is \"unquestionably making hate worse\", as they consider what new rules to impose on big social networks.\n\nMs Haugen was talking to the Online Safety Bill committee in London.\n\nShe said Facebook safety teams were under-resourced, and \"Facebook has been unwilling to accept even little slivers of profit being sacrificed for safety\".\n\nAnd she warned that Instagram was \"more dangerous than other forms of social media\".\n\nWhile other social networks were about performance, play, or an exchange of ideas, \"Instagram is about social comparison and about bodies... about people's lifestyles, and that's what ends up being worse for kids\", she told a joint committee of MPs and Lords.\n\nShe said Facebook's own research described one problem as \"an addict's narrative\" - where children are unhappy, can't control their use of the app, but feel like they cannot stop using it.\n\n\"I am deeply worried that it may not be possible to make Instagram safe for a 14-year-old, and I sincerely doubt that it is possible to make it safe for a 10-year-old,\" she said.\n\nThe committee is fine-tuning a proposed law that will place new duties on large social networks and subject them to checks by the media regulator Ofcom.\n\nAsked if the law was \"keeping Mark Zuckerberg awake at night\", Ms Haugen said she was \"incredibly proud of the UK for taking such a world-leading stance\".\n\n\"The UK has a tradition of leading policy in ways that are followed around the world.\n\n\"I can't imagine Mark isn't paying attention to what you're doing.\"\n\nMs Haugen also warned that Facebook was unable to police content in multiple languages around the world - something which should worry UK officials, she said.\n\n\"UK English is sufficiently different that I would be unsurprised if the safety systems that they developed primarily for American English were actually under-enforcing in the UK,\" she said.\n\nAnd she said that dangerous misinformation in other languages affects people in Britain.\n\n\"Those people are also living in the UK, and being fed misinformation that is dangerous, that radicalises people,\" she warned.\n\nMs Haugen also urged the committee to include paid-for advertising in its new rules, saying the current system was \"literally subsidising hate on these platforms\" because of their algorithmic ranking.\n\n\"It is substantially cheaper to run an angry hateful divisive ad than it is to run a compassionate, empathetic ad,\" she said.\n\nAnd she also urged MPs to require a breakdown of who is harmed by content, rather than an average figure - suggesting Facebook is \"very good at dancing with data\", but pushes people towards \"extreme content\".\n\nMs Haugen appeared at a joint committee of MPs and Lords\n\n\"The median experience on Facebook is a pretty good experience,\" she said.\n\n\"The real danger is that 20% of the population has a horrible experience or an experience that is dangerous,\" she said.\n\nShe warned that employees were unable to report internal concerns at Facebook - something she called a \"huge weak spot\".\n\n\"When I worked on counter-espionage, I saw things where I was concerned about national security, and I had no idea how to escalate those because I didn't have faith in my chain of command at that point,\" she told the committee.\n\nAnd she warned: \"We were told to accept under-resourcing.\"\n\nSimilar problems plague Facebook's Oversight Board, which can overturn the company's decisions on content, she said. She repeated her claim that Facebook has repeatedly lied to its own watchdog, and said this is a \"defining moment\" for the Oversight Board to \"step up\".\n\n\"I don't know what the purpose of the Oversight Board is,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Facebook's Monika Bickert: \"It's in our financial interest to make sure that people have a good experience on our site\"\n\nIt comes as several news outlets published fresh stories based on the thousands of leaked documents Ms Haugen took with her when she left Facebook.\n\nFacebook has characterised previous reporting as misleading, and at one point referred to the leaked documents as \"stolen\".\n\n\"Contrary to what was discussed at the hearing, we've always had the commercial incentive to remove harmful content from our sites,\" a spokesperson said, after Ms Haugen finished giving evidence.\n\n\"People don't want to see it when they use our apps, and advertisers don't want their ads next to it. That's why we've invested $13bn (£9.4bn) and hired 40,000 people to do one job: keep people safe on our apps. \"\n\nThe company said that over the last three quarters it has halved the amount of hate speech seen on Facebook, which it claims now accounts for only 0.05% of all content viewed.\n\n\"While we have rules against harmful content and publish regular transparency reports, we agree we need regulation for the whole industry so that businesses like ours aren't making these decisions on our own,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"The UK is one of the countries leading the way and we're pleased the Online Safety Bill is moving forward.\"\n\nAn avalanche of information emerged on Monday from leaked Facebook documents - and it was hard to keep up.\n\nAllegations include that the social media giant is aware of its role in inciting violence all around the world, or causing harm to its users from US and UK to India and Ethiopia.\n\nA common theme runs through each of the stories. They all suggest a tension between employees raising the alarm about their concerns and a corporate machine that does not appear to be using this to inform its policies.\n\nReporters and journalists have been highlighting many of these same concerns, especially for the past 18 months. I've investigated the human cost of online disinformation and abuse again and again and exposed the damage being done to real people offline using these sites.\n\nBut until these documents were released by Ms Haugen, it was very difficult to know how aware Facebook was of that damage.\n\nThese latest leaks reinforce the idea that it is conscious of it - although it refutes a number of the claims.\n\nAnd it means pressure is mounting on policymakers around the world to do something about it.", "Charlize Theron says countries have to start sharing vaccines if we are to reach the World Health Organization's goal of vaccinating 70% of the planet next year.\n\nThe actress, who has joined the social justice organisation Ford Foundation, wants the World Trade Organization to agree a waiver on vaccine patents - so countries can manufacture their own jabs.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Pumza Fihlani, Theron also questioned some countries' booster programmes, when only 5% of Africa's population has been vaccinated.", "UK scientists are likely to be \"frozen out\" of EU research programmes because of delays in Brexit negotiations, according to MPs.\n\nEarlier this month, the EU indicated that the UK's participation in its £100bn research programme was tied to negotiations over Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Commons European Scrutiny Select Committee says British science will not recover from \"lost opportunities\".\n\nIts chair, Sir Bill Cash, said that the delay was damaging UK businesses.\n\n\"It's been the best part of a year and British research institutions remain frozen out of key projects and funding despite agreement on participation. With each passing day, the opportunities are missed, British institutions are left high and dry while science marches on without them and the returns on our financial contribution edge lower,\" said Mr Cash.\n\n\"This needs to be addressed swiftly, so we're calling on the government to lay out the steps it is taking to ensure UK participation is formalised.\"\n\nThe EU's Horizon Europe programme brings together researchers from industry and academic research institutions. The projects range from fundamental research to tackling societal issues, such as combating climate change.\n\nThe UK's continued participation in the EU's Horizon programme was agreed in principle just before Christmas in the Brexit withdrawal agreement. But the signing off of a formal agreement on the UK's associate membership has dragged on for months.\n\nBoris Johnson wants UK scientists to have the closest possible relationship with EU researchers\n\nThere have been growing fears that scientific collaboration had become a bargaining chip tied to negotiations over the Northern Ireland Protocol, which keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market after Brexit. Earlier this month, the EU's research commissioner, Mariya Gabriel, seemed to confirm these suspicions when she told the R&D policy news website sciencebusiness.net: \"transversal issues need to be tackled first\".\n\nThe delay is creating problems, because funding cannot be released to UK collaborators until there is a formal agreement. If it becomes apparent that agreement will take many more months, EU researchers will not include UK scientists in their projects.\n\nProf James Wilsdon, who is the director of the Research on Research Institute at the University of Sheffield, points to estimates that uncertainties arising from Brexit have already led to the UK research to missing out on £1.5bn of research funding since 2016.\n\n\"This number is rising fast, as Horizon Europe, the world's largest and most successful co-funding scheme, gets into full swing, and the UK is stuck outside.\n\n\"Unless this is resolved soon, the fear must be that the UK drops out, or is locked out, by default rather than design, as the rest of Europe marches on without us. This would be a tragedy for both sides, and would leave the UK's ambitions to be a scientific superpower in tatters.\"\n\nThe EU's Earth mapping effort, Copernicus, is similarly affected by the delay. This affects UK aerospace companies wanting to bid for contracts to manufacture equipment for Copernicus because the contracts are dished out as a proportion of the contribution from member states. Because of the impasse, British firms can't contribute and so, according to the Select Committee report, will be \"frozen out\".\n\nMPs on the Committee said that the delay raised concerns about value for money of participation in EU programmes. The UK's contribution to the Horizon Europe programme is expected to be about £2.1bn a year.\n\nThe President of the UK's Royal Society, Prof Sir Adrian Smith, called for negotiators to stop treating the issue of research funding as a bargaining chip.\n\n\"Last Christmas, all sides agreed that the UK would associate to Horizon Europe,\" he said.\n\n\"Nearly a year on, the association agreement is still not signed, having become entangled in other issues. Vital research that benefits all nations will be delayed unless all sides look at Horizon Europe on its own merits and get the deal signed.\"", "A photographer has captured a pipe pumping filtered sewage into Langstone Harbour in Hampshire.\n\nWatch how it happened - and what's being done about it.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to announce £70m in funding to help small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in Northern Ireland in this week's budget.\n\nHer Majesty's Treasury said the funding will build on the British Business Bank's existing programmes to help SMEs to invest and grow.\n\nIt will provide loans or invest in local companies.\n\nThe way in which businesses can access the fund will be outlined in due course.\n\nLocal companies that may avail of the funding include recent start-ups looking to borrow smaller amounts to kickstart activity or established SMEs looking for larger investments to grow their business.\n\nThe funding will be part of a government commitment to level up opportunities.\n\nIt will build on the success of existing funds in other parts of the UK, which have been shown to support the creation of high-paying high productivity jobs and the upskilling of existing workforces, the Treasury said.\n\nOn Budget day the chancellor usually holds up a traditional red box full of financial documents\n\nDescribing Northern Ireland as a \"powerhouse of ingenuity\", Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the UK government was continuing to support small businesses across the country to grow and succeed.\n\n\"We're investing millions of pounds to help thousands of businesses take their next step,\" he said.\n\n\"Since the start of the pandemic, the UK government has spent £352bn right across the UK on support.\n\n\"In Northern Ireland this included protecting more than 284,000 jobs through the furlough scheme, £118m in self-employment support, help for businesses and the procurement of vaccines.\"\n\nIn addition to the £70m for Northern Ireland, Scotland will benefit from £150m and Wales will receive £130m for a new fund delivered by the British Business Bank.", "The Queen is taking a rest on medical advice after a busy month of public engagements\n\nWhen the Queen has to rest for a few days on \"medical advice\", who gives that advice?\n\nSir Huw Thomas is the Queen's physician, as well as being a consultant at St Mary's Hospital in London and professor of gastrointestinal genetics at Imperial College London.\n\nHe is \"head of the medical household\", which is part of the royal household looking after the health of the royal family.\n\n\"You very much become part of that organisation and become the personal doctor to the principal people in it, who are patients just like other patients,\" Sir Huw said earlier this year, in an in-house interview at Imperial.\n\nBut unlike for other patients, every medical decision, such as a trip to hospital for tests, will be played out in a blaze of publicity. With Britain's longest-reigning monarch as a patient, every development in her health will be scrutinised.\n\nIt might be a high-profile responsibility but it's not a full-time position. \"My role at the medical household doesn't have fixed sessions, and it's as and when I'm needed,\" said 63-year-old Sir Huw, who was knighted this year.\n\nThe role of royal doctor was also \"completely different from what I would normally be doing\", he told Imperial College.\n\nThe Queen spent a night at King Edward VII Hospital in London this week\n\nWhen there were staff shortages during the pandemic, he helped with ward rounds at St Mary's - and he is also director of the Family Cancer Clinic at St Mark's Hospital in Harrow, north-west London.\n\nHe has a long-standing involvement in cancer research.\n\nIt's not known whether he was with the Queen for her medical checks at the King Edward VII hospital this week, but he is listed there as a consultant, with a specialism in gastroenterology.\n\nHe also works at another medical practice a few streets away from the Edward VII - a private hospital in Marylebone, used by the royals, which originally treated wounded officers from the Boer War.\n\nThere is a range of other doctors in the medical household and other medical officers who attend the Queen when she travels overseas - and other specialists could be consulted.\n\nAnother of her doctors, Peter Fisher, was killed in an accident when cycling in London three years ago.\n\nIn his comments to Imperial College, Sir Huw pointed to keeping people safe in the pandemic as a \"key priority\" for the medical household.\n\nBeing the doctor to the royals has always been a mixture of medicine and diplomacy, says Elizabeth Hurren, professor of modern history at the University of Leicester.\n\nFrom the Tudors to the 18th Century, royal doctors were \"as much psychological as diagnostic\" in their approach, offering soothing advice to people who were unlikely to take direct instructions, she says.\n\nHow would you tell a monarch, ancient or modern, to take a rest?\n\nProf Hurren, who has researched the history of medicine, says the doctor had to be one of the most trusted people in the royal circle. \"It was very intimate. They needed to entrust them with the most private parts of their lives.\"\n\nThere are continuous tensions that are still true into the present day, she says. \"How much medical information do you give the public? How do you maintain a sense of privacy?\"\n\nIn previous centuries, the monarch might have wanted to keep illnesses away from the eyes of the court, not wanting to show vulnerability. \"The court was alive with rumour and gossip,\" she says. And the doctor would be expected to keep medical problems confidential.\n\nProf Hurren says the role of the court is now played by the modern media - and the same questions of balancing privacy with public life are facing the present-day royal family and their doctors.", "Facebook has posted better-than-expected profits for the third quarter, as it continues to face bad press over leaked internal documents.\n\nThe social media giant made $9bn (£6.5bn) of profit in the three months to September, up from $7.8bn last year.\n\nHowever, it was hit by a new privacy update to Apple's iOS 14 operating system, which made it harder for brands to target ads at specific users.\n\nIt comes amid fresh claims of unethical behaviour made by a former employee.\n\nFrances Haugen has released a cache of internal documents to the public, alleging that Facebook put profit before user safety.\n\nMultiple media reports say the documents show Facebook struggled to moderate content that promoted hate speech and sex trafficking outside of the US.\n\nOn Monday, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerburg told investors on a conference call: \"What we are seeing is a coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint a false picture of our company.\"\n\nIn the 12 months to 30 September, the social media giant said its monthly user-base had grown 6% to 2.91 billion.\n\nHowever, despite its strong profits, its revenue slightly undershot analyst expectations, amid \"headwinds\" caused by Apple's privacy rules.\n\nFacebook said the privacy update would also have an impact on its digital business in the final quarter of the year, but that it expected to adjust to the changes in time.\n\nThe firm said it would spend some $10bn on its metaverse division this year - known as Facebook Reality Labs - which is tasked with creating augmented and virtual reality hardware, software and content.\n\nThe world's largest social media network is under scrutiny from global lawmakers and regulators, including from the Federal Trade Commission, which has filed an antitrust lawsuit alleging anticompetitive practices.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe whistleblower documents, which were first reported by the Wall Street Journal, have only intensified that pressure.\n\nThey include internal research about Instagram's effects on teen mental health; whether Facebook's platforms stoke division; and the social media giant's handling of the 6 January Capitol riot.\n\nAt a hearing on Monday, Ms Haugen told UK MPs that Facebook is \"unquestionably making hate worse\".\n\nShe said Facebook safety teams were under-resourced, and that \"Facebook has been unwilling to accept even little slivers of profit being sacrificed for safety\".\n\nThe MPs are considering what new rules to impose on big social networks under the planned Online Safety Bill.\n\nBut on his conference call, Mr Zuckerberg hit back: \"Good faith criticism helps us get better, but my view is that we are seeing a coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint a false picture of our company.\n\n\"The reality is that we have an open culture that encourages discussion and research on our work so we can make progress on many complex issues that are not specific to just us.\"\n\nDespite the allegations, shares in Facebook climbed by 1.3% in after hours trading on Monday. The firm's stock is up by about 20% so far this year.", "Youth clubs say they're still waiting to receive £500m promised by the government two years ago.\n\nMinisters have admitted to the BBC that the Youth Investment Fund hasn't launched yet.\n\nLocal authority funding for youth services in England and Wales have been cut by 70% to £978m, according to recent research.\n\nThe government says helping charities through Covid has been its priority.\n\nJames Francis is a professional boxer helping at Vibe UK in Knowsley, Liverpool City, which is one of the most deprived in the UK.\n\nIt's among the clubs the BBC has spoken to that are relying on help from the Youth Investment Fund to keep going.\n\n\"If the youth club does get shut down, looking at the people that do come here, they'll be devastated,\" James says.\n\nVibe UK, like many others, offers things like care, support, social events and help with education.\n\n\"Our funding tends to come from the local authority, who are under a lot of pressure themselves,\" says Paul Oginsky, who's CEO of the youth service.\n\n\"It also comes from the community or the police.\n\n\"We're scrambling around to find enough money to survive, and that isn't how it should be because we are an essential service.\n\n\"We are waiting for money from the youth investment fund. It's been promised, but it hasn't been delivered.\"\n\nThe Youth Investment Fund was announced in 2019 by then-Chancellor Sajid Javid.\n\nIt was pledged to help build 60 new youth centres across the country, refurbish 360 existing youth facilities, and provide more than 100 mobile facilities, as well as support the provision and co-ordination of services for young people.\n\nThere have been reports the scheme was supposed to launch in April 2020, but the government hasn't confirmed this.\n\nIn a statement the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said: \"During the pandemic our priority has been to stabilise youth charities and we have done so by distributing £15.6m through the Youth Covid Support Fund.\n\n\"This has helped to secure their future and is part of our wider support for young people that includes the £200m Youth Endowment Fund.\n\n\"Further details on the distribution of the Youth Investment Fund will be set out in due course.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Construction workers are among those witnessing the biggest pay rebound\n\nWorkers and occupations hardest hit by the pandemic saw the biggest rebound in pay in 2021, official figures show.\n\nEmployees aged under 21 and those in low-paid work saw the sharpest dip and recovery, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nA revival in pay rates for men has meant the gender pay gap has widened.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is facing calls from unions to give public sector workers a significant rise when a freeze on pay is lifted.\n\n\"We need a proper plan from the chancellor [at the Budget] to get pay rising across the economy,\" said TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady.\n\n\"That means a pay rise for all public sector workers that at least matches the cost of living. If Rishi Sunak does not increase department budgets the pay freeze will be over in name only.\"\n\nThe ONS figures show median weekly pay for full-time employees was £611 in April 2021, representing a 4.3% increase from the same month in the previous year.\n\nHowever, the change was far more dramatic for certain sections of the workforce, owing to furlough and other effects of the Covid crisis.\n\nFor example, employees aged 16 and 17 saw pay drop by 11.4% in 2019-20, before growing by 12.5% the following year.\n\nConstruction workers saw weekly pay go up by 16.8% in 2021 compared with a fall of 10.4% a year earlier. Manufacturing employees benefited from an 8.3% increase after a 3.1% drop previously.\n\nThere were also significant regional differences, with gross weekly earnings up by 8.8% in Northern Ireland, compared with a 1.1% rise in London, in 2021.\n\nNicola White, head of earnings at the ONS, said: \"After virtually flatlining last year at the start of the pandemic, earnings are returning to something like their long-term trend over the last few years.\n\n\"Increases this year were most marked for the groups worst affected in 2020, such as younger people, men and those in lowest-paid jobs.\"\n\nThe impact of the pandemic was different for men's pay compared with women's earnings, primarily due to furlough.\n\nThe recent rebound in pay for many men resulted in a worsening of the gender pay gap between male and female earners. In April 2020, the gap was 7%, but it was 7.9% in April this year, following previous improvements.\n\n\"This isn't a reversal of the trend, it is a bump caused by the pandemic,\" said Sarah Coles, senior personal finance analyst at investment firm Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"When the 2020 study was carried out, more men were furloughed, and half were on temporarily lower pay, so the gap looked smaller than it actually was. When the 2021 study was done, the position was reversed, so it looked larger than it really was.\"\n\nMs Coles said the gender pay gap was affected significantly by how people lived their lives and brought flexibility of work into sharp focus.\n\n\"Children make an enormous difference, but the gap doesn't widen when women take time off with their first newborn, at the average age of 31. It is later, when they reach 40, that it opens up, so the relationship between pay and parenting is more complicated,\" she said.", "You can get extra news, analysis and in-depth reporting from the BBC's teams covering the climate change summit in Glasgow in November direct to your smartphone by signing up below.\n\nThis feature is only available to UK app users.\n\nYou can download the latest versions of the BBC News app here on the Android Play Store or here on the iOS App Store.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Scott Morrison sets out \"a uniquely Australian way\" of meeting climate commitments\n\nLeading global coal and gas supplier Australia has pledged to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison however said the plan would not include ending Australia's fossil fuel sectors.\n\nThe nation will also not set ambitious targets for 2030 - an objective of next month's COP26 global climate summit.\n\nHis plan has drawn criticism, with Murdoch University fire ecology expert Joe Fontaine saying it had \"all the strength of a wet paper bag\".\n\nAustralia has long dragged its heels on climate action. It has some of the highest emissions per head of population and is a massive exporter of fossil fuels.\n\nStrategic allies the US and UK have both pledged to cut emissions faster. The UK has pledged that all its electricity will come from renewable sources by 2035, while the US has announced plans to halve its emissions by 2030 compared to 2005 levels.\n\n\"We won't be lectured by others who do not understand Australia. The Australian Way is all about how you do it, and not if you do it. It's about getting it done,\" Mr Morrison wrote in a newspaper column on Tuesday.\n\nTo halt the worst effects of climate change, nations have pledged to limit rising temperatures to 1.5C by 2050.\n\nThis requires cutting emissions by 45% by 2030 and reaching net zero by 2050, scientists say. Over 100 nations have committed to carbon neutrality.\n\nNet zero means not adding to the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. It is achieved by a combination of cutting emissions as much as possible - mainly by reducing gases like carbon dioxide (CO2), which are released in the use of fossil fuels - and so-called offsetting measures, such as planting trees and carbon-capture technology.\n\nMr Morrison announced an investment of more than A$20bn (£11bn; $15bn) in \"low-emissions technologies\" over the next 20 years - such as efforts to capture carbon in soil, lower solar energy costs, and developing greener industries.\n\nBut Australia will also use more gas, at least in the short term. Most controversially, there is no plan to limit fossil fuels.\n\n\"We want our heavy industries, like mining, to stay open, remain competitive and adapt, so they remain viable for as long as global demand allows,\" Mr Morrison wrote.\n\nAustralia's 2030 commitment will remain a 26% cut on 2005 emissions. It is currently on track for a 30-35% reduction, the government said.\n\nWhile the 2050 pledge has been widely welcomed, the government has been ferociously criticised for not offering more details.\n\nAustralia's Climate Council think tank said it was \"a joke without strong emissions cuts this decade\".\n\nMany said the government has been too slow on climate action, despite seeing first-hand impacts such as bushfires, floods and drought.\n\n\"The word plan doesn't constitute a plan no matter how many times you say it,\" said Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese.\n\nScott Morrison's announcement is worth noting not because it offers anything different to other countries, but because of how late to the party Australia is!\n\nThis announcement took months of political wrangling and was left down to the wire with days before the COP26 summit in Glasgow.\n\nThat the government had to make political concessions to its junior coalition partner - the National Party - shows you how complicated and politically divisive climate action is in Australia.\n\nThe Nationals represent electorates in regional areas where most high-emission industries like coal mining are based. After days of toing and froing, they backed the 'process'.\n\nThe prime minister assured Australians the target will not mean paying more for their energy bills. \"Technology not taxes,\" he said.\n\nHe addressed regional Australians directly and said the plan won't involve shutting down coal and gas production or exports. He talked about billions of dollars invested in low-emission technologies. The government's plan would \"strike a balance\", Mr Morrison said.\n\nBut he failed to explain how this balance will be struck. How the government will square keeping its coal industry, for example, and reaching net zero by 2050 - and what role technology will play in all of that. Especially when Canberra won't budge on its much-criticised 2030 targets.\n\nWhile this is a big moment for Australia, the details are still murky and potentially problematic on how net zero will be achieved.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.", "US comedian Dave Chappelle, whose latest Netflix special sparked a transgender backlash, has hit back at those he says want to \"cancel\" him.\n\nChappelle posted on Instagram that he was willing to meet members of the transgender community, amid criticism his comedy show was transphobic.\n\nHe also invited viewers to decide whether he had been \"cancelled\".\n\nIt comes after a small protest last week outside the Netflix headquarters in Los Angeles.\n\nCritics have taken offence at Chappelle's Netflix special, The Closer, in which he says \"gender is a fact\" and that LGBT people are \"too sensitive\".\n\nNetflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos apologised for how he handled internal dissent from employees, saying: \"I screwed up.\"\n\nChappelle's video, posted on his Instagram account on Monday, was filmed at his performance in Louisville, Kentucky, on Sunday, according to CNN. It was his first public reaction to critics since his special debuted on 5 October. He appeared at the show alongside popular podcaster Joe Rogan.\n\n\"It's been said in the press that I was invited to speak to transgender employees at Netflix and I refused,\" Chappelle, 48, told the audience.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Andi's remarkable journey: 'I can finally be who I've always been'\n\n\"That is not true. If they had invited me I would have accepted it. Although I am confused about what we are speaking about... You said you want a safe working environment at Netflix. Well it seems like I'm the only one that can't go to the office anymore.\"\n\n\"To the transgender community, I am more than willing to give you an audience,\" he continued. \"But you will not summon me. I am not bending to anybody's demands.\"\n\nHe also denied that he was in conflict with the LGBT community, saying \"this has nothing to do with them. It's about corporate interests and what I can say and what I cannot say.\"\n\nChappelle also said the special had led to him being disinvited from showing his latest documentary, Untitled, at film festivals.\n\n\"Today, not a film company, not a movie studio, not a film festival... will touch this film,\" he said, calling on people to see his new film and decide \"am I cancelled or not?\"", "The government says it will force water companies to make a \"progressive reduction\" in the sewage it dumps in rivers, amid pressure from the Lords.\n\nPeers proposed a change to the Environment Bill last week in an attempt to cut the pollution, but it did not win enough support from MPs.\n\nIt led to a backlash on social media, and Lords promising to try again.\n\nBut Environment Secretary George Eustice has now promised to bolster measures by making them a legal duty.\n\nHe said the government already had plans in place to require water companies to act on sewage, but added: \"We've listened to the debate in Parliament [and] we will write what was already government policy into [law] to give people the reassurance they seek.\"\n\nThe crossbench peer who put forward the Lords amendment, the Duke of Wellington, said he met Mr Eustice earlier on Tuesday ahead of a debate in Parliament on the Environment Bill.\n\nSpeaking in the Lords, he said was \"grateful for the gesture\", but he had yet to form an opinion on the language of the government's proposal, so would be pushing ahead with his own plan to end the \"revolting practice\".\n\nThe duke's amendment passed in the Lords by 213 votes to 60, and will now be debated by MPs at a later date.\n\nHowever, due to parliamentary rules, his amendment would have to be approved by the Lords anyway to allow the government to replace it with its own plan when the bill returns to the Commons.\n\nThe environmental issue has come to a head days before the start of the COP26 climate summit, being hosted by the UK in Glasgow.\n\nThe Environment Agency allows water utilities to release sewage into rivers and streams after extreme weather events, such as prolonged heavy rain.\n\nThis protects properties from flooding and prevents sewage from backing up into streets and homes.\n\nBut according to the public body's own figures, water companies discharged raw sewage into rivers in England more than 400,000 times last year, with untreated effluent - including human waste, wet wipes and condoms - released into waterways for more than three million hours in 2020.\n\nThe Lords agreed an amendment to the Environment Bill that would put a legal duty on water companies and the government to demonstrate progressive reductions in discharges of untreated sewage and required them to \"take all reasonable steps\" to avoid using combined sewer overflows.\n\nBut when the proposal was voted on by MPs last week, it lost by 265 votes to 202 - even with 22 Tories rebelling against the government to vote in favour of the plan.\n\nThe government had said the amount of sewage discharged by water companies was \"not acceptable\" and that it had made it \"crystal clear\" to firms that significant reductions must be a priority.\n\nBut a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the intentions of the Lords' amendment, which it said would involve an overhaul of the UK's Victorian sewerage system - would cost upwards of £150bn.\n\n\"That would mean that individuals - every one of us as taxpayers - paying potentially thousands of pounds each as a result,\" they added.\n\nShortly before the issue was brought up again for debate in the Lords, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs proposed its own amendment for when the bill returns to the Commons.\n\nThe new legal duty would be placed directly on water companies to make a \"progressive reduction\" in the sewage it dumps into rivers.\n\nIt follows on from advice it gave the industry's financial regulator, Ofwat, earlier this year, saying water companies must take steps to significantly reduce storm overflows and that the regulator should ensure funding should be approved for them to do so.\n\nAnd the firms would need to produce \"comprehensive statutory Drainage and Sewerage Management Plans, setting out how they will manage and develop their drainage and sewerage system over a minimum 25-year planning horizon - including how storm overflows will be addressed\".\n\nA number of peers welcomed the move by the government, but some warned it still may not go far enough, with Labour's Baroness Quin saying she hoped the government would move even further now people across the country were \"waking up to the problem\".\n\nLabour's shadow environment secretary, Luke Pollard, also said the \"screeching u-turn\" on the issue due to the public backlash would \"do little to convince the public that the health of our rivers, rather than the health of Conservative polling, is at the forefront of ministers' minds\".\n\nHe added: \"The government still has no clear plan and no grip on the issue of raw sewage being pumped into our seas and rivers.\"", "Greta Thunberg will join the climate march from Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park on Friday 5 November\n\nGreta Thunberg has invited Glasgow workers who plan on striking during COP26 to join her on a protest march.\n\nThe Swedish activist confirmed she would come to the city during the UN summit to take part in a climate strike on Friday 5 November.\n\nRailway staff, council cleaners and refuse workers have said they would take industrial action during COP26.\n\nMs Thunberg wrote on Twitter: \"Climate justice also means social justice and that we leave no one behind.\"\n\nShe added: \"So we invite everyone, especially the workers striking in Glasgow, to join us. See you there.\"\n\nThe Climate Strike has been organised by Fridays for Future Scotland, which was founded by young people inspired by Ms Thunberg's activism.\n\nThe protest march will go from Kelvingrove Park in the west end of Glasgow to George Square in the city centre.\n\nScotRail strikes could begin on 1 November after the RMT Union rejected a pay offer\n\nMs Thunberg's comments came as unions representing rail and council workers confirmed their plans for strikes during the summit.\n\nCouncil cleaners, janitors, refuse and recycling workers across Scotland could take industrial action from 8 November.\n\nA joint trade union group, including Unison, Unite and the GMB, is seeking a £2,000 flat rate pay increase or 6%, whichever is greater, from Scotland's local authority umbrella body Cosla.\n\nScotRail could also be hit by strikes from 1 November after the RMT Union rejected the latest pay offer.\n\nThe union described the offer of a 2.5% increase this year, 2,2% in 2022 and a one-off £300 bonus for staff working during the summit as \"pitiful\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Greta Thunberg says she's 'completely different' in private\n\nThree other rail unions, Unite, Aslef and the TSSA have already accepted the offer.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it will focus on \"making alternative plans for rail operations during Cop26\" if a pay offer is not accepted by Wednesday.\n\nAbout 120 world leaders are expected to attend the United Nations summit from 31 October to 12 November.\n\nGreta Thunberg told the BBC this week that summits will not lead to action on climate goals unless the public demand change too.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview ahead of COP26, she said the public needed to \"uproot the system\".", "Britain's turkey farmers will do their best to ensure Christmas \"is as normal as it can be\" but shortages are likely, an industry representative has warned.\n\nThe government has assured consumers that turkeys will be available for the festive season.\n\nMinisters are pinning their hopes on overseas workers brought in on temporary visas to \"save Christmas\".\n\nBut Graeme Dear, from the British Poultry Council, told MPs the scheme had come too late.\n\n\"We have been given access through the seasonal workers scheme for up to 5,500 [employees] but that finishes on 31 December,\" he said.\n\n\"We would have loved to have known about that in June, and therefore could have placed enough turkeys for a full Christmas.\"\n\nHe added that farmers \"will do our utmost to make sure Christmas is as normal as it can be,\" but told MPs: \"There is a likelihood there will be a shortage\".\n\nHe said his industry was facing a 16% reduction in its workforce.\n\nEarlier this month, Conservative Party chairman Oliver Dowden told Sky News: \"We will make sure that people have their turkeys for Christmas.\n\n\"I know that for the Environment Secretary George Eustice, this is absolutely top of his list.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The NFU's Tom Bradshaw says it is “completely inexcusable” and the government must act “urgently” to stop a repeat next year.\n\nOther farming industry representatives blamed shortages on Brexit and Covid, and urged the government to ease restrictions on immigration, in evidence to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee.\n\nTom Bradshaw, of the National Farmers' Union, said labour shortages were \"our number one challenge\".\n\nHe cited daffodil farms, which he said were down a third on their usual staff numbers, leading to nearly a quarter of their crop going to waste.\n\nAnd he added that courgettes, apples and autumn raspberries had not been picked, in addition to \"the tragic cull in the pig sector\".\n\n\"Many businesses are mothballing their facilities... I've never seen the industry in this position and the real lack of confidence is crippling the sector,\" he added.\n\nHis comments were echoed by Derek Jarman, from the British Protected Ornamentals Association, who said the flowers and plants industry were facing a 25% reduction in labour next year.\n\n\"That will mean crops un-harvested - the market is there but not the labour to produce them,\" he said.\n\n\"We're all frightened, we're all in great fear, we don't know what to do, I've never seen it like this in my entire life, never.\"\n\nConservative MP Sheryll Murray asked the witnesses what was the dominant reason for the shortages.\n\nMr Jarman blamed Brexit for workers leaving the UK, telling the committee: \"We as a nation said 'we don't want you'.\"\n\nCharlie Dewhirst, a policy adviser for the National Pig Association said the coronavirus pandemic had been \"an accelerator of so many issues\".\n\n\"It is almost 50:50,\" said Mr Dear arguing that a lot of EU citizens left in \"the run up\" to Brexit but the pandemic \"encouraged\" others to \"go home\".\n\nAsked if labour shortages could be filled by the UK population, Mr Bradshaw noted that unemployment is \"very low\".\n\nHe said the industry had been told the end of the furlough scheme, introduced during the pandemic, would result in high unemployment and that \"we would recruit from that pool\".\n\n\"It's now not happened so where is the pool of labour,\" he asked,\n\nThe government has said firms should pay higher wages to attract staff.\n\nAsked about labour shortages in farming earlier this month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the BBC the industry could not \"simply go back to the tired, failed, old model, reach for the lever called 'uncontrolled immigration' get people in, low wages\".\n\nIn October, the government announced a number of measures to ease pressure on the pig industry including extending its seasonal workers scheme to pork butchers.\n\nThe Seasonal Agricultural Workers' Scheme allows farmers to recruit overseas on a quota basis - but Mr Bradshaw said the numbers should be expanded and extended to other areas such as the ornamental sector.", "Ikea is buying the former flagship central London store of Topshop for £378m following the collapse of Sir Philip Green's retail empire.\n\nThe Swedish giant will turn several floors of the huge Oxford Street site into a furniture store as part of a strategy to open inner-city outlets.\n\nThe 239,000 sq ft retail and office space, on seven floors, also houses NikeTown and Vans, who stay as tenants.\n\nIkea said despite the growth of online sales, bricks and mortar remained key.\n\nPeter Jelkeby, retail manager of Ikea UK & Ireland, said societies were seeing big changes in the way people live and shop, including soaring online sales and a desire for more local physical outlets.\n\nIkea, famous for its huge out-of-town warehouses, has been trialling inner-city formats across Europe for more than two years.\n\n\"Even though online shopping continues to accelerate at a rapid pace, our physical stores - large and small - will always be an essential part of the Ikea experience,\" said Mr Jelkeby.\n\n\"Bringing Ikea to the heart of Oxford Street is a direct response to these societal shifts and an exciting step forward in our journey to becoming a more accessible.\"\n\nThe new store is planned to open in autumn 2023 and will focus on home-furnishing accessories, with the full range available to buy for home delivery.\n\nThe company opened its first inner-city outlet in Paris in 2019. It also has city centre sites in New York, Toyko, and Madrid, with outlets planned for Vienna, Barcelona, Berlin and Prague. Ikea currently has 22 UK outlets.\n\nA conditional purchase contract for the property is now signed, with the final details expected to be completed in January.\n• None Ikea in talks to buy former Topshop flagship store", "The serving PC with the West Midlands force is accused of an historical sexual offence against a child\n\nA serving West Midlands Police officer has been charged with an historical sexual offence against a child.\n\nStudent officer PC Joseph Powell is accused of assaulting a child under 13 by touching between 2009 and 2011 and faces a further charge of unauthorised access to information on a police computer.\n\nHe is due to appear at Coventry Magistrates' Court on 10 November.\n\nPC Powell has remained suspended since his arrest on 6 August 2020.\n\nThe force confirmed the sexual offence charge pertained to a period that pre-dated his employment with them.\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.", "Almost half the trailers were destroyed in the blaze in 2019\n\nThree people have been charged with arson over two fires, including one that destroyed 48 trailers at the headquarters of domestic appliance manufacturer Whirlpool.\n\nExplosions were heard across Peterborough as fire engulfed the lorry trailers on 29 August 2019.\n\nDamage was estimated at about £2m.\n\nTwo people have been charged in relation to that fire, and one of them and another man are also charged in relation to an incident the day before.\n\nBlack smoke could be seen for miles around the Shrewsbury Avenue site in the city after the fire broke out at about 19:00 BST.\n\nEight crews and 55 firefighters tackled the blaze at its height.\n\nEight crews from four counties tackled the blaze\n\nCambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service said at the time the lorry trailers had been full of parts for washing machines and fridges.\n\nNo-one was injured in the blaze and none of the company's buildings were affected.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The trailers contained spare parts for washing machines and fridges\n\nCambridgeshire Police has now said three people have been charged \"in connection with a large-scale arson in Peterborough two years ago\".\n\nA 21-year-old man from the city and a 17-year-old boy have been charged with arson causing damage worth £754,871 to HGV trailers and their contents, as well as criminal damage to white goods belonging to Hotpoint.\n\nThe 17-year-old has also been charged with further offences alongside another 21-year-old man, in connection with an incident at a building site in the Hampton area of the city on 28 August 2019.\n\nBoth have been charged with arson causing damage totalling £20,000, burglary and criminal damage.\n\nAll three are expected to appear before magistrates on 12 November.\n\nPolice said four other men arrested during the investigation would face no further action.\n\nWhirlpool, which owns the brand Hotpoint, has its UK headquarters at the Peterborough site.\n\nAbout 1,000 of Whirlpool's 2,500 UK workforce are based there.\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. Carl Davies pleaded guilty to causing alarm or distress to Louise Minchin and her daughter\n\nA man has pleaded guilty to stalking by sending intimidating comments to former BBC Breakfast presenter Louise Minchin and her adult daughter on Instagram.\n\nCarl Davies, 44, was due to stand trial at Caernarfon Crown Court but changed his plea to both charges to guilty.\n\nDavies, of Flint, admitted causing alarm or distress to both Louise and her daughter Mia in July 2020.\n\nHe has been ordered not to refer to the women on any social media site and will be sentenced on 15 December.\n\nHe was also ordered not to encourage any third party to refer to the women on social media, and not to contact the women directly or indirectly, or approach any BBC-owned or run premises, or any BBC film set or areas.\n\nDavies was also told he must not enter the Cheshire village where Ms Minchin lives.\n\nThe messages sent to Louise Minchin and her daughter were \"very intimidating\", the judge said\n\nDavies, of Queens Avenue, has previously been convicted and given a suspended sentence for stalking Girls Aloud singer Nicola Roberts.\n\nJudge Nicola Saffman said: \"This is a repeat offence and the content of messages which was sent was extremely alarming, very serious, very intimidating and clearly was intended to maximise the distress of the complainants in this case.\"\n\nThe court heard the offences took place between 14 and 17 July last year, during the operational period of his suspended sentence.\n\nThe court heard that Davies served in the armed forces in Iraq and had been living for many years with untreated post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\n\nDuncan Bould, defending, said Davies, who attended court with his father, had continued to work in Iraq as a close protection officer after leaving the forces and had very little treatment for the condition.\n\nMr Bould said: \"He has, it seems, heavily self-medicated, using largely alcohol as medication.\n\n\"It seems it is in that context these offences were committed.\"\n\nMr Bould said Davies had initially pleaded not guilty to the two offences of stalking, causing serious alarm or distress, because he could not recognise the behaviour and now believed it must have been done when he was heavily intoxicated.\n\nJudge Nicola Saffman told the court the most likely sentence was one of immediate imprisonment.", "Tan Copsey had booked his accommodation well in advance of the summit\n\nAn Airbnb host has been banned from taking bookings during COP26 after he hiked the cost of a lodging by $2,000.\n\nTan Copsey had booked the two-bedroom flat in Glasgow's west end well in advance of the summit only to receive an email with the inflated price.\n\nThe host said he was concerned he had \"missed out on a great deal of money\" after seeing the average room price increase by \"400%\" in the area.\n\nMr Copsey said: \"I had already paid. We already had an agreement.\"\n\nAirbnb said it had \"zero tolerance\" for this kind of behaviour.\n\nOriginally reported in The Herald, Mr Copsey posted about his experience on social media, joking he was having a \"great time\" with COP26 accommodation.\n\nMr Copsey, who will be visiting his 10th UN climate summit, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme he made the booking about three months ago.\n\nBut a few weeks ago he received a \"really interesting\" message from the host.\n\nMr Copsey, who works for a US non-profit organisation, said: \"The message essentially said: 'I am pretty disappointed that you booked early because I have missed out on a whole lot of money. Prices in our area have gone up 400% and so I would like to charge you more. Specifically, in your currency, $2,000 more.\"\n\nHe had originally booked a two-week stay at the property for £2,175 ($3,000).\n\nMr Copsey said: \"The thing that bothered me about it was that I had already paid. We already had an agreement.\"\n\nHe cancelled his booking and has since arranged alternative accommodation for COP26, which starts at the Scottish Event Campus on Sunday.\n\nThousands of delegates and hundreds of world leaders will descend on Glasgow for the climate summit\n\nMr Copsey said his main concern now was the situation facing delegates who did not have the same resources.\n\n\"The bigger thing that is happening is that all these people from around the world are coming to Glasgow and they are coming to do something that is really important and really good,\" he said.\n\n\"And I don't think it is right that they are priced out because they are on government salaries. They work for small non-profits in Africa or the Pacific Islands, and they are already paying a huge amount of money to get to Glasgow because of the pandemic and because of travel being disrupted.\"\n\nDespite his experience, Mr Copsey, whose area of specialism is the reduction of methane emissions, said he did not have any vindictive thoughts against the host or a negative opinion of Scottish people.\n\nAnd he said he hopes the many \"incredibly kind\" offers of accommodation he has received can now be used to help others who are less fortunate.\n\nAn Airbnb spokesperson said: \"We have zero tolerance for this behaviour and have taken action against the host and blocked them from accepting other bookings during this period.\n\n\"The guest has been refunded in full and we have offered support in helping them find alternative accommodation.\"\n\nEarlier this month BBC Scotland found evidence that a squeeze on available accommodation had sent prices soaring in Glasgow.\n\nOne room in the city initially advertised as £42 per night was later advertised at £1,400 per night during the summit.\n\nFiona Hooker, of the Stop Climate Chaos Scotland campaign, said the cost and availability of accommodation was \"a huge concern\" for activists hoping to attend.\n\nAnd restaurateur and property owner Charan Gill called the practice \"opportunistic\".\n\nHe said: \"You will not live off this money forever - fine, you might make an extra few hundred or thousand pounds here and there.\n\n\"At the end of the day you have to go back to your normal people, your normal market, your normal tenants who keep your bread buttered.\"\n\nAirbnb told the BBC they would donate all revenue from stays in Glasgow during the summit to Zero Waste Scotland.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.", "This vigil was staged outside the Science Museum\n\nClimate activists who slept overnight in London's Science Museum will approach the attraction's visitors to tell them about its sponsorship deals.\n\nA new gallery funded by a subsidiary of the Adani Group, a multinational business involved in coal extraction, is due to open in 2023.\n\nAbout 30 members of the UK Student Climate Network (UKSCN) camped out in the lobby as a protest on behalf of \"victims\" of fossil fuel companies.\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n\nThe museum has also faced criticism for partnering with Shell to fund its Our Future Planet exhibition\n\nDemonstrator Izzy Warren, 17, said the group, which includes school pupils, university students and scientists, chose to occupy the museum because the owners had ignored their petitions, letters and boycotts.\n\n\"We would really like to greet people who come to the museum this morning so they are aware of what they are supporting, and what they are paying for.\n\n\"The Science Museum is blatantly taking money from some of the worst perpetrators of the climate crisis.\"\n\nThe demonstration comes after the Science Museum last week announced a new gallery, called Energy Revolution: The Adani Green Energy Gallery.\n\nThe demonstration comes after the Science Museum last week announced a new gallery, called Energy Revolution: The Adani Green Energy Gallery\n\nAdani Green Energy is a solar power developer based in India and is a subsidiary of the Adani Group, which through another arm of its business is also involved in extracting coal.\n\nA spokesperson for the renewables company said: \"An environment where every child can grow up breathing pollution-free air - that is the environment we dream to create and have to a certain extent managed to enrich lives with our renewable energy plants.\n\n\"Adani Green Energy is pioneering in helping transition to renewable power generation. We develop, build, own, operate and maintain utility scale grid connected solar and wind projects.\"\n\nBiologist Dr Alexander Penson, who took part in the sit-in, said it was \"appalling\" the museum was persisting in fossil fuel sponsorship and starting a new relationship with Adani.\n\nThe activists said they negotiated with museum staff to be moved from the second floor of the building to the Energy Hall near the main entrance so that they would have access to toilets for the whole night.\n\nThe museum has also faced criticism for partnering with Shell to fund its Our Future Planet exhibition, which is about carbon capture and storage and nature-based solutions to the climate crisis.\n\nThe agreement with the fossil fuel giant included a gagging clause, committing the museum not to say anything that could damage Shell's reputation.\n\nThe students have staged the protest against sponsorship by fossil fuel companies\n\nThe Science Museum has consistently defended its stance on working with fossil fuel partners.\n\nChief executive Ian Blatchford said trustees \"are not convinced by the argument from some who say we should sever all ties with organisations that are 'tainted' by association, direct or indirect, with fossil fuels.\n\n\"We believe the right approach is to engage, debate and challenge companies, governments and individuals to do more to make the global economy less carbon intensive.\n\n\"Adani Green Energy is an example of an energy sector business bringing expertise and investment to renewables at the scale needed to deliver meaningful change.\"\n\nA Met Police spokesperson said: \"Officers attended and engaged with the protesters and museum staff.\n\n\"The protesters stated their intention was to remain in the museum overnight. This was agreed to by museum staff.\n\n\"No further police action was required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The queues snaked around the Essex terminal building on Sunday morning\n\nPassengers at Stansted Airport missed flights when a baggage system failure plunged departures into \"chaos\".\n\nTravellers hoping to depart on Sunday said they were faced with long queues around the terminal as staff raced to manually process luggage.\n\nStansted said its system, which recently underwent a £70m upgrade, was thought to have suffered a power issue.\n\nAn airport spokesman apologised for disruption and said the problem had been fixed.\n\nSeveral families who spoke to the BBC at Stansted described chaotic scenes that had put a downer on long-awaited holidays.\n\nNeil and Gemma Jackson arrived at Stansted at 04:30 BST after travelling from Kent with their children. The trip to Lanzarote is their first in two years.\n\n\"It started off ordinarily, we queued up to check in and that progressed quite quickly,\" said Mrs Jackson.\n\n\"But where it really went off the rails was we were all advised to drop our bags at a particular zone. There was absolute chaos.\n\n\"Every single passenger from every airline seemed to be in the same queue. There was no crowd control, it snaked around the entire airport, people were pushing in.\n\n\"We waited politely at security control. Then our gate closed and we were turned away.\"\n\nNeil and Gemma Jackson and their children missed their 07:05 flight to Lanzarote\n\nEllie Winstanley, 27, who was flying with Ryanair, also said she was advised to join a queue that \"circled the entire airport\".\n\n\"Then the conveyor belt stopped working,\" she said. \"We rushed through security which was fairly quick and then we sprinted and they closed the gate on time.\n\n\"I've got asthma so I was just trying to get a break. I felt for this other woman with two kids who looked teary and so incredibly stressed.\"\n\nEllie Winstanley was hoping to fly to Malaga for a 10-day break with her father and brother\n\nTrinity Hammatt, 21, from Haverhill, and Thomas Hammond, 21, from Saffron Walden, were heading to Valencia and said they arrived at the airport three hours in advance - as advised by Ryanair.\n\n\"We had to wait in that awful long queue because the belts are down,\" Ms Hammatt said. \"It's completely put a downer on the whole thing.\n\n\"Everyone we spoke to brushed us off. I understand it's busy and manic, but it's been overwhelming.\n\nThe new £70m baggage system has operated at Stansted since May\n\nThe baggage system upgrade in May involved replacing ageing conveyor belts and chutes with 2.4km (7,874ft) of track and 180 automated carts.\n\nAn airport spokesman said he believed the system had suffered a power issue.\n\n\"Contingency measures were immediately put in place with our airlines to mitigate disruption and manually process baggage while engineers worked to fix the issue.\" he said.\n\n\"The system is now operating as normal but passengers are still asked to arrive at the airport at least three hours before their flight departs in accordance with their airline's latest advice.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nCardiff City chairman Mehmet Dalman says there is still \"a lot of work to be done\" in the Emiliano Sala case, two years after the footballer's death.\n\nArgentine striker Sala, who was 28, died in a plane crash in January 2019 while travelling from Nantes, France, to join Cardiff in a £15m transfer.\n\nLast week, Sala's family called for an inquest date to be set.\n\n\"I think it's appalling that two years on, nobody really wants to know,\" said Dalman.\n\n\"We have approached every single body that we can. We approached Fifa, we got absolutely nowhere, we approached the FA, the Premier League, the French league, the French police, the English police and I can't seriously look you in the eye today and say we are a lot further along than we were two years ago. It is hard work.\n\n\"There is a lot of work to be done.\n\n\"I have written to all these bodies and asked for help in getting over this hurdle. We are getting nowhere and there seems to be a lack of seeing the full picture.\n\n\"The way we are set up in the game of football, no one is actually looking at the bigger picture. No one is looking at the contractual obligation of each one.\n\n\"Therefore we are hitting huge brick walls.\"\n\nSince Sala's death, French club Nantes and Cardiff have been in dispute over fee payments.\n\nFollowing last week's call from Sala's family for an inquest date to be set, Cardiff offered their \"deepest sympathy\" to the families of the 28-year-old and pilot David Ibbotson, 59, who was flying the plane when it crashed in the English Channel on 21 January, 2019.\n\nCardiff also said in a statement: \"The club endorses the call by the Sala family for the inquest to begin as soon as possible after the conclusion of David Henderson's trial.\"\n\nIn March 2020, coroners had initially said that a full inquest into the deaths of both men would not take place until at least March 2021.\n\nThat first delay was due to an ongoing Civil Aviation Authority investigation into the crash, but any inquest must now wait until the conclusion of a criminal court case stemming from the tragedy.\n\nDavid Henderson has been charged with endangering the safety of an aircraft and attempting to discharge a passenger without valid permission or authorisation, charges which he denies. Mr Henderson is alleged to have arranged the flight.\n\nIn January 2020, Cardiff announced they would set up a trust in Sala's name to support his family and fund footballing projects in his memory.\n\nIt was intended that the trust, launched in conjunction with the Sala family's lawyers, would see Cardiff donate money to support the family and grassroots football projects in his memory.\n\nBut the fund, which would be controlled by independent trustees, has yet to be formally launched.\n\n\"To give you a bit more encouragement we are not very far away from the trust being set up, finally, we are literally weeks away,\" said Dalman.\n\n\"Our objective is we will put in the initial seed capital and then will go out and raise money to contribute to the cause of the Sala trust.\n\n\"We know the case is continuing and the police are taking it seriously.\n\n\"There is obviously the inquest going on here. It will be interesting to see how things develop.\n\n\"So it's complicated and a lot of work.\n\n\"If at the end of the day the ruling body says we have to pay, we will accept the judgement 100%.\n\n\"But we will fight every corner until we get the true picture of what really happened.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTributes are being paid to former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, who has died of Covid-19 complications aged 84.\n\nThe former top military officer died on Monday morning, his family said. He was fully vaccinated.\n\nPowell became the first African-American secretary of state in 2001 under Republican President George W Bush.\n\nHe also sparked controversy for helping garner support for the Iraq War.\n\n\"We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,\" the family said in a statement, thanking the staff at the Walter Reed Medical Center \"for their caring treatment\".\n\nPowell had previously been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer which may have made him more susceptible to Covid symptoms, according to US media, as well as Parkinson's disease.\n\nPresident Joe Biden, calling Powell a \"dear friend\", said he had embodied the \"highest ideals of both warrior and diplomat\".\n\nFormer President Bush was among the first to pay tribute to \"a great public servant\" as well as \"a family man and a friend\" who \"was such a favourite of presidents that he earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom - twice\".\n\nMr Bush's vice-president Dick Cheney saluted Powell as \"a man who loved his country and served her long and well\" while also being \"a trailblazer and role model for so many\".\n\nFormer President Barack Obama, a Democrat, tweeted that Powell \"understood what was best in this country, and tried to bring his own life, career, and public statements in line with that ideal\".\n\nCondoleezza Rice, Powell's successor as secretary of state and the first black woman in the role, called him \"a truly great man\" whose \"devotion to our nation was not limited to the many great things he did while in uniform or during his time spent in Washington\".\n\n\"Much of his legacy will live on in the countless number of young lives he touched.\"\n\nCurrent secretary of state Antony Blinken called Powell's life \"a victory of the American Dream\".\n\nPowell gave the Department of State \"the very best of his leadership,\" Mr Blinken said. \"He never stopped believing in America, and we believe in America in no small part because it helped produce someone like Colin Powell.\"\n\nFormer UK Prime Minister Tony Blair - who worked closely with Powell during the early years of the Iraq War - said he was someone of \"immense capability and integrity\" who was \"a great companion, with a lovely and self-deprecating sense of humour\".\n\nColin Powell was a soldier for 35 years and rose to the rank of four-star general\n\nRemembrances also poured in from prominent African-American leaders. Civil rights activist Al Sharpton called him \"a sincere and committed man\", while members of the Congressional Black Caucus praised his \"legacy of valour and integrity\".\n\nUS Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin, the first black man to serve in that role, hailed Powell as \"a tremendous personal friend and mentor\" who would be \"impossible to replace\".\n\nOnce a moderate Republican, Powell became a trusted military adviser to a number of leading US politicians.\n\nBut he broke with his party to endorse Barack Obama in 2008, as well as Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020. A sharp critic of Republican president Donald Trump, Powell said he could no longer call himself a Republican after the violent 6 January riot at the US Capitol.\n\nHe also saw service and was wounded in Vietnam, an experience that later helped define his own military and political strategies.\n\nHowever, he would say himself that his own legacy had been damaged by a speech to the United Nations Security Council which used faulty intelligence to back the invasion of Iraq.\n\n\"It was painful. It's painful now,\" Powell told ABC News in 2005.\n\nColin Powell was an iconic American success story. The child of immigrants, he became the first black man to rise to the highest positions in US military and diplomacy.\n\nIn the 1990s, Powell was one of the few American public figures with appeal that crossed political boundaries - reminiscent of General Dwight D Eisenhower after the Second World War.\n\nUnlike Eisenhower, Powell would not ascend to the presidency - although there were abundant calls for him to run.\n\nThose calls dwindled after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, a decision Powell later acknowledged was a \"blot\" on his legacy. He had staked his reputation on the presence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction - and his reputation suffered for it.\n\nIn his later years, Powell became a different kind of icon. His drift away from the Republican Party following Donald Trump's rise to power reflected the dwindling influence of Powell's moderate, internationalist faction within the American conservative movement.\n\nPowell's life may be somewhat overshadowed by his cause of death, as he now ranks as the most prominent American to succumb to Covid-19.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attend the first Earthshot Prize awards ceremony, held in London\n\nTwo best friends who grow coral and the country of Costa Rica are among the winners of the first ever Earthshot Prizes.\n\nThe annual awards were created by the Duke of Cambridge to reward people trying to save the planet.\n\nThere were five winners announced in London, each receiving £1m.\n\nPrince William was joined by stars including Emma Watson, Dame Emma Thompson and David Oyelowo for the ceremony at Alexandra Palace.\n\nEd Sheeran, Coldplay and KSI were among the acts that performed - and in keeping with the eco message, the music was powered by 60 cyclists pedalling on bikes.\n\nNo celebrities flew to London for the ceremony, no plastic was used to build the stage and guests were asked to \"consider the environment\" when choosing an outfit - with Watson wearing a dress made from 10 different dresses from Oxfam.\n\nHarry Potter actress Emma Watson has previously used her platform to call for climate change action\n\nThe Earthshot prize's name is a reference to the \"Moonshot\" ambition of 1960s America, which saw then-President John F Kennedy pledge to get a man on the Moon within a decade.\n\nEach year for the next decade, the prize is awarding £1m each to five projects that are working to find solutions to the planet's environmental problems.\n\nThe inaugural winners were selected from five different categories, and were chosen from a shortlist of 15 by judges including broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, actress Cate Blanchett and singer Shakira.\n\nThe Republic of Costa Rica won the Protect and Restore Nature award\n\nEmma Watson (left) announces the AEM Electrolyser as the winner of the Fix Our Climate award\n\nIn a recorded message played at the ceremony - which was broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer at 20:00 BST - Prince William said the next 10 years was a \"decisive decade\" for the planet.\n\n\"Time is running out,\" he said. \"A decade doesn't seem long enough, but humankind has an outstanding record of being able to solve the unsolvable.\"\n\nEarlier this week, the duke suggested that rather than the world's top minds setting their sights on space tourism, they should instead focus on saving Earth.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Prince William says the world's greatest minds are needed to \"repair this planet, not find the next\"\n\nWith stars from the worlds of football and music arriving on a green carpet, the message was that environmental challenges deserve the same kind of attention as the Oscars.\n\nAnd the winning teams were obviously thrilled to get such high-profile recognition.\n\nThe test now is whether their projects will be scaled up in a way that makes a difference worldwide.\n\nWhether it's restoring corals and forests or reducing waste and carbon emissions, the plan is for big name companies to support these mostly small-scale schemes and help them to become global.\n\nIt may well be years before we see how well that works out in practice, and inevitably some projects may prove more effective than others.\n\nIn any event, in the countdown to the vital COP26 climate summit in Glasgow next month, the winners offer something that's been in short supply recently: a sense of optimism.\n\nAmong the celebrities at Sunday night's ceremony was Love Actually actress Dame Emma, who criticised throwaway culture as she made her way to the event.\n\n\"If we had shown my parents how people live (today), how they will wander down the streets with a coffee cup, immediately throw it away, eat, throw away, everything throw away, they would've gone, 'what's going on?'\" said Dame Emma.\n\nNigerian Afro-pop singer Yemi Alade performed on stage during the ceremony", "The car ploughed through a wall and ended up in Hythe library on Sunday morning\n\nA car has crashed through a wall and into a library in Hampshire.\n\nThe car became wedged half in, half out of Hythe Library, having ploughed through the wall from a car park in New Road shortly after 11:15 BST.\n\nHampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service said crews tunnelled through the debris to get to the two people inside the car and stabilise the vehicle.\n\nBoth occupants had escaped without any serious injuries, the service said.\n\nHampshire Constabulary said the crash was not being treated as suspicious and no arrests were made.\n\nThe car had been in a car park next to the library in New Road\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ronnie Tutt, the drummer who backed Elvis Presley from 1969 until his death eight years later, has died aged 83.\n\nElvis Presley Enterprises broke the news on its website on Saturday, saying it was \"deeply saddened\".\n\n\"In addition to being a legendary drummer, he was a good friend to many of us here at Graceland,\" it wrote. \"He will be deeply missed by all of us.\"\n\nDallas-born Tutt also worked with Billy Joel, Neil Diamond and Jerry Garcia in a career that spanned six-decades.\n\nHis work can be heard on Joel's Piano Man, Elvis Costello's King of America and the Gram Parsons albums GP and Grievous Angel.\n\nHe joined the King of Rock 'n' Roll for his 1969 Taking Care of Business (TCB) tour with guitarist James Burton and other musicians to perform with Elvis at his famous Las Vegas opening.\n\nIn a 2016 interview with an Elvis fan club in Australia, Tutt admitted that he was \"never really a big fan\" of the star until he met him at an audition for that tour. \"Once you meet him and you understand the charisma that the man had, you just can't help but love what he does,\" he said.\n\n\"We immediately had a great rapport. Visually, our eyes were constantly watching each other.\"\n\nElvis Presley's hits include Suspicious Minds and Can't Help Falling in Love with You\n\nOn occasion in between songs, Presley would jokingly mimic karate moves on stage in time with Tutt's drumming.\n\nHe would also introduce Tutt to the crowd and indulge him as he entertained them with rollicking drum solos for minutes on end.\n\nThe sticksman continued working with Presley until his death in 1977, and played with TCB band members for years after.\n\nA prolific live performer, he was also called upon by Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers, Glen Campbell and Roy Orbison.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elvis Presley 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 3 by Rob Brydon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTutt leaves behind his wife Donna, who told TMZ he died on Saturday of natural causes at his home in Tennessee, having had a longstanding heart condition. \"He couldn't play another drum lick,\" she told the site.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sir David was attacked during a meeting with his constituents on Friday\n\nNorthern Ireland's first and deputy first ministers have led tributes at Stormont to the Conservative MP Sir David Amess who was killed last week.\n\nFirst Minister Paul Givan described him as a political \"giant\" at Westminster and a \"tireless\" backbencher who was a good friend of the DUP and the union.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill expressed sympathy to his family.\n\nShe said no politician \"should face any attack when carrying out work on behalf of their constituency\".\n\nMs O'Neill also highlighted the abuse she and other Northern Ireland assembly members (MLAs) have been subjected to on a daily basis.\n\nShe also revealed that she once had to \"physically remove an uninvited person from her home\".\n\nMr Givan also warned about the rise in abuse being directed at public representatives both online and also in the media.\n\nIn his tribute to Mr Amess, he singled out the MP's work in helping migrants working in his constituency.\n\nMLAs from across the chamber joined the tribute to Sir David and also called for an end to the abuse of public representatives.\n\nSir David was stabbed at his constituency surgery in Essex on Friday.\n\nPoliticians in Northern Ireland have been contacted by police about their security following the attack.\n\nEarlier, a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) peer who survived two murder bids described Sir David's murder as \"an attack on democracy, not just an individual\".\n\nThe Continuity IRA left a bomb outside Lord Dodds' constituency office in 2003\n\nLord Dodds said there was determination across the political spectrum \"to carry on\".\n\nThe peer is a former deputy leader of the DUP who served as MP for North Belfast from 2001 to 2019.\n\nIn 1996, Lord Dodds, then a Belfast councillor, and his wife, DUP assembly member Diane Dodds, both escaped injury in a gun attack.\n\nThe couple were visiting their ill son in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital when the IRA shot and wounded their police bodyguard.\n\nSeven years later, dissident republicans left a bomb outside the former DUP deputy leader's constituency office.\n\nLord Dodds said that following Sir David's murder, politicians from across the United Kingdom will be thinking: \"There by the grace of God, it could've been me.\"\n\n\"Because it appears completely random,\" he said.\n\n\"Why was it Jo Cox, why was it David Amess? Many hundreds of MPs hold constituency surgeries, particularly on Fridays and at weekends.\n\n\"This is an attack on democracy, not just an individual - people trying to silence and shut down political opinion and debate, democracy in the United Kingdom.\"\n\nBut he said that \"there is a determination across the political spectrum to carry on and not let these people win\".\n\nThe former DUP MP also called for a social media crackdown on online trolls.\n\nHe said that politicians, in particular females, are \"abused on a daily basis\" on social media.\n\n\"We've seen people attacked before on social media but it has got a lot worse and social media companies have to take responsibility and stop these anonymous trolls that whip up hate and hysteria,\" Lord Dodds told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"There needs to be a greater condemnation across the board from political spectrum, especially from those who seek to eulogise terrorism at times.\n\n\"Because of social media, there is a lot more known about elected representatives, about their movements, their appointments.\n\n\"MPs want to reach out to their constituents through social media, but it does have its drawbacks.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Menopause: 'There must be a supportive voice in workplace'\n\nNorthern Ireland's employers could end up on the \"wrong side of the law\" unless they make strides to facilitate women going through the menopause.\n\nThat is according to the Equality Commission's chief commissioner.\n\nWith women making up nearly half of the working population, there is pressure for better awareness and for workplaces to support those experiencing symptoms.\n\nThe commission's Geraldine McGahey said that \"many employers are doing really well - others are not\".\n\n\"I think every employer should be walking away thinking I need to check my practices and procedures, I need to check what the needs are of my female employees, both now and in the future,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\nThe issue has reached parliament, where Westminster's women and equalities committee has begun an inquiry into the consequences of menopause in the workplace.\n\nIt is estimated 900,000 women in the UK have left jobs as a result of menopausal symptoms.\n\nGeraldine McGahey says guidance drawn up by various bodies, including the Equality Commission, provides good practice examples\n\nThe Equality Commission said positive strides are being made.\n\nEven with the pandemic, some employers have been making changes including the local health trusts.\n\nBelfast City Council is currently finalising a menopause policy developed through its women's steering group.\n\nPwC's Lynne Rainey says women over 40 are the fastest growing demographic in the workforce\n\nPricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which has offices in Belfast, has implemented a number of changes, including changing insurance arrangements so women can access cover for menopause.\n\nFacilitating working from home and training career coaches about the issue is also on offer.\n\n\"It is a business-critical issue for us. Women over 40 are the fastest growing demographic in the workforce.\n\n\"They bring a huge amount of experience and expertise and, as a business, which is clearly a space of diversity and inclusion, we need a workforce that remains inclusive and diverse and we want to retain that talent.\n\n\"We also want to attract to us as well.\"\n\nFor those going through the menopause, such as Linzi Conway, a 51-year-old self-employed management consultant, the symptoms can be \"debilitating, especially the impact of insomnia\".\n\n\"As I have no one to pass the work on to, I sometimes muddle through and that lack of support is a challenge,\" she said.\n\nLinzi, who works from home, said a result for her would be being able to explain to a client that she is unable to work on a particular day due to menopause symptoms - but \"we aren't quite there yet\", she added.\n\n\"It's absolutely not an excuse, these are real symptoms, especially the tiredness, the pains and the brain fog - they all affect our ability to do a day's work.\n\n\"I think one of the benefits of the pandemic is forcing us to remodel and look at our work place differently and allowing that flexibility of working life, and that is going to help a lot of people whether it is menopause, mental health or anything else.\"\n\nEarlier this year, the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions' NI committee and the Labour Relations Agency produced new guidance to address equality issues in relation to women affected by the menopause in employment.\n\nIt provides good practice examples and suggested tools for both employers and employees.\n\nGeraldine McGahey said the tools can be as simple as good ventilation, a fan on the desk, change in uniform or just providing a culture where people feel comfortable talking about it.\n\n\"We are finding a really positive interest in the subject,\" she said.\n\n\"Our first conference had 121 delegates and that is organisations not people.\n\n\"We are running more events and have had over 500 downloads of our guidance notes.\"", "Some large UK businesses will have to start disclosing their environmental impact, under new rules set to be brought in by the Treasury.\n\nThe requirements will also apply to investment products and pension schemes.\n\nIt comes ahead of November's COP26 meeting in Glasgow, where world leaders will discuss their climate commitments.\n\nExperts say the UK, which is hosting the event, is not currently on track to meet its own emissions targets.\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged to cut emissions by 78% by 2035, compared with 1990 levels.\n\nThe Treasury said the new sustainability disclosure requirements (SDR) mean an investment product will now have to set out the environmental impact of the activities it finances.\n\nIn addition, a company's sustainability claims will have to be justified \"clearly\", and their net zero transition plans properly set out.\n\nThe aim is to combat \"greenwashing\", where firms make misleading claims about their environmental commitments.\n\nBut the government said the information will \"only be impactful\" if customers and investors actually use it.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"We want sustainability to be a key component of investment decisions, and our plans will arm investors with the right information to make more environmentally-led decisions.\"\n\nHe said the rules will \"set new global standards for sustainability that will boost the economy, protect the planet and support our net zero goals\".\n\nIt is unclear when the rules will come in, or what will happen to firms that do not comply. Details of the specific reporting requirements will only be developed after a public consultation.\n\nMr Sunak first mentioned SDRs in July and has announced these next stages for the requirements in the report: \"Greening Finance: A Roadmap to Sustainable Investing\".\n\nSam Alvis, from the Green Alliance think tank, said it was a \"positive step in greening the private sector\".\n\n\"While new green finance is vital, stopping money going into environmentally destructive investments is key. The upcoming spending review is an opportunity for the chancellor to apply the same rules for public spending,\" he added.\n\nRain Newton-Smith, chief economist at the Confederation of British Industry, said greater clarity on environmental impact \"will help investors channel finance into projects that are aligned with net zero targets and will reduce carbon emissions across our economy\".\n\nBut Heather McKay from E3G, an independent climate change think tank, told the BBC the government would need to send clear signals about \"what is green and what is not\" to ensure companies really change how they operate.\n\nShe said this would be a \"crucial step\" to tackling greenwashing.\n\nWithout the right information available, Jessica Fries, chairman of Accounting for Sustainability said that investors and pension funds have made decisions \"in the dark\".\n\n\"As a global centre of finance, it will be important that the recommendations align with emerging requirements globally,\" Ms Fries added.\n\nBarbara Davidson, of think tank Carbon Tracker, said better enforcement of current accounting requirements was also required to combat greenwashing.\n\n\"Without this, investors do not have the requisite information about the effects of climate change for their decision-making,\" she said.\n\nBoris Johnson's government is currently on track to cut only about a fifth of UK emissions by 2035, compared with 1990s levels, according to a group of experts that advises the government.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Bill Clinton give a thumbs up after he's asked: \"How are you feeling?\"\n\nFormer US President Bill Clinton has been discharged from a Californian hospital after spending five nights under care.\n\nMr Clinton had been receiving treatment for a urinary tract infection that developed into sepsis.\n\nThe 75-year-old gave a thumbs up to waiting news crews as he walked out of hospital with his wife, former presidential candidate Hillary.\n\nMr Clinton will return home to New York to complete his recovery, doctors said.\n\nDr Alpesh Amin, who oversaw the team of medics treating Mr Clinton, said in a statement: \"His fever and white blood cell count are normalised and he will return home to New York to finish his course of antibiotics.\"\n\nThe 42nd president, who served from 1993 to 2001, shook hands with waiting medical staff as he left the facility with his wife of 46 years.\n\nAccording to US media, Mr Clinton - who was in California to attend a private event for his foundation - had felt fatigued on Tuesday and underwent tests before being admitted to the hospital.\n\nPresident Biden said on Friday night that he had spoken with Mr Clinton and told reporters that he was \"not in any serious condition\".\n\nThe infection is the latest health scare for Mr Clinton. In 2004, aged 58, he had a quadruple bypass surgery after doctors found signs of extensive heart disease and, ten years later, he had a clogged artery opened after complaining of chest pains.\n\nNot long after his second surgery, the ex-president - known for his love of fatty foods - went vegan. He told Politico in 2016, \"I might not be around if I hadn't become a vegan. It's great.\"", "At least one house was completely destroyed in the blast\n\nTwo adults and two children have been taken to hospital after an explosion at a South Ayrshire housing estate.\n\nPolice say four homes were caught up in the blast in Ayr. Witnesses said at least one terraced house was destroyed, with those on either side of the property severely damaged.\n\nThe explosion was reported in the Kincaidston area at 19:10 on Monday and was heard for miles around.\n\nInquiries are ongoing to establish the cause of the blast.\n\nScottish Gas Networks said it was ensuring the site around the \"serious explosion\" was made safe.\n\nEmergency crews were called to the scene just after 19:00 on Monday\n\nLocal councillor Chris Cullen told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the explosion in Gorse Park was caused by gas.\n\nAsked to describe the scene, Mr Cullen said: \"It is quite harrowing actually.\n\n\"Early yesterday evening there was a row of houses and now there is a hole.\"\n\nMr Cullen also told the programme that if the gas from the affected properties could not be capped, then it could be days before people were allowed to return to their homes.\n\nThe area around the explosion was covered with debris\n\nA car parked in a nearby street was among the vehicles damaged by flying debris\n\nThe area was evacuated, with two local rest centres set up to provide shelter to those that needed it.\n\nThe fire service said nine appliances and specialist resources, including an air ambulance, attended the incident.\n\nA man who lives about 100m from the explosion site told the BBC that his whole house shook with the force of the blast.\n\nKerr McCann was one of the first on the scene. He was arriving home when saw a \"massive plume of fire\" in the sky over the street.\n\nHe said: \"Immediately after I felt a big bang, I knew it was an explosion. I was in the army so I know what explosions are.\n\n\"I ran up, about a quarter of a mile away... There was fire in the back garden and pretty much in where the house was.\n\n\"The house was not where it was, it was scattered about the street.\"\n\nMr McCann said he and other people who had run to help were removed from the area for their own safety shortly after.\n\nHe added: \"The whole house has disappeared, the gable end of the other house is opened up and there's cars with windows put in from the shrapnel.\n\n\"Passing the shop on the way back I heard people saying stuff came off the shelves from the explosion.\"\n\nCaroline Finnett, who lives in Kincaidston, was playing bingo at a friend's house when she heard a \"massive bang\".\n\nShe heard sirens and saw smoke billowing, so made her way back home. Her street was littered with broken roof tiles.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"We walked up to where the house has been blown away, and it was horrendous - was like something from a movie set. It was overwhelming.\n\nMs Finnett then took hot food to the community centre where those affected are sheltering, and offered up her spare room to anyone who needed it.\n\nWe are at the entrance to the Kincaidston estate which, at the moment, is as far as we are allowed to go.\n\nLocal residents are being allowed in and out of the area.\n\nPolice say that investigations into the explosion are ongoing and there has been a sizeable presence from Scottish Gas Networks here.\n\nThere is a lot of chat on social media, which we have not been able to verify, that it was a gas explosion.\n\nThere is work going on to make sure that people can return to their homes and still have heating while the gas to the area affected by the explosion is sealed off to prevents any further danger.\n\nBut police did tell us earlier this morning that the area still isn't 100% safe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The blast was reported in Kincaidston shortly after 19:00 on Monday\n\nHomes nearby were evacuated and the area showered with debris following the blast\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"Four houses have been affected by the explosion.\n\n\"Two adults and two children have been taken to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock.\n\n\"A number of premises have been evacuated and two local rest centres have been set up to assist.\n\n\"Local road closures are in place and we would advise people to avoid the area at the present time.\"\n\nA spokesman for Scottish Gas Networks said: \"At around 20:00 tonight we received a request to assist the emergency services following the reports of a serious explosion in Gorse Park, Ayr.\n\n\"Our engineers are currently assisting the emergency services to ensure the immediate vicinity is made safe in our role as the gas emergency service.\"\n\nCommunity appeals have been started for food and drink supplies for those staying at the rest centres.\n\nBusinesses have been offering meals and the nearby Sundrum holiday caravan park offered accommodation for anybody who needed it.\n\nGlazing firms and several joiners pledged to help residents secure their properties.\n\nOn Tuesday morning South Ayrshire Council said the response from the local community had been overwhelming.\n\nIt tweeted: \"Thank you all so much for your generosity following the incident in Kincaidston last night. We have everything we need. Please stop bringing donations now.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nJust three days after he signed for Premier League club Cardiff City, Emiliano Sala was on a light aircraft which disappeared on Monday night, French authorities have confirmed.\n\nThe 28-year-old Argentine was one of two people on board the Piper Malibu, which went missing off Alderney in the Channel Islands.\n\nCardiff spent a club-record fee of around £15m on a player who they had been interested in for more than a month.\n\nWednesday, 5 December, 2018: Cardiff manager Neil Warnock first reveals his interest in signing Sala after travelling to France to watch the striker play for Nantes against Marseilles.\n\nSala, then reportedly valued at £25m, scores in a 3-2 win, taking his tally to 13 goals for the Ligue 1 side at that stage of the season.\n\nThursday, 27 December: Cardiff's pursuit of Sala looks to be over after having their bid rejected by Nantes.\n\nWarnock suggests they will not increase their offer for the 28-year-old Argentine.\n\n\"We did originally [make an offer] but that was turned down and we haven't been back since,\" Warnock says at the time.\n\nTuesday, 1 January, 2019: As the January transfer window opens, Cardiff revive their interest in Sala and resume negotiations with Nantes over a fee worth around £15m.\n\nWednesday, 16 January: With speculation intensifying about his future, Sala makes his final appearance for Nantes, coming on as a 72nd-minute substitute in the 1-0 loss at Nimes.\n\nFriday, 18 January: Sala travels to Cardiff to have a medical and discuss personal terms at Cardiff City Stadium, where he is pictured with Bluebirds fans afterwards.\n\nSaturday, 19 January: Cardiff confirm their club-record signing of Sala for an undisclosed fee thought to be around £15m.\n\nThat evening, Sala says: \"It gives me great pleasure and I can't wait to start training, meet my new teammates and get down to work.\"\n\nCardiff's chief executive Ken Choo, who is present when Sala signs, says: \"I'm sure all Cardiff City fans will join me in that and we can look forward to seeing our record signing in a Bluebirds shirt.\"\n\nSunday, 20 January: Sala travels back to Nantes to say goodbye to his team-mates and collect his belongings as he prepares for his move to Cardiff.\n\nMonday, 21 January: Sala flies from Nantes to Cardiff at 19:15 but, at 20:30, the Piper Malibu light aircraft he is aboard goes missing off Alderney in the Channel Islands.\n\nThe plane had been flying at 5,000ft when it contacted Jersey air traffic control requesting descent, the plane lost contact while at 2,300ft.\n\nTuesday, 22 January: Searches for the plane are suspended at 02:00 \"due to strengthening winds, worsening sea conditions and reducing visibility\", according to police, before the search resumes at 08:00.", "MPs bowed their heads in a minute's silence to remember their former colleague, Sir David Amess, who was killed in his Essex constituency.\n\nBoris Johnson said that Sir David \"simply wanted to serve the people of Essex\".\n\nFollowing sessions of remembrance in both Houses, members attended a memorial service at nearby St Margaret's Church.", "Southeastern has handed over the running of its services to the Operator of Last Resort\n\nSoutheastern's train services have been taken over by the government.\n\nFranchise holder Govia was informed of the decision last month after failing to declare more than £25m of taxpayer funding.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the Operator of Last Resort would take over the running to protect taxpayers' interests.\n\nPassengers are unlikely to see any immediate changes as trains, timetables and fares will stay the same.\n\nThe franchise was owned by Govia - a joint venture between Go-Ahead Group and Keolis.\n\nThe government stepped in after an investigation by the Department for Transport (DfT) identified Govia had not declared millions of pounds of historic taxpayer funding.\n\nThe DfT said the money had since been reclaimed.\n\nFurther investigations are being conducted and the government is considering more action, including financial penalties.\n\nAnthony Smith, chief executive of passenger watchdog Transport Focus, said: \"Passengers will want a punctual, reliable, clean train, with enough room to sit and stand, and value for money fares.\"\n\nCat Hobbs, director of public ownership campaign group We Own It, said \"privatisation is failing our railway\" and called for the whole rail network to be brought into public hands \"where it belongs\".\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.", "Ford is to invest £230m in its Halewood plant on Merseyside to make electric car parts, helping safeguard 500 jobs.\n\nThe investment will mean the plant will run for many years longer, said Stuart Rowley, president, Ford of Europe.\n\nThere had been speculation about the future of the Halewood factory complex as Ford moves towards electrifying its vehicles.\n\nPart of the investment will come from the government's Automotive Transformation Fund.\n\n\"We're really pleased with the support from the UK government,\" Mr Rowley told the BBC.\n\n\"We're not disclosing the exact amount, but it was good support for what is a very significant investment in the UK.\"\n\nHe said the government support was \"a part of the decision\" to choose to invest in Halewood, \"but not the only element\".\n\nFord's Halewood plant will begin manufacturing electric power units - which replace the engine and transmission in petrol cars - in 2024.\n\nFord has said it is committed to the UK, but not all locations have been as fortunate.\n\nIts engine plant in Bridgend closed in September last year, with the loss of 1,700 jobs, after the company described it as \"economically unsustainable\".\n\nFord blamed \"changing customer demand and cost\" for the closure plans and denied Brexit was a factor.\n\nFord is not the first manufacturer to receive financial help for electric vehicle production through the fund, set up to encourage investment in electric vehicle manufacturing in the UK.\n\nIn July, Nissan announced a major expansion of electric vehicle production at its car plant in Sunderland, which will create 1,650 new jobs.\n\nThe Japanese carmaker will build its new-generation all-electric model at the site as part of a £1bn investment that will also support thousands of jobs in the supply chain.\n\nAnd Nissan's partner, Envision AESC, will build an electric battery plant.\n\nFord's Mr Rowley said its plans were \"a huge vote of confidence in [the] workforce\".\n\n\"Ford has been part of the industrial and social fabric of the UK for many decades,\" he said, adding that the plant would be a \"very important\" part of Ford's electrification plans in Europe.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the Ford decision was \"further proof that the UK remains one of the best locations in the world for high-quality automotive manufacturing\".\n\n\"In this highly competitive, global race to secure electric vehicle manufacturing, our priority is to ensure the UK reaps the benefits,\" he added.\n\nKevin Pearson of the Unite union said the Ford investment \"recognises the experience, commitment and competitiveness of our world class workforce and is a great source of pride for all of us working at Halewood Transmission Plant and for the wider community\".\n\nThe announcement suggested the facility would be an important part of electric vehicle manufacturing in the UK, said Prof David Bailey of Birmingham Business School.\n\nHe said that was \"especially great news\" because there had been \"a lot of speculation about the plant\", including that Ford might move parts manufacturing and car assembly abroad.\n\nHad Halewood closed, it would have had a knock-on effect on other parts of the UK car industry and the local economy, he said.\n\nProf Bailey said that the UK's exit from the EU had been a \"huge concern\" initially, before the tariff-free trade deal was agreed between the EU and the UK.\n\nHowever, Ford said that it was not currently facing the kind of supply chain difficulties affecting some other UK businesses. Additional post-Brexit paperwork at ports, which has contributed to bottlenecks for some UK-based firms, has not been much of an obstacle for Ford as it has its own landing facilities at Dagenham, the firm said.\n\nFord is concerned about any possible fallout from UK and EU negotiations over the Northern Ireland Protocol, a spokesperson said.\n\nThe global car giant also recently announced a $1bn (£730m) investment in its vehicle assembly facility in Cologne, Germany, and an expansion of electric vehicle production in Turkey and Romania.", "England have been ordered to play one match behind closed doors as a punishment for the unrest at Wembley Stadium during the Euro 2020 final.\n\nUefa also imposed a ban for a second game, which is suspended for two years.\n\nThe Football Association was fined 100,000 euros (£84,560) for \"the lack of order and discipline inside and around the stadium\" for the game.\n\n\"Although we are disappointed with the verdict, we acknowledge the outcome of this Uefa decision,\" said the FA.\n\nThe ban is the first time the FA has received a punishment that has resulted in England having to play a home match behind closed doors.\n\nFans fought with stewards and police as they attempted to break into Wembley for the match on 11 July, which England lost to Italy on penalties.\n\nHundreds of fans got into Wembley for the showpiece without tickets after areas around the stadium became packed hours before the evening kick-off.\n\nMany sat in the area reserved for players' relatives, while England defender Harry Maguire later said that his father Alan suffered two suspected broken ribs before the game.\n\nManchester United central defender Maguire said his father was caught up in the stampede and was \"struggling to breathe\" after being trampled on.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police had said that 51 arrests were made connected to the final, with 26 of those made at Wembley.\n\n\"We condemn the terrible behaviour of the individuals who caused the disgraceful scenes in and around Wembley Stadium at the Euro 2020 final, and we deeply regret that some of them were able to enter the stadium,\" added the FA.\n\n\"We are determined that this can never be repeated, so we have commissioned an independent review, led by Baroness Casey, to report on the circumstances involved.\n\n\"We continue to work with the relevant authorities in support of their efforts to take action against those responsible and hold them to account.\"\n\nThe ban will be in place for England's next home game in a Uefa competition, which will be in the Nations League next June.\n\nUefa said the fine related to \"the lack of order and discipline inside and around the stadium, for the invasion of the field of play, for throwing of objects and for the disturbances during the national anthems\" at the Euro 2020 final.\n\nEngland fans booed the Italian anthem before the match.\n\nKevin Miles, the Football Supporters' Association's chief executive, told BBC Radio 5 Live he was \"sickened\" by what he saw at the final.\n\n\"On arrival at the stadium a couple of hours before kick-off, it was already pretty chaotic outside,\" he said.\n\n\"I think there was a failure from early in the day from the policing outside the ground right through to the security arrangements on the perimeter of the ground, and then inside.\n\n\"We don't have a bad track record of behaviour at Wembley and in that sense it was a bit of a one-off, but it's a glaring one. It's not acceptable.\"\n\nIn July, the FA was fined more than £25,000 for crowd problems before and during the semi-final victory over Denmark, which included Kasper Schmeichel having a laser shone in his eyes as he prepared to face a penalty from Harry Kane.\n\nFollowing Euro 2020, Hungary were ordered to play their next three home games - with the third game of the ban suspended - behind closed doors after Uefa found their supporters guilty of discriminatory behaviour during the tournament.\n\nHungary were also fined 100,000 euros but their supporters were allowed in for a World Cup qualifier against England on 2 September in Budapest as it fell under Fifa jurisdiction.\n\nFollowing that game, football's world governing body told Hungary's FA to play two matches behind closed doors - one suspended for two years - and fined them £158,400 for the racism experienced by England players.\n\nThe FA was never going to escape punishment for the disorganised, shameful shambles that was the Euro 2020 final at Wembley between England and Italy.\n\nFrom hours before kick-off, Wembley was thronged by thousands of fans. As kick-off drew nearer, it became clear that the situation was out of hand outside the stadium and would also become chaotic inside.\n\nOne personal recollection is being offered a large sum of money for my media accreditation literally a few yards from the official entrance when, at any major tournament worthy of the name, it would be impossible to get anywhere near this close without a ticket inspection and security.\n\nThis was the most minor of inconveniences compared to what thousands of others suffered but it was an indicator that something had gone very badly wrong.\n\nSupporters fuelled by alcohol stormed barriers and it was clear control had broken down inside the stadium with stewards being abused and ticketless fans even invading the disabled sections to take up seats. There was an atmosphere of threat and chaos.\n\nOn what was meant to be a memorable day as England played their first major men's final for 55 years, any sense of celebration disappeared hours before kick-off and the experience was wrecked for thousands of well-behaved fans who bought their tickets in good faith.\n\nIt was a dreadful experience and it was inevitable that the FA would pay a price. This will effectively amount to one game played behind closed doors and a 100,000 euro fine. The shame will be reflected by the sight of the giant stadium deserted for that one game.\n\nThe FA has declared itself disappointed with the outcome but, while announcing its insistence that everything will be done to ensure there is no repeat, many who endured that shocking Wembley day will feel the punishment could easily have been heavier.\n\n'One of the most serious failures I can remember'\n\nFootball policing expert Owen West, a former chief superintendent at West Yorkshire Police, told BBC Sport that the events of that day were \"hugely embarrassing\".\n\n\"This was one of the most serious failures that I can remember,\" he said.\n\n\"Things like a systematic breach of turnstiles, things like people tailgating, and two or more people being able to get through a space that was designed for one.\n\n\"What we saw [among fans trying to get inside Wembley] was the sharing of real-time intelligence, pointing out on social media where there were vulnerabilities, where there was a lack of police officers, where there was weak and inexperienced stewarding, where gates weren't particularly well protected.\n\n\"And the problem for Wembley authorities and the Met Police was that that level of sophistication and organisation was not matched by those that were there to prevent it happening in the first place.\"", "Mr Kennelly was also well known for his many appearances on Irish television and radio\n\nThe Irish poet, author and broadcaster Brendan Kennelly has died aged 85.\n\nMr Kennelly published over 30 books of poetry and received numerous awards, including the Irish PEN Award in 2010 for his contribution to Irish literature.\n\nHe died on Sunday at a nursing home in Listowel, County Kerry, where he had lived for the last two years.\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins said Mr Kennelly had \"forged a special place in the affections of the Irish people\".\n\n\"He brought so much resonance, insight, and the revelation of the joy of intimacy to the performance of his poems and to gatherings in so many parts of Ireland,\" the President said.\n\n\"He did so with a special charm, wit, energy and passion.\"\n\nPresident Higgins said Mr Kennelly left behind \"a legacy of teaching\" and \"the gratitude of so many younger poets whom he encouraged with honest and helpful critical advice\".\n\nMr Kennelly was also well known as a broadcaster and made many appearances on Irish radio and television programmes, such as The Late Late Show.\n\nHe moved back to his native Ballylongford, County Kerry, in 2016 after decades working as a professor of modern literature at Trinity College Dublin.\n\nHe had been ill for a number of years.\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 tweet, Taoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin said the country had lost \"a great teacher, poet, raconteur; a man of great intelligence and wit\".\n\nJournalist and author Fergal Keane said he was saddened to hear of Mr Kennelly's death, describing him as a \"great poet and family friend\".\n\nIn a tweet, he said Mt Kennelly's poem 'My Dark Fathers' was \"one of the greatest Irish poems\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Fergal Keane This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "China has denied reports that it tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile earlier this year, insisting instead that it was a routine spacecraft check.\n\nThe initial report in the Financial Times newspaper prompted concern in Washington, where US intelligence was reportedly caught by surprise.\n\nHypersonic missiles can fly in the upper atmosphere at more than five times the speed of sound.\n\nConcern has been growing around China's nuclear capabilities.\n\nOn Monday, foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a media briefing that a routine test had been carried out in July to verify different types of reusable spacecraft technology.\n\n\"This was not a missile, this was a spacecraft,\" he said. \"This is of great significance for reducing the cost of spacecraft use.\"\n\nMr Zhao added that many countries had carried out similar tests in the past. When asked if the Financial Times report was inaccurate, he replied \"yes\".\n\nThe report on Saturday quoted five unnamed sources who said a hypersonic missile had been launched in the summer. It flew through low-orbit space before cruising down and narrowly missing its target, the report said.\n\n\"The test showed that China had made astounding progress on hypersonic weapons and was far more advanced than US officials realised,\" the report read.\n\nOn Monday, US disarmament ambassador Robert Wood said the US was \"very concerned\", adding that Washington \"had held back from pursuing military applications for this technology\".\n\nHowever, he said both China and Russia had been \"very actively\" pursuing military uses, which meant the US \"having to respond in kind\".\n\n\"We just don't know how we can defend against that technology, neither does China, neither does Russia,\" he told reporters in Geneva.\n\nEarlier, Mike Gallagher, a Republican member of the House Armed Services Committee, had warned that if Washington stuck to its current approach it would lose a new Cold War with China within a decade.\n\nRelations between the US and China are tense, with Beijing accusing President Joe Biden's administration of being hostile.\n\nA number of Western countries have also expressed concern at China's recent displays of military might.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMichael Shoebridge, the director of defence, strategy and national security at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said if a hypersonic missile had been tested it would fit a \"pattern of escalation in nuclear and other strike weapons\".\n\n\"I don't think it's more significant than China's growing missile silos or air launch nuclear weapons or new submarine nuclear weapons,\" he said. \"But it fits a pattern of increasing capability [without] transparency.\"\n\n\"Transparency is an alien concept for Beijing's strategic thinkers,\" he added.\n\nChina displayed what appeared to be a hypersonic missile platform at a recent military display.\n\nAlong with China, the US, Russia and at least five other countries are working on hypersonic missile technology.\n\nLast month, North Korea said it had successfully tested a new hypersonic missile. And in July, Russia made a similar announcement and said its missile had been launched from a frigate in the White Sea.", "BBC presenter George Alagiah is to take a break from TV to have treatment after \"a further spread of cancer\" was discovered, his agent has said.\n\nThe 65-year-old journalist, one of the faces of the BBC News at Six, was first diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2014.\n\nLast June, he said it had spread to his lungs, liver and lymph nodes.\n\nNow, he has said his doctors want to hit the new tumour \"hard and fast\". He will have chemotherapy and radiotherapy over the coming months.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, his agent said: \"George Alagiah, presenter of BBC News at Six, Britain's most watched news programme, is to take a break from studio duties to deal with a further spread of cancer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. March 2020: George Alagiah on living with coronavirus and cancer\n\n\"He was first diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer in April 2014. In a letter to colleagues in the newsroom Mr Alagiah said his medical team had decided to hit the new tumour 'hard and fast'.\n\n\"He is due to undergo a combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy over the next few months.\n\n\"He added that working on the programme 'has kept me sane over the last few years' and 'I'm determined to come back'.\"\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"We are all wishing George well and look forward to seeing him back in the newsroom.\"\n\nMost people with these symptoms do not have bowel cancer, but the NHS advice is to see your GP if you have one or more of the symptoms and they have persisted for more than four weeks.\n\nAnd if you, or someone you know, have been affected by cancer, information and support is available on the BBC's Action Line page.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It's seven decades since the area - with its craggy peaks and lush ravines - was made a national park.\n\n\"Eryri is my sweetheart. Her company is what I crave and what I love and I hope to enjoy that company for years to come.\"\n\nIt's hardly surprising Sam Roberts is in love with Snowdonia, or Eryri as he calls it.\n\nHe spent 37 years there as a Snowdonia National Park warden before retiring 11 years ago.\n\nLife in the park was very different in 1974. So too were the people.\n\n\"The people that used the park when I started had come from ramblers, climbers, the people who perhaps, I would say, appreciated nature more.\n\nFormer park warden Sam Roberts says visitors used to appreciate nature more than they do now\n\n\"I see now people come to 'do' Snowdon, to tick their box. And that's fine if that's what you want to do - come on over, join the queue, get on the merry-go-round.\n\n\"But if you want to experience nature and Eryri in her glory, then plan your visit, spend some time here and get to know the country and the people that make it that way.\n\n\"And that way you'll get much more than the wham, bam, thank you ma'am and go home.\"\n\nSnowdonia was Wales' first national park in 1951\n\nSnowdonia was the first area in Wales to be designated national park status in 1951. More than 20 years later, when Sam joined, it was still \"just a small part of the then-planning department of Caernarfonshire County Council. There were two of us - the head warden and myself.\"\n\n\"It was a very challenging time because national parks had been imposed on the landowners.\n\n\"Most people's idea of national parks at the time were gleaned from programmes like Yogi Bear and Boo Boo and the Americanisation of national parks, where they were nationally owned. But national parks are really just areas of outstanding beauty.\"\n\nNevertheless, he said, \"the farmers, the community that owned the parks did not like it one little bit, so it was a very delicate job that we had, persuading the landowners that their land wasn't being nationalised. It was being protected for future generations\".\n\nWith a budget of \"nil,\" Sam and his colleague set about trying to win the \"hearts and minds\" of farmers, sometimes using their mountaineering skills to rescue stranded sheep to gain trust - slowly trying to reassure landowners that national parks were about preservation.\n\nAfter lockdown ended, thousands of people flocked to beauty spots like Snowdonia\n\nIn the first few weeks of the job, he also had to reassure members of the public.\n\n\"I distinctly remember a car coming up to me when I was in Pen-y-Pass, and he just opened his window inches, and sort of looked out tentatively and asked me if it was safe to come out of the car. I said: 'Well, why shouldn't it be?'\n\n\"He said, 'well I've just seen the wild animals running down the road and they might eat me.'\n\n\"'You mean the sheep'? He said 'yes that's what they're called, are they dangerous?'\n\n\"I said 'no, not at all. This is not a safari park. The sheep are quite timid and you're quite safe to go out walking with your family. Enjoy it'.\n\nThe mountains remain the same - but some things must change for the next 70 years, says Sam Roberts\n\nDespite the many changes he has witnessed over the decades, physically the mountains remain just as he remembers them.\n\nThere are some changes he'd like reversed though, if the park is to survive another 70 years.\n\n\"When I started with the national park, almost every authority in England and Wales had an outdoor pursuits school here and the children would go there and be introduced to nature… and of course years along the line those children would become adults, enjoying the national park.\n\n\"We've lost that. I would like to see more emphasis on educating children about nature, about national parks and how to enjoy the parks, and how to make friends in the national park.\"\n\nWhile the national park was formed in 1951, it was not until 1996 that Snowdonia became a free-standing local authority and planning authority in its own right.\n\nPark chief executive Emyr Williams says queues on Snowdon aren't anything new\n\nFor Emyr Williams, chief executive of the Snowdonia National Park Authority, the organisation's creation was the single most significant event in the park's 70-year history.\n\nHe has been at the helm for eight years, which includes one of the most challenging periods of the past 70 years, the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nWithin hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposing Covid restrictions in March 2020 closing pubs and hotels, Snowdonia witnessed its \"busiest visitor day in living memory\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Visitors have rocketed to about 700,000 visitors each year compared with 500,000 in 2018\n\nThroughout much of the pandemic, the region has witnessed large numbers of visitors. This summer, pictures circulated of people waiting for close to an hour at Snowdon's summit, queueing for selfies.\n\nHe said: \"It's a problem across all national parks globally. It drives people to get that perfect picture. But actually it's quite ironic, in that we've done some research work and we've found some paper articles from 1890 saying they had to queue to wait to go on the top of Snowdon.\n\n\"So, you know, it's an issue that's still with us.\"\n\nWhile the pandemic brought challenges for national park staff, the unprecedented visitor numbers helped confirm its popularity.\n\nBut the possibility of numbers continuing to rise brings its own concerns.\n\nMr Williams said: \"We are special and we would like to keep it special, but we've reached a point in some areas where we are slightly concerned about the overuse of the areas.\n\n\"How people interact has changed - social media, Instagram - drive pressure on certain areas we wouldn't have thought of.\n\n\"People's understanding and behaviour has also changed. In the 60s and 70s people knew how to conduct themselves in the countryside, but what we've seen this year is an extension maybe of the festival way of enjoying free time.\n\n\"We've seen this year at the Leeds and Reading festivals a mass of litter being left behind and I think there's a general issue about conduct and understanding across society, in urban areas and in rural areas as well, and that needs to be addressed.\"\n\nSarah Fowler, chief executive of the Peak District National Park Authority, says visitors need to respect nature and communities\n\nMr Williams said Covid had \"crystallised\" the value of national parks in the minds of the public, and Welsh government. Ten years ago, he said, there was a debate on whether national parks were needed, and now there was a possibility of a fourth Welsh national park.\n\nHis vision for the next 70 years is to have a \"vibrant, Welsh-speaking or bilingual society, healthy ecosystems and a responsible use of this special resource\".\n\nHe added: \"I think the biggest challenge for us is what we've seen from Covid - sustainable tourism. But actually, it's the same as for other areas, it's de-carbonisation, climate change, decline in nature, houses, language, culture, etc.\n\n\"So, we're not unique in facing these problems, but because of the attention we get, and the aspirations of people for national parks, then we might struggle sometimes.\"\n\nSnowdonia is not alone in the challenges it has faced recently, or those in the future.\n\nThe Peak District National Park - the oldest in the UK - also celebrated its 70th anniversary earlier this year.\n\nSarah Fowler, chief executive of the Peak District National Park Authority, said: \"It's been very similar in the Peak District as it has been in Snowdonia.\n\n\"We have seen a huge rise in numbers coming to enjoy our national parks. The vast majority of them really look after the place, they take their litter home, they leave nothing but footprints and happy memories.\n\n\"I want our national parks in the UK to be beacons for how we can be climate resilient, have fantastic nature recovery here, and be accessible for everybody, while looking after those important communities that live and work in our national parks.\"", "The distinctive curvature of Orkney's £65m Balfour hospital is most apparent from above.\n\nIts design references Skara Brae, Orkney's famously well-preserved Neolithic settlement, but it also offers protection from harsh weather on the islands.\n\nThe hospital is small compared to most in Scotland, just 49 beds, but it is the country's first built to a net-zero standard, which means the running of the building does not contribute carbon emissions.\n\nIt is the hospital's energy centre where the Balfour makes most of its environmental gains.\n\nIt is a fully electric building with air-to-water heat pumps generating all the hot water and heating. Although there are back-up oil generators in case of emergency.\n\nSolar panels that cover the roof are also used to reduce reliance on the grid.\n\nThe roof is covered in solar panels to reduce reliance on the electricity grid\n\nThe hospital's maintenance team leader, Paul Bradley says: \"We can produce the hot water needs and offset some of the electrical needs by using Orkney's natural resources, even at low temperatures we can produce heat and hot water which will help to keep all the patients comfortable during their stay here.\"\n\nReducing the need for patient travel has also been taken into account.\n\nThe maternity unit has been scaled up so fewer expectant mothers need to be flown to Aberdeen to give birth.\n\nSenior Charge Midwife, Pamela Halliday says it means they can follow a pregnancy through and provide better care.\n\nShe says: \"Women are really wanting to stay in Orkney mostly. Our transfer rate has dropped quite a bit to Aberdeen and our delivery rate has increased here in Orkney so that's really good.\"\n\nSenior Charge Midwife Pamela Halliday says fewer mothers are being transferred to the mainland\n\nNHS Orkney now runs a fleet of electric vehicles, it is developing the green space around the hospital for the benefit of staff and patients, even the food in the hospital's restaurant is all locally sourced.\n\nBut like everywhere else, there are challenges.\n\nThe production of medicines and use of some treatments have high environmental costs and the pandemic has set back efforts to cut down on clinical waste.\n\nThere is always a tension between the changes required to tackle the climate emergency and the clinical need to put patient care first.\n\nDr Kevin Fox, a consultant cardiologist, divides his time between London and Kirkwall.\n\nHe does the travelling so his patients can stay closer to home for treatment.\n\nDr Fox says awareness of climate change is much stronger than it was a few years ago\n\nDr Fox says cutting carbon emissions have risen up the agenda.\n\nHe says: \"I'm not sure it dominates my thoughts but that awareness is much stronger than it was a few years ago.\"\n\nDr Fox says measures such as \"NHS Near Me\", a video consultation system, and new medical innovations are helping to offset less environmentally-friendly practices.\n\nBut he says it will be huge task to achieve net zero in the health service.\n\n\"It is going to be an enormous challenge and at all times our first priority has to be the provision of excellence in healthcare,\" he says.\n\nNHS Scotland has already achieved a reduction in emissions of 62% over the past 30 years but it still faces a significant challenge if it is to meet the target of getting to net zero by 2045 at the latest.\n\nIts estate comprises 1,500 buildings that contribute about 400,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions every year.\n\nAbout 50,000 tonnes of waste are produced and its 9,000 vehicles cover more than 127 million miles a year, generating more than 60,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nA Climate Emergency and Sustainability Strategy for Scotland was due to be published this spring but it has been delayed with the Scottish government saying it plans to produce a draft for consultation before the end of the year.\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"We are confident that NHS Scotland will meet its target of becoming a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions service by 2045 at the latest.\n\n\"Depending on wider progress with decarbonisation of electricity and gas networks, the target may be achieved earlier.\"\n\nIt added: \"The Scottish government is committed to all public buildings using renewable heat by 2038, and we will invest at least £200m between 2021-2026 in public sector energy efficiency and decarbonisation.\n\n\"Immediate priorities for the NHS include using this funding to cut its emissions from heat and electricity, removing petrol and diesel cars from its fleet by 2025 and cutting its emissions of medical gases.\"", "Sir David Amess was one of Parliament's characters: fun, friendly, unconventional and outspoken.\n\nHis broad grin and boyish enthusiasm were fixtures in the House of Commons chamber for nearly 40 years.\n\nHe never scaled the heights of government, choosing to dedicate his career to his beloved Essex and the causes he cared about most. The 69-year-old was one of those rare MPs who earned cross-party respect for the conviction he brought to his opinions and campaigns. They ranged from passionate support of Brexit to animal rights - and anything that brought Essex up in the world.\n\nHe always took his work seriously, but himself rarely.\n\nHe was stabbed to death while in his constituency surgery in the seaside town of Leigh-on-Sea, an attack that has stunned his constituents and colleagues from across the political spectrum.\n\nSir David burst on to the political scene as the new MP for Basildon in 1983, the embodiment of what was known then as Essex Man, the archetypal aspirational voter who helped deliver a landslide victory for Margaret Thatcher that year.\n\nA prominent animal lover within Westminster, David Amess regularly entered Parliament's dog of the year show\n\nWith an East End accent and relatively humble origins, he gained a high profile on TV and radio, and triumphed against the odds in the 1992 general election when he unexpectedly held on to his seat.\n\n\"My colleagues and supporters, go out and rejoice and celebrate!\", he declared.\n\nFrom that moment on David Amess was cheered by his Conservative colleagues every time he rose to his feet in Parliament, where he would rarely pass up the chance to mention Basildon.\n\nHe held the seat until 1997 when he realised the seat would be lost to Labour after boundary changes and switched his loyalty and devotion to nearby Southend West. For years he campaigned for Southend to become a city, mentioning it virtually every week in Parliament - he retweeted a BBC Essex tweet along these lines just a day before his death.\n\nSir David - who was married with five children - was also a devout Catholic.\n\nHe was socially conservative: he supported capital punishment and opposed abortion. He was an early Eurosceptic. He was also a strong supporter of animal rights, including a fox hunting ban, and he campaigned against fuel poverty, advocated tackling obesity and raised awareness of endometriosis, a painful gynaecological condition that some women suffer.\n\nAlthough for many years he was a parliamentary aide to the former cabinet minister, Michael Portillo, he never held ministerial office; he was too unorthodox for that.\n\nSir David was a keen participant in the annual MPs' pancake race\n\nDeputy prime minister Dominic Raab paid tribute to \"a great common sense politician and a formidable campaigner with a big heart, and tremendous generosity of spirit - including towards those he disagreed with\".\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said he was \"a thoroughly decent man\".\n\nHis loss will be felt keenly in his Southend West constituency. Trembling with emotion Father Jeff Woolnough, parish priest of St Peter's Catholic church in Eastwood Road North, Leigh-On-Sea, told the BBC Sir David was a \"great, great man, a good Catholic and a friend to all\".\n\nBorn in Plaistow in 1952, he went to school in London and did many things before turning to politics.\n\nHe taught at a school in London before embarking on a career as a recruitment consultant. He did attract unwelcome publicity in 1997, when he was the victim of satirist Chris Morris on his Channel 4 show Brass Eye, when he was shown with other well-known figures condemning Cake, a made-up drug. Sir David said Channel 4 should feel \"shame\" for the programme, as it came soon after the case of his then-constituent 18 year old Leah Betts, who died after she took ecstasy.\n\nHe was one of those MPs who used Parliament to sponsor bills, to sit on committees, to form alliances, so that he could shape law from the backbenches.\n\nAs an animal welfare specialist, he led campaigns to ban cages for game birds and end the transport of live animals for export - and was a patron of the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation. Sir David was what they call an old school parliamentarian - the epitome of a constituency MP who died serving those he was so proud to represent.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A man has been arrested in connection with a death threat sent to MP Chris Bryant after he asked people to be kinder\n\nA man has been arrested in connection with a death threat being sent to Labour's Rhondda MP Chris Bryant.\n\nSouth Wales Police said a 76-year-old from Pontycymer, Bridgend county, was arrested on suspicion of malicious communications.\n\nOfficers were called at about 16:30 BST on 16 October after reports of malicious communications being sent.\n\nMr Bryant said he got the death threat after calling for people to be kinder following Sir David Amess's death.\n\nHe said he had faced abuse every year he had been an MP, adding: \"The year before it was anti-vaxxers, the year before we had Brexit campaigners plastering the word traitor all over my office.\"\n\nSpeaking to Claire Summers on Radio Wales Breakfast, he said MPs were usually more reluctant to go to police about abuse as the they knew how busy officers were.\n\nHe added: \"I hope everyone dials down the nastiness in politics. It's been six years of everyone calling each other traitor. That needs to end, we need to be nicer to each other.\n\n\"It's pretty sour. It's more sour now than I've known it in 20 years.\"\n\nPeople in Leigh-on Sea have been remembering Sir David\n\nMr Bryant, who is gay, added: \"I think it's women, black and ethnic minority and gay MPs who get the brunt of it, but everybody gets some of this.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Conservative Member of the Senedd (MS) for South East Wales, Natasha Asghar, revealed she had previously been held by the throat while working at her late father's constituency office.\n\nShe told Jason Mohammad on BBC Radio Wales the incident happened after her politician father - Mohammad \"Oscar\" Asghar - had left Plaid Cymru and joined the Welsh Conservatives in 2009.\n\nMs Asghar said the incident happened in about 2016 or 2017 and showed \"how long people's grievances lasted\".\n\nNatasha Asghar MS revealed she was threatened while working in her late father's constituency office\n\nShe said: \"He grabbed me by the throat and I remember him pinning me against the wall and he said 'I want to know why he left the party, why did he cross the floor?'\n\n\"There are so many angry people out there, and I think people all have an opinion about something.\n\n\"People often forget that yes, we are politicians, but we are people as well, we have families, we have friends, we have colleagues, we have staff and it affects them as well.\"\n\nJane Dodds MS, leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, told the programme she was confronted by protesters when leaving the Senedd after voting on Covid pass plans.\n\nWelsh Lib Dem leader Jane Dodds says it was \"very, very frightening\" when she was confronted by protesters\n\nShe said: \"They surrounded my car, banged on my car, bent back my mirrors, laid across the car, shouted abuse at me and put their posters on the car.\n\n\"It felt very, very frightening.\"\n\nThe death of Conservative MP Sir David, who was stabbed at his constituency surgery in Essex, is being treated as a terrorist incident by the Metropolitan Police.\n\nA 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after the attack at a church in Leigh-on-Sea.\n\nWhitehall officials confirmed the man's name as Ali Harbi Ali, and said he was a British man of Somali heritage.\n\nDetectives are continuing to hold the 25-year-old man at a London police station and have until Friday to question him.\n\nThe BBC has been told he was referred to the counter-terrorist Prevent scheme some years ago, but was never a formal subject of interest to MI5.\n\nPolice have also been asked to review security for MPs after the killing on Friday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parliament pays tribute to Sir David Amess, following his killing\n\nMPs have been delivering emotional tributes to Conservative MP Sir David Amess, who died last week after he was stabbed in his Essex constituency.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson hailed him as a \"seasoned campaigner of verve and grit\" and a \"steadfast servant\" of his voters.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer praised a \"dedicated constituency MP\" who \"held his beliefs passionately but gently\".\n\nFellow Essex MP Mark Francois called him \"the best bloke I ever knew\".\n\nSir David, 69, who was the MP for Southend West, had been meeting constituents when he was stabbed multiple times on Friday.\n\nA 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after the attack at a church in Leigh-on-Sea. Police are treating the killing as a terrorist incident.\n\nMPs observed a minute's silence earlier, and most of Monday's scheduled business was cancelled to allow them to deliver speeches in Sir David's memory.\n\nOpening the tributes, Mr Johnson said the \"tragic and senseless death\" of the father-of-five had left \"a vacuum that will not and can never be filled\".\n\nDescribing him as one of the \"most gentle individuals\" to have entered Parliament, he said his views \"often confounded expectation and defied easy stereotype\".\n\nHe praised his record as a campaigner on issues including learning disabilities, and endometriosis, an often-debilitating condition affecting women.\n\nAnd he announced that Southend would now be granted city status, in recognition of a long-running campaign Sir David had led as one of the town's MPs.\n\nSit Keir also praised Sir David's campaigning on behalf of the town, adding that \"the people of Southend have lost one of their own\".\n\nHe also said MPs had a \"duty\" to learn from the way Sir David conducted himself, describing him as a politician who \"held his beliefs passionately but gently\".\n\nMPs left an empty space in the Commons chamber in memory of Sir David\n\nTory MP Mark Francois, who grew up in Basildon while Sir David was the MP there, said he was \"hurting terribly\" after losing his \"best and oldest friend in politics\".\n\nHe said Sir David had helped him gain election to Basildon District Council, adding: \"Without him, I would never have become a member of Parliament.\"\n\nHe said Sir David would be remembered for his \"Essex cheeky-chappy smile\" and as a \"doughty champion for Basildon and then Southend\".\n\nJames Duddridge, the Tory MP for neighbouring Rochford and Southend East, told colleagues that was a \"good friend\" who inspired great loyalty.\n\nLike others during the debate, he noted the role played by Roman Catholicism in Sir David's life, describing him as a \"man of faith and convictions\".\n\nHe prompted laugher in the chamber by recalling a story from a visit Sir David made to see the Pope - when he \"got his timing wrong\" and removed a boiled sweet from his pocket whilst in the presence of the pontiff, inadvertently prompting him to bless it.\n\nA number of MPs paid tribute to Sir David's campaigning on animal welfare, an issue where he promoted several causes and efforts to pass new legislation.\n\nLabour's Kerry McCarthy read out tributes from animal rights charities, and said Sir David's support had been \"integral\" to the campaign to end fox hunting.\n\nA number of MPs used the debate to speak about the threats faced by MPs in going about their job, and abuse they face online.\n\nMr Francois called on the government to \"toughen up\" the draft Online Safety Bill - a new law MPs are expecting to debate soon aiming to tackle online abuse.", "The Valneva Covid vaccine that the UK cancelled a 100m dose order for last month, works well at priming the immune system to fight coronavirus, phase three trial results suggest.\n\nBlood results from volunteers who received the jab had high levels of neutralising antibodies against the pandemic virus.\n\nIt outperformed the AstraZeneca vaccine on this measure in head-to-head tests.\n\nValneva is seeking regulatory approval for its jab, manufactured in Scotland.\n\nIt is an inactivated whole virus vaccine, meaning it contains a dead version of coronavirus that cannot cause disease. This is the same way that flu and polio vaccines are made.\n\nFrench pharmaceutical company Valneva said the vaccine had a \"neutralising antibody seroconversion rate above 95%\" and there were no severe cases of Covid seen in the trial despite variants, such as Delta, being in circulation.\n\nLead investigator Prof Adam Finn, of the University of Bristol, said the results, shared in a press release, were both \"impressive and extremely encouraging\".\n\n\"These results suggest this vaccine candidate is on track to play an important role in overcoming the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nValneva hopes to initially get the jab approved for those aged between 18 and 55, based on the age range of people in the trial.\n\nThe company said it has begun the vaccine approval process with the UK's health regulator, and is preparing to submit a request with the European Medicines Agency.\n\nValneva said the UK government had served a notice to the firm, over allegations of a breach of the agreement. The vaccine manufacturer \"strenuously\" denied any breach.\n\nProf Penny Ward, a pharmaceutical expert at King's College London, said: \"As we know the UK government is in dispute with Valneva having cancelled the UKs order of up to 100million doses, placed by the Vaccines Taskforce in 2020, in September.\n\n\"The results today suggest that this decision might yet be regretted, but because of it Valneva might be able to provide an immediate supply of this vaccine for other countries struggling with the freezer shipping requirements of other, more expensive, vaccines. Good news for Covax and countries still awaiting supplies.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Just three days after he signed for Premier League club Cardiff City, Emiliano Sala was on a light aircraft that went missing over the English Channel on 21 January. Dorset Police on Thursday night confirmed the 28-year-old's body had been recovered from the wreckage, which was found on Sunday morning.\n\nThis is an updated version of a story first published on 22 January.\n\nAt 28, Emiliano Sala, whose death in a light aircraft crash has been announced, had just reached football maturity, and his move to Cardiff was shaping up to be a thrilling adventure.\n\nThe transfer marked belated recognition for a player who might have been imperfect technically but who was physical, courageous - and endearing.\n\nOn the pitch, he was confrontational; off it, he led a quiet life.\n\nHe loved detective novels and would never go to an away game without taking a book. He played guitar too but took that up quite late, and usually preferred to leave it at home.\n\nA common morning sight in Nantes was Sala, seated at a table outside a cafe with his labrador Naja curled up at his feet.\n\nFans of Nantes football club spent the whole of January hoping - rumour had it that Sala didn't really want to leave for Cardiff. His coach, Vahid Halilhodzic, had rekindled his career last October following a long period of struggle under former manager Miguel Cardoso and refused to discuss the possibility of his striker leaving.\n\nHalilhodzic - himself a former centre-forward at Nantes - had decided his mission was to relaunch the Argentine player, whose role model since childhood had been the legendary striker Gabriel Batistuta.\n\n\"He's a sensitive young man; he needs to feel confident, so the priority was to help him believe in himself. Only after that could we talk, striker-to-striker,\" said Halilhodzic.\n\nSala confirmed: \"The club was ready to sell me to Galatasaray, but I held on tight. I have no regrets, because Vahid and I talk a lot, and I'm steadily improving.\"\n\nBetween July and September, during the Cardoso era at Nantes, Sala scored four times; between October and December, he scored eight times.\n\n'If he were an English player, he would be Jamie Vardy'\n\nSala was first and foremost an instinctive striker.\n\nIf he were an English player, he would have been Jamie Vardy: a player who liked wide spaces and being part of a team with a strong counter-attacking style; a lively, light player but one who was also resilient and reliable - a real South American warrior.\n\nDuring his time with French club Niort he was often referred to as \"the local Carlos Tevez\".\n\nSala was also a skilled 'fox in the box', thanks particularly to his exceptional finishing ability with his head. He had perfect timing, and he was clinical on set-pieces with his great headers. There was no doubt his technique still lacked something, but the Premier League looked like his turf to conquer.\n\nHe was initially unsure about joining a club struggling in their own league, but Kita, the president of Nantes, didn't want to miss out on the 17m euros transfer fee.\n\nThe player Cardiff wanted was the Sala that Halilhodzic had so successfully polished and relaunched.\n\nIn Argentina, Sala trained in San Francisco, Cordoba, at an academy allied to Bordeaux, moving to France to join Bordeaux when he was 20.\n\nEveryone who knew him there agrees - Emiliano was a good guy and a good team-mate.\n\nFelipe Saad, who played with Sala at Caen, told L'Equipe: \"He was a lovable, generous fellow. He always believed that football was a team sport. I am so shaken.\n\n\"His move to Cardiff was going to bring him the recognition he deserved, albeit belatedly. He so deserved his talent to be recognised.\"\n\nIt is true that Sala's progress was rather slow: people still referred to him as a \"promising talent\" when he was 23 and at Bordeaux.\n\nHis team-mates even poked fun at him for his unpolished style on the field - so much so that, after a season spent in the Bordeaux reserves in 2011-12, Sala was loaned to Orleans, then a Niveau 3 team. He went on to score 19 goals in 37 matches.\n\nNext came another loan, this time to Niort, in D2. Initially, Sala's then-coach Pascal Gastieu had no real interest in him.\n\n\"I considered his technique to only be adequate, though everything else was there,\" said Gastieu. \"He was a generous guy and when he was on the field he never gave up.\n\n\"He knew he had room for improvement, especially on a technical level. He'll reach full maturity later than the average player, you'll see.\"\n\nAt the time, Sala agreed: \"My headers aren't good enough, even though I'm tall. It's something I'll have to work on.\"\n\nSala's next loan move took him to Caen. It wasn't always easy for him, a joint Italian-Argentine national, to be constantly on the move. But he eventually found his feet at Nantes, where he won an initial five-year contract.\n\nIt didn't take Sala long to establish himself and soon Wolves, then in the Championship, got in touch with Nantes about him. President Kita, who had signed Sala a year earlier for 1m euros, rejected the 4m euros offer.\n\nSala had been tempted - \"this might be the second division, but that's the English league\" - but he knew that, even at 26, he wasn't yet mature enough to go up against the solid defence of English teams.\n\n\"I haven't left my mark on Nantes yet. If I was to leave, I would want it to be after I've made it, and I'd want to leave a good memory of me.\"\n\nSala could be spotted outside a cafe in Nantes, having breakfast with Naja, as recently as a few weeks ago.\n\nAfterwards, he went to say goodbye to his Nantes team-mates. Then he boarded a plane to Cardiff.", "David Morris was convicted of killing four members of the same family in 1999\n\nA forensic review of the Clydach murders has made \"significant findings\" linking convicted killer David Morris to the crime scene, police have said.\n\nMorris, who died in August aged 59, was convicted of killing four members of the same family in the Swansea Valley village in 1999.\n\nSouth Wales Police said a link between him and a sock had been identified during an independent investigation.\n\nPolice agreed to a forensic review of evidence in January.\n\nThe force added this was the first time DNA evidence had linked Morris to the murder scene in Kelvin Road.\n\nThe BBC has learned the family of David Morris are questioning the findings and do not accept them.\n\nMorris was convicted in 2002 of killing Mandy Power, her daughters Katie and Emily and her mother Doris Dawson, who were bludgeoned to death at their home.\n\nHe was twice tried for murder and was serving a 32-year sentence when he died.\n\nMandy Power and her daughters, Emily and Katie, were murdered in their home in 1999\n\nLast October, doubts were cast about the conviction as potential new witnesses and expert views emerged.\n\nBut South Wales Police said a scientific link between Morris and a sock, which it added was widely accepted as being used by the murderer during the killings, had been identified.\n\nThe force added that while a link to Morris - or a male relative of his paternal lineage - had been found, it cannot determine how or when Morris's profile was transferred on to the sock.\n\nA campaign to release Morris gathered pace before his death\n\nScientists found it was \"more likely\" Morris contributed to the DNA profile found on two different areas of the blood-stained sock, than if he did not contribute DNA to them.\n\nPermission was granted to take a blood sample from Morris after his death on 20 August to allow forensic examinations to take place.\n\nThe technology used in the process would not have been available to the original investigating team, the force said.\n\nThe link was identified using Y-STR profiling, a technique which specifically targets male DNA, even in a sample which contains a mixture of male and female cellular material.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable David Thorne, of South Wales Police, said: \"The decision to carry out an investigative assessment did not constitute a reopening or reinvestigation of the murders, nor did it demonstrate any lack of confidence in the conviction of Morris and the subsequent case reviews.\"\n\nDavid Morris faced two trials for the murders and was found guilty at both\n\nHe added: \"This is significant as the sock was recovered from the murder scene and it was widely accepted that it was used by the killer.\n\n\"The outcome of the forensic assessment and completion of further actions have not established any information that undermines the conviction of Morris.\n\n\"In my view, as the independent senior investigating officer, the new findings from the samples taken from the sock support the existing evidence that originally convicted him.\"\n\nEmily and Katie Power died in the attack in 1999\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Thorne said it showed the force's \"commitment to providing evidence-based answers to the issues which have been raised about this case over many years\".\n\nHe added: \"This commitment has now resulted in a forensic link between the convicted killer David Morris and an item of great significance which was recovered from the murder scene\n\n\"South Wales Police commissioned the review in the hope that we could in some way provide closure for those most affected by the murders.\"", "The man arrested by police following the killing of the MP Sir David Amess has been named as Ali Harbi Ali.\n\nThe 25-year-old is being held under the Terrorism Act and officers have until Friday to question him.\n\nWhitehall officials confirmed the man's name to the BBC, and said he was a British man of Somali heritage.\n\nThe BBC understands Mr Ali was referred to the counter-terrorist Prevent scheme some years ago, but was never a formal subject of interest to MI5.\n\nIt also understands that his father, Harbi Ali Kullane, who was previously an adviser to Somalia's prime minister, has been visited by police who have taken his phone for analysis.\n\nPolice officers have spent the weekend searching three addresses in the London area.\n\nIt is thought a converted Victorian property in Lady Somerset Road in north-west London is linked to the investigation. Neighbours said officers started searching it late on Friday night.\n\nFurther searches, also believed to be part of the inquiry, have been taking place at a property in Bounds Green Road, north London, and another in Cranmer Road, Croydon.\n\nA police search at a house in north London is thought to be linked to the inquiry\n\nSir David, who had been a Conservative MP since 1983, was stabbed multiple times during a regular Friday meeting with his Southend West constituents at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.\n\nSouthend councillor John Lamb said he has since spoken to two of Sir David's assistants who were at the constituency surgery with Sir David at the time of the attack.\n\nHe described how one was in the room with Sir David taking notes. \"All of a sudden there was a scream from her, because the person deliberately whipped out a knife and started stabbing David,\" he said.\n\n\"The other lady who was getting names from people outside, she came running in and saw poor David had been stabbed.\"\n\nHe said both were quite distressed but were \"coping quite well\" under the circumstances.\n\nCatholic priest Father Jeff Woolnough said he tried to administer last rites to Sir David shortly after the stabbing but police told him he could not enter a crime scene. Instead, he prayed for his friend on the street behind a police cordon.\n\nAli Harbi Ali was initially arrested on suspicion of murder and held in Essex.\n\nHe has since been transferred to a London police station where he was further detained under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act.\n\nPolice say they are not looking for anyone else for now.\n\nIt is thought Ali Harbi Ali did not spend long in the Prevent programme - which aims to stop people becoming radicalised.\n\nTeachers, members of the public, the NHS and others can refer individuals to a local panel of police, social workers and other experts who decide whether and how to intervene in their lives.\n\nEngagement in the scheme is voluntary and it is not a criminal sanction.\n\nSir David, 69, who was married with four daughters and a son, is the second MP to be killed in recent years following the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox in June 2016.\n\nThe latest attack has raised concerns for the safety of MPs, many of whom hold constituency surgeries which anyone can attend.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said MPs had access to a \"panoply\" of security measures - many of which were put in place after Ms Cox's murder - but said changes could be made to constituency surgeries.\n\nAny measures needed to be proportionate, she told the BBC's Andrew Marr show. \"We're here to serve, we're here to be accessible to the British public.\"\n\nMs Patel described hearing the news that Sir David had died, saying \"our worlds were shattered\".\n\nA post-mortem examination of Sir David took place on Saturday, police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Home Secretary Priti Patel says security measures for MPs are \"being looked at\"\n\nMeanwhile, Tory MP Andrew Rosindell said the killing of his friend and fellow Essex MP \"shouldn't change things in a way that stops us going about our democratic role\".\n\n\"There's got to be some balance to this. I don't have an answer,\" he told BBC Breakfast on Sunday. \"This is not the Britain I want, this is not the country that we're used to.\"\n\nLabour's Diane Abbott MP said she would prefer to meet constituents behind a screen to prevent possible stabbing attacks.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said he wanted to avoid a knee-jerk reaction but insisted \"the best had to come out of this hideous killing\".\n\nHe said security measures would be reviewed to improve MPs' safety and urged MPs to take up measures already available to them.\n\nPeople in Leigh-on Sea have been remembering Sir David\n\nConservative MP Mark Francois described his colleague as his \"oldest and best friend\" as he laid flowers\n\nTributes to Sir David have been pouring in from politicians and constituents, with the home secretary saying his \"infectious personality\" meant he \"touched so many lives\".\n\nOver the weekend, people have gathered for a candlelit vigil in Leigh-on-Sea to mark Sir David's life and attended a church service to share their memories of him.\n\nMany constituents have reflected on his gentle nature and willingness to listen and to help.\n\nSir David had long campaigned for Southend to be given city status. On Sunday, Sir Lindsay Hoyle said that would be \"a good thing to do\" in his memory.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the Queen has agreed Southend will be granted city status following the killing of MP Sir David Amess.\n\nSir David was stabbed to death at Belfairs Methodist Church on Friday.\n\nHe regularly championed Southend's case to be a city during his time in Parliament.\n\nMr Johnson told the House of Commons he was \"happy\" to announce Southend \"will be accorded the city status it so clearly deserves\".\n\nThe prime minister said: \"That Sir David spent almost 40 years in this House, but not one day in ministerial office, tells everything about where his priorities lay.\"\n\nPeople in Leigh-on Sea have been remembering Sir David\n\nHe added Sir David \"never once witnessed any achievement by any resident of Southend that could not somehow be cited in his bid to secure city status for that distinguished town\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told Parliament he was \"so pleased\" by the announcement.\n\nSir Keir said the news was \"a fitting tribute to Sir David's hard work\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parliament pays tribute to Sir David Amess, following his killing\n\nJames Duddridge, who represents Rochford and Southend East, the constituency neighbouring Sir David's Southend West seat, said the decision \"means a lot to everybody\".\n\nHe said residents did not want Southend to be remembered as the city where Sir David was killed but \" for characteristics such as its pier, airport and football\".\n\nSir David, who championed Southend's bid for city status as part of The Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022, was described by Home Secretary Priti Patel as \"Mr Southend\" following his death.\n\nAs well as bringing extra prestige, city status is an opportunity for areas to attract more tourism and boost the local economy.\n\nOn its website, Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, which had campaigned with Sir David, previously said city status would bring not only \"prestige and standing, but an opportunity to lever further investment\".\n\nSouthend is a tourist hotspot and has a thriving creative arts scene\n\nOn the latest announcement, council leader Ian Gilbert said he felt a \"mixture of emotions\" after hearing the news.\n\nHe said it was \"clearly what Sir David would have wanted\".\n\n\"While I don't want it to have come in these circumstances, I'm still pleased and proud that it is happening,\" he added.\n\nLeader of the council's Conservative group, Tony Cox, said the decision meant Sir David's \"legacy will forever live on in Southend-on-Sea\".\n\nHe added: \"I cannot thank Her Majesty the Queen and the prime minister enough for granting that legacy, but what truly breaks my heart is that he is not around to see it.\n\n\"I am sure he will be looking down on us now saying, 'My work in Southend is now complete'.\"\n\nLabour councillor for Kursaal ward in Southend, Matt Dent, said: \"Everyone who knew Sir David knew how passionate he was about Southend getting city status.\n\n\"It was something he worked into every conversation. It's such a shame he is not here to see it.\"\n\nThe Archbishop of York, the Most Reverend Stephen Cottrell, who grew up in Southend and was a friend of Sir David's, said with Southend having been declared a city people can \"forget about a statue of Vera Lynn at Dover, we are going to put a statue of David Amess at the end of Southend pier\".\n\nChelmsford MP Vicky Ford and Southend United FC both tweeted that it was a \"fitting\" tribute to Sir David.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Southend United This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDowning Street said the award of city status to Southend was a \"very rare honour\".\n\n\"This was an exceptional circumstance,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\n\"It is a very rare honour which Sir David campaigned passionately for.\n\n\"He was a tireless champion of Southend, celebrating its achievements, the work of its residents and its thriving local businesses and diversity.\"\n\nCh Supt Simon Anslow signed the Book of Condolence along with colleagues including Chief Constable BJ Harrington and Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Roger Hirst\n\nSpeaking after signing a Book of Condolence at Southend's Civic Centre, Essex Police Ch Supt Simon Anslow said: \"Having long been a champion for Southend, it is of course truly tragic that his main goal in Parliament has been achieved in the days following his sad death, with confirmation today that Southend will be afforded city status by Her Majesty The Queen.\n\n\"Today has been a mark of respect for the man - indeed it has been a mark of respect for what will be Essex's new city.\"\n\nIn a 2019 speech to the Commons calling on Southend to be given city status, Sir David celebrated the town for everything from its hospital and airport to its investment in digital infrastructure.\n\nHe also praised Leigh-on-Sea for being voted the \"happiest place in the United Kingdom\" and said people in Southend \"walk on water\" while on its famous pier.\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.", "Staff at University of Leicester joined the strike in 2019\n\nStudents could face more strike action at universities this term after the academics' union opened a ballot over pay, pensions and conditions.\n\nUniversity and College Union (UCU) general secretary Jo Grady said the UK's flagship university sector was built on the \"exploitation of staff\".\n\nThey had experienced a decade of pension cuts, collapsing pay and insecure contracts, she said.\n\nUniversity employers said the prospect of disruption was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe ballot represents a ramping up of the long-running dispute between UCU members and university employers, with staff at 152 institutions being balloted.\n\nA total of 78 of these are being consulted during the next three weeks over pay and working conditions, with another 68 facing two ballots - over pay and conditions, plus the USS pensions scheme.\n\nThe dispute over pensions has been rumbling on for nearly a decade, and has been kicked into action again after what the UCU describes as a \"flawed valuation of the USS pension fund\" wiped \"an estimated 35% off the value of a typical pension\".\n\nThe pay dispute has led to numerous strike days over the past two years, and was only paused during the pandemic.\n\nMs Grady said: \"There is a sense that we are at a breaking point and a sense that this is a sector that needs saving. I don't think I can over-articulate that enough.\n\n\"The idea that staff would want to go out on strike again could not be further from the truth.\"\n\nShe accused institutions of spending their increased fee and research income on extravagant building projects, advertising and advice from consultants, rather than the staff who are teaching young people.\n\nAnd she added that \"exploitative contracts\" were the \"dirty secret\" of a higher education sector which requires students to pay £9,000-plus fees a year for tuition.\n\nThe union estimates that there are some 74,000 staff working on such temporary contracts.\n\nThe UCU says pay for university staff fell by 17.6% relative to inflation between 2009 and 2019.\n\nSince then employers made further below-inflation offers, despite university income from tuition fees growing by a third in the last five years, it said.\n\nThe University and Colleges Employers Association has offered guaranteed increases of at least 1.5% to the pay spine.\n\nHigher percentage rises were pledged for lower-paid staff, up to a maximum of 3.6%.\n\nChief executive Raj Jethwa said: \"We are disappointed that UCU is encouraging its members to ballot for action which is specifically designed to disrupt teaching and learning for students who have endured so many recent upheavals.\"\n\nMr Jethwa continued: \"The final offer from employers was fair and meaningful in the context of the sector's ongoing delicate financial situation.\n\n\"We very much hope the trade union members understand the considerable pressures which continue to face their HE [higher education] institutions. The financial impact of Covid-19 continues to affect these HE institutions, alongside declines in other income sources.\"\n\nHe added that most staff understood the \"financial realities facing their institutions\".", "The deputy prime minister has said the success of Sir David Amess' long-running campaign to make Southend a city of \"feels inevitable\".\n\nDominic Raab said granting the Essex town city status would be a \"fitting tribute\" after the death of the MP.\n\nSir David, Conservative MP for Southend West, regularly raised the matter in Parliament and was often seen sporting \"Make Southend a city\" merchandise.\n\nMr Raab said: \"It feels like a certain inevitability about this campaign.\"\n\nSouthend is one of several towns competing for city status as part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022.\n\nSir David's family called for people to support the campaign after he fatally stabbed at a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea on Friday.\n\nSpeaking to LBC radio, Mr Raab, who is also justice secretary, said: \"Let me respect the mechanism for deciding it but say that I think it will be a very fitting tribute if it should come to pass.\"\n\nIn December 2019, Sir David secured an adjournment debate in the Commons specifically on the campaign and told MPs: \"I am not messing around.\"\n\nLast week, he told BBC Essex that his plan was \"to wear them down until they say yes\".\n\n\"I've spent all my time mentioning it at every conceivable opportunity,\" he told presenter Sonia Watson.\n\n\"If they're sick to death of hearing all the reasons why Southend should become a city then they should grant it to us; it's a no-brainer, the benefits are enormous.\"\n\nAmong the many floral tributes to Sir David - a nod to his biggest passion\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has already backed awarding city status to the seaside town as a \"wonderful tribute\" to the MP's 38 years of service, which included representing Southend West since 1997.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson's official spokesman said: \"We will be looking at ways to pay tribute to Sir David and obviously this was something he was very passionate about and we recognise that.\n\n\"There is a formal process for this as it is a rare civic honour and there is a live competition to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee next year so I'm not going to get ahead of that.\"\n\nSouthend is a tourist hotspot and has a thriving creative arts scene\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.", "David Henderson is alleged to have arranged the flight carrying Emiliano Sala and David Ibbotson\n\nA man has pleaded guilty to a charge relating to the flight in which footballer Emiliano Sala died.\n\nDavid Henderson, 67, admitted trying to arrange a flight for a passenger without permission or authorisation.\n\nThe plane carrying 28-year-old Sala and pilot David Ibbotson crashed into the English Channel in January 2019.\n\nHenderson of Hotham, East Riding of Yorkshire, will go on trial after denying a separate charge of endangering the safety of an aircraft.\n\nThe charges have been brought by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and relate to endangering the aircraft and operating commercially without permission.\n\nHenderson is alleged to have arranged the flight carrying Sala and 59-year-old Mr Ibbotson.\n\nEmiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson\n\nThe single-engine Piper Malibu aircraft was bringing the striker, who was involved in a multimillion pound transfer deal, from Nantes in France to Cardiff where he had signed for the Bluebirds.\n\nThe body of Sala was recovered from the seabed the following month, but the body of Mr Ibbotson, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, was never recovered.\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB disappeared from radar near the Channel Islands on 21 January.\n\nAt a hearing in October 2020, the court heard how Mr Ibbotson's licence to fly an aircraft commercially had expired in November 2018.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigations Branch (AAIB) reported at the start of the year that the plane had been leaking carbon monoxide during the flight and a final manoeuvre by Mr Ibbotson to pull up the plane had caused it to break up mid-air.\n\nA jury inquest into his death was postponed until after Henderson's trial and is scheduled for 14 February 2022.\n\nHenderson's trial is expected to last 10 days.", "Canon Pat Browne, Roman Catholic duty priest to the House of Commons, introduces the prayers.\n\nHe starts by saying: “Let us pray for the soul of David Amess, and for all who have died in the service of Parliament.”\n\nBishop of Durham Paul Butler says: “Let us pray for all who mourn David’s passing: for those who are in shock and deep sadness, especially his family, his friends, colleagues, and staff in his constituency, party, and across Parliament.”\n\nThe Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell, who was a friend of the late MP, says: \"Let us pray for those causes closest to David’s heart: for the support of those living with disability; for the humane treatment of animals; for decency in public life and discourse.\n\n\"Let us give thanks for his care of individuals; his ability to listen, and his determination to help.\"\n\nThe Speaker’s Chaplain says: \"Let us pray for Parliament: for those who feel vulnerable in public service, and those charged with their protection; for peace in our land and an end to rancour and the threat of violence.\"\n\nCanon Browne finishes by saying: \"Let us pray for ourselves, that we may be given strength, courage, and protection in our public service.\"", "People attending nightclubs and other large venues will have to be able to show proof of two Covid jabs\n\nThe Scottish government's vaccine passport scheme has become enforceable by law from Monday morning.\n\nNightclubs and large events, like some football matches, will only be able to allow entry to people who can show they have had two doses of a Covid vaccine.\n\nThe scheme came into effect on 1 October after MSPs voted to back the proposals.\n\nBusinesses were given a 17-day \"period of grace\" to allow venues time to test out their procedures.\n\nPeople who have had two vaccines in Scotland can download or get a paper copy of a certificate with a QR code.\n\nEveryone over the age of 18 must now show - if asked - that they have had both doses of the vaccine before they are allowed entry to certain venues and events. These include:\n\nThe scheme requires venues to put in place a \"reasonable system\" to check the status of customers, with certain exemptions on medical grounds.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said that the hospitality industry as a whole would not be included in the scheme, although that decision would be kept under review.\n\nSome football clubs have already been asking fans to provide a valid Covid pass before entering stadiums\n\nThe government also said there would be no need for a vaccine passport to access public services or settings where people have no choice over attendance - such as shops, public transport, education and medical services.\n\nBusinesses say they have already experienced a \"number of issues\" with the scheme - including customers being unaware they need a passport to gain entry.\n\nLeon Thompson, UK Hospitality Scotland director, said public awareness had been a \"missing piece of the jigsaw\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"Customers need to be ready, they need to play their part and they need to understand what they have. They will need to come with the right frame of mind and be ready to be patient if they encounter queues.\"\n\nMr Thomson added that the pandemic and Brexit had resulted in \"chronic\" shortages of door staff, which meant that checking people's vaccination status would remain a \"key challenge\" for businesses.\n\nResponding to the public awareness issue, Health Secretary Humza Yousaf told the programme hundreds of thousands of people were using the scheme.\n\nHe said: \"Over 700,000 have downloaded the app and well over 750,000 have a paper copy - of course some people who have a paper copy will also have the app so that's not necessarily unique users.\n\n\"It says to me there are a number of people who have awareness. Where we can up the communication around this we have intentions to do so - we already have over the last two weeks.\"\n\nHospitality sector said customers have been turning up to venues unaware they need Covid passports\n\nIn addition to the passport, a number of countries including Wales also require people to provide a negative test result before they can enter venues.\n\nAsked whether the Scottish government would consider this measure, Mr Yousaf said they \"wouldn't completely discount it\", but were initially put off by people being able to give fake test results.\n\nHe said: \"The reason we haven't started in that place is because there can be some flaws with unsupervised [lateral flow tests] - people can falsify an unsupervised LFD.\n\n\"Therefore we think that the most robust system to have in place to launch with is a scheme that involves showing you are fully vaccinated. That will be part of the considerations we make in the three-weekly review cycle.\"\n\nPublic health expert Jillian Evans, of NHS Grampian, said Scotland was likely to have to live with the measure until the vaccination uptake was much higher, especially in younger people.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"I think although it was announced as being the secondary purpose behind the vaccine passport, getting people vaccinated, I wonder if it was the primary reason.\n\n\"Scotland's vaccination uptake has been increasing since August, it's really caught up with other UK countries, in fact Scotland and Wales have the highest rates of double dose vaccination uptake in the UK.\"\n\nMs Evans added that Scotland could not live with its current Covid rates and that she was \"really worried\" about how the NHS would cope over the winter period\n\nShe said: \"We know also, in my own area in particular, the number of people admitted to hospital with symptoms is still increasing. That's counter to fallen case rates which suggests that we're not detecting as many people out there - we may be underestimating the number of people with the virus.\"\n\nProblems were reported with the NHS Scotland Covid Status app after it was made available to download on Apple and Android devices on 30 September.\n\nThe Scottish government has insisted technical issues linking the app to the NHS system have since been ironed out.\n\nThe app allows people to register, using their passport or driving licence to verify their identity, and then creates a QR code for each vaccination.\n\nIt is similar to schemes used in other countries across Europe.\n\nScottish Labour's health spokesperson Jackie Baillie described the government's launch of the app as a \"shambles\".\n\nShe said: \"If we want to control the virus we must look at proper resourcing of our test and protect system which has collapsed in recent weeks.\n\n\"If we want to drive up vaccination we should be going door-to-door to convince those we know are hesitant and making it easier to just walk in for an appointment.\n\n\"Instead, the government is doubling down on this mess.\"\n\nElsewhere in the UK, Wales plans to introduce its own Covid passport rules later this month but England has scrapped similar plans.\n\nNorthern Ireland has yet to announce a formal vaccination passport scheme.", "People in Leigh-on Sea have been remembering Sir David\n\nThe family of MP Sir David Amess have said their hearts are shattered as they called on people to \"set aside hatred and work towards togetherness\".\n\nThe Conservative MP was stabbed multiple times during a meeting with his constituents in Essex on Friday.\n\nA 25-year-old British man is being held under the Terrorism Act.\n\nIn a statement, his family said they were trying to understand \"why this awful thing has occurred... nobody should die in that way. Nobody\".\n\nSir David, 69, was married with four daughters and a son.\n\nThe family said the \"wonderful\" tributes paid to him by friends, constituents and the public had given them strength.\n\n\"We have realised from tributes paid that there was far, far more to David than even we, those closest to him, knew,\" they added.\n\n\"We are enormously proud of him. Our hearts are shattered.\"\n\nOn Monday afternoon, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will lead MPs in paying tribute to their late colleague in the House of Commons.\n\nPoliticians will have at least two hours from 15:30 BST to share their memories of Sir David, after prayers and a minute's silence. The tributes will be followed by a service at St Margaret's Church, next to Parliament.\n\nA Conservative MP since 1983 - first in Basildon and, from 1997, in Southend West - he was a champion for the town he represented, particularly in his long-running campaign to make Southend a city.\n\nHis family have asked people to support campaigns that he was involved in, including fundraising for a memorial to Dame Vera Lynn, who he thought \"epitomised the strength of the nation\" - and to help Southend gain city status.\n\nThey described Sir David as strong and courageous, a patriot and a man of peace.\n\n\"We ask people to set aside their differences and show kindness and love to all. Please let some good come from this tragedy.\n\n\"We are absolutely broken, but we will survive and carry on for the sake of a wonderful and inspiring man.\"\n\nRaised as a Roman Catholic, Sir David was known politically as a social conservative and a prominent campaigner against abortion.\n\nHe was also a committed campaigner on animal welfare issues, and supported a ban on fox hunting.\n\nDavid and his wife Julia, pictured in 1990, with three of their five children\n\nTributes to Sir David have been pouring in from politicians and constituents, with Home Secretary Priti Patel saying his \"infectious personality\" meant he \"touched so many lives\".\n\nOver the weekend, people gathered for candlelit vigils in Leigh-on-Sea to mark Sir David's life and attended a church service to share their memories of him.\n\nMany constituents have reflected on his gentle nature and willingness to listen and to help.\n\nA police search at a house in north London is thought to be linked to the inquiry\n\nDetectives are continuing to hold the 25-year-old man at a London police station and have until Friday to question him.\n\nWhitehall officials confirmed the man's name as Ali Harbi Ali, and said he was a British man of Somali heritage.\n\nThe BBC understands he was referred to the counter-terrorist Prevent scheme some years ago, but was never a formal subject of interest to MI5.\n\nIt also understands that his father, Harbi Ali Kullane, who was previously an adviser to Somalia's prime minister, has been visited by police who have taken his phone for analysis.\n\nPolice officers have spent the weekend searching three addresses in London.\n\nIt is thought a converted Victorian property in Lady Somerset Road in north-west London is linked to the investigation. Neighbours said officers started searching it late on Friday night.\n\nFurther searches, also believed to be part of the inquiry, have been taking place at a property in Bounds Green Road, north London, and another in Cranmer Road, Croydon, south London.", "Emiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson (right)\n\nThe family of missing footballer Emiliano Sala are \"struggling with very, very few answers about an unexplained loss\", a spokesman said.\n\nCardiff City's signing was on a flight with pilot David Ibbotson, which disappeared over the English Channel.\n\nAn official search was called off on Thursday with Guernsey's harbourmaster saying the chance of them being alive was \"extremely remote\".\n\nHowever, £280,000 has been raised for a private search to continue.\n\nAfter Argentine Sala's disappearance last Monday, his sister Romina travelled to Cardiff, before she arrived on Guernsey on Sunday with their mother, Mercedes.\n\n\"This is a family that has come from Argentina with this huge shock out of nowhere and is struggling with very, very few answers about an unexplained loss,\" family spokesman David Mearns said.\n\nSala's mother, Mercedes, has arrived at Guernsey airport after flying from Bristol\n\nHe added the family \"still have some hope\", saying: \"They're looking at this as a missing person, a missing plane and until they are satisfied that's the mode that we are in.\"\n\nMr Mearns is leading the private search, which he said would entail \"more investigative technical searches underwater\" at some point.\n\nHe said the family had travelled to Guernsey to be near where the plane was last located and to find out about the investigation and what happens next.\n\nThey thanked donors for their \"exceptional generosity\" after £280,000 was raised to pay for a private search.\n\nRomina Sala says her family believes both Emiliano and the pilot are alive\n\nTwo boats hired using the money resumed looking on Saturday.\n\nMr Mearns said Guernsey authorities were answering all the family's questions about their investigations.\n\n\"But as you know locally the search was terminated on Thursday and that was what triggered this private search,\" he said.\n\n\"Today, even as an expert my frame of thinking is alongside with the family's.\n\n\"That's what I'm trying to do. But we're trying to give them the best advice that we possibly can. You have to appreciate they don't know the environment, they don't know the geography.\"\n\nTributes have been left outside the Cardiff City Stadium\n\nSala signed for Cardiff City for £15m and he was travelling to the Welsh capital from Nantes, where he had previous played.\n\nHigh-profile donors to the GoFundMe page include France and PSG forward Kylian Mbappe, former West Ham midfielder Dimitri Payet and Leicester City winger Demarai Gray.\n\nMore than 4,000 people have donated to the page.\n\nThe initial target of 150,000 euros (£130,000) was met within 24 hours and two private search vessels began to scour the sea again on Saturday.\n\nIn a message from the family published on the fundraising website, they said the tragedy goes \"far beyond football\" and the money would be used \"exclusively for research\".\n\nA decision was made by authorities to stop looking for the Piper Malibu plane carrying the Argentine and Mr Ibbotson, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, on Thursday after three days of searching land and sea around the islands of Guernsey and Alderney.\n\nThree planes and five helicopters racked up 80 hours combined flying time looking for the aircraft, alongside two lifeboats and passing ships.\n\nThe fund was set up on Friday by Paris-based sports agency Sport Cover, which lists Sala as one of its clients.\n\nGuernsey harbourmaster David Barker said on Thursday the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nEmiliano Sala was on board a plane bound for Cardiff from Nantes when it disappeared", "Goto Energy has become the latest UK energy firm to cease trading amid a sharp rise in wholesale gas prices.\n\nThe firm supplied gas and electricity to around 22,000 domestic customers who will now be moved to a new supplier.\n\nIt joins a number of small firms that have gone bust following a global spike in gas prices.\n\nEnergy regulator Ofgem will now find a new supplier for households, who are asked to do nothing until the transfer takes place in the coming weeks.\n\nGoto Energy's collapse takes the number of customers affected by the current wave of UK energy company failures to more than two million.\n\nOfgem said that the unprecedented increase in global gas prices - which have risen 250% since the start of the year - was putting financial pressure on suppliers.\n\n\"Ofgem's number one priority is to protect customers,\" said Neil Lawrence, director of retail at Ofgem.\n\n\"I want to reassure affected customers that they do not need to worry: under our safety net we'll make sure your energy supplies continue.\"\n\nMr Lawrence added that if customers have credit, the funds are protected, so customers will not lose the money that is owed to them.\n\n\"Goto Energy is now the 16th provider to exit the market since the beginning of 2021,\" said Justina Miltienyte, energy policy expert at Uswitch.com.\n\nShe said it was important that Goto Energy customers did not do anything until they were moved to a new supplier, as trying to switch providers could create administrative delays in getting their credit balance returned.\n\n\"They should make a note of their meter readings now, and again when contacted by their new supplier, to ensure their bills are accurate.\"\n\nLast week, Pure Planet, which was backed by oil giant BP, and Colorado Energy joined the growing list of small energy firms that have gone bust recently.\n\nPure Planet said it had been caught between rising costs and the UK's energy price cap, which limits what companies can charge consumers.\n\nThis had left its business \"unsustainable\", it said.\n\nNine suppliers collapsed in September, but business and energy minister Kwasi Kwarteng ruled out supporting struggling energy firms, although he warned more companies could collapse.\n\nThe regulator's price cap, which covers 15 million households across England, Wales and Scotland, protects customers on default tariffs by limiting charges including how much customers pay per unit of energy.\n\nBut providers say they cannot pass on rising wholesale gas prices to customers because of the cap.\n\nSuppliers that have recently gone bust include Avro Energy, People's Energy and Green Supplier Limited.\n\nRising prices have had reverberations throughout the supply chain.\n\nLast week, gas shipping firm CNG wrote to its energy supplier customers saying that it would no longer supply the wholesale market.", "Mark Zuckerberg has been a leading voice on the metaverse\n\nFacebook is planning to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to develop a so-called metaverse.\n\nA metaverse is an online world where people can game, work and communicate in a virtual environment, often using VR headsets.\n\nFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been a leading voice on the concept.\n\nThe announcement comes as Facebook deals with the fallout of a damaging scandal and faces increased calls for regulation to curb its influence.\n\n\"The metaverse has the potential to help unlock access to new creative, social, and economic opportunities. And Europeans will be shaping it right from the start,\" Facebook said in a blog post.\n\nThe new jobs being created over the next five years will include \"highly specialised engineers\".\n\nInvesting in the EU offered many advantages, including access to a large consumer market, first-class universities and high-quality talent, Facebook said.\n\nFacebook has made building the metaverse one of its big priorities.\n\nDespite its history of buying up rivals, Facebook claims the metaverse \"won't be built overnight by a single company\" and has promised to collaborate.\n\nIt recently invested $50m (£36.3m) in funding non-profit groups to help \"build the metaverse responsibly\".\n\nBut it thinks the true metaverse idea will take another 10 to 15 years.\n\nSome critics say this latest announcement is designed to re-establish the company's reputation and divert attention, after a series of damaging scandals in recent months.\n\nThis included revelations from whistleblower Frances Haugen, who worked as a product manager on the civic integrity team at Facebook.\n\nInternal research by Facebook found that Instagram, which it owns, was affecting the mental health of teenagers. But Facebook did not share its findings when they suggested that the platform was a \"toxic\" place for many youngsters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Frances Haugen: \"If Facebook change the algorithm to be safer... they'll make less money\"\n• None Apparently, it's the next big thing. What is the metaverse?", "Sir David Amess was attacked during a meeting with his constituents\n\nMPs in Northern Ireland have been contacted by the Police Service of Northern Ireland's chief constable following the killing of Sir David Amess.\n\nThe Conservative MP died after being stabbed at his constituency surgery in Essex.\n\nHis death has raised fresh concerns over the safety of politicians.\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said Simon Byrne had contacted MPs to discuss their security.\n\nMeanwhile police confirmed they were contacted after a group of anti-vaccine protestors turned up at Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon's constituency office, as first reported by the Sunday Independent.\n\nThe SDLP deputy leader told BBC News NI her staff were \"harassed and intimidated\".\n\nActing ACC Melanie Jones said the contacting of MPs by officers was part of Operation Bridger, which was set up after the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox in 2016.\n\nIt was designed to give MPs access to extra security for their homes and offices, but there is now likely to be a push to ensure all forces are fully on board with it.\n\n\"We are in the process of contacting our local assembly members and will continue to support them by providing crime prevention and personal security advice on an ongoing basis,\" she said.\n\n\"We encourage all our elected representatives to immediately report any security concerns to police in order to keep themselves, their staff and members of the public attending surgeries safe.\"\n\nMrs Long said she understood councillors would also be contacted.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Northern Ireland's Sunday Politics programme, the Alliance Party leader said there was a \"tension\" as politicians sought to strike a balance between security and accessibility to their constituents.\n\n\"As elected representatives we want to be approachable and I think it is very difficult to balance that against trying to protect yourself, your staff and other people,\" she said.\n\nNaomi Long said it was \"abhorrent\" that politicians were being intimidated\n\nEast Belfast MP Gavin Robinson told Sunday Politics he and other colleagues had been contacted on Saturday about their security by a number of senior police officers.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician said there was an \"incredible tension\" for politicians who needed to maintain relationships with their constituents by being in public while maintaining their security.\n\n\"As an MP you can't confine yourself,\" he said.\n\n\"There is nothing that can reach full security and to try to get to that point erects a huge barrier between you and your constituents.\"\n\nHe is being held under the Terrorism Act and officers have until Friday to question him.", "Paula and Dave Knight said they thought it was a joke when they received the fine\n\nA couple were sent a fine for driving in a bus lane when a camera mistook a word on a woman's clothing for their number plate.\n\nDave and Paula Knight, from Surrey, received the fine for driving in a bus lane in Bath despite not being in the city at the time.\n\nA camera had registered the word 'knitter' on a pedestrian's clothing as Mr Knight's number plate KN19 TER.\n\n\"We thought one of our friends was stitching us up,\" said Mrs Knight.\n\nBath and North East Somerset Council (BANES) confirmed the fine had been cancelled.\n\nMrs Knight bought her husband the personalised number plate, which is meant to read as his nickname 'Knighter', for his birthday\n\nMr Knight said they planned to frame the notice and put it on the mantelpiece.\n\n\"I was looking for my vehicle in it [the picture] and thinking to myself have I been to Bath?\n\n\"The poor lady walking down the bus lane has got a top on very similar to my number plate but her handbag is blocking one of the letters out so it assumed it was my number plate,\" he said.\n\nMrs Knight said she thought it was a joke but when none of their friends came forward, they contacted the council.\n\n\"When we looked at the photo it was of a lady with 'knitter' on her sweatshirt and KN19 TER is my husband's number plate.\n\n\"I think it's bizarre and very funny, this poor lady has been changed over into a vehicle rather than a person overnight, \" she said.\n\nMrs Knight said when she contacted the council, they initially told her the fine would need to be paid but when the staff member looked at the image she \"burst out laughing\".\n\nThe automated bus lane camera in Bath mistakenly registered the word knitter on the woman's sweatshirt as Mr Knight's number plate\n\n\"I'm a bit worried about going to Bath again now. I don't know if we'll take the van, we might take the train,\" she added.\n\nBANES cabinet member for transport Manda Rigby said she was pleased that Mr and Mrs Knight had seen the funny side and that it had given the team \"a few giggles\".\n\n\"The camera picked up the logo and thought it was a number plate. It doesn't happen often and when we went back to look the fine was cancelled immediately.\n\n\"It did give us a smile particularly because Mr and Mrs Knight took it so well,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A third party has been appointed by the council to clear the worst of the rubbish\n\nA last-ditch deal could bring an end to Brighton's bin strike, a union has said.\n\nGMB and council officials spent most of Sunday thrashing out a new agreement amid the increasingly bitter row over bin lorry drivers' pay.\n\nIf members approve the deal, 30 days of industrial action due to launch on Thursday would be cancelled.\n\nAs both sides met, private firms were called in to tackle piles of street rubbish dumped in the past fortnight.\n\nGary Palmer, GMB organiser, said the agreement between Brighton & Hove City Council and the union could take effect from Tuesday if it is signed off.\n\n\"If the agreement is passed by both parties, GMB will immediately suspend 30 days of strike action due to start on October 21.\"\n\nMountains of waste have accumulated around the city for almost two weeks amid attempts to end the dispute.\n\nBrighton & Hove City Council said it had only called in third parties as blocked pavements and vermin became a \"growing and serious\" health issue.\n\nIt said fires had been started in some communal bins over recent days, and pedestrians were increasingly at risk as more waste was dumped on pavements.\n\nThe council said the rubbish was now a serious health and safety issue\n\nThe Green-led authority met union officials as both sides attempted to agree a formal resolution in the row over changes to driver rounds and pay.\n\nA spokesperson said the council respected the decision by some of its Cityclean staff to strike, and it was \"keen to address the issues raised\" in order to \"get the city clean as soon as possible\".\n\nThe council said it was putting forward a \"significant and generous pay offer, benefiting some of the lowest paid staff across the whole council, as well as the Cityclean service\".\n\nGMB organiser Mr Palmer had previously said Sunday's talks could usher in the start of city-wide rubbish clearance.\n\nA planned break in the strike is due to take place between Monday and Wednesday, allowing some rubbish to be collected.\n\nRubbish continues to pile up around Brighton as the strike enters its 13th day\n\nMeanwhile, GMB General Secretary Gary Smith has called for a Brighton City Councillor to be sacked for comparing striking workers to terrorists.\n\nIn a meeting last week, Conservative councillor Joe Miller said: \"I hate to refer to Maggie Thatcher, but this is a similar situation - you can't negotiate with terrorists.\"\n\nMr Smith has written to the joint chairmen of the Conservative Party - Ben Elliot and Oliver Dowden MP - calling for Councillor Miller to be removed from the party.\n\nMr Miller previously said he would not be \"bullied\" by the GMB.\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. Sir David Amess' widow Julia was accompanied by the church's Rev Clifford Newman\n\nThe family of Sir David Amess have visited the church where he was killed to see some of the many tributes left in his memory.\n\nSir David's widow, Julia, was comforted by family members as she spent about 10 minutes reading messages at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea.\n\nBoris Johnson led MPs in making tributes in the House of Commons.\n\nHe vowed Sir David's death would not \"detract from his accomplishments as a politician or as a human being\".\n\nThe Queen has agreed to award Southend city status, after a long-standing campaign by Sir David, the prime minister confirmed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parliament pays tribute to Sir David Amess, following his killing\n\nA minute's silence was held earlier and a service took place at St Margaret's Church, next to Parliament, where the Archbishop of Canterbury gave an address.\n\nSir David, 69, the Conservative MP for Southend West, had been meeting constituents when he was stabbed multiple times on Friday. A 25-year-old British man, Ali Harbi Ali, is being held under the Terrorism Act.\n\nThe father-of-five's death has sparked an outpouring of grief, not only within his local community in Essex where he had been an MP for nearly 40 years, but from across the country.\n\nThe church where he was killed is surrounded by large piles of flowers, heart-shaped balloons and framed pictures, and people continued to lay tributes on Monday.\n\nDuring their visit, the family held each other as they read some of the messages. They later bowed their heads and formed a semi-circle around the church's minister, the Reverend Clifford Newman, who spoke to them privately.\n\nThe family described Sir David as strong and courageous, a patriot and a man of peace\n\n\"We realised from tributes paid that there was far, far more to David than even we, those closest to him, knew,\" the family have said\n\nA mural of Sir David has been painted at a skate park in Leigh-on-Sea\n\nMr Johnson said Sir David was a \"seasoned campaigner of verve and grit\" who \"never once witnessed any achievement by any resident of Southend that could not somehow be cited in his bid to secure city status for that distinguished town\".\n\nMPs spoke of their grief at losing a much-loved colleague and friend in Sir David.\n\nConservative former prime minister Theresa May said he gave an \"extraordinary\" service to his constituents.\n\n\"I suggest to anybody who wants to be a first-class constituency MP that you look at the example of David Amess,\" she said.\n\nConservative former minister Mark Francois described Sir David as his \"best and oldest friend in politics\".\n\nMr Francois added: \"Everything I ever learned about being a constituency MP I learnt from David Amess.\"\n\nLabour MP Kim Leadbeater, the sister of Jo Cox - the MP murdered by a right-wing extremist five years ago - said her thoughts were with Sir David's family.\n\n\"I do have a unique perspective on what those closest to David are going through and I want to send them my love, support and solidarity, from myself, my parents, our family, and the people of Batley and Spen,\" she said.\n\nBoris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer were among MPs and peers at a church service to honour Sir David\n\nThe service at St Margaret's Church, beside Westminster Abbey, included a reading by Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle\n\nAt the weekend, Sir David's family released a statement saying the wonderful tributes to him had given them strength, but they were still trying to understand \"why this awful thing has occurred... nobody should die in that way\".\n\n\"We are absolutely broken, but we will survive and carry on for the sake of a wonderful and inspiring man,\" they said.\n\nAli Harbi Ali is being detained at a London police station\n\nDetectives are continuing to hold Ali Harbi Ali, a British national of Somali heritage, at a London police station and have until Friday to question him.\n\nThe BBC has been told he was referred to the counter-terrorist Prevent scheme some years ago, but was never a formal subject of interest to MI5.\n\nIt is also understood that his father, Harbi Ali Kullane, who was previously an adviser to Somalia's prime minister, has been visited by police who have taken his phone for analysis.\n\nPolice officers spent the weekend searching three addresses in London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brendan Cox says public reaction to Sir David Amess' death will comfort family\n\nAhead of the formal tributes in Parliament, MPs discussed their own personal safety concerns.\n\nMany MPs have spoken of a toxic and increasingly polarised political culture where online trolling has become widespread, including personal insults and direct threats of violence.\n\nLabour's Tulip Sadiq told the BBC that all MPs, especially women, are subject to attack and that her mother feared for her doing the job.\n\nSir David's neighbouring MP in Southend, Conservative James Duddridge, said \"no-one that loves me, none of my friends, would want me to be a Member of Parliament\" but they support him because it is \"honourable\" and \"worthwhile\".\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said he had received \"three threats to life and limb\" over the past two years - but he does not want to \"allow those who attack our democracy\" to win.\n\nAnd Labour's Chris Bryant said a man had been arrested over a death threat he received at the weekend.\n\nAsked whether MPs' surgeries with constituents should take place online, Downing Street said the murder could not \"get in the way of democracy\".\n\n\"MPs may rightly be concerned about security, they've been contacted by police to discuss their activities and events so their arrangements can be reviewed,\" the No 10 spokesman said.", "Justin McLaughlin was rushed to hospital but was later pronounced dead\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of Justin McLaughlin in Glasgow.\n\nThe 14-year-old was wounded in an incident at High Street train station at about 15:45 BST on Saturday.\n\nHe was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later.\n\nPolice confirmed the 16-year-old was due to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Tuesday and that inquiries remained ongoing.\n\nA dedicated police website has been set up to collect information about the incident.\n\nJames McParland, the headmaster at St Ambrose High School in Coatbridge where Justin was a pupil, said the community was \"shocked and saddened\" by the death.\n\n\"Justin was a valued member of our community and his loss will be felt by staff and pupils alike,\" he said.\n\n\"Our prayers and thoughts are with his family and friends, and additional pastoral support will be available to young people within the school on their return on Monday morning.\"\n\nIn an online tribute, the teenager's aunt, Maggie McLaughlin, said his family were \"absolutely heartbroken\".\n\nShe said he was the \"biggest gentle giant\" with \"a smile that would take up the full world\".\n\nCoatbridge and Chryston MSP Fulton MacGregor said: \"I am deeply shocked and saddened, as we all are, by the death of Justin McLaughlin and my thoughts are with Justin's family, friends and the school community of St Ambrose High School at this tragic time.\n\n\"The community are grieving such a devastating loss of a young life with so much future ahead of him.\"\n\nNiven Rennie, director of the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit, said the murder was \"devastating\" for all involved.\n\nThe unit approaches violence as a disease to be prevented, and has worked closely with partners in the NHS, education and social work.\n\nMr Rennie told BBC Scotland such incidents not only affect the victim's family but also the families of the individuals involved and those who witnessed the incident.\n\nHe said: \"It is a tragic event and it is that ripple effect. That's why in Scotland we try and reduce that as much as we can.\n\n\"Our ultimate aim is to make Scotland the safest country in the world and there is still a lot of work ahead of us in that respect.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Mike Berry casts doubt on the conviction of David Morris for Clydach murders\n\nFresh doubts have been cast on the conviction of the man jailed for the horrific Clydach murders in 1999.\n\nDavid Morris was found guilty of murdering an entire family of four including two young girls.\n\nBut potential new witnesses, along with the views of experts, have given campaigners calling for his release fresh hope.\n\nSouth Wales Police say Morris was convicted twice at two trials after an \"extensive investigation\".\n\nRelatives of the victims say they have no doubt Morris was responsible, and say the suffering caused by the deaths still affects them.\n\nThere may be disagreement over the details, but nobody disputes that an almost unspeakable crime was committed at 9 Kelvin Road in Clydach on the night of Saturday 26 into the morning of Sunday 27 June 1999.\n\nBeginning at about midnight on the Saturday, extreme violence was unleashed on Mandy Power, her 80-year-old mother Doris and Mandy's children Katie, aged 10, and Emily, aged eight.\n\nAll four were beaten to death with a metal pole and fires were started in different parts of the house.\n\nGrandmother Doris was found murdered in her bed\n\nNeighbours called the fire service and the scene was initially dealt with as a fatal blaze before the full horror of the murders emerged.\n\nIt wasn't until August 2006 that David Morris, also known as Dai Morris, was jailed for the final, decisive time for the crimes and sentenced to life, a term that was later reduced to 32 years.\n\nIn the years between the killings and his jailing, other suspects - including serving South Wales Police officers - had been investigated and Morris was convicted and jailed only to have that sentence quashed and a fresh trial ordered. He was then found guilty by a second jury.\n\nHe has always maintained his innocence and a campaign to free him is gathering pace.\n\nNow, BBC Wales Investigates has spoken to people who were not called to give evidence at either of his trials, along with experts who were either involved in the original investigation or have studied the case extensively.\n\nWhat they said raises questions about the strength of his conviction.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe campaign to quash Morris's conviction has grown in size and volume over the years but while his family remain convinced he was not capable of the crime, his own actions at the time undermined his claims of innocence.\n\nThe investigation into the murders was given fresh impetus in 2001 when an off-duty police officer overheard a conversation about Morris having had sex with Mandy.\n\nHis name had been mentioned in the weeks immediately after the killings and he had given a statement to police but had been put on the back burner. Now he was front and centre.\n\nMorris initially withheld the fact he had been in a sexual relationship with Mandy. He also told a lie that would come back to haunt him.\n\nMorris's family have always maintained he is innocent\n\nIn police interview he was asked if a gold chain found at 9 Kelvin Road was his. He swore it wasn't. \"On the lives of my children,\" were his exact words.\n\nBut the chain was his, and when he finally admitted that it helped seal his fate.\n\nMorris says he hid his fling with Mandy from police because his then girlfriend Mandy Jewell was her best friend and it would have ended their relationship.\n\nMorris said he was afraid his then girlfriend Mandy Jewell would be furious about him having sex with Mandy Power\n\nThere were also issues with his alibi. Morris had been drinking at the New Inn on the edge of Clydach and said he had wandered the streets for hours, first towards his home then towards Swansea, before eventually getting home about 03:00 when he claimed his girlfriend Mandy Jewell let him in.\n\nMandy initially told police Morris had arrived home between 22:30 and 23:00 and she didn't let him in, but in court said she didn't know what time he came back, but that she did let him in.\n\nThe juries were also told Morris had previous convictions for violence, and at both trials - the first in 2002 and the second in 2006 - he was found guilty of all four murders.\n\nBut Morris wasn't the first suspect. The police had originally looked at two of their own.\n\nStephen Lewis, his wife Alison and his twin brother Stuart were arrested in July 2000, the married couple on suspicion of murder and Stuart on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.\n\nStephen's wife Alison Lewis, a former officer with South Wales Police, had been in a lesbian affair with Mandy, and suspicion had fallen on Stuart because of events on the night.\n\nAlison Lewis and her husband Stephen were initially suspects\n\nHe was then an Acting Inspector and was not only on duty the night of the murders but was the most senior officer to arrive at the scene.\n\nStuart stayed at 9 Kelvin Road for less than 10 minutes, failed to preserve the scene and his log book for that night went missing. He also didn't fill in his pocket book until the Monday.\n\nBut despite the initial suspicion over the trio, it was decided there was insufficient evidence linking them to the crime and they were not charged, eventually being ruled out as suspects in January 2001.\n\nThere is no DNA evidence or fingerprints linking Morris to 9 Kelvin Road, and no witnesses could place him there on the night of the murders.\n\nBut speaking for the first time, a potential witness has told the BBC they saw a man or men close to the house that night.\n\nStuart Lewis was one of the first police officers to arrive at the murder scene\n\nTaxi driver Mike claims he was driving down Vardre Road, a short walk from Kelvin Road, between 02:00 and 02:30 when he noticed two men walking along the pavement.\n\n\"What struck me was they were very, very similar,\" he said. \"Both had dark hair, cropped.\"\n\nWhen he heard about the murders the next day, he says he called the police to tell them.\n\n\"They took my details and said that person dealing with it, or that team, would be in touch,\" the driver said. But nobody called him back.\n\nTwo weeks later the driver says he called police again to say not only had he seen the men but he could now identify them - as Stephen and Stuart Lewis.\n\n\"When their pictures appeared in the press I realised that it was them that I'd seen that morning,\" said the man, who maintains he is \"100% convinced\" it was the Lewis brothers he saw.\n\nThe taxi driver was never called to give evidence at either trial.\n\nStephen Lewis and his wife Alison were arrested but never charged in connection with the murders\n\nOn the night of the murders, Nicola Williams was driving on Gellionnen Road in the early hours of Sunday 27 June 1999, and also thinks she saw Stephen Lewis near Kelvin Road around 02:30.\n\nNot only did Ms Williams pick Stephen out of a video identity parade, she also provided police with an e-fit. But it was never released to the public and in court the prosecution dismissed her account.\n\nHer evidence also doesn't appear to have affected the jury's decision about David Morris' guilt.\n\nThe most damaging fire in the house was started in the kitchen\n\nMs Williams says the man she saw was wearing a bomber jacket and carrying a rolled-up bundle under his arm - the same description another new potential witness has given the BBC.\n\nJohn Allen never came forward at the time of the murders, however he now claims that he saw a man in his headlights in a bomber jacket carrying a bundle as he drove down Gellionnen Road into Clydach between 04:00 and 04:30.\n\nHe says he is sharing his story now to \"get justice for the community and everybody that was involved\" and has \"no vendetta\" against the police despite his own criminal past.\n\nMorris's defence team say this sighting needs further investigation.\n\nIn a statement, Stephen Lewis told the BBC he had no part in the murders and that his alibi - that he was at home with his wife Alison - suggests that witnesses who suggested he was in Clydach the night of the killings were mistaken.\n\nAlison has always maintained that she was at home with Stephen and he was beside her in bed all night.\n\nStuart Lewis, questioned on previous occasions, said he did not see Stephen or Alison that night.\n\nMorris may have given a muddled account of his movements the night of the murders, but more than one expert thinks the official timeline undermines his conviction.\n\nMorris admits he drank eight pints at the New Inn, which witnesses say he left about 23:30. The prosecution said he also took amphetamines - something he denied.\n\nFrom the pub it's a walk of around 15 minutes to 9 Kelvin Road, and Mandy Power and her daughters are believed to have arrived home about 23:48 after they had been babysitting.\n\nUniversity lecturer and journalist Brian Thornton, one of the founders of the Crime and Justice Research Centre at the University of Winchester, has studied the Clydach murders for a decade.\n\nHe says those timings, and understanding who was killed first, are critical.\n\nThe campaign for David Morris's conviction to be overturned has gathered pace\n\n\"There are two areas that make us very confident that Doris died first,\" he said.\n\n\"First of all is the murder weapon.\"\n\nThe pole used to murder the family had traces of blood from Mandy and the two girls. However there was no blood from Doris suggesting she was killed first then later use of the bar removed traces of her.\n\n\"The second is the sequence. We know that Doris was upstairs in bed and then what the forensic scientists have worked out is that somebody has come in and for whatever reason has killed Doris in her bed.\n\n\"But in the process, the killer has smashed a light bulb which has caused at least the top floor of the house to go dark because it's been fused.\"\n\nThe metal pole used to kill the four victims\n\nBlood found on the murder weapon led one expert to conclude it was Doris who was killed first\n\nMr Thornton says the evidence indicates the killer went into the children's bedroom, removed a TV from a chair and took that chair downstairs to use it to reach the fuse box in the bathroom, fixed the lights and then waited for Mandy and the two girls to come home.\n\nThe sequence of events combined with the timeline of Morris's known movements have led Mr Thornton to conclude it's \"nearly impossible\" for him to have carried out the murders.\n\n\"He left the pub at half past 11, Mandy and the girls came back just before 12,\" he said.\n\n\"It means that he [Morris] will have had to walk to Kelvin Road, kill Doris, change the fuses - he'll have had to have done all those things.\n\n\"There simply isn't enough time to do that.\"\n\nForensic scientist Clair Galbraith was one of the first people to arrive at 9 Kelvin Road the night of the killings, and it was she who found the murder weapon.\n\nShe was one of only a handful of experts to express an opinion on who was killed first - she believes it was Doris.\n\nThe timeline of the killings is another angle Morris's defence team want to explore, as it was not something used in his defence at either trial.\n\nProfessor Mike Berry is a consultant forensic psychologist who has helped police forces in high profile killings - including the murder of Geraldine Palk in Cardiff.\n\nHe has studied the Clydach files and has raised a number of questions about the killer's behaviour and says he finds it hard to believe Morris was behind what happened afterwards.\n\nWhen all four residents of the house were dead, the killer did not flee but stayed to perform bizarre acts including taking Mandy's body to the bathroom and apparently washing it.\n\nSmall fires were started in various parts of the house, the main one in the kitchen.\n\nAlthough Emily and Katie Power were murdered, one expert says their mother was the main target\n\n\"The attack on Mandy shows that she was a target,\" said Prof Berry. \"The girls I think, to use that awful expression, were collateral.\n\n\"I think the motive for murder here is anger. The killer clearly is angry with Mandy by the amount of violence used on her.\"\n\nIf Morris had drunk a considerable amount of alcohol and taken drugs, Professor Berry doubts he would have behaved as the killer did after the murders.\n\nProf Berry concluded there were a number of people who might have carried out the murders - and he couldn't rule out David Morris as a strong contender.\n\nThe investigation into the Clydach murders was vast. Some 4,500 statements were taken and there were 4,000 exhibits.\n\nBut not all of that evidence was made available to the defence due to court orders made under Public Interest Immunity or PII.\n\nIt's a method by which the prosecution can justify the non-disclosure of material which assists the defence, and is therefore supposed to be used sparingly.\n\nBarrister and civil liberties expert Simon McKay is concerned about the use of PII in the Clydach trials.\n\nHe said there appears to be a \"significant volume of material\" which was withheld using PII and he cannot see an \"obvious reason\" to justify it.\n\n\"When one looks at the entire context of the case… then it's understandable that one walks away with serious concerns that justice has been done,\" said Mr McKay.\n\nMorris's defence team are planning to take the potential new evidence to the Criminal Cases Review Commission - the first step in getting any conviction quashed.\n\nSouth Wales Police says it acknowledges the \"significant impact\" the case continues to have on the victims' families and the wider community. It says it carried out an extensive investigation into the murders and points out Morris was convicted twice by a jury.\n\nA statement released this week on behalf of Mandy's family said the continued campaign for Morris's release was \"very upsetting\".\n\n\"Every day we live with the heartbreak of the loss of our family,\" it said.\n\n\"Katie and Emily were only 10 and eight when they were murdered they were never given the chance to grow up and have their own families, unlike Morris who has the privilege of seeing his children and grandchildren.\n\n\"We have always said we will fight for our family, but we never expected to be fighting 21 years on.\"\n\nSpeaking for the first time since the murders, Michael Power, Mandy's former husband and Katie and Emily's father, said time had not healed his pain.\n\n\"I miss my girls every day and not a day goes by that I don't think about them,\" he said.\n\n\"Both trials ended with the same verdict which we believe as a family was the right decision.\"\n\nBBC Wales Investigates The Clydach Murders: Beyond Reasonable Doubt on Thursday, 22 October at 21:00 GMT on BBC One Wales and afterwards on iPlayer\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "France's ambassador to Belarus has left the country after the Belarus government ordered him out, AFP news agency reports.\n\nAn embassy spokesperson confirmed to AFP that ambassador Nicolas de Lacoste left the country on Sunday. He had been told to leave by Monday.\n\nMr de Lacoste, who is 57, was posted to Minsk late last year.\n\nLocal media have suggested that he had failed to present his credentials to President Alexander Lukashenko.\n\nFrance, like other EU countries, has not recognised Mr Lukashenko's claim to a sixth presidential term after last August's elections amid widespread claims of voting fraud.\n\nMr de Lacoste instead met the Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei last December.\n\nIn a statement to AFP, a French embassy spokesperson said: \"The Belarusian foreign ministry demanded that the ambassador leave before October 18.\n\n\"He said goodbye to the staff of the embassy and recorded a video message to the Belarusian people, which will appear tomorrow morning on the embassy's website,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lukashenko: \"You can choke on your sanctions... you are American lapdogs\"\n\nThe EU has repeatedly said that it does not consider the August elections to have been \"free and fair\" and has imposed sanctions on Mr Lukashenko's regime.\n\nThe president launched a post-vote crackdown on dissent in Belarus after the country erupted in historic protests against his rule.\n\nHowever, despite Western sanctions, Mr Lukashenko has so far dismissed all attempts to oust him and enjoys the backing of his ally in Moscow, President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe 67-year-old leader, who has ruled Belarus since 1994, has responded by accusing European governments of having instigated the protests and has cut ties with a number of Western nations in recent months.\n\nIn March, his regime expelled the entire staff of Latvia's embassy, including its ambassador, after Latvian authorities used a Belarusian opposition flag at an ice hockey championship.\n\nIn August, Minsk revoked the appointment of the US ambassador - career diplomat Julie Fisher - who was to be the first US envoy to the ex-Soviet country since 2008.", "Cameron Norrie became the first Briton to win the Indian Wells title when he fought back from a set and a break down to beat Nikoloz Basilashvili.\n\nNorrie, 26, won 3-6 6-4 6-1 against the Georgian to seal one of the biggest titles in tennis.\n\n\"I'm so happy, I can't even describe it,\" he said on court.\n\nHis exploits in California have propelled Norrie to British number one and he is in the running to reach the elite season-ending ATP Finals.\n\nNorrie will rise to a career-high 16th in the world, having started the year ranked 74th, after a stunning season where he has reached six finals and won 47 matches.\n\nNorrie had led in the first set with an early break but was pegged back as the big-hitting Basilashvili took charge. But the Briton, whose resilience and fitness have been the hallmark of his successful year, broke to love to level and force a deciding set.\n\nThe left-hander broke early in the third and saved three break points on his serve to take a 3-0 lead as unforced errors began to mount for the Georgian world number 36, who eventually sent a forehand long on championship point to hand Norrie the biggest title of his career.\n\n\"I can't really believe it. If you'd have told me I'd have won before the tournament started I wouldn't have believed you, so it's amazing,\" said Norrie, who is the first British player to reach the final at one of the elite Masters 1,000 events since Andy Murray won in Paris in 2016.\n• None Who 'threw away' Norrie's shoes before final?\n\nNorrie's win comes just a month after compatriot Emma Raducanu's stunning US Open victory as British tennis enjoys something of a resurgence.\n\nWhile Raducanu's rise to British number one was sudden and dramatic, Norrie's path to the top has been more understated and built on consistency.\n\nOnly world number one Novak Djokovic has been in as many finals this year as Norrie, whose versatility has taken him to finals on hard, clay and grass courts.\n\nHis maiden ATP singles trophy came in July when he won the Los Cabos Open in Mexico and he has now backed that up with one of the most prestigious tour titles outside the four Grand Slams.\n\nHe has also achieved something that no other Briton has, with Murray, Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski all having reached the Indian Wells final but finishing as runners-up in California.\n\nHe is 10th in the race to qualify for next month's eight-man ATP Finals in Turin and with eighth-placed Rafael Nadal missing the rest of the season, Norrie is within touching distance of overtaking ninth-placed Hubert Hurkacz and booking a spot.\n\nHe is scheduled to compete in events in Vienna and Paris next as he seeks to gather enough points to complete what would have been considered an unlikely feat at the start of the season.\n\nThe very best of Norrie's game was on display at 5-4 in the second set when the Briton produced a delightful drop-shot and lob combination, as well as an inside out forehand volley, to set up a break to love and a total swing in momentum.\n\nAfter breaking early in the third he then had to fend off three break points to go 3-0 up and he then never looked back as Basilashvili came back from a bathroom break to put in a poor service game that left Norrie serving for the match.\n\nThe Briton needed only one of his two championship points to secure the win as the errors kept coming off Basilashvili's racquet.\n\n\"For a stage he went through and hit so many winners. It was tough for me to get some confidence. The rallies were really short and he was just blasting winners,\" said Norrie,\n\n\"When I made a couple of big shots in the 5-4 game in the second set it gave me a lot of confidence, and I was able to find my feet again, start moving again, and make the rallies physical like I've been doing all tournament and it worked in my favour.\"\n\nNorrie, whose only struggle of the day was when he was trying to lift the heavy glass trophy, dedicated his victory to his parents.\n\nBorn in South Africa, Norrie has a Scottish dad and Welsh mum, and was brought up in New Zealand before playing college tennis in the United States.\n\nWhile many of his peers took the more conventional route from junior tennis to the professional Futures circuit, Norrie chose to combine his sport with studying for a sociology degree, in order to have a more \"normal life\".\n\nBasilashvili is known for his ferocious power, and Norrie was in danger of being overwhelmed when he dropped serve early in the second set.\n\nBut the 26-year-old knuckled down, broke to win the set with some attacking brilliance and then drove the Georgian to distraction with some breathtaking defence in the decider.\n\nAll the more impressive when you learn the shoes he had left on top of his locker disappeared overnight, leaving him to break in a new pair in the biggest match of his life.\n\nThe greatest triumph of Norrie's career leaves him within 160 points of the man currently in the final qualifying spot for the ATP Finals.\n\nIt is a lot to ask him to continue in the same vein after switching continents, and with no time for rest, but he is entered in tournaments in Vienna, Paris and Stockholm before the season is out.\n• None Listen to a revealing conversation with one of cricket's defining voices\n• None The best of the Bond villains:", "More MPs have opened up about their own personal safety following the death of their colleague, Sir David Amess, who was stabbed multiple times during a meeting with his constituents in Essex on Friday.\n\nMany have spoken of a toxic and increasingly polarised political culture where online trolling has become widespread, ranging from personal insults at one end of the spectrum to direct threats of violence and even death at the other.\n\nLabour MP, Tulip Siddiq, told BBC Breakfast all MPs, especially women, are subject to attack and that her mother feared for her doing the job.\n\nSeveral too have spoken of concerns about the safety of their staff and their families amid calls for security measures to be stepped up, particularly while MPs are in their constituencies meeting voters.\n\nLabour MP Tulip Siddiq has told the BBC her mother feared for her safety.\n\nMs Siddiq said the threats and abuse she gets \"range from very trivial things\" such as commenting on her appearance, her height and her name to \"more sinister\" threats such as advocating violence against her or her family.\n\nShe said being an MP had had a \"constant effect\" on her family for years, especially her parents.\n\nShe recalled the murder of the former Labour MP, Jo Cox, in 2016 and said her own mother called her immediately on hearing an MP had been attacked \"because her first thought was it must have been me\".\n\nShe added: \"It is just this constant effect on her of hearing there has been abuse directed at us, that we're getting death threats, that all of us MPs are constantly racially abused, whether you're from a Jewish faith or have a Muslim last name.\n\n\"Whatever it is, people will pick on you.\n\n\"These keyboard warriors, at some point you do think I just need to ignore them and get on with my job.\n\n\"You do start to develop very thick skin but maybe that's the wrong way to go about it.\"\n\nJames Duddridge attending the vigil for Sir David Amess - their constituencies neighbour each other.\n\nSir David's neighbouring MP in Southend, Conservative James Duddridge, told Radio 4's Today programme about the fears his family and friends live with.\n\n\"No-one that loves me, none of my friends would want me to be a Member of Parliament.\n\n\"The only reason they support it is because they know that that's what I believe is an honourable thing to do, a worthwhile thing to do, something I'd always wanted to do, something that I have enjoyed. \"\n\nLabour MP, Chris Bryant said he received a death threat this weekend after calling for people to be kinder following Sir David's death.\n\nHe said Parliament has been \"turned into a bit of a fortress\" in recent years, but he believed MPs are most vulnerable in their constituencies when they hold surgeries and meeting voters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour MP Chris Bryant says he has been subject to numerous threats in recent years\n\nHe said one of the best things about the British political system is that MPs are \"very accessible\" but \"over the last few years, there has been a terrible ratcheting up of nastiness\".\n\nMr Bryant said he questions \"all the time\" why he does the job but his concerns are \"not just about me\".\n\n\"It's about my staff and it's about my family as well.\"\n\nHe said he went in to politics because he cares about poverty, climate change, human rights and the growing use of food banks.\n\n\"I'm passionate about wanting to change the world and no-one is going to stop me,\" he added.\n\nJustice Secretary Dominic Raab said: \"Although it is shocking and it is heart-wrenching, this is not entirely out of the blue\" because \"everyone has had this experience of intensifying abuse and that tipping in to threats\".\n\nHe said he has had \"three threats to life or limb that have required an intervention in the last two years\".\n\nMr Raab said that while every step must be taken to make sure MPs, especially female politicians, can do their jobs, \"we don't want the terrorists to win, we do not want this wedge placed between us and our communities\".\n\nAnd he said he will continue to have face-to-face surgeries rather than moving all his meetings online.\n\nDowning Street has said that it will be \"down to individual MPs and the police\" whether MPs should continue to meet constituents face to face.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said MPs may \"rightly\" be concerned about their security following the killing of Sir David.\n\nThe spokesman said MPs \"have been contacted by the police to discuss their activities and events so their arrangements can be reviewed.\"\n\nLabour's Jess Phillips said while security advice is welcome, she individually has to \"make the decision about how close I am to my constituents\".\n\n\"Often the best security advice in the world is quite hard to follow when you're in your home town, not just because I want to be a good representative but because I live there\", she said.\n\nShe added that MPs need to \"demystify what politics is\" because \"people don't consider people like me to be frontline workers but that's exactly what we are\".\n\nShadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds told BBC Breakfast he too had received death threats due to his job.\n\n\"I've had incidents since I've become a Member of Parliament, whether it's intimidation while out on the streets, death threats, terrible letters, awful emails.\n\n\"I am in no sense alone in that.\n\n\"I don't know a Member of Parliament who has not suffered in that way.\n\n\"It's clear that something now has to change.\"\n\nDame Eleanor Laing says MPs are \"vilified\" in the media\n\nDeputy Speaker Dame Eleanor Laing told Radio 4's Today it was a \"pity\" the media does not say nice things about MPs when they are still doing their jobs.\n\nShe said: \"It can be deeply upsetting when you know that MPs and ministers are working hard to solve some problem or other and when the matter is discussed in the media, MPs are vilified, ministers are spoken to very harshly and it does help to create a culture of aggression.\n\n\"Why can't we just try to have a culture of kindness?\" she added.", "Olivia has been the most popular baby name for girls since 2015, pictured, actress Olivia Wilde\n\nBabies born to women under 35 were more likely to be given short, modern names last year compared to older mothers.\n\nOfficial birth data in England and Wales for 2020 showed Olivia and Oliver were still the most popular baby names overall - for the fifth year running.\n\nNew entries into the top 10 included Ivy, Rosie and Archie. Oliver was particularly popular in the North East.\n\nThe largest movers into the top 100 boys' names were Milo (80th) and Otis (96th) and the girls' was Maeve (94th).\n\nData from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed 4,225 baby boys were named Oliver in 2020, down from 4,932 the previous year, while a total of 3,640 newborn girls were named Olivia, down from 4,082.\n\nOlivia and Oliver have been the most popular names in England and Wales since 2015.\n\nThe name of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's son, Archie, moved up the boys' list from 19th to ninth, with 2,944 babies named Archie in 2020, up from 2,544 in 2019. It is the first time Archie has made the top 10.\n\nIt is also the first time Charlie has not been in the top 10 since 2005, slipping to 12th place with a total of 2,810 babies named Charlie in 2020, down from 3,355 in 2019.\n\nSince 2010, Ivy has risen 221 places to become the sixth most popular name for girls in England and Wales in 2020.\n\nArthur and Noah have seen an increase in popularity over the last two decades, both rising more than 200 places in the ranks to the boys' top five in 2019 and 2017 respectively.\n\nIn 2020, the largest movers into the top 100 boys' names were Milo (80th) and Otis (96th), both rising 28 places since 2019.\n\nMaeve has risen 124 places since 2019 and was the largest new entry into the top 100 girls' names (94th).\n\nMuhammad was top in four regions of England and Arthur in three regions.\n\nIn Wales, Noah was the top boys' name but only the fourth most popular name in England and Wales combined.\n\nThe name Archie moved up the boys' list from 19th to ninth\n\nSiân Bradford, from the ONS, said popular culture and celebrities continued to provide inspiration for many parents.\n\n\"Maeve and Otis, characters from the popular programme Sex Education, have seen a surge in popularity in 2020,\" she said.\n\n\"While the name Margot has been rapidly climbing since actress Margot Robbie appeared in the popular film The Wolf of Wall Street.\"\n\nShe added: \" We continue to see the age of mothers having an impact on the choice of baby name.\"\n\nExplaining why it uses mothers' data to glean the most popular baby names, an ONS spokeswoman said: \"To get a complete statistical picture for our baby names analysis, we rely on a mother's data, because information relating to mothers should appear on every birth registration.\"\n\nIn 2019, pop star Dua Lipa and Star Wars' Kylo Ren were among the influences on parents for the choice of baby names.\n• None Dua Lipa sets New Rules on most popular baby names\n• None Baby names in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dennis Hutchings, 80, denied attempting to murder and cause grievous bodily harm to John Pat Cunningham\n\nAn ex-soldier has died while on trial over a fatal shooting during Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nDennis Hutchings, 80, denied attempting to murder and cause grievous bodily harm to John Pat Cunningham.\n\nMr Cunningham, 27, was shot in the back as he ran from an Army patrol near Benburb, County Tyrone, in 1974.\n\nMr Hutchings' trial was adjourned for three weeks due to illness and the court heard on Monday that he had tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe non-jury trial had been sitting at Belfast Crown Court for three days a week to allow Mr Hutchings, who had been suffering from kidney disease, to receive dialysis treatment.\n\nMr Hutchings, from Cawsand in Cornwall, was an ex-member of the Life Guards regiment.\n\nHe also suffered from heart failure and fluid on the lung. He died in the Mater Hospital in Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nHis death was confirmed by an Army veterans' group on behalf of his family.\n\nDennis Hutchings' supporters had made an issue of his age and ill-health during a long campaign against his prosecution.\n\nLegal attempts to have his case thrown out failed before it reached trial stage.\n\nHis death will very likely reopen arguments around legacy prosecutions.\n\nThe government is proposing to end all future investigations and court cases related to Troubles incidents prior to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.\n\nPart of its reasoning is to protect veterans.\n\nThis development leaves just one other veteran facing trial, David Holden, who is accused of the manslaughter of Aidan McAnespie in 1988.\n\nAll other recent cases involving former soldiers have collapsed.\n\nUnionist politicians have criticised the decision to prosecute Mr Hutchings.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said there were \"serious questions around those who made the decision that Dennis should stand trial once more\".\n\n\"Whilst understanding the desire of the Cunningham family for justice, we have consistently challenged those in legal authority who insisted that Dennis stand trial again.\n\n\"He was an 80-year-old veteran, in ill-health on dialysis and there was a lack of compelling new evidence.\n\n\"This is a sad indictment on those who want to rewrite history, but also demands serious questions of the Public Prosecution Service about how this trial was deemed to be in the public interest.\"\n\nJohn Pat Cunningham was 27 at the time of his death but had a mental age of between six and 10\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie said the decision by the Public Prosecution Service to proceed with a trial given Mr Hutchings' ill-health demanded an independent review.\n\n\"The questions must be asked, did this trial hasten Mr Hutchings' death and did it meet the evidential and public interest tests?\" he said.\n\n\"Regrettably that will be too late for the Hutchings family and will be of little comfort to them at this time.\"\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister said the \"needless dragging of an 80-year-old soldier through the courts has had a very sad end\".\n\n\"The strain on this man was cruel, with him requiring regular dialysis, while being brought to Belfast to face a trial of dubious provenance,\" he said.\n\nThe Sinn Féin MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone Michelle Gildernew said she was aware of a grieving family following the death of Mr Hutchings, but the Cunningham family also continued to grieve.\n\n\"Let's remember that grief knows no bounds,\" she tweeted.\n\nMr Hutchings had previously lost a Supreme Court challenge to have a trial before a jury.\n\nIn July, the UK government confirmed plans to bring forward legislation to ban all prosecutions related to the Troubles.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the legacy proposals would allow Northern Ireland to \"draw a line under the Troubles\".\n\nThe plans, which are opposed by NI political parties and victims organisations, include an end to all legacy inquests and civil actions related to the conflict.", "Online retail giant Amazon is to offer one-off payments of up to £3,000 in order to attract staff in UK regions where there is high demand for labour.\n\nThe online retailer is hiring for 20,000 positions across its UK network during the festive season.\n\nFears over worker shortages have already prompted other firms to warn of problems in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nAmazon began offering a £1,000 signing-on bonus to recruit permanent staff in some regions in August.\n\nAs first reported in the Guardian, the company's latest recruitment drive has included a £3,000 bonus for full-time workers at sites such as its Exeter warehouse, while in Peterborough, new temporary and permanent workers are offered a sign-up bonus of £1,500.\n\nPay for the temporary roles starts at a minimum of £10 per hour, rising to £11.10 in some parts of the UK.\n\nOver the past few months, the shortage of workers in a range of sectors has led to delivery delays and waste.\n\nAccording to the latest official figures, the number of job vacancies hit 1.1 million between July and September - the highest level since records began in 2001.\n\nThe largest increase in vacancies was in the retail sector and for motor mechanics, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nFashion chain Next and supermarket Iceland are among firms warning of potential pre-Christmas disruption because of staff shortages.\n\nSome overseas workers have left the UK during the pandemic and also following Brexit. The furlough scheme, which ends this month, has also kept some workers out of the jobs market.\n\nAndrew Goodacre, chief executive of the British Independent Retailers Association, said he was \"concerned by the level of wage inflation and bonus payments being instigated by large companies such as Amazon\".\n\nMr Goodacre explained that finding seasonal workers was \"proving difficult\" at the \"most important time of the year\" for many small businesses.\n\n\"This kind of action from Amazon will make it harder still for smaller companies who simply cannot afford such wages.\"\n\nMick Rix, national officer for the trade union GMB, said: \"Amazon has been a pandemic profiteer - raking in astronomical sums during the Covid crisis.\n\n\"It is only right that they listen to the union representatives of their workforce and ensure that Amazon workers share in the vast profits that the company are making.\"\n\nIn September, the firm announced it had paid £492m in direct taxation last year as its sales rose 50% to £20.63bn amid a Covid-driven surge in demand.\n\nIn the past Amazon has faced accusations of poor working conditions both in the UK and the US, where it is the country's second largest employer.\n\nSpeaking of the new bonuses, one warehouse worker who has worked at an Amazon site for several years told BBC News: \"It wouldn't be the first time the incentives have been offered.\n\n\"It leaves workers who have been there for years feeling rather undervalued and underappreciated, as they are training people who are making more money than them, which definitely ticks off the longer term employees.\"\n\nIn March, the Unite union launched a whistleblowing hotline for Amazon workers in the UK. It also called for Amazon to allow British workers to unionise and to have a greater share of the firm's profits.", "Last updated on .From the section Newcastle\n\nA doctor has described the moment he went to the aid of an elderly Newcastle fan who collapsed near him during Sunday's Premier League match against Tottenham at St James' Park.\n\nThe match was halted in the first half as supporters administered CPR to a man who had suffered cardiac arrest, and a defibrillator was also used.\n\nThe man was later said to be \"stable and responsive\" in hospital.\n\n\"It all happened so quickly,\" Dr Tom Prichard told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"I was sat in the Gallowgate End and I could see that there was something going on. Fans were calling over stewards and first-aiders and there was a lady doing CPR on someone.\n\n\"As an A&E doctor I went to offer a hand to see how I could help.\"\n• None Listen: The Sports Desk podcast - What can sport learn from Christian Eriksen's cardiac arrest?\n\nDr Prichard works at the University Hospital of North Tees in Stockton.\n\nHe added: \"St John's were fairly quick and took over the CPR. Another friend of mine came over to help too.\n\n\"We gave the guy a shock through the defibrillator and he was very fortunate because very quickly an intensive care doctor arrived, the cardiologist arrived, and we were able to bring him back again.\"\n\nFans in the East Stand had alerted players and officials to the incident in the 40th minute.\n\nTottenham player Sergio Reguilon spoke to referee Andre Marriner, before team-mate Eric Dier raced to the touchline to urge medical staff to attend with a defibrillator.\n\nBoth teams left the pitch as Marriner suspended the game.\n\n\"I went into overdrive and focused purely on the matter in hand,\" said Dr Prichard, who also works for rugby league side Newcastle Thunder and part-time for Middlesbrough Academy.\n\n\"When I got back to my seat I had no idea that the game had even been stopped and we were still in the first half.\"\n\nPrichard was given a standing ovation when he returned to his seat.\n\n\"It wasn't just me. I had another doctor friend helping me out. St John's were brilliant, the Newcastle club doctor was there helping, so it really wasn't just me,\" he said.\n\n\"But what I will say is when I was walking back to my seat and 10,000 fans were chanting 'hero' at me, that was one of the best moments of my life.\"\n\nDr Prichard stressed the importance of early intervention and how such a quick response may have saved the fan's life.\n\n\"I want to stress the importance of early CPR, early chest compressions and early defibrillation,\" he said.\n\n\"That is what saved this man's life, so if anyone in the public were to see this happen to someone, chest compression and CPR is what needs to happen immediately.\"", "Klarna has over 15 million customers in the UK and was recently valued at $46.5bn\n\nBuy now, pay later firm Klarna is planning changes ahead of an expected Treasury crackdown on the UK market.\n\nThey include a \"pay now\" option, to let people pay for items in full, immediately.\n\nThe boom in the use of buy now, pay later has fuelled fears that it encourages people into debt.\n\nKlarna's boss, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, told the BBC that retailers using its service see the average value of an order increase by 40%.\n\nThe company said it wanted to \"drive up standards\" in the sector by improving the way it operates and communicates as well as introducing the choice of paying for items in full, immediately.\n\nKlarna said the \"pay now\" option and other changes it was making would give customers more clarity and control.\n\nIt also said it would perform more thorough checks on how much users could afford to borrow, and use clearer language during the checkout process to ensure customers understood they were taking on debt.\n\nThe \"pay now\" option for customers is already available in several of the 20 other countries where Klarna operates.\n\nLike other buy now, pay later services, Klarna offers shoppers the opportunity of delaying or spreading the cost of a purchase without being charged fees or interest.\n\nInstead Klarna charges retailers a small percentage of the transaction cost in exchange for providing the payment service.\n\nThe opportunity to pay in instalments appeals in particular to younger and low-income shoppers.\n\nIt allows customers to order several sizes of a clothing item, for example, in the expectation that those which do not fit will have been returned and refunded before they are charged the full amount.\n\nBut such schemes have been widely criticised for encouraging shoppers to buy more than they can afford, with charities warning it can be a \"slippery slope into debt\".\n\nCritics say customers are bombarded with messages urging them to use buy now, pay later credit without a clear enough explanation of what it involves.\n\nIn particular, buy now, pay later firms have been accused of failing to explain that customers could be referred to debt collectors and that their credit scores could be affected if they miss payments.\n\nConsumer group Which? recently found that although Klarna and other firms shared their guidelines with retailers about how their service should be presented, some retailers did not adhere to those guidelines.\n\nKlarna is the largest buy now, pay later platform but many other firms offer a similar service, including Clearpay, LayBuy and Paypal.\n\nBuy now, pay later services were used by five million people in the UK for total sales of £2.7bn in 2020. However, one in 10 people using them already had debt arrears elsewhere, a review by the Financial Conduct Authority found.\n\nThe review, led by Chris Woolard, found that three quarters of buy now, pay later users were under the age of 36 and the vast majority of transactions related to clothing purchases.\n\nThe Citizens Advice charity said it had found shoppers did not view buy now, pay later services as \"proper borrowing\" and many did not understand fully what they were signing up for.\n\nThe charity warned that four-in-10 of those who had used this type of credit in the previous 12 months were struggling to repay.\n\nKlarna's boss said he believed there was a place for this kind of affordable credit offering.\n\n\"We firmly believe that most of the time, people should pay with the money they have, but there are certain times where credit makes sense,\" Mr Siemiatkowski said.\n\n\"In those cases, our [buy now, pay later] products offer a sustainable and no-cost healthy form of credit - and a much needed alternative to high-cost credit cards.\"\n\nKlarna said it had worked with consumer group Fairer Finance to ensure its terms and conditions were \"clear, simple and easy to understand\", and that the language during the checkout process made it \"absolutely clear\" there would be \"consequences for missed payments\".\n\nIt had also improved its complaints procedure for dissatisfied customers, it said.\n\nIn February, the government announced that buy now, pay later products would be regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).\n\nThe Treasury's consultation on the sector is expected before the financial watchdog sets out its rules on regulation later.\n\nThe government said that giving the FCA oversight of firms like Klarna, Clearpay or Laybuy would mean that customers would be able to complain to the Financial Ombudsman if they were not happy with the service.", "The community has been left stunned by the events of the past few hours\n\nResidents choked back tears as they spilled on to the streets of Leigh-on Sea after the killing of their MP Sir David Amess.\n\nHe was \"so kind to everyone\" said Rofique Ali, a local Conservative Party member, who described the MP as his best friend in the world.\n\n\"I have known him for many years, and he was so kind to everyone,\" he said.\n\nChoking back tears, Rofique Ali said Sir David was kind to everyone\n\nSir David, who was meeting people at his constituency surgery, had been an MP in Essex for almost 40 years, and theirs since 1997.\n\nThe 69-year-old was stabbed multiple times in Belfairs Methodist Church.\n\nA man was arrested on suspicion of murder and a knife recovered from the scene.\n\nNews filtered through the neighbourhood that Sir David had been killed in their church and on their street. Reporters and people laying flowers have gathered on this normally quiet residential street of semi-detached houses, flats and tall trees.\n\nA police cordon surrounds the church, police cars line the road. The mood is quiet and sombre.\n\nEverybody is shocked that something so unexpected and devastating can happen here - and in a church.\n\nBut above all, they talk of an MP always willing to listen to them, to help them and to be part of their community.\n\nThat community has been left stunned by the events of the past few hours and people have come forward to pay tribute to his work as a local MP, at pains to emphasise that he was a kind man.\n\nMelanie Harris placed flowers at the scene and a card thanking Sir David for his help as her MP\n\nResident Melanie Harris left flowers at the scene. She said they were \"a small gesture to show we care\".\n\nShe also left a card that read: \"What has the world come to? What a senseless waste of a charming, witty and kind and gentle soul who deserved a lot more than to be snatched from life.\n\n\"You were always a pleasure to speak to. Thank you for restoring my faith in politicians.\"\n\nMohamad Imani said Sir David had been a great friend and ally to people in Iran\n\nMohamad Imani, who is a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a coalition of Iranian dissident groups which is calling for regime change in the country, said he was \"shocked\" by Sir David's death.\n\nMr Imani said the MP had been a \"great friend\" of the NCRI and a \"hero for human rights\".\n\nHe said he had met him several times in Parliament and travelled with him to conferences in Paris, France and Tirana, Albania.\n\n\"I have a lot of memories with him, always laughing and joking,\" he said. \"He was a very kind man and a great human.\"\n\nStephen Aylen, who was a local councillor for 25 years, said: \"He was very involved, a proper MP.\n\n\"For this to happen, what can I say?\"\n\nAlysha Codabaccus, 24, said: \"This kind of thing just doesn't happen around here. This is a nice quiet area, it happened in a church, there's a school just up the road.\n\n\"It's something completely out of the blue, it's just really shocked us all and this should not have happened.\"\n\nKevin Buck said the world had lost a decent person\n\nKevin Buck, a Conservative Southend councillor, who worked with Sir David for 10 years, said he was \"shocked and numb\".\n\n\"I just can't believe he was with us here this morning, and not here now.\n\n\"He was a remarkable MP because he was a remarkable man - kind, compassionate and caring.\"\n\n\"We are so utterly appalled,\" said parish priest Kevin Hale\n\nParish Priest Kevin Hale said the community was \"absolutely shocked and appalled\" and it was \"hard to believe\".\n\n\"Sir David was a neighbour of ours, a good friend of the parish, a frequent visitor, a familiar face in the area and a great supporter of everything in the community,\" he said.\n\n\"We're all so utterly appalled. Our hearts and our prayers go out profoundly to his wife and children.\"\n\nRay Howard, a Conservative councillor in Canvey Island for 51 years, and who canvassed for Mr Amess, spoke of his deep upset.\n\n\"He didn't want to become a minister, he didn't want to go higher, he just wanted to be good constituency man, and what a good man and parliamentarian he has been.\"\n\nReporters and people laying flowers have gathered in the normally quiet street\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Making Southend a city would be the \"perfect tribute\" to Sir David Amess, colleagues said.\n\nSir David, who represented the Southend West constituency, was stabbed as he held a regular Friday meeting with constituents in Leigh-on-Sea.\n\nHe had championed Southend's bid for city status as part of The Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel described him as Mr Southend and said his passion for the town warmed hearts.\n\n\"When David's name is mentioned going forward he will bring great cheer and smiles,\" she told The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday.\n\n\"He was Mr Southend, he was Mr Essex, he would always put Southend front and centre of his work and that was David through and through.\"\n\nAmong the many floral tributes to Sir David - a nod to his biggest passion\n\nIn December 2019, Sir David secured an adjournment debate in the Commons specifically on the campaign and he told MPs: \"I am not messing around.\n\n\"We have got it from the prime minister that Southend is going to become a city - and it will become a city.\"\n\nAfter the most recent Cabinet reshuffle in September, Sir David joked to the House that he was left disappointed not to be made \"minister with responsibility for granting city status to Southend\".\n\n\"I think it would be a very fitting tribute to Sir David, particularly as it was something he had campaigned for, for a long time,\" Conservative councillor for Southend Borough Council James Courtenay said.\n\n\"I suspect local politicians from across the political divide will actively support it.\n\n\"I wouldn't be surprised if a number of his Westminster colleagues were to do so as well, given that every time - well it felt like it anyway - he stood up in Parliament, he would ask if Southend could be made a city.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat Carole Mulroney, council member for tourism and culture, told the BBC: \"Sir David was a figurehead, he was incredibly passionate about it.\n\n\"Southend welcomes millions of people every year, it has a really successful arts festival and a huge wealth of talent. You name it - there's a club for it.\"\n\nShe said Sir David's killing was \"a true tragedy\", describing him as a \"jolly chap, very witty, above all a constituency MP who reached out to an enormous amount of people.\"\n\nSir David said at the time of the bid launch: \"Southend is unique and city status would provide long overdue recognition of what we have to offer.\n\n\"The longest pleasure pier in the world, a huge wealth of local talent in the arts and culture industries and a centre of educational excellence, are just a few of the things that make Southend special.\"\n\nSouthend is a tourist hotspot and has a thriving creative arts scene\n\nSouthend Borough Council is currently led by a coalition of Labour, Liberal Democrat and Independent councillors - while the Conservatives have the most councillors.\n\nIt became a unitary authority in 1998 and has a population of more than 183,000.\n\nChelmsford became Essex's first city in 2012 as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.\n\nJust an hour up the A12, Colchester - once the capital of Roman Britain - has just submitted its bid to become a city at the fourth attempt, as has Milton Keynes.\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.", "Colin Powell came from a humble background to become the first African-American US secretary of state.\n\nA highly decorated army officer, he saw service in Vietnam, an experience that later helped define his own military and political strategies.\n\nHe became a trusted military adviser to a number of leading US politicians. And, despite his own misgivings, he helped swing international opinion behind the 2003 invasion of Iraq.\n\nColin Luther Powell was born in Harlem, New York City, on 5 April 1937, the son of Jamaican immigrants.\n\nHis parents originally pronounced his name with a short \"o\" in the traditional English way, but he changed the pronunciation in honour of a US Army Air Corps pilot, Colin Kelly, who was killed shortly after Pearl Harbor.\n\nHe was, by his own admission, an average scholar who left high school with no positive career plans.\n\nWhile studying geology at the City College of New York, he joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), a programme designed to identify future military leaders.\n\nColin Powell was injured while serving with US forces in Vietnam\n\nPowell later described it as one of the happiest experiences of his life. \"I not only liked it,\" he said later, \"but I was pretty good at it.\"\n\nAfter graduation in 1958, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the US Army. He underwent basic training in Georgia, where his colour saw him refused service in bars and restaurants.\n\nIn 1962, he was one of thousands of advisers sent to South Vietnam by President Kennedy to bolster the local army against the threat from the communist North.\n\nDuring his tour Powell was injured by stepping on a punji stick, a sharpened wooden stake hidden in the ground and used as a booby trap.\n\nIn 1968, he returned to Vietnam, receiving a decoration for bravery after surviving a helicopter crash in which he rescued three other soldiers from the burning wreckage.\n\nPowell was a serving officer for 35 years and rose to the rank of four-star General\n\nHe was assigned to investigate a letter from a serving soldier that reinforced allegations of a massacre at My Lai in March 1968, in which US soldiers killed hundreds of civilians, including children.\n\nPowell's conclusion, that \"in direct refutation of this portrayal, relations between American soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent\", flew in the face of growing evidence of brutal treatment of civilians by US forces.\n\nHe was later accused of \"whitewashing\" the news of the massacre, details of which did not finally become public until 1970.\n\nAfter returning from Vietnam, Powell obtained an MBA at the George Washington University in Washington DC before securing a prestigious White House Fellowship under President Richard Nixon.\n\nPowell was now seen as a rising star. There was a period as a lieutenant-colonel in South Korea before a move to the Pentagon as a staff officer.\n\nSecretary of Defense Dick Cheney (left) administers the oath of office to General Colin Powell as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1989. General Powell's wife, Alma, holds the bible\n\nAfter a spell at an army college, he was promoted to brigadier-general and commanded the 101st Airborne Division before taking up an advisory role in government.\n\nHe worked for a time in the Carter administration and then became senior military aide to Caspar Weinberger, the Secretary of State for Defence appointed by the incoming president, Ronald Reagan.\n\nIn 1987, Powell became national security adviser. It was the time of US involvement in so-called \"dirty wars\" in Central America, including backing for the contras, the right-wing paramilitaries in Nicaragua.\n\nWhen George HW Bush entered office in 1989, Powell was appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest military position in the US Department of Defense.\n\nAt 52, he was the youngest officer ever to hold the post, and the first from an African-American background.\n\nColin Powell conducts a Pentagon briefing during the build up to the first Gulf War in 1991\n\nHe faced an immediate crisis when the US invaded Panama in December 1989, toppling the dictator, General Noriega, a move strongly condemned by the United Nations.\n\nThe 1990 Gulf War saw the implementation of a strategy which was dubbed The Powell Doctrine. Essentially, Powell believed that it wasn't until all diplomatic, political or economic means had failed that the US should resort to military force.\n\nHowever, once military action was launched, then the maximum force necessary should be deployed to subdue the enemy quickly while minimising US casualties. There also had to be considerable public support.\n\nColin Powell talks on a field phone during a visit to US forces in Saudi Arabia\n\nMuch of this thinking was rooted in a determination that the US would no longer find itself bogged down in a long, fruitless conflict as it had in Vietnam.\n\nPowell initially opposed the use of force in the Gulf, against the wishes of the then Defence Secretary, Dick Cheney. However, operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield were a success and brought Powell's name to an international audience.\n\nPowell remained Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the early months of the new Clinton presidency but he found it difficult to work alongside a more liberal administration.\n\nHe clashed with the new president over the issue of allowing gay people to join the military, and had a public disagreement with Madeleine Albright, then US ambassador to the UN, over military intervention in Bosnia.\n\nGeneral Colin Powell and Vice President Dick Cheney with President George W Bush in November 2000\n\nPowell firmly believed that only a threat to US interests justified a military response. \"American GIs are not toy soldiers to be moved around on some global game board,\" he said.\n\nHe left the army in 1993 and devoted time to writing his autobiography - it topped the New York Times best-seller list - and engaging in charity work.\n\nFreed from his obligations as a serving officer, he began to involve himself in politics. With admirers in both main parties, he was touted as a vice-presidential nominee for both Democrats and Republicans. He declared himself a Republican in 1995.\n\nThere was talk of him standing against Bill Clinton in the 1996 presidential election, but Powell decided he lacked the passion for a political career.\n\nIn 2000, George W Bush appointed Powell as secretary of state, the post responsible for US relationships with foreign countries.\n\nOperation Desert Storm commanders, including General Colin Powell, salutes the remains of President George H.W. Bush in 2018\n\nAfter the 9/11 attacks, Powell found himself up against hawks such as the Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, who favoured US intervention, even without the support of other nations, in what became dubbed the \"war on terror\".\n\nPowell, sticking to his own doctrine, opposed US involvement in Iraq but, in an about-face, agreed to support Bush. His reputation as a man of integrity certainly helped persuade the United Nations of the case for war when he appeared before the Security Council in 2003.\n\nJust 18 months later, with Saddam Hussein toppled, Powell admitted that intelligence suggesting the Iraqi dictator had possessed \"weapons of mass destruction\", was almost certainly wrong. Shortly after he announced his resignation as secretary of state.\n\nHe remained outspoken on political issues, criticising the Bush administration on many fronts, including the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. In 2008 Powell endorsed Barack Obama for the US presidency.\n\nIt said much for Colin Powell's diplomatic skills that he found allies on both sides of the political divide. A genial man, he was revered at the state department where he had a reputation for courtesy and an easy-going manner that belied the high office he held.\n\nHis great strength was a belief that coalition was preferable to confrontation. His rejection of the Rumsfeld strategy of unilateral intervention allowed the US to build a worldwide alliance in the war against terrorism.\n\n\"War should be the politics of last resort,\" he once said. \"And, when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has appointed former Tesco chief executive Sir David Lewis to advise it on how to fix the supply chain crisis that has led to petrol and other shortages.\n\nIt comes as the Office for National Statistics found one in six UK adults said they had been unable to buy essential foods in the last fortnight.\n\nThe recent fuel crisis was caused in part by a shortage of lorry drivers.\n\nBrexit and the pandemic have both contributed to labour shortages.\n\nThe ONS found that 17% of adults said they had not been able to buy essential food items because they were not available, and almost a quarter (23%) said the same for non-essential food items.\n\nThe government said businesses had faced a range of challenges over recent months as they recovered from the coronavirus pandemic which has affected supply chains across Europe and around the world.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"There are currently global supply issues which we are working with industry to mitigate, and Dave brings a wealth of experience which will help us continue to protect our businesses and supply chains.\"\n\nA statement said this would include \"both identifying the causes of current blockages and pre-empting potential future ones, and advising on resolutions either through direct government action or through industry with government support\".\n\nShoppers have been unable to buy some of their usual items\n\nSir Dave left the supermarket giant in September last year after helping mend its fortunes following a major accounting scandal.\n\nHe has been appointed until the end of the year and will start work in his new role on Monday.\n\nMany businesses in the UK have been reporting supply chain issues.\n\nA shortage of HGV drivers and specialised workers has led to gaps on supermarket shelves and problems with fuel supplies failing to reach petrol forecourts.\n\nThe body representing the road haulage industry has estimated there is currently a shortfall of about 100,000 drivers, although it said there was already a significant shortage of drivers before the pandemic and Brexit. Changes to the way drivers are taxed has also put some off.\n\nOn Thursday, a trade body representing thousands of fuel retailers called for an independent inquiry into the continuing supply problems for petrol and diesel, which have led to panic-buying and lengthy queues.\n\nAlongside the driver shortage issues, some manufacturers have also said a global shortage of computer chips and rising shipping costs for products from China is adding to the bottleneck and extra costs.\n\nHundreds of container ships are still queuing for access to overloaded ports, mostly in the US and China. Port closures caused by Covid-19 outbreaks have further exacerbated the problem.\n\nMeanwhile, shortages of workers in food processing, hospitality and the care sector have been reported after some overseas workers returned home due to Brexit and the pandemic and chose not to return to the UK.\n\nRetailers have also said they face a struggle to ensure supplies are in place for the crucial Christmas trading period.\n\nEarlier this week, Tesco's current chief executive Ken Murphy said there would \"be bumps in the road in the run-up to Christmas\".\n\n\"We're seeing our share of challenges,\" he said.\n\nNestle, the producer of Quality Street and Lion bars. has also said it is experiencing some supply chain problems ahead of the Christmas period.\n\nNestle chief executive Mark Schneider said: \"Like other businesses, we are seeing some labour shortages and some transportation issues but it's our UK team's top priority to work constructively with retailers to supply them\".\n\nWhen asked whether he could guarantee Quality Street would be in the shops this Christmas he replied: \"We are working hard.\"\n\nFarmers are warning of a Christmas turkey shortage because visa changes to allow labour recruitment from abroad have come too late.\n\nSome 600 pigs have already been shot and a mass cull is \"the next stage\", according to the National Pig Association (NPA), which said the sector was also experiencing staff shortages due to Brexit and Covid. The NPA said mature pigs have continued to \"back up\" on farms.\n\nThe Toy Retailers Association has said shoppers may struggle to find what they want, while John Lewis says it is chartering a fleet of extra ships to make sure it has Christmas stock on time.", "Rhona Malone was a police officer for seven years before qualifying as a firearms officer\n\nScotland's chief constable has said he will order an independent review into a tribunal which found evidence of a \"sexist culture\" in its armed policing.\n\nFormer firearms officer Rhona Malone raised the tribunal against Police Scotland alleging sex discrimination and victimisation.\n\nHer victimisation claims succeeded but the discrimination claim was dismissed.\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone said an independent force would review the judgement over \"legitimate concern\".\n\nThe tribunal's findings followed the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer, and a report by Dame Elish Angionlini QC highlighting concerns about discrimination experienced by female police officers.\n\nIn an update to staff, the chief constable said: \"The appalling murder of Sarah Everard by a serving officer has brought an intense, critical spotlight on to policing in the UK and on to misogyny and violence against women and girls.\n\n\"The issues raised at a recent employment tribunal in relation to a former colleague have added to this scrutiny in Scotland.\n\n\"Misogyny, sexism and discrimination of any kind are deplorable. They should have no place in society and no place in policing. It is vital that, individually and as an organisation, we challenge our own and each other's behaviours in relation to misogynistic attitudes and actions.\"\n\nThe chief constable added: \"We have a duty and an opportunity to lead a change which improves the experiences of all women, including our own officers and staff. This starts with enabling and supporting those who speak up, who have a right to be heard without fear of detriment or victimisation.\"\n\nThe tribunal, which concluded earlier this week, found that Ms Malone was an \"entirely credible and reliable witness\", but the evidence of her former superior, Insp Keith Warhurst, was \"contradictory, confusing and ultimately incredible\".\n\nInsp Warhurst sent an email in January 2018 saying two female firearms officers should not be deployed together when there were sufficient male staff on duty.\n\nPolice Scotland apologised unreservedly to Ms Malone and said it would address the issues raised in the judgement \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\nMs Malone told BBC Scotland she was \"extremely emotional and phenomenally grateful\".\n\nHer solicitor, Margaret Gibbon, described the employment tribunal's judgement as \"damning\".\n\nIn order to support colleagues who speak out about misogyny, Chief Constable Livingstone said the force would put in place recommendations from Dame Elish Angiolini's independent review of complaints about the police.\n\nHe also insisted the force's hiring and promotion protocols were based on values which \"stand against any discriminatory or misogynistic mindsets or behaviour\".\n\nHe added: \"As police officers and staff, we stand in a unique position of trust and authority. The onus is on us to demonstrate leadership in building and maintaining the confidence of women, girls and all our fellow citizens.\"", "Stirling in Scotland is among the eight longlisted locations (Stirling Castle pictured)\n\nBradford, Stirling, County Durham and Wrexham are among the places in the running for the title of the UK's City of Culture 2025.\n\nThe longlist, unveiled by new Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, also includes Cornwall, Southampton, Derby and Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon.\n\nThe winning city, which will succeed Coventry, will be announced in spring next year.\n\nFor the first time, each listee will receive £40,000 worth of investment.\n\nThey will all work with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to finalise their bids before the shortlist is announced early next year.\n\n\"Winning the UK City of Culture competition has a hugely positive impact on an area, driving investment, creating jobs, and highlighting that culture is for everyone, regardless of their background,\" said Ms Dorries in a statement on Friday.\n\n\"This year's focus is on levelling up access to culture across the country and making sure there is a legacy that continues for generations to come.\"\n\nShe added: \"I look forward to seeing what this brilliant longlist has in store as they continue in the competition.\"\n\nMore places than ever before put in bids to become the next UK City of Culture. An initial list of 20 places was whittled down to eight potential winners by an independent advisory panel.\n\nAll bidders were asked to explain how they would use culture to grow and strengthen their local area, and how they would use it to recover from the impact of Covid.\n\nAs well as Coventry, other previous winners have included Hull and Londonderry.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The government has failed to find solutions to halt soaring energy prices, UK Steel boss Gareth Stace has said.\n\nHe was speaking after leaders of energy-intensive industries met with Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng.\n\n\"We can't wait until Christmas and beyond. Or even a few weeks. We need action now, it needs to be swift, decisive action,\" Mr Stace said.\n\nThe government said it was exploring ways to manage high energy costs.\n\nGas prices have risen 250% since January, pushing up costs dramatically.\n\nMr Stace told the BBC that Mr Kwarteng had listened but had provided \"no immediate solutions or guarantees\".\n\nThe UK Steel director general said he was \"baffled\" because governments in the rest of Europe had stepped in to support industry, although they faced lower energy costs than in the UK.\n\nRepresentatives from energy-intensive sectors including paper, glass, cement, lime, ceramics, chemicals and steel were at Friday's talks with the business secretary.\n\nThe Energy Intensive Users Group (EIUG) said it hoped the government would find ways to support those sectors.\n\nMr Kwarteng told the business representatives he would continue to work with them to tackle the problem.\n\nHis department said the government would assess the options put forward by the industry, with his spokesperson saying: \"We recognise the recent increase in global gas prices will be a cause of concern for businesses in the UK.\n\n\"We are in regular contact with Ofgem and business groups to explore ways to manage the impact of rising global prices.\"\n\nMr Kwarteng also stressed government confidence in the security of gas supplies this winter.\n\nAfter the meeting, EIUG chair Richard Leese said the government had made \"positive first steps to develop practical solutions\".\n\n\"EIUG will work with government to avoid threats both to the production of essential domestic and industrial products, as well an enormous range of supply chains critical to our economy,\" he said.\n\nAndrew Large, director-general at the Confederation of Paper Industries, said there were \"serious\" risks factories could stop operating as a result of the gas prices being too high.\n\nThere have already been stoppages at fertiliser and steel plants due to high energy costs.\n\nHowever, he said the business secretary appeared to share industry's desire to avoid any potential supply chain disruption.\n\nOn Thursday Mr Kwarteng said the government's strategy to shift to \"clean\" power sources by 2035, including wind, solar and nuclear, would reduce reliance on fossil fuels.\n\n\"The volatility of the gas price has shown we do need to plan strategically and net zero helps us do that,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking before the meeting, Mr Stace had said if the government failed to act it could \"strangle steel production\" in the UK.\n\nA crisis in steel production as a result of high energy prices would affect the wider economy, he added, saying the government should consider taking additional action in the short term.\n\n\"We're pausing production already in terms of some steel producers in the UK.... and it's going to happen more often unless something is done, or the energy market corrects itself and I don't think that will happen any time soon.\"\n\nHe said the government should address the disparity in energy costs for UK steel makers who he said were paying 50-80% more for electricity than German producers.\n\nOther countries, such as Italy and Portugal, had \"committed billions of euros\" to address the rising cost of gas, he added.\n\n\"If the government does nothing then tomorrow, there'll be a steel crisis, and given in terms of what impact that could have on jobs, then that wouldn't be good, not only for the steel sector, for those regions where steel is, but for the UK economy as a whole,\" he said.\n\nThe price of wholesale gas has soared since the start of the year. And the UK has lower levels of gas stored than other European countries, which could help cushion price volatility.\n\nDomestic customers' bills are partly protected from these sharp rises by a price cap, managed by the regulator Ofgem, which limits how far and how fast bills can rise.\n\nNevertheless, UK households have felt the impact after the price cap was raised at the start of October.\n\nCustomers will see further \"significant rises\" in the spring, regulator Ofgem has warned.\n\nThe cap is revised twice a year and is next due to be changed in April.\n\nIt applies to households in England, Scotland and Wales this month.\n\nHouseholds in Northern Ireland have also seen a recent sharp rise in their bills, but they are not protected by the energy price cap for Great Britain.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA luxury student accommodation complex in Glasgow has been branded a \"filthy and unfinished building site\".\n\nThe Cathedral Street property, named Bridle Works, is billed as having a \"range of top-class amenities\" including a gym and rooftop terrace.\n\nBut students have complained to provider Novel Student as they felt they were \"misled\" over conditions.\n\nThe firm said the pandemic had affected construction and it was \"disappointed\" to hear the students' experiences.\n\nStudents have shared photos of the building interior with BBC Scotland, showing unfinished work\n\nOne image shows toilet doors that had still to be hung\n\nIn a letter seen by the BBC, 38 international students detail a list of complaints including:\n\nOne post-graduate student - who asked to remain anonymous - told BBC Scotland she arrived in the country from abroad last month.\n\nThe 22-year-old said she found the accommodation via the University of Strathclyde website. BBC Scotland found links to the property from the university's student association site.\n\nShe paid more than £10,000 up front for a year's stay at Bridle Works.\n\nFour days after she made the payment, however, the company informed her that her room was still under construction - a fortnight before she was due to move in mid-September.\n\nShe said: \"I was told by a couple of other international students it would be difficult to secure a place in the city this year due to an ongoing housing shortage and the UN conference. However, I managed to be linked to Bridle Works.\n\n\"There was never any mention online, on the phone calls or in any correspondence with Novel Student that it was still under construction until after I paid my rent.\n\n\"I felt it was incredibly misleading as my parents and I were under the impression it was finished.\"\n\nThe website for the complex describes \"excellent facilities\"\n\nHow the luxury student accommodation in Glasgow city centre is advertised\n\nNovel Student offered to reimburse rent costs for days missed at the property and accommodate students in hotels in Glasgow.\n\nHowever, the student said she was told she could live on a lower floor until her room was ready.\n\nShe added: \"I arrived in Scotland and then moved into what was evidently a construction site.\n\n\"My room just gets coated with dirt. I can only open my window at night, and have to vacuum three times a day to manage the dust from internal construction. Not how I want to spend my time.\n\n\"What was advertised was a space that has amenities, where you can peacefully study in your room. But what we got was a place full of hazards and noise. It was the opposite of peaceful.\n\n\"I have counted 40 fire alarms since I moved in last month, sometimes in the middle of the night. And those are just the ones I am home for.\"\n\nThe firm said the pandemic had slowed construction\n\nAn artist's impression shows a planned rooftop terrace for the property\n\nThe 20-floor development advertises 422 rooms starting at £238 per week.\n\nOn its website, Novel Student said: \"You won't have to splash on extra gym memberships, or laundry fees, making it much more affordable for student life.\n\n\"All bills are also included in your rent, so you can set your budget for the month without having to worry about any unpleasant surprises.\"\n\nBBC Scotland understands issues have been shared in a WhatsApp group comprising 81 students.\n\nIn written statements also included in the letter of complaint, one student said: \"When I moved in [my room] was extremely dirty with dirty water hand marks on my banisters and door frames.\n\n\"When I wiped down the inside of my cupboards, the cloth I used turned black. I have only gotten hot water after a week of staying here and when I first moved in, my radiator fell off the wall.\n\n\"Not to mention, my sprinkler cover fell off my ceiling the other day with no warning. My friend's room has literal holes in the flooring.\"\n\nAnother student wrote that none of the amenities advertised by Novel Student had been provided apart from the gym, where they said \"half the machines\" were not working.\n\nThey also said one out of four lifts in the building can be used by tenants as the rest are being used by construction crew.\n\nThe complaint detailed holes in the floors and ceilings\n\nNovel Student - which runs other sites in Edinburgh, Belfast and Sheffield - said it is \"committed to delivering exceptional student experiences\".\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"We are naturally disappointed to hear of any resident experiences that fall short of that.\n\n\"The Covid-19 pandemic has undoubtedly presented significant challenges to our operations given the three-month construction shutdown - a universal obstacle experienced by companies working in different capacities across the real estate industry.\n\n\"It is our goal to always ensure the on-time delivery of products to residents, and given the significant challenges we have faced, we have had to accelerate this process to the best of our ability.\"\n\nIt added: \"We greatly appreciate the patience of our residents as we navigate these challenges and sympathize with the disruptions they have endured over the last several weeks.\n\n\"Out of respect for the privacy of the entire community, residents and staff alike, we cannot comment publicly on more specific matters concerning our residents.\"\n\nThe University of Strathclyde said it had no agreement with Novel and had not referred any students there.\n\n\"Our website links to a housing guide created by Strath Union which lists all of the major private student accommodation providers in Glasgow but does not make any recommendations or endorse any provider, as stated on the guide,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We are concerned to hear about these issues. The Strath Union Advice Hub and the University are working together to support students who are experiencing a range of issues. We would advise any student who is having difficulties with private accommodation to contact university support services for advice and support.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nA judge has recommended that the civil rape case made against Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo in the United States is thrown out of court.\n\nIt is claimed the 36-year-old assaulted a woman at a Las Vegas hotel in 2009.\n\nProsecutors opted not to bring a criminal case against Ronaldo in 2019, saying the claims could \"not be proven beyond reasonable doubt\".\n\nA civil case followed with the woman claiming damages. Ronaldo has always denied any wrong-doing.\n\nMagistrate judge Daniel Albregts, who has reviewed the case before a separate judge makes a final decision, says evidence based on leaked communications between Ronaldo and his legal team from the Football Leaks data drop should not have been used in the case.\n\n\"Dismissing [the] case for the inappropriate conduct of her attorney is a harsh result,\" Albregts wrote.\n\nBut \"if the court does not grant case-terminating sanctions, [her lawyer's] actions could have far-reaching, dangerous consequences on the legitimacy of the judicial process\".\n\n\"We are pleased with the court's detailed review of this matter and its willingness to justly apply the law to the facts and recommend dismissal of the civil case against Mr Ronaldo,\" he said.\n\nLawyers for the woman involved, who have said she was not \"legally competent\" when she reached a non-disclosure settlement with Ronaldo over the claims in 2010, did not respond to a request for comment.", "Munch's The Scream and five other famous works of art have been recreated as micro art\n\nA micro artist's tiny versions of six famous works of art have sold for more than £90,000.\n\nDavid A Lindon has recreated Munch's The Scream, Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Monet's Water Lily, Banksy's Girl With Balloon, and van Gogh's The Starry Night and Sunflowers.\n\nHis versions are small enough to fit into the eye of a needle.\n\nThe Bournemouth sculptor, who began his hobby in 2018, called it a \"life-changing amount\".\n\nThey have all been sold to private collectors for £15,000 each, prior to his first exhibition.\n\nVan Gogh's Sunflowers is among the micro art being exhibited, seen here up close\n\nand with a matchstick for scale\n\nMr Lindon only recently turned professional having previously worked in engineering.\n\nHe was first inspired by watching a TV programme about micro artist Willard Wigan, whose work he found \"astonishing\".\n\nShortly after he \"woke up in the middle of the night\" newly determined to join the profession himself.\n\nIn response, Mr Wigan has called Mr Lindon's work \"very good\".\n\nHe added: \"The best micro artists in the world are from the UK. You have me, Graham Short, and David A Lindon.\"\n\nMr Lindon worked hard to perfect his new skill, and his interpretations of famous musicians, including Freddie Mercury and Amy Winehouse, soon began attracting attention.\n\nDavid A Lindon also recreated a second van Gogh masterpiece, The Starry Night\n\nHe told the BBC he recently diversified into recreating famous masterpieces to further challenge himself.\n\n\"It seemed a natural progression to explore paintings and to discover just how small I can go,\" he said.\n\n\"Whilst creating a micro painting uses the same process as doing a full size art piece, there is a greater focus on transposing the aesthetic qualities of the original whilst representing them on a much smaller scale.\"\n\nMr Lindon works in an \"almost emotionless trance\" during the night to avoid distractions and unwanted noise, and spends more than a month on each 0.5mm-wide [0.02in] plastic piece.\n\nTwo years ago the former engineer \"woke up in the middle of the night\" determined to become a micro artist\n\nBut he professes to not enjoy agonising over the intricate artworks, which he describes as a \"physical challenge and a mental battle\".\n\n\"I have to slow my heartbeat down essentially,\" he explained, adding: \"I control my nerves, I steady myself. I get lost in my own world, I really do.\"\n\nHe added: \"The only thing I enjoy is when it's done. That relief, and then to see the expressions of joy and surprise on people's faces, is fantastic.\"\n\nThe six masterpieces and a further six pieces of art can been seen at A New Beginning, an exhibition at the Lighthouse Media Centre in Wolverhampton, until 29 October.\n\nThe sculptures can be lost when static electricity pulls them away, or from sneezes, coughs, or small drafts of wind\n\n\"I’ve been on my knees in the middle of the night with a torch trying to find Amy Winehouse and it’s almost impossible,\" Mr Lindon says\n\nHe says the \"only thing I enjoy is when it's done... to see the expressions of joy and surprise on people's faces\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n• None BBC Arts - The 'micro artist' who carves on pin heads and razor blades", "Newcastle United: Saudi-backed takeover is 'heartbreaking,' says fiancee of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi Last updated on .From the section Newcastle\n\nNewcastle fans gathered outside St James' Park on Thursday to celebrate the takeover The fiancee of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi has said the Saudi Arabian-backed takeover of Newcastle United is \"heartbreaking\" for her. Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was killed while visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. Western intelligence agencies believe the crown prince ordered the murder - which he denies. \"I am very disappointed,\" said Hatice Cengiz, who was set to marry Khashoggi. \"What I've been doing since his murder is seeking justice for Jamal every day, every chance that I found or every place I can go and ask more. \"Then suddenly, I saw the news and people were talking about the takeover and I said 'please, do not do that, please be respectful to yourself'.\" Everything you need to know - all in one place Scroll through our Newcastle page for all the latest content on the takeover The Premier League approved the £305m takeover of Newcastle after receiving \"legally binding assurances\" that the Saudi state would not control the club. The Public Investment Fund (PIF), of which Mohammed bin Salman is the chair, will provide 80% of funds for the deal and is seen as separate to the state. The Saudi Arabian state has been accused of human rights abuses, but with the majority owner PIF deemed a separate entity, that, and any piracy issues, were no longer an impediment to the takeover, in the Premier League's view. Newcastle co-owner Amanda Staveley speaks to BBC Sports Editor Dan Roan on day Saudi takeover was completed 'Newcastle fans just care about the club's financial future' PIF have assets of £250bn, making Newcastle one of the richest clubs in the world, but Cengiz said she wanted to remind supporters that there are more important things than the club's financial health. \"It seems like they [Newcastle fans] don't care about what happened to Jamal, they just care about the financial future,\" added Cengiz, speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast. \"I want to remind them that there is something more important than money, that there is something more important than the financial situation of this club. \"There are really more expensive values that we have and we need in our life always. \"You should send the message to them that they cannot buy any English team because of this crime - it is the clear message that every English person should send them.\" She added: \"We have to remind them of what they did to Jamal, because no-one was held accountable, so in other ways we should punish them. \"At least respect the soul of Jamal, because he paid the really high price for the freedom of speech.\"\n• None What's next for Newcastle after £305m takeover? Newcastle United: Amanda Staveley arrives at St James' Park for the first time as co-owner Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, said he was \"very concerned\" about the Saudi-led consortium's takeover of Newcastle and stressed the need for an independent regulator to improve the governance of football. \"Tracey Crouch, a Tory MP, has done a review into the governance of football - we are feeding into that, but I am worried about governance,\" he told BBC Breakfast. \"I think we need an independent regulator - we have seen this with so many clubs now over the last year or two - we need an independent regulator and we need a different test for directors of clubs.\" He added: \"I think it should be put through an independent regular because there are serious concerns about the human rights record. \"I am very concerned about this takeover. \"It's not for me as the leader of the opposition to say who should own which football club, it's for an independent regulator - that is the scheme we are putting forward, we are feeding into Tracey Crouch's response, she's respected across the House and the sooner we get that review the better.\"\n• None Our coverage of Newcastle United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Newcastle - go straight to all the best content", "Pig farmers are facing a \"human disaster\" due to a shortage of abattoir workers, the National Farmer's Union has said.\n\nFarmers are already having to destroy healthy pigs due to a backlog on farms, the union said.\n\nTime is running out for the UK pig sector, the National Pig Association (NPA) warned.\n\nBut a government minister said businesses should pay higher wages and invest in skills.\n\nThe industry blames the shortage of people to slaughter pigs in abattoirs on factors including Covid and Brexit.\n\nThe chronic labour shortage has led to an estimated backlog of 85,000 pigs on farms, with an extra 15,000 being added per week, according to NPA figures.\n\nThe industry association warned on Thursday that \"empty retail shelves and product shortages are becoming increasingly commonplace and Christmas specialities, such as pigs in blankets are already under threat\".\n\n\"The knock-on effect of the staff shortages is having a devastating effect on the country's pig farmers,\" the NPA said.\n\n\"We are already seeing producers up and down the country getting out of pigs or cutting down on numbers because they cannot sustain these losses any longer,\" NPA chief executive Zoe Davies said.\n\n\"Without immediate government intervention, more producers will be pushed over the edge.\"\n\n\"Sadly we are expecting a serious contraction of the UK pig industry,\" she added, saying mainly smaller independent farmers were affected.\n\nAround 600 pigs have already been killed to deal with overcrowding, and a mass cull is the next stage, the industry association has said.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Question Time, National Farmers Union president Minette Batters said the UK is the \"first country in the world facing a cull of healthy livestock\".\n\nShe said pigs were having to be destroyed using either a bolt gun or lethal injection, and added: \"As far as I'm concerned this is the start and it has to be resolved.\n\n\"This is livelihoods and this is people's businesses.\n\n\"This has been a human disaster for those pig farmers who are absolutely distraught.\"\n\nShe said that the government must address labour shortages unless we \"don't want a pig industry in this country\" which she argued would mean \"we will import pig meat that is produced to lower standards.\"\n\nMs Batters said Environment Secretary George Eustice and Cabinet Office minister Stephen Barclay were doing \"everything\" they can, but said she had not been able to see Home Secretary Priti Patel to discuss more migrant visas to address shortages.\n\nBut Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi said the government was working with the industry to find sustainable solutions and that issuing temporary visas was \"not enough\".\n\nHe also said shortages were happening elsewhere in the world.\n\nMr Zahawi added that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was \"right\" to challenge businesses to pay higher wages and invest in skills.\n\nBut a top vet said on Wednesday that Mr Johnson was not taking the prospect of a national pig cull seriously.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How Chang'e-5 grabbed rock samples from the lunar surface\n\nThe rock samples brought back from the Moon in December by China's Chang'e-5 mission were really young.\n\nIt's all relative, of course, but the analysis shows the basalt material - the solidified remnants of a lava flow - to be just two billion years old.\n\nCompare this with the samples returned by the Apollo astronaut missions. They were all over three billion years of age.\n\nThe findings are reported in the journal Science.\n\nChina's robotic Chang'e-5 mission was sent to a site on the lunar nearside called Oceanus Procellarum.\n\nIt was carefully chosen to add to the sum of knowledge gained from previous sample returns - the last of which was conducted by a Soviet probe in 1976.\n\nThe laboratory analysis of the basaltic rock gives an age of 1,963 (plus or minus 57) million years\n\nXiaochao Che and colleagues at the Sensitive High Resolution Ion MicroProbe (SHRIMP) Center in Beijing led the Chang'e-5 dating analysis, but worked with a broad international consortium.\n\nThe age data they've produced is fascinating because it proves volcanism continued on the Moon long after one might have expected such a small body to have cooled down and given up the activity.\n\nTheorists will now be thinking through new ideas for what kind of heat source might have sustained the late-stage behaviour.\n\nIt doesn't appear to have been driven by concentrated radioactive decay because the Chang'e-5 samples don't contain a lot of the kind of chemical elements associated with this effect.\n\n\"One of the other options we discuss in the paper is maybe the Moon was able to stay active longer because of its orbital interactions with Earth,\" speculated Dr Katherine Joy, a co-author from the University of Manchester, UK.\n\n\"Maybe the Moon wobbled back and forth on its orbit, resulting in what we call tidal heating. So, a bit like the Moon generates ocean tides on Earth, maybe the gravitational effect of the Earth could stretch and flex the Moon to generate frictional melting,\" she told BBC News.\n\nNothing like Chang'e-5 had been tried since the Soviet Luna-24 mission in 1976\n\nOne really important outcome from the study is the way it helps calibrate the crater-counting technique that is used for dating planetary surfaces.\n\nScientists assume that the more craters they see on a surface, the older that terrain must be; and also, obviously, in the reverse: the presence of very few craters is suggestive of a surface that has only recently been laid or remodelled.\n\nBut this technique has to be anchored in some absolute dates that are derived from measured samples, and for the Moon the chronology was not well constrained between one and three billion years ago.\n\nThe Chang'e-5 material now provides a precise waypoint in the middle of this time period.\n\nProf Brad Jolliff, from Washington University in St Louis, US, is another co-author in the consortium. He's now hoping China will send its next sample return mission to a region on the Moon's farside called South Pole Aitken Basin.\n\nThis vast depression, some 2,500km wide and up to 8km deep, was created by a spectacular impactor very early in lunar history.\n\n\"If Chang'e-6 goes to South Pole Aitken it will give us the age of the oldest big impact basin on the Moon, and that provides a very different part of the calibration, in the range of four to four-and-a-half billion years ago. We don't know what the flux of big impactors was back then, and a sample from the South Pole Aitken Basin region has the potential to answer the question.\"\n\nChang'e-5 marked the start of an astonishing few months for China's national space programme.\n\nWithin six months of the lunar probe returning home with its rock samples on 16 December, another spacecraft had successfully entered orbit around Mars to place a rover on its surface; and Chinese astronauts had begun the occupation of a new space station at Earth.", "The number of countries on the UK Covid travel red list will be cut from 54 to seven, the government says.\n\nSouth Africa, Brazil and Mexico come off the red list, which requires travellers to quarantine in an approved hotel at their cost for 10 full days.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the changes begin on Monday and \"mark the next step\" in opening travel.\n\nThis latest move will be seen as a boost to the airline industry and families separated during the pandemic.\n\nPanama, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Haiti and the Dominican Republic remain on the red list.\n\nPandemic travel rules in the UK have recently been simplified, with the amber list cut, and advice against holidays changed for 32 countries.\n\nBut consumer group Which? warned the changes only reflect requirements for arriving back in the UK.\n\n\"Travellers should be aware that they may still face restrictions on entry to many destinations, especially those under 18 who are not yet vaccinated,\" it said.\n\nArrivals from 37 more destinations will have their vaccination status certificates recognised, meaning they can avoid more expensive post-arrival testing requirements.\n\nVaccinated travellers from Brazil, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, South Africa and Turkey will be treated the same as returning fully-vaccinated UK residents so long as they have not visited a red-list country in the 10 days before arriving in England.\n\nAll arrivals will still complete a passenger locator form.\n\nThe Scottish government said the changes were \"agreed on a four-nation basis\".\n\nThe Welsh government said that they increased opportunities for new infections and variants, but it was adopting them because it was not practical to have its own border policy.\n\nFor British expats Matt and Hannah Pirnie, who have lived in South Africa for a decade, the country's removal from the red list will mean it is easier to see family again.\n\n\"It's been a long pandemic for us. Not seeing family, not being allowed to go back, but more importantly grandparents not being able to come here and see their grandkids. It's been a long two years,\" Matt says.\n\n\"First of all when all the aeroplanes stopped initially - that was quite anxiety provoking - and then to be put on the red list for so long has just been quite hard to wrap your head around why,\" Hannah adds.\n\n\"Taking three children into a prison-like mentality was just a no-go, plus the cost. It's been quite hard really.\"\n\nAnnouncing the latest changes, Mr Shapps said the government was \"making it easier for families and loved ones to reunite\".\n\nHe said that with fewer restrictions \"and more people travelling, we can all continue to move safely forward together along our pathway to recovery\".\n\nIn addition to the shorter red list, the government said passengers would soon be able to use a photograph of a lateral flow test as a minimum requirement to verify a negative result.\n\nThis change - affecting tests taken by eligible fully-vaccinated people from non-red list countries two days after arrival in England - would come into effect in \"late October\", the Department for Transport (DfT) said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA UK government source said the government still aimed to replace the so-called day two \"PCR test on arrival\" with a cheaper lateral flow test by the half-term break, for many schools in England after 22 October.\n\nBut they said the government was still working on a date for when the new testing rule would be introduced.\n\nUnder current rules, travellers must use more expensive PCR tests for their post-arrival day two screening. People who are not fully vaccinated must provide a further PCR test on day eight.\n\nThe DfT said NHS lateral flow devices cannot be used for the purpose of international travel. \"Both pre-departure tests and on arrival tests must be bought from private providers,\" it said.\n\nAirlines and the travel industry praised a \"much-improved system\" but called on ministers to implement changes to testing as soon as possible and consider scrapping tests for passengers arriving from low-risk countries.\n\nA spokesperson for London's Heathrow Airport said the announced changes would \"kick start a global Britain\".\n\n\"However, the missing piece to this is clarity on when cheaper lateral flow tests will be accepted, which is now critical in order to save the half-term getaway for many,\" they said.\n\nA further 40,701 new coronavirus cases were reported in the UK on Thursday, alongside another 122 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe following destinations will be removed from the red list from 04:00 BST on Monday:", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWales' enterprising display was not enough for victory against the Czech Republic as the two sides produced a thrilling 2-2 World Cup qualifying draw in Prague.\n\nCaptain Aaron Ramsey's composed finish in an otherwise frenetic first half gave Wales a lead which lasted less than two minutes as Jakub Pesek scored on the rebound.\n\nThe Czech Republic were gifted a bizarre second goal early in the second half as Wales goalkeeper Danny Ward failed to control a Ramsey backpass and allowed it to roll into the net.\n\nWales responded in style as Daniel James equalised with an assured finish which sparked a period of intense Welsh pressure.\n\nRobert Page's side created many chances, but their inability to find a winner their dominance deserved means they remain third in Group E, trailing the Czech Republic on goal difference, albeit with a game in hand.\n\nWith Belgium's eight-point lead at the top making automatic qualification effectively impossible, Wales' battle with the Czech Republic for second spot - and passage to the play-offs - looks set to go down to the wire.\n\nWales are already all but guaranteed a play-off place thanks to their success in the Nations League, but finishing second in this World Cup qualifying group could secure a more favourable draw in that knockout stage.\n\nThat was why Page had described this as \"a must-win game to guarantee finishing second\" beforehand and, while this result may not further their cause, Wales face Estonia in Tallinn on Monday knowing they still have three matches left to overhaul the Czech Republic.\n• None As it happened and reaction: Wales draw in Prague\n\nVictory in Prague was of equal, if not greater, importance to the home side, who had played a game more than Wales and approached this fixture with an attacking intent which bordered on reckless.\n\nIt made the Czechs dangerous - with Adam Hlozek forcing Ward into an early save - but it also made them vulnerable.\n\nWhenever the Czech Republic pushed forward, they left huge amounts of space behind which Wales exploited.\n\nJames' pace made him the obvious target for Welsh counters and he was found brilliantly by a Ramsey pass in the 17th minute but, with just one Czech defender tracking back between the Leeds winger and Kieffer Moore, James dithered before overhitting his pass to Moore, whose shot was smothered by goalkeeper Tomas Vaclik.\n\nIt was a glorious opportunity and a warning which the Czech Republic did not heed.\n\nFrom a Czech corner, Ethan Ampadu drove out of the Welsh defence and passed to Neco Williams wide on the right. The Liverpool full-back's cross grazed James' head and fell to Ramsey, in space at the far post, who calmly waited for Vaclik to commit and lifted a delicate finish over the keeper.\n\nRamsey's composure was at odds with the chaos of the first half and, true to the game's frenzied pace, the Czech Republic were level under two minutes later.\n\nWales' defending was rash as all three centre-backs rushed towards Filip Novak, whose shot was saved by Ward, but the ball went into the path of Pesek to equalise.\n\nWales might have felt aggrieved not to be leading at the break but, four minutes into the second half, they found themselves behind in unusual circumstances.\n\nRamsey regained possession deep in his own half and passed back to Ward and, while it was a firmly-hit pass, it was straight at the goalkeeper, who inexplicably failed to control the ball and instead allowed it to only brush his boot on its way into the net.\n\nIt was a deeply unfortunate moment for Ward, who has performed superbly for Wales, but it did not affect him or his team-mates as the game wore on.\n\nWales were soon back on top and cutting the Czech defence open at will, with substitute Harry Wilson particularly impressive.\n\nWilson threaded an excellent through ball to James, who took a touch and fired firmly into the bottom corner to bring Wales level, and then played in Ramsey, who had a shot well saved by Vaclik.\n\nMoore was the next to threaten, heading wide from a Connor Roberts cross, before Roberts' backheel from Moore's pass went close.\n\nChances were piling up and the Czech Republic looked increasingly stressed in defence. Although Wales could not turn their dominance into victory, this performance - arguably their best of this campaign - will give Page and his players reason to believe they might yet be the first Wales side since 1958 to qualify for a World Cup.\n• None Offside, Wales. Tyler Roberts tries a through ball, but Connor Roberts is caught offside.\n• None Michal Sadílek (Czech Republic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sorba Thomas (Wales) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Wilson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Caught between life and death in the swinging sixties\n• None The remarkable aftermath of the verdict on Nazi War Criminals", "Britons will no longer be advised to avoid holidays in 51 destinations, including the Bahamas, Jamaica and Cameroon, the Foreign Office has said.\n\nThe change will make it easier for people visiting these locations to get travel insurance.\n\nIt follows the easing of similar travel advice for 32 locations on Wednesday.\n\nThe advice is separate to the red list of countries which require travellers to quarantine in an approved hotel at their cost for 10 full days.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss said the latest change would allow people to \"exercise personal responsibility\".\n\nFrom Friday, the Foreign Office will lift its advice against all but essential travel for the Bahamas, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Jamaica, Martinique, Palau, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Western Sahara.\n\nAdvice for a further 42 locations will be lifted on Monday (scroll down for the full list).\n\nTravellers should still check the Foreign Office travel advice website for entry requirements to their destination, such as proof of vaccination and testing and quarantine rules.\n\nThe changes comes after the traffic light travel system was replaced by a single red list on Monday.\n\nPeople should not visit red list countries \"except in the most extreme of circumstances\", the government says.\n\nFrom 04:00 BST on Monday, only seven destinations will be on the list: Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Peru and Venezuela.\n\nThe red list - set by the Department for Transport - deals with rules around inbound travel, whereas the Foreign Office travel advice is based on the situation in the destination country.\n\nThe latest change is part of a new policy to stop advising Britons to avoid travel on Covid-19 grounds to countries which are not on the red list - apart from in \"exceptional circumstances\" such as if the local healthcare system is overwhelmed.\n\nIt will continue to advise against all but essential travel for all red list countries where the risk to British nationals is deemed to be \"unacceptably high\".\n\nWhen the Foreign Office advises against travel to a country, all but a handful of travel insurance policies are invalid.\n\nMeanwhile, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he hoped to change the Covid tests needed for people coming to the UK in time for families returning from half-term holidays, which start for many schools on 22 October.\n\nHowever, Mr Shapps did not give an exact date for when expensive PCR tests will be swapped for cheaper lateral flow tests.\n\nCurrently, fully vaccinated adults entering the UK must take a PCR test within two days of arriving.\n\nLatest official figures show a further 127 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the UK total to 137,541. Another 36,060 positive tests were recorded.\n\nFrom today, the advice against \"all but essential travel\" will be lifted for: the Bahamas, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Jamaica, Martinique, Palau, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Western Sahara.\n\nFrom Monday, the same advice will be lifted for: Angola, Argentina, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Cape Verde, Chile, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Georgia, Guyana, Indonesia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Paraguay, Philippines, Reunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.", "The gap between private-school fees and state-school per-pupil spending in England has more than doubled over the past decade, the Institute for Fiscal Studies says.\n\nAverage fees, of £13,600, were more than 90% higher than the £7,100 spent on state-school pupils in 2020-21, compared with a gap of 39% in 2009-10.\n\nFor sixth-formers, fees are about three times higher than per-student funding.\n\nThe government says schools are having the biggest funding uplift in a decade.\n\nWhile private-school fees have grown by more than 20% above inflation since 2009-10, state-school per-pupil spending has fallen by 9% in real terms.\n\nAnd the gap in resource levels is probably even larger, the IFS researchers say, as the figures do not include other forms of income for private schools, such as account investment and endowments or gifts.\n\n\"Longstanding concerns about inequalities between private- and state-school pupils, which have come into sharp focus during the pandemic, will not begin to be easily addressed while the sectors enjoy such different levels of resourcing,\" Luke Sibieta said.\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary, Kate Green, said: \"School budgets have been hammered over the last decade, which is holding children back.\n\n\"As state-school class sizes have soared and enriching activities - art, sport, music, drama - have been cut back, the gap with private schools has grown ever wider.\"\n\nAssociation of School and College Leaders general secretary Geoff Barton said: \"It is pretty outrageous that the government has cut funding in real terms to schools and colleges over the past decade, while independent school fees have increased over the same period.\n\n\"The funding gap between the two sectors has always been there of course but the fact it has widened to such a huge extent does stick in the throat.\n\n\"Surely the government should want the same opportunities for all children and young people.\n\n\"It may be naive to think that state education funding could match the independent sector but it surely shouldn't actually go into reverse.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said: \"This government is providing the biggest uplift to school funding in a decade - £14bn in total over the three years to 2022-23.\n\n\"This includes a £7.1bn increase in funding for schools by 2022-23, compared to 2019-20 funding levels.\n\n\"Next year, funding through the schools national funding formula (NFF) is increasing by 2.8% per pupil compared to 2021-22.\n\n\"The NFF continues to distribute this fairly, based on the needs of schools and their pupil cohorts.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray says he is \"back in the good books\" at home after his \"stolen\" tennis shoes and wedding ring were found in Indian Wells.\n\nThe British three-time Grand Slam champion had left his shoes with his wedding ring attached under the car his team are using in California in order to dry out after practice.\n\nAfter discovering they were missing the next day, Murray put out an appeal for their return on Instagram, saying he was \"in the bad books at home\".\n\nBut Murray didn't stay there too long, posting another video later on Thursday to celebrate being reunited with his missing items - even if the trainers were no fresher.\n\n\"Huge thanks for all the messages and to everyone for sharing the story,\" said the 34-year-old.\n\n\"I had to make a few calls and chat to the security at the hotel but would you believe it?\n\n\"They still absolutely stink but the shoes are back, the wedding ring is back and I'm back in the good books - let's go!\"\n\nMurray, who is preparing to play at Indian Wells for the first time since 2017, earlier admitted the fact that he ties his wedding ring to his laces while training and playing had completely slipped his mind as he went to buy replacement shoes.\n\n\"My physio said to me 'where's your wedding ring?' I was like 'oh no',\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Murray says he does not feel bad about accepting wildcards as he returns to Indian Wells for the first time since he was world number one.\n\nHe will headline Friday's night session in the Californian desert alongside new US Open champion Emma Raducanu.\n\n\"I'm grateful that they have given me the opportunity to play here,\" he said.\n\n\"But do I feel bad about it? No, I don't feel bad about it.\"\n\nHe is currently outside the world top 100 and has therefore frequently needed wildcards to access tournaments this season.\n\n\"I'd rather get in by right, obviously,\" Murray added.\n\n\"But then I could also argue that the three years I was out injured, I would have rightfully been entered in all of these tournaments.\n\n\"I think after what I have gone through the last three or four years, and what I had achieved in the game beforehand, I don't feel like I need to justify the reasons for why I should get wildcards.\"\n\nMurray, who is yet to beat a top-20 player this season, has lost recently to Stefanos Tsitsipas, Casper Ruud and Wimbledon semi-finalist Hubert Hurkacz.\n\n\"I have also had a number of opportunities in those matches and not quite taken them,\" said Murray, whose fitness has improved markedly since Wimbledon.\n\n\"They are going to snuff out some opportunities that you create, but also there's been some stuff in those matches that I certainly feel I could have done better.\n\n\"I really don't feel like I've been outclassed, or that I have had no chances against them, so there are some positives to take from those losses.\"\n• None Raducanu says it has been a 'very cool three weeks'\n• None 'Why do people have to do that?!': Ricky Gervais reveals all of his everyday frustrations\n• None Is it time for football to phase out heading?", "The service is due to be held in St Patrick's Church of Ireland cathedral in Armagh on 21 October\n\nTwo Irish government ministers are to attend a centenary church service in Armagh later this month organised by Irish church leaders.\n\nThe service is timed to coincide with the centenary of the formation of Northern Ireland in 1921.\n\nIrish president Michael D Higgins has previously turned down an invitation, saying the event had become politicised.\n\nThe SDLP has said it will be attending, while Sinn Féin confirmed it would not.\n\nForeign Minister Simon Coveney and government chief whip Jack Chambers will be present at the event.\n\nIn a statement on Thursday evening, the Irish government said in considering the invitation \"its role in this matter is clearly distinct from that of the president\".\n\nIt said it reiterated its \"full support and understanding\" of President Higgins' decision not to attend, which it said was \"properly made\" and based on concerns he had consistently expressed.\n\nBut it added: \"Cognisant of that important distinction, and in recognition also of the spirit and intentions of the church leaders in organising the event, the government has decided that it will be represented at the event.\"\n\nMr Coveney is a member of the Fine Gael party while Mr Chambers is a member of Fianna Fáil.\n\nThe service will be held at St Patrick's Church of Ireland cathedral on 21 October.\n\nIt is being described as a service of reflection and hope, to mark the centenary of the partition of Ireland and the formation of Northern Ireland.\n\nLast month, Catholic and Protestant church leaders said they had been saddened by \"the polarised political commentary\" around the service they organised.\n\nSenator Gerard Craughwell, a signatory to a letter from six independent Irish senators who wrote to President Higgins asking him to reconsider his decision not to go to the service, said he did not agree with the decision to send two government ministers.\n\n\"The president of the country made his decision, I didn't agree with it at the time and I would still hold the same position,\" he told Good Morning Ulster on Friday.\n\n\"You're now having one of the most senior ministers of the cabinet countermanding the decision, for want of a better description, of the supreme leader, the president.\n\n\"So it's a really strange one, it's been really messed up from beginning to end as far as I can see.\n\n\"When the president made his decision that should have been it, if we wanted to have a representative at this event we should have found someone lower down the food chain in the Irish political system.\"\n\nA decision has yet to be taken by the SDLP as to who will attend the service.\n\nIts leader Colum Eastwood said: \"Given the choice between remaining in the trenches of the last 100 years or reaching out to build a new future, I know which side I want to be on.\"\n\nPresident Michael D Higgins declined an invitation to the event\n\nThe British and Irish heads of state, the Queen and President Higgins, were both invited.\n\nThe president's decision provoked criticism in Northern Ireland, with Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson saying it was a \"disappointing and retrograde step\".\n\nIn September, President Higgins defended his decision to decline his invitation.\n\nOn Thursday, Church of Ireland primate Archbishop John McDowell said the church leaders \"absolutely respect\" the decision of anyone who declines an invitation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking on RTÉ radio, he insisted the organisers had chosen their words carefully in describing the service as \"marking\" the centenary.\n\n\"Not commemorate, not celebrate but to mark - which is a neutral phase - which allows for a very wide interpretation,\" he said.\n\n\"And it will include, and always has been planned to include, those who will want to say very clearly that partition, and the legacy of partition, have been a bitter experience for them.\"\n\nBBC News NI has seen a copy of the letter sent by the church leaders on 4 October to people invited to service.\n\nIt says: \"The service will provide the opportunity for honest reflection on the past 100 years, including an acknowledgement of different perceptions, with the recognition of failures and hurts.\n\n\"It will, however, also have a clear affirmation of our shared commitment to building a future marked by peace, reconciliation and a commitment to the common good.\"\n\nThose invited to the service have been asked to reply by 13 October.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nPeople in Wales can look forward to a more normal Christmas than last year - as long as nothing unexpected happens - Mark Drakeford has said. Setting out his autumn and winter plan, the first minister said he expected businesses to be able to stay open. But if unexpected pressures emerge, such as a new variant which risks overwhelming the NHS, restrictions could be reintroduced.\n\nPeople who took part in trials of Covid vaccines which haven't been approved yet will be offered two doses of another vaccine from next week, health officials say. It means more than 15,000 volunteers who received Novavax or other jabs will finally be able to travel abroad with fewer restrictions. Darren Green, 51, who received Novavax in a trial, said he \"felt a bit emotional\" when he heard the news and he would no longer have to cancel a trip abroad with friends.\n\nDarren Green and his wife, Linda, were volunteers in the Novavax trial and said they were \"delighted\"\n\nThere's more good news for travellers, after the Foreign Office lifted its advice to avoid holidays in 51 destinations, including the Bahamas, Jamaica and Cameroon. The change will make it easier for visitors to get travel insurance - but people should still check for other entry requirements such as proof of vaccination or testing and quarantine rules. Meanwhile, the transport secretary has said he hopes to relax rules on testing in time for families returning from half-term holidays at the end of October. There are plans to allow fully vaccinated people coming to England to take a cheaper lateral flow test, rather than a PCR test, two days after their arrival. But Grant Shapps did not give an exact date for when the requirements would change. Catch up on the latest changes to the UK's travel rules here.\n\nThe US added a disappointing 194,000 jobs in September, as the Delta variant of coronavirus continued to drag on the economy, official figures show. The unemployment rate fell from 5.2% in August to 4.8% - but with 7.7 million out of work, unemployment remained considerably higher than before the pandemic. The data was collected in mid-September, when the spread of Delta across the US was near its peak, and experts say Americans have been eating out and travelling less, as well as delaying their return to the office because of this.\n\nA professor who recovered from Covid is to sing a new piece of choral music based on the diaries of nurses who treated him when he was in intensive care. Prof Peter Johnstone, 72, spent nearly three months at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, last year. Later this month he'll be one of the singers at the London premiere of the work, which features lyrics based on diaries written at the end of each shift to help fill the gaps in his memory when he regained consciousness.\n\nProf Peter Johnstone said the NHS nurses' diaries were the \"most heart-warming documents I've ever read\"\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nTo see how the vaccine rollout is going in the UK, check out our visual guide 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.", "There have been big changes to the Covid-19 restrictions in Northern Ireland over recent months\n\nThe past few months have seen many Covid restrictions eased in Northern Ireland, after a long period of lockdown.\n\nBut Stormont ministers, who decide what to relax and when, have kept some measures in place.\n\nBBC News NI explains what rules remain and how Northern Ireland compares to other parts of the UK and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nAs one of the first measures introduced when the pandemic took hold last March, businesses and people have had to rapidly adjust to keeping their distance.\n\nNow, the legal requirement for social distancing outdoors no longer exists in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt has been removed for shops, cinemas, theatres and many other indoor settings while social distancing will no longer be required in bars, restaurants and cafes from 31 October.\n\nSome hospitality businesses say the social distancing requirement is affecting their trade\n\nThe executive has asked some sectors to put in place mitigations including proof of double vaccination or a negative lateral flow test.\n\nBut this will be advice and not legally enforceable.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, physical distancing rules remain in place across many sectors but that is due to end by 22 October, under the government's plan to lift almost all remaining restrictions.\n\nAlthough face coverings are no longer mandatory in many places in England, those rules do not apply in Northern Ireland.\n\nInstead, people must still wear them on public transport, in shops and a number of other settings - unless they are exempt.\n\nScotland and Wales have also maintained the rules on face coverings.\n\nHealth officials are thought to be in favour of keeping the restrictions on face coverings in place\n\nSince July, people going to places of worship in Northern Ireland no longer have to wear a face covering during the service, but it's still the law to wear them when entering and exiting the building.\n\nHealth officials in Northern Ireland are thought to be in favour of keeping the restrictions on face coverings in place.\n\nAny decision on their continued use will have to be agreed by the five parties in the Stormont executive, who may take different views.\n\nNorthern Ireland still has the lowest rate of first dose vaccination in the UK - a factor the executive will have to take into consideration when deciding whether to ease any further restrictions.\n\nOn Monday 16 August, the rules on self-isolation in Northern Ireland changed.\n\nClose contacts of those who test positive for Covid no longer have to automatically self-isolate - as long as two weeks have passed since they received their second dose of the vaccine.\n\nThey are still advised to take an additional PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) Covid test on day two and eight of the process.\n\nIf the result is positive, they need to self-isolate just like anyone else.\n\nRules on self-isolation for close contacts will change on Monday\n\nHospitality had faced some of the toughest restrictions during the pandemic but in recent months those rules have been cut back.\n\nFor instance, there are no longer limits on the amount of people allowed to sit at a table and table service is no longer mandatory.\n\nNightclubs will be allowed to reopen from 31 October, a move that has already happened in Great Britain.\n\nWedding and civil partnership receptions no longer have to operate with limited numbers and dancing and live music is allowed.\n\nConcerts can take place indoors and, from 14 October, people attending performances at indoor venues will no longer have stay seated.\n\nRules on the number of people allowed to meet at home still remain in place in Northern Ireland, unlike in England, Scotland or Wales, although they have been eased significantly.\n\nFrom 14 October, the limit will move from 15 people from four households to 30 from an unlimited number of households.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, people who are fully vaccinated can meet together indoors with no limit on numbers.\n\nPupils in Northern Ireland returned to the classroom in August.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland were issued with new guidance from the Public Health Agency (PHA), based on Department of Health (DoH) policy guidance.\n\nThe new guidance advised that pupils and staff who are identified as close contacts of a positive case, but have no symptoms themselves, do not have to self-isolate if they have recently tested positive for the virus.\n\nOther close contacts, who have not received a positive test within the previous 90 days, do have to self-isolate, but they can reduce their 10-day period of self-isolation if they have a negative PCR test result.\n\nHowever, there have been concerns over the number of children missing class, with more than half of pupils at one school being sent home as close contacts.\n\nPreviously, ministers had agreed that the system of \"bubbles\", where children only mix within a fixed year or class group will be removed.\n\nFace coverings in classrooms will be back for the new school year for some pupils\n\nHowever they decided to retain face coverings for post-primary students in classrooms for the first six weeks of term, subject to a review.\n\nIn Scotland, pupils and teachers in secondary schools will continue to wear face coverings and the 1m social distancing rule will remain for at least the first six weeks of term.\n\nPeople in England are no longer being asked to work from home, but in Northern Ireland advice remains to work from home where possible.\n\nSimilar advice remains in place in Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nStormont ministers discussed the issue in August but it is understood health officials advised keeping the guidance in place.\n\nIn recent months, Stormont ministers have continued to urge employers to be flexible, and adhere to public health advice as much as possible.\n\nAfter ministers agreed to remove social distancing in indoor venues such as theatres and shops, ministers asked some sectors to put in place mitigations including proof of double vaccination or a negative lateral flow test.\n\nBut this will be advice and not legally enforceable.\n\nHowever, it is understood that Department of Health Department of Health will now progress work to develop a digital vaccine passport scheme, but ministers will have to decide whether to deploy it.\n\nIt is thought the scheme could be ready by November.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she did not to have to enact a mandatory scheme, and hoped businesses would voluntarily comply with executive advice.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, proof of vaccination is now required in order to enter pubs and restaurants.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a number of music and sporting events have already said people must prove they have had both vaccines, or provide evidence of a negative Covid-19 test up to 48 hours before the event, in order to gain entry.\n\nWhen it comes to travelling abroad, at present people in Northern Ireland can also apply for vaccine certification from the Department of Health.", "Recently sacked Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has urged the prime minister not to water down planning reforms to enable more house building.\n\nSources have told the BBC the changes - which would help meet a pledge to build 300,000 new homes - are being paused amid a backlash among Conservative MPs.\n\nMr Jenrick's successor Michael Gove is said to want to address the concerns.\n\nBut Mr Jenrick told the BBC's Newscast a government with a big majority must tackle difficult issues.\n\nThe Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said it remained \"committed\" to meeting its housing targets.\n\nIn his Conservative Party conference speech on Wednesday, Boris Johnson promised to end declining property ownership among young people by constructing more houses in England.\n\nThe government has pledged to build 300,000 new homes a year. To achieve that, a blueprint published last summer said the current regime - where local planning officials assess applications case-by-case - should replaced with new rules based on zones.\n\nCouncils would have to classify all land in their area as \"protected\", for \"renewal\", or for \"growth\", which ministers argued would speed up developments.\n\nIn addition, each council would have to plan for a share of homes from the government's annual house building target for England.\n\nSeveral Conservative MPs, concerned about the size and nature of potential developments in their constituencies, have spoken out against the plans, which are also opposed by Labour.\n\nIn June, the Conservatives lost the previously safe seat of Chesham and Amersham to the Liberal Democrats in a by-election, in part due to concerns over more house building in the area.\n\nIn September, government sources told the BBC they were pausing the reforms, following the cabinet reshuffle in which Mr Jenrick was sacked.\n\nBut Mr Jenrick told Newscast ministers should not \"bottle\" making the changes.\n\n\"Housing is one of those areas where you can make a huge difference, helping people onto the housing ladder, reducing the cost of living, increasing productivity, helping small businesses,\" Mr Jenrick said.\n\n\"It cuts across all of the government's priorities, so I strongly, strongly urge the prime minister to stick with it.\"\n\nMr Jenrick also said a government with an 80-strong majority in the House of Commons was in an \"incredibly fortunate\" position and should be trying to tackle difficult questions.\n\nA Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities spokesperson said: \"We remain committed to continuing our progress towards our target of 300,000 homes a year by the mid-2020s.\n\n\"We are currently reviewing departmental programmes and we will come forward with our proposals for reform of the planning system in due course.\"", "A man has pleaded not guilty to murdering police community support officer Julia James.\n\nMs James, 53, was found with fatal head injuries next to Akholt Wood, near Dover, on 27 April, leading to a large police investigation.\n\nCallum Wheeler, 21, from Aylesham, appeared at Maidstone Crown Court accused of her murder.\n\nThe court heard his trial, which was previously set for 29 November, has been delayed.\n\nWheeler was remanded in custody and a new trial date will be set as soon as possible.\n\nPolice officers from all over the country were drafted in to comb nearby fields and woodland following Ms James' death.\n\nThe support officer, who had worked for Kent Police since 2008, was found with her Jack Russell dog Toby by her side.\n\nHer family praised her as \"fiercely loyal\" and someone who \"loved with her whole heart\".\n\nIn a tribute released by police, they said: \"Her loss will be felt by us every moment of every day. She will be so sorely missed.\n\n\"As a family we are trying to understand how we will navigate our lives without her, it seems an impossible task.\"\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. Rashford told BBC Breakfast the situation many now found themselves in \"reminds me of... when I was younger\"\n\nManchester United star Marcus Rashford said receiving an honorary doctorate for his work to tackle child poverty was \"bittersweet\" as it came as the £20 top-up to universal credit ended.\n\nAccepting the award from the University of Manchester, he said removing the temporary increase \"could see child poverty rise to one-in-three children\".\n\nMr Rashford called for an end to what he said was a \"child hunger pandemic\".\n\nNo 10 said the top-up was designed to help in the pandemic's toughest times.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer praised Mr Rashford's \"very, very powerful\" comments and said the government was now \"effectively turning on the poorest\".\n\nHe promised a Labour government would retain the £20 uplift pending an overhaul of the benefits system, including the abolition of universal credit.\n\n\"It would stay, we wouldn't make the cut, we would then replace it with something better,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer: \"This is going to drive families and children into poverty\"\n\nMr Rashford, 23, became the university's youngest recipient of an honorary award at a special ceremony at his club's Old Trafford stadium on Thursday.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, he said the situation many now found themselves in \"reminds me of... when I was younger\".\n\nThe England forward added: \"You've got to decide between - are you going to eat or are you going to be warm in the house?\n\n\"These are decisions that you don't want people to go through, never mind children.\n\n\"And there's other stuff, the price of fuel and electricity and there's actually a shortage of food at the moment... as some of the food banks I work with are experiencing.\n\n\"So there's other things that people are worrying about and, if we can take one less stress off them, it's important.\"\n\nMr Rashford said receiving the honorary doctorate was \"bittersweet\" since it came as \"millions of families across the UK lost a lifeline and a means of staying afloat\".\n\nThe £20-a-week increase to universal credit, which was brought in to support those on low incomes during the pandemic, was withdrawn on Tuesday.\n\nMr Rashford urged MPs to meet those who had been receiving the increased benefit.\n\n\"It's time that representatives got out into communities like mine,\" he said. \"It's time they saw first-hand the true measure of struggle.\n\n\"Covid-19 can no longer be used as an excuse.\"\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Breakfast: \"If you want to carry on with that uplift you need to find £6bn from somewhere.\n\n\"Inevitably that means taxing people on their PAYE, maybe putting the cost of fuel up even more, even though it's at record levels or something else.\n\n\"Nothing is free when you're making these decisions.\"\n\nManchester United's chief operating officer Collette Roche said the club was \"so proud\" of Rashford\n\nIn June 2020, Mr Rashford called on the government to reverse a decision not to provide free school meal vouchers, saying that \"the system isn't built for families like mine to succeed\".\n\nHe was later made an MBE for services to vulnerable children.\n\nIn September, it was announced pupils starting media studies GCSEs would study the impact of his campaigning.\n\nAuthor and broadcaster Lemn Sissay, the university's chancellor, said Mr Rashford being honoured was a \"highlight\" of his tenure.\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\nManchester United's former manager Sir Alex Ferguson, who was previously honoured by the university, joined Mr Rashford's family and friends at the ceremony.\n\nThe striker said \"to be in the presence of a great such as Sir Alex\", and the people who had \"played a huge role in my journey\" was \"special\".\n\nManchester United's chief operating officer Collette Roche said the club was \"so proud\".\n\n\"He is a young man who embodies everything which this club stands for,\" she said.\n\n\"He is humble, he is passionate and he is driven to succeed in everything he does.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said the universal credit top-up was always a \"temporary measure, designed to help claimants through the toughest stages of the pandemic\".\n\n\"But we are now seeing our economy starting to bounce back so our focus is rightly on helping people back into high-quality, well-paid jobs,\" they said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stephen Port presented a very different version of himself online (left)\n\nSerial killer Stephen Port was identified by police as a \"significant witness\" with a rape allegation against him hours after his first victim was found dead, an inquest has heard.\n\nAnthony Walgate was discovered slumped outside Port's flat in Barking, east London, following an anonymous early-hours 999 call in June 2014.\n\nPort was identified as the caller that morning and Met Police officers then spoke to him as a witness.\n\nHe later killed three more young men.\n\nThe first senior officer to attend the scene said he was unaware of a serious sexual offence allegation against Port dating back to 2012, which had been noted by the borough commander that day.\n\nThe jury heard that it would have been usual for the senior officer to be told about the allegation that Port had raped a male on New Year's Eve in 2012 at his flat.\n\nA crime report also shown to the court revealed that the complainant had gone further and described several different occasions of non-consensual sex after he had been plied with drugs and alcohol.\n\nMr Walgate was found dead by medics outside Stephen Port's flat in Cooke Street\n\nThe men Port killed died after he administered fatal doses of the drug GHB.\n\nPort was later convicted of lying to police about the circumstances of Mr Walgate's death. He was jailed, but before he went to prison he managed to kill Gabriel Kovari and Daniel Whitworth, and once released he killed Jack Taylor.\n\nFollowing a trial at the Old Bailey in 2016, Port was found guilty of all four murders and sentenced to a whole-life term.\n\nThe inquest at Barking Town Hall is examining whether police mistakes cost the lives of some of the victims by failing to stop Port sooner.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Old Street roundabout was blocked by protesters\n\nPolice have arrested 35 Insulate Britain protesters who blocked a major road in central London and a junction on the M25 during rush hour.\n\nThe Old Street roundabout and junction 25 of the motorway, at Waltham Cross in Hertfordshire, have reopened after long tailbacks.\n\nThe Met Police said 16 arrests had been made on the M25 for obstructing the highway, with another 19 at Old Street.\n\nHe told LBC: \"It's dangerous, it's really outrageous, and actually, ironically, it probably adds to pollution as cars idle, waiting... for them to be unglued from the road.\"\n\nActivists again glued themselves to roads...\n\nMr Shapps added that he had applied for more than 100 court injunctions covering the national highway network around London and the South East, which could lead to jail terms.\n\nThe action marks the 12th day in the past four weeks that Insulate Britain has carried out road protests.\n\nThe activists want the government to commit to providing insulation for 29 million homes.\n\nOn Tuesday, drivers clashed with protesters at the entrance to the Blackwall Tunnel where 38 people were arrested.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Motorist: \"I need to go to the hospital, please let me pass. How can you be so selfish?\"\n\nInsulate Britain admitted that its latest action on the M25 was \"in breach\" of an injunction obtained by the government last month.\n\nHowever Tracey Mallagan, a spokeswoman for the group, said: \"If governments don't act soon to reduce emissions, we face a terrifying situation.\n\n\"We won't be worrying about shortages of pasta or loo rolls because law and order breaks down pretty quickly when there is not enough food to go round.\"\n\nThe government has said it is investing £1.3bn to support people to install energy efficiency measures.", "Nationwide protests against the Texas ban took place last week\n\nSome Texas abortion clinics have reopened amid fears that a legal ruling which halted the state's near-total abortion ban may be short-lived.\n\nOther clinics have reported that concerns over lawsuits have prevented them from reopening.\n\nOn Wednesday, a US judge temporarily blocked the new law, which effectively bans women from having an abortion.\n\nTexas officials appealed against the ruling, setting the stage for further court battles in the coming months.\n\nAbortion care provider Whole Woman's Health, which runs four clinics across Texas, said it had already resumed offering abortion care on Thursday.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, Amy Hagstrom Miller, the firm's founder, said there had been an immediate spike in inquiries from patients seeking abortions in the wake of the judge's decision.\n\n\"Phone call volume has increased. There's actually hope from patients and staff,\" she said. \"There's a little desperation in that hope. Folks know this opportunity could be short-lived.\"\n\nDistrict Judge Robert Pittman's 113-page ruling earlier this week granted a request from the Biden administration to prevent enforcement of the law while its legality was being challenged.\n\nThis is the first legal setback for Texas since the law - which was drafted and approved by Republican politicians - was implemented.\n\nThe law effectively bans abortions from as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, at a time when most women will not be aware they are pregnant.\n\nDespite the injunction, some clinics remain hesitant to resume procedures as there is uncertainty over whether they could be sued retroactively if the law is re-instated.\n\nThe controversial law can be enforced by any individual from Texas or elsewhere, giving people the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past the six-week point. Women who get the procedure, however, cannot be sued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The impact of the strictest anti-abortion law in the US\n\nThe law includes a provision that stipulates clinics and doctors may still be liable for abortions carried out while an emergency injunction is in place, legal experts say.\n\nIt remains unclear whether such a provision can be enforced, with Judge Pittman saying in his ruling that it is \"of questionable legality\".\n\nMs Miller said that both patients and staff at Whole Woman's Health were worried about the possibility of retroactive lawsuits.\n\nOther abortion clinics said they were taking a cautious approach to resuming abortion care services.\n\nSources within Planned Parenthood's affiliate South Texas - which operates seven clinics in San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley - said that it remained unclear when they would resume providing abortion care.\n\nAmong the factors preventing an immediate restart of services, sources said, are concerns about retroactive lawsuits along with the possibility of trauma for patients who may get an appointment while the emergency injunction is in place but are forced to cancel later.\n\nAn abortion doctor working at an independent facility in Texas - who asked to remain anonymous - told the BBC he and other reproductive specialists were \"not optimistic\" about the possibility of the appeal from Texas officials.\n\n\"We're going right back to where the law was on 1 September. This will be the most conservative appeals court in the US,\" he said, referring to the conservative-leaning Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, where Texas intends to appeal the ruling.\n\n\"They're going to overrule the federal judge, and it's going to go back to where it was, and we're going to be in the same boat.\"\n\nSupporters of the law have harshly criticised the judge's decision.\n\nThe anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life, for example, accused judges of \"catering to the abortion industry\" and called for a \"fair hearing\" at the next stage.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 1 and 8 October.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nSolo rower: Frank Urban took this image of a \"stunning sunrise\" on the Forth and Clyde Canal.\n\nBench boost: A \"dally among the dahlias\" at the walled garden in Belleisle Park, Ayr, sent in by Eilean Low.\n\nBlown away: Diana Carswell took a stroll along a breezy Southern Upland Way between Killantringan Lighthouse and Portpatrick.\n\nSeeing double: \"I checked and yes, there is an area called Glenelg on the red planet,\" says Judith McIntyre.\n\nGone fishing: David Rae caught the end of the season on a \"perfect afternoon\" on Loch Macaterick in the Galloway Forest.\n\nMull it over: Nick Crowther snapped the view from his ferry window on his way to the island.\n\nChilly dippers: Colin Tennant caught these \"enthusiastic swimmers\" in Rigg Bay for an event being held as part of Wigtown Book Festival.\n\nGreat Scott: Sir Walter's \"wee but and ben\" - Abbotsford House - from Jim McLean.\n\nStorm warning: Carolyn Eva saw this ominous sky while looking down the Cromarty Firth.\n\nHigh flyer: Sunset at Cramond beach, Edinburgh, as Emma Campbell captured \"father and daughter in the autumn sun\".\n\nExpressive eyes: Storm, a 10-metre tall puppet made of recycled materials, at Irvine beach from Shirley Weir.\n\nBending branches: \"Looking down over the Forth Valley from Balerno,\" says James Simpson.\n\nBright lights: Lyndsey Hart sent in this image of the River Clyde at night.\n\nLet us prey: \"Had to stop to catch my breath and whilst doing so became aware of this kestrel hovering overhead,\" says Mike Tolmie, at Dechmont Hill in Livingston. \"Luckily there was a break in the clouds and the light caught his plumage wonderfully\".\n\nTo the fore: A rainbow lands on the famous links at St Andrews during the final round of the Alfred Dunhill Links, from Ross Anderson.\n\nCountryside colours: Jason Turner spotted this section of the Colinton Tunnel mural depicting local wildlife.\n\nMellow yellow: \"I loved this bright scene taken at Craigtoun Country Park in St Andrews,\" says Emma Legge.\n\nSeals of approval: This group were spotted \"soaking up the sun\" in Gruniard Bay by Jane Sayliss.\n\nNifty shades of grey: An atmospheric black and white image of Loch Ness from Andrew Millar.\n\nMillport bound: The ferry leaving Largs for Cumbrae at sunset taken by Daniel Anderson.\n\nSalmon special: Tom Kelly says it was \"incredible\" to watch them leaping on the River Almond in Perthshire.\n\nOn the wing: \"A small Tortoiseshell butterfly feeding on the last of this year's sunflowers,\" says Mo Griffiths.\n\nNature's umbrella: \"An ant's perspective of a mushroom,\" says Allan Brooks.\n\nStunning scene: \"We were on our first family holiday since lockdown this week and imagine my delight to have snapped this picture of Bow Fiddle Rock whilst we were touring round Aberdeenshire,\" says Joanna Skwarski.\n\nEasy tiger: Taken at the Highland Wildlife Park, Kincraig near Aviemore, by Jim Casey.\n\nFish course: This hungry heron was pictured by Dave Stewart at Water of Leith, Edinburgh.\n\nAn uplifting photo: Gordon Bain captured this Coastguard and RNLI exercise shot at Kessock.\n\nTowering beauty: \"Dun Na Cuaiche tower at Inveraray through the arch on the Oban road\", says Eileen Lea.\n\nBlue sky thinking: \"I took this photo while running in the Pentland Hills\", says Lachlan Gillies. \"I didn’t look at the photo until I got home but when I tapped on one of the filters this amazing picture emerged which seemed to drape the sky over the electrical cables between the pylons\".\n\nCapital sun: \"The setting sun over Edinburgh caught my eye from the Longniddry shoreline with Arthur's Seat, the Calton Hill and the castle being prominent on the skyline\", says Curtis Welsh.\n\nCastles in the sky: \"A crystal clear autumn sky brilliantly shows off Edinburgh Castle in silhouette form\", says Johnston Craig.\n\nRays expectations: \"Sunset on the Holy Loch, Sandbank\", says Neil Lea, rounds off the day - and this week's gallery - in spectacular fashion.\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.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pictures show the scene at the mosque after the suicide bomb attack\n\nA suicide bomb attack on a mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz has killed at least 50 people, officials say, in the deadliest assault since US forces left.\n\nBodies were seen scattered inside the Said Abad mosque, used by the minority Shia Muslim community.\n\nMore than 100 people were injured in the blast in the northern city.\n\nThe Islamic State group said it was behind the attack. Sunni Muslim extremists have targeted Shias who they see as heretics.\n\nIS-K, the Afghan regional affiliate of the IS group that is violently opposed to the governing Taliban, has carried out several bombings recently, largely in the east of the country.\n\nMore than 300 people are believed to have been attending Friday prayers when the attack happened\n\nAn IS suicide bomber reportedly detonated an explosive vest as worshippers gathered inside the mosque for Friday prayers.\n\nZalmai Alokzai, a local businessman who rushed to a hospital to check whether doctors needed blood donations, described seeing chaotic scenes after the attack.\n\n\"Ambulances were going back to the incident scene to carry the dead,\" he told AFP news agency.\n\nLocal security officials were quoted by Tolo News as saying that more than 300 people were attending the prayers when the attack happened.\n\nThere are fears that the death toll will rise further.\n\nThe United Nations said Friday's bombing was a \"third deadly attack this week apparently targeting a religious institution\" and was part of a \"disturbing pattern of violence\".\n\nThe UN referred to Sunday's bombing near a mosque in the capital Kabul that left several people dead, and an assault on a madrassa (educational institution) in the eastern city of Khost on Wednesday.\n\nMeanwhile the US said diplomats would on Saturday hold the first in-person talks with Taliban leaders since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\nDuring the two days of meetings the US would press the Taliban to respect women's rights, form an inclusive government and allow humanitarian agencies to operate, a state department spokesperson said.\n\nIS-K, the group that targeted Kabul airport in a devastating bombing in August, has repeatedly targeted Afghanistan's Shia minority in the past. Suicide bombers have struck mosques, sports clubs and schools. In recent weeks, IS has also stepped up a campaign of attacks against the Taliban.\n\nIS targeted a funeral prayer service attended by a number of senior Taliban leaders in Kabul on Sunday, and there have been a spate of smaller attacks in the eastern provinces of Nangarhar and Kunar, where IS previously had its stronghold.\n\nFriday's attack, if it has been carried out by IS as they claim, would mark a grim expansion of their activities into the north of the country. The Taliban say they have arrested dozens of members of IS and are believed to have killed others suspected of links to the group, but publicly they have also played down the threat IS poses.\n\nMany Afghans hoped that the Taliban's takeover would at least herald a more peaceful, if authoritarian, era. But IS represents a significant threat to the Taliban's promise of improved security.\n\nThe Taliban took control of Afghanistan after foreign forces withdrew from the country at the end of August following a deal agreed with the US.\n\nIt came two decades after US forces had removed the militants from power in 2001.", "Former US President Donald Trump \"grossly exaggerated\" the profitability of his Washington DC hotel, a probe by a congressional committee has found.\n\nIt also said he appeared to hide \"potential conflicts of interest\".\n\nThe Trump International Hotel lost over $70m (£51.3m) during his term, though Mr Trump had previously claimed it earned at least $150m during that time.\n\nThe Trump Organization has denied wrongdoing and called the report \"misleading\".\n\nIn a statement, the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform said that documents provided by the General Services Administration (GSA) - which oversees federal spending - showed that Mr Trump had \"grossly exaggerated the financial health\" of the hotel.\n\nLosses forced Mr Trump's holding company to inject at least $24m to help the struggling hotel, located just a few blocks from the White House, the committee said.\n\nThe report also found Mr Trump seemed to have \"concealed potential conflicts of interest\" related to his ownership of the hotel and his roles as its lender and the guarantor of third-party loans.\n\nNewly obtained documents show that the hotel received $3.7m in payments from foreign governments - enough to cover 7,400 nights at the hotel on an average daily rate, according to the committee.\n\nThe lawmakers said that the amount raised concerns about potential violations of constitutional regulations aimed at preventing foreign influence on federal officials.\n\nThe oversight report found that during the four years of his administration, Mr Trump also received \"significant financial benefit\" from Deutsche Bank.\n\nThe Democrat-led committee said this allowed Mr Trump to delay making payments on a $170m loan for six years, and that he did not publicly disclose this benefit from a foreign bank while president.\n\nLawmakers have asked for additional documents from the GSA on the hotel, including on foreign payments and loans.\n\nIn a statement sent to the media, the Trump Organization called the report \"intentionally misleading, irresponsible and unequivocally false\" and described it as \"political harassment\".\n\nThe hotel was opened to the public in September 2016, several weeks after Mr Trump accepted the Republican Party's nomination for president.\n\nIn 2017, Mr Trump resigned from his companies, and placed them in a trust to be run by his sons.\n\nBut the Office of Government Ethics said at the time that Mr Trump's plan didn't \"meet the standards\" of former presidents. In 2019, an internal GSA watchdog said the agency had chosen to \"ignore\" the Constitution when allowing the Trump Hotel to keep its lease after Mr Trump's election.\n\nThe Trump Organization has been looking for buyers for the 263-room hotel since 2019, but has so far been unable to sell the property.", "The powder should be mixed with water to make a drink\n\nDoctors are being warned about a dangerous pre-workout trend called dry scooping that some gym-goers are doing.\n\nIt involves eating powder supplements neat, rather than diluting them in water, as recommended by manufacturers, to make a drink.\n\nResearchers, who are giving a talk at a US medical conference, are worried young teens may try it, spurred on by a flurry of internet videos of the fad.\n\nThey scanned TikTok, counting the millions of likes.\n\nPre-workout powders typically contain lots of amino acids, vitamins and other ingredients, such as caffeine.\n\nThe idea is to give the body a boost before a workout to help stamina, although the science around it is patchy.\n\nBut there are known risks from taking on too many energy-boosting stimulants.\n\nA big dose of caffeine, for example, can cause heart-related side effects, including palpitations and extra or missed beats.\n\nA scoop of powder might pack as much caffeine as five cups of coffee, say the researchers from the Cohen Children's Medical Center in New York.\n\nThis jolt can cause \"an increase in blood pressure and heart rate, potentially leading to disturbances in heart rhythm\".\n\nAnd accidentally inhaling the powder into the lungs could cause choking or an infection or pneumonia, say the researchers.\n\nIn the UK, the products are regulated as foods rather than medicines, but must be deemed safe for consumption to be able to be sold in shops to people 18 and over.\n\nSome powders sold online may not be from reputable suppliers or contain the ingredients listed on the pack.\n\nSeveral have since been banned for containing substances such as a synthetic amphetamine called DMAA and a stimulant called synephrine.\n\nRecent newspaper articles have also highlighted the dangers after a 20-year-old social media influencer from the US, called Briatney Portillo, posted about purportedly having a heart attack that she links to dry scooping.\n\nThe study researchers analysed 100 videos posted on the TikTok social network channel, using the hashtag \"preworkout\" for their search.\n\nOnly eight of them showed the powder being used in the correct way.\n\nMore than 30 featured dry scooping, with individuals putting a scoop of undiluted powder into their mouth followed by a few sips of water or liquid.\n\nThese amassed more than eight million likes.\n\nThe researchers warn in their presentation for the American Academy of Pediatrics meeting: \"Physicians should be aware of the pervasiveness of pre-workout, dangerous methods of consumption, and the potential for accidental over-consumption, inhalation, and injury.\"\n\nNutrition scientist Bridget Benelam, from the British Nutrition Foundation, said: \"Pre-workout powders typically contain caffeine along with other ingredients such as creatine, amino acids and vitamins.\n\n\"There doesn't appear to be much research on the benefits of these products, although there is some evidence that caffeine may improve sports performance in some cases. These studies are typically done in athletes, and so it's not clear how relevant this is for the wider population.\n\n\"The levels of caffeine in these products vary from the equivalent of about one to over three cups of filter coffee, if made up according to the manufacturer's instructions.\n\n\"So, there is a risk of over-consuming caffeine, especially if using more than once a day, or just consuming the powder, where you may consume more than the recommended amount.\"\n\nKeeping hydrated by having enough water or fluid as you exercise is also important.", "It was Julie Nicholson's eyes that first started turning yellow\n\nOne weekend last year, Julie Nicholson started turning \"golden yellow\" but she was unaware that she had a dangerous medical condition.\n\nThe 52-year-old, from Armadale in West Lothian, says her husband noticed it first and they put it down to her being dehydrated from working 15-hour days so she started to drink lots of water.\n\n\"I didn't feel ill, but the next day in the shower I could see my skin was yellow and my kids were saying my skin looked a funny colour,\" she says.\n\nThe following day she called her doctor and they arranged for her to have blood tests.\n\nShe says: \"As soon as I saw the doctor, she noticed straight away I was yellow.\n\n\"By now I had turned Marge Simpson yellow, I could have played her in a stage show, I was that yellow. It was so scary.\"\n\nJulie Nicholson said she turned the colour of cartoon character Marge Simpson (L)\n\nStill unaware of how serious her condition was, Julie went home where she continued working as a data privacy officer for drinks giant Diageo.\n\n\"I was in a Zoom meeting the following day when my phone wouldn't stop ringing, so eventually I thought I had better answer it,\" she says.\n\n\"It was my doctor and she was saying I had to report immediately to the medical centre.\"\n\nJulie was then sent to hospital as staff said she was turning more yellow by the minute.\n\nShe had an ultrasound and a CT scan, which found a blockage in her bile duct.\n\n\"They said you have a tumour, it's probably cancer and where it is we have to operate,\" Julie says.\n\nJulie says: \"They told me it was a dangerous whipple operation and of the death rate on the operating table.\n\n\"My dad was with me, as I hadn't wanted to bother my husband at work, and he went pure white.\"\n\nHalf of her pancreas, the gall bladder and bile duct and some of her small intestine were removed.\n\nShe lost two-and-a-half stones in weight and was in hospital, including intensive care, for a month.\n\nHer daughter had given birth to her first grandchild, Havanah May, so she wanted to convalesce at home.\n\nJulie Nicholson was delighted to meet her new grandchild, Havanah May, when she was well enough to leave hospital\n\nJulie says her husband saved her life by noticing she was turning yellow.\n\nKeith, a forklift driver, said: \"When I noticed Julie's eyes were going awful yellow I immediately put it down to the hours she works and told her she must be dehydrated.\n\n\"She's working when I go to work and is still working when I return from my shift.\n\n\"But the next day she was even yellower, despite drinking water, and her skin was a golden colour. We didn't know what it was, it was weird what was happening to her.\n\n\"You hear of things like this happening to other people but you never think it's going to happen in your own household.\"\n\nJulie started turning yellow in March 2020. She had an operation and then several rounds of chemotherapy and could not walk without a Zimmer frame. Her husband had to wash her and took three months off work to care for her.\n\nSince then, Julie has undergone intervention for serious wounds after her operation.\n\nShe only started recovering back to full strength in the summer 2021.\n\nJulie walked the John Muir Way to raise money for AMMF - a charity that does research into cholangiocarcinoma - the official title for bile duct cancer\n\nIn August, she completed a 134-mile (216km) walk of the whole John Muir Way from Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland to Dunbar on the east coast.\n\nBut although she had reached full strength, she still had a lot of anxiety about what had happened.\n\n\"That's when I visited Maggie's Centre and they have been helping me so much. I can speak to them about everything and they don't take notes,\" Julie says.\n\nShe will continue to be regularly monitored at the hospital.\n\nLesley Howells, lead psychologist for Maggie's centre, said: \"Regardless of prognosis, life post-treatment can be hugely challenging.\n\n\"Friends and family might be clapping their hands and saying 'great, normal service resumed', but for the person who has been through the treatment they might feel as if their life has been turned upside down and shaken around.\"\n\nJulie's husband Keith says: \"It was very lucky Julie changed colour or we would never have known something was wrong as she didn't feel any different. It let us know something wasn't right here.\"", "Comedian Rosie Jones has said getting online abuse after appearing on BBC One's Question Time has made her \"more determined\" to speak up for minorities.\n\nJones, who has cerebral palsy, appeared on the programme's panel on Thursday.\n\nShe tweeted: \"The sad thing is that I'm not surprised at the ableist abuse I've received. It's indicative of the country we live in right now.\n\n\"I will keep on speaking up, in my wonderful voice, for what I believe in.\"\n\nThe comedian and actress, who is known for TV shows like 8 Out of 10 Cats and The Last Leg, said the negative reaction had only served to strengthen her resolve.\n\n\"A lot of my job is going on stage and telling silly jokes about my boobies,\" she said on ITV's Loose Women on Friday.\n\n\"So actually to be given a platform where I can speak more seriously about what it's like to be disabled and gay and a woman in this country right now, it feels like such a powerful opportunity.\n\n\"Unfortunately after my appearance last night I got a lot of abuse online about how I look and about how I sound and about my disability, and actually that makes me more determined to speak out for minorities because this country needs to be a better and more accepting place to live in.\"\n\nThe response to Rosie Jones's Question Time appearance underlines an uncomfortable truth - society is used to disability being discussed, but not so much disabled people making their own voices heard.\n\nCultural representation of disability, led by the media, has traditionally been confined to one-note issues of need, such as social care, or Paralympic-esque inspiration narratives. Jones's vocal opinions on a variety of social and political issues challenged this.\n\nThe abuse she received reflects the need for change as disability continues to be the most underrepresented area of diversity across the media. Like her, I have cerebral palsy.\n\nBut Jones's steadfast defiance also proves the power of representation. It's why the BBC has rightly committed to improving representation of disabled talent on and off-screen, in line with disability storylines in Sex Education and Breaking Bad.\n\nSocial media hate doesn't take away words or experiences. Jones's words on Question Time proved that. It does however empower the need for change.\n\nJones was on the political debate programme with Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi, shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy, National Farmers' Union president Minette Batters, and LBC broadcaster Nick Ferrari.\n\nShe received support from the likes of TV presenter and author Richard Osman, fellow comedians Shaparak Khorsandi and Kerry Godliman, and the disability charity Scope.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Osman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nightclubs have been closed in Northern Ireland since March 2021\n\nThe legal requirement for social distancing in bars and restaurants is to be removed.\n\nNightclubs are also to be allowed to reopen, meaning legal restrictions on dancing in venues will be scrapped.\n\nRestrictions will be lifted from 31 October.\n\nA number of mitigations have been agreed and it is thought businesses will be asked to check for vaccine certificates, but this will not be a legal requirement.\n\nMinisters have also agreed to retain the mandatory wearing of face coverings in certain settings.\n\nIt is understood ministers were advised that moving legal regulations on face coverings into guidance would lead to a 30% decline in their use.\n\nThe industry had argued that social distancing requirements were damaging trade.\n\nThe new rules mean people will be able to move around pubs and restaurants and to eat and drink while standing up.\n\nChanges were also announced to the UK travel red list, which has been cut from 54 countries to seven.\n\nMichelle O'Neill and Paul Givan announced the rule changes at Stormont\n\nFirst Minister Paul Givan welcomed the easing of restrictions, particularly for the the hospitality sector, which he said had been hit hard during the pandemic.\n\n\"I'm pleased that at the end of this month they will be able to operate in a much more sustainable and viable way,\" he said.\n\nMr Givan said the sector benefitted from \"a high level of adherence\" to coronavirus restrictions, adding that he believed this would continue.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she was pleased progress had been made at Thursday's executive meeting, but that people should remain cautious.\n\n\"We're in for an uncertain period ahead and we have to work our way through that as best we can,\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said continuing increasing vaccination rates would also be a \"crucially important\" part of the executive's winter planning.\n\nUnder existing rules, social distancing of at least 1m (3ft) remains a legal requirement in pubs, bars and restaurants in Northern Ireland.\n\nFrom Thursday 14 October the restrictions on the number of people allowed to meet inside a home is to be increased from 15 from four households to 30 from an unlimited number of households.\n\nFrom that date, people attending performances at indoor venues will not have to be seated during the performance.\n\nThe executive is now moving to unlock the final stage of pandemic recovery.\n\nNightclubs will finally get to reopen on Halloween and social distancing - something we've lived with as the norm for the past 18 months - will be scrapped.\n\nIt's perhaps no surprise given how that's already the case in Great Britain and the rules south of the Irish border will end this month too.\n\nBut not everything is changing - face coverings will remain - a sign that for some, caution is still needed with Covid.\n\nThe executive has also warned that if things begin to go in the wrong direction again, vaccine passports could then be deployed.\n\nThe Department of Health will now progress work on the system after agreement with Executive Office officials - but the onus on hospitality businesses will be to prove that a mandatory scheme isn't needed.\n\nJohn Leighton, owner of Bennigan's Bar, Londonderry, said easing restrictions for hospitality was fantastic news, which the sector \"had been waiting on for some time\".\n\nHe said it had been a challenging and stressful time for the sector and that the timing to ease restrictions on 31 October was particularly good for Derry's annual Halloween festival.\n\n\"It means we can get back to enjoying ourselves and not having so many things to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"We can get back to a bit more normality.\"\n\nJanice Gault from the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the restrictions which are being removed had presented \"significant challenges\" for businesses which were trying to become fully operational again.\n\nShe said: \"The industry has traded well to date and our primary focus remains the health and well-being of our staff and customers.\n\n\"Winter trade, in a viable manner within a sustainable framework and without further lockdown, is our aim.\"\n\nIn September, the executive agreed to end social distancing restrictions for shops, theatres and a number of other indoor settings.\n\nThey asked some sectors to put in place mitigations including proof of double vaccination or a negative lateral flow test.\n\nBut this is advice and is not legally enforceable.\n\nRobin Swann is frustrated over plans to introduce a vaccine passport\n\nLast week, Health Minister Robin Swann warned that a delay by the executive in agreeing a vaccine passport policy had limited options for easing more restrictions.\n\nThe Department of Health will now progress work to develop the digital scheme, but ministers will have to decide whether to deploy it.\n\nMs O'Neill said she did not want things to reach that point and hoped businesses would voluntarily comply with executive advice and demonstrate they could work safely.\n\nMinisters also discussed a bid from Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey for £55m in funding to mitigate the end of a £20 weekly uplift for people claiming universal credit.\n\nStormont received an extra £180m from the Treasury in September and that money has yet to be distributed.\n\nThe expectation was that most if not all of that money would go on health spending.\n\nMr Givan and Ms O'Neill made clear that Stormont would face major difficulties - both financially and logistically - of stepping in to top up payments\n\nMr Givan said the Executive had to be \"honest\" with the public about the financial position.\n\n\"Now is not the time to be removing this uplift,\" he said.\n\n\"That is happening though this week and the ability, even if the executive had the funding, to do this [top up the payments] isn't there because we don't have the systems, this is administered directly through the Department for Work and Pensions in London.\n\n\"So we don't have the system. And the ability to finance it - we have to be honest with the public.\"", "Maria Ressa did not always plan to become a journalist\n\nShe is the award-winning journalist who has been at the centre of high-profile legal battles in the Philippines and is now the recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize.\n\nTo many, Maria Ressa has become a symbol of the fight for press freedom in a country where journalists are under threat.\n\nBut Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his supporters have accused her of peddling fake news through her website Rappler.\n\nThis is what you need to know about the news boss who enraged the president.\n\nMs Ressa was born in the Philippines, but moved to the US as a child after martial law was declared by Ferdinand Marcos in the early 1970s.\n\n\"I landed in New Jersey, where I could barely speak English, and I had to figure out what a short brown kid was going to do in this big white world,\" she told the BBC's Lyse Doucet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Maria Ressa: \"The battle for this generation will be the battle for truth\" (2019)\n\nShe focused on education and after studying at the prestigious Princeton University, Ms Ressa returned to the Philippines to \"find roots\".\n\n\"I always felt that I wasn't as American as Americans and then I realised when I got back to the Philippines that I was not Filipino.\"\n\nMs Ressa's return to the Philippines coincided with the 1986 People Power Revolution - when Filipinos took to the streets to overthrow Marcos.\n\nMs Ressa grew up in the US\n\nHer move into journalism was initially a way of learning about the country she had grown distant from, but it soon became something more.\n\n\"I realised 'oh my God, somebody will pay me to write a story',\" she said.\n\nHer new career would also lead to her first meeting with Mr Duterte in the 1980s, when he was mayor of Davao city.\n\nShe went on to work in a number of senior media positions - including bureau chief for US network CNN in the Philippines and Indonesia, and head of the news division of Philippine TV channel ABS-CBN.\n\nIn 2012, Ms Ressa co-founded the online news site Rappler, merging \"rap\" meaning to talk and \"ripples\", to make waves.\n\nShe had ambitions of making Rappler the biggest news site in the Philippines, so \"hired the smartest 20-somethings we could find\" and \"embraced social media\".\n\nRappler now has more than 4.5m followers on Facebook and has become known for its intelligent analysis and hard-hitting investigations.\n\nThe site gained a lot of attention in 2015, when Mr Duterte - then Davao mayor - told Ms Ressa he had killed three people.\n\nObservers say Ms Ressa has been central to Rappler's success.\n\n\"First, she has not backed down; she has continued to fight for what she believes in. She also has credibility. She has been in the industry for decades... and has done her job well.\n\n\"Then, she has access to international media and international connections,\" Joi Barrios-LeBlanc, a lecturer with the University of California at Berkeley's Southeast Asian Studies Department, said.\n\nThe BBC's Howard Johnson in Manila describes her as an engaging speaker, with a sharp analytical mind.\n\nShe is skilled at explaining complex social developments to her audience, particularly on the issue of social media and its influence, he adds.\n\nRappler is one of the few Philippine media organisations to be openly critical of Mr Duterte and his policies.\n\nIt has published extensively on the populist president's war on drugs, which has claimed thousands of lives.\n\nMs Ressa has personally reported on the spread of government propaganda on social media, while other Rappler stories have taken a critical look at issues of misogyny, human rights violations and corruption.\n\nIt has not gone unnoticed by Mr Duterte. Speaking to a Rappler reporter in 2018, the president said: \"If you are trying to throw garbage at us, then the least that we can do is explain - how about you? Are you also clean?\"\n\nThat same year, the president announced that he had banned Rappler's reporters from covering his official activities, and the government even revoked the site's operating licence.\n\nMs Ressa was named a Time magazine Person of the Year in 2018\n\nIn 2020, she was found guilty of \"cyber-libel\" in a case seen as a test of the country's media freedom. Rappler and Ms Ressa have also been targeted in other court cases, ranging from tax evasion to foreign ownership violations.\n\nMs Ressa has described all the cases against her as \"political tools\" - an assertion supported by activists and press freedom groups around the world. The government maintains their legitimacy.\n\nMs Barrios-LeBlanc said Ms Ressa had come to represent the plight of journalists in the Philippines, and said \"because she gained the attention of the international press, that is very significant\".\n\nMs Ressa was named a Time Person of the Year in 2018 for steering Rappler \"through a superstorm of the two most formidable forces in the information universe: social media and a populist President with authoritarian inclinations\".\n\nUpon receiving the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, she was commended for using freedom of expression to \"expose abuse of power, use of violence and growing authoritarianism in her native country\".\n\nRachael Jolley, editor of the Index on Censorship magazine, recalled meeting Ms Ressa at a journalism festival before her name was widely known. Even then, she says she quickly came to view her as an \"extraordinarily strong individual to be able to stand up to the government pressure\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLocal journalist Ellen Tordesillas told the BBC Ms Ressa is \"admired as one of those who stood up to Duterte\".\n\nBut these views are not shared by everyone and Ms Ressa has said she is well used to receiving hate mail.\n\nOur correspondent says Ms Ressa's reputation is tied to Mr Duterte's popularity, with his supporters directing much of the narrative about her on social media.\n\n\"With support for Duterte still at a significant high, and his mocking of her in the past, Ressa has been put in a sort of 'elite' category,\" an academic focused on South-East Asian studies, who asked not to be named, told the BBC last year.\n\n\"Her work is brilliant and much needed in keeping Duterte in check, but the populist - and outside of Manila - perception of her in the Philippines is she is 'out of touch'.\"", "The PHA has told schools the email contains \"a number of important inaccuracies\" about the vaccine.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) has warned post primary schools in Northern Ireland about hoax Covid vaccine consent letters.\n\nSome schools have received emails claiming to come from the NHS, which contain a \"consent checklist\" for vaccination.\n\nThe email asks them to share the checklist with parents and pupils.\n\nBut the PHA said \"the false email and 'consent form' content contains a number of important inaccuracies\".\n\nIt should \"not be forwarded to parents,\" the PHA said.\n\nBBC News NI has been contacted by some principals in Northern Ireland whose schools have received the hoax consent forms.\n\nThey are presented as a form with information to be sent to parents ahead of pupils being given Covid vaccinations.\n\nBelow an \"NHS Vaccines\" logo, the consent form includes claims such as the vaccine being a risk for \"strokes, blindness, deafness, clotting, miscarriages, anaphylaxis and cardiovascular disorders\".\n\nAbout 100,000 12 to 15 year olds in Northern Ireland will be offered a jab by the start of December\n\nAs a result, the PHA has written to schools in Northern Ireland warning them that the material is false.\n\n\"Materials include a branded 'consent form' has the look and feel of authoritative NHS communications using a made up NHS vaccines logo,\" the PHA letter said.\n\nThe agency said that some schools elsewhere in the UK had mistakenly circulated the hoax checklist to parents.\n\n\"Please only forward to parents materials that have come from the PHA or your own Trust school nursing teams,\" the PHA told principals.\n\nThe agency has published guidance on the imminent rollout of the vaccine to 12 to 15 year olds in Northern Ireland.\n\nAbout 100,000 children and young people in Northern Ireland will be offered a jab by the start of December.\n\nThe PHA said that information packs for children and parents would \"be delivered to schools in the second to third week of October to make sure that individuals, or those giving consent on their behalf, have enough information to enable them to make a decision before they give consent\".\n\n\"In Northern Ireland, Covid-19 vaccine for school children is being offered at school by the usual Trust school health nursing arrangements,\" the PHA letter to principals said.\n\n\"Schools will be receiving an information pack with more details from the PHA via the Education Authority school systems very shortly.\"", "The seal was pictured beside Belfast Lough with a Red Bull can stuck on its jaw\n\nA search is ongoing for a seal that was spotted in Belfast Lough with a drinks tin can stuck in its lower jaw.\n\nThe seal was spotted on Wednesday by Belfast Harbour Police and Lagan Search and Rescue and \"seemed to be in distress\".\n\nA fresh search got under way at low tide on Friday.\n\nAttempts were made by harbour police to help the animal earlier this week, but it swam away into Belfast Lough and has not been seen since.\n\nSteven Yamin-Ali from Lagan Search and Rescue said the seal is at risk of drowning.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Evening Extra programme, Mr Yamin-Ali said he is hopeful the seal would be spotted.\n\n\"We're probably more concerned about members of the public going to help to seal and then getting into distress,\" he added.\n\nStaff from Exploris Aquarium in Portaferry, County Down, have also been assisting with the search.\n\nAnyone who sees the animal is asked to contact an animal welfare organisations such as the USPCA.\n\nHarbour Police urged visitors to coastal areas to \"take rubbish home with them and dispose of it responsibly to avoid this type of incident occurring,\"", "Shoppers have shared their thoughts on the introduction of Covid passes for nightclubs and large events in Wales.\n\nFrom 11 October, people will be expected to show evidence of being fully vaccinated or having a recent negative Covid test\n\nCardiff lawyer Solemne Bauvois, 32, from France, said: “If it’s mandatory anyway, people will have to do it.”\n\nPhysiotherapy student Tom Hawkins, 19, from near Narberth, said: “For me, it would make more sense if people just had to show a negative test.”\n\nAnd Katie Owen, 24, from Pontyclun, said her grandmother “wouldn’t know how to do all that”.", "Last updated on .From the section Newcastle\n\nA Saudi Arabian-backed £305m takeover of Newcastle United has been completed.\n\nThe Premier League has approved the takeover after receiving \"legally binding assurances\" that the Saudi state would not control the club.\n\nInstead the Public Investment Fund (PIF), which will provide 80% of funds for the deal, is seen as separate to the state.\n\nThis is despite the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, being listed as chair of PIF.\n\nThe sale went through after the deal passed the Premier League owners' and directors' test.\n\nThe takeover brings to an end Mike Ashley's 14-year spell as Newcastle United owner.\n\nFans gathered outside Newcastle's St James' Park stadium on Thursday to celebrate the takeover being approved.\n\nPIF have assets of £250bn, making Newcastle one of the richest clubs in the world.\n\nFinancier Amanda Staveley, who fronted the consortium, said the new owners are making a \"long-term investment\" to ensure Newcastle are \"regularly competing for major trophies\".\n\nNewcastle's last major domestic trophy was the 1955 FA Cup.\n• None What's next for Newcastle after £305m takeover?\n\nA Premier League statement said: \"The Premier League, Newcastle United Football Club and St James Holdings Limited have today settled the dispute over the takeover of the club by the consortium of PIF, PCP Capital Partners and RB Sports & Media.\n\n\"The legal disputes concerned which entities would own and/or have the ability to control the club following the takeover. All parties have agreed the settlement is necessary to end the long uncertainty for fans over the club's ownership.\n\n\"The Premier League has now received legally binding assurances that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will not control Newcastle United Football Club.\n\n\"All parties are pleased to have concluded this process which gives certainty and clarity to Newcastle United Football Club and their fans.\"\n\nEverything you need to know - all in one place Scroll through our Newcastle page for all the latest content on the takeover\n\nA deal was initially agreed in April 2020, but the buyers walked away four months later when the Premier League offered arbitration to settle a disagreement on who would control the club.\n\nIt is believed that a resolution came after Saudi Arabia settled an alleged piracy dispute with Qatar-based broadcaster beIN Sports, which own rights to show Premier League matches in the Middle East.\n\nBut sources have told BBC Sport that an agreement between the Premier League and the consortium was reached prior to news emerging on Wednesday that the piracy dispute had been resolved.\n\nThe Saudi Arabian state has been accused of human rights abuses, but with the majority owner PIF deemed a separate entity, that, and any piracy issues, were no longer an impediment to the takeover, in the Premier League's view.\n\nWestern intelligence agencies believe the crown prince ordered the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 - which he denies.\n\nPCP Capital chief executive Amanda Staveley will take a seat on Newcastle's board, while Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of PIF, will act as the club's non-executive chairman.\n\nStaveley told BBC sports editor Dan Roan that PCP Capital took concerns over Saudi Arabia's human rights record \"very seriously\" but reiterated that their partner \"is not that Saudi state, it's PIF\".\n\nWhen asked if this was a case of 'sportswashing' by Saudi Arabia, she said: \"No, not at all, this is very much about the PIF's investment into a fantastic football team and we look forward to growing the club.\"\n\nSaudi Arabia has been accused of human rights abuses and women's rights campaigners have been imprisoned, despite some reform under Mohammed bin Salman, such as an end to the ban on women driving.\n\nHomosexuality is outlawed in the country and the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association says the death penalty is the legally prescribed punishment for same-sex sexual acts in Saudi Arabia.\n\nAmnesty International UK said the takeover is \"an extremely bitter blow for human rights defenders\".\n\n\"We can understand that this will be seen as a great day by many Newcastle United fans,\" said chief executive Sacha Deshmukh.\n\n\"But it's also a very worrying day for anyone who cares about the ownership of English football clubs and whether these great clubs are being used to sportswash human rights abuse.\"\n\nDeshmukh reiterated Amnesty International's call for the Premier League to \"change their owners' and directors' test to address human rights issues\".\n\nKhashoggi's fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, previously urged the Premier League not to allow the move to go through, citing the involvement of the crown prince.\n\nSports Direct chief executive Ashley bought Newcastle for £134m in May 2007.\n\nHe first put the club up for sale in September 2008 amid a series of protests from fans following the resignation of popular manager Kevin Keegan.\n\nNewcastle were relegated from the Premier League that season and again in 2015-16, although returned to the top flight at the first opportunity both times by winning the Championship.\n\nThe Magpies' highest Premier League finish during Ashley's ownership was fifth in 2011-12 under Alan Pardew.\n\nAshley put Newcastle up for sale again in October 2017.\n\nThe club are 19th and winless after seven games this season, with boss Steve Bruce under pressure - a Newcastle United Supporters' Trust (NUST) survey said this week 94% of fans want Bruce to leave.\n\nThe same survey said 93.8% of its members are in favour of the takeover and NUST said in a statement that the sale brought \"the first real hope\" of success to the club \"for many years\".\n\nNUST added it looked forward to working with the owners to \"rejuvenate one of the greatest football clubs in England\".\n• None Our coverage of Newcastle United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Newcastle - go straight to all the best content", "The band performed on stage at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow on 7 October\n\nPop band Genesis have postponed the final four UK dates of its reunion tour \"due to positive Covid-19 tests within the band\".\n\nThe group said they would reschedule the gigs due to take place in Glasgow on Friday, and at the O2 in London on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\nThey did not say who had tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Last Domino? tour started in September after being postponed by almost a year because of the pandemic.\n\nFrontman Phil Collins, 70, has been performing seated and has not been able to play the drums because of ongoing health issues, including back problems following surgery.\n\nHe told the BBC last month that he can now \"barely hold a [drum] stick\", and has been replaced behind the drum kit by his 20-year-old son Nicholas.\n\nThe pair have been joined on the road for the tour - the band's first since 2007 - by keyboardist Tony Banks and guitarist Mike Rutherford, both aged 71 and both founding members of the group.\n\nFrontman Phil Collins has been performing seated while his son Nicholas plays the drums\n\nGenesis had six number one albums in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s, with hits including Land of Confusion, Invisible Touch and I Can't Dance.\n\n\"This is a hugely frustrating development for the band who are devastated with this unlucky turn of events,\" a statement from the band said.\n\n\"They hate having to take these steps but the safety of the audience and touring crew has to take priority. They look forward to seeing you upon their return.\"\n\nThe band, who have sold more than 21 million albums in the US, are due to start the North American leg of the tour in Chicago on 15 November.", "The public are being reminded to come forward for their flu jab to maximise their protection ahead of winter.\n\nHealth officials are worried because this will be the first winter Covid and flu circulate fully at the same time.\n\nResearch shows those infected with both viruses are more than twice as likely to die as someone with Covid alone.\n\nMore than 40 million people across the UK - 35 million in England - are being offered a jab this year in the biggest flu vaccination campaign so far.\n\nAnd this includes, for the first time, all secondary-school children up to the age of 16.\n\nAlongside the extended flu campaign, the over-50s and younger adults with health conditions are also being offered a Covid booster jab this autumn and winter.\n\nDr Jenny Harries, head of the newly formed UK Health Security Agency, warned the level of immunity to flu was likely to be lower this winter because very little of the virus had been circulating last year, because of social distancing and lockdown.\n\n\"It is really important people get vaccinated,\" she said.\n\n\"This is the first winter where we will have seasonal flu and Covid co-circulating.\"\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, professor of virology at Imperial College London, told the BBC's Today Programme that it had been trickier to gauge which flu strains to cover with this year's vaccine because cases had been so low last year.\n\n\"The vaccine this year is updated to match what we predict will be the circulating strains,\" she said.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam said \"we need to take this seriously and defend ourselves\" by taking the vaccines when offered.\n\n\"Both these viruses are serious: they can both spread easily, cause hospitalisation and they can both be fatal,\" he said.\n\nFlu kills about 11,000 people on average every winter in England and during the last bad flu winter of 2017-18 the toll was more than double that - with more than 300 deaths a day during the peak.\n\nFlu and the other winter viruses also lead to more than 1,000 hospital admissions a day in winter months - more, currently, than is being seen for Covid.\n\nAnd this winter, respiratory illness could hit very high levels, causing severe strain on the NHS and up to 60,000 deaths, according to a report from the Academy of Medical Sciences.\n\nRespiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the leading cause of hospital admission in the under-fives, is already circulating at much higher levels than normal.\n\nThe winter warning comes as the government launches an advertising campaign, featuring TV medics Dr Amir Khan, Dr Dawn Harper and Dr Karan Ranj, to encourage those eligible to come forward for both the flu and Covid boosters.\n\nThe following groups are among those eligible for winter vaccines:\n\nGP surgeries will contact patients eligible for the free NHS flu vaccine or eligible patients can book an appointment at a pharmacy.\n\nPeople who qualify for the coronavirus booster are being told to wait until they are contacted.\n\nAnyone who is not eligible for a free flu jab can pay for it privately at many pharmacies, at a cost of about £15.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the flu vaccine?", "Engineering and construction are among the sectors with the highest rate of vacancies\n\nJob vacancies are nearing an all-time high and Scotland has seen a surge in employment, despite warnings that the number of candidates has \"plummeted\".\n\nThe Royal Bank of Scotland's report on jobs recorded the third-sharpest growth of new appointments on record.\n\nBut the survey of businesses in September found the second-fastest decline of applicants for permanent jobs since records began in 2008.\n\nFirms cited Brexit and pandemic uncertainty as the key factors.\n\nCandidates for temporary jobs decreased for the seventh consecutive month, although the decline slowed from the substantial drop in August, according to the bank's report.\n\nStarting salaries for people in new jobs and the hourly rate for temporary workers both rose once again, although so did the rate of inflation.\n\nThe industries with the highest rate of vacancies were the IT and computing sectors, followed by engineering and construction, and then the accountancy and financial sectors.\n\nMeanwhile, the hotel and catering industries had the fastest rise in demand for temporary staff, followed by IT and computing.\n\nCompanies blamed Brexit and Covid for the decline in applicants for permanent jobs\n\nScottish government External Affairs Secretary Angus Robertson told BBC Good Morning Scotland that Brexit was to blame for much of the challenges in the labour market.\n\nHe said: \"It's part of the more general population challenge that we have in Scotland, it's that Brexit has turned off the tap, seen a significant number of people return to the European continent, and there are simply not enough people living here to fill important roles in our economy.\n\n\"The UK government is pretending that this is not a serious problem and is certainly denying that Brexit has a significant role in it.\"\n\nMr Robertson met immigration minister Kevin Foster this week, but said he refused to agree to any of the \"top level\" requests from the Scottish government, including a 24-month worker visa programme.\n\nBoris Johnson has previously said he is \"not worried\" about the current jobs gap and rising prices in the UK, saying supply chains will sort themselves out \"rapidly\".\n\nThe prime minister has said the economy was facing the \"stresses and strains\" of a post-Covid recovery.\n\nFood businesses have faced challenges trying to recruit workers\n\nThe Royal Bank of Scotland said labour shortages were likely to become more pronounced over the coming months, possibly posing \"significant challenges\" for companies hoping to fill roles and expand their operations.\n\nThe bank's chief economist Sebastian Burnside, said: \"Scotland saw a further rapid uplift in hiring activity during September, with the rates of increase in both permanent placements and temp billings easing only slightly from the all-time records seen in August.\n\n\"This rounded off a third quarter of unprecedented hiring activity as the Scottish labour market continues to rebound.\n\n\"Meanwhile, vacancies for both short-term and permanent staff rose at near-record rates during September, but recruiters widely reported skills shortages as the supply of candidates continued to plummet.\"", "The UK government is refusing to reveal what it told the Premier League about the Saudi-backed takeover of Newcastle United because it could \"harm\" relations with Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe government says it did not get involved in the deal, which has been criticised by human rights activists.\n\nBut the Foreign Office is known to have held meetings with the Premier League to discuss it.\n\nThe BBC asked for details of these meetings under Freedom of Information.\n\nThe Foreign Office responded with a redacted copy of the agenda for one meeting, which took place on 14 May 2020, and a redacted copy of the minutes of another meeting on 10 June 2020.\n\nHowever, it declined to provide further details requested by the BBC, including a list of attendees and the full minutes.\n\nLabour MP for Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Central, Chi Onwurah, who has been critical of the way the Premier League handles takeovers, said: \"The lack of transparency and accountability by the Premier League and government is a sign of broken football governance.\n\n\"This is the first time we've heard it's an issue of diplomacy. There will be many fans who have concerns about Saudi Arabia's human rights record - if the government raised concerns, we deserve to know about it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Newcastle United: Amanda Staveley arrives at St James' Park for the first time as co-owner\n\nIn its letter to the BBC in March this year, the Foreign Office said: \"We acknowledge that releasing information on this issue would increase public knowledge about our relations with Saudi Arabia.\"\n\nBut officials added: \"The disclosure of information detailing our relationship with the Saudi government could potentially damage the bilateral relationship between the UK and Saudi Arabia.\n\n\"This would reduce the UK government's ability to protect and promote UK interests through its relations with Saudi Arabia which would not be in the public interest.\"\n\nThe government confirmed that the meeting on 14 May was attended by representatives from the Foreign Office, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, the Department for International Trade and the Premier League.\n\nThe 10 June meeting was between the Foreign Office and the Premier League.\n\nThe redacted minutes of that meeting say there was uncertainty about the \"exact timeline for a PL [Premier League] decision\" but it was \"becoming closer\".\n\nIt added that the Premier League was \"committed\" to keeping the government \"informed both at a working-level [redacted]\".\n\nOn Thursday, the Premier League approved the takeover of Newcastle United after receiving \"legally binding\" assurances that Saudi Arabia would not control the club.\n\nEighty per cent of the funding for the deal will come from the Public Investment Fund (PIF) which is seen as separate from the state, despite the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman acting as chair for the body.\n\nMany Newcastle fans celebrated the deal which could see increased investment in the club, following Mike Ashley's 14-year reign as owner.\n\nAmnesty International UK described the takeover as \"an extremely bitter blow for human rights defenders\".\n\nHatice Cengiz, the fiancee of Jamal Khashoggi, has described the Newcastle United takeover as \"heartbreaking\"\n\nThe Saudi Arabian authorities have jailed women's rights activists and Western intelligence agencies believe the country's crown prince ordered the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi - something he denies.\n\nHomosexuality is outlawed in the country and campaigners say same-sex acts are punishable by death.\n\nSaudi Arabia is an important trade partner for the UK, who after the US is the second largest exporter of arms to Saudi Arabia.\n\nThis relationship has been an important one for the UK's defence industry, dating back to 1985 when then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher signed the Al-Yamamah arms deal with the country.\n\nFinancier Amanda Staveley who will take a seat on the board of Newcastle said the new owners would make a \"long-term investment\" in the club\n\nThe UK government has made a concerted effort not to get involved with the takeover of Newcastle United, a senior source has told the BBC.\n\nOfficials from both the Department for Media, Culture and Sport and the Foreign Office have been in regular contact with the Premier League for updates.\n\nAn insider said the involvement of the Saudis made it \"quite a difficult one\" but the government wanted to \"let the deal play out.\"\n\nSports minister Nigel Huddleston has said that he is \"keeping an eye on\" the takeover but that acquisitions of any team is \"an issue for football\".\n\nHe said he expected a fit and proper test to be applied but added: \"At the end of the day we've got to trust football to do its job and look after itself\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC he was \"very concerned\" by the takeover of the football club, adding that all such deals should go to an independent regulator.\n\nHe added that it was not for him as a politician to say who should own football clubs.\n\nFormer sports minister Tracey Crouch - who is currently undertaking a review into English football - has said she is in favour of an independent regulator to address corporate governance.", "Pope Francis will not travel to Scotland for the UN's climate conference, the Vatican has confirmed.\n\nThe 84-year-old has previously said he hoped to attend COP26 in Glasgow next month but it would depend on \"how I feel at the time\".\n\nHe has recently undergone colon surgery in Rome.\n\nOn Friday, the Vatican said its delegation would be led instead by Cardinal Parolin, its secretary of state.\n\nThe Bishops' Conference of Scotland said they would continue to keep Pope Francis in their prayers.\n\nThe climate summit is due to be held at the Scottish Exhibition Campus in Glasgow from 31 October until 12 November.\n\nPope Francis was expected to be among about 120 world leaders due to attend the event to lay out plans to cut emissions causing climate change.\n\nOrganisers have confirmed that the summit will be attended by the Queen, and US President Joe Biden has said he is \"anxious\" to be there.\n\nThe last papal visit to Scotland was in 2010 when Pope Benedict celebrated Mass in Glasgow's Bellahouston Park\n\nPope Francis' attendance at COP26 was never confirmed by the Vatican but in an interview with the Vatican News published in September, he said his speech was already being written.\n\nHe told the interviewer: \"In principle, the program is that I go. It all depends on how I feel at the time. But in fact, my speech is already being prepared, and the plan is to be there.\"\n\nIn July, he underwent successful surgery to treat a colon problem.\n\nEarlier this summer, the Bishops' Conference of Scotland said it had written to the Pope to \"assure him of a warm welcome\" if he attended COP26.\n\nOn Friday, a spokesman said: \"While Scotland's Catholic bishops had welcomed the prospect of Pope Francis attending the COP26 conference in Glasgow, in the event that he is unable to attend they would accept that decision with some sadness.\n\n\"The bishops welcome the announcement that Cardinal Parolin will lead the Holy See delegation as an indication of the importance the Church attaches to COP26 and will continue to keep Pope Francis in their prayers.\"\n\nIn the run-up to the climate summit, Pope Francis has said it is time to \"change course\" on the environment.\n\nHe has also signed the Vatican up to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.", "Facebook has apologised after again reporting problems with its services, days after a major outage hit WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook for hours.\n\nThe company said that a \"configuration change\" had impacted users globally.\n\nIt added that the incident was not related to the outage that saw its products taken offline for over six hours earlier this week.\n\nIts Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Workplace products had been affected, it said.\n\n\"We're so sorry if you weren't able to access our products during the last couple of hours,\" the company said it a statement on Friday evening. \"We know how much you depend on us to communicate with one another. We fixed the issue - thanks again for your patience this week.\"\n\nEarlier, web monitoring group Downdetector said that for a relatively short period of time on Friday there was an avalanche of messages from users reporting problems with Instagram.\n\nSome of them immediately took to Twitter and other social media platforms to complain about the second Instagram disruption and share memes on the issue.\n\nOn Monday, Facebook - which owns WhatsApp and Instagram - blamed an internal technical issue for the major outage which not only affected the firm's services, but also employees' work passes and email.\n\nThe services were down from about 16:00 GMT until around 22:00 on Monday.", "The University of Sussex's vice chancellor has defended a professor after protesters tried to have her sacked for her views on gender identity.\n\nStaff \"have an untrammelled right to say and believe what they think,\" Adam Tickell told BBC News.\n\nAn anonymous campaign included posters accusing Professor Kathleen Stock of transphobia, a claim she rejects.\n\nProf Stock tweeted that students shouldn't \"just expect to hear their own thoughts reflected back at them\".\n\nPosters put up near the University of Sussex campus and an accompanying social media campaign claimed the philosophy professor \"makes trans students unsafe\".\n\nPhotos also show a masked protester standing on the university's sign with a banner that reads \"Stock out\".\n\nProfessor Stock, who recently published a book questioning the idea that gender identity is more \"socially significant\" than biological sex, completely rejects the claim that she or her work is transphobic.\n\nThe Vice Chancellor backed university staff's right to say what they think\n\nAn Instagram account apparently linked to the campaign posted a \"mission statement\" calling for Professor Stock to be fired, alongside photos of the protest.\n\nThe statement claimed to be from \"an anonymous, unaffiliated group of queer, trans and non-binary students who will not allow our community to be slandered and harmed by someone who's [sic] salary comes from our pockets\".\n\nThe university is investigating the incidents, and will take disciplinary action if necessary, Vice Chancellor Prof Adam Tickell told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday.\n\n\"It's absolutely clear that all of our staff have an untrammelled right to say and believe what they think, so we take it very seriously if people try to prevent that right from being exercised,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm really concerned that we have masked protesters putting up posters calling for the sacking of somebody for exercising her right to articulate her views.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kathleen Stock This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nProf Stock thanked the vice chancellor and her supporters on Twitter and said students should not just expect to hear their own thoughts reflected back at them.\n\nShe called on her colleagues to speak up, adding: \"What kind of future does a University have where intimidation determines what is said or taught?\"\n\nA University of Sussex spokesperson said: \"We were extremely concerned to see the harassment towards our staff member and took immediate action in response to this, which we continue to do.\n\n\"We are deeply committed to being a safe and inclusive university, which values and advances equality and diversity, seeks to resolve conflicts, advances good relations and upholds lawful free speech.\"\n\nUniversities have long had to deal with highly contentious debates on campus, but few have matched the ferocity around gender identity issues.\n\nPrivately, many vice chancellors say this is the most difficult issue on campus they have had to manage.\n\nOne of the core principles they use to navigate it is protecting freedom of speech for staff, students and visiting speakers. This is already a legal duty contained in the Education Act 1986.\n\nBut now a new draft law is making its way through parliament which will require universities in England to more actively promote freedom of speech.\n\nThis will be overseen by the regulator, the Office for Students. Individuals who feel an institution has failed to protect their ability to speak freely will be able to take legal action.\n\nSo in future, disputes could in theory escalate to fines for universities, and court cases.", "The jury was told Arthur Labinjo-Hughes's father threatened to take the boy's 'jaw straight off'\n\nA man charged with murdering his six-year-old son sent a message to his co-accused threatening to take the boy's \"jaw straight off\", jurors heard.\n\nThomas Hughes and girlfriend Emma Tustin are standing trial for the murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes who died in Solihull in June 2020.\n\nA jury was played dozens of mobile phone audio recordings of Arthur crying, and shown pictures of bruising.\n\nThe couple are also accused of multiple counts of child cruelty.\n\nProsecutors allege Arthur was killed by his father Mr Hughes, 29, of Stroud Road, and Ms Tustin, 32, of Cranmore Road, after being poisoned with salt and exposed to months of abuse.\n\nOn the second day of a trial at Coventry Crown Court, Jonas Hankin QC read excerpts to jurors from WhatsApp messages between the pair, as well as audio clips Ms Tustin had recorded.\n\nIn one exchange, the court heard, Mr Hughes reacted to an audio clip by writing: \"I will deal with him when I'm home and it won't be pretty.\"\n\nJurors were told that a suggestion was then made on WhatsApp to put Arthur \"out with the rubbish\" - before Ms Tustin described the boy as being \"on one\".\n\nMr Hughes, the court heard, then replied: \"Won't be when I take his [expletive] jaw straight off his shoulders.\"\n\nAnother message, sent by Ms Tustin on 23 May 2020, read: \"I don't think I can do this any more. He shuts up as soon as you come through the door. He is malicious, cruel and just generally awful.\"\n\nIt is alleged Ms Tustin carried out a fatal assault while in sole care of Arthur at her home and immediately took a photo afterwards on her mobile phone as he lay dying in the hallway.\n\nProsecutors said despite having her phone, she took 12 minutes to call 999, telling medics Arthur \"fell and banged his head and while on the floor banged his head another five times\".\n\nHis head injuries were said to be not survivable, the court heard, and Arthur died shortly before 01:00 BST on 17 June last year.\n\nThey both deny allegations of child cruelty by administering salt to Arthur between 1 and 17 June last year.\n\nBoth also deny two counts of child cruelty by assault on multiple occasions and also by withholding food and/or drink.\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 Cricket\n\nEngland men's Ashes series in Australia this winter will go ahead \"subject to several critical conditions\", says the England and Wales Cricket Board.\n\nEngland had concerns over their families being allowed to travel, quarantine and 'bubble' arrangements amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe five-Test series is due to begin on 8 December and end on 18 January.\n\nThe ECB said that \"over recent weeks we have made excellent progress in moving forward\" on the men's Ashes tour.\n\nA statement read: \"To facilitate further progress and allow a squad to be selected, the ECB board has met today and given its approval for the tour to go ahead. This decision is subject to several critical conditions being met before we travel.\n\n\"We look forward to the ongoing assistance from Cricket Australia in resolving these matters in the coming days.\"\n\nEngland will name an Ashes squad in the coming days.\n• None Stokes likely to miss Ashes after second finger operation\n\nAustralia has some of the strictest Covid-19 protocols in the world, a situation complicated by the fact the five Tests are due to be played in five states, each of which have their own regulations.\n\nCricket Australia sent plans for the Ashes tour to the ECB in late September, with England's players presented with the arrangements on Sunday and the ECB holding a board meeting on Friday.\n\nAustralia hold the Ashes after retaining them thanks to a 2-2 draw in England in 2019.\n\nThe can has been kicked down the road, but at least it appears to be in the right direction.\n\nThe board is not prepared to clarify exactly what these critical conditions are, and will now go about the process of selecting what will be a large squad. But it's not at all clear how that can happen before the players are satisfied that these critical conditions will be met by the Australian authorities.\n\nInevitably one assumes that much of this focuses on the quarantine arrangements of the players and also their families and that, eventually, an agreement will be reached. But the clock is ticking.\n\nHow it all unfolded\n• July: England players hold talks over plans for families to travel to Australia.\n• 22 Aug: England wicketkeeper Jos Buttler says he is \"open to saying no\" to taking part in the Ashes tour.\n• 28 Aug: The Times reports that up to 10 England players could pull out of the tour because of quarantine conditions.\n• 19 Sept: England pace bowler Stuart Broad says he is \"happy to get on a plane to Australia\".\n• 23 Sept: Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison says there will be \"no special deals\" for England players' families.\n• 28 Sept: England captain Joe Root says he is \"desperate\" to play in Ashes but does not confirm he will travel.\n• 8 Oct: Australia captain Tim Paine says he expects a \"really strong\" England to tour.\n• None Caught between life and death in the swinging sixties\n• None The remarkable aftermath of the verdict on Nazi War Criminals", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak and US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen both welcomed the deal\n\nMost of the world's nations have signed up to a historic deal to ensure big companies pay a fairer share of tax.\n\nA hundred and thirty six countries agreed to enforce a corporate tax rate of at least 15% and a fairer system of taxing profits where they are earned.\n\nIt follows concern that multinational companies are re-routing their profits through low tax jurisdictions.\n\nCountries including Ireland had opposed the deal but have now agreed to the policy.\n\nUK Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the deal would \"upgrade the global tax system for the modern age\".\n\n\"We now have a clear path to a fairer tax system, where large global players pay their fair share wherever they do business,\" he said.\n\nThe Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental organisation, has led talks on a minimum rate for a decade.\n\nIt said the deal could bring in an extra $150bn (£108bn) of tax a year, bolstering economies as they recover from Covid.\n\nYet it also said it did not seek to \"eliminate\" tax competition between countries, only to limit it.\n\nThe floor under corporate tax will come in from 2023. Countries will also have more scope to tax multinational companies operating within their borders, even if they don't have a physical presence there.\n\nMany big global companies, such as Google, have bases in Ireland which has a corporate tax rate of just 12.5%\n\nThe move - which is expected to hit digital giants like Amazon and Facebook - will affect firms with global sales above 20 billion euros (£17bn) and profit margins above 10%.\n\nA quarter of any profits they make above the 10% threshold will be reallocated to the countries where they were earned and taxed there.\n\n\"[This] is a far-reaching agreement which ensures our international tax system is fit for purpose in a digitalised and globalised world economy,\" said OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann.\n\n\"We must now work swiftly and diligently to ensure the effective implementation of this major reform.\"\n\nThis deal marks a sweeping change in approach when it comes to taxing big global companies.\n\nIn the past, countries would frequently compete with one another to offer an attractive deal to multinationals. It made sense when those companies might come in, set up a factory and create jobs. They were, you could say, giving something back.\n\nBut the new digital era giants have become adept at simply moving profits around, from the regions where they do business to those where they will pay the lowest taxes. Good news for tax havens, bad news for everyone else.\n\nThe new system is meant to minimise opportunities for profit shifting, and ensure that the largest businesses pay at least some of their taxes where they do business, rather than where they choose to have their headquarters.\n\nSome 136 countries have signed up - an achievement in itself. But inevitably there will be losers as well as winners.\n\nIreland, Hungary and Estonia - all of which have corporate tax rates below 15% - at first resisted the plan but are now on board.\n\nIreland currently has a rate of 12.5%, which has helped it attract large amounts of foreign investment and become a base for big US firms such as Apple. But after securing a compromise on the wording of the agreement, Finance Minister Pascal Donohoe said he was \"absolutely certain\" Ireland's interests were served by being part of the deal.\n\nHowever, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have not yet signed up to the plan.\n\nThe pact resolves a spat between the US and countries such as the UK and France, which had threatened a digital tax on big mainly American tech firms.\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said: \"As of this morning, virtually the entire global economy has decided to end the race to the bottom on corporate taxation.\n\n\"Rather than competing on our ability to offer low corporate rates, America will now compete on the skills of our workers and our capacity to innovate, which is a race we can win.\"\n\nFacebook welcomed the deal, saying it has long called for reform of global tax rules.\n\n\"We recognise this could mean paying more tax, and in different places,\" said Nick Clegg, its vice president for global affairs. \"The tax system needs to command public confidence, while giving certainty and stability to businesses. We are pleased to see an emerging international consensus.\"\n\nBut Argentine economy minister Martin Guzman said the proposals would do little to help developing countries. Despite agreeing to the pact, he had argued for a tax rate of at least 21%.\n\nOxfam also said the 15% rate was too low and would \"let big offenders... off the hook\". The corporate tax rate in industrialised countries averages at 23.5%, well above the agreed 15% floor.\n\nOxfam's tax policy lead Susana Ruiz said: \"The world is experiencing the largest increase in poverty in decades and a massive explosion in inequality but this deal will do little or nothing to halt either. Instead, it is already being seen by some wealthy nations as an excuse to cut domestic corporate tax rates, risking a new race to the bottom.\"", "Michelle and Steven Potter said they were benefiting from lower bills\n\nUsing new methods to heat just six homes can have the same impact as taking 60,000 cars off the road, a housing association has said.\n\nCoastal Housing, which manages 5,000 homes in south Wales, said this demonstrated the current scale of carbon emissions from heating homes.\n\nBut chief executive Debbie Green said it also showed change was possible.\n\nThe heating of buildings is currently responsible for up to 10% of all Welsh emissions.\n\nBut Ms Green said that over a period of 60 years there would be a reduction of 180,000kg (28,345 stone) of carbon emissions if six of their new homes were compared with traditional homes.\n\nSteven Potter, who lives in one of the homes with his wife Michelle and their son, said: \"It's totally different from where we lived before. You haven't got gas central heating here, you've got solar panels.\"\n\nHe said it had helped the family's finances \"100%\" as their monthly bills were now about £43 a month - less than half of what energy regulator Ofgem calculates as the average dual fuel bill (£95).\n\nMrs Potter said: \"We couldn't be happier.\"\n\nShe said their son suffered with asthma, which had been \"really bad\" in their previous home because it was damp.\n\n\"Since we've lived here I'm hardly giving him any asthma pumps which is really beneficial for his health. It's really good,\" she said.\n\nThe Welsh government has set a target for 20,000 low-carbon houses to be built for social rent before the next Senedd elections. It has said it wants the public sector to be carbon neutral by 2030.\n\nPolicy makers are encouraging the installation of better insulation so less energy is lost into the atmosphere.\n\nThey are also looking at new ways to build homes so the materials used and the way homes are built has less of an impact on the environment.\n\nMost homes in Wales are older, traditionally built and dependent on fossil fuels like oil and gas for heating.\n\nIfan Glyn, Wales director at the Federation Of Master Builders, said: \"The task of improving the energy efficiency of 1.4 million Welsh homes could provide local builders with a once-in-a-generation opportunity as they are ideally placed to carry out the work.\n\n\"To be in a position to make the most of this opportunity, builders will need to see a clear and enticing pipeline of work.\n\n\"They will also need information and guidance on the skills required and be able to acquire these skills cost-effectively and within their own communities.\"\n\nHe added that retrofit works needed to become mainstream among consumers by providing homeowners with better guidance and financial incentives.\n\nCoastal Housing Association's homes in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, were built using Welsh larch wood, used recycled paper as insulation, and were fitted with solar panels to produce electricity to run the house.\n\n\"These six homes save, over 60 years, 180,000 kilograms of carbon - which is the equivalent of planting two million trees or taking 60,000 cars off the road,\" said Ms Green.\n\n\"It's not just about housing people. There will be new jobs required for the people fitting these products… This is going to create jobs that lots of people will be able to do or their children will be able to train in and do when they leave school.\"\n\nNigel Jarvis's company has been using sheep wool in insulation\n\nTy-Mawr Lime, near Brecon in Powys, has been developing a range of natural products to insulate or improve older houses.\n\nEstablished more than 25 years ago by Joyce and Nigel Gervis, the company now employs 26 people.\n\nThey are the only company in the UK using Welsh wool to make insulation. The wool is washed and made into insulation that reduces noise, keeps in heat and allows a building to \"breathe\".\n\n\"I'm a sheep farmer's daughter so wanted to do something with wool insulation and started to discover then, 30 years ago, that in New Zealand they were actually making insulation from sheep's wool and we thought, 'that's fantastic',\" said Joyce Gervis.\n\nBy using Welsh wool they believed they could increase farmers' incomes and be more environmentally friendly.\n\n\"A lot of what we are looking at now are earth mortars, stuff that's coming out of the ground, what can we use that's actually there,\" added Nigel Gervis.", "Wendy Knell (l) and Caroline Pierce both lived in Tunbridge Wells in 1987\n\nA man admits killing two women in 1987, a court has heard.\n\nDavid Fuller, 67, of Heathfield, East Sussex, attacked Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, at their Tunbridge Wells bedsits.\n\nDuncan Atkinson QC, prosecuting, told Maidstone Crown Court that David Fuller accepted he killed the two women \"subject to the issue of diminished responsibility\". He denies murder.\n\nHis trial is due to start on 1 November.\n\nMs Pierce worked in a restaurant and Ms Knell worked in a shop.\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 Amazon rainforest is home to one in 10 known species on Earth\n\nFacebook says it will begin clamping down on the illegal sale of protected areas of the Amazon rainforest on its site.\n\nThe social media giant changed its policy following a BBC investigation into the practice.\n\nThe new measures will apply only to conservation areas and not to publicly owned forest.\n\nAnd the move will be limited to the Amazon, not other rainforests and wildlife habitats across the world.\n\nAccording to a recent study from the think tank Ipam (Instituto de Pesquisa Ambental da Amazonia), a third of all deforestation happens in publicly-owned forests in the Amazon.\n\nFacebook said it would not reveal how it planned to find the illegal ads but said it would \"seek to identify and block new listings\" in protected areas of the Amazon rainforest.\n\nIn February, the BBC Our World documentary Selling the Amazon revealed that plots of rainforest as large as 1,000 football pitches were being listed on Facebook's classified ads service.\n\nAlvim Souza Alves was trying to sell land for about £16,400\n\nMany of the plots were inside protected areas, including national forests and land reserved for indigenous peoples.\n\nIn order to prove the ads were real, the BBC arranged meetings between four sellers and an undercover operative posing as a lawyer claiming to represent wealthy investors.\n\nOne land-grabber, Alvim Souza Alves, was trying to sell a plot inside the Uru Eu Wau Wau indigenous reserve for about £16,400 in local currency.\n\nIn response to the BBC's investigation, Brazil's Supreme Federal Court ordered an inquiry into the sale of protected areas of the Amazon via Facebook.\n\nDespite calls from indigenous leaders to do more, at the time Facebook said it was \"ready to work with local authorities\", but would not take independent action to halt the trade.\n\nNow the company says it has consulted the UN Environment Programme (Unep) and other organisations to take its \"first steps\" in trying to address the issue.\n\n\"We will now review listings on Facebook Marketplace against an international organisation's authoritative database of protected areas to identify listings that may violate this new policy,\" the Californian tech firm clarified.\n\nMuch of the land being sold is in indigenous reserves\n\nThe announcement comes at a time when the social media giant is under increasing pressure from US lawmakers, following a series of bombshell leaks by whistle-blower and former Facebook employee, Frances Haugen.\n\nFacebook also faced criticism this week when a failure brought down the entire platform for five hours worldwide. Instagram and Whatsapp, both owned by Facebook, were also offline during the period.\n\nTo try to catch criminal sellers, Facebook is using a database managed by the Unep World Conservation Monitoring Centre.\n\nUnep says it is the most \"comprehensive\" database of its kind and is updated monthly using reports from \"a range of government and other institutions\".\n\nBut Brazilian lawyer and scientist Brenda Brito questions the effectiveness of Facebook's proposals, saying: \"If they don't make it mandatory for sellers to provide the location of the area on sale, any attempt at blocking them will be flawed.\n\n\"They may have the best database in the world, but if they don't have some geo-location reference, it won't work,\" she added.\n\nIn its investigation, the BBC found some ads featured satellite images and GPS co-ordinates but not all shared that level of information.\n\nFacebook told the BBC it did not intend to require sellers to post the precise location of advertised land.\n\n\"We know there are no 'silver bullets' in this topic and we will continue to work to prevent people from circumventing our inspection,\" a company spokesperson said.\n\nThe Amazon rainforest occupies 7.5 million sq km and spans more than seven countries, including Peru, Ecuador and Colombia.\n\nThe tech firm would not confirm whether it was also working with each region's respective government to strengthen enforcement.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.\n\nAbout 60% of the Amazon rainforest is in Brazil where deforestation rates are at a 12-year high.\n\nThe Brazilian government's public forest database, which would be a key tool for any attempt to control the majority of illegal sales online, isn't being used.\n\n\"This data has been available since 2016. It is information they could use to improve this effort,\" says Brenda Brito.\n\nHowever, environmental activists in Brazil are calling the Facebook announcement a small victory against a backdrop of massive deforestation in the Amazon and several congressional attempts to weaken protection laws.\n\nIvaneide Bandeira, whose NGO Kandide was among those calling for Facebook to do more when the BBC's investigation came out in February, says she is pleased.\n\n\"I think this announcement is a good thing. Although it's coming late, because they should never have allowed those ads.\n\n\"But the fact that they are now taking this position is good because it will help to protect the territory, as it will help not to publicise the sale of land inside a protected area or an indigenous land.\"\n\nRead more about the BBC's investigation here.\n\nWatch Our World: Selling the Amazon on BBC iPlayer.", "It is alleged that two packets of Jaffa Cakes were taken from Halifax police station's charity tuck shop\n\nA police officer is to face a misconduct hearing after being accused of taking Jaffa Cakes from a charity tuck shop without paying in full.\n\nPC Chris Dwyer is alleged to have taken the items from the canteen at Halifax police station in January.\n\nThe officer is accused of breaching West Yorkshire Police's professional standards in regard to integrity, honesty and discreditable conduct.\n\nThe hearing is due to take place between 11 and 14 October.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said another officer had emptied the police station's charity tuck shop cash tin at about 22:00 GMT on 21 January, leaving six 10p pieces and two 20p pieces in the tin as a float.\n\nLater that evening, PC Dwyer is said to have visited the canteen and taken two packets of Jaffa cakes, priced at 50p each.\n\nThe cash tin was later checked and it contained the same amount of money as earlier plus an extra two 5p coins.\n\nPC Dwyer is accused of failing to make appropriate payment for the items and also providing dishonest accounts when questioned about the matter.\n\nPunishments for misconduct include verbal or written warnings, suspension, demotion or transfer and dismissal.\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.", "Sarah Everard was killed by serving Met Police officer Wayne Couzens after he falsely arrested her\n\nBaroness Louise Casey of Blackstock will lead an independent review into the Metropolitan Police's culture and standards following Sarah Everard's murder, the force has announced.\n\nIt will examine the force's vetting, recruitment and training procedures.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said the move aimed to \"make sure that the public have more confidence in us\".\n\nThe review is expected to take six months.\n\nDame Cressida said: \"[Baroness Casey] is extremely experienced and highly respected and I know will ask the difficult questions needed for this thorough review.\n\n\"This will build a stronger Met, ensure lasting improvement in our service to London and public confidence in us.\"\n\nMet Police officer Wayne Couzens murdered Sarah Everard after falsely arresting her for a breach of Covid-19 guidelines as she walked home from a friend's house in south London on 3 March.\n\nHe has been sentenced to a whole-life prison term.\n\nOf her appointment, Baroness Casey said any acts undermining trust placed in police by the public \"must be examined and fundamentally changed\".\n\nShe said: \"This will no doubt be a difficult task but we owe it to the victims and families this has affected and the countless decent police officers this has brought into disrepute.\"\n\nBaroness Casey was formerly the government's chief adviser on homelessness and is a crossbench peer in the House of Lords.\n\nBaroness Casey has taken on roles for five prime ministers over the past 23 years\n\nDame Cressida also announced the Met would be launching a second investigation, examining its practices over the past 10 years.\n\nIt would look at cases in which somebody made an allegation of sexual misconduct or domestic abuse, against a police officer or member of staff, who was still employed by the force.\n\nShe said: \"We'll be going back to look at some of those investigations just to make sure that the processes that should have taken place have, and that we are taking the right management action after the case is closed, for example in vetting.\"\n\nThe Mayor of London Sadiq Khan welcomed Baroness Casey's appointment and said public trust in the police \"requires urgent rebuilding\".\n\n\"Baroness Casey's review must look into the wider culture of the Met Police, including issues of misogyny, sexism, racism and homophobia as well as thoroughly examining recruitment, vetting, training, leadership and standards of behaviour among officers and staff,\" he tweeted.\n\nBaroness Casey has worked on issues relating to social welfare for five prime ministers over the past 23 years.\n\nShe was made head of the Rough Sleepers' Unit in 1999 and went on to hold leadership positions including director of the national Anti-Social Behaviour Unit, the Respect Task Force and the Troubled Families programme.\n\nShe was also the UK's first victims' commissioner - undertaking an inspection into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham in 2015 - and carried out a review of community cohesion and extremism for then prime minister David Cameron, which was published in 2017.\n\nShe left the civil service in 2017 to establish the Institute for Global Homelessness before returning to public service to support the government's Covid-19 rough sleeping response.", "Fellow politicians have paid tribute to Tory MP James Brokenshire, who has died aged 53, having been diagnosed with lung cancer more than three years ago.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson described the father of three, a former Northern Ireland secretary, as the \"nicest, kindest\" colleague.\n\nMr Brokenshire, a lifelong non-smoker, stood down as a Home Office minister earlier this year.\n\nHe died in hospital on Thursday night, having been admitted after his condition deteriorated.\n\nAn MP since 2005, Mr Brokenshire served in government under three prime ministers - David Cameron, Theresa May and Mr Johnson.\n\nHouse of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has ordered that flags in Parliament's New Palace Yard be flown at half-mast to mark \"a profound loss to us all\".\n\nMrs May tweeted: \"Truly saddened by the death of James Brokenshire. He was an outstanding public servant, a talented minister and a loyal friend.\"\n\nAnd Mr Johnson tweeted that it was \"desperately sad\", adding: \"James was the nicest, kindest and most unassuming of politicians but also extraordinarily effective.\"\n\nMr Brokenshire, who was MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup in Kent, resigned as Northern Ireland secretary in January 2018 following his lung cancer diagnosis, but made a comeback to the cabinet a few months later as housing secretary.\n\nHe lost that job in July 2019, after Mr Johnson took over from Mrs May in 10 Downing Street.\n\nMr Brokenshire re-entered government as a Home Office minister in February last year, but stood down in July this year, due to poor health.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former adviser Peter Cardwell: \"James was the best of politics and he was the best of humanity.\"\n\nFollowing his death, Mr Brokenshire's family expressed \"deep sadness\", adding: \"James was not only a brilliant government minister... but a dedicated constituency MP.\n\n\"But most importantly, he was a loving father to his three children, a devoted husband to Cathy and a faithful friend to so many.\"\n\nThe family also thanked NHS staff, including those at Guy's & St Thomas' hospital in London, for treating Mr Brokenshire \"with such warmth, diligence and professionalism over the past three-and-a-half years\".\n\nThey also shared a memorial page on his Twitter feed, which encouraged people to share memories and photos of Mr Brokenshire and to donate to the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation in lieu of flowers.\n\n\"In the last few years of his life James's passion was to help others with lung cancer, preventing others going through what he did,\" the memorial page said, describing him as an \"indefatigable campaigner for better lung cancer screening\".\n\nAfter his lung cancer diagnosis, Mr Brokenshire, a former lawyer, worked to promote greater awareness of the disease, urging people who showed symptoms to get tested.\n\nFellow Conservative MP Karen Bradley told the BBC News Channel the news of her \"understated\" friend's death was \"heartbreaking\", adding: \"I can't believe I'm not going to be able to sit down with James again and have a laugh about life, and chat about the issues that we both cared about.\n\n\"My thoughts are with Cathy and the family, who are just the most wonderful family. I'm devastated.\"\n\nJames Brokenshire (right) served under Theresa May, as well as David Cameron and Boris Johnson\n\nSir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"James Brokenshire was a thoroughly decent man, dedicated and effective in all briefs he held.\n\n\"He fought his illness with dignity and bravery. I'm incredibly sad to learn of his death and send my condolences to his wife and children.\"\n\nThe UK's most senior civil servant, Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, said: \"I had the personal privilege of working with him closely over a number of years and admired greatly his unwavering commitment to public service and compassion.\"\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, tweeted: \"So sorry to hear of the death of James Brokenshire, whose courage and faith were an inspiration to so many, myself included.\"\n\nBefore becoming the Old Bexley & Sidcup MP in 2010, Mr Brokenshire represented the seat of Hornchurch and Rainham, north-east London, for five years.\n\nHis death will prompt a Parliamentary by-election in Old Bexley and Sidcup, where he had a majority of 18,952 at the last general election.", "Adele told Vogue her new album is about the year \"my entire life fell apart\"\n\nAdele says her new album was recorded to help her eight-year-old son understand why she and his father got divorced.\n\n\"I wanted to explain to him through this record, when he's in his twenties or thirties, who I am and why I voluntarily chose to dismantle his entire life in the pursuit of my own happiness,\" the star told Vogue.\n\n\"It made him really unhappy sometimes. And that's a real wound for me that I don't know if I'll ever be able to heal,\" she added.\n\nAdele is on the cover of both the British and American editions of Vogue\n\nThe 33-year-old pop superstar has given separate interviews to Vogue's British and American editions - her first for five years - as she prepares to release her highly anticipated fourth album.\n\nIt will be titled 30 - which is the age at which she married her long-term partner Simon Konecki, and then left him.\n\n\"My entire life fell apart and I had no warning of it,\" said the singer, acknowledging that she had \"bit off a grenade\" and threw it into her marriage.\n\nOn Tuesday, she released a short snippet of her forthcoming single, titled Easy On Me, which will be released in full on Friday, 15 October.\n\nExplaining the lyrics, in which she sings \"Go easy on me...\", Adele said: \"It's not like anyone's having a go at me, but it's like, I left the marriage. Be kind to me as well.\n\n\"It was the first song I wrote for the album and then I didn't write anything else for six months after because I was like, 'OK, well, I've said it all.\"\n\nAs she worked on the rest of the album, the music became a method of explaining things to their son Angelo when he's older, she said.\n\nOne song, described by Vogue as \"an absolute belter of a relationship takedown\", is \"obviously about stuff that happened,\" Adele said, \"but I wanted to put it on the album to show Angelo what I expect him to treat his partner like, whether it be a woman or a man or whatever.\n\n\"After going through a divorce, my requirements are sky-high. There's a very big pair of shoes to fill.\"\n\nDespite previous reports that the often-secretive singer had married Konecki in 2016, she told the magazine they did not tie the knot until 2018.\n\n\"The timeline the press have of my relationship, my marriage, is actually completely wrong,\" she said. \"We got married when I was 30… and then I left.\"\n\nShe didn't reveal how long it was until they separated, but said: \"It wasn't very long.\" She filed for divorce in 2019.\n\nAdele and Simon Konecki were together for several years before they married in 2018\n\n\"It just wasn't right for me any more,\" she explained. \"I didn't want to end up like a lot of other people I knew. I wasn't miserable miserable, but I would have been miserable had I not put myself first. But, yeah, nothing bad happened or anything like that.\"\n\nKonecki now lives across the road from his ex-wife, and the pair share custody of Angelo.\n\nThe singer told the US magazine: \"If I can reach the reason why I left, which was the pursuit of my own happiness, even though it made Angelo really unhappy - if I can find that happiness and he sees me in that happiness, then maybe I'll be able to forgive myself for it.\"\n\nIn the interviews, the pop superstar also addressed her weight loss, after Instagram photos of her slim figure became a talking point.\n\n\"My body's been objectified my entire career. It's not just now,\" she said. \"I understand why it's a shock. I understand why some women especially were hurt. Visually I represented a lot of women. But I'm still the same person.\"\n\nShe added: \"The most brutal conversations were being had by other women about my body. I was very... disappointed with that. That hurt my feelings.\"\n\nThe star also addressed the occasion where she was accused of cultural appropriation, by sharing a photo of her wearing a traditional African hairstyle to mark what would have been the Notting Hill Carnival in 2020.\n\n\"I could see comments being like, 'The nerve to not take it down,' which I totally get,\" she said. \"But if I take it down, it's me acting like it never happened. And it did. I totally get why people felt like it was appropriating.\n\nShe said her thought process at the time had been: \"If you don't go dressed to celebrate the Jamaican culture - and in so many ways we're so entwined in that part of London - then it's a little bit like, 'What you coming for, then?'\"\n\nBut with hindsight she admitted: \"I didn't read the... room.\"", "Christmas 2021 will be more like we're used to - Drakeford\n\nChristmas 2021 will be more like \"the ones that we're used to\" if nothing unexpected happens, the Welsh First Minister says. \"The most likely scenario in our control plan says that we ought to be able to get through the autumn and the winter with restrictions at the sort of level, we have at the moment,\" Mark Drakeford says. \"That would be very different to last Christmas, far more like the sort of Christmases we were used to. \"All that does depend on us all doing the things that keep us safe, coming forward for vaccination and the simple things that we've learned to do together. \"Then, if nothing unexpected arises, and we've got to plan for the unexpected as well, then we can look forward to a Christmas much more like the ones that we are used to.\"", "Households will again see \"significant rises\" in energy prices next spring, regulator Ofgem has warned.\n\nIts chief executive, Jonathan Brearley, said the price cap, which limits how much energy providers can charge per unit, would go up again because of the \"unprecedented\" rise in gas prices.\n\nThe cap is revised twice a year and is next due to be changed in April.\n\nNatural gas prices are at record highs as economies around the world begin to recover from the Covid crisis.\n\nAs a result, firms that supply gas to householders are running into trouble because they have agreed to sell energy at less than the price it now costs them to buy it.\n\nLast month, nine of those companies went out of business, forcing 1.7 million customers to move to new suppliers.\n\nOfgem's Mr Brearley told the BBC that the price cap was there to stop firms making unfair profits, but \"legitimate costs have to be passed through\".\n\nHe said it was too early to say how much the rise in April would be or whether Ofgem would have to review the price cap more frequently in future.\n\nHowever, he added that the regulator might have to look at the formula according to which the cap was set.\n\nHis warning comes as domestic customers are still reeling from the latest price cap increase, which took effect for households in England, Scotland and Wales this month.\n\nHouseholds in Northern Ireland have also seen a recent sharp rise in their bills, but they are not protected by the energy price cap for Great Britain.\n\nThe energy crisis falls into three broad stages for UK consumers and businesses.\n\nFirstly, the here and now. Domestic customers have seen a rise in direct debit demands and bills from suppliers. They are, however, protected from the extreme cost of gas on the wholesale markets by the price cap. Businesses are not. Many are seeing instant and large increases in their energy bills.\n\nSecondly, as Ofgem confirms, significantly higher energy prices in the spring are inevitable, potentially adding hundreds of pounds to an annual household bill. That is something which customers can do nothing to stop.\n\nThirdly, a review by the regulator will consider the extent to which the price cap protects customers versus the extra burden it places on all bill payers picking up the cost if the cap causes suppliers to fold.\n\nAt any point in this process, the government can step in. Thus far, it has shown little appetite to do so.\n\nWhen the price cap was increased on 1 October, about 15 million households faced a 12% rise in energy bills.\n\nThat was the biggest jump, to the highest amount, seen since the backstop was introduced in January 2019.\n\nThose on standard tariffs, with typical household levels of energy use, saw an increase of £139 - from £1,138 to £1,277 a year.\n\nPrepayment meter customers with average energy use saw a £153 increase.\n\nThe next revision to the energy price cap will be decided by Ofgem in February, but will come into force in April.\n\nEven if wholesale gas prices were to drop significantly from now, the extra costs that suppliers have had to shoulder in the last couple of months means a steep rise in household bills in April is inevitable.\n\nAnalysts Cornwall Insight said that the cap could go up by £400, meaning that a household with typical energy use would pay about £1,660 a year.\n\nOn Thursday, National Energy Action, a charity, said that between 1.2 million to 1.5 million additional households could be hit by fuel poverty next year.\n\nMeanwhile, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is to hold talks later on Friday with representatives of industries which have the heaviest energy consumption, such as steel, cement and chemicals.\n\nWhile the price cap helps households, there is no such safeguard for businesses, which have to absorb the full impact of rising global energy prices.\n\nThey have called for government help to control costs and keep plants open.\n\nThe UK has lower levels of gas stored than many other European countries, making it more exposed to global price volatility.\n\nMr Kwarteng said on Twitter protecting consumers from rising global gas prices was \"his top priority\".\n\nHis meeting with the Energy Intensive Users Group (EIUG) will include representative bodies UK Steel, the Chemical Industries Association, the Confederation of Paper Industries, the Mineral Products Association, the British Glass Manufacturers Federation, the British Ceramic Confederation, BOC, Air Products and the Major Energy Users Council.\n\nAhead of the meeting, the director of UK Steel, Gareth Stace, told the BBC that the government needed to step in to help industries cope with the rising cost of energy.\n\n\"If the government does nothing, then tomorrow there'll be a steel crisis, and in terms of what impact that could have on jobs, then that wouldn't be good, not only for the steel sector, for those regions where steel, is but for the UK economy as a whole,\" he added.\n\nLast month, high gas prices forced two fertiliser factories to close, cutting supplies of carbon dioxide which is widely used in food production.", "Brains ran into financial difficulty during the pandemic\n\nBrains has put 99 of its pubs across Wales up for sale, with offers over £87.3 million sought for the portfolio.\n\nThe Cardiff-based brewery signed a deal with chain Marston's last year for it to manage its estate on a 25-year lease.\n\nAt the time, it said restrictions during the pandemic put the business under \"significant financial pressure\" and the move would save 1,300 jobs.\n\nReal estate advisors said it expected \"significant levels of demand\".\n\nThe 138-year-old Cardiff-based brewery said the firebreak lockdown last year had cost it £1.6m.\n\nAs a result, Marston's took over the running of 156 of its pubs.\n\nIt initially made plans to sell 40 of these, but has now put a further 99 on the market - with 93 of these freehold and six leasehold properties.\n\nThey include The City Arms in the heart of Cardiff, The Harbour Inn, Solva, Pembrokeshire and Llanelli's Half Moon.\n\nThe old Brains brewery once dominated the Cardiff skyline - the site is now being cleared for the Central Quay development of offices, homes and a hotel\n\n\"This is a rare opportunity to acquire a large, high-quality package of public houses located in strong trading positions across Wales,\" said Avison Young's Peter Constantine, who is marketing them.\n\n\"They benefit from a secure income stream let to an excellent covenant. We anticipate significant levels of demand as packages of this quality rarely come to the market.\"\n\nBrains has been brewed in Wales since 1882, when it was made in the old brewery on Cardiff's St Mary Street, before moving to the former Hancock's site near Cardiff Central Station in 1999.\n\nIn March 2019, it moved to its new central brewery in East Moors, Cardiff.\n\nHowever, former chief executive Alistair Darby said earlier this year the coronavirus pandemic had been \"absolutely brutal\" and this could close.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Covid took my healthy body and gave me one that just didn't work\"\n\nA woman battling long Covid for 18 months has said she feels angry and frustrated at the lack of help in Northern Ireland.\n\nZoe McNulty, 27, from Londonderry feels people have been left relying on internet support groups for help.\n\nThere are still no dedicated health services for those living with long Covid symptoms in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut the health department has pledged to start services by the end of October.\n\nLong Covid clinics were opened across England in November 2020.\n\nMs McNulty told BBC Northern Ireland's Spotlight programme: \"You see people over in England going to long Covid clinics and they're doing really well.\n\n\"No offence to the [Northern Ireland] government but they've been happy to leave me sitting here.\n\n\"If I had a long Covid clinic months ago, could I have been better by now? I am essentially just left in the dark, like, figure it out on your own.\"\n\nRebecca Logan, a former fitness instructor and nurse, is an advocate for long Covid sufferers in Northern Ireland.\n\nShe said the situation was \"desperate and inexcusable\".\n\n\"Since this time last year, I have been trying to get answers about when we will get health service help,\" she said.\n\nSymptoms of long Covid can include extreme fatigue, breathlessness and brain fog\n\nMs Logan said the situation was \"absolutely appalling\".\n\n\"Large numbers of working-age people have been left with no support or guidance from the NHS, while they become more and more debilitated.\"\n\nThe programme also features Newtownards pastor Mark McClurg who faced a life-threatening battle with Covid in March 2020 and still has long Covid.\n\nHe said: \"My faith is what I am. It's what's carried me through from ICU to this moment in time.\n\n\"And the amount of people who have continually prayed for me, that's just so humbling.\"\n\nThe Department of Health (DoH) said it intends to have new services for the treatment and assessment of long Covid available in all health trust areas by the end of October.\n\nHowever, the department admitted to Spotlight that it also has not yet collected the data required to assess what services are actually needed.\n\nMs McNulty belives she caught Covid-19 while working in a pharmacy in March 2020\n\nAn estimated 20,000 people in Northern Ireland have some form of long Covid.\n\nMs McNulty suspects she caught Covid-19 while working in a pharmacy in March 2020.\n\nShe is no longer able to work or study, and had to end her three-year relationship with her Italian boyfriend.\n\n\"There is a fear that this could be forever. That this could be my life,\" she said.\n\nMs Logan now uses a wheelchair and walking stick because she can't walk far without being breathless.\n\n\"I hosted a meeting of people with long Covid the other night, and there were people so desperate and even crying,\" she said.\n\n\"People in their 40s, young children, all ages. People grieving the life they had before long Covid hit them, it's heart-breaking.\"\n\nOne-in-10 people in the UK with Covid-19 are self-reporting long Covid symptoms, according to an ONS survey\n\nIn the UK, long Covid is broadly defined as a condition that develops during or after the initial Covid-19 infection; continues for more than 12 weeks; and its symptoms cannot be explained by an alternative diagnosis.\n\nMore than 200 symptoms have been linked to the illness, but some of the main symptoms are: extreme fatigue, breathlessness, brain fog (neurological and memory loss), heart problems and severe headaches.\n\nMore than one-in-10 people in the UK who have had Covid-19 are self-reporting with long Covid symptoms, according to a recent survey by the Office of National Statistics (ONS).\n\nIt is estimated that about £2.5m a year will be needed for long Covid support in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health said there are difficulties collecting data on long Covid because of a changing picture in which some people recover but others become ill.\n\nInformation is now being gathered but it will be a number of months before there is enough to analyse, the department said.", "The alleged assault took place in a bar at The Midland hotel, at the Conservative party conference in Manchester.\n\nThe Conservatives say they are \"working with the police\" after an energy boss attending their party conference said she was \"violently assaulted\" by a man.\n\nClementine Cowton, director of external affairs at Octopus Energy Group, told a fringe event the incident happened in the bar of The Midland hotel in Manchester.\n\nThe party member involved has been suspended and had his pass revoked.\n\nThe Conservatives say the behaviour is \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nAccording to a report in The Times newspaper, Ms Cowton was in the hotel bar - one of the main destinations at the autumn political gathering - when a drunk man in his 30s, sat in a seat vacated by her friend.\n\nShe said he made her so uncomfortable that she asked him \"several times politely to leave\" and when he refused to do so, she took his phone and dropped it on the floor.\n\n\"He went to retrieve it and then he came back and attacked me,\" Ms Cowton told the paper.\n\nAccording to the report, Ms Cowton said the man tried to punch her but was stopped by others in the bar, with the resulting scuffle ending up with her glass being smashed.\n\n\"He was very intoxicated and I felt a bit unsafe around him\", she added.\n\nAnd in a video posted on the ConservativeHome website, Ms Cowton told the guests in the audience she was \"sorry to dump this on everyone, it's a bit of a surprise\".\n\nBut she said she wanted to take the opportunity to highlight how \"women are often unsafe in places where other people feel safe\".\n\nAnd she said it was \"really important that we start to take that much more seriously as a society and starting with the police\".\n\n\"I'm fine by the way, don't worry\" she added.\n\nA Conservative spokeswoman said the man's party membership has been suspended.\n\n\"This behaviour is completely unacceptable and the party has revoked the pass of the individual concerned and is working with the police\", she added.\n\nIn a statement, Greater Manchester Police said they responded to reports of an assault on a woman at The Midland hotel at around 00:30 BST on Monday.\n\nThey said there were no reports of any injuries and no arrests were made but a man was identified and had his conference pass removed.\n\nThe investigation into what happened is ongoing they said, adding: \"Women's safety is a top priority, and something we continue to take incredibly seriously.\"\n• None Party conferences: What to expect this year", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The flight was broadcast live on Russian TV\n\nRussia has taken the lead in a space race with a difference, sending a team to the International Space Station to shoot a feature film ahead of an American crew.\n\nYulia Peresild, 37, is set to star in the film, directed by Klim Shipenko.\n\nTheir Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft took off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, and three hours later docked with the International Space Station.\n\nUS actor Tom Cruise and Nasa have also been planning to make a film there.\n\nThere was more than a touch of show business glamour when the Soyuz crew launched on Tuesday, as the TV cameras focused on Peresild and her 12-year-old daughter Anna, who was watching from a safe distance.\n\nIt was from the Kazakh steppes where camels and susliks (ground squirrels) roam, rather than in the studios of Hollywood, that real actors went into space, said Russia's Komsomolskaya Pravda website. Shipenko's actress wife Sofia Karpunina noted that the director had had to shed 15kg (33lbs) beforehand.\n\nThere was more than a whiff of show business as the crew headed to the launch site\n\nThe launch, led by cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, went according to plan at 11:55 Moscow time (08:55 GMT). \"The crew is feeling well,\" said the commander shortly after take-off.\n\nThe Soyuz docked with the ISS a little over three hours afterwards. However, it was a little later than planned as the Soyuz's automatic Kurs docking system failed and the commander had to switch to manual control.\n\nShkaplerov would normally have had the help of a flight engineer but his two colleagues would have been unable to help him, despite their fast-track flight training.\n\nAutomatic docking of the Soyuz was unsuccessful\n\nEventually the hatch connecting the Soyuz to the ISS opened and the crew joined the seven others waiting in the Russian section of the ISS.\n\n\"The hatch is open! Everything as planned,\" tweeted Roscosmos space agency chief Dmitry Rogozin.\n\nThe hatch was eventually opened and Peresild and her fellow crew members entered the ISS\n\nAlthough Shkaplerov will stay on board, director and actress have just 12 days to film their scenes in space, with Peresild playing a cardiac surgeon sent into orbit to save a cosmonaut. Two of the Russian cosmonauts already on board, Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov, will also take part in the film, reports say.\n\nFilming will take part in the Russian section of the ISS and the mission has proved contentious in Russia's space industry.\n\nThe feature film is the brainchild of the Roscosmos chief, who at one point fired the space agency's head of crewed missions in a row over the project.\n\nSergei Krikalev, a veteran of space missions, got his job back days later amid widespread anger at his sacking.\n\nAnother cosmonaut, Mikhail Kornienko, told BBC Russian he was one of many who were opposed to it. \"The ISS is no place for performers, all sorts of clowns or tourists. It's a huge space lab and you shouldn't get in the way of professional work.\"\n\nThe film is being funded by Russia's Channel One TV, and a Roscosmos subsidiary said it would not require money from the federal budget.\n\nRussia's space agency has had a troubled few years, with corruption overshadowing the construction of a cosmodrome in the Far East.\n\nIts long-delayed Nauka laboratory finally arrived at the space station during the summer, 14 years after it was due to for launch.\n\nRussia has warned it could pull out of the ISS within four years, because of its ageing hardware on board.", "Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back up and running after an outage that lasted almost six hours, Facebook says.\n\nIt blamed an internal technical issue, which not only affected Facebook's services, but reportedly also employees' work passes and email.\n\nThe services were down from about 16:00 GMT until around 22:00 on Monday.\n\nBut the company said there was \"no evidence that user data was compromised\".\n\nSheera Frenkel, the New York Times' technology reporter, told the Today programme part of the reason it took so long to fix was because \"the people trying to figure out what this problem was couldn't even physically get into the building\" to work out what had gone wrong.\n\nIn a statement, Facebook said that the faulty configuration change affected the company's internal tools and systems which complicated attempts to resolve the problem.\n\nDowndetector, which tracks outages, said some 10.6 million problem reports around the world. However, the real number of people affected is much higher: more than 3.5 billion people use Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and Whatsapp.\n\nMany found themselves cut off from family and friends they interact with over the various services, while small businesses which use social media to connect with customers were faced with the prospect of an unexpected financial hit.\n\nAccording to the business website Fortune, it also cost Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg an estimated $6bn (£4.4bn) at one point as shares plummeted.\n\nMr Zuckerberg has apologised to those affected by the outage.\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 Mark 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\nSome people also reported problems using Facebook's virtual reality headset platform, Oculus, and apps which require Facebook logins were affected, including Pokémon Go.\n\nAn outage of this scale for such a long time is rare. A disruption in 2019 left Facebook and its other apps mostly inaccessible across the world for more than 14 hours.\n\nSeveral other tech companies, including Reddit and Twitter, poked fun at the social media giant's predicament - prompting responses from the affected apps.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Instagram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 disruption comes the day after an interview with a former Facebook employee who leaked documents about the company.\n\nFrances Haugen told CBS news on Sunday that the company had prioritised \"growth over safety\".\n\nOn Tuesday she will testify before a Senate subcommittee in a hearing titled \"Protecting Kids Online\", about the company's research into Instagram's effect on the mental health of young users.\n\nMany outages get resolved fairly quickly. They are often localised too, with some people unable to open a website that can be viewed in another country.\n\nThis outage, however, was global, and affected all of Facebook's many spin-offs.\n\nThe length of time it was off grid is also unusual. There were reports of \"mayhem\" in Facebook headquarters, as technicians scrambled to fix the problem.\n\nInteresting too that the outage hampered Facebook's ability to tackle the crash - bringing down internal tools needed to remedy the problem.\n\nIt should also be said that Facebook's statement is carefully written. It doesn't rule out foul play.\n\nThe week had already started off badly - after the whistleblower in the \"Facebook Files\" revelations revealed herself on Sunday.\n\nBut a bad week has become a terrible one for the social network.", "Amazon is expanding its presence on the High Street by opening its first non-food store in the UK.\n\nThe shop, in the Bluewater shopping mall near Dartford, will sell around 2,000 of its most popular and best-rated products.\n\nIt's called Amazon 4-star, because every item has been given more than four stars by customers.\n\nHowever, one retail expert said the shop could be \"muddled and uninspiring\".\n\nThis will be the first Amazon 4-star store outside the US, where there are already more than 30 outlets.\n\nThe range of products, which takes in books, consumer electronics, toys, games and homeware, reflects what Amazon customers are buying online.\n\nThere's a \"Most Wished For\" section, for instance, showing the most popular products from customers' wish lists.\n\nDigital price tags are used to ensure the prices are the same in-store and online. Shoppers don't need to have an Amazon account to use it.\n\nAnd customers will also be able to collect items ordered online as well as return items without the need for packaging and labels.\n\nAndy Jones, director of Amazon 4-star UK, declined to say how many more stores he plans to open in the UK.\n\nThis global giant is often accused of killing the High Street by undercutting traditional retailers and paying less tax.\n\nNow it's moving onto their physical patch as well.\n\nHowever, retail expert Natalie Berg said the Amazon move \"is purely about experimentation\".\n\nThe giant's aim, she said, is to encourage more online shopping.\n\n\"This is not about shifting more product; it's about baiting shoppers into Amazon's ecosystem,\" Ms Berg said.\n\n\"It's about getting shoppers to engage with Amazon's devices, reminding Prime customers of the value in their memberships, and offering additional choice when it comes to collection and returns of online orders.\"\n\nAmazon has already opened six grocery convenience stores in the UK with checkout-free technology.\n\nBut Ms Berg said the jury is still out as to whether the world's most disruptive retailer can do one of the most fundamental retail tasks - run stores.\n\n\"The 4-star concept has the potential to be a bit muddled and uninspiring,\" she said.\n\n\"The store features a smorgasbord of products, the result of Amazon's very scientific, data-led approach to physical retail.\n\n\"But when you strip out the high-tech touches, I struggle to see how it differentiates from any other retailer,\" says Ms Berg.\n\nLandlords, though, may welcome the move as they try to find new players to take on empty shops, driven largely by our shopping habits moving online.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has announced an inquiry into \"systematic failures\" that allowed Sarah Everard's murderer, Wayne Couzens, to serve as a Met police officer.\n\nThe move came during a Conservative party conference dominated by questions around women's safety and tackling misogyny in the wake of the deaths of both Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa.", "Fuel supplies to petrol stations in London and the south-east of England are improving but still remain behind the rest of the country, retailers say.\n\nThe Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) said 64% of forecourts in those areas had both types of fuel compared to 86% of sites nationally.\n\nSupplies have increased in recent days after the military was deployed amid a shortage of fuel tanker drivers.\n\nThe government is offering 300 short-term visas to overseas lorry drivers.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said 127 foreign drivers had applied for visas aimed at tackling shortages, however, the Department for Business said only 27 drivers had been identified. It has not confirmed what Mr Johnson's number was referring to.\n\nThe Times reported that just 27 people from the European Union had applied to be tanker drivers.\n\nThe PRA, which represents independent forecourts across the UK, said \"steady deliveries and stabilising demand\" had led to improvements in stocks across the country.\n\nGordon Balmer, PRA executive director, said 15% of sites in London and the south-east of England still had no fuel, down from 20% on Monday.\n\n\"Whilst there has been a significant reduction in dry sites, these areas are still lagging behind in having both grades of fuel available compared to the rest of the UK,\" he said.\n\nNationally, the percentage of dry sites increased from 8% to 11% on Tuesday, the PRA said.\n\n\"Members are reporting they are now receiving deliveries from military drivers using commercial tankers, however further action must be taken to address the needs of disproportionately affected areas.\"\n\nBesides fuel drivers, the government is offering a further 4,700 temporary visas in total for foreign food lorry drivers, which will last from late October to the end of February, in an attempt to avoid other supply chain issues. It is not yet known how many people have applied to this scheme.\n\nMr Johnson said the slow rate of visa applications was a \"fascinating illustration of the problem\", which he added was a \"global\" issue, thought he admitted there was a \"particular problem in the UK\".\n\nHe said working in road haulage \"should be a great job\", but added that there had been an underinvestment in facilities and pay conditions.\n\nHe dismissed the suggestion that the problem was anything to do with Brexit. He noted the \"supply chain problem is linked to recovery\" and said other parts of the world were also affected.\n\n\"Imagine the UK has been in deep freeze and the pipes are unfreezing right now - stresses and strain of the economy waking up,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said the small number of visa applications was the \"proof in the pudding\" that short-term visas were \"not going to be attractive\".\n\nA spokesman for the trade body said that for visas to be an attractive proposition to overseas lorry drivers, they needed to last 12 months.\n\n\"The reality is that we have to assume these drivers from abroad are already in employment elsewhere. If visas are only three months... it's unlikely there is going to be much take up,\" he added.\n\nLivia Spera, general secretary of the European Transport Workers' Federation, said she was \"not surprised\" drivers were not \"rushing to sign up for visas\".\n\n\"We already predicted and warned that short-term measures such as visas wouldn't work,\" she added.\n\nMs Spera said there was \"no quick fix\" to the problem. She said increasing driver wages and improving working conditions was the \"only answer to the crisis\".\n\nIn response to the prime minister's comments on roadside facilities, the RHA's Rod McKenzie said it was a \"false premise\" that a trade body could deal with the issue alone.\n\n\"The majority of hauliers are small companies, less than 10 lorries,\" he said. \"It requires government commitment to facilitate the development of commercial sites.\n\n\"Government departments however have consistently ignored industry calls to press for cleaner and safer facilities on our roads.\"\n\nTrade bodies have estimated the UK currently has a shortage of about 90,000 HGV drivers, which has been caused by several factors, including the coronavirus pandemic, Brexit and an ageing workforce.\n\nThe shortages have started to affect supply chains in recent months, with some supermarkets struggling to stock certain products and petrol stations being unable to stock enough fuel to meet demand.\n\nThe government has said temporary visas are not a long-term solution and has urged firms to invest in a UK workforce.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK economy could not \"go back to the failed model where you mainline low-wage, low-skilled labour\".\n\n\"It's time for investing in people and skills.\"", "About 200 servicemen and women from the Army and RAF have been drafted in to deliver fuel.\n\nOne in five forecourts in London and the south-east of England is still without fuel, the body that represents independent fuel sellers has said.\n\nThe Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) said there had been a \"marked improvement\" across the rest of the UK thanks to \"steady deliveries\".\n\nBut conditions in the South East are \"still challenging\", the PRA said.\n\nThe improvement in supplies has led to forecourt firm EG Group to remove its £30 cap on buying fuel at its sites.\n\nIt said purchases were returning to normal levels in the majority of places, apart from the south of England.\n\nHowever, the company, which has about 400 sites in the UK, added it expected supply issues to ease \"in the coming days\" due to the military driving tankers to restore supplies.\n\nAbout 200 servicemen and women from the Army and RAF have been drafted in to deliver fuel from depots to forecourts.\n\nThe PRA said the situation around London and the South East was \"still challenging\". In these areas, it said 62% of the sites surveyed had both grades of fuel available, 18% had only one grade and 20% were dry.\n\nIn the rest of the country, the trade body said 86% of sites had both grades of fuel \"thanks to steady deliveries and stabilising demand\", with 6% having only one grade and 8% being dry.\n\n\"We are grateful for the support lent by the government through their provision of military drivers, although further action must be taken to address the needs of disproportionately affected areas,\" said Gordon Balmer, executive director of the PRA.\n\nThe PRA represents the interests of the independent filling stations across the UK, which account for nearly 5,500 of the UK's 8,380 forecourts.\n\nThe government has been criticised for not deploying the military earlier after panic-buying led to chaos and queues on some petrol station forecourts.\n\nMore than 65 drivers will start work, with plans to increase this to 200 personnel to be deployed in total, including 100 drivers.\n\nThe drivers have undertaken refresher training with the fuel delivery firm, Hoyer in order to take on the work.\n\nHoyer said the training included company safety procedures as well as equipment familiarisation and forecourt driving manoeuvres.\n\nA government spokesperson said there were signs of improvement in average forecourt stocks across the UK, adding that demand was \"continuing to stabilise\".\n\n\"More than half of those who have completed training to make fuel deliveries are being deployed to terminals serving London and the South-East of England, demonstrating that the sector is allocating drivers to areas most affected in this first phase from Monday,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThe crisis began more than 10 days ago when BP said it had run out of petrol in a number of its outlets. That prompted motorists to fill up more than usual, leaving deliveries unable to keep up with demand.\n\nMany sectors of the UK economy, including food firms and petrol retailers, have been affected by a chronic shortage of lorry drivers, which the haulage industry has blamed on factors including Covid, Brexit, an aging workforce, and tax changes.\n\nDavid Charman, who runs Parkfoot Garage in West Malling in Kent, told the BBC's Today programme there was a big task ahead to restore supplies.\n\n\"This is not panic-buying anymore, this is people that have waited as long as they possibly can and now they have no fuel. We're having to push cars that are in the queue to get to our site because they've run out of fuel,\" he said.\n\n\"We didn't have the normal two days of stock underground... because of Covid but we were still managing the situation perfectly well. But now, when we're all empty, it needs a huge influx of fuel deliveries to everybody, not just to me, to ensure that we can get through this.\"\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? Share your stories and video by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "UK officials have travelled to Afghanistan to meet senior Taliban members, the Foreign Office has said.\n\nThe UK government said they discussed how the UK could help address the humanitarian crisis, prevent terrorism and the need for a safe passage for those who wish to leave the country.\n\nThey also raised the rights of women and girls and treatment of minorities.\n\nUK troops left Afghanistan at the end of August, bringing an end to a 20-year military involvement in the country.\n\nTheir departure came as Taliban troops rapidly advanced through the country overthrowing the Afghan government.\n\nBritish embassy staff in Kabul were forced to evacuate the country to escape Taliban forces and are temporarily based in Qatar.\n\nWednesday's meeting marks the first time British officials have gone back to Kabul to meet the new Taliban leadership.\n\nAs part of efforts to open up channels of communications with the Taliban, Sir Simon Gass, the prime minister's high representative for Afghan transition and Martin Longden chargé d'affaires of the UK mission to Afghanistan in Doha travelled to the country.\n\nThey met senior Taliban leaders including Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi and the Deputy Prime Ministers Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund and Mawlawi Abdul-Salam Hanafi.\n\nThousands of Afghans fled the country following the resurgence of the Taliban in the country\n\nThe Foreign Office said: \"Sir Simon and Dr Longden discussed how the UK could help Afghanistan to address the humanitarian crisis, the importance of preventing the country from becoming an incubator for terrorism, and the need for continued safe passage for those who want to leave the country.\n\n\"The government continues to do all it can to ensure safe passage for those who wish to leave, and is committed to supporting the people of Afghanistan.\"\n\nAbdul Qahar Balkhi, a spokesman for the Taliban, said the meeting focused on \"detailed discussions about reviving diplomatic relations between both countries\".\n\nHe said the two countries should \"begin a new chapter of constructive relations\" adding: \"We expect others to also not work towards weakening our government.\"\n\nThe BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Landale said the meeting did not mean the UK was officially recognising the Taliban as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan, only that it wanted to establish communications.\n\nHe added that aid was one of the levers the west has and would be a key part of the negotiations, with non-governmental organisations fearing the collapse of the Afghanistan economy could lead to a humanitarian crisis.\n\nFollowing the meeting Mr Longden tweeted: \"It's early days and, unsurprisingly, there are points of difference between us.\n\n\"But such difficult challenges lie ahead for Afghanistan (and beyond), it's right to test if we can engage pragmatically and find common ground - in the interests of both the UK and Afghan peoples.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said it would \"be a mistake for any country to recognise any new regime in Kabul prematurely or bilaterally\".\n\nInstead, he added, \"those countries that care about Afghanistan's future should work towards common conditions about the conduct of the new regime before deciding, together, whether to recognise it and on what terms\".\n\nMeanwhile, Qatar's ruler, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has warned that \"boycotting\" the Taliban would \"only lead to polarisation and reactions, whereas dialogue could be fruitful\".", "Economy Minister Gordon Lyons urged anyone who hasn't yet applied for a voucher to \"do so now\"\n\nThe first 100,000 \"Spend Local\" cards will be posted on Monday to applicants of the Northern Ireland Executive's high street voucher scheme.\n\nMore than 970,000 people have applied for a £100 voucher since applications opened.\n\nEconomy Minister Gordon Lyons said Monday marked \"the next significant step\" of the Spend Local scheme.\n\nEveryone aged 18 and over can apply for a card to use in various businesses before the end of November.\n\nMr Lyons said he was delighted the process to issue the pre-paid cards was \"well under way\" and that the first applicants would soon be able to use their cards.\n\n\"This will deliver the timely boost that they need to help them emerge from the economic shock caused by the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said demand for the vouchers was \"unprecedented\" and he encouraged those yet to apply to \"do so now on NI Direct\".\n\nVoucher holders have until the end of November to spend them\n\nThe objective of the £145m high street scheme is to support local businesses across Northern Ireland adversely affected by the drop in footfall due to the pandemic, according to the Department for the Economy.\n\nMr Lyons encouraged those who receive a voucher to adhere to the \"spend local\" messaging.\n\n\"Please use your card to support your local shops, hospitality and other services which have been most affected by the Covid-19 restrictions,\" he said.\n\nThe cards can be used in any shop with a card machine but cannot be used online or for gambling or legal services like penalties.\n\nA phone application service will open on 11 October for anyone who does not have access to the internet.\n\nThe online and phone application processes will remain open until 25 October.\n\nIt is hoped the voucher scheme will encourage more people to go out to shops, which could help the economic recovery.", "The Scottish government has announced a £300m funding package to help the health services get through the \"extremely challenging\" winter ahead.\n\nThe plan includes the hiring of extra support workers, cash for care at home services and a pay rise for care staff.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said it was \"vital\" to maximise the capacity of the NHS as winter approaches.\n\nBut opposition parties claimed the plans were a \"sticking plaster\" for a health service facing crisis.\n\nAnd the GMB union said the pay rise for social care staff did not go far enough, calling for a \"substantial\" increase in the basic rate of pay to £15 per hour.\n\nScotland's health services are already under severe pressure in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, with demand \"extremely high\" and the NHS on an emergency footing.\n\nMr Yousaf warned MSPs that the NHS was \"under more pressure than it has been at any point in the pandemic\", adding that \"quite frankly it is likely to get worse\" in the coming months.\n\nThe minister announced a multi-year funding package worth more than £300m for hospital and community care services, which includes the recruitment of 1,000 additional support staff in the NHS.\n\nIt also includes £40m for \"step down\" care, which enables hospital patients to temporarily move into care homes or get extra help at home, and £60m to maximise the capacity of care at home services.\n\nSocial care workers will be given a pay rise to a minimum of £10.02 per hour, while £4m will be invested in \"staff wellbeing\" - with a focus on the physical and emotional needs of workers.\n\nHumza Yousaf told MSPs that the pressure on health services was only likely to increase during winter\n\nMr Yousaf said the measures would help reduce delays in patient discharge from hospitals and reduce pressure on unpaid carers.\n\nHe said: \"This significant new investment will help get people the care they need as quickly as possible this winter. Bolstering the caring workforce by increasing their numbers, providing them with additional support, and increasing the wages of social care staff.\n\n\"Our NHS, social care staff and social work staff have been remarkable throughout the pandemic and today's additional investment will help support them to deliver care to people across Scotland this winter.\"\n\nThe GMB union said the promised pay rise \"isn't nearly enough\" to tackle an \"understaffing crisis in social care\".\n\nCalling for a £15 per hour minimum, GMB Scotland Secretary Louise Gilmour said: \"To transform social care for the people who need it and the people who deliver it, particularly as we roll-out a national care service, then we must go further.\"\n\nAt Holyrood, opposition parties welcomed the extra funding but also said ministers must go further.\n\nScottish Conservative public health spokeswoman Sue Webber said there was a \"growing crisis\" in the NHS even before the winter, with long waiting times at A&E departments and queues at vaccination clinics.\n\n\"While I really welcome the £300m outlined today in investment in our NHS and comments around investing in our workforce, we continue to need to see urgent action now.\"\n\nMeanwhile Labour's deputy leader Jackie Baillie said the plan \"feels like a sticking plaster for a much more profound problem\".\n\nShe said supermarket checkout workers were paid more than social care staff, adding: \"You will not retain or recruit staff if you continue to pay the low wages.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nEmma Raducanu says it has been \"pretty cool\" to receive the congratulations of other players at Indian Wells, but now is the time to get back to business.\n\nThe US Open champion, 18, has a bye to the second round of the BNP Paribas Open in California as the 17th seed.\n\nShe will face world number 100 Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus on Friday in her first match since winning in New York.\n\n\"It's really nice,\" the Briton said of the congratulations of her peers.\n\n\"All the players are very friendly. I'm still very new on the tour - so it's pretty cool.\n\n\"But I haven't really spent too much time hanging around. I've just been training and getting about my business, and then leaving.\"\n\nSince becoming the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam singles title, Raducanu has attended the Met Gala and the London premiere of the new James Bond film.\n\nShe added: \"It's been a very cool three weeks. I got to experience some great things that I probably never would have got to do before.\"\n\nRaducanu is currently without a permanent coach having decided against extending her short, but incredibly successful, partnership with Andrew Richardson.\n\nShe is being assisted in Indian Wells by Jeremy Bates, who works with the British number six Katie Boulter as part of his duties as a Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) national coach.\n\n\"Jeremy is part of women's tennis at the LTA, so while he's here, he's helping me out,\" Raducanu said.\n\n\"But going forwards, I'm just going to wait and try and find the right person. I'm not going to rush into anything. I want to make sure I make the right decision.\n\n\"I'm just looking for the general things in a coach, really. Someone you get along with well, and someone who can push you.\"\n\nSasnovich, 27, booked her meeting with Raducanu thanks to a 6-0 6-4 win over Colombia's Maria Camila Osorio in round one.\n• None Trained to protect others but can these fighting witches protect themselves?", "A huge leak of financial documents has put the spotlight on the hidden assets of some of the world's most powerful people.\n\nUnsurprisingly, the Pandora Papers have hit headlines worldwide. But what's the reporting like in some of the countries where leaders' financial dealings have been exposed?\n\nThe Pandora Papers revealed that King Abdullah II of Jordan secretly spent more than £70m ($100m) on a property empire in the UK and US.\n\nBut stories on the leak were notably absent in Jordan where - observers say - local media censor themselves and avoid subjects that are implicitly off limits.\n\nOn Monday morning, the state-run Petra news agency, as well as the privately-owned Al-Ghad, Al-Dustour and Jordan Times newspapers, were all leading instead on the king's comments about democratic reforms in the country.\n\nThey were also prioritising stories about King Abdullah meeting the World Bank president, and his first phone call with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad since the start of the Syrian civil war a decade ago.\n\nLawyers for King Abdullah said he used his personal wealth to buy the homes and there was nothing improper about him using offshore firms to do so.\n\nThe palace also put out a statement saying that it was \"no secret\" that the king owned a number of properties abroad.\n\n\"Any allegations that link these private properties to public funds or assistance are baseless and deliberate attempts to distort facts,\" it said.\n\nThere was also deafening silence over the leak in much of the media in Kenya, where the family of President Uhuru Kenyatta were revealed to have secretly owned a network of offshore companies for decades.\n\nThe Star newspaper was leading with the story on its website, under the headline \"No evidence Kenyatta's stole state assets - Pandora Papers\". Others either did not cover it at all, or put the focus outside of Kenya.\n\nThe country's leading daily newspaper The Nation published a story written by a news agency with the headline \"Pandora Papers expose leaders' offshore millions\", using a picture of Jordan's king. The story included four lines about the Kenyattas.\n\nCitizen TV - the biggest TV station in Kenya - also published agency copy on its website, in which the revelations about Mr Kenyatta's family were at the end.\n\nThe Standard and The People Daily newspapers did not publish the findings on their websites.\n\nHowever, the leak was sparking a lot of conversation on social media in Kenya, with the hashtag #PandoraPapers and #client 13173 - the code name the Kenyattas were given by their asset managers - trending on Twitter.\n\nMr Kenyatta's family have not yet responded to requests for comment.\n\nThe leak linked Russian President Vladimir Putin to secret assets in Monaco.\n\nHowever, Russia's main Sunday evening TV news reviews made no mention of the allegations, which were published shortly before the programmes aired.\n\nThe Russian part of the investigation was published by the website Vazhnyye Istorii (Important Stories). The English-language Moscow Times news site had the Pandora Papers as its top story on Monday, with the headline: \"Leaked papers link Putin associates to offshore dealings\".\n\nRussian social media users have also been talking about the revelations.\n\nHowever a number of media outlets steered stories away from President Putin. The state-owned Gazprom-Media's NTV aired a brief report on the investigation on Monday morning, focusing on allegations against foreign officials, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nMeanwhile, state news agency Tass highlighted findings related to the US being used as a tax haven.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday called the findings \"a collection of fairly groundless claims\".\n\nThe Pandora Papers revealed that Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky transferred his stake in a secret offshore company just before he won the 2019 election.\n\nUkraine's Slidstvo.info website published an investigation based on the data obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and the English-language Kyiv Post had the findings as its top story with the headline: \"Pandora Papers reveal offshore holdings of Zelensky and his inner circle\".\n\nHowever, it was not a major story in most Ukrainian media.\n\nThe findings were widely discussed online, including in a number of blogs, with many arguing that the revelations would not affect Mr Zelensky's popularity.\n\nThe papers revealed that Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis - who is facing an election later this week - failed to declare an offshore investment company used to purchase two villas for £12m in the south of France.\n\nThe findings were initially published by Investigace.cz, and then picked up by a number of media outlets, including the Pravo newspaper, which ran the story on its front page.\n\nMr Babis' denial of having done anything illegal was being widely reported on Monday.\n\nThe Novinky news site also quoted opposition figure Petr Fiala as calling for answers.\n\n\"Andrej Babis must prove that he used taxed money for the transaction. If not, he has no right to be in politics and take care of taxpayers' money,\" he said.\n\nBut despite the leak being widely covered, most media focus has remained on general election coverage. It is not clear whether the leak will have an impact on the outcome of the vote.\n\nThe leak found that Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's inner circle, including cabinet ministers and their families, secretly own companies and trusts holding millions of dollars.\n\nAll of Pakistan's major newspapers covered the revelations.\n\nThe leak was discussed on Pakistan's Dunya TV talk show \"Think Tank\" on Sunday. The website of Dawn newspaper - the largest and oldest English-language newspaper in Pakistan - was leading on Monday with a number of stories about the Pandora Papers and the Pakistani findings.\n\nThe coverage has been met with cautious or defensive reactions from those who were named.\n\nMr Khan said his government would investigate all citizens mentioned in the report.\n\n\"We welcome the Pandora Papers exposing the ill-gotten wealth of elites, accumulated through tax evasion & corruption & laundered out to financial 'havens',\" he tweeted.\n\nThree presidents and 11 former presidents from Latin America have been mentioned in the investigation. One of them is Ecuador's Guillermo Lasso, a former banker, who replaced a Panamanian foundation that made monthly payments to his close family with a trust based in South Dakota, in the US, in 2017.\n\nReacting to the revelations, Mr Lasso said all his investments, in and out of Ecuador, were legal.\n\nThe news involving the president is the main headline on the website of newspaper Expreso, but many Ecuadorean outlets have given it little or no coverage.\n\nThe website of newspaper El Universo ran several items about the findings, including those related to the president. They also reported on the revelation that Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, a star in Latin America, has a \"property empire\" in Florida of an estimated value of up to $120m.\n\nAnother Latin American leader mentioned in the papers is Chile's President Sebastián Piñera, a billionaire businessman, who is accused of selling a copper and iron mine in an environmentally sensitive area to a childhood friend, as detailed in Spain's El País newspaper.\n\nIn 2010, nine months after Mr Piñera took office, his family sold their shares in the mine for $152m. Part of the deal took place in the British Virgin Islands.\n\nThe Chilean presidency said Mr Piñera had no role in, or information about, the sale of the mining project, and that he had not been involved in the management of any company for more than 12 years.\n\nMany Chilean outlets are covering the leaks, with the website of newspaper La Nación giving a lot of prominence to local reaction, with Senator Manuel José Ossandón, who belongs to the president's party, calling for an investigation.\n\nThe Pandora Papers showed that the law firm founded by Cyprus's President Nicos Anastasiades appears to have provided fake owners to disguise the real owner of a series of offshore companies - a former Russian politician who had been accused of embezzlement.\n\nThe findings were given prominent coverage on many Cypriot news sites, including the Greek-language Politis and Phileleftheros.\n\nOther documents showed how Azerbaijan's ruling Aliyev family have secretly acquired UK property using offshore companies.\n\nThe files show how the family - long accused of corruption in the European nation - bought 17 properties, including a £33m office block in London for the president's 11-year-old son, Heydar Aliyev.\n\nThe leak received little or no coverage in most of the country's media outlets. However, the daily Azerbaijani newspaper Azadliq - which is not accessible inside the country - was leading with the story on its website on Monday.\n\nThe findings related to British officials were widely reported in UK media.\n\nThe leaked documents showed how the former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife, Cherie, bought a London property in an offshore deal that saved them £312,000 in stamp duty.\n\nMrs Blair said the sellers had insisted the building was sold in this way but they had brought it under UK control. She said they would be liable to pay capital gains tax if they sell it.\n\nThey also showed how prominent Conservative Party donor Mohamed Amersi worked on a series of controversial deals for a Swedish telecoms company that was later fined £700m in a US prosecution. Mr Amersi denies any wrongdoing.\n\nThe Guardian and i newspapers both led with reports about the Pandora Papers on their front pages on Monday.\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 which has led one of the 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)", "We've been hearing from Frances Haugen all morning.\n\nHere's what you need to know about the former Facebook employee taking centre stage today.\n\nWho is she?\n\nThe 37-year-old unveiled herself on Sunday as the person behind a series of surprise leaks of internal Facebook documents.\n\nHaugen told CBS News she had left Facebook earlier this year after becoming exasperated with the company.\n\nShe was a product manager on the civic integrity team until it was disbanded a month after the 2020 presidential election.\n\n\"Like, they basically said, ‘Oh good, we made it through the election...We can get rid of Civic Integrity now.’ Fast forward a couple months, we got the insurrection.\"\n\nFacebook's Integrity chief has since contested this, saying it wasn't disbanded but \"integrated into a larger Central Integrity team\".\n\nWhat did she do?\n\nBefore she left the company, Haugen copied a series of internal memos and documents.\n\nShe has shared them with the Wall Street Journal, which has been releasing the material in batches over the last three weeks - sometimes referred to as the Facebook Files.\n\nHaugen says these documents prove the tech giant repeatedly prioritised \"growth over safety\".\n\nThis content is currently not available", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \"There is abundant statute that is not being properly enforced\"\n\nBoris Johnson does not support calls to make misogyny a hate crime saying there is \"abundant\" existing legislation to tackle violence against women.\n\nThe PM told the BBC that \"widening the scope\" of what you ask the police to do would just increase the problem.\n\nPolicing of crime against women has come under scrutiny since the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving officer.\n\nThe PM said recruiting and promoting more female officers would also help to change the culture within forces.\n\nWayne Couzens was given a whole life jail term last week after admitting the kidnap, rape and murder of 33-year-old Ms Everard while he was a Met Police officer.\n\nDuring his sentencing hearing it emerged that he had used his warrant card to fake an arrest of Ms Everard.\n\nThe case has sparked a debate about women's safety as well as trust in the police and criminal justice system.\n\nAn inquiry is to take place into Couzens' previous behaviour and conduct, and will widen out into workplace behaviour, professional standards and vetting practices within the police as a whole.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the Conservative Party conference the public \"have a right to know\" why he remained in the Metropolitan Police despite concerns about his behaviour.\n\nAlso speaking at the conference, the new justice secretary, Dominic Raab, said he had been \"shocked and horrified\" by the recent cases of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa, a teacher killed in south-east London last month on her way to meet a friend.\n\nHe said making communities safer and allowing women to feel safe walking home at night was his \"number one priority\".\n\nThe government would \"transform\" the way the justice system treats violence against women, he said, including from the time it takes to examine phone evidence to the \"potential ordeal\" vulnerable victims can face at trial.\n\nCampaigners say misogyny - prejudice against women - is one of the \"root causes\" of violence against women and are calling for it to be made a hate crime in England and Wales.\n\nThis would give judges the ability to increase the punishment if the offence falls into a hate crime category.\n\nCurrently, the law only recognises hate crimes based on race, religion, sexual orientation, disability and transgender identity.\n\nDuring an interview with the prime minister, BBC Breakfast's Dan Walker pointed out that 11 out of 43 police forces in England and Wales record misogyny as a hate crime.\n\nAsked twice whether he thought it should be made a hate crime, Mr Johnson said: \"I think that what we should do is prosecute people for crimes that we have on the statute book.\n\n\"I think, to be perfectly frank, if you simply widen the scope of what you ask the police to do you'll just increase the problem.\n\n\"What you need to do is get the police to focus on the very real crimes, the very real feeling of injustice and betrayal that many people feel.\"\n\nThe prime minister said \"there must be radical change\" in policing when it comes to tackling crimes such as rape, adding: \"There is abundant statute that is not being properly enforced, and that's what we need to focus on.\"\n\nJustice minister Victoria Atkins said it was important to understand why police were not prosecuting these crimes and she had asked police to record instances where the victim felt they were a victim of crime because of their gender.\n\nShe told the BBC's World At One it was time to move away from this feeling in society that women have to put up with unpleasant, violent banter and being \"touched up\" on the Tube or bus.\n\nA working group on whether misogyny should be a distinct crime in Scotland will report back in February.\n\nNottinghamshire Police was the first police force to introduce a \"misogyny hate crime\" policy in 2016 and university researchers have pointed to \"shifting attitudes\" as a result.\n\nLabour MP Stella Creasy, who has long campaigned on the issue, said she was confident there was cross-party support to pass legislation soon that would make all police forces have to record when a crime was motivated by misogyny.\n\n\"The fact the prime minister dismisses it and doesn't have an alternative plan speaks volumes about whether you can trust Boris Johnson to take this seriously,\" she told the BBC.\n\nInitial findings of a review by the Law Commission - an independent body that advises government - said sex or gender-based hostility should become a hate crime, but its official recommendations have not been published yet.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, who has rejected calls to resign after Ms Everard's death, said a separate a independent review would be carried out into the force's standards and culture.\n\nAn extra 650 police officers are to be added to London's streets over the next six months to try to reduce violent crime in the city.", "In a US Senate hearing on Facebook's algorithm targeting young users, former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen testified on the company's knowledge and analyses on its younger users.\n\n\"The buck stops with Mark [Zuckerberg],\" she said. \"We need to protect kids.\"", "The app was launched just 12 hours before the vaccine passport scheme came into effect\n\nScotland's first minister has apologised for the botched introduction of the country's vaccine passport app.\n\nThe app - which allows people to show they have been double vaccinated - was launched just hours before the scheme came into effect.\n\nBut many people were unable to access their records through the app, leading to several venues not asking for proof of vaccination over the weekend.\n\nNicola Sturgeon acknowledged that this had caused \"extreme frustration\".\n\nSpeaking in the Scottish Parliament, she added: \"I apologise for that\".\n\nThe first minister insisted that the app itself - which was developed by a Danish firm that was paid about £600,000 by the Scottish government - was not the problem.\n\nShe explained: \"Essentially the high level of demand after the launch of the app - combined with an error in one part of the NHS system - meant that information wasn't being sent quickly enough from the NHS system to the app.\n\n\"This also, for a period, caused problems for those requesting paper copies of vaccination certificates, or seeking to download a PDF.\"\n\nThe app went live shortly after 17:00 last Thursday, with the vaccine passport scheme being introduced at 05:00 the next morning.\n\nHowever, the government had already announced two days earlier that the scheme would not actually be enforced until 18 October - which opposition parties and industry groups said at the time suggested it was not yet ready.\n\nAberdeen did not check the vaccine status of fans at their match with Celtic on Sunday\n\nQuestions have also been asked about why the Scottish government evidently failed to anticipate and prepare for large numbers of people downloading and attempting to use the app, and why it decided to create its own app rather than sharing the one that is in use in England and Wales.\n\nMs Sturgeon said improvements to remedy the problem were made to the NHS system on Friday evening, with the \"initial backlog\" of people waiting to access their vaccine status being cleared by lunchtime on Saturday.\n\nShe said the government would continue to monitor the performance of the app, and to \"engage with businesses and sectors subject to the requirement for Covid certification\".\n\nAberdeen FC announced ahead of their match with Celtic on Sunday that they would not be checking the vaccination status of fans.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said both Hearts and Rangers had managed to check about 20% of their crowds despite saying they would not turn anyone away who was unable to provide evidence of their vaccination status.\n\nThe launch of the app has been described as a shambles by opposition parties and many affected businesses\n\nThe first minister also said she continued to believe that vaccine passports are a \"proportionate way of encouraging people to get vaccinated, and also of helping large events and night-time hospitality to keep operating during a potentially difficult winter.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the scheme had been \"an utter shambles from day one\" and a \"complete embarrassment\".\n\nHe added: \"The app was delayed and only came into force less than 12 hours before the scheme began. It was instantly a disaster - people couldn't find the app, they couldn't get the app to open, there were issues with facial recognition.\n\n\"People are still putting in all of their details correctly and cannot get their vaccine passport up on the app - there continue to be issues days on.\n\n\"It seems the government did not foresee high demand for an app that they want everyone who goes to gigs, football or nightclubs to download.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, the Scottish Labour leader, said the rollout of the app had been a \"predictable disaster\", and accused Ms Sturgeon of \"making this up as you go along\".\n\nHe said: \"This is the consequence of an arrogant government forcing through its ill-thought-through plans despite concerns from the public, public health experts and businesses.\"\n\nIt comes as Scotland recorded a further 21 Covid-related deaths and 2,056 new cases of the virus.\n\nA total of 998 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid-19, of whom 65 are in intensive care.\n\nThe number of new daily cases has reduced by more than 20% over the past week, and is now 60% lower than at the peak of the latest wave a month ago.\n\nThe most significant declines have been among the 15 to 24 age group, with the number of children under the age of 14 also falling dramatically in recent weeks.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the number of people in hospital wards or ICU units with Covid has also been falling over the past fortnight, but warned that the pressure on the health service was still intense.\n\nShe added: \"As we head further into autumn and then winter, we know that people meeting indoors more often or travelling by public transport rather than walking, for example, will create the conditions for the virus to circulate.\n\n\"There is a risk that this will lead to a further rise in cases - and that would, of course, put further pressure on the NHS.\n\n\"So for all the improvement we have seen - and collectively helped achieve - at least until we are well through the winter, we must remember that the overall position remains fragile and potentially very challenging.\"", "The vigil has been held amid continuing public outrage about male violence towards women\n\nHundreds of people have held a vigil in Eastbourne, the town where the man suspected of murdering school teacher Sabina Nessa was arrested.\n\nAbout 200 people gathered to pay tribute to Ms Nessa and to call for an end to male violence against women.\n\nMs Nessa was found a few minutes' walk from her home in Cator Park, Kidbrooke, on 18 September.\n\nKoci Selamaj, 36, of Terminus Road in Eastbourne, has been charged with the 28-year-old's murder.\n\nThe vigil at Eastbourne Pier was held amid continuing outrage and debate over women's safety and policing.\n\nAt about 19.00 BST, those who had gathered paused in thoughtful reflection as a Muslim prayer was read out.\n\nMany of those attending held pictures of Ms Nessa, while others carried signs protesting against male violence or remembering Sarah Everard.\n\nThose gathered at the vigil held up candles and posters in a \"peaceful protest\"\n\nAddressing the crowd on the seafront, co-organiser Natasha Peacock said: \"Sabina Nessa should still be alive. She was loved and she will be deeply missed.\"\n\nShe said the vigil had be organised \"to mourn Sabina and the other 109 women killed this year due to male violence\", and described it as \"a peaceful protest to say that we need to make the safety of women and girls a priority\".\n\nAnother attendee, Nicolette Florides, said: \"A lot of the girls around me are too scared to walk home. We want the community to make girls and women feel safe.\"\n\nAbout 200 people gathered at the pier in Eastbourne to pay their respects\n\nMarie Goodchild added: \"The police force needs more resources and there needs to be more victim support.\n\n\"There should be a safe space for victims to come forward, not feel humiliated or that you are going to get scrutinised if you do come forward.\"\n\nKoci Selamaj was arrested in Eastbourne in the early hours of 26 September.\n\nHe has indicated he will deny the charge of murder and has been remanded in custody ahead of a plea hearing on 16 December.\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 research will track 8,000 children born this year over their first five years\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has visited researchers looking at whether children born during the pandemic will have been affected in the long-term by the pressures on their families.\n\nThe University College London study will consider issues such as job worries, parents feeling isolated and a widening gap between rich and poor.\n\nThe duchess has highlighted the importance of children's early years.\n\n\"Our early childhoods shape our adult lives,\" she said.\n\n\"Knowing more about what impacts this critical time is fundamental to understanding what we as a society can do to improve our future health and happiness,\" she said, visiting the university's Centre for Longitudinal Studies.\n\nThe Children of the 2020s study will track the progress of 8,000 babies born in England this year - following their development and well-being in their first five years.\n\nThe idea is to see how the earliest experiences might reverberate through later life - not just from the pandemic, although this will have been such an early shaping influence.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge heard from lead researcher Pasco Fearon\n\n\"It's a really important part of the story for us to understand how it's impacted this generation of children,\" said lead Prof Pasco Fearon.\n\nChildren growing up in the wake of the pandemic could be living in families where parents have been under pressure in the lockdowns.\n\n\"Relationships could have been put under strain,\" he said.\n\nParents might have faced financial worries about \"insecure patterns of work\" and during lockdown been lonely and isolated from wider families.\n\nThere might be other issues, such as too much screen time for children, too, the expert in children's social and emotional development suggested.\n\nMothers faced particular stresses in the pandemic, UCL researchers have previously found, taking on a disproportionate amount of extra family responsibilities, including teaching older children sent home from school.\n\nThere has been a pattern in education studies of a polarising impact of the pandemic - of the most advantaged children getting further ahead and the most disadvantaged falling behind.\n\n\"Inequalities are always there but we expect to see the gaps getting wider,\" Prof Fearon said.\n\nAnd the study will see how and when this happens in early development, such as in language, social skills and readiness to start school, and look for opportunities to intervene.\n\n\"We want to show the crucial role of parents - and to get a national conversation going,\" Prof Fearon said.\n\n\"What are the big forces that are influencing how children get on in life in the early years and beyond?\" he said.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge, who launched her Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood earlier this year, is highlighting the particular value of long-term tracking studies.\n\nIn the late-1950s long-term studies with questionnaires about pregnant women's smoking habits helped to reveal a better understanding of the link to children's birth weight.", "Ozy's chief executive Carlos Watson was a former news anchor for CNN\n\nIn an about-turn, the scandal-hit US media firm Ozy Media has re-launched just days after it shut itself down.\n\nBoss Carlos Watson told broadcaster NBC that the firm was \"open for business\" again and this was its \"Lazarus moment\" - referring to the biblical character brought back to life by Jesus.\n\nOzy shut on Friday after reports its co-founder had deceived potential investors during a conference call.\n\nMajor advertisers cut ties and its chairman Marc Lasry stepped down.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Watson told NBC that the previous week had been \"traumatic\" and \"heartbreaking\".\n\nHowever, he said the media firm had a change of heart: \"Over the weekend we spoke to advertising partners, we talked to our readers, our viewers our investors.\n\n\"I think Ozy is part of this moment. I think what we do... has a place.\"\n\nLaunched in California in 2013, Ozy Media produces left-leaning podcasts, television series and events. The firm has won an Emmy for its work.\n\nIn late September, the New York Times reported that co-founder Samir Rao impersonated a senior leader at YouTube during a conference call with Goldman Sachs in February. At that point the investment bank was considering making a $40m investment in the media company.\n\nMr Rao reportedly claimed that Ozy's videos were highly popular on YouTube.\n\nAccording to the Times, the investors realised something was wrong and did not go through with the deal. Mr Watson later apologised and Mr Rao was allowed to stay at the firm.\n\nAmid growing scrutiny last week, Ozy began an internal investigation and Mr Rao took a leave of absence.\n\nFomer BBC News presenter Katty Kay called the allegations against the firm \"troubling\"\n\nIt prompted veteran journalist Katty Kay - who joined Ozy in June after 30 years at the BBC - to quit, followed by Mr Lasry. Ford and Ally Financial cut ties with the media firm, amongst other advertisers.\n\nMr Watson told NBC that what Mr Rao had done was \"sad\" and \"wrong\".\n\nHe accepted that it was a \"fair question\" as to whether people would be able to trust him again as chief executive. The latest scandal is just one in a long string of allegations that has emerged, including claims the firm inflated its audience figures.\n\nMr Watson said he had been given \"incredibly bad advice\" last week \"to go silent\", when he should have engaged with the press.\n\nAs a result, he said \"half truths\", inaccuracies and \"cheap shots\" were reported in the media and that Ozy was not a \"house of cards\".\n\nMr Watson added Ozy intended to \"own\" the mistakes that had come to light around its use of data and marketing.\n\nThe firm could struggle to get back on its feet. It has lost most of its staff and only two people are currently on its board - Mr Watson and Michael Moe, founder of the Silicon Valley investment company GSV Holdings, which backs Ozy.\n\nIn a statement, Ozy told the BBC it was reaching out to its team to encourage them to return. It added that its newsletters will resume this week and TV production at the end of the month.\n\nThe firm added that several advertising partners had expressed excitement about the firm re-launching and intended to meet with Ozy in the coming days to discuss \"next steps\".\n\nOzy spokesman Phil Singer told the BBC: \"The bottom line is that we hit a bump in the road, but are committed to getting past this moment and renewing our commitment to being the kind of media company that delivers amazing content about topics and people that are too often overlooked.\"", "Obesity has been linked to deprivation\n\nFunding for healthy-lifestyle support such as stop-smoking and obesity clinics has been cut by a quarter in six years in England, research shows.\n\nThe Health Foundation said councils had received £3.3bn to run these services this year - £1bn less than in 2015-16, once inflation was accounted for.\n\nThe cut threatened the government's levelling-up agenda to spread wealth and opportunity more fairly, it added.\n\nBut the government said it was \"absolutely committed\" to the policy.\n\nA spokesman for the government added the newly-launched Office for Health Improvement and Disparities would play a crucial role in levelling up.\n\nDetails on future funding is expected to be announced later in the autumn.\n\nThe release of the Health Foundation analysis comes ahead of Health Secretary Sajid Javid's speech to the Conservative Party Conference on Tuesday.\n\nIt found while spending on the NHS had increased, funding given to councils for public health had been cut by 24% in the past six years.\n\nAnd in Blackpool - the most deprived area of the country - that meant £43 less per person per year was being spent on key public-health services.\n\nThe Health Foundation said these services were key to ensuring people remained in good health to get the most out of life.\n\nBut it pointed out people in the poorest areas could expect to live nearly 20 fewer years in good health than their peers in wealthier areas - a gap likely to have been made worse during the Covid pandemic.\n\nJo Bibby, from the Health Foundation, said ministers had already acknowledged levelling up health was fundamental to levelling up economically.\n\n\"A healthy and productive population will be essential to the country's future prosperity,\" she said.\n\n\"But ongoing cuts to the public-health grant run counter to this agenda and will ultimately serve to further entrench health inequality.\"\n\nThe Health Foundation said £1.4bn extra would be needed by 2024-25 to rectify these cuts.\n\nIts call was supported by the Association of Directors of Public Health, which has published a letter signed by more than 50 leading health charities and groups.\n\nADPH interim president Prof Jim McManus said: \"The public-health grant has been cut, cut and cut again, undermining the leadership and services that are essential to improving health and reducing inequalities.\"", "Most of those who died in the complex of camps at Auschwitz died at the Birkenau extermination camp\n\nStaff at the site of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz have condemned anti-Semitic graffiti discovered there and they have appealed for information.\n\nNine barracks were spray-painted with anti-Semitic phrases and slogans denying the Holocaust, according to the Auschwitz memorial and museum.\n\nThe graffiti was found at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site, the largest of the 40 camps that made up the Nazi complex.\n\nPolice have been informed of the incident and are investigating.\n\nStaff have called on anyone who may have been in the vicinity of the death camp on Tuesday morning and witnessed the incident to contact them, especially anyone with photos taken around the Gate of Death, at the entrance to Birkenau, and the wooden barracks.\n\nThe memorial centre said the vandalism was \"an outrageous attack on the symbol of one of the great tragedies in human history and an extremely painful blow to the memory of all the victims of the German Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau camp\".\n\n\"As soon as the police have compiled all the necessary documentation, the conservators of the Auschwitz memorial will begin removing traces of vandalism from historical buildings,\" it added.\n\nThe statement noted that while the security system at the 170-hectare site was \"constantly being expanded\", it was funded from the museum's budget, which had been hit during the coronavirus pandemic. Fully enclosing the site would not be possible for some time, it added.\n\nThe Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial preserves the Nazi extermination camp set up on occupied Polish soil by Germany during World War Two.\n\nAt least 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz in the four and a half years after it opened in 1940. Almost one million of them were Jews. The majority of the victims were sent to the gas chambers at Birkenau.\n\nIsrael's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial condemned what it said was an \"attack not only on the memory of the victims, but also on the survivors and any person with a conscience\".\n\nWhile vandalism at Auschwitz is rare, in 2010 a Swedish man was jailed for more than two years for plotting the theft of the infamous \"Arbeit macht frei\" sign that hangs over the entrance.\n\nEarlier this year the wall of a Jewish cemetery near the camp was defaced with swastikas and other Nazi symbols.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA former Facebook employee has told US politicians that the company's sites and apps harm children's mental health and stoke division in society.\n\nFrances Haugen, a 37-year-old former product manager turned whistleblower, heavily criticised the company at a hearing in the Senate.\n\nFacebook has faced growing scrutiny and increasing calls for its regulation.\n\nFounder Mark Zuckerberg hit back, saying the latest accusations were at odds with the company's goals.\n\nIn a letter to staff, he said many of the claims were \"illogical\" and pointed to Facebook's efforts to fight harmful content.\n\n\"We care deeply about issues like safety, well-being and mental health,\" he said in the letter, made public on his Facebook page. \"It's difficult to see coverage that misrepresents our work and our motives.\"\n\nFacebook is the world's most popular social media site. The company says it has 2.7 billion monthly active users. Hundreds of millions of people also use the company's other products, including WhatsApp and Instagram.\n\nBut it has been criticised on several fronts - from failing to protect users' privacy to not doing enough to halt the spread of disinformation.\n\nMs Haugen told CBS News on Sunday that she had shared a number of internal Facebook documents with the Wall Street Journal in recent weeks.\n\nUsing the documents, the WSJ reported that research carried out by Instagram showed the app could harm girls' mental health.\n\nThis was a theme Ms Haugen continued during her testimony on Tuesday. \"The company's leadership knows how to make Facebook and Instagram safer, but won't make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people,\" she said.\n\nShe criticised Mark Zuckerberg for having wide-ranging control, saying that there is \"no one currently holding Mark accountable but himself.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Facebook's Monika Bickert says commissioning research into issues shows the company is prioritising safety above profit\n\nAnd she praised the massive outage of Facebook services on Monday, which affected users around the world.\n\n\"Yesterday we saw Facebook taken off the internet,\" she said. \"I don't know why it went down, but I know that for more than five hours, Facebook wasn't used to deepen divides, destabilise democracies and make young girls and women feel bad about their bodies.\"\n\nThe answer, she told senators, was congressional oversight. \"We must act now,\" she said.\n\nMr Zuckerberg, in his letter, said the research into Instagram had been mischaracterised and that many young people had positive experiences of using the platform. But he said \"it's very important to me that everything we build is safe and good for kids\".\n\nOn Monday's outage, he said the deeper concern was not \"how many people switch to competitive services or how much money we lose, but what it means for the people who rely on our services to communicate with loved ones, run their businesses, or support their communities\".\n\nFrances Haugen said the company repeatedly prioritised profits over its users safety\n\nBoth Republican and Democratic senators on Tuesday were united in the need for change at the company - a rare topic of agreement between the two political parties.\n\n\"The damage to self-interest and self-worth inflicted by Facebook today will haunt a generation,\" Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal said.\n\n\"Big Tech now faces the Big Tobacco jaw-dropping moment of truth,\" he added, a reference to how tobacco firms hid the harmful effects of their products.\n\nFellow Republican Dan Sullivan said the world would look back and ask \"What the hell were we thinking?\" in light of the revelations about Facebook's impact on children.\n\nIn a statement issued after the hearing, Facebook said it did not agree with Ms Haugen's \"characterisation of the many issues she testified about\". But it did agree that \"it's time to begin to create standard rules for the internet.\"\n\n\"It's been 25 years since the rules for the internet have been updated, and instead of expecting the industry to make societal decisions that belong to legislators, it is time for Congress to act,\" the statement read.\n\nMark Zuckerberg's blog is lengthy and thoughtful. He doesn't name Frances Haugen - but he has clearly been rattled.\n\nHis main argument is that the research she leaked has been misrepresented by both her and the media. He argues that the negative internal research has been cherry-picked and positive conclusions brushed over.\n\nInterestingly, he thinks this episode could have a chilling effect on internal research in companies - worried that bad conclusions might one day be leaked.\n\nBut there is of course a simple come back to this. Release the data.\n\nFacebook and other social media companies don't have to do internal research; they could let their data be analysed independently.\n\nTo be fair to Facebook, the company does give researchers some access. However, only Facebook has the full spectrum of user metrics needed to fully analyse its effect on society.\n\nHis arguments too are at times overly simplified. Why would we want to make people angry, he asks.\n\nI'm sure he doesn't. But it's been proven over and over again that social media that provokes any emotion, whether it be laughter, love or anger gets more engagement.\n\nZuckerberg believes passionately that Facebook is a force for good. It's becoming harder and harder to find people on Capitol Hill who think that.", "Sarah-Jane has sickle-cell disease, lives with constant pain and needs a blood transfusion every six weeks\n\nThe first new sickle-cell treatment in 20 years will help keep thousands of people out of hospital over the next three years, NHS England has said.\n\nSickle-cell disease is incurable and affects 15,000 people in the UK.\n\nAnd the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence said the hope of reducing health inequalities for black people, who are predominantly affected and often have poorer health outcomes due to a number of social factors, made the drug worth recommending.\n\nIt called it \"an innovative treatment\".\n\nThe drug, crizanlizumab, made by Novartis, is injected into a vein and can be taken on its own or alongside standard treatment and regular blood transfusions.\n\nAnd in a trial, patients taking the crizanlizumab had a sickle-cell crisis 1.6 times a year on average, compared with nearly three times a year normally.\n\nThese painful episodes, which can require hospital treatment and lead to other health complications, are caused by by sickle-shaped red blood cells blocking the small blood vessels .\n\nBut because the trial was small and lasted only a year, it remains unknown how long the benefits last for - and that makes it difficult to judge how cost-effective crizanlizumab is.\n\nNevertheless, NICE, which recommends treatments in England and Wales, is recommending its use for over-16s, albeit under a special arrangement rather than routinely, on the NHS.\n\nAnd additional data on the treatment will be collected through clinical trials.\n\nThe charity Sickle Cell Society said the new treatment brought \"new hope\" for people living with the world's most common genetic blood condition.\n\nNHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard said: \"The moment that a new drug comes that is approved to be used, our job is to make sure that we can do a deal to ensure it's affordable and get it out as quickly as possible.\"\n\nSarah-Jane has to rely on a whole range of medication to manage her sickle-cell disease, including very strong painkillers\n\nDiagnosed at birth, Sarah-Jane Nkrumah, 27, had her first crisis aged six months and has chronic pain in her joints.\n\n\"Every day is pain,\" she says.\n\n\"I don't remember the last time I had zero pain.\"\n\nSarah-Jane prefers to take breaks from taking painkillers - but some days cannot get out of bed.\n\n\"You just have to try and manage it,\" she says.\n\n\"It's all about having a lot of mental strength and support.\"\n\nAnd every six weeks, she has a blood transfusion to boost her energy levels.\n\n\"I feel weak and exhausted leading up to them and refreshed and stronger afterwards,\" she says.\n\n\"Thanks to donors, I get a chance to live another day.\"\n\nSarah-Jane had to give up her ambition to become a nursery teacher because it put her at risk of serious infection.\n\n\"Now, I have found my true purpose and love spreading awareness of sickle-cell disease,\" she says.\n\nMeindert Boysen, deputy chief executive and director of the Centre for Health Technology Evaluation, at NICE, said: \"Treatment for sickle-cell disease has been limited for years and there has been a lack of treatments for patients whose lives are affected by the condition.\n\n\"Crizanlizumab... has shown the potential to improve hundreds of lives and we are delighted to be able to recommend it as the first new treatment for sickle cell disease in two decades.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The body of Sarah Everard was found hidden in woodland\n\nMet Police officer Wayne Couzens has been sentenced to a whole-life term for the murder of Sarah Everard, in a case that sparked national outrage and calls for more action to tackle violence against women.\n\nCouzens admitted the kidnap, rape and murder of the 33-year-old marketing executive when he appeared in court several months ago.\n\nBut it was only during his sentencing that the full details of his crimes emerged.\n\nMs Everard was walking home from a friend's house in Clapham, south London, at about 21:30 BST on 3 March when she was abducted.\n\nCouzens' choice of victim was random, but the attack was planned.\n\nIn his sentencing remarks, Lord Justice Fulford said there had been \"significant planning and premeditation\" by Couzens.\n\nThe police officer had \"long planned to carry out a violent sexual assault on a yet-to-be-selected victim\" who he intended to coerce into his custody, noted the judge.\n\nCouzens spent at least a month travelling to London from Deal, Kent, where he lived, to research how best to carry out his crimes.\n\nSeveral days before the attack, he booked a hire car, which he would use for the abduction, as well as a roll of self-adhesive film advertised as a carpet protector on Amazon.\n\nAfter finishing a 12-hour shift at the US embassy that morning, Couzens, a parliamentary and diplomatic protection officer, went out \"hunting\" for a lone, young woman to kidnap and rape, the prosecution said.\n\nCCTV footage played in court showed Couzens and Ms Everard beside a vehicle on Poynders Road in Clapham\n\nThe court heard how Couzens used the knowledge he had gained from working on Covid patrols in January and his Metropolitan Police-issue warrant card to trick his victim under the guise of a fake arrest for breaching coronavirus guidelines.\n\nThe 48-year-old, who had been a police officer since 2002, handcuffed her before bundling her into the car and driving away.\n\nThe abduction was witnessed by a couple travelling past in a car - but they believed they had seen an undercover police officer carrying out a legitimate arrest, so did not intervene.\n\nThe whole kidnapping took less than five minutes.\n\nCouzens then drove to Dover in Kent, where he transferred Ms Everard to his own car, before travelling to a remote rural area nearby.\n\nIt was there that he raped and murdered his victim - strangling her with his police belt.\n\nBy 02:31 Couzens had left the scene and was spotted at a service station buying drinks.\n\nHe visited the site where Ms Everard's body was dumped twice, leaving just before dawn.\n\nThe next day, as the search for her escalated, Couzens bought petrol, which he used to burn her body inside a fridge.\n\nHe also purchased two green rubble bags, which he used to dump the remains in a pond near an area of woodland he owned in Hoads Wood, Ashford.\n\nA week after she disappeared, Ms Everard's body was found in a woodland stream, just metres from land owned by Couzens.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A CCTV timeline shows key evidence used to arrest and prosecute Wayne Couzens\n\nMeanwhile, Couzens returned to normal life, carrying out mundane activities like calling a vet about his dog.\n\nDays later, he even took his wife and two children on a family trip to the woods where he had burnt his victim's body.\n\nHowever, on the 8 March, the day he was due to return to work, he reported in sick.\n\nThe following day he was arrested at his home in Deal.\n\nIn a brief police interview, he told a false story about being threatened by an Eastern European gang, claiming they had demanded he deliver \"another girl\" after he had underpaid a prostitute a few weeks before. He then claimed he kidnapped Ms Everard, drove out of London and handed her over to three men in a van in a layby in Kent, while she was alive and uninjured.\n\nBut after Ms Everard's body was discovered in a pond just 130 metres from land owned by Couzens, he was charged.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In video from a police interview at his home on 9 March, Couzens denies knowing Sarah Everard\n\nCouzens has since been sacked by the Met, but the force is still facing questions over whether chances were missed to prevent his predatory behaviour.\n\nAfter Ms Everard's murder, the police watchdog announced it was probing alleged failures by the Met to investigate two indecent exposure incidents linked to Couzens in February.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct is also investigating alleged failures by Kent Police to investigate a flashing incident linked to Couzens in 2015.\n\nCouzens transferred to the Met in 2018, from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, where he had worked since 2011.\n\nTwo years later he began working for the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command as an authorised firearms officer at diplomatic premises around central London.\n\nIn July, appearing by video link from Belmarsh high security jail, Couzens pleaded guilty to murder at the Old Bailey.\n\nOn Wednesday he appeared in court again - this time in person - for a two-day sentencing hearing.\n\nThere, he faced Ms Everard's mother, father and sister, who described to the court the torment of losing their loved one in such horrendous circumstances.\n\nHer father, Jeremy, demanded that Couzens looked at him as he told the murderer he could never forgive him for taking away his daughter.\n\nHer mother, Susan, said she was \"tormented\" at the thought of what her \"precious little girl\" had endured.\n\n\"I go through the sequence of events. I wonder when she realised she was in mortal danger,\" she told the court.\n\n\"Burning her body was the final insult. It meant we could never again see her sweet face and never say goodbye.\n\n\"Our lives will never be the same. We should be a family of five, but now we are four. Her death leaves a yawning chasm in our lives that cannot be filled.\"", "The Canadian actor famously played Captain James T Kirk of the USS Enterprise\n\nThe actor who played Captain Kirk in the Star Trek series is set to embark on a real-life journey into space.\n\nUS tech billionaire Jeff Bezos's space travel company Blue Origin confirmed that William Shatner would be blasting off from Texas on 12 October.\n\nAged 90, the actor will become the oldest person to have flown into space.\n\n\"I've heard about space for a long time now. I'm taking the opportunity to see it for myself. What a miracle,\" Shatner said in a statement.\n\nShatner will be joining three other people aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket for the company's second human spaceflight.\n\nAmazon founder Jeff Bezos joined the first crewed flight in July, along with his brother, an 82-year-old pioneer of the space race and an 18-year-old student.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment Jeff Bezos and crew launch into space on the first human flight of New Shepard\n\nAs with the previous flight, the October voyage is expected to last about 10 minutes and will take the crew just beyond the Karman Line - the most widely recognised boundary of space which lies 100km (60 miles) above the Earth.\n\nBlue Origin said its vice president of mission and flight operations, Audrey Powers, would also be on board the flight, as well as a former Nasa engineer and the co-founder of a software company specialising in clinical research.\n\nA Canadian actor, Shatner famously played Captain James T Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the original Star Trek TV series in the 1960s, and later appeared in films of the franchise.\n\nReports in 2013 said he had turned down Sir Richard Branson's offer to fly him into space with Virgin Galactic - the billionaire's space travel company which took Sir Richard to the edge of space in July.\n\nSir Richard told The Sun newspaper at the time it was because Shatner has a fear of flying. But in 2011 the actor said he had turned down the offer because the billionaire allegedly wanted him to pay for the journey.\n\n\"He wanted me to go up and pay for it and I said: 'Hey, you pay me and I'll go up. I'll risk my life for a large sum of money.' But he didn't pick me up on my offer,\" Shatner told reporters.\n\nThe Star Trek star will not however be the first original cast member to leave the planet.\n\nLast year The Times revealed that the ashes of James Doohan, who played Montgomery \"Scotty\" Scott, were smuggled on board the International Space Station in 2008, three years after Doohan's death.\n\nNew Shepard, built by Bezos' company Blue Origin, is designed to serve the burgeoning market for space tourism.\n\nDubbed \"NewSpace\", an increasing number of entrepreneurs are joining in the race to create cheap, commercialised space travel.\n\nBezos's Blue Origin hit headlines in recent days after 21 current and former employees claimed it had ignored safety concerns to gain an advantage in the space race, and complained of a culture of sexism.\n\nBlue Origin rejected the charges and said it stands by its safety record.", "Flooding hit parts of London after heavy rain overnight, causing disruption on the roads and railways.\n\nShops and offices in Knightsbridge were hit by a deluge, leaving some unable to get to work as motorists tried to navigate waterlogged roads.\n\nTorrential downpours caused by a cold front sweeping eastwards have affected other parts of the UK, with part of the M23 in Sussex closed.\n\nTube lines and the London Overground have reopened after earlier closures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSt James's Park in central London saw 35mm of rain between midnight and 06:00 BST, the Met Office said.\n\nThe wet weather also caused a road closure on the M23 in Sussex between junctions 10a and 11, while the M25 was affected as parts of the east of England were also deluged.\n\nCars were left stranded on the A3 in south-west London\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\nJacques Azagury, who said he used to make dresses for Princess Diana, is one of many business owners in Knightsbridge, west London, affected.\n\nHe described the floods as a \"disaster\" for his shop where \"pretty much all the garments downstairs have been ruined\".\n\n... and has seen expensive fabrics damaged\n\nHe said: \"Obviously, I'm a bit anxious but with all these natural disasters you just get on with it and do as best you can to clean up.\n\n\"I don't know how long it's going to take or when we're going to be able to reopen again. It depends how much help we get.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 LittleLondonWhispers 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nClimate experts say the number of extreme rain events is increasing.\n\nThe Met Office says the amount of rain from extremely wet days has increased by 17%.\n\nIt also said \"a shift to more intense individual storms and fewer weak storms is likely as temperatures increase.\"\n\nI remember reporting on severe flash flooding in Brixton more than 15 years ago and I was told then it was a one in a 1,000 year event.\n\nNow in London these very localised, severe, rainfalls seem to happen every few weeks or months.\n\nCities like London are now having to prepare for flash flooding events in the future. Transport systems in particular are vulnerable.\n\nBetter drainage, materials that can absorb rain and better flood protections are all being planned. But it all comes at a cost.\n\nCommuters faced disruption as flooding at Gloucester Road and Aldgate led to parts of the District, Circle and Metropolitan lines to close.\n\nLondon Overground also partially suspended services due to flooding at Imperial Wharf.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Greg McKenzie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLondon has already been hit by severe downpours during the summer. In July, one month's worth of rain fell in one day. Two weeks later, there were further flash floods.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Anouk Charbonnier This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 spokesperson for the Mayor of London said: \"Flash flooding in some areas of London last night is causing concern and anxiety for many Londoners and it shows once again that the dangers of climate change have moved closer to home.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the adverse weather? Share your stories and video 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.", "Adele is seen looking in the rear view mirror of a car in the video\n\nAdele has released a snippet of her first new music for six years, and revealed that the full song will be out next week.\n\nThe pop star posted a 21-second black-and-white clip on Twitter, showing her putting a cassette bearing the song's title, Easy On Me, into a car stereo.\n\nThat's followed by 13 seconds of the song's instrumental piano introduction.\n\nHer tweet said Easy On Me will be released on Friday, 15 October, with her fourth album expected to follow.\n\nIt comes after posters and projections appeared around the world bearing the number 30, which is expected to be the title of the highly anticipated album.\n\nThe clip was watched five million times in the first hour on Twitter and Instagram, a figure that had doubled by the end of the day.\n\nAccording to La Presse, the clip was shot in the Canadian Eastern Townships in September.\n\nIt was directed by Quebec filmmaker Xavier Dolan, who previously provided the visuals for her hit Hello. The 2015 video now has more than 3 billion views.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adele This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSo what does this clip tell us about Adele's new music? For a start, the album's not a drum 'n' bass record, as she (jokingly) suggested in 2019. At least the opening 13 seconds don't suggest it.\n\nThe first single is clearly the kind of emotive piano ballad that she does so well, with a melody that instantly sounds like classic Adele. The video cuts out before her vocals kick in.\n\nAs for the visuals, she's in a car pulling a trailer with furniture stacked on the back, driving down a deserted American road. Leaving something, or someone, behind.\n\nThe album title 30 would connect the album to Adele's previous pattern of naming records after her age during a pivotal year in her life, following 19, 21 and 25.\n\nThe singer separated from her now ex-husband Simon Konecki when she was 30 (she is now 33) and has subsequently kept a low public profile.\n\nSheet music is seen flying out of the car window and into the road\n\nAs in the sepia video for Hello, the first single from her last album, there's a distinctly nostalgic vibe. In that, she had a flip phone. In this, she goes even further back in time to put a tape of her new song into the car stereo.\n\nShe then glances at us in the rear view mirror before driving off, her arm making a wave motion out of the window, signalling a sense of freedom.\n\nPages of sheet music fly out of the car window in the breeze and are strewn behind her along the road - possibly works by Bach and Chopin with one that could be another new Adele song, musician James B Partridge told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nAnd what of the song title itself? Easy On Me is missing the more overt plea to \"take it\" easy on her, but nonetheless there is an implied reference to another person who has taken it easy on her, or she wants to, or she wishes had.\n\nIt would seem to fit with the template of her best songs, which couple the melancholic hues of loss, disappointment and passing time with an inner defiance that sees her moving forward despite the heartbreak.", "Ellen Craft used her light skin to pose as a white man, with husband William as her servant, during their daring escape\n\nA black married couple who escaped slavery in the US and fled to England to campaign for abolition have been honoured with a blue plaque.\n\nEllen and William Craft travelled 1,000 miles from Georgia to freedom in the north, with Ellen disguised as a white man and William as her servant.\n\nWhen new laws meant they could be recaptured by their enslavers, they escaped to the UK.\n\nAfter their arrival they lectured on abolition, reform and social justice.\n\nOne of the most brutal aspects of the US system of slavery was used by the Crafts to aid their daring escape in 1848.\n\nLike many enslaved people, Ellen was conceived when her mother was raped by the white man who owned her.\n\nEllen was very light-skinned, which allowed her to pass as white during the escape, posing as a disabled Southern gentleman planter who was travelling north for medical treatment.\n\nThe couple reached Philadelphia, where they were greeted by abolitionists who carried them on to Massachusetts.\n\nBut in 1850, Congress introduced a law that mean their former enslavers could send agents to abduct them and return them to the south.\n\nThe husband and wife fled across the Atlantic in December that year, settling first in Ockham, Surrey, before making their home at 26 Cambridge Grove, a mid-Victorian House in Hammersmith, west London.\n\nIt is this house which now bears the blue plaque from English Heritage marking their achievements: \"Refugees from slavery and campaigners for its abolition lived here\".\n\nAt this London home, the Crafts helped to organise the London Emancipation Committee as well as travelling Britain giving lectures about abolition, radical reform and social justice.\n\nEllen was also involved in the campaign to gain voting rights for women and supported organisations which helped other enslaved people who had won their freedom.\n\nIn 1860, they published an account of their escape entitled Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, which helped to make them among the most famous refugees from slavery.\n\nAfter the US Civil War ended in 1865 with the defeat of the southern slave states and the legal emancipation of all enslaved people, Ellen and William Craft returned to Boston with three of their children.\n\nDr Hannah-Rose Murray, a historian at the University of Edinburgh who researches African-American abolitionists in Britain, said the couple were \"heroic freedom fighters\".\n\n\"If caught, they would have been incarcerated, tortured and almost certainly sold away from each other,\" said Dr Murray, who proposed the plaque.\n\n\"Their story inspired audiences on both sides of the Atlantic and when the Crafts reached Britain, they were relentless in their campaigns against slavery, racism, white supremacy, and the Confederate cause during the US Civil War.\"\n\nThe Victorian house where the Crafts lived as they campaigned to abolish slavery in the US", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton is launching a scheme that aims to boost the recruitment of black teachers in science, technology and maths (STEM) subjects.\n\nThe project arises from the Hamilton Commission report addressing the lack of diversity in UK motorsport.\n\nHamilton said the scheme \"focuses on identifying the best way to attract black talent to STEM teaching roles\".\n\nThe Formula 1 world champion hopes it will \"create a framework the wider education industry can implement\".\n\nThe initial two-year programme, in partnership with education charity Teach First, is to pilot a range of new approaches to identify best practices when recruiting black STEM teachers.\n\nIt aims to support the recruitment and training of 150 black STEM teachers to work in schools serving disadvantaged communities in England.\n\nBritish seven-time world champion Hamilton said the move \"is another step towards addressing barriers preventing young black students' engagement with STEM, as identified in the Hamilton Commission report\".\n\nHe added: \"We know representation and role models are important across all aspects of society, but especially when it comes to supporting young people's development.\"\n\nThe programme is the first partnership announced by Hamilton's Mission 44 scheme, which was set up earlier this year to \"support, empower and champion young people from under-served communities\".\n\nThe Hamilton Commission, whose findings were published earlier this year, found that only 2% of teachers are from black backgrounds and that 46% of schools in England have no racially diverse teachers at all.\n\nThe data revealed that 1.1% of teachers are black African, compared with a 2.1% representation in the working-age population. The commission found that 78.5% of the working-age population are white British with 85.7% of teachers falling within that category.\n\nIt found that black STEM teachers were important to the engagement of young black students with these subjects.\n\nHamilton said he had no black teachers at all throughout his time in education and he believes that if he had had a teacher who had understood his background better, he would have achieved greater success in his studies.\n• None Trained to protect others but can these fighting witches protect themselves?", "Three days of revelations later: Thanks for joining us\n\nWe're going to wrap up our live coverage of the Pandora Papers here. Over the last three days we've unpicked one of the biggest financial leaks in history and have seen 35 current and former world leaders - and hundreds more public officials - named in the files. There's undoubtedly been a lot to take in. If you've still got questions:\n• Watch the BBC Panorama's exposé on world leaders here, and on political donors here (UK only)\n• Listen to this special edition of Newscast where the BBC's Andy Verity explains everything you need to know\n• Keep up to date with all the latest Pandora Papers news here.", "Police officers have \"routinely\" taken people to hospital in the back of police vehicles because an ambulance was unavailable, it has been claimed.\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation (SPF) said officers were having to help relieve strain on under-pressure ambulance crews.\n\nIt has provided records to Scottish social affairs magazine, 1919, on about 30 incidents in the past three months.\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) has denied the claims.\n\nLast month, the military was called in to help drive ambulances in a bid to ease the \"unprecedented\" pressure on the NHS.\n\nSAS chief executive Pauline Howie said at the time the impact of Covid had placed the service at its \"highest level of escalation\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation said police reports show that officers stepped in to help when:\n\nAnother report records that a single paramedic dealing with an injured man asked police to drive his vehicles so he could continue treating the patient en route to hospital.\n\nAnd in another incident a family concerned about a relative contacted their GP and ambulance service, but were told to call the police instead. Officers took him to hospital.\n\nGordon Forsyth, of the SPF, said: \"Cops out there are taking people to hospital in the back of police cars simply because the ambulance is going to be hours, or there isn't anybody suitable to leave the person with and stand down.\n\n\"I've got a list of 30-odd examples, various things where the cops have been sent to calls because an ambulance hasn't been available, or having to wait for a significant period of time for an ambulance to get there.\"\n\nThe military was asked to help the Scottish Ambulance Service last month\n\nIn a statement to 1919, the ambulance service said police officers were only requested to attend cardiac arrest calls as a first response in the north of Scotland and they were immediately backed up by an ambulance resource.\n\nSAS said: \"In no other situation would police officers attend ambulance 999 calls or be asked to transport patients to hospital\".\n\nIn a statement to BBC Scotland, Police Scotland referred to comments made by Chief Constable Iain Livingstone to a meeting of the Scottish Police Authority Board last week.\n\nMr Livingstone said policing was \"so often the service of first and last resort\" and officers would \"never step away from those who are in crisis\".\n\nHe said: \"I recognise the pressures which exist across many other services, agencies and sectors. We know that when the health service, local authorities and other key partners come under significant strain, demand is diverted to policing.\n\n\"Additionally, delays in service provision by other agencies also mean officers and staff can spend longer dealing with an incident than would otherwise be the case.\n\n\"Covid is still with us and the global pandemic continues to put the National Health Service under critical pressure.\"", "More than half of new pet owners are aged 16 to 34\n\nInsurers are increasingly covering claims for treatment of distressed dogs as their owners return to work, analysis shows.\n\nMarket analysts Defaqto said 44% of dog insurance policies now included full cover for behaviour compared to 30% in February last year.\n\nThis means insurers would cover the cost of behavioural therapy recommended by a vet to treat an animal's emotional distress, perhaps owing to separation.\n\nOf an estimated 12 million dogs in the UK, about 3.2 million were acquired as puppies during the Covid crisis.\n\nMany were bought by young people to help with companionship and exercise while working from home during lockdowns.\n\nDog welfare charity, Dogs Trust, has warned that an increasing number of owners are trying to hand over dogs for adoption since coronavirus restrictions were lifted.\n\nThe RSPCA has also said that dogs could face separation anxiety that made them distressed.\n\nIndicators include destructive behaviour, unwanted toileting or reports of howling and barking. In some cases anxious dogs may tremble, whine or pace around, as well as excessive salivation, self-mutilation, repetitive behaviour and vomiting.\n\nSome pets might require professional help that can cost thousands of pounds.\n\nBrian Brown, consumer finance expert at Defaqto, said insurers had increased their cover.\n\n\"However, there is no excuse for not training and socialising a dog properly and insurers will not pay claims where this is the case,\" he said.\n\n\"If your dog is showing signs of distress, seek advice straight away. Many insurers offer free vet helplines where you can get advice over the phone, even if you don't have to make a claim. If you find you don't have insurance cover, speak to the animal charities to get advice.\"", "The inquests into the deaths of four men killed by Stephen Port are to examine if their lives may have been saved if police had acted differently.\n\nBetween June 2014 and September 2015, Port murdered Anthony Walgate, 23, Gabriel Kovari, 22, Daniel Whitworth, 21, and Jack Taylor, 25.\n\nThey were all given fatal overdoses of the drug GHB.\n\nJurors heard the inquests will consider whether opportunities were missed to uncover what happened earlier.\n\nPort, from Barking in east London, was sentenced to a full life term in November 2016\n\nIn 2016, Port was found guilty of their murders and attacking several others. He was given a whole life prison term.\n\nIn her opening statement to the jury, Judge Sarah Munro QC - who is sitting as the coroner - said Port's trial did not answer the question of whether the deaths \"might have been prevented had the police investigated any of the deaths differently\".\n\nShe added Port would \"not play any part in these inquests but you will hear a great deal about him and his lifestyle\".\n\nJurors heard police did not realise the men had been murdered by Port until after the final death.\n\nJudge Sarah Munro QC said the inquests would look into whether the deaths could have been prevented\n\nPort met his victims online, including through the dating app Grindr, before luring them to his home where they were drugged and raped.\n\nThe inquests are taking place at Barking Town Hall, just yards from the east London flat where Port's victims were given fatal overdoses.\n\nMs Munro said the function of the inquests was not to attribute criminal or civil liability.\n\nShe told the jury: \"If there appear to have been shortcomings in the way in which the police investigated these deaths, we must consider those shortcomings dispassionately and resist the temptation to look for scapegoats.\"\n\nShe stressed the ultimate responsibility for the four men's murders lies with Port.\n\nPort presented a very different version of himself online (left)\n\nProviding an overview of the four deaths, Ms Munro said Mr Walgate was found outside Port's flat in Cooke Street, Barking, on 19 June 2014. Port had called an ambulance, however he did not provide his real name.\n\nIt was decided the local police team rather than the Met's specialist homicide command should lead the investigation into the fashion student's death.\n\nInvestigators quickly established it was Port who had called an ambulance for Mr Walgate, but when questioned he lied to police and gave no indication he knew him.\n\nIt was a week later before they realised that Port, using the name Joe Dean, had in fact arranged to meet Mr Walgate, who was working as an escort at the time.\n\nA special post-mortem examination could not establish the cause of death and it was another two months before it emerged he had died from an overdose of GHB.\n\nPort was arrested and convicted of perverting the course of justice.\n\nMr Kovari and Mr Whitworth's bodies were found in the graveyard of St Margaret's Church\n\nIn the months before he was imprisoned, he killed Mr Kovari and Mr Whitworth three weeks within each other in August and September 2014.\n\nThe two young men's bodies were found in St Margaret's churchyard, some 300m (1,000ft) from Port's flat.\n\nAt the time, Mr Kovari's death was treated as \"unexplained\" but not suspicious, the court was told.\n\nToxicology tests found he had GHB in his system and he died from a \"mixed drug overdose\".\n\nWhen Mr Whitworth was found, a fake suicide note - written by Port - was in his hand. The note appeared to claim Mr Whitworth had accidentally killed Mr Kovari and was taking his own life in response.\n\nMs Munro said the note was a lie, written by Port in an attempt to \"cover up\" the death - but that only became clear \"much later\".\n\nThe first three deaths were not treated as homicides until weeks after the final one.\n\nThe court heard inquests into the deaths of Mr Kovari and Mr Whitworth were held in 2015, however they were later set aside at the High Court in the wake of the murder trial.\n\nDuring the first inquests, a friend of Mr Kovari, John Pape, had asked if it had ever been considered there could be a link with the earlier death of Mr Walgate. In response, a police officer said it had been considered but no link established.\n\nOpen conclusions were given, with the original coroner saying she had concerns about \"third party involvement\" in Mr Whitworth's case, so she could not be sure he took his own life, the court heard.\n\nMr Taylor was found in Barking Abbey ruins on 14 September, 2015, just over the wall from where Mr Kovari and Mr Whitworth were discovered.\n\nToxicology tests found he had traces of alcohol and GHB in his blood.\n\nThe police established that on 13 September Mr Taylor had taken a taxi to Barking station, where CCTV footage showed him meeting an unidentified man.\n\nOn 15 October, Port was arrested on suspicion of murder after a police officer, who was working on the investigation into Mr Walgate's death, identified Port as the man seen walking with Mr Taylor as he happened to see the CCTV images.\n\nThe hearing is expected to last 10 weeks.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Children aged between 12 and 15 will be offered vaccination by the end of term, Eluned Morgan says\n\nIt is likely to be November before most schools in Northern Ireland begin to vaccinate 12 to 15-year-old pupils.\n\nLetters and consent forms for the Covid-19 vaccine are expected to be sent to parents of eligible children in mid-to-late October, according to the Public Health Agency (PHA).\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have recommended healthy 12 to 15-year-olds be offered one vaccine dose.\n\nVaccinations for pupils in Scotland and England are already taking place.\n\nHowever, the approach being taken by each nation differs.\n\nIn Wales, the government has set a target, saying by the end of the school half term all pupils in that age bracket will have been offered a single dose.\n\nMore than 140,000 children in Wales will qualify for the jab.\n\nIt is thought a majority will receive their jab in school.\n\nChildren will be encouraged to discuss the decision to receive a jab with their parents\n\nIn Northern Ireland, communication with families has yet to start.\n\nParents will get a letter, consent form and Covid-19 vaccine information material prior to vaccine teams visiting schools, a PHA spokesperson told BBC News NI.\n\nOn consent, the PHA advice is that while the letter is addressed to the child, it encourages them to discuss the decision about the vaccine with their parents.\n\nIn secondary schools \"some young people may be mature enough to provide their own consent\", said the PHA.\n\n\"This sometimes occurs if a parent has not returned a consent form but the child still wishes to have the vaccine on the day of the session,\" the agency added.\n\n\"Every effort will be made to contact the parent to seek their verbal consent.\"\n\nThe PHA is urging parents and guardians to look out for the consent form coming home in schoolbags.\n\nThe agency urged parents to read the information leaflets and talk to children about the vaccine and make an informed decision.\n\nThe vaccination programme for 12 to 15-year-olds who are immunosuppressed in Northern Ireland is already taking place.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the schools immunisation programme also covers the childhood flu programme, which this year will see a further roll out of the free flu vaccine to include school children up to year 12.\n\nEngland's vaccination programme is also based in schools.", "Lilly Hanrahan was 21 months old when she was murdered by Sean Sadler\n\nAuthorities' failure to share details about a man before he murdered a girl in his partner's care \"contributed\" to her death.\n\nThe Probation Service admitted error following a serious case review over toddler Lilly Hanrahan, killed in Birmingham in 2017.\n\nThe probe highlighted a catalogue of missed chances to check on killer Sean Sadler's presence in her life.\n\nSadler, 32, was jailed in March for at least 20 years.\n\nBabysitting Lilly in the Northfield area of the city, he threw and violently shook her, causing a brain injury that led to her death.\n\nHe had also attacked the 21-month-old about a week before the fatal assault.\n\nBut despite authorities being aware of Lilly since her mother became unable to care for her, chances to monitor the adults in her life were missed, the review found.\n\nInformation about Sadler going unshared by the Probation Service was said by the investigation to be a key \"omission\".\n\nA Probation Service spokesperson has apologised for \"failure\" which she said \"contributed\" to Lilly's death.\n\nThe report, published on Tuesday, said Lilly had been hospitalised as a baby and, due to her mother's substance misuse, was placed in the care of her maternal grandmother.\n\nBut in 2016 the woman informed authorities she felt unable to manage the toddler.\n\nA special guardianship order (SGO) was made in September of that year, with another woman, unnamed in the report, appointed.\n\nHer first biological child was fathered by Sadler. During her assessment prior to appointment as guardian, she said there had been no contact with him since becoming pregnant.\n\nBy 2017, they were in a new relationship, with Sadler murdering Lilly in November of that year.\n\nSean Sadler told authorities he was in a relationship with Lilly's guardian two months before he murdered the toddler, but no action was taken\n\nThe SGO assessment, the review concluded, could have \"made inquiries of previous partners\" and \"also have explored [the guardian's] family dynamics more closely\", although the report added that had those components been completed, it was unlikely the SGO would not have been made.\n\nHad a supervision order been in place, it concluded, there would have been a requirement for the guardian to inform the local authority about her new partner.\n\nSadler, the report added, had a history of mental health problems. Following a conviction for battery and criminal damage, he began to be supervised by the Probation Service, and in September 2017, two months before Lilly died, he disclosed he was in a new relationship with a woman whom he used to see when he was younger.\n\nBut, the report said, information about the risks posed by him was not shared by the Probation Service with the guardian or children's social services, as required by procedure.\n\n\"Had [the Probation Service] done so, Children's Social Care would have been alerted and safeguarding processes put in place,\" the review said.\n\nIt added: \"Indeed, this omission may well have had very serious consequences for Lilly, and may be the single omission that could have made a difference.\"\n\nAdditionally, notes from 25 January 2017 in the children's social work team suggested that visits were taking place to see Lilly and the guardian, but no records of those visits exist, and the case was closed on 22 March 2017.\n\nFrom October to 14 November 2017, Lilly's guardian and her nursery reported seeing bruises on her, but no safeguarding concerns were identified.\n\nTwo days later, Lilly was found collapsed, and died on 22 November.\n\nOf Lilly's guardian, the review said: \"She told us that she blames herself completely for the death of Lilly: that she should have been more suspicious of her then partner, should not have taken his word, should not have allowed him to babysit for Lilly, should have seen the pattern in the bruises.\n\n\"She also blames the police for not informing her about her then partner's convictions.\n\n\"In fact, probation had a duty to inform her. She said, that had she known, she would have immediately taken steps to distance herself from him.\"\n\nSarah Chand, head of West Midlands Probation Service, said:\"My heartfelt sympathies remain with Lilly's family and I would like to apologise to them for the failure by probation which contributed to her death.\n\n\"Since this horrific crime, we have recruited more staff, work more closely with social services and continue to conduct visits to offenders' homes to better protect children and partners from domestic violence.\"\n\nAndy Couldrick, chief executive of Birmingham Children's Trust, which manages children's care in the city, said the trust \"acknowledged\" the shortcomings in the report and offered its \"deepest\" condolences.\n\n\"In this case, services were involved for six months following the [SGO], and there were no issues or concerns being raised that suggested our involvement needed to continue,\" he said.\n\n\"When Mr Sadler became reattached to the family, children's services' involvement had ended.\n\n\"If children's services had been alerted by Probation, or by the services that were made aware of unexplained bruising to the child, then of course children's services would have become involved once more with the family.\"\n\nHe added the \"robustness and rigour\" of services, including support following the issuing of an SGO, had been improved.\n\nPenny Thompson CBE, independent chair of Birmingham Safeguarding Children Partnership, said Lilly's death was \"profoundly sad\".\n\nShe added: \"I offer condolences to her family and loved ones. I know they continue to feel her loss intensely.\"\n\nFollowing the review, she said she wanted to highlight the importance of adult-oriented services sharing information with those supporting children, and the importance of professionals having \"open and curious minds\".\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.", "There is an air of crisis in British policing this weekend as it faces a great moment of reckoning.\n\nNever have leaders felt that public trust is so low they have had to advise women to consider fleeing if they are uncomfortable when confronted by one of their own officers.\n\nBut that is the aftershock of the appalling crimes of Wayne Couzens, who raped and murdered Sarah Everard while working for the Metropolitan Police, after kidnapping her in a fake arrest.\n\nHe was sentenced this week to a whole-life term in prison.\n\nWell first there is no sign that ministers are going to make Dame Cressida Dick, the commissioner of the Met and the UK's top officer, take the blame.\n\nDespite repeated attempts to force Home Secretary Priti Patel's hand, she has very publicly backed Dame Cressida by renewing her contract last month.\n\nBut questions now confront policing - and the difficulty its chiefs and ministers are having in answering them is why the crisis feels too deep.\n\nWas Couzens' ability to pull on the uniform a failure of the system?\n\nAnd how should police leaders and the government respond?\n\nClearly, society is not filled with homicidal sex offenders. But the fact is they do exist and it's unarguable that they use deception to get themselves into positions of trust.\n\nIn that context, Couzens' ability to hide undetected within policing is similar to the dreadful story of the Soham murders almost 20 years ago - in which a suspected sex offender was able to work as a school caretaker.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick says the force has been \"shamed\" and \"rocked\" by the case\n\nCouzens, we now know, has been the subject of three allegations of indecent exposure - including reports he drove into McDonald's naked from the waist down.\n\nThe first allegation of what has long been downplayed as \"flashing\" occurred in 2015 when he was in the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, guarding the Dungeness power station on the English Channel.\n\nThe police watchdog is still investigating what Kent Police knew about Couzens before he was able to transfer to the neighbouring Metropolitan force in London.\n\nScotland Yard says its vetting systems did not fail - but admits the system did not pick up this incident.\n\nAn investigation continues into how far an officer had got in establishing that Couzens was the suspect.\n\nThis question of how officers are vetted is now a very live issue - not just because of \"missed opportunities\" from previous allegations - but also whether the system is set up to screen out candidates who may have a propensity to violence.\n\nBut the focal point is quickly moving beyond whether vetting systems are technically good enough to root out dodgy candidates - to whether there is a permissive sexist culture that allows them to remain in the police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You have little power to say no\" - Women react to the Met's safety advice following the Everard case\n\nWhen I was a trainee reporter in Humberside more than 20 years ago and our newsroom got a tip of some kind of violence in the town, I'd call the police control room.\n\n\"Nah, just a domestic,\" the bored duty sergeant would reply.\n\nAnd that response, say critics, is the first part of the problem. For too long police forces have downplayed or ignored the everyday violence and misogyny that men inflict on women.\n\nJust last month, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary said there was an epidemic of violence against women and girls that deserved the same resources and focus as terrorism.\n\nSo why is it not a bigger priority?\n\nSue Fish, the former chief constable of Nottinghamshire, says there is a significant minority in uniform who are \"actively deviant\" - misogynistic officers who are abusing power - some of whom are in turn involved in domestic and sexual abuse.\n\nIn 2016, she ordered her force to start recording misogyny as a hate crime - and the Law Commission, which advises ministers on major legal reforms will soon publish its own proposals on the issue.\n\nBut Ms Fish's point is reinforced by the fact that the police watchdog is not just investigating what was known about Couzens - but also five other officers who were in a Whatsapp group that shared allegedly misogynistic and discriminatory messages.\n\nSue Fish says she has seen nothing from either the prime minister or Dame Cressida Dick that shows they understand how pervasive this culture is.\n\nWayne Couzens (right) is believed to have shown Sarah Everard his police warrant card\n\nThe Victims Commissioner Dame Vera Baird QC - a former police and crime commissioner and career criminal justice expert - also says sexism is rife in policing.\n\n\"There is no doubt whatsoever that, particularly for female victims, faith in the police has collapsed,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.\n\n\"We did a survey a year ago which showed that only 5% of rape complainants thought they could get justice by going to the police. This is the worst it has been - but it is not a new thing.\n\n\"Probably innate sexism runs through the police more deeply than it runs through society.\n\n\"There is no critical mass of female officers to change the culture. The culture remains male-dominated.\n\n\"I have heard people say that 'you can be gay, you can be black, you can be a woman. As long as you behave like a straight white male'.\"\n\nThe BBC understands recruitment data shows the number of women applying this year to join the police has been rising - and so chiefs know that their response to Sarah Everard's murder will be critical to maintaining that progress.\n\nMaggie Blyth, Hampshire's deputy chief constable, is about to become the first senior officer to co-ordinate a national strategy on violence against women and girls.\n\nShe's told the BBC that there is work to be done to regain the trust that has been lost - but this is also an opportunity that has to be seized.\n\nBack in the summer, Dame Cressida Dick wanted to emphasise that Wayne Couzens was a shocking but exceptional case.\n\nBut as he begins a whole life sentence, the dreadful crime has become British policing's third major crisis of trust in just over three decades.\n\nThe first was the 1989 Hillsborough disaster - in which innocent football fans were blamed for their own deaths amid a police cover-up of mistakes.\n\nThe second was the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence, leading to the devastating public inquiry conclusion that the Met Police was institutionally racist.\n\nHistory shows that the response to both of these awful events was, for too long, driven by denial, dither and delay.\n\nBut ultimately there had to be recognition of the injustice.\n\nAnd that's why the response to Sarah Everard's death will tell us so much about the future direction of British police.", "New car registrations fell to their lowest levels in September for more than two decades, according to figures from the industry's trade body.\n\nThe Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said new registrations dropped 35% compared with the same month a year earlier.\n\nFalling car production has been blamed on an ongoing global shortage of computer chips.\n\nHowever, sales of electric cars are rising rapidly, the SMMT said.\n\nWhile the car market as a whole has suffered through the pandemic, more than 32,000 electric cars were registered last month, almost as many as registered in the whole of 2019.\n\nSeptember is usually a bumper month for car sales as the half-yearly change in number plates often attracts buyers.\n\nHowever, just 214,000 cars were sold in September - the lowest total for the month since the current registration system for Great Britain was introduced 23 years ago.\n\nLast year, new car registrations fell to their lowest level in nearly three decades due to falling production.\n\nAbout 1.63 million new cars were registered in 2020, compared with 2.3 million in 2019. The 29% decline was the biggest one-year fall since World War Two, when factories were turned over to military production.\n\nSMMT chief executive Mike Hawes said the latest figures showed a \"desperately disappointing September and further evidence of the ongoing impact of the Covid pandemic on the sector\".\n\n\"Despite strong demand for new vehicles over the summer, three successive months have been hit by stalled supply due to reduced semiconductor availability, especially from Asia.\"\n\nWhen lockdowns forced production lines to halt, microchip manufacturers diverted the chips that would normally go into new cars to the consumer electronics market, and supply is yet to fully recover.\n\n\"The rocketing uptake of plug-in vehicles, especially battery electric cars, demonstrates the increasing demand for these new technologies.\n\n\"However, to meet our collective decarbonisation ambitions, we need to ensure all drivers can make the switch - not just those with private driveways - requiring a massive investment in public recharging infrastructure. Chargepoint roll-out must keep pace with the acceleration in plug-in vehicle registrations.\"\n\nSecond-hand car sales in the UK have more than doubled in recent months due to a shortage of new models.\n\nYear-on-year, the used car market grew 108.6% in the second quarter, with more than 2.2 million vehicles changing hands, according to the trade body.\n\nIncreased demand led to a rise in sales of older used cars, with only 12.7% of all vehicles sold being made within the last three years, the lowest on record.\n\nNew car sales are falling - while demand for used cars is rising. It's a question of availability.\n\nThe chip shortage has forced car makers around the world to curb production, and focus their efforts on particular models - those which are most profitable to make and sell.\n\nThe result is that waiting times for new cars have been getting longer. Scarcity is also pushing up prices, with discounts being slashed. That may well be deterring buyers.\n\nThe slump in sales is bad news for the industry overall - but higher prices could be good for the carmakers long term.\n\nCustomers, though, could have to get used to paying more.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFacebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg has apologised for the \"disruption\" caused after its social media services went down for almost six hours - impacting more than 3.5bn users worldwide.\n\nThe billionaire said sorry after an internal technical issue took Facebook, Messenger, Whatsapp and Instagram offline at about 16:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe scramble to bring it back online eventually succeeded at around 22:00.\n\nBut it is likely to increase scrutiny of the social media giant's reach.\n\nFor hours, potentially billions of people found themselves without the social media tools they relied upon to keep in touch with friends and family. Others reportedly found they could not access services which required a Facebook login.\n\nMeanwhile, businesses around the world, which use social media to connect with customers, were faced with the prospect of an unexpected financial hit.\n\nMr Zuckerberg himself was thought to have lost an estimated $6bn (£4.4bn) from his personal fortune at one point as Facebook shares plummeted, according to the business website Fortune's tracking software.\n\nDowndetector, which tracks outages, said some 10.6 million problems were reported around the world - the largest number it had ever recorded.\n\nIn a blog post published on Tuesday, Facebook explained that during a routine maintenance job, its engineers had issued a command that unintentionally took down all the connections in its network, \"effectively disconnecting Facebook data centres globally\".\n\nSantosh Janardhan, the company's infrastructure vice-president, added that Facebook's program audit tool had a bug and failed to stop the command that caused the outage.\n\nThe outage also caused employees to lose access to internal tools, including those used by Facebook employees to correct such issues, the company said. Those tools included Facebook's internal email and even employee work passes.\n\nSome reports suggest that Facebook headquarters was in \"meltdown\".\n\nEven \"the people trying to figure out what this problem was\" couldn't access the building, New York Times technology reporter Sheera Frenkel told the BBC.\n\nFacebook has said it is working to understand what happened so it can \"make our infrastructure more resilient\". Tech experts have described the issue as being akin to the social media giant falling off the internet's map, so it could not be found.\n\nThe company said there was \"no evidence that user data was compromised\".\n\nThe outage comes at a particularly difficult time for the company, which is finding itself increasingly under pressure over its reach and impact on society.\n\nOn Sunday, former Facebook employee Frances Haugen told CBS news the company had prioritised \"growth over safety\".\n\nShe told a US Senate committee that she believed the company's sites and apps \"harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Frances Haugen: \"If Facebook change the algorithm to be safer... they'll make less money\"", "An inquiry will be launched into \"systematic failures\" that allowed Wayne Couzens to continue to be a police officer, Priti Patel announced.\n\nThe home secretary said the public \"have a right to know\" why he remained in the Metropolitan Police despite concerns about his behaviour.\n\nCouzens kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard while he was a serving officer, using his police warrant card.\n\nHe has since been linked to allegations of indecent exposure.\n\nThe Met has faced mounting questions over its policies and procedures in the wake of Ms Everard's murder.\n\nIt was revealed Couzens - who worked as an armed officer in the Met's parliamentary and diplomatic protection team - was linked to several alleged incidents of indecent exposure, including in the days before Ms Everard's abduction in March.\n\nSpeaking at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Ms Patel said: \"We need answers as to why this was allowed to happen.\n\n\"I can confirm today there will be an inquiry, to give the independent oversight needed, to ensure something like this can never happen again.\"\n\nThe Home Office said the inquiry would be in two parts, with the first examining Couzens' behaviour and establishing a definitive account of his conduct in the lead up to his conviction for Ms Everard's murder.\n\nIt said the second part would address specific issues, such as vetting procedures, standards, discipline and workplace behaviour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel: \"It is abhorrent that a serving police officer was able to abuse his position of power\"\n\nThe exact nature of the inquiry is still unclear.\n\nThe Home Office said it would initially be non-statutory but could be converted to a statutory one if required.\n\nIf statutory, the inquiry would have the legal power to call witnesses and limit the government's control over how it operated.\n\nThe person who would lead the inquiry and its terms of reference would be confirmed \"in due course\".\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse pointed out the first option - a non-statutory inquiry - was much quicker to put in place but stressed it would not begin until the separate Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) inquiry was complete.\n\nOn BBC Radio 4's PM, he acknowledged his surprise on finding out that examining social media postings had only became a part of the police vetting procedure a year ago.\n\nThe modern world was moving fast, he said. The vetting \"net\" has to be as tight as possible, with a regard for recruits' right to privacy while ensuring they were \"the right people with the right values\", he added.\n\nJamie Klingler, co-founder of the campaign group Reclaim These Streets, set up after Sarah Everard's murder, insisted the inquiry needed to be statutory and judge-led - and needed to include women.\n\n\"It seems really specific about Wayne Couzens and not about the system that allowed a Wayne Couzens to happen,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"It's not admitting that there is systemic misogyny within the force that allowed this to happen, and by not doing so it's pushing it under the carpet rather than exposing [it] at all levels.\"\n\nCouzens, 48, killed Ms Everard, 33, after stopping her on a street in Clapham, south London. He was sentenced to a whole-life prison term last week.\n\nSpeaking earlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he did not support calls to make misogyny a hate crime, saying there was \"abundant\" existing legislation to tackle violence against women.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast that \"widening the scope\" of what you ask the police to do would just increase the problem - but recruiting and promoting more female officers would help change the culture within forces.\n\nThere is an air of crisis in British policing as it faces a significant moment of reckoning.\n\nNever have leaders felt that public trust is so low they have had to advise women to consider fleeing if they are uncomfortable when confronted by one of their own officers.\n\nThis is the aftershock of the appalling crimes of Wayne Couzens, who kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard while working for the Metropolitan Police.\n\nDespite repeated attempts to force Home Secretary Priti Patel's hand, she has very publicly backed Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick by renewing her contract last month.\n\nBut questions now confront policing - and the difficulty its chiefs and ministers are having in answering them is why the crisis feels too deep.\n\nWas Couzens' ability to pull on the uniform a failure of the system?\n\nAnd how should police leaders and the government respond?\n\nRead more from Dominic here.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, who has rejected calls to resign, confirmed on Monday there would be a separate independent review into the force's standards and culture.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Dame Cressida said Ms Everard's murder had made \"everyone in the Met furious and we depend on public trust\".\n\n\"In this country policing is done by consent and undoubtedly the killing of Sarah and other events has damaged public trust,\" she said, adding she was determined to rebuild it.\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, said it was important the inquiry looked at how allegations of violence against women and girls were handled by police officers, as well as Couzens' conduct and the culture within the police.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said the inquiry \"must leave no stone unturned\" and should address reports of \"widespread cultural issues\".\n\nSpeaking earlier at the Conservative Party conference, Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said making communities safer and allowing women to walk home feeling safe at night was his \"number one priority\".\n\nThe Met Police said 650 more police officers would patrol hotspot areas in London over the next six months, with 150 of these working in local wards as \"Bobbies on the beat\".\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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.", "Boris Johnson is to promise that his government will show more \"guts\" than any before as it works to deal with issues facing society and the economy.\n\nIn his Conservative Party conference speech, the prime minister will pledge to move the entire UK towards high-wage, high-skill employment.\n\nAnd he will accuse previous Labour and Tory governments of \"delay and dither\".\n\nHis speech, expected at 11.30 BST, will be his first to the Conservative audience since before the pandemic.\n\nThis week's conference in Manchester has taken place amid concerns over rising inflation, supply chain problems, and petrol and worker shortages.\n\nBut on Tuesday, the prime minister told the BBC he was \"not worried\" about current problems, arguing that the economy was under short-term stress as it recovered from the worst of Covid.\n\nHe will use his speech to proclaim an optimistic, combative message to Conservatives, and the wider electorate.\n\n\"After decades of drift and dither this reforming government, this can-do government that got Brexit done, is getting the vaccine rollout done and is going to get social care done,\" he will say.\n\n\"We are dealing with the biggest underlying issues of our economy and society, the problems that no government has had the guts to tackle before.\"\n\nMr Johnson's conference speech last year was viewed only online because of Covid restrictions.\n\nBut he will deliver his address this year in front of a packed conference hall, with some delegates queuing from the early morning to secure their place.\n\nConference attendees have been arriving early to bag a seat for the speech\n\nThis year's comes on the same day that the government officially ends the £20-a-week universal credit top-up brought in to help low-income households during the pandemic.\n\nAnd it follows the announcement last month of an extra tax to fund social care and the NHS in England, which has prompted anger among some Conservative MPs.\n\nThere are some underlying tensions between what's going on in this conference and what's happening in parts of the country.\n\nBoris Johnson is trying to sell a new economic vision - his post-Brexit realignment.\n\nGone, the PM says, is mass immigration, to be replaced with higher wages and better conditions to encourage people into key sectors.\n\nWhat's happening just now, says Mr Johnson, is stresses and strains after the pandemic.\n\nBut for many people life feels a bit uncertain. Costs are rising. Inflation is a worry. Universal credit is being reduced for millions.\n\nThere are fears in the Conservative Party too about the cost of living over winter.\n\nSo while Mr Johnson sells his economic plan for the future, many will want assurances about the next few weeks and months.\n\nWhen he addresses the Manchester conference, the prime minister will restate his commitment to \"level up\" all areas of the UK - a pledge credited with helping his party take many previously Labour-held seats in northern England and the Midlands at the 2019 general election.\n\nHe will say the country is moving \"towards a high-wage, high-skill, high-productivity economy\", in which \"everyone can take pride in their work and the quality of their work\".\n\nMr Johnson will say \"talent, genius, flair, imagination, enthusiasm\" are \"evenly distributed around this country\", adding: \"There is no reason why the inhabitants of one part of the country should be geographically fated to be poorer than others, or why people should feel they have to move away from their loved ones, or communities to reach their potential.\"\n\nThis, he will argue, will take \"pressure off parts of the overheating South East, while simultaneously offering hope and opportunity to those areas that have felt left behind\".\n\nThe prime minister is not expected to make an announcement on raising the level of the national living wage.\n\nThe Low Pay Commission is expected to make a recommendation on a national living wage later this month, ahead of the Budget, but earlier this year, the commission predicted it would recommend a rate of £9.42 an hour from April 2022.\n\nSome Conservative supporters have raised concerns that the party might be regarded as neglecting its traditional heartlands in favour of its newly conquered former Labour seats.\n\nThe loss of the previously true-blue constituency of Chesham and Amersham, Buckinghamshire, to the Liberal Democrats in a by-election in June added to those worries.\n\nBut Mr Johnson will argue that altering society in the wake of Brexit will benefit the whole UK.\n\n\"We are not going back to the same old broken model with low wages, low growth, low skills and low productivity, all of it enabled and assisted by uncontrolled immigration,\" he will say.\n\nInstead of using migrant labour to keep wages down, he will say, the system must work to \"allow people of talent to come to this country, but not to use immigration as an excuse for failure to invest in people, in skills and in the equipment or machinery they need to do their jobs\".\n\nOn Sunday the government announced that 300 temporary visas would be issued to overseas lorry drivers to ease fuel shortages.\n\nSome 4,700 visas intended for foreign food haulage drivers are being extended, as well as 5,500 for foreign poultry workers.", "Courts will get new powers to stop disruptive activists attending protests, the home secretary has said.\n\nIn a Tory conference speech, Priti Patel said new orders would stop the \"small minority of offenders\" intent on \"causing disruption\".\n\nA Tory source said they will target people with a \"history of disruption\", or those likely to commit crime.\n\nClimate activists blocking roads have previously been warned they could face fines and up to six months in prison.\n\nProtests from Insulate Britain have continued in recent days, despite three court injunctions banning activists blocking the M25, and other major roads in London.\n\nOn Tuesday the High Court heard that more than 100 protesters associated with the group have now been served with injunctions.\n\nThe group has apologised for disruption - but added that \"the reality of our situation\" on climate change has to be faced.\n\nIn her conference speech in Manchester, Ms Patel unveiled plans to increase the maximum sentence for disruption of a motorway.\n\nShe also announced a new criminal offence for interfering with critical national infrastructures such as roads, railways and newspaper printing presses.\n\nPolice are also expected to be given wider stop and search powers allowing officers to inspect activists for \"lock on\" equipment used to prevent them from being moved.\n\nThe new measures to be announced by Ms Patel are to be included in the Police, Crime, Courts and Sentencing Bill currently going through Parliament.\n\nMs Patel said the actions of climate activists, who in recent weeks have blocked the M1, M4 and M25, \"amounted to some of the most self-defeating environmental protests this country has ever seen.\"\n\n\"Freedom to protest is a fundamental right our party will forever fight to uphold. But it must be within the law,\" she added.\n\nThe campaign by Insulate Britain has been running for over three weeks and has led to hundreds of arrests.\n\nThe group wants the government to insulate all UK homes by 2030 to help cut carbon emissions.\n\nOn Tuesday, the High Court heard that 111 activists associated with the group had been served with injunctions.\n\nA hearing on the injunctions has been adjourned to next week, after government lawyers argued all three should be dealt with together.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, an Insulate Britain spokesman said the group \"wishes to profoundly apologise for the disruption caused over the past three weeks.\"\n\nHe added: \"We cannot imagine undertaking such acts in normal circumstances. But we believe that the reality of our situation has to be faced.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson described Insulate Britain activists as \"irresponsible crusties\".\n\nHe told LBC: \"There are some people who call those individuals legitimate protesters.\"\n\nHe added: \"They are not. I think they are irresponsible crusties who are basically trying to stop people going about their day's work and doing considerable damage to the economy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Motorist: \"I need to go to the hospital, please let me pass. This isn't OK... how can you be so selfish?\"\n\nOn Monday, Insulate Britain activists were confronted by angry drivers as they blocked more London roads, including the entrance to the Blackwall Tunnel, Wandsworth Bridge, Arnos Grove and the Hanger Lane gyratory.\n\nIn a video captured by LBC, a motorist told demonstrators she was desperate to see her 81-year-old mother in hospital, asking them: \"How can you be so selfish?\"\n\nIn other footage shared by Talk Radio, angry motorists at Wandsworth Bridge were filmed dragging protesters out of the road, where an ambulance appeared to be blocked.\n\nBut in an open letter to Ms Patel, Insulate Britain said: \"You can throw as many injunctions at us as you like, but we are going nowhere.\"\n\nOne activist told BBC News: \"We have tried lobbying, we have tried targeting political leaders, government departments, people have been doing this for two, three, four, five decades, without any success at all.\n\n\"We know through history that disruptive direct actions work. The government are forcing our hand because they are not taking the biggest threat to humanity seriously.\"\n\nMembers of Insulate Britain held banners outside the Royal Courts of Justice earlier\n\nMeanwhile, Dominic Raab used his first speech as the new justice secretary to promise £183m with the aim of doubling the number of offenders in England and Wales on electronic tags by 2025.\n\nHe told delegates this included an expansion in the \"game-changing\" use of alcohol-monitoring ankle tags on offenders, to see if they breach court-ordered drinking bans.\n\nMr Raab, who was also made deputy prime minister in last month's cabinet reshuffle, also pledged £90m to pay for more hours of community payback by offenders.\n\nReferencing the \"harrowing\" murder of Sarah Everard, he also vowed to make tackling violence against women and girls his \"number one priority\".\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? Share your stories and video 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.", "Matthew Boorman, a father of three, died after being stabbed\n\nThe man who died during a series of stabbings in Gloucestershire has been named as 43-year-old Matthew Boorman.\n\nHis family said in a statement that Mr Boorman was \"a loving husband and a father to three gorgeous young children who all love him and miss him tremendously\".\n\nPolice responded to multiple reports of people being stabbed in Walton Cardiff near Tewkesbury, on Tuesday evening.\n\nA man in his 50s was arrested and remains in custody.\n\nPolice said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attacks, which happened at about 17:20 BST in the Snowdonia Road and Arlington Road area\n\nDue to previous contact with the arrested man, Gloucestershire Police is referring itself to the Independent Office of Police Conduct.\n\nThe force thanked those who were first on the scene, including two off-duty police officers who \"bravely intervened to tackle and restrain\" the man.\n\nSeveral members of the public also tried to intervene, Gloucestershire Police said.\n\nOne man has died and another two people were attacked\n\nA resident who lives near-by, but did not want to be named, said: \"Everyone is in shock as things like this never happen here.\"\n\nA witness, who also did not want to be named, said they saw an off-duty police officer trying to calm down a man who was \"brandishing a knife\".\n\nThey added: \"I was in a bit of shock as that is not something we deal with around here. Everyone is shook up. Here in our community, this is not something we are used to.\"\n\nA number of police cordons are in place at the housing development\n\nMr Boorman suffered serious injuries and died at the scene, despite receiving treatment. A second man suffered serious stab wounds and remains in a critical but stable condition at Southmead Hospital in Bristol.\n\nA woman was also wounded in the leg and was taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital for treatment.\n\nCh Insp Roddy Gosden said: \"This was a horrific incident in a quiet residential area.\n\n\"We understand those who saw what happened will be traumatised and many in the local community will be upset and worried.\n\n\"Today and over the next few days local policing team officers will be patrolling the area to listen to peoples' concerns and refer people to available support.\n\n\"The man who was arrested in connection with the incident remains in police custody at this time.\"\n\nCh Insp Roddy Gosden said police would be visiting local residents in the coming days to reassure them\n\nA number of police cordons are in place around the new housing development where the stabbing took place. Officers also remain at the scene.\n\nDet Insp Ben Lavender said the investigation was in its early stages and appealed for anyone with information or mobile phone footage of the attack to contact police.\n\nLocal MP Laurence Robertson tweeted that he wanted to express a \"huge thank you\" to the emergency services and residents who helped the victims.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A fresh pay offer is expected to be made to ScotRail workers in a bid to end six months of industrial action, the Scottish government has said.\n\nThe rail operator has cancelled numerous services following a pay dispute with train conductors.\n\nScotRrail engineers have now also voted to take part in a series of strikes during Glasgow's COP26 event.\n\nHowever, the government said it was hopeful \"an appropriate and fair pay increase\" could be agreed.\n\nRail services across Scotland have been disrupted for months by industrial action, with disagreements over pay and planned cuts in the wake of reduced passenger numbers as a result of the pandemic.\n\nTransport Minister Graeme Dey told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that the unions and management were being \"actively encouraged\" to seek a resolution.\n\nHe said: \"We need to step back from some of the rhetoric that has been dominating the agenda of late and focus on trying to get a suitable outcome to this.\n\n\"But we are in a challenging position, financially. To put this in perspective, prior to the pandemic we were spending circa £1.1bn a year on Scotland's railways. We are currently spending north of £1.5bn. That isn't sustainable, so we have got significant challenges.\"\n\nHe said the government was encouraging the company and staff to consider where efficiency savings could be made, in part, to fund a pay increase.\n\nHe added: \"I understand that later today the unions and ScotRail are meeting and a fresh offer is likely to be tabled. It's one I hope that the unions will view in the spirit that it is going to be made and consider settling these disputes.\"\n\nThe Unite union has said engineers will stage a series of strikes in the coming weeks due to the \"reckless\" actions of management at Abellio, the Dutch-based company which runs the ScotRail franchise.\n\nThe protest is also in response to \"the failure by Abellio ScotRail to make a meaningful pay offer\", despite repeated industrial action since 24 September, the union said.\n\nThe planned 24-hour strikes will take place between 18-19 October, 1-2 November, 10-11 November and 12-13 November.\n\nA number of rail depots, workplaces and stations will be affected by the strike action, including Glasgow Queen Street, Glasgow Central, Edinburgh Waverley and Perth.\n\nSeveral of the dates clash with the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow which will see world leaders in the city from 31 October to 12 November.\n\nUnite's engineering members at ScotRail voted by 78% in support of strike action in a 68.4% ballot turnout.\n\nPat McIlvogue, Unite's industrial officer, said: \"Unite has been left with no choice but to resolutely respond to the reckless behaviour displayed by Abellio ScotRail management.\"\n\nHe said that while discussions had been taking place, there had been no pay offer or movement by the company to date.\n\n\"The talks have been spun out and cynically used as a delaying tactic to avoid the national embarrassment of having strike action during the COP26 climate change conference which is being held in Glasgow.\n\n\"Well, these tactics have spectacularly backfired because our engineering members will now hold several 24-hour stoppages in the coming weeks.\"\n\nMr McIlvogue insisted that union members had made exhaustive attempts to engage Abellio ScotRail and called on the Scottish government to intervene to bring the dispute to an end.\n\nAbellio posted a pre-tax loss of £64.5m in the 12 months to 31 March 2020.\n\nIn December 2019, the company was stripped of the contract to run ScotRail services by the Scottish government amid criticism of performance levels.\n\nThe Scottish government announced in April that the franchise would be taken over by a public sector body from the end of March next year.\n\nA ScotRail spokesman said it would \"continue to engage with the rail trade unions to find an agreement on pay and conditions\" but that the financial situation it faced was \"stark\".\n\nThe spokesman added: \"To build a more sustainable and greener railway for the future and reduce the burden on the taxpayer, we need to change.\n\n\"All of us in the railway - management, staff, trade unions, suppliers and government - need to work together to modernise the railway so that it is fit for the future.\"", "Windows 11 features a simplified design and changes to the Start menu\n\nWindows 11, the latest version of Microsoft's computer operating system, launches worldwide on Tuesday as a free upgrade for Windows 10 users.\n\nWindows chief product officer Panos Panay, told the BBC the latest version was built to be \"clean and fresh and simpler\" for the user.\n\nHe promised that the new operating system would not be an \"extreme departure\" from what people know.\n\nAnd even the least tech-savvy users can upgrade easily, he added.\n\n\"I use the frame of my father - he's 89,\" Mr Panay said. \"I'm so excited for him to hit that button and upgrade, you have no idea.\n\n\"Not because he's my dad - because I just want it to be easy for him.\"\n\nHe said expert users had already tested it extensively through Window's Insider trial programme and was confident there would be no teething issues, adding the upgrade is \"ready now\".\n\nWindows 11 has some significant design changes, along with some alterations on how the system works under the hood.\n\nBy default, the Start menu is centred on screen, along with icons in the taskbar. When clicked on, the Start button opens a menu of frequently used apps.\n\nIn some ways, it mimics the appearance of a smartphone app menu or launcher. Microsoft has also dropped the \"tiles\" which were present on Windows 10's start menu.\n\nMr Panay said the team had learned from Windows 8, which got rid of the start menu entirely, upsetting many users.\n\n\"You learn from that, of course, and then you adapt,\" he said.\n\nMr Panay is Microsoft's chief product officer for Windows and Devices\n\nDeveloping Windows 11's interface involved watching how people use their computers - \"what they want to click on, where their eyes are on the machine when they come into our labs,\" he explained.\n\n\"You get this confidence of learning from history,\" he added.\n\nFor Windows 11, \"the Start button is right there. It's right in the middle of the screen. It's not gone.\"\n\nWhen Windows 10 came out, Microsoft declared it would be the \"last version\" of the system. That has obviously changed.\n\n\"We're in a time where there is a bit of a new era for the PC happening right now,\" Mr Panay said.\n\n\"I think Windows 11 kind of stamps that moment and it is a signal for that moment.\"\n\nAcross the operating system, the design favours rounded corners, and has simplified most menus and folder views. And there are new, improved options for arranging windows and \"snapping\" them into grids.\n\nWidgets, a major selling point of 2007's Windows Vista, also make a comeback - but instead of \"floating\" on the screen where the user puts them, they live in a sidebar on the left, and are also linked to Microsoft services.\n\nThe new widgets panel keeps all the data contained to a side panel rather than across the desktop\n\nSome changes go deeper than the interface and design.\n\nSystem integrations for Microsoft Teams - replacing Skype - and the Xbox app both feature heavily in Microsoft's advertising.\n\nThe Microsoft Store - the Windows version of an app store - has been completely redesigned and will allow third-party apps to sell inside it, without taking a substantial cut.\n\nAnd one new feature which raised eyebrows in the technology world was that Windows 11 would run Android smartphone apps through the Amazon app store.\n\nEarly adopters have reported that the in-built search function of the new version is significantly faster on most devices - but also that it favours Microsoft's own services, Bing and the Edge browser, when delivering web results.\n\nFor gamers, Microsoft promises that its new drive technology - Direct Storage - will lead to much better loading times in games by allowing a graphics card to access storage drives without going through the central processor.\n\nBut that feature, like some others, needs newer hardware to work.\n\nAs a result, not every computer will see all the potential advantages to upgrading - and some machines may not be able to upgrade at all.\n\nThe minimum requirements include a type of security chip - called a TPM - only installed on modern computers.\n\n\"If your device does not meet these requirements, you may not be able to install Windows 11 on your device and might want to consider purchasing a new PC,\" Microsoft says.\n\nThe company has just launched a range of its own new hardware devices to coincide with the new Windows version.\n\nBut users already running Windows 10 do not need to go to this expense if the computer is still working. Windows 10 will continue to be supported and receive security updates until October 2025.", "The union that represents some of Hollywood's most important workers has voted to approve a strike in a move that could shut down nearly all US film and television production.\n\nMembers of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE), which covers camera crews, prop masters, hairdressers and other craft workers say they are being worked to death with gruelling hours and no guaranteed rest or meal breaks.\n\nMembers are demanding better work conditions, as well as fairer pay from streaming services to cover their share of labour.\n\nOver 50,000 workers voted overwhelmingly - 98% in favour to 2% against - to approve a work stoppage. Should they carry out the stoppage, the strike would be the biggest labour walkout in Hollywood since World War Two.\n\nNegotiations between the union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers broke down last month after the IATSE walked away from a deal.\n\nThe deal would have improved wages and rest periods, the Alliance said, and included a nearly $400m (£293m) pension and health plan.\n\nHowever, with the vote, the union has \"spoken loud and clear\" said its president Matthew Loeb.\n\n\"This vote is about the quality of life as well as the health and safety of those who work in the film and television industry,\" his statement Monday said. \"For those at the bottom of the pay scale, they deserve nothing less than a living wage.\"\n\nAfter months of pandemic lockdowns in 2020, Hollywood's film and TV sets have been booming in recent months - and crew members say the hours and demands placed on them have become worse than ever.\n\nLike many around the world, Hollywood's crew members are re-evaluating how and when they want to work.\n\nOn the streets of Los Angeles and on social media, Hollywood crew members have been sharing harrowing stories of 15-plus hour days, with claims of working more than 70 and 80 hour weeks.\n\nSome spoke of having \"work done\" - surgeries to rebuild backs and knees - failed marriages and missed weddings and funerals.\n\n\"Fraturdays\" are said to be a common occurrence in the entertainment industry - workers start on Monday mornings at 06:00, and on Fridays, start late in the afternoon or evening and work until Saturday morning. It leaves little time to do anything but sleep all weekend.\n\n\"My hours are insane,\" sound mixer Thomas Pieczkolon said during a rally on Sunset Boulevard as he decorated cars with chalk \"Vote Yes\" signs. He works on a $300m show for a streaming service and has to work nine hours most days before they even break for lunch, he said.\n\nMr Pieczkolon recently worked a nearly 18-hour day on a Monday and his friend Jade Thompson, a costume dresser on the show, fell asleep at the wheel driving home.\n\n\"I nodded off and then came to and drifted off to the side and had a panic attack,\" she said. \"It wasn't even the end of the week! It was a Monday.\"\n\nWorkers have claimed that is a common problem - the adrenaline of a long day leaves them and the tiredness kicks in on the drive home.\n\n\"Sometimes you don't even realise until you're already in your car on that long ride home by yourself,\" Ms Thompson said, adding that her colleagues have WhatsApp group chats to make sure everyone gets home safe.\n\nThe authorisation vote does not necessarily mean that a strike will take place. Most workers who spoke to the BBC said they hoped it would instead be the leverage their union needed to negotiate better deals.\n\nThe last time Hollywood shut down for a labour dispute was the writers' strike in 2007 and 2008 amid the rise of reality TV and the soaring popularity of reality television stars like Donald Trump.\n\nToday, producers are under pressure to make a deal with workers. More than 100 members of Congress have urged them to implement more humane conditions.\n\nThe authorisation for a strike could also set up a showdown with streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon, which union members said were taking advantage of their work.\n\n\"Streaming companies are getting a discount on our labour,\" said set decorator Lisa Clark. \"We deserve a fair share of that profit - we deserve to be paid at least what we used to be paid when we used to do network television.\"\n\nStreaming services have transformed the industry with ambitious sets and epic shows and storytelling. Workers love that streaming shows look incredible like feature films, Ms Clark said - but she gets 10 weeks to prepare hundreds of sets which would have taken six months for a feature film.\n\n\"It's not a reasonable request,\" she said.", "In future platforms such as TikTok will have Ofcom keeping a close eye over how they enforce policies\n\nOfcom has laid out the measures it will require video-sharing platforms to take to better protect users.\n\nThe VSPs, including TikTok, Snapchat, Vimeo and Twitch, must take \"appropriate measures\" to protect users from content related to terrorism, child sexual abuse and racism.\n\nA third of users have seen hateful content on such sites, Ofcom says.\n\nThe regulator will fine VSPs that breach the guidelines or - in serious cases - suspend the service entirely.\n\nOfcom promised a report next year into whether those in scope - and there are 18 in total - were taking the appropriate steps.\n\nSpecific legal criteria determine whether a service meets the definition of a VSP and whether it falls within UK jurisdiction.\n\nYouTube is expected to fall under the Irish regulatory regime but it will come in scope of the Online Safety Bill, which has a much broader remit to tackle online harms on the big technology platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook and Google, once that becomes law.\n\nOfcom said one of its main priorities in the coming year would be to work with VSPs to reduce the risk of child sexual abuse material being uploaded.\n\nAccording to the Internet Watch Foundation, there has been a 77% increase in the amount of self-generated abuse content in 2020.\n\nAnd it acknowledges the massive amount of content will make it impossible to prevent every instance of harm.\n\nBut it promised a \"rigorous but fair\" approach to its new duties.\n\nChief executive Dame Melanie Dawes said: \"Online videos play a huge role in our lives now, particularly for children.\n\n\"But many people see hateful, violent or inappropriate material while using them.\n\n\"The platforms where these videos are shared now have a legal duty to take steps to protect their users.\"", "\"People need to get off their Pelotons and back to their desks,\" Conservative Party Chairman Oliver Dowden has said.\n\nThe ex-culture secretary said civil servants working from home should \"lead by example\" by returning to the office.\n\nA union representing civil servants said his comments were an \"insult\" to thousands of dedicated government workers.\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to repeat the \"get back to work\" message in his Tory conference speech on Wednesday.\n\nIt comes after top civil servant Sarah Healey said she preferred working from home because she could spend more time on her Peloton exercise bicycle.\n\nAccording to the Daily Mail, Ms Healey, who is the permanent secretary at Mr Dowden's former department, told a conference last month: \"I have a Peloton and I can just get on my bike whenever I have a teeny bit of time.\n\n\"That has been a huge benefit to my well-being, the lack of travelling time eating into my day.\"\n\nMr Dowden, who was moved from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in last month's cabinet reshuffle, said: \"I like my permanent secretary at DCMS enormously, Sarah Healey, but I am disagreeing with her on this one.\n\n\"I think people need to get off their Pelotons and get back to their desks.\"\n\nSpeaking at Daily Telegraph fringe event at the Conservative Party conference, Mr Dowden said: \"People really want the government to lead by example - they want civil servants to get back to work as well. We've got to start leading by example on that.\"\n\nHe said there were currently \"more desks occupied\" at Conservative Party headquarters than in his former department.\n\nThe government has clashed with trade unions for changing its advice to civil servants working from home and suggesting staff were being \"lazy\".\n\nThe First Division Association, which represents senior civil servants, accused Mr Dowden of \"hypocrisy\" and pandering to the party faithful, with his latest comments.\n\n\"As the civil service, the broader public sector and thousands of companies in the private sector already know, what you deliver is far more important than where it's delivered from,\" FDA general secretary Dave Penman said.\n\n\"The pandemic has driven a quiet revolution in working practices that has seen innovation and reform from both the public and private sectors.\n\n\"Yet despite the incredible feats performed, ministers continue to want to stand in the way of progress and reform for the sake of a quick headline.\"\n\nThe \"vast majority of staff want hybrid working\", said the FDA leader, and it was key to the government's plan to move civil service jobs out of London.\n\n\"The hypocrisy of ministers - who are happy to bank the savings in office space delivered by hybrid working but decry the practice for the party faithful - is frankly insulting to the dedication, professionalism and commitment of hundreds of thousands of public servants,\" he added.\n\nIn a statement, the Cabinet Office said civil servants have been working hard to deliver the government's priorities \"from home and the workplace\" since the pandemic began.\n\n\"Like other employers, the civil service continues to follow the latest government guidance and is gradually increasing the numbers of staff in the workplace,\" it added.\n\nSales of Peloton exercise bikes - which cost £1,750 plus monthly subscriptions to online classes - surged during lockdown, although they have slowed down in recent months.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nArsenal lost for the first time since February as Barcelona's Asisat Oshoala haunted her old club in their Women's Champions League Group C opener.\n\nMariona Caldentey scored the rebound from an Oshoala shot for the first.\n\nNigerian Oshoala ran down the right wing and squared it for Alexia Putellas to slot home and added a third herself from a sublime Mariona through ball.\n\nFrida Maanum bundled in a consolation for the visitors before Lieke Martens chipped in the fourth for the holders.\n\nPutellas should have made it 5-1 deep into stoppage time but her penalty was saved by Manuela Zinsberger.\n\nOshoala, 26, played for Arsenal from March 2016 to February 2017, helping them to win the FA Cup, and did not celebrate her goal at the Johan Cruyff Stadium.\n\nIt took Arsenal 55 minutes to have a shot, with Vivianne Miedema's weak effort rolling straight to goalkeeper Sandra Panos.\n\nThe Gunners did create more chances as the game wore on with Nikita Parris having a shot cleared off the line shortly before Maanum struck.\n\nJonas Eidevall's Gunners were one of the form teams in Europe coming into the game, with eight wins from eight games in all competitions this season, scoring at least three in each match.\n\nThey were unbeaten in 20 games in all competitions, going back to February.\n\nUnfortunately for them, Barcelona had also won all their matches this season - five in the league - and this was the first time they hit fewer than five goals in a game.\n\nEuropean champions Barca showed why they will be tough to stop this season and should definitely have extended that scoring run, ending with 35 shots, 14 on target.\n\nNext in the Champions League, the Gunners host German side Hoffenheim on Thursday, 14 October, with Barcelona going to Denmark to face Koge.\n\nHoffenheim beat Koge 5-0 in Tuesday's other Group C game.\n• None Penalty saved! Alexia Putellas (Barcelona Femenino) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Jordan Nobbs (Arsenal Women) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Penalty conceded by Jordan Nobbs (Arsenal Women) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt missed. Bruna Vilamala (Barcelona Femenino) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Lieke Martens with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Irene Paredes (Barcelona Femenino) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Caroline Hansen with a cross.\n• None Goal! Barcelona Femenino 4, Arsenal Women 1. Lieke Martens (Barcelona Femenino) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Patri Guijarro with a through ball. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Trained to protect others but can these fighting witches protect themselves?", "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)", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson tells Laura Kuenssberg he is \"not worried\" about a jobs gap and rising prices in the UK.\n\nBoris Johnson is famous for looking publicly on the bright side.\n\nMaking people laugh, making people feel good, is part of what successful politicians do.\n\nHis optimism is what defines his public persona. It's also what fuels accusations that he isn't serious about the country's problems and would rather crack a joke than crack a problem.\n\nDon't doubt though for a moment that Boris Johnson is deadly serious about power and holding on to it.\n\nThere is concern in some corners of government, including among some cabinet ministers, that Number 10 is brushing away concerns about the economy too easily.\n\nIn our interview with the prime minister this morning he said he's \"not worried\" about the squeeze on supply chains, labour shortages or inflation.\n\nSpeaking earlier he said there was no crisis. And he's trying to use this moment to argue that what we are seeing are merely the birth pangs of a new economic model.\n\nBusiness will sort things out quickly, he believes, it's down to the market to fix it, rather than government to \"patch and mend\".\n\nBut talk to some of his colleagues, some of whom made their own warnings about specific economic pinch points before the summer, and you don't quite hear the same.\n\nWhen the prime minister displays a disregard for Westminster's conventions or politesse it's one thing. But running the risk of looking like you don't understand everyday concerns is another.\n\nThe polls right now suggest that the government is not being punished for queues at the pump or empty shelves. Johnson loyalists credit his political appeal that seems to defy natural gravity. But if prices continue to creep up and disruption continues, those feelings could turn.\n\nYou can't just tell people to cheer up if their gas bill is going up, their weekly shop costs more and they are losing £20 a week from universal credit.\n\nAfter what they consider a successful first big foreign trip, and dominance in the polls, Downing Street is in a bullish mood.\n\nBut confidence can tip into complacency - a sentiment that few voters would reward.", "Sir Iain Duncan Smith said he was attacked while walking to a meeting outside the Conservative Party's conference\n\nA former leader of the Conservatives has told the BBC he is fine after he was attacked during party conference.\n\nSir Iain Duncan Smith said he was walking to a meeting in Manchester city centre when a group of people called him \"Tory scum\" and tried to hit him with a traffic cone.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said officers were on the scene \"within minutes\" and five people had been arrested.\n\nSir Iain said he was \"big enough and old enough\" to just \"carry on\".\n\nThe incident took place on Portland Street around 16:00 BST, according to the force.\n\nThe MP said he had left the main conference venue to attend a fringe event when he was recognised by a group of people.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"They then decided to follow me and started shouting abuse, such as 'Tory scum' and any other reason they could think of.\n\n\"I carried on walking and when I was getting close to the place [where I had a meeting] someone came up with one of those rather heavy traffic cones and tried to smack me with it in the back of the head.\"\n\nSir Iain said he managed to get hold of the cone and, for a moment, the group moved away.\n\n\"But then they carried on with the expletives,\" he added.\n\n\"I then went into a meeting so I didn't see what happened next but I understand a police officer had been following them, and I gave a statement later.\"\n\nThe police confirmed the incident, adding: \"Following a short foot pursuit three men and two women have been arrested in connection with it, and remain in custody for questioning.\n\nAnd Sir Iain said he was \"fine\", adding: \"I am big enough and old enough to know when something like this happens, you just carry on.\"", "Fresh tensions surfaced last week over the number of fishing licences issued to French fishermen\n\nFrance has intensified pressure on the UK over post-Brexit fishing rights, warning bilateral co-operation could be at risk.\n\nThe government in Paris is angry that the UK granted 12 licences out of 47 bids for smaller vessels to fish in its territorial waters.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex has accused the UK of not respecting its Brexit deal commitments on fishing.\n\n\"Britain does not respect its own signature,\" he told French MPs.\n\n\"Month after month, the UK presents new conditions and delays giving definitive licences... this cannot be tolerated.\"\n\nThe prime minister warned that all bilateral agreements with the UK could be at risk if the European Commission did not take a tougher stance on the UK government. No details were given, but the two countries have a raft of agreements covering defence, security and border controls as well as energy and trade.\n\nThe UK's Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has said the government's approach has been reasonable and fully in line with its commitments.\n\nSpeaking at the Conservative party conference, the UK's Brexit minister rejected French claims that the UK was in breach of the Brexit trade deal.\n\nLord Frost insisted that 98% of EU applications to fish in British waters had been granted, adding that the UK had been \"extremely generous\".\n\nThe Commission said it was in constant contact with UK authorities to ensure all licence applications were dealt with as soon as possible. \"The UK has published its methodology and we are now discussing the differences with the British and Jersey authorities regarding the rights of the boats involved.\"\n\nBBC Brussels correspondent Jessica Parker says there is little sense that the Commission is poised to act, with post-Brexit relations in a delicate state as the EU prepares solutions for fixing the controversial Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nFresh tensions surfaced last week between Britain and France over post-Brexit fishing rights.\n\nFrance was infuriated last week by the relatively small number of licences granted to smaller vessels, when Sea Minister Annick Girardin spoke of French fishing being \"taken hostage\" for political ends.\n\nThe UK said it would consider further evidence to support remaining bids for fishing rights.\n\nFrance on Tuesday repeated its threat to cut the UK off from energy supplies.\n\nA UK government document in July said that 47% of the country's electricity imports were from France.\n\nFrench Europe Minister Clément Beaune told Europe 1 radio: \"The UK depends on our energy exports, they think they can live alone while also beating up on Europe and, given that it doesn't work, they engage in aggressive one-upmanship.\"\n\nThe Channel island of Jersey became a flashpoint for tensions last May, when French fishermen staged a protest outside the port of St Helier and two Royal Navy ships were sent to patrol the area.\n\nAt the time Ms Girardin threatened to cut off Jersey's electricity supply - 95% of which is delivered by three underwater cables from France.\n\nFrench fishermen complained about being prevented from operating in British waters because of difficulties in obtaining licences.\n\nUnder an agreement with the EU, French boat operators must show a history of fishing in the area to receive a licence for Jersey's waters. But it has been claimed additional requirements were added without notice.", "Russia's Vladimir Putin (left), Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev (centre) and the King of Jordan (right) are all linked to the files\n\nSeveral world leaders have denied wrongdoing after featuring in a huge leak of financial documents from offshore companies.\n\nDubbed the Pandora Papers, the 12 million files constitute the biggest such leak in history.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin and Jordan's King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein are among some 35 current and former leaders linked to the files.\n\nBoth have issued statements saying they have done nothing wrong.\n\nJordan's royal palace said it was \"not unusual nor improper\" that King Abdullah owned property abroad.\n\nLeaked documents show the leader secretly spent more than £70m ($100m) on a property empire in the UK and US since taking power in 1999.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov meanwhile questioned the reliability of the \"unsubstantiated\" information, after it detailed hidden wealth linked to President Putin and members of his inner circle.\n\n\"For now it is just not clear what this information is and what it is about,\" he told reporters, adding that \"we didn't see any hidden wealth of Putin's inner circle in there\".\n\nThe data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington DC, which has been working with more than 140 media organisations on its biggest ever global investigation.\n\nBBC Panorama and the Guardian have led the investigation in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One rule for the rich, another for ordinary people'\n\nOther leaders linked to the leak include:\n\nIn a tweet thread, the Czech prime minister said the allegations are an attempt to influence elections scheduled for this week and insisted he has \"never done anything wrong or illegal\".\n\nMr Kenyatta said the investigation \"will go a long way in enhancing the financial transparency and openness that we require in Kenya and around the globe\", and promised to \"respond comprehensively\" to the leak once he returned from a state visit abroad.\n\nThe Pandora Papers show no evidence that the Kenyatta family stole or hid state assets in their offshore companies.\n\nAnd a statement from Mr Piñera's office said he denied taking part in or having any information on the sale of the Dominga mining project.\n\nPresident Aliyev and his family did not respond to attempts to contact them, according to The Guardian.\n\nMeanwhile Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has vowed to investigate citizens linked to the Pandora Papers. Hundreds of Pakistanis, including members of Mr Khan's cabinet, are linked to the leak.\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 which has led one of the 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.\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)", "Thousands of Haitian migrants have returned to the island after being deported by the US. Many of the migrants had been living in South America and have not set foot in Haiti for years.\n\nThe BBC’s Will Grant spoke to migrants about the \"inhumane\" treatment they say they received at the US border - and about how they'll try to rebuild their lives now.", "Abortion was legalised in Northern Ireland last year but services are still limited\n\nStormont departments have \"no duty\" to follow a government direction to set up abortion services in NI, the High Court in Belfast has heard.\n\nThe remarks were made by John Larkin QC during the start of a second legal challenge over abortion laws.\n\nIn July, political disagreement in the executive led the government to impose a deadline to establish services by next March.\n\nBut Mr Larkin said there was a \"screamingly obvious\" gap in the law.\n\nThe formal direction was issued by Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis in a bid to force Stormont to make progress.\n\nIt put in place a timetable on Stormont's Department of Health to bring proposals for commissioned services to executive ministers.\n\nIt also directed that there should be \"immediate support\" for interim early medical abortion services in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (Spuc) is challenging the move, arguing that Mr Lewis has imposed a power grab on Stormont by overriding the devolution settlement.\n\nMr Larkin QC - Northern Ireland's former attorney general - is acting on behalf of Spuc.\n\nOn Monday, he argued there was a \"fundamental lacuna\" in how the regulations were drawn up by the Northern Ireland Office.\n\nHe said there had been no creation of a duty when the laws were drafted.\n\n\"Here we have a minister of the Crown issuing a direction, with no status given to the direction and no-one is obliged to respond in the terms of the direction,\" he told the court.\n\n\"In the absence of that, the rule of the requirement is precisely that, to ignore it.\"\n\nHe argued the formal direction had omitted details specifying the requirement for the Northern Ireland Executive, or Stormont departments individually, to comply.\n\n\"A minister of the Crown cannot boss people about unless the law gives them power to do it and act in accordance with his edict, and this doesn't.\n\n\"The Northern Ireland Office may wish such a provision had been made, it may be bitterly regretting it now, but in these regulations as it stands there is no obligation to comply with them.\"\n\nAbortion is a matter devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nBut in 2019 a vote by MPs at Westminster - during the suspension of devolution - brought about significant changes to Northern Ireland's abortion laws.\n\nStormont's institutions returned three months later and remained under a responsibility to establish a permanent, central abortion service.\n\nBut health trusts have been only carrying out limited services, meaning some women seeking an abortion beyond 10 weeks in their pregnancy have had to travel to Great Britain to access services.\n\nThe Department of Health has maintained that the matter is \"controversial\" and any decision on abortion services must be made by the whole executive.\n\nIn May, proposals from Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) Health Minister Robin Swann on commissioning of services were blocked by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).\n\nThe party is opposed to abortion and has previously criticised Mr Lewis for taking powers to act, saying it would have \"serious consequences for devolution\".\n\nSinn Féin, the SDLP and Alliance have said they would support the commissioning of services being imposed by Westminster, if it remains stalled by the executive.\n\nIn July, Mr Lewis said the \"ongoing stalemate\" had left him with no choice but to intervene, to uphold international human rights obligations.\n\nThe secretary of state is already facing a separate judicial review taken by Northern Ireland's Human Rights Commission, which has criticised both Stormont and Westminster over the delay in implementing full abortion services.\n\nThat case was heard in May.\n\nThis latest challenge is scheduled to last for two days, but it could be several months before judgement is delivered in both cases.\n\nThe Department of Health has said in line with the secretary of state's direction, it is preparing proposals on commissioning of abortion services that will be submitted to the executive later this year or in early 2022.", "Inquests into the deaths of the victims of serial killer Stephen Port will be a key step in their families' \"quest for accountability\", their lawyer has said.\n\nBetween June 2014 and September 2015, Port murdered Anthony Walgate, 23, Gabriel Kovari, 22, Daniel Whitworth, 21, and Jack Taylor, 25.\n\nIn 2016, he was jailed for life after he was convicted of giving lethal doses of date rape drug GHB.\n\nThe Met Police has apologised for how it initially responded to the deaths.\n\nThe inquests will open later at Barking Town Hall, just yards from where the victims were given fatal overdoses.\n\nPort met his victims online, including through the dating app Grindr, before luring them to his flat where they were drugged and raped.\n\nThe first victim, Anthony Walgate, was found outside Port's flat and the other three either in or next to a nearby churchyard.\n\nPort, from Barking in east London, was sentenced to a full life term in November 2016\n\nThe families' lawyer Neil Hudgell said: \"Their families have felt every single day of their absence. They have waited with great patience and conducted themselves with real dignity.\n\n\"Yet, they've always wondered about whether there would have been a different outcome if the police had investigated Port properly and taken their concerns seriously, and if their boys hadn't been gay.\n\n\"For them, the inquests mark a key step in their quest for accountability.\"\n\nFollowing the court case, the Met Police offered an apology to the victims' families and highlighted changes the force had made, which included a written protocol for minimum standards of investigation for unexplained deaths.\n\nIt said the force had also given extra training to officers on how drugs could be used as a weapon by offenders to facilitate rape and sexual assault, as well as on issues that impact on the confidence of LGBT+ communities.\n\nCommander Jon Savell said: \"Our thoughts are firstly with the family and friends of those murdered by Stephen Port. We know this will be a painful and difficult time for them, hearing details once more of what happened to their loved ones.\"\n\nHe said the Met was offering \"every assistance\" to the coroner and welcomed a \"full examination of all the facts surrounding the tragic deaths\".\n\nHe said: \"At the time of Port's conviction, we apologised to the victims' families and Daniel Whitworth's partner for how we initially responded to the deaths, and I would like to apologise again.\"\n\nMr Savell added: \"It is extremely important to us that members of the LGBT+ communities trust the police and feel confident they are being provided with the best possible service.\"", "Ms Malone was a police officer for seven years before qualifying as a firearms officer\n\nThe culture in an armed policing unit within Police Scotland was \"horrific\" and an \"absolute boys' club\", an employment tribunal has found.\n\nIt accepted evidence of a \"sexist culture\" in the armed response vehicles unit (ARV) in the east of Scotland.\n\nFormer firearms officer Rhona Malone raised the tribunal against the force alleging sex discrimination and victimisation.\n\nHer victimisation claims succeeded but the discrimination claim was dismissed.\n\nIt also found that Ms Malone was an \"entirely credible and reliable witness\", but the evidence of her former superior, Insp Keith Warhurst, was \"contradictory, confusing and ultimately incredible\".\n\nInsp Warhurst sent an email in January 2018 saying two female firearms officers should not be deployed together when there were sufficient male staff on duty.\n\nPolice Scotland apologised unreservedly to Ms Malone and said it would address the issues raised in the judgement \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\nMs Malone told BBC Scotland she was \"extremely emotional and phenomenally grateful\".\n\nHer solicitor, Margaret Gibbon, described the employment tribunal's judgement as \"damning\".\n\n\"The employment tribunal's findings lay bare the misogynistic attitudes and culture within armed policing and the hostile treatment police officers face when they try to call it out,\" she added.\n\n\"Of equal concern is the employment tribunal's findings that it did not consider credible much of the evidence it heard from Police Scotland's witnesses, including testimony from high-ranking police officers and senior members of staff.\n\n\"The serious issues this judgement brings to light need to be urgently addressed by Police Scotland\".\n\nMs Malone had worked as a police officer for seven years before becoming an authorised firearms officer (AFO) in Police Scotland's ARV team in 2016.\n\nShe was based in Edinburgh, Fettes Team 1, in October 2016, where she was one of two women in a team of 12 AFOs. Of 60 AFOs in Edinburgh's ARV division, four were women.\n\nIn its judgement, the tribunal accepted evidence that there was an \"absolute boys' club culture\" within the ARV which was \"horrific\". It also found:\n\nThe tribunal also accepted that Insp Warhurst sent an email saying two female officers should not be deployed together.\n\nIn the email he referred to \"the obvious differences in physical capacity\" and said it made \"more sense from a search, balance of testosterone perspective\".\n\nBut the tribunal found that the instruction was not implemented, as staff were told it did not represent the views of senior management. As a result of this, it dismissed the direct discrimination claim.\n\nIf the email had been acted upon, the tribunal said it would have been viewed as \"inherently discriminatory\".\n\nHowever the tribunal did accept Ms Malone's claims of victimisation.\n\nThese related to incidents including a threat of withdrawing her firearms authority, a suggestion that she could be transferred to Stirling, handling of grievances and a failure to investigate complaints.\n\nIn one of the tribunal hearings, Richard Creanor, a former firearms officer, said there was \"absolutely a boys' club culture\" that existed in parts of Police Scotland's armed response unit and also claimed Insp Warhurst had sent a message with a picture of topless women to a WhatsApp group of police officers.\n\nHe told the hearing: \"You have to understand the culture in firearms, they operate within their own rules.\"\n\nLawyer Stewart Healey, acting for Police Scotland, suggested to Mr Creanor during the evidence session that he \"had it in for Mr Warhurst\" and was making up the claims.\n\nBut the tribunal ruling accepted Mr Creanor's evidence and described him as a \"credible and reliable\" witness.\n\nThe tribunal judgement was also critical of two senior officers.\n\nIt found the evidence of Ch Supt Andrew McDowell's \"implausible\" in that the reason he gave for not investigating Ms Malone's complaint was because he \"receives thousands of emails\".\n\nThis was described as \"wholly unsatisfactory\" in the judgement given Ch Supt McDowell's seniority.\n\nIn addition, the judgement said the actions of Police Scotland official Alasdair Muir were \"neither honest nor reasonable\".\n\nIn a statement published in response to the judgement Assistant Chief Constable Mark Williams, of Police Scotland, said the culture in armed policing in 2017 and 2018 was unacceptable.\n\n\"Since then we have worked hard to improve standards but we know there is much still to do,\" he said.\n\n\"As an organisation, our response when a dedicated female officer raised legitimate concerns was no where near good enough. I apologise unreservedly to Ms Malone for those failings and for the significant impact they had on her,\" he added.\n\n\"This judgement highlights serious issues and we will set out action to address them as a matter of urgency.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How to identify the UK's oldest meat-eating dinosaur\n\nMore than half a century after first being unearthed from a Welsh quarry, four small fossil fragments have finally been assigned to a new species of dinosaur.\n\nResearchers from London's Natural History Museum say Pendraig milnerae is the oldest meat-eating dinosaur ever discovered in the UK.\n\nIt existed over 200 million years ago, their analysis suggests.\n\nThe name Pendraig means \"chief dragon\" in Middle Welsh.\n\nThe animal was very likely the apex, or top, predator in its environment. That said, it wasn't exactly a giant. Think of something chicken-sized with a very long tail.\n\n\"It was a typical theropod; so, a meat-eating dinosaur that walked around on two legs, like T. rex or Velociraptor that you'll know from the movies, but much earlier in time,\" explained the NHM's Dr Stephan Spiekman.\n\nArtwork: Pendraig probably had sharp teeth and predated on other small reptiles\n\nThis is one of those classic fossil stories.\n\nPendraig is described by just four, albeit beautifully preserved, bone pieces. A vertebra, elements of the pelvis and a femur. These items were originally pulled from a limestone quarry near Cowbridge in South Wales in the 1950s.\n\nTheir interesting features were occasionally discussed within the NHM, but then the fossil material somehow got lost in the vast collections of the museum, mistakenly stored with crocodilian remains.\n\nOnly recently were the bones recovered from the \"wrong drawer\" and recognised for their true significance.\n\nPendraig is really ancient. It's late Triassic in age. It could be as much as 214 million years old, putting it close to the base of dinosaur emergence.\n\nIndeed, Pendraig would have been a fossil when the previously mentioned T. rex and Velociraptor were still strutting their stuff in the Cretaceous, just before the asteroid struck to wipe them both from the face of the Earth 66 million years ago.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stephan Spiekman and Susie Maidment: \"This is a very special dinosaur\"\n\n\"We've only got these four fragments, but the preservation is fantastic. The fossil is completely three dimensional; it's undistorted,\" Dr Spiekman told BBC News.\n\n\"What's so interesting and important here is that we're getting to see the very early stages of the evolution of the dinosaurs. These animals eventually came to dominate the Earth, but in the late Triassic they were only one of several groups of reptiles that were living on land.\"\n\nThe geological study of the British Isles tells us that during this time, what is now the Bristol Channel region of the UK was a series of islands made from much older limestone that had been folded and pushed upwards.\n\nPendraig would have lived somewhere across the archipelago.\n\nHow this particular specimen died, we can only speculate. But its bones were embedded in a gryke, or fissure, in the limestone. Perhaps the dino fell in; maybe it was already dead and got washed in during a flood. No-one can say for sure.\n\nThere's a bit of a puzzle related to the size of the animal, which is on the small side of what might be expected. Dr Spiekman wondered if Pendraig might be an example of dwarfism, a phenomenon you sometimes see in species that are confined to islands and their limited resources. But the analysis in this case came to no firm conclusions.\n\nAngela Milner was perhaps best known for the Surrey dinosaur Baryonyx\n\nThe second part of Pendraig's name - its species name - recognises an influential figure in British dinosaur science: Angela Milner, who died in August.\n\nThe former deputy keeper of palaeontology at the Natural History Museum was associated with another major theropod discovery in the 1980s - an animal called Baryonyx - and was key in helping to bring Pendraig milnerae to light again.\n\n\"It wasn't lost for very long in the collections, but it was Angela we have to thank for tracking it down. She'd remembered seeing it and went off to look through the museum's drawers. And after three or four hours she returned to say, I found it!\" recalled co-author Dr Susie Maidment.\n\n\"Angela had a really influential career in UK palaeontology and was a huge loss to us here at the museum. We were some way through describing the fossil when she died, but we wanted to honour her by naming the fossil after her.\"\n\nPendraig milnerae is reported in the journal Royal Society Open Science. Authors on the paper are affiliated to the NHM; the University of Birmingham; Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Argentine Museum; and National Museums Scotland.", "Francois Devaux, head of a victims' association, welcomed the release of the damning report\n\nSome 216,000 children - mostly boys - have been sexually abused by clergy in the French Catholic Church since 1950, a damning new inquiry has found.\n\nThe head of the inquiry said there were at least 2,900-3,200 abusers, and accused the Church of showing a \"cruel indifference towards the victims\".\n\nPope Francis \"felt pain\" on hearing about the inquiry's finding, a Vatican statement said.\n\nOne of those abused said it was time the Church reassessed its actions.\n\nFrançois Devaux, who is also the founder of the victims' association La Parole Libérée (Freed speech), said there had been a \"betrayal of trust, betrayal of morale, betrayal of children\".\n\nThe inquiry found the number of children abused in France could rise to 330,000, when taking into account abuses committed by lay members of the Church, such as teachers at Catholic schools.\n\nFor Mr Devaux it marked a turning point in France's history: \"You have finally given institutional recognition to victims of all the Church's responsibility - something that bishops and the Pope have not yet been prepared to do.\"\n\nAccording to the Vatican statement, the Pope learnt about the report after he met visiting French bishops in the last few days.\n\n\"His first thoughts are for the victims, with a deep sadness for their wounds and gratitude for their courage in coming forward,\" it read.\n\n\"His thoughts also turn to the Church in France, and that, in recognising these terrible events and united by the suffering of the Lord for his most vulnerable children, it can take the path of redemption.\"\n\nPope Francis said he felt \"deep sadness\" for the victims after hearing about the inquiry, a statement said\n\nThe report's release follows a number of abuse claims and prosecutions against Catholic Church officials worldwide.\n\nThe independent inquiry was commissioned by the French Catholic Church in 2018. It spent more than two-and-a-half years combing through court, police and Church records and speaking to victims and witnesses.\n\nMost cases assessed by the inquiry are thought to be too old to prosecute under French law.\n\nThe report, which is nearly 2,500 pages long, said the \"vast majority\" of victims were boys, many of them aged between 10 and 13.\n\nIt said the Church had not only failed to prevent abuse but had also failed to report it, at times knowingly putting children in contact with predators.\n\n\"There was a whole bunch of negligence, of deficiency, of silence, an institutional cover-up,\" the head of the inquiry, Jean-Marc Sauvé, told reporters on Tuesday.\n\nHe said that until the early 2000s, the Church had shown \"deep, total and even cruel indifference\" towards victims.\n\nIn March, a service took place at the Cathedral of Lucon in France after the unveiling of a plaque in tribute to child victims of sexual abuse by priests\n\n\"The victims are not believed, are not listened to. When they are listened to, they are considered to have perhaps contributed to what they had happen to them,\" he explained.\n\nHe added that sexual abuse within the Catholic Church continued to be a problem.\n\nWhile the commission found evidence of as many as 3,200 abusers - out of a total of 115,000 priests and other clerics - it said this was probably an underestimation.\n\n\"The Catholic Church is, after the circle of family and friends, the environment that has the highest prevalence of sexual violence,\" the report said.\n\nOlivier Savignac, head of victims association Parler et Revivre (Speak out and Live again), was abused at the age of 13 by the director of a Catholic holiday camp in the south of France.\n\nHe told the Associated Press news agency that before the abuse, he had thought of the priest as \"someone who was good, a caring person who would not harm me\".\n\n\"We keep this, it's like a growing cyst, it's like gangrene inside the victim's body and the victim's psyche,\" he said.\n\nThe inquiry found that about 60% of the men and women who were abused had gone on to \"encounter major problems in their emotional or sexual lives\".\n\nThis was over 70 years and more than half the cases were before 1970. But still - for many French this will be the moment they wake up to the sheer scale of the phenomenon of Church sexual abuse. What was once anecdotal and prurient is suddenly a defining feature of society.\n\nThe burden of the report is that ad-hoc expressions of repentance and a bit of tinkering with ecclesiastical structures are no longer good enough.\n\nThere has to be recognition that sexual abuse of youngsters by priests was systematic. It was the Church - not rogue individuals - that was responsible.\n\nMany in the Church will be horrified by what they discover. Many will welcome the moment as a catharsis. As Sister Veronique Margron, president of the Conference of Religious Orders, put it: \"If the Church must tremble, well let it tremble.\"\n\nOnly a handful of the cases covered by the inquiry had prompted any disciplinary action, let alone criminal prosecutions.\n\nBut while most cases are now too old to prosecute via the courts, the inquiry called on the Church to take responsibility for what happened, including by providing compensation to the victims.\n\nIt noted that while financial compensation would not address the trauma that victims had endured, it was \"nonetheless indispensable as it completes the recognition process\".\n\nIt also made a series of recommendations about how to prevent abuse, including training priests and other clerics, and fostering policies to recognise victims.\n\n\"We expect clear and concrete responses by the Church,\" a group of six victims' associations said.\n\nThe president of the Bishops' Conference of France, who co-requested the report, said the numbers of victims and their experiences were \"beyond what we could imagine\".\n\n\"I express my shame, my fear, my determination to act with them [the victims] so that the refusal to see, the refusal to hear, the desire to hide or mask the facts, the reluctance to denounce them publicly, disappears,\" Archbishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort said.\n\nThe French Church has previously announced a plan for \"financial contributions\" to victims, beginning next year.\n\nEarlier this year, Pope Francis changed the Roman Catholic Church's laws to explicitly criminalise sexual abuse, in the biggest overhaul of the criminal code for nearly 40 years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigitte, a survivor of child sex abuse by a chaplain, explains why she is ready to speak now (From 2019)", "The Conservative Party is facing fresh questions about donations made by the wife of a former Russian minister.\n\nLubov Chernukhin is one of the biggest donors to the Tories, giving more than £1.8m since 2012.\n\nLeaked documents reveal her personal wealth comes from her husband Vladimir. He has been financially linked to people who were close to the Kremlin.\n\nMrs Chernukhin's lawyers say she is a British citizen and is entitled to do as she wishes with her money.\n\nHer donations to the Conservative Party have given the 48-year-old access to figures at the top of UK government.\n\nMrs Chernukhin's winning auction bids have seen her play tennis with Boris Johnson and dine with Theresa May, when she was prime minister.\n\nBut until now, very little has been known about the Chernukhins' wealth and where it comes from.\n\nThe documents in the Pandora Papers leak of internal files and correspondence from offshore financial firms show the couple are linked to a network of 32 companies, three trusts and more than £100m in assets.\n\nThe documents indicate that Mrs Chernukhin's wealth comes from her husband, with one email describing her as being \"financially supported by her husband\", and another as \"a housewife\".\n\nOne document shows Mr Chernukhin's offshore company loaned £4m to his wife's UK company.\n\nThe latest revelations follow separate allegations about two businessmen linked to donations to the party.\n\nWorking with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the Guardian, BBC Panorama has had access to almost 12 million documents files from 14 companies in countries including the British Virgin Islands, Belize, Cyprus and Switzerland.\n\nThe Conservative Party say all donations have been properly and lawfully declared and followed all the rules.\n\nAsked about the revelations about party donors that have emerged from the Pandora Papers investigation, the prime minister said all party donations are \"'vetted in the normal way in accordance with rules set up by the Labour government\", adding: \"So we vet them the whole time\".\n\nThe main political parties including Labour and the Liberal Democrats have all faced calls to hand donations back over the years.\n\nMeanwhile, in response to the claims, Transparency International UK says that vetting process for all political donors in the UK is \"little more than a box-ticking exercise\".\n\n\"It's easy to evade the rules or not look too closely. We must do better,\" they add.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said HM Revenue & Customs will examine the leaked papers \"to see if there's anything we can learn\".\n\nTap to see the Chernukhins’ UK property owned through offshore firms Lubov Chernukhin is one of the biggest female donors in British political history, but concerns have been raised about her political contributions Lubov’s husband Vladimir is behind an offshore company that owns this home near London’s Regent's Park Their country estate in Oxfordshire, , is held via an offshore firm And through another overseas company, they used to own this building in London’s affluent Mayfair district, now\n\nThe Russian-born Chernukhins are both now British citizens.\n\nPandora Papers documents reveal how they secretly acquired properties in the UK through offshore companies.\n\nThey purchased a house overlooking Regents Park in London now worth £38m, as well as a mansion in Oxfordshire bought for £10m.\n\nMr Chernukhin, 52, a former deputy minister of finance under Vladimir Putin left Russia for London in 2004 after being sacked by the president.\n\nThe Pandora Papers investigation found evidence that suggests Mr Chernukhin abused his position as the government appointed head of a state bank to advance his private business interests.\n\nIn evidence to a court hearing in London in 2018, Mr Chernukhin testified how he had reached an arrangement with the former mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, to secure planning permission for a development he had a secret personal interest in.\n\nIn return Mr Chernukhin told the court he proposed helping the mayor in relation to two other development sites in Moscow in which his bank had an interest.\n\nHe told the court: \"As a part of negotiations or agreement with them how to proceed, we agreed... that I will help them\", \"and Mr Luzhkov will help me\".\n\nAndrew Mitchell QC, a leading corruption barrister, told Panorama: \"That's a conflict, there's no two ways about it. Here is a man who's chairman of the bank, using the bank as a mean by which he enhances his own personal wealth. And that has corruption written all over it.\"\n\nPandora Papers files also show Mr Chernukhin has carried on doing business with people close to the Kremlin.\n\nThey reveal his secret involvement in a property deal in St Petersburg in 2017, in which his partner was the wife of a then Russian government minister. He sold his stake in the property the following year for $30m, the documents show.\n\nQuestioned in 2018 about the Chernukhin's wealth, Mr Johnson - then foreign secretary - said \"all possible checks have been made and... will continue to be made\" on donations.\n\nAsked whether the donations to the Conservatives should be declared as coming from Mr Chernukhin as well, political law expert Gavin Millar QC said: \"If it's joint money, if it's family money, why isn't he willing to have his name alongside hers in the quarterly return to the Electoral Commission, publicly identified as a donor, and the source of the money?\"\n\nHe added: \"When you've got somebody who's a prominent associate of people who are connected with the Kremlin and… with Russian government, you would have thought any British political party… would start to investigate it and ask why that money is being given.\"\n\nLawyers for the Chernukhins said Panorama's interpretation of the court case involving Mr Chernukhin was a \"gross mis-characterisation\".\n\nThey said \"the suggestion that he acted improperly whilst an official of the state is wholly untrue\" and he \"has not accumulated his wealth.... in a corrupt manner\".\n\nThe lawyers said it was not accepted that any of Mrs Chernukhin's political donations have been funded by improper means or affected by the influence of anyone else.\n\nLabour and the Liberal Democrats have both said the Tories should return the money donated by Mohamed Amersi.\n\nInvestigations by the BBC and its media partners have indicated the businessman was involved in negotiations for Swedish telecoms company Telia that resulted in $220m being paid to a Gibraltar-based company controlled by the daughter of the then president of Uzbekistan. The payment was described by the US authorities as a \"$220m bribe\".\n\nMr Amersi has denied wrongdoing and his lawyers said the offshore company had been \"vetted and approved by Telia\" and that its involvement \"did not raise any red flags\" to him.\n\nRepresentatives for Mr Amersi said on Monday he had \"never knowingly facilitated corrupt transactions\" and the Pandora Papers reports sought to \"embarrass the Conservative Party\".\n\nLiberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Christine Jardine said: \"The Electoral Commission should launch an immediate investigation into these allegations.\"\n\nThe Labour Party chairwoman Anneliese Dodds said the allegations were \"concerning\".\n\nReferring to comments by Mr Amersi earlier this year that high-spending donors have been able to gain meetings with the prime minister and chancellor, she added: \"The Conservatives should return the money he donated to them and come clean about who else is getting exclusive access\".\n\nElsewhere, the Russian government has dismissed allegations of financial impropriety involving President Putin contained in the documents leak.\n\nOther world leaders, including Jordan's King Abdullah, and the Czech Prime Minister, Andrej Babis, have also rejected allegations concerning the secret purchase of properties using offshore companies.\n\nPakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has said his government will investigate citizens linked to the leak. Hundreds of Pakistanis, including members of Mr Khan's cabinet, are said to have had secretly moved wealth through offshore companies.\n\nUpdate 3 December 2021: Following publication, Mr and Mrs Chernukhin have made legal complaints about this article. They say that the article is defamatory of them. In their complaint, they have told the BBC that no deal (corrupt or otherwise) was ultimately concluded with Mayor Luzhkov in respect of the properties in Moscow.\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. More 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.\n\nWatch Pandora Papers: Political Donors Exposed on BBC One at 19.35 BST on Monday (UK viewers only) or later on iPlayer", "Hackers responsible for a cyber attack on Scotland's environmental watchdog tried to sabotage efforts to fix the problem, a new report has revealed.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) had more than 4,000 digital files stolen in the incident.\n\nA review said the Christmas Eve attack displayed \"significant stealth and malicious sophistication\".\n\nBut it has also been revealed Sepa's cyber incident response plan was inaccessible during the incident.\n\nThis was because the report - along with the watchdog's disaster recovery plan - was stored on the servers affected by the attack and there was no offline version or hard copy available, according to independent consultants Azets.\n\nAzets also found staff initially responded to the attack at about 00:01 on 24 December but attempts to escalate the problem to other Sepa officials were not successful until about 08:00.\n\nThe hackers made attempts to \"compromise Sepa systems as the team endeavoured to recover and restore back-ups\", a separate review found.\n\nBut a Police Scotland review said Sepa \"was not and is not a poorly protected organisation\".\n\nSepa rejected a ransom demand for the attack, which was claimed by the Conti ransomware group, and the stolen files were then released on the internet.\n\nThe public body said it had been \"the victim of a hideous, internationally orchestrated crime\" and added that a series of reviews it commissioned \"make it clear we were well protected but that no cyber security regime can be 100% secure\".\n\nOne of the reviews, by the Scottish Business Resilience Centre, said there were three copies of Sepa's data stored at two separate locations, with one copy stored offline.\n\nThe report states the \"design of the network meant that both sites were affected\" but sections of this part of the document are redacted so it is not clear how this happened.\n\nSepa has restored the majority of its key services, such as flooding forecasting, since the cyber attack and is now building new IT systems to run them.\n\nThe organisation's chief executive Terry A'Hearn said: \"The majority of organisations hit by cyberattacks around the world do not publicise much about the attack and that is their right.\n\n\"We know we have taken an unusual approach, but we are convinced it is the right thing for us to do.\n\n\"We are publishing as much as we can of the reviews so that as many organisations as possible can use our experience to better protect themselves from this growing scourge of cybercrime.\"\n\nSepa chief executive Terry A'Hearn said a \"number of learnings have been identified that will help Sepa further improve its cyber security\"\n\nDet Insp Michael McCullagh, a cyber crime specialist, said: \"Police Scotland has been consistently clear that Sepa was not and is not a poorly protected organisation.\n\n\"The organisation had a strong culture of resilience, governance, incident and emergency management and worked effectively with Police Scotland and others.\n\n\"Recent attacks against Sepa, the Irish Health Service and wider public, private and third sector organisations are a reminder of the growing threat of international cyber-crime and that no system can be 100% secure.\"", "Tributes were left outside the stadium in the immediate aftermath of the crash\n\nPlayers and fans have marked the third anniversary of a helicopter crash at Leicester City's stadium ahead of the club's game against Brighton.\n\nThe crash, which killed the club's chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, happened at the King Power Stadium after a match on 27 October, 2018.\n\nTwo of his employees and two pilots on board also died.\n\nA crowd display and minute's silence took place before kick-off for the first home match to fall on the date.\n\nMr Vichai, Kaveporn Punpare, Nusara Suknamai, Eric Swaffer and Izabela Lechowicz all died when the chairman's helicopter crashed and exploded moments after taking off at the stadium.\n\nIt happened just over an hour after Leicester had drawn 1-1 against West Ham and was witnessed by many players, club executives and members of the press still at the ground.\n\nEmma Ruckley and her father Peter were at the King Power Stadium watching the game on the night of the crash\n\nEmma Ruckley, 42, who watched the match at the stadium with her father Peter on the night of the crash, said it was \"scary\".\n\n\"It was all a blur, we didn't know what people were saying,\" she added.\n\nDean Smith recently became a steward at the King Power Stadium\n\nDean Smith, 52, is a lifelong fan who recently became a steward at the ground.\n\n\"I don't think you ever get to grips with the magnitude of what happened and the loss that we suffered,\" he said.\n\nElaine Trinder, 65, said she was \"hoping against hope\" that the crash was not true when she heard about it.\n\n\"Unfortunately, it was... it was awful. Dreadful,\" she said.\n\nDave Ryan, 69, added: \"I'm feeling quite emotional. Khun Vichai was Leicester City. He did so much for the club and the city as a whole.\"\n\nFlowers left outside the stadium in the days after the crash were composted and used in the memorial garden\n\nThe Foxes are playing Brighton in the fourth round of the Carabao Cup.\n\nThe club invited fans to take their seats early to take part in a crowd display and a minute's silence before kick-off.\n\nPrivate services will take place at the Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha Memorial Garden although it is open for fans to pay their respects between 11:00 and 16:10 BST and again after 17:00.\n\nLeicester City lifted the Premier League trophy after a 3-1 win against Everton in 2016\n\nLeicester City said in a statement: \"Khun Vichai's amazing legacy at Leicester City was defined by his belief in achieving the seemingly impossible - realised in the most incredible fashion when his team reached the top of the English football pyramid to lift a legendary Premier League title in 2016.\n\n\"That legacy continues to grow to this day, under chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha with the football club now the current FA Cup holders, playing in European competition, competing in the FA Women's Super League and developing talent through one of the world's best training facilities in Seagrave - a key part of the Srivaddhanaprabha family's vision for the club.\"\n\nIt said plans for the next phase of its former chairman's vision included the expansion and development of the King Power Stadium site, which was recently revealed.\n\nMr Vichai also supported many community projects, which the club said it had continued through a foundation set up in his honour.\n\nMr Vichai (second left) regularly travelled to and from the ground in either of his two helicopters\n\nAn interim Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) report into the crash found cockpit pedals had disconnected from the tail rotor which had caused the helicopter to spin out of control.\n\nThe final report into the crash has yet to be released but Crispin Orr, chief inspector of air accidents, said it would be published \"as soon as we're able\".\n\nHe added: \"It is now three years since the tragic helicopter accident in Leicester and our thoughts are of the five people who sadly lost their lives that evening, their families and all of those affected by their loss.\n\n\"The AAIB has conducted an extremely thorough and detailed investigation that has proven to be technically very complex and which is still ongoing.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Mark Drakeford says the current system keeps producing majority Tory governments on a minority of votes cast\n\nMark Drakeford has urged Labour to change the way MPs are elected at Westminster.\n\nWales' first minister said he is \"baffled\" by people who support first-past-the-post elections.\n\nLabour should go into the next general election promising to reform the electoral system as part of a project to \"save the United Kingdom\", he said.\n\nIt comes after proposals for electoral reform were defeated at Labour's conference in Liverpool last month.\n\nIn first-past-the-post elections, the winner is the candidate which wins the most votes in a constituency.\n\nIt is used for Westminster elections, and to elect part of the Welsh and Scottish parliaments.\n\nIn a lecture, Welsh Labour leader Mr Drakeford called for the \"repair of our democracy itself\".\n\nHe pointed to the 2019 general election result in Scotland, where Labour won 19% of the vote, but only one seat.\n\n\"I have every sort of democratic quarrel with such a system, but for today I feel certain that its continuation will only feed further the fissures which threaten to prise the United Kingdom apart,\" he said.\n\nCalls to expand make the Welsh Parliament have also been endorsed by the first minister\n\nHe added: \"How anyone clings to the notion that a system which delivers, so consistently, majority Conservative governments on a minority of the votes cast is best for working people simply baffles me.\"\n\nA decision by the Unite Union - one of the Labour party's major backers - to back a new voting system makes the chances of reform \"significantly improved\", he says.\n\nMr Drakeford's Welsh government has supported calls to increase the size of the Senedd from 60 to 80 or 90 members.\n\nA special Senedd committee is also looking at proposals to elect Members of the Senedd via the single transferable vote system.", "Strike action which threatened to cripple rail services in Scotland during COP26 has been called off after the RMT accepted a pay deal.\n\nThe union said the offer would provide them with a one year 2.5% pay rise, improved conditions and a £300 COP payment for all ScotRail staff.\n\nIt also means an end to Sunday strikes which have been ongoing since March.\n\nScotRail welcomed the agreement, which comes just four days before the start of the UN climate summit.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was \"proud\" to have brokered and funded the deal.\n\nThe announcement was made on Wednesday evening following talks between the trade union and transport bosses.\n\nRMT Scotland organiser Michael Hogg told the BBC: \"For the first time in eight and a half months, normality returns to Scotland's trains.\"\n\nSpeaking on the Good Morning Scotland programme, he said the new deal meant efficiency savings, which had been a sticking point, were off the agenda at least for a year.\n\n\"The [original] two-year deal included efficiency savings that were unacceptable to the RMT, so we are happy and delighted that we have been able to secure a one-year deal that allows us to actually focus on negotiations next year,\" he said.\n\nScotRail is currently run by Abellio but it is being stripped of its contract amid concerns over its performance. The rail firm will be taken over by a company owned and controlled by the Scottish government in March.\n\nMr Hogg said the union would be able to return to the negotiating table with a new employer.\n\n\"Abellio ScotRail are not going to be there next year,\" he said. \"It is going to be the operator of last resort and I hope the main focus has to be getting our industrial relations back on track in order to have a dialogue next year.\n\n\"We are hoping there is going to be a different approach. For the last 18 months negotiations have been protracted and industrial relations have been virtually been destroyed as a result of tactics taken by Abellio ScotRail and Transport Scotland.\"\n\nIan McConnell, ScotRail chief operating officer, said: \"We have reached a pay agreement with the RMT trade union that resolves strike action.\n\n\"We look forward to Scotland's railway playing its part in delivering a successful COP26 next week.\"\n\nThe union had been given until 17:00 on Wednesday to accept the same deal which had been agreed by three other unions.\n\nIt then announced ScotRail had accepted a counter offer after the 17:00 deadline.\n\nThe union confirmed that planned industrial action, scheduled to start on Monday, would be \"withdrawn immediately\" as members welcomed a recent agreement on a pay rise.\n\nIn a letter sent to union members following talks on Wednesday evening, RMT general secretary Michael Lynch said: \"By accepting the offer all industrial action is now cancelled and I instruct you all to work normally on the days you had previously been instructed to take action on.\"\n\nMr Lynch said the union's offer was accepted \"unanimously\" by delegates.\n\nUp to 30,000 delegates are set to descend on Glasgow for COP26\n\nTransport minister Graeme Dey said he was pleased the union reached out to restart discussions based on the offer that had been made to them on Sunday.\n\nHe added: \"Now an agreement has been confirmed the strike action will thankfully come to an end.\n\n\"As well as getting the pay rise they deserve, railway workers can now go back to delivering rail services for people right across Scotland and as well as for those attending COP26.\"\n\nUp to 30,000 delegates are set to descend on Glasgow for COP26, which runs from Sunday to 14 November.\n\nAnother dispute could see thousands of council workers across Scotland including refuse, recycling, maintenance and school catering and janitorial staff taking strike action during the second week of the climate talks.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.", "Camilla says victims of sexual violence can face a misplaced sense of stigma\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall has called for more urgent action to tackle sexual violence against women.\n\nShe spoke of her shock at Sarah Everard's murder and warned \"on average, one woman is killed by a man every three days\" in the UK.\n\nIn a speech in London, Camilla said men also needed to be \"on board\" with tackling a culture of sexual violence.\n\nAnd she questioned whether people had become \"indoctrinated into believing that violence against women is normal\".\n\nThe duchess spoke of the \"unimaginable torment\" facing female victims of violent sexual attacks and how their families, such as those of Sarah Everard, \"continue to suffer in the wake of their deaths\".\n\nSarah Everard was murdered earlier this year by Wayne Couzens, then a police officer, who had abducted her as she walked home in south London.\n\nAnd the duchess warned of a pervasive, underlying culture of sexual harassment.\n\n\"On the same day that Wayne Couzens was arrested, a survey was published stating that 86% of young women in the UK have been sexually harassed in a public space,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Cornwall speaking in London: \"How many more women must be harassed, raped or murdered?\"\n\nCamilla was speaking at the launch of a project called Shameless, supported by the Women of the World Foundation and Birkbeck, University of London, and aimed at changing attitudes to sexual violence.\n\nThe duchess said a high proportion of women who had been harassed did not report what had happened - and pointed to an unfair sense of \"shame\" among victims.\n\n\"Often, this sense of shame causes the victim to blame herself, mistakenly take responsibility for the crime, and want to hide away from others - and yet she has done nothing wrong,\" she said.\n\n\"Let us resolve to support survivors to be 'shameless' and not to take on misplaced feelings of stigma,\" the duchess told an audience including Carrie Johnson, wife of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nMrs Johnson, then Carrie Symonds, had given evidence against \"black-cab rapist\" John Worboys, jailed in 2009.\n\nThe duchess warned of a \"culture of silence\" around sexual violence and said it was important men were engaged in efforts to change attitudes.\n\n\"It takes an entire community, male and female, to dismantle the lies, words and actions that foster a culture in which sexual assault is seen as normal,\" she said.", "His Royal Highness Prince Aghatise Erediauwa (centre) during a ceremony at Jesus College in Cambridge\n\nThe master of a Cambridge University college has described the return of a looted bronze cockerel to representatives of Nigeria as a \"momentous occasion\".\n\nThe statue, known as the \"Okukur\", was taken by British colonial forces in 1897 and given to Jesus College in 1905 by the father of a student.\n\nA decision for it to be returned was made in 2019 after students campaigned.\n\nA ceremony has been held at the college to sign the handover documents.\n\n\"It's massively significant,\" said Sonita Alleyne, master of Jesus College. \"It's a momentous occasion.\"\n\nSonita Alleyne, master of Jesus College (left) said it was the \"right thing to do\" to return the artefact\n\nShe said returning the artefact was the \"right thing to do\" to and said the bronze piece was of \"cultural and spiritual significance to the people of Nigeria\".\n\n\"It's part of their ancestral heritage,\" Ms Alleyne added.\n\nThe college's Legacy of Slavery Working Party concluded in 2019 that the cockerel \"belongs with the current Oba at the Court of Benin\".\n\nThe Oba of Benin is head of the historic Eweka dynasty of the Benin Empire, centred on Benin City in modern-day Nigeria.\n\nThe Benin bronze cockerel was given to Jesus College in 1905\n\nMs Alleyne said the Nigerian delegation would decide how and when to move the Okukur.\n\nThe statue was removed from display at the college in 2016 and will be given to Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments.\n\nOba of Benin, Omo N'Oba N'Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, said it was hoped others would \"expedite the return of our artworks, which in many cases are of religious importance to us\".\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.", "BBC Radio 2's Zoe Ball still has the UK's most popular breakfast show\n\nMany breakfast radio shows now have smaller audiences than before the pandemic, according to new figures.\n\nZoe Ball, Greg James, Roman Kemp, Chris Evans and the Today programme are among the shows to have fewer listeners than the last time ratings were measured.\n\nThe drop can be partly explained by lower commuter numbers as many people continue to work from home.\n\nBut industry body Rajar urged caution when making comparisons because it is also measuring audiences in new ways.\n\nThe latest radio listening figures are the first to be published since May 2020, and now incorporate smartphone data in the methodology.\n\nThe ratings cover July to September this year, with some data based on a smaller sample of listeners from the previous three months also included.\n\nSome DJs, such as Radio X's Chris Moyles, appear to have bucked the downward trend for breakfast shows; while radio listening in general has increased slightly and many stations improved their overall reach.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live, for example, recorded a significant boost, probably helped by coverage of summer sport events such as the Euros and the Olympics.\n\nThe station attracted 5.9 million weekly listeners between July and September, up from 5.2 million before the pandemic. Its sister station 5 Live Sports Extra was also up, to 1.6 million.\n\nThe increase in radio listening as a whole, juxtaposed with the decrease for breakfast show audiences, suggests the figures reflect how listening habits and lifestyles have been changed by the pandemic.\n\nWhile fewer people might listen to a breakfast show, some radio stations noted their daytime figures were up, likely a result of people listening more while working at home during the day.\n\nRadio X presenter Chris Moyles is one of the few breakfast DJs to have performed better under the new measures\n\nDiversity stars Perri Kiely (left) and Jordan Banjo took over Kiss breakfast last year\n\nRajar said 89% of the UK population listen to radio at least once a week, with the average listener clocking up just over 20 hours of listening over seven days.\n\nA great deal of radio listening is now on digital platforms such as DAB, smartphone and tablet apps or websites. Around 74% of people surveyed said they listen digitally every week.\n\nSmart speakers now account for a large proportion of listening - around 48% of people who own speakers said they used it to listen to radio weekly.\n\nOf those users, 20% said they listen to radio via a smart speaker on a daily basis.\n\nRajar figures were suspended during the pandemic, as the industry body was not able to conduct its usual face-to-face research.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Emergency services were called to the scene just after 15:00\n\nA woman and three children have been taken to hospital after they were hit by a car in South Lanarkshire.\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said 10 crews were dispatched to the scene in Carluke, shortly after 15:00.\n\nIt is understood those injured are a mother in her 20s and three children, the eldest of whom is seven.\n\nAll four have been taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow but no details about their conditions have been released.\n\nPolice said emergency services remained at the scene and local diversions were in place. The A73 is currently closed between Glamis Avenue and Clyde Street.\n\nInsp William Broatch, from Motherwell Road Policing Unit, said: \"Around 15:10, police were called to James Street in Carluke, at the junction with Kirkton Street, following a report of a road crash involving a car and four pedestrians - a woman and three children.\n\n\"The pedestrians are all being conveyed to hospital for treatment.\n\n\"Emergency services remain at the scene and local diversions are in place. Anyone with information on the incident can call police on 101, quoting incident 2110 of 27 October.\"\n\nLocal MSP Mairi McAllan, who represents the Clydesdale constituency, said she was \"deeply worried\" about the reports coming out of Carluke.\n\nShe said: \"My team have been in touch with local police offering whatever help we can give.\n\n\"I want to thank the emergency services who're on the scene, and in the meantime I'm just praying like everyone else for good news that no one's seriously hurt.\"", "A serving Metropolitan Police officer has appeared in court charged with rape.\n\nPC Adam Zaman, 28, of Kingston Road, Romford, is accused of raping a woman at the Andaz Hotel in Liverpool Street, central London, on Sunday.\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Bryan told Westminster Magistrates' Court the defendant was not on duty at the time of the alleged offence.\n\nMr Zaman, who denies the allegation, has been suspended from his post.\n\nThe court heard he had served with the Metropolitan Police since 2016.\n\nDistrict Judge Snow told Mr Zaman he would be remanded in custody until his next appearance at Central Criminal Court on 24 November.\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\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has told MPs the Budget begins the work to prepare for a new economy post Covid, as he delivers his speech in the Commons.\n\nSpending plans for transport, health and education have been unveiled in the press.\n\nMr Sunak is under pressure to help people with the cost of living.\n\nSources say he will adjust the universal credit taper rate, meaning those working will be able to take home more of the money they earn.\n\nA £20 a week top up to the benefit was cut earlier this month, but details of any changes have yet to be announced.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer will not be responding to the Budget, as the leader of the opposition is normally expected to do, as he is isolating after testing positive for Covid. Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves will set out Labour's response instead.\n\nAccording to Downing Street, Mr Sunak told the cabinet on Wednesday morning that his Budget \"will deliver a stronger economy for the British people\" with the \"levelling-up\" agenda - spreading prosperity around the country - a \"golden thread\" running through it.\n\nThe chancellor is under pressure to reveal more about the economic outlook, with government debt soaring to record peace time levels in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nAnd he will deliver a three-year spending review alongside his Budget.\n\nThe Treasury has asked departments to find \"at least 5% of savings and efficiencies from their day-to-day budgets\" - so it is clear not every area will get the same treatment.\n\nPolicies already unveiled from the chancellor's Budget include:\n\nYou can read more on the announcements the government has already made here.\n\nOne of the pre-announced policies is the end to a pay freeze for public sector workers - such as teachers, nurses and police officers - but ministers have so far refused to say whether it will be a real-terms rise by being higher than inflation.\n\nPay for most frontline workforces is set by independent pay review bodies and No 10 has said it could not \"prejudge that process\".\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle was furious about the number of spending plans that were given to the media before Mr Sunak's big speech - they are traditionally meant to be announced in Parliament so MPs can challenge and scrutinise them. Deputy Speaker Eleanor Laing echoed the reproof just before the Chancellor got to his feet.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said they \"recognised the importance of parliamentary scrutiny\" and they \"always listen very carefully to the Speaker\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Lindsay Hoyle says it is “not acceptable\" for ministers to give briefings to the media before Parliament.\n\nWhisper it. After the economy took an absolute hammering during the pandemic, might the chancellor tomorrow actually be in a much cheerier political mood than he could have predicted?\n\nDuring his Budget warm-up in the last few days, Rishi Sunak has already totted up promises of around an extra £20bn of spending, as well as announcing how some of the cash that was already promised is going to be carved up.\n\nHold on for a second though. On the specifics, there is no guarantee that unfreezing the wages of 2.5 million workers in England will mean they get pay rises that aren't eroded by inflation.\n\nThe same goes for increases for workers on low pay, and cuts to universal credit will pinch too.\n\nHaving treated us all to cosy snaps of him and his Labrador, Nova, and him hard at work in his athleisure wear, Rishi Sunak wants to give the political impression that he's a chancellor we can all be comfortable with - careful with our money, but not afraid to spend it on things that matter, who has modern Tory instincts, but won't ditch the party's traditions.\n\nBut remember Budget warm-ups are just that. However many announcements there have already been, however carefully the photographs of the prep have been thought through and selected, what matters is what he actually says at lunchtime on Wednesday.\n\nWhat matters are the numbers - what's in black and white - in the end.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nSir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"The Budget must take the pressure off working people.\n\n\"With costs growing and inflation rising, Labour would cut VAT on domestic energy bills immediately for six months.\n\n\"Unlike the Tories, we wouldn't hike taxes on working people and we'd ensure online giants pay their fair share.\"\n\nEx-Tory chancellor Philip Hammond told BBC Newscast the government should not use higher wages as \"a bung\" to secure the support of low income voters.\n\n\"The instinct to send a message to business that we need to invest more capital rather than just relying on cheap labour, I think is the right instinct, I would support that,\" he said.\n\nAdam Scorer, chief executive of fuel poverty charity National Energy Action, warned it was going to be a \"brutal and bitter winter for millions of householders\" who were unable to bear the costs of energy price rises.\n\nHe called for the chancellor to find a way to put some of the extra tax receipts raised by the price increases back in the pockets of the most vulnerable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Insulate Britain: Protesters blocking A40 have ink squirted on them\n\nInsulate Britain protesters have been squirted in the face with ink as they blocked major roads connecting to the M25, despite a new court injunction.\n\nNearly 50 demonstrators from the environmental group have been arrested at three sites, including on the A40 in west London during rush hour.\n\nProtesters also blocked the A206 at Crossways Boulevard in Dartford.\n\nA man sprayed protesters on the A40 with what appeared to be blue ink, as motorists became frustrated.\n\nThe protests come in response to government-owned National Highways securing a court injunction banning activities that obstruct traffic on its 4,300-mile network of motorways and major A-roads in England.\n\nThere are four court injunctions in place against the group, which the Department for Transport said covered the \"entire strategic road network\".\n\nPolice arrested protesters at the DoubleTree Hilton at Dartford Crossing\n\nInsulate Britain said in a statement: \"We are not concerned with endless injunctions. We are not concerned with our fears.\n\n\"We are concerned with fulfilling our duties and responsibilities at this 'period of consequence'.\n\n\"Starting from 07.00 BST on the morning of Wednesday 27 October, the M25 will become a place of non-violent civil resistance to stop our government committing crimes against humanity.\"\n\nThe Met Police arrested 17 activists on the A40 in Acton, six of whom had locked themselves to the ground but \"specialist units are on scene to unglue them\", the force said.\n\nThirty-two people have been arrested by Kent Police after traffic was obstructed at two locations in Dartford.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Greg McKenzie This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe group - an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion - wants the government to insulate all UK homes by 2030 to cut carbon emissions.\n\nSuzie, 47, a protester from Cambridge, who works in childcare, said: \"If going to prison and losing my home is what it takes to get the government to do the right thing and cut our carbon emissions, then it's a price worth paying.\n\n\"I can't be a bystander while this government betrays the public, our children and future generations by failing to defend our country from the climate crisis.\"\n\nShe said she had been arrested 11 times since 13 September.\n\nIn a statement Insulate Britain said it is \"not concerned with endless injunctions\"\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps has previously accused Insulate Britain of \"risking lives and ruining journeys\".\n\nHe has said the \"long term solution lies in changes to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill\" to give \"additional powers against disruptive protests\".\n\nJeremy Kite, leader of Dartford Borough Council, also called for greater powers for police to prevent protests happening.\n\nMr Kite said: \"The law needs to be beefed up so when they're talking about action in a couple of days' time, or predicting it tomorrow, the police ought to be able to pay them a visit at six o'clock in the morning and make sure they don't go out.\n\n\"These are people who are just spoiled and entitled and they're narcissistic in their aims, regardless of what they want to achieve, and what they want to do.\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\"There are other, better ways to do it in a free society and you cannot deprive one person of freedom, simply to establish yours.\"\n\nHe added: \"Quite frankly, some of these people, rather than gluing themselves to a road, it's time they glued themselves to a job or glued themselves to something productive.\"\n\nThose who break the injunctions could be found in contempt of court and face maximum penalty of two years in prison or an unlimited fine.\n\nBut prosecutions for this offence usually take several months.\n\nMembers of the group were also arrested on Monday after targeting London's financial district in Canary Wharf and the City of London during rush hour, obstructing Limehouse Causeway as well as nearby Liverpool Street, Bishopsgate and Upper Thames Street.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Conor Murphy is calling on Stormont to prioritise spending on the health service\n\nNI's finance minister has played down expectations of significant extra money as a result of the UK spending review.\n\nThe chancellor's announcement on Wednesday will set the executive's spending limits for three years.\n\nConor Murphy said a multiyear budget \"provides an opportunity to better plan and prioritise finances.\"\n\nHe said there was \"little indication\" that the government would \"provide the investment needed to rebuild public services and spur economic recovery\".\n\nThe amount of money available to Stormont and the other devolved administrations is set by the Barnett formula.\n\nIt is a population-based share of additional funding announced for England.\n\nBudget day is Wednesday when Rishi Sunak will announce how much money he will take in taxes and what he will spend it on\n\nOn Sunday Chancellor Rishi Sunak said \"strong investment in public services\" would be at the heart of his plans for rebuilding the economy.\n\nHe said: \"One of the elements of building a stronger economy is having strong public services, and you will see that next week - whether it's the NHS, which we've already taken steps to support significantly to recover from coronavirus, children, schools, skills, all of these things, policing and crime.\"\n\nAsked if he would raise public sector wages in line with inflation, the chancellor said: \"That will be one of the things we talk about.\n\n\"Over the past year, we took a decision to have a more targeted approach to public sector pay,\" he continued, but added: \"Going forward we'll have to set a new pay policy and that'll be a topic for next week's spending review.\"\n\nConor Murphy says a small rise in domestic rates will make little difference to Stormont's finances\n\nWriting in the Irish News, Conor Murphy expressed scepticism about what the chancellor would deliver and again called on the executive to prioritise health spending on Stormont's budget.\n\nHe said: \"While the indications are that the spending review outcome will not be good for the executive, a collective approach can produce a budget that finally brings down waiting lists on a sustainable basis.\"\n\nMr Murphy also said that increasing domestic rates, a locally controlled property tax, would not give Stormont much extra spending power.\n\n\"I would caution that a 1% increase in domestic rates generates less than £3m,\" he said.\n\n\"To put that into context, a 22% increase in domestic rates would be needed to pay for a 1% increase in the health budget.\"", "The Queen was pictured during a video call from Windsor Castle on Tuesday\n\nThe Queen will not attend the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow following medical advice to rest.\n\nThe 95-year-old monarch underwent preliminary medical checks in hospital last Wednesday after cancelling a visit to Northern Ireland.\n\nShe resumed public engagements on Tuesday by meeting ambassadors via video link from Windsor Castle.\n\nBuckingham Palace said she \"regretfully\" decided not to attend a reception at the summit.\n\nBut the palace said she would deliver her address to delegates using a recorded video message instead.\n\nThe Queen was due to travel to Scotland as part of a string of COP26 engagements by senior members of the Royal Family including the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge between 1-5 November.\n\nThe other royals will still attend the summit.\n\nIt is understood that the monarch very much wants COP26 to result in meaningful action on climate change from participating nations, and hopes her absence will not be used by others as a reason not to attend.\n\nThe Queen was overheard at the opening of the Welsh Parliament earlier this month saying it was \"really irritating\" when people talk but don't act on climate issues.\n\nSir Peter Westmacott, a former UK ambassador to the US, said the cancellation was a \"blow\" to the summit, but argued the substance of the talks should not be affected.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said the Queen's attendance would have been the \"icing on the cake\" but it was still a \"very important opportunity\" for Prince Charles to speak alongside other senior royals.\n\nThe Queen smiled as she greeted the South Korean and Swiss ambassadors during video calls\n\nIn photographs released on Tuesday, the Queen was seen smiling on camera as she greeted the South Korean and Swiss ambassadors, who were speaking to her from Buckingham Palace.\n\nShe also spoke to Chancellor Rishi Sunak by phone on Tuesday evening ahead of his Budget unveiling on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThe photographed video calls were the first occasions she had been seen since she hosted an investment summit at Windsor Castle on the evening of 19 October.\n\nThe following day, Buckingham Palace said the monarch had \"reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for the next few days\".\n\nThe Queen was pictured alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson last Tuesday evening\n\nA cancelled trip to Northern Ireland and a night in hospital last week were followed by reassurances that this would only mean a rest and recharging of the royal batteries ahead of the COP26 summit.\n\nThat trip to Glasgow has now been cancelled too. It was a big moment in the royal calendar and it's a decision that would not have been taken lightly.\n\nOnly on Tuesday morning the 95-year-old Queen was shown back at work and sending a signal that all was well.\n\nHer meetings on Tuesday were held on video - and a video message will be sent to the Glasgow summit - so perhaps this will be more of how we'll see the monarch in future.\n\nShe will be more online, while those in-line will take up more of the public responsibilities.\n\nThe Queen spent the night of 20 October in a London hospital before returning the next day to Windsor Castle, where she was said to be \"in good spirits\".\n\nShe did not attend a church service at Windsor on Sunday.\n\nIt has been a busy period of official engagements for the Queen.\n\nAn official record of her diary showed at least 16 formal events during October.\n\nShe has been seen using a walking stick at recent public events, including at a Westminster Abbey service and when she opened the sixth term of the Senedd in Wales.\n\nIn its latest statement, the palace said: \"Following advice to rest, The Queen has been undertaking light duties at Windsor Castle.\n\n\"Her Majesty has regretfully decided that she will no longer travel to Glasgow to attend the evening reception of COP26 on Monday, 1 November.\"\n\nThe statement concluded: \"Her Majesty is disappointed not to attend the reception but will deliver an address to the assembled delegates via a recorded video message.\"\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.", "The boy used the proceeds from his website scam to invest in Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies\n\nA boy who set up a fake website as part of a \"sophisticated cyber fraud\" has had more than £2m of cryptocurrency seized by police.\n\nThe 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, used it to dupe users of a digital gift voucher site into entering their personal details.\n\nHe stole £6,500 worth of vouchers and used the proceeds to buy Bitcoins, Lincoln Crown Court heard.\n\nSam Skinner, prosecuting, said the boy had set up the fake website from his bedroom in April 2020.\n\nIt was almost identical to the official site of Love2Shop, which sells gift vouchers, the court heard.\n\nHe then paid to advertise on Google, which resulted in the bogus site appearing above the genuine site when people searched for it.\n\n\"People were duped into clicking on his website thinking they were accessing the official site,\" the prosecutor said.\n\nThe court was told the boy took the site down after a week just as Love2Shop began investigating him following a complaint from a customer.\n\nHowever, the teenager, from south Lincolnshire, used the proceeds to buy Bitcoins and other cryptocurrency, which subsequently soared in value, the court was told.\n\nFollowing his arrest in August 2020, police found 48 Bitcoins and a smaller number of other coins.\n\n\"At the time they were worth £200,000. They are now worth a little over £2 million,\" Mr Skinner said.\n\nThe subsequent police investigation also found over 12,000 credit card numbers stored on the boy's computer and details of 197 PayPal accounts, he told the court.\n\nThe teenager, who is now studying A-levels, admitted charges of money laundering between 9 and 16 April 2020 and fraud totalling £6,539 by false representation.\n\nJudge Catarina Sjolin Knight ruled that he benefited from his crimes by £2,141,720 and ordered that amount to be confiscated from his assets.\n\n\"If he was an adult he would be going inside,\" she said.\n\nShe told the defendant: \"You have a long-standing interest in computers. Unfortunately, you used your skills to commit a sophisticated fraud.\"\n\nA Bitcoin is basically a computer file which is stored in a digital wallet app on a smartphone or computer.\n\nIt could be described as an online version of cash, which you can use to buy products and services, but it is not controlled by the government or banks.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nTen former rugby league players, including ex-Great Britain scrum-half Bobbie Goulding, are claiming the sport has left them with brain damage.\n\nLawyers say the players are all suffering from \"neurological complications\".\n\nAnd they are now planning a legal claim against the Rugby Football League for negligence.\n\nIt follows similar action by rugby union players including England's World Cup winner Steve Thompson.\n\nGoulding, who has recently been diagnosed with early-onset dementia, said there was not enough protection for players who had suffered head injuries.\n\nThe 49-year-old, who won the Super League and Challenge Cup double in 1996 as St Helens captain, said he had played again within days of being knocked unconscious at least three times in his career.\n\nFormer Wales international Michael Edwards, 48, and Scotland internationals Jason Roach, 50, and Ryan MacDonald, 43, are also part of a test group of 10 players, all under the age of 60, bringing the legal action. All three have also been diagnosed with early-onset dementia.\n\nTheir lawyer, Richard Boardman, said he was representing a total of 50 former professional rugby league players in their 20s to 50s, all of whom are showing symptoms associated with neurological complications.\n\nHe is also representing 175 former rugby union players, including Thompson, in a separate lawsuit.\n\nBoardman said the legal claim was not just about financial compensation, but making the game safer and getting tested and diagnosed to undertake urgent clinical support.\n\nHe said there were potentially hundreds of former rugby league players who, as they reached their 40s and 50s, were developing various neurological issues, such as early-onset dementia, CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and motor neurone disease.\n\n\"The vast majority of the former players we represent love the game and don't want to see it harmed in any way,\" Boardman said.\n\n\"They just want to make it safer so current and future generations don't end up like them. We're asking the RFL to make a number of immediate, relatively low-cost changes to save the sport, such as limiting contact in training and extending the return to play following a concussion.\"\n\nGiven the significant risk of serious or permanent brain damage caused by concussions, the former players allege the RFL owed them - as individual professional players - a duty to take reasonable care for their safety.\n\nBoardman added the group also felt the RFL should have established and implemented rules on the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of actual or suspected concussive injuries.\n\nIn a statement the RFL said: \"The Rugby Football League has recently been contacted by solicitors representing a number of former players.\n\n\"The RFL takes player safety and welfare extremely seriously and has been saddened to hear about some of the former players' difficulties.\n\n\"Rugby league is a contact sport and, while there is an element of risk to playing any sport, player welfare is always of paramount importance.\n\n\"As a result of scientific knowledge, the sport of rugby league continues to improve and develop its approach to concussion, head injury assessment, education, management and prevention across the whole game. We will continue to use medical evidence and research to reinforce and enhance our approach.\"\n\n'I didn't have one doctor check on me after knockout'\n\nGoulding played for sides including Wigan, Leeds, Widnes and St Helens as well as earning 17 caps for Great Britain. He played for England five times, including the World Cup final in 1995, and the following year was named in the Super League team of the season.\n\nSince retiring, first in 2005 and then nine years later after a brief comeback with Barrow Raiders, he has spoken about his battles with alcohol and drug addiction.\n\nTalking about his dementia diagnosis, Goulding said: \"For something like this to come out of the blue, and hit me like a bus, is hard to take.\n\n\"I didn't think about dementia at all, I just thought it was the way life was.\n\n\"I played within days of serious knockouts on at least three occasions. I remember playing on a Sunday for Leigh at Huddersfield towards the end of my career [in 2002].\n\n\"I was in Huddersfield Royal Infirmary on the Sunday night after being seriously knocked out and played the following Saturday against Batley. I didn't have one doctor check on me during that week.\"\n\nWhat is CTE & how can it be diagnosed?\n\nMany of the former rugby league players who form part of the legal case have been diagnosed with early-onset dementia and probable CTE.\n\nCTE is the disease discovered by Dr Bennet Omalu in American football player Mike Webster, and the subject of the film Concussion starring Will Smith. In 2011, a group of former American footballers started a class action against the NFL and won a settlement worth about $1bn (£700m).\n\nCTE can develop when the brain is subjected to numerous small blows or rapid movements - sometimes known as sub-concussions - and is associated with symptoms such as memory loss, depression and progressive dementia.\n\nThe disease can only be diagnosed in a brain after death.\n\nIt has been found in the brains of dozens of former NFL players, as well as a handful of deceased footballers, including former West Bromwich Albion and England striker Jeff Astle. A re-examination of his brain in 2014 found he had died from CTE.\n\nThe issue of concussion in sport has been debated extensively over the past few years and the links between heading a football and degenerative brain disease have even forced rule changes at youth level.\n\nIn England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, children aged 11 and under are no longer allowed to head a ball in training, while there are also limits to heading frequency at higher age group levels.\n\nAt senior level, former professionals have called for more research and better player welfare after the death of England World Cup winner Nobby Stiles a year ago, and news that his 1966 team-mate and Manchester United legend Sir Bobby Charlton is also suffering from the disease.\n\nMore information about dementia and details of organisations that can help can be found here.", "Politics Live presenter Jo Coburn has a quick guide to some of the key announcements from the chancellor in his Budget.\n\nPMQs and Sunak to unveil spending plans in Budget for 'new age'", "Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said the weapon used was functional\n\nCriminal charges may still be filed over last week's fatal shooting on a film set in New Mexico, US police say.\n\nActor Alec Baldwin accidentally shot dead cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded a director on the set of the Western film Rust.\n\nInvestigators said a \"lead projectile\" had been removed from the director's shoulder, and that it appeared to be a live round.\n\nThey said there was \"some complacency\" around safety on the set.\n\n\"All options are on the table,\" District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said of any potential charges. \"No one has been ruled out at this point.\"\n\nPresenting the department's initial findings, Sante Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said: \"We suspect there were other live rounds found on set.\"\n\n\"We're going to determine how those got there, why they were there, because they shouldn't have been there,\" he added.\n\nHe said police had recovered 600 pieces of evidence so far - including three firearms and 500 rounds of ammunition.\n\nSheriff Mendoza also said the projectile removed from Joel Souza's shoulder had been handed over as evidence.\n\n\"I think the facts are clear - a weapon was handed to Mr Baldwin. The weapon [was] functional and fired a live round killing Ms Hutchins and injuring Mr Souza,\" he said about the killing.\n\nThe sheriff told reporters there had been up to 100 people on the set of the film when the shooting happened on Thursday.\n\nHe also confirmed that two other people had handled the gun, an antique Colt .45 revolver, before it was given to Mr Baldwin - the film's armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed and assistant director Dave Halls.\n\nSanta Fe County Sheriff's office say Actor Alec Baldwin is cooperating with the investigation\n\nMr Halls told investigators he had failed to check all the rounds in the gun before handing it over, according to a court document made public on Wednesday.\n\nHe reportedly called out \"cold gun\" as he gave it to Mr Baldwin, meaning he believed it to be safe.\n\nMs Gutierrez-Reed, meanwhile, told investigators that guns had been safely secured shortly before the shooting but ammunition had not been. She said guns were usually kept in a safe that only a few people had access to.\n\n\"We're going to try to determine exactly how [this] happened and if they should have known that there was a live round in that firearm,\" Sheriff Mendoza said.\n\nMr Baldwin and the film's producers have hired a private law firm to conduct an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the shooting, according to the Reuters news agency.\n\nSeveral legal experts, however, have said it is unlikely that criminal charges will be filed against Mr Baldwin.\n\nThe actor, known for his work on shows like 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live, is named as both an actor and producer on Rust. He is co-operating with investigators and has expressed his shock over what he described as a \"tragic accident\".\n\nThe incident has sparked debate about safety regulations on Hollywood sets and the use of prop guns on productions.\n\n\"Obviously I think the industry has had a record recently of being safe,\" Sheriff Mendoza told reporters. \"[But] I think there are some safety issues that need to be addressed by the industry and possibly by the state of New Mexico.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First responders and others react to Rust set death", "Ballas has been Strictly's head judge since 2017\n\nStrictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas has thanked the BBC One show's viewers for helping her discover \"concerning\" symptoms in her body.\n\nThe TV star said several viewers had got in touch to say they thought they had spotted a lump under her arm.\n\nShe said she sought medical advice and has discovered her hormone levels are \"not right\" and she needs some scans.\n\n\"All in all a little concerning for my doctor,\" she said, adding that she had made a hospital appointment.\n\nMotsi Mabuse (second from left) was among those to send words of support\n\nShe wrote on Instagram that her doctor was \"making an appointment to check certain odd things happening in my body\".\n\nShe added: \"I'll keep you all updated each and every one of you. Remember health is wealth so I'll be on top of these issues for the time being.\"\n\nThe former ballroom champion expressed gratitude \"to each and every one of you who started me on this road\".\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 shirleyballas This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an accompanying video message, the 61-year-old said tests had shown her testosterone levels to be \"ultra-high\", her oestrogen levels \"extremely low\", and that she needs scans on her adrenal glands and ovaries.\n\nThe Strictly regular has spoken openly in the past about her family's history with breast cancer and had surgery to have breast implants removed in 2019.\n\nFellow judge Motsi Mabuse was among those to send messages of support, telling Ballas to \"take care of yourself\".\n\nCo-host Tess Daly said she was \"sending love\", sentiments echoed by several other Strictly dancers and celebrity contestants.\n\nBallas and Mabuse will be seen again on Saturday's Halloween special alongside co-panellists Craig Revel Horwood and Anton Du Beke.\n\nThis is not the first time eagle-eyed viewers have made observations about on-screen stars that have led to medical treatment.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The TV stars 'saved' by their viewers", "A man who hated Muslims and idolised right-wing mass murderers has been convicted of terrorism charges after a two-week trial.\n\nSam Imrie, 24, was arrested in July 2019 after he posted messages on social media saying he was planning to set fire to the Fife Islamic Centre.\n\nImrie was convicted on two charges of breaching the terrorism act.\n\nHe was also convicted of wilful fire raising, possessing child and \"extreme\" pornography and drink-driving.\n\nImrie, who was remanded in custody, was told that judge Lord Mulholland needed a background report before he could be sentenced.\n\nBut the judge also warned Imrie: \"You will not be surprised to know that you will be receiving a sentence of some length.\"\n\nDuring the trial, the High Court in Edinburgh was told that Imrie, from Glenrothes, left school at 14 and had developed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after being assaulted.\n\nHe became \"steeped\" in right-wing ideology and started to \"hate\" Muslims after looking at extremist content on websites such as 8Chan and messaging app Telegram.\n\nImrie posted online: \"All my heroes are mass murderers.\"\n\nHe was said to have \"glorified\" the activities of Anders Breivik - the terrorist who slaughtered 77 people in Norway in 2011.\n\nHe also studied the exploits of the far right activist who slaughtered Muslims praying at their mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March 2019.\n\nThe 24-year-old was said to have wanted Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon \"to die\" because of her attitudes to immigration.\n\nHis arrest came after the Metropolitan Police in London infiltrated the \"FashWave Artists\" group on Telegram, on which Imrie posted messages, images, videos and gifs.\n\nThe 24-year-old threatened to target the Fife Islamic Centre in Glenrothes\n\nThey contacted Police Scotland and Imrie was taken into custody in early July 2019.\n\nOfficers carried out a forensic search of his property, where they recovered weapons including an axe, a hammer, a rife scope and two knives.\n\nImrie had posted a comment about how he was thinking about carrying out an attack and was considering streaming it.\n\nIn one posting he wrote: \"No guns. All I can do is burn them down.\"\n\nDefence solicitor advocate Jim Keegan QC said Imrie visited the Islamic Centre in Glenrothes on 4 July 2019 in broad daylight but did not do anything.\n\nInstead, his client went to the dilapidated Strathmore Lodge, in Thornton, Fife, and set fire to a doorway. He filmed it and claimed to the group it was a mosque or Islamic centre.\n\nMr Keegan added: \"The effect on his audience was that they ridiculed him.\n\nImrie said his comments were a joke and he was not serious about setting a mosque on fire.\n\nThe jury were shown pictures of the damage caused by the fire\n\nOn Wednesday, Imrie was convicted of a terrorism charge of making statements on Telegram and Facebook which encouraged acts of terrorism.\n\nA second charge stated Imrie made a \"record of information\" which would be useful to somebody who was committing acts of terrorism.\n\nHe was acquitted of a terrorism charge which stated that he engaged in conduct in \"preparation\" of terrorism acts.\n\nAfter his arrest, his mum Joyce told police: \"I would describe him as a loner who rarely leaves his room. He has no friends that I know of and he has no visitors to the house. He has never had a girlfriend that I know of.\"\n\nPolice also confiscated a USB stick from Imrie. The images contained \"extreme\" pornographic images of dead women being subjected to sexual acts.\n\nImrie is expected to be sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow on 24 November.", "Conservative MPs were mostly mask-free on Tuesday\n\nFace coverings have been made mandatory for everyone working in the House of Commons except MPs.\n\nIn updated guidance, the Commons authorities said all staff, visitors, contractors and press must cover their faces to combat the spread of Covid.\n\nBut it remains up to individual MPs to decide whether to follow suit - and many Conservatives have chosen not to.\n\nSajid Javid has said he will wear a mask for Wednesday's Budget when the chamber will be packed.\n\nBut the health secretary said on Monday it was a \"personal decision\" for ministers and backbenchers as to whether they did too.\n\nMPs are not employed by the Commons authorities and cannot be forced to wear masks.\n\nThey have been encouraged to do so by Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle - but unions representing Parliamentary workers have urged him to take a tougher line.\n\nMost opposition parties, including Labour, the Lib Dems and the SNP have decided to cover their faces during debates.\n\nBut Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg last week said Conservatives did not need to do so because they knew each other well, and this meant they were complying with government guidance.\n\nAnd he claimed Labour MPs only wore masks when the television cameras were around.\n\nThe latest official guidance says people in England should cover their faces around \"people you don't normally meet\".\n\nIt comes as the World Health Organisation (WHO) urged MPs to wear masks during Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget speech, when there is likely to be standing room only in the Commons chamber.\n\nDr David Nabarro, the WHO's special envoy for Covid-19, told Sky News that \"everybody\" should be wearing masks in close confinement with other people, \"including our leaders\".\n\n\"This virus, it is absolutely unstoppable, it gets everywhere, and so we have to do everything we possibly can to stop it.\n\n\"And one of the best ways to stop it is a well-fitting surgical mask properly over your face, pushed in over your nose, covering everything, and that reduces the risk to others and the risk to you.\n\n\"If it works, why on earth don't people use it? It's not a party political issue - this virus doesn't vote.\"\n\nGarry Graham, deputy general secretary of the union Prospect, said the public looked to MPs to set an example.\n\n\"It's welcome that House authorities are finally catching on to what unions have been saying, that it's too early to relax. But we're still left in the ludicrous situation where MPs do as they please on masks while everyone else does the right thing,\" he said.\n\n\"Continuously changing an already inconsistent message is a recipe for non-compliance and increased risk to everyone.\"", "One opinion poll suggests most Poles think the government should either concede or compromise\n\nThe EU's top court has told Poland to pay a daily fine of €1m (£850,000) in a row over judicial reforms.\n\nEarlier this year, Poland was ordered to suspend a controversial disciplinary chamber, but has not yet done so.\n\nIt is the latest development in a bitter feud with the EU over changes that are seen as weakening the independence of Polish courts.\n\nThe hefty penalty was immediately denounced as \"blackmail\" by Polish government spokesman Piotr Muller.\n\nSome fear the escalating situation could put Poland's membership in the EU at risk.\n\nEarlier this month, Poland's constitutional court ruled that Polish law supersedes EU law when there is a conflict between the two - angering European leaders by, in effect, rejecting the primacy of EU law.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said it was a \"direct challenge to the unity of the European legal order\".\n\nThe disciplinary chamber of Poland's Supreme Court was set up in 2018 to penalise top judges where necessary - the government said it was needed to fight corruption. But critics argue it is being used to punish independent judges because it has the power to sanction the content of their rulings.\n\nIn July, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ordered it to be shut down as it was neither sufficiently independent nor impartial. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Brussels was making demands with a \"gun to our head\" and insisted that EU institutions have no right to tell Poland how to organise its judiciary. He did agree to dismantle the chamber, however, but never gave a date.\n\nBBC Warsaw correspondent Adam Easton says the Supreme Court has stopped scheduling new cases for the chamber, but it has continued hearing cases that are already scheduled.\n\nOne significant factor in the row is that the European Commission is yet to approve €57bn (£48bn; $66bn) of Covid-19 recovery funds earmarked for Poland, and may not do so until this dispute is settled.\n\nAn opinion poll on Tuesday suggested that 40.8% of Poles believed their government should concede defeat and end the row, while another 32.5% said it should compromise.\n\nThe ECJ's ruling on Wednesday stated that the fine of €1m a day would have to be paid until Poland either suspended the chamber or until the final ruling on its future.\n\nThe vice-president said the fine was being imposed to deter Poland from further delaying the shut down of the chamber and said it was necessary to \"avoid serious and irreparable harm to the legal order of the European Union\".\n\nPoland's Deputy Justice Minister Sebastian Kaleta said the ruling \"completely disregards and ignores the Polish constitution and the rulings of the Polish constitutional tribunal\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says she is \"deeply concerned\" about Poland's court ruling\n\nPoland's leader told the European Parliament this month it was \"unacceptable to talk about financial penalties\" and he accused the EU of overstepping its powers.\n\nHis conservative-nationalist government has already been ordered by the ECJ to pay €500,000 a day for failing to shut down temporarily the enormous Turow coal mine and power plant close to the German and Czech borders. Poland has refused to pay that fine because it argues the plant heats and provides water to local homes.", "Lawyers for the US have told the High Court the judge who blocked Julian Assange's extradition was misled by his psychiatrist.\n\nThe United States government is starting a legal appeal to try to get the Wikileaks founder extradited.\n\nIn January, a court ruled Mr Assange could not be extradited to the US due to concerns over his mental health.\n\nMr Assange is wanted over the publication of thousands of classified documents in 2010 and 2011.\n\nThe documents revealed how the US military had killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents during the war in Afghanistan, while leaked Iraq war files showed the 66,000 civilians had been killed and prisoners tortured by Iraqi forces.\n\nThe US says the leaks broke the law and endangered lives, but Mr Assange says the case is politically motivated.\n\nHis lawyer told the court that the risk of suicide would be \"imminent the moment extradition becomes likely\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: From 'teenage hacker' to fighting US extradition - the Julian Assange story\n\nIn January, the district judge overseeing the US's extradition appeal, Vanessa Baraitser, said Mr Assange's publication of classified military and government documents arguably amounted to a crime. But he could not be transferred to the US because he was unwell and could take his own life.\n\nOn Wednesday, James Lewis QC, representing the US, told the Lord Chief Justice and Lord Justice Holroyde that conclusion was wrong.\n\nHe said Mr Assange's psychiatrist had misled the earlier judge and the US had not been given an opportunity to answer her concerns.\n\nMr Assange, 50, is wanted in the US on allegations of a conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information following Wikileaks' publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.\n\nThe publications include the release in April 2010 of footage showing US soldiers shooting and killing civilians from a helicopter in Iraq.\n\nJulian Assange's father made his way past a crowd of his son's supporters on his way into court\n\nMr Assange has been in Belmarsh Prison since 2019, when he was carried out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London by police and arrested for breaching his bail conditions.\n\nHe had been in the embassy since 2012, avoiding extradition to Sweden, where he faced sex offence allegations. He has always denied those and they were eventually dropped.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, Mr Assange's legal team initially told judges he would not attend because he was not well. He later attended via a video link from prison.\n\nUS lawyers said it had now given four binding assurances as to how Mr Assange would be treated:\n\nMr Lewis said the assurances were binding on the United States.\n\nHe said the previous judge's approach \"carries with it the risk of rewarding fugitives for their flight, and of creating an anomaly between the approach of the courts in domestic criminal proceedings, and in extradition\".\n\nMr Lewis said that Mr Assange's psychiatrist, Prof Michael Kopelman, had misled the court about Mr Assange's psychiatric state by concealing his relationship with his partner, Stella Moris, and that they had two children together.\n\nThe lawyer for the US argued this meant the judge could not consider the true risks of Mr Assange taking his own life, because the need to protect children can be a factor that discourages people from suicide.\n\nHe also said that during cross-examination, Prof Kopelman would not accept that Mr Assange could be safe in the US - even if he received a short sentence and reasonable time with other inmates.\n\nMr Assange appeared by video link from Belmarsh Prison, where he has been held since 2019\n\nMr Lewis called psychiatrist Prof Seena Fazel from the University of Oxford, who said he did not share the defence's view that Mr Assange would certainly take his own life in the US.\n\nMr Assange's lawyer, Edward Fitzgerald QC, said the risk of suicide is \"not something in the future - it is something imminent the moment that extradition becomes likely\".\n\nHe said Parliament had given district judges the power to protect \"mentally disordered\" people from extradition to countries where the UK has no control over their treatment.\n\nHe said that in January, the judge took the evidence fully into account and relied on the fact Mr Assange would be isolated and deprived of the protections he had in Belmarsh.\n\nThe US assurances were \"caveated, vague or simply ineffective\", he said, calling the suggestion that he could be detained in Australia \"meaningless\", as the country has not said it would accept him.\n\nSupporters, family members and friends of Mr Assange outside court expressed their \"outrage\" after he did not attend his hearing in person.\n\nThey said they were concerned he was thin, he was not there to instruct his lawyers or clarify what was going on in court.\n\nThe High Court hearing is expected to end on Thursday with a decision at a later date.", "People in Australia will no longer need an exemption to travel overseas\n\nAustralia has confirmed it will lift a ban next week that has prevented its own citizens travelling overseas without permission.\n\nAustralians have spent 19 months under some of the world's strictest border rules, in an effort to keep out Covid.\n\nFrom 1 November people will no longer need an exemption to leave the country - provided they are fully vaccinated.\n\nOnly Australians are eligible but some rules for foreigners will be relaxed soon, the government said.\n\n\"Before the end of the year, we anticipate welcoming fully vaccinated skilled workers and international students,\" Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews said in a statement.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison had foreshadowed the reopening of Australia's border, saying it was \"time to give Australians their lives back\".\n\nThe changes have been met with delight by Australians and others globally. Many have spent long periods separated from loved ones.\n\n\"But I'll believe the borders have reopened when I see it and hear the stories of stranded Aussies being able to get home uninhibited,\" Amy Hayes, who lives in England, told the BBC earlier this month.\n\nA surge in vaccinations has allowed some Australian states to end their strategy of eliminating all cases.\n\nMr Morrison has said Australia is \"very close\" to agreeing to a travel bubble with Singapore. On Tuesday the Asian city-state said it would allow fully vaccinated Australians, permanent residents and their families to enter without quarantine from 8 November.\n\nBut states such as Queensland and Western Australia have threatened to keep their borders closed until vaccine rates are even higher.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This family made it back to Australia but was initially banned from seeing their dying parent in Queensland\n\nAt present, people can leave Australia - which has recorded more than 160,000 Covid infections and 1,653 deaths - only for exceptional reasons such as essential work or visiting a dying relative.\n\nEntry is permitted for citizens and others with exemptions, but there are tight caps on arrival numbers. This has left tens of thousands stranded overseas.\n\nAustralians under 12 will be exempt from the new vaccination requirement for travel.\n\nAll other unvaccinated travellers still need exemptions and must quarantine for 14 days in hotels on return.", "Rishi Sunak portrays himself as a light touch Tory - who doesn't like heavy taxes, who doesn't like big government.\n\nBut he's not using the fading of the pandemic emergency to call time on hefty spending.\n\nNor is the chancellor seizing a moment to argue for a leaner state.\n\nInstead, his plans increase spending everywhere, in a Budget that on first examination has something for everyone.\n\nMr Sunak even chose to emphasise how he's restoring spending in some areas to levels not seen since Labour was in charge; less keen to remind you that they were cut back by successive administrations made up of his Tory colleagues.\n\nDespite dangling the promise of tax cuts by 2024, the Budget seems to confirm the political conclusions of Mr Sunak and Boris Johnson - vows to shrink the state are not going to win them the next election.\n\nBut with the threat of inflation, higher taxes and puny, if better growth, the seeming largesse may not be toasted by the public in the months to come, even if they could so with cheaper cider or prosecco.", "The row began after the UK and Jersey rejected dozens of licences for French boats to fish in their waters\n\nThe UK has said threats to block British boats from French ports in a dispute over fishing rights are a breach of international law and trade agreements.\n\nFrance said if there is no agreement by 2 November it will also tighten checks on UK boats and trucks, and could target Channel Island energy supplies.\n\nBrexit Minister Lord Frost said the stance was \"disappointing\".\n\nHe said the UK was seeking \"urgent clarification\" of France's plans.\n\nFrance was angered by a decision from the UK and Jersey last month to deny fishing licences to dozens of French boats, and argued that it breached the Brexit deal.\n\nOn Wednesday it issued its ultimatum, saying it would begin to impose \"targeted measures\" from Tuesday of next week, including:\n\nFrance said it was also preparing further sanctions, which could include cutting electricity supplies to Jersey, as it previously threatened in May.\n\n\"The French state will continue to support its fisheries industry,\" the government said, adding that it expects answers from the UK \"in the next few days\".\n\nOn Wednesday French maritime minister Annick Girardin tweeted that two English ships had been fined during checks off Le Havre.\n\nShe said the first did not comply \"spontaneously\" while the second, which did not have a licence to fish in French waters, was diverted to the quayside and \"handed over to the judicial authority\".\n\nSpeaking before the news of the two vessels being stopped, Brexit minister Lord Frost said: \"It is very disappointing that France has felt it necessary to make threats late this evening against the UK fishing industry and seemingly traders more broadly.\n\n\"As we have had no formal communication from the French government on this matter we will be seeking urgent clarification of their plans. We will consider what further action is necessary in that light.\"\n\nDowning Street said the \"disappointing and disproportionate\" threat of sanctions was \"not what we would expect from a close ally and partner\".\n\n\"The measures being threatened do not appear to be compatible with the Trade and Co-operation Agreement and wider international law, and, if carried through, will be met with an appropriate and calibrated response,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nShe said that the UK will raise concerns with both the EU and French government, arguing that it had granted 98% of licence applications from European boats.\n\nThe UK maintains the rejected applications which sparked the row did not have enough supporting evidence to show they had a history of fishing in Britain's or Jersey's waters.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has set out changes to universal credit he says will give low income families an extra £1,000 a year.\n\nIn an upbeat Budget speech, he said the UK economy had not been hit as hard by the Covid pandemic as expected.\n\nHe promised more money for schools, business rate cuts and took 3p off the price of a pint of beer.\n\nLabour said his universal credit measure would not make up for axing the £20-a-week top-up to the benefit.\n\nThe chancellor painted a positive picture of the health of the UK economy as it emerges from the pandemic, in his autumn statement to a packed House of Commons.\n\n\"Employment is up. Investment is growing. Public services are improving. The public finances are stabilising. And wages are rising,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"Today's Budget delivers a stronger economy for the British people: stronger growth, with the UK recovering faster than our major competitors.\"\n\nHe said unemployment had not hit the levels feared at the height of the pandemic - but inflation was set to rise further, from 3.1% to 4% over the next year.\n\nMuch of his Budget had been pre-announced, including an end to the public sector pay freeze and an increase to the National Living Wage from £8.91 per hour to £9.50.\n\nBut Paul Johnson, of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, told BBC News the \"almost non-existent\" increase in living standards predicted over the next five years was a \"big blow\" to families.\n\nHousehold disposable income is set to rise by 0.8% per year, according to Office for Budget Responsibility figures.\n\nEconomic growth is forecast to rise to 6.3% next year - higher than previously predicted - but it will then slow to 1.3% by 2023.\n\nThe teetotal chancellor also announced plans to \"radically simplify\" alcohol tax, so that it was based purely on the strength of the drink.\n\nTaxes on sparkling wine, draught beer and cider are to be cut, but will rise for stronger drinks such as red wine and \"white ciders\", from 2023.\n\nHe also announced that the planned increase in duty on spirits, wine, cider and beer due to take effect from midnight on Wednesday has been cancelled.\n\nAnd he scrapped next year's planned increase in business rates in England and promised more frequent revaluations, and tax breaks for firms that make improvements to their properties, from 2023.\n\nIn further moves to boost the leisure industry as it emerges from the pandemic, he announced a 50% business rate discount for pubs, cinemas, restaurants, gyms and other venues.\n\nRishi Sunak portrays himself as a light touch Tory - who doesn't like heavy taxes, who doesn't like big government.\n\nBut he's not using the fading of the pandemic emergency to call time on hefty spending.\n\nNor is the chancellor seizing a moment to argue for a leaner state.\n\nInstead, his plans increase spending everywhere, in a Budget that on first examination has something for everyone.\n\nMr Sunak even chose to emphasise how he's restoring spending in some areas to levels not seen since Labour was in charge; less keen to remind you that they were cut back by successive administrations made up of his Tory colleagues.\n\nDespite dangling the promise of tax cuts by 2024, the Budget seems to confirm the political conclusions of Mr Sunak and Boris Johnson - vows to shrink the state are not going to win them the next election.\n\nBut with the threat of inflation, higher taxes and puny, if better growth, the seeming largesse may not be toasted by the public in the months to come, even if they could so with cheaper cider or prosecco.\n\nThe chancellor waited until the end of his 70 minute speech to announce changes to universal credit, which come after a widely condemned £20-a-week cut to the benefit earlier this month.\n\nThe universal credit \"taper\" will be cut, so that instead of losing 63p of benefit for every £1 earned above the work allowance, the amount will be reduced to 55p.\n\nThe amount people can earn before starting to lose the benefit will also increase by £500 a year. The new rate will be introduced by 1 December, he told MPs.\n\n\"This is a tax cut next year worth over £2bn,\" said the chancellor.\n\n\"Nearly two million families will keep, on average, an extra £1,000 a year.\"\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said Labour welcomed the move but it would not make up for the £6bn cut from universal credit earlier this month, which affected five million families.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel Reeves says some families and businesses will not recognise the UK described by the chancellor in his Budget\n\n\"Even after this reduction, working people on universal credit still face a higher marginal tax rate than the prime minister. And those unable to work - through no fault of their own - still face losing over £1,000 a year,\" she said.\n\nThe opposition leader normally responds to the chancellor's Budget speech, but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is self-isolating after testing positive for Covid.\n\nMs Reeves, who was drafted in to replace him at the last minute, said Mr Sunak had \"no coherent plan\" to deal with cost of living crisis facing many families, with rising energy bills, food prices and tax increases.\n\nShe told MPs Mr Sunak was a chancellor that \"gives with one hand but takes so much more with the other\".\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster, Iain Blackford, branded the chancellor's planned cut to domestic air passenger duty a \"disgrace\", asking what kind of message it sent to the world on the eve of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats said cutting bank taxes would cost the Treasury more than £3.8bn over the next four years, compared with £1.8bn extra to help school pupils catch up.\n\n\"He is offering a measly pound a day of extra catch up funding for each child, six times less than the tax cut being offered to the Conservatives' banker buddies,\" said leader Sir Ed Davey.", "The body was found in the Whitesides Hill area of Portadown\n\nA murder investigation has been launched following the discovery of a man's body in Portadown, County Armagh.\n\nThe man, named locally as Stephen Barriskill, was found at a house in the Whitesides Hill area of Portadown just after 12:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nPolice said the investigation was at an early stage, and have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.\n\nIt is understood the victim had lived in the area for some time and was well known.\n\nLocal residents are \"bewildered\" by the murder, according to councillor Lavelle McIlwrath from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).\n\n\"They can't believe that something like this has happened in this locality. It's a quiet, rural farming community,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a lovely area and they're shocked at the news today.\"\n\nThe house was sealed off as forensics officers carried out an examination\n\nUpper Bann Assembly member Dolores Kelly, from the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), expressed her sympathy.\n\n\"My thoughts go out to the family and friends of the man who was found dead today and to the community in Whitesides Hill who will be shocked that this has happened within their community,\" she said.", "Firefighters, pictured at a Grenfell anniversary event, say building owners must plan for evacuations\n\nThere was an \"unjustified reliance\" on firefighters to evacuate Grenfell Tower on the night of the fatal fire, a union has told the inquiry into the disaster.\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union said building owners and managers should draw up evacuation plans to prevent future catastrophes.\n\nUnion lawyer Martin Seaward said there was a \"near total failure\" of fire safety measures at Grenfell Tower.\n\nThe June 2017 disaster at the west London tower block killed 72 people.\n\nThe comments came on the final day of closing statements in a section of the inquiry focusing on the fire safety measures in the building, its management, risk assessment and the communication with residents.\n\nMr Seaward criticised the approach to fire safety taken by the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO).\n\nHe told the inquiry on Tuesday the \"hazardous rainscreen cladding system\" should have been identified as a risk and removed by April 2016.\n\n\"Additionally, the near total failure of all the active and passive fire safety measures allowed the rapid deterioration of conditions inside the tower, which grossly impeded the firefighters' operations, including search and rescue,\" Mr Seaward said.\n\nThe fire in Grenfell Tower broke out in June 2017, killing 72 people\n\nMr Seaward added if the fire risk management system from the tenant management organisation had worked \"most, if not all\" of the people who died would have been saved.\n\nThe lawyer argued to the inquiry the safety plans were characterised by an \"unjustified reliance\" on the London Fire Brigade to evacuate residents, \"including those especially at risk in the event of fire in Grenfell tower\".\n\nMr Seaward said: \"Of course, the fire and rescue service will attend and do its best at any fire or other emergency, but fire safety depends on everyone doing their bit.\n\n\"That very much includes responsible persons developing and practising building-specific evacuation plans for residents, including personal emergency evacuation plans for those especially at risk, in the same way that employers do in office blocks or factories.\"\n\nAnne Studd QC, representing London Mayor Sadiq Khan, told the inquiry the tenant management organisation did \"very little\" to see if Grenfell was suitable for the stay put strategy in its fire assessments and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council (RBKC) had limited oversight of them.\n\n\"The evidence before you, Mr Chairman, has demonstrated a culture of failings in transparency and candour by the KCTMO, which, coupled with a lack of intrusion from RBKC, was a toxic combination,\" she said.\n\nJames Maxwell-Scott QC, representing the council, told the inquiry it \"apologised unreservedly\" again for council failings before the disaster.\n\nThe failings included the number of council officers devoted to monitoring the KCTMO being \"insufficient\" and its housing commissioning team not making enough use of the corporate health and safety team's expertise to \"prevent issues falling between the gaps,\" he said.\n\nThe lawyer added the KCTMO was an independent, managing agent of Grenfell Tower which was at an \"arm's length\" from the council, which was the building's landlord.\n\n\"The council fully admits that it retained some control over the tower, and therefore continued to have some responsibilities for it under the Fire Safety Order. But those responsibilities are better described as residual ones than shared primary ones,\" he told the inquiry.", "The price of a pint of beer will have to rise by as much as 30p to help pay for higher wages and energy costs, one pub company has warned.\n\nAs the government prepares to unveil its Budget, City Pub Group said price rises were \"the only way forward\".\n\nOn Monday, the government said the National Living Wage would rise to £9.50 per hour in April for those over 23 years old.\n\nClive Watson, the chain's boss, said this would cost it about £1m a year.\n\nOther pub owners echoed Mr Watson's warning, with industry bodies calling for help for the sector.\n\nEmma McClarkin, chief executive of the British Beer & Pub Association, said that while increases to the minimum wage and the minimum living rate would be \"welcomed\" by many staff in pubs, it was a further cost increase for pubs who were \"still struggling to recover and face an uncertain future\".\n\n\"It makes beer duty, business rates and VAT cuts in the Budget on Wednesday all the more important for the viability of our sector,\" she added.\n\nWetherspoons, however, has announced it will cut drink prices next month on a range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.\n\nBecks bottles and whisky measures will be sold for 99p at some branches. Wetherspoons said prices will be reduced at all of its almost 900 pubs but the discounts will vary.\n\nIn October, JD Wetherspoon reported a record annual loss after Covid lockdowns saw its pubs shut for 19 weeks.\n\nThe firm was also recently affected by a shortage of some beer brands, caused by driver shortages due to a combination of Covid and Brexit.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak's latest Budget, to be delivered later, comes as the pub trade is still recovering from lockdown measures imposed during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCity Pub Group weathered the financial storm thanks to government assistance, putting 99% of its staff on furlough during the pandemic.\n\n\"That's basically kept the industry on life support, but we're coming off life support now and we need to be able to have a road to recovery,\" Mr Watson told the BBC.\n\nLast month, the group, which owns 45 pubs, reported that sales had been above 90% of pre-pandemic levels since Covid restrictions were eased in May.\n\nBut now it faces further challenges - not just minimum wage rises, but also higher energy and food costs, as well as employers' national insurance contributions going up next April.\n\nThe price of beer \"would probably have to go up by 25 to 30p a pint\" to take account of all that, Mr Watson said.\n\n\"We want to do our bit - it's very important, but at the same time we don't want everything going up the whole time, because all that will do is stoke inflation,\" he added.\n\nUK inflation is expected to rise above 4% by the end of this year.\n\nWhile Mr Watson said increases to the minimum wage were a \"good idea\", he warned that those increases could be \"gobbled up by other inflationary pressures\".\n\nHe said a more effective measure would be for the government to cut VAT as a way of reducing the cost of living.\n\nThe hospitality industry currently benefits from a reduced VAT rate of 12.5%, but that is due to revert to 20% in April.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of the trade group UK Hospitality, said the VAT tax rise would be \"unsustainable\" and mean that businesses would have \"no option\" but to pass the cost on to customers.\n\n\"We are facing into considerable headwinds with a bubble of inflationary pressures coming through the supply chain, as well as wage rate inflation,\" she added.\n\nMartin Greenhow said wage increases would cost his business thousands\n\nMartin Greenhow, managing director at Mojo, a chain of six pubs in the north of England, said supply chain costs were \"certainly putting pressure\" on the business.\n\n\"If costs go up, prices go up, it's fairly inevitable,\" he said.\n\nAll of the 89 staff the firm employs are currently on or above the National Living Wage.\n\n\"The coming increase will of course affect everyone, as those above it will also expect to see a pro-rata increment which will cost the business thousands,\" he explained.\n\nMr Greenhow said that these staffing and supply costs would \"inevitably be passed on to the consumer\".\n\n\"Furlough and grants helped us survive, but essentially our survival was achieved by huge borrowings, which represent another cost to the business and therefore another inflationary driver.\"\n\nThe Cock in Ringmer is one of Ian Ridley's pubs\n\nIan Ridley runs three pubs and the majority of his 50 staff earn the National Living Wage.\n\n\"Something's got to give, we cannot absorb these cost pressures,\" he explained.\n\nAlthough he has not worked through the cost projections for next year yet, Mr Ridley estimates the price of a pint could rise by 20p.\n\n\"When we're trying to encourage customers to come back and we're compete with supermarkets on booze, higher prices are not going to help us,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe wage increases will mean an estimated £20,000 of extra costs, in addition to higher food, transport and brewery bills.\n\nRising energy costs are causing concern and Mr Ridley said the VAT hike in April and business tax rates were another \"huge worry\".", "The river was level with the pedestrian bridge in Cockermouth\n\nRain has continued to fall overnight in Cumbria after about 40 properties were flooded and road and rail travel were hit on Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow warning, meaning some disruption is possible, and the Environment Agency has nine flood warnings in place.\n\nOn Thursday Honister Pass saw over 30cm (12in) of rain in a 24-hour period.\n\nMotorists are warned that some roads are only passable with extreme care, and asked only to travel if necessary.\n\nTrain operators are asking people to avoid travelling on the West Coast Main Line and Cumbria Coastal routes, and there is no service between Barrow and Carlisle until the line has been inspected.\n\nOn Thursday a number of roads, including the A591 between Rydal and Grasmere and the A592 Patterdale Road, were flooded.\n\nKarl Melville, the senior manager at the county council's highways team, said work had been going on all night to try to re-open as many roads as possible.\n\nHe said: \"We have made some good progress [and] a lot of the roads that were closed are now passable with care.\n\n\"But obviously this does not take away the very clear advice of if you don't need to travel then don't travel.\"\n\nThe A592 was blocked by a number of vehicles at Windermere School on Thursday\n\nThe Environment Agency said 1,200 properties had been protected from flooding by its officers shutting flood gates and removing debris and blockages from grilles and watercourses.\n\n\"Surface water and river flooding could still bring disruption to further communities,\" he warned.\n\nMountain rescue volunteers brought two holidaymakers and their dog to safety\n\nTwo holiday makers and their dog had to be rescued from their accommodation at Southwaite Mill by the Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team.\n\nWith water chest high in places, volunteers brought them to safety in a raft.\n\nCockermouth and District Chamber of Trade chairman Andrew Marshall said huge insurance policy excesses introduced after the floods of 2009 and 2015 meant 90% of businesses would have to pay for any repairs themselves.\n\n\"Ever since then it's been nigh on impossible to get insurance,\" he said.\n\n\"If we get flooded this time we've got to pay for the rebuild and everything, which goes into hundreds of thousands.\"\n\nInsurers have imposed excesses of up to £50,000 for business flooding claims in the area, Mr Marshall said.\n\nAfter previous floods caused widespread damage to properties the government introduced a scheme to help residents get insurance \"but it wasn't extended to business\", he said.\n\nConiston Boating Centre is normally not in the lake\n\nGillian Jackson owns holiday lets in Cockermouth, some of which have flooded.\n\n\"We've been through this before so it's just get up, get on with it,\" she said.\n\n\"Yes, it's upsetting but we've kind of got a bit hardened to it, got used to it, and we've just got to crack on and sort it out.\"\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, staff at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant were advised to speak to their bosses about returning home if possible, after checking road conditions.\n\nIn a message to employees, the company warned detours would be needed around road closures on the A595 at Duddon Bridge, Santon Bridge and Holmrook and that Millom was reported to be unreachable by road.\n\n\"Shift co-ordinators will maintain minimum safety manning levels in plants but others should head home once clarified with their line managers,\" it said.\n\nThe pitch at Keswick Rugby Club was swamped\n\nThere was also flood damage to the clubhouse\n\nNine flood warnings (where flooding is expected) and 15 flood alerts (where it is possible) were in place on Friday morning.\n\nIn the 24 hours to 03:00 on Thursday Honister Pass saw 307.4mm (1ft) of rain, according to the Environment Agency.\n\nThe River Rothay was among those that burst their banks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTranspennine Express has advised people not to travel on the West Coast Main Line unless essential and has lifted ticket restrictions until the weekend.\n\nPhil James from Network Rail told BBC Radio Cumbria on Thursday that the heavy rain was \"widespread\" so it was \"likely to affect many rail routes over the next few days\" and urged people to check National Rail Enquiries for travel details.\n\nHope Park in Keswick was hit, leaving the statue of Max the Miracle Dog stranded\n\nRichard Warren from the Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association warned people not to go fell walking during the current conditions.\n\nHe said: \"It's half-term, Scafell Pike is a bit of a honey pot, there were a lot of walkers out on the road looking very, very wet, the car park had quite a few cars in, so people may have gone up Scafell Pike when the rivers were low.\n\n\"But when they come down they will find they won't be able to cross the rivers, so the message really is stay off the mountains.\"\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\nStewart Mounsey, the Environment Agency's flood risk manager for Cumbria said: \"We expect river levels to be peaking this afternoon, the quicker responding ones, and then obviously the River Eden is even bigger so we'll see that responding Friday into Saturday.\"\n\nEnvironment Agency teams were monitoring the effect of the rain on rivers, focusing on western and southern parts of the county, \"making sure flood defences work\", he said.\n\nCars got stuck in floodwater near Keswick\n\nAlan Goodman, from the Met Office, said the rain was \"on the wane slowly as today unfolds\".\n\n\"There's still more steady rain to come but hopefully it will gradually fragment so the problems we have had on the roads should start to ease.\n\n\"But yes, there's been an awful lot of rain.\"\n\nFields across the Newlands Valley have flooded\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. 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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.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nEmma Raducanu fought back at the Transylvania Open to earn her first win since becoming the US Open champion.\n\nBut the world number 23, seeded three in Romania, had the perfect response against Slovenia's Polona Hercog, 30.\n\nPlaying in her father Ian's homeland for the first time, Raducanu won 4-6 7-5 6-1 to move into the second round.\n\nDespite being a Grand Slam champion, this was her first WTA tour win - although no fans were present in Cluj-Napoca to see it because of Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nRaducanu smiled and laughed throughout her post-match interview, during which she spoke almost entirely in Romanian and was even asked about her favourite local dish.\n\n\"This means a lot to play in my dad's country,\" she said. \"It feels like a huge win.\n\n\"It is a shame there aren't fans here, but I hope they were watching and I just wanted to do them proud.\n\n\"I was on a losing streak so I am really pleased to have come through that. It's my first win, I knew that in my head, so I was battling really hard to get on the board.\"\n\nRaducanu, still looking for a new coach after parting with Andrew Richardson following her US Open triumph, asked for patience before the WTA 250 event.\n\nYet, playing a far more experienced opponent in a match lasting two hours and 29 minutes, she managed to prevail.\n\nThe teenager charged into a 3-0 lead, but Hercog, ranked 124 in the world, won both of her break points to fight back and take the last five games of the first set.\n\nRaducanu regrouped in the second and began to show some of the grit and shot selection that led her to that thrilling victory in New York.\n\nHercog staved off three break points in the fourth game of the set, before Raducanu saved one in each of her last two service games to make it 6-5.\n\nThe Briton then clinched the set after Hercog sent a forehand long on the last of three break points, before breezing through the first five games of the third set.\n\nHercog finally held serve after saving two match points and had a break point in the next game, but Raducanu recovered to win it with an ace and set up a match with Romania's world number 106 Ana Bogdan, 28.\n\n\"I am really proud of how I fought,\" Raducanu added. \"That is a big learning thing for me.\n\n\"The key was to try to stay mentally composed. I knew I wasn't playing very well so I just needed to keep going one point at a time and giving myself a chance by holding serve.\"\n\nCameron Norrie continued his winning streak by beating Marton Fucsovics 7-6 (4) 6-1 in the first round of the Vienna Open.\n\nThe British number one was playing his first match since his breakthrough victory at Indian Wells earlier this month and the 26-year-old came out on top against the Hungarian for a seventh straight success.\n\nIt was also Norrie's 11th in 12 matches and the world number 14 will play sixth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada in the next round.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Is Coca-Cola's pledge to tackle plastic waste on track?\n• None The comedian's bold and outrageous way to make sense of the world we live in", "The cost of living could rise at its fastest rate for 30 years, the government's forecaster has warned.\n\nIts latest forecast says inflation, which measures the change in the cost of living over time, is set to jump from 3.1% to an average of 4% in 2022.\n\nHowever, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) says figures released since its report was compiled suggest inflation could hit almost 5%.\n\nThe chancellor acknowledged that household budgets are strained.\n\nRishi Sunak described the overall economic picture as \"strong\" in the short term, with the OBR now expecting the economy to return to its pre-pandemic level six months earlier than it had forecast previously.\n\nHowever, he acknowledged the inflation rate was \"likely to rise further\" from its 3.1% rate in September.\n\nHe said it was due to increased demand for energy and supply chain issues as economies and factories reopening following coronavirus lockdowns.\n\n\"The pressures caused by supply chains and energy prices will take months to ease,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\n\"It would be irresponsible for anyone to pretend that we can solve this overnight.\"\n\nThe UK's exit from the European Union (EU) has exacerbated supply chain problems such at hold-ups at ports or with deliveries, the OBR said in its latest report.\n\nThe OBR also said the fact that the energy price cap has risen was a big factor behind the rising cost of living. The cap sets the maximum price suppliers in England, Wales and Scotland can charge domestic customers on a standard - or default - tariff.\n\nThe independent forecaster suggested that had its figures been more up-to-date, its inflation forecasts would have painted a more bleak picture for consumers and businesses.\n\nIt previously said it had ended any updates to its forecast on 24 September, earlier than usual, and \"in response to a request from the chancellor\".\n\nRichard Hughes, chairman of the OBR, told BBC News that if inflation started feeding into wages, rather than just products in the shops, the problem could persist for longer.\n\nBut the OBR lifted its prediction for economic growth in 2021 to 6.5%, up from its previous forecast of 4%. It has also reduced its estimate of the long-term \"scarring\" effect of Covid-19 on the economy from 3% to 2%.\n\nThe effectiveness of Covid vaccines and the adaptability of consumers and businesses had sped up the recovery, the OBR said.\n\nBut it forecast that economic growth would be lower next year than it previously thought, partly down to a better performance in 2021.\n\nIn 2022, gross domestic product (GDP), which measures all the activity of companies, governments and people in an economy, will increase by 6%, the OBR said, rather than the 7.3% it predicted in March.\n\nGrowth is forecast to be 2.1% in 2023, 1.3% in 2024 and 1.6% in 2025.\n\nWhile the economy is in a stronger state than had been expected, whether in terms of growth, employment or the public finances - the official analysis makes clear the obstacle inflation poses to standards of living in the coming months.\n\nThe OBR reckons inflation will hit 4.4.%; it warns it may go as high as 5%. And, it makes clear that leaving the EU has heightened the UK's experience of the bottlenecks that are bumping up business costs, that in turn will lead to higher prices.\n\nThat higher cost of living, together with looming tax rises will dampen the effect of wage rises over the next couple of years.\n\nStrip out inflation and the OBR reckons that household income after tax will only recover to pre-pandemic levels in mid-2023. And those lost years of prosperity increases could weigh on growth - and sentiment in the run up to the next election.\n\nHigher inflation is also likely to put pressure on how much the chancellor is able to spend in the future.\n\nBut Mr Sunak has been offered some room for manoeuvre, as the improving economic picture and higher tax incomes means the government will not have to borrow as much.\n\nBorrowing hit a record £319.9bn during the 2020 financial year as the government poured money into pandemic support schemes such as furlough.\n\nIt is now forecast to fall every year between 2021 and 2026.\n\nJane Mackay, head of tax at audit, tax, advisory and risk firm Crowe, said there was still a \"huge\" Covid bill to deal with, though.\n\n\"The Budget statement hasn't really given us clarity on who will pay that bill.\n\n\"The tax increases that were announced before the Budget, including corporation tax rising to 25%, and the NHS and social care levy additional NICs of 1.25%, might suggest the strategy will spread the burden as widely as possible, rather than to make the structural changes to our tax system that may be what is really needed.\"\n\nA risk of rising inflation as well is that it will increase the amount of interest the government needs to pay back on what it has borrowed for pandemic spending.\n\nBank of England governor Andrew Bailey warned in September that it \"will have to act\" over rising inflation.\n\nThe Bank has already said UK inflation is set to exceed 4%, before falling back as the economy recovers from Covid.\n\nThe UK's central bank can raise interest rates in an attempt to tackle inflation if prices are rising quickly. In theory, when borrowing costs rise - which would make loans such as mortgages more expensive - people spend less and prices are driven down.\n\nMr Sunak said on Wednesday that he had written to the Bank to \"reaffirm their remit to achieve low and stable inflation\".\n\nInvestors are expecting interest rates to be raised later this year or early in 2022, in an effort to bring inflation back down to the Bank's 2% target.\n\nHowever, he gave no suggestion of when the Bank might increase rates from the current record low of 0.1%.\n\nThe governor said that rising energy bills could push inflation higher for longer than previously thought.", "Sahl would often carry a newspaper on stage\n\nLegendary US comedian and political satirist Mort Sahl - who skewered US presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to Donald Trump - has died.\n\nHe passed away on Tuesday in Mill Valley, California, at the age of 94 of old age, a friend told AP News.\n\nSahl's biting political commentary won him legions of fans starting in the 1950s and has been credited as the inspiration for modern stand-up comedy.\n\nHis Cold War material is credited for setting the bar for political comedy.\n\nA host of comedians and comedy show producers have paid tribute, including Albert Brooks, Laraine Newman and Richard Lewis.\n\nThis is Spinal Tap star and Simpsons stalwart Harry Shearer said Sahl had \"invented modern American political satire\".\n\nBorn in Montreal, Sahl moved with his family to Los Angeles as a child and got his start as a comedian at San Francisco's beatnik hungry i club.\n\nHe quickly went on to perform at comedy clubs around the US. He hosted the first-ever Grammy Awards in 1959 and co-hosted the Academy Awards that same year.\n\nHe was featured on the cover of Time Magazine in 1960, starred in several films and was a frequent guest host on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show on NBC.\n\nKnown for his trademark sweater and loafers - at a time when performers often wore tuxedos - Sahl would come on to stage carrying a newspaper with notes for his act written on it.\n\nHe favoured story-telling rather than lounge-style stand-up punchlines.\n\nA comedic blunderbuss, Sahl prided himself on poking fun at all sides, often asking at shows: \"Is there anyone here I haven't offended?\"\n\n\"A conservative is someone who believes in reform,\" he once said. \"But not now.\"\n\nHe also joked: \"Liberals are people who do the right things for the wrong reasons so they can feel good for 10 minutes.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Harry Shearer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSahl ridiculed President John F Kennedy before going on to write jokes for his campaign. After Kennedy was elected, he turned to mocking him again.\n\nFollowing the Democrat's assassination, Sahl's career took a downturn as he dedicated large portions of his shows to ridiculing the official account of Kennedy's death.\n\nBut after the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s, which led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, his career picked up again. Sahl's opposition to the Vietnam War also brought him some new followers in the late 60s and early 70s.\n\nHe continued to perform stand up into his 80s, even after suffering a stroke. At age 80 he began teaching a course in critical thinking at Claremont McKenna College in California.\n\nAll four of his marriages ended in divorce, and his only son died in 1996. He has no immediate surviving family members.", "Government borrowing fell in September compared with a year earlier as the economy continued to recover from coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nBorrowing - the difference between spending and tax income - stood at £21.8bn, which was £7bn less than in September 2020.\n\nBut the figure was still the second-highest for September since monthly records began in 1993.\n\nThe government spent billions of pounds on emergency measures to protect wages, such as the furlough scheme, which wrapped up last month.\n\nAs a result, government debt has been pushed up to more than £2.2 trillion at the end of September this year - about 95.5% of the UK's gross domestic product (GDP), and the highest level recorded since the early 1960s.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates that the government has borrowed a total of £108.1bn so far in the current financial year (April to September), although this is £101.2bn less than in the same period last year.\n\nAs well as higher spending on Covid measures, the government has collected less in tax receipts during the pandemic, having given some badly-affected firms tax holidays from VAT, for example.\n\nAs a result of a lower income from taxes and higher spending, the ONS now estimates that in the 2020-21 financial year the government borrowed £319.9bn. That amounted to 14.9% of GDP, the highest rate seen since the end of World War Two.\n\nSome government sources of income have started to recover more recently. In September, the amount it collected through Value Added Tax (VAT) rose by 4.5% in comparison with the same month a year earlier.\n\nFuel duty payments were also up by 6%, although alcohol and tobacco tax takes fell by 12.7% and 7% respectively.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak is due to deliver a new Budget and growth forecasts on 27 October, as well as new multi-year spending limits for individual government departments.\n\nThe monthly borrowing figure for September was lower than economists had expected. However, Paul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics, said that while the picture had improved for the government ahead of next week's Budget, he did not expect a \"major fiscal giveaway\".\n\n\"Borrowing has fallen much more quickly than almost everyone expected,\" he said.\n\n\"That said, the rumours are that the chancellor will still keep a very tight grip on the public finances in next Wednesday's Budget to try and bring down borrowing even quicker and build a fiscal war chest to deploy ahead of the 2024 election.\"\n\nIn response to the latest official figures, the chancellor said that although debt levels have risen, \"our recovery is well underway - with more employees on payrolls than ever before and the fastest forecast growth in the G7 this year\".\n\n\"At the Budget and Spending Review next week, I will set out how we will continue to support public services, businesses and jobs while keeping our public finances fit for the future.\"\n\nAndrew Bailey has warned the Bank of England \"will have to act\" over rising inflation\n\nProf David Miles, a former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee and professor of financial economics at Imperial College, warned that there could be \"a long struggle ahead\" for the chancellor.\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme: \"The debt came down very rapidly after the end of the Napoleonic wars, the First World War, the Second World War.\n\n\"All those people who had been in the army and the other armed forces came back into employment, tax revenue went up, the government was spending less on armaments - that's not going to happen now, so I think it is considerably more difficult to bring down the stock of debt to GDP than it was in the aftermath of those earlier wars.\"\n\nIn recent years, the government has been able to borrow easily at very low interest rates, which makes its debt more affordable.\n\nBut rising inflation means that the Bank of England may increase interest rates soon, in an attempt to ensure the cost of living does not increase too quickly.\n\nThe Bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, warned on Sunday that it \"will have to act\" over rising inflation soon.\n\nAlthough he did not give any indication as to when it might increase rates from the current record low of 0.1%, investors are expecting rates to be raised later this year or early in 2022.\n\nWhat's striking in the public sector finance figures is not how big the borrowing or debt is in the financial year to date. That's the same story we've known for months: the second-highest borrowing in peacetime, second only to last year's even more extraordinary amounts.\n\nWhat's newer, and more eyebrow-raising, is what the figures show about how rapidly borrowing can fall, before any spending cuts or tax rises have taken effect, simply because the economy is growing.\n\nWith expected growth this year of 7% or more, tax money is flowing into the Exchequer far faster than was anticipated at the last Budget. And much of the emergency spending required in the more severe lockdown last year no longer has to be spent because the economy has, mostly, reopened. Public sector borrowing (the amount government has to borrow to plug the gap between its income and its spending) has nearly halved, dropping by more than £100bn.\n\nNot only that: all the borrowing accumulated over the years, also known as net debt, is also falling, down two percentage points, from 97.6% of gross domestic product in August to 95.5% in September.\n\nBoth borrowing and debt are falling, not because of any economic hairshirt the chancellor is requiring us all to wear, but because a successful vaccination programme has helped the economy to recover.", "Funding per pupil in England's schools is to be restored to 2010 levels over the next three years, the Chancellor has announced.\n\nThis means an extra £4.7bn for schools in England by 2024-2025 and a cash increase for every child of £1,500, Rishi Sunak said.\n\nBut it will not cover the 9% fall in funding since 2009 - the biggest cut in 40 years.\n\nThe Chancellor also pledged an extra £2bn for education recovery from Covid.\n\nThis brings spending on Covid catch-up since 2019 to nearly £5bn, Mr Sunak said in his Budget statement.\n\nThe recovery fund falls far short of what education unions and the former catch-up tsar, Sir Kevan Collins, said was required - around £15bn.\n\nAnd the cash injection in basic school funding is unlikely to meet the hopes of teachers and head teachers in the biggest unions.\n\nThe spending will also have to cover any rise in teachers' pay, which has been signalled with the announcement that the public sector pay freeze would be lifted.\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"Even in the best-case analysis this still represents no growth in school funding for 15 years, and this commitment does not address the stark reality in 16-19 education where the learner rate is far too low.\n\n\"What we do know is that school and college budgets are very thinly stretched and the financial situation continues to be extremely difficult.\n\n\"The additional funding for education recovery following the Covid pandemic is nowhere near what is needed.\n\n\"Alongside other education organisations and school trusts, we submitted in August a proposal for an additional £5.8 billion of spending over the next three years focused in particular on supporting disadvantaged young people.\"\n\nNational Education Union joint general secretary, Kevin Courtney said:\"Taking so long to restore the cuts made from 2010 onwards should not be a matter of pride for any Government, but one of embarrassment.\"\n\nA recent snapshot survey of 1,500 heads for the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) found almost a third were already making budget cuts last year with 35% expecting to make cuts this academic year.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the NAHT, said: \"Children and young people have been hugely affected by the pandemic. The government has made bold claims about 'levelling up' and 'no child left behind'. The investment announced today doesn't meet those goals or the futures needs of the country.\n\n\"The increase in per pupil spending announced by the government takes us back to 2010 levels. This is no proud boast, as it represents a failure to invest in children's futures for over a decade.\n\n\"Schools will do their best with what they are given, as they always do. It is important that schools are able to spend recovery money flexibly on the programmes they know work best for the children in most need in their schools.\"\n\nThere was a surprise additional £2 billion for education recovery in England in today's Budget, taking the total so far to around £5 billion. This will be welcomed but it falls far short of the more substantial £10 to £15 billion called for by education charities, unions and the government's former advisor Sir Kevan Collins.\n\nThey have pointed to a disadvantage gap which has widened during the pandemic. Schools facing rising costs from heating bills, national insurance and teachers pay will be disappointed that overall spending per pupil is not being given a greater uplift. Instead the Chancellor confirmed that by 2024-25 per pupil spending in England's schools will be restored, in real terms, to the same level as 2010.\n\nThere was also confirmation of funding to increase the number of places for children with special educational needs and disabilities.\n\nThe Chancellor also announced an additional £170m by 2024-25 for the funding paid to nurseries and early years providers for state-backed nursery places.\n\nNeil Leitch, of the Early Years Alliance, welcomed the extra money but said: \"As always, however, the devil is in the detail and we await further confirmation on how exactly this funding will translate into rate increases for the sector over the coming years.\n\n\"While the annual level of investment our sector is set to receive over the next three years will result in a higher increase in early entitlement funding rates than we have seen over recent years, there is still an incredibly long way to go to make up the £2.60 per hour funding shortfall that the government's own cost calculations revealed.\n\n\"What's more, we know that for many nurseries, pre-schools and childminders, even remaining afloat until next April is set to be a real struggle. As such, we would urge the government to look at what short-term, emergency support can be given to those providers already on the brink of closure.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lindsay Hoyle says it is “not acceptable\" for ministers to give briefings to the media before Parliament.\n\nThe Treasury has released a deluge of funding announcements, days before the chancellor delivers his Budget on 27 October.\n\nStatements from the government setting out spending for transport, health and education have been put out in the past few days.\n\nCommons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle is furious, telling MPs on Monday it was \"not acceptable\" to brief the media ahead of MPs and on Tuesday that the government was behaving in a \"discourteous manner\".\n\nHe thundered that ministers used to \"walk\" if they briefed about a Budget.\n\nIndeed, in 1947, then-Chancellor Hugh Dalton resigned after he leaked details of his budget to a journalist.\n\nDefending pre-Budget announcements, Treasury Minister Simon Clarke said the government had not commented on the \"substantive tax measures\" that would appear in the Budget.\n\nRishi Sunak's Budget won't all be about displays of generosity. The Treasury has asked departments to identify \"at least 5% of savings and efficiencies from their day-to-day budgets\" and we may hear more about those plans on Wednesday.\n\nThe government has already committed to spending for health, schools, defence and overseas aid so other areas such as local government, justice and further education may face a squeeze on their budgets.\n\nAnd there may be more to some of the seemingly lavish spending pledges than meets the eye.\n\nBeware what you are reading! They sound good, all these announcements in the run up to Budget and Spending Review.\n\nBut they need to be taken with caution. This is the PR blitz seeking good headlines. We don't yet know the detail of exactly what the government is planning.\n\nThe raft of investments will make a difference. But there are questions.\n\nAre the transport links, treatment centres and other projects entirely new or have some parts been announced (with equal fanfare) before now?\n\nCrucially what is happening more broadly to the budgets of the departments getting cash?\n\nA shiny investment in something is great, but is that department's day-to-day spending being squeezed? And what of those areas that aren't getting the handouts?\n\nBest to wait until Wednesday to truly judge the chancellor's largesse.\n\nThe government has announced that England's city regions will receive £6.9bn to spend on train, tram, bus and cycle projects.\n\nThis includes £1.07bn for Greater Manchester, £1.05bn for the West Midlands and £830m for West Yorkshire.\n\nHowever, the figure of £6.9bn only includes £1.5bn of additional spending because the government is including the £4.2bn promised in 2019 alongside funding for buses announced by the prime minister last year.\n\nThe chancellor has refused to be drawn on the future of the eastern leg of High Speed Two, which could be delayed or cancelled to save an estimated £40bn. If built, the extension would cut journey times between London and the North East by 31 minutes. It would also shave 52 minutes off trips between London and Leeds.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will also receive extra funding through the Barnett formula - a mechanism the UK government uses to allocate additional money to the devolved nations when it spends more in England.\n\nNHS England will get £5.9bn to tackle the backlog of people waiting for tests and scans. That covers £2.3bn for diagnostic tests including clinics in shopping centres for scans; £1.5bn on beds equipment and new \"surgical hubs\"; and £2.1bn to improve IT.\n\nHealth bodies welcomed the money but warned it would not solve the problem of staff shortages. According to data published by NHS digital, in June there were 93,806 full-time vacancies across the NHS in England.\n\nMr Sunak is set to announce a rise in the National Living Wage from £8.91 per hour to £9.50, to come into effect from 1 April next year.\n\nThis is a 6.6% increase in the minimum wage for all those aged 23 and over - more than twice the current 3.1% rise in the cost of living.\n\nAssuming a 40 hour week, the new minimum wage amounts to a salary of £1,646 per month or £19,760 a year.\n\nThe increases to the wage rates follow recommendations made by the Low Pay Commission, an independent advisory board.\n\nThe Treasury has also announced it will be lifting a pay freeze imposed on millions of public sector workers last year as a result of the pandemic.\n\nIndependent pay review bodies will recommend how much extra money workers will get early next year.\n\nThe government's major tax change has already been announced, as earlier this year the prime minister told MPs he would introduce a tax in England designed to tackle the NHS backlog caused by the Covid pandemic and later to pay for social care.\n\nHowever, we know a few other changes (or rather lack of changes) that will be announced on Wednesday.\n\nCampaigners for a freeze in fuel duty have been told to expect the levy to be frozen for a twelfth year in a row.\n\nAnd separately, the BBC has been told VAT on household energy would not be cut.\n\nThe health department will get £5bn over the next three years for research and development.\n\nThis includes £95m which will go towards researching methods for treating cancer, obesity and mental health.\n\nThe money will also be spent on developing genome technology which could detect more than 200 conditions in newborn babies.\n\n£2.6bn will be spent on creating 30,000 new school places for children with special educational needs and disabilities.\n\nThe money will also go towards improving school buildings' accessibility and funding new, special provision in free schools England.\n\nThe Budget will also include £1.6bn over three years to roll out new T-levels for 16 to 19-year-olds plus £550m for adult skills in England.\n\nCurrently there are over 6,000 on T-level courses, but the government hopes to ramp up those numbers.\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, warned that the extra money was a \"gamble\" as it was unclear how many would want to take the qualification.\n\nThe government will also spend a further £830m modernising colleges in England.\n\nThe Treasury is allocating £1.8bn for building around 160,000 new homes on derelict or unused land - also known as brownfield sites - in England.\n\nAn extra £9m will also go towards allowing councils to turn neglected urban spaces into \"pocket parks\" roughly the size of a tennis court.\n\nThe chancellor is also expected to confirm £65m for digitising England's planning system.\n\nGrants worth £1.4bn will be given to \"internationally mobile\" companies to invest in UK infrastructure.\n\nThis includes £345m aimed at increasing resilience for future pandemics and £800m for the production of electric vehicles in north-east England and the Midlands.\n\nAs part of the package, a talent network team will aim to attract high-skilled workers to the UK, through \"innovation hotspots\" initially based in San Francisco and Boston in the US and Bengaluru in India.\n\nThe government has announced £500m to support parents and children in England.\n\nThis includes £200m to support families with complex issues; £82m to fund centres in 75 different areas to provide advice for parents; £100m for mental health support for expectant parents; and £50m for breastfeeding support.\n\nLabour has argued that the government previously closed over 1,000 children's centres - known as Sure Start centres - and that this new announcement \"rings hollow\".\n\nMr Sunak defended past cuts, arguing that the new funding would \"create a network of family hubs which are broader than the Sure Start centres\".\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? Do you have any questions for our experts? 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.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nRonald Koeman has been sacked as head coach of Barcelona after 14 months in charge at the Nou Camp.\n\nBarca have picked up just 15 points from 10 games in La Liga and have already lost twice in the group stage of this season's Champions League.\n\nThey are ninth in the table, six points adrift of the joint leaders after losing at Rayo Vallecano on Wednesday.\n\nThe loss was Barca's third in their past four games and it followed defeat by Real Madrid in Sunday's Clasico.\n\nIn a statement, the Spanish club said: \"The president of the club, Joan Laporta, informed him [Koeman] of the decision after the defeat against Rayo Vallecano.\n\n\"Ronald Koeman will say goodbye to the squad on Thursday.\"\n\nThe former Netherlands, Everton and Southampton boss, 58, could only guide the five-time European champions to third place in the league last season.\n\nThe Dutchman has not been helped by the club's significant financial problems, which resulted in Lionel Messi's exit and subsequent move to Paris St-Germain in August.\n\nBarcelona were unable to spend any money on new signings in the summer, with Memphis Depay, Sergio Aguero and Eric Garcia arriving as free transfers and striker Luuk de Jong joining on loan from Sevilla.\n\nSpeaking after Wednesday's defeat, Koeman said: \"It [Barcelona's league position] says we're not well.\n\n\"The team has lost balance in the squad, lost very effective players, which shows. In recent years other clubs have strengthened every season and we haven't, which also shows.\"\n\nClub legend Xavi, the former Barca midfielder who is now manager of Qatari side Al Sadd, is one of the favourites to replace Koeman.\n\nIt is the first time since September 1987 that Barca have lost three away games in a row without scoring - a run that saw English manager Terry Venables sacked.\n\nKoeman won the Copa del Rey at the end of his first season but Barca finished behind Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid in La Liga with their lowest points tally since 2008.\n\nThe former Netherlands centre-back played for the Spanish club between 1989 and 1995, helping them to four league titles and scoring the winning goal in the 1992 European Cup final.\n\nHe was brought back to the club in August 2020 as head coach by former president Josep Maria Bartomeu.\n\nNew chief Laporta, however, frequently made it clear the Dutchman was not his appointment.\n\nThe duo had an uneasy relationship, and Koeman released a statement in September asking to be given time to rebuild after losing Messi and fellow forward Antoine Griezmann in the summer.\n\nFollowing the defeat by Madrid on Sunday, Koeman's car was surrounded by some Barcelona supporters, whom he later dismissed as \"uneducated people\".\n\nSpeaking before the trip to Rayo Vallecano, he said: \"It is a social problem. Uneducated people that don't understand rules and values.\"\n\nOne of Koeman's first tasks as coach was to make a 40-second phone call to Luis Suarez during which he told the Uruguay striker his services were no longer required and that he was free to leave the club.\n\nThe decision had been made by the board and it's now known the dire financial position forced them to get rid of a forward who scored 21 goals from 29 starts in the previous campaign.\n\nIt began a weakening of the Barca squad from one that could compete with Europe's elite to one that is struggling to get into the Champions League places.\n\nMessi then handed in a transfer request but ended up staying for 2020-21 but Suarez joined Atletico Madrid for a nominal fee and fired them to the league title.\n\nBehind the scenes the club's costs had spiralled to an unsustainable level, creating the biggest wage bill in world football and leaving Barcelona on the verge of bankruptcy and a stadium that requires renovation.\n\nWith Messi out of contract, the Argentina superstar agreed a new deal in July of this year until 2026 that included halving his wages, but La Liga stipulated Barca must reduce their wage bill further before he and any new players could be registered.\n\nThey weren't able to do that, so in August the club announced that Messi would be leaving \"because of financial and structural obstacles\".\n\nHe joined Paris St-Germain, then Koeman lost more talent when France forward Griezmann followed Suarez to Atletico Madrid - rejoining the club he had left in a £107m deal two years before on a loan in a snapshot of where it has gone wrong for Barcelona.\n\nThey managed to sign former Manchester United forward Depay and Aguero on free transfers but the former Manchester City striker has only just made his Barca debut after getting injured in pre-season.\n\nThe transformation from a forward line of Messi, Suarez and Griezmann to Depay, De Jong and an ageing Aguero sums up the task Koeman faced and which will now greet his successor.\n• None Is Coca-Cola's pledge to tackle plastic waste on track?\n• None The comedian's bold and outrageous way to make sense of the world we live in", "Huma Abedin has not named the senator, or his party\n\nA former close aide to Hillary Clinton has written in a new memoir how a US senator attempted to kiss her without her consent.\n\nHuma Abedin said the unnamed politician pounced on her on a couch in the mid-2000s after inviting her into his home, according to the Guardian.\n\nShe says she rebuffed him as he made the advance and escaped.\n\nThe claim is detailed in her new book, Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds, which is being published next week.\n\nMrs Clinton, who was the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and secretary of state under President Obama, relied on Ms Abedin as one of her most trusted aides. Mrs Clinton once described her as her \"second daughter\".\n\nMs Abedin does not reveal the senator's identity or even his party in describing the incident, which happened while she was working for Mrs Clinton when she was a US senator for New York between 2001-09.\n\nIn an interview with CBS, Ms Abedin, now 45, said the senator \"kissed me in a very... shocking way\".\n\nShe was asked by the interviewer whether she felt she had been the victim of a sexual assault.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Norah O'Donnell 🇺🇸 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I'm suggesting that I was in an uncomfortable situation with a senator and I didn't know how to deal with it and I buried the whole experience,\" Ms Abedin said\n\n\"In my own personal opinion, no, did I feel like he was assaulting me in that moment? It didn't feel that way.\n\n\"It felt like I needed to extricate myself from the situation. And he also spent a lot of time apologising and making sure I was OK and we were actually able to rebalance out relationship.\"\n\nMs Abedin started working for Mrs Clinton as an intern\n\nMs Abedin wrote in her book that after a Washington dinner she walked out with the politician and when they stopped in front of his home he invited her inside for coffee. She accepted.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, which has seen an advance copy of the memoir, Ms Abedin writes: \"Then, in an instant, it all changed. He plopped down to my right, put his left arm around my shoulder, and kissed me, pushing his tongue into my mouth, pressing me back on the sofa.\n\n\"I was so utterly shocked, I pushed him away. All I wanted was for the last 10 seconds to be erased.\"\n\nMs Abedin divorced her husband, former Democratic New York congressman Anthony Weiner, over his sex scandals\n\nShe adds: \"Then I said something only the twentysomething version of me would have come up with - 'I am so sorry' - and walked out, trying to appear as nonchalant as possible.\"\n\nShe also details in the book her anger at her ex-husband, former Democratic New York congressman Anthony Weiner, whose career was destroyed by sex scandals.", "Microboone's 12m-long detector is contained inside a large cryogenic tank, filled with 150 tonnes of liquid argon at -186C\n\nA new chapter in physics has opened, according to scientists who have been searching for a vital building block of the Universe.\n\nA major experiment has been used to search for an elusive sub-atomic particle: a key component of the matter that makes up our everyday lives.\n\nThe search failed to find the particle, known as the sterile neutrino.\n\nThis will now direct physicists towards even more interesting theories to help explain how the Universe came to be.\n\nProf Mark Thomson, the executive chair of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), which funds the UK's contribution to the Microboone experiment, described the result as ''pretty exciting''.\n\nThat is because a sizeable proportion of physicists have been developing their theories on the basis that the existence of the sterile neutrino was a possibility.\n\n''This has been out there for a long time now and generated a lot of interest,'' Prof Thomson told BBC News.\n\n''The result is really interesting because it has an influence on emerging theories in particle physics and cosmology.''\n\nThe Microboone experiment is based at the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois - just outside Chicago. But physicists from many countries are involved with the project.\n\nMicroboone's electronics racks are located just above the detector, on a platform that blocks significant amounts of cosmic radiation that could affect the accuracy of the results\n\nNeutrinos are ghostly sub-atomic particles that permeate the Universe, but barely interact with the everyday world around us. Each second, billions of them pass right through the Earth - and everyone living on it.\n\nNeutrinos come in three known types, or flavours - the electron, muon and tau. In 1998, Japanese researchers discovered that neutrinos changed from one flavour to another as they travelled.\n\nThis flavour-flipping cannot fully be explained by the current \"big theory\" of sub-atomic physics - called the Standard Model. Some physicists believe that finding out why the neutrino has such a tiny mass - which is what allows them to change flavour - will give them a deeper understanding of how the Universe works and specifically how it came into being.\n\nCurrent theories suggest that, shortly after the Big Bang, there were equal amounts of matter and its shadowy mirror-image anti-matter. However, when matter collides with anti-matter, they violently annihilate each other, releasing energy. If there were equal amounts in the early Universe, they should have cancelled each other out.\n\nInstead, most of the Universe today is made of matter, with much smaller amounts of anti-matter.\n\nSome scientists believe that, contained within the neutrino's flavour-changing, is the cosmic sleight-of-hand that enabled some matter to survive after the Big Bang and create the planets, stars and galaxies that make up the Universe.\n\nIn the 1990s, an experiment called the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector experiment at the US Department for Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico saw the production of more electron neutrinos than could be explained by the three-neutrino flavour-flipping theory. That result was confirmed by a separate experiment tin 2002.\n\nPhysicists proposed the existence of a fourth flavour called the sterile neutrino. They believed this form of the particle could explain the over-production of electron neutrinos and, crucially, give an insight into why the particles change flavour.\n\nThey were named sterile neutrinos because they are predicted not to interact with matter at all, whereas other neutrinos can - though very rarely. Detecting a sterile neutrino would have been a bigger discovery in sub-atomic physics than the Higgs boson because, unlike other forms of neutrino and the Higgs particle, it is not part of the current Standard Model of physics.\n\nA team involving nearly 200 scientists from five countries developed and built the Micro Booster Neutrino Experiment, or Microboone, in order to find it. Microboone consists of 150 tonnes of hardware in a space that's the size of a lorry.\n\nIts detectors are highly sensitive: its observations of the sub-atomic world have been likened to looking in ultra-high definition.\n\nThe team has now announced that four separate analyses of data gathered by the experiment show \"no hint\" of the sterile neutrino.\n\nBut this result is not so much the end of the story, but the beginning of a new chapter.\n\nDr Sam Zeller from Fermilab says that the non-detection does not have to contradict previous findings.\n\n\"The earlier data doesn't lie,\" she said.\n\n\"There's something really interesting happening that we still need to explain. Data is steering us away from the likely explanations and pointing toward something more complex and interesting, which is really exciting.\"\n\nProf Justin Evans, from the University of Manchester, believes that the puzzle posed by the latest findings marks a turning point in neutrino research.\n\n\"Every time we look at neutrinos, we seem to find something new or unexpected,\" he said.\n\n\"Microboone's results are taking us in a new direction, and our neutrino programme is going to get to the bottom of some of these mysteries.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Charlize Theron says countries have to start sharing vaccines if we are to reach the World Health Organization's goal of vaccinating 70% of the planet next year.\n\nThe actress, who has joined the social justice organisation Ford Foundation, wants the World Trade Organization to agree a waiver on vaccine patents - so countries can manufacture their own jabs.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Pumza Fihlani, Theron also questioned some countries' booster programmes, when only 5% of Africa's population has been vaccinated.", "Shops, restaurants and bars and gyms in England which have been badly hit by the Covid-19 pandemic have been given a financial boost in the Budget.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak announced a temporary 50% cut in their business rates, up to a maximum of £110,000.\n\nIn addition, he has scrapped 2022's planned annual increase in rates for all firms for the second year in a row.\n\nThe hospitality industry welcomed the move, although it added \"the devil will be in the detail\".\n\nBusiness rates are charged on commercial premises based on the value of the property and the level is set by central government, rather than councils. They are devolved across the UK's nations.\n\nThe Treasury only decides business rates in England, but the UK government also allocates funding to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland through a formula.\n\nThis could allow the devolved nations to mirror the changes in England or, alternatively, keep their current business rates and spend the money elsewhere.\n\nBricks and mortar firms have long complained that they are at an unfair disadvantage compared with online retailers, which do not have to pay business rates. They want to see an online sales tax being applied.\n\nIn his Budget speech, Mr Sunak said that in the 2022-23 tax year, pubs, music venues, cinemas, restaurants, hotels, theatres and gyms would be able to claim a discount on their bills of 50%, up to a maximum of £110,000. He said that was a tax cut worth almost £1.7bn.\n\nIn conjunction with the existing Small Business Rates Relief, the chancellor said the move meant more than 90% of all retail, hospitality and leisure businesses would see a discount of at least 50%.\n\nBusiness rates in the retail and leisure sectors have already been reduced during the present financial year following the rates holiday during the pandemic.\n\nThe Treasury has been carrying out a wider review of business rates.\n\nIn his Budget speech, Mr Sunak confirmed they would be retained and reformed. \"We on this side of the House are clear that reckless, unfunded promises to abolish a tax which raises £25bn every year are completely irresponsible.\"\n\nHowever, he said the system would be made \"fairer and timelier with more frequent revaluations every three years\". beginning in 2023.\n\nIn addition, from 2023, all firms, not just in retail and hospitality, would be able to make improvements to their property without having to pay extra business rates for 12 months.\n\nThe reforms also include a new relief for firms that invest in green technologies, such as solar panels and heat pumps.\n\nUK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls: \"We have been lobbying hard for significant reform of the outdated business rates system and therefore very much welcome the chancellor's move today to extend the 50% business rates relief for the hospitality and leisure sector for the next financial year.\n\n\"The devil will be in the detail, though, so we look forward to learning to what extent it will benefit businesses.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kate Nicholls This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Nicholls also said announcements simplifying, and in some cases cutting, alcohol duties were \"great news\" for pubs, bars and restaurants and \"will benefit all\".\n\nHowever, she added: \"Positive as these announcements are, hospitality remains incredibly fragile, facing myriad critical issues. Rising utility bills, wage bills and food and drink prices have resulted in 13% inflationary costs that businesses are having to absorb at the same time as they navigate severe supply chain issues and chronic staff shortages.\n\n\"Given this toxic cocktail, it is imperative the government go further to support businesses in our sector.\"\n\nShe said the best way to do that would be to keep the current lower rate of 12.5% VAT on hospitality.\n\n\"The chancellor has been bold and radical with alcohol duty - we urge him to adopt the same approach when implementing root and branch reform of business rates, to ensure industries share the burden equally.\"\n\nElsewhere, the director general of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), Shevaun Haviland, said the chancellor had listened to the BCC's \"long-standing calls for changes to the business rates system and this will be good news for many firms\".\n\n\"It will provide much-needed relief for businesses across the country, giving many firms renewed confidence to invest and grow.\"\n\nCBI director general Tony Danker said the chancellor had made \"real strides in making the system more palatable for businesses in the shorter term. More frequent valuations, wider reliefs and improving the incentives for firms to decarbonise their premises is what firms have been calling for\".\n\nHowever, he added that the \"hard truth\" was that \"the government missed the opportunity to truly reform a business rates system that diminishes Britain's high streets and factories\".\n\nJulian Bird, chief executive of Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre, welcomed the move, saying it would \"provide venue operators with the cushion of a lower cost base as they reopen and develop an audience post-pandemic.\n\n\"The 100% improvement relief for business rates, providing 12 months relief from higher bills for occupiers where eligible improvements to an existing property increase the rateable value, from 2023 will encourage innovation and enhancement of our theatre buildings,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's new polar research ship, the RRS Sir David Attenborough, has completed basic sea trials and is ready to undertake its first expedition.\n\nThe vessel came up the Thames on Wednesday through the Woolwich Barrier and is now tied up in Greenwich.\n\nIt is spending a few days at the home of the Prime Meridian to enable the public to see it, but also to mark the start of the COP26 climate conference.\n\nWorld governments meet in the Scottish city of Glasgow from Sunday.\n\nThe Attenborough, named after the TV naturalist and BBC presenter Sir David, is the ship the public wanted to call \"Boaty McBoatface\" in an online poll but were overruled by ministers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir David: \"The findings made on this ship will be of the greatest value and importance\"\n\nInternational senior scientific advisers are using the Attenborough as a platform to issue a statement about the urgent need to address the climate crisis.\n\nThey want to see a concerted drive to develop - and use - the technologies that will keep global temperature rise to1.5C and underpin the net zero economies of tomorrow.\n\nThese technologies include better ways of creating, storing and using low-emissions energy - including improving semiconductors, batteries and low-emitting fuel production - as well as work on heating and cooling, and carbon capture and storage.\n\n\"I think the first thing to say is sticking to 1.5 is both important and achievable,\" Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK government's chief scientific adviser, told BBC News.\n\n\"But it's only achievable if we get urgent action. If you work back, for example, from 2050, and ask what you need to do, you can't rely on something coming along late in the day and saving us. It's about utilising the technologies we have now, getting them in place as soon as we can at scale. And that in itself requires R&D (research and development), and making sure that we use both technology, and, of course, natural actions, and the behavioural changes that we all need to take.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"If we stick to 1.5C, we will limit the consequences\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe 129m-long Attenborough has spent the past year in shake-down trials around the British coast.\n\nIts first ocean voyage will go to Antarctica for the new austral summer research season.\n\nThe vessel must deliver supplies to the UK's main scientific base, at Rothera, on the continent's peninsula, as well as to other minor stations dotted around the Southern Ocean.\n\nIt is expected to head south on or around 18 November.\n\nThe ship isn't named \"Boaty McBoatface\", but some of its robotic subs do carry the moniker\n\nSir David has his photo taken with the ship's crew. They head south around 18 November\n\nEngineers will want to check its performance in sea-ice, something they haven't had the chance to do.\n\nThe Attenborough is what's termed a Polar Class 4 icebreaker, which means it should have the strength to crash through metre-thick floes at a steady pace and without damage to its hull.\n\nThe £200m ship is state of the art. It has a helipad (helicopters are essential for exploration and safety), cranes and onboard labs, and it has an enhanced ability to deploy subs and other ocean-survey and sampling equipment.\n\nA \"moon pool\" allows instruments to be lowered through the hull into the ocean water below\n\nThe Attenborough was the product of lessons learned after decades of operations in the frozen south and north, said Dr Rob Larter.\n\n\"The way science has progressed means you now have to be able to handle much bigger gear. So, that's why this ship has these very big cranes and gantries,\" the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) marine geophysicist told BBC News.\n\n\"You also need to be very flexible, because there's so many different sorts of science that people want to do now. We have laboratories that come in containers, like for example a radioisotope lab, an ultra-clean chemistry lab and an experimental aquarium. These can all be added to the ship.\"\n\nThe Attenborough will be at the forefront of understanding how Earth's atmosphere and oceans are warming, and the impacts the temperature rise will have, in particular, on the ice-covered waters and lands of the Arctic and Antarctic.\n\nSir David was present on Thursday to inspect his namesake.\n\nHis hope, he said, was that world leaders meeting at COP26 would listen to the science and take action to curb global warming.\n\n\"I am indeed a very proud man to be standing in this remarkable vessel, to be associated in any way with best, the British Antarctic Survey,\" he told his audience.\n\n\"May I wish this ship and all who sail in her, and all the scientists who research on board, bon voyage on her forthcoming voyage to the Antarctic. I know that the findings made on this ship in the next few years will be of the greatest value and importance to the welfare of the world. Let us listen to the science.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir David has recorded the safety announcements to be played over loudspeaker\n\nBAS scientists have already established, for example, how the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica, actually helps to shield us from the worst effects of global heating.\n\nOceanographer Dr Emma Boland explained: \"The Southern Ocean takes up about 40% of the carbon dioxide that the oceans as a whole take up, even though it only accounts for 20% of the total ocean surface area. So, it's doing double the work.\n\n\"And if that CO2 didn't get taken up by the ocean, it'd be in the atmosphere, and global warming at the surface as we experience it, as human beings, would be that much worse.\"\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.\n\nScientists have even calculated a value for this \"service\" provided by the Southern Ocean: £60bn per year (€72bn/yr). In other words, if the Southern Ocean didn't exist, this is how much it would cost to remove the CO2 from the atmosphere in a different way.\n\nThe new Royal Research Ship is tied up to a pontoon in the Thames a short distance from the famous 19th-Century tea clipper, the Cutty Sark.\n\nThe public won't be able to board the Attenborough, but they will be able to visit an associated exhibition hosted by the Royal Museums Greenwich called \"Ice Worlds\". This will showcase live virtual tours of the polar ship on a big screen, alongside a range of interactive stands.", "A Met Police officer who killed Sarah Everard after kidnapping her under the guise of an arrest has applied to appeal against his prison term.\n\nWayne Couzens abducted the 33-year-old as she walked home from a friend's house in south London on 3 March.\n\nDuring sentencing, the judge had said the abuse of power was so exceptional that it warranted a whole-life order.\n\nIt was the first time the sentence had been imposed for a single murder of an adult not committed in a terror attack.\n\nA Court of Appeal official said on Wednesday: \"An application (for permission to mount an appeal against sentence) has been lodged.\"\n\nWhen sentencing Couzens last month, Lord Justice Fulford described the circumstances of the kidnap, rape and murder as \"grotesque\", telling him he had \"betrayed\" his family.\n\nSarah Everard had been walking to her home in Brixton when she disappeared\n\nHe said the seriousness of the case was so \"exceptionally high\" it warranted a whole-life order.\n\nReacting to the sentencing, Ms Everard's family said they were pleased with the full-life term, adding that although \"nothing can make things better, nothing can bring Sarah back... knowing he will be imprisoned forever brings some relief.\"\n\nEarlier this month, Reading terrorist Khairi Saadallah lost a Court of Appeal challenge against his whole-life sentence for the murders of three men, following a hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall have launched the centenary Royal British Legion poppy appeal.\n\nPrince Charles and Camilla met 10 volunteers for the charity - each born in one of the decades of its campaign - at Clarence House on Tuesday.\n\nIt marked the start of the annual drive to raise funds for the Legion.\n\nThe pandemic meant the collectors did not go out to sell red paper poppies in 2020, but the tradition is resuming ahead of Armistice Day on 11 November.\n\nThe Royal British Legion supports serving and former personnel and their families. More than 40,000 volunteers across the country will be collecting donations for this year's appeal.\n\nWearing a red poppy signifies respect and support for the armed forces community and their sacrifice in all conflicts.\n\nThe flower was a common sight on the Western Front, where British soldiers fought during World War One, and became a symbol of remembrance for those killed.\n\nThe Prince of Wales said: \"The significance of the poppy is as relevant today as it ever was while our Armed Forces continue to be engaged in operations overseas and often in the most demanding of circumstances.\n\n\"The simple act of wearing a poppy is only made possible because of volunteer Poppy Appeal collectors who share a common goal - to recognise the unique contribution of the Armed Forces community.\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall spoke to Maisie Mead, 10, and Jill Gladwell, 95, the youngest and oldest of the volunteers\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Camilla spoke to Jill Gladwell, 95, who is marking 80 years of collecting for the appeal, at the launch.\n\nMrs Gladwell began volunteering as a schoolgirl during the Second World War after being inspired by her mother who collected in the 1920s. Five generations of her family are now involved.\n\n\"I'm so happy to be back out collecting to support the armed forces community and their families this year,\" she said.", "The impact of Brexit on the UK economy will be worse in the long run compared to the coronavirus pandemic, the chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility has said.\n\nRichard Hughes said leaving the EU would reduce the UK's potential GDP by about 4% in the long term.\n\nHe said forecasts showed the pandemic would reduce GDP \"by a further 2%\".\n\n\"In the long term it is the case that Brexit has a bigger impact than the pandemic\", he told the BBC.\n\nHis comments come after the OBR said the cost of living could rise at its fastest rate for 30 years, with suggestions inflation could hit almost 5%.\n\nSpeaking after Wednesday's Budget, Mr Hughes said recent data showed the impact of Brexit was \"broadly consistent\" with the OBR's assumption that the leaving the EU would \"reduce our long run GDP by around 4%\".\n\n\"We think that the effect of the pandemic will reduce that (GDP) output by a further 2%,\" he added.\n\nThe Treasury has been contacted for comment.\n\nGDP or Gross Domestic Product is one of the most important ways of showing how well, or badly, an economy is doing. It is a measure - or an attempt to measure - all the activity of companies, governments and individuals in an economy.\n\nIn a growing economy, quarterly GDP will be slightly higher than the quarter before, a sign that people are doing more work and getting (on average) a little bit richer. If GDP is falling, then the economy is shrinking.\n\nThe UK voted to leave the EU in 2016 and officially left the trading bloc on 31 January 2020, however, both sides agreed to keep many things the same until 31 December 2020, before a new trade deal was announced and implemented on 1 January this year.\n\nBoth the pandemic and Brexit have played a part in current supply chain issues across the UK, and have further exposed the scarcity of lorry drivers, which has resulted in recent shortages of products for businesses and some empty shelves for customers.\n\nHowever, in the OBR's latest report, the independent body said \"supply bottlenecks had been exacerbated by changes in the migration and trading regimes following Brexit\".\n\nSupply chain issues has led to the government granting short-term visas to EU workers across certain sectors, including the haulage industry.\n\nThe British Poultry Council has said turkey farmers will do their best to ensure Christmas \"is as normal as it can be\", but warned shortages are likely, due to a shortage of seasonal overseas workers.\n\nThe government has assured consumers that turkeys will be available for the festive season and has also deployed temporary visas in a bid to bolster worker numbers.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has had to miss the Budget and Prime Minister's Questions after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nAs leader of the opposition, he had been due respond to the chancellor's statement on government spending plans.\n\nInstead the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves took his place at the despatch box in the House of Commons.\n\nMr Miliband has previously represented Labour at PMQs having led the party between 2010 and 2015.\n\nRising to put questions to Boris Johnson, he said it was \"just like old times\" adding that he wanted to reassure both sides of the House it was for \"one time only\".\n\nIn a clip released by Labour, Sir Keir said he was feeling fine but was \"gutted\" not to be able to in the Commons.\n\nHe praised his two stand-ins for their \"brilliant\" performances.\n\nThis is the fifth time Sir Keir has had to self-isolate since the start of the pandemic, most recently in July when one of his children tested positive.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland continued their perfect start at the Men's T20 World Cup with an eight-wicket thrashing of Bangladesh in Abu Dhabi.\n\nAfter bowling West Indies out for 55 in their opening win, England restricted Bangladesh to 124-9 in another fine performance in the field.\n\nMoeen Ali took two wickets in two balls in the third over, Tymal Mills claimed 3-27 and Liam Livingstone 2-15, while there was also a fine diving catch from Adil Rashid and a run-out.\n\nJason Roy then crashed 61 from 38 balls and Dawid Malan made a measured 28 not out as England raced to their target with 35 balls to spare.\n\nEoin Morgan's side sit top of Group 1 after two games in the Super 12s.\n\nTheir next match is against Australia in Dubai on Saturday at 15:00 BST.\n\nThis may not have been as destructive or eye-catching as England's six-wicket win over West Indies but it was almost as impressive.\n\nBangladesh, who came through the first round of the tournament to reach the Super 12, have the players, particularly their spinners, to pose problems to bigger sides. England swatted them aside with ease.\n\nAgain it was a victory built on strong bowling performance, a good sign for England's hopes given it is supposedly their weaker suit.\n\nOff-spinner Moeen, handed the new ball again, responded by removing openers Liton Das and Mohammad Naim with consecutive balls, Das top-edging to deep square leg and Naim tamely finding mid-on.\n\nChris Woakes, who took an immaculate 1-12 from four overs, collected the key wicket of Shakib Al Hasan, Rashid diving to take the ball dropping over his shoulder at short fine leg.\n\nBangladesh were 26-3 in the sixth over and from there England continued to take regular wickets, the tactical moves made by captain Eoin Morgan working perfectly.\n\nPart-time spinner Liam Livingstone trapped Mushfiqur Rahim, who made 29, lbw on review in his first over and also had captain Mahmudullah taken at backward point for a stodgy 19 from 24 balls.\n\nTymal Mills took three lower-order wickets with his mix of pace and slower balls, including two off the final two deliveries of the innings.\n\nBangladesh's total was never likely to be enough, a view only strengthened when Roy cracked the first ball of the chase for four.\n\nEven with the loss of Jos Buttler, caught at long-off for a run-a-ball 18, Roy powered England to 63-1 at the end of the seventh over and the Bangladesh fielders' body language was already that of a beaten side.\n\nRoy, winning his 50th cap, hit powerful shots down the ground and inventive scoops in reaching a 33-ball fifty, before he found third man with a ramp off Shoriful Islam with 13 runs needed.\n\nPushed down the order and not needed against West Indies, Malan came out in his usual position of number three.\n\nHis place is the most debated in the England side and, while there was almost no pressure on him, his fluent innings was at least useful time in the middle.\n\nHarder tests will come for England, but Morgan could not have asked for much more after two near flawless performances in two games.\n\n'A very special match for us' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"Our bowlers have started the tournament really well. It's a huge compliment to how far our white-ball cricket has come along.\n\n\"It's nice for Jason and Dawid to get some time at the wicket. Jason is so imposing and when you play like that on slow wickets, it makes it difficult to set fields.\"\n\nPlayer of the match Jason Roy: \"That was a very special match for us. We had to back up our last performance against West Indies and we had to come out firing. A lot of credit goes to our bowlers.\"\n\nBangladesh captain Mahmudullah: \"We are very disappointed with the way we batted especially. It was a very good wicket to bat on but we didn't make any partnership in the middle.\"\n• None Is Coca-Cola's pledge to tackle plastic waste on track?\n• None The comedian's bold and outrageous way to make sense of the world we live in", "Jugoslav Jovanovic was arrested in Santa Marinella, Italy, in October 2020\n\nAn Italian man has pleaded guilty to all charges relating to a £26m series of burglaries that targeted the luxury homes of celebrities in west London.\n\nJugoslav Jovanovic previously admitted to conspiring to burgle the homes of Frank Lampard, F1 heiress Tamara Ecclestone and the family of the late Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, in 2019.\n\nJovanovic was due to go on trial at Isleworth Crown Court over conspiracy to launder stolen goods out of the UK.\n\nHe has now changed his plea to guilty.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said the £25m burglary alone on Ms Ecclestone's Kensington mansion was believed to be the biggest of its kind in English legal history.\n\nAndrew Hadik said the international gang of jewellery thieves took \"irreplaceable items of sentimental value that have never been seen again\".\n\nHe added: \"Jovanovic used his spoils to go shopping at Harrods and had even opened a store loyalty card.\"\n\nFrank and Christine Lampard had their west London home burgled on 1 December 2019\n\nIt was previously heard in court that on 30 November 2019, Jovanovic, along with an accomplice named Daniel Vukovic, travelled to London Stansted from Stockholm and then set up a hotel base in Orpington.\n\nThe next day the pair burgled the west London home of Lampard and his wife Christine while the couple were out. the court was told.\n\nProsecutors said an intruder alarm was triggered but more than £50,000 worth of items were stolen.\n\nAlessandro Maltese, Jugoslav Jovanovic and Alessandro Donati were all arrested in Italy and extradited to the UK\n\nThen on 10 December, a Knightsbridge property belonging to the late billionaire Leicester City owner Mr Srivaddhanaprabha was burgled, the court heard.\n\nMr Srivaddhanaprabha died in a helicopter crash outside the King Power Stadium in October 2018 and his family said the home had been left untouched since his death.\n\nThe court heard Jovanovic, Mr Vukovic, and two other Italians - Alessandro Donati and Alessandro Maltese - ransacked the home taking seven Patek Philippe watches, a Tag Heuer smart watch and around €400,000 in cash.\n\nThe following day, the group dined at an expensive sushi restaurant near Harrods and had a £760 champagne and sashimi lunch, the court heard.\n\nVichai Srivaddhanaprabha bought Leicester City in 2010 and died in a helicopter crash in 2018\n\nFinally, on 13 December, Mr Vukovic, Maltese and Donati carried out one of the biggest burglaries in English legal history, the prosecution said.\n\nArmed with screw drivers, they targeted the palatial home that F1 heiress Ms Ecclestone shares with her husband Jay Rutland - opposite Kensington Palace, the court was told.\n\nKensington Palace Gardens is one of the most expensive streets in the world, has an armed guard presence and is home to the Russian, French and Israeli embassies.\n\nJovanovic remained the 'watch' at the bottom of the road, outside the nearby Stick & Bowl Chinese restaurant.\n\nHe left the UK onboard an AirItalia flight from London City Airport to Milan Linate Airport on 18 December, the court heard.\n\nThe 24-year-old, who was living in Milan, was extradited from Italy to the UK in April to face legal proceedings.\n\nJay Rutland, Tamara Ecclestone and their daughter had left for Lapland on the morning of the burglary\n\nItalian nationals Donati, 44, and Maltese, 45, both previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to burgle.\n\nAll three will be sentenced on 15 November and have been remanded into custody.\n\nMr Vukovic 40, has never been located and is believed to be in the Serbian capital Belgrade.\n\nDet Con Andrew Payne said specialist police looked through 2,000 hours of video footage.\n\nHe added: \"We also recognise that for those targeted, this is not simply about having their possessions stolen.\n\n\"Being a victim of burglary, whoever you are, is traumatic and upsetting and everyone should have the right to feel safe in their own homes.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police said Angela Rayner had received a number of abusive calls earlier this month\n\nA man has been arrested after deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner received threatening and abusive phone calls.\n\nThe 52-year-old was held by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) on suspicion of malicious communications at an address in Halifax on Wednesday morning.\n\nA spokesperson for the MP said she and her staff had received a number of threatening, malicious and abusive communications in recent weeks.\n\nMs Rayner thanked the police \"for their work during these investigations\".\n\nThe arrest was directly related to a number of abusive phone calls she received on 15 October, police said, with the individual being bailed pending further inquiries.\n\nDet Sgt Christopher Dean, of Greater Manchester Police, said: \"Abusive, threatening or bullying behaviour towards anyone is completely unacceptable, and we will always do what we can to ensure those responsible are identified and held accountable for their behaviour.\n\n\"Although we have arrested one man our investigation remains very much ongoing and we will continue to pursue all available lines of enquiry to identify all those responsible.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Ashton-under-Lyne MP added: \"Abuse and threats of this nature don't just have an impact on Angela but also on her family, her children and her staff who are on the receiving end of these communications.\n\n\"We are working with the police to ensure that the perpetrators of these crimes are brought to justice.\"\n\nMs Rayner was currently on bereavement leave after losing a close loved one and hoped to return to work \"as soon as possible\", her spokesperson added.\n\nThe arrest comes amid increased concern over the safety of MPs and the level of abuse they receive following the killing of Sir David Amess.\n\nThe veteran Conservative MP for Southend West was fatally stabbed in a suspected terror attack during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to announce £70m in funding to help small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in Northern Ireland in this week's budget.\n\nHer Majesty's Treasury said the funding will build on the British Business Bank's existing programmes to help SMEs to invest and grow.\n\nIt will provide loans or invest in local companies.\n\nThe way in which businesses can access the fund will be outlined in due course.\n\nLocal companies that may avail of the funding include recent start-ups looking to borrow smaller amounts to kickstart activity or established SMEs looking for larger investments to grow their business.\n\nThe funding will be part of a government commitment to level up opportunities.\n\nIt will build on the success of existing funds in other parts of the UK, which have been shown to support the creation of high-paying high productivity jobs and the upskilling of existing workforces, the Treasury said.\n\nOn Budget day the chancellor usually holds up a traditional red box full of financial documents\n\nDescribing Northern Ireland as a \"powerhouse of ingenuity\", Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the UK government was continuing to support small businesses across the country to grow and succeed.\n\n\"We're investing millions of pounds to help thousands of businesses take their next step,\" he said.\n\n\"Since the start of the pandemic, the UK government has spent £352bn right across the UK on support.\n\n\"In Northern Ireland this included protecting more than 284,000 jobs through the furlough scheme, £118m in self-employment support, help for businesses and the procurement of vaccines.\"\n\nIn addition to the £70m for Northern Ireland, Scotland will benefit from £150m and Wales will receive £130m for a new fund delivered by the British Business Bank.", "The UK is recovering faster than its major competitors from Covid, the chancellor has told MPs.\n\nOpening his 2021 Budget, Rishi Sunak spoke about the direction of employment, investment, public service, wages and debt levels.\n\nThe chancellor added there were “challenging months ahead”, but said his Budget set out a plan, preparing for a \"new economy, post-Covid\".\n\nPMQs and Sunak to unveil spending plans in Budget for 'new age'", "The two teenagers were found fatally injured in Brentwood, Essex, in the early hours of Sunday\n\nA man charged with murder after the death of two teenage boys has appeared at court.\n\nThe two teenagers were found fatally injured in Regency Court, Brentwood, Essex, at about 01:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nFrankie Watson, 19, of Baker Street, Orsett, was charged with two counts of murder, attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nSouthend magistrates remanded him in custody to appear at Basildon Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nEssex Police said two men, aged 20 and 21, had been released on bail and a 40-year-old man had been released under investigation.\n\nSouthend Magistrates' Court ordered that the two victims could not be named, and neither could a third person involved who is the subject of the attempted murder charge.\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.", "Boris Johnson has pledged to make the UK a science superpower\n\nThe chancellor will increase science spending to £20bn a year by 2024 - £2bn less than he pledged in 2020.\n\nThe boost was announced in the Budget by Rishi Sunak on Wednesday.\n\nThere is some disappointment among many scientific leaders - but the commitment to sustained additional investment has been welcomed by some.\n\nThe President of the UK's Royal Society, Prof Sir Adrian Smith, told BBC news that the settlement sent out a positive signal.\n\n\"It is not absolutely ideal. But we are grown-ups. There are real pressures on the economy, but the government is saying that it really does recognise that R&D [research and development] is absolutely vital,\" he said.\n\nAlthough the chancellor's increase is less many had hoped for, it is more than some had feared. Last week, those negotiating with the Treasury told BBC News they were getting clear signals that the commitment to increase spending to £22bn a year would be kicked into the long grass.\n\nScientific and business leaders lobbied hard, arguing that a long deferral of scientific investment would mean that other countries, which are investing more in research, would overtake the UK.\n\nThose sources say that the Mr Sunak seems to have listened to those arguments. The chancellor said that the commitment of £22bn would be pushed back by two years to 2026. But that will be after the next General Election, when someone else might have Mr Sunak's job - and take a different view.\n\nBut the Chancellor has promised to deliver what has been described as a sizeable increase of around £5bn before the end of this Parliament. That's a 33% increase on top of the current research budget of £15bn a year. What is notable is that the bulk of the increase will come in 2023, so a large amount of the additional funding for science is not that far away.\n\nSome £2bn of that increase is for membership of the EU's collaborative research programme, Horizon Europe. BBC News reported earlier this week that the UK's access to the programme was being used as a bargaining chip in wider negotiations with the EU over the status of Northern Ireland.\n\nNow that the money has been allocated to the science budget, research leaders have a clear choice between spending it on membership fees or on doing more science. The Treasury itself is understood to feel that spending money on Horizon Europe is an inefficient use of funds but will leave the decision to the scientific community.\n\nSir Jeremy Farrar, who is director of the Wellcome Trust, believes that, given the financial pressures the chancellor faces, this is not a bad settlement.\n\n\"We welcome the government's ongoing commitment to making the UK a science superpower. But it will need to continue to increase investment in science to catch up with other leading science nations. The UK's investment in R&D as a proportion of GDP lags behind the OECD average, and it will take time to change that,\" he said.\n\nScientific and business leaders say that the most important aspect of the science settlement is that they now have a firm timetable and an upward trajectory for science spending. According to the president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Prof Sir Jim McDonald, that sends out a clear message to the private sector thinking of investing in research and to overseas scientists and businesses thinking of coming to Britain.\n\n\"The comprehensive package of investment for R&D announced today gives much needed confidence to businesses that the UK is a great place to invest. The measures outlined by the chancellor today will stimulate innovation for a better, faster and more resilient recovery.\"", "The warning is in place from 06:00 BST on Thursday until 15:00 on Friday\n\nA weather warning for heavy rain covering most of Wales has come into force.\n\nThe Met Office said up to 60mm (2.3in) was widely forecast, with up to 100mm (4in) over parts of north-west Wales from 06:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nThe warning, which is in place until 15:00 on Friday, covers every council area in Wales except for Flintshire.\n\nThree flood alerts are in force in Conwy and Gwynedd.\n\nThey cover areas around the River Conwy from Dolwyddelan to Conwy, rivers in north-west Wales from Abergwyngregyn to Aberdaron, and also around the River Glaslyn and River Dwyryd, from Dyffryn Ardudwy to Nant Gwynant.\n\nThe A499 road between between Pwllheli and Llanbedrog has been closed due to flooding.\n\nThe Met Office said \"flooding of a few homes and businesses is likely\", along with disruption to travel.\n\nIt said there could be persistent rainfall starting in north-west Wales, with isolated \"heavier bursts\" across south Wales leading to 60mm of rain in under nine hours.\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.", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nHolders Manchester City were knocked out of the Carabao Cup after West Ham United won 5-3 on penalties in front of an ecstatic sell-out crowd at London Stadium.\n\nThe fourth-round tie had ended goalless after 90 minutes before Said Benrahma scored the decisive spot-kick.\n\nPhil Foden fired his penalty wide to give the Hammers the advantage in the shootout.\n\nIt is the first time since 2016 City, who have won the competition for the past four seasons, have been eliminated.\n\nPep Guardiola made nine changes to his side but City finished the 90 minutes with substitutes Foden, Gabriel Jesus and Jack Grealish on the pitch as they searched for a winner in normal time.\n\nDespite peppering West Ham's goal with 25 attempts, they could not find a breakthrough as the hosts claimed a famous win to advance to Saturday's quarter-final draw.\n\n\"It's been an incredible run,\" said Guardiola after his hopes of winning the competition for a fifth straight season ended.\n\n\"On penalties they were better, congratulations to West Ham and we'll be back next year.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil missed it, but it's experience and when you get this kind of experience, next time he will be better.\"\n\nNathan Ake should have headed City ahead in the first half before Ilkay Gundogan missed another chance from an angle.\n\nHammers keeper Alphonse Areola made a fine save to keep out John Stones' close-range header while West Ham's best chance in normal time fell to Tomas Soucek.\n\nSuch has been City's dominance in the competition that this was the first time they have been knocked out of it since losing to Manchester United at Old Trafford five years ago.\n\nWest Ham scored all five of their penalties and have now knocked out both Manchester clubs on their way to the last-eight after winning at Old Trafford in the third round.\n\nTheir season continues to gather momentum under David Moyes.\n\nSitting fourth in the Premier League, they have won all three Europa League group games and now find themselves in the last eight of the Carabao Cup.\n\nGuardiola added: \"They are doing well in the Premier League, the Europa League and now they are in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup. A fantastic team, a fantastic manager.\"\n\nMoyes made eight changes against City but his side dug deep to frustrate the visitors and have now kept four successive clean sheets.\n\nThey created several chances of their own in normal time before penalties from club captain Mark Noble, Jarrod Bowen, Craig Dawson, Aaron Cresswell and substitute Benrahma left Hammers fans celebrating a memorable victory.\n\n\"The players deserve all the credit, while the manager drives this club on a daily basis. He's done a wonderful job at this club,\" he added.\n• None Goal! West Ham United 0(5), Manchester City 0(3). Saïd Benrahma (West Ham United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! West Ham United 0(4), Manchester City 0(3). Jack Grealish (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! West Ham United 0(4), Manchester City 0(2). Aaron Cresswell (West Ham United) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! West Ham United 0(3), Manchester City 0(2). Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! West Ham United 0(3), Manchester City 0(1). Craig Dawson (West Ham United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! West Ham United 0(2), Manchester City 0(1). João Cancelo (Manchester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! West Ham United 0(2), Manchester City 0. Jarrod Bowen (West Ham United) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot is close, but misses to the right. Phil Foden should be disappointed.\n• None Goal! West Ham United 0(1), Manchester City 0. Mark Noble (West Ham United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fernandinho (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Attempt missed. Tomas Soucek (West Ham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Pablo Fornals. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The government says it will force water companies to make a \"progressive reduction\" in the sewage it dumps in rivers, amid pressure from the Lords.\n\nPeers proposed a change to the Environment Bill last week in an attempt to cut the pollution, but it did not win enough support from MPs.\n\nIt led to a backlash on social media, and Lords promising to try again.\n\nBut Environment Secretary George Eustice has now promised to bolster measures by making them a legal duty.\n\nHe said the government already had plans in place to require water companies to act on sewage, but added: \"We've listened to the debate in Parliament [and] we will write what was already government policy into [law] to give people the reassurance they seek.\"\n\nThe crossbench peer who put forward the Lords amendment, the Duke of Wellington, said he met Mr Eustice earlier on Tuesday ahead of a debate in Parliament on the Environment Bill.\n\nSpeaking in the Lords, he said was \"grateful for the gesture\", but he had yet to form an opinion on the language of the government's proposal, so would be pushing ahead with his own plan to end the \"revolting practice\".\n\nThe duke's amendment passed in the Lords by 213 votes to 60, and will now be debated by MPs at a later date.\n\nHowever, due to parliamentary rules, his amendment would have to be approved by the Lords anyway to allow the government to replace it with its own plan when the bill returns to the Commons.\n\nThe environmental issue has come to a head days before the start of the COP26 climate summit, being hosted by the UK in Glasgow.\n\nThe Environment Agency allows water utilities to release sewage into rivers and streams after extreme weather events, such as prolonged heavy rain.\n\nThis protects properties from flooding and prevents sewage from backing up into streets and homes.\n\nBut according to the public body's own figures, water companies discharged raw sewage into rivers in England more than 400,000 times last year, with untreated effluent - including human waste, wet wipes and condoms - released into waterways for more than three million hours in 2020.\n\nThe Lords agreed an amendment to the Environment Bill that would put a legal duty on water companies and the government to demonstrate progressive reductions in discharges of untreated sewage and required them to \"take all reasonable steps\" to avoid using combined sewer overflows.\n\nBut when the proposal was voted on by MPs last week, it lost by 265 votes to 202 - even with 22 Tories rebelling against the government to vote in favour of the plan.\n\nThe government had said the amount of sewage discharged by water companies was \"not acceptable\" and that it had made it \"crystal clear\" to firms that significant reductions must be a priority.\n\nBut a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the intentions of the Lords' amendment, which it said would involve an overhaul of the UK's Victorian sewerage system - would cost upwards of £150bn.\n\n\"That would mean that individuals - every one of us as taxpayers - paying potentially thousands of pounds each as a result,\" they added.\n\nShortly before the issue was brought up again for debate in the Lords, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs proposed its own amendment for when the bill returns to the Commons.\n\nThe new legal duty would be placed directly on water companies to make a \"progressive reduction\" in the sewage it dumps into rivers.\n\nIt follows on from advice it gave the industry's financial regulator, Ofwat, earlier this year, saying water companies must take steps to significantly reduce storm overflows and that the regulator should ensure funding should be approved for them to do so.\n\nAnd the firms would need to produce \"comprehensive statutory Drainage and Sewerage Management Plans, setting out how they will manage and develop their drainage and sewerage system over a minimum 25-year planning horizon - including how storm overflows will be addressed\".\n\nA number of peers welcomed the move by the government, but some warned it still may not go far enough, with Labour's Baroness Quin saying she hoped the government would move even further now people across the country were \"waking up to the problem\".\n\nLabour's shadow environment secretary, Luke Pollard, also said the \"screeching u-turn\" on the issue due to the public backlash would \"do little to convince the public that the health of our rivers, rather than the health of Conservative polling, is at the forefront of ministers' minds\".\n\nHe added: \"The government still has no clear plan and no grip on the issue of raw sewage being pumped into our seas and rivers.\"", "Rishi Sunak said his budget plans delivered for the whole of the UK\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has pledged a \"new economy\" while increasing UK government spending by £150bn. But what does his Autumn Budget mean for Scotland?\n\nWhile many of the decisions about tax and spending in Scotland are made in Edinburgh, the UK Budget still has a big impact - well beyond the simple question of how much cash goes into Holyrood's coffers.\n\nMr Sunak has opted to turn on the spending taps across every government department, and this means Scottish Finance Secretary Kate Forbes will have more cash to allocate when she sets out her own draft budget in December.\n\nThis is because many of the eye-catching announcements in the UK budget relate to matters which are devolved to Holyrood - for example the £24bn earmarked for housing or the £21bn for roads.\n\nNorth of the border, Scottish ministers are in charge of housing and transport. So when the Chancellor pledges fresh funding to these areas, an extra chunk of cash is added to the Scottish budget to balance things up and ensure Scottish taxpayers don't end up subsidising giveaways in England.\n\nThe windfall is calculated based on population levels using the Barnett Formula, and Scottish ministers can spend the cash on whatever they want - this is rather the point of devolution.\n\nMr Sunak said his spending spree would send an average of £4.6bn per year extra to Holyrood, resulting in \"the largest block grants for the devolved administrations\" since they were established.\n\nHowever, Ms Forbes contends this is still not enough to deal with the \"significant challenges\" facing Scotland in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nShe also says it is important to \"get behind the rhetoric and understand what the figures mean\" before she announces her own spending plans on 9 December.\n\nKate Forbes will set out the Scottish government's budget plans in December\n\nNot all spending in devolved areas triggers Barnett consequentials. As of this year, some cash is actually going around Holyrood and directly to local projects.\n\nThe UK government has established a £4.8bn \"levelling up\" fund, which allows local authorities to bid for cash for things like building roads and bridges, refurbishing museums and installing electric vehicle charging points. Mr Sunak told MPs that this year, £170m had been awarded to Scottish projects.\n\nThese include the redevelopment of Inverness Castle, the renovation of the Westfield Roundabout in Falkirk, and a new marketplace in Aberdeen city centre - each of which is getting £20m of funding.\n\nA redevelopment of the Artizan shopping centre in Dumbarton is getting another £20m, while £38m will be spent improving travel links between Paisley and a local manufacturing innovation hub.\n\nUp to £3m is also being committed to the Burrell Collection in Glasgow in a bid to bring world-class art exhibitions to the city, while another £1m is being spent on local projects via the Community Ownership Fund.\n\nInverness Castle is in line for a refit as part of the levelling up fund\n\nThis is partly to do with the government's \"levelling up\" agenda, an attempt to rebalance an economy previously seen as being skewed towards London and the south-east of England - while helpfully winning over former Labour voters in \"red wall\" constituencies in the north of England.\n\nBut it also plays into a longer-term Downing Street strategy to have a more visible presence in Scotland. UK ministers hope that by directly funding projects north of the border, they can write themselves into some local success stories and perhaps dampen enthusiasm for independence.\n\nScottish ministers meanwhile do not like the idea of being cut out of the loop, saying this \"undermines devolution\". They instinctively contest the idea that officials in London are better placed to assess the merit of funding bids than those in Edinburgh.\n\nThe political difficulty though is that these are positive projects backed by local councils - some of them SNP-run - and so extra cash for them cannot be opposed outright. Instead, the complaint tends to be more procedural, about the decision-making process and the complexity of the funding landscape.\n\nThis may also become a more common occurrence going forward, with the UK Shared Prosperity Fund set to replace EU structural funds in 2022 - again sparking complaints that Holyrood is being bypassed.\n\nA range of different taxes are devolved to Holyrood - but others are not, and the interplay between the two means changes announced at Westminster can still have far-reaching implications in Scotland.\n\nFor example, income tax rates and bands are devolved, with Scotland operating its own five-band system which the government in Edinburgh argues is fairer. However, the tax-free allowance is still reserved, which as the starting point where taxes kick in clearly has a knock-on effect on the entire system.\n\nSo what is actually changing, and what is not?\n\nThe national living wage is set UK-wide, so the increase there - to £9.50 an hour for over-23s - will apply north of the border.\n\nAnd while an increasing range of welfare powers are being taken over by Social Security Scotland, Universal Credit is also reserved to Westminster - so the changes to the \"taper rate\", allowing working claimants to keep more of the money they earn as their wages increase, will also apply in Scotland.\n\nMoving away from personal taxes, business rates are fully devolved to Holyrood as non-domestic rates - and the Scottish government has already committed to rates relief for the hospitality and retail sectors.\n\nThe Scottish government dropped its own plans for an air passenger duty cut in 2019\n\nThe cut to air passenger duty on domestic flights will apply in Scotland - Aberdeen and Inverness were specifically cited by the Chancellor as beneficiaries, although Inverness is actually exempt from the levy.\n\nWhile there have long been plans to replace air passenger duty with a devolved Air Departure Tax, the move has been tied up in technical wrangles for years - chiefly because of that exemption for Highlands and Islands airports.\n\nIncidentally, Scottish ministers wanted to do away with the levy entirely - but ditched this plan in 2019 citing environmental concerns. This has freed them up to raise an eyebrow at Mr Sunak's plan coming on the eve of the COP26 climate conference.\n\nThe overhaul of alcohol duties will have effect in Scotland too. While there is a system of minimum unit pricing in Scotland, this is not actually a tax, with retailers pocketing the proceeds of increased prices.\n\nThe freeze on current alcohol duty is also good news for the Scottish whisky industry, which had been lobbying against a planned increase.\n\nRishi Sunak seems determined that this is seen as a red, white and blue budget - a budget for the whole of the UK.\n\nAs he chose to put it: \"We are, and always will be, one family - one United Kingdom\".\n\nThat is obviously in dispute in Scotland where the SNP and others aspire to independence - so what did the Chancellor do to try and strengthen the Union?\n\nAs well as extra cash for the Scottish government, there is the so-called \"levelling up\" money which involves the UK government spending more directly in Scotland.\n\nThere's likely to be more of this after COP26 when UK ministers publish their Union connectivity review identifying cross-border transport investments.\n\nThe budget also included a cut to air passenger duty for internal UK flights which Mr Sunak said was designed to \"bring people together across the UK\".\n\nThere was even a UK-wide scheme to boost numeracy skills, although education is a Holyrood responsibility.\n\nWhat nationalists might see as Treasury overreach was also a signal to unionists that this Chancellor is committed to their cause.\n\nA tiny pub in the most inaccessible village in Scotland; a roundabout in Falkirk: a shopping centre in Dunbartonshire; the stable block in Glasgow's Pollok Park - the UK budget is going very local.\n\nOver 22 years of devolution, it had become increasingly a spending budget for England, with devolved bells and whistles, and taxes that mainly covered the whole of the UK.\n\nBut that's changing. This budget marks a big shift towards the UK government planting its union flags on Scottish government turf.\n\nThe Levelling Up Fund offers £170m to Scottish projects, this year, and £400m over three years - money that would previously have gone through the block grant at Holyrood, for ministers there to allocate.\n\nCommunity Ownership and Regeneration Funds also pick pet projects that show the difference some Whitehall money can make, backing some really small projects from Whithorn to Kinloch Rannoch.\n\nAn extension of that will come with the Shared Prosperity Fund, which will ramp up as European Union structural funds are wound down. That, too, will bypass Holyrood, because Westminster wants its own direct links to projects on the ground.", "Thank you for joining us. Our live coverage of this event has now ended.\n\nStay tuned to the BBC as we bring you the latest updates on the investigation into Halyna Hutchins' death.\n\nToday's live coverage was brought to you by Jessica Murphy, Marianna Brady, Sam Cabral, Kelly-Leigh Cooper and Michelle Mullen.", "Taxes on sparkling wine, draught beer and cider are to be cut, but will rise for stronger drinks such as red wine following a shake-up of alcohol duty.\n\nThe new system, due to start in 2023, will mean higher duty for stronger alcohol, the chancellor said.\n\nThe duty premium on sparkling wines will end and the duty on draught beer and cider served in pubs will be cut.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak called it the \"most radical simplification of alcohol duties for over 140 years\".\n\nHe also announced that the planned increase in duty on spirits, wine, cider and beer due to take effect from midnight on Wednesday has been cancelled.\n\n\"To radically simplify the system, we are slashing the number of main duty rates from 15 to just six,\" the chancellor said.\n\n\"Our new system will be designed around a common-sense principle: the stronger the drink, the higher the rate. This means that some drinks, like stronger red wines, fortified wines, or high-strength 'white ciders' will see a small increase in their rates because they are currently undertaxed given their strength.\"\n\nMr Sunak said many lower alcohol drinks were \"currently overtaxed\", adding: \"Rose, fruit ciders, liqueurs, lower strength beers and wines - today's changes mean they will pay less.\"\n\nIn relation to sparkling wines, Mr Sunak said: \"I'm going to end the irrational duty premium of 28% that they currently pay. Sparkling wines - wherever they are produced - will now pay the same duty as still wines of equivalent strength.\"\n\nThe cut to sparkling wine duty was welcomed by Kate Goodman, owner of Cheshire drinks importer Reserve Wines, but she was disappointed that the change was not immediate.\n\n\"Christmas is our busiest period. It would have great to introduce this before that time. We need help to get back on our feet after a pretty crippling 18 months,\" she said.\n\nReducing duty on lower alcohol drinks will encourage people to buy English wines, said Jonathan Piggins, chief executive of English wine merchant Corkk.\n\n\"The UK's vineyards are being taken increasingly seriously by the major overseas players and reducing the tax on lower alcohol drinks, will give the country an even more prominent position on the global wine map.\"\n\nThe changes were less welcomed by Liam Manton, co-founder of Didsbury Gin.\n\n\"Additional tax on high ABV drinks will present a real challenge to businesses like ours,\" he said, adding that on average 70% of the price of a bottle of gin is already tax.\n\nDraught beers and ciders will attract a new lower rate of duty\n\nIn a move to help struggling pubs, Mr Sunak announced a new lower rate of duty for draught drinks, which he said would cut the cost of a pint by about three pence.\n\nHe said the \"draught relief will cut duty by 5%\" and \"will apply to drinks served from draught containers over 40 litres\".\n\nThe chancellor said this would particularly benefit community pubs \"who do 75% of their trade on draught\".\n\nHe also announced proposals for a new \"small producer relief\" to include small cidermakers and other producers making alcoholic drinks of less than 8.5% alcohol by volume (ABV).\n\nJez Lamb, founder of Wirral-based craft beer marketplace, Beers @ No.42, said the draught relief favoured the big players in the market, not the smaller, independent breweries who need support most.\n\n\"It's brilliant to see alcohol duty cut on draught beer but that's only for \"containers\" more than 40L. That is great for the big breweries but so many smaller craft brewers only supply in 30L containers,\" he said.\n\nCreating a draught rate and simplifying the duty system is positive news, said Nick Mackenzie, chief executive of Greene King, which has 2,700 pubs.\n\n\"It is a much needed vote of confidence in the great British pub as we face into an uncertain winter, labour disruption and rising costs.\"\n\nWilliam Robinson, managing director of Stockport brewery Robinsons, said the lower draught beer duty rate and the cancellation of the planned inflation-linked increase in beer duty showed that the chancellor \"recognises the contribution pubs make to the communities they support and serve.\"", "Thanks for joining us for all the news, views and analysis of Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget.\n\nYour writers today were Jennifer Scott, Sinead Wilson, Richard Morris, Dearbail Jordon and Victoria Lindrea.\n\nYour editors were Hamish Mackay, Claire Heald, Kevin Ponniah and Emma Harrison.\n\nYou can find more of our in-depth coverage on the BBC News website, but here is a little round-up before we close the page for the night.", "The site of COP26 by the Clyde in Glasgow\n\nPopular support for governments to take tough action on climate change is growing around the world, according to a BBC World Service opinion poll.\n\nThe survey of over 30,000 people finds that 56% want their countries to play a leadership role at the critical COP26 meeting next week.\n\nThe desire to see ambitious goals set in Glasgow has grown substantially since 2015.\n\nConcern about climate change is also at its highest point since 1998.\n\nPresidents and prime ministers from around 120 countries will gather in Glasgow next week for the COP26 conference, dubbed the last, best chance of averting dangerous climate change.\n\nRecent research shows that the plans so far on the table will not prevent global temperatures going far above 1.5C this century - a level that scientists say is the gateway to extreme impacts.\n\nThe UK, which is presiding over the talks, will hope that in negotiations with leaders they will be able to find a pathway that reduces emissions fast enough to stay below 1.5C.\n\nThis new poll suggests that people in rich and poor nations alike are supportive of the idea of greater ambition from their leaders.\n\nAcross the 31 countries polled, an average of 56% of people want their governments to set stronger targets that would address climate change as quickly as possible.\n\nAnother 36% want their government to take a more moderate approach and support gradual action.\n\nJust 8% want their governments to oppose a deal.\n\nIn the 18 countries where a similar survey was carried out ahead of COP21 in Paris in 2015, the expectation for governments to play a leading role has grown substantially.\n\nIn 2015, 43% of those polled wanted strong action, but that has risen to 58% now.\n\nClimate walkers from the Netherlands about to set off for Glasgow\n\n\"In advance of the COP21 meeting in Paris in 2015, global public opinion exhibited relatively strong expectations for governments to deliver an ambitious climate change agreement, which in the end is what transpired,\" said Chris Coulter, the chief executive of Globescan, which carried out the poll.\n\n\"Now, in advance of the COP26 meeting in Glasgow next week, we are seeing significantly higher levels of expectations - an increase of 25% worldwide - for governments to conclude an ambitious deal. This is an extraordinary shift in a relatively short period of time and the implications being that governments that don't deliver on these expectations could face political consequences.\"\n\nThere are some interesting changes in some of the biggest emitting countries, particularly China, where the percentage of respondents wanting to see their country play a leadership role has increased from 18% in 2015 to 46% now.\n\nIndia also sees a rise from 38% then to 56% now, with the US also showing an uptick from 45% of respondents then to 56% now.\n\nOnly in Russia did the pollsters find a decline in support for stronger government leadership at COP26, with only 38% backing this approach, down from almost 50% in 2015.\n\nOn the question of addressing climate change, respondents were fairly evenly divided, with 61% overall saying that governments had the responsibility while 57% said that companies were in the frame.\n\nOn the issue of individuals, only 36% said that the answers should come from them.\n\nYoung people are set to bring their message to political leaders during COP26\n\nThis question turned up an interesting age difference with four in 10 respondents under 30 years of age saying that individuals held a great deal of responsibility, while only three in 10 of those over 30 saw it the same way.\n\nOverall concern about climate change is at its highest level since Globescan first started tracking this concern - in 17 countries -back in 1998. Some 63% of people now see it as a \"very serious\" issue.\n\nThere have also been large increases in the numbers of people saying that weather patterns have become highly unusual and alarming, particularly in France and the UK, where the numbers have doubled since 2015.\n\nMore details on the poll can be found here.", "The money for this Government spending has to be found somewhere\n\nRishi Sunak might liken himself to a reluctant taxman, but his strategic decision has been to spend at the same time as keeping borrowing down, so taxation has taken the hit.\n\nThere are four big figures that tell the broad story here.\n\nThe really good news is that unemployment is now forecast to peak at 5.2%.\n\nHowever, a significant spike in inflation to higher than 4%, set to last a year or so, partly reflects rising energy and fuel prices.\n\nMeanwhile, taxation as a proportion of the economy at 36.2% is at its highest level since the 1950s Labour Atlee government.\n\nAnd spending as a proportion of the economy, at nearly 42%, is at its highest sustained level since the 1970s.\n\nAll that leaves the British state under a Conservative government permanently bigger as a legacy of the pandemic.\n\nBut borrowing at the end of the new forecast is even lower than forecast before the pandemic.\n\nAnd so the big story is that the corporation tax rises from the March Budget, required to shore up public finances after bad forecasts, have been kept as they were, even as those bad forecasts have been reversed.\n\nThere might have been some room to delay those tax rises or extend the corporation super deduction.\n\nBut that extra taxation has been kept to be deployed mainly in terms of extra spending.\n\nThat spending has been sprinkled towards some help with cost of living, and some surgery on the economy to improve skills and long term productivity.\n\nUnprotected areas of the public finances forecast for a continuing squeeze have all been topped up. All will now enjoy rising spending.\n\nRishi Sunak has a better economic backdrop than he expected - but will keep business tax rises despite this\n\nTo be clear, the slowing in the rise in unemployment would have been scarcely believable 18 months ago and is the best measure of the pandemic economic rescue plan's success.\n\nBut before the Budget, I raised the question as to whether, after furlough, the public were becoming used to the idea that the government should solve problems such as rising living costs.\n\nDespite the chancellor's protestations of his love for low, tax free-market conservatism, his actions show an attachment to higher tax and spending.\n\nWith new restraints on the ability to borrow, delivering on lowering this tax burden will require the economy to grow far more robustly than the disappointing rates forecast after 2023 of as low as 1.3%.\n\nSmall wonder that the chancellor was proclaiming a \"new era of optimism\" for the economy.\n\nTo deliver on his promises to reverse tax rises, that isn't just a hope, it's a necessity.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's my freedom day and I’ve never been so happy\" – Josh Cavallo speaks to the BBC\n\nAdelaide United player Josh Cavallo has come out as gay, becoming the only current top-flight male professional footballer in the world to do so.\n\nThe 21-year-old wrote on social media that he was \"ready to speak about something personal that I'm finally comfortable to talk about in my life\".\n\n\"I'm a footballer and I'm gay,\" the midfielder said in an accompanying video.\n\n\"All I want to do is play football and be treated equally.\"\n\nJosh said he was tired of trying to perform at his best \"and to live this double life, it's exhausting\".\n\n\"It's been a journey to get to this point in my life, but I couldn't be happier with my decision to come out.\"\n\n\"I have been fighting with my sexuality for six years now, and I'm glad I can put that to rest.\"\n\nJosh says it got to the point his mental health was affected and he was \"going into dark places\".\n\n\"At the end of the day I just wanted to be happy. This is bigger than football, it's my life. I'd go home and I wasn't happy,\" he told the BBC's Newshour programme.\n\n\"It just slowly eats away at you and it's not something I wish upon anyone.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adelaide United This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 thought \"people would think of me differently when they found out\".\n\n\"They would start saying bad things about me or making fun out of me. That's not the case. If anything you would earn more respect from people.\"\n\nAnalysis by Jack Murley, presenter of the BBC's LGBT Sport Podcast\n\nThose six words may not sound like much, but Josh Cavallo's decision to open up about his sexuality is hugely significant.\n\nHe's chosen to speak while still an active player - something that marks him out from the likes of Thomas Hitzlsperger, who only came out publicly after retiring.\n\nIn many ways, gay and bisexual men are more represented in football than you think.\n\nThere are out players at the non-league level of the English football pyramid, as well as gay referees like Ryan Atkin and James Adcock.\n\nBut to have a top-level professional like Josh Cavallo feel comfortable enough to come out while still playing is a huge step - and, as evidenced by the reaction on social media, a welcome one as well.\n\nAs Josh himself says, too many men have felt as if the only way to be successful in football is by hiding their sexuality - with many choosing to step away from the game altogether rather than being their authentic self.\n\nHis decision to speak out (with the full support of his team-mates) shows that, in 2021, it just doesn't have to be that way anymore.\n\nFew elite male football players have come out as gay during their careers.\n\nAndy Brennan became the first former Australian League player to come out in 2019 when the ex-Newcastle Jet was still playing in a lower tier.\n\nFormer Aston Villa midfielder Thomas Hitzlsperger revealed he was gay after retiring from the sport.\n\nIn 1990, Justin Fashanu came out as gay. He took his own life in 1998 after allegations of sexual assault were made against him by a 17-year-old in the US.\n\nThomas Beattie, a former youth player for English club Hull City came out in 2020, and said he was proud of Josh, adding \"visibility and representation matters\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Josh Cavallo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJosh's statement has sparked an outpouring of support for him, which he's called \"immense\".\n\nAustralia's professional players union said it was a \"wonderful moment\" for him, the sport and \"the LGBTI+ community\".\n\n\"Coming out as a gay footballer in the public eye takes incredible courage,\" says Liz Ward, director of programmes at Stonewall.\n\n\"His brave decision will undoubtedly mean a lot to lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer sportspeople around the world, who are too-often held back from playing and watching the sports they love.\"\n\nJosh says before coming out, he had to \"mask my feelings in order to fit the mould of a professional footballer.\"\n\n\"That's a lot of wasted young players missing out - players that could be very talented, but who don't fit the norm.\"\n\n\"As a gay footballer, I know there are other players living in silence. I want to help change this, to show that everyone is welcome in the game of football and deserves the right to be their authentic self,\" he added.\n\nNewsbeat has contacted Josh's management but they've not yet responded.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Moldova's Foreign Minister, Nicu Popescu, is trying to look on the bright side\n\nHis country is immersed in a gas crisis. But Nicu Popescu is trying to remain positive.\n\n\"On Monday our country made history,\" Moldova's foreign minister tells me. \"For the first time Moldova bought gas from a source that was not Russia's Gazprom.\"\n\nThe gas shipment from Poland's PGNiG was one million cubic metres.\n\nMoldova will need much larger volumes if Gazprom does what it has threatened to do: turn off the gas taps.\n\nUp until now, 100% of Moldova's gas has come from Russia. But the contract to supply it expired at the end of September. Gazprom raised the price and Moldova balked at paying it. In the absence of a new deal, the Russian energy giant reduced supplies, prompting Moldova to declare a 30-day state of emergency. Gazprom accused Moldova of \"provoking a crisis\" and demanded repayment of a $709m (£514m) debt, which Moldova disputes.\n\nNegotiations continue. Moldovan officials say they would like to sign a new contract with Gazprom, but only if the terms are favourable.\n\nIf there is no deal with Russia, could Moldova, one of Europe's poorest countries, buy enough gas elsewhere?\n\nMoldova's gas contract with Gazprom expired at the end of last month\n\n\"It's the worst time to have a gas crisis at home,\" Mr Popescu admits. \"The prices are higher than ever. We see this market crunch on a global scale. But we've had support. In recent years Romania built a new gas pipeline into Moldova which gives us a safety valve. We've also had some advice from the European Union on how to diversify a country's gas supply within a few days.\"\n\nLike many enterprises in Moldova, the sugar factory in Drochia has been affected by the gas shortage.\n\n\"We're able to use just a quarter of the gas we need,\" manager Rostislav Magdei explains. \"We're topping that up with alternative sources of energy. We hope our government will compensate any losses arising from the high price of fuel.\"\n\nThis sugar factory is among many businesses hit by the gas shortage\n\nOnce in Moscow's orbit, Moldova has been tilting from Russia towards the West more recently.\n\nThe country's leadership is now pro-European and supports closer ties with the EU. Many here suspect that the gas crisis is the Kremlin's way of expressing its disapproval.\n\n\"This year we had parliamentary elections and the pro-Russia party lost,\" says Sergiu Tofilat, former energy adviser to the president of Moldova. \"We have a pro-Western party in power here. So, Russia changed its approach on the gas supply. The Kremlin wants to punish the Moldovan people for voting against a pro-Russia party. It's pure politics.\"\n\n\"Vladimir Putin is trying to keep former Soviet countries within the area of influence of the Kremlin. We do not want to stay on our knees in front of Moscow. We must say no to Russian blackmail and we have the opportunity now to get rid of Russian influence in Moldova.\"\n\nSergiu Tofilat, former presidential adviser, says the Kremlin is trying to punish his country\n\nThe Kremlin denies using energy as a weapon. President Putin recently dismissed the suggestion as \"utter nonsense, drivel and politically-motivated tittle-tattle.\"\n\nWHAT NEXT? Gas crisis leaves Europe searching for solutions\n\nFor Moldova, though, reducing Russia's influence won't be easy. In energy terms, Moldova is closely tied to Moscow. Not only has the country been 100% dependent on Russian gas. But its own gas company, Moldovagaz, is majority-owned by Gazprom. And more than 80% of Moldova's electricity comes from a Russian-owned power plant in Trans-Dniester - a separatist region of Moldova, backed economically, politically and militarily by Moscow.\n\nIf you think of gas negotiations as a game of poker, then Russia has a very strong hand.\n\nBut Trans-Dniester could prove to be a weak point for Moscow.\n\n\"Gazprom needs a gas contract with Moldova so that it can supply the breakaway region, too, with gas,\" says Sergiu Tofilat. \"Gazprom is a public company, with shares listed on the stock exchange. It cannot allow itself to sign a contract with the Trans-Dniester supplier that is not officially recognised.\"\n\nIn the town of Balti, Moldovan motorists are feeling the effects of less gas. I see long lines at the propane station.\n\nQueuing up here are dozens of cars and disgruntled drivers.\n\nDrivers in Balti are fed up with having to queue for fuel\n\n\"We're in this situation, because we're looking towards Europe\", a taxi driver called Valera tells me. \"If we were with Russia everything would be different.\"\n\n\"The problem is,\" says another driver Yura, \"that our leaders now want to be friends with Europe and America. For cheap gas they should go to Moscow, get an agreement. We need to bow down to Russia\".\n\nFor a government that has set a pro-European course there is a danger: that a prolonged gas shortage and higher energy bills could make Moldovans question the direction in which their country is moving.", "Last updated on .From the section Wrexham\n\nWrexham's Hollywood co-owner Ryan Reynolds described football as a \"soul-deadening\", \"evil\" and \"gorgeous\" game after watching his club in action for the first time at Maidenhead.\n\nReynolds and fellow actor Rob McElhenney completed their takeover of the club in February.\n\nThe pair made their much-awaited first appearance at a Wrexham game at Maidenhead United's York Road.\n\nThey watched on as 10-man Wrexham lost 3-2 after fighting back from 2-0.\n\nThe actors were accompanied by a crew filming an access-all-areas documentary, Welcome to Wrexham.\n\nDespite the result Deadpool star Reynolds seemed to enjoy his first taste of British football as he shared pictures from the National league game on his Instagram .\n\nHe wrote: \"Football is a staggering, heartbreaking, gorgeous, tommy-gun of soul-deadening, evil and beauty and I'm never sleeping again ever, ever.\"\n\nUp until now Reynolds and McElhenney, both based in the US, had been restricted to watching Wrexham matches on streams due to filming commitments and the pandemic.\n\nBut the actors attended a first game that had plenty of drama, with Wrexham falling behind to two goals after 22 minutes before having a player sent off.\n\nWrexham fought back to level at 2-2 before Maidenhead's Josh Kelly scored a goal that ensured there would be no fairytale ending on this occasion, with the home side winning 3-2.\n\nWrexham manager Phil Parkinson had been told beforehand that the club's co-owners would be present but neither he nor the players met with the pair ahead of the game.\n\n\"They flew in and they were trying to keep a low profile but I imagine it's fairly difficult to be low profile and they let us get on with it,\" Parkinson said.\n\n\"We look forward to meeting them later in the week.\n\n\"I'm really disappointed for them that we haven't been able to come away with at least a draw. But that's football. It can be a brutal industry.\"\n\nWrexham fan Andy Gilpin said he was \"gobsmacked\" to see the Hollywood owners in the stands and that their appearance had given the fans \"a boost\".\n\n\"There's media hype and then there's showing up at Maidenhead away which isn't the sort of Hollywood entrance really, it's a very low-key ground, and to see two Hollywood stars there in the middle of the home stand, we were just gobsmacked, you know,\" he said.\n\n\"It's quite a statement to come here to Maidenhead away and fair play to them for doing that.\"\n\nFree Guy star Reynolds and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator McElhenney revealed their interest in buying the north Wales club, the third oldest professional club in the world, in September 2020.\n\nWrexham Supporters' Trust members voted overwhelmingly to back the takeover two months later after the pair made an online presentation to fans.\n\nThe club had been under fan ownership since 2011 following a difficult decade which saw them enter administration and lose their place in the Football League in 2008.\n\nWrexham manager Phil Parkinson has said Reynolds and McElhenney recognise the \"huge potential\" of the club.\n\nReynolds and McElhenney invested an immediate £2m in Wrexham after completing their takeover, with their ambition reflected by a number of notable signings - plus the appointment of Parkinson - over the last few months.\n\nReynolds stated in November 2020 that the aim was to turn Wrexham into a \"global force\".\n\nHowever, Wrexham have had a mixed start to the 2021-22 season and are 11th in the National League following the defeat at Maidenhead.\n\nWrexham face Torquay United at the Racecourse Stadium on Saturday, 30 October.", "This vigil was staged outside the Science Museum\n\nClimate activists who slept overnight in London's Science Museum will approach the attraction's visitors to tell them about its sponsorship deals.\n\nA new gallery funded by a subsidiary of the Adani Group, a multinational business involved in coal extraction, is due to open in 2023.\n\nAbout 30 members of the UK Student Climate Network (UKSCN) camped out in the lobby as a protest on behalf of \"victims\" of fossil fuel companies.\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n\nThe museum has also faced criticism for partnering with Shell to fund its Our Future Planet exhibition\n\nDemonstrator Izzy Warren, 17, said the group, which includes school pupils, university students and scientists, chose to occupy the museum because the owners had ignored their petitions, letters and boycotts.\n\n\"We would really like to greet people who come to the museum this morning so they are aware of what they are supporting, and what they are paying for.\n\n\"The Science Museum is blatantly taking money from some of the worst perpetrators of the climate crisis.\"\n\nThe demonstration comes after the Science Museum last week announced a new gallery, called Energy Revolution: The Adani Green Energy Gallery.\n\nThe demonstration comes after the Science Museum last week announced a new gallery, called Energy Revolution: The Adani Green Energy Gallery\n\nAdani Green Energy is a solar power developer based in India and is a subsidiary of the Adani Group, which through another arm of its business is also involved in extracting coal.\n\nA spokesperson for the renewables company said: \"An environment where every child can grow up breathing pollution-free air - that is the environment we dream to create and have to a certain extent managed to enrich lives with our renewable energy plants.\n\n\"Adani Green Energy is pioneering in helping transition to renewable power generation. We develop, build, own, operate and maintain utility scale grid connected solar and wind projects.\"\n\nBiologist Dr Alexander Penson, who took part in the sit-in, said it was \"appalling\" the museum was persisting in fossil fuel sponsorship and starting a new relationship with Adani.\n\nThe activists said they negotiated with museum staff to be moved from the second floor of the building to the Energy Hall near the main entrance so that they would have access to toilets for the whole night.\n\nThe museum has also faced criticism for partnering with Shell to fund its Our Future Planet exhibition, which is about carbon capture and storage and nature-based solutions to the climate crisis.\n\nThe agreement with the fossil fuel giant included a gagging clause, committing the museum not to say anything that could damage Shell's reputation.\n\nThe students have staged the protest against sponsorship by fossil fuel companies\n\nThe Science Museum has consistently defended its stance on working with fossil fuel partners.\n\nChief executive Ian Blatchford said trustees \"are not convinced by the argument from some who say we should sever all ties with organisations that are 'tainted' by association, direct or indirect, with fossil fuels.\n\n\"We believe the right approach is to engage, debate and challenge companies, governments and individuals to do more to make the global economy less carbon intensive.\n\n\"Adani Green Energy is an example of an energy sector business bringing expertise and investment to renewables at the scale needed to deliver meaningful change.\"\n\nA Met Police spokesperson said: \"Officers attended and engaged with the protesters and museum staff.\n\n\"The protesters stated their intention was to remain in the museum overnight. This was agreed to by museum staff.\n\n\"No further police action was required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At least 750 allegations of sexual misconduct were made against serving police officers across Britain over five years, new figures show.\n\nData was obtained from 31 police forces in England, Wales and Scotland under the Freedom of Information Act.\n\nForces were asked how many complaints of sexual assault were made against police officers between 2016 and 2020.\n\nThe End Violence Against Women Coalition said few officers faced \"any meaningful consequences\".\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said: \"The police must raise the bar and, at a time where they are in the spotlight, they must ensure their actions are beyond reproach.\n\n\"This includes being transparent when officers have fallen below the standards the public expect of them, and being clear on the forces' response.\"\n\nData, obtained by PA Media's Radar service, shows that most complaints, where gender was recorded, were against male officers.\n\nAllegations could be historical, and the responses did not indicate whether any of the officers were on duty at the time. At least 34 cases resulted in a dismissal.\n\nThere are 43 police forces in England and Wales, plus Police Scotland, and others including the British Transport Police.\n\nThe End Violence Against Women Coalition, which includes groups such as Rape Crisis, Refuge and Women's Aid, said \"widespread institutional failings\" needed to be addressed.\n\nDeputy director Denzi Ugur said: \"We need to see a radical overhaul of how the police respond to violence against women - especially within their own ranks.\n\n\"This means greater accountability and urgent, co-ordinated and strategic action to address violence against women.\"\n\nThe figures come after Home Secretary Priti Patel announced an inquiry will be launched into \"systemic failures\" that allowed Wayne Couzens to continue to be a police officer.\n\nCouzens, an officer with the Metropolitan Police, was given a whole-life sentence last month for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard.\n\nMeanwhile, Baroness Louise Casey of Blackstock will lead an independent review into the Met's culture and standards, examining the force's vetting, recruitment and training procedures.\n\nBetween 2016 and 2020, the Met - the UK's largest police force - recorded 530 allegations of sexual offences against serving officers and staff members, according to different FoI data, with 47 claims resulting in a dismissal.\n\nSurrey Police recorded 36 allegations of sexual misconduct against its officers over the same period.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct, which oversees the police complaints system, said it was down to forces to \"stamp out\" any abuse of police powers.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Each case reported represents a serious betrayal of the trust and confidence that individuals should have in the police. It is behaviour which can never be justified or condoned.\"", "Frantisek \"Frankie\" Morris had taken drugs including ketamine, the inquest heard\n\nA teenage graffiti artist from Anglesey who went missing after an illegal rave hanged himself from a tree, an inquest has heard.\n\nFrantisek \"Frankie\" Morris, 18, disappeared at the start of May, prompting a search involving police, mountain rescue crews and hundreds of others.\n\nIt was a month before he was found.\n\nAt an inquest in Caernarfon, the coroner recorded a conclusion of suicide.\n\nCoroner Katie Sutherland said he had told others he had suicidal feelings in the weeks before he vanished.\n\nThe hearing was told that Mr Morris had been at the rave in an old quarry in Waunfawr, near Caernarfon, on the night of Saturday 1 May.\n\nHe had taken drugs including ketamine. A pathologist told the inquest that it was known to increase feelings of low mood as its effects wear off.\n\nPolice said that Mr Morris left the rave on foot in the morning of 2 May, and travelled to Llanberis, picking up a bike along the way.\n\nBut the bike had a puncture and he was later seen walking with it between Llanberis and the village of Pentir, where he was last seen on CCTV about 13:00 BST.\n\nDetectives became concerned when the bike was later found abandoned by a river. He was found hanged in woodland nearby on 3 June.\n\nFrankie Morris's mother Alice Morris described her son as a \"sociable, sincere and honest young man\"\n\nDetective Chief Inspector Lee Boycott of North Wales Police said here was also a discussion at the rave about an issue from Mr Morris's past.\n\nHe said: \"There was an allegation of rape involving him in the latter part of 2020. It was reported to police, but there wasn't an official complaint.\n\n\"There was a request made that Frankie wasn't spoken to by officers, and I understood that Frankie and the woman had later met and shaken hands.\n\n\"But friends knew about this incident and they spoke to Frankie about it repeatedly, including at the rave the night before he disappeared.\"\n\nA statement read at the inquest from his mother Alice Morris described him as a \"sociable, sincere and honest young man who enjoyed outdoor pursuits and was a talented artist and musician\"\n\nThe coroner said she was satisfied no-one else was involved in the death.\n\nShe said he had mentioned suicidal thoughts to his brother a few weeks before going missing.\n\nRecording a conclusion of suicide, she said some of the discussions at the rave may have been on his mind the following day.", "Only visits in \"extenuating circumstances\" are allowed, says the health board\n\nVisiting has been banned at Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, after a rise in Covid cases.\n\nOnly end-of-life and critical care visits will be allowed after a decision by Hywel Dda health board on Monday.\n\nAny visitors must carry out a lateral flow device test at home before travelling to the hospital.\n\nThe health board said its decision was \"due to increased cases of Covid-19 in hospital and the community\".\n\nIt said: \"The situation is being monitored at regular intervals and a further update will be made when visitor restrictions are lifted\".\n\nThere were 653 new coronavirus cases recorded in the Hywel Dda area, according to the latest Public Health Wales figures on Monday, with 225 of these in Pembrokeshire.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Blackford calls on UK government to \"nurse\" businesses through the energy crisis\n\nIan Blackford, the SNP's Westminster leader, has called on the UK government to \"nurse\" businesses through the energy crisis.\n\nHe described the situation facing the UK as a \"perfect storm\".\n\nWholesale gas prices have risen 250% since January and there are warnings some industrial sectors may have to shut down operations.\n\nUK Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has defended the government's handling of the crisis.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News' Trevor Phillips on Sunday, he would not rule out a price cap for businesses and said his department was talking to industry to see what solutions would work.\n\nBut he denied reports he asked for \"billions\" from the Treasury to subsidise energy intensive industries.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show, Mr Blackford warned that energy prices could go up further.\n\nOfgem has already warned that householders face \"significant rises\" in energy prices next spring when the price cap, which limits how much energy providers can charge per unit, is due to be changed.\n\nTwelve domestic energy supply firms have failed in the last 13 months as they paid more for their gas then they were able to charge. Their customers have been moved to alternative providers.\n\n\"Now we know this is not going to go away quickly and actually if you end up in a situation that more energy providers have to hedge by buying additional supplies, all we are actually doing is forcing energy prices up even more and more,\" Mr Blackford said.\n\n\"There's a real issue about some larger providers being in quite a delicate situation and the impact that it's going to have. Government can't walk away from its responsibilities.\"\n\nHe said that if factories closed, it would have wider repercussions on the supply chain and unemployment levels.\n\nThe Energy Intensive Users Group - which represents firms which use a lot of energy - has said measures were needed \"right now\" to stop shut downs having a wider impact.\n\nAnd businesses in the ceramics industry have said they may be forced to scale back or stop production due to the rise in gas prices.\n\n\"Government has to recognise we have a responsibility to nurse businesses through this to provide short term support,\" Mr Blackford said.\n\n\"If we end up in a situation where steel production stops in the west coast of Scotland, that helps nobody.\n\n\"We have got to make sure that companies have got the assistance they need in the short term while we get through this. If not we are going to pay the price because we're going to end up with high unemployment, we are going to end up with supply constraints.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Kwarteng, asked on the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show if he was going to give extra help to energy-intensive industries, like steel, said: \"We're looking to find a solution.\"\n\nTold that that sounds like a yes, the minister replied: \"No, that doesn't sound like yes at all. We already have existing support and we're looking to see if that's sufficient to get us through this situation.\"\n\nHe added: \"I've been very clear we're not going to bail out failing energy suppliers.\"\n\nOn being informed of the Business Secretary's position, Mr Blackford said: \"This is like Thatcher all over again, isn't it?\"\n\nAsked whether the Scottish government would support those affected by rising energy crisis, he said: \"The Scottish government is already doing what it can and in particular we are making sure that we are trying to react against fuel poverty, we are trying to make sure vulnerable families, children with disabilities and so on are being supported.\n\n\"We can't fix every problem that emerges from Westminster.\"\n\nHe added: \"I want to do as much as we can but our budget is constrained and let's remember that we don't have the borrowing powers that Westminster has. We would fix this - give us the powers to do it and we would make sure we would give businesses the necessary support.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles: My Aston Martin runs on wine and cheese\n\nThe Prince of Wales has told the BBC he understands why campaigners from organisations like Extinction Rebellion take to the streets to demand action on climate change.\n\nIn the interview at his home in Balmoral, Prince Charles said action such as blocking roads \"isn't helpful\".\n\nBut he said he totally understood the \"frustration\" climate campaigners felt.\n\nAnd he warned of a \"catastrophic\" impact if more ambitious action isn't taken on climate change.\n\nSpeaking in the gardens of his house on the Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire, the prince said it had taken too long for the world to wake up to the risks of climate change.\n\nAnd he worried that world leaders would \"just talk\" when they meet in Glasgow in November for a crucial UN climate conference.\n\n\"The problem is to get action on the ground,\" he said.\n\nAsked if he sympathised with Greta Thunberg, the climate campaigner who has also criticised leaders for failing to act, he said: \"Of course I do, yes.\n\n\"All these young people feel nothing is ever happening so of course they're going to get frustrated. I totally understand because nobody would listen and they see their future being totally destroyed.\"\n\nThe prince also said he understood why groups such as Extinction Rebellion were taking their protests to the streets.\n\n\"But it isn't helpful, I don't think, to do it in a way that alienates people.\n\n\"So I totally understand the frustration, the difficulty is how do you direct that frustration in a way that is more constructive rather than destructive.\"\n\nWhen asked if the UK government was doing enough to combat climate change, the prince replied: \"I couldn't possibly comment.\"\n\nThe interview took place in Prince George's Wood, an arboretum the Prince of Wales has created in the gardens of Birkhall on the Balmoral estate.\n\nHe planted the first tree when Prince George, his oldest grandchild, was born and he said the project had become \"an old man's obsession\".\n\nPrince Charles was frank about the shortcomings of businesses to take action on climate.\n\nHe has long argued engaging business leaders in tackling climate change would be crucial in limiting global temperature rises.\n\nThis has been a key strand of his campaigning over the years, most recently through his Sustainable Markets Initiative.\n\nThe prince said that, while governments can bring billions of dollars to the effort, the private sector has the potential to mobilise trillions of dollars.\n\nBut he told the BBC he feared many business executives still didn't give environmental issues the priority they deserved.\n\nMany of the young people they employ really mind about environment issues but, he said, \"they haven't quite got to the top to make a fundamental difference\".\n\nHe said the Glasgow climate conference was \"a last chance saloon\" and said it would be \"a disaster\" if the world did not come together to tackle climate change.\n\n\"I mean it'll be catastrophic. It is already beginning to be catastrophic because nothing in nature can survive the stress that is created by these extremes of weather,\" he said.\n\nChallenged about his own efforts to reduce his carbon footprint, Prince Charles said he had switched the heating of Birkhall to biomass boilers, using wood chips from trees felled in the estate's forest.\n\nHe has installed solar panels at Clarence House, his London residence, and on the farm buildings of his Gloucestershire home, Highgrove.\n\nHe said he had installed heat pumps at some of his properties and a hydroelectric turbine in the river that runs beside Birkhall.\n\nHe was also challenged on his long-standing love of cars, and asked if he was \"a bit of a Jeremy Clarkson, a bit of a petrol-head?\"\n\n\"Well, yes\", the prince acknowledged: \"But that was before we knew what the problems were.\"\n\nHe said he had converted his favourite vehicle, an Aston Martin he has owned for 51 years, to run on what he described as \"surplus English white wine and whey from the cheese process\".\n\nHis Aston Martin has been modified to run on a fuel called E85 - made up of 85% bioethanol and 15% unleaded petrol.\n\nBioethanol can be derived from different sources - including in the case of the prince's car - surplus wine and alcohol extracted from fermented whey.\n\nThe blue DB6 Mk2 Volante was given to the Prince of Wales for his 21st birthday\n\nHe said most of the vehicles used on his estates were now electric but \"it can't all be done with electric vehicles\", and that hydrogen technology would need to be part of the mix as transportation was decarbonised.\n\nTop of the list of the concerns he had about electric vehicles was price, \"they are not cheap\", he said. He was also worried about how the materials for batteries would be sourced and how they would be recycled.\n\n\"At the moment there is a huge amount of waste which is really worrying,\" he said.\n\nThe prince acknowledged how difficult it was for most people to reduce their carbon footprint.\n\nHe said he had changed his diet to reduce his impact on the environment and urged others to do the same.\n\nHe now doesn't eat meat and fish on two days each week and doesn't eat any dairy products on another day.\n\n\"If more people did that it would reduce a lot of the pressure on the environment,\" he said.\n\nTrees were a great way to capture carbon and improve the urban environment, he said, suggesting avenues of trees might be planted to commemorate those who had died in the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe prince recognised that low carbon travel remains a big challenge. He said he hoped flying would become easier and more sustainable when new bio-fuels, using carbon captured from the air with sustainably sourced hydrogen, become available.\n\nBut he believed systemic change was necessary to bring about the transformation of transportation and other industries that would be required to drive down emissions.\n\n\"No one person can solve the problem,\" he said. \"It's a pinprick.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta Thunberg mocked the ''empty words and promises'' of world leaders as \"blah, blah, blah\"\n\nThe prince said the key would be making the environmentally friendly options cheaper for everyone.\n\n\"We still have fossil fuel subsidies, why?\" he asked.\n\nHe described as \"crazy\" the fact there were still subsidies for what he called \"insane agro-industrial approaches to farming which are a disaster in many ways, cause huge damage and contribute enormously to emissions\".\n\nHe said there were similar \"perverse\" subsidies for the fishing industry which he said caused \"mammoth damage\" through trawling.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.\n\nDo you have any questions about the forthcoming COP26 global climate conference in Glasgow?\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.\n• None What is Extinction Rebellion and what does it want?", "Sarah Everard, originally from York, was killed by serving police officer Wayne Couzens after he falsely arrested her\n\nA former cabinet minister has said a police, fire and crime commissioner (PFCC) \"should go\" over comments he made following the Sarah Everard case.\n\nNorth Yorkshire PFCC Philip Allott was criticised after saying Ms Everard never should have \"submitted\" to arrest by killer Wayne Couzens.\n\nHe later apologised for the comments, but said he would remain in post.\n\nJulian Smith, Conservative MP for Skipton and Ripon, has said Mr Allott had lost the trust of women.\n\n\"Recent comments of the NY Police & Crime Commissioner were completely unacceptable,\" the MP and former Northern Ireland Secretary tweeted.\n\n\"Prior to Thursday's Police & Crime Panel meeting to discuss the PCC's future I believe the PCC has lost trust of women and victims groups & should go,\" he said.\n\nJulian Smith is a North Yorkshire MP and former Northern Ireland Secretary\n\nDuring the sentencing of Wayne Couzens at the Old Bailey on 30 September, it emerged he tricked Ms Everard by falsely arresting her for a breach of Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nThe following day, Mr Allott told BBC Radio York he believed \"women, first of all, need to be streetwise about when they can be arrested and when they can't be arrested\".\n\nHe added that Ms Everard \"should never have been arrested and submitted to that\".\n\nOver 10,000 people have since signed an online petition calling for Mr Allott to step down as PFCC over what he said.\n\nMr Smith's tweet was supported by North Yorkshire's former PFCC Julia Mulligan, who tweeted: \"Thank you Julian for speaking out.\"\n\nMr Allott has been the elected North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for five months\n\nMr Allot, who was elected in May, said in an interview with BBC Look North he was \"horrified\" by how his comments had been seen.\n\n\"They are not the kind of language that I would normally use and I am so deeply sorry.\"\n\nHis comments will be discussed at a meeting of the North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Panel on 14 October.\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.", "A deal to avert another carbon dioxide crisis in the food and drink industry has been extended until early 2022.\n\nUS firm CF Industries, a key CO2 producer in the UK, has agreed to continue supplies of the gas.\n\nIt said that should give the government and firms time to find other sources of CO2, used in fizzy drinks and for keeping food fresh, as well as to stun pigs and chickens before slaughter.\n\nFirms will now have to pay more for their CO2, but it is unclear how much.\n\nLast month, the government stepped in to subsidise one of the firm's plants after its shutdown due to high gas prices threatened food supplies.\n\nCF Industries suspended production at two sites - Cheshire and Billingham - which make 60% of the UK's commercial carbon dioxide.\n\nIt reopened its Billingham plant in north-east England after the government agreed to meet the costs of running it for three weeks.\n\nBillingham produces up to 750 tonnes of CO2 per day as a by-product of producing ammonia for fertiliser. CF Industries' plant at Ince in Cheshire remains closed with no date given for a reopening.\n\nThe government said: \"CO2 suppliers have agreed to pay CF Fertilisers a price for the CO2 it produces that will enable it to continue operating while global gas prices remain high, drawing on support from industry and delivering value for money for the taxpayer.\"\n\nThe agreement meant industry could have confidence it would receive future CO2 supplies, without further taxpayer support, said the government.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association said the agreement provided \"some reassurance that supplies will be maintained\".\n\n\"However, industry has been given no detail on what the price will be or how it will be calculated going forward,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We understand that Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng took the decision to temporarily exempt parts of the CO2 industry from competition law to facilitate this agreement. What we need now is some detail and transparency around how the new pricing structure will work.\"\n\nIan Wright, chief executive of the Food and Drink Federation, said the agreement was \"welcome news\".\n\nBut he added: \"The increased cost of buying CO2 is yet another burden on the food and drink industry, which is already facing enormous stresses.\n\n\"This will, of course, add more pressure on prices for shoppers and diners.\"\n\nIt looks like there will be enough CO2 to keep Christmas beers bubbly - but after that, there are no guarantees.\n\nThere's an ominous line in the CF Industries press release. They expect CO2 users to develop \"robust alternative sources\" between now and January.\n\nThat won't be easily done. Lots of industrial processes produce CO2, but few produce a stream so pure and reliable that you'd want to dissolve it in your lemonade.\n\nDistributor Nippon Gases has warned that supply is tight across Europe, so imports will be hard to come by.\n\nThe government says that the firms which need the CO2 from Billingham will be paying more for it - and whatever long-term solution does emerge, it's likely to be more expensive too.\n\nBut the UK only needs about 600,000 tonnes of CO2 a year. At about £200 a tonne before the current crisis, that's about £120m, relatively small beer for industries that count their turnover in the billions.\n\nCompared to the other pressures those industries face - staff shortages, and higher costs for energy and shipping - more expensive CO2 is an extra cost they don't need, but it won't be their biggest headache.\n\nWhen CF shut its facilities after making fertiliser became uneconomic because of the rising price of wholesale gas, it cut off a vital source of CO2 for other sectors.\n\nSupermarkets began reporting limited stocks of some food items, while the pig industry warned that if slaughterhouses could not process animals, then farmers would have to cull their stocks.\n\nThe US firm said it now expected the UK government and industrial gas customers to \"develop robust alternative sources of CO2 as part of a long-term solution for meeting demand in the country\".\n\nLast month, it emerged the British food industry would be forced to pay five times more for carbon dioxide as part of a government deal with CF Industries to restart production in the UK.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said carbon dioxide prices would rise from £200 per tonne to £1,000.\n\nHouseholds, too, are being hit by higher energy bills, with those on standard tariffs, with typical household levels of energy use, seeing bills go up by £139 to £1,277 a year on average.\n\nSeveral energy suppliers, unable to pass on wholesale prices to consumers on fixed deal, have gone out of business. Their customers have been switched to other suppliers, but will be put on variable contracts that will be higher than previous deals.\n\nMeanwhile, the business department has sent the Treasury a formal request for support for energy-intensive industries hit by high gas prices, the BBC understands.\n\nIt came after talks between ministers and industry leaders earlier on Monday.\n\nA source said: \"Everyone in government understands the importance of this situation.\n\n\"We need to solve this quickly.\"\n\nDetails of the proposal from Mr Kwarteng have not been disclosed but are thought to focus on a temporary solution to high energy prices.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Kwarteng told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme the situation was \"critical\" and said he was \"looking to find a solution\".\n\nMr Kwarteng said there were Treasury talks about support measures to ease the impact on firms. However, a Treasury source later said the business secretary had been \"mistaken\".\n\nSectors such as ceramics, paper and steel manufacturing have called for a price cap, though talks with government on Friday failed to reach a solution.", "The drawing was found in bubble wrap and leaning against a wall in an attic\n\nA drawing by a great Italian artist of the 18th Century is to go under the hammer after it was found in a loft.\n\nThe work by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was uncovered at Weston Hall, near Towcester, Northamptonshire, ahead of the manor house being put up for sale.\n\nHenrietta Sitwell, whose family owned Weston for 300 years, said it was one of many \"exciting discoveries\".\n\nAuctioneers Dreweatts said it was \"probably the most important find\" at the house and could fetch £250,000.\n\nThe auction of the hall's contents, called Weston Hall and the Sitwells: A Family Legacy, takes place on 16 and 17 November at Donnington Priory in Berkshire.\n\nMs Sitwell said her great-uncle, the writer Osbert Sitwell, bought the drawing in 1936, and no-one had known where it was until last year.\n\n\"As I peeled back the wrapping, I instantly recognised it as something special,\" she added.\n\n\"It was thrilling to think that such a captivating and important work of art by such a revered Old Master was just lying there gathering dust over the years.\"\n\nTiepolo (1696-1770) was described by the National Gallery as \"the greatest Italian Rococo painter\" whose main subjects were Christian and mythical figures.\n\nThe work features Punchinello, the hook-nosed, humpbacked clowns who were some of the stock characters taken from the Commedia dell' Arte - an early form of professional theatre.\n\nIt has been given a \"conservative estimate\" of £150,000-£250,000, Dreweatts said.\n\nThe sale also features clothing and jewellery that belonged to poet and writer Edith Sitwell.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nIreland's Amy Hunter celebrated her 16th birthday by becoming the youngest player to hit an international century in Monday's one-day game in Zimbabwe.\n\nThe Belfast schoolgirl notched 121 not out as Ireland made 312-3 which earned them a series-clinching 85-run win.\n\nIndia's Mithali Raj held the previous record when hitting an unbeaten 114 against Ireland at the age of 16 years and 205 days in June 1999.\n\nShahid Afridi is the youngest man to hit an international century.\n\nAfridi was 16 years and 217 days old when he hit 102 in a one-day game against Sri Lanka in 1996.\n\nGaby Lewis scored 78 runs, and Laura Delany hit 68, in Ireland's innings as the visitors produced a huge total which secured them a 3-1 series victory in Harare after they had lost the opening game.\n\nHunter said she felt \"a bit surreal\" after notching the record-breaking century.\n\n\"When I got to my hundred, I had no ideal what to do,\" said the thrilled teenager, who hit eight fours in her 127-ball innings.\n\n\"I didn't know whether to take the helmet off or keep it on. It was unbelievable.\"\n\nAfter winning the toss, Zimbabwe's decision to field backfired badly as Hunter and Lewis produced a 140 partnership after Leah Paul departed when the Irish had reached 40-0.\n\nHunter and captain Delany then put on 143 for the third wicket to set up Ireland's big score.\n\nIn their reply, Josephine Nkomo hit 66 for the hosts but they were never in touch with the run chase as captain Delany and Sophie MacMahon both took two wickets.", "Ten people in London and Kent have been arrested on suspicion of supplying fraudulent passports to more than 100 high-level organised criminals.\n\nEarly-morning raids in South London, Kent, Essex and Merseyside followed an international police investigation.\n\nThe gang is accused of supplying passports to clients including jailed drug dealer Jamie Acourt, a suspect in the murder of Stephen Lawrence.\n\nThose arrested are suspected of using paid \"lookalikes\" to obtain passports.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) said the gang used the \"lookalikes\" to apply for legitimate replacement passports, but using a criminal's photo, rather than their own.\n\nJacque Beer, the NCA's regional head of investigations, said: \"This is one of the most significant NCA investigations of recent times.\n\n\"We believe that this group's activities has enabled some of the most serious organised criminality in the UK and around the world.\"\n\nShe said if the suspects were convicted, it would have \"dismantled a criminal service that allowed drug and firearm traffickers, suspected murderers, and fugitives to evade detection and operate internationally under false identities.\"\n\nMs Beer said the hope is the case will lead to the \"strengthening of safeguards against criminal exploitation of the UK passport issuing system\".\n\nOfficers smashed down the doors of a flat in south London at 05:00 BST on Monday and arrested a 66-year-old man.\n\nHe is suspected of being a broker between criminals looking for fraudulent passports, and those willing to supply them.\n\nSix men and three women believed to be members of the crime group were also arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of public justice and making false instruments.\n\nThese raids took place in Sutton, Sydenham, Rotherhithe, Hackney, Battersea and Hayes in Kent. The suspects are aged between 34 and 71.\n\nThe investigation began several years ago when HM Passport Office discovered criminals were using a \"loophole\" to obtain legitimate passports with fraudulent details.\n\nAccording to the NCA, the gang are believed to have sourced passports for specific criminal clients who wanted to hide their identity.\n\nThey would find someone who looked like the client and pay them to apply for a replacement passport. Someone else would be paid to countersign the application.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The NCA's Chris Farrimond spoke to BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds about the operation\n\nBut when the passport form was sent in, the client's photo would be used instead of the image of the \"lookalike\" original passport holder.\n\nThe NCA alleges the gang found people prepared to, in effect, sell their personal details for passport applications in return for payments of £2,000.\n\nBecause the passports were not simply forged and therefore appeared legitimate, they were extremely valuable within the criminal underworld.\n\nFourteen men suspected of receiving the passports or helping to countersign documents were arrested in Kent, Essex and Merseyside. They are aged between 38 and 73.\n\nThe NCA and HM Passport Office have been tracking individuals using the fraudulent passports for years.\n\nAs a result, the BBC has been told that more than 100 people said to be senior figures in organised crime have been arrested.\n\nThose arrested are suspected of using paid \"lookalikes\" who would help criminals obtain genuine passports\n\nChris Farrimond, deputy director of operations at the NCA, explained: \"These were serious criminals, who, for one reason or another, could not make use of their normal passport.\n\n\"Either they were on the run, or they were so involved in criminal business that they wanted to keep their activities under the radar.\"\n\nThey are believed to include Jamie Acourt, extradited from Spain and jailed for drug offences.\n\nThe NCA suspect he was a client of the gang, and says he would not have been tracked down had it not been for the fact he was travelling on a passport supplied fraudulently.\n\nIn 2018, the agency told the BBC that Acourt had been tracked using \"intelligence methods\".\n\nThe NCA believes passports were also supplied to Richard Burdett, jailed with his brother Daniel for importing 16 guns into the UK.\n\nBurdett was arrested in July 2019 after being stopped by police in Amsterdam. To confirm his identity he produced a genuine British passport, bearing his photo but fraudulently obtained.\n\nHe had used it to travel to Ireland to evade police in the UK, his trial was told.\n\nPassports were also supplied to organised crime organisations in Scotland and Ireland.\n\nSecurity Minister Damian Hinds said: \"This is a fantastic result and will do significant damage to the serious organised crime groups who want to inflict misery on our shores and around the world.\"\n\n\"The close working between the NCA and Her Majesty's Passport Office has been at the heart of this hugely successful operation.\"\n\n\"The government is working to make the UK border one of the most effective and secure in the world, which will also support our ambition of dismantling ruthless organised crime groups.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Anti-vaxxers told me I was wrong to get jab'\n\nProtests against Covid vaccines are \"crazy nonsense\", the South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner has said.\n\nAlun Michael said he was \"very angry\" after protesters in Cardiff intimidated a 15-year-old girl at a mass vaccination centre on Saturday.\n\nMr Michael said police had to protect the right to protest, but also questioned why some were \"completely ignoring the evidence on vaccination\".\n\nHe said one arrest had been made at the protest.\n\nGrace Barker-Earle, who has used a wheelchair since contracting Covid, was confronted after receiving a Covid jab at the centre.\n\nHer mother, Angela, said protesters accused her of using Grace as a \"lab rat\".\n\nOther parents said they felt \"shaken up\" by protesters.\n\nOne woman, who did not want to be named, said her car was blocked by a group of protesters while driving her 12-year-old son to the centre for his jab.\n\nShe said: \"They were shouting at you, it was incredibly intimidating, my son was really scared… we were both in tears by the end of it.\n\nShe said the group were shouting \"horrible stuff\", as if she were \"doing something horrendous\".\"By the time we got in the centre we were shaky, we considered not going in… we were so freaked out by it we wanted to come home.\n\n\"The staff in the centre were really nice to us, I told them we were shaken up and they did tell us that one of the male nurses had been called a child murderer on his way to work.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother parent, whose twin sons got the jab at the centre on Saturday, said he had a woman shout abuse \"inches\" from his face.\n\nThe man, who also did not want to be named, said protesters held up anti-vaccine banners to the windows of the vaccination centre, before shouting abuse at his family when they left.\n\nHe said: \"We went to go and they started chanting.\n\n\"I said 'you've absolutely got the right to your opinion but we've got the right to ours as well'. Then they just started shouting abuse... really vindictive stuff.\n\n\"All they wanted to do was shout abuse and not listen.\"\n\nGrace was intimidated by protesters after getting a Covid jab\n\nRuth Clogg from Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan, said the experience of taking her 15-year-old daughter for her vaccine was \"very intimidating\".\n\n\"They shouted 'shame on you as a mother' which wasn't pleasant, we all have choices and my choice was to let my daughter have the jab,\" she said.\n\n\"Why do they feel they have to shout it out and say things to me as a mother? I'm just protecting my daughter.\"\n\nIn Wales, the vaccine has been offered to 12 to 15-year-olds since 4 October. Public Health Wales figures show 34,325 people in that age group, or 23.4%, have been given a vaccine dose.\n\nAlun Michael told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast he would support police action which protected people from intimidation while doing what is right for public health.\n\n\"I'm very angry about the attitude of these particular protesters, because what they're protesting about is crazy nonsense,\" he said.\n\n\"It could put some people off being vaccinated and clearly it's unacceptable in the sort of example that's mentioned.\n\n\"It's a difficult balance because it's a matter for the whole of society.\n\n\"Why is it that we have this group of individuals who are completely ignoring the evidence about vaccination? But the responsibility of the police is to keep that balance right.\"\n\nMr Michael said he walked past the vaccination centre on Saturday and saw police were making sure the protest stayed within the law, but protesters were using slogans which were \"intended to intimidate\" both parents taking their children for jabs and the media.\n\nAngela Baker-Earle was in hospital with Covid and pneumonia last year, while Grace was \"very poorly\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford also condemned the actions at the protest, as did Economy Minister and MS for Cardiff South and Penarth, Vaughan Gething, who said it was \"disgraceful\" and \"did not look defensible\".\n\nMr Gething said: \"A lot of people protesting say they are protesting to try to protect freedom. Well that doesn't look to me like people who are committed to respecting each other's freedom.\"\n\nDr Bnar Talabani, a doctor from Cardiff who has been tackling vaccine misinformation on TikTok, drove past the protest on Saturday.\n\nShe said: \"I heard from the staff earlier that day that it wasn't just this poor girl they were intimidating they were actually intimidating older people that were trying to walk in to have their vaccine as well.\n\n\"They were saying things like 'it's an experimental vaccine, you're a guinea pig, stop letting them use you as a lab rat' - all the conspiracy theories that I've seen on social media over the past 18 months.\n\n\"Conspiracy theories that have been debunked so many times but there is a very small minority of people that are still spreading this misinformation and it's doing a lot of damage.\"\n\nFrancis Goncalves lost his brother, mother and father to Covid earlier this year\n\nFrancis Goncalves, from Cardiff, lost three unvaccinated family members to Covid within a week of each other earlier this year, said the protests were \"disgusting\" and \"despicable\".\n\nHe said those who are sceptical of the vaccine to speak to their doctors for advice.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story?\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 bodycam footage showed officers dragging the man from his car\n\nUS police are investigating video showing a black man being dragged from his car by officers as he repeatedly screams \"I'm paraplegic\".\n\nBodycam footage shows officers stopping Clifford Owensby in Dayton, Ohio, last month and asking him to step out of his car so they can search it for drugs.\n\nMr Owensby, 39, refuses, saying he does not have use of his legs.\n\nThe officers insist he must get out and then pull him from the vehicle by his hair and arms as he calls for help.\n\nThe Dayton Police Department says it is now investigating the incident that took place on 30 September.\n\nAuthorities say the officers stopped Mr Owensby because he was driving away from a house suspected of hosting involvement in drugs. Police say they found a bag of cash containing $22,450 (£16,500) in the car.\n\nMr Owensby has not been charged over any drug-related offences.\n\nDuring the incident, Mr Owensby repeatedly refuses requests to leave the car, although officers do say they will help him out.\n\nMr Owensby asks an officer to call in a \"white shirt\", meaning a superior.\n\n\"Here's the thing, I'm going to pull you out and then I'll call a white shirt,\" an officer replies.\n\nAs his frustration increases, he says: \"You can co-operate and get out of the car or I'll drag you out of the car. Do you see your two options here?\"\n\nDayton's mayor Nan Whaley described the footage as \"very concerning\".\n\nCivil rights groups say they are also looking into the incident.\n\n\"To pull this man out of the car, by his hair - a paraplegic - is totally unacceptable, inhumane and sets a bad light on our great city of Dayton, Ohio,\" Derrick Foward, of the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told the Washington Post.\n\nA paraplegic person is unable to voluntarily move lower parts of the body.\n\nSome have defended the officers' actions.\n\nJerome Dix, president of Dayton Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 44, said they had \"followed the law, their training and departmental policies\".\n\n\"Sometimes the arrest of noncompliant individuals is not pretty, but is a necessary part of law enforcement to maintain public safety,\" Mr Dix told the Dayton Daily News.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is facing an uncertain winter with the spread of coronavirus and the flu, the head of the Health Security Agency Jenny Harries has said.\n\nPeople are at \"more significant risk of death and of serious illness if they are co-infected\" with both viruses, she told the BBC.\n\nShe said: \"It's a more uncertain year but I certainly would be encouraging everybody to go and get their vaccine.\"\n\nMore than 40 million people in the UK are being offered a flu jab this year.\n\nFor the first time this includes all secondary school children up to the age of 16.\n\nThe over-50s and younger adults with health conditions are also being offered a Covid booster jab this autumn and winter.\n\nDr Harries, former deputy chief medical officer for England, told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"This is probably the first season where we will have significant amounts of Covid circulating as well as flu.\n\n\"People's behaviours have changed, we are mixing more, winter weather is coming along, everybody is going into enclosed spaces.\"\n\nShe said because of social distancing and other measures during the pandemic the public has not had the flu exposure they usually would, \"so people are susceptible\".\n\nFlu kills about 11,000 people on average every winter in England and during the last bad flu winter of 2017-18 the toll was more than double that - with more than 300 deaths a day during the peak.\n\nResearch shows those infected with both viruses are more than twice as likely to die as someone with Covid alone.\n\nA report from the Academy of Medical Sciences suggests that respiratory illness could hit very high levels this winter, causing severe strain on the NHS and between 15,000 and 60,000 deaths.\n\nThe latest government figures released on Sunday show the UK recorded new 34,574 Covid cases.\n\nThere were also 38 deaths recorded within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total number of people to die in the past week to 785.\n\nDr Harries said the current number of deaths from Covid was not seen as \"acceptable\" officials were still \"taking it extremely seriously\".\n\nShe told the Andrew Marr show: \"We are starting to move to a situation where, perhaps Covid is not the most significant element and many of those individuals affected will of course have other comorbidities which will make them vulnerable to serious illness for other reasons as well.\"\n\nShe said the \"extremely good vaccine uptake\" was preventing \"very significant amounts of hospitalisation and death\".\n\nBut Dr Harries said it was now \"one of the most difficult times to predict what will come\" with coronavirus.\n\n\"We have different levels of vaccination, we have a little bit of immunity waning in older individuals, which is why we're now starting to put in a Covid booster vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"We have slightly different effectiveness in different vaccinations that have been provided.\"\n\nShe added that it appeared the global dominance of the Delta variant had seen other coronavirus variants \"become extinct\".\n\nBut the public needed to \"stay alert\" as it was \"still very early days of a new virus\".\n\nThe following groups are among those eligible for winter vaccines:", "Sir Richard Sutton's wealth was valued at £301m in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List\n\nA man has admitted killing one of the UK's richest men, Sir Richard Sutton.\n\nThomas Schreiber denied murdering Sir Richard, 83, who was stabbed to death at his home near Gillingham, Dorset, in April, but admitted his manslaughter.\n\nHe also entered a not guilty plea at Winchester Crown Court to the attempted murder of his mother Anne Schreiber, who was Sir Richard's partner.\n\nA murder trial is due to begin on 29 November.\n\nSchreiber, of Gillingham, Dorset, also pleaded guilty to driving a Range Rover dangerously on the A303, A4 and M3.\n\nThe judge, Mr Justice Garnham, remanded him in custody.\n\nPolice were called to an address in Higher Langham, near Gillingham, Dorset, at 19:30 BST on 7 April. They found Sir Richard, who owned a string of top hotels in London, and Ms Schreiber with serious injuries.\n\nSir Richard was pronounced dead at the scene almost two hours later.\n\nAn initial post-mortem examination indicated that the cause of death was stab wounds to his chest, police said previously.\n\nMs Schreiber was airlifted to Southmead Hospital in Bristol.\n\nSir Richard was listed at number 435 in the Sunday Times Rich List last year, with an estimated family fortune of £301 million - a rise of £83 million on the previous year.\n\nThe guide said Sir Richard's company owned London hotels the Sheraton Grand Park Lane and the Athenaeum, plus three smaller venues.\n\nHe had an extensive property and farming portfolio, including the 6,500-acre Benham Estate in west Berkshire and the Stainton Estate in Lincolnshire.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A County Down construction firm has closed resulting in about 100 job losses.\n\nJMC Mechanical and Construction is based in Waringstown, but has premises in Bleary and Lisburn as well.\n\nIts work includes providing maintenance services to the Housing Executive and other social housing providers.\n\nThe Portadown Times reported workers were told on Monday afternoon by the firm's owner James McCully and an accountant.\n\nThe family business was established in 2000.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Sinn Féin assembly member John O'Dowd said employees were \"called in and told they had no work\".\n\n\"They were told they weren't going to be paid for last week's work and there was also a question mark over redundancy,\" he added.\n\n\"My main concern is for the workers and their families.\n\n\"I already have a question in to the economy minister asking how his department are going to support and protect these workers and have already made contact with the liquidators.\"\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party MP for Upper Bann Carla Lockhart said it was devastating news for employees and their families.\n\nShe said JMC was a longstanding and respected company that had \"obviously suffered greatly as a result of the pandemic\".\n\nSDLP assembly member Dolores Kelly said the news came as a \"huge shock\".\n\n\"I am heartened to hear that a number of employees have already secured jobs and hope the rest will soon, especially at a time when skilled tradespeople are in such high demand,\" she added.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the Housing Executive said: \"We are sorry to hear that one of our contractors, JMC Ltd, has announced that it is entering liquidation.\n\n\"The company was the repairs contractor for our tenants in the Lisburn and Castlereagh area and was also the contractor for a number of improvement schemes across Lisburn and Castlereagh and the Belfast area.\n\n\"Our priority at this stage is to ensure minimal disruption to services for tenants and those planned maintenance improvement works which are on site.\"", "We've got more on that joint letter from the sectaries of state for health and education encouraging parents of secondary school pupils to get them vaccinated.\n\nTheir plea comes as the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show that around one in 15 children in school years 7 to 11 in England are estimated to have had Covid in the week to 2 October.\n\nThe latest data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) suggests that just 9% of this cohort in England had been vaccinated by 3 October.\n\nIn their letter, Zahawi and Javid ask for parents' \"support\" to encourage their children to test themselves for Covid-19 twice a week and to \"come forward\" for the jab to ensure face-to-face lessons can continue.\n\nSchool unions have backed the intervention, but Geoff Barton, of the Association of School and College Leaders, says there is frustration around delays to the rollout of jabs.\n\n\"The urgency of this programme is self-evident from the fact that the latest government statistics show that more than 200,000 pupils were out of school at the latest count because of coronavirus-related reasons,\" he says. \"Many schools are also experiencing teacher shortages because staff are contracting the virus.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, says: \"Unfortunately, one of the reasons for the slow deployment is that children are missing their chance for vaccination because they have caught Covid-19.\n\n\"If they are off sick they miss vaccination slots at school - and they cannot be jabbed while they are ill anyway - there is a 28-day waiting period before a child who has had Covid can then have the vaccine.\"\n\nWhiteman is calling for other measures to be pursued - such as improved ventilation - to reduce illness and disruption and \"to speed up the vaccination rollout\".", "Stephen Port was sentenced to a full-life term in November 2016\n\nA detective investigating the circumstances of serial killer Stephen Port's first homicide felt that the case was likely to be one of murder and told senior officers of his concerns.\n\nAnthony Walgate, 23, was found dead outside Port's flat block in June 2014.\n\nDet Ch Insp Tony Kirk tried to establish a murder inquiry, an email shown to an inquest jury revealed.\n\nPort would go on to murder three more men using the date rape drug GHB before homicide detectives took on the case.\n\nThe inquest jury at Barking Town Hall also heard evidence from Det Ch Insp Christopher Jones, the senior murder detective involved in the case in the week after the death.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jones told the hearing it was \"not possible\" that detectives would have taken the case less seriously because Mr Walgate was \"young, gay and working as an escort\".\n\nThe jury, which is examining the Metropolitan Police's handling of the investigation, heard Det Ch Insp Kirk's email was sent a week after Mr Walgate's body was found outside Port's flat in Cooke Street in Barking, east London.\n\nIt set out that it was known to the force that Port, now 46, had lied to officers about not knowing Mr Walgate, who he had in fact arranged to meet two days before the killing.\n\nA post-mortem examination found that the 23-year-old died as a result of ingesting high levels of the date rape drug GHB.\n\nThe jury heard how Det Ch Insp Kirk pointed out in his email that Port had previously had an allegation made against him that he had drugged and raped another man, and had no means of paying the £800 Mr Walgate charged for his work as an escort - which was how the two men came to meet each other.\n\nIn the message, to Supt John Sweeney of Homicide Command, Det Ch Insp Kirk said: \"I feel we as an organisation have a duty to his (Mr Walgate's) friends and family to get to the bottom of his death in what are increasingly suspicious circumstances.\n\n\"This investigation concerns the death of a young and what appears to be a fit and healthy male and, on the balance of probabilities, at the hands of another.\n\n\"I appreciate that a murder charge might not be the final outcome, but the investigation is becoming increasingly complex.\"\n\nSupt Sweeney decided to leave the investigation with the less experienced detectives in the Barking borough command, the inquest heard.\n\nJurors were also told that detectives did not then carry out a vital download of Port's laptop requested by the homicide team.\n\nThe laptop, which had been seized by police, contained evidence of him using search terms to do with drugging and raping boys, the inquest heard.\n\nThe paramedic who found Mr Walgate's body previously told the jury he had regarded it as an \"unexplained suspicious death\".\n\nMr Kovari's and Mr Whitworth's bodies were found in the graveyard of St Margaret's Church\n\nSpeaking on Monday, Det Ch Insp Jones explained that in his opinion at the time, the death was unexplained - but he said he had not been told the post-mortem examination had found bruises suggesting Mr Walgate had been moved while he was still alive.\n\nNor had he been told that dead man's underpants were inside out and back to front, the jury heard.\n\nPort's next two victims, Gabriel Kovari, 22, and Daniel Whitworth, 21, were found dead by the same dog-walker three weeks apart beneath a large maple tree in a corner of the same cemetery, at St Margaret's Church.\n\nMr Kovari's body was found on 28 August 2014 and Mr Whitworth's was discovered on 20 September, in almost exactly the same spot.\n\nThe final victim, aspiring police officer Jack Taylor, 25, was found near the cemetery on 14 September 2015.\n\nIn 2016, Port was found guilty at the Old Bailey of the four murders and sentenced to a whole-life order.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC's Moscow correspondent, Sarah Rainsford, was recently expelled from Russia, a country she first began visiting in her teens as a student and has reported on since the start of Vladimir Putin's presidency.\n\nNow she's been barred for life, declared a 'security threat'.\n\nThe move comes during an unprecedented assault on rights and freedoms in Russia, where critics of the Kremlin are increasingly being labelled as hostile 'agents' of the West.", "The energy price cap protecting households from sharp rises in gas prices is \"not fit for purpose\", suppliers have said.\n\nNatural gas prices are at record highs, which has led to some domestic energy firms failing as they are paying more for gas than they are able to charge.\n\nSuppliers have warned that consumers could face a \"huge cost\" from these firms going out of business.\n\nThere are also calls for an energy price cap to help small businesses.\n\nGas prices are at record highs as economies around the world begin to recover from the Covid pandemic.\n\nDomestic customers are partly protected from sharp rises by a price cap - which sets the maximum price suppliers in England, Wales and Scotland can charge customers on a standard tariff - although energy regulator Ofgem has warned that households will see further \"significant rises\" in the spring, when the cap is reviewed.\n\nLast month, nine energy companies went out of business, forcing 1.7 million customers to move to new suppliers and on to higher rates.\n\nPaul Richards, chief executive of Together Energy, which he said is currently making losses, told the BBC that while he supported a price cap to protect customers, the current mechanism \"is not fit for industry, nor is it fit for customers\".\n\n\"Crazy, just crazy\" is how the nursery and soft play owner Gordon Foster describes the sharp rise in energy prices, shaking his head in dismay.\n\nBusinesses typically fix their energy bills a few years in advance, known as \"hedging\".\n\nMr Foster is one of the unlucky ones whose energy contract is up for renewal, and at the moment he's looking at paying eight times his current rate, taking up a contract that would tie him in for years.\n\nThe alternative is paying sky high prices now without a contract, and keeping his fingers crossed that prices will stabilise.\n\nFor him, as for others, this sudden jump in costs makes parts of the business unviable, and certainly means he has to put his prices up for his customers.\n\nWhile households might have an energy cap in place to protect them from such eye-watering spikes in global markets, we are all exposed to the impact of such costs for businesses. Ultimately they feed through to everyone.\n\nHe said while the cap protected customers in the short term, he thought there was somewhere between £1bn and £3bn in costs which would be spread back across business and households as a result of failed suppliers.\n\nDerek Lickorish, chairman of Utilita Energy, which has more than 800,000 customers, said there was no doubt there would be a cost paid by consumers for failed firms.\n\n\"The government has to look at the means by which they can support not only energy suppliers, but also big industry,\" he said.\n\nMr Lickorish said he would like to see the price cap reviewed four times a year, rather than the current two, and for a longer period of gas prices to be considered in setting it.\n\nStephen Murray, head of energy, commercial and partners at Moneysupermarket.com, said that while the usual advice for consumers was to shop around, for now it was to stay put, with those on a fixed deal likely to be better off.\n\nThe price cap provided \"some level of protection\", he said, but \"that comes at a cost and we've seen that through failed suppliers\".\n\nBusiness group the British Chambers of Commerce has called for a similar cap to be introduced for the energy bills of small and medium sized businesses - those with 250 employers or fewer.\n\nThese firms mostly buy their energy several years in advance, so those whose contracts are due for renewal now are facing a \"difficult time\", it said.\n\nThe group's co-executive director Claire Walker said the increasing pressure on these sized businesses was \"becoming dire\" and said that a price cap would give them the confidence to maintain normal business activities.\n\nDave Dalton, chief executive of British Glass, said he thought a cap would help but was probably \"too little, too late\" and that an \"immediate intervention\" was needed.\n\nThe government said it was in regular contact with business groups to explore ways to manage the impact of global prices.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng met leaders from heavy industry on Friday amid warnings that some sectors could have to shut down, but they failed to find any solutions.\n\nLabour has accused the government of being in denial about gas prices, with wholesale prices rising 250% since January.\n\nA number of Conservative MPs have called for the government to take action, and the Energy Intensive Users Group - which represents firms that use a lot of energy - said measures were needed \"right now\".\n\nThe group's chair Dr Richard Leese said that energy-heavy industries were \"intrinsically linked\" and if some sectors were forced to shut down, it would have a knock-on impact.\n\n\"We've seen the curtailment in production in the steel and fertiliser sector - that's had a knock-on impact into the supply chains in the industrial supply chains and domestic supply chains,\" he said.\n\nUK Steel boss Gareth Stace said he was \"baffled\" that the UK government had failed to find solutions because governments in the rest of Europe had stepped in to support industry - although they faced lower energy costs than in the UK.", "Sir Paul McCartney rejected the received wisdom that he broke up the Beatles by suing them in court\n\nFor almost 50 years, Sir Paul McCartney has shouldered the blame for breaking up the Beatles.\n\nThe supposed evidence was a press release for his 1970 solo album, McCartney, where he revealed he was on a \"break\" from rock's biggest band.\n\nInterviewing himself, Sir Paul said he could not \"foresee a time when Lennon-McCartney becomes an active songwriting partnership again\".\n\nBut in a new BBC interview, he has said the split was prompted by John Lennon.\n\n\"I didn't instigate the split. That was our Johnny,\" he told interviewer John Wilson. \"I am not the person who instigated the split.\n\n\"Oh no, no, no. John walked into a room one day and said I am leaving the Beatles. And he said, 'It's quite thrilling, it's rather like a divorce.' And then we were left to pick up the pieces.\"\n\nWilson asked whether the band would have continued if Lennon hadn't walked away.\n\n\"It could have,\" Sir Paul replied.\n\n\"The point of it really was that John was making a new life with Yoko and he wanted... to lie in bed for a week in Amsterdam for peace. You couldn't argue with that. It was the most difficult period of my life.\"\n\n\"This was my band, this was my job, this was my life,\" he added. \"I wanted it to continue. I thought we were doing some pretty good stuff - Abbey Road, Let It Be, not bad - and I thought we could continue.\"\n\nThe Beatles continue to be one of the most influential acts in rock history\n\nSir Paul said confusion over The Beatles' break-up festered because the band's new manager Allen Klein - who he refused to align with - said he needed time to tie up loose ends with their business.\n\n\"So for a few months we had to pretend,\" he told Wilson. \"It was weird because we all knew it was the end of the Beatles but we couldn't just walk away.\"\n\nSir Paul ended up suing the rest of the band in the high court, seeking the dissolution of their contractual relationship in order to keep their music out of Klein's hands.\n\n\"I had to fight and the only way I could fight was in suing the other Beatles, because they were going with Klein,\" he told Wilson.\n\n\"And they thanked me for it years later. But I didn't instigate the split.\"\n\nHe has previously said that archival projects like The Beatles Anthology and Peter Jackson's forthcoming documentary, Get Back, would never have been possible without his legal action.\n\nSir Paul's full interview will be heard on the new BBC Radio 4 series This Cultural Life, which will be broadcast on 23 October.\n\nThe following Monday, recordings of the musician reading from his new book, The Lyrics, will also be available on BBC Sounds.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The last four remaining cooling towers at the former Eggborough Power Station in North Yorkshire have been demolished.\n\nThey were brought down just after 09:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nFour of the eight concrete structures, which stood 300ft (90m) high, were demolished in August as part of plans to redevelop the site after the plant closed in 2018.\n\nThe towers have been a landmark for more than 50 years in an area where all four Yorkshire counties - North, South, East and West - meet.", "Pope Francis officially launched the process at a Mass in the Vatican\n\nPope Francis has launched what some describe as the most ambitious attempt at Catholic reform for 60 years.\n\nA two-year process to consult every Catholic parish around the world on the future direction of the Church began at the Vatican this weekend.\n\nSome Catholics hope it will lead to change on issues such as women's ordination, married priests and same-sex relationships.\n\nOthers fear it will undermine the principles of the Church.\n\nThey say a focus on reform could also distract from issues facing the Church, such as corruption and dwindling attendance levels.\n\nPope Francis urged Catholics not to \"remain barricaded in our certainties\" but to \"listen to one another\" as he launched the process at Mass in St Peter's Basilica.\n\n\"Are we prepared for the adventure of this journey? Or are we fearful of the unknown, preferring to take refuge in the usual excuses: 'It's useless' or 'We've always done it this way'?\" he asked.\n\nThe consultation process, called \"For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission\", will work in three stages:\n\nThe Pope is expected then to write an apostolic exhortation, giving his views and decisions on the issues discussed.\n\nDiscussing his hopes for the Synod, Pope Francis warned against the process becoming an intellectual exercise that failed to address the real-world issues faced by Catholics and the \"temptation to complacency\" when it comes to considering change.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?\"\n\nThe initiative has been praised by the progressive US-based National Catholic Reporter newspaper, which said that while the process might not be perfect \"the Church is more likely to address the needs of the people of God with it than without it\".\n\nHowever, theologian George Weigel wrote, in the conservative US Catholic journal First Things, it was unclear how \"two years of self-referential Catholic chatter\" would address other problems the Church such as those who are \"drifting away from the faith in droves\".\n\nMuch of the reporting of this two-year consultation has focused on some of the issues that often appear to dominate reporting on the Catholic Church: the role of women for example, and whether they will ever be ordained as priests (the Pope says \"no\").\n\nWhile those topics are often of concern to some Catholics, other areas which traditionally dominate Catholic social teaching, such as alleviating poverty, and increasingly, climate change, will likely play a greater part, as will how the Church is run. In reality, any issue can be raised.\n\nDon't expect any sudden changes to Church rules though. It's true that some Catholics do want to see a different kind of institution, but for Pope Francis, allowing ordinary worshippers to have their concerns (eventually) raised at the Vatican - even if their bishops disagree with them - is a huge step change for this 2000 year-old religion.", "Benjamin Mendy is accused of four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault\n\nManchester City defender Benjamin Mendy has been refused bail for a third time ahead of a trial facing multiple charges of rape and sexual assault.\n\nThe 27-year-old is accused of attacking three women at his home in Cheshire between October 2020 and August 2021.\n\nMr Mendy, who was not at Chester Crown Court for the hearing, is being held on remand at HMP Altcourse, Liverpool.\n\nHe is yet to enter pleas to the charges of four counts of rape and one of sexual assault.\n\nThe defendant was charged on 26 August with three counts of rape relating to an alleged incident in October 2020 and with the sexual assault of a woman in early January this year. He is also charged with raping a woman in August.\n\nThe France international has been in custody for about seven weeks and a trial date has been set for 24 January.\n\nHe joined Premier League champions Manchester City in 2017 from Monaco for a reported £52m but was suspended by the club after being charged by police, pending an investigation.\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.", "Periods, low confidence and being watched by other people are factors preventing about a third of girls in England enjoying sport, a report says.\n\nData from the Youth Sport Trust shows over the last three years, periods have become the biggest concern for girls when doing PE in school.\n\nA total of 37% said periods stopped them from getting active in school last year, up from 27% in 2018-19.\n\nThe charity is campaigning to give girls a greater say in PE in schools.\n\nThe charity's Girls Active programme empowers girls in schools to help each other and support teachers to remove barriers.\n\n\"We want to understand further from girls what would help make a positive difference to them during their periods, so they feel that physical activity is a space that supports and helps them\", says Wendy Taylor, who runs the programme.\n\nThe charity asked 27,867 school-aged girls in England about their biggest concerns about participating in PE and sport.\n\nIsabella, Abi, Julia and Skye, help girls embrace sport at their school in Kent\n\nAt Herne Bay High School in Kent, 28 pupils from different year groups have created a magazine called Sweat Bands and Fake Tans to deal with the taboos and concerns some girls have.\n\nSkye, aged 16, says they are advising younger pupils with issues such as periods and low body confidence by making videos with suggestions on the best gym clothes and sports bras.\n\nShe says she's always struggled with body confidence, but that experience has helped her to have a positive influence on other girls.\n\n\"I think it's not feeling comfortable in your own body and feeling you're not good enough compared with everyone else, which I feel the media has not really helped,\" she said.\n\nSkye has struggled with body confidence, but she's now helping other girls\n\nSkye says she is lucky as her teachers have helped her embrace her periods but admits: \"Obviously, just getting changed is an issue. Sometimes you just feel so awful and you just don't want to do it, even if it's something you really look forward to like netball or basketball.\n\n\"But I feel you just have to push through, because you will feel better in the end.\"\n\nShe knows many girls feel very uncomfortable with certain types of skimpy PE clothes.\n\n\"You just feel a bit too exposed. I feel like sometimes you just want to put on some baggy joggers or some leggings just so you feel more comfortable.\"\n\nAbi loves doing sport now, but she used to feel she wasn't good enough.\n\nShe says, at the age of 14: \"You just feel like because everyone is watching you, that everything you do is going to be noticed, whereas that's not actually how it is.\"\n\nAbi loves sport but used to think she wasn't good enough\n\nIn contrast to girls, she says: \"I think boys often come across as a bit more confident, whereas with girls, if you feel under-confident, then you're automatically going to hold back.\"\n\nLike Skye, Abi believes the media has affected how girls think.\n\nShe says: \"When you see people on Love Island and models, you think, maybe I should have to be like that. It puts such a negative on you to think, do I really have to look like that or can I just be me?\"\n\nIsabella says she also used to struggle with her confidence, but believes sport has helped her to overcome it, and is passionate about helping other girls through sport.\n\nIsabella feels sport has made her more confident\n\nShe says: \"I want to do my part and prove that being active can be fun and help overcome barriers. Over the years it has taught me various lessons that I will pass on to others we meet over the next couple of years at school.\"", "Professor Card said people initially didn't trust the results of his unconventional methods\n\nDavid Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens have been awarded this year's Nobel prize for economics for work that \"challenged conventional wisdom\".\n\nThe trio shared the prize for pioneering work in the use of \"natural experiments\".\n\nNatural experiments use real-life situations to work out the impact of government decisions.\n\nProf Card is best known for his study of the impact of minimum wage increases on employment in US states.\n\nHis findings prompted researchers to review their opinion that such increases always lead to falls in employment.\n\nEconomists cannot run lab experiments to test their theories, so have to rely on theoretical models and the examination of complex, real life situations.\n\nThe winners' work had \"substantially improved our ability to answer key causal questions, which has been of great benefit to society,\" said Peter Fredriksson, chair of the Economic Sciences Prize Committee.\n\nCanadian-born Prof Card, who works at University of California, Berkeley, receives half of the 10 million Swedish crowns (£839,000) prize, while Israeli-American Joshua Angrist from MIT and Guido Imbens, a Dutch academic at Stanford University, share the other half.\n\nTheir work solved methodological problems to show that precise conclusions about cause and effect can be drawn from natural experiments.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, Prof Imbens said he was \"absolutely thrilled to hear the news, in particular... hearing that I got to share this with Joshua Angrist and David Card who are both very good friends of mine\".\n\nHe added that Prof Angrist had been the best man at his wedding. \"I'm just thrilled to share the prize with both him and David.\"\n\nProf Card initially thought the news of the award was \"a joke\" played on him by an old high school friend, he told the BBC.\n\nHis work on the minimum wage was conducted at Princeton in the 1980s in collaboration with Alan Krueger, who went on to become assistant secretary of the Treasury under President Obama.\n\nThey surveyed restaurants in New Jersey before and after the introduction of a minimum wage in the state, an approach that was quite unusual at the time, Prof Card said.\n\nBut he said their findings, that the minimum wage had not led to significant job losses, was not immediately accepted.\n\n\"People thought we were either cooking the books or had lost our minds or did something untoward or foolish,\" he said.\n\nHowever the methodology, of collecting and analysing real world data, opened people's eyes to a new way of analysing the economy, he said.\n\nHis subsequent work has included the impact of immigration on domestic employment in the US and how company wage policies determine gender and ethnic pay gaps.\n\nUC Berkeley said Prof Card had \"challenged orthodoxy and dramatically shifted understanding of inequality and the social and economic forces that impact low-wage workers\".\n\nTaken together, the work by the three economists \"revolutionised empirical work\" in economics, the Nobel award committee said.\n\nAlthough not one of the original Nobel Prizes, the economics award is administered by the Nobel Foundation and is the last to be announced each year.\n\nThe other Nobel prizes were established by Alfred Nobel's will in 1895.\n\nThe economics prize, officially known as the Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was created in 1968.\n\nLast year, the prize was won by Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson of Stanford University for their work on making auctions run more efficiently.\n\nThey used game theory, which uses mathematics to study decision-making conflict, and strategy in social situation, to explore the behaviour of bidders, which in turn helped in developing formats for the sale of aircraft landing slots, radio spectrums, and emissions trading.\n\nIn 2019, it was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, for their work on the causes and remedies of poverty.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We wait to see what actions are taken to ensure this never happens again,\" say John Atkinson's family\n\nThe family of a man killed in the Manchester Arena attack say he was \"badly let down\" by some members of the emergency services.\n\nJohn Atkinson, 28, was one of 22 people who died in the bombing on 22 May 2017.\n\nA public inquiry has previously heard he might have survived had he been given treatment more quickly.\n\nMr Atkinson's family said mistakes had been made and \"precious time was allowed to ebb away while John needed urgent hospital treatment\".\n\n\"This should never have been allowed to happen. John had so much to give,\" they added.\n\nThe inquiry heard healthcare worker Mr Atkinson lost a significant amount of blood as he laid in agony on the foyer floor for 47 minutes before being carried downstairs.\n\nAbout 20 minutes later, he went into cardiac arrest and was taken to Manchester Royal Infirmary but he was pronounced dead a short time later.\n\nLast week, consultant paramedic Dan Smith, the operational commander for North West Ambulance Service (NWAS), told the inquiry he was \"truly sorry\" if any decision he made impacted on his survivability.\n\nIn a statement read outside the court on Monday, Mr Atkinson's family said they could not accept this apology.\n\n\"Actions speak louder than words, and we wait to see what actions are taken to ensure this never happens again,\" they added in a statement read on their behalf by their lawyer Richard Scorer, from Slater and Gordon.\n\nThe family said Mr Atkinson \"was kind, intelligent and would light up any room he walked into\".\n\n\"He was the best uncle to his nephews, most caring of sons and brothers, he worked with young adults with autism and he looked forward to being a foster father,\" they added.\n\nThe inquiry earlier heard how Mr Atkinson had pleaded with NWAS senior paramedic Phillip Keogh not to let him die.\n\nMr Keogh treated him about an hour after the explosion but it was another 30 minutes before he was moved to an ambulance.\n\nThe inquiry was told Phillip Keogh lost most of his equipment just before he treated John Atkinson\n\nHe agreed Mr Atkinson had been left waiting too long to be taken to hospital, reducing his chances of survival.\n\nThe delay was \"inadequate\", he told the inquiry.\n\nMr Atkinson, from Bury, died shortly after arriving at the Manchester Royal Infirmary one hour and 35 minutes after the bomb was detonated in the arena foyer.\n\nHe was brought down from the foyer on a metal barrier and put on the floor of Manchester Victoria railway station concourse, the inquiry heard.\n\nMr Keogh said it was \"obvious he had lost a lot of blood\" and he had several makeshift tourniquets on his legs.\n\nHe said he was worried about Mr Atkinson developing hypothermia as he had been left in the doorway and was not covered in blankets.\n\nThe inquiry heard Mr Atkinson had pleaded with the paramedic \"don't let me die\".\n\nMr Keogh said he had tried to comfort him by telling him he would not let him die, but said he \"already had grave concerns for [his] outcome\".\n\n\"I thought then that his chances of survival were absolutely slim but I wasn't going to tell him the truth because that's just not what you do,\" he said.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed in the May 2017 bombing\n\nThe inquiry was told Mr Keogh lost most of his equipment just before he treated Mr Atkinson.\n\nMr Keogh accepted that Mr Atkinson should have been given a blood clotting agent earlier, which was in his lost equipment bag, however he told the court he did not believe it would have saved his life.\n\nMr Atkinson went into cardiac arrest as he was being placed on an ambulance stretcher, the inquiry heard.\n\nMr Keogh described the difficulty of carrying out chest compressions as he was wheeled to an ambulance.\n\nThe paramedic, who had previously served in Afghanistan as a reservist army paramedic, told the court that he went directly to Manchester Arena despite being told he should go to a rendezvous point because there may have been an active shooter.\n\nHe said: \"I was aware that people were injured at the arena and if I wasn't going to go, then who was going to go?\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People will have to get used to higher food prices, the boss of Kraft Heinz has told the BBC.\n\nMiguel Patricio said the international food giant, which makes tomato sauce and baked beans, was putting up prices in several countries.\n\nUnlike in previous years, he said, inflation was \"across the board\".\n\nThe cost of ingredients such as cereals and oils has pushed global food prices to a 10-year high, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.\n\nKraft Heinz has increased prices on more than half its products in the US, its home market, and Mr Patricio admitted that is happening elsewhere too.\n\n\"We are raising prices, where necessary, around the world,\" he said.\n\nDuring the pandemic, many countries saw production of raw materials, ranging from crops to vegetable oils, fall. Measures to control the virus, as well as illness, limited output and delivery.\n\nAs economies have restarted, the supply of these products hasn't been able to keep up with returning demand, leading to higher prices. Higher wages and energy prices have also added to the burden for manufacturers.\n\nMr Patricio said this broad range of factors was contributing to the rising cost of food.\n\n\"Specifically in the UK, with the lack of truck drivers. In [the] US logistic costs also increased substantially, and there's a shortage of labour in certain areas of the economy.\"\n\nKraft Heinz chief executive, Miguel Patricio, says consumers need to get used to higher food prices\n\nMr Patricio said that consumers would need to get used to higher food prices, given that the world's population was rising whilst the amount of land on which to grow food was not.\n\nIn the longer term \"there's a lot to come in technology to improve the effectiveness of farmers\" that will help, he said.\n\nNot all cost increases should be passed on to consumers, Mr Patricio said. Firms would have to absorb some of the rise in costs.\n\n\"I think it's up to us, and to the industry, and to the other companies, to try to minimise these price increases,\" he said.\n\nBut big food producers like Kraft Heinz, Nestle and PepsiCo \"will most likely have to pass that cost on to consumers\" according to Kona Haque, head of research at the agricultural commodities firm ED&F Man.\n\n\"Whether it's corn, sugar, coffee, soybeans, palm oil, you name it, all of these basic food commodities have been rising,\" she said.\n\n\"Poor harvests in Brazil, which is one of the world's biggest agricultural exporters, drought in Russia, reduced planting in the US and stockpiling in China have combined with more expensive fertiliser, energy and shipping costs to push prices up.\"\n\nBut she said food producers would all be affected and would therefore all be raising prices in similar ways: \"because it's so widespread that everyone will do it, meaning they probably won't lose customers\".\n\nThis week PespsiCo warned it was also facing rising costs on everything from transport to raw ingredients, and said that further prices rises were likely at the start of next year.\n\nHowever, as well as pushing up costs, the pandemic did help boost sales for some Kraft Heinz brands, Mr Patricio said, because staying in meant \"people are cooking far more than they were before\".\n\nCustomers in the UK bought more Heinz Baked Beans, while customers in the US bought more Kraft Mac & Cheese. Overall sales rose 1.6% to $13bn in the first half of this year, representing a slight slowdown. The results were described by Erin Lash, at the investment firm Morningstar, as \"still quite impressive relative to the comparable pre-pandemic period in 2019\".\n\nThe company is also undergoing an extensive restructuring under Mr Patricio, involving selling some old, and buying some new brands, which Ms Lash said was \"narrowing its focus and increasing its spending on innovation and marketing\" which would support future sales.\n\nMr Patricio said the firm was also spending significant sums on developing new packaging to meet its aims on reducing plastic waste.\n\nMost of the 650 million bottles of ketchup the firm sells every year are plastic, for example. But Mr Patricio said the firm was \"encouraging\" customers to buy glass bottles even though they are less convenient \"because you have to tap on the bottom\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working hard, not only on the plastic bottles, but everywhere in our footprint that has plastic.\"\n\nThe pandemic led to a shortage of ketchup sachets as demand for takeaways soared\n\nCampaigners against plastic waste would like to see a reduction in the use of single serving sachets.\n\nHowever following a shortage of sachets during the pandemic, as consumers bought more takeaways from restaurants, Kraft Heinz has invested in expanding production of them by 30%.\n\n\"Thanks God we did that, because now we don't have that [shortage] problem anymore\", said Mr Patricio. But he said the company was working on a solution \"to cutting the amount of plastic they use\".\n\nYou can watch Miguel Patricio's full interview on \"Talking Business with Aaron Heslehurst\" on BBC World News on Sunday 10 October at 05:30 and 16:30 GMT, Monday 07:30 GMT and 16:30 GMT and Thursday at 07:30 GMT.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 2017: The BBC's Pallab Ghosh reports on an invention that means the ketchup \"just glides out\"", "Liberty Steel has secured a £50m cash injection which it says will safeguard 660 jobs at its plant in Rotherham.\n\nThe deal is part of a wider restructure of GFG Alliance, Liberty's owner, which was forced to seek funding when its key lender, Greensill Capital, collapsed.\n\nGFG Alliance said the cash would allow the Rotherham plant to reopen this month after being closed since spring.\n\nCommunity, the steelworkers' union, said it was \"overdue\" but was \"an important step in the right direction\".\n\nJeffrey Kabel, GFG's chief transformation officer, said: \"The injection of £50m of shareholder funds into Liberty Steel UK is an important step in our restructuring and transformation.\n\n\"It will help to create sustainable value, ensure that Liberty has the ability to raise and deploy capital quickly in the UK and enable our businesses to demonstrate their potential and agree long-term debt restructuring.\"\n\nAt the beginning of the year, Liberty Steel employed 3,000 steelworkers in the UK.\n\nBut its future was thrown into doubt when Greensill collapsed in early March. GFG has been struggling to raise new financing since then, while the majority of its workers have been on furlough.\n\nIn April, GFG approached the government for help, but the request was rejected by Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng.\n\nGFG, one of the UK's largest industrial groups, is owned by businessman Sanjeev Gupta.\n\nA further 2,000 people work at other GFG steel sites in the UK.\n\nGFG said the cash injection would allow Liberty Steel (LSUK) to restart its electric arc furnace at Rotherham.\n\n\"Production ramp-up will commence in October 2021 with a plan to reach 50,000 tonnes per month as soon as possible,\" it added.\n\n\"The restart of operations will enable colleagues to return to work, setting the platform for LSUK's longer-term refinancing and delivery of its plan to expand Rotherham's capacity, creating a two million tonnes per annum green steel plant.\"\n\nNews of the move was welcomed by industry body UK Steel.\n\nA spokesperson said it was \"really good news for not only the company, but those many thousands of workers and their families, the communities where those jobs a located and of course the whole of the UK steel sector\".\n\n\"Our friends at Liberty Steel can now fire up those furnaces, make the steel that this economy needs and most importantly give some certainty to the well-paid and highly-skilled workforce.\"\n\nBut the spokesperson added: \"The last thing the sector needs now is for government to merely sit on its hands and risk an energy crisis becoming a steel industry crisis.\"\n\nUK Steel called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to intervene on the industry's behalf \"before it is too late\".\n\nRoy Rickhuss, general secretary of Community, said the deal \"demonstrates that GFG can raise funds for the UK\".\n\n\"Huge challenges remain,\" Mr Rickhuss said. \"But the workforce is ready to get back to making the best steels money can buy and the £50m injection will enable us to restart steelmaking.\"\n\nMeanwhile, plans are proceeding to sell off GFG's Speciality Steel business, which employs about 750 staff at plants in South Yorkshire.\n\nGFG said the cash lifeline would help Speciality Steel to \"establish a stable operating environment and create an attractive asset\".\n\nFurther afield, GFG said it had also agreed a debt restructuring for Liberty's Australian division with Credit Suisse Asset Management.\n\nGreensill's heavy exposure to Mr Gupta's business had prompted Credit Suisse to freeze withdrawals from up to £10bn worth of funds held as security.", "The survey found the latest rise in new business was led by the services sector\n\nLooser Covid restrictions helped boost Scottish private sector output to near record levels last month, according to a report.\n\nA regular RBS survey of purchasing managers found a steep rise in new business, with firms hiring more staff for the third month in a row.\n\n\"Improved client confidence\" was among other reasons cited for the upturn.\n\nThe rate of output growth was slower than May's, but was still the second quickest since September 2013.\n\nThe survey follows a separate RBS report on jobs, which found hiring activity at Scottish businesses continued to surge last month, amid easing Covid-19 restrictions and rising economic activity.\n\nThe bank's latest PMI index - which measures combined manufacturing and service sector output - posted 58.4 in June, falling from May's survey record of 61.5.\n\nThe survey indicated that the latest increase in new business was broad-based and led by services, with goods producers seeing growth slow on the month.\n\nMeanwhile, input prices faced by private sector firms continued to soar during June, with the rate of inflation the fastest since February 2011.\n\nPanellists attributed greater costs to material shortages, price hikes at suppliers, Brexit and higher fuel and utilities prices.\n\nIn response, Scottish private sector firms increased their average charges for the eighth month running.\n\nAccording to the survey, companies remained optimistic about activity over the coming year.\n\nThat confidence was linked to looser lockdown restrictions and the subsequent reopening of some sectors, as well as \"surging inflows\" of new work and hopes of a strong economic recovery.\n\nRBS Scotland board chairman Malcolm Buchanan said the June data showed \"some signs of optimism\" for the Scottish firms.\n\n\"The rates of increase in both business activity and new work slowed only slightly from May's respective series records and remained marked,\" he said.\n\n\"Inflationary pressures are a key concern, however, as material shortages and greater fuel and utilities fees continued to put severe upward pressure on input costs and, subsequently, selling prices.\"\n\nIn a separate development, Scotland's public spending watchdog has warned of \"acute and unpredictable\" financial pressures that will require co-operation between Scottish and UK governments.\n\nScotland's auditor general Stephen Boyle said in a blog on Friday that the response to Covid had made finances more complex than ever, and managing volatility would be difficult.\n\nHe warned that the £4.6bn committed to Covid spending for this year was not guaranteed by the UK government and could be increased or reduced.\n\nMr Boyle said there was a need for effective communication and co-operation between Downing Street and Holyrood.\n\nHe added that acute and unpredictable financial pressures did not only come from the public health crisis, but from backlogs in the NHS and courts.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has not committed to any additional government help for businesses struggling amid record gas prices.\n\nSome industries have warned firms could be forced to shut down operations.\n\nMr Kwarteng said he was working closely with the chancellor over possible support for energy intensive sectors - but a Treasury source denied this.\n\nThe business secretary said domestic customers would not see a change to the energy price cap this winter.\n\nAsked on BBC One's Andrew Marr programme whether there would be additional government help for energy-intensive companies, Mr Kwarteng described the situation as \"critical\" and said he was \"looking to find a solution\".\n\nWhen Andrew Marr suggested this sounded like a \"yes\" the business secretary said: \"No, it doesn't sound like yes at all.\n\n\"We already have existing support and we're looking to see whether that's sufficient to get us through this situation.\"\n\nSpeaking to Times Radio Mr Kwarteng, who met leaders from heavy industry on Friday, said he was not going to commit to \"any firm figure or subsidy\" for companies.\n\nAsked about whether the government would ensure factories would not have to close if they could not pay for gas he said it was a commercial decision and \"up to them\".\n\nHe added: \"We are not in the business of bail-outs. What we are in the business of is ensuring security of supply and that is what I am focused on.\"\n\nCEO of British Glass Dave Dalton, who was at Friday's meeting with Mr Kwarteng, said some of the confederation's \"significant\" members were \"teetering on the edge\".\n\n\"I think some companies are staring down the ability to survive, absolutely - ultimately that obviously cascades on to jobs and impacts on the consumer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nGareth Stace, director general of UK Steel, said he was frustrated by the lack of action to support businesses.\n\nHe told the BBC that without help in the next week or so, there would be \"significant and permanent damage to the UK steel sector\".\n\nUnite leader Sharon Graham said the country was \"contemplating factory shutdowns across viable manufacturing and businesses\" and that workers were \"worried sick\".\n\nBusinesses have been shouting louder and louder for support through this period of soaring energy prices.\n\nThis morning, the business secretary told the BBC he was listening to their concerns - but would not commit to any extra support.\n\nThose industries that use a lot of energy for manufacturing say that the time for working out a way forward has long gone.\n\nThe director general of UK Steel, Gareth Stace, expressed his frustration, saying pauses in steel production will only increase.\n\nThe government says the current situation emphasises the need for a revolution in how we generate energy, moving towards home-grown renewables.\n\nBut that's little comfort for those businesses dependent on energy from fossil fuels now, competing with intense demand in a global market.\n\nOn the Andrew Marr show, Mr Kwarteng denied asking for \"billions\" from the Treasury to subsidise energy-intensive businesses and said supply itself was \"not an issue\".\n\nA Treasury source said the business secretary had been \"mistaken\" to say that he had been working on possible support measures with the Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nBridget Phillipson, Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said the government \"needs to get a grip\" and called for \"urgent answers on who exactly is running the show\".\n\n\"The two key government departments responsible for the current cost of living crisis have spent this morning infighting about whether they were in talks with each other. What a farce,\" she said.\n\nShe also accused the government of having \"put its out of office on\", referring to reports that the prime minister is on holiday in Spain.\n\nA number of Conservative MPs have called for the government to take action to support heavy industry.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford called on the UK government to \"nurse\" businesses through the crisis, describing it as a \"perfect storm\".\n\nThe domestic consumer energy price cap, which is reviewed every six months, sets the maximum level a supplier can charge a consumer on a standard tariff in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nMr Kwarteng told Marr that protecting consumers was his \"first and foremost objective\" and as such the price cap would stay at its current level until its next update which is due to in April.\n\nSome suppliers say the cap is just delaying an inevitable increase in consumer prices and should be reviewed more regularly.\n\nEnergy regulator Ofgem has warned households will see further \"significant rises\" in the spring, when the cap is reviewed.\n\nAsked by Marr if he was sure the lights would stay on this winter, Mr Kwarteng said \"yes, I am\".\n\nDue to high gas prices household energy suppliers have been forced to sell gas for less than they can buy it due to the price cap, leading some to fail.\n\nLast month, nine domestic energy supply companies went out of business, forcing 1.7 million customers to move to new suppliers and on to higher rates.\n\nPaul Richards, chief executive of Together Energy, which he said is currently making losses, said while he supported a price cap to protect customers, the current mechanism \"is not fit for industry, nor is it fit for customers\".\n\nHe said it protected customers in the short term but somewhere between £1bn and £3bn in costs would be spread back across business and households as a result of suppliers going bust.\n\nThe founder of OVO Energy Stephen Fitzpatrick told Marr that it has been \"too easy\" for companies to enter the energy market and that there will be more companies in difficulty.\n\nHe said the market was a complicated one, and he thought some people had not understood the risks.", "The UK's failure to do more to stop Covid spreading early in the pandemic was one of the country's worst public health failures, a report by MPs says.\n\nThe government approach - backed by its scientists - was to try to manage the situation and in effect achieve herd immunity by infection, it said.\n\nThis led to a delay in introducing the first lockdown, costing thousands of lives, the MPs found.\n\nBut their report highlighted successes too, including the vaccination rollout.\n\nIt described the approach to vaccination - from the research and development through to the rollout of the jabs - as \"one of the most effective initiatives in UK history\".\n\nBut campaigners criticised the report for failing to focus on those who had died, saying references to practical issues, including problems with laptops, was \"laughable\".\n\nThe 150-page document, Coronavirus: Lessons learned to date, is from the Health and Social Care Committee and the Science and Technology Committee, and MPs from all parties.\n\nIt predominantly focused on the response to the pandemic in England. The committees did not look at steps taken individually by Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.\n\nThe MPs called the pandemic, which has claimed more than 150,000 lives in the UK and nearly five million worldwide so far, the \"biggest peacetime challenge\" for a century.\n\nSome early failings, the report suggested, resulted from apparent \"group-think\" among scientists and ministers.\n\nIt meant the UK was not as open to different approaches on earlier lockdowns, border controls and test and trace as it should have been.\n\nA woman whose twin sisters died within three days of one another after testing positive for Covid says the report from MPs uses the success of the vaccine programme to deflect from earlier failures.\n\nZoe Davis' sisters Katy and Emma, who were both nurses, died in April 2020.\n\nShe says: \"Nobody is saying that the vaccine programme hasn't been phenomenal but the frustrating thing is that's a deflection of what is actually being brought to attention and the overall message is that Covid failures have cost lives.\"\n\nLindsay Jackson, from Derbyshire, whose mother died with Covid, said the report confirmed her fears she had about care home visits in March 2020.\n\n\"I knew in my own mind the lockdown was too slow, I knew the social care sector wasn't being looked after, I knew people shouldn't have been released from hospital without tests, and this just confirms that.\"\n\nShe is calling for the government to move to a public inquiry now to see if anyone is culpable.\n\nConservative MPs Jeremy Hunt and Greg Clark, who chair the committees, said the nature of the pandemic meant it was \"impossible to get everything right\".\n\n\"The UK has combined some big achievements with some big mistakes. It is vital to learn from both,\" they said.\n\nCabinet Office minister Stephen Barclay said scientific advice had been followed and the government had made \"difficult judgements\" to protect the NHS.\n\nHe said the government took responsibility for everything that happened - saying the government would not shy away from any lessons to be learned at the full statutory public inquiry, expected next year.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the report was a \"damning indictment\" and showed the errors and failures of running down the NHS before the pandemic.\n\nHe called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to apologise to the bereaved and hold the public inquiry as soon as possible.\n\nWhen Covid hit, the government's approach was to manage its spread through the population rather than try to stop it - or herd immunity by infection as the report called it.\n\nThe MPs said this was based on dealing with a flu pandemic, and was done on the advice of its scientific advisers on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).\n\nBut the idea was not challenged enough by ministers in any part of the UK. Although other parts of Europe were guilty of this too, the MPs added.\n\nToo little was done in the early weeks to stop Covid spreading, the MPs said, despite evidence from China and then Italy that it was a virus that was highly infectious, caused severe illness and had no cure.\n\n\"The veil of ignorance through which the UK viewed the initial weeks of the pandemic was partly self-inflicted,\" the report said.\n\nAsked whether herd immunity had been a policy in the early days, Mr Hunt said he did not think there was any desire for the whole population to be infected.\n\nHowever, he said there was a \"fatalism that it was likely that in the end, that will be the only way that we will stop the progress of the virus\".\n\nDecisions on lockdowns and social distancing during those early weeks - and the advice that led to them - were described as \"one of the most important public health failures the UK has ever experienced\".\n\nThe advice from scientists changed on 16 March 2020 - with a lockdown announced a week later.\n\n\"This slow and gradualist approach was not inadvertent, nor did it reflect bureaucratic delay or disagreement between ministers and their advisers,\" the report said, describing it as a \"deliberate policy\".\n\n\"It is now clear that this was the wrong policy, and that it led to a higher initial death toll than would have resulted from a more emphatic early policy. In a pandemic spreading rapidly and exponentially, every week counted.\"\n\nA Liverpool FC and Atletico Madrid football match on 11 March - as a pandemic was declared by the WHO - and the Cheltenham Festival of Racing between 10 and 13 March, may have spread the virus.\n\nMr Barclay said hindsight was \"an issue\". Had the government known how much the country would be willing to endure, lockdown may have come sooner, the minister added.\n\nThe MPs also highlighted how ministers in England rejected scientific advice to have a two-week \"circuit-breaker\" in the autumn.\n\nThey said it was impossible to know whether that would have prevented the second lockdown in November, although they pointed out it had not in Wales.\n\nThe UK was one of the first countries in the world to develop a test for Covid in January 2020, but failed to translate that into an effective test-and-trace system during the first year of the pandemic, the report said.\n\nTesting in the community stopped in March 2020 and for weeks during the first peak only those admitted to hospital were tested.\n\nIt was not until May that the NHS Test and Trace system was launched in England, but the report described its start as \"slow, uncertain and often chaotic\".\n\nIt said the system was too centralised, only later making use of the expertise in local public health teams run by councils.\n\nBut it praised the target set by then Health Secretary Matt Hancock to get to 100,000 tests a day by the end of April, saying it played an important part in galvanising the system.\n\nThe greatest praise though was reserved for the vaccination programme and the way the government supported the development of a number of vaccines, including the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nIt said the whole programme was one of the most effective initiatives in history, and will ultimately help to save millions of lives here and across the world.\n\nA key step, taken early on following a suggestion from chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, was to set up a task force that combined the talents of scientists, the NHS and the private sector, led by the \"bold leadership\" of venture capitalist Kate Bingham.\n\nThe development of treatments, such as dexamethasone, for Covid through the UK Recovery Trial was another area where the UK's response was genuinely world-leading, the report said.\n\nAnd the NHS and government were also credited with the way hospital intensive care capacity was increased to ensure the majority who needed hospital treatment received it.\n\nThe report's recommendations include comprehensive government plans for future emergencies, a bigger role for the armed forces in emergency response plans, and considering a government and NHS volunteer reserve database.\n\nThe MPs said the pandemic had also exacerbated existing social, economic and health inequalities which would need addressing.\n\nThe report highlighted \"unacceptably high\" death rates in ethnic minority groups and among people with learning disabilities and autism.\n\nFor ethnic minorities, there were a variety of factors, including possible biological reasons and increased exposure because of housing and working conditions.\n\nFor people with learning disabilities, not enough thought was given to how restrictions would have a detrimental impact on them - particularly in terms of accessing health care more generally. Do not resuscitate orders were also used inappropriately.\n\nThere was a lack of priority attached to care homes too at the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe rapid discharge of people from hospital into care homes without adequate testing or isolation was a prime example of this.\n\nThis, combined with untested staff bringing infection into homes from the community, led to many thousands of deaths which could have been avoided.\n\nScience minister George Freeman said it was too early for any proper discussion about blame or fault.\n\nAsked about the higher UK death toll, he said: \"A lot of that is actually to do with the very, very heavy obesity-related cardiometabolic chronic disease cohort that we've been carrying for years - that's a failure of public health in this country over decades.\"\n\nLobby Akinnola, of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign group, said Mr Freeman's comments were \"grossly offensive\", adding that \"the statutory inquiry cannot come soon enough\".", "Starting salaries continued to rise sharply at Scottish firms last month as the supply of job candidates in some sectors fell away, a survey has found.\n\nThe latest RBS Report on Jobs said recruiters noted candidate shortages for both permanent and temporary posts.\n\nThe lack of supply was attributed by some respondents to \"a reluctance among candidates to switch roles due to Covid-19 related uncertainty\".\n\nBrexit and off-payroll working tax rules were also cited for the shortage.\n\nFor permanent positions, the rate of decline in supply was the fastest since March 2019, while firms signalled the steepest downturn in temp staff supply in the survey's history.\n\nThe shortage came as hiring activity at Scottish businesses surged again last month, in line with easing Covid-19 restrictions and rising economic activity.\n\nAn upturn in permanent placements was slower than in May but was still rapid overall, while temp billings growth also remained historically elevated.\n\nPanellists in the survey suggested the shortage of candidates for permanent roles had \"placed upwards pressure\" on pay, with the rate of increase among the steepest on record.\n\nRecruiters across Scotland also recorded a further increase in average hourly wages for short-term staff during June.\n\nTemp wages have now risen in all but one of the past nine months.\n\nDemand for permanent staff across Scotland rose sharply again during June, with the fastest rise since data collection began in January 2003.\n\nAcross the monitored sectors, IT and computing registered the quickest increase in vacancies, followed by engineering and construction.\n\nRecruiters across Scotland also registered a further rise in the number of temporary vacancies during June. Blue collar posts saw the strongest rise in the number of temp vacancies, followed by IT and computing.\n\nRBS chief economist Sebastian Burnside said the June data pointed to a \"sustained rebound\" of the Scottish jobs market.\n\nEarlier this week, a Scottish Chambers of Commerce survey suggested Scottish businesses were seeing \"shoots of recovery\" for the first time in over a year as Covid-19 restrictions began to lift.\n\nIts latest quarterly economic indicator indicated more positive growth across all sectors, with firms reporting substantial rises in confidence and domestic sales.\n\nHowever, while companies were optimistic about sales revenue in the third quarter of this year, they are more cautious around investment and staff levels.\n\nThey also expressed greater concern over inflation, as more consumers spend savings accumulated over the last 16 months.\n\nSCC president Tim Allan said: \"The success of the vaccine rollout has enabled the easing of restrictions and the gradual reopening of the economy, unleashing pent-up demand in the economy.\n\n\"This has allowed some sectors to rebound more quickly than others.\n\n\"However, the route to economic recovery will be a marathon, not a sprint.\"", "The UK's Brexit minister has threatened to suspend parts of the deal with the EU if the bloc does not agree changes to the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nLord Frost said the protocol - put in place to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland - was \"not working and needs to change\".\n\nHe said he worried the UK's proposals would not be agreed by the EU.\n\nLord Frost said triggering Article 16, which would suspend part of the deal, may end up as \"the only way\" forward.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol was agreed by both sides as a way to protect the Good Friday Agreement by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nBut Unionists have said the protocol damages trade with other parts of the UK by creating a border in the Irish Sea.\n\nArticle 16 can be triggered by either the UK or EU to suspend elements of the Brexit deal on the condition that the protocol is causing \"serious economic, societal or environmental difficulties that are liable to persist, or to diversion of trade\".\n\nBut critics say it would only be a temporary fix and not solve the long-term issues which the protocol has raised.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said the government believed \"the conditions have been met\" to trigger Article 16.\n\nBut while he said the government was willing to trigger it, they preferred the option of negotiating a \"sustainable\" agreement with the EU.\n\n\"The EU has got to come to the table in good faith,\" he added. \"They have got to work with us to get a solution that delivers.\"\n\nAn EU spokeswoman said they would not comment on Lord Frost's remarks, \"however lyrical or aggressive they may be\".\n\nBut they said the bloc was \"working intensively to find practical solutions to some of the difficulties that people in Northern Ireland are experiencing\".\n\nSpeaking at the Conservative Party conference, Lord Frost said the government \"knew [it was] taking a risk\" when it agreed to the protocol in the autumn of 2019, claiming his team were \"worried right from the start that the protocol would not take the strain if not handled sensitively\".\n\nBut he said the arrangements were \"going to come apart even more quickly than we feared\", and support for the protocol had collapsed across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We can still solve these problems,\" said Lord Frost, pointing to proposals he sent to the EU in July.\n\n\"We still await a formal response from the EU... but from what I hear, I worry that we will not get a response that enables the significant change we need,\" he added.\n\n\"So I urge the EU to be ambitious. There is no use tinkering around the edges. We need significant change.\"\n\nLater, the minister told a fringe event at the conference that he expected to get a response to the UK's proposals within the next two weeks, adding: \"We need a short, intensive and good faith talks process to happen quite soon. We need to show we've tried everything.\"\n\nAnd at another event, he referred to the negotiations, which, he indicated, could last \"three weeks or so\".\n\nThe EU has sent its own proposals to the UK on changes the protocol, but Lord Frost did not mention them in his speech.\n\nInstead he said if the two sides did not come up with a solution, \"using the Article 16 safeguard mechanism to address the impact the protocol is having in Northern Ireland...may in the end be the only way to protect our country, our people, our trade and our territorial integrity, the peace process and the benefits to this great UK\".\n\nThe threat to trigger Article 16 is not new. Lord Frost has made it a number of times.\n\nIt would not spell the end of the Northern Ireland Protocol. Article 16 only suspends limited aspects of the agreement, even though the UK government is looking for a much wider-ranging renegotiation of the deal it signed up to less than two years ago.\n\nAs it stands, the future of Northern Ireland looks set to bedevil relations between the UK and the EU for some time.\n\nAnd Lord Frost's negotiating style is certainly brusque.\n\nA few years ago, in another job, he was singing the praises of the single market.\n\nNow, in this speech, the EU is \"heavy-handed\" and British membership was a \"long bad dream\".\n\nIt's a challenging basis from which to launch the close partnership with its neighbours that the government says it wants.\n\nThe leader of the DUP, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, told an event at the Conservative conference he was \"confident\" the government was moving in the right direction and that action would be taken on the protocol.\n\nBut the MP said he had made it clear \"the clock was ticking\" and the government must \"arrest the harm\" the protocol is doing to Northern Ireland and the economy.\n\nLabour's shadow Northern Ireland secretary, Louise Haigh, said: \"Lord Frost negotiated every single word of the deal he now discredits at every opportunity, and as this speech proves, their approach is inflaming tensions while solving nothing.\"", "Rosen spent two months in a medically induced coma after catching Covid-19\n\nMichael Rosen has won the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education Poetry Award (CLiPPA) for his collection of poems about migration.\n\nOn The Move saw Rosen reflect on his own past as part of a Polish-Jewish family growing up in London.\n\nThe collection was published in 2020 and was illustrated by Quentin Blake.\n\nThe chair of the judges, Allie Esiri, described the collection as \"a timely - and timeless - reminder of our kinship with our fellow humans\".\n\nThe 75-year-old was announced as the winner at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Monday.\n\nThe victory comes after a punishing 18 months for Rosen, who became ill with Covid-19 in March 2020 and spent two months in a medically induced coma.\n\nHe was just beginning his recovery when On the Move was published last October. He described his experiences of being seriously ill in a book earlier this year, and will soon publish a picture book about learning to walk again.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It was so serious that I don't know about it': Michael Rosen was put in a coma to fight Covid-19\n\nOn The Move includes poems about Rosen's \"missing\" relatives, who lost their lives in the Holocaust, and connects his experiences with migration around the world to argue that the human race is always on the move.\n\nEsiri said: \"The very best poems are rockets which can propel us to worlds - real and imagined - that are different from our own, and maps which can guide us to better understand the emotional, social or political terrain around us.\n\n\"The shortlist for this year's CLiPPA was extremely strong, showcasing outstanding poetry, but the judges were unanimous in choosing On the Move as the winner for the way in which it situates us, with striking immediacy, within Michael Rosen's own personal recollections of migration, and invites us to consider the plight of others forced to be on the move today.\"\n\nRosen has won the CLiPPA once before, in 2016 for his collection A Great Big Cuddle, when the award was shared with Sarah Crossan for One.\n\nThis year, he beat collections from poets Nikita Gill, Matt Goodfellow, Manjeet Mann and Jane Newberry to the crown.\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. Midnight rush for shops and pubs as Sydney reopens\n\nAustralia's largest city, Sydney, has emerged from Covid lockdown after almost four months, with locals celebrating a range of new freedoms.\n\nPeople queued for pubs and shops that opened at midnight on Monday. Many others have been enjoying anticipated reunions with relatives and friends.\n\nHousehold visits and travel had been banned beyond a 5km (3.1 mile) zone.\n\nSydney exited lockdown after New South Wales state reached a 70% double-dose vaccination target for over-16s.\n\nMost restrictions have now been eased for fully vaccinated people.\n\nPeople can now share meals together at reopened cafes and restaurants, and visit gyms, libraries and pools. There were long queues for barbers and nail salons on Monday.\n\nThe Lord Gladstone Hotel, an inner city pub, was doing a roaring lunch trade after months of limited trading and takeaway-only options.\n\n\"We're stoked to be back, we're having the best Monday in months, even before Covid,\" Pat Blake, the pub's licensee, told the BBC.\n\n\"People are just ready to come back and sit down for a schooie [beer], see their friends, be somewhere there's always music playing,\" he said.\n\n\"The kitchen is pumping. I had forgotten about the pub smells. As soon as the fryers turned on it was really nostalgic.\"\n\nAustralia's most populous state has reached a 70% vaccination target for over-16s\n\nQueues formed for many reopened businesses on Monday\n\nMore restrictions will ease when 80% of over-16s are fully vaccinated. Currently, over 90% have received a first dose.\n\n\"It's been a difficult 100 days,\" state Premier Dominic Perrottet said on Monday.\n\n\"But the efforts that people have made right across the state, to go out and get vaccinated, has enabled this great day.\"\n\nMr Perrottet warned that NSW was bracing for a surge in Covid cases, but said the healthcare system had been preparing for weeks.\n\n\"We'll see hospitalisations increase… but we need to learn to live alongside the virus,\" he said.\n\nThe state has not yet imposed a system to check vaccination status, leaving it up to individual businesses.\n\nSydney's lockdown began in late June after a Delta variant outbreak took hold, leading to more than 50,000 infections and 439 deaths.\n\nIt spread to Melbourne and Canberra, prompting them to go into lockdown, as well as to New Zealand.\n\nCanberra is due to exit lockdown on Friday, while Melbourne is predicted to reopen in late October.\n\nThe NSW government is ramping up support for businesses to recover quickly\n\nAustralia had previously adhered to a Covid elimination strategy, and this remains the objective in some states.\n\nBut the rapid spread of the Delta variant forced a greater focus on vaccination efforts so Australia could switch to \"living with the virus\".\n\nQueensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory have remained virus-free after shutting their borders to infected states.\n\nAuthorities have flagged that Australians living abroad could travel back into Sydney next month, as the nation's borders reopen.", "Police said the collision, involving a bronze Toyota Hilux, took place in Lenham Road, Headcorn\n\nFour people have been killed and a teenage boy seriously injured in a crash on a country lane.\n\nKent Police said a bronze Toyota Hilux crashed in Lenham Road, Headcorn, at about 00:55 BST on Sunday.\n\nFour people, aged 18, 19, 25 and 44, who were inside the vehicle, were declared dead at the scene.\n\nA 15-year-old boy, who was a passenger in the car, was taken to a London hospital with life-threatening injuries, the force added.\n\nAnyone who witnessed the crash, or has CCTV, mobile phone or dashcam footage, is asked to contact Kent Police.\n\nA 15-year-old boy was taken to hospital after the crash\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford: Manchester United and England striker says support after racist abuse was a 'special moment' Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThere's never a time that racism is acceptable - Rashford speaks to BBC Breakfast's Sally Nugent Marcus Rashford has said the support he received after being targeted with racist abuse following the Euro 2020 final was a \"special moment\" for him. The Manchester United striker was targeted on social media after missing his spot-kick in England's penalty shootout defeat by Italy. His vandalised mural in Manchester was then adorned with messages of support. Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Rashford said: \"That was nice, it's something you won't ever forget.\" In his first interview on the subject since the Euros, the 23-year-old added: \"It's hard to describe the feeling it gives you, but one thing I've always said is that I want to see people act as one in communities and environments and that was one big highlight for me. \"It was a time everyone came together and whatever they thought was the right thing to do, they just did it and it was a special moment.\" Rashford started the Euro 2020 final at Wembley on the bench but was brought on by England boss Gareth Southgate near the end of extra time to take a penalty. The game finished 1-1, but Italy won 3-2 on spot-kicks with Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka unable to convert from 12 yards for the Three Lions. 'Different backgrounds, different environments, different religions' Thousands of supportive messages were left on the Rashford mural in Withington after it had been defaced shortly following England's loss to Italy All three players suffered racist abuse, but Rashford spoke of being uplifted by the outpouring of support he and his team-mates received. He added: \"This might sound crazy, but being in the moment and not winning the tournament that you've been there for two months trying to win, and just missing by one goal, you're fully focused on that. So, in the aftermath, you're not quite tuned into it because you're still thinking about the game. \"For me, that was certainly the case. It took a week, two weeks to clear my head and only then did I start taking note of the different types of people who've stepped up and started defending us and spreading the word that racism is not OK. \"I didn't actually see it properly for a couple of weeks but when I did see it, it was definitely a great feeling for me. \"Obviously I was having surgery at the time as well, so it was nice to see people not only come together, but the rest of us stood together for the same things. \"People of different backgrounds, people from different environments, different religions all saying the same thing and it was nice to see that.\" 'I'm in a much better place physically and mentally' Rashford has resumed full training with United after recovering from shoulder surgery Rashford, who last week received an honorary doctorate from the University of Manchester for his work to tackle child poverty, has not played since the loss to Italy because of a shoulder injury. The problem had been troubling the forward for months and, in July, he spoke of needing to \"listen to his body\" after a long season that saw him play 57 times for United. But Rashford says he is feeling \"much better\" after returning to full training at the start of the month. \"My recovery is - I wouldn't say coming to an end because obviously I have to keep looking after it - but I'm in a much better place physically and mentally. \"Last year was a very long season for me, I got this injury at the end of September and gradually it got that little bit worse, but now I'm fully free of that, I feel much better physically and mentally.\" Rashford says it is a \"great feeling\" having Ronaldo back at Old Trafford Rashford will return to a United team whose attack was bolstered in the summer by the big-money signing of Sancho and the return of Cristiano Ronaldo to Old Trafford from Juventus. Ronaldo left United to join Real Madrid in 2009, when Rashford was making his way through the club's academy, and the England forward hopes the 36-year-old's goalscoring prowess can help the Red Devils end their quest for a first trophy under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. \"That's a great feeling for me, as a player, but also as a fan of the club as well,\" said Rashford when asked what it was like having Ronaldo back at the club. \"It's always nice when a club legend finds a way back to the club. To be playing with him back at Old Trafford is a terrific feeling and hopefully gives us a push to start winning more trophies.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "The vehicle crashed near the Flying Fox roundabout on the A5 in Bedfordshire\n\nFour people have died following a crash near a roundabout in Bedfordshire, police have confirmed.\n\nPolice said emergency crews were called to a single-vehicle crash near the Flying Fox roundabout on the A5 at about 03:40 BST on Sunday.\n\nThere were reports of a car alight in a field near Heath and Reach.\n\nOfficers said they were working in a \"dignified and meticulous manner in order to establish what happened in this tragic, awful incident\".\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man who had been travelling in the car was pronounced dead at the scene and confirmed three other people travelling in the car had also died.\n\nBedfordshire Police said officers were involved in a \"complex investigation\" into the crash\n\nThe force said work at the scene was \"highly complex\" and was likely to continue into Tuesday.\n\nActing Sgt David Burstow, from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire serious collision investigation unit, said: \"Specially trained officers are speaking to their families and are offering them support, while forensic identification is still to take place.\n\n\"While we believe no other vehicles were involved, our investigations are ongoing into the circumstances surrounding the incident.\"\n\nSgt Burstow asked people to avoid speculation on social media, but asked for witnesses or those with information about what happened to come forward.\n\n\"We would be particularly interested to hear from anyone with dashcam or CCTV footage which could help with our inquiries,\" he added.\n\nThe crash happened near to the Flying Fox roundabout on the A5\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. Boris Johnson said he believes the Northern Ireland Protocol could \"in principle work\" if it was \"fixed\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he believes the Northern Ireland Protocol could \"in principle work\" if it was \"fixed\".\n\nBut he also did not rule out triggering Article 16 if the EU failed to come up with plans to deal with current issues.\n\nMr Johnson's comments came in an interview with BBC News NI.\n\nHe also talked about the government's controversial legacy proposals, which seek to end all Troubles-related prosecutions before 1998.\n\nMr Johnson insisted he did not want to \"deny\" anyone justice but felt it was time for Northern Ireland to \"move on\".\n\nThe prime minister said he wanted the EU to come to the table with serious proposals to fix the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"The fundamental problem for us is that it is very difficult to operate in an environment where the EU system can decide when and how many checks can be carried out across the Irish Sea,\" he said.\n\n\"Goods are being pointlessly interrupted, and it is crazy to have cancer drugs which you can't move from one part of the UK to another.\"\n\nPost-Brexit goods checks are being carried out at Northern Ireland's ports as a result of the protocol\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol is a post-Brexit trade arrangement, which was agreed by the UK and the EU in order to avoid the reintroduction of a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nUnder the terms of the protocol, Northern Ireland must still apply EU single market rules at its ports, in order to avoid the need for checks along the Irish land border as goods enter the EU.\n\nIn practice, this means some products moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland have been subject to new checks, which has angered many unionists who feel this is damaging trade, supply lines and Northern Ireland's position within the UK.\n\nHowever, the prime minister said it was possible for the protocol to function.\n\n\"The protocol could in principle work,\" he said.\n\n\"It has got enough leeway in the language for it to be applied in a common sense way without creating too many checks down the Irish Sea.\"\n\nBut he warned it will come down to \"fixing it or ditching it\".\n\nAsked if he planned to trigger Article 16 during next week's Conservative Party conference he said \"that depends on the response from the EU\".\n\nThe prime minister was also questioned as to why he signed up to a deal which created a border down the Irish Sea.\n\nHe denied that he was naïve but said he had an \"optimistic view of human nature and thought they (EU) would want to respect the Belfast Good Friday Agreement\".\n\nHe added the protocol was framed to operate \"free trade east to west just as much as north to south and that was very, very clear but unfortunately that is not the way it is being operated\".\n\nMr Johnson also defended the government's legacy proposals, which if adopted would see an end to all Troubles-related prosecution prior to 1998.\n\n\"We are trying to find a way forward and draw a line under one of the most wretched and miserable periods in our recent history,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to find a way of allowing people to reach an understanding of what happened and allowing families to reach closure while at the same time drawing a line.\"\n\nHe added \"We don't want to deny anybody justice but what we do want is to heal, bring people together in a process of understanding of what happened but also to say to the people that it time for Northern Ireland to move on\"", "Packham said \"two masked men\" drove a vehicle to his gates and set it on fire in the early hours of Friday\n\nWildlife expert Chris Packham has vowed that intimidation will not stop him from campaigning after a suspected arson attack at his home.\n\nThe broadcaster said two masked men set a vehicle on fire at the gate of his New Forest home at about 00:30 BST on Friday, causing extensive damage.\n\nHe said the attack was the \"cost\" of online abuse he receives, but added it would not sway him from his causes.\n\nHampshire Police said it was investigating the fire.\n\nIn a video on Twitter, Packham questioned if the men were members of one of a number of conservation organisations and rural groups \"or some of my internet trolls, who fill my timeline with hate?\"\n\nHe said he received many defamatory and libellous comments online, but those who posted them were getting away with it because the law, \"as it stands, means that I am unable to take any action against this form of harassment\".\n\nHe said it was a frustrating situation, which came at a cost.\n\n\"Perhaps the cost is having my gate burned down, causing thousands of pounds' worth of damage,\" he added.\n\nThe fire came a day before Packham delivered a 100,000 signature petition to Buckingham Palace\n\nHe said he had previously had dead animals left at his home, including foxes and badgers, but actions against him had now escalated \"to damaging that property\".\n\nHowever, he said he would not bow to the pressure to support activities he did not agree with, such as \"illegal shooting\" and trail hunting.\n\n\"If you think that by burning down those gates that I'm suddenly going to become a supporter... then you're wrong,\" he said.\n\n\"I will just carry on, because I have no choice. I cannot and will not let your intimidation sway me from my cause.\"\n\nIn 2019, the BBC Springwatch presenter spoke about a \"very calculated\" death threat he received after campaigning for measures to protect birds from being shot.\n\nThe fire at his property came a day before he delivered a 100,000 signature petition to Buckingham Palace, which called on the Royal Family to conserve nature on their estates and reintroduce animals like beavers and wild boar.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. Net zero means a country takes as much of these planet-warming gases - such as carbon dioxide - out of the atmosphere as it puts in.\n\nIn March, the government released a new net zero strategy, after a court ruled its previous plan did not contain enough detail about how its climate targets would be met.\n\nBut the government's independent advisers, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), have called the UK's efforts \"worryingly slow\".\n\nThe cost of delivering net zero - and who pays for it - has sparked a political debate. The CCC estimates it will require an extra £50bn of investment per year, by 2030.\n\nWhat progress is being made?\n\nThe UK has been successful in cutting carbon emissions from electricity generation so far. These have fallen by around three-quarters since 1990.\n\nThis is due to a declining use of fossil fuels - coal, oil and gas - for electricity.\n\nMeanwhile the proportion of electricity generated by renewables - like wind and solar - has grown to around 40% in the last few years, up from just over 10% a decade ago.\n\nThe government has pledged that all of the UK's electricity will come from low carbon sources (renewables and nuclear) by 2035.\n\nHowever, reports by the CCC, the National Audit Office and a cross-party group of MPs have warned that the UK risks missing its target, without clearer planning and much faster action.\n\nDespite the push for more renewable energy, the government is granting 100 oil and gas production licences for the North Sea.\n\nIt says it wants to reduce the UK's reliance on imported energy - such as gas - from \"hostile states\" and says some fossil fuels will still be needed when net zero is reached.\n\nBut the CCC says investing in renewables would be a better way to reduce reliance on imports and bring bills down for consumers.\n\nIt says the expansion of fossil fuel production \"is not in line with net zero\".\n\nThe UK still relies heavily on fossil fuels for its total energy needs. Total energy use includes electricity, but also things like petrol cars and gas heating.\n\nBuildings account for about 17% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions, mainly due to burning fossil fuels for heating.\n\nThe government has committed to installing 600,000 heat pumps a year by 2028 to replace gas boilers.\n\nHeat pumps use electricity rather than gas, and are around three times more efficient than a boiler. The government is offering grants of £5,000 to help homeowners in England and Wales install a heat pump.\n\nIn 2022, around 70,000 heat pumps were installed in the UK, leaving the government's 600,000 target \"significantly off track\", according to the CCC.\n\nThe UK has some of the least energy-efficient homes in Europe. Insulation is one of the most effective ways to reduce emissions from housing.\n\nThe government has introduced the Great British Insulation Scheme to help insulate around 300,000 of the poorest-performing homes but the CCC says it needs to go further.\n\nTransport (not including aviation and shipping) accounted for just under a quarter of UK emissions in 2022, making it the largest emitting sector.\n\nThe government says no new fully petrol and diesel cars will be sold from 2030.\n\nBy 2028, it wants 52% of car sales to be electric. In 2022, nearly 17% of car sales were electric. This is ahead of schedule, according to the CCC.\n\nThe government wants 300,000 publicly-accessible charging points for electric cars by 2030.\n\nThe number of public charging points increased to around 37,000 in 2022 - up by nearly a third from 2021. But the rate of deployment will have to rise further, the CCC says.\n\nThe government has allocated nearly £300m for up to 1,400 zero-emission buses through regional schemes, but the CCC says it needs to confirm when it will end the sale of diesel buses.\n\nThe government aims to remove all diesel-only trains by 2040, but the CCC says it needs a clearer plan to achieve this.\n\nOverall, the CCC says there has been \"little progress\" switching to lower carbon modes of travel, such as public transport and active travel, to reduce car demand.\n\nFlying makes up about 7% of overall UK emissions, and shipping about 3%.\n\nThe UK has a strategy for delivering net zero aviation by 2050.\n\nIt has been criticised for relying too much on technologies such as sustainable fuels and zero emissions aircraft that do not yet exist.\n\nAs a result, the CCC says that the government should be looking at how to manage demand rather than allowing it to grow - for example addressing private jet use and providing lower cost rail travel.\n\nIt says there should be no net airport expansion across the UK.\n\nProgress has also been slow to establish a strategy to decarbonise shipping, the CCC says.\n\nAgriculture and land use produce 11% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nThe government released its food strategy in June 2022, but the CCC criticised it for failing to deliver action to drive down emissions from agriculture at the required scale or pace.\n\nIt has also been criticised for not doing more to encourage a switch to a more sustainable diet - eating plant-based foods, for example.\n\nMeat consumption in the UK has been falling though - down 17% in the last decade.\n\nIn February 2023, the government released details of its long-awaited environmental land management schemes for England, replacing the EU common agricultural policy.\n\nThe schemes mean farmers can apply for public money to support activities that benefit the environment.\n\nTrees and peatlands play important roles in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.\n\nUK forest cover is 13%, among the lowest in Europe.\n\nThe government has a target to plant 30,000 hectares of trees a year by 2025.\n\nHowever, annual UK tree planting has not risen above 15,000 hectares since 2001.\n\nThe UK forestry body has warned that there is \"zero chance\" of the UK meeting its target.\n\nIt is estimated that only around 20% of UK peatlands are in a near-natural state, including only 1.3% in England.\n\nThese damaged peatlands are responsible for around 5% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions, whereas healthy peatlands would take up carbon dioxide.\n\nThe government aims to restore around 29,000 hectares of peatland a year across England, Scotland and Wales by 2025. But current levels are less than half this, leaving peatland restoration \"significantly off track\", the CCC says.\n\nHydrogen is a low-carbon fuel that could be used for transport, heating, power generation or energy storage.\n\nThe government says it considers hydrogen to be a critical part of future energy security and decarbonisation. It wants to have a 10GW hydrogen production capacity by 2030.\n\nThe industry is in its infancy, and the government admits it will need \"rapid and significant scale-up\" in the coming years.\n\nThe government has promised a decision on the role of hydrogen in heating by 2026, but the CCC says this delay is holding back potential investment.\n\nIn March 2023 the government announced the first winning projects from the £240m Net Zero Hydrogen Fund.\n\nThe ability to capture carbon before it is released - or take it out of the atmosphere and store it - will be important if the UK is to reach net zero.\n\nThe government is aiming to capture and store between 20 and 30 million tonnes of CO2 a year by 2030.\n\nThe Chancellor recently announced £20bn in investment in carbon capture over the next 20 years, and several projects have been announced.\n\nBut the technology is still emerging and is expensive, and can only capture a portion of emissions.\n\nIndustrial emissions represent about 14% of the UK total.\n\nThe government aims to cut emissions from manufacturing by about two-thirds by 2035.\n\nIt has a scheme to cap the amount of emissions allowed by individual sectors each year, reducing that amount over time.\n\nBut the scheme risks companies shifting production to other countries and therefore not actually reducing their emissions. Small facilities, representing around 40% of industrial emissions, are not included in the scheme.\n\nThe government is also under pressure to respond to the green investment packages announced by the US and EU over the past year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shoppers have shared their views on vaccine passes in Wales\n\nBusinesses and music lovers have said they feel \"torn\" after the introduction of Covid passes for nightclubs and large events in Wales.\n\nA knife-edge vote in the Senedd on Tuesday, with 28 politicians voting for and 27 against, will see the new rules brought in on 11 October.\n\nCritics said the pass would divide society and make it harder for businesses to recover lockdown losses.\n\nBut others said the pass helped make people feel safer.\n\nLucy Rees and Holly Hermann, both 19, from Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, said they had already downloaded their Covid passes to be allowed into a concert on Tuesday night.\n\n\"I think it's kind of good to be honest,\" said Ms Rees.\n\n\"We went to go to a concert last night, we had to have the Covid pass to get in, so it was better because you feel safer.\n\n\"I was really confused to begin with... but then it was easy.\"\n\nKatie Owen, 24, from Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said: \"I feel people should have the decision whether they want the vaccine or not. I've personally been double-vaxxed. I work in the music industry so I feel it's the right thing to do to make people feel safe.\n\n\"But I'm a bit torn, I feel some people are a bit scared and don't know enough about the vaccines.\"\n\nBut she said she would \"definitely\" be getting a pass.\n\n\"If you want to go to a club with your friends and they've got their vaccine passes and you haven't then you're going to be a bit stuck.\"\n\nLucy Rees and Holly Hermann have already downloaded their Covid passes\n\nJonathon Dawes, 18, from Rhyl, Denbighshire, who is studying politics and economics at Kings College, London, said the introduction of the pass risked eroding people's freedoms.\n\n\"I've had my double jab, but when it comes to Covid passes I oppose vaccine passports and the reason I do so is not only do I think they're a massive impracticality for businesses up and down the country, but I think pursuing such an avenue is a very dangerous one because we're approaching a situation now where civil liberties are under threat.\"\n\nSylvia Majer, 21, from Cardiff, said: \"I think they are a good idea - they don't exclude anyone, or you can just do a test.\n\nSylvia Majer says passes are a good idea to stop people who test positive from mixing\n\nShe said the need for a pass meant it put \"more pressure on people testing positive not to mix and we want to keep the rates down\".\n\n\"There are issues with only using lateral flow tests because it is hard to police them, it's relying on the word of the person doing them if it is negative,\" she said.\n\nBusiness owner Skye Noman says her staff will all need passes so they can go to festivals and other events for work\n\nBut some business owners said the introduction of the passes was unfair and would have repercussions for those trying to recover after the Covid lockdowns.\n\nSkye Noman, 21, from Cardiff, who set up her Oh My Shakes business during the first national lockdown in 2020, said she thought the Covid pass would be divisive.\n\n\"It's different for everybody isn't it, some people will want the vaccine and then get their passport, other people won't for personal reasons,\" she said.\n\n\"And then to only allow those in who have got the passport seems a bit, I wouldn't say discriminatory, but it's making two different sides.\n\n\"We will be attending festivals and events, so it will definitely affect us because I'm sure my staff will be attending these events and will all need the passports as well.\"\n\nWith Tuesday's vote causing controversy after one Conservative Member of the Senedd said he was unable to vote remotely, there have been calls for another vote.\n\nMichael Kill, chief executive of the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA), said his industry was \"devastated\" by the decision, particularly as it was so close.\n\nHe said business owners felt \"somewhat outraged\" at the circumstances.\n\nHe called the decision \"unfair and undemocratic\" and said the NTIA had requested another vote.\n\n\"This is a fundamental vote and will impact so many businesses and so many livelihoods it cannot be taken lightly,\" he said.\n\nMichael Kill says the industry does not take safety lightly\n\n\"We're still a very fragile industry and for this to be put in place at a time of such fragility, given the fact we've got some issues around staff shortages, and trade at the moment is starting to top up the losses, the huge losses and the debt that have been built up over this period.\n\n\"You can understand why some of the operators amongst us are very concerned at this coming in.\n\n\"No one wants to compromise public health, but we also want to be treated fairly,\" he said.", "Cyber-attacks which see hackers get inside computer networks and lock the owners out until they pay a ransom present \"the most immediate danger\" to UK businesses in cyber-space, the head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned.\n\nLindy Cameron said her agency, an arm of GCHQ, and the National Crime Agency had assessed that cyber-criminals based in Russia, and its neighbours, were responsible for the most of the \"devastating\" ransomware attacks against the UK.\n\nShe said these types of attack posed a threat to everyone from major companies to local councils and schools.\n\nSpeaking at the Chatham House Cyber 2021 conference, Ms Cameron warned that not enough organisations were prepared for the threat or tested their cyber-defences.\n\nLindy Cameron has been chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, the agency tasked with defending the UK in cyberspace, for just over a year\n\nIncreasingly in recent cases, criminal gangs have also threatened to release some of the data they have access to publicly.\n\nHackney Borough Council was hit by one attack which led to significant disruption to services and IT systems going down for months.\n\nIreland's Health Service Executive also suffered a significant attack this year, leading to months of disrupted appointments and services.\n\nRansomware has risen up the agenda in recent months, particularly the United States where an attack on the company Colonial Pipeline led to fuel shortages on the east coast.\n\nPresident Biden warned President Vladimir Putin about activity that came from gangs within Russia.\n\nA ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline in the US led to fuel shortages on the east coast of the country\n\nThere had been some signs that Russian-linked activity dipped over the summer but cyber-security experts believe much of that may be to do with the hackers taking their summer holiday rather than any fundamental shift away from what has been a highly-lucrative business model.\n\nMs Cameron said that ransomware would continue to be attractive while organisations remained vulnerable and were willing to pay. She said the government had been clear that paying ransoms simply emboldened criminal groups.\n\nAs well as improving its defences, she also said the UK would aim to deliver a \"sustained, proactive\" campaign to disrupt those harming the UK, including ransomware gangs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis would include a range of techniques including the newly established National Cyber Force which can carry out offensive hacking operations.\n\nIn a wide-ranging speech, Ms Cameron, who has served just over a year as head of the NCSC, said the pandemic continued to cast a shadow over cyber-security and was likely to do so for years to come.\n\n\"Malicious actors continue to try and access Covid related information, whether that is data on new variants or vaccine procurement plans,\" she said.\n\n\"Some groups may also seek to use this information to undermine public trust in government responses to the pandemic. And criminals are now regularly using Covid-themed attacks as a way of scamming the public.\"\n\nShe also made reference to the recent revelations about the Pegasus spyware sold by the company NSO Group, saying that the NCSC has raised a \"red flag\" about the growing commercial market for sophisticated products which can be used to hack into people's phones and carry out surveillance.\n\nLast week a UK court ruling found that NSO spyware had been used to hack into the phones of the ex-wife of Dubai's ruler.\n\n\"We need to avoid a marketplace for vulnerabilities and exploits developing that makes us all less safe,\" she said.\n\nShe warned of the dangers of \"authoritarian states like China\" having the ability to influence the standards of new technology in a way that undermines the UK's security. She said the UK needed to be \"clear eyed\" and protect itself \"against Chinese practices that have an adverse effect on our own prosperity and security\".", "Virginia Giuffre, then Victoria Roberts, was pictured with Prince Andrew in London in 2001\n\nThe Metropolitan Police will not take any further action against the Duke of York following a review prompted by Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre.\n\nMs Giuffre is suing Prince Andrew in the US for allegedly sexually assaulting her when she was a teenager.\n\nA source close to the duke told PA Media it had \"come as no surprise\" the Met had decided to drop its probe.\n\nThey added: \"Despite pressure from the media and claims of new evidence, the Met have concluded that the claims are not sufficient to warrant any further investigation.\n\n\"The duke has always vigorously maintained his innocence and continues to do so.\"\n\nIn August, the Met said it would review its decision not to investigate allegations connected to Epstein.\n\nMs Giuffre, 38, claims she was sexually assaulted by the prince at three locations - London, New York and on Epstein's private island in the Caribbean.\n\nHer case claims Prince Andrew engaged in sexual acts without Ms Giuffre's consent, including when she was 17.\n\nThe Met also confirmed it had completed its review into allegations reported in June by broadcaster Channel 4 News that British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's former girlfriend, trafficked, groomed and abused women and girls in the UK.\n\nThe force said it had \"reviewed information passed to us by a media organisation in June\" and decided that \"no further action will be taken\".\n\nIn August 2019, US financier Epstein was found dead in his cell in New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center.\n\nPrince Andrew - seen walking with Jeffrey Epstein in Central Park in New York in 2010 - has faced scrutiny over his ties to the convicted sex offender\n\nThe Met previously ruled out opening an investigation into Epstein, but in August Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said the force would review the decision.\n\nOn Sunday, the Met said: \"As a matter of procedure, MPS officers reviewed a document released in August 2021 as part of a US civil action. This review has concluded and we are taking no further action.\"\n\nThe Met added that it will continue to liaise with other law enforcement agencies who are leading the investigation into matters associated with Epstein.", "Foreign tourism, once an engine of the Thai economy, has collapsed\n\nThailand plans to end Covid quarantine requirements for fully vaccinated travellers from at least 10 low-risk nations from 1 November, officials say.\n\nPM Prayuth Chan-ocha admitted that \"this decision comes with some risk\" - but it is seen as a key step to revive the country's collapsed tourism sector.\n\nThe 10 nations seen as low risk include the UK, China, Germany and the US.\n\nThe country has been recording more than 10,000 positive infections daily since July.\n\nIt has fully vaccinated around 33% of its almost 70 million people. Half the population has received one dose.\n\nMr Prayuth said Thailand would also allow entertainment venues to reopen on 1 December and permit alcohol sales.\n\nHe added that the authorities were planning to open Thailand for more countries on that date.\n\nMr Prayuth's comments came in a televised address on Monday.\n\nReferring to visitors from 10 low-risk nations, he stressed that \"when they arrive, they should present a [negative] Covid test... and test once again upon arrival\".\n\nIf the second test is also negative, any visitor from those countries \"can travel freely like Thais\", the prime minister said.\n\nBut he warned that the government would act decisively if there were to be a spike in infections or an emergence of a highly contagious variant of Covid-19.\n\nIt is estimated that Thailand - popular for its sandy beaches and non-stop nightlife - lost about $50bn (£37bn) in tourism revenue in 2020.\n\nThe economy suffered its deepest contraction in more than two decades as a result of the pandemic.\n\nThailand was the first country outside China to record a Covid-19 case in January last year.\n\nIt took the drastic step of sealing its borders in April, effectively killing off a tourist industry accounting for perhaps 20% of GDP, but managed to cut new daily infections to just single figures, one of the best records anywhere.\n\nThis year though, with the arrival of the Delta variant, infections have soared, from a total of less than 7,000 at the end of 2020, to 1.7 million today. The argument for keeping out foreign visitors to contain Covid became much less persuasive, especially with tourist-related businesses pleading for restrictions to be eased.\n\nThe success in containing Covid last year had another unforeseen consequence; it led the Thai government to believe it need not rush to order vaccines. The result has been a tardy and at times confused vaccine programme, and a public outcry.\n\nThe need for some economic good news is in large part what has driven it to start reopening, well before reaching its own declared target of getting 70% of the population vaccinated.\n\nIt is proceeding cautiously though, with only 10 countries on the list until the end of the year. Like other countries in the region Thailand's health system has limited ICU capacity; in August ICU units in Bangkok were quickly overwhelmed by the number of serious Covid cases.\n\nIn any case, even with an end to the two week quarantine requirement, a recovery to the 40 million tourists who came in 2019 is unlikely next year, or even the year after.\n\nJust over 70,000 visitors came into the country in the first eight months of this year, compared with 40 million in the whole of 2019.\n\nThailand has reported more than 1.7 million confirmed Covid cases since the pandemic began, with nearly 18,000 deaths, according to America's Johns Hopkins University.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The US had offered a $5m reward for information leading to Sami Jasim al-Jaburi's capture\n\nIraq says it has captured the jihadist group Islamic State's financial chief in an operation outside its borders.\n\nSami Jasim al-Jaburi was arrested in a \"complex external operation\" by the Iraqi National Intelligence Service, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi tweeted, without specifying a location.\n\nHe added that Mr Jasim, also known as Hajji Hamid, was a deputy leader of IS under the late Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.\n\nThe US had offered a $5m (£3.7m) reward for information leading to his capture.\n\nIts Rewards for Justice website alleged that he was \"instrumental in managing finances for [IS] terrorist operations\" and had supervised the group's \"revenue-generating operations from illicit sales of oil, gas, antiquities, and minerals\" after it seized large swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014.\n\nIraqi officials are hailing the capture of Sami Jasim as a significant blow to IS.\n\nThey say, cryptically, that he was captured in a foreign intelligence operation without immediately revealing where.\n\nThe high-level IS operative is believed to have been not only in charge of the group's finances but also of its cross-border operations in Syria and Iraq where it continues to attack police and military bases.\n\nHis value to the Iraqi security forces will be not so much his loss to IS - where he will be swiftly replaced - but in what information he yields to his captors about imminent attacks.\n\nSince the military defeat of IS and its self-declared caliphate it has reverted to being an insurgency, conducting hit-and-run attacks. It's estimated to have around 10,000 fighters at large in the Middle East.\n\nFurther afield it remains a dangerous security threat in countries as far apart as Afghanistan and Mozambique.\n\nIraq's Security Media Cell said the detainee was close to the new leader of IS, Amir Mohammed Said Abdul Rahman al-Mawla, who replaced Baghdadi after he killed himself during a US special forces raid on his hideout in Syria in 2019.\n\nAlthough Mr Kadhimi did not reveal where Mr Jasim had been captured, a senior Iraqi military source told AFP news agency it had happened in Turkey. There was no immediate response from Turkish authorities to the report.\n\nEarlier this year, the Iraqi government announced it had killed another alleged deputy IS leader, Jabir Salman Saleh al-Isawi, as well as the leader of IS in southern Iraq, Jabbar Ali Fayadh.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIS once controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching from eastern Iraq to western Syria and imposed its brutal rule on almost eight million people.\n\nDespite the group's defeat on the battlefield in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria two years later, it is estimated that thousands of militants remain active in both countries.", "Ireland's foreign minister has accused the UK of repeatedly dismissing EU proposals on the Northern Ireland Protocol before they are published.\n\nThis is happening again this week but it is now \"more serious\", Simon Coveney has warned.\n\nThe protocol is the special Brexit deal for Northern Ireland, which the UK and EU agreed in 2019.\n\nUnionists argue it creates a trade border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nThey say it undermines Northern Ireland's constitutional position as part of the UK.\n\nThe EU will bring forward proposals on Wednesday for reforming the protocol.\n\nThe proposals will focus on easing practical problems with the movement of goods from Britain to Northern Ireland, rather than changing oversight arrangements.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, who has threatened to pull his party out of Stormont over the protocol, said on Monday that this week was important.\n\n\"Let's see what people have to put on the table,\" he said.\n\n\"Let's see that intensive negotiation take place and then we'll make our judgements on the outcome against the tests that we have set and determine what action we should take.\"\n\nMr Coveney told RTÉ's Morning Ireland programme that the UK's dismissals were now \"more serious\", given the comprehensive compromise proposals the EU is bringing forward.\n\n\"Each time the EU comes forward with new ideas, new proposals to try to solve problems, they are dismissed before they are released and that is happening again this week,\" Mr Coveney said.\n\nMaros Šefčovič told an event in Dublin that he hoped talks would begin before the end of October\n\nHe said dismissals were being seen across the EU as \"the same pattern, over and over again\" by the UK.\n\nAt the weekend, Mr Coveney warned UK demands on the Northern Ireland Protocol could cause \"a breakdown in relations\" with the EU.\n\nHe made the comments after the UK reiterated that it wants the European Court of Justice (ECJ) removed from oversight of the deal.\n\nMr Coveney said this was the creation of a new \"red line\" which the EU cannot move on.\n\nThe European Commission said the ECJ's role in the protocol was ground that has been covered \"a million times\".\n\nIts chief spokesperson, Eric Mamer, told a briefing on Monday that the EU's position on this issue remained \"extremely clear\".\n\nHe said it was looking for solutions to the practical issues that affect the daily lives of people.\n\nMr Mamer said the commission wanted to be constructive and open, \"but in the framework of the agreement as it has been signed\".\n\nOn Tuesday, the UK's Brexit Minister Lord Frost will give a speech in which he is expected to tell diplomats that removing the ECJ's role in dispute settlement is necessary to sustain the protocol.\n\nLord Frost is due to give his speech on Tuesday\n\nHe is due to say: \"Without new arrangements in this area the protocol will never have the support it needs to survive.\n\n\"The role of the ECJ in Northern Ireland and the consequent inability of the UK government to implement the very sensitive arrangements in the protocol in a reasonable way has created a deep imbalance in the way the protocol operates.\"\n\nThere are two schools of thought about how this latest negotiation is shaping up.\n\nThe first is that Lord Frost's hard line on the ECJ is standard pre-negotiation tactics, aimed at grinding out another concession or two.\n\nAfter all the Brexit process has always delivered a deal, even at times when it seemed improbable.\n\nThere is another view, hinted at by Simon Coveney, that maybe the UK doesn't want a deal unless it's total victory.\n\nUnder that scenario the UK would go through the motions before triggering Article 16.\n\nIt would use this to gut the protocol while calculating that the EU's ability to retaliate is limited or or at least would take a long time to amount to anything.\n\nWe should find out which view is right by the end of this year.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said on Monday that his party had concerns around the jurisdiction of the ECJ.\n\n\"We do not believe they are fully independent when it comes to arbitrating on issues related to trade between the United Kingdom and the European Union,\" he told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"We recognise why the government has that concern, but the government in the end, they are the negotiating party and they have to press these issues.\"\n\nHowever, the chief executive of Manufacturing NI, Stephen Kelly, said business needed clarity and certainty, not \"spats and ultimatums\".\n\nResponding to the UK's call to have the ECJ removed from oversight of the deal, Mr Kelly said that many businesses across Northern Ireland relied upon single market access enforced by the court to ensure their goods travelled freely and legally right across the EU.\n\nFormer Ulster Unionist Party leader and UUP MLA Steve Aiken said there were concerns particularly around governance of the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nHe said the implications of issues concerning the ECJ, which he said differentiates VAT and state aid rules and regulations, had not yet been seen.\n\n\"Those are real concerns for us,\" he told Radio Ulster's The Nolan Show.\n\nSinn Féin assembly member Declan Kearney said \"we are seeing the goal posts shift once more\" in relation to the UK's negotiation strategy.\n\n\"This may well be a negotiation tactic.\n\n\"We are now approaching the point where hopefully all of these issues can be successfully covered off and that we can in fact see the difficulties with the protocol finally eliminated, and that David Frost is simply trying to up the ante and bring some more heat into the talks process that will follow publication of the European Union proposals.\"\n\nSDLP assembly member Matthew O'Toole said from initial reports it appeared that the EU proposals would go \"further than most people in the UK government and even some in unionism and indeed in business were asking for earlier this year\".\n\n\"That is encouraging, there then needs to be a period of engagement between the UK and the EU to make those work,\" he told Radio Ulster's the Nolan Show.\n\n\"It is deeply disappointing, however, that the UK government has chosen to pick a fight already over proposals that have not yet been published and proposals that by all accounts are going to be substantial.\"\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister said the \"big issue\" was \"the destruction\" of Northern Ireland's links \"with GB and our supply chain\".\n\n\"The people in the Irish Republic wouldn't accept it if two thirds of their economy laws were made in London,\" he said.\n\n\"Northern Ireland shouldn't have to accept the fact that two thirds of the laws governing their economy are made in Brussels. That's the constitutional issue.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWales scraped past Estonia with an unconvincing win in Tallinn to keep hopes of finishing second in their World Cup qualifying group in their own hands.\n\nKieffer Moore poked in from a yard out to give his attack-minded but defensively shaky side a half-time lead.\n\nThey became increasingly disjointed in the second half and were fortunate to preserve their lead as Estonia's Erik Sorga and Mattias Kait missed good chances.\n\nThe hosts, ranked 111th in the world, pressed gamely for the goal which would have earned them a second draw in a month against Wales, but Robert Page's men clung on for a crucial victory.\n\nThe Czech Republic's 2-0 win in Belarus keeps them second in Group E, ahead of Wales on goal difference but having played a game more.\n\nWith Belgium almost certain to secure the only automatic qualification spot as group winners, Wales are looking at the play-offs as their most realistic route to a first World Cup finals since 1958.\n\nThey are already effectively guaranteed a play-off place thanks to their success in the Nations League, but finishing second in this qualifying group could secure a more favourable draw in that knockout stage.\n\nWales finish their regular qualifying campaign with home matches against Belarus and Belgium next month, while the Czechs host Estonia in their final fixture.\n\nWales attack but shaky at the back\n\nIf Wales and the Czech Republic finish on the same points, second place will be decided by goal difference.\n\nWith that in mind, Wales manager Page said his side would go all-out attack in Estonia to avoid a repeat of the frustrating goalless draw in last month's reverse fixture in Cardiff.\n\nPage supported his claim by selecting an attacking line-up in Tallinn, recalling playmaker Harry Wilson and handing a first start to Huddersfield winger Sorba Thomas, who was playing non-league football only nine months ago.\n\nEstonia appeared to have similar intentions as Taijo Teniste registered the game's first shot on target after just 40 seconds - one of a handful of chances the home side were afforded by an occasionally erratic Welsh display in the first half.\n\nDespite their defensive jitters, the visitors were still the dominant force with Wilson firing a free-kick narrowly over and Connor Roberts seeing a fine curling effort well saved by Karl Hein.\n\nFrom the resulting 12th-minute corner, Joe Rodon and Aaron Ramsey's headers prompted a scramble which led to the ball falling to Moore, who prodded it over the line from a yard out.\n\nMoore then had a backheel effort saved by Hein as Wales continued to pour forward but, like they did in the Czech Republic on Friday, Page's side also played themselves into trouble.\n\nThe pass of the half was unintentional as Wilson, inside his own penalty area, played the ball straight to Sergei Zenjov, who beat Danny Ward with his finish but the covering Rodon was on hand to clear off the line.\n\nThe sloppier Wales' performance became, the less this game was about improving goal difference and more about simply preserving victory.\n\nEstonia continued to threaten in the second half, with an unmarked Sorga heading narrowly over from Markus Poom's free-kick before Kait could only shoot straight at Ward from a promising position.\n\nWhile still porous in defence, Wales also faded as an attacking force.\n\nThey might have had a penalty when Marten Kuusk's flailing arm gave Moore a bloody nose inside the Estonia box but, although referee Sandro Scharer booked Kuusk, he did not award Wales a spot-kick after judging Moore committed the first foul.\n\nEstonia were growing in confidence and substitute Vlasiy Sinyavskiy almost levelled in the 77th minute with an arcing shot which was palmed away by Ward.\n\nA rare Welsh counter-attack then saw substitute Mark Harris have a shot saved by Hein but Page's men spent the closing stages on the back foot.\n\nThey managed to repel Estonia's late attacks and, despite the frustration of another mediocre display against Estonia, this was still a valuable win to set Wales up for their two final group matches in Cardiff next month.\n• None Attempt missed. Brennan Johnson (Wales) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Daniel James.\n• None Vlasiy Sinyavskiy (Estonia) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Mark Harris (Wales) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Vlasiy Sinyavskiy (Estonia) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Markus Poom.\n• None Daniel James (Wales) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Kwasi Kwarteng has said that the energy price cap will stay, despite calls from suppliers for the cap to be scrapped amid soaring gas prices.\n\nSpeaking to Andrew Marr, the business secretary said that energy supply was a global issue but consumers would continue to be protected with the cap.", "Asos has announced its chief executive is leaving with immediate effect as the online fashion giant warned that rising costs are set to hit its profits.\n\nNick Beighton is stepping down after six years in the role and the day-to-day running of the firm will be taken over by Asos' finance chief.\n\nAsos also cautioned that next year's profits could fall by as much as 40%.\n\nThe company had benefited from lower rates of people returning clothing during Covid-19 lockdowns.\n\nAsos said this had resulted in £67.3m of cost savings, but it said that the levels of returns were now normalising.\n\nProfits are also likely to be affected by increased freight costs, Brexit duty, outbound delivery costs and higher wages.\n\nWhile adjusted pre-tax profit rose 36% to £193.6m for the 12 months to 31 August, Asos now expects this figure to fall to between £110m and £140m next year.\n\nAsos's share price tumbled by 15% in early trading before regaining a little ground. Its share price is down 42% since the beginning of 2021.\n\nThe warning of lower future profits overshadowed its results for the year to 31 August, which showed sales rose 22% to £3.9bn.\n\nAsos said it had attracted another 1.4 million customers over the past year as people turned to online shopping amid lockdowns.\n\nThroughout the period leisurewear became more popular, and this added to profits as it is less likely to be returned than more formal clothes.\n\nAsos said returns were already normalising, adding that the new customers it attracted in the last year were more likely to send clothes back.\n\n\"Asos has enjoyed a huge boost to trading over lockdowns, albeit for less-lucrative casual wear as its core demographic was stuck at home,\" said Sophie Lund-Yates, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"A reluctance to leave the house meant return rates were lower, resulting in XL margins. However, the tailwinds are easing and the Asos bubble has burst.\"\n\nAsos also set out changes at the top of the business to \"deliver next phase of global growth\".\n\nIt said Mr Beighton \"and the board have agreed that now is the right time for him to step down\" as chief executive. A search for his replacement is under way but in the meantime chief financial officer Mat Dunn will oversee the day-to-day running of the business.\n\nChief executive Nick Beighton is leaving Asos with immediate effect\n\nThe company's chairman, Adam Crozier - who will also be leaving Asos shortly to become chairman of BT - said the firm had a new five-year strategy and Mr Beighton had not wanted to stay for at least half of that so it was better to make the change now.\n\n\"Asos's management and board have spent considerable time over recent months developing and validating a clear strategic plan to accelerate international growth, building on Asos's undoubted strength in the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"Key to that is ensuring that we have the right leadership in place for the next phase, and the changes we are announcing today are designed to ensure we deliver against our clear strategic intent.\"\n\nAsos has been one of the big winners in this pandemic as people turned to online shopping during lockdowns. But it's facing the same supply chain problems as everyone else in retail including a host of increasing costs - from pay for warehouse workers to the shipping of containers of clothes from the far east, which is likely to put a huge dent in its profits for next year.\n\nGetting the right products at the right time is also challenging. And shoppers are now settling back into to old habits when it comes to returns.\n\nYounger online shoppers often order multiple products and send back those they don't want. But last year it saw fewer returns as its customers switched to less fitted items like leggings and hoodies.\n\nBut those charges are now starting to normalise along with overall sales. Asos has outlined ambitious plans for expansion over the next three years but that will be without its chief executive Nick Beighton who's leaving with immediate effect - a surprise announcement after 12 years with the business.\n\nRichard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics said Mr Beighton's departure had come as \"huge surprise\" and Asos was \"losing someone that has been instrumental to its success over the last decade\".\n\n\"The share price has been under recent pressure reflecting the challenges of delivering stellar levels of growth in a more hostile environment and tough comparisons from last year.\n\n\"Supply chain disruptions, fierce competitor dynamics and an intense focus on sustainability have created a more challenging outlook for the business over the coming years and seemingly resulted in a big boardroom shakeup.\"\n\nMr Beighton, who has been with Asos for 12 years in total, said in a statement he had enjoyed \"every moment\" of his time at the firm.\n\nHe said when he joined Asos had fewer than 200 people and sales of £220m, turnover was now almost £4bn selling to 26 million customers in 200 countries.", "The Scottish government will take over ScotRail from Abellio in March of next year\n\nScotland's rail network will be hit by strikes during the UN climate summit in Glasgow, a union has confirmed.\n\nThe RMT said members who work for ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper will stage industrial action during COP26 in an ongoing row over pay.\n\nScotRail staff will strike from 00:01 on Monday 1 November until 23:59 on Friday 12th November.\n\nThe summit, which is expected to draw thousands of people to Glasgow, runs from 31 October until 12 November.\n\nSleeper staff will strike on Sunday 31 October from 11:59 until 11:58 hours on Tuesday 2 November and again for 48 hours on Thursday 11 November from 11:59.\n\nGMB cleansing workers in Glasgow and Unite's Stagecoach staff have also voted to strike during COP26.\n\nA spokesman for ScotRail said the \"highly damaging\" strike action was \"extremely disappointing\" as it faced a serious financial crisis in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nTransport Minister Graeme Dey told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the RMT was in receipt of a \"very fair\" pay proposal.\n\nBut he added many of its members will have voted for strike action \"unaware of the offer that is now on the table\".\n\nMr Dey also described the two-year deal, which he said has been backed by the three other unions involved, was \"the best offer that can be made in the circumstances\".\n\nIt is the latest stage in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions and proposed cuts to services at the rail operator, which wants to reduce the number of services across Scotland by 300 a day from next May.\n\nReacting to Mr Dey's comments, Michael Hogg from the RMT union said they would not ballot ScotRail workers on the new deal because \"it is not worthy of consideration\".\n\nHe said the new pay offer was 4.7% over two years, but there have to be efficiency savings. That would mean workers having to give up some current terms and conditions in order to get a pay rise, a caveat Mr Hogg branded \"unacceptable\".\n\nThere will be no trains running anywhere in Scotland during COP26 if the strikes go ahead, he confirmed.\n\nThe climate summit will be held at the Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow\n\nScotRail is currently run by Dutch firm Abellio - but will be taken over by a company owned and controlled by the Scottish government in March next year.\n\nThe move was announced by the government earlier this year after Abellio was stripped of its contract three years early amid concern over its performance.\n\nScotRail has been in talks for several weeks with trade unions about pay and conditions. A formal written offer was made to four rail trade unions - Aslef, RMT, TSSA, and Unite the union.\n\nThe company said it had only survived the pandemic due to emergency taxpayer support of more than £400m in \"the most serious financial crisis in our history\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"It's extremely disappointing that the RMT have opted to continue with this highly damaging strike action, particularly when a pay offer, negotiated over several weeks, has been made to the trade unions.\n\n\"We're seeing customers gradually return to Scotland's Railway, but the scale of the financial situation ScotRail is facing is stark.\n\n\"To build a more sustainable and greener railway for the future and reduce the burden on the taxpayer, we need to change. All of us in the railway - management, staff, trade unions, suppliers, and government - need to work together to modernise the railway so that it is fit for the future.\"\n\nTransport Scotland said it welcomed constructive talks between all parties and that a \"significant offer\" has been made by employers since the RMT ballot opened.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We understand that the RMT will now ballot its membership again on the substance of this offer. We hope that RMT members and the other unions will agree and accept this offer, putting to an end existing and proposed industrial disputes and action.\n\n\"Rail workers have played their part in keeping the country moving through the pandemic and we are sure that they will see the importance of the moment and the role they can play in showing the best Scotland's Railway has to offer as we welcome world leaders from across the globe to COP26.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Chris Mitchell of the GMB denied cleansing workers in Glasgow were using the global climate conference as a bargaining chip.\n\nMr Mitchell claimed his members have been \"put in a corner\" by Cosla despite their heroic efforts during the pandemic.\n\nAnd he told Good Morning Scotland the current pay offer of £850 a year would only amount to an extra £6.50 a week, after tax and National Insurance.\n\nMr Mitchell said he acknowledged the importance of COP26 but added: \"Cosla need to realise there is an emergency on their own door step.\"\n• None Why are ScotRail workers striking during COP26?", "Conservative MP Sir David Amess has been stabbed as he met constituents at a regular surgery.\n\nEssex Police said they were called to reports of a stabbing in Leigh-on-Sea at 12:05 BST and arrested a man.\n\nPolice recovered a knife and said they were not looking for anyone else in connection to the incident.\n\nFormer party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said he was \"praying for a full recovery\".\n\nHe said on Twitter: \"My thoughts are with David Amess MP and his family at this awful time.\n\n\"Praying for a full recovery following this appalling, shocking news. This angry, violent behaviour cannot be tolerated in politics or any other walk of life.\"\n\nThe 69-year-old, who is MP for Southend West, was stabbed as he met constituents at Belfairs Methodist Church.\n\nAn air ambulance was sent to the scene.\n\nArmed police were seen outside the church where Sir David met consituents\n\nSouthend councillor John Lamb, who was at the scene after the stabbing, said Sir David was a family man, with four daughters and a son.\n\n\"He's always trying to help people, and especially refugees he's tried to help. He's a very amicable person and he does stick by his guns, he says what he believes and he sticks by it,\" Mr Lamb said.\n\nHe told the BBC the MP had not been taken to hospital but was operated on by medics at the scene.\n\nMr Lamb said he was still waiting to hear the extent of Sir David's injuries, but understood the MP was in a \"very serious\" condition.\n\nThe Jo Cox Foundation, the charity set up in memory of the MP who was murdered in 2016, said it was \"horrified\" by the stabbing.\n\n\"We are thinking of him, his family and loved ones at this distressing time,\" the foundation said.\n\nLabour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer said he was thinking of Sir David, his family and his staff after the \"horrific and deeply shocking news\".\n\nWere you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? 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• None Patel pays tribute to MP as 'man of the people'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Foster explains how lateral flow tests work and how to do one\n\nLateral flow tests (LFTs) are very good at detecting people most likely to spread Covid-19 and positive results should be trusted, say University College London researchers.\n\nWhen LFTs were introduced, they were criticised for being less accurate than PCR tests, which are analysed in a lab.\n\nBut the study found rapid tests were \"a very useful public health tool\" for stopping the spread of the virus.\n\nOne third of people with Covid can spread it while showing no symptoms.\n\nBased on the UCL research, Prof Irene Petersen, lead study author, said people who get a positive LFT result \"should trust them and stay at home\".\n\nBut government guidance says people must get a follow-up PCR test after a positive LFT to confirm they have Covid - and they can end their self-isolation when they get a negative result in a PCR test.\n\nThere have been recent reports of this happening in south-west England, leaving people unsure whether to isolate or not.\n\nThe UK's Health Security Agency said it was looking into the cause, but there was no evidence of any technical issues with test kits.\n\nProf Petersen said: \"When [Covid is] more common, there is no need to confirm it with a PCR - it's more likely it is a positive,\" she said.\n\nWhen the researchers used a new formula for calculating the rapid test's accuracy, they found LFTs were more than 80% effective at detecting any level of Covid-19 infection and likely to be more than 90% effective at detecting who is most infectious when they use the test.\n\nThis is much higher than previously thought, they say.\n\nProf Michael Mina, from Harvard School of Public Health, also part of the research team, said the LFTs could \"catch nearly everyone who is currently a serious risk to public health\" when viral loads are at their peak.\n\n\"It is most likely that if someone's LFT is negative but their PCR is positive, then this is because they are not at peak transmissible stage,\" he said.\n\nThe rapid tests are widely used in schools, workplaces and for allowing entry to large events to test those with no symptoms.\n\nSince they were introduced in secondary schools in England in March, NHS Test and Trace figures show 103,409 LFT tests have come back positive, 79,000 were matched with a confirmatory PCR and 69,500 of those were confirmed positive (and 7,647 came back negative).\n\nThere was much criticism of the rapid tests when they were first trialled in Liverpool last year because they were directly compared to PCR tests, which were often described as the gold standard.\n\n\"This is like comparing apples and oranges,\" Prof Petersen said.\n\nLateral flow tests and PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests do different things:\n\nThe UCL peer-reviewed study concludes that criticism of LFTs for low sensitivity \"have reached the wrong conclusions\", \"confused policy-making\" and \"damaged public trust in LFTs\".\n\nHealth professionals and the public should be aware of what the tests do, said the researchers, writing in Clinical Epidemiology.\n\nAnd they acknowledge that errors in the way people take the tests or in the way they are processed in the lab could affect results - and these factors were not taken into account in their study.\n\nThe current government guidance says that if you receive a negative follow-up PCR test result, and this PCR test was taken within two days of the positive LFT, you will be told by NHS Test and Trace that you can stop self-isolating.\n\nHowever, it states that you must continue to self-isolate if the PCR result is positive, you choose not to take a follow-up PCR or the test was taken more than two days after the positive LFT.\n\nDr Sophia Makki, incident director for Covid-19 at the UK Health Security Agency, said: \"Around one in three people who have Covid-19 never show any symptoms.\n\n\"Using LFDs (lateral flow devices) help to find asymptomatic cases who have a high viral load and are most likely to pass on the virus to others.\"\n• None Stay at home- guidance for households with possible or confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) infection - GOV.UK The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People who got a negative result from a Covid testing site in Berkshire earlier this month are being told to book another test, amid fears they were mistakenly given the all-clear.\n\nSome PCR tests carried out at Newbury Showground resulted in false negatives, West Berkshire Council said.\n\nThe BBC has been told the problems relate to one specific lab, rather than the site, and have now been fixed.\n\nBut some other people in south-west England are thought to be affected too.\n\nHealth officials are set to give out more details later on Friday.\n\nIn a statement issued on Thursday evening, the council said it had recently received reports from local residents who were concerned about the accuracy of tests taken at Newbury Showground.\n\nThe coronavirus testing site - an events venue in a village in the outskirts of Newbury - is operated by the government.\n\nMost PCR tests are taken at sites such as this and the samples are sent off to a lab for analysis, with the results then communicated to the tested person, usually by text or email, within 72 hours.\n\nWest Berkshire Council said: \"Over the past month, some PCR tests completed at the Newbury Showground testing site have had results sent out that may have incorrectly shown as negative for Covid-19.\n\n\"If you took a PCR test between 3 and 12 October which was negative, we strongly recommend a retest for you and for any close contacts.\"\n\nThe council also said it had been told by the government that \"a number of sites nationally may have been affected by this issue, including the one at Newbury Showground\".\n\nIt comes after widespread reports in south-west England of people testing positive with lateral flow tests, but then later testing negative when they got a PCR test.\n\nGPs said they were seeing a stream of patients who had received positive lateral flow tests, who then went on to receive negative PCR results.\n\nThe UK's Health Security Agency - which used to be Public Health England - said it had been made aware of \"some areas across the country\" encountering this issue - and that it was investigating.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Foster explains how lateral flow tests work and how to do one\n\nPCR tests are generally typically considered to be the most accurate type of test - although new research this week showed lateral flow tests are more reliable than first thought.\n\nGovernment guidance says people must get a follow-up PCR test after a positive LFT to confirm they have Covid - and they can end their self-isolation when they get a negative result in a PCR test.\n\nPublic health officials are set to give more details later of how many people may have got false results and how they will be contacted.", "Sir Henry Morton Stanley - but should his statue be removed in Denbigh?\n\nThe future of a statue in the home town of the controversial Victorian adventurer HM Stanley is being put to a public vote.\n\nResidents in the north Wales town of Denbigh are being asked whether they want it removed.\n\nStanley became famous after finding missionary Dr David Livingstone in Tanzania in 1871.\n\nBut his reputation has been tarnished by claims of violence on explorations, and his role in the Congo.\n\nHe acted as an agent for King Leopold II of Belgium, and was seen as one of the architects who opened up the African region to the West, only for it to be brutally exploited after he had left.\n\nThe rule of Leopold II is said to have led to the deaths of as many as 10 million Africans, though historians dispute the true number.\n\nA bronze of Stanley was approved back in 2010 by Denbighshire council, but even then proved divisive.\n\nAmid widespread protests from the Black Lives Matter movement following the death of George Floyd in the USA, petitions were drawn up calling for the removal of a statue of Stanley in Denbigh and an obelisk honouring him in nearby St Asaph.\n\nIt was supported by the Bishop of St Asaph, Gregory Cameron, who said Stanley had \"little respect for the natives of Africa\".\n\nAs a result, Denbigh Town Council agreed to hold a public consultation on the statue, which had been delayed until the October vote due to the pandemic.\n\nGwyneth Kensler, a local county councillor, has long supported keeping the bronze on display outside the town's library.\n\n\"The people against Stanley are making all sorts of accusations. They are saying he was racist, he wasn't - he was cruel, he wasn't,\" said Ms Kensler.\n\n\"You have to put him in his context - the Victorian period. With Leopold - he knew nothing about the atrocities, and condemned them when he did.\"\n\nShe said the statue should remain where it is, to mark \"Africa's greatest explorer\".\n\nStanley the explorer: This image was taken posing with his African servant in the 1870s\n\nStanley was born John Rowlands in Denbigh, but abandoned by his mother, and grew up in the workhouse at St Asaph.\n\nHe emigrated to America when he was 18, fighting in its civil war, before embarking on a career as a journalist and explorer.\n\nIt was in that role he famously searched for Livingstone, where he claimed he uttered the words \"Dr Livingstone I presume\" on finally finding him.\n\nBut not everyone shared the view that Stanley should be celebrated without question.\n\nDenbigh resident Emyr Thomas thinks the statue should be moved from its current location\n\nDenbigh resident Emyr Thomas said the bronze should be moved.\n\n\"It should be put somewhere, where you can read about it. We need to be able to show the next generation - and our generation - in an appropriate place.\n\n\"Then people can make their own minds up about it,\" he said.\n\nDr Marian Gwyn, head of heritage for Race Council Cymru, said the controversy surrounding Stanley was part of his story - and should be discussed.\n\n\"I'm not trying to defend Stanley, I'm just trying to be honest,\" she said. \"It was a very violent time throughout - not only was that the environment in Africa, it was violent in Europe as well.\"\n\nShe said many Congolese people still saw Stanley \"as a bit of a hero\" who \"broke the monolithic control of the African chiefs\".\n\nDr Gwyn added: \"It's a very different story to the one we normally hear. But I think we do need to know a lot more about what Stanley was doing over there.\"\n\nThe vote in Denbigh takes place in its town hall on Friday and Saturday.\n\nThe result, and what it means for the future of the statue, will be discussed when the town's council meets at the end of the month.", "A committee investigating the 6 January Capitol riot has said it will pursue criminal charges against former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon next week.\n\nMr Bannon had been summoned to testify before the congressional panel investigating the riot on Thursday.\n\nHe did not appear, prompting the head of the committee to schedule a Tuesday vote to hold him in criminal contempt.\n\nIf convicted, Mr Bannon faces a fine and up to one year in prison. Democrats say he is trying to delay the probe.\n\nMr Bannon - a former right-wing media executive who became Mr Trump's chief strategist - was fired from the White House in 2017 and was not in government at the time of the January riot.\n\nBut he has been asked to testify regarding his communication with Mr Trump a week before the incident - as well as his involvement in discussing plans to overturn the election results that saw Joe Biden win the White House.\n\nMr Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol building in Washington, DC on 6 January in a failed bid to overturn the certification of Mr Biden's victory. Hundreds of Mr Trump's supporters have since been arrested for their actions that day.\n\nSubpoena documents quoted Mr Bannon as saying \"all hell is going to break loose tomorrow\" on the eve of the riot, which left five dead.\n\nMr Bannon has repeatedly said he has no plans to appear before the committee.\n\nHe has argued that executive privilege, which shields some presidential communications, protects his discussions with Mr Trump. Mr Bannon's lawyers say he will continue to resist until a court has ruled on the matter.\n\nDemocrats argue that Mr Bannon is employing a delaying tactic in an attempt to push back proceedings until after the midterm elections in November 2022, which may change the balance of power in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Congress.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Democratic-led investigative committee will decide whether to refer the contempt charge for a full House vote.\n\nHouse lawmakers would then have to rule on whether Mr Bannon is in contempt. If the Democratic-majority House votes yes, the case will be referred to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.\n\nWhile this latest development is not surprising, with Democrats controlling both Congress and the presidency, this may be a rare instance where a congressional contempt charge has some teeth.\n\nIt also comes as the Democratic base demand accountability for the Trump administration's actions, calling on their members in Congress to flex their oversight muscles.\n\nIn August, the House investigating committee asked for records relating to the day's events, including communications from Mr Trump, members of his family, his top aides, his lawyers and other former members of his administration.\n\nThe committee has also ordered the testimony of Mr Trump's ex-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows; Dan Scavino, Mr Trump's social media manager; and Kash Patel, a former Pentagon chief of staff.\n\nMr Meadows and Mr Patel were co-operating with the inquiry, committee leaders Democrat Bennie Thompson and Republican Liz Cheney said last week.\n\nUS media report Mr Trump has asked all four former officials to refuse to comply with the inquiry.\n\nOn Friday Mr Trump - who has never conceded losing the election to Mr Biden - accused Democrats in Congress of using the committee to \"persecute their political opponents\".", "Helen Diggle, who lives in Tellisford in Somerset, says she had five positive lateral flow tests and three negative PCRs before finally testing positive for Covid on a PCR test.\n\nOn one of her visits to a testing centre she said a member of staff told her she had seen lots of very similar cases recently, particularly involving local schools.\n\nHelen tells BBC News: “It is really worrying that some people in the system, people on the ground, have been aware that something is going on.”\n\nWhen Helen and her 10-year-old daughter kept testing negative on PCRs despite high temperatures and positive lateral flow tests she knew something was not right.\n\n“I was very conscious that by having all these tests I could have been wasting NHS resources to satisfy my own conviction that I had Covid,\" she adds. “I felt like I was being unnecessarily neurotic.”\n\nBut when her son tested positive on private PCR testing equipment owned by his school, it was “blindingly obvious we all had Covid\", she says.\n\nHelen feels the situation is particularly unfair to school children.\n\n“If children test negative on PCR then schools have to take children back,\" she says.\n\n“So you probably have many more cases in school than they are expected to deal with.”\n\n“I feel we have been short changed – particularly the children – because testing is not working as it should be,\" she adds.\n\n\"My concern is it is leading not just the spread of the virus but is eroding trust in the testing system.”", "Stephen Port presented a very different version of himself online (left)\n\nThe detective who looked into the death of a serial killer's first victim made \"terrible mistakes\", an inquest heard.\n\nStephen Port killed Anthony Walgate in 2014 by giving him an overdose of the \"date-rape\" drug GHB. He later killed three more young men the same way.\n\nDet Sgt Martin O'Donnell did not know of a previous allegation of drug rape against Port in similar circumstances.\n\nThe Met Police officer told the hearing he did not search the national police database for information on Port.\n\nThere was also a delay in inspecting Port's computer, which would have shown detectives a frequent search history about raping and drugging young men.\n\nGiving evidence at Barking Town Hall in east London, where inquests are being held into the deaths of Port's four victims, Det Sgt O'Donnell said: \"It's just a huge failure not to have obtained that information.\"\n\nMr Walgate was found dead by medics outside Stephen Port's flat in Cooke Street, Barking\n\nPort had initially been arrested on suspicion of raping a man in December 2012, but the case was dropped when the complainant said he did not support a prosecution.\n\nBut Mr O'Donnell did not update the Crime Reporting Information System (CRIS), which logs progress in an investigation for colleagues to see.\n\nHe told the hearing: \"It feels like a fairly significant mistake of mine not to include it in that document.\n\n\"It's a terrible mistake that I did not put it in there.\"\n\nThe inquest previously heard Port repeatedly changed his account over Mr Walgate's death - initially telling emergency services he chanced upon the aspiring fashion designer slumped by the communal entrance to his flat on 19 June 2014, to later admitting he agreed to meet the young escort for sex.\n\nAndrew O'Connor QC, counsel to the inquest, said: \"Stephen Port lied to police about his dealings with Anthony, there were suspicions his death was caused by drugs, and you have a detailed account that he (Port) forced drugs on him (the rape complainant) on more than one occasion.\"\n\nMr O'Donnell replied: \"Yes, you're absolutely right, that should have gone on that report.\"\n\nThe inquest hearings are looking at whether the victims' lives could have been saved had police acted differently.\n\nMr Walgate, 23, Gabriel Kovari, 22, Daniel Whitworth, 21, and Jack Taylor, 25, were all found dead near Port's flat in Barking.\n\nPort, now 46, was found guilty at the Old Bailey in 2016 of the four murders and sentenced to a whole-life order.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shares in Virgin Galactic dived as much as 20% on Friday after the space tourism company said it was postponing its first commercial flight.\n\nThe trip was scheduled for the third quarter of 2022, but will be delayed until the fourth as the firm conducts repairs and upgrades.\n\nIt also said it will not conduct a second planned test flight this year.\n\nVirgin is in a race with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Elon Musk's Space X to start flying tourists into space.\n\nIn a statement the firm said a planned upgrade programme, aimed at enhancing the durability of its ships, would begin a month later than planned.\n\nIt comes after routine tests revealed \"a possible reduction in the strength margins of certain materials\" used on its VMS Eve and VSS Unity craft.\n\nVirgin said this required further inspection but played down safety concerns.\n\n\"While this new lab test data has had no impact on the vehicles, our test flight protocols have clearly defined strength margins, and further analysis will assess whether any additional work is required to keep them at or above established levels,\" said company boss Michael Colglazier.\n\nThe company, founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, said its next test flight - Unity 23 - would now happen next summer. Commercial flights will start after that.\n\nLast month, the US Federal Aviation Administration lifted a no-fly order on Virgin Galactic after a flight in July deviated from assigned airspace on its descent.\n\nThe regulator had accused the company of not providing the necessary information about the flight in which Mr Branson participated.\n\nOn Wednesday, Hollywood actor William Shatner became the oldest person to go to space as he blasted off aboard the Blue Origin sub-orbital capsule developed by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.\n\nMeanwhile, four amateur astronauts blasted off from Florida on their private mission on one of Space X's Dragon spacecraft in September.", "Will current Manouchehri pupils be able to become doctors and engineers like their predecessors?\n\nWaving their hands excitedly in the air, a class of six- and seven-year-old girls eagerly try to get their teacher's attention, each one desperate to be chosen to answer a question about Persian grammar.\n\nThe Manouchehri primary school in Kabul was among the first to re-open for girls following the US invasion in 2001 and the defeat of the Taliban. Back then, there was just a single room, with pupils sat on a mud floor.\n\nUnder Taliban rule, beginning in Kabul in 1996, girls weren't allowed to get an education, and female teachers were ordered to stay at home.\n\nAisha Misbah was one of them. Now she's headteacher and proudly shows off newly built classrooms.\n\nMany of those she taught have gone on to become doctors, engineers or even teachers at the school, she says.\n\n\"This is our biggest achievement. Our students are so bright. They're so creative and make such beautiful things that even we get shocked. I hope the Taliban will allow it all to continue.\"\n\nSince taking over Afghanistan for a second time, the Taliban have permitted girls to go to school.\n\nFor now, however, only primary school pupils of both genders are attending classes, whilst teachers await the publication of new rules governing secondary schools.\n\nIn some more rural areas, there have long been reports of Taliban commanders only permitting girls to go to school until they reach the age of puberty.\n\nThe most recent figures from the World Bank show that about 40% of Afghan girls attend primary school, far more than during the Taliban's previous stint in power but far fewer than in other countries in the region.\n\nIt's a similar picture in healthcare, where infant and maternal mortality rates have improved but remain shockingly high.\n\nThe Taliban insist women will be allowed to work, but some remain sceptical, especially after Taliban officials recently said most women, other than those working in healthcare or education, should stay at home until security improves.\n\nThe same excuse was given throughout the 1990s to completely prevent women working.\n\nAbout half of all Manouchehri students have to study in large tents erected in the playground\n\nBut the pupils at Manouchehri face other challenges, too.\n\nIn the playground, three large tents have been erected, with desks and blackboards. The school is so overcrowded that about half of the pupils have to study outside.\n\nPleas to the previous government fell on deaf ears, and when non-government organisations offered to help, they were told to give the money to the education ministry first.\n\nRampant corruption has plagued Afghanistan over the past two decades, and it meant that the billions of dollars of international support didn't always make it to those in need.\n\nThe education system has helped mould, however, a generation of young Afghan women and men who are vocal in standing up for their views, including challenging the Taliban.\n\n\"We are not afraid of death,\" said female protesters in Kabul earlier this week\n\n\"We are not those men and women of 20 years ago,\" one female protester at a demonstration in Kabul tells me, \"who were whipped into submission.\"\n\nAnother, her voice pulsing with emotion says: \"We are not afraid of death. We are the young generation who will bring forth the buds of peace.\"\n\nThe new government announced by the Taliban consists entirely of members of the group, all of whom are men.\n\nMany had served in senior positions during the Taliban's reign during the 1990s, a period marked by a brutal interpretation of sharia law.\n\nFor many others in more rural areas, where attitudes are more socially conservative, the greater social freedoms some have grown up with in bigger cities since 2001 feel irrelevant when compared with the suffering of living along the frontline.\n\nBeauticians salons all over Kabul have been painted over amid fears of the Taliban reprisals\n\nFew Afghans have been unaffected by the war, irrespective of their background, but in villages caught along bloody frontlines, many have welcomed the arrival of the Taliban - for at least bringing an end to the violence.\n\nIf the price of peace is greater cultural authoritarianism, some are more willing to pay it than others.\n\nAt a snooker club in Kabul, less than a week after the city was taken over by the Taliban, I meet a group of young men from the city's middle class.\n\nA mix of students and business owners, speaking on condition of anonymity, they're scathing about the Taliban.\n\nOne says they look like \"zombies\", worrying they will soon start dictating whether or not men can shave their beards or how they can style their hair, whilst others question how they can trust a group responsible for so many suicide bombings and attacks.\n\nBut they're also all damning about Afghanistan's political class.\n\nAshraf Ghani, the former president who fled abroad, \"should be arrested\", they proclaim.\n\n\"He sold out the future of all young people,\" says one of the group, accusing him of having escaped with millions of dollars - the allegation Mr Ghani denies.\n\nThey're equally dismissive of those politicians who have stayed in the country but who over the years have often taken part in deeply disruptive political spats.\n\n\"They weren't trying to solve the problems of ordinary people, but just trying to fill their own pockets and share the wealth with their own relatives.\"\n\nThe last two presidential elections in Afghanistan ended in standoffs, with widespread allegations of voter fraud.\n\nNevertheless, however flawed the previous democratic system was, the young men at the snooker club deeply rue its passing.\n\n\"We've worked hard and are educated. We could've lifted the country up but now we can't do anything to serve it.\"\n\nOf all the \"gains\" made over the past two decades, the creation of an independent local media is one the principal success stories.\n\nNews organisations were amongst the freest in the region, despite being violently targeted by militants.\n\nJournalists did at times face threats from the government.\n\nFor example, former Vice-President Amrullah Saleh, now a leading figure in the National Resistance Front, once ordered the arrest of those responsible for \"fake news\" about civilian deaths as a result of a 2020 government air strike in Takhar province, in which it's believed 12 children were killed.\n\nHowever, recent days have raised fears the Taliban will not tolerate coverage they perceive as negative.\n\nWhilst the group initially claimed they would allow a free press as long as journalists don't breach \"Islamic values\" or the \"national interest\", reporters covering recent, peaceful protests against the group have at times been detained and badly beaten.\n\nEarlier this week, 22 year-old Taqi Daryabi and a colleague were taken away by the Taliban from a demonstration they had been covering to a police station.\n\n\"There were around seven to 10 men in one room, they all started kicking me, and beating me with sticks and rubber pipes,\" Taqi told the BBC, his back and face still covered in bruises.\n\n\"One Talib told me, 'be grateful I didn't cut your head off,'\" Taqi says. \"Now that the Taliban are here, no-one can feel safe. In the past we have seen them kill, kidnap and beat journalists… they should allow us to work freely.\"\n\nTaliban fighters are now the new masters at Kabul's Bush Bazaar\n\nThe legacy of American and international intervention in Afghanistan will be deeply contested.\n\nSigns of the US influence are already fading first.\n\nAt \"Bush Bazaar\", named after the former American president and famous for selling military gear smuggled out of international bases, most of the flak jackets or rifle scopes on sale are now Chinese replicas.\n\nWhereas army soldiers or private security guards hired by politically powerful Afghans were once the main customers, now Taliban fighters stroll past the shops.\n\nOne, Fatih, from the eastern province of Khost, is looking for a new set of boots. He's disappointed, he hoped to buy some that had been made in America, but \"everything is Chinese\".", "The day started out much like every other Friday morning for Sir David Amess. One of Essex's most longstanding MPs, he held meetings with his Southend constituents every second week, in recent years varying the location to meet more of the local residents that relied upon his help.\n\nThis week he was at the Belfairs Methodist Church in his home town of Leigh-on-Sea. He tweeted on Tuesday about the upcoming event inviting constituents to join him.\n\nSir David was known for being passionate about his job - and constituents and colleagues spoke of his boundless enthusiasm for his role. These constituency surgeries were at the heart of his political life.\n\nJust 15 minutes before the attack, the 69-year-old father of five was spotted standing on the church steps, chatting and laughing with locals.\n\nAt around 12.05pm, accompanied by two female members of his staff and nearing the end of the drop-in event, Sir David entered the church to meet some more constituents, where he may have noticed the inscription: \"All are welcome here: where old friends meet and strangers feel at home.\"\n\nLocal councillor John Lamb said that it was at this point that the attacker emerged from a small group of waiting constituents and attacked Mr Amess, stabbing him several times.\n\n\"I'm told that when he went in for his surgery there were people waiting to see him, and one of them literally got a knife out and just began stabbing him,\" Mr Lamb said.\n\nLee Jordison, who works at the nearby Hicks Butchers, told the PA news agency: \"We could see a police cordon set up... (someone outside) told me a woman had come out screaming on the phone, saying 'someone's been stabbed, please get here soon', he's not breathing'.\"\n\nPolice arrived on the scene shortly after the stabbing, and arrested a 25-year-old man and recovered the knife used in the attack. At 1.50pm, Essex police confirmed that the man had been arrested in connection with the stabbing.\n\nOne witness, electrician Anthony Fitch, told Sky News that he had witnessed the man being led from the church and being put in the back of a police car.\n\n\"We arrived to do some work on the adjacent building... and at the point when I was crossing the road I saw an upset lady on the phone saying 'you need to arrive quickly, he's still in the building,'\" he said.\n\n\"There were loads of armed police, overhead there was an air ambulance as well as a police helicopter. Obviously wondered what the hell was going on, you don't often see armed police around the local area.\n\n\"I saw the suspect get put into a police van, get taken away and then they cordoned the whole road and pushed us all down the road.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch how emergency services responded in the initial aftermath of the attack on Sir David Amess\n\nAt 2.13pm, an air ambulance arrived at the nearby Belfairs sports ground to move Sir David to a hospital.\n\nHowever, members of his team began to fear the worst, as paramedics remained at the scene rather than moving towards the helicopter. For almost two-and-a-half hours they battled to save his life.\n\nBut just before 3pm, Essex police confirmed that Mr Amess had died at the scene.\n\nAs news of his death filtered through, tributes began to pour in from friends, constituents and fellow MPs.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said that Amess was \"one of the kindest, nicest, most gentle people in politics\".\n\nLocal councillor Dan Nelson told the BBC that Sir David had died \"doing what he loved best, and that was to help residents of Southend West\".\n\nRofique Ali, a local Conservative Party member, described the MP as his best friend in the world.\n\n\"I have known him for many years, and he was so kind to everyone,\" he said. \"I can't forget David.\"\n\nAnd resident Melanie Harris left a card at the scene that read: \"What has the world come to? What a senseless waste of a charming, witty and kind and gentle soul who deserved a lot more than to be snatched from life.\"\n\n\"You were always a pleasure to speak to. Thank you for restoring my faith in politicians.\"\n\nA member of the public leaves flowers at the scene\n\nBy mid-afternoon a full \"Gold\" command meeting was activated by police chiefs back in London - meaning some of the most senior and experienced leaders of major incidents were sitting around the table to work out how to respond.\n\nJoining the discussions were representatives from the security service, more commonly known as MI5, whose investigators sit side-by-side with detectives on many investigations.\n\nAnd watching on from government was Home Secretary Priti Patel - a close personal friend of Mr Amess. She said later on Twitter that she was devastated to learn of his death.\n\nThe conference was an inevitable decision: the killing of an MP is not an everyday occurrence - and the last time it happened, when Jo Cox was murdered in 2016 - it was an act of terrorism by a far-right extremist.\n\nAs daylight faded, members of the press gathered to hear police announce that an investigation was under way. Senior officers appealed to the public for information.\n\n\"This is a shocking and utterly despicable attack against somebody who was an outstanding MP and has worked tirelessly for their community for many, many years,\" said police commissioner Roger Hirst.\n\nHe added that members of Metropolitan Police's specialist Counter Terrorism Command would now try to make sense of an utterly senseless killing.\n\nBy early evening, investigators - still seeking a motive - had at least established the suspect's identity. A government source told the BBC the man arrested was a British national who, according to initial inquiries, was of Somali heritage.\n\nMeanwhile, at St Peter's Roman Catholic Church, locals gathered together to remember the man who, for many, was the only MP they had ever known.\n\nA mass is held at Saint Peter's Catholic Church, following the stabbing of UK Conservative MP Sir David Amess\n\nFather Jeffrey Woolnough told the service: \"Have you ever known Sir David Amess without that happy smile on his face? Because the greeting he would always give you was always that happy smile.\"\n\nAnd he paid tribute to Sir David as a man who carried with him \"that great east-London spirit of having no fear, and being able to talk to people and the level they're at\".\n\nShortly after midnight, police formally declared the attack a terrorist incident, explaining that their early investigations had revealed a \"potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism\".\n\nOfficers continued to search two London addresses in connection with the attack, while the suspect remained in custody at an Essex police station.", "Boris Johnson has paid tribute to Conservative MP Sir David Amess who has died after being stabbed at his constituency surgery in Essex.\n\nThe PM said he was one of the \"kindest, nicest, most gentle people in politics\".\n\nSir David, 69, had been an MP since 1983 and was married with five children.\n\nPolice said a 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after the attack at a church in Leigh-on-Sea.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The moment Durst is sentenced to life in prison\n\nUS real estate heir Robert Durst, subject of HBO crime documentary series The Jinx, has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his best friend.\n\nDurst was found guilty of killing Susan Berman in 2000 to stop her talking to police about his wife's disappearance.\n\nThen aged 55, she was found shot in the head in her Beverly Hills home. Police believe he killed two others as well.\n\nIn a victim impact statement in court, Berman's son told Durst \"you murdered the person I was\" when he killed her.\n\nProsecutors called Durst, 78 - who appeared in the Los Angeles court for his sentencing - a \"narcissistic psychopath\". Durst has denied killing his friend.\n\nHis sentence for first-degree murder excludes any possibility of parole, meaning he will now very likely die in prison.\n\nThe crime carries special circumstances, the jury decided, including murder while lying in wait, and murder of a witness.\n\nDurst's lawyers told the judge on Thursday that he intends to appeal his conviction. Durst himself spoke to the judge only once to say \"yes\" when asked if he was waiving his right to appear at a future hearing.\n\nSusan Berman was a crime writer and daughter of a Las Vegas mobster, and had acted as a spokeswoman for Durst when he became a suspect in his wife's disappearance.\n\nBerman's cousin, Denny Marcus, told the judge on Thursday: \"I was robbed… of an absolutely extraordinary, unforgettable brilliant person whose life was savagely taken from her.\"\n\nSareb Kaufman, who considers Berman his mother as she had been dating his father, said: \"I have not had one day off in 21 years from the absolute destruction, grief and pain this has caused me.\"\n\n\"I have lost everything many times over because of him... I have lost and sacrificed more than anyone could possibly know,\" he continued.\n\n\"My mother's murder and the events of the last 40 years will never leave me. Are you satisfied, Bob?\"\n\nDurst's wife Kathleen McCormack, a medical student, went missing in 1982 and is presumed dead.\n\n\"The only hope of redemption you have is to help find Kathy,\" Mr Kaufman added, calling on Durst to reveal the location of McCormack's body.\n\nNew York prosecutors are considering pressing new charges against him in her case, according to US media.\n\nProsecutors have argued that Durst actually murdered three people - the third being an elderly neighbour, Morris Black, who discovered Durst's identity in 2001 while he was hiding out in Texas and pretending to be a mute woman.\n\nDurst was acquitted of murdering Mr Black, successfully arguing he had killed him on the grounds of self-defence before cutting up the body.\n\nDurst is an estranged member of one of New York's wealthiest and most powerful real estate dynasties. His brother Douglas Durst, who testified at the trial, told the court: \"He'd like to murder me.\"\n\nAt the end of The Jinx series, Durst is heard muttering to himself: \"What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.\"\n\nHours before the last episode aired in March 2015, authorities arrested Durst in New Orleans for Ms Berman's murder. Jurors were played the clip during the trial.", "Emergency services were called to Hoe Street in Walthamstow at 13:45 BST\n\nFive people have been taken to hospital after a car crashed into a barber's shop in north-east London.\n\nEmergency services were called to Hoe Street in Walthamstow at 13:45 BST over reports of \"a collision involving a vehicle and multiple pedestrians\".\n\nLondon Ambulance Service (LAS) said it had \"treated five people at the scene and took all of them to hospital, three as a priority\".\n\nNone of the injuries are thought to be life-threatening, the Met Police said.\n\nThe 65-year-old driver of the car was among those taken to hospital\n\nA number of ambulances and paramedic crews were deployed to the area, including the air ambulance.\n\nAmong those treated was the 65-year-old driver of the vehicle, according to police.\n\nA number of roads in the area were closed as a result of the crash.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A judge has ruled that security cameras and a Ring doorbell installed in a house in Oxfordshire \"unjustifiably invaded\" the privacy of a neighbour.\n\nDr Mary Fairhurst claimed that the devices installed on the house of neighbour Jon Woodard broke data laws and contributed to harassment.\n\nThe judge upheld both these claims.\n\nMr Woodard now faces a substantial fine. He claimed he installed the devices in good faith as a deterrent against burglars.\n\nThe origin of the row stems from an invitation from Mr Woodard to his neighbour Dr Fairhurst to have a tour of his home renovations, during which she claimed he showed off his new security system.\n\nThe judgment reads that Dr Fairhurst was \"alarmed and appalled\" to notice that he had a camera mounted on his shed and that footage from it was sent to his smartphone.\n\nA series of disputes about the cameras followed, which resulted in Dr Fairhurst moving out of her home.\n\nIn the judgement it was found that the Ring doorbell captured images of the claimant's house and garden, while the shed camera covered almost the whole of her garden and her parking space.\n\nJudge Melissa Clarke found that audio data collected by cameras on a shed, in a driveway and on the Ring doorbell was processed unlawfully. She noted that at the time it was not possible to turn off the audio recording facility - that happened in an update in 2020.\n\nShe said that she found the audio data that could capture conversations \"even more problematic and detrimental than video data\".\n\n\"Personal data may be captured from people who are not even aware that the device is there, or that it records and processes audio and personal data,\" she said in her judgement.\n\nThat, she said, was in breach of UK data laws - both the UK Data Protection Act and UK GDPR.\n\nAmazon, which made both the doorbell and the cameras, said that customers must \"respect their neighbours' privacy, and comply with any applicable laws when using their Ring device.\"\n\n\"We've put features in place across all our devices to ensure privacy, security and user control remain front and centre - including customisable privacy zones to block out 'off-limit' areas, motion zones to control the areas customers want their Ring device to detect motion, and Audio Toggle to turn audio on and off.\"\n\nBut the judge added: \"Even if an activation zone is disabled so that the camera does not activate to film by movement in that area, activation by movement in one of the other non-disabled activation zones will cause the camera to film across the whole field of view.\"\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office told the BBC: \"Lots of people use domestic CCTV and video doorbells. If you own one, you should respect people's privacy rights and take steps to minimise intrusion to neighbours and passers-by.\"\n\nBut it added: \"In the vast number of cases, there are no issues.\"\n\nHannah Hart, a digital privacy expert at ProPrivacy, said: \"Whilst this case doesn't set a legal precedent, it does continue an ongoing conversation about our changing attitude towards domestic surveillance - and how normalised it has become in our communities.\n\n\"The fact remains that anyone with a Ring doorbell can turn their area of the neighbourhood into a surveillance space due to its video recording functionality and audio processors which are able to pick up sound 40 feet away.\n\n\"This means a small number of residents can effectively transform public spaces into surveillance hotbeds, and even share their recordings with police.\"", "The new air travel rules will come into effect in November\n\nThe US is easing its coronavirus travel restrictions, reopening to passengers from the UK, EU and other nations.\n\nFrom November, foreign travellers will be allowed to fly into the US if they are fully vaccinated, and undergo testing and contact tracing.\n\nThe US has had tough restrictions on travel in place since early last year.\n\nThe move answers a major demand from European allies, and means that families and friends separated by the restrictions can be reunited.\n\n\"It's a happy day - Big Apple, here I come!\" French entrepreneur Stephane Le Breton told the Associated Press news agency, as he looked forward to a trip to New York City that had been put on hold because of the restrictions.\n\nWhite House Covid-19 co-ordinator Jeff Zients announced the new rules on Monday, saying: \"This is based on individuals rather than a country-based approach, so it's a stronger system.\"\n\n\"Most importantly, foreign nationals flying to the US will be required to be fully vaccinated,\" he said.\n\nUS restrictions were initially imposed on travellers from China in early 2020, and then extended to other countries.\n\nThe current rules bar entry to most non-US citizens who have been in the UK and a number of other European countries, China, India, South Africa, Iran and Brazil within the last 14 days.\n\nUnder the new rules, foreign travellers will need to demonstrate proof of vaccination before flying, obtain a negative Covid-19 test result within three days of travelling, and provide their contact information. They will not be required to quarantine.\n\nOfficials said there would be some exceptions to the new policy, including for children who are not eligible to be vaccinated.\n\nIt was not immediately clear if the new rules applied only to US-approved vaccines, with Mr Zients saying this would be determined by the US Centers for Disease Control.\n\nA White House source told the BBC that the question of whether people who have had the AstraZeneca vaccine or 12- to 18-year-olds who have only had one jab would be allowed in under the new rules was a level of \"granular detail\" that was still being worked out, though this would affect millions.\n\nAmericans who are not fully vaccinated will still be able to enter, but they will need to be tested before their return to the US, and after they arrive home.\n\nMr Zients said the policy would come into effect in early November, but did not give an exact date.\n\nThe new rules do not apply to land borders, meaning that restrictions continue to apply to cross-border travel with Canada and Mexico.\n\nThe easing of travel rules came as a surprise to many, after the US government last week said it was not the right time to lift the restrictions.\n\nOne British official told the BBC on Monday that the decision had come completely out of the blue.\n\nFollowing the announcement, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"delighted\".\n\n\"It's a fantastic boost for business and trade, and great that family and friends on both sides of the pond can be reunited once again,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nGerman Vice-Chancellor Olaf Scholz also welcomed the change, saying it was \"great news for German and European investments, our exports and transatlantic relations\".\n\nFor months a joint working party has been looking at ways to relax the travel ban. The work, I'm told, has been detailed and assiduous.\n\nBut last Friday in Washington next to no one (not even in the Biden administration) was expecting today's announcement. So what's changed?\n\nThe Biden administration is aware of the growing disquiet among European allies about a range of issues - Afghanistan notably, but in recent days French fury over the Aukus submarine deal. And remember France is America's oldest ally.\n\nThis week Joe Biden will be meeting not only Boris Johnson, but a whole pile of EU leaders during the UN General Assembly in New York. And all had it on their dance cards to raise the travel ban.\n\nAccording to one diplomatic source, the US over the weekend just weighed the countervailing forces: annoy some Americans with a policy that could be characterised as being weak on Covid; or continue to alienate your European allies who are growing increasingly irritable.\n\nWith the data no longer supporting the ban, this weekend came a decision. Out of the blue in one way, but quite logical in another.\n\nAirline shares rose in response to the new travel rules, with British Airways owner IAG up as much as 10%.\n\nDoug Parker, chairman and CEO of American Airlines, said he welcomed the \"science-based approach\" to lifting travel restrictions.\n\n\"With the shared goals of health and safety always at the forefront, we're looking forward to welcoming more customers back to easy, seamless international trips for business, for leisure, and to reconnect with family and friends,\" he said.\n\nTravellers also celebrated the changes.\n\nPhil White, a British entrepreneur who lives in the US, said the decision would allow him to see his 23-year-old daughter who lives in London for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\n\"We haven't been able to see our daughter over this time. And that has been very, very, very difficult for us,\" he told AFP news agency.\n\nHe said he immediately booked a flight for her daughter after the news about the change was confirmed. \"[A]s a family we're going to be together for Thanksgiving, which is amazing,\" he added.\n\nThe US has recorded more than 42 million coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, and over 670,000 deaths.\n\nIn an interview with BBC World News on Monday, White House coronavirus adviser Dr Anthony Fauci urged more Americans to get vaccinated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US daily death toll from Covid-19 has risen above 2,000 for the first time since February", "PC Dwyer was found to have breached multiple standards of professional behaviour\n\nA police constable who took two packets of Jaffa Cakes from a charity stall without paying full price has been sacked from West Yorkshire Police.\n\nPC Chris Dwyer paid just 10p for two packets of the snacks from Halifax police station's canteen instead of the correct amount of £1.\n\nThe 51-year-old also tried to \"change and embellish\" his story when quizzed about it, a misconduct hearing found.\n\nHe was found guilty of gross misconduct and given an instant dismissal.\n\nThe misconduct trial had heard the confectionery stall at Halifax police station - set up in aid of a charity trip to Uganda - sold crisps, chocolate and fizzy drinks priced at 50p each.\n\nPC Dwyer went to the tuck shop on 21 January and after putting some money in the cash tin, removed two packets of Jaffa Cakes, the panel heard.\n\nAfterwards, a colleague raised concerns about a potential underpayment by the officer and, when checked, the cash float was found to be only up by 10p.\n\nWhen questioned about the matter, PC Dwyer gave dishonest accounts and his evidence was \"evasive and an attempt to reduce his culpability\", the panel found.\n\nThe officer, who joined West Yorkshire Police in 2017, had denied breaching police standards.\n\nHe initially claimed he had put in five 20p pieces into the cash tin, but later said he could not remember the \"exact denomination\".\n\nPanel chairman Akbar Khan said PC Dwyer's actions were an \"abuse of trust\" and had brought \"discredit on the police and the service\".\n\nHe added: \"The officer is solely to blame for his own conduct, which was dishonest and of a criminal nature.\n\n\"The nature of his dishonesty related to underpaying for items which proceeds were to support a charity to which he was fully aware.\"\n\nPC Dwyer was found to have breached West Yorkshire Police's professional standards in regard to integrity, honesty and discreditable conduct.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "Scott Morrison had said he may skip the world's biggest climate conference since 2015\n\nAustralia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he will now attend the COP26 UN climate conference after weeks of initial hesitation.\n\nGlobal leaders will meet in Glasgow next month to negotiate a new deal to stall rising global temperatures.\n\nMr Morrison drew criticism when he indicated last month that he might skip the meeting.\n\nAustralia, a large producer of coal and gas, is under pressure to commit to stronger climate action.\n\nIts climate policies and emissions reductions are ranked among the worst in the OECD.\n\n\"I confirmed my attendance at the Glasgow summit, which I'm looking forward to attending. It is an important event,\" Mr Morrison told reporters on Friday.\n\nClimate activists had slated Mr Morrison for not committing to attend, and it was being seen as a diplomatic snub to the UK, a close ally of Australia.\n\nIn an interview to the BBC, Prince Charles earlier expressed surprise at Mr Morrison's comments, urging leaders to act urgently to combat climate change.\n\nCOP26 will be held between 31 October and 12 November in Scotland's largest city.\n\nIt will be the biggest climate change conference since landmark talks in Paris in 2015.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.\n\nMr Morrison had cited the challenges of Covid as a reason he might not attend, saying he had already served a great deal of quarantine.\n\nBut Australia is beginning to make plans to end quarantine requirements.\n\nMany countries have set ambitious targets to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, but Australia has refused to do so.\n\nIn poker they call it a \"tell\": a tiny change in a player's behaviour that signals something crucial about the cards they holding.\n\nNow, the Glasgow climate conference isn't a poker game. Most world leaders do actually understand the huge risks climate change presents and would prefer to minimise its impact.\n\nBut they also know doing so could impose real costs on their economies. They would like to see the maximum global action on the issue with the minimum cost to their people.\n\nAnd for many of them they believe the best way to achieve that is to keep the cards in their hand hidden: to make sure there are no \"tells\".\n\nDeciding whether or not your leader is going to attend is part of that, it is a way of putting other nations under pressure.\n\nIt makes it very difficult for the organisers and - to be honest - isn't helpful for negotiations. But it is a fact of global diplomacy. Let's just hope that they decide to play a more open game when the conference begins.\n\nAustralia has committed to a 26% cut on its 2005 emissions by 2030 - a target frequently criticised as too weak.\n\nExperts say it needs to commit to a 47% cut by 2030 if it is to meet the UN goal of keeping temperature rise below or within 1.5C.\n\nAustralia is one of the largest emitters on a per capita basis because its energy grid is still largely reliant on coal power.\n\nThe conservative government has faced months of pressure, both at home and overseas, to improve its climate policies. It is expected to reveal higher emission targets next week.\n\n\"The government will be finalising its position to take to the summit. We're working through those issues,\" Morrison said on Friday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles was among those who urged Scott Morrison to attend COP26\n\nMany rural parts of Australia are dependent on coal, gas and farming.\n\nCoal is Australia's second-most lucrative export and it expects demand to continue for at least the next decade.\n\n\"The plan that I am taking forward together with my colleagues is about ensuring that our regions are strong, that our regions jobs are not only protected but have opportunities for the future,\" Mr Morrison said.", "The killing of Conservative MP Sir David Amess is being treated as a terrorist incident by police.\n\nSir David was stabbed multiple times at his constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex on Friday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said there was a potential link to Islamist extremism. A 25-year-old British man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel paid tribute to Sir David as a \"man of the people\" who was \"killed doing a job he loved\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer laid flowers at the scene together on Saturday morning.\n\nMs Patel and Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle also paid their respects outside Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea.\n\nSpeaking a short time later, Ms Patel said: \"We are all struggling to come to terms with the fact that David Amess has been so cruelly taken away from all of us.\"\n\nShe said the Southend West MP \"was absolutely there for everyone, he was a much loved parliamentarian, to me he was a dear and loyal friend, but also he was a devoted husband and father\".\n\nMs Patel, who has asked police forces to immediately review security arrangements for MPs, maintained a balance could be found to allow face-to-face meetings with constituents to continue.\n\n\"We will carry on, we live in an open society, a democracy,\" she said. \"We cannot be cowed by any individual or any motivation... to stop us from functioning\".\n\nSir David, 69, had been an MP since 1983 and was married with four daughters and a son. He is the second serving MP to be killed in recent years, following the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox in July 2016.\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer and PM Boris Johnson laid floral tributes on Saturday at the scene of the attack\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel and Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle also paid their respects\n\nThe Met said officers are carrying out searches at two addresses in the London area and are not seeking anyone else over the death.\n\nThe force believes the man, who is in custody in Essex, acted alone but inquiries into the circumstances of the incident are continuing.\n\nGovernment sources have told the BBC he is a British national who, from initial inquiries, appears to be of Somali heritage.\n\nBBC security correspondent Frank Gardner reports Whitehall officials are saying the arrested man was not on a database of terror suspects.\n\nScotland Yard's decision that the killing of Sir David Amess was an act of terrorism confirms that, on the basis of what they know so far, the killer was motivated to use violence to further their cause.\n\nThere's no public suggestion from investigations at the moment that there is a specific additional threat to MPs - but detectives and colleagues in MI5 will be delving deeply into the life of the suspect to understand how he reached this mindset and whether this was an attack by a \"lone actor\" or someone who is part of a network.\n\nSecondly, it confirms the initial conclusion that there would need to be more resources thrown at the investigation.\n\nBehind the scenes a wider range of detectives and support staff will now have been brought into action. If officers have recovered the suspect's mobile phone, they will now be forensically examining its contents to uncover potential evidence of mindset and planning.\n\nA phone - and any bank cards - will also help detectives track the suspect's movements in the days and weeks before the incident. That in turn leads them to CCTV so they can build a three-dimensional view of his life.\n\nSir David was holding a constituency surgery - where voters can meet their MP and discuss concerns - at the church on Friday when he was attacked at 12:05 BST.\n\nThe Met later said the fatal stabbing was being declared a terrorist incident, with the investigation being led by Counter Terrorism Policing.\n\nPolice added: \"The early investigation has revealed a potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism.\"\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone with any information or with footage from CCTV, dash cams or video doorbell, to contact them.\n\nSouthend borough councillor John Lamb, who went to the scene after hearing the MP had been stabbed, said: \"The paramedics had been working on Sir David for over two and a half hours and they hadn't got him on the way to hospital.\n\n\"We knew it had to be extremely serious and that the worst scenario could occur - we were hoping it wouldn't but it did.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the Home Secretary Priti Patel pay tribute to her \"friend\" and \"neighbour\" MP Sir David Amess\n\nThe mood in Leigh-on-Sea, which Sir David represented for decades, is one of bewilderment.\n\nAs police and global media descend upon the usually quiet Essex town, people have gathered to pay tributes outside the Belfairs Methodist Church where the long-standing MP was attacked.\n\nResident Audrey Martin remembers him as \"an absolute gentleman\" who took time out to speak to her when she first moved to the area from Scotland.\n\n\"He just had this aura about him,\" she says.\n\nAnd constituent Lorraine Migliorini highlights Sir David's work for children and young people with special educational needs.\n\n\"He was genuinely interested and listened to them which was fantastic,\" she says. \"He got things done.\"\n\nJulie Everitt, who has co-ordinated a vigil for him, says she would \"always remember him for his genuine smile\" and his passion for animal rights.\n\n\"He would go on campaigns, he was against the badger cull, he was against trophy hunting and fox hunting,\" she says.\n\n\"He was a good gentleman, he had a good heart.\"\n\nRead more from Orla and Richard at the scene here.\n\nPaying tribute to Sir David on Friday, the prime minister described him as \"one of the kindest, nicest, most gentle people in politics\".\n\nHouse of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle told BBC Two's Newsnight police were contacting all MPs to check on their security and reassure them.\n\nHe went ahead with his own constituency surgery on Friday evening, saying it was essential MPs retained their relationship with their constituents.\n\nBut Conservative MP Tobias Elwood - who came to the aid of a stabbed police officer during a terror attack in Westminster in 2017 - told the BBC he would recommend MPs temporarily stop having face-to-face meetings with constituents.\n\n\"You can move to Zoom... you can actually achieve an awful lot over the telephone,\" he said on Radio 4's World Tonight.\n\nAnd Kim Leadbeater, the sister of Mrs Cox and MP for Batley and Spen, said her partner had asked her to stand down from her role following Sir David's death.\n\nA Conservative backbencher for nearly 40 years, Sir David entered Parliament in 1983 as the MP for Basildon.\n\nHe held the seat in 1992, but switched to nearby Southend West at the 1997 election.\n\nRaised as a Roman Catholic, he was known politically as a social conservative and as a prominent campaigner against abortion and on animal welfare issues.\n\nHe was also known for his championing of Southend, including a long-running campaign to win city status for the town.\n\nTributes have been paid to Sir David from across politics and within his local community.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he had an \"outstanding record of passing laws to help the most vulnerable\", adding \"we've lost today a fine public servant and a much loved-friend and colleague\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch how emergency services responded in the initial aftermath of the attack on Sir David Amess\n\nFather Jeff Woolnough, parish priest at nearby St Peter's Catholic Church, led a mass on Friday evening in memory of Sir David, who he called \"Mr Southend\".\n\nHe described him as a \"great, great guy\" and said faith communities had \"lost their greatest supporter\".\n\nSouthend councillor John Lamb said Sir David was \"a very good, hard working constituency MP who worked for everyone\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"dark and shocking day\", adding that the country had \"been here before\" with the death of Jo Cox.\n\nConstituent Ruth Verrinder (right) and former councillor and mayor Judith McMahon (left) were at St Michael and All Angels Church to light a candle\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness the attack? If you feel able to do so please get in touch. 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.", "The extent of the influence of LGBTQ charity Stonewall in public bodies across the UK has been revealed in a BBC investigation.\n\nGovernments, Ofcom and the BBC have had their impartiality questioned after involvement in the lobby group's diversity schemes.\n\nA number of high profile organisations have left Stonewall's schemes in recent months amid growing controversy about the influence of the group on public policy.\n\nStonewall says it works for LGBTQ equality and that it is \"deeply disappointing\" that this can still be thought of as controversial.\n\nStonewall operates two schemes which have come under scrutiny in recent months. The \"Diversity Champions\" programme is a service Stonewall provides to employers for a fee, to advise them on diversity and inclusion. The Workplace Equality Index is a public ranking of organisations, which is scored by Stonewall, and does not require a fee to enter.\n\nThe Nolan Investigates podcast sought information on the schemes under Freedom of Information (FOI) laws. The information contained within the documents revealed what the lobby group was asking organisations to do to improve their ranking on the Workplace Equality Index.\n\nSome organisations, including the BBC, refused to release the information on the grounds that it could \"have a detrimental impact on the commercial revenue of Stonewall\".\n\nStonewall declined to take part in the series.\n\nThe documents reveal that the media regulator Ofcom submitted rulings it had made against broadcasters to Stonewall's Workplace Equality Index, which awards points to organisations based on how well they are performing on LGBTQ equality.\n\nOfcom had initially defended the relationship with Stonewall, saying it only related to internal staffing issues, before leaving the Diversity Champions Scheme in August.\n\nHowever, Ofcom continues to submit information to the Workplace Equality Index. Stonewall scores companies and public bodies based on how well they believe they are performing on LGBTQ equality.\n\nFor three consecutive years, the lobby group asked Ofcom to show evidence of work they had done to \"promote LGBT equality in the wider community\". Ofcom cited examples of action they had taken in response to complaints about TV programmes including Harry Hill's TV Burp and local radio stations.\n\nIn 2019, Ofcom told Stonewall \"we have ruled on two instances where transphobic comments made in programmes breached the code\". One such case referred to a radio presenter who said he would be uncomfortable with his six-year-old daughter changing in an environment where the changing rooms were not segregated based on sex, and described a \"transfeminine person\" as \"him, her, him, it\" - for which he had apologised on air.\n\nThe regulator also cited a 2016 judgement on a re-run of Harry Hill's TV Burp on the UKTV television channel Dave, in which the programme parodied a Channel 4 documentary called The Pregnant Man. Ofcom had found the programme was in breach of its broadcasting code.\n\nAn extract from Ofcom's submission to Stonewall's Workplace Equality Index\n\nOfcom did not release the feedback it received from Stonewall.\n\nOfcom told the Nolan Investigates podcast that there was no conflict of interest in its relationship with Stonewall, despite \"stepping back\" from Stonewall's Diversity Champions Scheme after considering whether there was a conflict of interest.\n\nOfcom said: \"Broadcast standards decisions are made by the Broadcast Standards team within Ofcom, wholly independently from any third parties. Our participation in the Stonewall Equality Index has no bearing whatsoever on any of our broadcasting standards decisions.\"\n\nOfcom will continue to submit to Stonewall's Workplace Equality Index scheme, saying it \"is an effective way for employers to measure their progress on LGBTQ+ inclusion in the workplace\".\n\nThe BBC did not release the information requested by Nolan Investigates around its submission to Stonewall's schemes.\n\nHowever, the programme has raised questions about how close the BBC's Diversity and Inclusion department was to Stonewall. Diversity and Inclusion deals with internal staffing issues at the BBC.\n\nConcerns have been raised for some time from senior BBC editorial figures about the risks of the relationship with Stonewall.\n\nStonewall played a central role in an internal BBC \"LGBT Culture and Progression report\" by \"identifying strengths and weaknesses\" for the BBC with regards to LGBT diversity and practices. \"Weaknesses\" included the absence of an Allies programme. Allies programmes are set up with training from Stonewall when the organisations are Diversity Champions.\n\nIn January 2020 the BBC told staff they would \"be working closely with Stonewall over the coming months in preparation for next year's [Stonewall] index\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nancy Kelley: \"I’m comfortable with our direction as an organisation\"\n\nThe podcast reveals that a senior figure in the Diversity and Inclusion department described Stonewall as \"the experts in workplace equality for LGBTQ+ people\" in internal correspondence, in response to questions about the BBC's Allies scheme.\n\nConcerns have been expressed about Stonewall being regarded as \"the\" experts, given the diversity of opinion among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people over Stonewall's policies.\n\nThe department runs an \"Allies training\" course, which was set up in conjunction with Stonewall, to provide guidance to staff. In an Allies training meeting, BBC trainers used language and material around sex and gender which is contested. The \"genderbred person\" - a graphic used by groups like Stonewall to explain sex and gender issues - was presented to staff, with no alternate views presented.\n\nThe Nolan Investigates podcast understands that the Diversity and Inclusion department had a role in the drafting of the latest BBC News style guide around issues of sexuality and gender. The style guide sets a standard for the language used by BBC News, often in contested areas.\n\nThe document defines homosexuality as \"people of either sex who are attracted to people of their own gender\". This is similar to the definition used by Stonewall, and different from the standard dictionary definition, in that it defines attraction as based on gender rather than sex.\n\nThese definitions are at the centre of a fierce debate over sex and gender issues. The document was ultimately signed off by BBC News.\n\nSam Smith, an investigative journalist who left the BBC recently after working there for 25 years, told the podcast she thinks that some people within the BBC are frightened to speak out to say what they really think about Stonewall.\n\nShe also believes the relationship has had an effect on the corporation's output.\n\n\"How can it not have a chilling effect when it is writ large across the BBC that we are a [Stonewall] champion. I can't think of anything else that the BBC has done that's in the same ball park.\"\n\nThe charity has campaigned for trans equality since 2015\n\nShe says: \"The trouble is the impartiality element of this, for people who do not agree with Stonewall's campaigning position on the gender identity issue, it is not nice for an organisation to align itself with Stonewall and Stonewall's mission\".\n\nShe said she had queried the BBC's use of \"political\" and \"campaigning\" language but was told \"the BBC had checked this with Stonewall and Stonewall were fine they were fine with it and therefore the BBC was fine with it\".\n\nThe BBC did not take part in the podcast. In a statement, they said that the BBC \"acts independently in all our aspects of our operations, from HR policy to editorial guidelines and content\".\n\n\"We are not a member of Stonewall, we do not take legal advice from Stonewall and we do not subscribe to Stonewall's campaigning. The charity simply provides advice that we are able to consider.\n\n\"As a broadcaster, we have our own values and editorial standards - these are clearly set out and published in our editorial guidelines. We are also governed by the Royal Charter and the Ofcom broadcasting code.\"\n\nIn a statement, Stonewall told the Nolan Investigates podcast: \"It is completely normal and appropriate for charities to engage with public sector organisations to advocate for their beneficiaries to improve public policy. It is also completely normal and appropriate for charities to support public sector organisations through service provision.\n\n\"We are proud of work to support public sector organisations to create an inclusive workplace for their LGBTQ+ employees. Our guidance to employers supports them to understand the needs of their LGBTQ+ employees and create an inclusive workplace culture through their policies and wider activity.\"\n\nThe Nolan Investigates podcast also examines changes in the language used by governments across the UK after Stonewall requested changes, and looks at the advice provided by Stonewall to public bodies.\n\nCorrection 18th October 2021: An earlier version of this article included a picture caption which said that Stonewall had been campaigning for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights since 1989, which we have amended to make clear that Stonewall has campaigned for trans equality since 2015.\n\nThe Nolan Investigates podcast is available on BBC Sounds", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople will die unless there is an urgent shake-up of NHS care, a former emergency medicine director has warned.\n\nDr Iain Robertson-Steel said ambulance delays and the lack of resources were the worst he had ever seen.\n\nThe former Withybush Hospital director, who lives in Solva, Pembrokeshire, has taken two elderly people to hospital himself as there were no ambulances.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service apologised, saying there had been \"well-documented pressures on our service\" recently.\n\nDr Robertson-Steel said there was an urgent need to address the crisis: \"In rural areas with long journey times, you have to have an effective ambulance service, so it's important that the numbers shouldn't be reduced.\n\n\"If we fail to deliver prompt care for coronary disease, strokes and sepsis, lives will be lost unless we reorganise.\n\n\"It's a stark warning but it's a message that many of my clinical colleagues and I have been putting out for some years - there's no doubt that delayed care costs lives.\"\n\nLena Dixon says volunteers should not have to pick up the slack in key services\n\nIn one case, a 94-year-old had fallen in his home, knocking himself unconscious on a radiator.\n\nHe spent more than eight hours lying on the floor due to ambulance delays and was initially helped by Lena Dixon, a volunteer for a social care charity called Solve Care.\n\n\"We are a charity, we rely on volunteers. We should not have to deal with things that should be done by statutory services,\" she said.\n\n\"People in this village should be able to feel that, when they need support, they should get it and not have to lie on a floor for eight hours.\"\n\nMs Dixon said the man, who was very distressed and in a lot of pain, was eventually treated in hospital but remained confused.\n\n\"I feel that if it happens to me, I just want to drop dead - I don't want to lie on a floor and wait for something that might not turn up,\" she added.\n\nDes Page was told he would have to wait three hours when he rang 999 after suffering chest pains\n\nDr Robertson-Steel and his wife Lesley, herself a retired nurse, also helped 81-year-old Des Page who was suffering severe chest pains, but was told it would be at least a three-hour wait for an ambulance.\n\nMr Page said he did not know what would have happened without their help and thinks people in rural areas are being forgotten.\n\n\"We're half an hour away from the hospital and you've got to depend on an ambulance - it's frightening. I thought waiting that long a time was ridiculous really.\n\n\"I think there should be more ambulances provided and that the government should put more money into the NHS.\"\n\nLast week, a report from Health Inspectorate Wales found that long delays for ambulances outside hospitals were having a detrimental impact on the NHS's ability to care for patients.\n\nThis week, the Army is being drafted in to help, but Dr Robertson-Steel, who was also director of the West Midlands ambulance service, said that was a temporary measure and the problem was not being taken seriously enough.\n\n\"We don't need more meetings, more pilot projects, more reports, we actually need an action plan to deliver recovery for the NHS and social care,\" he said.\n\nA recent proposal to cut the number of ambulances in Pembrokeshire from seven to five has drawn widespread criticism.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said a review of resources in Hywel Dda health board, which covers south-west Wales, had been paused in order to ensure the right number of staff and vehicles could meet demand.\n\nDr Brendan Lloyd, executive medical director at the Welsh Ambulance Service, said: \"We apologise to all of those patients who have had a poor experience of our ambulance service, including the two patients that Dr Robertson-Steel came to the aid of.\n\n\"Hospital handover delays coupled with staff absence and high levels of demand for our services have significantly hampered our ability to get to patients quickly.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Easy On Me is the first new music released by Adele in six years\n\nAfter a slow-burning PR campaign, Adele's first new music in six years has arrived.\n\nEasy On Me, a spare and emotional piano ballad, was released at midnight UK time, offering fans the first glimpse of her \"divorce album\", entitled 30.\n\nThat will be her follow-up to massively successful albums 19, 21 and 25.\n\nEasy On Me sees Adele explaining her decision to walk away from her marriage in 2019, while asking her son and ex-husband for understanding.\n\n\"I changed who I was to put you both first,\" she sings, \"but now I give up\".\n\nThat moment, so naked and unvarnished, sends shivers down your spine.\n\nAdele's voice is full of regret, but also resolve.\n\nIn the accompanying music video, director Xavier Dolan chooses this moment to transition from black and white to full colour - making clear that this is the sound of a woman who has dismantled her entire world, realising that she needn't feel guilty for putting herself first.\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 AdeleVEVO 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\nAdele addresses the chorus, \"go easy on me\", to herself as much as her family - and she accepts it's too soon for them to see her point of view.\n\n\"I had good intentions / And the highest hopes / But I know, right now / It probably doesn't even show.\"\n\nThe song was apparently the first track written for Adele's forthcoming album, and dates back to the year of her separation. The immediacy of those emotions is apparent in her vocal, simultaneously strong and vulnerable.\n\nBut there's also a generosity to the song. Adele is reaching out to the people she's hurt, but Easy On Me is also a big woolly blanket wrapped around the loneliness and pain of anyone who's been through a core-shaking break-up.\n\nIt's already proved to be a hit. Just under 300,000 people tuned in to watch the video premiere on YouTube. Within 12 hours it had been streamed 12 million times.\n\nThe single comes just five weeks before her new album - which was first teased in a global marketing campaign that saw the number 30 projected on to buildings and billboards in Brazil, Mexico, Dubai, Italy, Germany, Ireland, the US and the UK.\n\nFans correctly guessed the release date of 19 November when Taylor Swift moved her forthcoming album forward by a week, apparently to avoid a clash with Adele.\n\nEasy On Me was co-written with Adele's frequent collaborator Greg Kurstin\n\nLike her previous three albums the title is a reference to a specific age in Adele's life.\n\nThirty is the age at which she married her long-term partner, Simon Konecki, and then left him.\n\nThe star has said the album was recorded to help her eight-year-old son understand their divorce the following year.\n\n\"I wanted to explain to him through this record, when he's in his 20s or 30s, who I am and why I voluntarily chose to dismantle his entire life in the pursuit of my own happiness,\" she told Vogue magazine.\n\n\"It made him really unhappy sometimes. And that's a real wound for me that I don't know if I'll ever be able to heal,\" she added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adele This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 2's Zoe Ball, the singer said the album \"was bloody hard work to make\".\n\n\"I was singing things I didn't even realise I was feeling or thinking,\" she said, adding that it was important for her to share those emotions with the world.\n\n\"I feel like I can't unlock a door for my own mental health and take the key with me. I've got to leave it in the door for everyone else - and I'm in a strong place now where I feel like I can put that vulnerability out.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Radio 2 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a separate interview with BBC Radio 1's Greg James, she admitted that her friends hadn't been too impressed by Easy On Me when she played them the demo.\n\n\"I sent a snippet of it, as I was writing it, to three of my closest friends,\" she said.\n\n\"One didn't like it, one was like, 'keep trying', and the other was like, 'I'm busy working'. So that was the perfect response.\"\n\nOnce it was finished, however, \"they loved it\".\n\n\"And I don't do any music in my time off. It's not a muscle that I exercise - writing or singing,\" she added.\n\n\"So most of the time, even just for my best friends and my manager, their first reaction, no matter what the song is, is, 'it's just nice to hear you sing'.\"\n\nWhile Easy On Me is very much a traditional Adele ballad, there have been hints that the rest of the album will showcase a more experimental side to Adele's music.\n\nAccording to Vogue, one track features her vocals \"sampled and resampled over a hypnotic beat\", that is reminiscent of electro-pop act Goldfrapp.\n\nShe has also worked with London-based producer Inflo - responsible for the retro R&B sounds of Michael Kiwanuka and Little Simz - as well as the Oscar-winning composer of the Black Panther score, Ludwig Göransson.\n\nRadio 2 DJ Jo Whiley, who has been played a handful of the songs, said there are \"all kinds\" of sounds and genres on the album.\n\n\"There's one that I listened to and it just made me feel incredibly sad,\" she added. \"She really does pour her heart out and her voice, I think, has never sounded better.\n\n\"I was really surprised by the heights that she reaches - and the power and the resonance within her voice is amazing.\"\n\nThe music world meanwhile has been reacting to Adele's long-awaited return, with Canadian star Drake alerting his Instagram followers to the fact that \"one of my best friends in the world just dropped a single\".\n\nSolo star and former Fifth Harmony member Normani declared: \"Adele oh Adele I love uuuuuuuu.\"\n\nElsewhere, Clueless film star Alicia Silverstone posted a humorous video on TikTok of her preparing to drown her sorrows while listening the London singer's latest heartfelt offering.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Alicia Silverstone This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever it sounds, 30 is certain to be a shot in the arm for the UK music industry.\n\nOnly one British album released since the start of 2020, Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia, has sold the 300,000 copies required to be awarded a platinum disc.\n\nIt took her 10 months to achieve that feat. By contrast, Adele's last album, 25, went platinum in its first 24 hours.\n\nIt went on to become the UK's 14th best-selling album of all time, with sales in excess of 3.6 million.\n\nSony, her new record label, will be hoping to match those sorts of sales heights - although the CD market has declined precipitously since 2015; and Adele's streaming numbers don't yet match those of her peers.\n\nShe currently has 22 million monthly listeners on Spotify, compared to Ed Sheeran's 75 million and Taylor Swift's 46.5 million.\n\nNew music will undoubtedly boost those figures, however, even if Adele faces stiff competition from Sheeran, Swift, Abba and Coldplay, who will all release new material in the coming weeks.\n\nMartin Talbot, chief executive of the Official Charts Company, described the pile-up as an \"embarrassment of riches\" that is almost unprecedented for the music retail sector - but he predicted Adele would emerge on top.\n\n\"It would be a brave man who predicted anything other than 30 being the biggest album of this Christmas,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"And, with certifications now also reflecting streams, as well as traditional physical and download sales, it is in with a strong chance of going platinum in its first week.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The Queen appeared to suggest she was irritated by leaders' slow response to the climate crisis.\n\nThe Queen has appeared to suggest she is irritated by people who \"talk\" but \"don't do\", ahead of next month's climate change summit.\n\nHer reported remarks were overheard during the opening of the Welsh parliament on Thursday.\n\nThe monarch, who is due to attend the UN's COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, said she did not know who was coming to the event.\n\nPrince Charles and Prince William have also spoken of their climate concerns.\n\nGlobal leaders are meeting in Glasgow between 31 October and 12 November to negotiate a new deal to stall rising global temperatures.\n\nUS President Joe Biden and members of the G7 nations will be attending COP26. On Friday, after weeks of hesitation, Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison also confirmed he will be at the summit.\n\nBut there are reports China's President Xi Jinping would not be attending, although the country will be represented by its government officials in Glasgow.\n\nDowning Street said it was up to individual countries to confirm attendances at COP26.\n\nVideo clips featuring the Queen's conversation during the opening of the Senedd were picked up by the event's live stream camera, according to the Daily Mail.\n\nThe clips - parts of which are inaudible - show the Queen chatting with the Duchess of Cornwall and Elin Jones, the Senedd's presiding officer.\n\nThe Queen appears to say: \"I've been hearing all about COP... I still don't know who's coming.\"\n\nIn a separate clip, she remarks \"we only know about people who are not coming\", before adding: \"It's really irritating when they talk, but they don't do.\"\n\nMs Jones appears to reference the Duke of Cambridge in her reply to the Queen's remarks, saying she had been watching him \"on television this morning saying there's no point going into space, we need to save the Earth\".\n\nThis wasn't a formal intervention from the Queen, but a few private words that were overheard.\n\nThat her comments about climate change are making headlines shows how unusual it is to hear the Queen's private thoughts on public matters - because her role requires her to stay outside of political debate.\n\nThis rare insight suggests the 95-year-old Queen remains very engaged with the current issues around the COP26 summit - in a week when Prince Charles and Prince William were also talking about protecting the environment.\n\nBut it also shows the occupational hazard of being followed everywhere by cameras and microphones.\n\nAnd in her comments about having \"no idea\" who was coming to COP26, there was also a glimpse of a slightly exasperated host, not sure who was going to turn up for an event.\n\nPrince William spoke to the BBC's Newscast on Thursday, and suggested entrepreneurs should focus on saving Earth rather than engaging in space tourism.\n\nHe also warned the COP26 summit against \"clever speak, clever words but not enough action\", saying it was \"critical\" for the world leaders to \"communicate very clearly and very honestly what the problems are and what the solutions are going to be\".\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's climate editor Justin Rowlatt, the Prince of Wales said he was worried that world leaders would \"just talk\" when they meet, saying: \"The problem is to get action on the ground\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Erica says she is using her story as “power to fight back against the law\"\n\nVictims of alleged domestic abuse are seeing their cases dropped at a rapidly increasing rate, according to data obtained by the BBC.\n\nThe time limit to charge common assault - including instances of domestic violence - is six months.\n\nNearly 13,000 cases were dropped in England and Wales over five years after the authorities hit that limit.\n\nCampaigners say women are being denied justice and the police and prosecutors should be given more time.\n\nThe new figures relate to common assault cases - which includes things like a push, threatening words or being spat at - and which are normally dealt with at magistrates court.\n\nBut three-quarters of all domestic abuse cases - including sexual assaults - are closed early without the suspect being charged, according to a report by HM inspector of constabulary.\n\nAnd just 1.6% of rape allegations in England and Wales result in someone being charged, something the government has said it is \"deeply ashamed\" about.\n\nVictims of domestic common assault are sometimes reluctant to come forward and the cases can be complex - which is why campaigners say the police should be given more time to investigate them.\n\nA government spokesman said all allegations should be investigated and pursued where possible, and money had been invested to support victims of such crimes during the pandemic.\n\nBut Labour MP Yvette Cooper, who chairs the Commons Home Affairs Committee, said it was another example of the criminal justice system failing to understand violence against women and girls.\n\n\"This is a shocking fact that thousands of cases a year - and getting worse - are just being timed out,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"There are so many reasons why victims and survivors of domestic abuse might not be able to report an assault straight away. But then to be told that the perpetrator is just going to be let off because they've run out of time is completely wrong. That is why the law needs to change.\"\n\nThe six-month time limit is meant to keep the criminal justice system moving - but campaigners are calling for it to be extended to two years in instances of domestic violence.\n\nErica Osakwe, who founded Victims Too, was encouraged to report her abuse to police on leaving her relationship, but was later told no charges could be brought because the police had failed to properly file the initial report and the time limit had expired.\n\nShe said: \"There was a pit in my stomach that didn't leave me for weeks or months. I felt like they took me for a joke. I wasn't taken seriously. It didn't seem like they've valued my story.\n\n\"To me, six months isn't enough time to even fathom that sort of experience and allow someone to get the support they need before coming forward.\n\n\"This six months not only applies to victims of abuse but also applies to the police as well to get it done. The police might not be able to gather the evidence they need in the six months to even get that prosecution charge.\"\n\nMs Osakwe and campaign group Refuge are backing moves by Ms Cooper to amend the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill currently making its way through Parliament.\n\nFigures obtained by the BBC using Freedom of Information from 30 of the 43 police forces in England and Wales, reveals a huge increase in allegations of common assault involving domestic abuse - but a fall in the number of charges being brought.\n\nFrom 2016-17 to 2020-21 there were at least 12,982 cases of common assault that were flagged as involving domestic abuse in which no-one was charged due to the time limit.\n\nThere has been a 159% increase in the number of times common assaults flagged as involving domestic abuse have not been charged because of this time limit.\n\nThe data was not broken down by gender, and covers both men and women.\n\nBetween 2016-17 and 2020-21 the total number of common assaults flagged as instances of domestic abuse increased by 71% from 99,134 to 170,013.\n\nIn the same time period, the number of these common assaults that resulted in charges being brought fell by 23%.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"All allegations should be investigated and pursued rigorously through the courts where possible, and there is no time limit on reporting crimes such as bodily harm or those that add up to coercive behaviour.\n\n\"We have invested millions into vital services to support victims throughout the pandemic, and continue to urge anyone at risk of harm to come forward and get the help they need.\n\n\"Perpetrators of domestic abuse do untold damage and we sympathise with any victim whose life has been affected by such acts.\"\n\nLouisa Ralfe, the lead for domestic abuse at the National Police Chiefs' Council, said: \"We know there are many reasons why victims may not immediately report offences, particularly in cases of domestic abuse where victims can face coercion and other barriers to coming forward.\n\n\"We are supporting the Home Office in their analysis of this issue and we will continue to work with them and the Crown Prosecution Service to understand the scale and ensure that every victim is able to achieve the justice they deserve.\"", "The US has said that it will reopen its borders to fully vaccinated travellers from 33 countries on 8 November.\n\nUnder new rules announced by the White House, vaccinated people who have had a negative test in the 72 hours before travelling will be allowed to enter.\n\nThe move marks the end of the tough restrictions that have been imposed on travellers since early last year.\n\n\"This policy is guided by public health, stringent and consistent,\" a White House spokesman said.\n\nThe new rules will apply to Schengen countries - a group of 26 European nations - as well as the UK, Brazil, China, India, Iran, Ireland, and South Africa.\n\nThe current rules bar entry to most non-US citizens who have been in the UK, China, India, South Africa, Iran, Brazil or a number of European countries within the last 14 days.\n\nHowever, the policy has caused controversy, as passengers from 150 other countries, many of whom have struggled with high rates of Covid infection, have continued to enter the US freely.\n\nOfficials announced that people who have been jabbed with one of the vaccines that are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or have been granted an Emergency Use Listing from the World Health Organization (WHO) will qualify under the system.\n\nThe Emergency Use aspect will allow travellers who have received the AstraZeneca jab, widely used in the UK, as well as China's Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines, to enter the country.\n\nIt was also confirmed that travellers will not be required to go into quarantine upon entering the country.\n\nThe announcement was swiftly celebrated by would-be travellers across the globe.\n\nAmong them was Kent resident Dan Johnson, who told the BBC he had been unable to visit his father in the US before he died of cancer in March.\n\n\"I never got to say goodbye and hadn't seen him since 2019 due to the travel restrictions,\" he said. \"It's been the hardest thing in the world. Lifting the ban feels much too late, but does mean that I can finally visit my step-mum and help her sort dad's belongings.\"\n\nAnother UK resident, Kate Urquhart, said she would be travel to Los Angeles to see the final concert of American rock band The Monkees' farewell tour in November.\n\n\"I was almost resigned to not going,\" she said. \"Today's announcement is great news.\"\n\nFriday's announcement sheds light on the changes first announced back in September. Biden administration officials had initially said the new policy would go into place in \"early November,\" leaving many foreign nationals unsure when to make or adjust their travel plans.\n\nVirgin Atlantic CEO Shai Weiss welcomed the move and said it reflected the success of the global vaccine rollout.\n\n\"The UK will now be able to strengthen ties with our most important economic partner, the US, boosting trade and tourism as well as reuniting friends, families and business colleagues,\" she said.\n\nThe US has lagged behind many other countries in removing its travel restrictions, prompting friction with a number of its allies.\n\nOn Tuesday, US officials announced that restrictions at its land borders with Canada and Mexico for fully vaccinated foreign nationals would also end.\n\nHowever, unvaccinated travellers will continue to be barred from entering at land borders.", "Sir David Amess was one of Parliament's characters: fun, friendly, unconventional and outspoken.\n\nHis broad grin and boyish enthusiasm were fixtures in the House of Commons chamber for nearly 40 years.\n\nHe never scaled the heights of government, choosing to dedicate his career to his beloved Essex and the causes he cared about most. The 69-year-old was one of those rare MPs who earned cross-party respect for the conviction he brought to his opinions and campaigns. They ranged from passionate support of Brexit to animal rights - and anything that brought Essex up in the world.\n\nHe always took his work seriously, but himself rarely.\n\nHe was stabbed to death while in his constituency surgery in the seaside town of Leigh-on-Sea, an attack that has stunned his constituents and colleagues from across the political spectrum.\n\nSir David burst on to the political scene as the new MP for Basildon in 1983, the embodiment of what was known then as Essex Man, the archetypal aspirational voter who helped deliver a landslide victory for Margaret Thatcher that year.\n\nA prominent animal lover within Westminster, David Amess regularly entered Parliament's dog of the year show\n\nWith an East End accent and relatively humble origins, he gained a high profile on TV and radio, and triumphed against the odds in the 1992 general election when he unexpectedly held on to his seat.\n\n\"My colleagues and supporters, go out and rejoice and celebrate!\", he declared.\n\nFrom that moment on David Amess was cheered by his Conservative colleagues every time he rose to his feet in Parliament, where he would rarely pass up the chance to mention Basildon.\n\nHe held the seat until 1997 when he realised the seat would be lost to Labour after boundary changes and switched his loyalty and devotion to nearby Southend West. For years he campaigned for Southend to become a city, mentioning it virtually every week in Parliament - he retweeted a BBC Essex tweet along these lines just a day before his death.\n\nSir David - who was married with five children - was also a devout Catholic.\n\nHe was socially conservative: he supported capital punishment and opposed abortion. He was an early Eurosceptic. He was also a strong supporter of animal rights, including a fox hunting ban, and he campaigned against fuel poverty, advocated tackling obesity and raised awareness of endometriosis, a painful gynaecological condition that some women suffer.\n\nAlthough for many years he was a parliamentary aide to the former cabinet minister, Michael Portillo, he never held ministerial office; he was too unorthodox for that.\n\nSir David was a keen participant in the annual MPs' pancake race\n\nDeputy prime minister Dominic Raab paid tribute to \"a great common sense politician and a formidable campaigner with a big heart, and tremendous generosity of spirit - including towards those he disagreed with\".\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said he was \"a thoroughly decent man\".\n\nHis loss will be felt keenly in his Southend West constituency. Trembling with emotion Father Jeff Woolnough, parish priest of St Peter's Catholic church in Eastwood Road North, Leigh-On-Sea, told the BBC Sir David was a \"great, great man, a good Catholic and a friend to all\".\n\nBorn in Plaistow in 1952, he went to school in London and did many things before turning to politics.\n\nHe taught at a school in London before embarking on a career as a recruitment consultant. He did attract unwelcome publicity in 1997, when he was the victim of satirist Chris Morris on his Channel 4 show Brass Eye, when he was shown with other well-known figures condemning Cake, a made-up drug. Sir David said Channel 4 should feel \"shame\" for the programme, as it came soon after the case of his then-constituent 18 year old Leah Betts, who died after she took ecstasy.\n\nHe was one of those MPs who used Parliament to sponsor bills, to sit on committees, to form alliances, so that he could shape law from the backbenches.\n\nAs an animal welfare specialist, he led campaigns to ban cages for game birds and end the transport of live animals for export - and was a patron of the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation. Sir David was what they call an old school parliamentarian - the epitome of a constituency MP who died serving those he was so proud to represent.", "Flowers have been laid at the scene where MP David Amess was stabbed\n\n\"It could happen to any one of us.\"\n\nThose were Sir David Amess's own words, describing the danger that MPs can face, and the awareness they all carry, that their work can - in rare and terrible circumstances - put them in harm's way.\n\nIn his published diaries of a long life as an MP, Sir David wrote of the creeping risks: checking the locks, taking care not to meet people alone, alert to what could go wrong.\n\nThe contract between us and our politicians is not written down anywhere. Yet part of it is understood by everyone.\n\nWe expect the MPs we elect to see us in person, not to hide behind Parliament's ornate gates and wood-panelled walls.\n\nThat demand is met gladly by the vast majority of MPs.\n\nBut, increasingly, the job has been accompanied by abuse, intimidation - and risk for MPs and their staff.\n\nOne member of the cabinet told me today: \"Everyone has had a threat... everyone has had frightening moments.\"\n\nDealing with harassment, coping with security concerns and reporting those concerns to the police, is sadly routine in politics in the 21st Century.\n\nIt is inevitable in the coming days that there will be calls for a kinder atmosphere at Westminster, and cooler heads in real life, and online.\n\nIt is not, however, inevitable that anything at all will change.\n\nWith an agonising echo of the murder of Jo Cox, another life has been lost today. Another family has lost a parent and partner.\n\nAnother MP killed doing the most important part of the their job - spending time with those he represented, and listening to those he served.", "Australia's international borders have been effectively shut since March 2020\n\nVaccinated Australian citizens and the parents of residents will be able to visit Sydney from 1 November without the need to quarantine.\n\nThe move announced by the New South Wales (NSW) state government at first indicated that all tourists and foreign travellers could freely enter.\n\nBut Prime Minister Scott Morrison later quashed that idea.\n\nAustralia's borders have effectively been closed since March 2020, making it difficult even for citizens to enter.\n\n\"We are not opening up to everyone coming back to Australia at the moment,\" Mr Morrison said.\n\nHe said priority would be given to Australians and family members, after which the nation would then consider migrants, those with work and study visas and the \"challenge\" of tourists.\n\n\"This is about Australian residents and citizens first,\" Mr Morrison said on Friday.\n\nThe rights have also been extended to include the parents of Australians, even if they are foreign nationals, allowing Australians to be reunited with their family members who are overseas.\n\nThe hotel quarantine requirement is able to be removed in NSW thanks to the state's high vaccination rate - nearly 80% fully dosed for the eligible over-12 population, the prime minister said.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic, Australia has had some of the world's strictest border rules.\n\nThere have been tight caps on how many people are allowed into the country and entry has almost exclusively been to citizens and permanent residents. Upon arrival, they have had to do mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine at their own cost.\n\nAustralia's strict border controls have also prevented people inside the country from leaving. That will also end in November, with people able to travel when their state's vaccination rate hits 80%.\n\nTourism has been badly affected by Australia's border closures\n\nThere was confusion earlier on Friday, when NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet declared that Sydney would be \"reopening to the world\" and all vaccinated international travellers, regardless of their visa or citizenship situation.\n\nBut this was not granted by the federal government - which is in charge of visas and entries into Australia.\n\n\"It is for the federal government to decide when the border opens and shuts at an international level,\" the prime minister said.\n\nNSW authorities were yet to clarify the policy mix-up on Friday.\n\nSydney only emerged from a 107-day lockdown on Monday but is charging ahead with reopening to the rest of the world. NSW authorities say their state - which is the most populous in Australia - is leading the way for the nation.\n\nBut travel remains heavily restricted across the country - as state borders remain closed under competing virus containment policies.\n\nIt is now probable that NSW residents could travel overseas before being allowed to visit another Australian state.\n\nMr Perrottet acknowledged the discrepancy on Friday, saying: \"I think people in New South Wales will be flying to Bali before Broome [in Western Australia].\"\n\nQueensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory have all banned travellers from infected states like NSW and Victoria in a bid to keep their case numbers at zero.\n\nThose states have not specified when they might reopen.\n\nAustralia has recorded more than 138,000 infections and just over 1,500 deaths from Covid-19.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Heartless\" Queensland bars US couple from seeing dying father", "Nine Moscow restaurants have received prestigious Michelin stars for their food\n\nIt's been described as one of the Russian capital's best-kept secrets: Moscow's restaurants are excellent.\n\nMichelin has published a Moscow Guide, heaping praise on Russian chefs and serving up its prestigious awards. Seven restaurants received one star. Two were awarded two stars.\n\n\"Inspectors have been particularly seduced by the high-quality local produce,\" said Gwendal Poullennec, Michelin Guide International Director.\n\n\"I'm super happy,\" chef Ivan Berezutsky told the BBC. \"It's the favourite moment of my professional life. It's a fantastic moment for Moscow and for Russia.\"\n\nIvan and his brother Sergey are the twin chefs of Twins Garden. Their restaurant received two stars, plus an extra Green star award for sustainable practices.\n\nHow times have changed. When I lived in Moscow in the 1980s, eating out was a chore and a challenge. Restaurants had a reputation for surly service, poor choice and less than appetizing fare. I'll never forget the \"Closed for Lunch\" sign often hung on restaurant doors.\n\nToday the choice of cuisine is mindboggling. Moscow has everything from gastropubs to kosher cafes. Ethiopian, Brazilian, Vietnamese - you name it, you can find it here. Soviet service (thank goodness) is a thing of the past. And food quality is generally very good.\n\nMoscow authorities hope the new Michelin Guide will project a more positive image of the Russian capital\n\nMichelin believes that Moscow could become a new culinary destination for tourists and travellers. And if it does? Some think that foreigners flocking here for the food might somehow ease political tensions between Russia and the West.\n\n\"We are so separate right now, unfortunately,\" says chef Vladimir Mukhin of the White Rabbit restaurant, which received a Michelin star. \"It's like if you have a problem with your wife, but you have breakfast with her at the same table, then you have a future. The table can unite everyone.\"\n\nThe authorities here are hoping that the Michelin Moscow Guide 2022 will project a more positive image of the Russian capital.\n\n\"I am proud that Moscow's restaurants have become a calling card for our wonderful city,\" said Moscow's Mayor Sergei Sobyanin at a ceremony near the Kremlin.\n\nBut while the belief is that a gastronomic calling card can bring in more tourists, there's just one problem.\n\nAlthough Russia has taken a great leap forward in terms of cafes and restaurants, the picture is less positive in other areas: like the state of democracy and the high level of anti-western rhetoric here.\n\nIt's things like that which may reduce the appetite of foreign tourists to visit Russia.", "Pregnant women should get a Covid jab after a rise in those without vaccines needing hospital care, Wales' chief medical officer has said.\n\nDr Frank Atherton said there had been an increase in the number of pregnant women with serious illness from Covid.\n\nCovid vaccines are recommended for pregnant women by the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (RCOG) and Royal College of Midwives (RCM).\n\nDr Atherton said the jab was \"safe and effective\" in all stages of pregnancy.\n\nHe said catching Covid during pregnancy carried a \"significant risk\" of hospital admission and pregnant women could be at \"increased risk of severe illness\" compared with the rest of the population, particularly in the third trimester.\n\nHe added: \"The Covid-19 vaccine can protect mums and babies from avoidable harm.\n\n\"We now have a lot of worldwide experience to know that the vaccine is safe and effective at all stages of pregnancy - women shouldn't wait, take it as soon as possible whether planning pregnancy or already pregnant.\"\n\nHe said the vaccine was based on science that has been used safely on pregnant women for many years, including jabs already administered during pregnancy, such as whooping cough and the flu jab.\n\n\"The Covid-19 vaccine can be given at any time of a pregnancy,\" he said.\n\n\"I would encourage people to contact their health board if they have not accepted their offer. The latest evidence and medical professionals agree that the vaccine provides the greatest protection from Covid-19.\"\n\nDr Atherton (left) has urged pregnant women to get vaccinated\n\nThe latest Covid figures showed there were 520 people in hospital with Covid in Wales, with an average of 42 admissions each day.\n\nDr Viki Male, a lecturer in reproductive immunology at Imperial College London, told Gareth Lewis on BBC Radio Wales earlier this week vaccines were safe and effective for those already pregnant and people trying to conceive.\n\nShe said: \"We know that Covid is dangerous during pregnancy, particularly in the second half of pregnancy. If you catch Covid it's more likely that your baby will be born pre-term. It's also more likely that your baby will be stillborn.\n\n\"So if you're thinking of becoming pregnant, you might want to get the vaccine so you're protected in advance.\"\n\nShe added there was no evidence Covid vaccines had stopped people from conceiving, including in IVF settings, and that those already pregnant should get vaccinated.\n\n\"If you're already pregnant we have absolutely loads of data about how safe the vaccines are in pregnancy,\" she said.\n\n\"There's no increased risk of miscarriage, pre-term birth, stillbirth, the baby being smaller than we expect, or any congenital abnormalities.\n\n\"We recommend Covid vaccination during pregnancy, we do not recommend getting Covid during pregnancy.\"", "Tonia Antoniazzi says the Welsh government has shown \"a contempt not only for the law, but also to anyone who wishes to speak up for women\"\n\nThe Welsh government has been accused of being \"dictated to\" by an LGBT charity.\n\nLabour MP Tonia Antoniazzi said the government promoted an \"ideological culture\" by adopting Stonewall's interpretation of the Equality Act.\n\nHer comments were in response to a BBC investigation which revealed the Welsh government had adopted Stonewall's interpretation of equality law.\n\nThe Welsh government said its policy was in the \"spirit of the law\".\n\nIt added that its inclusive workplace and policies did not disadvantage, undermine or exclude any colleagues.\n\nProtections for people based on factors including age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and gender reassignment are enshrined in the Equality Act 2010.\n\nHowever, in a document sent to Stonewall and seen by the BBC, the term \"gender reassignment\" has been replaced with the term \"gender identity\" in the Welsh government's Equality and Diversity Policy.\n\nIt is a characteristic not provided for in law, but something Stonewall has been campaigning for.\n\nIt could mean people with various gender identities, such as non-binary, would be protected in law.\n\nLabour's Tonia Antoniazzi accuses the Welsh government of \"blatantly\" misrepresenting the Equality Act\n\nCritics of Stonewall's interpretation of the law argue that the term gender identity is too broad and it could undermine sex-based rights protected under the legislation.\n\nMs Antoniazzi said: \"It is astonishing that the Welsh government can so blatantly misrepresent the Equality Act 2010 as dictated to by Stonewall.\n\n\"They are promoting an ideological culture and rewriting the Equality Act at the same time. To misrepresent the law in this way shows a contempt not only for the law, but also to anyone who wishes to speak up for women or who has concerns around safeguarding.\n\n\"I'd also like to know what other organisations the Welsh government draws on to test their policies and practices, and what their relationship is with Stonewall and the Senedd.\n\n\"This situation is risible, and as a Welsh Labour MP I am deeply disappointed that no minister has been available to respond to the BBC to defend their stance.\"\n\nMs Antoniazzi also said there was a \"lack of transparency and independence around policy making\".\n\n\"I would urge [the Welsh government] to provide a safe space for all staff to express their concerns without fear nor favour,\" she added.\n\nThe Welsh government works with LGBT charity Stonewall when updating its policies and it has been involved with two Stonewall schemes to promote diversity, including the Workplace Equality Index, which is a public ranking of organisations scored by Stonewall.\n\nDocuments, obtained under Freedom of Information laws by the BBC's Nolan Investigates podcast, revealed what the lobby group was asking organisations to do to improve their ranking on the Workplace Equality Index.\n\nRobin Allen QC, who specialises in employment and equality law, said there was \"nothing to stop the Welsh government having a more inclusive set of definitions of characteristics that they consider to be important in the way that they develop policies, what they can't do is exclude characteristics from the approach that they take\".\n\nHe said he believed the Welsh government had been \"persuaded by Stonewall to use the phrase gender identity to try and take, as Stonewall would say, a more modern approach that people's identity, in the general field of gender and sex, is much more fluid than simply being male or female\".\n\nHowever, he said gender identity \"is not a protected characteristic as defined by the Equality Act 2010\".\n\nThe Welsh government declined to be interviewed in the podcast, but a spokesman said: \"We acknowledge that the terms gender identity and gender expression are not protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010, but we use these terms to cover the Equality Act protected characteristic of 'gender reassignment'.\n\n\"We feel that these terms do not misrepresent the Equality Act in terms of the spirit of the law.\n\n\"The Equality Act's definition of gender reassignment covers trans status, gender identity and protects non-binary and gender fluid people too, as was recently ruled.\"\n\nHowever, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), the regulatory body responsible for enforcing the Equality Act 2010, said the term gender identity does not help explain who is covered by the law in terms of the Equality Act, as is suggested by Stonewall and the Welsh government.\n\nIt added that the Equality Act 2010 \"provides protection against discrimination and harassment related to the protected characteristic of gender reassignment\".\n\n\"To be protected from gender reassignment discrimination, you do not need to have undergone any specific treatment or surgery,\" EHRC said.\n\n\"You can be at any stage in the transition process - from proposing to reassign your sex, to undergoing a process to reassign your sex, or having completed it.\"\n\nThe Welsh government also said it was \"proud to be an inclusive employer where all colleagues are supported to be themselves and reach their full potential\".\n\n\"Our inclusive workplace and policies do not disadvantage, undermine or exclude any colleagues,\" the spokesman added.\n\n\"As an inclusive employer, we take part in a variety of workplace benchmarking activities to ensure we learn from best practice in other organisations. Stonewall are one of a number of organisations we draw on to test our policies and practices.\"\n\nStonewall said: \"All our guidance on the Equality Act, including using the term gender identity, is based on the Equality and Human Rights Commission's Equality Act Code of Practice, which was recently reaffirmed in the High Court.\"\n\nThe organisation did not provide more details to the BBC when asked about the specifics of the High Court case, or about the EHRC's statement to the podcast.\n\nThe Nolan Investigates podcast is available on BBC Sounds.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of pregnant women needing intensive care has gone up despite overall ICU numbers going down\n\nMore than 20% of women admitted to intensive care for Covid-19 since May 2021 were pregnant or had recently given birth, a study has found.\n\nA Scottish Intensive Care Audit Group report said 42 had been admitted since 18 May 2021, compared with 25 in the first two waves of the pandemic.\n\nThe number has gone up despite overall intensive care numbers reducing.\n\nThe Scottish government said vaccines were the best way to protect against the risks of Covid in pregnancy.\n\nThe Scottish Intensive Care Audit Group (SICAG) report found that no deaths of pregnant women following ICU treatment had been reported up to 19 September 2021.\n\nThe report counts pregnant women admitted to ICUs and women who were admitted within six weeks of giving birth. Admission to high dependency units, used for managing high risk pregnancies, were not included in the figures.\n\nIn the first two waves of the pandemic in Scotland, between 1 March 2020 and 17 May 2021, 1,850 Covid patients were admitted to ICU, according to SICAG.\n\nOf this number, 630 were women and about 4% of them were pregnant or had recently given birth.\n\nSince 18 May 2021, 189 women have required intensive care treatment for Covid-19 and 22.2% of them have been pregnant.\n\nDr Sarah Stock, a consultant in maternal and foetal medicine, said it was still uncertain what had caused the rise.\n\n\"It could be because a much lower proportion of pregnant women are vaccinated, or it could be because pregnant women are particularly susceptible to severe disease from the Delta variant that has predominated during the third wave - but we don't know for sure yet,\" she said.\n\nBut Dr Stock, who is co-leading a study into Covid-19 in pregnancy at the University of Edinburgh, told BBC Scotland there was \"really strong evidence\" that pregnant women were more likely than other women to be admitted to hospital and intensive care.\n\n\"We also know that although we've had no deaths in Scotland yet, data from around the world and in particular the United States has shown higher mortality rates with Covid-19 in pregnancy than in non-pregnant women,\" she said.\n\nThe consultant said there was also evidence Covid-19 led to higher premature birth rates and probably caused more stillbirths as well.\n\n\"Being pregnant affects your response to infections. We know that pregnant women are more susceptible to viruses - and this is probably what we're seeing with Covid-19.\"\n\nThe SICAG study's authors said they had found \"very few\" critical care admissions among pregnant women during the first and second waves of the pandemic.\n\nThe report continued: \"Wave three has seen increased numbers of pregnant women being admitted to hospital with moderate to severe Covid-19 symptoms requiring critical care.\n\n\"The majority of patients were pregnant on admission to critical care and 30% were admitted after delivery.\"\n\nMost of the women lived in the most deprived areas of Scotland, the report added.\n\nThe report also found that none of the women who required treatment in intensive care were fully vaccinated at the time of admission.\n\nA separate report by Public Health Scotland (PHS), published on 6 October, found vaccine take-up among pregnant women in Scotland was low across all age groups.\n\nPHS estimates that of the 77,679 women who were pregnant between December 2020 and August 2021, about 18% received at least a first dose.\n\nThe over-40s have achieved the best level of vaccine coverage so far at 26.5%. The figure drops to 7% in the under-19s.\n\nAlthough younger age groups were vaccinated later in the roll-out programme, general coverage in all age groups apart from 12-17 year olds in August was above 70%.\n\nDr Pat O'Brien, vice president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said a number of factors could be influencing the increase in ICU admission figures.\n\nFor example, he said an increase in birth rates this year could lead to higher numbers in ICU, as a proportion of all pregnant women will always become severely ill from Covid-19.\n\nBut he told BBC Scotland the \"key message\" was for pregnant women to make sure they were vaccinated.\n\n\"There is still a significant number of pregnant women being admitted to ICU with Covid. That's obviously bad for the woman, but it's also bad for the baby,\" he said.\n\n\"All of this is preventable by a vaccine that is perfectly safe to take in pregnancy.\"\n\nVaccination take-up among women is low across all age groups when compared with the rest of the population\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"It is clear from the report that unvaccinated people are considerably more likely to require ICU treatment, so it remains vital that everyone who is eligible takes up the offer of vaccination, as this will protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"This includes pregnant women, as vaccination is the best way of protecting against the risks of Covid in pregnancy.\"", "The Wolverhampton Science Park houses the offices and laboratories of Immensa Health Clinic\n\nThe head of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has ordered an investigation into why it took a month to identify a laboratory giving incorrect Covid test results.\n\nDr Jenny Harries said it was \"not clear yet\" what went wrong at the private lab in Wolverhampton.\n\nAbout 43,000 people in England and Wales may have been wrongly told their Covid-19 test was negative.\n\nTesting at the lab has been suspended and those affected are being contacted.\n\nQuestions are also being raised around how the lab won a multi-million pound government contract.\n\nConcerns were flagged when people had positive lateral flow tests (LFTs) but negative follow-up PCR results from the lab between 8 September and 12 October. Most of those affected live in south-west England.\n\nThe error could mean thousands of people infected with Covid were wrongly told to stop isolating, and may have infected others.\n\nDr Harries, chief executive of the UKHSA and head of NHS Test and Trace, said local public health teams had been querying tests over the last few weeks, but it was only in the last few days that the problem was pinpointed.\n\n\"It is the location of the laboratory, combined with the geography and the time period, that has allowed us to understand this now,\" she said.\n\n\"I want to make sure if there are any further problems with other laboratories we can absolutely spot them as quickly as possible.\"\n\nDr Harries said she would conduct \"a serious incident investigation\" to make sure it doesn't happen again.\n\nAll samples from the lab, where Immensa Health Clinic Ltd runs the testing operations, are now being sent to other labs.\n\nUKHSA said all other labs were working normally and there were no technical issues with the test kits themselves.\n\nGovernment records show that Immensa, which was founded in May 2020 just months after the start of the pandemic, has been awarded contracts for Covid testing by the Department of Health valued at £181m.\n\nIt is connected to another company, Dante Labs, which provides genetic sequencing and other laboratory services from offices in Wolverhampton and Cambridge.\n\nIt also sells private PCR Covid tests to travellers, and is one of 20 companies being investigated by the UK competition watchdog over concerns it may have unfairly treated customers.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said people \"should not be concerned\" by the lab's suspension.\n\n\"We're looking into what went wrong with that particular testing centre, but it doesn't affect the overall numbers,\" he said.\n\nOnly a few thousand out of the 43,000 affected by the wrong result could potentially still be infected now and they will be contacted first, by text and email, to recommend they have another test.\n\nProf Alan McNally, from the University of Birmingham, told the BBC he was \"astonished\" by the revelation and could not work out how so many tests could be incorrect.\n\n\"It comes down to quality control and quality assurance, oversight and management,\" he said.\n\n\"I cannot fathom the failings that would lead to this level of false negative results.\"\n\nThe UKHSA said about 400,000 samples had been processed by the privately-run lab and it estimated 43,000 people may have been given incorrect negative test results, with 4,000 of those from Wales. Some may also be in the south-east of England and scattered across the country.\n\nGraham Loader and his wife went about their normal business after negative PCR results\n\nGraham Loader, from Newbury, says his family have had three positive LFTs, all followed by negative PCR tests taken at the testing site at Newbury Showground in West Berkshire.\n\nHe said each time the family got a positive LFT but negative PCR test, they assumed the LFTs must have been at fault.\n\n\"I think we just blamed the LFTs because they were a bit basic,\" he said.\n\n\"I thought they must be detecting something from a cold and be an error.\"\n\nHis wife, a school teacher, had felt a bit unwell but didn't have the classic symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nShe had a negative PCR test but took some time off as a precaution, despite being advised she did not need to.\n\nMr Loader, who coaches a boy's football team, thought he had come down with a cold.\n\nHe added: \"I completely trusted the PCR, so I feel bad for all the people I've been in contact with.\"\n\nDr Will Welfare, public health incident director at UKHSA - which replaced Public Health England, said: \"As a result of our investigation, we are working with NHS Test and Trace and the company to determine the laboratory technical issues which have led to inaccurate PCR results being issued to people.\n\n\"We have immediately suspended testing at this laboratory while we continue the investigation.\"\n\nHe said the public should remain confident in using both kinds of test, and continue to get a follow-up PCR test after a positive LFT.\n\nThe company said it was \"fully collaborating\" with health officials on the matter and added it had already analysed more than 2.5 million samples for NHS Test and Trace.\n\nMany coronavirus testing sites in England and Wales are likely to be affected by the lab errors, including one at Newbury Showground used by the Loader family.\n\nOn Thursday evening West Berkshire council told people who had received a negative result at the site between 3 and 12 October, to book another test.\n\nFor several weeks, there have been widespread reports in the south-west of England of people testing positive with LFTs, but then later testing negative after a PCR test.\n\nScientists had called for the issue to be looked into quickly, with one study suggesting positive LFT results were very accurate and should be trusted.\n\nHave you been contacted by NHS Test and Trace and been asked to take another Covid test? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also 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.", "New rules allowing travellers returning to England to take lateral flow tests instead of more expensive PCR tests will come into force on 24 October.\n\nThe government says the changes will take effect in time for families returning from half term breaks.\n\nFully vaccinated passengers will be told to upload photos of their Covid-19 tests for verification.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said it would make travel easier and simpler.\n\nThe travel industry had said it was vital to make the changes to the Covid travel tests in time for the half term holiday.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said: \"This is great news and we're pleased to get it over the line in time for the crucial half term period, which will be a massive relief to families desperate to get away this autumn.\"\n\nAlong with last week's reduction of the travel red list and the recognition of vaccinations administered in more foreign countries, the change is \"a major step forward that will support the desperately needed recovery of our sector,\" he said.\n\nThe changes come as the UK continues to record the highest level of Covid-19 infections and deaths in western Europe, with another 45,066 cases recorded on Thursday - the largest number since late July.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Foster explains how lateral flow tests work and how to do one\n\nA further 157 deaths were also recorded.\n\nPolicy on travel is devolved, but Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have previously aligned with policy in England, citing the practicalities of the shared border.\n\nBut Wales criticised replacing PCR tests, which are often described as the gold standard for Covid testing, with lateral flow tests, saying that along with other relaxed measures it would \"considerably increase\" the risk of new variants coming into the country.\n\nUnder the existing system, PCR tests taken on day two after returning to England can cost about £75 per person.\n\nWhen the changes come into effect, anyone who receives a positive result from their lateral flow test will be required to self-isolate and to take a free PCR test to confirm it.\n\nTravellers due to arrive in England from 24 October onwards will be able to order their lateral flow tests from 22 October, when a list of approved providers will be published on the gov.uk website.\n\nNHS Test and Trace tests - which can be ordered for free - cannot be used for international travel, the government said.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"We want to make going abroad easier and cheaper, whether you're travelling for work or visiting friends and family.\"\n\nHe said the change was made possible by the high levels of vaccination, which means \"we can safely open up travel as we learn to live with the virus\".\n\nMr Shapps said: \"Taking away expensive mandatory PCR testing will boost the travel industry and is a major step forward in normalising international travel and encouraging people to book holidays with confidence.\"\n\nDoes this change come in time for your holiday? Did you decide not to travel this year due to the cost of testing? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also 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 pay offer to avoid Scotland's rail network being crippled by strikes during COP26 is \"is not worthy of consideration\", a union has said.\n\nThe RMT said members who work for ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper will stage industrial action during the UN climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nThe dispute is linked to an ongoing row over pay which has affected Sunday services in recent months.\n\nScotRail said its latest two-year offer of 4.7% was \"very reasonable\".\n\nBut Michael Hogg, from the RMT union, said it would not ballot ScotRail workers on a deal he described as \"rotten\" and \"lousy\" as it also involved efficiency savings.\n\nThat would mean workers having to give up some current terms and conditions in order to get a pay rise, a caveat Mr Hogg branded \"unacceptable\".\n\nMr Hogg told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme there will be no trains running anywhere in Scotland during COP26 if the strikes go ahead.\n\nHe added: \"Our representatives do not feel that this offer is worthy of consideration. It's a kick in the teeth to key, essential workers.\"\n\nOn Thursday, it was announced staff will strike from 00:01 on Monday 1 November until 23:59 on Friday 12 November.\n\nThe global COP26 summit, which is expected to draw thousands of people to Glasgow, runs from 31 October until 12 November.\n\nSleeper staff will strike on Sunday 31 October from 11:59 until 11:58 hours on Tuesday 2 November and again for 48 hours on Thursday 11 November from 11:59.\n\nGMB cleansing workers in Glasgow and Unite's Stagecoach staff have also voted to strike during COP26.\n\nScotRail operations manager David Simpson told Good Morning Scotland \"a very positive offer\" was made to the union last weekend and he had expected it to be put to the RMT's members.\n\nBut instead it called a strike, a move he said was \"very frustrating and very disappointing\".\n\nMr Simpson denied ScotRail had been \"stonewalling\" the union and said the pandemic had prompted more discussion over the last 18 months than ever before.\n\nHe added: \"Many workers would say 4.7% over two years is anything but a derisory offer and it compares well with other industries.\"\n\nAll scheduled trains will be cancelled if the strikes go ahead\n\nKathryn Darbandi, managing director for Serco Caledonian Sleeper, said any action during the climate summit would be incredibly damaging.\n\nShe said: \"We have repeatedly tabled realistic and reasonable offers which we believe should have ended the dispute.\n\n\"Industrial action during COP26 - when the eyes of the world will be on Scotland - risks both the reputation of rail as an environmentally-friendly and sustainable mode of transport, but also the great progress the entire team at Caledonian Sleeper have made in building back the confidence of our guests.\n\n\"The RMT's action does not reflect the reality of the financial situation facing all parties in Scotland's railway today, as we seek to rebuild the industry for the future. We need to work together, and we continue to be open to realistic discussions.\"\n\nThe climate summit will be held at the Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow\n\nTransport Minister Graeme Dey said that the RMT was in receipt of a \"very fair\" pay proposal.\n\nAnd he told Good Morning Scotland many of its members will have voted for strike action \"unaware of the offer that is now on the table\".\n\nMr Dey also described the two-year deal, which he said has been backed by the three other unions involved, was \"the best offer that can be made in the circumstances\".\n\nBut Scottish Conservative transport spokesman Graham Simpson accused the Scottish government of distancing themselves from the dispute.\n\nHe said: \"Glasgow is about to take centre stage in a matter of weeks, and the SNP are still claiming they have no idea why rail strikes are continuing.\n\n\"SNP ministers must work with all parties to find a solution before these persisting strikes cast a shadow over the COP26 conference.\"\n\nIt is the latest stage in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions and proposed cuts to services at the rail operator, which wants to reduce the number of services across Scotland by 300 a day from next May.\n\nScotRail is currently run by Dutch firm Abellio - but will be taken over by a company owned and controlled by the Scottish government in March next year.\n\nThe move was announced by the government earlier this year after Abellio was stripped of its contract three years early amid concern over its performance.\n\nTransport Scotland said it welcomed constructive talks between all parties and that a \"significant offer\" has been made by employers since the RMT ballot opened.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We understand that the RMT will now ballot its membership again on the substance of this offer. We hope that RMT members and the other unions will agree and accept this offer, putting to an end existing and proposed industrial disputes and action.\n\n\"Rail workers have played their part in keeping the country moving through the pandemic and we are sure that they will see the importance of the moment and the role they can play in showing the best Scotland's Railway has to offer as we welcome world leaders from across the globe to COP26.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Chris Mitchell of the GMB denied cleansing workers in Glasgow were using the global climate conference as a bargaining chip.\n\nMr Mitchell claimed his members had been \"put in a corner\" by Cosla despite their \"heroic efforts\" during the pandemic.\n\nAnd he told Good Morning Scotland the current pay offer of £850 a year would only amount to an extra £6.50 a week, after tax and National Insurance was taken off.\n\nMr Mitchell said he acknowledged the importance of COP26, but added: \"Cosla need to realise there is an emergency on their own door step.\"\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.", "Hundreds of Afghan children – some as young as seven or eight years old – are risking their lives to smuggle sweets and cigarettes into neighbouring countries.\n\nThey're hiding under lorries to cross national borders in the hope they'll be able to get money for their families in exchange for these and other small, saleable items.\n\nIt's as international aid organisations warn of a humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan, where the conflict has uprooted many children from their homes and they've been forced into labour.\n\nThe BBC’s Shumaila Jaffery travelled to the Torkham border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan and spoke to some of the children involved.", "Oliver Barker brought down the hammer on the record sale\n\nA Banksy artwork which shredded itself at a previous auction has sold for a record £16m.\n\nLove is in the Bin was what remained of the artist's live destruction of his piece Girl with Balloon, which sold for £1m in 2018.\n\nIt went under the hammer at Sotheby's in London on Thursday, selling for £16m - vastly over its £4-6m guide price.\n\nThe sale, which saw nine bidders battle for around 10 minutes, beats the previous record of £16.8m set for Banksy in March.\n\nAfter closing bidding, auctioneer Oliver Barker joked he was relieved that the artwork was \"still there\".\n\nBefore opening the bidding, Mr Barker said that the painting became an \"unexpected piece of performance art\" when it shredded in the same auction room after being sold to a \"private European investor\" three years ago.\n\nOpening bids at £2.5m, its price tag hit £10m within minutes as numerous offers were placed.\n\nBidding then gradually climbed to a record £15m as the race progressively narrowed down between fewer bidders.\n\nThere were a few tentative moments after bidder Nick Buckley Wood, representing a private investor, waited to see if anyone would outdo his client's £16m offer.\n\nA shake of the head from his rival finally indicated they were out of the running.\n\nMr Barker said: \"At £16m ladies and gentlemen we are selling the Banksy at Sotheby's.\n\n\"You were here for this fantastic moment.\"\n\nHe then drew laughter from the audience after saying: \"I can't tell you how terrified I am to bring down this hammer.\"\n\nIn keeping with his irreverent guerrilla style, Love is in the Bin saw Banksy poke fun at the art world.\n\nSotheby's contemporary art chairman Alex Branczik said the stunt \"did not so much destroy an artwork by shredding it, but instead created one\".\n\n\"Today, this piece is considered heir to a venerated legacy of anti-establishment art,\" he added, labelling it as \"the ultimate Banksy artwork and a true icon of recent art history\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The anonymous artist uploaded a video of the destruction onto Instagram but soon deleted the post\n\nBack in 2018, moments after the hammer fell at the auction, alarms sounded and the canvas dropped through a hidden shredder built into the bottom.\n\nThe unnamed European woman who bought the piece said: \"At first I was shocked, but I realised I would end up with my own piece of art history.\"\n\nFormer BBC arts editor Will Gompertz wrote at the time that he believed Love is in the Bin would go on to be seen as \"one of the most significant artworks of the early 21st Century\".\n\n\"It is not a great painting that can be compared to a late Rembrandt, or a sculpture to sit alongside Michelangelo's David, but in terms of conceptual art emanating from [Marcel] Duchamp's Dadaist sensibility, it is exceptional,\" he added.\n\n\"It was brilliant in both conception and execution.\"\n\n\"What is Love is in the Bin?\" he asked. \"Is it a painting? Or, is it now a piece of conceptual art? Or should it be classified as a sculpture? Or is it rubbish?\n\n\"Who decides? Who knows? Duchamp would say it is up to you to decide.\"\n\nThe piece had been on permanent loan to the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart museum in Germany since March 2019.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "MP David Davis was filmed addressing a meeting at the Conservative Party conference\n\nYouTube has reversed its decision to remove a video of David Davis arguing against Covid passports, following criticism from the ex-minister.\n\nAccording to Big Brother Watch, the platform said Mr Davis's speech at the Conservative Party conference violated its policy on \"medical information\".\n\nMr Davis said his remarks were \"wholly accurate\" and YouTube's actions were \"an outrageous attack on free speech\".\n\nYouTube said the video was \"immediately reinstated following a review\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the company said: \"We quickly remove flagged content that violates our community guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradicts expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization.\n\n\"With millions of hours of videos uploaded on our site each day, sometimes we make the wrong call.\"\n\nIn his speech last week, at a conference fringe meeting in Manchester, Mr Davis said he was \"a strong believer in vaccination\" and that he himself had received both doses.\n\nHowever, the veteran civil liberties campaigner strongly attacked proposals to introduce vaccine certificates arguing that it \"smacked of illiberal government\".\n\nHe also argued that vaccine passports gave people a \"false sense of security\" pointing out that vaccinated people infected with the Delta variant could still spread the virus to others.\n\nCampaign group Big Brother Watch uploaded the clip of Mr Davis talking but later received a notification email from YouTube explaining that the video had been removed from the side.\n\nIn an email to the organisation, YouTube said it \"doesn't allow claims about Covid-19 vaccinations that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization (WHO)\".\n\nMr Davis said: \"Throughout the pandemic, we have seen blatant attempts by Big Tech to silence opposition voices challenging the conventional wisdom.\n\n\"This episode serves as a further example of the worrying trend of strangling free speech.\n\n\"If YouTube is happy to attempt to silence elected members of Parliament, then they are also happy to censor anyone uploading content to their services.\"\n\nHe urged the government to stop \"the erosion of free speech\" by reviewing proposals in its Online Safety Bill.\n\nMark Johnson, legal and policy officer at Big Brother Watch said that while YouTube had now reinstated the video, \"it is clear that free speech online is in peril.\"\n• None The YouTubers who exposed an anti-vax plot", "The community has been left stunned by the events of the past few hours\n\nResidents choked back tears as they spilled on to the streets of Leigh-on Sea after the killing of their MP Sir David Amess.\n\nHe was \"so kind to everyone\" said Rofique Ali, a local Conservative Party member, who described the MP as his best friend in the world.\n\n\"I have known him for many years, and he was so kind to everyone,\" he said.\n\nChoking back tears, Rofique Ali said Sir David was kind to everyone\n\nSir David, who was meeting people at his constituency surgery, had been an MP in Essex for almost 40 years, and theirs since 1997.\n\nThe 69-year-old was stabbed multiple times in Belfairs Methodist Church.\n\nA man was arrested on suspicion of murder and a knife recovered from the scene.\n\nNews filtered through the neighbourhood that Sir David had been killed in their church and on their street. Reporters and people laying flowers have gathered on this normally quiet residential street of semi-detached houses, flats and tall trees.\n\nA police cordon surrounds the church, police cars line the road. The mood is quiet and sombre.\n\nEverybody is shocked that something so unexpected and devastating can happen here - and in a church.\n\nBut above all, they talk of an MP always willing to listen to them, to help them and to be part of their community.\n\nThat community has been left stunned by the events of the past few hours and people have come forward to pay tribute to his work as a local MP, at pains to emphasise that he was a kind man.\n\nMelanie Harris placed flowers at the scene and a card thanking Sir David for his help as her MP\n\nResident Melanie Harris left flowers at the scene. She said they were \"a small gesture to show we care\".\n\nShe also left a card that read: \"What has the world come to? What a senseless waste of a charming, witty and kind and gentle soul who deserved a lot more than to be snatched from life.\n\n\"You were always a pleasure to speak to. Thank you for restoring my faith in politicians.\"\n\nMohamad Imani said Sir David had been a great friend and ally to people in Iran\n\nMohamad Imani, who is a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a coalition of Iranian dissident groups which is calling for regime change in the country, said he was \"shocked\" by Sir David's death.\n\nMr Imani said the MP had been a \"great friend\" of the NCRI and a \"hero for human rights\".\n\nHe said he had met him several times in Parliament and travelled with him to conferences in Paris, France and Tirana, Albania.\n\n\"I have a lot of memories with him, always laughing and joking,\" he said. \"He was a very kind man and a great human.\"\n\nStephen Aylen, who was a local councillor for 25 years, said: \"He was very involved, a proper MP.\n\n\"For this to happen, what can I say?\"\n\nAlysha Codabaccus, 24, said: \"This kind of thing just doesn't happen around here. This is a nice quiet area, it happened in a church, there's a school just up the road.\n\n\"It's something completely out of the blue, it's just really shocked us all and this should not have happened.\"\n\nKevin Buck said the world had lost a decent person\n\nKevin Buck, a Conservative Southend councillor, who worked with Sir David for 10 years, said he was \"shocked and numb\".\n\n\"I just can't believe he was with us here this morning, and not here now.\n\n\"He was a remarkable MP because he was a remarkable man - kind, compassionate and caring.\"\n\n\"We are so utterly appalled,\" said parish priest Kevin Hale\n\nParish Priest Kevin Hale said the community was \"absolutely shocked and appalled\" and it was \"hard to believe\".\n\n\"Sir David was a neighbour of ours, a good friend of the parish, a frequent visitor, a familiar face in the area and a great supporter of everything in the community,\" he said.\n\n\"We're all so utterly appalled. Our hearts and our prayers go out profoundly to his wife and children.\"\n\nRay Howard, a Conservative councillor in Canvey Island for 51 years, and who canvassed for Mr Amess, spoke of his deep upset.\n\n\"He didn't want to become a minister, he didn't want to go higher, he just wanted to be good constituency man, and what a good man and parliamentarian he has been.\"\n\nReporters and people laying flowers have gathered in the normally quiet street\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The lighthouse family: \"We decided to take an end of season trip to the Bass Rock as our four-year-old had suddenly become interested in coastal birds\", says Andy Gillies. \"It was a great trip - the light and the gannets were spectacular.\"", "About 43,000 people in England and Wales may have been wrongly told their Covid-19 test was negative because of errors at a private laboratory.\n\nTesting at the Wolverhampton lab has been suspended following an investigation by NHS Test and Trace.\n\nThe head of the UK Health Security Agency has ordered an investigation into why it took a month to identify the failures.\n\nThose still infectious are being asked to take another Covid test.\n\nConcerns were raised when people had positive lateral flow tests, but negative follow-up PCR results from the lab between 8 September and 12 October - most affected live in the South West of England.\n\nThe error could mean thousands of people infected with Covid were wrongly told to stop isolating, and may have infected others.\n\nProf Alan McNally, from the University of Birmingham, told the BBC he was \"astonished\" by the revelation and could not work out how so many tests could be incorrect.\n\nJenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and head of NHS Test and Trace, said it was \"not clear\" what went wrong.\n\n\"We are doing a detailed investigation with them, working on the actual processes within the laboratory - but the important thing of course is that we have suspended all of their services.\" she said.\n\nThose who are still infectious - estimated to be a few thousand people tested in the past week or so - will be contacted first, by text and email, to recommend they have another test, Dr Harries said.\n\nLateral flow tests (LFTs) are rapid tests widely used by schools and workplaces to find people with no symptoms who are infected and can spread the virus.\n\nPCR tests, which are sent off to a lab to be analysed, detect the virus several weeks after infection and trigger contact tracing. After a positive LFT, official guidance is to take a PCR to confirm Covid-19.\n\nSome false negatives are expected, because no test is 100% perfect, but reports of this happening appeared to be unusually high in certain areas over the past few weeks.\n\nThe UKHSA said around 400,000 samples had been processed by the privately-run lab and it estimated 43,000 people may have been given incorrect negative test results, with 4,000 of those from Wales. Some may also be in the South East and scattered across the country.\n\nGraham Loader and his wife went about their normal business after negative PCR results\n\nGraham Loader, from Newbury, says his family have had three positive lateral flow tests, all followed by negative PCR tests taken at the testing site at Newbury Showground in West Berkshire.\n\nHe said each time the family got a positive lateral flow test but negative PCR test, they assumed the LFTs must have been at fault.\n\n\"I think we just blamed the LFTs because they were a bit basic,\" he said.\n\n\"I thought they must be detecting something from a cold and be an error.\"\n\nHis wife, a school teacher, had felt a bit unwell but didn't have the classic symptoms of coronavirus. She had a negative PCR test but took some time off as a precaution, despite being advised she did not need to.\n\nMr Loader, who coaches a boy's football team, thought he'd come down with a cold.\n\nHe added: \"I completely trusted the PCR, so I feel bad for all the people I've been in contact with.\"\n\nAll samples from the lab, where Immensa Health Clinic Ltd runs the testing operations, are now being sent to other labs.\n\nGovernment records show that Immensa, which was founded in May 2020 just months after the start of the pandemic, has been awarded contracts for Covid testing by the Department of Health valued at £181 million.\n\nThe Wolverhampton Science Park which houses the offices and laboratories of Immensa Health Clinic\n\nUKHSA said all other labs are working normally and there are no technical issues with the test kits themselves.\n\nDr Will Welfare, public health incident director at UKHSA - which replaced Public Health England - said: \"As a result of our investigation, we are working with NHS Test and Trace and the company to determine the laboratory technical issues which have led to inaccurate PCR results being issued to people.\n\n\"We have immediately suspended testing at this laboratory while we continue the investigation.\"\n\nHe said the public should remain confident in using both kinds of test, and continue to get a follow-up PCR test after a positive LFT.\n\nThe company said it was \"fully collaborating\" with health officials on the matter and added it had already analysed more than 2.5 million samples for NHS Test and Trace.\n\nWe have been hearing about this for the past couple of weeks - anecdotally - from GPs.\n\nThey reported patients getting in touch, saying they were unwell, had all the symptoms, had tested positive on a lateral flow, and then had gone to get the confirmatory PCR and it was negative.\n\nGPs were rather suspicious of this - it seemed to be largely around the South West of England.\n\nThe problem is with the laboratory in question, not the testing sites.\n\nBut 8 September - the date from which the UK Health Security Agency says results have been affected - goes back a little way.\n\nSo the question is, who knew what and when?\n\nIf you got infected in September and got a false result on your PCR, the infection will have almost certainly worn off by now.\n\nBut some, who maybe tested in the last week or so, whose results went to that lab, will need to be contacted.\n\nIt does raise question marks over how some of these labs are run.\n\nMany coronavirus testing sites in England and Wales are likely to be affected by the lab errors, including one at Newbury Showground in West Berkshire.\n\nOn Thursday evening the local council told people who had got a negative result at the site between 3 and 12 October, to book another test.\n\nWest Berkshire Council said it had been told by the government that a number of other sites nationally may have been affected.\n\nFor several weeks, there have been widespread reports in the South West of England of people testing positive with lateral flow tests, but then later testing negative after a PCR test.\n\nScientists had called for the issue to be looked into quickly, with one study suggesting positive lateral flow test results were very accurate and should be trusted.", "Sir Gerry Robinson was knighted in 2003 for services to the arts and business\n\nBusinessman and broadcaster Sir Gerry Robinson has died at the age of 72.\n\nSir Gerry, a former chairman and chief executive of Granada TV, died at Letterkenny University Hospital, County Donegal, in the Republic of Ireland on Thursday.\n\nHe was knighted in 2003 for services to the arts and business.\n\nAs a broadcaster, he presented a number of series for the BBC including I'll Show Them Who's Boss in 2004 and Can Gerry Robinson Fix The NHS? in 2007.\n\nIn 2011, he presented the BBC television show Can't Take It with You, which helped people to write their wills.\n\nOne of 10 siblings, Sir Gerry was born in October 1948.\n\nHe grew up in Dunfanaghy, County Donegal, before moving to England as a teenager.\n\nSir Gerry Robinson was chairman of Granada TV from 1996 until 2001\n\nDuring a career which began in 1965, when he joined Matchbox Toys as an accounting clerk, Sir Gerry went on to serve as chairman of drinks giant Allied Domecq, BSkyB and ITN as well as the Arts Council England.\n\nHe joined Granada in 1991 as chief executive and was chairman from 1996 until 2001.\n\nIn 2010, he accused politicians in Northern Ireland of lacking the will to make tough decisions to improve the health service.\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\nSir Gerry and his wife Lady Heather Robinson have lived on Oakfield Park Estate in Raphoe, County Donegal, since 1998, where they opened a botanical garden and a narrow gauge railway.", "Tributes have been pouring in to Conservative MP Sir David Amess, who has died after being stabbed in his constituency in Essex.\n\nBoris Johnson - who laid flowers at the scene on Saturday - said he was one of the \"one of the kindest, nicest, most gentle people in politics\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer, who went to Essex with the PM, hailed Sir David's \"profound sense of public duty\".\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said he was a \"bright light of Parliament\".\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge said they were \"shocked and saddened\" by the death of Sir David, who \"dedicated 40 years of his life to serving his community\".\n\nSir David was stabbed whilst holding a constituency surgery, where voters can meet their local MP and discuss concerns.\n\nA 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after the attack at a church in Leigh-on-Sea. Police are treating the killing as a terrorist incident.\n\nA Conservative backbencher for nearly 40 years, Sir David entered Parliament as the MP for Basildon following the 1983 general election.\n\nHe switched seats in 1997, when he was elected MP for nearby Southend West - the Essex constituency he represented until his death.\n\nEssex Chief Constable BJ Harrington, Sir Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson outside the church in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex on Saturday\n\nHis constituents have spoken of their shock at his killing, with residents choking back tears as they spilled on to the streets after his death.\n\nFather Jeff Woolnough - a parish priest in Sir David's constituency said the MP had \"that great ability to communicate at all different levels\".\n\n\"Through that wonderful smile he could placate and just settle an awkward discussion very quickly - it is a great gift.\"\n\nConservative councillor Kevin Buck said the MP had \"died doing what he loved - meeting the people and helping the people\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Essex, Judith Canham, the former deputy chair of the Southend West Conservative Association, said Sir David had a \"photographic memory\".\n\n\"Sometimes I'd be out canvassing with him and he'd see someone he hadn't seen for a long time and he'd say 'how was your hip operation?'.\"\n\nDavid Stanley - founder of the children's disability charity the Music Man project which Sir David supported - said his friend \"loved grand ideas and coming up with amazing statements\".\n\n\"We were going to conquer Broadway, we were going to break a world record - which we later did at the Palladium,\" he said referring to the time the charity performed the largest ever triangle ensemble.\n\nSurfers' Against Sewage leave a message thanking the MP for his support\n\nVirginia Lewis-Jones, the daughter of Dame Vera Lynn, says Sir David was a passionate supporter of a proposed memorial to the late singer.\n\nShe said he would \"grab it like a terrier\" when he committed himself to campaigning on any issue.\n\nFellow Tory MP Andrew Rosindell said Sir David was his \"oldest friend\" in Parliament, and he felt \"sick inside at what has happened\".\n\n\"We've all lost a very special person in our lives,\" he added.\n\nLabour MP Harriet Harman entered the House of Commons in 1982, one year before Sir David and remembers it as a \"polarised\" time.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, she said had been \"determined not to have friendly relations with any Conservative MPs, but it was impossible to sustain that with David Amess because he was so friendly and so determined to work with MPs on other causes\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch to hear tributes to Sir David Amess MP from the political world\n\nMr Johnson said Sir David was \"a fine public servant and a much loved friend and colleague\" who \"believed passionately in this country\".\n\nThe PM also praised his \"outstanding record\" of campaigning in Parliament, where he was known for his activism on animal welfare.\n\nMr Johnson's predecessor Theresa May said his death was \"heartbreaking\" and a \"tragic day for our democracy\".\n\nShe added that Sir David was a \"decent man and respected parliamentarian, killed in his own community while carrying out his public duties\".\n\nFormer prime minister David Cameron called Sir David a \"thoroughly decent man\" and \"the most committed MP you could ever hope to meet\".\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay said Sir David had built a \"built a reputation for kindness and generosity\" during his decades-long career as an MP.\n\nSir Lindsay confirmed that MPs would be given time to pay tribute to Sir David in the Commons, when they return from recess on Monday.\n\nHis predecessor as speaker, John Bercow, said Sir David was a \"wonderful loving human being\" and \"quintessentially a constituency parliamentarian\".\n\n\"He could talk to and hear from and engage with anybody, from a monarch to the local milk person,\" he added.\n\nSir David is the second MP to be killed in the past five years, following the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox in 2016.\n\nShe was killed outside a library in Birstall, West Yorkshire, where she was due to hold a constituency surgery.\n\nJo Cox's sister Kim Leadbeater, who is now the Labour MP for the Batley seat she represented, said she was \"totally shocked to think that something so horrific could happen again to another MP and family\".\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said Sir David was a \"thoroughly decent man, who was well-liked across parties and the House of Commons.\"", "The North-South Ministerial Council (NSMC) was cancelled earlier after Edwin Poots failed to turn up\n\nA Belfast businessman is to seek a court order aimed at forcing the Democratic Unionist Party to end its boycott of of most cross-border ministerial meetings.\n\nOn Monday, the High Court ruled the DUP's boycott was \"unlawful\".\n\nBut on Friday two ministerial meetings were cancelled after the DUP's Edwin Poots failed to show.\n\nBusinessman Sean Napier said he was seeking the court order as a \"guardian of the Good Friday Agreement\".\n\nMr Napier, who mounted the High Court challenge earlier this week, said the agreement was not an \"a la carte\" treaty.\n\n\"It has been there for us, it has kept peace here and it's imperative it is properly implemented in all its parts,\" he said.\n\nMr Napier said the Good Friday Agreement was not an \"a la carte\" treaty\n\nMr Napier added: \"It is very important in what it has done for the greater good of the people here. I think it is my duty to be its guardian.\"\n\nDUP First Minister Paul Givan said no meetings were planned for Friday as he had not agreed the agendas.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon and the Republic of Ireland's environment minister logged on, but her DUP ministerial colleague Edwin Poots did not.\n\nHe was also a no show in a meeting with Junior Minister Declan Kearney and Irish Minister Darragh O'Brien.\n\nMr Napier's solicitor Paul Farrell said the DUP must explain their position the ministerial meetings.\n\n\"I don't understand that a meeting that takes place today with accompanying ministers is not a meeting,\" he said.\n\n\"I think whatever we receive next week by way of response from DUP ministers will have to explain that. I cannot understand when a meeting is not a meeting.\"\n\nThe DUP boycott of most North-South Ministerial Council (NSMC) meetings was announced by party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson last month.\n\nThe NSMC is the main body for cross-border co-operation between the governments of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIt is attended by ministers from both sides of the border who oversee joint working in areas such as trade, food safety and agriculture.\n\nThe DUP is refusing to attend in protest against the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThe protocol is part of the Brexit deal agreed in 2019 and was introduced to help prevent checks along the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nBut unionists say it creates a barrier to trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and undermines the latter's position in the UK.\n\nMs Mallon says the boycott must end\n\nThe NI minister Ms Mallon said the boycott must end.\n\nShe had been due to discuss cross-border aquaculture with her counterparts.\n\n\"It is astounding following this week's High Court ruling that Jeffrey Donaldson is overseeing a deliberate and unlawful boycott of the north-south institutions,\" she said.\n\n\"It shows only disdain for the rule of law but utter contempt for the people we represent.\"\n\nThe DUP said this was in line with its position.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson, DUP leader, says the party's position \"remains as it has been\"\n\nWhen asked on Thursday whether the DUP would continue its boycott, Sir Jeffrey told BBC Radio Foyle \"our position remains as it has been\".\n\nSinn Féin junior minister Declan Kearney said that \"this inaction by Minister Edwin Poots and the executive office is a serious failure to comply with the law and the ministerial code which require ministers to participate in meetings of the NSMC\".\n\nHe added: \"These institutions are about joining up services across the island and delivering on important issues which impact on people's lives such as health, education and millions of pounds in funding.\n\n\"It's time the DUP put ordinary people's interests first by ending this illegal boycott of vital government business and get back to work on behalf of everyone in our society.\"", "The government is to allow 800 foreign abattoir workers into the UK on temporary visas, after warnings from farmers of mass culls.\n\nIt previously said businesses should pay higher wages and invest in skills.\n\nThe shortage of butchers has already seen farmers destroy 6,600 healthy pigs due to a backlog on farms, the National Pig Association (NPA) said.\n\nThe government also announced plans to allow thousands more HGV deliveries to address a chronic driver shortage.\n\nThe meat industry blames the butcher shortage on factors including Covid and Brexit.\n\nThousands of healthy pigs have been culled since last week, when the tally was about 600.\n\nLast week, the National Farmer's Union (NFU) warned that pig farmers were \"facing a human disaster\" due to the shortage of butchers.\n\nIt said that \"empty retail shelves and product shortages are becoming increasingly commonplace and Christmas specialities such as pigs in blankets are already under threat\".\n\nThe government is temporarily extending its seasonal workers scheme to pork butchers, it said.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said the new measures were only temporary, not a long term solution\n\nUp to 800 pork butchers will be eligible to apply until the end of the year for six-month visas.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said: \"A unique range of pressures on the pig sector over recent months, such as the impacts of the pandemic and its effect on export markets, have led to the temporary package of measures we are announcing.\n\n\"This is the result of close working with industry to understand how we can support them through this challenging time.\"\n\nThe government added that the temporary visas \"are not a long term solution and businesses must make long term investments in the UK domestic workforce to build a high-wage, high-skill economy, instead of relying on overseas labour\".\n\nAlongside the temporary visas, the government announced a package of measures for the industry, including:\n\nIt said there had been \"a suspension of approval to export to China for some UK pork establishments\" and that it was working with the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board to identify other export markets.\n\nThe extension of visa requirements for butchers follows the announcement of temporary visas for lorry drivers and poultry workers, as the government seeks to limit disruption in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nBut the first foreign HGV drivers brought in on the new visa scheme may not arrive for another month, sources told BBC transport correspondent Carrie Davies.\n\nThe visa scheme for HGV drivers to deliver food, opened for applications on Monday.\n\nThe Home Office has not confirmed the number of visas that have been applied for so far, but several agencies that are recruiting the drivers told the BBC that they were yet to apply for them.\n\nMore heavy good vehicle drivers are being trained after the government simplified the qualification process in September\n\nA chronic shortage of lorry drivers, which the haulage industry has said is due to factors that include Covid and Brexit, has affected businesses including petrol stations and supermarkets.\n\nThe government announced on Thursday that it planned to temporarily allow lorries from the EU to make more deliveries, as part of efforts to address the shortage.\n\nAt the moment, EU lorries can only make two \"cabotage\" trips per week.\n\nCabotage refers to loading or unloading goods in one country when a vehicle is registered in another country.\n\nThe government wants to relax this rule to temporarily allow EU lorries to make unlimited pick-ups and drop-offs within a two week period.", "Apple has taken down one of the world's most popular Quran apps in China, following a request from officials.\n\nQuran Majeed is available across the world on the App Store - and has nearly 150,000 reviews. It is used by millions of Muslims.\n\nThe BBC understands that the app was removed for hosting illegal religious texts.\n\nThe Chinese government has not responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThe deletion of the app was first noticed by Apple Censorship - a website that monitors apps on Apple's App Store globally.\n\nIn a statement from the app's maker, PDMS, the company said: \"According to Apple, our app Quran Majeed has been removed from the China App store because it includes content that requires additional documentation from Chinese authorities\".\n\n\"We are trying to get in touch with the Cyberspace Administration of China and relevant Chinese authorities to get this issue resolved\".\n\nThe company said it had close to one million users in China.\n\nThe Chinese Communist Party officially recognises Islam as a religion in the country.\n\nHowever, China has been accused of human rights violations, and even genocide, against the mostly Muslim Uyghur ethnic group in Xinjiang.\n\nEarlier this year the BBC reported that Uyghur imams had been targeted in China's Xinjiang crackdown.\n\nApple declined to comment, but directed the BBC to its Human Rights Policy, which states: \"We're required to comply with local laws, and at times there are complex issues about which we may disagree with governments.\"\n\nHowever, it is not clear what rules the app has broken in China. Quran Majeed says it is \"trusted by over 35 million Muslims globally\".\n\nLast month, both Apple and Google removed a tactical voting app devised by jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\n\nRussian authorities had threatened to fine the two companies if they refused to drop the app, which told users who could unseat ruling party candidates.\n\nChina is one of Apple's biggest markets, and the company's supply chain is heavily reliant on Chinese manufacturing.\n\nApple chief executive Tim Cook has been accused of hypocrisy from politicians in the US for speaking out about American politics, but staying quiet about China.\n\nMr Cook criticised Donald Trump's ban of seven Muslim-majority countries in 2017.\n\nHowever, he is also accused of complying with the Chinese government over censorship - and not publicly criticising it for its treatment of Muslim minorities.\n\nThe New York Times reported earlier this year that Apple takes down apps in China if deemed off limits by the Chinese government. Topics that apps cannot discuss include Tiananmen Square, the Chinese spiritual movement Falun Gong, the Dalai Lama, and independence for Tibet and Taiwan.\n\nBenjamin Ismail, project director at Apple Censorship, said: \"Currently Apple is being turned into the censorship bureau of Beijing.\n\n\"They need to do the right thing, and then face whatever the reaction is of the Chinese government.\"\n\nAnother popular religious app, Olive Tree's Bible app, was also taken down this week in China. The company told the BBC they had removed the app themselves.\n\n\"Olive Tree Bible Software was informed during the App Store review process that we are required to provide a permit demonstrating our authorization to distribute an app with book or magazine content in mainland China,\" said a spokesperson.\n\n\"Since we did not have the permit and needed to get our app update approved and out to customers, we removed our Bible app from China's App Store.\"\n\nOn Friday, The Mac Observer reported that Audible, the Amazon owned audiobook and podcast service, removed its app from the Apple store in mainland China last month \"due to permit requirements.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Microsoft said it was shutting down its social network, LinkedIn, in China, saying having to comply with the Chinese state had become increasingly challenging.\n\nThe decision was made after the career-networking site faced questions for blocking the profiles of some journalists.", "A litre of petrol sold at UK forecourts has reached its highest level since September 2012, at 140.22p on average, according to RAC data.\n\nDrivers are paying on average 22% more to fill up their petrol tanks than this time last year, the RAC said.\n\nDiesel prices are also surging and are now just 4p off their April 2012 highs.\n\nThe bad news for drivers follows the temporary closures of many UK forecourts after they ran out of fuel.\n\nBut it's global oil prices, rather than supply chain disruption, that the RAC thinks is the main driver of higher prices at the pump. A barrel of crude oil has doubled in the past year.\n\nRAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said the government should consider cutting the level of VAT on motor fuel \"to help hard-pressed drivers\".\n\nAverage petrol prices are just 2p off their record high from April 2012 of 142p per litre, says the RAC.\n\nHowever, AA spokesperson Luke Bosdet said it will likely be diesel, currently at 143.42p a litre, that breaks its record price first.\n\n\"Unless we see a slight reversal in wholesale prices, we can expect in the next couple of weeks a rise of 3-5p per litre and that would put diesel above its 2012 high,\" he said.\n\nMr Bosdet said the global surge in gas prices was also driving up the cost of diesel because heating oil \"comes from the same part of the barrel\" and - since it was an alternative for gas - had seen increased demand.", "Lewis Bloor appeared on The Only Way Is Essex for three years from 2013\n\nA £3m diamond fraud trial involving The Only Way is Essex star Lewis Bloor has collapsed after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) admitted it failed to disclose some evidence.\n\nAbout 200 people were conned into buying coloured diamonds at a 600% mark-up, prosecutors claimed.\n\nMr Bloor, 31, was accused of playing a \"key role\" in one company involved.\n\nBut he and five others were acquitted after the CPS did not disclose evidence which could have helped the defendants.\n\nAfter four weeks of the trial at Southwark Crown Court, Judge Adam Hiddleston directed the jury to find the defendants not guilty.\n\nProsecutors had said the alleged victims were cold-called and told lies about the value of the diamonds, which were bought from a wholesaler and sold on.\n\nThe trial heard Mr Bloor left the company after he joined the ITV reality show in 2013 and his TV career took off.\n\nHe denied conspiracy to defraud between May 2013 and July 2014.\n\nThe five others also cleared of conspiracy to defraud were:\n\nThe CPS abandoned the prosecution after admitting that material that could have helped Mr Bloor and his co-defendants had not been properly disclosed to defence lawyers.\n\nProsecutor David Durose QC said the material was \"wrongly described\" and that \"the inconsistencies were profound\".\n\n\"We have come to the conclusion that we cannot confirm to the court that the prosecution has discharged its disclosure duties in this case,\" he said.\n\nNarita Bahra QC, representing Mr Potter, called for the CPS to conduct an inquiry into the case after what she described as \"a litany of disclosure failings\".\n\nShe said the Metropolitan Police instructed expert witnesses employed by a company which had a contract with the force to auction jewellery and watches seized in raids and prosecutions.\n\n\"Those experts had already given evidence in another trial, in the middle of their contract with the Metropolitan Police where their relationship with the police was not disclosed,\" she said.\n\nA CPS spokesman said: \"As an organisation we remain committed to working with investigators, defence teams and courts to ensure we get disclosure right.\"\n\nMr Bloor also appeared in Celebrity Big Brother in 2016\n\nAfter being cleared, Mr Bloor said: \"The hardest thing about this case has been the onslaught of death threats, calls for me to commit suicide and abuse to my family.\n\n\"What we now want to happen is that the trolls online take a look at themselves and stop abusing strangers for a quick kick and light laughter with friends.\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.", "Ikea, the Swedish furniture giant, says it expects the disruption to global supply chains to continue for at least another year.\n\nChief executive Jesper Brodin said while there had been some improvement, there was still congestion at ports which has led to supply problems.\n\n\"We need to live with disturbances for the year to come,\" he said.\n\nThe owner of Poundland has also predicted that pressure from supply chain problems will last into 2022.\n\nAndy Bond, chief executive of PepCo, which owns Poundland, said that its shipping costs had soared. \"There are some times where we have had to pay 10 times our normal rates,\" he said.\n\n\"That's not to say every day but that has been the impact.\"\n\nMr Bond said the retailer had good levels of stock for Christmas and did not expect to increase prices to cope with rising shipping costs. But he said: \"I think that we see the next 12 months remaining challenging.\"\n\nMr Brodin, chief executive of Ingka, which operates the majority of Ikea's stores, told the BBC that the UK and other countries were suffering with \"congestion in ports and disturbances in supply chains\".\n\n\"There is no easy fix to any of this even if people are working hard across not only Ikea but also across the world,\" he said.\n\nLast month, Ikea said it was struggling to supply 10% of its stock, or around 1,000 product lines including mattresses, to its 22 stores in the UK and Ireland amid the continuing shortage of HGV drivers.\n\nMeanwhile, earlier this week, it emerged that the key British commercial port of Felixstowe was suffering from logjams of shipping containers because of the busy Christmas period and a deficit of lorry drivers to shift them.\n\nIkea has been forced to purchase additional shipping containers and charter vessels to address product shortages.\n\nA spokeswoman for Ikea told the BBC last month: \"We have also sent goods by train from China to Europe and we have invested in temporary intermediate warehouses in China, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, and Thailand to support production.\"\n\nMr Brodin said: \"One thing we have learned is it is difficult to predict. You need to be on it every day and find the best solutions.\n\n\"At the same time from a realistic point, we need to live with disturbances for the year to come but things will gradually get better, I'm sure.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, shipping giant Maersk told the BBC it was re-routing some of its biggest ships away from the Port of Felixstowe, due to a logjam of shipping containers.\n\nLars Mikael Jensen, head of global ocean network at Maersk, told BBC Radio 5 Live's Drive programme that some of its largest 20,000-container ships were waiting outside Felixstowe, the UK's biggest container port, for between four to seven days.\n\n\"We've taken those measures because we saw, because of the big ships, there is a limit to how many berths they can call in Felixstowe, and because its slower, it took longer to handle every ship,\" he said.\n\n\"Instead of wasting time waiting, we progressed to the next stop, and arranged that the boxes are relayed from that port rather than wait for a week and then discharge.\"\n\nBut on Thursday afternoon, the BBC understands that Maersk apologised to the government for the comments, which led to widespread concern about Felixstowe's capacity to receive and process goods.\n\nThe BBC has seen details of a conversation between the government and the shipping company.\n\nIt's understood that Maersk told the government that Lars Mikael Jensen, head of Maersk's east-west network, had said in a press briefing that Felixstowe was experiencing congestion.\n\nMr Jenson had mentioned that one ship was diverted to Rotterdam where the cargo was offloaded to a smaller ship.\n\nMaersk said that there is not a specific plan to divert ships from Felixstowe now or in the near future and that traffic is managed dynamically. The company also said they are making decisions for other European ports.\n\nMaersk is also understood to have said that they are bringing in 25% more boxes to the UK between July to September, than the same period last year.\n\nIkea revealed that, over the year to 31 August, sales rose by 6.3% to €37.4bn (£31.6bn).\n\nMr Brodin said that when the Covid pandemic first hit last year, the group was forced to speed up a plan to invest in a strategy to meet customer needs and take on \"the new competition\", in particular ramping up its online operation.\n\nHe said that what the company had planned as a two-year transformation was rolled out in two months.\n\nMr Brodin said dealing with the pandemic \"is definitely a challenging time in so many ways\".\n\nHe said the increase in annual sales was the one he was \"most proud of\" during his 25 years with the company.\n\n\"We have experienced the demand on life at home like never before in every market, since, of course, people have been in the same situation - confined to the four walls of their home.\"", "Clueless actress Stacey Dash has said she \"lost everything\" after becoming addicted to painkiller tablets.\n\nThe 54-year-old, best known for playing Dionne Davenport in the 1995 high school comedy movie, told US TV she was taking up to 20 Vicodin pills a day at one stage.\n\nSpeaking on The Dr Oz Show, she said: \"I was taking 18-20 pills a day.\"\n\n\"That's expensive,\" noted the host, before a tearful Dash replied: \"Yeah, I lost everything.\"\n\nDash, whose parents also suffered with drug addictions, went on to say she had recently celebrated five years of being sober.\n\n\"The greatest blessing is that not only have I been able to be honest with myself and become a better person,\" she said.\n\n\"I've been able to understand my parents and that they did love me, and that they were doing the best they could and they were just sick. They were addicted.\"\n\nVicodin is a popular brand of prescription drug - a hybrid of the pain medications hydrocodone and paracetamol - used to treat moderate to severe pain.\n\nIn July, four US drugs giants agreed to pay $26bn (£19bn) to settle claims they helped fuel an opioid addiction crisis. Last month in the UK, new research suggested that the use of opioids for pain relief soared during the pandemic as some patients waited longer for surgery.\n\nStacey Dash starred with Alicia Silverstone in the cult classic Clueless\n\nClueless, which starred Alicia Silverstone, alongside Dash, Brittany Murphy and Paul Rudd, was loosely based on Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma, and set in present-day Beverly Hills. Silverstone plays its central character, a schoolgirl called Cher, who sees herself as a matchmaker who goes on to give her new friend a makeover.\n\nIn 2016, Dash, who moved from acting into political commentary, defended herself after calling to scrap Black History Month, while discussing the lack of diversity at that year's Oscar nominations on US network Fox.\n\nShe was criticised on social media for her comments at the time, and responded by saying: \"I don't need a special month or special channel. What's sad is that these insidious things only keep us segregated and invoke false narratives.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police in Kenya have arrested the husband of record-breaking long-distance runner Agnes Tirop who was stabbed to death at her home.\n\nIbrahim Rotich, who was detained in the coastal city of Mombasa, will face charges once investigations are completed, an official said.\n\nMs Tirop, 25, was found dead on Wednesday in the western town of Iten, a training centre for top athletes.\n\nLast month, she broke the women-only 10km road race world record.\n\nMr Rotich, whose first name is not Emmanuel as earlier reported, was described by the police as the prime suspect in her killing. He was caught on Thursday as he was trying to go \"to a neighbouring country to evade justice\", the police said.\n\nEarlier in the day, he \"rammed his getaway vehicle into a lorry... as he desperately escaped our dragnet\", a statement on Twitter 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 DCI KENYA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Rotich is now being questioned.\n\nOn Thursday, Athletics Kenya - the sport's governing body in the country - suspended all athletics competitions for two weeks as a mark of respect for Ms Tirop.\n\n\"We just lost a great talent. She was such a strong woman and committed to what she was doing,\" Julius Yego, Kenya's former athletics captain, told the BBC World Service's Newsday programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDuring her career, Ms Tirop had success as both a junior - winning 5,000m bronze at world championships in 2012 and 2014 - and as a senior, winning the World Cross Country championships in 2015.\n\nIn August, she finished fourth in the 5,000m final at the Tokyo Olympics and in 2017 and 2019 she won the 10,000m bronze at the World Athletics Championships.\n\nIn September, she broke the women-only 10km road-race record by 28 seconds in Germany, setting a new time of 30 minutes and one second.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Cameron Norrie hailed the \"biggest win of my career\" after he beat Argentina's Diego Schwartzman in straight sets to reach the semi-finals of the Indian Wells Masters.\n\nWorld number 26 Norrie will replace Dan Evans as British number one after his 6-0 6-2 win in California.\n\nThe 26-year-old left-hander had never previously reached the last eight of a Masters 1,000 tournament.\n\nNorrie will face Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in the last four.\n\nThe world number 28 beat Poland's Hubert Hurkacz 3-6 6-4 7-6 (6-2) to reach his first Masters 1,000 semi-final in two years.\n\nNorrie dismantled the world number 15 in 73 minutes for his 45th win on the ATP Tour this season.\n\nSpeaking after the win, Norrie said: \"It was such a big moment for me playing my first Masters 1,000 quarter-final, especially against Diego.\n\n\"I thought I was in for an absolute battle. It's probably the biggest win of my career. I'm really happy with the way I handled everything.\n\nVictory over Schwartzman, who Norrie also beat in the first round of the 2020 US Open, should give the Briton enough ranking points to break into the world's top 20 for the first time in his career.\n\n\"With Diego you have to be careful. He snuck through a couple of matches already this tournament. I had to keep my foot down and was able to get that second break and relax and play some great tennis,\" added Norrie.\n\nSpeaking on Amazon Prime, former British number one Greg Rusedski said: \"It's been an incredible performance from Norrie. The best tennis I've ever seen him play to dismantle Schwartzman. He's now got a great chance to reach his first final. In my opinion it was probably his best performance on a tennis court.\"\n\nElsewhere in the men's quarter-finals, Greek second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas will face unseeded Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili on Friday, while Germany's world number four Alexander Zverev takes on American Taylor Fritz.\n\nIn the women's draw, Ons Jabeur reached the semi-finals with a 7-5 6-3 win over Estonia's Anett Kontaveit.\n\nVictory ensures Tunisian Jabeur will enter the world top 10 on Monday - making her the first Arab player, male or female, to do so.\n\nShe will play Paula Badosa in the final four, after the Spaniard defeated 10th seed Angelique Kerber of Germany 6-4 7-5.\n\nSchwartzman was unrecognisable from the player good enough to qualify for last year's ATP Finals in London, but Norrie showed no signs of tension in a first Masters quarter-final.\n\nHe broke the Argentine's serve six times out of seven. I lost count of the number of times Schwartzman dejectedly put his hands on his hips as another point went against him.\n\nNorrie now has 45 wins this year, which is one more than Novak Djokovic, although he has played significantly more tournaments.\n\nHe may have done enough to make his top 20 debut next week, and will definitely replace Dan Evans as the new British number one on Monday.\n\nNorrie says that means little to him, and it is perhaps a position which could change hands with more regularity in the months ahead.\n• None Watch all the highlights including NFL's return to London\n• None Was this the crowning moment in Britpop history?", "The rules on the number of deliveries overseas lorry drivers can make in the UK are set to be relaxed in a bid to tackle supply chain problems in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nUnder the new plans, drivers will be able to make unlimited deliveries or collections within a 14 day period.\n\nCurrently EU drivers can only make two pick-ups or drop-offs each week.\n\nIt is hoped the changes will happen by December - but UK drivers fear they might lose work to cheaper EU rivals.\n\nThe UK's lorry driver shortage - due to a combination of Covid, Brexit and other factors - has affected petrol stations, supermarkets and left containers piled up at Felixstowe Port unable to be moved.\n\nRetailers have also warned there could be shortages of items such as toys at Christmas, with shoppers urged to buy gifts early.\n\nLast month, the government announced it would grant up to 5,000 temporary visas for HGV drivers from abroad - but so far only a fraction have been issued.\n\nAnd the first foreign drivers brought in on the visa scheme may not even arrive for another month, sources have told BBC transport correspondent Carrie Davies.\n\nBut now ministers are going further, and plan to make temporary changes to cabotage rules, which govern how many jobs a haulier can make in a foreign country.\n\nIt means foreign HGV drivers that come into the country laden with goods can pick up and drop off items an unlimited number of times for two weeks before they return home.\n\nThe changes still need to be approved after a one-week consultation - but if passed they will come into force \"towards the end of this year for up to six months\", according to the government.\n\nIt would mean thousands more HGV deliveries each month, the government said, so more goods - especially food and items that come via ports - can get delivered on schedule.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Breakfast: \"Having some additional capacity right now... it is a good idea. This is a quick way of doing it. It doesn't require visas, it's just a common sense measure.\n\n\"It is one of very many things. I don't think it is going to undercut or suppress the market.\"\n\nMr Shapps said problems with supply chains were a global issue.\n\nHe added: \"It is very tight but our supply chain is pretty robust. They have worked through coronavirus and they will work through this as well.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the haulage industry said the measures would undercut British operators.\n\nRod McKenzie, from the Road Haulage Association, told BBC's Today programme: \"Well, I spoke to some of our members last night, and they were appalled. 'Ridiculous', 'pathetic', 'gobsmacked' were some of their more broadcastable comments.\n\n\"The government has been talking about a high-wage, high-skill economy, and not pulling the lever marked 'uncontrolled immigration', and to them this is exactly what it looks like.\n\n\"Allowing overseas haulage companies and drivers to come over for up to six months on a fortnightly basis to do unlimited work at low rates, undercutting UK hauliers who… are facing an acute driver shortage, rising costs, staff wages.\n\n\"So this is about taking work from British operators and drivers and giving it to Europeans who don't pay tax here and pay peanuts to their drivers.\n\n\"We don't want cabotage [the transportation of goods in one country by operators from another] to sabotage our industry.\"\n\nThe Unite union has raised the prospect of possible industrial action in protest at what it sees as poor pay and conditions in the industry.\n\n\"The treatment of drivers across the board has been nothing short of a disgrace,\" said Unite general secretary Sharon Graham.\n\n\"As the prime minister said recently, the answer to the driver shortage is better wages and improved conditions. This is what we demand.\n\n\"Now is the time for action not words. It's time for employers to pay workers a proper rate for the job.\n\n\"Unite will be consulting its members before deciding on next steps, including exploring the options for industrial action.\"\n\nMr Shapps said the long-term answer to the supply chain issues \"must be developing a high-skill, high-wage economy here in the UK\".\n\nBut talking about the latest measures, he said: \"The temporary changes we're consulting on to cabotage rules will also make sure foreign hauliers in the UK can use their time effectively and get more goods moving in the supply chain at a time of high demand.\"\n\nAccording to France's finance minister, the UK is faring worse in the supply chain crisis because it left the single market after Brexit.\n\n\"We are facing the same situation,\" said Bruno Le Maire at the G7 meeting in Washington. \"But the fact that we are a member of a very important single market helps us facing these bottlenecks.\"\n\nOn Thursday, the government said it was also giving hundreds of foreign abattoir workers temporary visas, to help fix the shortage of workers in slaughterhouses.\n\nThe shortage of staff in abattoirs means pigs are not being killed fast enough, and there is not enough space on farms so farmers are having to kill them themselves.\n\nFarmers have already destroyed 6,600 healthy pigs due to a backlog on farms, the National Pig Association said.", "The British Committee for Iran Freedom (BCFIF) has issued a statement condemning the \"vicious attack, which was an assault not only on Sir David, but also on democracy in the UK\".\n\nSir David was a champion of human rights and democracy in Iran for more than three decades. He consistently spoke in support of the Iranian people’s democratic aspirations and the Iranian Resistance movement, NCRI, the BCFIF said.\n\n\"One of the proudest things I have ever done in my political career is to support the National Council of Resistance of Iran which calls for the Iranian regime to be replaced with a safer and more democratic government,\" Sir David said on 6 September.\n\nIn an email to the BBC, supporter Jahed Madumi wrote: \"With great sorrow I heard about Sir David Amess' loss.\n\n\"As an Iranian I have to say that he was a great friend of our nation, and he always defended the freedom for the people of Iran.\"\n\nMr Amess is seen above with the British delegation during the Conference In Support Of Freedom and Democracy In Iran in Paris in 2018.", "A Florida father has been arrested and charged over the fatal shooting of his girlfriend by the couple's two-year-old child in August.\n\nThe toddler found Veondre Avery's loaded gun inside a children's backpack while mother Shamaya Lynn was on a work video call, police said.\n\nMr Avery, 22, stands accused of manslaughter and failure to securely store a firearm.\n\nCourt records show he does not yet have an attorney and has not entered a plea.\n\nManslaughter is a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Mr Avery could also see 15 years of probation and a $10,000 (£7,308) fine.\n\nThe gun was kept unsecured inside a children's backpack that was left on the floor of the couple's bedroom, according to Altamonte Springs police.\n\nThey said the toddler took the weapon, moved behind the mother and fired a single shot.\n\nOne of Lynn's co-workers on the Zoom video call first phoned in the 11 August incident to emergency responders. She reported hearing a loud noise and seeing Lynn fall backward.\n\n\"One of the girls passed out...She has the camera on. Her baby is crying in the back,\" the co-worker said in a call released by police to local media.\n\nWhen Mr Avery returned home, he found his girlfriend bleeding on the floor. He called the police and asked paramedics to \"please hurry\", according to the Orlando Sentinel newspaper.\n\nDuring the call, he said he had just returned home and didn't know what happened. He could be heard performing CPR as he waited for help to arrive.\n\nFirst responders attempted to aid the 21-year-old, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\n\"Your decisions have consequences,\" Altamonte Springs police officer Roberto Ruiz said in a news conference on Tuesday.\n\n\"You have a responsibility as a gun owner to take care of those firearms.\"\n\nNeither of the couple's two children, who were both at home during the incident, were injured. Both are now in the care of other family members.\n\nMr Avery is due back in court on 23 November.", "The Police, Fire and Crime panel had urged him to consider his position\n\nA police boss whose comments on the Sarah Everard case sparked outrage has resigned hours after a no-confidence vote.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Philip Allott had faced sustained criticism for urging women to be \"streetwise\" in a radio interview.\n\nThe backlash culminated in the unanimous vote passed by the county's Police, Fire and Crime panel.\n\nIn response Mr Allott said he would \"do the decent thing\" and leave his post.\n\nThe Conservative commissioner had faced multiple calls to stand down since 1 October, when he told BBC Radio York that women should educate themselves about powers of arrest, saying they should know \"when they can be arrested and when they can't be arrested\".\n\nHe made the comments after it emerged serving Met Police officer Wayne Couzens had used his warrant card to falsely arrest Ms Everard for breaching coronavirus guidelines.\n\nMembers of North Yorkshire's Police, Fire and Crime panel had echoed calls for Mr Allott to quit and urged him to \"go now\" at a meeting prior to Thursday's no-confidence vote.\n\nIn an open letter issued hours later, Mr Allott said he had spent the past two weeks trying \"to rebuild trust and confidence in my work as commissioner\".\n\nAnnouncing his resignation, he wrote: \"Following this morning's meeting of the Police and Crime Panel it seems clear to me that the task will be exceptionally difficult, if it is possible at all.\n\n\"It would take a long time and a lot of resources of my office and the many groups who do excellent work supporting victims.\"\n\nCarl Les, the Conservative leader of North Yorkshire County Council and chair of the panel, said Mr Allott had done the right thing.\n\n\"Clearly the remarks he made had a catastrophic effect on trust and confidence in his role and him personally,\" he said.\n\nSarah Everard, originally from York, was killed by serving police officer Wayne Couzens after he falsely arrested her\n\nMr Allott, in his resignation letter, said he apologised \"unreservedly\" for his remarks, which did not reflect his views.\n\n\"I misspoke and I am devastated at the effect that this has had on victims of crime and the groups that support them,\" he said.\n\n\"I have tried to say this again and again but I recognise that what I have said has not always been heard as I intended.\"\n\nThe letter will be submitted to officials, kicking off the process of installing a temporary replacement for Mr Allott.\n\nAfter his resignation letter was made public, Mr Allott tweeted that he had \"become the story\" and was a \"distraction\" to protecting victims of violence.\n\nHe added: \"Doing what's right is hard!\"\n\nHis resignation has highlighted the difficulties of removing a commissioner from office.\n\nMr Les said he thought it was \"perverse\" that the commissioner could remove a chief police officer, but could not himself be removed.\n\n\"I think in the same way that MPs are subject to a recall mechanism I think commissioners should be subject to something similar.\"\n\nLabour's Shadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said it was \"absolutely right\" that Mr Allott had resigned.\n\nMr Thomas-Symonds added: \"His awful comments show that misogyny needs tackling and the community response to them shows it will no longer be tolerated.\"\n\nHe said there was a lack of leadership from the Conservative Party which should have pushed him to resign earlier.\n\nThe Women's Equality Party said Mr Allott's resignation showed the \"power of protest\", but added he should have resigned earlier after making the remarks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Women's Equality Party This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nYork Central Labour MP Rachael Maskell said the government had been too slow to respond to the furore that had engulfed Mr Allott following his remarks. She tweeted: \"Women must be listened to.\"\n\nMeanwhile, West Yorkshire's Labour mayor Tracy Brabin said her thoughts were with Ms Everard's family, who live in York and were Mr Allott's constituents. She tweeted: \"Finally. The right decision.\"\n\nThe North Yorkshire branch of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), which had earlier said members were \"outraged\" by Mr Allott's comments, also welcomed his resignation.\n\nIn a tweet, the FBU said: \"Hopefully his resignation will offer some comfort for Sarah Everard's Family and friends and all those affected by his disgraceful comments.\"\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.", "David Wightman (left) and Colin Marshall are both experienced walkers\n\nA lost walker survived two nights in the Cairngorms while a helicopter and mountain rescue teams searched for him.\n\nDavid Wightman spent an exhausting weekend alone and exposed to the elements after becoming separated from his walking companion, Colin Marshall.\n\nWhen Mr Marshall managed to raise the alarm, a major search and rescue operation was launched.\n\nMr Wightman, 62, was eventually found by students who shared their food with him before he was airlifted to safety.\n\n\"I just have a huge debt to all of these people. It's been quite a humbling experience,\" he told BBC Scotland's The Nine.\n\nThe pair were walking in the Ben Macdui area, heading to Corrour bothy, when they lost one another in poor weather on Friday.\n\n\"I lost visibility,\" Mr Wightman, from near Southend-on-Sea in Essex, said. \"My mistake at that point was not shouting or whistling, in the certainty in my mind that I knew which way he'd gone.\n\n\"It's the most stupid mistake to make of course. From that point onwards we were both on our own.\"\n\nDavid Wightman spent two nights exposed to the elements in the Cairngorms\n\nHe eventually decided to find somewhere to keep warm and sheltered from the wind.\n\n\"I had some very good luck that the average temperature for October for the Cairngorms was up\", he said. \"I had waterproof clothing on and my bag was serving as a reasonable windbreak on a slab of granite that I found.\n\n\"I was able to get through 12 hours of darkness and stay reasonably warm. There were some quite severe shivering fits in the middle of the night. I kept my head torch on in case there was anything coming out to look, but [there was] no sign of any search that night.\n\n\"Not knowing what the situation was with my friend I could only keep my fingers crossed he actually got to shelter. I now know that he did do that.\"\n\nWhen Mr Marshall raised the alarm, Braemar, Cairngorm and Aberdeen mountain rescue teams were called out, alongside police and search and rescue dogs.\n\nThe pair were walking the Ben Macdui area when they got into difficulty\n\nMr Wightman described the following day - Saturday - as a \"total disaster\".\n\nHe recalled: \"When I powered on my phone it told me I only had 15% left. The phone died, and the charger didn't work because moisture had got in it.\"\n\nHe made it to the valley floor of the River Dee, but faced another night in the open.\n\nAt one point, he spotted the helicopter and its searchlights. He waved his poles and got his bright orange cover out, but he was not spotted.\n\n\"I know now, and... this would have saved me an awful lot of heartache and grief, that if you have a torch, even in the daylight, shine it,\" he said.\n\n\"Having waved goodbye to the helicopter, that for me was the lowest point of the whole experience, I then saw in the distance some granite boulders. I tucked myself in as best as possible for another 12 hours.\"\n\nThe following morning he made it to a meeting point of two valleys - he was exhausted and his morale was low.\n\nBut then he heard voices from the opposite side of the river, shouting: \"Are you David Wightman?\"\n\nThere were four students from Aberdeen University who had heard that search teams were looking for him.\n\n\"From that point the relief was just enormous - I knew this was going to be OK\", he said.\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\nThey escorted him to shelter, made cups of tea, and lit a fire.\n\n\"They shared their food, peanut butter out the jar - stick your hand in, don't worry - beef jerky, apples, have whatever you like,\" Mr Wightman said.\n\n\"It's the kindness of strangers - just restored my faith in human nature.\"\n\nThey used a piece of silver foil to attract the attention of the helicopter searching overhead.\n\nHe was flown off the hill, and reunited with Mr Marshall, and then his family.\n\nAsked if he would one day return to the Cairngorms, Mr Wightman said: \"I love the environment so I could be tempted for sure.\n\n\"There are things I would do differently given what has happened. It's a wonderful part of the world.\"", "Masten Wanjala confessed to drugging and killing more than 10 children\n\nA mob in western Kenya has killed a self-confessed serial killer who escaped from custody two days ago, police say.\n\nMasten Wanjala, 20, was traced by villagers to a house in Bungoma town and beaten to death, they say.\n\nAuthorities had launched a massive manhunt for the fugitive who admitted to killing more than 10 young boys during a five-year period.\n\nHe also confessed to drugging them and in some cases drinking their blood.\n\nHe reportedly returned to the home of his parents - who have disowned him - and was subsequently strangled by neighbours who found out he was there, an eyewitness told Kenya's Standard newspaper.\n\nHe tried to stave off suspicious locals by moving to a nearby house, Bungoma's police commander told the paper.\n\nIt is thought his family identified the body, although a police spokesperson said they are still doing \"basic verification\" to make sure the deceased is indeed Wanjala, according to Reuters news agency.\n\n\"We are not sure how he managed to travel all the way from Nairobi to his rural home,\" Musyoki Mutungi said. \"It is the curious villagers who first identified him and went ahead to kill him even before the police could be informed.\"\n\nThe mother of one of the victims told the BBC she wanted to know why he did what he did.\n\n\"I would have loved to see him in court, so that I get to know why he did this - why he brutally killed our children and left us with pain,\" Grace Adhiambo said.\n\nThe badly decomposed body of her teenage son Brian Omondi was one of four recovered by police on the outskirts of the capital Nairobi in July.\n\nA post-mortem carried out by the government pathologist showed they had been strangled and hit on the head with a blunt object.\n\nWanjala killed his first victim when he was just 16 years old, a similar age to some of his victims.\n\nHe posed as a football coach to lure his victims to secluded areas, after which he attacked them.\n\nIn some cases he took them as hostages for ransom.\n\nThe killings took place in Nairobi, and areas of eastern and western Kenya.\n\nThree police officers who were on duty when he escaped on Wednesday have been charged with aiding the escape of a suspect and negligence.\n\nPolice say they noticed he had disappeared during the morning roll call. There was no sign of a break-in at the prison cell.\n\nIn a series of tweets, the Kenyan Directorate of Criminal Investigations expressed regret that Wanjala did not face justice.\n\nIt said \"the law of the jungle as applied by irate villagers prevailed\".\n\nThere are growing calls for the resignation of Kenya's police chief over the escape, which shocked the nation and and led many on social media to ridicule the police.\n\nWanjala's killing by mob justice two days later however is a tragic reminder of the deep anger, hate and frustrations that many Kenyans feel for the National Police Service.\n\nKenyans saw this as an open-and-shut case, which the police bungled.\n\nAfter more than three months of investigations, Kenyans are asking why was Wanjala never taken to court to face murder charges?\n\nIt raises questions about Kenya's judicial process - whose wheels often grind slow, and in this case, were completely broken, destroying the hopes for justice for families of the victims.\n\nAFRICA LIVE: Updates on this and other stories", "Emergency services were called to Kirkby Avenue at about 13:30 BST\n\nA man in his 50s has died after a house collapsed in an explosion, police have said.\n\nEmergency services were called to Kirkby Avenue in Clayton-le-Woods, Chorley, at about 13:30 BST.\n\nGas company Cadent confirmed it was at the scene to support emergency services but said it was \"too early to say what caused this\".\n\nNearby residents have been evacuated and a cordon has been put in place.\n\nOne neighbour told BBC Radio Lancashire: \"My wife thought a washing machine had blown up until we went outside and the whole of the front of the house had blown out completely.\"\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service (LFRS) said search and rescue dogs had been assisting in the search for casualties.\n\nIt said seven fire engines were at the scene and advised residents to close windows and doors if affected by any smoke.\n\nA spokesman said the urban search and rescue team were assisting at the scene.\n\nNearby homes were evacuated after the blast\n\nA spokesman for Cadent said: \"We are at the scene of this incident to support the emergency services and ensure everything related to gas is safe.\n\n\"We'll thoroughly check the local gas network and we will support the authorities as they look into all possible causes.\"\n\nPolice said an investigation into the exact cause of the blast was ongoing.\n\nNearby roads have been closed and people have been advised to avoid the area.\n\nA spokeswoman for North West Ambulance Service said: \"Our Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) is currently on the scene, along with a MERIT (Medical Emergency Response Incident Team) doctor, an ambulance and an operational commander.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Thirty-thousand carbon dioxide monitors are being rolled out in Wales this week\n\nPlans to use ozone machines to disinfect classrooms have been abandoned, the Welsh government has confirmed.\n\nThe machines are potentially \"highly harmful\" to children, a review found.\n\nMinisters were previously accused of making a \"spectacular U-turn\" after plans for the machines were paused for a safety review.\n\nOpposition parties Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Conservatives said they welcomed the move.\n\nWelsh ministers had previously announced they would spend £3.31m on 1,800 new ozone machines developed by Swansea University.\n\nOn Thursday, the Welsh government said this cash would instead be used in schools and colleges to improve ventilation.\n\nAt the time Swansea University had defended the safety of the machines.\n\nThe university said \"extensive testing had taken place over eight months\" within its classrooms \"as well as in three very different school scenarios\".\n\nHowever, the Welsh government said a Technical Advisory Group (TAG) review concluded that ozone machines are not suitable for use in education settings.\n\nThe review warned that the gas ozone, which can be used as a disinfectant \"is a highly harmful indoor pollutant which is associated with harm to human health at low concentrations and damages diverse and integral components of indoor environments\".\n\nIt found that children and those with underlying respiratory conditions were \"particularly sensitive to ozone exposure\" and that the gas \"reacts with a range of compounds present indoors to generate persistent harmful secondary aerosols\".\n\nThe study also concluded that the evidence for effective ozone disinfection \"is limited in scope and quality\".\n\nIt said the deployment of an ozone machines would have required \"substantial resources to ensure their safety\".\n\nA Gwynedd-based GP, Dr Eilir Hughes, said when the initial announcement about the machines was made, he researched the technology, saying: \"I quickly realised it was a very bad idea. I couldn't even think of a single good reason for doing it.\"\n\nSpeaking to Oliver Hides on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Dr Hughes said he believed it was \"bad potentially for human health\" and also the environment if it leaked.\n\nDr Hughes also questioned if it would have been the most effective way of stopping the most dominant strains of Covid spreading.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives' education spokeswoman Laura Anne Jones said the Labour policy was \"sadly not thought through\" and that \"educating our young people and keeping them safe has to be the priority\".\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, welcomed the move to \"pull the plug on the controversial and ill-fated ozone machine scheme\", adding the earmarked funding should go towards improving schools' air circulation.\n\nMore emphasis is being placed on ventilation as the pandemic has continued\n\nHowever, the roll out of carbon dioxide monitors in classrooms, colleges and lecture halls in Wales is to be completed by mid-November, Wales' education minister has said.\n\nThe monitors will notify teachers and lecturers when CO2 levels rise, so they can identify where ventilation needs to be improved.\n\nWales' Education and Welsh Language Minister Jeremy Miles said the investment for ventilation improvements and carbon dioxide monitor roll out will \"help keep transmission rates low\".\n\nLaura Doel, director of teaching union NAHT Cymru, said the body is \"pleased that additional funding will be made available to schools\", however Wales' existing measures \"do not go far enough to support schools\".\n\n\"It is crucial that schools do not end up having to foot the bill to fix ventilation problems,\" she added.\n\nDavid Evans, the National Education Union Cymru's secretary, welcomed the ventilation investment, saying it was \"critical to ensuring that education can remain open over the winter for as much of the time as possible\".", "Military personnel will join two health boards in Scotland on 19 October\n\nThe military will be drafted in to hospitals in Lanarkshire and the Borders to relieve pressure ahead of the winter.\n\nA total of 86 personnel will be deployed - 63 to NHS Lanarkshire and 23 to NHS Borders - ranging from nurses, medics, general troops and drivers.\n\nSupport personnel will be from the navy but the medically qualified staff will be from the Army.\n\nAll will be working in areas like accident and emergency.\n\nIt follows a request for assistance from the Scottish government.\n\nThe British Medical Association (Scotland) has called on politicians to \"be honest\" about what the NHS can deliver now and over winter.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said the health service was experiencing \"significant pressure\" because of Covid admissions and a backlog in care built up over the course of the pandemic.\n\n\"In the NHS Borders and NHS Lanarkshire areas, staff shortages because of Covid-19 are affecting bed capacity,\" he added.\n\n\"With increasing levels of social mixing and close social contact it is expected that this winter Covid-19 will circulate alongside respiratory viruses, such as flu, adding to the winter pressures usually faced by the NHS.\n\n\"This military support will allow both boards to support existing staff to reduce waiting times, enhance care and provide a better experience for our patients.\"\n\nNHS Lanarkshire will receive three nurses, 45 medics, 12 general troops and three drivers, while 14 medics, two nurses, one driver and four additional personnel will be sent to NHS Borders.\n\nA further two military medics will oversee the operation from the army's headquarters in Scotland.\n\nPersonnel are due to start work on 19 October and continue until 10 November, though the Scottish government said this would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe MoD has assisted health services across the country, including with vaccination\n\nJudith Park, NHS Lanarkshire's director of acute services, said all three hospitals in the health board - Monklands, Hairmyres and Wishaw - would be supported.\n\nShe said: \"Staff shortages because of Covid-19 are affecting bed capacity and the approval of temporary military assistance on our hospital sites is very welcome over the next few weeks as we begin to see winter illnesses circulate alongside Covid adding to the pressures we face.\"\n\nThe request for support comes after soldiers were brought in to support the Scottish Ambulance Service in September.\n\nAt the time Nicola Sturgeon said health services were dealing with the most challenging combination of circumstances in their history due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe military also provided advice on the construction of the NHS Louisa Jordan field hospital in Glasgow and set up and ran testing programmes as well as vaccination centres across Scotland.\n\nArmy personnel were brought in to assist the Scottish Ambulance Service in September\n\nHealth services in all UK nations have received support from the armed forces in recent months.\n\nScottish Secretary Alistair Jack said he was glad they were able to step in again.\n\nHe added: \"Nearly 90 army medical personnel and support staff will be working at the front line of Scotland's NHS. We are grateful for all their efforts to keep us safe.\"\n\nHowever senior doctors have said while military help is welcomed, it will be a short term measure and will \"barely scratch the surface\" of providing the staff that is needed.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, chair of BMA Scotland, said: \"It demonstrates that things are on a knife edge in the areas where this is happening - but there are many other places where staff are spread incredibly thinly and close to if not at the same level of pressure.\n\n\"We need politicians on all sides to be honest with the public about what the NHS can deliver right now and over this expected long winter.\n\n\"Each passing week and story of a service in crisis underlines the urgent need for a clear workforce plan to address those huge short, medium and long term staffing issues and a plan that focuses firstly and squarely on caring for and retaining the staff we have because recruiting extra people takes time.\"\n\nMembers of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guard set up a vaccination centre at the Donald Dewar Sports Centre in Drumchapel earlier this year\n\nThe Scottish Conservative's health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane called the Mr Yousaf's winter plan \"belated\" and said the effects were being \"keenly felt\" by staff.\n\nHe said: \"We aren't even into the peak winter period, yet my colleagues on the frontline are already well beyond breaking point.\n\n\"He must now urgently guarantee the support from our military will be maximised at every turn for these health boards. Otherwise a truly terrible winter in our NHS is set to occur on his watch.\"\n\nBoth the Borders and Lanarkshire health boards have already halted all non-urgent procedures.\n\nLast month the medical director of NHS Borders urged the public to \"be kind\" to staff facing \"unprecedented challenges\".\n\nDr Lynn McCallum said they were busier than in the \"busiest winter\".", "Sir Elton John has now had eight number one singles\n\nSir Elton John has topped the UK singles chart for the first time in 16 years with a little help from Dua Lipa.\n\nTheir collaboration Cold Heart (Pnau Remix), which reworks his hits including Sacrifice, Rocket Man and Kiss the Bride, made it to number one after three weeks at number two.\n\nHe last topped the singles chart in 2005, when he appeared on US rapper 2Pac's posthumous single Ghetto Gospel.\n\nDua Lipa released a number one album last year during lockdown\n\nSir Elton's first ever number one came courtesy of a collaboration with another female singer, Kiki Dee, with 1976's Don't Go Breaking My Heart.\n\nDua Lipa's collaboration with the singer-songwriter, who recently underwent hip surgery, sees her collect her third number one, following her breakthrough anthem New Rules and One Kiss with Calvin Harris.\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 EltonJohnVEVO 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\nTheir musical hook-up - a disco-tinged re-working of some of his best-known songs, as remixed by Australian dance trio Pnau - put an end to Ed Sheeran's four-week stay at the chart summit.\n\nLast month, Sir Elton postponed his upcoming 2021 UK and European tour until 2023, due to a hip injury from this summer when he \"fell awkwardly\".\n\nElsewhere in the albums chart on Friday, Sam Fender secured his own second number one with Seventeen Going Under, totalling 44,000 equivalent chart sales.\n\nSam Fender celebrates his latest number one with fellow Geordies Ant and Dec\n\nIt caps a big few weeks for the Newcastle United fan, who appeared on the BBC Breakfast sofa admittedly hungover after having celebrated the football club's takeover at St James's Park the night before.\n\nSpeaking on the show in a club tracksuit, he said his saxophone player started playing outside the ground and \"5,000 Geordies started singing along\".\n\nHis new album is ahead of Drake's Certified Lover Boy in second place, and Olivia Rodrigo's Sour in third.\n\nFender and Sir Elton have built up a friendship in recent years, and speaking on his Apple Music 1 radio show, the veteran star said he thinks of the younger musician as a son.\n\n\"Well, for everyone who's listening at home or wherever you are, Sam and I have become great friends,\" he said. \"And he's like a member of our family.\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 SamFenderVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"Our boys, Elijah and Zachary, love him so much, and [Sir Elton's husband, filmmaker] David [Furnish]. He's like our eldest son in a way. And it's just great when we see each other.\"\n\nHe added: \"We play each other music and we cheer each other up when we're down in the dumps and it's a lovely thing. A friendship that's blossomed so beautifully.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The US has closed its land borders with Canada and Mexico since March 2020\n\nThe US has said it will reopen its land borders with Mexico and Canada to fully vaccinated travellers from November.\n\nIt means those sealed out of the US because of the pandemic can enter - for any reason - using land and ferry crossing points.\n\nUnvaccinated travellers will still be banned from entering the US from Mexico and Canada by land.\n\nAir travel is currently allowed with a negative Covid test, but will require proof of vaccinations as of 8 November.\n\nThe US has curbed travel from Mexico and Canada since March 2020.\n\n\"We are pleased to be taking steps to resume regular travel in a safe and sustainable manner,\" Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement.\n\nCurrently, most non-US citizens who have been to the UK, China, India, South Africa, Iran, Brazil and a number of European countries within the past 14 days are not allowed into the US.\n\nBut those rules will also be lifted in November, the Biden administration announced last month.\n\nEssential travellers, including students, truck drivers, US citizens and healthcare workers were never banned from crossing land borders. However from January 2022, they will also need to show proof of vaccination to get into the US from Mexico or Canada.\n\n\"This approach will provide ample time for essential travellers... to get vaccinated,\" the Department of Homeland Security said.\n\nAn exact date in November has not yet been announced, but will be \"very soon\", an official told Reuters news agency.\n\nCanada opened its border to fully vaccinated travellers from the US on 9 August. Mexico's border has remained open throughout the whole pandemic.\n\nA controversial law which allows the US to swiftly expel undocumented migrants to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in holding facilities will stay in place, US media reports. The border legislation, known as Title 42, has cut off access to asylum for hundreds of thousands of migrants trying to enter from Mexico.\n\nSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said President Biden was \"doing the right thing\"\n\nNews of the reopening has drawn praise from US lawmakers with constituencies along the Canadian border.\n\nAmong them was Chuck Schumer, the Democrats' Senate Majority Leader.\n\n\"Kudos to President Biden for doing the right thing and increasing cross border travel between Canada and the US,\" he said.\n\n\"This reopening will be welcome news to countless businesses, medical providers, families, and loved ones that depend on travel across the northern border,\" added New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.\n\nThe announcement of new rules in September was a surprise to many - coming days after the US government said it was not the right time to lift restrictions.\n\nThe US has recorded some 44.5 million coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, and more than 716,000 deaths.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why are US officials getting vaccinated in public?\n\n22 October 2021: This article was amended to add the updated information that proof of vaccination will be required for air travel from 8 November", "Foreign tourists will be allowed into the country for the first time in 19 months\n\nIndia is set to reopen its borders to overseas travellers as it relaxes Covid-related restrictions amid a drop in daily infections.\n\nStarting Friday, the country will grant tourist visas to travellers arriving on chartered flights.\n\nThe facility will be extended to those arriving on commercial flights from 15 November.\n\nForeign tourists who land in India on Friday will be the first to come into the country in 19 months.\n\nNo tourist visas have been issued since March 2020 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government shut the country's borders to rein in the coronavirus pandemic. In the past few months though, some visas for diplomats and foreign business officials have been reinstated.\n\nThe decision to allow foreign tourists, announced earlier this month, comes at a time when India's daily Covid cases have been falling.\n\nThe country has been recording about 20,000 daily positive infections - down from a peak of 400,000 daily cases during a devastating second wave that swept India in April and May. More than 70% of the population has received one dose of the vaccine.\n\nHowever, experts and government officials continue to warn against complacency, saying that popular tourist destinations could act as Covid \"super spreaders\" of a third wave of infection which, they say, is inevitable.\n\nThe easing of restrictions on foreign travel also coincides with the onset of India's peak travel season, sparking hopes of revival of the beleaguered tourism industry.\n\nWith its rich geography and history, India offers a large number of tourist attractions such as the Taj Mahal monument, temples and forts, the snowy mountain peaks of the Himalayas and the white sandy beaches in the west and south.\n\nThe Taj Mahal is one of the leading tourist attractions of India and is visited by thousands of people every day\n\nAccording to government data, India attracted just 2.74 million foreign tourists last year - down from 10.93 million in 2019 - as the pandemic upended lives and businesses.\n\nTourism contributes almost 7% to India's GDP and is also responsible for millions of jobs in the hospitality sector. With the economy struggling like never before, India cannot afford to lose out on the precious foreign exchange that tourism brings.\n\nUnder the new guidelines, all tourist visas issued before 15 October will be invalid. This means that travellers coming to India will have to get fresh visas.\n\n\"All due protocols and norms relating to Covid-19 as notified by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare from time to time, shall be adhered to by the foreign tourists, carriers bringing them into India and all other stakeholders at landing stations,\" the government said in an official release.\n\nHowever, the authorities are yet to spell out the testing, vaccination, and quarantine rules for travellers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First responders and others react to Rust set death\n\nFilm director Joel Souza says he is \"gutted by the loss of my friend and colleague\" Halyna Hutchins, in his first statement since a gun accident on the set of a movie in New Mexico.\n\nMs Hutchins was killed and Mr Souza wounded when a prop gun with a live round was fired by actor Alec Baldwin.\n\nMr Souza thanked well-wishers for their \"outpouring of affection\".\n\nCourt records say Mr Baldwin was handed the gun by an assistant director who told the actor that it was safe.\n\nMs Hutchins, a 42-year-old cinematographer, was fatally shot in the chest in Thursday's incident on the set of the film Rust in Santa Fe. Mr Souza, 48, who had been standing behind Ms Hutchins, was treated in hospital for a wound to the shoulder and later discharged.\n\nPolice are still investigating the incident and no charges have been brought.\n\nJoel Souza thanked \"hundreds of strangers who have reached out\"\n\nIn his statement, Mr Souza said: \"I am gutted by the loss of my friend and colleague, Halyna. She was kind, vibrant, incredibly talented, fought for every inch and always pushed me to be better.\n\n\"My thoughts are with her family at this most difficult time. I am humbled and grateful by the outpouring of affection we have received from our filmmaking community, the people of Santa Fe, and the hundreds of strangers who have reached out… It will surely aid in my recovery.\"\n\nCourt submissions show the assistant director, Dave Halls, did not know the prop contained live ammunition and indicated it was unloaded by shouting \"cold gun!\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Baldwin - who was the star and producer of the film - said he was \"fully co-operating\" with the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office.\n\n\"My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nAlec Baldwin said he was fully co-operating with the police\n\nMs Hutchins, 42, was from Ukraine and grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle. She studied journalism in Kyiv and film in Los Angeles. She was the director of photography for the 2020 action film Archenemy.\n\nAccording to the Los Angeles Times, about half a dozen members of the camera crew on Rust had walked out hours before the tragedy after protesting over working conditions on the set at the Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe.\n\nThere had been at least three earlier prop gun misfires on the set, sources told the Times.\n\nMs Hutchins had studied journalism in Kyiv and film in Los Angeles\n\nThe union members had also complained that they were promised hotel rooms in Santa Fe, but once filming of the Western began they were required to drive 50 miles (80km) from Albuquerque every morning.\n\nThe BBC has obtained a document showing which crew members were listed as scheduled to be on set that day.\n\nIt names a head armourer, the crew member responsible for checking firearms. Hannah Gutierrez Reed is in her twenties and had recently worked in this role for the first time, on the movie The Old Way.\n\nIn a podcast in September she said she almost turned down that job \"'cause I wasn't sure if I was ready... but doing it, like, it went really smoothly\".\n\nThe prop gun that Baldwin fired contained a \"live single round\", according to an email sent by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees to its membership, reports Variety.\n\nIn Rust, Baldwin was starring as an outlaw whose grandson is sentenced to hang for an accidental killing.\n\nThe actor is best known for his role as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock and for his portrayal of Donald Trump on the sketch show Saturday Night Live.\n\nSuch incidents on film sets are extremely rare.\n\nReal firearms are often used in filming, and are loaded with blanks - cartridges that create a flash and a bang without discharging a projectile.\n\nIn 1993, Brandon Lee - the 28-year-old son of the late martial arts star Bruce Lee - died on set after being accidentally shot with a prop gun while filming a death scene for the film The Crow.\n\nThe fatal shooting happened on the set of the Western film Rust in New Mexico", "Sarah Everard was a talented and much-loved young woman, the judge said at Couzens' sentencing\n\nFive police officers are facing misconduct proceedings over messages sent about Sarah Everard's killer Wayne Couzens.\n\nThe police watchdog said it had carried out two investigations into messages sent on WhatsApp and Signal.\n\nThe officers are from four forces: the Metropolitan Police as well as Sussex, Dorset, and Avon and Somerset.\n\nIf proven, the claims could further undermine people's confidence in policing, the watchdog warned.\n\nCouzens, a former Met Police officer, was given a whole life sentence for Ms Everard's murder last month. He abducted her as she walked home from a friend's house in March.\n\nThe murder sparked a discussion over trust in the police, with the Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick saying she was determined to rebuild public confidence.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct - which handles complaints about forces in England and Wales - said it had run two separate investigations into social media messages, and found that a total of five police officers had cases to answer.\n\nIn the first investigation, it looked at claims that a probationary Met officer had shared an \"inappropriate graphic depicting violence against women\" with colleagues on WhatsApp.\n\nThe IOPC said the graphic was intended to refer to Ms Everard's kidnap and murder. Although the officer was off duty at the time, they later worked at a police cordon as part of the search.\n\nThe image was \"highly offensive\" and the officer will now face a misconduct meeting, the IOPC said.\n\nAnother probationary officer, also from the Met, will also face a misconduct meeting for allegedly sharing the graphic and not challenging it.\n\nA misconduct meeting is for cases which could result in a final written warning. It is different to a misconduct hearing, which is for more serious cases of gross misconduct which could result in the officer being dismissed from the force.\n\nThe IOPC also carried out a second investigation, looking at claims that seven officers from different forces shared information about Couzens' prosecution in a chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal.\n\nOne officer from Dorset Police was accused of sharing details of an interview given by Couzens under caution, which was not yet allowed to be reported. That officer will face a gross misconduct hearing.\n\nTwo other officers - from Sussex Police, and Avon and Somerset Constabulary - were also in the Signal conversation and were accused of making unprofessional remarks about Couzens and endorsing comments made by others.\n\nThe Sussex officer had a meeting this week and misconduct was not proven - although the officer was told to undergo \"the reflective practice review process\", the IOPC said.\n\nThe officer from Avon and Somerset Constabulary will face a misconduct meeting in due course.\n\n\"In April this year we warned about the unacceptable use of social media by officers based on a number of cases involving the posting of offensive and inappropriate material,\" said Sal Naseem from the IOPC.\n\n\"We wrote to the National Police Chiefs Council, asking them to remind forces and officers of their obligations under the police Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Behaviour.\n\n\"The allegations involved in these two investigations, if proven, have the capacity to further undermine public confidence in policing. They also once more illustrate the potential consequences for officers and come at a time when policing standards and culture have never been more firmly in the spotlight.\"\n\nThe IOPC said it was continuing to investigate the conduct of five other officers relating to messages sent in a WhatsApp chat group in 2019. The messages were recovered from an old mobile phone discovered during the police investigation into Ms Everard's murder, the IOPC said.\n\nThe IOPC is also still looking into how Kent Police in 2015, and the Met this year, handled allegations of indecent exposure which have been linked to Couzens.", "Lord Field was too unwell to attend the debate in the House of Lords\n\nEx-Labour MP Frank Field has announced his support for assisted dying and revealed that he is dying himself.\n\nLady Meacher read out a statement from Lord Field in the House of Lords, where peers are debating a new bill to legalise terminally ill adults seeking assistance to end their lives.\n\nIt said that he had recently spent time in a hospice and that he was not well enough to attend debates.\n\nLord Field urged other members to back the bill in his absence.\n\nThe 79-year-old spent 40 years as the MP for Birkenhead, and briefly served as minister for welfare reform in Tony Blair's first term in government.\n\nHe built a reputation as one of the most effective backbenchers in the House of Commons, with campaigns against poverty and for curbs on EU immigration.\n\nHe quit Labour's group in Parliament in 2018, saying Jeremy Corbyn's leadership had become \"a force for anti-Semitism in British politics\".\n\nHe was made a non-affiliated, crossbench peer by the Conservative government in 2020, after campaigning in favour of Brexit.\n\nA number of MPs have sent their best wishes to Lord Field, with Health Secretary Sajid Javid calling him \"an amazing, compassionate man\".\n\nHis sentiments were echoed by Tory peer and minister Zac Goldsmith, who described Lord Field as \"a man of immense courage and integrity\", as well as \"an extraordinarily effective and independent-minded parliamentarian\".\n\nLady Meacher told peers: \"Our colleague, Lord Field, who is dying, asked me to read out a short statement.\"\n\nIn the statement, he said he \"had just spent a period in a hospice and I am not well enough to participate in today's debate. Had I been, I would have spoken strongly in favour\".\n\nIt also explained his change of heart on the issue, saying: \"I changed my mind on assisted dying when an MP friend was dying of cancer and wanted to die early before the full horror effects set in, but was denied this opportunity.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The words of the peer, and former Labour MP, are said in the Lords by Lady Meacher.\n\nLord Field said one particular argument against the bill was \"unfounded\", adding: \"It is thought by some the culture would change and people would be pressured into ending their lives.\n\n\"[But] the number of assisted deaths in Australia and the US remains very low - under 1% - and a former supreme court judge in Victoria, Australia, [talking] about pressure from relatives has said it just hasn't been an issue.\"\n\nHe concluded: \"I hope the house will today vote for the assisted dying bill.\"\n\nThe new bill has been proposed by Lady Meacher - a crossbench peer - and would give patients of sound mind, with six months or less left to live, the right to die by taking life-ending medication.\n\nThe person wanting to end their life would have to sign a declaration that was approved by two doctors and signed off by the High Court.\n\nThe bill passed its first stage - known as its second reading - unopposed and will undergo further scrutiny in the House of Lords at a later date.\n\nBut even if it was passed in the Lords, it would not become law unless it was backed by MPs in the Commons, and the government.\n\nLady Meacher and Lord Field are among the peers in favour of the changes, but others have spoken out against the bill, including the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who told BBC Breakfast vulnerable people could face \"intangible\" pressure to end their lives.\n\nSpeaking in Friday's debate, another crossbench peer Lord Curry, also opposed the bill, describing how it would have been a \"tragedy\" if his daughter - who had a learning disability and died aged 42 - had had her life cut short.\n\n\"She breathed her last while we held her hands, a very emotional and precious moment for us,\" he said.\n\n\"If someone at that time had offered an assisted dying, assisted suicide option, I firmly believe that in that heightened emotional state we were in, not thinking rationally, we may have been tempted to agree to her premature death. Had we done that, it'd have troubled us for the rest of our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First responders and others react to Rust set death\n\nThe gun that actor Alec Baldwin fired on set, killing a woman, was handed to him by a director who told him it was safe, court records show.\n\nAssistant director Dave Halls did not know the prop contained live ammunition and indicated it was unloaded by shouting \"cold gun!\", the records say.\n\nCinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot in the chest in Thursday's incident on the set of the film Rust.\n\nDirector Joel Souza, who was standing behind her, was wounded.\n\nThe 48-year-old received emergency treatment for a shoulder injury and was later released from hospital.\n\nFurther details of the police investigation were released on Friday when a search warrant was filed at a court in Santa Fe, New Mexico.\n\nIt noted that Baldwin's blood-stained outfit was taken as evidence along with the gun. Ammunition and other prop weapons were also taken from the set by police.\n\nAlec Baldwin said he was fully co-operating with the police\n\nThe 63-year-old actor was questioned by law enforcement, but no-one has been charged over the incident.\n\nEarlier on Friday, Baldwin - who was the star and producer of the film - said he was \"fully co-operating\" with the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office.\n\n\"My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours.\"\n\nMs Hutchins, 42, was from Ukraine and grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle. She studied journalism in Kyiv, and film in Los Angeles, and was named a \"rising star\" by the American Cinematographer magazine in 2019.\n\nShe was the director of photography for the 2020 action film Archenemy, directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer.\n\nAccording to the Los Angeles Times, about half a dozen members of the camera crew on Rust walked out hours before the tragedy after protesting over working conditions on the set at the Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe.\n\nThe union members had reportedly complained that they were promised hotel rooms in Santa Fe, but once filming of the Western began they were required to drive 50 miles (80km) from Albuquerque every morning.\n\nMeanwhile, the BBC has obtained a document showing which crew members were listed as scheduled to be on set that day.\n\nIt names a head armourer, the crew member responsible for checking firearms. Hannah Gutierrez Reed is in her twenties and, according to the LA Times, had recently worked in this role for the first time.\n\nThe fatal shooting happened on the set of the Western film Rust in New Mexico\n\nThe prop gun that Baldwin fired contained a \"live single round\", according to an email sent by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees to its membership, reports Variety.\n\nIn Rust, Baldwin was starring as an outlaw whose grandson is sentenced to hang for an accidental killing.\n\nThe actor is best known for his role as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock and for his portrayal of Donald Trump on the sketch show Saturday Night Live.\n\nSuch incidents on film sets are extremely rare.\n\nReal firearms are often used in filming, and are loaded with blanks - cartridges that create a flash and a bang without discharging a projectile.\n\nIn 1993, Brandon Lee - the 28-year-old son of the late martial arts star Bruce Lee - died on set after being accidentally shot with a prop gun while filming a death scene for the film The Crow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The director who worked with Halyna Hutchins on the 2020 action film Archenemy says her death is \"unfathomable\"", "Twenty-two people died in the bombing on 22 May 2017\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of a terrorism offence in connection with the Manchester Arena attack.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb at the end of a concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nA 24-year-old man, from Manchester, is being held on suspicion of engaging in the preparation of acts of terrorism or assisting others in acts of preparation.\n\nHe was arrested at Manchester Airport after arriving back in the UK.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said the man, from Fallowfield, remained in custody for questioning.\n\nDet Ch Supt Simon Barraclough said the force remained \"committed to establishing the truth surrounding the circumstances of the terror attack\".\n\n\"Over four years have passed since the atrocity took place but we are unwavering in our dedication to follow each line of inquiry available so that we can provide all those affected by the events at the arena with the answers they rightly deserve,\" he added.\n\nHundreds of people were also injured when Abedi, who died in the bombing, detonated his device in the arena foyer at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nHis younger brother Hashem Abedi was jailed for at least 55 years in August last year after being found guilty of murdering the 22 victims.\n\nHe was also convicted of attempted murder - encompassing the injured people - and conspiring to cause explosions.\n\nThe brothers spent months ordering, stockpiling and transporting the deadly materials required for the attack.\n\nA public inquiry into the attack started in September last year to explore the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the bombing.\n\nThis includes whether the attack could have been prevented, what happened on 22 May 2017, the security arrangements around the arena, the emergency response to the bombing and the radicalisation of Salman Abedi.\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.", "An A-level history textbook has been withdrawn after a youth worker said she was \"horrified\" to discover an image asking whether the treatment of Native Americans had been exaggerated.\n\nThe AQA-approved book asked students to balance \"criticisms of treatment of Native Americans\" with \"defence\" of their treatment in the late 1800s.\n\nThe period saw some massacres of Native American tribes by the US government.\n\nThe publisher Hodder has withdrawn the book.\n\nIn one section the textbook - called The Making of a Superpower: USA 1865-1975 - asked students \"to what extent do you believe the treatment of Native Americans has been exaggerated?\"\n\nHannah Wilkinson, who offers history mentoring sessions at Durham Sixth Form Centre, said the exercise was \"quite problematic\".\n\n\"It was deeply shocking to see how ingrained racial injustice is,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"The period we're looking at is a period of American policy where Native Americans were treated terribly,\" she said.\n\n\"The way the textbook framed it suggests that maybe the treatment of Native Americans has been exaggerated.\"\n\nFrom the early the 17th Century through to the late 19th Century a series of wars took place between European colonists and Native American tribes. They became known as the American-Indian Wars.\n\nIn this time the Native American population fell heavily, partly due to new diseases brought by the Europeans and partly due to wars and massacres. Several historians have accused the colonialists of a \"genocide\" against Native American tribes.\n\nWhether or not the US government's actions amounted to a genocide, it imposed policies that targeted Native American land, freedom, and wellbeing.\n\nMs Wilkinson teaches history for students who need extra support as part of her work with St Nicholas Church, Durham.\n\n\"My concern is that it presents really oppressive policies in an objective way. That didn't seem appropriate to the historical context,\" she said.\n\n\"I am definitely worried this is a wider pattern. We like to think that compared to America that we don't really have an issue of racial injustice.\"\n\nShe added: \"This period goes from slavery, to Jim Crow, to civil rights. If this is how they're presenting the history of Native Americans with such bias my concern is whether that is a repeated pattern in the framing of US history and whether that is coming up throughout the course.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hannah Wilkinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAQA has previously had to apologise for textbooks which contained racial stereotypes.\n\nAn AQA spokesperson said the exercise \"doesn't match our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and should never have made it through our process for approving textbooks\".\n\n\"We know our approval process wasn't always good enough in the past - but we've improved it since then and we do things differently now, including working with external diversity experts and providing better training for our reviewers and staff.\n\n\"We contacted the publisher as soon as we heard about this content, and we're pleased they've worked very quickly to put this right.\"\n\nAQA said publisher Hodder Education would remove book from sale \"and review its content\".\n\n\"We're also working together with publishers to ensure that new and updated editions of AQA-approved textbooks meet our commitment to EDI (equity, diversity and inclusion),\" the exam board said in its response to Ms Wilkinson's original tweet.\n\n\"We agree that this content is inappropriate and are going to remove this book from sale,\" HodderSchools tweeted. \"We will conduct a thorough review of the content with subject experts.\"", "Ministers are to fund a network of \"family hubs\" in England as part of a £500m package to support parents and children.\n\nThe centres in 75 different areas will provide a \"one stop shop\" for support and advice, the government said.\n\nThe funding, to be announced by the chancellor in Wednesday's Budget, will also go towards breastfeeding advice and mental health services.\n\nLabour called the plans a \"smokescreen\" for failing to deliver for families.\n\nKate Green MP, Labour's shadow education secretary, said family hubs were \"a sticking plaster for a fractured childcare and children services landscape\".\n\n\"This supposed commitment rings hollow after 11 years of Conservative cuts have forced the closure of over a thousand children's centres, cutting off the early learning that sets children up for life,\" she said.\n\nThe funding includes £200m to support 300,000 families who face complex issues that could lead to family breakdown.\n\nSome £82m will be given to 75 local authorities to fund the new family hubs, while another £100m will go towards mental health support for expectant parents.\n\nAnd £50m will be spent on breastfeeding support - including antenatal classes and one-to-one support - to build upon best practice from areas such as Tower Hamlets in London, which has the highest breastfeeding rates at six to eight weeks in England.\n\nParenting programmes will receive £50m and £10m will go to signposting the Start4Life initiative, which offers help and advice from the NHS during pregnancy, birth and parenthood.\n\nAhead of the announcement, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said he \"passionately\" believed in giving children the \"best possible start in life\".\n\nHe said: \"We know that the first thousand and one days of a child's life are some of the most important in their development, which is why I'm thrilled that this investment will guarantee that thousands of families across England are given support to lead healthy and happy lives.\"\n\nThe government said the funding package addresses a report from March on improving the health and development of babies in England, which recommended more joined-up, welcoming support for families.\n\nNeil Leitch, of the Early Years Alliance, said the new money was \"welcome news for struggling families\" but criticised the government for failing to address existing problems within the early years sector, specifically among nurseries, childminders and pre-schools, where almost 3,000 providers have closed down since January.\n\nHe called for an independent review of the entire sector. \"It's no good having a bit-piece approach to this, it needs a complete revamp,\" Mr Leitch told BBC Breakfast. \"If we fail to get it right effectively, it will cost us billions.\"\n\nHis concerns were echoed by Alison Morton, executive director of the Institute of Health Visiting.She said: \"We've had a really challenging time during the pandemic. Families have really faced the brunt of it - and whilst the government have poured a lot of money into other sectors, zero pounds, literally, has been spent on babies, young children and families.\"\"The government needs to go an awful lot further if they want to build back better for our babies and children,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will get an equivalent funding boost. The devolved governments will then decide how they want to spend the money.\n\nA separate £153m investment announced as part of the £1.4bn education recovery package in Summer 2021 will enable nursery staff will to access more high-quality training.\n• None Plans for 'family hubs' to help new parents", "Dubai officially opened the world's largest and tallest ferris wheel on Thursday, as part of an initiative to bolster the city's status as a major tourism hub. It's known as the \"Dubai Eye\" and stands at 250m.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak will lay out the government's latest tax and spending plans on Wednesday 27 October.\n\nIt's the government's second Budget of the year, after one in March, and will coincide with the conclusions of the 2021 Spending Review, which will give details of how government will fund public services for the next three years.\n\nResponding to the most recent public sector finance data this week, the chancellor said: \"At the Budget and Spending Review next week, I will set out how we will continue to support public services, businesses and jobs while keeping our public finances fit for the future.\"\n\nWhat are his options? Here we look at six things to watch out for in the Budget that could affect your personal finances.\n\nEnergy bills are set to rise this winter\n\nThe chancellor is reportedly considering a cut to the 5% rate of value added tax on household energy bills.\n\nThe move would be popular and timely against the background of soaring energy bills this winter and is something the government is now able to do because of Brexit.\n\nBut the move could attract criticism as it would - in effect - mean subsidising fossil fuels ahead of the climate summit.\n\nAlso, a VAT cut on domestic energy bills would cost about £1.5bn a year, which may just be too much for the chancellor.\n\nExtra tax on sparkling wine could be cut\n\nThere are rumours the chancellor is planning to simplify the way that alcohol is taxed in the UK.\n\nThe 2019 Conservative election manifesto promised to review it, so now could be the time.\n\nOne suggestion is to reduce the premium on sparkling wine to the same level as still wine, which could knock 83p off a bottle of Champagne or Prosecco.\n\n\"The government should stop trying to favour certain parts of the industry, instead focusing on removing distortions and creating a simpler system of alcohol taxes targeted at socially costly drinking,\" said Kate Smith, associate director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.\n\nThe drinks levies have been in place since the 1600s and raise £12bn a year for the government.\n\nIf you sell a second home, you'll pay capital gains tax\n\nThere are rumours that the current Capital Gains Tax rates may be tinkered with.\n\nThe tax is paid when people sell assets such as shares or a second home.\n\nIt's been suggested that rates could be aligned more closely with income tax rates, which could mean scrapping the current tax rates of 10% and 20% (or 18% and 28% for property) and instead making everyone pay income tax rates on their gains.\n\nA report by the Office of Tax Simplification, published in November 2020, recommended that CGT rates should be increased to bring them into line with income tax.\n\nBut it would be unlikely to raise significant extra amounts of tax, as it is typically paid by only about 275,000 taxpayers and raises less than £10bn a year.\n\nStudents could be asked to repay their loans sooner\n\nThere are reports that graduates may be asked to start paying back student loans earlier.\n\nThe chancellor could do that by lowering the threshold at which people start repaying their student loans, a move that could save the Treasury about £2bn a year.\n\nCurrently, English and Welsh students who enrolled at university after 2012 pay 9% of everything they earn above £27,295 per year. They repay the same 9% until the loan is fully repaid or until 30 years after graduating.\n\nIf the threshold were reduced to £25,000, it would cost anyone earning more than the current limit an extra £206 a year, while if it were slashed to £20,000, it would cost an extra £656 a year.\n\nMinisters are rumoured to have proposed cutting the threshold to as low as £23,000 and giving graduates 40 years as opposed to 30 to repay their debt.\n\nA worker washing dishes could see their minimum wage rise\n\nIn his March Budget, Mr Sunak announced that the National Living Wage (what the governments call the minimum wage) would increase for workers over the age of 23.\n\nSince then, the government has come under pressure to help employees further - especially as younger workers have been some of the worst hit by the economic downturn.\n\nOne solution the chancellor has been reportedly looking at is to increase the National Living Wage by 5.7% to £9.42 per hour from its current rate of £8.91.\n\nThat would bring it close to the Living Wage Foundation's current recommendation of £9.50 an hour.\n\nThe government could raise cash by cutting tax relief on pension savings for those on high salaries.\n\nBut pension experts warn such a move would not be as simple as it sounds, Steven Cameron, pensions director at Aegon, said: \"A move to a flat rate of pensions tax relief, rather than the current system where relief is based on the rate of income tax paid, would be far from simple to implement.\"\n\nHe said it would be particularly difficult for defined-benefit schemes and could mean medium to high earners, including doctors in public sector schemes, facing big tax bills.\n\n\"Removing higher-rate relief would be a direct attack on middle Britain, leading to people who do the right thing and save for their future being hit with extra tax costs,\" said Tom Selby, head of retirement policy at AJ Bell.\n• None Why is UK inflation so high?", "“Who are we to tell him what a boy should look like?” parent Stanley Burkhead asked at a board meeting in August\n\nSeven students are suing a Texas school district over its dress-code policy banning boys from having long hair.\n\nSchool officials suspended a 9-year-old boy for a month, barred him from recess and normal lunch breaks as punishment for long hair, the lawsuit claims.\n\nHe and the other students, aged 7 to 17, say the policy violates the constitution and Title IX - a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination.\n\nThe school district said on Thursday it was reviewing the lawsuit.\n\nMagnolia Independent School District \"respects varying viewpoints, and we respect the rights of citizens to advocate for change,\" spokeswoman Denise Meyers said in an email to US media.\n\nThe district, which serves roughly 13,000 students about 40 miles (64km) northwest of Houston, did not return a request for comment from the BBC.\n\nAccording to its dress code policy, boys cannot wear their hair over their eyes, past the bottom of their ears, or past the bottom of a dress shirt collar. Facing backlash this summer, Magnolia defended the policy, saying it \"reflects the values of our community at large\".\n\nThe suit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas (ACLU) on Thursday on behalf of the students, argues the school district \"imposed immense and irreparable harm... solely because of these students' gender\".\n\nIt details a number of punishments given to the students - six boys and one non-binary child - for wearing long hair.\n\nOne, a nine-year-old identified as AC, is Latino, and wears his hair long like his father and uncle as a part of his family's heritage, the suit says. Another, an 11-year-old identified as TM, is non-binary and has worn long hair as a \"critical component\" of their gender expression.\n\nBoth have been subjected to punishments including suspension, denial of extracurricular activities and separation from their peers.\n\n\"This rule is a complete and utter dinosaur,\" said parent Stanley Burkhead, whose son has long hair, at a school board meeting in August.\n\n\"Who are we to tell him who he can't be? Who are we to tell him what a boy should look like?\" he said. A survey by the ACLU of Texas last year found that nearly 500 public school districts in the state have some type of a hair-length policy only for boys.", "Police in the US state of New Mexico are investigating after a woman died and a man was injured after the actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on a film set.\n\nHalyna Hutchins, who was working on the movie Rust as director of photography, was airlifted to hospital but was pronounced dead by medical staff.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Baldwin said the incident involved the misfiring of a prop gun with blanks.\n\nAdam Egypt Mortimer is a film director who worked with Ms Hutchins on the 2020 action film Archenemy.\n\nDescribing the weapon safety procedures films tend to use, he told the BBC what happened is \"unfathomable\".", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has backed calls to change the law to give victims of domestic abuse more time to report a crime, the BBC has been told.\n\nThere is currently a six-month time limit for a charge to be brought against someone for common assault.\n\nBut Ms Patel has agreed to extend the timeframe to up to two years.\n\nIt comes after the BBC revealed 13,000 cases in England and Wales had been dropped in five years because the six month limit had been breached.\n\nThe change is expected to come as part of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament.\n\nCampaigners have said the move would be very welcome, but they are waiting to see an official announcement.\n\nCommon assault cases include things like a push, threatening words or being spat at and are normally dealt with at magistrates court.\n\nThe clock starts from the date of the incident, and within the next six months, a victim needs to have come forward and the police have to have carried out their work to secure a charge against the alleged perpetrator, or the case will be dropped.\n\nVictims of domestic common assault are sometimes reluctant to report incidents and the cases can be complex - which is why campaigners say the police should be given more time before having to bring charges.\n\nThe argument for the time limit was to keep the criminal justice system moving, especially when there is now such a backlog of cases to be heard following Covid.\n\nBut Labour MP Yvette Cooper, who chairs the Commons Home Affairs Committee, said the number of incidents being \"timed out\" because of the six month factor was \"shocking\".\n\nThe BBC has been told this time limit will now be extended to two years, and there will be a renewed push to ensure police and prosecutors are alive to incidents of coercive control, which are often linked with incidents of domestic abuse.\n\nMs Cooper said the change would be \"excellent news\", adding: \"Making this simple and practical change would give domestic abuse victims more time to report assault and means stronger action to tackle violence against women and girls - something that is badly needed right now.\"\n\nThree-quarters of all domestic abuse cases - including sexual assaults - are closed early without the suspect being charged, according to a report by HM inspector of constabulary.\n\nAnd just 1.6% of rape allegations in England and Wales result in someone being charged - something the government has said it is \"deeply ashamed\" about.\n\nFigures obtained by the BBC using Freedom of Information from 30 of the 43 police forces in England and Wales, revealed a huge increase in allegations of common assault involving domestic abuse - but a fall in the number of charges being brought.\n\nFrom 2016-17 to 2020-21 there were at least 12,982 cases of common assault that were flagged as involving domestic abuse in which no-one was charged due to the time limit.\n\nIn the same time period, the total number of common assaults flagged as instances of domestic abuse increased by 71% from 99,134 to 170,013.\n\nBut the number of these common assaults that resulted in charges being brought fell by 23%.\n\nA government spokesman said all allegations should be investigated and pursued where possible, and money had been invested into supporting victims of such crimes during the pandemic.", "Whitney Dowler: \"I told myself to just keep ignoring him and he'll soon go away. But he didn't\"\n\nA former student has said she suffers panic attacks if people walk too close after being assaulted by a university lecturer as she walked home at night.\n\nWhitney Dowler, 22, tried to run away from Kary Thanapalan, 49, as he pursued her in Treforest, Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, in November 2020.\n\nMs Dowler waived her right to anonymity to speak out after attacks on women, including the murder of Sarah Everard.\n\nShe said: \"Men like Kary are why women are so afraid to walk home alone.\"\n\nThanapalan, of Egypt Street, Treforest, was jailed at Cardiff Crown Court in May after admitting sexual assault.\n\nHe fled when Ms Dowler's friend arrived after the trainee library assistant sent a text message asking for help.\n\nThanapalan lost his job as a senior lecturer of aeronautical and mechanical engineering at the University of South Wales following the assault.\n\nHe did not teach Ms Dowler, from Bargoed in Caerphilly county, who was in her final year studying IT at the university when she was assaulted.\n\nShe said she had been walking home alone after meeting a friend for a night out when Thanapalan approached her.\n\n\"Avoiding eye contact, I hurried past him but he shouted 'baby' and began following me,\" she said.\n\n\"Panicking, I told myself to just keep ignoring him and he'll soon go away. But he didn't.\n\n\"I started to run and the man caught up with me and grabbed my arm.\"\n\nShe said she was assaulted and \"shoved him off\" before running away, only to be pursued again.\n\n\"He kept saying I was breaking his heart and that I was going to come home with him.\n\n\"I was sobbing and telling him 'no' over and over.\"\n\nWhitney Dowler: \"If someone walks near me on the street now, I have a panic attack\"\n\nShe said: \"At one point we reached a busy street and a car pulled up next to me.\n\n\"It was a male driver who asked if I was okay. Crying, I told him that I was being followed.\n\n\"The driver offered me a lift home but I realised he was also a stranger.\n\n\"I didn't know if he was a threat as well. I couldn't trust anyone - so I said 'no'.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in these stories:\n\nAs she approached Treforest railway station, she sent a text message to a friend who lived nearby and he arrived shortly afterwards.\n\n\"As I got to the station car park, the man grabbed me again and groped my breast,\" said Ms Dowler.\n\n\"Suddenly, I spotted my friend in the distance and I screamed for help.\n\n\"He ran towards us, screaming at the man to get off me.\n\n\"Thankfully, he let go of me and fled. I thought I was going to be raped or killed.\"\n\nShe reported what happened to police and Thanapalan was arrested after CCTV footage was seized and a Facebook profile of the defendant matched the description given.\n\nA DNA swab was taken and found to match that on his victim's cheek.\n\n\"If someone walks near me on the street now, I have a panic attack,\" said Ms Dowler.\n\n\"I don't know if I'll ever feel safe again.\"\n\nDuring sentencing, defence barrister Anthony O'Connell said his client was remorseful and had lost his previous good character.\n\nHe said he had suffered a self-inflicted \"spectacular fall from grace\", including losing his job.", "Advising people to work from home is likely to have the most impact on stopping Covid spreading this winter, scientists advising the government say.\n\nStricter virus restrictions should now be prepared for \"rapid deployment\", the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said.\n\nIt said \"presenteeism\" - or pressure to be in work - could become an increasing cause of infections in workplaces.\n\nAsked about working from home, the PM said all measures were under review.\n\nBoris Johnson added: \"We do whatever we have to do to protect the public but the numbers that we're seeing at the moment are fully in line with what we expected in the autumn and winter plan.\"\n\nMinisters in England are resisting calls to switch to their winter Plan B that would see measures like compulsory face coverings in certain places.\n\nCovid hospital admissions and deaths across the UK are rising slowly, and the UK has recorded over 40,000 new daily Covid cases for the past ten days.\n\nOn Friday, a further 49,298 coronavirus cases were reported in the UK, alongside 180 new deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nAny advice to work from home would only apply to those who are able to do their job away from the workplace.\n\nIn April 2020, at the height of the first pandemic lockdown, less than half of people in employment, some 46.6%, did some work at home, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nIn minutes of a meeting of scientific advisers on 14 October, published on Friday, they warn that acting earlier rather than later could reduce the need for stricter measures over a longer timeframe \"to avoid an unacceptable level of hospitalisations\".\n\nThey added that any measures introduced must be clearly communicated.\n\nThe advisers, led by Sir Patrick Vallance, say models forecasting the coming winter suggest Covid hospital admissions are \"increasingly unlikely\" to rise above the levels of January 2021 peak.\n\nBut they say they are unsure of the impact of \"waning immunity and people's behaviour\".\n\nThere has been a noticeable dip in people saying they are wearing face coverings and latest figures from the ONS suggest more than half of British working adults are now travelling to work.\n\nSage says making face coverings compulsory in some places is likely to help reduce the spread of Covid as well as other winter viruses, such as flu.\n\nIt also notes the risks of high levels of the virus circulating in the UK, compared with other countries.\n\n\"Cases and admissions are currently at much higher levels than in European comparators, which have retained additional measures and have greater vaccine coverage, especially in children,\" the scientists say.\n\n\"Reducing prevalence from a high level requires greater intervention than reducing from a lower level.\"\n\nAnother worry is the emergence of a new variant that becomes \"dominant globally\", which they call \"a very real possibility\".\n\nThe great Plan B debate for England has moved up another gear.\n\nDemands for more widespread mask wearing, more working from home and vaccine passports have been growing - with the NHS Confederation and the British Medical Association throwing their weight behind measures which the government has branded its Plan B.\n\nMembers of the expert committee Sage, according to minutes of recent meetings, seem to favour acting sooner rather than later - \"earlier intervention may reduce the need for more stringent, disruptive and longer-lasting measures\".\n\nThey pointedly note that cases are much lower in European countries which have tougher rules on masks and vaccine passports.\n\nBoris Johnson said all measures were being kept under review but the focus was still on getting more people vaccinated.\n\nThe government then is resisting pressure for Plan B in England.\n\nBut the notably more cautious tone from Health Secretary Sajid Javid recently suggests that the views of official experts and advisers are having an impact.\n\nThe advisers warn that the prospect of people being infected with Covid, flu and other respiratory viruses this winter could be \"a significant challenge\".\n\nThey say people who show symptoms of an infection should stay at home to stop it spreading to others.\n\nThis message needs to come from government, employers, universities and schools to be most effective, they say.\n\nOne in 55 people in England was infected with coronavirus in the week ending 16 October, according to latest estimates from the ONS - more than at any time since the end of January.\n\nInfections continue to fall in Scotland, and remain flat in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe percentage of people testing positive remained highest for those in school years seven to 11, the ONS estimates showed, ahead of half term for many pupils in England.\n\nIn the week ending 16 October, 7.8% of people in that age group were infected - compared to less than 2% of people in all older age groups.\n\nOfficial government data, which tracks people testing positive, shows that nearly 1,000 people a day are being admitted to UK hospitals with Covid and more than 8,000 in total are in hospital with the illness.\n\nThese figures are way below where they were in January because of protection from the vaccines, but doctors and health leaders have voiced concerns over the lack of curbs to control any further rises.\n\nWhen Mr Johnson was asked on Friday whether a full lockdown, with \"stay at home\" advice and shops closing, was out of the question this winter, he replied: \"I've got to tell you at the moment that we see absolutely nothing to indicate that that's on the cards at all.\"", "The US Supreme Court will allow Texas to maintain a near-total ban on abortions, but will take up the case next month in a rare sped-up process.\n\nThe law, known as SB8, gives any person the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past six-weeks - before most women know they are pregnant.\n\nThe Supreme Court said it will focus on how the law was crafted and whether it can be legally challenged.\n\nIt is considered extraordinarily rare for the top US court to expedite cases.\n\nLower courts have yet to issue final rulings on the so-called Texas Heartbeat Act.\n\nThe controversial law - which makes an exception for a documented medical emergency but not for cases of rape or incest - bans abortion after what some refer to as a foetal heartbeat.\n\nThe American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists says that at six weeks a foetus has not yet developed a heartbeat, but rather an \"electrically induced flickering\" of tissue that will become the heart.\n\nThe Texas law is enforced by giving any individual - from Texas or elsewhere - the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past the six-week point. However, it does not allow the women who get the procedure to be sued.\n\nThe Biden administration has previously said it would ask the court to block the law. Since 1973's landmark Roe v Wade Supreme Court case, US women have had a right to abortions until a foetus is able to survive outside the womb - usually between 22 and 24 weeks into pregnancy.\n\nThe US is one of seven out of 198 countries to allow elective abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, according to the Washington Post.\n\nLawyers for the state of Texas asked the justices on the court to consider overruling the landmark Roe decision, as well as a separate case that affirmed the constitutional right to an abortion. The court did not accept that request.\n\nOral arguments in the case have been set for 1 November. The Supreme Court said that it would wait for those arguments to take place before taking any action.\n\nIn a written dissent, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that the expedited timeframe would offer \"cold comfort\" for women in Texas who are hoping for abortion treatment.\n\nShe was the only one of the Supreme Court's nine judges to advocate blocking the law in the short-term.\n\n\"Women seeking abortion care in Texas are entitled to relief from this court now,\" she wrote. \"Because of the court's failure to act today, that relief, if it comes, will be too late for many.\"\n\nThe law came into effect in Texas on 1 September.\n\nAbortion providers and opponents of the law had called for it to be lifted until the Supreme Court took up the case.\n\nWhole Woman's Health, which operates four clinics in Texas, tweeted that \"the legal limbo is excruciating for both patients and our clinic staff\".\n\nExperts believe that the oral arguments may provide a glimpse into how the Supreme Court will approach other abortion cases.\n\nIn December, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a separate case regarding a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The abortion battle explained in three minutes", "A new mutated form of coronavirus that some are calling \"Delta Plus\" may spread more easily than regular Delta, UK experts now say.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has moved it up into the \"variant under investigation\" category, to reflect this possible risk.\n\nThere is no evidence yet that it causes worse illness.\n\nAnd scientists are confident that existing vaccines should still work well to protect people.\n\nAlthough regular Delta still accounts for most Covid infections in the UK, cases of \"Delta Plus\" or AY.4.2 have been increasing.\n\nLatest official data suggests 6% of Covid cases are of this type.\n\nExperts say it is unlikely to take off in a big way or escape current vaccines. But officials say there is some early evidence that it may have an increased growth rate in the UK compared to Delta.\n\n\"This sub-lineage has become increasingly common in the UK in recent months, and there is some early evidence that it may have an increased growth rate in the UK compared to Delta,\" the UKHSA said.\n\nUnlike Delta, however, it is not yet considered a \"variant of concern\" - the highest category assigned to variants according to their level of risk.\n\nThere are thousands of different types - or variants - of Covid circulating across the world. Viruses mutate all the time, so it is not surprising to see new versions emerge.\n\nAY.4.2 is an offshoot of Delta that includes some new mutations affecting the spike protein, which the virus uses to penetrate our cells.\n\nThe mutations - Y145H and A222V - have been found in various other coronavirus lineages since the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nA few cases have also been identified in the US. There had been some in Denmark, but new infections with AY.4.2 have since gone down there.\n\nThe UK is already offering booster doses of Covid vaccine to higher risk people ahead of winter, to make sure they have the fullest protection against coronavirus.\n\nThere is no suggestion that a new update of the vaccine will be needed to protect against any of the existing variants of the pandemic virus.\n\nDr Jenny Harries, Chief Executive of the UKHSA, said: \"The public health advice is the same for all current variants. Get vaccinated and, for those eligible, come forward for your third or booster dose as appropriate as soon as you are called.\n\n\"Continue to exercise caution. Wear a mask in crowded spaces and, when meeting people indoors, open windows and doors to ventilate the room. If you have symptoms take a PCR test and isolate at home until you receive a negative result.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Greta Thunberg says she's 'completely different' in private\n\nClimate activist Greta Thunberg has told the BBC that summits will not lead to action on climate goals unless the public demand change too.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview ahead of the COP26 climate summit, she said the public needed to \"uproot the system\".\n\n\"The change is going to come when people are demanding change. So we can't expect everything to happen at these conferences,\" she said.\n\nShe also accused politicians of coming up with excuses.\n\nThe COP26 climate summit is taking place in Scotland's largest city, Glasgow, from 31 October to 12 November.\n\nIt is the biggest climate change conference since landmark talks in Paris in 2015. Some 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions, which cause global warming.\n\nMs Thunberg, who recently launched a global series of concerts highlighting climate change called Climate Live, confirmed she would be attending COP26. She said her message to world leaders was to \"be honest\".\n\n\"Be honest about where you are, how you have been failing, how you're still failing us... instead of trying to find solutions, real solutions that will actually lead somewhere, that would lead to a substantial change, fundamental change,\" she told the BBC's Rebecca Morelle.\n\n\"In my view, success would be that people finally start to realise the urgency of the situation and realise that we are facing an existential crisis, and that we are going to need big changes, that we're going to need to uproot the system, because that's where the change is going to come.\"\n\nMs Thunberg did not believe that UK plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions to reach a target of net zero by 2050 were sufficient, or that the UK was a climate leader.\n\n\"Unfortunately there are no climate leaders today, especially not in the so-called global north. But that doesn't mean that they can't suddenly decide that now we're going to take the process seriously,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking about the targets for reaching net zero - which means not adding to the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - she said that it was a \"good start\", but cautioned that it \"doesn't really mean very much in practice\" if people continued to look for loopholes.\n\nKevin Mtai will be one of many activists attending COP26\n\nCOP26 will be attended by climate activists from across the world.\n\nKevin Mtai, a climate justice campaigner from Kenya, told the BBC that inclusivity at the summit was important.\n\n\"I hope this climate conference is going to be an inclusive conference, to include all voices in the talks. They need to use indigenous people in the talks, marginalised people in the talks, people from the most affected areas,\" he said.\n\n\"It's very important for people from the global south to speak for themselves, not other parts of the globe to speak on their behalf. Because we are the ones who have been affected by climate change, so it's very important we can hear from our own people, with our own ideas, our own voice.\"\n\nFrom her home in Sweden, Ms Thunberg also spoke about her own role as a campaigner.\n\n\"I don't see myself as a climate celebrity, I see myself as a climate activist... I should be grateful because there are many, many people who don't have a platform and who are not being listened to, their voices are being oppressed and silenced.\n\n\"I'm a completely different person when I'm in private. I don't think people would recognise me in private. I'm not very serious in private. I appear very angry in the media, but I am silly in private.\"\n\nWhen asked about why she sang a Rick Astley hit at the launch of Climate Live, she said that it was a climate movement in-joke. She has previously taken part in the internet phenomenon \"rick-rolling\" by tweeting out what she said was a link to a new speech, but actually linked to the music video for the song.\n\n\"Why not? I mean we have internal jokes within the climate movement, where we always rickroll each other.\"", "England's city regions are set to receive billions of pounds to improve public transport in next week's Budget.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak will commit £6.9bn towards train, tram, bus and cycle projects when he sets out his spending plans on Wednesday.\n\nGreater Manchester, the West Midlands and West Yorkshire are among the regions that will benefit.\n\nThe funding was welcomed by Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham as \"an important first step\".\n\nEarlier this month, he launched a bid for £1bn to create a London-style transport network for the region.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"There is no reason why somebody working in the North and Midlands should have to wait several times longer for their bus or train to arrive in the morning compared to a commuter in the capital.\n\n\"This transport revolution will help redress that imbalance as we modernise our local transport networks so they are fit for our great cities and those people who live and work in them.\"\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will also receive extra funding through the Barnett formula - a mechanism the UK government uses to allocate additional money to the devolved nations when it spends more in England.\n\nThe £5.7bn is a five-year settlement, and has been increased from the initial £4.2bn proposed, the Treasury said.\n\nThe £1.2bn of funding to make bus services cheaper and more frequent is part of £3bn that Prime Minister Boris Johnson committed to spending on a \"bus revolution\" in March.\n\nLabour's Andy Burnham said the cash was \"an important first step towards a London-style public transport system for Greater Manchester\".\n\nBut he added: \"As welcome as it is, infrastructure investment alone will not make levelling up feel real to the people of Greater Manchester.\n\n\"That will only happen when the frequency and coverage of bus services are increased and fares are lowered to London levels,\" Mr Burnham added.\n\nAndy Street, Conservative mayor of the West Midlands, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to get the funding, which he said was the largest single transport sum the area had ever received.\n\n\"From more metro lines and train stations, to new bus routes and electric vehicle charging points, this cash will help us to continue to build a clean, green transport network that connects communities and tackles the climate emergency.\"\n\nSilviya Barrett, head of policy and research at the Campaign for Better Transport, welcomed the increased funding for trams, trains and \"active travel\" but wanted the government to end the process of regions competing for bus funding.\n\n\"We are concerned that the competitive funding process for buses could mean that investment does not reach everywhere that needs it.\n\n\"Many areas have bus fares that are too high and gaping holes in services, so they need funding to put their bus service improvement plans in place,\" Ms Barrett said.\n\nThe Confederation of Passenger Transport, which represents the bus and coach industry, said the fact the full £3bn the government had committed to spending on buses had not yet been reached meant the government's \"rhetoric is unfortunately not being matched by reality\".\n\nMore money will go to the West Midlands Metro\n\nIt comes as a new survey shows reliance on cars has reached a 15-year high despite fewer people commuting during the pandemic.\n\nMore than four in five (82%) of 2,652 UK motorists surveyed by the RAC motoring organisation said they would struggle without a car. That is up from 79% in 2020 and 74% the previous year.\n\nMore than half said that there were no feasible public transport services in their area.\n\nAnd people living in cities who have to drive are spending more time at the wheel, according to research from the Centre for Cities, which found motorists in Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester spend more than 50 hours a year stuck in traffic.\n\nDrivers in rural areas were also more likely to be car-dependent (87%) than their urban counterparts (77%).", "Of all those detained, the biggest category were adults travelling without children\n\nThe US says more than 1.7 million migrants were detained along its border with Mexico in the past 12 months - the highest number ever recorded.\n\nMore than one million of them were expelled to Mexico or their native countries, according to data from US Customs and Border Protection.\n\nAgents apprehended people from more than 160 countries.\n\nPresident Joe Biden's popularity in opinion polls has been sinking, partly as a result of his immigration policy.\n\nJust 35% of Americans said they approved of his handling of the issue, in an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey earlier this month.\n\nMr Biden promised a more humane immigration policy than his predecessor Donald Trump, but the US-Mexico border has been engulfed in crisis for much of the Democrat's nine-month-old presidency.\n\nThe detention numbers for the 2021 fiscal year, which ended in September, are the highest since 2000. That year, more than 1.6 million migrants were held at the US-Mexico border. But the number has not reached 1.7 million since US authorities first began tracking such entries in the 1960s.\n\n\"The large number of expulsions during the pandemic has contributed to a larger-than-usual number of migrants making multiple border crossing attempts,\" the US Customs and Border Protection said.\n\nThose trying to enter the US illegally were mainly from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.\n\nOf all those detained, the biggest category were adults travelling without children - more than 1.1 million (or 64%).\n\nAt the same time, the US authorities said they encountered more than 145,000 unaccompanied children - a record number.\n\nAlmost 11,000 of those children remained in government custody on Friday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA BBC investigation of the Fort Bliss detention centre in Texas earlier this year found reports of sexual abuse, Covid and lice outbreaks, hungry children being served undercooked meat and sandstorms engulfing the desert tent camps where the young people were being held.\n\nRepublicans have blamed Mr Biden's promise to create a pathway to citizenship for immigrants for fuelling the surge.\n\nMr Biden - who is making one of his regular trips to his home in Delaware this weekend - has been facing questions this week about why he has not visited the border.\n\nThe White House press secretary told reporters on Friday that Mr Biden drove by the border in 2008 when he was campaigning to be Barack Obama's vice-president.", "Businesswoman Doreen Lofthouse was known as the \"mother of Fleetwood\"\n\nA coastal town has received a £41m donation from a woman who was involved in the success of Fisherman's Friend cough sweets.\n\nBusinesswoman Doreen Lofthouse, who died in March aged 91, has left her fortune to a charity that aims to develop her Fleetwood hometown.\n\nSince the 1990s, Mrs Lofthouse and her family have given millions of pounds to community projects in Lancashire.\n\nFleetwood Town Council described the donation as \"unbelievable\".\n\nA total of £41.4m was bequeathed to the Lofthouse Foundation, which was set up by Mrs Lofthouse and her family in 1994 to revitalise the town.\n\nThe famous remedy was originally made by Fleetwood pharmacist James Lofthouse in 1865 after three croaky fishermen tried but failed to tell him about their catch of the day.\n\nSince then, the family business has grown to produce about 5 billion lozenges a year, the firm says.\n\nThe current typical look of the sweets is based on the buttons of a dress worn by Mrs Lofthouse, who married one of James Lofthouse's descendants.\n\nKnown as \"the mother of Fleetwood\", she helped spread the word of the menthol and eucalyptus lozenges around the world in the 1960s.\n\nShe was also remembered by her many contributions over the years, including helping to fund floodlights at the local football club, a lifeboat for the RNLI and public artworks such as the \"welcome home\" statue for the families of fishermen.\n\nShe was later awarded an MBE and an OBE for her charity work.\n\nThe Lofthouse family started selling the fiery lozenges to local shops more than 150 years ago\n\nFleetwood Town Council's vice chairman Mary Stirzaker told BBC North West Tonight that Mrs Lofthouse was \"an incredible woman\" and that it was \"overwhelmed by the generosity\".\n\n\"It is an unbelievable amount of money,\" she said.\n\n\"We are hoping the foundation works alongside us to identify projects that will benefit the town for years to come.\n\n\"We have got to keep Fleetwood on the map. I hope that this brings more visitors to our town.\"\n\nSince Mrs Lofthouse's death, people have called for a permanent memorial to be built in her honour.\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.", "Mr Salvini said he was defending the government's policy to protect Italy\n\nItalian ex-interior minister Matteo Salvini has gone on trial in Sicily, accused of preventing a migrant boat from docking in August 2019.\n\nThe right-wing politician denies kidnap and dereliction of duty charges.\n\nProsecution witnesses include Hollywood actor Richard Gere, who was on board.\n\nMr Salvini closed ports to rescue boats, leaving dozens of migrants saved from the Mediterranean stranded aboard a Spanish rescue vessel for three weeks in deteriorating conditions.\n\nHe faces a maximum of 15 years in jail if convicted.\n\nOn the opening day of the trial, the judge allowed all witnesses submitted by both sides to testify. They also include former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and members of his cabinet.\n\n\"I wonder if it's serious that Richard Gere of Hollywood is going to testify about my behaviour at a trial,\" he told journalists outside the court.\n\nMr Gere had boarded the Spanish ship the Open Arms before it docked after 19 days at sea on the island of Lampedusa with nearly 150 migrants on board.\n\nMr Salvini said he was defending his government's \"closed ports\" policy aimed at stopping migrants from making the dangerous Mediterranean crossing.\n\nThe migrant ship was not allowed to dock in Lampedusa\n\nBut his blockade of the ship caused an outcry and a serious split in the coalition government at the time. His League party was in a coalition with the anti-establishment Five Star.\n\nIn July last year, the Senate voted to strip him of his parliamentary immunity.\n\nMr Conte had called Mr Salvini \"obsessed\" with keeping migrants out of Italian ports.\n\nIn 2019 the Open Arms charity filed a legal complaint against Mr Salvini's block on their ship, which ended on 20 August.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Salvini defended his actions in the Senate last year\n\nBy that time, many of the migrants had already been allowed off the ship.\n\nThe charity's founder Oscar Camps told reporters outside the trial on Saturday that saving lives should not be politicised.\n\n\"Rescuing people in the sea is no crime, it's an obligation not only for the captain but also for all states,\" he said.\n\nThe court adjourned after several hours. A further hearing has been scheduled for 17 December.", "Disruption is expected in Glasgow over the weekend as the first major road closures for COP26 take effect.\n\nRoutes including the Clyde Arc and part of the Clydeside Expressway closed on Saturday night while Finnieston Street will only allow local access on Sunday.\n\nRail strikes also look set to go ahead for the duration of the summit, following a breakdown in union talks.\n\nThe climate conference is expected to draw 25,000 delegates and runs from 31 October to 12 November.\n\nSecurity is expected to be tight, particularly around the attendance of some 120 world leaders, and police have announced how they plan to approach disruptive climate activists.\n\nRoad closures will last until Monday 15 November.\n\nSome days are expected to be busier than others, with the biggest disruption expected on Saturday 6 November which has been designated as the Global Day For Climate Justice.\n\nAbout 100,000 protesters are expected in Glasgow, with a march which begins at Kelvingrove Park at noon before making its way to Glasgow Green for about 15:00.\n\nPeople across the city can expect to be affected by delays, diversions or road congestion, from pedestrians and cyclists to drivers and those using public transport.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roads in Glasgow close ahead of the COP26 climate change summit\n\nThe RMT confirmed that strikes during COP26 would go ahead, with ScotRail workers planning action from 1-12 November amid an ongoing dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nThe union's general secretary Mick Lynch said the decision to press on with industrial action was made on Friday after the train company \"failed to get serious\" in talks with the union.\n\nHe said ScotRail had missed \"a golden opportunity\" for progress by offering \"nothing of any consequence\".\n\nMr Lynch continued that there was still time to avoid \"the chaos of a transport shutdown during COP26 if the key players get back with some serious proposals\".\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson welcomed that three out of four railway trade unions had now accepted, or recommended acceptance of, the pay offer.\n\nThat offer amounts to a 2.5% pay increase backdated to 1 April 2021, and a 2.2% increase effective from 1 April 2022, with a one-off £300 payment for staff working during COP26.\n\nBut the government said it was \"disappointed\" the offer was rejected by the RMT.\n\nA spokesperson said after this, ScotRail sought to focus the issue of rest day working, which the RMT said needed to be addressed.\n\nHowever, an offer on rest day working was \"rejected out of hand\" and the union returned to the issue of pay, according to the government.\n\nIt said: \"We don't think anyone, including the membership of the RMT, wants to disrupt COP26 or the chance to showcase Scotland's green, clean railway to a global audience. We hope that encompasses the RMT leadership too, although their approach to seeking resolution does appear to call this into question.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Ian McConnell, of ScotRail, said he was \"incredibly frustrated\" that the union had \"point blank rejected\" the latest proposal.\n\nHe accused the leadership of having \"moved the goalposts without consulting their members\".\n\nMr McConnell said time was running out to reach agreement, adding: \"It seems RMT bosses are intent on sabotaging Scotland's railway's role during COP26.\"\n\nContingency plans were being developed to provide a core service for the duration of the summit, he said.\n\nAppearing on BBC Radio Scotland, Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken urged people to plan ahead of travelling and check the Get Ready Glasgow website for more information.\n\nMs Aitken also said cleansing teams were out clearing up fly-tipping \"hotspots\" after the issue of mounting rubbish in the city was raised on Question Time.\n\nAbout 1,500 Glasgow City Council staff including those in refuse collection and cleansing plan to strike for a week during the climate summit due to an ongoing pay dispute.\n\nUnion members rejected an £850-a-year increase for staff earning up to £25,000 a year, and are instead calling for a £2,000 pay rise for staff.\n\nConcerns have also been raised about the impact the summit could have on Scotland's Covid cases.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, of Edinburgh University, tweeted that a mass event such as COP26 \"will cause an increase in cases\" and could \"trigger a need for further restrictions\".\n\nJillian Evans, head of health intelligence for NHS Grampian, said the risk of infection during mass events was high even if safety precautions were in place.\n\nShe warned many of those attending would not be fully vaccinated.\n\nMs Evans added: \"We've got a really fragile situation, the number of cases in Scotland have been plateauing - plateaued at higher levels than ever before.\"\n\n\"You're looking at numbers we probably haven't seen before, whether that leads to restrictions will depend on the scale of this. I would say the stakes are really high,\" she said.\n\nThe Scottish government has said appropriate mitigation measures will be in place for the summit and Covid-19 continues to be closely monitored.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland bowled West Indies out for 55 as they made a stunning start to their Men's T20 World Cup campaign with a six-wicket win in Dubai.\n\nIn a near-perfect bowling performance, England humiliated the defending champions by dismissing them in 14.2 overs.\n\nAdil Rashid took a barely believable 4-2 while Moeen Ali and Tymal Mills were brilliant, both claiming 2-17.\n\nChris Gayle was the only West Indies batter to reach double figures in a feeble batting display - the second-lowest total against England in T20s.\n\nAlthough England lost four wickets as they attempted to wrap up victory and increase their net run-rate in Group 1 of the Super 12s, it was still a statement opening win from the world's top-ranked side and one of the tournament favourites.\n\nOpener Jos Buttler ended 24 not out as the chase was completed with a massive 11.4 overs to spare.\n\n\"It is as good as it gets,\" said England captain Eoin Morgan.\n\nEngland - bidding to become the first team to hold the 50-over and 20-over World Cups - face Bangladesh in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday and Australia in Dubai next Saturday.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Australia held their nerve to chase 119 and beat South Africa by five wickets in Abu Dhabi.\n• None It was the first time England have won a T20 with more than 10 overs to spare and the first time West Indies have lost with more than 10 overs to spare.\n• None West Indies' 55 was the third-lowest total at a T20 World Cup and their second-lowest score in T20s.\n• None England's win was the fourth largest at the T20 World Cup in terms of balls remaining.\n\nThis match was a repeat of the 2016 World T20 final, won by West Indies after Carlos Brathwaite hit four consecutive sixes in the final over.\n\nDespite England's batting wobble, the rematch was not as dramatic, but it was no less staggering.\n\nWest Indies are fancied to do well in this tournament, not least because of their vaunted batting line-up. But instead of racking up runs, their batters slumped back to the dressing room in a sorry procession.\n\nEngland were majestic with the ball and in the field as every move made by Morgan came off.\n\nAfter winning the toss he handed the new ball to off-spinner Moeen, who dismissed Lendl Simmons and Shimron Hetmyer within three accurate overs.\n\nMills marked his turnaround from injury nightmare to international recall by having Gayle caught in his first over at a World Cup.\n\nAdil Rashid, usually England's big T20 threat, was not needed until the 11th over, but when he was introduced he bowled Andre Russell with his first ball. The leg-spinner went on to blow away the tail.\n\nEngland were excellent but West Indies' performance with the bat raised questions about their method in T20 cricket.\n\nEngland bowled 43 dot balls in the first 10 overs, their most in that period since 2012.\n\nWest Indies' approach seemed to be to block or try to hit a six - or, on this occasion, block or bust - as batters fell repeatedly to attacking strokes.\n\nThey salvaged some pride with the ball, Akeal Hosein taking a fine diving catch to have Liam Livingstone caught and bowled, and all is not lost for them, with the top-two teams in the two six-team groups progressing to the semi-finals.\n\nTwo of the three lowest scores in T20 World Cup history have now been scored in the last two days - Sri Lanka bowled the Netherlands out for 44 on Friday - while Australia and South Africa played out a low-scoring thriller earlier on Saturday.\n\nThe early signs are that this may not be a high-scoring World Cup.\n\n'We need to take it on the chest as big men' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"To start a world tournament or campaign like that, full credit has to go to our bowling unit.\n\n\"He (Moeen) summed up conditions beautifully, hit his lengths well and took chances when his match-ups were right.\n\n\"I am delighted for big T (Mills). He has had an incredibly unfortunate journey throughout his career. He is as good as I have seen him.\"\n\nWest Indies captain Kieron Pollard: \"Being bowled out for 55 is unacceptable. It was plain to see. I don't think we were good enough on all counts.\n\n\"We need to take it on the chest as big men. Sometimes you just have to bin it and move on. It's very important we forget a game like this.\"\n\nEngland spinner Adil Rashid: \"As a bowling group we bowled exceptionally well. Everything fell into plan. Moeen started off brilliantly, along with Woakesy, and then Tymal, CJ and myself we backed up really well.\n\n\"Moeen showed us his talent again, bowling the first over tight and that set our tone off for the rest of the innings.\"\n• None 'That day was going to be a bad day': Exclusive footage and interviews from January's storming of the US capitol\n• None Caught between life and death in the swinging sixties", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Erdogan orders 10 ambassadors to be declared 'persona non grata'\n\nTurkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ordered 10 ambassadors, including those from the US, Germany and France, be declared persona non grata.\n\nIt follows a statement from the envoys calling for the urgent release of activist Osman Kavala.\n\nHe has been in jail for more than four years over protests and a coup attempt, although he has not been convicted.\n\nPersona non grata can remove diplomatic status and often results in expulsion or withdrawal of recognition of envoys.\n\nThis week's statement on Mr Kavala jointly came from the embassies of the US, Canada, France, Finland, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden. Seven are fellow Nato allies of Turkey.\n\nThe Council of Europe, Europe's main human rights watchdog, has given Turkey a final warning to heed a European Court of Human Rights ruling to free Mr Kavala pending trial.\n\nAddressing a crowd in Eskisehir on Saturday, Mr Erdogan said the ambassadors \"cannot dare to come to the Turkish foreign ministry and give orders\".\n\nHe said: \"I gave the necessary order to our foreign minister and said what must be done. These 10 ambassadors must be declared persona non grata at once. You will sort it out immediately.\"\n\nHowever, what will happen now remains unclear.\n\nOsman Kavala has spent more than four years in jail, without conviction\n\nMr Erdogan said the envoys should either understand Turkey or leave, Turkish media reported.\n\nThere has been little response from the ambassadors so far, although the German foreign ministry said the nations involved were in \"intensive consultation\".\n\nNo official notification has been received from Turkish authorities.\n\nThe Norwegian foreign ministry told Reuters its envoy had \"not done anything that warrants an expulsion\".\n\nTurkey's foreign ministry had summoned the ambassadors on Tuesday to protest at their \"irresponsible\" statement on the Kavala case.\n\nThe embassies' statement had criticised the \"continuing delays\" in Osman Kavala's trial, which \"cast a shadow over respect for democracy, the rule of law and transparency in the Turkish judiciary system\".\n\nIt urges a speedy resolution and calls for \"Turkey to secure his urgent release\".\n\nMr Kavala was last year acquitted of charges over nationwide protests in 2013, but almost immediately rearrested.\n\nThe acquittal was overturned and new charges were added relating to the military coup attempt against the Erdogan government in 2016.\n\nMr Kavala denies any wrongdoing and critics of the Erdogan government say his case is an example of a widespread crackdown on dissent.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Erdogan defended Turkey's judicial system, saying: \"I told our foreign minister: We can't have the luxury of hosting this lot in our country. Is it for you to give Turkey such a lesson? Who do you think you are?\"\n\nThe Kavala case has been a source of tension between the Turkish government and its Western allies. Turkey has been accused of applying criminal law against its critics and breaching the rule of law. The Kavala case is one example.\n\nAs a businessman, Mr Kavala had been campaigning for freedom of speech and democracy. President Erdogan says he supported the Gezi protests in Turkey in 2013. He believes those protests were aimed at toppling himself and his government. That is why he believes all the calls for Mr Kavala's release are directly targeting himself. Hence his harsh response.\n\nTurkish officials told me that they did not know when the trial should start. But if it does, we can expect a response from the countries now speaking out, and that will have consequences for the Turkish economy, which is already struggling, since some of those countries are Turkey's biggest trade partners.\n\nThis is a very bold move, probably a show of strength, especially for domestic politics a year and a half before elections. Some analysts believe it is rhetoric for domestic consumption. But others argue Mr Erdogan may be serious in pursuing this order. It remains to be seen.", "Hutchins was a \"wonderful mother, first and foremost\", a former colleague told the BBC\n\nHalyna Hutchins, the cinematographer who died when actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on a film set, has been remembered as \"an incredible artist\".\n\nHutchins had been working as director of photography on the set of Rust.\n\nAmerican Cinematographer magazine had named her one of its rising stars in 2019, and she previously worked on 2020 independent superhero film Archenemy.\n\nArchenemy director Adam Egypt Mortimer told BBC News the fact she had died on a set was \"really unbelievable\".\n\nHe said: \"Halyna was an incredible artist who was just starting a career I think people were really starting to notice.\n\n\"The fact that she would be killed on a set in an accident like this is unfathomable. It just seems inconceivable.\"\n\nHutchins' most recent post on Instagram, from Tuesday, showed her riding horses on set.\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 halynahutchins 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 Twitter, Alec Baldwin said \"there are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours.\"\n\n\"My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFellow cinematographer Catherine Goldschmidt described Hutchins as \"lovely, warm, funny, charming, outgoing\", and praised her for being \"so talented\".\n\n\"What's so tragic is she's made beautiful films already but when you think about what was ahead of her, that is also so sad,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"She was also a mum, which I think is very difficult,\" Goldschmidt added. \"When I first met her I remember being really impressed, shocked even that this beautiful, creative, outgoing, enthusiastic talented cinematographer also is raising the child.\n\n\"I think for women in this industry it is very difficult. So I was very impressed that she was able to do that.\"\n\nHutchins was described by a friend as a \"rockstar cinematographer\"\n\nAlex Fedosov, who like Hutchins is a Ukrainian film-maker working Hollywood, said she was \"rising fast in her career\" and was \"an artist and a visionary\".\n\n\"She was so talented, a photography director with her own vision, her own strong ideas,\" he told BBC News Ukrainian.\n\n\"When we worked together on set, I was assistant director, I would rush her and say, 'Hurry up, we need to film this'. She would smile calmly but carry on in her own rhythm because she knew what she wanted to achieve.\"\n\nInnovative Artists, the agency that represented her, described her as \"a ray of light\" in a statement.\n\n\"Her talent was immense, only surpassed by the love she had for her family,\" the agency wrote. \"All those in her orbit knew what was coming; a star director of photography, who would be a force to be reckoned with.\"\n\nFedosov added Hutchins was a \"wonderful mother, first and foremost\".\n\nHe also questioned how her death could have happened, saying: \"Standards of safety in the US are very high. There is always an expert on set. There are always checks ahead of filming. Blanks are used sometimes to achieve a better effect on camera but it is always done with high degree of safety.\"\n\nDirector Adam Egypt Mortimer told the BBC that safety on movie sets is paramount. \"The fact that a gun went off and killed Halyna is both shocking from an industry point of view and just absolutely tragic from the point of view of knowing this amazing artist who suddenly not with us.\"\n\nJames Gunn, director of The Suicide Squad and Guardians of the Galaxy, said: \"My greatest fear is that someone will be fatally hurt on one of my sets. I pray this will never happen. My heart goes out to all of those affected by the tragedy today on Rust, especially Halyna Hutchins and her family.\"\n\nDirector and cinematographer Elle Schneider wrote a thread on Twitter about the death of her \"friend and rockstar cinematographer\".\n\n\"I don't have words to describe this tragedy. I want answers. I want her family to somehow find peace among this horrific, horrific loss,\" she said.\n\n\"Women cinematographers have historically been kept from genre film, and it seems especially cruel that one of the rising stars who was able to break through had her life cut short on the kind of project we've been fighting for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by AFI Conservatory This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHutchins was born in Ukraine in 1979 and grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle.\n\nHer website said she spent her upbringing \"surrounded by reindeer and nuclear submarines\".\n\nShe entered the film industry after gaining a degree in international journalism from Kyiv State University. After working on documentaries in the UK, she moved to Los Angeles, where she graduated from the American Film Institute conservatory in 2015.\n\nShe began working her way up in Hollywood, with credits on films including Blindfire, which she described as a \"racially charged cop drama\" written and directed by Mike Nell.\n\nShe also worked on horror feature Darlin', directed by Pollyanna McIntosh, which debuted at the SXSW film festival 2019.\n\nAmerican Cinematographer, a monthly magazine published by the American Society of Cinematographers, interviewed Hutchins in 2019.\n\nShe explained to them why she moved from journalism to cinematography, saying: \"My transition from journalism began when I was working on British film productions in eastern Europe, travelling with crews to remote locations and seeing how the cinematographer worked.\n\n\"I was fascinated with storytelling based on real characters.\"\n\nHer early life as a self-described \"army brat\" meant she was \"already a movie fan because 'there wasn't that much to do outside'\", the magazine added.\n\nIt said she gained \"hands-on shooting experience from documenting her forays into such extreme sports as parachuting and cave exploration\".\n\nAfter her death, the magazine paid tribute to the film-maker, saying: \"We're deeply saddened by the news from Santa Fe regarding the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Safety on the set should always be of paramount concern to everyone, especially when working with firearms.\"", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 October.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nIt dawned on me: Gary Ward left at 03:30 to hike up Stob Dubh and Stob Coire in Glencoe to see the sunrise.\n\nMonster view: Gordon Page said he took this picture of 'beautiful Loch Ness from Fort Augustus'.\n\nWatered down: Niall Fraser The beautifully picturesque Invermoriston Falls on a moody autumn morning.\n\nMushrooming out of control: Audrey Macdonald spotted this stunning array of fungi on an early morning autumnal walk in Nairn.\n\nThe calm before the storm: Heidi Muir took this photo of Ardvasar Marina on Skye looking over to the mainland.\n\nFish supper: Derek Brown took this photograph of a grey heron feeding\n\nEdin-brrrr Castle: Rachel MacSween took this picture of Edinburgh Castle on a cold but clear and beautiful day.\n\nPigment of your imagination: Marianne Mann said the colours were very impressive at Tobermory on the Isle of Mull.\n\nGrave danger: Alistair Stevenson took this picture of a plant taking over a gravediggers hut at St Mungo in Lockerbie.\n\nIn plane sight: Rob Young took this photograph of a low flying USAF MC130 just skimming the trees in the Great Glen near Laggan dam.\n\nOutstanding in your field: Alan Bond took this drone picture of a combine harvester, harvesting the wheat from just behind his house in Stuartfield.\n\nBeak-a-boo: Freck Fraser took a picture of the often shy and reclusive Eurasian Jay, taken in his garden at Belladrum.\n\nEwe funny sheep: Jillian Neil took a picture of her friendly neighbours during a stay in Lindores\n\nSoaperstar: Gayle McIntyre took this picture of a student being hosed down after the Raisin Monday foam fight at the University of St Andrews – the first to be held in two years.\n\nThe fountain of youth: Ryan Laverty's daughter Aria, taking full advantage of the water fountains just recently opened next to the V&A Dundee, as part of the Waterfront renovation project.\n\nOrange you glad it's autumn? Victor Tregubov saw the beautiful colours of the changing leaves near Pitlochry.\n\nLiving on the edge: Pamela MacQueen took this picture on a \"journey to the edge of the world\" to the archipelago of St Kilda.\n\nLamborghini: Lyndsay Saunders took this snap of a Hebridean 'taxi' on the Isle of Harris whilst travelling in her campervan\n\nLittle shredder: Kirsty Brien took this picture of her seven-year-old son, Seth, on Harris where she has moved with her family.\n\nCatch of the day: Chris Boyle took this picture of a salmon leaping at Buchanty Spout, Perthshire.\n\nI have so mushroom in my heart for you: Howard Dodds took this photo of a fly agaric at Carron Valley Reservoir.\n\nGo with the flow: Glenys Norquay said her visit to the Birks of Aberfeldy in Perthshire was full of autumn colour.\n\nFeet first: Lindsey Harper said her son Rory was having so much fun on the zip wire at Crieff Hydro.\n\nSwan Lake: Patrick Hutton said this young swan was dipping its feet in the Musselburgh Lagoon.\n\nThe ghostess with the mostest: Mark Reynolds took this spooky snap of the ruined Jedburgh Abbey and its ghastly face in the windows.\n\nTime to reflect: Seria Hogg took this photo at the start of the Caledonian Canal in Fort William during a cycling trip around Scotland.\n\nHailey Beaupre said this photo of the Quiraing on the Isle of Skye is the best she has ever taken.\n\nDuck giving itself a quack: Shona Finlayson thought it looked like this duck was clapping at at Biggar boating pond.\n\nSquirrel Nutkin: John Kerr took this picture of squirrels looking for nuts at Argaty near Doune on a beautiful calm day.\n\nUnbeleafable: Elaine Malone took this picture of one of the \"new helpers\" at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital community garden.\n\nPeak preview: Richard Cooper waited for 20 minutes for the cloud to clear to reveal a light dusting of snow on the pinnacles of An Teallach.\n\nFairy umbrellas: Liz Hamilton took this picture of these porcelain mushrooms growing on a beech tree at Haddo Country Park, Aberdeenshire.\n\nRed flag: Marianne McKiggan took this picture on Portobello Beach in Edinburgh showing Kinetika Beach of Dreams, an installation of 500 pennant flags.\n\nView from above: Danny McCafferty took this picture of Hope street in Glasgow from his office window.\n\nGood mood: Curtis Welsh took this picture of Armanda, the Highland Cow, quietly chewing her cud and admiring the peaceful and empty golden sands at Hushinish on the Island of Harris.\n\nGo ahead: Margaret Winton said she was \"intrigued\" by the Floating Heads installation at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum in Glasgow.\n\nI'm hearing what you sea: Charlie Scott took this picture of the \"impressive\" waves at Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire.\n\nLeap of faith: Scott Renton took this picture of his daughter, Elspeth, during a trip to Nairn in the October holidays.\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.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "The law aims to reduce after-school tutoring in favour of \"enriching extra-curricular activities\"\n\nChina has passed an education law aimed at reducing the pressures of excessive homework and intensive after-school tutoring, state media say.\n\nParents are being asked to ensure their children have reasonable time for rest and exercise, and do not spend too much time online.\n\nIn August China banned written exams for six and seven year olds.\n\nOfficials warned at the time that students' physical and mental health was being harmed.\n\nIn the last year the state has also introduced a number of measures aimed at moderating children's \"addiction\" to the internet and popular culture.\n\nThe latest measure was passed on Saturday by the National People's Congress Standing Committee, the country's permanent legislative body.\n\nFull details of the law have not yet been published, but media reports suggest it encourages parents to nurture their children's morals, intellectual development and social habits.\n\nLocal government will be responsible for implementation, such as providing funding for \"enriching extra-curricular activities\".\n\nThe law received a mixed reaction on social media site Weibo, with some users praising the drive for good parenting while others questioned whether local authorities or the parents themselves would be up to the task.\n\n\"I work 996 [from 9am to 9pm, six days a week], and when I come home at night I still need to carry out family education?\" one user asked, quoted by the South China Morning Post newspaper.\n\n\"You can't exploit the workers and still ask them to have children.\"\n\nIn July, Beijing stripped online tutoring firms operating in the country of the ability to make a profit from teaching core subjects.\n\nThe new guidelines also restricted foreign investment in the industry and disrupted the private tutoring sector which was worth around $120bn (£87bn) before the overhaul.\n\nAt the time, the move was seen as authorities trying to ease the financial pressures of raising children, after China posted a record low birth rate.\n\nEducation inequality is also a problem - more affluent parents are willing to spend thousands to get their children into top schools.", "Two men have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to administer poison with intent to injure, annoy or aggrieve\n\nPolice say two men have been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into spiking incidents in Nottingham.\n\nNottinghamshire Police has received 15 reports of spiking where the victims believe they were injected with a needle on a night out.\n\nThe force said there had also been 32 reports of people being spiked by having their drink contaminated since 4 September.\n\nThe men, aged 18 and 19, have been released under investigation.\n\nThey were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to administer poison with intent to injure, annoy or aggrieve following information received by police on Wednesday.\n\nA 20-year-old man, arrested earlier this week as part of the investigation, has been released on bail.\n\nEarlier, Lincolnshire Police said it had arrested a 35-year-old man in the early hours of Friday in connection with an attempted drink-spiking at a Lincoln nightclub.\n\nThe suspected offence \"doesn't involve a needle\", the force said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teenager Sarah Buckle woke up in hospital after a suspected spiking incident\n\nThroughout the week, people in Nottingham and other parts of the country have been sharing their experiences of suspected spiking incidents - with some reporting waking hours later to discover evidence of having been injected.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said its investigation had seen officers working \"positively\" with venues and reviewing CCTV footage over the past few days.\n\nSupt Kathryn Craner urged anyone who believed they had been a victim of spiking to come forward.\n\nA boycott of nightclubs is being planned for Wednesday to put pressure on venue owners to tackle the problem.\n\nZara Owen believes she was injected with a needle during a night out in Nottingham\n\nSeveral bars in Nottingham have pledged to give female staff the night off to support the boycott and at least six said they planned to close at 22:00 BST.\n\nEzra Watson, manager of Six Barrel Drafthouse in Hockley, said: \"We've swapped shifts so all our female members of staff can stay in and show their support.\n\n\"It's just solidarity. You can't and shouldn't ignore it.\"\n\nHannah Foxton, a 20-year-old supervisor at The Angel Microbrewery in Hockley - which is also taking part - said: \"We have a lot of young female staff who work here and it's hit home for us quite deeply.\n\n\"I've gone through being spiked before. It is absolutely terrifying - I can't wrap my head round it.\n\n\"It feels like a no-brainer to add our support and our voice to something really important.\"\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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The pandemic has led to an \"unprecedented\" rise in the number of \"fake stray dogs\"\n\nPeople have tried to sell their lockdown dogs on Gumtree before disguising them as strays so rescue centres take them in, a charity warned.\n\nMore than 3.2 millions pets were bought by UK household during lockdown, figures from March showed.\n\nHope Rescue, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, said the number of dogs being dropped off at its rescue centre in Pontyclun was the highest in its 15-year history.\n\nThe charity expects the trend to continue for the next two years.\n\nCharity staff said some dog owners had called a dog warden and pretended their own pet is a stray, or taken the dogs directly to a rescue centre claiming they had found it abandoned.\n\nOne-year-old Maggie, an old English sheepdog crossed with a golden retriever, was taken in as a stray, but the next day staff saw a recent advert on Gumtree asking for £500 for her.\n\nSara Rosser, head of welfare at Hope Rescue Centre, said: \"We have to take stray dogs and so fake strays are jumping the queue ahead of dogs that really are abandoned.\n\n\"It is definitely unprecedented numbers at the moment.\"\n\nOne-year-old Maggie was left at a rescue centre as a stray but then staff saw an ad on Gumtree from her owners\n\nThis online advert for Maggie was found after she was brought into Hope Rescue centre as a stray\n\nShe said in the past week alone, five had come into the centre that they knew were fake strays, but the number \"could be much higher\".\n\nThe centre now has 150 strays - more than it has ever had before.\n\nShe said: \"The rescues are full and then the vets are ringing us saying 'is there any chance you can take them because we're concerned that dog is going to be put to sleep'.\"\n\nCharlie is a six-year-old terrier who came into Hope Rescue as a stray\n\nThe centre said these were \"desperate times\" and others like them were at \"crisis point\".\n\nCentres are at capacity, Ms Rosser said, because of the increase in people who got dogs during lockdown and later realise they cannot look after them as life returns to normal.\n\nShe added: \"At the moment what we're hearing from all the rescue centres that we work with is that they are also full and that they are under massive pressure.\"\n\nSara Rosser says many owners are realising they do not have the time to look after a dog out of lockdown\n\nDogs arriving at rescue centres post-pandemic are said to have a higher incidence of health or behavioural problems, or both, making them more difficult to rehome.\n\nOften these dogs have no background information on these issues, which lengthens the adoption process.\n\nHope Rescue said it had received more than 7,000 applications to adopt dogs in 2021, and has had to suspend applications because of the volume.\n\nOften, dogs cannot be transferred to other rescue centres because they have also reached capacity.\n\nMeg Williams, enterprise development manager at Hope Rescue, said: \"We think this is going to be lasting for two to three years, maybe even longer.\n\n\"The problems are going to continue, not everyone is choosing the right dog for their household.\"", "The protocol is the Brexit deal for Northern Ireland which keeps it in the EU's single market for goods\n\nThe first round of new talks on the Northern Ireland Protocol was \"constructive\", UK officials have said.\n\nHowever big gaps remain, particularly on the role of the European Court of Justice (ECJ).\n\nEU and UK officials held technical talks in Brussels last week, and an EU team will arrive in London on Tuesday to continue negotiations.\n\nThe lead negotiators, Lord Frost and Maroš Šefčovič, are expected to meet at the end of next week.\n\nA European Commission spokesperson declined to comment on the talks.\n\nThe protocol is the Brexit deal which prevents a hard Irish border by keeping Northern Ireland inside the EU's single market for goods.\n\nThat also creates a new trade border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, something the EU accepts is causing difficulties for many businesses.\n\nUnionist politicians say the arrangement undermines Northern Ireland's place in the UK.\n\nUnionists say the protocol damages trade and threatens Northern Ireland's place in the UK\n\nThe EU has suggested a package of reforms which would reduce the practical impacts of the protocol.\n\nThe UK wants more fundamental change, including the removal of the ECJ from its oversight role in the deal.\n\nA UK government source said: \"The talks this week were constructive and we've heard some things from the EU that we can work with.\n\n\"There's been plenty of speculation about governance this week but our position remains unchanged: the role of the ECJ in resolving disputes between the UK and EU must end.\n\n\"We need to see real progress soon rather than get stuck in a process of endless negotiation.\n\n\"Whether we're able to establish that momentum soon will help us determine if we can bridge the gap or if we need to use Article 16.\"\n\nLord Frost is expected to meet his EU counterpart Maroš Šefčovič next week\n\nArticle 16 is the part of the deal which allows parts of the protocol to be temporarily suspended if they are causing serious difficulties or leading to diversion of trade.\n\nIf one side uses Article 16 the other can take \"proportionate rebalancing measures\".\n\nIreland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has suggested the talks have a rough deadline of late December.\n\nHe told the Press Association news agency that there is a finite \"window\" within which the EU is willing to find solutions.\n\n\"I think that window is on offer now to the British government if they want to use it to find a way of implementing the protocol in a way that responds to the vast majority of the issues and problems that have been raised,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't tell you when the EU will decide that that approach is getting us nowhere if there's no agreement.\n\n\"But certainly I think there's a window between now and late December, when the EU, I think, will be open to continuing dialogue and trying to find a way of making this work.\"", "Alec Baldwin said he was fully co-operating with the police\n\nActor Alec Baldwin has expressed his shock and sadness after fatally shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a prop gun on a New Mexico film set.\n\nHe tweeted that he was in touch with her husband and had offered support.\n\n\"My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna,\" he wrote.\n\nMs Hutchins, 42, was shot on the set of the western Rust while working as director of photography.\n\n\"There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"I'm fully co-operating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy occurred.\"\n\nMs Hutchins was flown to hospital by helicopter after the shooting on Thursday afternoon but died of her injuries.\n\nDirector Joel Souza, 48, was injured and taken from the scene at Bonanza Creek Ranch by ambulance.\n\nAn actress in the film, Frances Fisher, tweeted on Friday that Mr Souza had told her that he had been released from the hospital, which was also reported by US media. The hospital declined to comment on Mr Souza's condition, citing privacy laws.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Baldwin, best known for his role as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock and for his portrayal of Donald Trump on sketch show Saturday Night Live, said the incident involved the misfiring of a prop gun with blanks.\n\nPolice are trying to establish what type of projectile left the prop gun and how. Local media reported that Mr Baldwin was seen outside the Santa Fe County sheriff's office in tears.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The director who worked with Halyna Hutchins on the 2020 action film Archenemy says her death is \"unfathomable\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the local district attorney's office told BBC News that the investigation is still its \"preliminary\" stage.\n\n\"At this time, we do not know if charges will be filed,\" said First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies.\n\nThe actor is a co-producer of Rust and plays its namesake, an outlaw whose 13-year-old grandson is convicted of manslaughter.\n\nThe eldest of four brothers, all actors, Mr Baldwin has starred in numerous TV and film roles since the 1980s.\n\nMs Hutchins was from Ukraine and grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle, according to her personal website. She studied journalism in Kyiv, and film in Los Angeles, and was named a \"rising star\" by the American Cinematographer magazine in 2019.\n\nShe was the director of photography for the 2020 action film Archenemy, directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer.\n\n\"I'm so sad about losing Halyna. And so infuriated that this could happen on a set,\" Mr Mortimer said in a tweet.\n\nIn a statement, the International Cinematographer's Guild said Ms Hutchins' death was \"devastating news\" and \"a terrible loss\".\n\n\"The details are unclear at this moment, but we are working to learn more, and we support a full investigation into this tragic event,\" said guild president John Lindley and executive director Rebecca Rhine.\n\nMs Hutchins' talent agency, Innovative Artists, wrote in an Instagram post on Friday that she was \"a ray of light\".\n\n\"Her talent was immense, only surpassed by the love she had for her family.\"\n\nThe agency's statement added it hopes that the fatal incident \"will reveal new lessons for how to better ensure safety for every crew member on set.\"\n\nPolice said sheriff's deputies were dispatched to Bonanza Creek Ranch, a popular filming location, at around 13:50 local time (19:50 GMT) on Thursday after receiving an emergency call.\n\nSuch incidents on film sets are extremely rare, but not unheard of.\n\nReal firearms are often used in filming, and are loaded with blanks - cartridges that create a flash and a bang without discharging a projectile.\n\nIn 1993, Brandon Lee - the 28-year-old son of the late martial-arts star Bruce Lee - died on set after being accidentally shot with a prop gun while filming a death scene for the film The Crow. The gun mistakenly had a dummy round loaded in it.\n\nResponding to Thursday's news, Brandon Lee's sister Shannon tweeted: \"Our hearts go out to the family of Halyna Hutchins and to Joel Souza and all involved in the incident on 'Rust'. No-one should ever be killed by a gun on a film set. Period.\"", "Healthcare Science is one of the T-levels already on offer\n\nThe government will reconfirm its commitment to a \"skills revolution\" with a spending package to be unveiled by the chancellor on Wednesday.\n\nRishi Sunak will announce £1.6bn to roll out new T-levels for 16 to 19-year-olds, and £550m for adult skills in England in his autumn statement.\n\nAnd there will be £830m confirmed to continue a five-year-scheme to revamp and modernise colleges.\n\nCollege principals said the funding was welcome but would not go far enough.\n\nSixth form colleges and 16-19 education finances have been struggling for many years.\n\nA report by the IPPR think-tank last year suggested colleges in England would have needed an extra £2.7bn a year since 2010 just to catch up with investment levels then.\n\nThe £1.6bn cash investment for colleges over three years to 2024-25 will be used, in the main, to provide additional classroom hours for up to 100,000 young people taking T-levels. Presently there are about 6,000 students on T-level courses.\n\nThese are the government's new vocational qualifications, equivalent to three A-levels, that have been developed with businesses to meet the needs of industry.\n\nCurrently, there are 10 T-levels available currently However, in time the government wants the list to be expanded to include training for many more professions.\n\nThe funding will also cover inflationary pressures and accommodate the higher number of teenagers in the population.\n\nAn extra £550m is being invested in adult skills through the Skills Fund by 2024-25. This fund offers short courses and so-called \"skills boot camps\" for adults who have no qualifications beyond GCSE level.\n\nAnd there is a further £170m for apprenticeships and training.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"Our future economic success depends not just on the education we give to our children but the lifelong learning we offer to adults.\"\n\nHe said his £3bn investment would create a \"skills revolution\", which would build on the government's job creation plans and spread opportunity across the UK by transforming post-16 education.\n\nMr Sunak told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show \"more sector-orientated training schemes have been shown to be really powerful\" and \"the best way to get to a high wage economy is to improve people's skills\".\n\nAt the heart of the government's plan for 16 to 19-year-olds in England is a qualification that few have yet heard of, the Technical or T-Level.\n\nOne T-level is designed to be equivalent to three A-levels, or up to 3 BTecs.\n\nT-Levels are meant to be substantial and quite demanding courses, which include at least 45 days of work placement.\n\nAt the moment, only around 6,000 students across England are enrolled to study the first T-levels, which they will complete next summer.\n\nThe government hopes to scale up the numbers rapidly as more T-levels are introduced, partly through a controversial decision to remove funding from popular BTecs in similar subjects.\n\nAssociation of Colleges chief executive David Hughes said: \"We always expected the increased funding wouldn't go far enough, but in the circumstances we view this as a good start in a tough spending round.\n\n\"That the chancellor is leading with this announcement in advance of the Comprehensive Spending Review shows just how far we've come in making the government recognise the importance of investing in people to close the skills gap.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am hopeful that the lack of mention of education recovery is because of a significant announcement on Wednesday at the dispatch box.\"\n\nHe said his organisation had calculated that it was going to take at least £300m per year to support education recovery for 16 to 19-year-olds.\n\nBill Watkins, chief executive of the Sixth Form Colleges Association, said: \"Today's announcement focuses on the small minority of 16 to 18-year-olds that pursue a technical course.\n\n\"That's welcome, but all students deserve to have their education properly funded and we hope that Wednesday's spending review will also focus on the vast majority of young people that study A-level or BTec qualifications.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, welcomed the investment in the further education sector, which he said had traditionally been \"starved of funding\".\n\nHowever, he told BBC Breakfast the move was a \"gamble\" when it was still unclear how many teenagers would want to do T-levels.", "New rules allowing travellers returning to England to take lateral flow tests instead of more expensive PCR tests have come into force.\n\nFully-vaccinated people arriving from a non-red list country can now use a lateral flow test on, or before, day two of their return.\n\nThe government said the move was a \"huge boost\" for the travel industry.\n\nWales will make the same change a week later. Scotland and Northern Ireland have indicated they may follow suit.\n\nBefore then, anyone travelling on to the other UK nations in the 10 days after arrival in England must follow the rules for testing and quarantine in those places.\n\nThe latest change to the travel rules in England comes in time for many families going on half-term holidays.\n\nThe lateral flow tests for returning travellers must be bought from private providers - NHS kits cannot be used - with prices listed on the government website starting at £19.\n\nPassengers need to book tests before travelling to the UK. They must send a picture of their lateral flow test to verify the result, and failure to do so could result in a fine of £1,000.\n\nThe change also applies to under-18s who live in the UK, whether or not they are vaccinated.\n\nTravellers will still need to complete a passenger locator form before they return.\n\nThe Department of Health said that anyone who tested positive would have to take a PCR test, which they could get free through the NHS.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"I'm delighted that from today eligible travellers to England, who have had the life-saving Covid-19 vaccine, can benefit from a cheaper lateral flow test, providing faster results.\n\n\"This huge boost to the travel industry and the public will make it easier and cheaper for people to book holidays and travel abroad.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Foster explains how lateral flow tests work and how to do one\n\nDr Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency, said it was \"critical\" that people with positive lateral flow tests \"get this checked\" with an NHS PCR test.\n\n\"This way we can continue to monitor new variants and stay on top of the virus,\" she added.\n\nSince 4 October, fully-vaccinated passengers travelling to the UK from any non-red list country no longer have to take a Covid test before setting off.\n\nPeople who are not fully vaccinated - and are 18 or over - still have to self-isolate at home for 10 days after arrival in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeated his call for people to get their booster jabs as the UK reported more than 40,000 daily Covid cases for the 11th day in a row.\n\nOn Saturday there were 44,985 cases recorded and a further 135 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test.\n\nMr Johnson, who has so far resisted calls by some health experts to reintroduce Covid restrictions despite rising infection levels, said: \"Vaccines are our way through this winter.\n\n\"We've made phenomenal progress but our job isn't finished yet, and we know that vaccine protection can drop after six months.\n\n\"This is a call to everyone, whether you're eligible for a booster, haven't got round to your second dose yet, or your child is eligible for a dose - vaccines are safe, they save lives, and they are our way out of this pandemic.\"\n\nPeople eligible for boosters include anyone aged 50 and over, those living and working in care homes for the elderly, and frontline health and social care workers.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS England's national medical director, warned the country faced the prospect of a \"tough winter\".\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, he said vaccines remained \"the strongest weapon in the armoury\" and urged people to get their booster jabs to \"protect the freedom and Christmas that we have all earned\".\n\nOn Saturday, a member of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), which advises the government, said he was \"fearful\" there could be another lockdown Christmas if measures were not brought in soon.\n\nProf Peter Openshaw told BBC Breakfast: \"We all really, really want a wonderful family Christmas where we can all get back together.\n\n\"If that's what we want, we need to get these measures in place now in order to get transmission rates right down so that we can actually get together and see one another over Christmas.\"", "The pandemic has led to an \"unprecedented\" rise in the number of \"fake stray\" dogs, where new lockdown pet owners pretend their dogs have been abandoned so they can get rid of them.\n\nRescue workers fear dogs that have genuinely been abandoned are having to be put down because spaces are being taken up by these dogs.\n\nSome owners who pretend their dogs are stray have been found trying to sell them on websites like Gumtree before taking them to a rescue centre.\n\nCentres are at capacity because people who bought dogs in lockdown are now getting rid of them.", "The health minister has warned that a relaxation of restrictions in hospitality settings could be reversed if they cause a surge in Covid cases.\n\nRobin Swann said he hoped such a move would not be needed and urged people to get vaccinated.\n\nThe executive has agreed masks will not be mandatory for dancing in nightclubs when they reopen next Sunday.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) has opposed further easing of restrictions.\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long has also raised concerns saying she feared relaxing rules on face coverings in nightclubs may cause a \"significant\" rise in the transmission of Covid-19.\n\nMrs Long also said she was concerned about a \"lack of clarity\" in health advice.\n\nSpeaking at a Covid-19 vaccine booster and flu jab clinic at the Kingspan Stadium on Saturday, Mr Swann said the executive's decision on further easing was \"proportionate\" and there was guidance in place for venues.\n\nHe added: \"I've always been clear I will not be deterred from recommending adding restrictions if necessary.\n\n\"I hope its not necessary and that's why I would encourage people to come forward get their Covid vaccine, their booster and their flu vaccine as well.\"\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said he hoped the easing of hospitality rules would not be needed\n\nMr Swann also confirmed that first dose vaccinations of 12 to 15 year olds will begin next week.\n\nHe said some health trusts will run clinics next week, during the school holidays, allowing parents to take their children along.\n\nThe major roll out in schools will then start after the holidays.\n\nOn Saturday, the Department of Health reported 10 deaths with Covid-19 in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe total number of deaths linked to Covid-19 in Northern Ireland since the start of the pandemic is 2,656.\n\nAnother 1,323 cases of coronavirus were reported in Northern Ireland on Saturday, down from 1,355 on Friday.\n\nMr Swann said there will be a \"significant escalation of the booster programme\" over the coming weeks.\n\nHe said the jabs will help to support the health service \"through an extremely difficult winter period\".\n\n\"The significant benefits of vaccination are clear - it protects you and those close to you,\" he said.\n\n\"Even though we have now introduced the booster dose for those vaccinated at the start of the programme, it isn't too late for those who remain unvaccinated to get their jabs.\n\n\"When the history of the Covid pandemic is told, all those who worked to protect us through vaccination will rightly be described as heroes.\n\n\"The Covid vaccination programme has already involved a colossal joint effort right across the health and social care system.\"", "Mr Quiñónez won bronze in the 200 metres at the 2019 World Athletics Championships\n\nOne of Ecuador's best-known athletes, Alex Quiñónez, has been shot dead.\n\nHe was shot along with another person outside a shopping centre in the city of Guayaquil on Friday night. A motive is not yet clear.\n\nTributes have been pouring in for Mr Quiñónez, 32, who was described by Ecuador's athletics federation as the country's greatest sprinter.\n\nPresident Guillermo Lasso promised that those behind the killing will be found and punished.\n\nIt comes after a 60-day nationwide state of emergency came into force in Ecuador on Monday in response to a wave of violent crime.\n\nOfficial figures suggest the number of murders in the first eight months of this year are double those in the same period last year.\n\n\"With great sadness, we confirm the murder of our sportsman Alex Quiñónez,\" the Sports Ministry announced on Twitter.\n\n\"We have lost a great sportsman, someone who allowed us to dream, who moved us....he was the greatest sprinter this country produced.\"\n\nMr Quiñónez won bronze in the 200 metres at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha. He was suspended prior to the Tokyo Olympics due to \"breach of his whereabouts obligations\".\n\n\"May he rest in peace. Those who take the lives of Ecuadoreans will not remain unpunished,\" he said.\n\nThis is the second killing of an international athlete this month.\n\nAgnes Tirop, a Kenyan runner who recently broke the women-only 10km road race world record, was stabbed to death in her home. Her husband has been arrested on suspicion of murder.", "Leading athletes have joined hundreds of mourners at the funeral of Kenyan runner Agnes Tirop, who was stabbed to death in her home.\n\nHer husband, Ibrahim Rotich, appeared in court this week as a suspect in her killing.\n\nMs Tirop was being buried at her parents' home in Nandi County, Kenya, on what would have been her 26th birthday.\n\nSpeakers at the funeral called for an end to domestic violence.\n\n\"I don't have much to say for today, I have mourned, I have cried, all my tears are gone,\" she said. \"I give my daughter her final send-off and I ask God to give her her place.\"\n\nMany mourners wore the signature red shirts of Athletics Kenya\n\nSpeakers at the funeral demanded swift justice for Ms Tirop\n\nMs Tirop was a promising long-distance runner who broke the women-only 10km world record last month, finished fourth in the 2020 Olympic 5,000m and who had won World Athletics Championships bronze medals.\n\nA foundation against domestic violence will be established in her honour. Athletics Kenya announced on Saturday that the Kenyan leg of the World Cross Country Tour will be named after Tirop.\n\nA sombre mood engulfed the burial which was attended by over 4,000 mourners, with athletes, residents and government officials prominent among them.\n\nThe athletics fraternity included Tirop's former team-mates Faith Kipyegon and Hellen Obiri, while Ugandans Joshua Cheptegei, Peruth Chemutai and Jacob Kiplimo were also in attendance.\n\nIn tributes, Ms Tirop was described as a kind and ever-smiling lady.\n\nHer murder has sparked a conversation in Kenya around domestic violence, even though her husband - the prime suspect - has yet to be charged by police.\n\nCalls to end domestic abuse as well as an appeal to hasten justice for the late athlete dominated speeches at the burial ceremony.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Sandtoft falls under the authority of North Lincolnshire District Council and is one of 17 communities on the Isle of Axholme\n\nResidents in a North Lincolnshire village have been left feeling a little disorientated after a road sign was erected welcoming people to Yorkshire.\n\nThe mysterious sign, which can be seen by motorists entering Sandtoft, appeared earlier this week.\n\nOne resident said it was about 150m (492ft) from the original Welcome to North Lincolnshire sign - on the same side of the road.\n\nSome have suggested it is the work of contractors unfamiliar with the area.\n\nThe local authority, North Lincolnshire Council, said it was unaware of the sign, while the neighbouring authority, Doncaster Council, has yet to respond to a request for comment.\n\nPosting in a local Facebook group, one resident said it appeared the sign had been put up on the wrong side of the road and facing the wrong way.\n\nHowever, some, including Steve Dale, who is originally from Yorkshire, welcomed the move.\n\n\"Glad about it. I get some right stick about moving to Lincolnshire and I argue that its still Yorkshire as my address... has a Donny [Doncaster] postcode,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I'm hoping they move the county lines a couple of miles to make it official.\"\n\nOthers were quite happy to remain in Lincolnshire, blaming the Yorkshire council for the error.\n\nOne just said whoever was responsible, it was \"a waste of money\".\n\nSandtoft is on the the Isle of Axholme, an area of North Lincolnshire comprising a number of communities, including Sandtoft, Haxey, and Epworth, on the border with South Yorkshire.\n\nActress Sheridan Smith is originally from the neighbouring town of Epworth\n\nThe name Isle is given to the low-lying area as each town or village was once built on dry, raised ground in the surrounding marshland, before it was drained.\n\nSandtoft boasts what is claimed to be the world's largest collection of trolleybuses, while Haxey is well known for its annual medieval mass scrum game, which dates back to the 14th Century and involves patrons pushing a leather tube to one of a number of North Lincolnshire pubs.\n\nActress Sheridan Smith, originally from Epworth, started her career performing gigs in the local area.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Just a week after being admitted to hospital with an infection, 92-year-old Esme Hanson was well enough to go home.\n\nBut it would be four months before she could return to her family because of a lack of available care.\n\nOne care provider told BBC Wales staff shortages were so bad, it handed care packages back to the local council.\n\nThe Welsh government admitted the situation was \"fragile\", and it had committed £48m of extra funding to ease the social care crisis in Wales.\n\nWhen Mrs Hanson became unwell in May, she was admitted to Morriston Hospital in Swansea. Her care arrangements, put in place due to her dementia, were cancelled.\n\nHowever, it was not until September that a new package was finally re-instated, by which time her mental health had deteriorated, according her son Andrew.\n\nHe said his family were \"lucky\" to finally get her home.\n\n\"If you've got somebody over 70 that needs care, you don't know when they're going to come out of hospital,\" he added.\n\nEsme Hanson spent four months in hospital waiting for home care to be arranged\n\nIt was only after the Older People's Commissioner for Wales advised the family to organise their own care, and ask the council to fund it, that Mrs Hanson's care arrangements were put in place and she was discharged.\n\nHe said his mother now received \"wonderful\" care at home three times a day.\n\nSwansea council said it was extremely sorry for the delay and that every effort was made to find a package of care with a provider during the \"unprecedented\" times of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut Mrs Hanson's experience is not unique. There were more than 1,000 patients in Welsh hospitals unable to return home due to a lack of care, according to Welsh government figures last month.\n\nCare company director Keri Llewellyn said staffing levels were at their lowest for almost 20 years\n\nCare Forum Wales has warned the care sector is facing its biggest staffing crisis \"in living memory\".\n\nOne home care company, All Care, said staffing levels were at their lowest since 2002 and recruitment has been \"virtually zero\" for months.\n\nDirector Keri Llewellyn said \"a downward spiral\" of staffing shortages meant companies were handing back care packages to councils.\n\nShe added care staff were exhausted from working through the pandemic, while low wages made recruitment and staff retention difficult.\n\n\"I do need something for my staff now. Some hope, maybe a retention bonus,\" said Ms Llewellyn.\n\nThe strain of working through the pandemic has told on carers such as Nicola Peta Hales and Jane Davies\n\nCare manager Jane Davies has been helping with daily rounds due to staff shortages.\n\n\"You are very tired and you need to spend time with your own family, but you can't see those people go without care,\" she said.\n\nNicola Peta Hales, 54, said the stress of being a domiciliary care worker almost became too much.\n\n\"I did feel like quitting and I was very close to it not so long ago, but I decided to stay because I love the job.\"\n\nThe Association of Directors of Social Services (ADSS) Cymru has called on the UK and Welsh governments to provide more help.\n\nLast month, the UK government announced a national insurance tax rise, some of which will be used to help fund the care system. On Wednesday, the chancellor is due to outline spending plans for the next three years.\n\nThe Welsh government admitted the situation was \"fragile\".\n\nDeputy Minister of Health and Social Care Julie Morgan said implementing a living wage of £9.50 per hour for carers was a priority, along with improving working conditions.\n\n\"We have to get the system to a place where there are not long waits,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Boris Johnson: \"We can trust the police... but there is a problem\"\n\nBoris Johnson has urged the public to \"trust in the police\" but also acknowledged problems in how violence against women and girls is tackled.\n\nThe PM promised to fix a \"snarled-up system\" which had produced too few successful rape prosecutions.\n\nAnd he said the authorities should \"come down hard\" on officers found guilty of misconduct.\n\nIt follows the jailing of Wayne Couzens for Sarah Everard's kidnapping and murder.\n\nCouzens was a police officer at the time of her murder, and the Metropolitan Police is facing questions over its failure to stop him.\n\nThe force has also been attacked over its safety advice to women after it emerged that Couzens used his position as an officer to falsely arrest and kidnap Ms Everard.\n\nAmong the suggestions, it said women should flag down a bus if they have concerns when stopped by an officer. A Labour MP branded the advice \"derisory\".\n\nCouzens - who has been sentenced to a whole-life prison term - is believed to have been in a WhatsApp group with five police officers who are now being investigated for gross misconduct.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating the five, and one former officer, for distributing \"grossly offensive\", obscene or menacing material. Couzens is understood not to be one of those under investigation, but was involved in sharing messages.\n\nThe prime minister said the IOPC should \"come down hard\" on them.\n\nAsked if he had confidence in the police, Mr Johnson said: \"I do think that we can trust the police and I think that the police do a wonderful, wonderful job.\"\n\nBut he said the government needed to get to the bottom of \"what on earth\" happened in the Couzens case to ensure nothing like it happened again.\n\nHe added that \"hundreds of thousands\" of officers would be \"absolutely heart sick\" at the events surrounding Ms Everard's death.\n\nHowever, he also accepted there were problems including \"the way we handle rape, domestic violence and sexual violence\" complaints.\n\nHe said the length of time between reporting an incident to the court case was \"far too long\".\n\n\"It is a nightmare for the women concerned, we've got to fix it.\"\n\nThe prime minister also argued that recruiting more female officers would make \"a lasting difference to the police culture,\" adding that 37% of recruits last year were woman.\n\nEarlier this year, Home Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"deeply ashamed\" of low rape conviction rates.\n\nSarah Everard was was walking to her home in south London when she was kidnapped by a police officer\n\nBefore being arrested for the murder of Sarah Everard, Couzens had been linked to two previous allegations of indecent exposure.\n\nMet Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave admitted a vetting check on Couzens was not done correctly when he joined the Met, meaning a link to one of these allegations was missed.\n\nMr Ephgrave said that even if it had come up in the vetting process, it would not have changed the outcome as Couzens was not named as a suspect.\n\nIn a bid to ease concerns about women's safety, the Metropolitan Police has said it will treat indecent exposure allegations more seriously and announced an extra 650 new officers to patrol busy areas in London.\n\nScotland Yard has also issued advice to people who are detained by lone plain-clothes officers.\n\nThis includes asking \"searching questions\" about why they are being stopped and where the officer has come from.\n\nPeople should ask to speak to an operator on a police radio to verify the answers, the force said.\n\nIf someone feels they are in \"real and imminent danger\" they are advised to \"seek assistance\" by shouting to passers-by, waving down a bus or calling 999.\n\nLabour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy said on Twitter: \"This completely derisory advice shows they're still not taking it seriously.\"\n\nRefuge chief executive Ruth Davison said the Met had time and again \"responded to incidents of gender-based violence by telling women to change their behaviour\".\n\nShe added: \"Police forces across the country must be prepared for a fundamental shift and overhaul in their attitudes towards women and root out the misogyny that is at the heart of these failings.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You have little power to say no\" - Women react to the Met's safety advice following the Everard case\n\nFollowing Couzens' guilty verdict, the head of the Met Dame Cressida Dick said \"a precious bond of trust has been damaged\" and she would ensure \"any lessons\" were learned.\n\nThe Met has said it would publish a new strategy for tackling violence against women and girls soon.\n\nBut Labour MP and chair of the Home Affairs Committee Yvette Cooper said \"sorry is not enough\" and called for an independent inquiry to examine police culture and procedures.\n\nAnd Conservative Sir Bob Neill and London Mayor Sadiq Khan have suggested misogyny should be made a hate crime.", "Rhian Horsey, from Groesfaen, Pontyclun, has been found guilty of seven counts of fraud\n\nA carer has been found guilty of defrauding a 100-year-old woman of hundreds of thousands of pounds.\n\nRhian Horsey, 55, of Pontyclun, was employed to look after Iris Sansom between 2003 and 2017.\n\nHer daughter, Kathryn Taylor, alerted police in 2017 after bank statements showed substantial cash withdrawals had been made from her mother's savings.\n\nNumerous cheques had also been written out to Horsey.\n\nHorsey was \"completely transparent\" about what the cash was for, the court heard.\n\nShe transferred large sums from Mrs Sansom's savings account to a bank account and withdrew it over the counter and from cash machines.\n\nJodie-Jane Hitchcock, defending, said the withdrawals were \"legitimate\" and made with Mrs Sansom's knowledge.\n\nHorsey said the withdrawals were used to pay her wages, care bills, shopping, house repairs and gardening.\n\nMs Hitchock told the court details of an equity release plan from had been sent to Mrs Sansom's solicitor.\n\n\"It's not a secret squirrel exercise between Mrs Horsey and Mrs Sansom,\" she said.\n\nMrs Sansom said in pre-recorded video evidence that she was \"not very good with money matters\".\n\nThe court heard she was of a generation who wanted to have her cash at home.\n\n\"That's what Iris wanted to do,\" Horsey told the court. \"It wasn't for me to question and, in fact, if I had, she wouldn't have listened.\"\n\nThe court was told Horsey \"was living a lifestyle beyond her means\".\n\nShe had mortgage arrears, spent £41,000 on cruises and £15,000 renting coastal cottages and woodland retreats.\n\nMoney was also spent on hotels, theatres, jewellery and eating out.\n\nShe denied that was out of the ordinary and said it was \"something we have always done\" but the prosecution claimed Horsey exploited Mrs Sansom's vulnerability.\n\n\"The nature of the relationship was one of trust,\" said prosecuting counsel James Wilson. \"Iris Sansom trusted Rhian Horsey completely.\"\n\nAnother witness descried their relationship as being \"more like mother and daughter\".\n\nBetween 2010 and 2013, £130,000 was withdrawn from Mrs Sansom's savings.\n\nThe equity release scheme paid out instalments of £67,807, £29,965, £49,965 and £49,965.\n\nEach time the plan paid out, withdrawals of £500 were made \"on almost a daily basis\".\n\nBy 2017, nearly all the funds had been depleted, the court heard.\n\nBetween 2011 and 2017, cash withdrawals from Mrs Sansom's bank account totalled £226,300.\n\nSeventy-four cheques amounting to £55,769 were made out to Horsey and paid into her account, with £84,000 in unidentified cash paid into Horsey's bank account during the same period.\n\nShe claimed she was paid in cash for her childminding work, but it was suggested that income was much lower than the deposits.\n\nThe prosecution said: \"The level of monies taken from Iris Sansom's account went beyond legitimate living expenses for Iris Sansom or legitimate payments to Rhian Horsey.\n\n\"Rhian Horsey stole from Iris Sansom and she exploited her for her own benefit.\"\n\nThe jury found Horsey guilty of all seven charges of fraud and she will be sentenced on Monday.", "A missing man in Turkey accidentally joined his own search party for hours before realising he was the person they were looking for, local media reports.\n\nBeyhan Mutlu had been drinking with friends on Tuesday when he wandered into a forest in Bursa province.\n\nWhen he failed to return, his wife and friends alerted local authorities and a search party was sent out.\n\nMr Mutlu, 50, then stumbled across the search party and decided to join them, NTV reported.\n\nBut when members of the search party began calling out his name, he replied: \"I am here.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vaziyet This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe was taken aside by one of the rescuer workers to give a statement.\n\n\"Don't punish me too harshly, officer. My father will kill me,\" he reportedly told them.\n\nPolice then drove Mr Mutlu home. It is not clear if he was given a fine.", "Australians will be eligible to travel when their state's vaccination rate hit 80%\n\nAustralia will reopen its international border from November, giving long-awaited freedoms to vaccinated citizens and their relatives.\n\nSince March 2020, Australia has had some of the world's strictest border rules - even banning its own people from leaving the country.\n\nThe policy has been praised for helping to suppress Covid, but it has also controversially separated families.\n\n\"It's time to give Australians their lives back,\" PM Scott Morrison said.\n\nPeople would be eligible to travel when their state's vaccination rate hit 80%, Mr Morrison told a press briefing on Friday.\n\nTravel would not immediately be open to foreigners, but the government said it was working \"towards welcoming tourists back to our shores\".\n\nAmy Hayes, who lives in the English town of Reading, Berkshire, and has not been back to Queensland in nearly three years, said it was \"encouraging to see things moving in the right direction\".\n\n\"But I'll believe the borders have reopened when I see it and hear the stories of stranded Aussies being able to get home uninhibited,\" she told BBC News.\n\nHenry Aldridge is excited to fly back to the UK for Christmas to see his parents and five siblings in London. His partner Shana, a nurse from Ireland who lives with him in Sydney, nearly broke down when they heard the news.\n\n\"We're pretty excited,\" he told the BBC. \"The first year and a half [of the pandemic] we looked on at the UK and thought, we're pretty happy here. But the last few months haven't been ideal.\"\n\nHe said as the lockdowns were extended and the country recorded more and more cases, the travel ban started to feel \"a bit absurd\".\n\n\"It seemed silly - you still have to quarantine to come home to a country that's in lockdown,\" he said.\n\nBut David Mullahey in Western Australia - which has restricted entry to Australians in other parts of the country - told the BBC he was against changing the travel rules.\n\n\"Covid has hardly touched us here and we've had limited deaths. Why should we risk being put in the same scenario as Victoria and New South Wales?\" he said.\n\n\"I don't see how we can consider lifting international border controls when the government can't control Covid in those states.\"\n\nAt present, people can leave Australia - which has recorded more than 107,000 cases of Covid-19 and just over 1,300 deaths - only for exceptional reasons such as essential work or visiting a dying relative.\n\nEntry is permitted for citizens and others with exemptions, but there are tight caps on arrival numbers. This has left tens of thousands stranded overseas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This family made it back to Australia but was initially banned from seeing their dying parent in Queensland\n\nMr Morrison said Australia's mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine - which costs each traveller A$3,000 (£1,600; $2,100) - would be replaced by seven days of home quarantine for vaccinated Australians or permanent residents.\n\nUnvaccinated travellers must still quarantine for 14 days in hotels.\n\nAustralian carrier Qantas responded by announcing it would restart its international flying a month earlier. It had already put flights to major overseas destinations on sale from 18 December.\n\nSydney, Melbourne and Canberra are currently in lockdown due to outbreaks of the virus.\n\nThat has helped prompt a surge in the vaccine uptake in recent months.\n\nNew South Wales - which includes Sydney - is on track to be first state to cross the 80% threshold, in a few weeks. Victoria - containing Melbourne - is not far behind.\n\nBut states such as Queensland and Western Australia have threatened to keep their borders closed until vaccine rates are even higher.\n\nThese states have managed to maintain Covid rates at or near zero, after shutting their borders to states with infections.\n\nThis is a hugely anticipated announcement for thousands of Australians both here and overseas. No doubt it's an emotional moment for many, after nearly two years of isolation.\n\nAustralia's strict border policy has been credited for its success especially early in the pandemic, but the Delta variant has changed everything.\n\nWestern Australia and Queensland are still going for an elimination policy, meaning they have been quickest to close their borders to other parts of Australia.\n\nIt's a very different picture in NSW, the most populous state, where the policy has changed from elimination to vaccination.\n\nAll of that is going to make the practicalities of reopening international borders quite tricky.\n\nAirlines have already said they're not ready for the ramping up of services this reopening will require. And with so many details still vague in terms of restrictions and proof of vaccination, this could be a potential headache for border authorities too.\n\nNSW or Victoria may allow their fully vaccinated residents to travel abroad and come back to home quarantine but Western Australia, for example, will most likely be reticent to do that and take on increased risk.\n\nSo you could have a scenario where it could be easier for people in some states to travel to London for a vacation than it is to go to Perth!\n\nKey vaccination thresholds are also part of Australia's broader plan to emerge from lockdowns and \"live with the virus\".\n\nSydney - site of Australia's largest airport - is due to come out of a 13-week lockdown on 11 October.\n\nTim Soutphommasane, an academic and former Australian race discrimination commissioner, told AFP news agency Australia had become a \"fortress nation with the drawbridge pulled up to the rest of the world\".\n\n\"What we're seeing now with this announcement of borders being reopened is akin to Australia re-entering the world, and it's long overdue,\" he added.\n\nDo you want to travel to and from Australia? Have you been trying to do so for some time? Get in touch using the form below.\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. Alongside Adrian Ramsay, fellow new Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer says \"it's time for the Greens to shine\"\n\nThe Green Party's new leaders have vowed to make it a powerful electoral force across England and Wales.\n\nCarla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay have been elected to replace Jonathan Bartley and Sian Berry.\n\nMs Denyer said voters were increasingly seeing Greens \"can get elected\".\n\nShe said the party agreed with many of the aims of Insulate Britain - the group staging protests on motorways - but did not \"necessarily agree\" with their tactics.\n\nThe new leadership team has pledged to build on recent electoral successes and take more seats at every level, including more MPs.\n\nThe party currently has just one MP, Caroline Lucas, but gained 99 seats in May's local elections and became the joint largest on Bristol City Council.\n\nMs Denyer, who is a councillor in Bristol, said: \"We increasingly are in power. The Greens are part of the administration on 14 councils in England and Wales now and in government in Scotland.\n\n\"That's a steep curve, that's improving all the time.\"\n\nShe said the party was the \"electoral wing\" of the Green movement, and while there was a place for \"direct action in the wider political movement\", Insulate Britain is \"not necessarily always doing it in the most constructive way\".\n\nMr Ramsay said strong voices are needed to make the case for a Green agenda, not just on the environment but a whole range of issues.\n\n\"Our country is in crisis - pumps running out of petrol, empty shelves in supermarkets and millions heading into winter fearing rising fuel bills\" he added and Green polices would \"help prevent the next crisis\".\n\nThe Greens launched their 2019 manifesto in Bristol\n\nCarla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay put an emphasis in their campaign, and victory speeches, on becoming a serious electoral force.\n\nMs Denyer has often been touted within party circles as the \"obvious next MP\" and came second in the race for the Bristol West seat in 2019.\n\nMr Ramsay was part of the campaign team that got their only MP, Caroline Lucas, elected and has been credited with co-writing the election strategy that saw them deliver more Green councillors on more councils than ever at the English local elections in 2021.\n\nThey beat a number of other candidates including deputy leader Amelia Womack and Tamsin Omond, a founding member of Extinction Rebellion.\n\nThe new leadership were keen to stress that groups like Insulate Britain and Extinction Rebellion were different from the Green Party, and they don't always support their tactics, but credited the organisations for putting climate at the \"top of the agenda\".\n\nFor this pair though, winning influence through positions of power is a key aim.\n\nThey hope to use current issues like rising energy bills and empty petrol pumps to demonstrate their view that the UK is too reliant on fossil fuels.\n\nMr Ramsay said the Greens would create \"sustainable, secure jobs with decent rates of pay\" with policies to install insulation and renewable energy systems in homes, improve public transport system and prioritise sustainable food supplies.\n\nSpeaking after the result was announced, Ms Denyer said both she and Mr Ramsay would \"focus on getting more Greens elected\" at every level, including more Green MPs.\n\nShe said: \"It is time for the Greens to shine.\n\n\"We intend to lead this party to the electoral success we know is within our grasp\", adding: \"A better future is possible.\"\n\nMr Ramsay and Ms Denyer took 44% of the first preference votes in the leadership contest.\n\nAnd in the second round of voting, the new leaders secured 62% of preferences, with 6,274 votes.\n\nAmelia Womack and Tamsin Omond came second with 30% of first preference votes. Ms Womack will continue to be the party's deputy leader.\n\nThe election was triggered after Jonathan Bartley announced he would be standing down as party co-leader and Sian Berry decided not to seek re-election.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak is being accused of attempting to mount a \"stealth raid\" on Britain's foreign aid spending.\n\nDevelopment charities say the Treasury is hoping to use \"accounting tricks\" in this month's Spending Review to squeeze the aid budget by billions of pounds.\n\nThey fear new items will be designated as \"overseas development assistance\" in a way that would cut the amount spent directly on humanitarian aid.\n\nThe Treasury said it would continue to protect the world's poorest people.\n\nBut it would not speculate on future spending commitments ahead of a fiscal event.\n\nAny rebadging of overseas assistance would be seen by some as an attempt by Mr Sunak to seize further control of the aid budget while new Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is finding her feet.\n\nBut Foreign Office sources said Ms Truss - as a former chief secretary - was familiar with how the Treasury worked and it would be wrong to suggest she was unaware of what was going on.\n\nThe government is already cutting aid spending by reducing the target of what must be allocated to overseas assistance from 0.7% of national income to 0.5%.\n\nThat means a reduction this year of about £4bn, leaving the total amount being spent on aid at roughly £10bn.\n\nThere are strict international rules about what counts as aid and charities fear the Treasury is looking at options that would effectively break the spirit of these rules.\n\nThey say officials want the cancellation of a multi-million-pound debt owed by Sudan to the UK to count as official aid, even though the money was effectively written off years ago.\n\nThey say the Treasury wants some foreign currency handouts from the International Monetary Fund - known as Special Drawing Rights - to count as aid. These complex financial mechanisms are designed to help developing countries cope with Covid. But even though the money comes from the IMF and not UK coffers, officials want 30% to count towards the 0.5% target.\n\nThe Treasury is also understood to want to designate the cost of giving Covid vaccines to developing countries as official aid. This could amount to as much as £1bn.\n\nSome analysts say the Treasury is additionally considering switching large chunks of aid spending from so-called \"resource\" budgets to \"capital\" budgets, an accounting change that would make it harder for the Foreign Office to spend aid on what it wants.\n\nRanil Dissanayake, policy fellow at the Centre for Global Development think tank, said all these changes - if made together - could potentially reduce the FCDO's discretionary aid budget from £8bn to as little as £2bn.\n\n\"That would amount to a complete gutting of the UK's status as a major bilateral development presence, essentially depriving [the Foreign Secretary] of one of its most potent weapons almost immediately after she assumes the brief,\" he said. \"The UK's status as a serious bilateral donor would be under existential threat.\"\n\nHe added: \"Unless Liz Truss manages to stop the chancellor from bullying her department out of its spending power, the UK will become a near non-entity as a bilateral development actor as early as next year.\"\n\nOne source in the aid sector said: \"Rishi is trying to cut Liz Truss off at the knees before she's got her legs under the table.\"\n\nRomilly Greenhill, UK Director of ONE, the global campaign against poverty, said: \"It's incredibly worrying that UK aid looks set to be cut again, through accounting trickery by the Treasury.\n\n\"The chancellor looks set to count the sharing of surplus vaccine doses, a new injection of cost-free foreign exchange reserves and the cancellation of debts that haven't been repaid for decades as part of the aid budget. If these areas are included under the new 0.5% pledge, it will further squeeze funding to tackle poverty, conflict and climate, hurting people both in the UK and around the world.\n\nShe added: \"What's worse is that it's happening by stealth. The Treasury is combing the aid rules for loopholes and ambiguities to save money on technicalities. It will mean death by a thousand cuts for UK aid.\"\n\nAbigael Baldoumas, policy and advocacy manager at the international development network BOND, said: \"We are deeply concerned about a further assault on the aid budget. There is a real risk that the Treasury will use accounting tricks to reduce the amount of aid the Foreign Office can spend in ways that make a real difference to the lives of people living in poor and middle-income countries.\"\n\nShe added: \"Special drawing rights were issued to put more money in the hands of low and middle-income countries to tackle the devastating impact of the pandemic, not so that the Treasury could use them to replace of overseas development assistance.\n\nMeanwhile, Sarah Champion, International Development committee chair, said: \"The chancellor may think he's clever by playing these financial sleight of hand games, but it's not just the poorest in the world that suffer, it's the UK's international reputation.\"\n\nA Treasury spokeswoman said: \"We will continue to protect the world's poorest. The UK is one of the highest donors in the G7 and this year we will spend at least £10bn on overseas aid. We do not speculate on future tax and spending commitments ahead of fiscal events.\"\n\nThe Treasury said the UK would continue to \"score\" overseas development assistance \"fully guided by and in accordance with\" the rules laid down by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.\n\nIt also emphasised the UK's aid spending was \"considerably more\" than the 29 countries on the OECD's development assistance committee.", "Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has said he \"regrets any inconvenience caused\" by problems with Scotland's Covid vaccine passport app.\n\nMany people have said they were unable to get their vaccination status through the app when the scheme came into effect on Friday.\n\nMr Yousaf said he hoped the issues would be fixed \"in a matter of hours, but it may be a matter of days\".\n\nAberdeen FC has announced it will postpone introducing the new scheme.\n\nThe club had been due to spot check fans before its game against Celtic on Sunday, but said \"unanswered questions on implementation\" of vaccine passports had forced the postponement.\n\nSpot checks will be carried out as a trial run at Hearts' stadium on Saturday but no fans will be refused entry for the match with Motherwell. Rangers has also said the match with Hibs on Sunday at Ibrox will be used as a \"test event\" and no supporters will be refused entry due to vaccine status.\n\nThe new rules came into effect at 05:00 on Friday - but the government announced earlier this week that they would not actually be enforced until 18 October.\n\nThe NHS Scotland Covid Status app only became available to download on Apple and Android devices at about 17:30 on Thursday.\n\nOpposition parties have described the rollout as a \"shambles\", and questioned why the government had launched the app when it did not work.\n\nThe Scottish government said that by the end of Thursday more than 70,000 people had downloaded the app, which is used to show proof that people have had two doses of vaccine in order to enter nightclubs and many other large events.\n\nIt said it had since increased the capacity of the NHS systems that sit behind the app.\n\nMr Yousaf told BBC Scotland: \"I know it is frustrating because a lot of people have downloaded the app.\n\n\"I regret any inconvenience caused to anybody, be it an individual or business, but that shouldn't stop you from going about your activities over the course of the next few days.\n\n\"Largely, the issues are down to volume of traffic but what I would say if you're having persistent problems do feel free to call the Covid helpline.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said \"there's no reason you should be turned away from an event this weekend\" if you don't have the app working as legal enforcement for the scheme has not started\n\nHe added: \"We always stress test these things before they go live and we have done so but actually, once it goes live, in the real world there can be these glitches and my hope is those glitches should be resolved - we hope in a matter of hours, but it may be a matter of days.\"\n\nThe vaccine certification scheme will require venues to put in place a \"reasonable system\" to check the status of customers over the age of 18, with certain exemptions on medical grounds.\n\nVenues affected include nightclubs, unseated indoor events with more than 500 people, unseated outdoor events with more than 4,000 people, and any event with more than 10,000 people in attendance.\n\nMany people experienced problems with the app when they tried to use their NHS CHI number to register.\n\nThis step comes after users are asked to take a picture of their passport or driving licence.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said there should be an \"indefinite delay\" to the rollout of the new scheme to avoid a \"weekend of chaos\" at venues across the country.\n\nHe added: \"Thousands of people will be at the football and going out to hospitality premises this weekend.\n\n\"This plan should really be scrapped altogether but, if the SNP insist on charging ahead, they must indefinitely delay the vaccine passport scheme until the most basic issues are ironed out.\"\n\nScottish Labour health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said the launch of the app had been a \"complete shambles\", adding: \"It is typical of the SNP to rush this out when it clearly doesn't work.\"\n\nMany people reported problems registering with the scheme on Friday\n\nPeople have been sharing their experiences of trying to download the new vaccine passport app.\n\nDean of the Faculty of Advocates, Roddy Dunlop QC, described the app as the \"worst I have ever tried to use\".\n\nHe wrote on Twitter: \"I am not prone to hyperbole. I promise.\n\n\"And I instantly recognise that I was originally instructed to challenge the introduction of Covid passports and so am not neutral.\n\n\"But try the app. This is, literally, the worst app I have ever tried to use.\"\n\nAnother app user shared screenshots of his experience on Twitter during which he was told \"no match found\" followed by: \"Something went wrong. We're working on it.\"\n\nOthers reported issues getting past the initial log in page, while a BBC Good Morning Scotland listener told the programme that he had tried twice to download the app without success.\n\nHe added: \"It just isn't suitable for purpose at the moment, they should have known it was going to happen in the first place.\"\n\nMike Rhodes, of the IT firm ConsultMyApp, said he thought the servers being used for the app were being overloaded because of demand, but said this should have been anticipated.\n\nHe said: \"It is highly likely that those developers that built the app shell also built the interface to the back-end servers that ended up failing.\n\n\"Secondly, this wasn't an unforeseen event - the developers absolutely knew this would be downloaded incredibly quickly and was likely to get hundreds of thousands of people attempting to register at the same time.\"\n\nMr Rhodes questioned why there was \"so little time\" between the app being launched and it being needed for entry into events.\n\nPaul Banham, of Glasgow's Buff Club, told BBC Scotland's Lunchtime Live: \"We'll be having a look at them over the next few weeks but we won't be refusing entry if someone doesn't have it - there's too many glitches at the moment.\n\n\"We've had a lot of students contact us and a lot of them are saying they have been vaccinated in other areas of the UK and that is not showing on their Covid status so there's a few gaps at the moment and hopefully they will be ironed out.\"", "Maureen McKenna has been Glasgow's director of education for 14 years\n\nWhen Maureen McKenna was six weeks into her job as Glasgow's director of education, staff at one of her schools were threatening to go out on strike.\n\nA pupil at Drumchapel High had brought a weapon in to class and she was refusing a request for him to be permanently excluded.\n\nShe recalls how she took a phone call from a union rep describing the alarm among staff.\n\nMs McKenna says she \"took a deep breath\" and told him the staff must do what they had to do.\n\nBut her role, she told him, was to get everyone together to look at the reasons why that child brought a weapon into school and then look at support for the family and the young person.\n\nShe says: \"I hung up the phone and I thought 'Oh god'.\"\n\nBut in the end, the staff didn't strike, instead teachers joined a meeting with social workers and others.\n\nIt was the first of several occasions during her 14 years in the job where Ms McKenna felt she had to push back against the status quo. Now, as she faces retirement at the end of the year, she stands by her decision on that first case.\n\n\"That young man went on and had a successful career at that school,\" she says.\n\n\"His additional support needs meant he didn't understand fully what he was doing. Would he have understood exclusion? Would sending him to a different school have changed his life? No, it would have probably made it worse.\"\n\nThere has been an 88% reduction in school exclusions in the past 10 years\n\nWhen the former maths teacher first took the top job in the city's education team in 2007, exclusions were at an all-time high and she knew she wanted to change that.\n\n\"They were just a habit,\" she says. \"Schools were excluding people again and again. I just didn't think they were reflecting enough about the context of the young person, where they had come from.\n\n\"In one of our secondary schools there were 770 exclusion incidents in one year, there are only 190 pupil days.\n\n\"It was like a revolving door - pupils are in school, an incident happens, straight out the door again.\n\n\"How were we ever going to improve outcomes and change lives? That is what education is most powerful at doing, changing people's lives, but they have to be in school.'\n\nMs McKenna's approach fitted with the work and ethos of Scotland's Violence Reduction Unit (VRU), which was started just before she took up her post. It aims to treat crime as a public health issue and look at root causes of the problem.\n\nThere has been an 88% reduction in school exclusions in the past 10 years, at the same time there has been a 50% reduction in youth crime.\n\nSeveral English councils and Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, have sent representatives to learn from Ms McKenna how the approach to exclusions could be having a positive impact on reducing violence.\n\n\"We need to be supporting our young people to make better decisions, because that's really what it's all about,\" she says.\n\n\"If you are in school and you see a bit of misbehaviour, you have to make those decisions yourself about whether you get involved or not.\n\n\"If you are doing that successfully in school then you are going to be able to do that successfully in the community.\"\n\nShe adds: \"English local authorities approached us and along with the violence reduction units down south, they are building on the success of the VRU and the schools' work up here, to take what they can for the English context.\"\n\nCutting back drastically on exclusions hasn't always gone down well with teachers and families, who feel it could mean more disruption in class.\n\nMs McKenna says there has never been a policy of zero exclusions.\n\n\"There are always times when for the safety of that child, or for the safety of other children, there needs to be an exclusion,\" she says.\n\n\"Without a shadow of a doubt. It's about understanding that when a child acts out, maybe they are communicating with you, rather than deliberately being bad.\n\n\"I'm not saying children don't behave badly, or that everyone in the city is perfect, absolutely not, it's a hard shift in Glasgow and it always will be a hard shift but if we can help our children to manage themselves better, we are creating the next generation of families.\"", "Sarah Everard was a talented and much-loved young woman, Lord Justice Fulford said\n\nA Met Police officer who murdered Sarah Everard after kidnapping her under the guise of an arrest has been sentenced to a whole-life prison term.\n\nWayne Couzens abducted the 33-year-old as she walked home from a friend's house in south London on 3 March.\n\nDuring the sentencing of Couzens, the judge said the case was \"devastating, tragic and wholly brutal\".\n\nMs Everard's family said they were relieved by the fact that Couzens would die in jail.\n\nAddressing reporters outside the Old Bailey following his sentencing, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said she recognised that a \"precious bond of trust\" had been damaged by Couzens, who had \"brought shame on the Met\".\n\nDescribing him as a \"coward\", she said his crimes were \"a gross betrayal of everything policing stands for\", adding: \"I am so sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick says the force has been \"shamed\" and \"rocked\" by the case\n\nAn ongoing Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) review of how Couzens became a Met officer has found that vetting procedures missed that two of his previous cars had been linked to allegations of indecent exposure.\n\nSpeaking to the London Assembly's Police and Crime Committee earlier on Thursday, two senior Met officers said they were not aware of rumours that Couzens was nicknamed \"the rapist\" by colleagues.\n\nHowever, HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary Sir Tom Winsor said the nickname was known by some officers.\n\nSir Tom, who in his role has responsibility for the inspection of police forces, told BBC Radio 4's the World at One: \"Yes, I did know that. And he also had allegedly a reputation in terms of drug abuse, extreme pornography and other offences of this kind.\"\n\nWhat Couzens' colleagues knew or suspected about him remains the subject of the IOPC investigation.\n\nWhen sentencing Couzens earlier on Thursday, Lord Justice Fulford described the circumstances of the kidnap, rape and murder as \"grotesque\", telling him he had \"betrayed\" his family. He said Ms Everard was \"an intelligent, resourceful, talented and much-loved young woman, still in the early years of her life\".\n\nThe judge told 48-year-old Couzens: \"Notwithstanding your guilty pleas, therefore, I have seen no evidence of genuine contrition on your part, as opposed to evident self-pity and attempts by you to avoid or minimise the proper consequences of what you have done.\"\n\nHe said the seriousness of the case was so \"exceptionally high\" that it warranted a whole-life order.\n\n\"The misuse of a police officer's role such as occurred in this case in order to kidnap, rape and murder a lone victim is of equal seriousness as a murder for the purpose of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause,\" he told the Old Bailey. \"All of these situations attack different aspects of the fundamental underpinnings of our democratic way of life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A CCTV timeline shows key evidence used to arrest and prosecute Wayne Couzens\n\nReacting to the sentencing, Ms Everard's family said they were pleased with the full-life term, adding that although \"nothing can make things better, nothing can bring Sarah back... knowing he will be imprisoned forever brings some relief.\n\n\"Sarah lost her life needlessly and cruelly and all the years of life she had yet to enjoy were stolen from her. Wayne Couzens held a position of trust as a police officer and we are outraged and sickened that he abused this trust in order to lure Sarah to her death. The world is a safer place with him imprisoned.\n\n\"It is almost seven months since Sarah died and the pain of losing her is overwhelming. We miss her all the time. We hold her safe in our hearts.\"\n\nLucy Manning, BBC special correspondent, from the Old Bailey:\n\nAs Wayne Couzens was told he would spend the rest of his life in prison, he kept his head down as he has throughout his time in the dock. He was shaking as he was sentenced.\n\nThe Everard family looked on. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick was in court to hear the sentence. Her officer a convicted murderer and rapist.\n\nMr Justice Fulford told Couzens his offences were \"warped, selfish and brutal\". The judge said Sarah \"was simply walking home\".\n\nAfter Couzens was sentenced, police officers who investigated the murder hugged the Everard family. But as her parents and sister said yesterday, all they want is Sarah back and no punishment will ever compare to the pain and torture Couzens had inflicted on them.\n\nLord Justice Fulford paid tribute to the dignity of Ms Everard's family, whose statements in court on Wednesday \"revealed the human impact\" of Couzens' offending, which he said \"was both sexual and homicidal\".\n\nThe judge added that Couzens had eroded public confidence in the police in England and Wales.\n\nIn a letter she wrote before Dame Cressida spoke to reporters, senior Labour MP Harriet Harman called on the Met Police commissioner to resign. Ms Harman said women's confidence in the police \"will have been shattered\" and it would be impossible for Dame Cressida to oversee the changes needed to rebuild trust.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said there were \"serious questions\" for the Metropolitan Police regarding the Couzens case, adding that the force \"will be held to account\".\n\nShe described the crimes as \"sickening\" and said it was right that this \"monster\" had been given a whole-life sentence.\n\nWhen Parliament abolished the death penalty more than 50 years ago, it promised the British people that the worst of the very worst offenders would be locked up in jail for the rest of their lives.\n\nSince then a series of complex rules for judges has evolved in order for a \"whole-life order\" (WLO) to be imposed.\n\nThe law says a WLO should \"normally\" only be considered if an offender has murdered more than once, killed a police or prison officer, abducted and sadistically killed a child, or where the motive was ideological.\n\nWhile MPs did not envisage such a serious crime as this when they wrote the law, they said judges could impose a WLO in other unthinkable cases where the seriousness of the crime was exceptionally high.\n\nLord Justice Fulford concluded the misuse of a constable's role to deceive, kidnap, rape and murder Sarah Everard was as bad as terrorism. It was not only a crime of appalling and prolonged suffering for the victim, but it undermined trust in the police - part of the bedrock of a safe society.\n\nAnd that is why the law allowed the judge to order Couzens will never be released.\n\nThe Old Bailey sentencing hearing had been told how Couzens used his Metropolitan Police-issue warrant card and handcuffs to abduct Ms Everard as she walked from Clapham to her Brixton home on the night of 3 March.\n\nThe firearms-trained parliamentary and diplomatic protection officer, who had clocked off from a 12-hour shift at the US Embassy that morning, drove to a secluded rural area near Dover where he raped Ms Everard.\n\nShe had been strangled with Couzens' police-issue belt by 02:30 GMT the following morning.\n\nCouzens, who was married with two children, then burned the marketing executive's body in a refrigerator in an area of woodland he owned in Hoads Wood, near Ashford, before dumping the remains in a nearby pond.\n\nOn 9 March, he was arrested at his home in Deal, Kent, after police connected him to the hire car he used to abduct Ms Everard. Her remains were found by police dogs the next day.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"sickened\" by the details that had emerged during sentencing.\n\n\"Our police are there to protect us - and I know that officers will share in our shock and devastation at the total betrayal of this duty. People must be able to walk on our streets without fear of harm and with full confidence that the police are there to keep them safe.\"\n\nJohn Apter, national chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said Couzens was \"an absolute disgrace to the police service\" and he was \"ashamed he was ever a police officer\".\n\n\"I am proud to carry a warrant card, but this vile individual's abuse of that authority has cast a shadow on all those who work within policing. He has brought disgrace to our uniform.\n\n\"The way he took advantage of Sarah's trust makes me feel sick to the stomach.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lashana Lynch, Daniel Craig and Lea Seydoux attended the film's world premiere on Tuesday\n\nDaniel Craig's final James Bond film No Time To Die took between £4.5m-£5m on its first day in UK and Irish cinemas, producers have estimated.\n\nThe film was delayed several times by Covid and the industry is watching closely to see whether it can lift box office takings to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThursday's takings are 13% higher than 2015's Spectre but 26% below 2012's Skyfall, Universal Pictures said.\n\nIt was also the UK's \"widest theatrical release of all time\", they added.\n\nUniversal said No Time to Die opened in 772 cinemas in the UK and Ireland on Thursday - 25 more than the previous record-holder, Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, in 2019.\n\nFilm technology firm Gower Street Analytics predicted it will account for 92% of the total UK and Ireland box office takings in its opening week.\n\nMore than 30,000 people attended midnight screenings in the UK and Ireland, where the film sold 1.6 million advance tickets for the opening four days, the studio said. This exceeded Spectre's total advance bookings by more than 12% and was in line with Skyfall at the same time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Daniel Craig on James Bond: ''I'm incredibly proud...but it's time to move on''\n\nScreen International's box office editor Charles Gant said the film's performance had been \"hard to predict\". But the early figures suggest it will be \"a must-see film that connects with all demographics\", which cinemas have lacked since they reopened, he told BBC News.\n\nGant described that as \"a massive relief for cinemas\", adding that it \"gets customers back into venues\", where they will see trailers and posters for winter releases like Dune, Eternals, West Side Story and Venom: Let There Be Carnage.\n\nNo Time To Die \"doesn't need to match Spectre and Skyfall\", which both made more than £95m in total at UK and Irish box offices, he said.\n\n\"It just has to land in the Casino Royale (£56m)/Quantum Of Solace (£51m) lifetime ballpark - and there is now every sign that it will. If it does that, it points the way ahead for the cinema sector, and shows that, post-Covid, we can still have blockbuster hits.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Members of the Royal Family joined stars of the new Bond film at its world premiere in London\n\nCraig's fifth and final Bond movie was directed by US film-maker Cary Joji Fukunaga and also stars Lea Seydoux, Rami Malek and Lashana Lynch. It is projected to make $90m (£66.7m) worldwide during its opening weekend.\n\nMost critics praised the film, with many giving five-star reviews after its premiere at the Royal Albert Hall earlier this week. But some suggested the movie did not quite justify its 163-minute running time.\n\nAccording to a survey carried out by cinema chain Vue, No Time To Die is the new film release cinemagoers are most excited to see this year. Film fan Steve Williams, who saw the film in London, told the Press Association afterwards it was \"well worth the wait\".\n\nHe added it was \"definitely a good last film for Daniel Craig\", while another cinema-goer, Harry Wheeler, added: \"It was the best Bond film for a while. I haven't been to the cinema in more than a year and it was good to go back.\"\n\nThe film opened in South Korea on Wednesday and a day later in the UK, Ireland, Brazil, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. But US audiences must wait until 8 October.", "One in every 20 children of secondary school age in England is infected with coronavirus, according to the latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThis is the highest reported rate for this age group - or any other - since the pandemic began.\n\nChildren's risk from the virus is very low, and serious illness is rare.\n\nA single vaccine dose is now being offered to all 12 to 17-year-olds in schools across the UK.\n\nThat followed a decision by the UK's four chief medical officers that a Covid vaccine for this age group would help keep children in school and benefit the poorest families.\n\nPreviously, only teenagers with health conditions which put them at increased risk of being seriously ill with Covid were offered two doses, as well as children living in the same house as people who are very vulnerable to the virus.\n\nThe ONS data covers the week up to 25 September, and estimates a steep rise in infections in children aged 11-15 over the last few weeks, with nearly 5% now testing positive - up from 2.8% the week before.\n\nInfections in younger primary-age children have been increasing, but much less sharply, with 2.6% testing positive.\n\nInfections in young adults have now decreased to around 1% affected, and in older adult groups infection levels remain even lower.\n\nProf Kevin McConway, emeritus professor of applied statistics, at The Open University, said the infection rates in 11 to 15-year-olds were \"extraordinarily high\", adding that the fall in infections in young adults, who have now been vaccinated in large numbers, was \"pleasing\".\n\nAround 1.2% of the UK population - or one in 80 people - is likely to be infected, the ONS says, which is little changed from the previous week.\n\nThe percentage of people testing positive went up in England and Wales, decreased in Scotland and stayed roughly the same in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe ONS estimates are based on tests carried out on a random sample of the population, whether they had symptoms or not.\n\nGovernment data on cases of coronavirus in England - which are more recent and cover those coming forward for tests and getting a positive result - shows a similar spike in 10 to 14-year-olds.\n\nMeera Chand, from Public Health England, said: \"Case rates remain high across the country, especially among young people.\n\n\"Wear a face covering in enclosed spaces, avoid mixing with others if you feel unwell and get a PCR test straight away if you have any Covid-19 symptoms.\"\n\nShe added that the best way to protect against Covid was to get the vaccine.\n\nOther viruses are also circulating and affecting children. In the summer, there was a jump in RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) in the under-4s and, in recent weeks, cases of the common cold have risen sharply in the under-14s, PHE data shows.\n\nNow that more than 80% of over-16s in the UK are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and booster doses are being offered to the most vulnerable, deaths and serious illness are expected to stay at low levels.\n\nBut there are concerns about what this winter will bring, with flu and other viruses making a comeback.\n\nAnd there has been criticism that the rollout of one vaccine dose to 12 to 15-year-olds took too long to happen, after the UK's vaccine committee asked for additional advice on the wider benefits of vaccination.\n\nThis delay meant children had returned to school for the autumn term before any decision was made.\n\nSix per cent of 12 to 16-year-olds have now had one vaccine dose in England while, in Scotland, the figure is 14%.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Petrol prices have hit an eight-year high, the RAC has said, due to a rise in the cost of wholesale fuel.\n\nThe pump price spike also comes amid the current fuel supply problems and reports of profiteering at some petrol stations.\n\nThis is adding up to a \"pretty bleak picture for drivers\", the RAC said.\n\nThe government has put the army on standby to help ease fuel supply problems caused by a shortage of lorry drivers to make deliveries.\n\nThe RAC said that the average price of a litre of petrol across the UK increased from 135.87p on Friday to 136.59p on Sunday, the highest level since September 2013.\n\nThe motoring organisation warned that prices could rise further as retailers pass on the cost of rising wholesale prices.\n\nThe wholesale price of petrol rose from 123.25p on Monday last week to 125.22p just four days later.\n\nOil prices slumped at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, but demand has been rising in recent months as economies around the world have started to reopen.\n\nGlobal oil supplies have also taken a hit from hurricanes Ida and Nicholas passing through the Gulf of Mexico and damaging US oil infrastructure.\n\nThe price of Brent crude oil rose above $80 a barrel on Tuesday for the first time since October 2018.\n\nRAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said: \"When it comes to pump prices, it's a pretty bleak picture for drivers.\n\n\"With the cost of oil rising and now near a three-year high, wholesale prices are being forced up which means retailers are paying more than they were just a few days ago for the same amount of fuel.\n\n\"This has led to the price of a litre of unleaded already going up by a penny since Friday.\n\n\"We might yet see higher forecourt prices in the coming days, irrespective of the current supply problems.\n\n\"We are also aware of a small number of retailers taking advantage of the current delivery situation by hiking prices, so we'd remind drivers to always compare the price they're being asked to pay with the current UK averages which are 136.69p for petrol and 138.58p for diesel.\"\n\nThere is a national shortage of lorry drivers, which haulage firms have blamed on factors including Covid and Brexit.\n\nThe lack of drivers has been affecting businesses from food firms to petrol stations.\n\nDemand for fuel has been such that between 50% and 90% of pumps were dry in some areas of Britain, according the Petrol Retailers Association (PRA).\n\nThe industry group represents independent fuel retailers who account for 65% of all the 8,380 UK forecourts.\n\nThere have been claims on social media that some petrol stations are taking advantage of the surge in demand to inflate prices.\n\nTwitter user Trevor Lakin said that Shell was \"marking prices up and profiteering\" after charging 148.9p a litre at a petrol station.\n\nA Shell spokeswoman said that about half of Shell's UK network is owned by independent dealers who set their own prices.\n\n\"We are only able to control prices at the sites we own,\" she said, adding that \"Shell is prevented by law from telling dealer groups what to charge their customers for fuel.\"\n\nHoward Cox, founder of campaign group FairFuelUK, said price rises of between 5p and 10p per litre have become \"the norm in the last few days\".\n\nHave you noticed any price rises when refuelling recently? Get in touch to 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 teenager has been left in agony by a condition that means her jaw can dislocate at any time.\n\nHalle, from Tongwynlais, Cardiff, lost three-and-a-half stone because the pain was so bad she stopped eating.\n\nThe 14-year-old is now being fed through a tube because of the condition.\n\nHalle has been told Great Ormond Street Hospital would be the best place for her to be treated, but the children's hospital has said Cardiff and Vale health board will not refer her.\n\nCardiff and Vale University Health Board said it was \"committed to providing any treatment for Halle\".", "Ex-Met Ch Supt Supt Parm Sandhu, pictured in 2016, described the police service as \"very sexist and misogynistic\"\n\nFemale police officers fear reporting male colleagues as they worry they will be abandoned if they need help on duty, says a former senior officer.\n\nEx-Met Ch Supt Parm Sandhu said female officers fear being \"kicked in\" while dealing with street violence.\n\nAnd a police watchdog inspector has admitted she would be concerned to approach a lone male officer at night.\n\nThey were speaking after Wayne Couzens was jailed for kidnapping, raping and killing Sarah Everard while an officer.\n\nThe 48-year-old abducted Ms Everard, 33, under the guise of an arrest as she walked home from a friend's home in south London on 3 March.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's The World at One, Ms Sandhu called the police service \"very sexist and misogynistic\".\n\nShe told how she had been \"vilified\" after reporting an incident involving a male colleague.\n\nIn an environment dominated by male officers, any objections were often cast aside and the behaviour dismissed as \"banter\", the former senior officer said.\n\nMs Sandhu, who served in the Met for 30 years, said: \"A lot of women will not report their colleagues.\n\n\"What happens is that male police officers will then close ranks and the fear that most women police officers have got is that when you are calling for help, you press that emergency button or your radio, they're not going to turn up and you're going to get kicked in in the street.\n\n\"So you have got to be very careful which battles you can fight and which ones you can actually win.\"\n\nShe added that women officers who are married to male police officers \"won't report domestic violence either because of the same sort of issues\".\n\nMs Sandhu also called for change at the top - saying police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick \"cannot move with the times\".\n\nThe body of Sarah Everard was found hidden in woodland\n\nMeanwhile, Zoe Billingham, a senior inspector with Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, told the BBC's Woman's Hour programme: \"We cannot dismiss Wayne Couzens as a one-off or an aberration.\"\n\nAsked if she would feel safe going to a male police at night with a problem, Ms Billingham replied: \"At this moment in time, like any other woman, I have concerns and reservations.\"\n\nAlso speaking on Radio 4, Labour MP Harriet Harman, chairwoman of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, called for \"a cultural change in the police service\".\n\nMs Harman said she had written to Home Secretary Priti Patel setting out 10 points that she believed need to be acted on immediately to regain women's trust in the police.\n\nAfter Ms Everard's murder, the police watchdog announced it was probing alleged failures by the Met to investigate two indecent exposure incidents linked to Couzens in February.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is also investigating alleged failures by Kent Police to investigate a flashing incident linked to Couzens in 2015.\n\nMs Billingham told the BBC it was a \"watershed moment for policing\".\n\n\"What Wayne Couzens did to Sarah Everard has struck a hammer-blow to the heart of policing legitimacy in England and Wales, and it needs to be treated as such,\" she said.\n\nMs Billingham, who is responsible for inspecting 15 police forces including Kent - where Couzens previously worked - called for more vetting, screening and scrutinising of would-be police officers.\n\nShe referred to a 2019 report, led by her, which looked at police who abused their position for sexual purposes and said the report highlighted how - at the time - proper vetting did not take place when officers transferred between forces.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A CCTV timeline shows key evidence used to arrest and prosecute Wayne Couzens\n\nThe outgoing inspector said she was not confident that the systems currently in place at police forces are enough to prevent another atrocity.\n\n\"There is an epidemic of violence against women and girls, and within policing male violence against women and girls is not prioritised enough, it's not taken seriously enough,\" she said.\n\nAlso speaking on Thursday, Chief Inspector of Constabulary Sir Tom Winsor said he had heard Couzens was known as \"the rapist\" by other officers at times during his career.\n\n\"Yes, I do know that,\" he said. \"And (he) also had allegedly a reputation in terms of drug abuse, extreme pornography and other offences of this kind.\"\n\nHe said there appeared to be a \"culture of colleague protection\" within the police service and warned that police officers were failing to raise concerns about colleagues who exhibit \"damaging or worrying\" characteristics.\n\nFollowing his sentencing, Dame Cressida called Couzens' actions \"a gross betrayal of everything policing stands for\".\n\n\"This man has brought shame on the Met. Speaking frankly, as an organisation we have been rocked.\"", "There are \"too few successful prosecutions and two few convictions\" in cases of rape and domestic violence, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe prime minister said police officers did a \"wonderful, wonderful job\" but there was a \"problem\". He said the time lag between complaint and legal action was \"far too long\".\n\nHe said it was a \"nightmare for the women concerned\".\n\nThe PM was asked about trust in police after the murder of Sarah Everard and conviction of Wayne Couzens.", "Princess Beatrice and Mr Mapelli Mozzi both shared an image of Sienna Elizabeth's footprints\n\nPrincess Beatrice and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi have named their daughter Sienna Elizabeth.\n\nThe Queen's 12th great-grandchild, Princess Beatrice's first child, was born on 18 September.\n\nPrincess Beatrice tweeted the name of the newest addition to the Royal Family on Friday, along with an image of her footprints.\n\nOn Instagram, Mr Mapelli Mozzi said \"these are the days I never want to forget\".\n\nPrincess Beatrice wrote: \"We are delighted to share that we have named our daughter Sienna Elizabeth Mapelli Mozzi.\n\n\"We are all doing well and Wolfie [Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son from another relationship] is the best big brother to Sienna.\"\n\nMr Mapelli Mozzi said: \"Our life together has just begun, and I can't wait to see all the amazing things that await us.\n\n\"Feeling so much love and gratitude for my amazing wife, baby Sienna and Wolfie. These are the days I never want to forget. This week, a friend said to me the sweetest saying… that with every child you grow a whole new heart.\"\n\nSienna Elizabeth is 11th in line to the throne.\n\nThe couple were married last year\n\nPrincess Beatrice is the eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York.\n\nShe married property tycoon Mr Mapelli Mozzi in a private ceremony in July 2020.\n\nBeatrice is stepmother to Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie, from his previous relationship with Dara Huang.", "\"In two days I would get through a litre of vodka and four bottles of wine. Easily.\n\n\"I knew it was wrong. I knew it was too much.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic Kathleen Edge from Newport, south Wales, had what she described as a healthy relationship with alcohol.\n\nLike many people she started to drink a bit more when the stress, strain and boredom of lockdown started to take hold. And that relationship turned sour.\n\n\"It got to the middle of December and my friend came over to bring a delivery up, and it had got to the point where I could not walk any more… if I wanted to get between the bed and the sofa it was virtually crawling,\" she says.\n\n\"And I knew something was wrong. I said to him 'please just take the booze away - it is killing me'.\n\n\"I probably owe him my life. He told me I looked dreadful and that he would not leave until I had got help. Until I had got an ambulance.\"\n\nKathleen was taken by ambulance to the Grange University Hospital where she met a liver specialist\n\nIt was at this point the seriousness of the situation really started to hit.\n\n\"They had to carry me out. It was very humiliating,\" Kathleen says.\n\n\"And I'm thinking 'you've got yourself into this position, there is Covid going on and you're calling an ambulance and this is really selfish'. But I needed an ambulance.\"\n\nKathleen went to the new Grange University Hospital near Cwmbran where she says she was lucky to see the liver specialist the next day.\n\n\"He said to me 'I think you have something to tell me. You need to say it out loud'.\n\n\"And I looked at him and said 'I'm an alcoholic'. That was the first time I had said it out loud and it was very freeing.\"\n\nThere are fears there could be more people out there like Kathleen who have not yet come forward to get help.\n\nFigures from the Kaleidoscope Project, which works on drug and alcohol abuse, suggest an eight percentage point drop year-on-year in the number of people who have problems with alcohol being referred by doctors or other health professionals.\n\nIn the year to April 2021, 293 people were referred compared with 467 the year before. Self-referrals are down by more than four percentage points.\n\nSupport services are now waiting to see what happens - hoping for the best and prepared for the worst.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nikki, a recovering alcoholic, describes how she stopped drinking during the pandemic.\n\nRondine Molinaro from the Gwent Drug and Alcohol Service draws parallels between the pandemic and another cataclysmic event, which surprisingly, perhaps does give some hope.\n\n\"If you look at the example of American soldiers returning from the Vietnam War in the 1970s, all the drugs services in the US were set up for and prepared for these large cohorts of servicemen who had become addicted to opiates and heroin in Vietnam, continuing their dependency on their return,\" she said.\n\n\"But that did not happen. I think 20% of the American troops were addicted to heroin in Vietnam, but as soon as they came back and their environment changed and those stresses had disappeared only 1% of those soldiers continued with a heroin dependency.\n\n\"Hopefully that's the same pattern that we will see, but we are prepared and we are waiting to see what happens over the next 12 months.\"\n\nSupport workers have noticed people from different backgrounds needing help for addiction\n\nThe service has also noticed a subtle change in the type of person seeking support during the Covid crisis.\n\nRondine explained: \"We are definitely seeing more professional people coming in - they have jobs and they have incomes.\n\n\"Our alcohol liaison officer interviewed two gentlemen, who because of the pandemic had been put on furlough. They had income coming in, but no productive activity and no work to go to.\n\n\"They started to drink and became dependent on alcohol but did not know they were dependent on alcohol and actually ended up in A&E.\"\n\nThe Welsh government says it invests £55m every year on substance misuse.\n\nIn 2020-21 a further £4.8m was also made available to support the response to Covid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Musician Nick Davis was in alcohol recovery when lockdown started and has had to find new ways to stay sober\n\nKathleen is now living with the long-term effects that alcohol has had on her body.\n\nThe damage to her liver caused severe swelling to her legs and she now has to walk with a stick.\n\nBut she says she is determined to seize her second chance.\n\n\"Alcohol is a great deceiver,\" she said.\n\n\"It is your best friend, it makes you feel fantastic, it makes you feel good, but it is almost as if alcoholism is grooming you and it can blow up in your face.\n\n\"It is all in my hands now. I make the decisions. I have been incredibly lucky. I want to get to the point where we do not talk about it any more. I don't drink and that's that.\"\n\nThe BBC Action Line has details of organisations that may be able to offer support for addiction\n\nListen live to Gareth Lewis on BBC Radio Wales and BBC Sounds from 17:00 BST to 18:30", "Restaurant owner Salima Vellani, said many businesses in the sector were already \"hanging by a thread\"\n\nRestaurants and pubs are warning that prices will go up due to a rise in VAT rates, which takes effect from Friday.\n\nOwners said the increase from 5% to 12.5% was badly timed, with one restaurant chain owner saying businesses were already \"hanging by a thread\".\n\nTrade bodies have called for a halt to any further rises in VAT, to help the industry recover from the pandemic.\n\nThe government said hospitality had received \"extensive support\".\n\nVAT - the tax paid when buying goods or services - has been levied at a reduced rate in pubs, restaurants and other hospitality businesses since July 2020 to help them stay afloat during the pandemic.\n\nThe sales tax won't return to its pre-pandemic rate of 20% until April 2022.\n\nHowever, Salima Vellani, founder of restaurant chain Absurd Bird, told the BBC she was \"extremely concerned\" about the increase to 12.5%, which she said was a blow to the hospitality industry.\n\n\"It's just one thing after the other that we are being hit by,\" said the chief executive, who runs five chicken restaurants across the country.\n\n\"We are all hanging on by a thread. We are going to have to put prices up.\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the 5% rate was designed to \"get the sectors moving and to protect jobs\".\n\nThe hospitality and tourism sectors have been hit hard by the pandemic, with many venues closed altogether during lockdowns, and then catering to limited numbers due to social distancing measures. Now staff shortages are preventing some making the most of the recovery.\n\nDavid Moore, the founder of Michelin-star restaurant Pied à Terre, said he had already told one customer who had a £95 voucher for a 10-course menu, that their meal would now cost £105.\n\nHe said the government \"could not have picked a worse time\" to implement the VAT increase, with his business having to cope with rising import, energy and staffing costs.\n\n\"It just does not feel like life is back to anywhere near like normal,\" he added.\n\n\"We just have so many price rises across the board. The utilities are horrendous. The VAT [rise] is not something I can absorb. Every single supplier has increased prices.\n\n\"It's not just vegetables, or just meat, everything is more expensive than it was two years ago.\"\n\nHis restaurant was also currently \"massively understaffed\" he said, sometimes meaning table numbers had to be reduced at peak times.\n\nFor Sue Whiston, finance and operations director at Kuula Poke, a Hawaiian restaurant in Birmingham, the VAT increase was \"premature\". She believes the 5% rate should have been extended for another six months.\n\nShe said shipping costs to source Kuula Poke's produce, from countries such as Japan, China and Thailand, had \"shot through the roof\".\n\nSue Whiston says her costs are \"through the roof\"\n\n\"Mango is something that we buy in hundreds of kilograms at a time, (it) has suddenly overnight increased by 20%,\" she said. \"We have had problems with food availability.\n\n\"Only this week along our main Japanese wholesaler has turned around and said to us they can't make any deliveries to us this week because of the shortage of diesel fuel.\n\n\"So right now we are in this perfect storm of inflationary pressure and VAT is about to go up.\n\nShe expects prices for diners to rise across the sector.\n\nRob Pitcher, the chief executive of Revolution, predicts there will be further price increases next spring when the VAT rate increases to 20%.\n\nThe boss of the bar chain, which has 66 venues and employs about 3,000 staff, said businesses could not afford to take on the extra cost, and so it would be passed on to the customer.\n\n\"The consumer is going to end up paying twice,\" he said.\n\nTrade bodies, including UK Hospitality, the British Beer and Pub Association, and Tourism Alliance have called on the government to make the 12.5% VAT rate permanent, rather than increasing the rate again in the spring, to safeguard the future of businesses and protect jobs.\n\nIn a joint statement, they said returning VAT back to 20% would have \"serious consequences\", with six in 10 businesses noting in a survey that it would \"likely lead to cutbacks and job losses\".\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, said keeping the VAT rate at 12.5% would be the \"most effective\" move by the government to \"secure a more rapid recovery and rebuild resilience faster\".\n\nBut a Treasury spokesman said the government had \"always been clear\" that lower VAT rates were a \"temporary measure to support businesses as they recover from the pandemic\".\n\n\"The hospitality sector has benefited from extensive support throughout the pandemic through our £400bn Plan for Jobs, with the furlough scheme, grants, tax cuts and deferrals,\" he added.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.\n\nIt's now been several weeks since children in England returned to school after the summer holidays - and the latest data suggests this has been accompanied by a steep rise in Covid infections among those aged 11 to 15. One in every 20 children of secondary school age in England is infected with the virus, according to estimates from the Office for National Statistics, which cover the week to 25 September. This is the highest reported rate for this age group - or any other - since the pandemic began. A single vaccine dose is now being offered to all 12 to 17-year-olds across the UK to help keep children in school - although they are at very low risk of serious illness from the virus.\n\nThere have been promising results from a trial of a pill to treat severe Covid, with interim data suggesting the experimental drug - molnupiravir - cuts the risk of hospital admission by about half. US drug-maker Merck said its results were so positive that outside monitors had asked to stop the trial early and it would apply for emergency use authorisation for the drug in the US in the next two weeks. If authorised by regulators, molnupiravir would be the first oral antiviral medication for Covid-19.\n\nMolnupiravir is the first oral antiviral treatment for Covid to report clinical trial results\n\nJD Wetherspoon has reported a record annual loss after lockdowns saw its pubs shut for 19 weeks. The chain posted a £154.7m loss in the year to 25 July, after a £34.1 million loss the previous year. Wetherspoon's founder and chairman Tim Martin criticised the \"use of lockdowns and draconian restrictions\". But the company suggested there were signs of recovery since restrictions eased, although it is struggling to recruit staff in some areas.\n\nMore than 50 nations have missed the World Health Organization's target for 10% of their populations to be fully vaccinated against Covid by the end of September. Many are low-income countries, grappling with vaccine supply and health infrastructure issues. Most are in Africa, where the WHO says only 4.4% of people are fully vaccinated. That compares to nearly 66% in the UK, 62% in the EU and 55% in the US. Our Reality Team looks at the challenges of rolling out the vaccine worldwide here.\n\nA temporary reduction in VAT for hospitality businesses worst hit by the pandemic came to an end today. VAT - the tax paid when buying goods or services - was reduced from 20% to 5% in July 2020 but will now rise to 12.5%, before returning to pre-pandemic levels in April. Rebecca Willers, who runs Shepreth Wildlife Park in Cambridgeshire, says the VAT cut was a \"huge lifeline\" which enabled the venue to cut admission fees to encourage more visitors when it reopened in April. However, she says it will now \"have to bear the brunt\" of the increase, as she doesn't want to put off customers by upping prices over winter. You can read more from businesses affected by the change here.\n\nRebecca Willers says her wildlife park will have to \"bear the brunt\" of increased VAT\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWith Scotland's vaccine passport app launched on Thursday, you can find out how Covid certification works across the UK 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.", "Sarah Everard's killer, a serving police officer, pretended to arrest her in order to abduct her\n\nA police boss who said women \"need to be streetwise\" about powers of arrest in the wake of the Sarah Everard case is being urged to resign.\n\nNorth Yorkshire commissioner Philip Allott sparked fury when he said Ms Everard \"never should have submitted\" to the arrest by her killer.\n\nA Met Police officer falsely arrested the 33-year-old in order to abduct, rape and murder her.\n\nLabour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for Mr Allott to quit.\n\nHe said: \"He should go. I can't think of a more inappropriate thing for a police and crime commissioner to say at any time, but at this time in particular. He should consider his position.\"\n\nMr Allott has apologised for his remarks and said he wanted to retract his comments.\n\nDuring the sentencing of Wayne Couzens at the Old Bailey, it emerged he tricked Ms Everard by falsely arresting her for a breach of coronavirus guidelines.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio York earlier, Conservative Mr Allott said women should be aware this was not an indictable offence - one considered serious enough to warrant a prison sentence or crown court hearing.\n\n\"So women, first of all, need to be streetwise about when they can be arrested and when they can't be arrested. She should never have been arrested and submitted to that,\" he said.\n\n\"Perhaps women need to consider in terms of the legal process, to just learn a bit about that legal process\".\n\nThe comments provoked an angry reaction on social media, prompting Mr Allott to reconsider.\n\nIn an apologetic tweet, he said he realised his remarks were \"insensitive and [I] wish to retract them in full\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Allott, who was elected in May, spoke to BBC Radio York\n\nMP for York Central Rachael Maskell added that Mr Allott's position was \"untenable\".\n\n\"Women are not feeling safe on our streets and it is for the police, including the police and crime commissioners to make sure we feel safer,\" she said.\n\nAmong those angered by Mr Allott's comments was campaigner Lucy Arnold, who organised a vigil outside York Minster following the death of Ms Everard, who was originally from York.\n\n\"I think frankly that was a horrifically offensive thing to say,\" she said.\n\n\"Does anyone really feel like they can stand up to a police officer? I am very confident I know my rights, I know the law, but no I wouldn't feel confident at all.\"\n\nLabour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer is among those calling for Mr Allott's resignation\n\nThe Everyday Sexism account accused Mr Allott of \"openly blaming Sarah Everard for what happened to her\", and Scotland's First Minister said the comments were \"appalling\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon tweeted it was not \"up to women to fix this\".\n\n\"The problem is male violence, not women's 'failure' to find ever more inventive ways to protect ourselves against it. For change to happen, this needs to be accepted by everyone,\" she said.\n\nLegal commentator David Allen Green added: \"There is not a competent lawyer in the country that would have advised Sarah Everard to resist arrest by a police officer with a warrant card.\"\n\nIn his interview, Mr Allott was also critical of the Met Police's alleged failure to investigate two indecent exposure incidents linked to Couzens in February, describing it as a red flag for any force.\n\n\"A murderer typically commits seven crimes before going on to murder, that man we know committed at least two crimes,\" he said.\n\n\"The police knew, so what should have happened is that it should have been picked up straight away.\"\n\nThe police watchdog has launched an investigation into its handling of the exposure reports, and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick has faced calls to resign.\n\nScotland Yard has advised people detained by a lone plain-clothes officer to ask \"searching questions\" and to speak to an operator on a police radio to determine if the officer is genuine.\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 body of Sarah Everard was found hidden in woodland\n\nMet Police officer Wayne Couzens has been sentenced to a whole-life term for the murder of Sarah Everard, in a case that sparked national outrage and calls for more action to tackle violence against women.\n\nCouzens admitted the kidnap, rape and murder of the 33-year-old marketing executive when he appeared in court several months ago.\n\nBut it was only during his sentencing that the full details of his crimes emerged.\n\nMs Everard was walking home from a friend's house in Clapham, south London, at about 21:30 BST on 3 March when she was abducted.\n\nCouzens' choice of victim was random, but the attack was planned.\n\nIn his sentencing remarks, Lord Justice Fulford said there had been \"significant planning and premeditation\" by Couzens.\n\nThe police officer had \"long planned to carry out a violent sexual assault on a yet-to-be-selected victim\" who he intended to coerce into his custody, noted the judge.\n\nCouzens spent at least a month travelling to London from Deal, Kent, where he lived, to research how best to carry out his crimes.\n\nSeveral days before the attack, he booked a hire car, which he would use for the abduction, as well as a roll of self-adhesive film advertised as a carpet protector on Amazon.\n\nAfter finishing a 12-hour shift at the US embassy that morning, Couzens, a parliamentary and diplomatic protection officer, went out \"hunting\" for a lone, young woman to kidnap and rape, the prosecution said.\n\nCCTV footage played in court showed Couzens and Ms Everard beside a vehicle on Poynders Road in Clapham\n\nThe court heard how Couzens used the knowledge he had gained from working on Covid patrols in January and his Metropolitan Police-issue warrant card to trick his victim under the guise of a fake arrest for breaching coronavirus guidelines.\n\nThe 48-year-old, who had been a police officer since 2002, handcuffed her before bundling her into the car and driving away.\n\nThe abduction was witnessed by a couple travelling past in a car - but they believed they had seen an undercover police officer carrying out a legitimate arrest, so did not intervene.\n\nThe whole kidnapping took less than five minutes.\n\nCouzens then drove to Dover in Kent, where he transferred Ms Everard to his own car, before travelling to a remote rural area nearby.\n\nIt was there that he raped and murdered his victim - strangling her with his police belt.\n\nBy 02:31 Couzens had left the scene and was spotted at a service station buying drinks.\n\nHe visited the site where Ms Everard's body was dumped twice, leaving just before dawn.\n\nThe next day, as the search for her escalated, Couzens bought petrol, which he used to burn her body inside a fridge.\n\nHe also purchased two green rubble bags, which he used to dump the remains in a pond near an area of woodland he owned in Hoads Wood, Ashford.\n\nA week after she disappeared, Ms Everard's body was found in a woodland stream, just metres from land owned by Couzens.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A CCTV timeline shows key evidence used to arrest and prosecute Wayne Couzens\n\nMeanwhile, Couzens returned to normal life, carrying out mundane activities like calling a vet about his dog.\n\nDays later, he even took his wife and two children on a family trip to the woods where he had burnt his victim's body.\n\nHowever, on the 8 March, the day he was due to return to work, he reported in sick.\n\nThe following day he was arrested at his home in Deal.\n\nIn a brief police interview, he told a false story about being threatened by an Eastern European gang, claiming they had demanded he deliver \"another girl\" after he had underpaid a prostitute a few weeks before. He then claimed he kidnapped Ms Everard, drove out of London and handed her over to three men in a van in a layby in Kent, while she was alive and uninjured.\n\nBut after Ms Everard's body was discovered in a pond just 130 metres from land owned by Couzens, he was charged.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In video from a police interview at his home on 9 March, Couzens denies knowing Sarah Everard\n\nCouzens has since been sacked by the Met, but the force is still facing questions over whether chances were missed to prevent his predatory behaviour.\n\nAfter Ms Everard's murder, the police watchdog announced it was probing alleged failures by the Met to investigate two indecent exposure incidents linked to Couzens in February.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct is also investigating alleged failures by Kent Police to investigate a flashing incident linked to Couzens in 2015.\n\nCouzens transferred to the Met in 2018, from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, where he had worked since 2011.\n\nTwo years later he began working for the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command as an authorised firearms officer at diplomatic premises around central London.\n\nIn July, appearing by video link from Belmarsh high security jail, Couzens pleaded guilty to murder at the Old Bailey.\n\nOn Wednesday he appeared in court again - this time in person - for a two-day sentencing hearing.\n\nThere, he faced Ms Everard's mother, father and sister, who described to the court the torment of losing their loved one in such horrendous circumstances.\n\nHer father, Jeremy, demanded that Couzens looked at him as he told the murderer he could never forgive him for taking away his daughter.\n\nHer mother, Susan, said she was \"tormented\" at the thought of what her \"precious little girl\" had endured.\n\n\"I go through the sequence of events. I wonder when she realised she was in mortal danger,\" she told the court.\n\n\"Burning her body was the final insult. It meant we could never again see her sweet face and never say goodbye.\n\n\"Our lives will never be the same. We should be a family of five, but now we are four. Her death leaves a yawning chasm in our lives that cannot be filled.\"", "Police missed that Wayne Couzens' car linked him to an allegation of indecent exposure, a Met review into how he became an officer in London has found.\n\nInformation that may have identified him as a potential sex offender was received by the force 72 hours before he killed Sarah Everard.\n\nThe two unrelated reports, and how officers dealt with them, are being investigated by the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nCouzens will spend his life in prison.\n\nThe IOPC is looking into the Met's handling of three potential incidents.\n\nThe most recent one concerns whether officers \"responded appropriately\" when they were called to a fast-food restaurant in south London on 28 February, three days before the marketing executive was kidnapped.\n\nIn a statement issued on Thursday night, the Met described the incident as being subject to \"a live criminal inquiry\".\n\n\"That crime was allocated for investigation but by the time of Sarah's abduction it was not concluded,\" the force said.\n\nIt added it would \"re-evaluate our approach to indecent exposure\".\n\nSeparately in 2015, Kent Police received a report of an alleged indecent exposure.\n\nCouzens was not named as the suspect, but the vehicle involved was identified. That information would have been enough to establish that Couzens was the owner.\n\nSpeaking to reporters at Scotland Yard, Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave said Kent Police had investigated the report and took no further action.\n\nHe explained: \"One of a number of checks that forms part of the vetting process may not have been undertaken correctly when he joined the Met.\n\n\"This check related to a vehicle that was registered to Couzens that was linked to an allegation of indecent exposure that was reported to Kent Police in 2015.\"\n\nThe assistant commissioner said the review into the vetting of Couzens concluded that even if that information had been known, it would not have changed the outcome.\n\nHowever, the reasons for this remain unclear.\n\nDame Cressida Dick said the case had \"brought shame on the Met\"\n\nThe statement the Met issued on Thursday night added: \"We want the public to have confidence in our vetting and are taking extra measures to ensure our processes are the best they can be and address any potential weaknesses.\n\n\"Vetting is a snapshot in time and, unfortunately, can never 100% guarantee an individual's integrity.\"\n\nMeanwhile, two senior Met officers told London Assembly's Police and Crime Committee they were not aware of rumours that Couzens was nicknamed \"the rapist\" by colleagues.\n\nHowever, HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary Sir Tom Winsor said the nickname was known by some officers.\n\nSir Tom, who in his role has responsibility for the inspection of police forces, told the BBC Couzens \"also had allegedly a reputation in terms of drug abuse, extreme pornography and other offences of this kind\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The rollout of third doses of Covid vaccines for vulnerable people with weak immune systems has gone \"badly wrong\", say charities.\n\nVaccine experts recommended on 1 September that immunosuppressed patients should be given the extra dose to give them fuller protection.\n\nBut Kidney Care UK and Blood Cancer UK say many are still waiting.\n\nNHS England says eligible patients should be offered the third doses by the end of next week.\n\nStudies have shown that people who are immunosuppressed - around 500,000 people in the UK - are unlikely to mount a strong defence against Covid-19, even after two doses of vaccine.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation advised that individuals such as those undergoing chemotherapy, HIV patients or people who have received an organ transplant, should get a third dose as soon as possible.\n\nOn 2 September, NHS England sent out guidance to doctors saying this third dose should be given at least eight weeks after the second jab, and at a time when the patient is not receiving treatment that may make the vaccine less likely to work.\n\nGPs and hospital consultants were asked to identify eligible patients and begin contacting them by 13 September.\n\nBut people have taken to social media to express their frustration at not being able to access a jab, despite the rollout of the separate booster programme for the over-50s and at-risk groups.\n\nSteve Harrison, from Lincolnshire, had a kidney transplant in December 2020 and is eligible for a third dose. He feels the most vulnerable have been forgotten.\n\nHe said: \"Arranging the third vaccine has been a nightmare. Neither my consultant nor my GP knew about it.\n\n\"I have spent days speaking to doctors, consultants, the CCG (Clinical Commissioning Group) and I am still no closer to having my vaccine booked.\n\n\"Shielding ending, restrictions lifting, the world getting back to normal and moving forwards, yet I feel like I am moving backwards.\"\n\nThe charities Kidney Care UK and Blood Cancer UK have both expressed concern at the high number of calls and emails they have received about the issue over the last few weeks.\n\nKidney Care UK has passed on the names of more than 80 GP practices to NHS England which it says were not currently assisting people with a third dose.\n\nFiona Loud, its policy director, said: \"This lack of clarity is causing a huge amount of stress, anxiety and frustration amongst thousands of kidney patients.\n\n\"This group are returning to work and public places with no specific national advice or support.\n\n\"They feel completely let down and many have told us this is the most worried and anxious they have felt throughout the entire pandemic.\"\n\nNHS England issued new guidance to hospital trusts on 30 September, with instructions that action be taken immediately to contact all those eligible for their third dose by 11 October.\n\nThese will be recorded as a \"booster\" shot until the national system can be updated to recognise third \"primary\" doses. This will ensure immunosuppressed patients can then be contacted again in six months for their booster fourth dose.\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"While a decision on when to get a third jab remains a decision between a patient and their clinician who know about their ongoing care and treatment, all hospitals have been asked to identify and offer a jab to those who are eligible, by the end of next week.\n\n\"Where vaccines cannot be administered at the same site, patients and their GP will be written to shortly so they can arrange their jab at their local practice or vaccine centre.\"\n• None Covid-19- How effective is a third vaccine dose- - BBC Future", "Drivers encountered lengthy queues at many forecourts on Saturday\n\nBoris Johnson should recall Parliament to pass new laws to sort out fuel and food shortages, says Labour's leader.\n\nSir Keir Starmer says \"emergency action\" is needed to speed up visas for 5,000 extra HGV drivers.\n\nThe prime minister - who will be in Manchester next week at the Tory conference - said the UK supply chain was \"very resilient\".\n\nAnd he accused the haulage industry of being too reliant on low-paid migrant workers.\n\nThere have been long queues at petrol stations this week after a shortage of drivers disrupted fuel deliveries.\n\nMinisters have announced a temporary visa scheme for three months until Christmas Eve to make it easier for foreign lorry drivers to work in the UK.\n\nAsked in a BBC interview about the shortages, the prime minister said: \"This Christmas will be considerably more festive than last year.\"\n\nHe said the UK had \"very resilient supply chains\" and that he would not allow the UK to repeat the \"failures\" of the past, by allowing mass immigration to create a \"low-wage, low-skill economy\" for British workers.\n\nHe accused campaign groups representing the food sector of wanting go back to a system of \"unskilled, mass immigration\" that people \"had voted against\".\n\n\"The solution is to make sure these jobs are properly paid, that we attract people into them and that we invest in automation, facilities and plant because this country has lagged behind competitors for over a decade.\"\n\nDowning Street has been approached for a comment on calls for Parliament to be brought back from party conference recess to tackle the crisis.\n\nSir Keir told BBC News MPs should sit for \"one day, maybe next week\" to approve temporary visas for foreign lorry drivers.\n\nThe Labour leader said the prime minister was \"burying his head in the sand\"\n\nSpeaking outside a petrol station in north London, he said \"at this garage there's no fuel and it's typical of garages across the country.\"\n\n\"The government has said we need visas. There's no sign of any visas.\"\n\nHe accused Mr Johnson of \"burying his head in the sand\" over the crisis, adding that Labour would vote for whatever legislation is needed.\n\nThe Lib Dems are also urging a recall, with the party's business spokesperson Sarah Olney saying the country can not \"wait any longer for Boris Johnson to realise there is a problem to solve\".\n\n\"Care workers can't get to their patients, schools buses are being cancelled, and millions of drivers are left stranded in endless queues.\n\n\"Enough is enough. If the government can't do their job, then MPs should be able to do it for them.\"\n\nThe SNP did not rule out backing a recall. The party's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, said: \"At the very least we there should be cross-party discussions this weekend.\n\n\"We're certainly in the teeth of a crisis and we would welcome an early opportunity to debate it.\"", "Major problems have been reported with Scotland's Covid vaccine passport app, just hours after its launch.\n\nPeople now need proof they have had two doses of vaccine in order to enter nightclubs and many other large events.\n\nThe NHS Scotland Covid Status app only became available to download on Apple and Android devices at about 17:30 on Thursday.\n\nBut many people have said they were unable to access their vaccination status through the app.\n\nThe Scottish government said more than 70,000 people had downloaded the app on on Thursday, with a spokesman adding: \"This huge demand did mean that some people experienced delays and we are sorry that happened.\n\n\"We have now increased the capacity of the NHS systems that sit behind the app - where most of the issues causing delays have occurred - in order to deal with demand and, as a result, we are seeing increasing numbers of people now able to access their records.\"\n\nAnecdotal evidence on social media suggested that problems may have arisen when people tried to use their NHS CHI number to register.\n\nThis step comes after users are asked to take a picture of their passport or driving licence.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said there should be an \"indefinite delay\" to the rollout of the new scheme to avoid a \"weekend of chaos\" at venues across the country.\n\nHe added: \"Thousands of people will be at the football and going out to hospitality premises this weekend.\n\n\"This plan should really be scrapped altogether but, if the SNP insist on charging ahead, they must indefinitely delay the vaccine passport scheme until the most basic issues are ironed out.\"\n\nMany people reported problems registering with the scheme on Friday\n\nPeople have been sharing their experiences of trying to download the new vaccine passport app.\n\nDean of the Faculty of Advocates, Roddy Dunlop QC, described the app as the \"worst I have ever tried to use\".\n\nHe wrote on Twitter: \"I am not prone to hyperbole. I promise.\n\n\"And I instantly recognise that I was originally instructed to challenge the introduction of Covid passports and so am not neutral.\n\n\"But try the app. This is, literally, the worst app I have ever tried to use.\"\n\nAnother app user shared screenshots of his experience on Twitter during which he was told \"no match found\" followed by: \"Something went wrong. We're working on it.\"\n\nOthers reported issues getting past the initial log in page, while a BBC Good Morning Scotland listener told the programme that he had tried twice to download the app without success.\n\nHe said: \"I tried for a couple of hours last night but not joy and this morning I tried again and although I could get past the biometric part it would take me to end of the process and was still not working.\n\n\"It just isn't suitable for purpose at the moment, they should have known it was going to happen in the first place.\"\n\nUniversity of Edinburgh scientist Dr Christine Tait-Burkard said she was unable to get the app working, being told a match could not be found for her on the NHS database.\n\nHowever, the academic told the programme that once up and running, the app will help \"persuade some of the hesitant people [to get vaccinated] if the vaccine passport has consequences.\"\n\nMike Rhodes, of the IT firm ConsultMyApp, said he thought the servers being used for the app were being overloaded because of demand but this should have been anticipated.\n\nHe said: \"It is highly likely that those developers that built the app shell also built the interface to the back-end servers that ended up failing.\n\n\"Secondly, this wasn't an unforeseen event - the developers absolutely knew this would be downloaded incredibly quickly and was likely to get hundreds of thousands of people attempting to register at the same time.\"\n\nMr Rhodes questioned why there was \"so little time\" between the app being launched and it being needed for entry into events.\n\nThe new rules came into effect at 05:00 on Friday - but the government announced earlier this week that they will not actually be enforced until 18 October.\n\nPaul Banham, of Glasgow's Buff Club, told BBC Scotland's Lunchtime Live: \"We'll be having a look at them over the next few weeks but we won't be refusing entry if someone doesn't have it - there's too many glitches at the moment.\n\n\"We've had a lot of students contact us and a lot of them are saying they have been vaccinated in other areas of the UK and that is not showing on their Covid status so there's a few gaps at the moment and hopefully they will be ironed out.\"\n\nThe Night Time Industries Association (NTIA), which represents nightclub, lost a legal bid to delay the rollout on Thursday.\n\nIt had argued that the new system was \"discriminatory\" and \"disproportionate\".\n\nBut judge Lord Burns ruled that the vaccine passports were \"an attempt to address the legitimate issues identified in a balanced way\", and was within the margin of what the government could decide was a reasonable response to the pandemic.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the court judgement was \"clear and emphatic\".\n\nShe said: \"This is a targeted and proportionate way to try and reduce the harm the virus will do over the winter months, to keep our economy open and fully functioning.\n\n\"We will continue to engage with businesses not just in the run-up to the enforcement of this on 18 October, we will do that afterwards as well so we are listening and understanding and working collectively to keep the country as safe as possible.\"\n\nThe vaccine certification scheme will require venues such as nightclubs to put in place a \"reasonable system\" to check the status of customers over the age of 18\n\nThe vaccine certification scheme will require venues to put in place a \"reasonable system\" to check the status of customers over the age of 18, with certain exemptions on medical grounds.\n\nVenues affected include nightclubs, unseated indoor events with more than 500 people, unseated outdoor events with more than 4,000 people, and any event with more than 10,000 people in attendance.\n\nElsewhere in the UK, Wales plans to introduce its own Covid passport rules later this month but England has scrapped similar plans.\n\nNorthern Ireland has yet to announce a formal vaccination passport scheme.\n\nThe Scottish launch comes as latest figures show that a total of 4,189,701 people have received the coronavirus vaccine in Scotland, of which 3,837,689 people have received two doses.", "Patsy Stevenson, who was arrested at the vigil for Sarah Everard in March, says the Metropolitan Police's suggestions of knocking on a door or waving a bus down are \"almost laughable if it wasn't so disgusting\".\n\nShe tells the PA news agency: \"I feel like they are just clutching at straws, because the advice isn't relevant. It's like a distraction because, number one, in that situation, you can't just stop and hail down a bus or a taxi or something.\n\n\"Can you imagine the distrust that people have right now where they have to protect themselves from the police in that manner? That is shocking.\"\n\nShe says if someone had done something illegal it is the police giving them permission to run off, adding: \"It doesn't make any sense. They could have been enacting change for ages now, but they haven't, and they're still not doing it, they're just putting out a statement to quieten people down.\"\n\nThe force has advised anyone who is concerned a police officer is not acting legitimately during an interaction to ask where the officer's colleagues are; where they have come from; why they are there; and exactly why they are stopping or talking to them.\n\nAnyone could verify the police officer by asking to hear their radio operator or asking to speak to the radio operator themselves, the force says, also suggesting that people who are concerned can shout out to a passer-by, run into a house, knock on a door, wave a bus down, or call 999.\n\nStevenson is currently involved in legal action against the Metropolitan Police over its actions at the 13 March vigil.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Metropolitan Police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick says the force has been \"shamed\" and \"rocked\" by the case\n\nTrust in the Metropolitan Police has been \"shaken\" by the murder of Sarah Everard by a then-serving officer, the force's commissioner has admitted.\n\nDame Cressida Dick said she recognised \"a precious bond of trust has been damaged\" and she would ensure \"any lessons\" were learned from the case.\n\nShe was delivering a statement after facing calls to resign.\n\nThe Met faces questions over whether chances were missed to prevent Wayne Couzens from murdering Ms Everard.\n\nLabour MP Harriet Harman called for Dame Cressida to stand down, saying women's trust in the force \"will have been shattered\", while former Met chief superintendent Parm Sandhu also called for the commissioner to resign.\n\nBut Home Secretary Priti Patel said while the Met had \"serious questions\" to answer, she would \"continue to work with\" the Met chief.\n\nCouzens, 48, kidnapped, raped and murdered Ms Everard, 33, in March. He has been sentenced to a whole-life prison term.\n\nSpeaking outside the Old Bailey, where Couzens was sentenced, Dame Cressida said she was \"absolutely sickened\" by the case - adding that it had \"brought shame on the Met\" and \"rocked\" the organisation.\n\nCouzens' actions were a \"gross betrayal of everything policing stands for\", she said, and had \"eroded the confidence that the public are entitled to have in the police\".\n\nShe said: \"I absolutely know that there are those who feel that their trust in us is shaken. I recognise that for some people a precious bond of trust has been damaged.\"\n\nDame Cressida said she realised what had happened to Sarah Everard and other women in London and elsewhere recently had \"raised important questions about women's safety\".\n\nShe committed to \"keep working with others to improve women's safety and reduce the fear of violence\".\n\n\"There are no words that can fully express the fury and overwhelming sadness that we all feel about what happened to Sarah. I am so sorry.\"\n\nThe Met has announced that it will no longer deploy plain-clothes officers on their own, and will instead send them in pairs.\n\nDeputy Commissioner Sir Stephen House said there would be \"occasions\" where that was not possible - such as when a pair of officers were split up - and noted that off-duty officers not in uniform \"put themselves on duty\" when they come across an incident.\n\nIn other moves to allay concerns, the Met said it would deploy 650 new officers into busy public places, including those where women and girls often lack confidence that they are safe\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel said she would continue to hold the police to account, but refused to say if Cressida Dick should resign\n\nCouzens, who had been a police officer since 2002, transferred to the Met in 2018 from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, where he had worked since 2011.\n\nHe was sacked by the Met in July after pleading guilty, but the force is still facing questions over whether chances were missed to prevent his predatory behaviour.\n\nAfter Ms Everard's murder, the police watchdog announced it was probing alleged failures by the Met to investigate two indecent exposure incidents linked to Couzens in February.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said it received an allegation of indecent exposure some 72 hours before Sarah was abducted. That crime was allocated for investigation but by the time of Sarah's abduction it was not concluded, the force said.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct is also investigating alleged failures by Kent Police to investigate a flashing incident linked to Couzens in 2015.\n\nA Scotland Yard review into how Couzens became a police officer in London found that it missed that his car had been linked to an allegation of indecent exposure.\n\nThe Met said it had asked the policing watchdog to pay \"particular attention to our vetting practices\" in its inspection of the force.\n\nBut the force added that \"vetting is a snapshot in time and unfortunately, can never 100% guarantee an individual's integrity\".\n\nA \"complete overhaul\" of vetting procedures was needed, Ms Sandhu, a former Met chief superintendent, told BBC Radio 4's World, adding that she did not have trust in the Met commissioner to make the necessary changes.\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Harman, who is chairwoman of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, said it was \"not possible\" for Dame Cressida to \"rebuild the shattered confidence of women in the police service\".\n\nThis month, it was announced that Dame Cressida - the first woman to lead London's police force - will serve an extra two years in her role and remain in post until 2024.\n\nDays before the announcement, a number of high-profile figures wrote an open letter accusing her of \"presiding over a culture of incompetence and cover-up\".\n\nMs Patel said there were \"serious questions\" that needed to be answered by the Metropolitan Police - but backed Dame Cressida.\n\nSpeaking at the Home Office, the home secretary said: \"From the very day that Sarah went missing, I have been, clearly, in contact with the Metropolitan Police and putting forward some questions around the conduct of the potential suspect at the time and all the requirements and checks that should have been put in place.\"\n\nWhen asked if Dame Cressida should resign, she said: \"I will continue to work with the Metropolitan Police and the commissioner to hold them to account as everybody would expect me to do.\"", "People stopped by a lone plain-clothes officer should challenge their legitimacy, the Met Police has said.\n\nThe force is seeking to reassure women after the murder of Sarah Everard by serving police officer, Wayne Couzens.\n\nThe Met has advised people detained by a lone plain-clothes officer to ask questions like \"Where are your colleagues?\" and \"Where have you come from?\"\n\nBut some women say this shifts the onus back on to them.", "Dr Dre (L) will be joined by fellow West-Coast rapper Snoop Dogg in California\n\nDr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Eminem are among the stars who will perform the coveted half-time show at next year's Super Bowl, the NFL has confirmed.\n\nThey will be joined by Mary J Blige and Kendrick Lamar in Los Angeles, in a performance likely to draw tens of millions of viewers.\n\nThe stars, who have 43 Grammys between them, will perform together for the first time in February.\n\n\"This will introduce the next saga of my career,\" Dr Dre wrote on Instagram.\n\n\"The opportunity to perform at the Super Bowl LVI half-time show, and to do it in my own back yard, will be one of the biggest thrills of my career,\" the LA-based rapper and producer said in a statement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NFL This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 performance will mark a reunion for the hip-hop legend with Eminem and Snoop Dogg, whose dazzling careers he launched. The trio performed together on Dr Dre's multi-platinum-selling album 2001.\n\nThe artists will follow in the footsteps of The Weeknd, who performed the show this year, and Shakira and Jennifer Lopez, whose 2020 performance was watched by 104 million people.\n\nThe Super Bowl half-time show is one of the most prestigious gigs in music, with previous headliners including Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, Lady Gaga and Beyonce.\n\nIt is organised by the NFL, Pepsi and Roc Nation, a production firm owned by rapper Jay-Z.\n\nJay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, said the performance would be \"history in the making\".\n\nNext year's event will take place at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California on Sunday, 13 February.", "I'm A Celebrity is heading back to Wales - and a new book reveals some of the secrets behind the castle show\n\nPreparations have begun in for the 2021 series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here.\n\nThe ITV show will be filmed at Abergele's Gwrych Castle for a second year, with Covid preventing a return to the Australian jungle.\n\nThe Conwy county castle has now closed to the public to allow TV producers to begin preparing for the series.\n\nA new book gives an idea of the work involved in converting the derelict Grade I listed castle for the show.\n\nIt reveals the show's production team is made up of 500 people, many of whom worked in a huge tent erected in the castle grounds.\n\nOn one windy day, the crew had to briefly abandon their offices when some guy ropes came loose.\n\nIt also reports the celebrities' sleeping and living area had to be roofed over because of the Welsh weather, but this meant building a special chimney and extractor to remove fumes from the camp fire.\n\nThe filming schedule meant the celebrities' trials, in which they complete tasks involving insects or unpleasant foods, were actually filmed well after midnight.\n\nA special kitchen was set up to prepare dishes like fermented duck eggs and blended vomit fruit - well away from the main staff canteen.\n\nThe castle, near Abergele, was built in the early 19th Century\n\nThe souvenir guidebook was co-written by Mark Baker, chairman of the Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust, which owns the castle.\n\n\"It was an enormous task to turn a derelict and sometimes dangerous ruin into a TV set,\" he said.\n\n\"It was just extraordinary how they repurposed lots of the interior spaces in the historic building - it wasn't just all fake sets, they used the actual castle, and it's quite exciting to show people how that happened.\"\n\nHe said ITV had been \"incredibly sensitive to the history and fabric of the place\" and to Welsh culture.\n\n\"Where the celebrities' bathroom was, was also a place where staff would have washed back in history.\n\n\"It was lovely to work with them, and exciting to work with them again this autumn.\"\n\nThe sight of a crane over the top of the castle in the past few weeks has led to speculation that new areas of the castle may feature in the 2021 series.\n\nKiosk Cledwyn proved a big hit for the show in 2020 - but will he be back in the castle this year?\n\nSources close to the programme said the most prominent Welsh character - Kiosk Cledwyn - would be making a return to the screen to give the celebrities luxury rewards if they succeed in challenges.\n\nPreparations have also begun in the town of Abergele itself, where the Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust has opened a souvenir shop to sell merchandise while the castle is closed to visitors for the filming.\n\nThe throne on which Giovanna Fletcher was crowned queen of the castle at the end of the 2020 series is also in display in the shop.\n\nBusinesses in Abergele were hoping that the programme would help boost trade and create a buzz in the area.\n\nThe Veg Shop owner Tracey Brennan hopes the show will bring a boost to trade - and lift spirits after Covid\n\nTracey Brennan, who owns The Veg Shop in the town centre, said she could not wait.\n\n\"It's been such a terrible trading year, and when last year's show went out, we were all in lockdown,\" she said.\n\n\"From a business point of view, after being locked down for lots of last winter, we can now look forward to a period with more visitors and more footfall, and try to recoup losses from earlier in the year.\n\n\"We've already seen lots of tourists who have been talking about coming back in winter and asking us where is the best place to view the castle.\n\n\"It will be something between autumn and Christmas to lift people's spirits.\n\n\"We can't wait to see the celebs, and are even hoping we'll get to see a bit more of them in the town this year.\"\n\nGiovanna Fletcher's throne where she was crowned winner last year is on display in the special I'm A Celebrity shop\n\nConwy council has put plans in place to improve safety on the roads in the area, where a woman was killed during last year's show after being hit by a car while trying to take a photo of the castle.\n\nIt also hopes the show's producers will look at featuring other locations around north Wales.\n\nLouise Emery, cabinet member for the economy, said: \"We're delighted the show is being filmed in Abergele again, and we're looking forward to seeing some familiar locations on national TV.\n\n\"Covid restrictions will be less this year, so we're quietly hoping that the production team will be able to do more filming in the surrounding area.\n\n\"The mountains, coast and landscapes of Conwy county lend themselves to all sorts of creative challenges for the celebrities - who knows what we'll see.\n\n\"This year's show has already brought economic benefits to the area. It's been really good to see local businesses supplying catering and other services to the production crew as they start to get the castle ready.\n\n\"We're hoping those economic benefits can continue long after the show comes off air and the celebrities have headed home.\"", "What difference will the clinics make?\n\nCarrying out diagnostic tests in community settings is nothing new. A number of hospitals already operate similar clinics - in fact some of the sites included in this announcement are running now. The investment is much needed. Access to tests and scans is a real bottleneck in the system at the moment, slowing down the ability of the NHS to work its way through the backlog in routine care and, sometimes, delaying the diagnosis of cancer. The aim is to get these tests done within six weeks of referral, unless it is an urgent cancer case. But currently nearly a quarter of patients wait longer than that. Before the pandemic fewer than 5% did. The NHS carries out more than 15 million diagnostic tests a year. The government says these clinics will be able to do 2.8 million. But as there is a shortage of specialists to carry out these tests, it remains to be seen by how much these clinics will expand capacity rather than just lead to services being transferred from hospital into the community.", "Shakira (pictured in 2020) was in Barcelona, Spain, when the animals attacked\n\nPop superstar Shakira says she was the victim of a random attack by a pair of wild boars while walking in a park in Barcelona with her eight-year-old son.\n\nThe Colombian singer said the animals attacked her, before seizing her bag and retreating with it into the woods.\n\nShe shared her bizarre tale in a series of Instagram stories on Wednesday.\n\nHolding the now recovered but torn bag towards the camera, she said: \"Look at how two wild boar which attacked me in the park have left my bag.\"\n\n\"They were taking my bag to the woods with my mobile phone in it,\" the singer continued. \"They've destroyed everything.\"\n\nShe then turned to her son, whose father is the Barcelona footballer Gerard Piqué, and said: \"Milan tell the truth. Say how your mummy stood up to the wild boar.\"\n\nShakira is the latest victim of the increasingly aggressive hogs which have invaded the Catalan capital in recent years.\n\nIn 2016, Spanish police received 1,187 phone calls about wild hogs attacking dogs, plundering cat-feeders, holding up traffic and running into cars in the city.\n\nIn 2013, one city police officer attempted to take charge of the problem himself and shot at a boar with his service revolver, but missed and hit his partner instead.\n\nBoars, which can carry a wide variety of diseases, are listed among the world's most invasive species and can survive in almost any environment. But increasingly the animals are drawn to cities, where they live off rubbish discarded by humans.\n\nTheir numbers have exploded across Europe, with the latest estimates now surpassing around 10 million across the continent.\n\nAs they have become more aggressive and more of a nuisance, many cities have employed a variety of strategies to cull their numbers. In Berlin, urban hunters have killed thousands of the animals but the problem persists.\n\nLast year police officers in Rome sparked outrage after they shot a family of wild boar that had wandered into a children's playground with tranquiliser darts and gave them lethal injections.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The murder of Sarah Everard sparked a national outcry, spurring women to share their experiences of feeling unsafe on the streets. Many included a sense of the teller lining themselves up shoulder-to-shoulder with her: \"She was the same age as me\", \"I used to live near her\", \"I've walked the same route\".\n\nMs Everard didn't set herself up to be such an everywoman, a symbol of longstanding - and ongoing - violence against women. She had no choice in her name becoming a battle cry for change.\n\nThe private, excoriating grief of friends and family seems to have been subsumed by the wider - albeit important and valid - reactions of protest and polemic, marches and mass mourning.\n\nSarah Everard was a daughter, sister, friend and colleague. According to those in the know, she was dreadful at karaoke but \"brilliant\" at everything else.\n\nThere were just 38 minutes between the time this \"clever, articulate and caring\" woman left a friend's house and the last time she was seen.\n\nThe final image of her, captured by a bus camera, also showed a white Vauxhall Astra with its hazard lights on and both front doors open.\n\nThe car had been hired specifically for kidnapping a woman. It was returned to the rental company the following morning, having served its purpose.\n\nHer body was found a week later in a woodland stream in Ashford, Kent, where her killer owned a patch of land.\n\nA complete stranger, a police officer, had kidnapped, raped and murdered her.\n\nHe knew what he was doing, this man who killed her for his own gratuitous wants.\n\nOutwardly, he had what appeared to be a perfectly ordinary life. A responsible job. Wife and children. A house in Deal in Kent he shared with them.\n\nBut the 48-year-old officer's façade hid the actions of a sexual predator who had been planning the crime - although not yet selecting his victim - in chilling detail. On 28 February, three days before he killed Ms Everard, he had been accused of indecent exposure in a branch of McDonald's. It wasn't the first time.\n\nThe very same day, he bought a roll of self-adhesive plastic described as \"carpet protector\" and booked the hire car he would use to abduct the marketing executive. He arranged for time off work.\n\nAfter he killed Ms Everard, he bought builders' bags, a tarpaulin and a cargo net, wiped his phone and concocted an implausible and time-wasting web of lies about his involvement in her disappearance.\n\nThat they won't have to sit through the grisly evidence and twisted lies of a trial must be scant relief to her loved ones.\n\nMs Everard should have had a brilliant future, a lot to look forward to. She had bounced back after a relationship breakup and was seeing someone new. She had just started a new job.\n\nShe, her boyfriend Josh Lowth and four others were planning a trip to Ibiza at the end of summer.\n\nOne of Ms Everard's friends said: \"What I loved about her was that she had depth. She wasn't a vapid, nice person. She had opinions, sarcasm and wanted things to be better.\n\n\"We could trust her to fight the good fight.\"\n\nMs Everard grew up in York, with an older brother and sister. Her father was a professor and her mother a charity worker.\n\nDescribed by her family as \"bright and beautiful\", \"kind and thoughtful\", \"caring and dependable\", she \"always put others first and had the most amazing sense of humour. She was strong and principled and a shining example to us all\".\n\nRose Woollard has been a close friend of Ms Everard since university, and was one of the first to become alarmed. She contacted the BBC in an attempt to raise awareness before Ms Everard's disappearance had become an official police investigation.\n\nMs Woollard said: \"Sarah has always been an exceptional friend, dropping everything to be there to support her friends, whenever they need her.\n\n\"It was only recently that she was telling me the good news about her new role, which she was excited to start.\"\n\n\"She was sunshine and light, and made you feel warm and good and safe,\" said another friend. \"I feel angry about it as well, but my main anger is that it happened to her.\"\n\nA former colleague said: \"Sometimes you meet a person with a beautiful soul and it shines through.\n\n\"There is nothing anyone can say that will make things better for her family and loved ones. They must be in hell. I can only say that Sarah was a very special person and will be missed by so many.\"\n\nThe uproar over Ms Everard's death, and what she has come to represent, led one friend to say: \"I would like to just say who she was to me, as a person.\n\n\"Finding the right words is so hard.\n\n\"I can't sum her up in a few well-chosen words, nor express what she meant to me by sharing memories. I can only skim the surface now in the wake of the horror and the anger, and work through the rest alone in the weeks and months to follow.\n\n\"Sarah was open. Honest. Unflinching in her ability to listen and empathise. There are some people you know for a relatively short time, but whom you instantly strike up a close bond with due to your similarities - Sarah was one of these people. We shared a lot, and I was never in any doubt of her discretion or sincerity in her support and kindness. We laughed, we cried. We talked about the future.\n\nA simple post on Facebook on 14 June said: \"Happy Birthday Sarah Everard. I miss you today, and every single day\".\n\nWhen she was taken, Ms Everard was less than a mile from her flat in Brixton. The killer had been cruising around for more than four hours before he saw her for the first time. Years of predatory behaviour, days of planning, hours of scouting, and mere minutes to trap his prey.\n\nThis was a decision he made. It was not a frenzied attack in which a person loses self-control. It was cool-headed and clinical.\n\nInvestigators are looking into the hypothesis he used his police ID card as a means to stop Ms Everard, under the guise of questioning her about Covid restrictions.\n\nAt any point he could have driven away.", "Natasha Ednan-Laperouse died of anaphylaxis in 2016 after eating sesame in a baguette\n\nThe parents of a teenager who died after an allergic reaction to a Pret a Manger baguette have welcomed the introduction of a new food safety law.\n\nThe rules - known as \"Natasha's Law\" - require full ingredient and allergen labelling on all food made on premises and pre-packed for direct sale.\n\nThe change follows the death of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse from anaphylaxis after she ate sesame in a baguette.\n\nHer parents said she would be \"very proud\" of the new regulations.\n\nNatasha's mother, Tanya Ednan-Laperouse, told BBC Breakfast that she and husband Nadhim had been waiting for this day for years. \"Today we really feel like we've achieved it and it feels really special,\" she said.\n\nMr Ednan-Laperouse said they had set up a parliamentary petition online calling for an allergy tsar as a \"matter of life and death\".\n\n\"This is not what a great British nation should accept, that young people can die in this day and age because of the food they eat, when all it takes is more joined-up thinking to better protect them,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nThe couple set up the Natasha Allergy Research Foundation and campaigned for the change in law after a food labelling loophole left Natasha unaware that the baguette she ate contained sesame seeds.\n\nThe coroner at the 2018 inquest into her death concluded that Pret a Manger's allergy labelling was inadequate.\n\nNatasha, from Fulham, west London, ate an artichoke, olive and tapenade baguette bought from a Pret shop at about 07:00 BST in Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport on 17 July 2016, West London Coroner's Court heard.\n\nShe began to feel ill during a British Airways flight, and suffered a cardiac arrest. Despite her father administering two EpiPen injections, she died later the same day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Natasha's parents Tanya and Nadim Ednan-Laperouse: \"We've been waiting for this day for three years\"\n\nThe inquest heard the baguette contained sesame - which Natasha was allergic to - baked into the dough, but the ingredient was not listed on the packaging.\n\nPret did not label \"artisan\" baguettes as containing sesame seeds despite six allergic reaction cases in the year before Natasha died, the inquest heard.\n\nThe regulations Natasha's law, all food retailers will be required to display full ingredient and allergen labelling on every food item made on the premises and pre-packed for direct sale - including sandwiches, cakes and salads.\n\nPreviously, non pre-packaged fresh food made on the premises did not need to be individually labelled with allergen or ingredient information.\n\nOver the last 18 months cafes and restaurants have had to deal with a raft of new legislation because of the pandemic, faced huge losses during periods of closure, and had to make significant changes to the way they operate to cope with changing customer habits.\n\nBut food labelling is a hugely important issue for a growing number of consumers who suffer from allergies. They've been asking for clearer labelling for years, and understandably they don't want to wait any longer.\n\nThe regulator is trying to be flexible with an industry already under strain, so we're unlikely to see fines straight away.\n\nBut the Food Standards Agency will expect cafes and restaurants to at least be attempting to sort out their labelling and comply with the law before the end of the year.\n\nMr Ednan-Laperouse said Natasha's Law would be vital in helping to protect the two to three million people in the UK living with food allergies from life-threatening allergic reactions.\n\nHe said: \"It is about saving lives and marks a major milestone in our campaign to support people in this country with food allergies.\n\n\"This change in the law brings greater transparency about the foods people are buying and eating; it will give people with food allergies confidence when they are buying pre-packaged food for direct sale such as sandwiches and salads. Everyone should be able to consume food safely.\"\n\nMrs Ednan-Laperouse said: \"Natasha was always extremely careful to check the food labels and until that terrible day in 2016 hadn't had a severe allergic reaction for over nine years.\n\n\"Nothing can bring Natasha back, and we have to live with that reality every day, but we know in our hearts that Natasha would be very proud that a new law in her name will help to protect others.\"Food Standards Agency chief executive Emily Miles said: \"If these changes drive down the number of hospital admissions caused by food allergies, which have seen a threefold increase over the last 20 years, and prevent further tragic deaths such as Natasha's, that can only be a positive thing.\"\n\nA Pret a Manger spokesman said it has fully rolled out ingredient labelling, and this process began in 2019.", "Greg Gilbert was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in 2016\n\nGreg Gilbert - the lead singer of indie band Delays - has died from cancer aged 44.\n\nHis wife Stacey Heale made an announcement on social media, saying he had \"gently slipped away into the stars\".\n\nFans and fellow musicians rallied to help Mr Gilbert when he was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in 2016.\n\nIn August it was announced he had been taken off treatment and was receiving pain relief at a hospice.\n\nGreg's brother Aaron, who plays keyboards in the band, said in a statement on social media \"he was my brother and best friend\".\n\nGreg Gilbert and his wife Stacey Heale - pictured in an old family photo - have two daughters, Dali and Bay\n\nHe added: \"Greg died surrounded in the endless love that us and all of you have given him on this journey, and we will never be able to fully express how much it meant to him and all of us to have you by our side lifting us up like a winged army.\n\n\"Your messages, your encouragement and your compassion have been our oxygen for the last five years.\n\n\"Thank you for sharing our grief, and for making it easier to carry at times while you were firefighting battles of your own, and thank you for making Greg such a special person in your lives. I'm so glad we all existed at the same time.\"\n\nAfter the NHS had said it could only offer further chemotherapy, a crowdfunding appeal launched by his wife called Give4Greg raised more than £215k for alternative treatment, doubling its initial target in 48 hours.\n\nFormed in Southampton in 2001 and originally called Corky, Delays have released four albums to date including their well-received debut Faded Seaside Glamour.\n\nThe band originally consisted of Gilbert, drummer Rowly, bassist Colin Fox and guitarist Dan Hall, who left before Gilbert's brother Aaron was invited to join.\n\nThroughout his illness, Gilbert documented his illness and treatment on social media through poetry and art.\n\nThe miniature, photorealistic biro sketches he created following his diagnosis were displayed at Southampton City Art Gallery in 2019, to complement its show Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing.\n\nMs Heale said: \"Greg was an extraordinary human - not of this world, I'm sure of that.\n\n\"His wonder at the world and creativity is something I've never seen in anyone else.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wayne Couzens (right) is believed to have shown Sarah Everard his police warrant card\n\nWayne Couzens is believed to have been in a WhatsApp group with five police officers who are being investigated for gross misconduct.\n\nCouzens raped and murdered Sarah Everard while working for the Met, after kidnapping her in a fake arrest.\n\nThe London force faces questions over whether it missed chances to stop him, and has issued safety advice to women.\n\nFive serving officers and one former officer are under investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) for allegedly distributing messages between March and October 2019 which were discovered during Ms Everard's murder investigation.\n\nThree of them, including the ex-officer, are subject to criminal investigation for offences under Section 127 of the Communications Act, which refers to material that is \"grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character\".\n\nCouzens is understood not to be one of those under investigation, but was involved in sharing messages.\n\nSources have told the BBC that investigating Couzens would not further the interests of justice in these circumstances.\n\nThree of the serving officers and the ex-officer are from the Metropolitan Police, one is from Norfolk Constabulary, and one serves with the Civil Nuclear Constabulary.\n\nCouzens, 48, targeted Ms Everard, 33, on a street in south London in March, showing a warrant card and using handcuffs. He has been sentenced to a whole-life prison term.\n\nHe had been linked to two previous allegations of indecent exposure.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said \"officers up and down the land recognise the devastating consequences of this event\".\n\n\"There is a job to be done to rebuild trust by the police, particularly, I have to say, in London,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Policing minister Kit Malthouse says if in doubt \"ask the police officer to identify themselves\"\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick faces calls to resign over the force's handling of the case, as Home Secretary Priti Patel said it raised \"serious questions\".\n\nSpeaking outside the Old Bailey after Couzens was sentenced, Dame Cressida said \"a precious bond of trust has been damaged\" and she would ensure \"any lessons\" were learned.\n\nAs part of renewed efforts to ease fears in the capital, the Met will step-up \"reassurance patrols\" and treat indecent exposure allegations more seriously.\n\nAn extra 650 new officers will patrol busy public areas in London.\n\nThe body of Sarah Everard was found hidden in woodland\n\nScotland Yard admitted the case was part of a \"much bigger and troubling picture\".\n\nThe force advised people detained by a lone plain-clothes officer to ask \"searching questions\" such as why they are being stopped, where the officer's colleagues are and where the officer has come from.\n\nThe force said that, to verify the answers, people should ask to speak to an operator on a police radio to determine if the officer is genuine and acting legitimately.\n\nIt added that it understood people may be \"more distrusting\" as a result of the case.\n\nIn the event someone believes they are in \"real and imminent danger\" the Met advised they \"must seek assistance - shouting out to a passer-by, running into a house, knocking on a door, waving a bus down or if you are in the position to do so calling 999\".\n\nThe Met explained officers are expected to intervene when required, even when off duty, and that they routinely carry warrant cards and sometimes equipment when travelling.\n\nSpeaking to the London Assembly, Met Deputy Commissioner Sir Stephen House, said plain-clothes officers will not be deployed on their own and will be in pairs.\n\nBut he warned there would be occasions when that is not possible given off-duty officers not in uniform \"put themselves on duty\" when they come across an incident.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Metropolitan Police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick says the force has been \"shamed\" and \"rocked\" by the case\n\nCouzens, who had been a police officer since 2002, transferred to the Met in 2018 from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, where he had worked since 2011. He passed vetting checks.\n\nMet Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave admitted a vetting check on Couzens was not done correctly when he joined the Met.\n\nIt meant a link to an incident of indecent exposure in Kent in 2015, involving a vehicle linked to Couzens, was missed.\n\nThough Mr Ephgrave said that even if it had come up in the vetting process, it would not have changed the outcome as Couzens was not named as a suspect.\n\nAround 72 hours before Ms Everard's abduction, Met Police officers received a separate allegation of indecent exposure which also identified the vehicle involved, registered to Couzens.\n\nHe was sacked by the Met in July after pleading guilty to Ms Everard's murder.\n\nMeasures including a pilot scheme where plain-clothes officers patrol pubs and clubs were launched in England and Wales in the immediate aftermath of Ms Everard's murder.\n\nThe Met said it would publish a new strategy for tackling violence against women and girls soon.\n\nHave you been personally affected by the issues raised in this story? Get in touch using the form below.\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.", "Climbing with the old man: \"We had never climbed any mountain before and wanted to try the Old Man of Storr, so me and my son climbed up in pitch dark at 4am to be amazed by the sun rising over the mist and only one other person\", says Neil Dethridge. \"Truly a magical and amazing place\".", "Wayne Couzens (right) is believed to have shown Sarah Everard his police warrant card\n\nPeople stopped by a lone plain-clothes officer should challenge their legitimacy, the Met Police says.\n\nAs it seeks to reassure women after the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer, the Met said it was \"entirely reasonable\" to demand an officer's identity and intentions.\n\nWayne Couzens showed a warrant card and used handcuffs as he kidnapped Ms Everard before her rape and murder.\n\nThe Met faces questions over whether chances were missed to stop him.\n\nCouzens, 48, targeted Ms Everard, 33, on a street in south London in March. He has been sentenced to a whole-life prison term.\n\nHe had been linked to two previous allegations of indecent exposure.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said \"officers up and down the land recognise the devastating consequences of this event\".\n\n\"There is a job to be done to rebuild trust by the police, particularly, I have to say, in London,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nHe said it was \"reasonable\" for a woman with doubts about a police officer's conduct to make \"lines of enquiry\", but that \"won't be appropriate in every circumstance\" because officers \"seeking to keep us all safe every day need to be able to go about their business\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick faces calls to resign over the force's handling of the case, as Home Secretary Priti Patel said it raised \"serious questions\".\n\nSpeaking outside the Old Bailey after Couzens was sentenced, Dame Cressida said \"a precious bond of trust has been damaged\" and she would ensure \"any lessons\" were learned.\n\nAs part of renewed efforts to ease fears in the capital, the Met will step-up \"reassurance patrols\" and treat indecent exposure allegations more seriously.\n\nAn extra 650 new officers will patrol busy public areas in London.\n\nScotland Yard admitted the case was part of a \"much bigger and troubling picture\".\n\nThe force advised people detained by a lone plain-clothes officer to ask \"where are your colleagues\" and \"where have you come from?\"\n\nIt suggested other \"very searching questions\", including \"why are you here\" and \"exactly why are you stopping or talking to me?\"\n\nThe force said that, to verify the answers, people should ask to speak to an operator on a police radio to determine if the officer is genuine and acting legitimately.\n\nIt added: \"All officers will, of course, know about this case and will be expecting in an interaction like that - rare as it may be - that members of the public may be understandably concerned and more distrusting than they previously would have been, and should and will expect to be asked more questions.\"\n\nIn the event someone believes they are in \"real and imminent danger\" the Met advised they \"must seek assistance - shouting out to a passer-by, running into a house, knocking on a door, waving a bus down or if you are in the position to do so calling 999\".\n\nIt said it was unusual for lone plain-clothes officers to engage with people.\n\nThe Met explained that officers are expected to intervene when required, even when off duty, and that they routinely carry warrant cards, and sometimes equipment when travelling.\n\nSpeaking to the London Assembly, Sir Stephen House, the Met's deputy commissioner, said plain-clothes officers would not be deployed on their own and would be in pairs.\n\nBut he warned there would be occasions where that is not possible given that off-duty officers not in uniform \"put themselves on duty\" when they come across an incident.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Metropolitan Police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick says the force has been \"shamed\" and \"rocked\" by the case\n\nCouzens, who had been a police officer since 2002, transferred to the Met in 2018 from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, where he had worked since 2011. He passed vetting checks.\n\nAssistant Met Commissioner Nick Ephgrave admitted a vetting check on Couzens was not done correctly when he joined the Met.\n\nIt meant a link to an incident of indecent exposure in Kent in 2015, involving a vehicle linked to Couzens, was missed.\n\nThough AC Ephgrave said that even if it had come up in the vetting process, it would not have changed the outcome as Couzens was not named as a suspect.\n\nAround 72 hours before Ms Everard's abduction, Met Police officers received a separate allegation of indecent exposure which also identified the vehicle involved, registered to Couzens.\n\nHe was sacked by the Met in July after pleading guilty to Ms Everard's murder.\n\nJess Phillips, Labour's shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding, said there were gaps in the Met's explanation of how Couzens passed its vetting checks and that trust in police was \"very badly damaged\".\n\n\"We'll be pushing ministers and the home secretary to have a look at what is going on in the vetting processes,\" she said.\n\nAnother Labour MP, Harriet Harman, called for Dame Cressida to stand down, saying women's trust in the force \"will have been shattered\", while former Met chief superintendent Parm Sandhu also called for the commissioner to resign.\n\nCabinet minister George Eustice said the government had been working hard in recent weeks to devise a strategy to reduce violence against women and girls.\n\n\"We are looking at making our streets safer, designing out some of the risks, getting more CCTV, supporting more helplines,\" he told BBC One's Question Time.\n\n\"We've had a domestic abuse bill which has given new powers to the police to intervene earlier in a pro-active way and to protect witnesses from being intimidated by their abusers in court.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday that people \"must be able to walk on our streets without fear of harm and with full confidence that the police are there to keep them safe\".\n\n\"No woman should have to fear harassment or violence. We will do everything possible to prevent these abhorrent crimes and keep our communities safe,\" he added.\n\nMeasures including a pilot scheme where plain-clothes officers patrol pubs and clubs were launched in England and Wales in the immediate aftermath of Ms Everard's murder.\n\nThe Met said it would publish a new strategy for tackling violence against women and girls soon.\n\nHave you been personally affected by the issues raised in this story? Get in touch using the form below.\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.", "US media firm Ozy Media has announced that it is to close down amid a growing row over its business practices.\n\n\"It is.. with the heaviest of hearts that we must announce today that we are closing Ozy's doors\", the company said in a statement.\n\nIt follows reports that Ozy's chief operating officer deceived potential investors during a conference call and is now being investigated by the FBI.\n\nSome major advertisers subsequently cut ties with the firm.\n\nOzy's chairman Marc Lasry and ex-BBC journalist Katty Kay have also quit.\n\nIn another twist, Sharon Osborne, the wife of rock star Ozzy Osbourne, alleged the firm's chief executive, Carlos Watson, falsely claimed the couple had invested in the business.\n\nMr Watson made the claims in a TV interview with broadcaster CNBC in 2019 after settling a trademark dispute with the couple.\n\nMs Osbourne told CNBC on Thursday: \"This guy is the biggest shyster I have ever seen in my life.\"\n\nNeither Mr Watson nor Ozy Media has commented publicly on the claims.\n\nThese accusations are outrageous, almost unbelievable - part of a toxic culture of corporate behaviour that exists in parts of Silicon Valley.\n\nIt is common here to say your company is bigger, more innovative, more successful, more connected, than it really is. It's seen as \"hustle\", or \"hype\".\n\nHowever, \"fake it till you make it\" - as it's sometimes referred to - has led to some of the biggest scandals in Silicon Valley history.\n\nTheranos' CEO and founder is currently on trial in San Jose - accused of a spectacular fraud involving blood testing.\n\nSelling a dream that will one day be realised is what most companies do. It's why we have computers and smartphones. But there are countless examples of companies going too far.\n\nSome of the things Ozy Media has been accused of are actually pretty common in Silicon Valley,\n\nOverstating how popular your content is a classic of the genre - something numerous companies have been accused of.\n\nBut there are other accusations here that are simply astonishing - that if true may well lead to legal action.\n\nIt's the kind of story that will deeply worry investors, who are in a constant battle to separate the frauds from the visionaries.\n\nOzy Media, which was launched in California in 2013, produces left-leaning podcasts, television series and events, and has won an Emmy for its work.\n\nLast weekend, the New York Times reported that its co-founder and chief operating officer, Samir Rao, impersonated a senior leader at YouTube during a conference call with Goldman Sachs in February. At that point the investment bank was considering making a $40m investment in the media company.\n\nMr Rao reportedly claimed that Ozy's videos were highly popular on YouTube.\n\nKatty Kay called the allegations against the firm \"troubling\"\n\nAccording to the Times, the investors realised something was wrong and did not go through with the deal. Mr Watson has since apologised and said Mr Rao was suffering a \"mental health crisis\" at the time.\n\nYet amid growing scrutiny, Ozy this week said it had begun an internal investigation and Mr Rao had taken a leave of absence.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Lasry, who owns the NBA basketball team the Milwaukee Bucks, stepped down after only three weeks as chairman.\n\nIn a statement he said: \"I believe that going forward Ozy requires experience in areas like crisis management and investigations, where I do not have particular expertise.\"\n\nHe added that he remains an investor in Ozy Media.\n\nThe same day, major advertisers were reported to be pulling their ad campaigns with Ozy.\n\nTarget, Goldman Sachs and AirBnB did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But Ford said \"We are pausing our advertising while Ozy Media addresses their current business challenges\" and US banking services firm Ally Financial said its relationship with Ozy was on hold \"in light of recent developments\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Kay announced she had \"no choice\" but to cut ties, calling the New York Times' allegations \"deeply troubling\". The veteran broadcaster joined Ozy in June after more than three decades at the BBC.\n\nOn Friday, the Times published fresh claims about Ozy made by a former producer, Brad Bessey.\n\nMr Bessey, who was hired this summer to produce a talk show hosted by Carlos Watson, was reportedly told from the start it would appear in a prime time slot on the US cable network A&E.\n\nYet, he later found out A&E had rejected the show before it began taping, the Times said. Mr Bessey reportedly quit the firm, accusing Mr Watson and Mr Rao of playing \"a dangerous game with the truth\".\n\nIn the end \"The Carlos Watson Show\" show appeared on Ozy's own website and YouTube.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Ozy Media for comment.", "Panic buying at petrol stations has led to some key workers struggling to get the fuel they need to travel to their work.\n\nThe surge in demand for fuel came after fears lorry driver shortages would hit supplies of petrol and diesel.\n\nDoctors and unions representing teachers and carers have called for key workers to get priority at the pumps.\n\nOne hospice in Oldham tweeted that it was in \"urgent need\" of petrol for its cars.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr Kershaw's Hospice This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRosemary Botting, who runs Karosel Care and Domestic Services in West Sussex, told the BBC that if two of her carers were still unable to find a station with fuel ahead of their next shift, they would be unable to tend to \"vulnerable\" service users.\n\nMs Botting said if the current crisis wasn't resolved by next week, then she envisaged her care company would be in breach of safeguarding guidelines to its 12 customers.\n\n\"We will be putting our service users at risk,\" she said. \"We would not be able to send a carer out to somebody.\"\n\nMs Botting said her staff helped people living in rural areas throughout west Sussex, which meant driving - and a tank full of fuel - was essential.\n\nOne of her carers was half an hour late to her first call in because of traffic caused by queues at petrol stations, she said, which meant her first patient, who cannot get out of bed unaided, remained there until she arrived.\n\n\"I have got to inform all the other service users that their carer is running half an hour late. We pride ourselves on being on time,\" she said.\n\n\"We got through Covid. Not a single user in our care contracted Covid. The reason I do this job is because I care. It's just a bit of a nightmare at the moment.\"\n\nColin McDonald, an orthopaedic registrar at a district general hospital in the East Midlands, told the BBC that if fuel supply issues continued, and he couldn't to travel to work, there could be delays to patient surgeries at the start of his shifts, which could then delay his fracture clinics in the afternoon.\n\n\"This could lead to cancellations,\" he said. \"If patients live far away from the clinic they may not be able to get in, staff may not be able to get in.\"\n\nMr McDonald said he had been worried about not being able to get fuel on Sunday, but managed to buy some petrol which had been kept aside for key workers at a petrol station on Monday.\n\n\"Seeing people fill up multiple jerry cans of fuel - I just don't understand what their mentality is,\" he said.\n\n\"I find it very difficult to comprehend. It appears very selfish... they are just looking after themselves and not really considering the needs of others and key workers.\"\n\nAndrew Wagstaff, a civil servant from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, left his home at 04:45 BST to hunt for fuel to make his 57-mile trip to work.\n\nAfter finding all petrol stations closed in his area, he finally got fuel at Watford Gap service station.\n\nHowever, he said prices had been hiked to 157.9p per litre for diesel, which described as \"ridiculous\".\n\n\"It cost me £65 to fill up three quarters of a tank,\" he said. \"I do an essential job. It's frustrating that people - who are not essential workers - are just panicking for no reason.\"\n\nAndrew Wagstaff said people were panicking for no reason\n\nMost bus and coach services have not been affected by the fuel supply issues, according to the Confederation of Passenger Transport.\n\nMeanwhile, the Petrol Retailers Association (PRA), which represents 5,500 out of the UK's 8,000 filling stations,said there were \"early signs\" the crisis was \"ending, with more of our members reporting that they are now taking further deliveries of fuel\".\n\n\"Fuel stocks remain normal at refineries and terminals, although deliveries have been reduced due to the shortage of HGV drivers,\" said PRA executive director Gordon Balmer.\n\n\"We have conducted a survey of our members this morning and only 37% of forecourts have reported being out of fuel today. With regular restocks taking place, this percentage is likely to improve further over the next 24 hours\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Craig Hope says wildfires are burning later into the year, getting larger and causing more damage\n\nFirefighter Craig Hope deals with \"hundreds and hundreds\" of wildfires across the south Wales valleys every year.\n\nBut he has noticed recently they are changing - burning later into the year, getting larger and causing more damage.\n\nHis colleagues are also having to deal with \"unbelievable\" flood events and landslides.\n\nAll signs of climate change, he says - and \"it's like watching a Hollywood film\".\n\nAblaze: Homes had to be evacuated when Swansea's Kilvey Hill caught fire two years ago\n\nWith a month to go until world leaders gather in Glasgow for the crucial COP26 summit on global warming, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has urged action, warning that its members are on the front line.\n\nAs a wildfire specialist, Mr Hope travelled to Greece in August with three other colleagues from South Wales Fire and Rescue to assist with devastating blazes there.\n\nHe predicts parts of Wales could soon suffer similar scenes unless action is taken to adapt to the challenges of warmer weather.\n\nMediterranean countries now experiencing severe issues \"were having fires like we have 30 years ago\", he explained.\n\n\"We're in a position where we need to act - the next 30 years will be the deciding factor.\"\n\nEvacuated: Wildfire scenes in Greece over the summer made global headlines\n\nCraig Hope was one the Welsh firefighters sent out to help tackle the Greek blazes\n\nBut it is a complex problem.\n\nIt involves working with farmers and landowners, as well as forestry firms, conservationists and government, to manage landscapes so they are less prone to blazes that burn out of control.\n\nA project in Rhondda Cynon Taf called Healthy Hillsides was a good example of what needs to be happening further afield, he said.\n\n\"The problem we have in Wales is that we have a lot of poor weather.\"\n\nHe said it meant fires might not be at the forefront of people's minds.\n\nBut when it is wet in Wales, vegetation grows and it gets bigger and bigger.\n\n\"And then we get bursts of very hot, dry, windy weather,\" said the firefighter.\n\nHe said his own fire service had now \"totally evolved\" the way it responds, with a wildfire toolkit and different uniforms better suited to the conditions.\n\nThe fire services are increasingly dealing with severe flooding events too, say unions\n\nBut is he worried for the future?\n\nHe said at the moment it was very rare for UK wildfires to affect properties or harm people.\n\nBut he said that could change.\n\n\"I was in Portugal recently... they lost 77 people in a wildfire and only last month a firefighter died in Spain. So this is very real,\" he said.\n\n\"As our fires become bigger and the climate changes, we need to start preparing to make ourselves safe.\"\n\nWildfire-prone Kilvey Hill, above the St Thomas area of Swansea is one cause of concern.\n\nSix homes were evacuated in 2019 after a major blaze, with resident Jan Murphy describing the evening as \"really quite horrendous\".\n\n\"All you could see was the smoke and glow of red. We were in the street until 3am and we had five fire engines here until the following day,\" said the 72-year-old.\n\nThe fire reached the edge of her garden, and she has since cut down a row of trees on her property as a precaution.\n\nSix properties were evacuated as flames on Kilvey Hill threatened houses\n\nNeighbour Stephen Passmore said he tried not to think about the implications of climate change but \"obviously\" there would be more fires.\n\nHe said he felt for the \"struggling\" firefighters.\n\n\"The whole hill was burning - where do you start?\" he said.\n\nFirefighters are under pressure on all sides from climate change and are increasingly called out to rescue people from severe flooding too.\n\nMr Hope described the deluge of February 2020 - when a series of storms pummelled Wales - as \"incredible\".\n\n\"When you see shipping containers being washed down rivers and then you link that with the footage we saw in Germany and elsewhere across Europe just this summer - it's unbelievable,\" he said.\n\nAnd the damage is all linked, he pointed out - with wildfires burning away vegetation that could help prevent flooding and landslides.\n\nMore focus on adapting to the effects of climate change, while securing tougher action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, are key aims of November's COP26 summit.\n\nIn a plea to those attending, Cerith Griffiths, who heads up the FBU in Wales, said it was \"high time the politicians took it seriously\".\n\n\"If we don't deal with this climate emergency and do so quickly then it's going to deal with us,\" he said.\n\n\"Firefighters are on the front line - we're dealing with bigger fires and more floods that cover a wider area - it's happening in front of our eyes right now.\"\n\nFire services were adapting, he said, but could be doing more \"if the resources are there\".\n\nCould this be what happens in Wales? Firefighter Craig Hope says scenes such as this in Greece this summer are possible in the coming decades\n\nWelsh Climate Change Minister Julie James said the government had been running \"a massive programme all year learning from the effects of the various storms we had last winter\".\n\n\"It's awful to be flooded out and I've met with many people who are traumatised by what happened,\" she said.\n\n\"So we have worked really hard on mapping out where our flood protections are, what needs to be done to shore them up and prepare for this winter.\"\n\nOn wildfires, she said the government was working with further education colleges, young people, the farming community and others to raise awareness of the behaviour that could lead to blazes.\n\n\"We can't mitigate against all extreme weather events but we can try and put the best defence in place that we can to make sure we're as resilient as possible,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to the words from the victim statement of Sarah Everard's mother, Susan, as voiced by an actor\n\nThe family of Sarah Everard confronted her murderer in court and laid bare their loss and anguish. These are their victim impact statements in full.\n\nThe following accounts contain details which readers may find distressing.\n\nSarah is gone and I am broken-hearted. She was my precious little girl, our youngest child. The feeling of loss is so great it is visceral. And with the sorrow come waves of panic at not being able to see her again. I can never talk to her, never hold her again, and never more be a part of her life. We have kept her dressing gown - it still smells of her and I hug that instead of her.\n\nSarah died in horrendous circumstances. I am tormented at the thought of what she endured. I play it out in my mind. I go through the terrible sequence of events. I wonder when she realised she was in mortal danger; I wonder what her murderer said to her. When he strangled her, for how long was she conscious, knowing she would die? It is torture to think of it.\n\nSarah was handcuffed, unable to defend herself, and there was no one to rescue her. She spent her last hours on this earth with the very worst of humanity. She lost her life because Wayne Couzens wanted to satisfy his perverted desires. It is a ridiculous reason, it is nonsensical. How could he value a human life so cheaply? I cannot comprehend it. I am incandescent with rage at the thought of it.\n\nHe treated my daughter as if she was nothing and disposed of her as if she was rubbish.\n\nIf Sarah had died because of an illness, she would have been cared for. We could have looked after her and been with her. If she had died because of an accident, people would have tried to help - there would have been kindness. But there is no comfort to be had, there is no consoling thought in the way Sarah died. In her last hours she was faced with brutality and terror, alone with someone intent on doing her harm. The thought of it is unbearable. I am haunted by the horror of it.\n\nWhen Sarah went missing we suffered days of agony, not knowing where she was or what had happened to her. Then, when Sarah's burnt remains were found, we spent two terrible days waiting for tests to show how she had died, fearing she had been set alight before she was dead - the thought was appalling.\n\nBurning her body was the final insult, it meant we could never again see her sweet face and never say goodbye.\n\nOur lives will never be the same. We should be a family of five, but now we are four. Her death leaves a yawning chasm in our lives that cannot be filled.\n\nI yearn for her. I remember all the lovely things about her. She was caring, she was funny. She was clever, but she was good at practical things too. She was a beautiful dancer. She was a wonderful daughter. She was always there to listen, to advise, or simply to share with the minutiae of the day. And she was also a strongly principled young woman who knew right from wrong and who lived by those values. She was a good person. She had purpose to her life.\n\nMy outlook on life has changed since Sarah died. I am more cautious, I worry more about our other children. I crave the familiarity and security of home - the wider world has lost its appeal. It is too painful to contemplate a future without Sarah, so I just live in the here and now. I think of Sarah all the time, but the mornings and evenings are particularly painful. In the morning I wake up to the awful reality that Sarah is gone. In the evenings, at the time she was abducted, I let out a silent scream: Don't get in the car, Sarah. Don't believe him. Run!\n\nI am repulsed by the thought of Wayne Couzens and what he did to Sarah. I am outraged that he masqueraded as a policeman in order to get what he wanted.\n\nSarah wanted to get married and have children - now all that has gone. He took her life and stole her future and we will never have the joy of sharing that future with her. Each day dawns and I think Sarah should be here, leading her life and embracing new experiences. She had so many years ahead of her.\n\nI don't know how anyone could be so cruel as to take my daughter's life. What I do know is that Sarah will never be forgotten and is remembered with boundless love.\n\nI cling on to memories of Sarah, I hold them tight to keep them safe. The other night, I dreamt that Sarah appeared at home. In my dream I held her and could feel her physically. Jeremy was there, we were comforting her, saying: 'It's all right Sarah, it's all right'. I would give anything to hold her once more. I hope I dream that dream again.\n\nThere's a photograph of my beautiful daughter on the screen. She had a beautiful mind too. Mr Couzens, please, will you look at me? The impact of what you have done will never end. The horrendous murder of my daughter, Sarah, is in my mind all the time and will be for the rest of my life.\n\nA father wants to look after his children and fix everything, and you have deliberately and with premeditation stopped my ability to do that.\n\nSarah was handcuffed and unable to defend herself. This preys on my mind all the time.\n\nI can never forgive you for what you have done, for taking Sarah away from us.\n\nYou burnt our daughter's body — you further tortured us — so that we could not see her again. We did not know whether you had burnt her alive or dead. You stopped us seeing Sarah for one last time and stopped me from giving my daughter one last kiss goodbye.\n\nJeremy Everard (left), Sarah's father, said no punishment could compare to the family's pain and torture\n\nHer body fell apart when she was moved. Her brain and neck bones were removed for months by the pathologist and her body was difficult to preserve so we had to use the services of a specialist embalmer to enable a dignified burial.\n\nAll my family want is Sarah back with us. No punishment that you receive will ever compare to the pain and torture that you have inflicted on us.\n\nYou murdered our daughter and forever broke the hearts of her mother, father, brother, sister, family and her friends.\n\nSarah had so much to look forward to and because of you this is now gone forever. She was saving to buy a house and looking forward to marriage and children. We were looking forward to having grandchildren. We loved being a part of Sarah's world and expected her to have a full and happy life.\n\nThe closest we can get to her now is to visit her grave every day\n\nYou treated Sarah as if she was nothing. Placed more emphasis on satisfying your sick disgusting perversions than on a life. Her life.\n\nYou disposed of my sister's body like it was rubbish. Fly-tipped her like she meant nothing. She meant everything. We couldn't even see her, she was so badly burnt. Her brain was removed from her skull to check for trauma and cause of death - I still don't know if they put her brain back in her head or whether it is lying next to her body in her coffin.\n\nShards of her kneecap were returned to us to be placed with her body - shards that you knocked when moving her burnt body from the fridge you had used to hide her and conceal the fire.\n\nWe are still missing her hyoid bone from her throat, which is being checked to see the force you used to strangle her, to determine how long she may have survived. We know it was broken. Her burnt body still had her necklace and one earring in her ear. The other had fallen from her ear because it had burnt off.\n\nYou hear from the police that it takes around two minutes to strangle someone, and around eight to ten seconds for them to lose consciousness.\n\nAt first there is a sense of relief at hearing that your sister might only have been aware of what was happening for eight to 10 seconds. But have you put your hands around your neck and tried pushing hard? Eight to 10 seconds now seems a long time.\n\nYou used your warrant card to trick my sister into your car. She sat in a car, handcuffed, for hours. What could she have thought she had done wrong? What lies did you tell her? When did she realise that she wasn't going to survive the night?\n\nI'm constantly replaying in my head - did you rape her, then kill her? Did you kill her while raping her? You get small nuggets of information and the thought process starts again. Your semen and blood were found in your car. So this suggests you raped her in the car. You find out you may have used a belt to strangle her. New horrendous images forming.\n\nYou stopped to get a Lucozade and water at a petrol station. Was she still alive at this point? Bound in your car? I am horrified by your ability to flit between what you did and normal, everyday actions. Your casual demeanour on CCTV was very upsetting and shocking to see.\n\nFamily members repeatedly asked killer Wayne Couzens to look at them as he hung his head in the dock\n\nWe had to go to the flat and pack up Sarah's whole life - washing left hanging up, half-sewn outfits, deliveries waiting to be returned, packages waiting at the door ready to be opened.\n\nAll signs of a life waiting to be lived, chores to be done, ready for her to return and continue when she got home. But she never got home because a predator - you - was on the loose. Prowling the streets for hours looking for his prey.\n\nYou can't comprehend what you are being told when it happened because it is so horrific. Some sort of sick waking nightmare. You can't imagine anyone could do such a thing.\n\nYou are waiting to hear anything from the police. Every bit you get is different. You hear her body has been found. Then you find out she has been burnt. So badly burnt you can't see her. Can't see her again to say goodbye.\n\nThe first thought you have in your head after despair and shock is - was she dead before you burnt her? Imagine that even having to be a thought. You find out no soot was found in her lungs, which suggests she was burnt after you murdered her. Imagine being relieved to hear your sister was dead before she was burnt.\n\nI replay it continuously round in my head. What you may have said to her, what she may have said back, when she realised she was in grave danger and was not going to survive.\n\nHoping my sister was unconscious and drugged, but we know that was not the case - no drugs found in her body, no trauma to the head. Burst blood vessels in her brain from your strangulation, which meant she was conscious when you were doing these unfathomable things to her.\n\nMy only hope is that she was in a state of shock and that she wasn't aware of the disgusting things being done to her by a monster. When you forced yourself upon and raped her. When you put your hands around her neck and strangled her.\n\nIt disgusts me that you were the last person to touch her perfect body, and violate her in the way you did. The last person to see her alive and speak to her.\n\nHow scared she must have been. The last moments of her life not with loved ones, but frightened and fighting for her life. I hate to think of her being so scared and alone and that in her last moments she had no one with her. No kindness. I hate that I wasn't there to save her. To stop you. I find it hard to believe she is not just living her own life and sick at the thought that her last moments on this earth alive were so horrific.\n\nHow dare you take her from me? Take away her hopes and dreams. Her life. Children that will never be born. Generations that will never exist. Her future no longer exists. The future I was supposed to live with my sister no longer exists. You have ruined so many lives.\n\nSarah is the very best person, with so many people who love and cherish her. I want to speak to her and hug her and hear her laugh and go out for dinners and drinks and dancing.\n\nAll those conversations we can never have. There were so many things I wanted to share with her - trips abroad, being each other's bridesmaids, meeting her babies and being an auntie, growing old together and seeing who got the most wrinkles. We weren't even halfway through our journey and you took it all away.\n\nI feel like I live in a make-believe world, as if nothing is real. I have to pretend because the thought of not having Sarah forever is too hard to bear. A lifetime now seems a very long time.\n\nI should never have to write a eulogy for or bury my little sister. There is no punishment that you could receive that will ever compare to the pain you have caused us. We can never get Sarah back. The last moments of Sarah's life play on my mind constantly. I am so disgusted and appalled. It terrifies me that you have such disregard for a person's life. You have taken from me the most precious person. And I can never get her back.", "Kate Wilson said senior officers were aware of the relationship\n\nAn activist who was deceived into a relationship with an undercover police officer has won a tribunal case for breaches of her human rights.\n\nKate Wilson met Mark Kennedy while he was posing as an environmental campaigner in Nottingham in 2003.\n\nIt later emerged Mr Kennedy had sexual relationships with as many as 10 other women during his deployment.\n\nThe tribunal said the case revealed \"disturbing and lamentable failings at the most fundamental levels\".\n\nEarlier this year the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) at the Royal Courts of Justice heard Mr Kennedy had been sent to infiltrate the Sumac Centre in Nottingham in 2003.\n\nShortly after arriving Mr Kennedy, calling himself Mark Stone, started a relationship with Ms Wilson which lasted for two years before an amicable split when she moved to Spain.\n\nIn 2010, she learned his real name and that he was actually a married police officer.\n\nMs Wilson's legal action against the Met and the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) cited breaches of her right to freedom from inhuman and degrading treatment, her right to privacy and right to freedom of expression.\n\nThe Met and NPCC accepted Mr Kennedy's actions amounted to a breach of those rights but had denied other officers, apart from Mr Kennedy and his cover officer, knew or suspected that Ms Wilson was in a sexual relationship with the officer.\n\nHowever, Ms Wilson argued there was \"widespread indifference, or express or tacit encouragement\" for undercover officers to begin intimate relationships while they were deployed.\n\nIn a ruling, the IPT found the Met's claims that undercover officers (UCOs) knew sexual relationships were banned were \"materially undermined by the sheer frequency with which [Kennedy] (and other UCOs) did conduct sexual relationships without either questions being asked or action being taken by senior officers\".\n\n\"We are driven to the conclusion that either senior officers were quite extraordinarily naive, totally unquestioning or chose to turn a blind eye to conduct which was, certainly in the case of [Kennedy], useful to the operation,\" the tribunal added.\n\nThe IPT also found the Met and NPCC's failure to guard against the risk of UCOs entering into sexual relationships with women amounted to unlawful discrimination against women.\n\nThe tribunal concluded: \"This is not just a case about a renegade police officer who took advantage of his undercover deployment to indulge his sexual proclivities, serious though this aspect of the case unquestionably is.\n\n\"Our findings that the authorisations under [the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000] were fatally flawed and the undercover operation could not be justified as 'necessary in a democratic society' ... reveal disturbing and lamentable failings at the most fundamental levels.\"\n\nIn a statement, Ms Wilson said: \"The events in my case happened years ago, however the failure of the police to protect women from sexual predators within their own ranks, and police attempts to criminalise protesters, are both still very live issues today.\n\n\"We need to tackle the misogyny and institutional sexism of the police, and there needs to be a fundamental rethink of the powers they are given for the policing of demonstrations and the surveillance of those who take part.\"\n\nA statement from the Met and NPCC said: \"We accept and recognise the gravity of all of the breaches of Ms Wilson's human rights as found by the tribunal, and the Met and NPCC unreservedly apologise to Ms Wilson for the damage caused, and the hurt she has suffered from the deployment of these undercover officers.\"\n\nIt said the force reiterate previous apologies made to Ms Wilson in 2015 and 2017, adding: \"As those apologies made clear, the Met and NPCC acknowledge that the sexual relationship was wrong, it was an abuse of police power and violated Ms Wilson's human rights.\n\n\"It caused Ms Wilson significant trauma, and demonstrated failures in the way Kennedy was supervised and managed.\"\n\nThe statement added the Met accepted the panel's findings and \"are carefully considering the detail of the judgment to see whether any further learning can be taken to add to the changes already implemented since 2010, to the training, supervision and legal oversight of UCOs\".\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.", "Estefan has spoken about the abuse for the first time\n\nSinger Gloria Estefan has revealed she was sexually abused by a family member when she was nine years old.\n\nThe Cuban-American pop star, 64, said she was molested while at music school by someone her mother trusted.\n\n\"Ninety-three per cent of abused children know and trust their abusers. And I know this because I was one of them,\" she said.\n\nShe spoke about the abuse for the first time in a Facebook Watch show alongside her grown-up daughter and niece.\n\nTV personality Clare Crawley also appeared on the episode of Red Table Talk: The Estefans, and spoke about how she was abused by a priest.\n\nMs Crawley said she had been abused by a \"counsellor\" while at Catholic school, and had been \"the victim of a predator\".\n\n\"I wanted to deal with this subject matter because it is so important to try to prevent. I also did not want to sit here quietly while you share and are brave,\" Ms Estefan told her.\n\nMs Estefan, who sang such hits as Conga and Rhythm is Gonna Get You, said on the programme a distant relative had exploited her mother's trust to molest her.\n\n\"You've waited for this moment a long time,\" Ms Estefan's niece, Lili, 54, told her. \"I have,\" the singer replied.\n\n\"He was family, but not close family. He was in a position of power because my mother had put me in his music school and he immediately started telling her how talented I was and how I needed special attention, and she felt lucky that he was focusing this kind of attention on me,\" she said.\n\nMs Estefan, who was born in Cuba but moved to Miami with her family when she was a toddler, said the abuse started \"little by little and then it goes fast\".\n\nThe three-time Grammy Award-winner said she was aware that she was in a \"dangerous\" situation, but could not ward the man off.\n\n\"I told him, 'This cannot happen, you cannot do this.' He goes: 'Your father's in Vietnam, your mother's alone and I will kill her if you tell her,'\" Estefan said.\n\n\"I knew the man was insane and that's why I thought he might actually hurt my mother.\"\n\nThe anxiety made her lose chunks of hair, she said, and eventually she told her mother about what was happening.\n\nAlthough her mother informed the police, they advised her not to press charges because she would \"go through worse trauma having to get on a stand and testify\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Halle has been told Great Ormond Street Hospital would be best placed to treat her\n\nA family say they have \"lost faith in the NHS\" as their 14-year-old daughter waits for life-changing treatment for her jaw.\n\nHalle, 14, is being fed through a tube and in constant pain as her jaw repeatedly dislocates.\n\nThe teenager, from near Cardiff, said she felt she was \"just living\" since the feeding tube was fitted in August.\n\nCardiff and Vale University Health Board said it was committed to providing treatment for Halle.\n\nHalle's mother Clare said she had been to A&E at least 15 times in the last six months.\n\n\"Halle's jaw can dislocate at any time - she could wake up with a dislocation or it could be when she's eating,\" said her mother.\n\n\"We would get to the hospital and then she'd have to have gas and air. I'd have to say to her: 'Five more breaths Halle and then they need to put it back in.'\n\n\"You could see the anxiety in her face, she was absolutely petrified.\"\n\nHalle, 14, is now being fed through a tube while she waits for surgery to fix her jaw\n\nThe teenager began having problems with her jaw in 2018 but the condition became significantly worse in March this year.\n\nHalle has not been formally diagnosed with a condition but doctors have said they think it might be hypermobility of the jaw.\n\nJoint hypermobility syndrome is when people, usually children and young people, have very flexible joints and causes them pain, according to the NHS.\n\nBy the end of July, Halle had to be admitted to hospital as she was not eating or drinking properly because she was worried her jaw might dislocate.\n\nHalle's mother Clare said she was determined to get her daughter the treatment she needs\n\n\"At the time, she was so weak and frail. The child is 14 years of age, she doesn't need her personal care met by me, but I had to shower her in the hospital because she was so frail,\" said Halle's mother.\n\n\"I just kept on saying to Halle: 'I promise you, I will get this sorted'. And that's why I am so determined to get her the treatment she needs.\"\n\nIn July, doctors at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, fitted bands to her back teeth to hold her jaw together, but those teeth are now coming loose.\n\nShe has also been seen by doctors in Birmingham and at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.\n\nShe has had some botox treatment in Birmingham, the only treatment available there because she is under 16, but that has not helped.\n\nHalle, who has just started her GCSES, has still been going to school when she can, but said it was hard.\n\n\"I don't want people to look at me like this sad frail person\" she said.\n\n\"I want to be known as strong and fun, but when I get home I am not that person.\n\n\"I go to school - I have migraines all day. I have chronic pain all day.\"\n\nThe family have been told that Great Ormond Street in London would be the best place for Halle, but say the local health board will not give them a new NHS referral because doctors said she could be treated in Birmingham.\n\n\"Seeing Halle and the change in her is horrific enough in itself,\" said her mother.\n\n\"Let alone the stress added to that about the battle I am having with the NHS. I just feel that we have lost all faith in the NHS.\"\n\nThe family are now trying to raise funds to have Halle treated privately\n\nThe family said they were now at the point of giving up, and faced a bill of £10,000 for private treatment.\n\nThey are trying to raise money for that treatment through a GoFundMe appeal online.\n\nAn official for Cardiff and Vale health board said: \"The health board is committed to providing any treatment for Halle locally where possible and in other specialist centres as needed.\n\n\"To that effect we have been liaising with colleagues in Birmingham and Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\n\"It is appreciated how difficult and distressing this situation is for Halle and her parents and we will continue to work with them to support any care which is deemed clinically necessary.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jess Phillips: Cressida Dick and Priti Patel's \"sorrow\" will not stop the death of another woman by a man today\n\nLabour's Jess Phillips says the onus can't be on women to change their behaviour, after the murder of Sarah Everard by an off-duty police officer.\n\nShe said she would have got into Wayne Couzens' car - \"almost anybody would\" - and more action was needed to restore trust in the police.\n\nThe Met Police has advised anyone stopped by a lone plain clothes officer to check their credentials.\n\nThe force says people detained in this way should ask \"where are your colleagues\" and \"where have you come from?\"\n\nIt suggested other \"very searching questions\", including \"why are you here\" and \"exactly why are you stopping or talking to me?\"\n\nThe Met also advised that if someone believes they are in \"real and imminent danger\" they \"must seek assistance - shouting out to a passer-by, running into a house, knocking on a door, waving a bus down or if you are in the position to do so calling 999\".\n\nAnd the force said that, to verify the answers, people should ask to speak to an operator on a police radio.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Policing minister Kit Malthouse says if in doubt \"ask the police officer to identify themselves\"\n\nJess Phillips, Labour's shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding, said she could \"sympathise with the Met - what else could they say?\".\n\nBut she described their advice as \"tone deaf\".\n\n\"I could scream about the amount of things women are told to do,\" she told the BBC, adding that Ms Everard was \"keeping herself completely safe, doing exactly what any woman would do\".\n\nMs Phillips - who ran domestic abuse refuges before becoming an MP - said she knows her rights \"better than most people\" but even she \"would have got in the car and almost anybody would have got in the car\".\n\n\"The onus is on the Metropolitan Police to do better,\" she added.\n\nDebbie Summers from Sisters Uncut - a group which campaigns for women's safety - described the police advice as \"nonsense\".\n\n\"Asking for his police ID would have made no difference in this case as Wayne Couzens was a serving officer - that would have been no defence to her at all,\" she said.\n\nSarah Everard was kidnapped, raped and murdered by police officer Wayne Couzens\n\nMs Phillips said the only way confidence will be restored is \"if we see the government and police forces starting to actually take violence against women and girls, and the complaints that women make day in, day out, seriously\".\n\n\"This is a conversation where women have been saying for some time, even before the death of Sarah Everard, that they don't feel that they are trusted by the police when they speak up or that violence and crime against them is prioritised.\"\n\nAsked if Met Police Commissioner should resign, she said \"getting rid of Cressida Dick is not going to help the fundamental and systemic problem\".\n\n\"I want to hear more from Cressida Dick than 'we will work together, we will learn lessons' - honestly a five-year-old could come up with it.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the police needed to provide clear communication, adding; \"That is not about telling women to change their behaviour, but how the police are going to change what they're doing to reassure women.\"\n\nHe also backed calls for an independent inquiry, saying the sooner it happened the better.\n\nPolicing minister, Kit Malthouse, has acknowledged police forces will have to work \"much harder\" to win back public trust.\n\nHe told Radio 4's Today that Wayne Couzens' crimes have dealt a \"devastating blow\" to public confidence in the police and it would take months and years to rebuild it.\n\nWayne Couzens (right) is believed to have shown Sarah Everard his police warrant card\n\n\"It's hard to underestimate the impact of this tragic, awful case,\" he said.\n\nMr Malthouse said \"sadly\" the Met had had to issue advice to women approached by police - and that it was \"perfectly reasonable\" they make enquiries and seek verification.\n\nAnd he insisted there was a \"suite of things\" being done by ministers to tackle the issue of violence against women.\n\nConservative MP and chair of the Justice Committee Sir Bob Neill suggested making misogyny a hate crime could be one solution.\n\nWhere a crime is proven to be due to the victim's race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity, it is considered a hate crime - and can therefore attract a greater punishment.\n\nCampaigners in England and Wales have argued that sex and gender should be added to this list of characteristics that make an offence a hate crime.\n\nSir Bob's call was echoed by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who said misogyny should be made a hate crime.\n\nLiberal Democrat peer Lord Paddick - who served as deputy assistant commissioner in the Met Police - told the BBC there was \"widespread sexism\" within the force.\n\nOfficers are \"concerned that things may be going backwards rather than forwards\", he said.", "Johnny Anderson's double-bellied mortar tanker was followed to a building site by people looking for petrol\n\nA tanker driver has told how he was tailed by about 20 drivers who were dismayed to discover he was not transporting petrol.\n\nJohnny Anderson, who drives for Weaver Haulage, was transporting dry mortar mix from Bilston, Wolverhampton, to a building site in Northamptonshire.\n\nWhen he reached his destination, he saw a line of traffic backed up behind him.\n\n\"The man at the front... actually said 'You could have stopped and told us you weren't a petrol tanker,\" he said.\n\nThe incident came as lengthy queues formed at forecourts amid petrol and diesel supply problems.\n\nMr Anderson, from Harworth, Nottinghamshire, said he was delivering to the David Wilson Homes development at Overstone on Thursday.\n\nHe was on the A43 when he first realised he was being followed.\n\n\"I didn't notice initially but then on the dual carriageway, I noticed nobody was overtaking me and saw a string of about 20 cars behind me,\" he said.\n\n\"When I eventually turned left into a road that would take me to the site entrance, all these cars turned left with me.\"\n\nJohnny Anderson said he went \"full McEnroe\" on one of the drivers who tailed him\n\nThree-quarters of a mile later, when he stopped at the site entrance, he heard car horns honking, he said.\n\nThinking something had fallen off his vehicle, he got out and saw the queue of vehicles.\n\n\"The man at the front wound down his window and asked me which petrol station I was going to,\" he said.\n\n\"When I said I wasn't, he asked me 'Why not?' and when I said I wasn't carrying petrol, he actually said 'You could have stopped and told us you weren't a petrol tanker'.\n\n\"I couldn't believe it... I just went full McEnroe and said 'You cannot be serious!'\n\n\"Then the bloke behind asked me where the nearest petrol station was. It just beggars belief.\"\n\nMr Anderson, who has been driving double-bellied tankers for about six years, said while it was \"quite funny\", there was also a serious side.\n\n\"My cargo isn't dangerous but, if they are following a petrol tanker, their training is to call the police if they think they're being followed,\" he said.\n\n\"People need to stop and think... driving a tanker, no matter what the product, is quite a pressurised job, so following them puts extra pressure on drivers already under pressure without having to worry about absolute morons.\"\n\nMr Anderson, who works for Ashbourne-based Weaver Haulage, has driven \"belly tankers\" for about six years\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "A squeeze on household finances will become more acute as a new, higher energy price cap takes effect.\n\nThose on standard tariffs, with typical household levels of energy use, will see bills go up by £139 to £1,277 a year, but the more energy a household uses, the higher their bill will be.\n\nPrepayment meter customers with average energy use will see a £153 increase.\n\nThe cap has come under the spotlight owing to the crisis among suppliers, which has seen nine firms fold.\n\nThe cap limits how much providers can raise prices. Even so, the current increase is the biggest jump, to the highest amount, seen since the backstop was introduced in January 2019.\n\nIt represents a 12% rise in energy prices at a time of the year when, charities point out, people are about to use more heating and lighting during colder, darker days. It also coincides with other price rises hitting family budgets and the withdrawal of Covid support schemes, although the government has promised to continue financial help for the poorest households.\n\nAbout 15 million households in England, Wales and Scotland are affected by the changes.\n\nThe cap does not apply in Northern Ireland where prices are overseen by a regulator.\n\nThe regulator Ofgem sets a price cap for domestic energy twice a year. The latest level kicked in on 1 October.\n\nIt is a cap on the price of energy and charges that suppliers can levy. A household's total bill is still determined by how much gas and electricity is used.\n\nHouseholds on fixed tariffs will be unaffected, but those coming to the end of a contract are automatically moved to a default tariff set at the new level. In the past customers have been able to shop around for cheaper deals, but currently, they won't find anything cheaper, due to the high price of gas.\n\nAdam Scorer, from fuel poverty charity National Energy Action, said: \"The massive devastating increases in energy prices will drive over 500,000 more households into fuel poverty, leaving them unable to heat or power their homes.\"\n\nDebbie Wright is about to move into her first flat, but said rising energy bills, as well as lower benefits payments, were detracting from the excitement of her potential independence.\n\n\"It's scary - you can't afford to live day by day,\" she said.\n\n\"Where is the extra money coming from?\"\n\nShe was taking part in a life skills class run by charity Christians Against Poverty. All of those in the class used prepayment meters and were in receipt of food parcels.\n\n\"We are seeing all sorts of people in debt,\" said life skills manager Shirley Bowen.\n\nShirley Bowen says people will be making tough choices this winter\n\n\"There have always been people that struggle to manage their finances and I don't think that will ever change. As soon as there is any expense that they don't expect, it knocks them off and they have to cry out for help.\n\n\"It is just going to spiral. It is obvious that there will be people who do not put the heating on this winter. Whether or not they will be able to cook for their kids, it will just be sandwiches and cereal, we will have to just wait and see.\"\n\nUsually, the introduction of more expensive energy bills is accompanied with advice to consumers on standard tariffs to switch to a cheaper deal.\n\nThe current crisis in the sector means that, this time, there is no availability of better offers. A tariff set at the price cap limit is the most competitive available.\n\nInstead, residents are being encouraged to save money by looking at the energy efficiency of their homes. The Energy Saving Trust said that the price rise could be more than outstripped by changes to our homes and habits.\n\nMr Scorer, from National Energy Action, said: \"We can't lose sight of the long-term solution to reduce the energy waste in our homes. We have some of the least efficient housing in Europe.\n\n\"This has left the UK more exposed to the current soaring gas price than many other countries and we are wasting billions of pounds each year as heat escapes through leaky roofs, floors and ceilings.\"\n\nThe new cap was decided in August and is designed to reflect the unavoidable costs faced by energy suppliers.\n\nThis came slightly ahead of a massive jump in wholesale gas prices which has led to the collapse of nine suppliers in recent weeks. They have been unable to keep to the price promises they made to their customers, and were uninsured against the increasing costs.\n\nAvro Energy, for example, confirmed on Friday that it had fallen into administration. Its customers will be transferred to Octopus Energy, while its 103 staff will be kept on for at least the short-term to help with the change.\n\nThe tariffs that will be charged for the 1.7 million customers moving to new suppliers after their previous provider collapsed are being set at the same level as the new price cap.\n\nSenior executives of bigger suppliers have argued that the price cap is making the situation worse. They say they are shouldering billions of pounds in additional costs by providing customers with energy that costs more to buy than they are allowed to sell it for under the retail price cap.\n\nEmma Pinchbeck, chief executive of Energy UK, the trade association for the energy industry, told the BBC's Today programme: \"It costs around £600 to take on a new customer at the moment because of the astonishing price of gas in the market and that's the main issue.\"\n\nShe added that more energy suppliers were expected to fail given the current \"volatile\" gas market.\n\nFirms have criticised Ofgem, claiming that it should have known many smaller suppliers would not be resilient in the face of gas price rises.\n\nJonathan Brearley, chief executive of Ofgem, rejected the criticism, saying that nobody could have predicted the huge rise in the cost of wholesale gas.\n\nHe accepted that the cost of protecting customers from failing energy providers could lead to higher bills in the future.\n\nOfgem will decide the level of the next price cap - which analysts predict to be considerably higher - in February, before it takes effect at the start of April.\n\nA spokeswoman for the regulator said: \"We are doing all we can to make sure consumers, especially people in vulnerable circumstances, do not pay more than is absolutely necessary this winter.\n\n\"Higher energy costs are never welcome news to anyone and the timing and size of this increase will be particularly difficult for many families still struggling with the impact of the pandemic. Anyone struggling to pay their energy bills should get in touch with their supplier to access the help that is available.\"\n\nHave you been told that your energy bills will increase? How will this affect you? Send us your questions using the form below.\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.", "Armed forces personnel will begin delivering petrol to garages across the UK from Monday, the government says.\n\nAlmost 200 servicemen and women, 100 of them drivers, will provide \"temporary\" support to ease pressure on stations.\n\nMinisters have also announced that up to 300 overseas fuel tanker drivers will be able to work in the UK immediately until the end of March.\n\nThere have been long queues at petrol stations this week after a shortage of drivers disrupted fuel deliveries.\n\nMinisters - who have maintained there is enough fuel if people buy at their normal rates - say the situation at petrol station forecourts is improving, with more fuel now being delivered than sold.\n\nBut they acknowledge some parts of the country are worse affected than others.\n\nBrian Madderson, chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association, which represents nearly 5,500 of the UK's 8,300 petrol stations said Scotland, the north of England and parts of the Midlands had seen a \"distinct improvement\" with fewer dry sites.\n\nBut he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it remained a \"big problem\" in London and south-east England, where \"if anything it had got worse.\"\n\nHe said the military drivers will be a \"large help\" but a \"prioritisation of deliveries to filling stations, particularly the independent ones, which are the neighbourhood sites\" was needed \"immediately\".\n\nMr Madderson warned drivers would see a rise in fuel prices next week, but because of \"global factors\" not because of profiteering.\n\nOn Friday, the RAC motoring group also said the disruption in deliveries was continuing to ease, though many areas were still experiencing supply issues.\n\nSmaller fuel stations were facing major supply problems as drivers filled up for the weekend, it said.\n\nMilitary personnel are currently training at haulier sites and will be on the road delivering fuel supplies across the country to \"help fuel stocks further improve\" from Monday, the government said.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said personnel would be seen working alongside drivers this weekend following training this week.\n\nIn addition to the 300 fuel tanker drivers being allowed to work temporarily in the UK, temporary visas are also being offered to 4,700 food haulage drivers who are able to arrive from late October and leave by 28 February 2022.\n\nVisas are being offered to a further 5,500 poultry workers who can come from late October and stay until 31 December.\n\nPreviously, the government said these temporary visas would last until Christmas Eve.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said there were \"continued signs that the situation at the pumps is slowly improving\".\n\n\"UK forecourt stock levels are trending up, deliveries of fuel to forecourts are above normal levels, and fuel demand is stabilising,\" he said.\n\n\"It's important to stress there is no national shortage of fuel in the UK, and people should continue to buy fuel as normal.\"\n\nMore than a week after queues started appearing on petrol station forecourts, just under 200 military personnel will take to the roads.\n\nMinisters say it takes time to train up servicemen and women to drive large tankers carrying highly flammable substances into built-up areas.\n\nWhile they will help with getting supplies to garages, there's been a concern inside government that falling back on the armed forces could be counter-productive.\n\nWhat message does it send to worried motorists to see soldiers driving petrol tankers? Could it lead to more panic buying?\n\nMinisters are confident the situation will continue to stabilise, but they've been under pressure to take more urgent action.\n\nIt's notable that alongside the decision to deploy the military, up to 300 tanker drivers will be allowed into the UK from overseas immediately - several weeks before the wider visa scheme comes into effect.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer called on the PM to recall Parliament from party conference recess, saying \"emergency action\" was needed to speed up the visas.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson accused the haulage industry of being too reliant on low-paid migrant workers.\n\nHe added that he would not allow the UK to repeat the \"failures\" of the past, by allowing mass immigration to create a \"low-wage, low-skill economy\" for British workers.\n\nThe haulage industry says the driver shortage already existed, but has been made worse by factors including the pandemic, Brexit, an ageing workforce, low wages and poor working conditions.\n\nA survey from earlier this year suggests a number of reasons for the driver shortage\n\nIn addition to offering temporary visas, the government last week set out a number of other measures aimed at limiting disruption in the run-up to Christmas and beyond.\n\nThese include increasing HGV (heavy goods vehicle) testing capacity, sending nearly one million letters to drivers who hold an HGV licence, encouraging them back into the industry, and offering training courses for HGV drivers.\n\nMeanwhile, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned there is global disruption to supply chains in other industries, which could continue until Christmas.\n\n\"These shortages are very real,\" Mr Sunak told the Daily Mail. \"We're seeing real disruptions in supply chains in different sectors, not just here but around the world. We are determined to do what we can to try to mitigate as much of this as we can.\"\n\nAnd the Financial Times reports that turkeys will be imported to the UK from France and Poland in the run-up to Christmas after farmers reared about one million fewer birds.\n\nBritish Poultry Council chief executive Richard Griffiths told the paper that Brexit had cut off the industry's supply of cheap labour.", "The musician used boilers to smuggle drugs\n\nBritish rapper Nines has been jailed for importing 28kg of cannabis into the UK from Spain and Poland.\n\nThe chart-topping musician, real name Courtney Freckleton, 31, and Jason Thompson, 35, were both given 28-month sentences.\n\nThe pair had previously pleaded guilty to drugs and money laundering charges.\n\nSentencing them both at Harrow Crown Court, Judge Rosa Dean said: \"What a waste of all of that talent, to be sat in Wormwood Scrubs.\"\n\nLast year, Nines topped the UK album chart with his record Crabs In A Bucket and was named best hip hop act the Mobo Awards.\n\nThe court heard the pair had been involved in one successful bid to import the class B drug, while another attempt had also been made.\n\nProsecutor Genevieve Reed said the money laundering charge related to a £98,000 debt, the value of the drugs, and the use of Bitcoin to buy the cannabis.\n\nSome of the cannabis was imported inside boilers brought into the UK from Poland, the court heard.\n\nNines, of Barbican, central London, and Thompson, of Barnet, north London, were arrested in June after police raids across London and Borehamwood in Hertfordshire.\n\nThe operation is understood to have stemmed from the infiltration of encrypted messaging service Encrochat.\n\nThe network, which was used by thousands of criminals worldwide, was infiltrated by authorities last year after being hacked by French investigators.\n\nFather-of-two Nines, who was known as \"Big Boss\" by his fellow conspirators, had previously been imprisoned for 18 months for possession of cannabis with intent to supply.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sabina Nessa's body was found near her home in Kidbrooke\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with the \"predatory\" murder of a primary school teacher.\n\nKoci Selamaj allegedly used a 2ft (0.6m) long weapon to repeatedly strike Sabina Nessa, 28, who was attacked on 17 September, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nThe court was told he then carried her away unconscious. Her body was found covered in leaves in Cator Park, Kidbrooke, the next day.\n\nMr Selamaj, 36, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, was remanded in custody.\n\nKoci Selamaj first appeared at Willesden Magistrates' Court on Tuesday\n\nA post-mortem examination has yet to confirm the exact cause of her death but the attack was said to have involved \"extreme violence\".\n\nMs Nessa had been making her way to meet a friend at The Depot bar in Kidbrooke Village but never arrived.\n\nDressed in a prison-issue green and yellow top, garage worker Mr Selamaj, who is originally from Albania, appeared by video link from Wormwood Scrubs assisted by an interpreter.\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan QC told the court it was a \"premeditated and predatory\" stranger attack and there was no suggestion the defendant knew Ms Nessa.\n\nOfficers have been searching an area of woodland near to Tunbridge Wells in Kent\n\nDuring the hearing, the defendant, who has already indicated he will deny murder, spoke to confirm his name and date of birth.\n\nA vigil for Ms Nessa was held in nearby Pegler Square, last Friday, and there is a book of condolence at the One Space community centre, close to where her body was found.\n\nThe Met Police confirmed that officers have been searching an area of woodland near to Tunbridge Wells in Kent as part of their investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "E4 has apologised after it repeated Wednesday's episode of Married at First Sight on Thursday instead of showing the series finale.\n\nThe channel blamed it on \"ongoing tech issues\" after technical problems at a broadcast centre resulted in several channels going off air on Saturday.\n\nChannel 4 said its services were also having sound and subtitle problems.\n\nE4 said the last episode of Married at First Sight would be broadcast on Friday at 21:00 BST.\n\nThe reality show \"scientifically\" matches couples moments before they marry. Over the following weeks of the show they decide whether to continue their relationships.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter on Thursday, E4 said: \"We're aware it's yesterday's episode of #MAFSUK playing out this evening and apologise. It's all down to our ongoing tech issues which we're working hard on.\"\n\nChannel 4, Channel 5, the BBC, Paramount Network and 4 Music were among those who were affected by the technical issues last weekend.\n\nRed Bee Media, which handles playout services and broadcasting technology for a number of channels, blamed an \"activation of the fire suppression systems\" at its broadcast centre in west London.\n\nThe Times later suggested the issue arose when smoke was detected and the fire suppression system sucked all the oxygen out of the room. That caused a \"sonic wave\" that shut down the transmission servers, the newspaper reported.\n\nChannel 4 said: \"We continue to experience disruption to our services due to technical issues. We're working hard to resume our normal services and appreciate your continued understanding.\"\n• None Married At First Sight bride axed for 'aggression'", "Activists have taken to the streets this year to protest about the treatment of the women\n\nA Spanish judge has shocked women's rights groups by dismissing a case that involved women being secretly filmed urinating in public and the videos then being posted on porn websites.\n\nRecordings of some 80 women and girls were made as they urinated in a side street because of a lack of facilities.\n\nThey were caught by hidden cameras at the A Maruxaina local festival in the north-western town of Cervo.\n\nIn many cases the footage showed close-ups of the women's genitals and faces.\n\nIt was uploaded to porn sites, some requiring payment to view.\n\nOn discovering this, many of those affected took legal action in 2020, calling for the recordings, whose author remains unknown, to be investigated on the grounds that their right to privacy had been violated.\n\nA local judge, Pablo Muñoz Vázquez, shelved the case, triggering an appeal led by the Women for Equality Burela (Bumei) association.\n\nThe same judge has now confirmed his initial decision not to proceed, on the grounds that because the videos were recorded in a public place they cannot be deemed criminal.\n\nAccording to court documents, the judge also decided that there was \"no intention to violate the physical or moral resistance\" of the women affected.\n\n\"I was just panicking,\" said Jenniffer, who was one of the women filmed during the local festival in 2019.\n\nShe remembered when a friend told her that footage of her had been uploaded to a porn site. \"And then when I saw the video I was crying, I was really embarrassed, I didn't know really what to do.\"\n\nLike many of those affected, Jenniffer sought therapy afterwards. But the latest judicial ruling has added to the pain.\n\n\"It makes me feel so frustrated,\" she said. \"They are basically saying it is OK if someone records you on the street and then they post it on a porn site and they make money from it.\"\n\nTaking pictures of a woman without her consent and distributing them is sexual violence\n\nAna García, of the Bumei association, warns that a precedent could be set by this case, giving those who make such recordings impunity.\n\n\"Just because you're in a public space, that doesn't mean that filming intimate images and then distributing them is not a crime, because this is about fundamental rights,\" she said.\n\nThe decision not to continue with the case has provoked protests and an online campaign under the hashtag #XustizaMaruxaina (Justice Maruxaina).\n\nThe case has prompted an online campaign and has been taken up by the equality minister\n\nThe case has also entered the political arena, with Equality Minister Irene Montero speaking out.\n\nGender rights have been the subject of fierce debate between left and right in Spain in recent years and this is not the first time a judicial decision has drawn a backlash from women's groups.\n\nIn 2018, a court in Pamplona sparked mass protests by deeming an assault on a young woman by five men, nicknamed La Manada (the Wolfpack), sexual abuse rather than rape.\n\nThe Supreme Court eventually overturned the verdict, finding the men guilty of rape and increasing their jail sentences from nine years to 15 years.\n\nThe women affected by the A Maruxaina case are now appealing again, this time before the provincial court in Lugo, in the hope that the case will, finally, be investigated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Activists say rage over the \"wolfpack\" case ignited a feminist revolution (Video from 2019)", "Molnupiravir is the first oral antiviral treatment for Covid to report clinical trial results.\n\nAn experimental drug for severe Covid cuts the risk of hospitalisation or death by about half, interim clinical trial results suggest.\n\nThe tablet - molnupiravir - was given twice a day to patients recently diagnosed with the disease.\n\nUS drug-maker Merck said its results were so positive that outside monitors had asked to stop the trial early.\n\nIt said it would apply for emergency use authorisation for the drug in the US in the next two weeks.\n\nDr Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to US President Joe Biden, said the results were \"very good news\", but urged caution until the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had reviewed the data.\n\nIf authorised by regulators, molnupiravir would be the first oral antiviral medication for Covid-19.\n\nThe pill, which was originally developed to treat influenza, is designed to introduce errors into the genetic code of the virus, preventing it from spreading in the body.\n\nAn analysis of 775 patients in the study found:\n\nThe data was published in a press release and has not yet been peer-reviewed.\n\nUnlike most Covid vaccines, which target the spike protein on the outside of the virus, the treatment works by targeting an enzyme the virus uses to make copies of itself.\n\nMerck, known by the name MSD in the UK, said that should make it equally effective against new variants of the virus as it evolves in the future.\n\nDaria Hazuda, Merck's vice-president of infectious disease discovery, told the BBC: \"An antiviral treatment for people who are not vaccinated, or who are less responsive to immunity from vaccines, is a very important tool in helping to end this pandemic.\"\n\nTrial results suggest molnupiravir needs to be taken early after symptoms develop to have an effect. An earlier study in patients who had already been hospitalised with severe Covid was halted after disappointing results.\n\nMerck is the first company to report trial results of a pill to treat Covid, but other companies are working on similar treatments. Its US rival Pfizer has recently started late-stage trials of two different antiviral tablets, while Swiss company Roche is working on a similar medication.\n\nMerck has said it expects to produce 10 million courses of molnupiravir by the end of 2021. The US government has already agreed to buy $1.2bn (£885m) worth of the drug if it receives approval from the regulatory body, the FDA.\n\nThe company said it is in ongoing discussion with other countries, including the UK, and has also agreed licensing deals with a number of generic manufacturers to supply the treatment to low and middle-income countries.\n\nProf Penny Ward, from King's College London, who was not involved in the trial, said: \"It is greatly hoped that the antiviral task force has, like the vaccines taskforce, pre-ordered courses of this medication.\n\n\"[This is] so that the UK can, at last, properly manage this condition by treating vaccine breakthrough disease, and relieve pressure on the NHS during the forthcoming winter.\"\n\nProf Peter Horby, an expert in infectious diseases at University of Oxford, said: \"A safe, affordable, and effective oral antiviral would be a huge advance in the fight against Covid.\n\n\"Molnupiravir has looked promising in the lab, but the real test was whether it shows benefit in patients. Many drugs fail at this point, so these interim results are very encouraging.\"", "Whorlton Hall, which has since closed, was privately-run but funded by the NHS\n\nNine people have been charged with the abuse of patients with learning difficulties at a specialist hospital in County Durham.\n\nIn 2019 undercover filming by BBC Panorama at Whorlton Hall appeared to show vulnerable adults being mocked, intimidated and restrained.\n\nThe six men and three women are charged with ill treatment or wilful neglect of an individual by a care worker.\n\nThey will appear before Newton Aycliffe Magistrates' Court on 9 November.\n\nThe accused, who are all former workers, are:\n\nThe facility, near Barnard Castle, which has since closed, was privately-run but funded by the NHS.\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.", "Then assistant commissioner Cressida Dick at the memorial service for the murdered police officer Yvonne Fletcher\n\nThe career of Cressida Dick has seen her weather a number of storms that would have sunk many others. Allegations relating to an unholy trinity of dishonesty, prejudice and incompetence dogged the Met for almost all of her tenure.\n\nPerhaps the most high profile of the potentially career-ending scandals was the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met Police officer. A serving Met Police officer with a record of indecent exposure and a nickname of \"the rapist\".\n\nDame Cressida said she was \"so sorry\" and remained.\n\nAfter the heavy-handed way the force handled subsequent protests and vigils - in which clashes broke out between women and police officers trying to control the gathering, Dame Cressida said confidence in policing was damaged because of remarks made on social media rather than the actions of any Met officers.\n\nMisogyny, discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment throughout the ranks of the Met were uncovered in a damning report from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nDame Cressida Dick made a statement to the public after the sentencing of the Met officer who murdered Sarah Everard\n\nA report into the 1987 murder of Daniel Morgan - the killer remains unidentified - accused the force of institutional corruption. It found that the then-Assistant Commissioner Dame Cressida had initially refused to grant access to a police internal data system.\n\nThe shambolic Operation Midland which gave credibility to allegations of child sexual abuse by the paedophile and fantasist Carl Beech did not stop her rising through the ranks, even amid the persistent rumble of accusations against the Met of institutional racism and corruption.\n\nShe had been responsible for supervising the senior investigating officer who said allegations made by Beech were \"credible and true\". Despite hearing the officer say this, and knowing it \"was a mistake\", Dame Cressida admitted she had done nothing to correct it. The force had to pay compensation to a number of people whose reputations had been unfairly tarnished by Beech's lies.\n\nLast September it was announced by the prime minister and home secretary that Dame Cressida's contract - due to end in April - would be extended for another two years.\n\nIt spurred victims of police injustice to write an open letter accusing Dame Cressida of \"presiding over a culture of incompetence and cover-up\". Baroness Lawrence, whose son Stephen was murdered in a racist attack, and Lady Brittan, whose home was raided when her husband Lord Brittan was falsely accused of child abuse were two of the signatories.\n\nObviously, Dame Cressida is not personally responsible for the wrongs committed by her officers. But she was the head of the organisation that - however unwittingly - facilitated the crimes of Wayne Couzens.\n\nShe was head of the organisation which treated sexualised, violent and discriminatory behaviour as \"banter\".\n\nCressida Dick speaks after the verdict in the Lee Rigby murder trial\n\nFurther accusations of racism came from the mother of two women murdered in a park in Wembley. Mina Smallman believes police treated the disappearance and deaths of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry less urgently than if they had been white.\n\nShe said of the investigation: \"I knew instantly why they didn't care. They didn't care because they looked at my daughter's address and they thought they knew who she was. A black woman who lives on a council estate.\"\n\nThe disappearance of Richard Okorogheye, a teenager who was found dead two weeks after his mother reported him missing, is also subject to a review by the police watchdog, which will consider whether ethnicity played a role in the way his case was handled.\n\nAnd athlete Bianca Williams and her partner believe they were racially profiled when their car was stopped by Met officers in Maida Vale, in July 2020. The couple were handcuffed and separated from their baby son. Ms Williams said she thought her family had been targeted because \"we are black and we drive a Mercedes\".\n\nThe Met later apologised for any distress caused.\n\nThe 60-year-old has never before shown any inclination to stand down. Where did her nerves of steel come from?\n\nThe first female commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and the UK's most senior police officer, she was made a dame in Theresa May's resignation honours.\n\nDame Cressida and her deputy attend the funeral of PC Keith Palmer, killed in the March 22 Westminster terror attack\n\nShe was first thrust into the public glare when, in 2005, she headed the operation that led to the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. She co-ordinated the surveillance officers, specialist firearms teams and other police as they attempted to catch the men behind the 21 July bombings.\n\nA subsequent trial found the Met Police guilty of endangering the public, but exonerated then-Commander Dick. She later described the killing as \"an awful time\".\n\n\"I think about it quite often. I wish, wish, wish it hadn't happened, of course, but if anything it has made me a better leader, a better police officer and it has made me more resilient.\"\n\nAt the trial she had told prosecution counsel that she \"does not get anxious - I don't have anxiety\".\n\nShe was quickly promoted through both the Thames Valley force and the Met, and in 2001 she took on command roles in the police response to the 9/11 attacks and the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004.\n\nShe was promoted to deputy assistant commissioner in 2006, and in 2009 she became the first woman to become an assistant commissioner.\n\nThe first openly gay person to hold the post, Dame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 2019 her sexuality was one of the least interesting things about her, adding: \"I happen to love Helen. She's my partner. And on we go.\"\n\nNewly appointed to the top job and smiling outside Lewisham police station in 2017\n\nIt also emerged on the programme that she cannot smell cannabis - a fact her colleagues apparently found \"hilarious\" - and, perhaps appropriately for someone who has so consistently kept her hands clean despite the whiff of scandal in the air, her luxury item would be an endless supply of floral scented soaps.\n\nOriginally from Oxford and the daughter of two academics, Dame Cressida read forestry and agriculture at the university's Balliol College before joining the Met in 1983.\n\nOn her mother's side of the family, she is related to Sophia Jex-Blake, who led the fight for women's education in Britain, and is directly descended from Sophia's brother Thomas Jex-Blake, a 19th Century headmaster of Rugby School.\n\nShe took a brief career break to study criminology at Cambridge and had a short spell working in finance - but for most of her life she has been a police officer.\n\nDame Cressida left the police in 2015 to work at the Foreign Office, in an unspecified job shrouded in secrecy, but returned two years later when she assumed the mantle of Met commissioner.\n\nShe has been a police officer for most of her working life\n\nAt the time, she said it had been \"at least 25 years since I thought regularly about the fact that I was a woman, doing this job\" but added that some men were \"threatened, baffled and confused\" by it.\n\n\"I long for the day when we can all be ourselves, whoever we are, and express ourselves in whatever way we like, and we don't have these kinds of funny constraints in our heads that make us feel: 'Ooh, there's a different power relationship because that's a man and that's a woman.' And we still get that. It's not helpful.\"\n\nAnnouncing her departure, Dame Cressida said: \"It is clear that the mayor no longer has sufficient confidence in my leadership to continue. He has left me no choice but to step aside as commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service.\"\n\nShe had just hours earlier insisted that she had \"no intention of going\".\n\nHer track record shows a pattern of saying sorry and a refusal to relinquish her post.\n\nThis time, no apologies. This time, she goes.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The RAC motoring group has said the fuel shortage problem continues to ease, although many areas of the UK are still suffering supply issues.\n\nSmaller fuel stations were still facing major supply issues as drivers fill up for the weekend, the RAC said.\n\nEarlier, BP said problems at its stations caused by a shortage of HGV drivers was starting to improve.\n\nIt comes as one of the big fuel delivery firms, Hoyer Petrolog, confirmed it was training army drivers.\n\nThe RAC said that on Thursday its patrol vehicles dealt with nearly five times the number of out-of-fuel breakdowns than was typical. However, that was down on the 13-times it dealt with on Monday.\n\nMr Williams said: While the fuel delivery situation continues to improve in many areas, that's sadly not the case right across the country.\n\n\"Those drivers that rely on independent forecourts, especially where there aren't any supermarkets selling fuel, may still be struggling to fill up.\"\n\nBP was the first company to warn it had to close some petrol stations due to a shortage of drivers, which has worsened due to Covid and Brexit. But the company said on Friday the situation was \"stabilising\".\n\nA big fuel delivery supplier to BP forecourts and other outlets, Hoyer, confirmed to the BBC it was training army drivers over the last two days.\n\nHoyer, which delivers to about 25% of the UK's petrol stations, was not able to confirm how many army personnel were being trained nor when they would start work. However, the army drivers will use a mix of Hoyer and military vehicles to make deliveries, the company said.\n\nThe UK has been grappling with a fuel crisis that has caused huge queues outside some petrol stations, and forced customers to drive round multiple sites in search of supplies.\n\nBP said the situation had started to improve over the last few days, adding it was \"working flat out\" to keep sites across the country supplied.\n\nWhile the government and retailers say there is enough fuel at UK refineries, a shortage of drivers has slowed the transport of fuel to petrol stations.\n\nThe haulage industry says an existing shortage of lorry drivers has been made worse by a number of factors, including the pandemic, Brexit, an ageing workforce, low wages and poor working conditions.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Today programme, policing minister Kit Malthouse said: \"My latest briefing is that the situation is stabilising, that we are seeing more forecourts with a greater supply of fuel and hopefully that, as demand and supply come better into balance over the next few days, week or so, that we will see a return to normality.\"\n\nHe added that if the situation started to deteriorate again, Prime Minister Boris Johnson would review matters.\n\nHowever, Labour leader Kier Starmer said it was time for \"emergency action\" as the \"chaos\" looked set to continue.\n\nHe said: \"We're going to see this driver shortage problem coming back again in different sectors.\n\n\"By the government's own admission, their scheme won't be up and running for weeks with the first HGV drivers not on the roads until November. This simply isn't good enough.\"\n\nHe called for the use of the military to get petrol to areas of the country in most need, and for fuel stations with supplies to extend opening hours for NHS shift staff and other key workers.\n\n\"Normally a tanker would last three to four days, but now it's selling out in 12 hours,\" says Danyal Shoaib, who runs a petrol station near Leatherhead, in Surrey. In the last week he says they've run dry three times.\n\n\"I think social media has played a massive part. As soon as anyone sees a tanker, they stick it online and the queues develop all the way down the road,\" he says.\n\nMr Shoaib says he's been surprised by the abuse he and his colleagues have faced from \"a significant minority\" of customers.\n\n\"A man tried to bypass the queue and when I politely asked him to join the end, he tried to drive his car into me to get me to move,\" he says. After he asked the man to calm down, he was then subjected to abusive language including \"quite obscene racial slurs\", he adds.\n\nDespite this, Mr Shoaib says they've had \"loads of lovely messages\" thanking them, and seen huge relief on people's faces when they can fill up.\n\nAt his petrol station, he says demand remains high: \"What we're saying to people is, if you can, please be reasonable. If you can make do with half a tank or three quarters of a tank, please do that.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that demand at supermarkets Asda and Morrisons is also easing, continuing a trend seen throughout the week.\n\nA Morrisons spokesperson said: \"It is a rapidly moving situation and we are working hard with our suppliers to ensure we can continue to keep our pumps open and serve our customers.\"\n\nSainsbury's, which has more than 300 sites in total, said that it was still experiencing high demand for fuel.\n\n\"We're working closely with our supplier to maintain supply and all our sites continue to receive fuel,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nTesco added: \"We have good availability of fuel, and we're working really hard to ensure regular deliveries to our petrol filling stations across the UK every day.\"\n\nThe firm operates 500 petrol stations, with another 200 managed by Esso with a Tesco Express store on-site.\n\nAn Esso spokesman told the BBC that a number of its Tesco Alliance sites were affected.\n\n\"The picture is constantly changing, but the situation at the 200 Esso Tesco Alliance sites is stabilising and continues to improve in terms of fuel availability,\" they said.\n\nLike a car running low on petrol, the situation at the pumps seems to have slowed and possibly stalled.\n\nFuel demand is still far from normal and the picture is very patchy.\n\nWhile there are hopeful noises from some areas of the industry that fuel is getting through, those who are selling it are still seeing queues, particularly in London and the south east.\n\nThe situation is not as bad as last weekend, but it still isn't over. The messaging could be tricky for the government. Tell everyone the crisis is solved before it dies down, and ministers risk losing the public's trust.\n\nThe question now is what will reassure the public to go back to normal buying?\n\nThe Petrol Retailers Association (PRA), represents nearly 5,500 of the UK's 8,300 petrol stations\n\nIt said on Friday there had been little change for its members who are independent fuel retailers.\n\nIts survey of 1,100 sites across the UK found that 26% had neither petrol nor diesel in stock, down slightly from 27% on Thursday.\n\nGordon Balmer, its executive director, said: \"Whilst the situation is similar to recent days, there are signs it is improving, but far too slowly.\n\n\"Independents, which total 65% of the entire network, are not receiving enough deliveries of fuel compared with other sectors.\"\n\nMr Balmer said he believed queues were likely until independent retailers started getting more frequent deliveries.\n\nIn an attempt to limit disruption, the government has confirmed that 5,000 fuel tanker and food lorry drivers can receive temporary UK visas, with the scheme ending on Christmas Eve.\n\nA temporary relaxation on drivers' hours has also been extended until 31 October. This allows the daily driving limit to be increased from nine hours to 10 hours up to four times in a week.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had taken \"immediate action\" to increase the supply of HGV drivers and relieve the pressure on petrol stations.\n\n\"We recognise the challenges facing industry and streamlined the testing process in July to boost the number of drivers,\" they said, adding that it was important people continued to buy fuel as normal.", "Jeremy Stansfield co-hosted the BBC's Bang Goes The Theory from 2009-14\n\nA TV presenter who was hurt while playing the role of a human crash test dummy has been awarded £1.6m in damages after a High Court battle with the BBC.\n\nJeremy Stansfield, 50, said he suffered spine and brain injuries while filming a 2013 episode of science show Bang Goes The Theory, resulting in more than £3m of lost future earnings.\n\nMrs Justice Yip ruled the effect of the injuries was \"to derail the claimant's successful career in television\".\n\nThe injuries happened when Mr Stansfield, who was 42 at the time, filmed a Bang Goes The Theory feature about the relative safety of forward and rear-facing child car seats.\n\nThe episode saw him \"strapped into a rig like a go-cart which was propelled along a track into a post\".\n\nIn the segment, Mr Stansfield explained he had calculated the experiment to give a similar crash profile to hitting a lamppost in a real car in an urban environment. The crashes were performed forwards and backwards twice each.\n\nMr Stansfield said he had been left with a \"constellation of symptoms\", leading to a significant decline in his health.\n\nMrs Justice Yip ruled that the \"combined effect\" of Mr Stansfield's physical injuries and his psychological reaction to the crash test had caused him \"significant impairment\" and restricted \"his enjoyment of life\".\n\nBefore the crash tests, Mr Stansfield had been an \"exceptionally fit\" man, the judge said.\n\nA BBC physical assessment for a 2012 project involving a human powered aircraft, which he had designed himself as a former engineer, suggested he was performing at the level of a competitive athlete.\n\nJeremy \"Jem\" Stansfield with Bang Goes The Theory co-hosts Liz Bonnin and Maggie Philbin in 2013\n\nMrs Justice Yip said: \"I must say that I find it astonishing that anyone thought that this exercise was a sensible idea.\n\n\"On his own account to camera, the claimant was simulating a road traffic collision of the sort that commonly causes injury.\n\n\"It might be thought that someone of his intelligence and scientific background might have appreciated the risk.\"\n\nThe judgement was not assessing liability, but the extent of Mr Stansfield's injuries and the damages owed.\n\nThe judgement said the BBC argued that \"little more than a moderate whiplash injury with depressive symptoms\" could properly be attributed to the crash tests, so only modest damages should be awarded.\n\nShe said there was also evidence the BBC actively sought advice and had been warned of the danger yet still allowed the experiment to proceed.\n\nThe BBC has agreed to share responsibility and loss of earnings, the ruling said. Mr Stansfield had originally claimed almost £4m in damages.\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"We take the health and wellbeing of everyone who works for the BBC extremely seriously.\n\n\"We keep safety measures on set under constant review and we made adjustments following the incident in 2013.\n\n\"We acknowledge the court's judgment in this complex case and wish Mr Stansfield the best for the future.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "JD Wetherspoon has reported a record annual loss after Covid lockdowns saw its pubs shut for 19 weeks.\n\nIt posted a £154.7m loss as sales fell sharply in the year to 25 July, after a £34.1m loss a year earlier.\n\nWetherspoon's chairman Tim Martin criticised the \"use of lockdowns and draconian restrictions\".\n\nAlthough the firm suggested that there were signs of recovery since restrictions eased, it is struggling to recruit staff in some areas.\n\nThe pub chain said that like-for-like sales, which strip out the effect of new pub openings, were just 8.7% lower in the last nine weeks than in the same period before the pandemic.\n\nSales at its airport sites though, have struggled, it said.\n\nOverall, revenues generated through pints, meals and soft drinks fell by 38.8% from a year earlier to £772.6m.\n\nBut in an update to investors, Mr Martin said that he felt hopeful for the future.\n\n\"Pubs have been at the forefront of business closures during the pandemic, at great cost to the industry - but at even greater cost to the Treasury.\n\n\"In spite of these obstacles, Wetherspoon is cautiously optimistic about the outcome for the financial year, on the basis that there is no further resort to lockdowns\".\n\nAs Covid-related restrictions have eased, the firm has been looking to fill vacancies for pub staff and managers and make the most of the economic recovery.\n\nIt said overall it had received a \"reasonable\" number of applications for jobs.\n\nBut in some areas of the country, \"especially 'staycation' areas in the West Country and elsewhere\", it has been harder to draw people in, the company said.\n\nIts total number of employees, who are mostly staff paid per hour, increased from an average of 29,025 for the financial year to 42,003 in the week to 20 September 2021.\n\nThe wider hospitality industry has been struggling with recruitment in recent months.\n\nAccording to figures from the Office for National Statistics, the number of vacancies in the three months to August rose above one million for the first time since records began in 2001.\n\nMany of those vacancies were for jobs in pubs, restaurants and cafes trying to keep up with demand as customers return.\n\nExperts have said that staff may feel cautious about returning to work after the pandemic, as well as facing child-care issues.\n\nRecent labour shortages have also been exacerbated by some workers returning to the European Union after the UK's exit from the trade bloc.\n\nThe firm was also recently affected by a shortage of some beer brands caused by driver shortages due to a combination of Covid and Brexit.\n\nAt the time, Mr Martin, a prominent Brexit supporter, was criticised on social media, although the firm said it was \"heart-breaking to be letting any customer down\" after such a difficult time for the hospitality sector.\n\nOn Friday, it called on government to make a VAT cut that was introduced for pubs and restaurants during the Covid crisis permanent. It had lowered the prices of some items on its food menu and soft drinks as a result.\n\nA rise in VAT rates from 5% to 12.5% takes effect on Friday and has been criticised as \"badly timed\" for business.\n\n\"If the chancellor decides to make these VAT reductions permanent, the company intends to retain lower prices indefinitely,\" Wetherspoon said.\n\nJulie Palmer, a partner at Begbies Traynor, said: \"JD Wetherspoon finally began recovering from the turmoil the pandemic and Covid restrictions had put it through, to be greeted with a supply chain hangover and staff shortages.\"\n\nShe pointed out that affordability had always been the brand's selling point, but that the chain might have to rethink that strategy as supply chain issues and rising costs hit.\n\n\"The board may need a strong drink to warm them up for another tough year ahead.\"", "In March, Nicolas Sarkozy became the first former president of France to receive a custodial sentence\n\nFormer French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to a year in prison for illegally funding his unsuccessful 2012 re-election campaign.\n\nThe 66-year-old was found guilty in a Paris court of spending tens of millions of euros more on his campaign than was permitted under the law.\n\nHe will not be jailed, however, and can serve his sentence at home with an electronic bracelet, the court ruled.\n\nMr Sarkozy, who denies any wrongdoing, described the ruling as an \"injustice\".\n\nHe said he would go \"right to the end\" to seek \"truth and justice\". His lawyer added that he would appeal the verdict.\n\nThis is Mr Sarkozy's second one-year prison term. In March, he became the first former president of France to receive a custodial sentence - for corruption and influence peddling - but remains free pending an appeal of that sentence.\n\nIn the latest trial, Mr Sarkozy was accused with 13 other defendants over their role in the so-called \"Bygmalion\" scandal.\n\nProsecutors said the former president's UMP party splurged nearly double the €22.5m (£19.4m) cap on lavish campaign rallies and events, then tried to hide the costs by hiring a PR firm called Bygmalion to invoice the party, not the campaign.\n\nOn Thursday, the court in Paris ruled that though the former president may not have known the full details of the fraud, he must have seen that limits were breached and did nothing about it.\n\nIt is the latest legal challenge for Mr Sarkozy, who served a five-year term as president from 2007.\n\nIn 2012, he lost his re-election bid to socialist François Hollande. Since then he has been targeted by several criminal investigations.\n\nEarlier this year he was given a suspended prison sentence for trying to bribe a judge in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In an interview in March, Nicolas Sarkozy says his three-year sentence for corruption is an “injustice”", "A Yorkshire farmer has killed hundreds of piglets because labour shortages in local abattoirs mean adult pigs are not being killed fast enough.\n\nThe resulting backlog means there is less space left on farms for younger pigs, which are cheaper and easier to kill.\n\nThe farmer had been \"destroyed by it\", according to a friend.\n\n\"He had to kill perfectly healthy, viable piglets,\" she told BBC News.\n\nAccording to the National Pig Association (NPA), this may well not be the only case of farmers killing healthy livestock as mature pigs have continued to \"back up\" on farms.\n\nThe labour shortages are being blamed on Brexit and the Covid pandemic.\n\nBefore that, about 80% of staff in two major processing centres in Hull came from Eastern Europe, according to the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA).\n\nNick Allen, from the BMPA, said the workforce in large abattoirs would normally be 10-15% above average ahead of Christmas, but instead it is 15% down. Because centres are unable to process pigs at the usual rate, live animals are mounting up on farms and some farmers were \"quietly starting to cull\", he said.\n\nOnce a pig gets too big, its butchered processed carcass will no longer fit into supermarket packets so retailers do not want to buy it from farmers.\n\n\"The main barrier is labour, with the change in the immigration policy. We are struggling to get butchers in particular, and it limits how fast you can run the plant,\" Mr Allen added.\n\n\"We were offering higher wages, but with the job market at the moment, it's not worked. We do need access to some non-UK labour.\"\n\nSimilar labour shortages among lorry drivers and poultry workers led the government to introduce temporary visas to try to limit disruption in the run-up to Christmas, but this concession was not extended to the pig-meat industry.\n\nThe Yorkshire farmer's friend, who did not want to be identified, told the BBC: \"It's desperate. I've been producing for 26 years, and never faced the prospect of having to butcher pigs on my own farm before\".\n\nThese pigs are five months old; they should have been sent to an abattoir but there is no capacity to process the animals.\n\nMeryl Ward who runs a family farm in Lincolnshire has 1,600 pigs that should already have gone to slaughter.\n\nShe has been farming for 35 years and says the current crisis is the worst she has encountered.\n\nA humane cull, which is being discussed, would see prime healthy pigs being \"rendered\" for cheap products like lard or pet food, and farmers are unlikely to be compensated for their losses.\n\nParallels are being drawn to the 2001 foot-and-mouth crisis, where pyres of cows burned across the countryside.\n\nShe added: \"Producers are in despair... we can't just waste this food. It's criminal.\"\n\nShe said temporary work visas were needed, like those recently issued for HGV drivers and poultry workers.\n\n\"It's such a massive national problem, it needs action and leadership from government.\n\n\"If they really care about farm animal welfare, if they really believe in UK animal production and the standards that we have are worth saving, we need some action,\" she urged.\n\nA Defra spokesperson said the government was \"keeping the market under close review\" and continuing to \"work closely with the sector to explore options to address the pressures\" that the industry was currently facing.\n\nThe National Pig Association is urging retailers to back British producers, rather than to buy imported produce.\n\nSupermarket chain Lidl described the backlogs as \"alleged\", adding it was \"committed to\" sourcing 100% of its fresh pork from British farmers.\n\nSainsbury's said all its fresh pork was British but that it \"may source bacon and continental meats from the EU to meet demand.\"\n\nTesco said it was \"working closely\" with suppliers to make sure supply chains were protected to \"provide availability\" for its shoppers.\n\nAldi said its \"core range\" of meat was \"100% British and Red Tractor assured.\"", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak and US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen both welcomed the deal\n\nMost of the world's nations have signed up to a historic deal to ensure big companies pay a fairer share of tax.\n\nA hundred and thirty six countries agreed to enforce a corporate tax rate of at least 15% and a fairer system of taxing profits where they are earned.\n\nIt follows concern that multinational companies are re-routing their profits through low tax jurisdictions.\n\nCountries including Ireland had opposed the deal but have now agreed to the policy.\n\nUK Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the deal would \"upgrade the global tax system for the modern age\".\n\n\"We now have a clear path to a fairer tax system, where large global players pay their fair share wherever they do business,\" he said.\n\nThe Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental organisation, has led talks on a minimum rate for a decade.\n\nIt said the deal could bring in an extra $150bn (£108bn) of tax a year, bolstering economies as they recover from Covid.\n\nYet it also said it did not seek to \"eliminate\" tax competition between countries, only to limit it.\n\nThe floor under corporate tax will come in from 2023. Countries will also have more scope to tax multinational companies operating within their borders, even if they don't have a physical presence there.\n\nMany big global companies, such as Google, have bases in Ireland which has a corporate tax rate of just 12.5%\n\nThe move - which is expected to hit digital giants like Amazon and Facebook - will affect firms with global sales above 20 billion euros (£17bn) and profit margins above 10%.\n\nA quarter of any profits they make above the 10% threshold will be reallocated to the countries where they were earned and taxed there.\n\n\"[This] is a far-reaching agreement which ensures our international tax system is fit for purpose in a digitalised and globalised world economy,\" said OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann.\n\n\"We must now work swiftly and diligently to ensure the effective implementation of this major reform.\"\n\nThis deal marks a sweeping change in approach when it comes to taxing big global companies.\n\nIn the past, countries would frequently compete with one another to offer an attractive deal to multinationals. It made sense when those companies might come in, set up a factory and create jobs. They were, you could say, giving something back.\n\nBut the new digital era giants have become adept at simply moving profits around, from the regions where they do business to those where they will pay the lowest taxes. Good news for tax havens, bad news for everyone else.\n\nThe new system is meant to minimise opportunities for profit shifting, and ensure that the largest businesses pay at least some of their taxes where they do business, rather than where they choose to have their headquarters.\n\nSome 136 countries have signed up - an achievement in itself. But inevitably there will be losers as well as winners.\n\nIreland, Hungary and Estonia - all of which have corporate tax rates below 15% - at first resisted the plan but are now on board.\n\nIreland currently has a rate of 12.5%, which has helped it attract large amounts of foreign investment and become a base for big US firms such as Apple. But after securing a compromise on the wording of the agreement, Finance Minister Pascal Donohoe said he was \"absolutely certain\" Ireland's interests were served by being part of the deal.\n\nHowever, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have not yet signed up to the plan.\n\nThe pact resolves a spat between the US and countries such as the UK and France, which had threatened a digital tax on big mainly American tech firms.\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said: \"As of this morning, virtually the entire global economy has decided to end the race to the bottom on corporate taxation.\n\n\"Rather than competing on our ability to offer low corporate rates, America will now compete on the skills of our workers and our capacity to innovate, which is a race we can win.\"\n\nFacebook welcomed the deal, saying it has long called for reform of global tax rules.\n\n\"We recognise this could mean paying more tax, and in different places,\" said Nick Clegg, its vice president for global affairs. \"The tax system needs to command public confidence, while giving certainty and stability to businesses. We are pleased to see an emerging international consensus.\"\n\nBut Argentine economy minister Martin Guzman said the proposals would do little to help developing countries. Despite agreeing to the pact, he had argued for a tax rate of at least 21%.\n\nOxfam also said the 15% rate was too low and would \"let big offenders... off the hook\". The corporate tax rate in industrialised countries averages at 23.5%, well above the agreed 15% floor.\n\nOxfam's tax policy lead Susana Ruiz said: \"The world is experiencing the largest increase in poverty in decades and a massive explosion in inequality but this deal will do little or nothing to halt either. Instead, it is already being seen by some wealthy nations as an excuse to cut domestic corporate tax rates, risking a new race to the bottom.\"", "Flowers and tributes to the child have been left at the roadside in Llanelli\n\nA 23-year-old woman has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a child was killed in a crash.\n\nThe car crash happened at Heol Goffa crossroads in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, at about 21:00 BST on Friday.\n\nLucy Dyer, of Heulwen Terrace, Llanelli, was also charged with drink driving and has been remanded in custody.\n\nFlowers, toys and tributes have been left at the scene of the crash.\n\nThe crash involved a blue BMW 3 Series and a blue Vauxhall Vectra. The woman and the child were in different cars.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said specially trained officers were supporting the child's family.\n\nOfficers are supporting the child's family, police say\n\nThe crash happened at the Heol Goffa crossroads in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire", "Plans for a phone service aimed at protecting lone women walking home have been set out by BT in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard.\n\n\"Walk Me Home\" would allow users to opt in to a GPS tracking system and an alert would be triggered if they did not reach their destination on time.\n\nIt would be activated by calling a phone number, possibly 888.\n\nBut campaigners criticised the plan as a \"sticking plaster solution\" and said the real problem was male violence.\n\nUsers of the service - which could be accessed by any network - would be able to enter their home address and other regular destinations into the mobile phone app.\n\nBefore walking the user would start the app, or call or text 888. This would give the expected journey time and begin the GPS tracking.\n\nA message would be sent to the user at the time they were predicted to arrive at their destination. A failure to respond would issue calls to emergency contacts and then the police.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, BT chief executive Philip Jansen said the cases of Sarah Everard, who was kidnapped as she was walking home, and Sabina Nessa, who was killed as she walked to meet a friend, filled him with \"outrage and disgust\" and prompted his company to take action.\n\n\"Male violence is causing so many people, especially women, to live in fear,\" he wrote, saying that he was in a position to do something practical.\n\nHe said BT was building the \"next-generation 999 network\".\n\n\"We are proposing to build into it a new emergency service that would complement 999.\n\n\"This new service is provisionally called 888 or 'walk me home', but it could also be used on taxi rides, public transport or any journey.\"\n\nHe said the existence of the 888 service \"should also act as a deterrent to criminals, knowing that the alarm will automatically be raised if their victim doesn't reach their destination on time, that friends and family will start ringing around and alert the police\".\n\nThe service needed to be tested and required funding, Mr Jansen added.\n\nHe also acknowledged there would likely be concerns around privacy and misuse of the app, including wasting police time.\n\nHe said he had set out the plans for the app, which could be used by anyone who felt vulnerable, in a letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel.\n\nSarah Everard was murdered by serving Met Police officer Wayne Couzens after he falsely arrested her\n\nThe Daily Mail quoted Ms Patel as saying: \"This new phone line is exactly the kind of innovative scheme which would be good to get going as soon as we can. I'm now looking at it with my team and liaising with BT.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman said it would respond to Mr Jansen's letter \"in due course\".\n\n\"As set out in our strategy earlier this year, we need a whole-of-society approach to tackling violence against women and girls and welcome joint working between the private sector and government.\"\n\nBut Charlotte Proudman, a lawyer who specialises in violence against women, told BBC News the scheme was \"nothing more than attempting to paper over the cracks\".\n\n\"We need to tackle the real harm here that is male violence against women and girls,\" she added, saying the onus for change should not be placed on women.\n\nCaroline Nokes, chairwoman of the Commons Women and Equalities Committee, described the idea as a \"sticking plaster\" that achieves \"very little\".\n\nThe Conservative MP told BBC Radio 4's PM programme she welcomed any action that made women \"feel safer\" - \"but the underlying problem is not how women feel\".\n\n\"It's the culture of male violence against women - and of course this app is going to do nothing to tackle that,\" she said.\n\n\"And I think the government needs to come forward with a whole suite of measures that are going to address the root of the problem and not just find a sticking plaster that might make everybody feel a bit better, but actually achieve very little.\"\n\nThe End Violence Against Women coalition said support for the scheme \"shows we're moving further away from actually tackling the problem of male violence against women and girls\".\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner wrote on Twitter: \"Here's a radical idea for you Priti - instead of tracking women's movements as we go about our lives, how about the government actually tackles male violence instead?\n\n\"Only 1% of reported rapes result in a charge. That's the problem, not us walking home.\"\n\nAnd the Women's Equality Party said of the app proposal: \"This is just another thing for women to do to try to keep themselves safe; another indication that the government think it's women's responsibility to avoid violence.\"\n\nThere are other smartphone safety apps already available to download that offer similar functions - including the Hollie Guard.\n\nThis app was created by the Hollie Gazzard Trust, which was set up in memory of 20-year-old Hollie who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in 2014.\n\nHer father Nick Gazzard, the charity's founder and CEO, said their app has been available for the last six years.\n\nIt uses GPS tracking to pinpoint its user's location and can alert emergency contacts and record evidence if they are attacked.\n\nMr Gazzard told the BBC their free app was \"tried and tested and proven and has all the functionality which the 888 app suggests they're going to include\".\n\nTheir app has been downloaded more than 300,000 times \"and that's increasing by the day\".\n\n\"Really we've had a massive response to the sentencing of Sarah Everard ['s killer] and our objective is to keep all people safe, particularly women and girls,\" he said.\n\nThe charity also has Hollie Guard Extra, which is a paid-for service that will alert a 24-7 monitoring centre with staff who can contact the emergency services if needed.\n\nSabina Nessa's body was found near her home in Kidbrooke\n\nMet Police officer Wayne Couzens murdered Sarah Everard after falsely arresting her for a breach of Covid-19 guidelines as she walked home from a friend's house in south London on 3 March.\n\nHe has been sentenced to a whole-life prison term.\n\nAnd last month more than 500 people joined a vigil held in memory of primary school teacher Sabina Nessa, who was killed a few minutes' walk from her London home. A 36-year-old man has been charged with her murder.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland men's Ashes series in Australia this winter will go ahead \"subject to several critical conditions\", says the England and Wales Cricket Board.\n\nEngland had concerns over their families being allowed to travel, quarantine and 'bubble' arrangements amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe five-Test series is due to begin on 8 December and end on 18 January.\n\nThe ECB said that \"over recent weeks we have made excellent progress in moving forward\" on the men's Ashes tour.\n\nA statement read: \"To facilitate further progress and allow a squad to be selected, the ECB board has met today and given its approval for the tour to go ahead. This decision is subject to several critical conditions being met before we travel.\n\n\"We look forward to the ongoing assistance from Cricket Australia in resolving these matters in the coming days.\"\n\nEngland will name an Ashes squad in the coming days.\n• None Stokes likely to miss Ashes after second finger operation\n\nAustralia has some of the strictest Covid-19 protocols in the world, a situation complicated by the fact the five Tests are due to be played in five states, each of which have their own regulations.\n\nCricket Australia sent plans for the Ashes tour to the ECB in late September, with England's players presented with the arrangements on Sunday and the ECB holding a board meeting on Friday.\n\nAustralia hold the Ashes after retaining them thanks to a 2-2 draw in England in 2019.\n\nThe can has been kicked down the road, but at least it appears to be in the right direction.\n\nThe board is not prepared to clarify exactly what these critical conditions are, and will now go about the process of selecting what will be a large squad. But it's not at all clear how that can happen before the players are satisfied that these critical conditions will be met by the Australian authorities.\n\nInevitably one assumes that much of this focuses on the quarantine arrangements of the players and also their families and that, eventually, an agreement will be reached. But the clock is ticking.\n\nHow it all unfolded\n• July: England players hold talks over plans for families to travel to Australia.\n• 22 Aug: England wicketkeeper Jos Buttler says he is \"open to saying no\" to taking part in the Ashes tour.\n• 28 Aug: The Times reports that up to 10 England players could pull out of the tour because of quarantine conditions.\n• 19 Sept: England pace bowler Stuart Broad says he is \"happy to get on a plane to Australia\".\n• 23 Sept: Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison says there will be \"no special deals\" for England players' families.\n• 28 Sept: England captain Joe Root says he is \"desperate\" to play in Ashes but does not confirm he will travel.\n• 8 Oct: Australia captain Tim Paine says he expects a \"really strong\" England to tour.\n• None Caught between life and death in the swinging sixties\n• None The remarkable aftermath of the verdict on Nazi War Criminals", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Emma Raducanu lost her first match as a Grand Slam champion, beaten in straight sets by Belarus' Aliaksandra Sasnovich at Indian Wells.\n\nWorld number 22 Raducanu was seeking an 11th successive victory, having won the US Open last month as a qualifier.\n\nBut Sasnovich, ranked 100th in the world, beat the 18-year-old 6-2 6-4 in round two of the BNP Paribas Open.\n\nRaducanu, who received a first-round bye, is next scheduled to play at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow in 10 days' time.\n• None Murray beats Mannarino to reach second round at Indian Wells\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nThe Briton was competing without a permanent coach having ended her partnership with Andrew Richardson, whom she has known since the age of 10, after her US Open success.\n\nSpeaking after the match, she told BBC Sport: \"We had some great memories together - at the US Open and also previous to that - but I'm looking forward to the next chapter and I think that what I am doing right now is definitely the best for me and my tennis.\"\n\nRaducanu made an excellent start against Sasnovich - holding to love in the opening game in front of a supportive crowd of about 4,000 for the night session.\n\nBut a loose service game followed, and with her 27-year-old opponent playing some excellent defensive tennis, the US Open champion was forced into too many errors.\n\nRaducanu seemed anxious to close out rallies quickly on the slow court, and Sasnovich broke again to love and took the opening set.\n\nIt was the first set Raducanu had lost since a three-set defeat by Clara Tauson in the final of the Challenger event in Chicago on 22 August.\n\nSasnovich broke first in the second set too, as she showed off the attacking side of her game.\n\nBut two double faults followed in the next game and with Raducanu beginning to find some composure, the teenager was able to open a 4-2 lead.\n\nThe improvement was short-lived, however, and Sasnovich won the final four games of the match to complete a straight-set victory.\n\nThe Belarusian will play two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep, after the Romanian overcame Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine 7-6 6-1, in the third round on Sunday.\n\nRaducanu said: \"I think Aliaksandra played a great match. She was better than me today so she deserves to win.\n\n\"I'm kind of glad that what happened today happened so I can learn and take it as a lesson.\n\n\"There's going to be disappointment after any loss. I didn't go in there putting any pressure on myself because in my mind I'm so inexperienced that I'm just taking it all in.\"\n\nStephens knocked out, Fernandez and Swiatek through\n\nSloane Stephens, who beat Britain's Heather Watson in the first round, lost in straight sets to American compatriot Jessica Pegula in their second-round match.\n\nStephens, appearing at the tournament for the 10th time, suffered a 6-2 6-3 defeat to the 19th seed.\n\nCanada's Leylah Fernandez, who lost to Raducanu in the US Open final, defeated Alize Cornet of France 6-2 6-3 to advance to the third round.\n\nFernandez will play ninth seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova following the Russian's emphatic 6-3 6-1 win over USA player Madison Keys.\n\nPolish second seed Iga Swiatek is into the last 32 after a comfortable 6-1 6-3 win against Croatia's Petra Martic.\n\nMeanwhile, Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic, seeded seventh, breezed through with a 6-2 6-2 win over Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands.\n• None Caught between life and death in the swinging '60s\n• None The remarkable aftermath of the verdict on Nazi war criminals", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nTop-flight clubs have complained to the Premier League after it cleared the £305m takeover of Newcastle by a Saudi Arabian-backed group.\n\nThere is understood to be frustration from clubs about how the deal passed the owners' and directors' test.\n\nConcerns also arose as to why they were not kept informed after the surprise news emerged on Wednesday.\n\nAdditionally, there are worries as to how Saudi Arabian owners will reflect on the league itself.\n\nThere are many human rights issues linked to the kingdom.\n\nClubs are demanding a meeting with the Premier League, which has previously said the takeover process would remain confidential.\n\nThere is irritation with the Premier League board from all 19 other clubs, who are united in a view they should have been kept updated on an issue of such significance.\n\nThe clubs also feel they should have been told what had changed to allow the deal to proceed before it was completed.\n\nWhen approving the takeover on Thursday, the Premier League said it has received legal assurances from the new owners that the Saudi state would not control Newcastle United and there would be punishments if it was proven otherwise.\n\nThe takeover was 80% financed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, whose chair is Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.\n\nWestern intelligence agencies say he ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an allegation Bin Salman denies.\n\nFollowing Thursday's takeover, Amanda Staveley, Newcastle's director, told BBC sports editor Dan Roan that PCP Capital took concerns over Saudi Arabia's human rights record \"very seriously\" but reiterated that their partner \"is not that Saudi state, it's PIF\".\n\nWhen asked if this was a case of 'sportswashing' by Saudi Arabia, she said: \"No, not at all, this is very much about the PIF's investment into a fantastic football team and we look forward to growing the club.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "The education secretary has vowed to tackle persistent pupil absences \"head on\", describing it as a \"key priority\".\n\nIn a speech to head teachers on Saturday, Nadhim Zahawi said disadvantaged children lose out most from not being in school.\n\nAhead of the spending review later this month, he pledged to invest \"record sums\" in children's education.\n\nIt comes after the number of pupils in England absent for Covid-related reasons rose two-thirds in a fortnight.\n\nThe latest government figures showed 204,000 children - 2.5% of state school pupils in England - were out of school for this reason in the fortnight to 30 September.\n\nThere are also concerns children may be missing lessons because of mental health issues.\n\nSpeaking at the conference of the NAHT school leaders' union in London, Mr Zahawi said: \"Another key priority for me will be getting to the root of what is causing children to be persistently absent and then tackling it head on.\n\n\"Because the children who lose out the most from not being in school are likely to be the ones who can cope least - the vulnerable, the disadvantaged. You can't help them if they aren't there.\n\n\"For all these reasons, we will continue to invest record sums in our children's education.\"\n\nHe added that he would not give a \"running commentary\" on the spending review, but said he would \"not stop\" making the case for investing in children and young people.\n\nHe also called for better understanding of and support for mental health issues.\n\n\"I want us to put wellbeing at the centre of everything we do in schools alongside a drive for rigorous standards and high performance. But, of course, we can't do this if children are not at school,\" he added.\n\nIn response to the education secretary's comments, Paul Whiteman, NAHT's general secretary, said Mr Zahawi needed to match the \"passion and ambition\" of school leaders.\n\n\"The real test though, is what he is prepared to do immediately, to prise more investment from the Treasury in the comprehensive spending review, and then how he chooses to develop policy in the coming weeks and months,\" he said.\n\nAddressing the conference on Friday, Mr Whiteman said the government's goals for helping children catch-up after the pandemic needed to be more ambitious.\n\n\"Recovery implies a return to what we had before, which is simply not good enough,\" he added.\n\nIn June, the government's schools catch-up tsar Sir Kevan Collins resigned, saying the £1.4bn in funding pledged to help pupils make up for lost learning fell \"far short of what is needed\".", "The abortion law in Texas has sparked protests across the country, including in Washington DC\n\nA US appeals court has temporarily reinstated Texas's near total ban on abortions.\n\nThe Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to a request from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that an injunction imposed against the law be lifted.\n\nOn Wednesday, a lower court had temporarily blocked the bill for the \"offensive deprivation\" of the constitutional right to an abortion.\n\nThe restrictive law bans all abortions at about six weeks of pregnancy.\n\nIt gives any individual the right to sue anyone involved with providing or facilitating an abortion after cardiac activity is detected, and makes no exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest.\n\nOn Wednesday District Judge Robert Pitman granted a request by the Biden administration to prevent enforcement of the law while its legality was being challenged. He held that women had been \"unlawfully prevented from exercising control over their lives in ways that are protected by the Constitution\".\n\nHowever, Texas officials immediately appealed against the ruling, which the New Orleans-based, conservative-leaning Fifth Circuit court has agreed to set aside. It ordered the justice department to respond to its ruling by Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement following the latest ruling, Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, called on the Supreme Court to \"step in and stop this madness\".\n\n\"Patients are being thrown back into a state of chaos and fear, and this cruel law is falling hardest on those who already face discriminatory obstacles in health care, especially Black, Indigenous, and other people of colour, undocumented immigrants, young people, those struggling to make ends meet, and those in rural areas,\" she said.\n\n\"The courts have an obligation to block laws that violate fundamental rights.\"\n\nThe Texan attorney general said the court's decision was \"great news\", adding he would \"continue to fight to keep Texas free from federal overreach\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The impact of the strictest anti-abortion law in the US\n\nThe dispute over the law could ultimately end up before the US Supreme Court, which in September declined to hear an emergency case filed in a last-minute bid to prevent the ban passing into law.\n\nSeveral clinics in Texas had resumed providing abortions to patients who were beyond the six-week limit following Wednesday's order.\n\nThey may now face some legal risk, as the law includes a provision that says clinics and doctors may still be liable for abortions carried out while an emergency injunction is in place, legal experts say.\n\nHowever, it is unclear whether such a provision can be enforced, with Judge Pittman saying in his ruling that it is \"of questionable legality\".\n\nSome women have reportedly been travelling to other states where the procedure is legal.", "Police are investigating after a doorman was seriously injured in a crash\n\nA man has been arrested after a doorman was left seriously injured following two crashes in north Wales.\n\nThe doorman was hit by the the driver of a Mercedes A-Class in Abbot Street, Wrexham, at about 04:00 BST.\n\nNorth Wales Police believe the doorman had tried to \"engage\" with the driver, who was thought to have been drinking, when he drove off \"at speed\".\n\nThe man was arrested after he was involved in a second crash on a nearby roundabout minutes later.\n\nHe became trapped in the car and was helped out by firefighters after crashing with a taxi on the roundabout, which linked Ruabon Road and Victoria Road.\n\nThe condition of the taxi driver is not known.\n\nThe police force said the driver of the Mercedes provided a positive breath sample and was taken into custody.\n\nA number of roads were closed as police investigated\n\nRuabon Road, Fairy Road, Pen Y Bryn and Abbot Street were closed while investigations took place, but have since reopened.", "The country is now dependent on personal generators after the grid shut down\n\nLebanon has been left without electricity, plunging the country into darkness amid a severe economic crisis.\n\nA government official told Reuters news agency the country's two largest power stations, Deir Ammar and Zahrani, had shut down because of a fuel shortage.\n\nThe power grid \"completely stopped working at noon today\" and was unlikely to restart for several days, they said.\n\nFor the past 18 months Lebanon has endured an economic crisis and extreme fuel shortages.\n\nThat crisis has left half its population in poverty, crippled its currency and sparked major demonstrations against politicians.\n\nA lack of foreign currency meanwhile has made it hard to pay overseas energy suppliers.\n\nMany Lebanese people already depend on private diesel-powered generators for power. These however have become increasingly expensive to run amid the lack of fuel, and cannot cover for the lack of a nationwide power grid.\n\nPeople were often receiving just two hours of electricity a day in the country before this latest shutdown.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Anna Foster This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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, Lebanon's state electricity company also confirmed the shutdown of the two power plants, which together provide some 40% of the country's electricity.\n\nTheir closure led to the \"complete outage\" of the power network, the statement reportedly said, \"with no possibility of resuming operations in the meantime\".\n\nAl Jazeera reports protests in the northern town of Halba, outside the offices of the state power company, as well as residents blocking roads with burning tyres in the city of Tripoli.\n\nThe country is also grappling with the aftermath of the Beirut blast in August 2020, which killed 219 people and injured 7,000 others.\n\nAfter the explosion its government resigned, leaving political paralysis. Najib Mikati became prime minister in September, more than a year after the previous administration quit.\n\nLast month the militant group Hezbollah brought Iranian fuel into the country to ease shortages. Its opponents say the group is using the fuel delivery to expand its influence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The government has failed to find solutions to halt soaring energy prices, UK Steel boss Gareth Stace has said.\n\nHe was speaking after leaders of energy-intensive industries met with Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng.\n\n\"We can't wait until Christmas and beyond. Or even a few weeks. We need action now, it needs to be swift, decisive action,\" Mr Stace said.\n\nThe government said it was exploring ways to manage high energy costs.\n\nGas prices have risen 250% since January, pushing up costs dramatically.\n\nMr Stace told the BBC that Mr Kwarteng had listened but had provided \"no immediate solutions or guarantees\".\n\nThe UK Steel director general said he was \"baffled\" because governments in the rest of Europe had stepped in to support industry, although they faced lower energy costs than in the UK.\n\nRepresentatives from energy-intensive sectors including paper, glass, cement, lime, ceramics, chemicals and steel were at Friday's talks with the business secretary.\n\nThe Energy Intensive Users Group (EIUG) said it hoped the government would find ways to support those sectors.\n\nMr Kwarteng told the business representatives he would continue to work with them to tackle the problem.\n\nHis department said the government would assess the options put forward by the industry, with his spokesperson saying: \"We recognise the recent increase in global gas prices will be a cause of concern for businesses in the UK.\n\n\"We are in regular contact with Ofgem and business groups to explore ways to manage the impact of rising global prices.\"\n\nMr Kwarteng also stressed government confidence in the security of gas supplies this winter.\n\nAfter the meeting, EIUG chair Richard Leese said the government had made \"positive first steps to develop practical solutions\".\n\n\"EIUG will work with government to avoid threats both to the production of essential domestic and industrial products, as well an enormous range of supply chains critical to our economy,\" he said.\n\nAndrew Large, director-general at the Confederation of Paper Industries, said there were \"serious\" risks factories could stop operating as a result of the gas prices being too high.\n\nThere have already been stoppages at fertiliser and steel plants due to high energy costs.\n\nHowever, he said the business secretary appeared to share industry's desire to avoid any potential supply chain disruption.\n\nOn Thursday Mr Kwarteng said the government's strategy to shift to \"clean\" power sources by 2035, including wind, solar and nuclear, would reduce reliance on fossil fuels.\n\n\"The volatility of the gas price has shown we do need to plan strategically and net zero helps us do that,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking before the meeting, Mr Stace had said if the government failed to act it could \"strangle steel production\" in the UK.\n\nA crisis in steel production as a result of high energy prices would affect the wider economy, he added, saying the government should consider taking additional action in the short term.\n\n\"We're pausing production already in terms of some steel producers in the UK.... and it's going to happen more often unless something is done, or the energy market corrects itself and I don't think that will happen any time soon.\"\n\nHe said the government should address the disparity in energy costs for UK steel makers who he said were paying 50-80% more for electricity than German producers.\n\nOther countries, such as Italy and Portugal, had \"committed billions of euros\" to address the rising cost of gas, he added.\n\n\"If the government does nothing then tomorrow, there'll be a steel crisis, and given in terms of what impact that could have on jobs, then that wouldn't be good, not only for the steel sector, for those regions where steel is, but for the UK economy as a whole,\" he said.\n\nThe price of wholesale gas has soared since the start of the year. And the UK has lower levels of gas stored than other European countries, which could help cushion price volatility.\n\nDomestic customers' bills are partly protected from these sharp rises by a price cap, managed by the regulator Ofgem, which limits how far and how fast bills can rise.\n\nNevertheless, UK households have felt the impact after the price cap was raised at the start of October.\n\nCustomers will see further \"significant rises\" in the spring, regulator Ofgem has warned.\n\nThe cap is revised twice a year and is next due to be changed in April.\n\nIt applies to households in England, Scotland and Wales this month.\n\nHouseholds in Northern Ireland have also seen a recent sharp rise in their bills, but they are not protected by the energy price cap for Great Britain.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA luxury student accommodation complex in Glasgow has been branded a \"filthy and unfinished building site\".\n\nThe Cathedral Street property, named Bridle Works, is billed as having a \"range of top-class amenities\" including a gym and rooftop terrace.\n\nBut students have complained to provider Novel Student as they felt they were \"misled\" over conditions.\n\nThe firm said the pandemic had affected construction and it was \"disappointed\" to hear the students' experiences.\n\nStudents have shared photos of the building interior with BBC Scotland, showing unfinished work\n\nOne image shows toilet doors that had still to be hung\n\nIn a letter seen by the BBC, 38 international students detail a list of complaints including:\n\nOne post-graduate student - who asked to remain anonymous - told BBC Scotland she arrived in the country from abroad last month.\n\nThe 22-year-old said she found the accommodation via the University of Strathclyde website. BBC Scotland found links to the property from the university's student association site.\n\nShe paid more than £10,000 up front for a year's stay at Bridle Works.\n\nFour days after she made the payment, however, the company informed her that her room was still under construction - a fortnight before she was due to move in mid-September.\n\nShe said: \"I was told by a couple of other international students it would be difficult to secure a place in the city this year due to an ongoing housing shortage and the UN conference. However, I managed to be linked to Bridle Works.\n\n\"There was never any mention online, on the phone calls or in any correspondence with Novel Student that it was still under construction until after I paid my rent.\n\n\"I felt it was incredibly misleading as my parents and I were under the impression it was finished.\"\n\nThe website for the complex describes \"excellent facilities\"\n\nHow the luxury student accommodation in Glasgow city centre is advertised\n\nNovel Student offered to reimburse rent costs for days missed at the property and accommodate students in hotels in Glasgow.\n\nHowever, the student said she was told she could live on a lower floor until her room was ready.\n\nShe added: \"I arrived in Scotland and then moved into what was evidently a construction site.\n\n\"My room just gets coated with dirt. I can only open my window at night, and have to vacuum three times a day to manage the dust from internal construction. Not how I want to spend my time.\n\n\"What was advertised was a space that has amenities, where you can peacefully study in your room. But what we got was a place full of hazards and noise. It was the opposite of peaceful.\n\n\"I have counted 40 fire alarms since I moved in last month, sometimes in the middle of the night. And those are just the ones I am home for.\"\n\nThe firm said the pandemic had slowed construction\n\nAn artist's impression shows a planned rooftop terrace for the property\n\nThe 20-floor development advertises 422 rooms starting at £238 per week.\n\nOn its website, Novel Student said: \"You won't have to splash on extra gym memberships, or laundry fees, making it much more affordable for student life.\n\n\"All bills are also included in your rent, so you can set your budget for the month without having to worry about any unpleasant surprises.\"\n\nBBC Scotland understands issues have been shared in a WhatsApp group comprising 81 students.\n\nIn written statements also included in the letter of complaint, one student said: \"When I moved in [my room] was extremely dirty with dirty water hand marks on my banisters and door frames.\n\n\"When I wiped down the inside of my cupboards, the cloth I used turned black. I have only gotten hot water after a week of staying here and when I first moved in, my radiator fell off the wall.\n\n\"Not to mention, my sprinkler cover fell off my ceiling the other day with no warning. My friend's room has literal holes in the flooring.\"\n\nAnother student wrote that none of the amenities advertised by Novel Student had been provided apart from the gym, where they said \"half the machines\" were not working.\n\nThey also said one out of four lifts in the building can be used by tenants as the rest are being used by construction crew.\n\nThe complaint detailed holes in the floors and ceilings\n\nNovel Student - which runs other sites in Edinburgh, Belfast and Sheffield - said it is \"committed to delivering exceptional student experiences\".\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"We are naturally disappointed to hear of any resident experiences that fall short of that.\n\n\"The Covid-19 pandemic has undoubtedly presented significant challenges to our operations given the three-month construction shutdown - a universal obstacle experienced by companies working in different capacities across the real estate industry.\n\n\"It is our goal to always ensure the on-time delivery of products to residents, and given the significant challenges we have faced, we have had to accelerate this process to the best of our ability.\"\n\nIt added: \"We greatly appreciate the patience of our residents as we navigate these challenges and sympathize with the disruptions they have endured over the last several weeks.\n\n\"Out of respect for the privacy of the entire community, residents and staff alike, we cannot comment publicly on more specific matters concerning our residents.\"\n\nThe University of Strathclyde said it had no agreement with Novel and had not referred any students there.\n\n\"Our website links to a housing guide created by Strath Union which lists all of the major private student accommodation providers in Glasgow but does not make any recommendations or endorse any provider, as stated on the guide,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We are concerned to hear about these issues. The Strath Union Advice Hub and the University are working together to support students who are experiencing a range of issues. We would advise any student who is having difficulties with private accommodation to contact university support services for advice and support.\"", "Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre is one of the world's most prestigious theatres.\n\nA Russian actor has been crushed to death during a set change at Moscow's world famous Bolshoi Theatre as it performed the opera Sadko.\n\nIt is believed Yevgeny Kulesh went in the wrong direction during the descent of a ramp and was trapped under it.\n\nFootage appeared to show panicked performers pleading with staff to lift the prop. Onlookers attempted to revive Mr Kulesh, but were unsuccessful.\n\nInvestigators say they are probing the circumstances surrounding the death.\n\nIn a statement issued on Saturday evening, the Bolshoi said: \"The performance was immediately stopped, the audience was asked to leave the hall.\"\n\nShocked spectators said on social media that they had initially believed that the accident was a staged trick.\n\nHowever, the reality of the incident quickly became apparent when performers reacted in horror and some on stage shouted \"call an ambulance, there is blood\".\n\nLocal media said Mr Kulesh had been a performer at the theatre since 2002.\n\nIt is not the first tragic incident to hit the world-renowned theatre.\n\nIn July 2013, a senior violinist died after falling into the orchestra pit. Viktor Sedov was a veteran of the opera house's orchestra, having played there for four decades,\n\nAnd in 2011 a Moscow court jailed Ballet soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko for six years after he was found to have organised an acid attack on the company's artistic director, Sergei Filin, outside his Moscow flat, badly damaging his eyesight.", "China's President Xi Jinping has said that \"reunification\" with Taiwan \"must be fulfilled\", as heightened tensions over the island continue.\n\nMr Xi said unification should be achieved peacefully, but warned that the Chinese people had a \"glorious tradition\" of opposing separatism.\n\nIn response, Taiwan said its future lay in the hands of its people.\n\nTaiwan considers itself a sovereign state, while China views it as a breakaway province.\n\nBeijing has not ruled out the possible use of force to achieve unification.\n\nMr Xi's intervention comes after China sent a record number of military jets into Taiwan's air defence zone in recent days. Some analysts say the flights could be seen as a warning to Taiwan's president ahead of the island's national day on Sunday.\n\nTaiwan's defence minister has said that tensions with China are at their worst in 40 years.\n\nBut Mr Xi's remarks on Saturday were more conciliatory than his last major intervention on Taiwan in July, where he pledged to \"smash\" any attempts at formal Taiwanese independence.\n\nSpeaking at an event marking the 110th anniversary of the revolution that overthrew China's last imperial dynasty in 1911, he said unification in a \"peaceful manner\" was \"most in line with the overall interest of the Chinese nation, including Taiwan compatriots\".\n\nBut he added: \"No one should underestimate the Chinese people's staunch determination, firm will, and strong ability to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.\"\n\n\"The historical task of the complete reunification of the motherland must be fulfilled, and will definitely be fulfilled,\" he said.\n\nMr Xi has said he wants to see unification occur under a \"one country, two systems\" principle, similar to that employed in Hong Kong, which is part of China but has a degree of autonomy.\n\nBut Taiwan's presidential office said that public opinion was very clear in rejecting one country, two systems. In a separate statement, Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council called on China to abandon its \"provocative steps of intrusion, harassment and destruction\".\n\nShortly before Mr Xi spoke in Beijing, Taiwan's Premier Su Tseng-chang accused China of \"flexing its muscles\" and stoking tensions.\n\nDespite the recent heightened tensions, relations between China and Taiwan have not deteriorated to levels last seen in 1996 when China tried to disrupt presidential elections with missile tests and the US dispatched aircraft carriers to the region to dissuade them.\n\nAnd while a number of Western countries have expressed concern at China's displays of military might, US President Joe Biden said Mr Xi had agreed to abide by the \"Taiwan agreement\".\n\nMr Biden appeared to be referring to Washington's longstanding \"One China\" policy under which it recognises China rather than Taiwan.\n\nHowever, this agreement also allows Washington to maintain a \"robust unofficial\" relationship with Taiwan. The US sells arms to Taiwan as part of Washington's Taiwan Relations Act, which states that the US must help Taiwan defend itself.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC this week, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the US will \"stand up and speak out\" over any actions that may \"undermine peace and stability\" across the Taiwan Strait.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jake Sullivan tells the BBC that the US will \"stand up for our friends\"", "Wildlife expert Chris Packham is calling on the Royal Family to conserve nature on their estates and reintroduce animals like beavers and wild boar.\n\nMore than 100 children joined Mr Packham in delivering a petition signed by 100,000 people to Buckingham Palace.\n\nMr Packham told the BBC he wanted the royals to take \"more dramatic action\", including rewilding.\n\nThe Royal Estates said they were always looking for ways to continue improving conservation and biodiversity.\n\nThe children, their parents and other campaigners carried the Wild Card campaign petition calling on the Royal Family to rewild their estates to the palace on Saturday.\n\nThey said the Royal Family should lead by example before they appear as ambassadors at the COP26 climate summit in November.\n\nFormer Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall author Michael Morpurgo, actors Sir Mark Rylance and Josh O'Connor and Packham's wildlife TV colleague Kate Humble are among those to sign the petition.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Packham said the Royal Family had a chance to send a powerful message on climate change\n\nMr Packham told BBC Breakfast: \"The aim of the petition was to get our Royal Family to think about taking some more dramatic action when it comes to conservation of both the environment and of wildlife at a crucial time given we are in an environment and biodiversity crisis.\n\n\"The Royal Family are landowners of some magnitude, they own 800,000 acres of the UK, 1.4% of our land surface.\"\n\nSpeaking later at the \"polite protest\" outside the Palace in central London, the BBC Springwatch presenter explained rewilding means allowing natural habitats to go back to their natural state.\n\nHe said that some of the Royal Family's estate - including the Balmoral estate in Scotland - is currently used for deer stalking and grouse shooting with very few trees.\n\nIf it were rewilded, he said it \"really would be a temperate rainforest, filled with a much richer diversity of life\".\n\nReflecting on his own role in conservation, he said he felt his \"conscience is not clear\".\n\n\"On my watch as an environmentalist and conservationist I have failed these young people, I have failed to act quickly and broadly enough to prevent the crisis that we find ourselves in,\" he added.\n\nMr Packham said rewilding would help the rural economy, and, if the Royal Family supported his call, it would send an important message to the world.\n\nCampaigners said while the average tree coverage is 37% in the European Union, the Duchy of Cornwall estate owned by the Prince of Wales has only 6% tree coverage.\n\nThey have said ecologists believe beavers, wolves, bison, wild boar, pine martens and white storks could be introduced if the estates are rewilded, with a call to rewild as much as 50% of the UK over time.\n\nRoyal-owned land in the UK includes the Crown Estate and the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall.\n\nA Royal Estates spokesperson said the Royal Family have a proud history, over 50 years, of getting involved in conservation and are always looking for new ways to further that work.\n• None What was agreed at COP26?", "The energy price cap protecting households from sharp rises in gas prices is \"not fit for purpose\", suppliers have said.\n\nNatural gas prices are at record highs, which has led to some domestic energy firms failing as they are paying more for gas than they are able to charge.\n\nSuppliers have warned that consumers could face a \"huge cost\" from these firms going out of business.\n\nThere are also calls for an energy price cap to help small businesses.\n\nGas prices are at record highs as economies around the world begin to recover from the Covid pandemic.\n\nDomestic customers are partly protected from sharp rises by a price cap - which sets the maximum price suppliers in England, Wales and Scotland can charge customers on a standard tariff - although energy regulator Ofgem has warned that households will see further \"significant rises\" in the spring, when the cap is reviewed.\n\nLast month, nine energy companies went out of business, forcing 1.7 million customers to move to new suppliers and on to higher rates.\n\nPaul Richards, chief executive of Together Energy, which he said is currently making losses, told the BBC that while he supported a price cap to protect customers, the current mechanism \"is not fit for industry, nor is it fit for customers\".\n\n\"Crazy, just crazy\" is how the nursery and soft play owner Gordon Foster describes the sharp rise in energy prices, shaking his head in dismay.\n\nBusinesses typically fix their energy bills a few years in advance, known as \"hedging\".\n\nMr Foster is one of the unlucky ones whose energy contract is up for renewal, and at the moment he's looking at paying eight times his current rate, taking up a contract that would tie him in for years.\n\nThe alternative is paying sky high prices now without a contract, and keeping his fingers crossed that prices will stabilise.\n\nFor him, as for others, this sudden jump in costs makes parts of the business unviable, and certainly means he has to put his prices up for his customers.\n\nWhile households might have an energy cap in place to protect them from such eye-watering spikes in global markets, we are all exposed to the impact of such costs for businesses. Ultimately they feed through to everyone.\n\nHe said while the cap protected customers in the short term, he thought there was somewhere between £1bn and £3bn in costs which would be spread back across business and households as a result of failed suppliers.\n\nDerek Lickorish, chairman of Utilita Energy, which has more than 800,000 customers, said there was no doubt there would be a cost paid by consumers for failed firms.\n\n\"The government has to look at the means by which they can support not only energy suppliers, but also big industry,\" he said.\n\nMr Lickorish said he would like to see the price cap reviewed four times a year, rather than the current two, and for a longer period of gas prices to be considered in setting it.\n\nStephen Murray, head of energy, commercial and partners at Moneysupermarket.com, said that while the usual advice for consumers was to shop around, for now it was to stay put, with those on a fixed deal likely to be better off.\n\nThe price cap provided \"some level of protection\", he said, but \"that comes at a cost and we've seen that through failed suppliers\".\n\nBusiness group the British Chambers of Commerce has called for a similar cap to be introduced for the energy bills of small and medium sized businesses - those with 250 employers or fewer.\n\nThese firms mostly buy their energy several years in advance, so those whose contracts are due for renewal now are facing a \"difficult time\", it said.\n\nThe group's co-executive director Claire Walker said the increasing pressure on these sized businesses was \"becoming dire\" and said that a price cap would give them the confidence to maintain normal business activities.\n\nDave Dalton, chief executive of British Glass, said he thought a cap would help but was probably \"too little, too late\" and that an \"immediate intervention\" was needed.\n\nThe government said it was in regular contact with business groups to explore ways to manage the impact of global prices.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng met leaders from heavy industry on Friday amid warnings that some sectors could have to shut down, but they failed to find any solutions.\n\nLabour has accused the government of being in denial about gas prices, with wholesale prices rising 250% since January.\n\nA number of Conservative MPs have called for the government to take action, and the Energy Intensive Users Group - which represents firms that use a lot of energy - said measures were needed \"right now\".\n\nThe group's chair Dr Richard Leese said that energy-heavy industries were \"intrinsically linked\" and if some sectors were forced to shut down, it would have a knock-on impact.\n\n\"We've seen the curtailment in production in the steel and fertiliser sector - that's had a knock-on impact into the supply chains in the industrial supply chains and domestic supply chains,\" he said.\n\nUK Steel boss Gareth Stace said he was \"baffled\" that the UK government had failed to find solutions because governments in the rest of Europe had stepped in to support industry - although they faced lower energy costs than in the UK.", "Miriam Groot is a food blogger known as The Veggie Reporter\n\nA vegan food blogger from the Netherlands has won the World Porridge Making Championships.\n\nMiriam Groot, 25, who runs a blog call The Veggie Reporter, beat competitors from around the world.\n\nShe used pinhead oatmeal, mushrooms and vegan cheese to create Oatmeal Arancini - deep fried balls of risotto, rolled in breadcrumbs and deep fried in oil.\n\nThe annual competition, traditionally held in Carrbridge in the Highlands, has been run online since last year.\n\nCompetitors were asked to submit a video of themselves making their favourite oaty dish.\n\nThey were judged on appearance, execution, originality, flair and virtual taste - reflecting which dishes the judging panel most wanted to try.\n\nCoinneach MacLeod - better known as the Hebridean Baker - and Aaron Leung, a video producer from New Jersery, were joint runners up.\n\nMr MacLeod's Baked Oat Alaska was made with honey, oat and raspberry sponge, topped with pinhead oatmeal brittle ice cream and chocolate ice cream, all encased in a baked meringue.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Leung's savoury Japanese fusion Golden Omuoats dish included a spicy pork and oatmeal mince, served under an omelette and topped with a curry sauce which included chocolate.\n\nCoinneach MacLeod, from the Isle of Lewis, made Baked Oat Alaska\n\nCharlie Miller, from Carrbridge Community Council which organises the competition, said: \"While we were disappointed that we couldn't have the competition in person again this year, the response was amazing, with the highest level of international interest we've ever had.\n\n\"The judging was very close, with only six points separating the top 10. Congratulations to our top 10, and especially to Miriam, Aaron and Coinneach for your excellent entries. We hope to see you all in Carrbridge this time next year.\"\n\nThe top 10 included two Americans, one Canadian, two Australians, one each from Germany and the Netherlands, two from England and one from Scotland.\n\nOther dishes included a cranachan ice cream sundae, banana oat pancakes, an oatmeal banana split, and a dessert porridge inspired by the Sacher Torte chocolate cake.", "Lord Frost will use a speech next week to reiterate that the UK wants the European Court of Justice (ECJ) removed from oversight of the NI Protocol.\n\nThe EU will bring forward proposals on Wednesday for reforming the protocol.\n\nThey will focus on easing practical problems, rather than changing oversight arrangements.\n\nBut the Brexit minister will say: 'Without new arrangements in this area the protocol will never have the support it needs to survive\".\n\nThe protocol is a special Brexit deal for Northern Ireland, agreed by the UK and EU in 2019.\n\nIt avoids a hard border on the island of Ireland by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nThat creates a new trade border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThis has caused practical difficulties for some businesses while unionists say it undermines Northern Ireland's constitutional position as part of the UK.\n\nThe UK government also wants to reverse its previous agreement on the oversight role of the ECJ, which is the EU's highest court.\n\nIn a paper published in July, the government said it had only agreed to the ECJ's role because of the \"very specific circumstances\" of the protocol negotiation.\n\nIt now wants a new governance arrangement in which disputes should be \"managed collectively and ultimately through international arbitration.\"\n\nThe ECJ is the supreme interpreter of the rules of the single market.\n\nAs the protocol works by keeping Northern Ireland in the single market for goods, the EU says removing the ECJ would simply unravel the protocol.\n\nSpeaking last week, European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic said: \"I find it hard to see how Northern Ireland would stay or would keep the access to the single market without oversight of the European Court of Justice.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said he believes the Northern Ireland Protocol could \"in principle work\" if it was \"fixed\".\n\nLord Frost is expected to address that issue when he makes a speech to diplomats in Portugal on Tuesday.\n\nHe will say: \"The commission have been too quick to dismiss governance as a side issue. The reality is the opposite.\n\n\"The role of the ECJ in Northern Ireland and the consequent inability of the UK government to implement the very sensitive arrangements in the protocol in a reasonable way has created a deep imbalance in the way the protocol operates.\"\n\nWhen the EU publishes its proposals next week that is expected to lead to a new round of negotiations.\n\nBoth sides have suggested there will be short, intense talks process beginning in late October or early November.\n• None PM says NI Protocol could work if it was 'fixed'", "On 6 January Trump supporters tried to overturn the certification of Joe Biden's election win\n\nUS President Joe Biden has rejected a bid by Donald Trump to withhold documents from a congressional investigation into the Capitol riot.\n\nMr Trump had asked that the records the committee requested remain hidden under executive privilege, which shields some presidential communications.\n\nMeanwhile his former aide Steve Bannon vowed to resist a subpoena to appear before the inquiry.\n\nThe panel has threatened jail for any ex-officials who refuse to co-operate.\n\nMr Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol building in Washington on 6 January in a failed bid to overturn the certification of Mr Biden's election victory in November.\n\nHundreds of Mr Trump's supporters have since been arrested for their actions that day. Prosecutions continue.\n\nIn August the congressional investigating committee asked for records relating to the day's events, including communications from Mr Trump, members of his family, his top aides, his lawyers and other former members of his administration.\n\nBut Mr Trump argued he could claim executive privilege to prevent the documents from being handed over to the inquiry.\n\nLegal scholars are divided on whether executive privilege can be asserted by former presidents. The issue is likely to set off a series of legal challenges to be determined by the courts.\n\nOn Friday the White House wrote to the National Archives saying that Mr Biden had \"determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the United States\".\n\nSteve Bannon has vowed to resist the inquiry's subpoena\n\nMr Bannon's refusal to testify led members of the 6 January committee to threaten criminal contempt of Congress charges against him.\n\nDemocrats argue that Mr Bannon is employing a delaying tactic in an attempt to push back proceedings until after the midterm elections in November 2022, which may change the composition of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Congress.\n\n\"The whole game is to drag this out as long as possible, to see whether they can mobilise enough voter suppression to get Congress to change hands,\" Rep Jamie Raskin told US media, adding: \"We're not going to let people play games and sweep evidence under the rug.\"\n\nThe committee has also ordered the testimony of Mr Trump's ex-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows; Dan Scavino, Mr Trump's social media manager; and Kash Patel, a former Pentagon chief of staff.\n\nMr Meadows and Mr Patel were co-operating with the inquiry, committee leaders Democrat Bennie Thompson and Republican Liz Cheney said in a statement.\n\nUS media report Mr Trump has asked all four former officials to refuse to comply with the inquiry.\n\nOn Friday Mr Trump - who has never conceded losing the election to Mr Biden - accused Democrats in Congress of using the committee to \"persecute their political opponents\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Singapore is a major hub for international business and travel\n\nSingapore has announced it is easing coronavirus lockdown restrictions and will allow quarantine-free travel from a number of nations, including the UK.\n\nPrime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said it was time to press on with the \"strategy of living with Covid-19\".\n\nHe said so-called vaccinated travel lanes with Germany and Brunei had been successful, and would be extended to nine other countries.\n\nSingapore had very tight restrictions in place to tackle the pandemic.\n\nCovid-19-related deaths are very low, but the lockdown has had an impact on the South-East Asian island's status as a business and aviation hub.\n\nPrime Minister Lee told Singaporeans in a televised address that the Delta variant had shown the coronavirus was not going to go away.\n\nBut with vaccinations, social distancing measures and careful monitoring, it is possible to live with the \"new normal\".\n\n\"It will take us at least three months, and perhaps as long as six months, to get there,\" he said, acknowledging a likely surge in cases as restrictions ease that would have to be monitored closely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore rolled out its Covid tracing tokens last June\n\nPrime Minister Lee said the vaccinated travel lanes with Germany and Brunei begun last month had shown that vaccinated people could travel safely and quarantine-free without contributing to a rise in cases.\n\nHe said an expansion of the arrangement with countries with stable numbers of coronavirus cases would \"keep us connected to global supply chains and help to preserve Singapore's hub status\".\n\nFrom 13 October, the government announced, it would allow vaccinated travellers from Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, the US and the UK, and, from November, South Korea.\n\nThe government also announced that it would allow groups of two vaccinated people to dine in restaurants and shop in malls. In-class teaching for children under the age of 12 will be allowed to resume although \"centres are encouraged to continue conducting lessons online\".", "Wendy Knell (l) and Caroline Pierce both lived in Tunbridge Wells in 1987\n\nA man admits killing two women in 1987, a court has heard.\n\nDavid Fuller, 67, of Heathfield, East Sussex, attacked Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, at their Tunbridge Wells bedsits.\n\nDuncan Atkinson QC, prosecuting, told Maidstone Crown Court that David Fuller accepted he killed the two women \"subject to the issue of diminished responsibility\". He denies murder.\n\nHis trial is due to start on 1 November.\n\nMs Pierce worked in a restaurant and Ms Knell worked in a shop.\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 Amazon rainforest is home to one in 10 known species on Earth\n\nFacebook says it will begin clamping down on the illegal sale of protected areas of the Amazon rainforest on its site.\n\nThe social media giant changed its policy following a BBC investigation into the practice.\n\nThe new measures will apply only to conservation areas and not to publicly owned forest.\n\nAnd the move will be limited to the Amazon, not other rainforests and wildlife habitats across the world.\n\nAccording to a recent study from the think tank Ipam (Instituto de Pesquisa Ambental da Amazonia), a third of all deforestation happens in publicly-owned forests in the Amazon.\n\nFacebook said it would not reveal how it planned to find the illegal ads but said it would \"seek to identify and block new listings\" in protected areas of the Amazon rainforest.\n\nIn February, the BBC Our World documentary Selling the Amazon revealed that plots of rainforest as large as 1,000 football pitches were being listed on Facebook's classified ads service.\n\nAlvim Souza Alves was trying to sell land for about £16,400\n\nMany of the plots were inside protected areas, including national forests and land reserved for indigenous peoples.\n\nIn order to prove the ads were real, the BBC arranged meetings between four sellers and an undercover operative posing as a lawyer claiming to represent wealthy investors.\n\nOne land-grabber, Alvim Souza Alves, was trying to sell a plot inside the Uru Eu Wau Wau indigenous reserve for about £16,400 in local currency.\n\nIn response to the BBC's investigation, Brazil's Supreme Federal Court ordered an inquiry into the sale of protected areas of the Amazon via Facebook.\n\nDespite calls from indigenous leaders to do more, at the time Facebook said it was \"ready to work with local authorities\", but would not take independent action to halt the trade.\n\nNow the company says it has consulted the UN Environment Programme (Unep) and other organisations to take its \"first steps\" in trying to address the issue.\n\n\"We will now review listings on Facebook Marketplace against an international organisation's authoritative database of protected areas to identify listings that may violate this new policy,\" the Californian tech firm clarified.\n\nMuch of the land being sold is in indigenous reserves\n\nThe announcement comes at a time when the social media giant is under increasing pressure from US lawmakers, following a series of bombshell leaks by whistle-blower and former Facebook employee, Frances Haugen.\n\nFacebook also faced criticism this week when a failure brought down the entire platform for five hours worldwide. Instagram and Whatsapp, both owned by Facebook, were also offline during the period.\n\nTo try to catch criminal sellers, Facebook is using a database managed by the Unep World Conservation Monitoring Centre.\n\nUnep says it is the most \"comprehensive\" database of its kind and is updated monthly using reports from \"a range of government and other institutions\".\n\nBut Brazilian lawyer and scientist Brenda Brito questions the effectiveness of Facebook's proposals, saying: \"If they don't make it mandatory for sellers to provide the location of the area on sale, any attempt at blocking them will be flawed.\n\n\"They may have the best database in the world, but if they don't have some geo-location reference, it won't work,\" she added.\n\nIn its investigation, the BBC found some ads featured satellite images and GPS co-ordinates but not all shared that level of information.\n\nFacebook told the BBC it did not intend to require sellers to post the precise location of advertised land.\n\n\"We know there are no 'silver bullets' in this topic and we will continue to work to prevent people from circumventing our inspection,\" a company spokesperson said.\n\nThe Amazon rainforest occupies 7.5 million sq km and spans more than seven countries, including Peru, Ecuador and Colombia.\n\nThe tech firm would not confirm whether it was also working with each region's respective government to strengthen enforcement.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.\n\nAbout 60% of the Amazon rainforest is in Brazil where deforestation rates are at a 12-year high.\n\nThe Brazilian government's public forest database, which would be a key tool for any attempt to control the majority of illegal sales online, isn't being used.\n\n\"This data has been available since 2016. It is information they could use to improve this effort,\" says Brenda Brito.\n\nHowever, environmental activists in Brazil are calling the Facebook announcement a small victory against a backdrop of massive deforestation in the Amazon and several congressional attempts to weaken protection laws.\n\nIvaneide Bandeira, whose NGO Kandide was among those calling for Facebook to do more when the BBC's investigation came out in February, says she is pleased.\n\n\"I think this announcement is a good thing. Although it's coming late, because they should never have allowed those ads.\n\n\"But the fact that they are now taking this position is good because it will help to protect the territory, as it will help not to publicise the sale of land inside a protected area or an indigenous land.\"\n\nRead more about the BBC's investigation here.\n\nWatch Our World: Selling the Amazon on BBC iPlayer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Anti-vaxxers told me I was wrong to get jab'\n\nA 15-year-old girl and her mum say they were intimidated by anti-vax protesters outside a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nGrace Baker-Earle, who uses a wheelchair after contracting Covid, was confronted after receiving the jab at Cardiff's Bayside mass vaccination centre.\n\nHer mum Angela said protesters accused her of using Grace \"as a lab rat\".\n\nSouth Wales Police said officers attended a protest in the area at 10:50 BST and remained in attendance.\n\nThe force said no arrests had been made.\n\nThe vaccine has been offered to 12 to 15-year-olds in Wales since 4 October.\n\nGrace now needs a wheelchair to go more than 50 yards after she had Covid last year\n\nMs Baker-Earle said the confrontation was \"just horrible\" and \"incredibly intimidating\", and happened while getting her daughter's wheelchair into her car - something she needs since developing Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME).\n\nThe 44-year-old said a protester claimed it was \"ridiculous\" to get the jab.\n\n\"I said my daughter is using a wheelchair because of Covid,\" Ms Baker-Earle said.\n\n\"[A protestor] said: 'She'll have immunity, you shouldn't be getting the vaccine since you have natural immunity. You shouldn't be using her as a lab rat'.\n\n\"It has been lifechanging for Grace, we are hoping she will get better,\" her mother says\n\nMs Baker-Earle, from Cowbridge, in the Vale Glamorgan, said the 15 protesters walked in front of her car and she had to tell one man to \"step back\".\n\n\"He was within two feet of me, looked at me as if I was stupid. I told them: 'You have literally surrounded my car'.\"\n\nShe said a vaccination centre steward then came out and checked she and her daughter were safe.\n\nGrace said the confrontation \"hit a spot\" because of how much Covid has affected herself and family.\n\n\"I think I was sad more than anything because it's something I still live with, it takes up every second of my day,\" she said.\n\n\"I was excited to have it done - to have people tell you as you come out that what you're doing is wrong and to have people invading your personal space, it wasn't nice.\"\n\nAngela Baker-Earle was in hospital with Covid and pneumonia last year, while Grace was \"very poorly\"\n\nMs Baker-Earle said she was in hospital with Covid and pneumonia last November, around the same time Grace also had the virus.\n\n\"Grace was very unwell for a couple of weeks, she lost half a stone and was really poorly - she weighed 6.5 stone (41kg) to begin with.\n\n\"A cardiologist has said although Grace had a virus earlier in March, having Covid pushed it over into having ME.\"\n\nME is a chronic neurological condition which means day-to-day tasks can be \"exhausting\" for Grace, she added.\n\n\"People were so dismissive of such a serious thing we are dealing with, which makes my blood boil,\" she added.\n\n\"There are 12-year-olds going down there to be faced with that - a whole line of people, it is disgusting.\"\n\nGrace had vomiting and diarrhoea for 10 days and lost half a stone after catching Covid-19\n\n\"Now she has to use a wheelchair to go more than 50 yards, and has an extremely elevated heart rate,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been lifechanging for Grace, we are hoping she will get better. This is all off the back of Covid in November.\"\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers (CMOs) have said healthy children aged 12 to 15 should be offered one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nThe advice, they say, reflects evidence on the mental health and long-term prospects for young people, the effect on education and the marginal benefit to health.\n\nThe Welsh government has emphasised that the vaccine is a choice for each individual to make.\n\nIt said all children aged 12 to 15 in Wales will be offered a Covid vaccine by the end of October.\n\nWales' Health Minister Eluned Morgan said studies showed children were at some risk of developing long Covid despite low hospital admission rates.", "Mr Airey said he was happy the actor had allowed them to share details of his donation\n\nFilm star Daniel Craig has donated £10,000 to three fathers who have set out on a 300-mile walk to raise funds for a suicide prevention charity after their daughters took their own lives.\n\nAndy Airey, Mike Palmer and Tim Owen's \"Three Dads Walking\" trek will see them walk between their homes in Cumbria, Greater Manchester and Norfolk.\n\nThey are raising money for the Papyrus charity.\n\nThey said the donation from the James Bond actor was \"amazing\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three dads united by daughters' suicides take on challenge\n\nMr Airey said he was happy that the actor had let them share the news of his generosity.\n\n\"Allowing us to shout about it is fantastic news, especially as he's just about the most famous film actor in the world at the moment, isn't he?\" he said.\n\nThe trio, who set out earlier, will be walking about 20 miles a day between Mr Airey's home, near Cumbria, Mr Palmer's house in Sale, Greater Manchester, and Mr Owen's property in Shouldham, Norfolk.\n\nThey expect to complete the challenge on 23 October.\n\nMr Airey, whose 29-year-old daughter Sophie took her own life in 2018, said they had \"three different stories to tell, but each has the same tragic ending; the devastating loss of a daughter to suicide\".\n\n\"Daniel Craig has clearly been moved by the indescribable pain we and our families are suffering and wants to help us to bring something positive out of the utter devastation,\" he added.\n\nMr Palmer, whose daughter Beth died in 2020, said being part of the challenge was \"not a club I want to belong to, but [it gives us] an opportunity to fight back and maybe make a difference.\n\n\"We hope that by linking our three homes and telling our three daughters' very different stories, we will put a spotlight on young mental health.\"\n\nAs well as fundraising, the trio want to raise awareness of the help and support available\n\nMr Owen added that \"strongly\" believed that \"in a moment of darkness\", his 19-year-old daughter Emily \"made a wrong decision\" last year.\n\n\"Had she just taken time to think or to speak to someone, her decision and my family's lives would be on another path,\" he said.\n\n\"Instead, she decided she could no longer go on, leaving behind a devastating ripple effect on her family and friends.\"\n\nIf you're affected by the issues in this piece, you can find support from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The three dads united by their daughters' suicides. Video, 00:04:00The three dads united by their daughters' suicides\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sebastian Kurz said he would fight the charges against him\n\nAustria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has stepped down, after pressure triggered by a corruption scandal.\n\nHe has proposed Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg as his replacement.\n\nMr Kurz and nine others were placed under investigation after raids at a number of locations linked to his conservative People's Party (ÖVP).\n\nHe denies claims he used government money to ensure positive coverage in a tabloid newspaper.\n\nThe allegations this week took his coalition government to the brink of collapse after its junior partner, the Greens, said Mr Kurz was no longer fit to be chancellor.\n\nThe Greens began talks with opposition parties, who were threatening to bring a vote of no confidence against the chancellor next week.\n\nGreens leader and Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler welcomed Mr Kurz's resignation and indicated he would be willing to work with Mr Schallenberg, saying they had a \"very constructive\" relationship.\n\n\"What's required now is stability. To resolve the impasse I want to step aside to prevent chaos,\" Mr Kurz said as he announced his resignation.\n\nHe said he would remain leader of his party, and continue to sit in parliament.\n\n\"First and foremost, however, I will of course use the opportunity to disprove the allegations against me,\" he added.\n\nAlthough he is no longer chancellor, Mr Kurz will still be a major figure in Austrian politics.\n\nAs leader of his party, he will be present at cabinet meetings. The head of the opposition Social Democrats says he will be pulling the strings as a shadow chancellor.\n\nOther observers point to his close relationship with Alexander Schallenberg, a career diplomat who worked with Mr Kurz when he first entered government as foreign minister.\n\nSome members of Mr Kurz's party are hoping his resignation will be temporary and he will be able to stage a comeback.\n\nOther Austrians say the two corruption investigations, and the collapse of his last coalition government with the far-right Freedom Party in 2019, mean it is time for Mr Kurz to leave politics altogether.\n\nMr Kurz became leader of the ÖVP in May 2017 and led his party to victory in elections later that year - becoming, at the age of 31, one the world's youngest ever democratically elected heads of government.\n\nThe corruption allegations relate to the period between 2016 and 2018, when finance ministry funds were suspected to have been used to manipulate opinion polls in favour of the ÖVP that were then published in a newspaper.\n\nWhile no newspaper was named by prosecutors, the tabloid daily Österreich put out a statement on Wednesday denying media reports it had taken taxpayers' money for advertising in exchange for publishing the favourable polls.\n\nMr Kurz, nine other individuals and three organisations have been placed under investigation \"on suspicion of breach of trust ... corruption ... and bribery ... partly with different levels of involvement\", the Prosecutors' Office for Economic Affairs and Corruption said on Wednesday.\n\nEarlier in the day, prosecutors carried out raids at the chancellery, the finance ministry and homes and offices of senior aides to the chancellor.\n\nMr Kurz has called the allegations against him \"baseless\".\n\nHe also denies wrongdoing in a separate investigation he was placed under in May over allegations he had made false statements to a parliamentary commission.", "Researchers say the UK has little room for nature due to development and agriculture\n\nThe UK is one of the world's most nature-depleted countries - in the bottom 10% globally and last among the G7 group of nations, new data shows.\n\nIt has an average of about half its biodiversity left, far below the global average of 75%, a study has found.\n\nA figure of 90% is considered the \"safe limit\" to prevent the world from tipping into an \"ecological meltdown\", according to researchers.\n\nThe assessment was released ahead of a key UN biodiversity conference.\n\nBiodiversity is the variety of all living things on Earth and how they fit together in the web of life, bringing oxygen, water, food and countless other benefits.\n\nProf Andy Purvis, research leader at the Natural History Museum in London, said biodiversity is more than something beautiful to look at.\n\n\"It's also what provides us with so many of our basic needs,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It's the foundation of our society. We've seen recently how disruptive it can be when supply chains break down - nature is at the base of our supply chains.\"\n\nThe new tool uses the Biodiversity Intactness Index to estimate the percentage of natural biodiversity that remains across the world and in individual countries.\n\nThe UK's low position in the league table is linked to the industrial revolution, which transformed the landscape, the researchers said.\n\nThe UK has seen relatively stable biodiversity levels over recent years, albeit at a \"really low level,\" team researcher Dr Adriana De Palma explained in a news briefing.\n\nThe assessment was released on the eve of the UN Biodiversity Conference, COP 15, hosted by China, a mega-diverse country with nearly 10% of plant species and 14% of animals on Earth.\n\nWorld leaders are attending week-long virtual talks seen as pivotal in raising ambition for slowing the loss of nature ahead of face-to-face talks in Kunming, China, in April next year and the climate conference in Glasgow at the end of the month.\n\nAndrew Deutz, global policy lead of international conservation charity, the Nature Conservancy, said the gathering momentum behind nature had not come a moment too soon.\n\n\"As with the accelerating climate emergency, what happens over the next year will - to a large extent - set humanity's course for the rest of the decade; and what happens this decade is likely to define our prospects for the rest of this century,\" he said.\n\nAt the summit in Kunming - taking place in a two-part format due to pandemic disruption - world leaders will negotiate a framework for protecting nature and species for the next decade.\n\nThe draft agreement aims to conserve at least 30% of the world's lands and oceans, and increase funding for the conservation of nature.\n\nBut elements of the draft lack ambition, according to a report by MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee.\n\nThe global biodiversity framework replaces the plan for the last decade, which missed all 20 targets.\n\n\"To play our part, we need the UK to step up and turn our global promises into action at home, to show that we are not going to let another lost decade for nature slip past,\" said Beccy Speight, chief executive of the RSPB.\n\nBiodiversity is declining faster than at any time in human history. Since 1970, there has been on average almost a 70% decline in the populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians.\n\nIt is thought that one million animal and plant species - almost a quarter of the global total - are threatened with extinction.", "Children aged between 12 and 15 will be offered vaccination by the end of term, Eluned Morgan says\n\nAll 12 to 15-year-olds in Wales will be offered a Covid vaccine by the end of the October half-term, the Welsh health minister has said.\n\nThe rollout is due to gather pace this week with all health boards providing jabs, mostly at mass vaccination centres and others in schools.\n\nSome of the most vulnerable children have already received the vaccine.\n\nFamilies have been encouraged to discuss the choice to help make an informed decision.\n\nLast month the UK's vaccine advisory body JCVI refused to give the green light to vaccinating healthy 12-15 year olds on health grounds alone.\n\nIt said children were at such a low risk from the virus that jabs would offer only a marginal benefit.\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers then said healthy children aged 12 to 15 should be offered one dose of a Covid vaccine as it would help reduce disruption to education.\n\nHealth Minister Eluned Morgan said studies showed children were at some risk of developing long Covid despite low hospital admission rates.\n\n\"Vaccines remain our strongest defence from the virus, helping prevent harm and stopping the spread of Covid-19,\" she said.\n\n\"Some studies show one in seven children who have been infected with the virus are thought to have also developed long Covid.\n\n\"We have provided resources and information to help this age group make an informed choice about vaccination. I encourage parents, guardians, children and young people to discuss the vaccination together,\" she said.\n\nGill Richardson, deputy chief medical officer for vaccines, said: \"We have seen the benefits that come from having as many people as possible vaccinated.\n\n\"After careful consideration of the evidence, the four UK chief medical officers recommended the vaccination of healthy 12 to 15-year-olds after consultation with experts, such as the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.\n\n\"They concluded that the health benefits, combined with the additional benefits of reducing educational disruption and effects on mental health meant that vaccination should be offered.\n\n\"Children and their families will be receiving links to information with their invitation letters so they can make an informed decision about whether or not to have the vaccine,\" she said.\n\nLast month the chief medical officers agreed a single dose would help to reduce disruption to education.\n\nThe recommendation that only one dose be given is related to the very rare risk of a condition called myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle.\n\nThe risk is tiny after one vaccine dose and slightly higher after two, with 12 to 34 cases seen for every one million second doses.\n\nTheir decision came after the UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said there was not enough benefit to warrant it on health grounds alone for most children.\n\nEithne Hughes, director of the Association for School and College Leaders Cymru, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers schools were already being targeted.\n\n\"There have been anti-vax campaigners, who are very, very well coordinated, who have made direct threats to head teachers by phone, by letter - confettis of letter with quasi-legal challenges threatening court action and huge fines, fake NHS consent letters to try and trick schools into sending those out to parents with misinformation.\"\n\nShe said it had caused a \"real upset in the system\".\n\n\"Let's be really clear about this, the virus is the enemy, not Public Health Wales, not the school, and college leaders are doing their very best to educate learners and get everything back on track again,\" she said.\n\n\"So it's deeply disappointing and if these people are listening, I would urge them to desist.\"\n\nTrefor Jones, head teacher at Ysgol Y Creuddyn in Penrhyn Bay, Conwy, said he had received letters from people opposed to children having a Covid vaccine.\n\nHe said: \"It is concerning... It does reference various legal processes they want to take, so yes, it is a challenge...\n\n\"To be targeted in this way is a little disappointing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former US President Donald Trump \"grossly exaggerated\" the profitability of his Washington DC hotel, a probe by a congressional committee has found.\n\nIt also said he appeared to hide \"potential conflicts of interest\".\n\nThe Trump International Hotel lost over $70m (£51.3m) during his term, though Mr Trump had previously claimed it earned at least $150m during that time.\n\nThe Trump Organization has denied wrongdoing and called the report \"misleading\".\n\nIn a statement, the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform said that documents provided by the General Services Administration (GSA) - which oversees federal spending - showed that Mr Trump had \"grossly exaggerated the financial health\" of the hotel.\n\nLosses forced Mr Trump's holding company to inject at least $24m to help the struggling hotel, located just a few blocks from the White House, the committee said.\n\nThe report also found Mr Trump seemed to have \"concealed potential conflicts of interest\" related to his ownership of the hotel and his roles as its lender and the guarantor of third-party loans.\n\nNewly obtained documents show that the hotel received $3.7m in payments from foreign governments - enough to cover 7,400 nights at the hotel on an average daily rate, according to the committee.\n\nThe lawmakers said that the amount raised concerns about potential violations of constitutional regulations aimed at preventing foreign influence on federal officials.\n\nThe oversight report found that during the four years of his administration, Mr Trump also received \"significant financial benefit\" from Deutsche Bank.\n\nThe Democrat-led committee said this allowed Mr Trump to delay making payments on a $170m loan for six years, and that he did not publicly disclose this benefit from a foreign bank while president.\n\nLawmakers have asked for additional documents from the GSA on the hotel, including on foreign payments and loans.\n\nIn a statement sent to the media, the Trump Organization called the report \"intentionally misleading, irresponsible and unequivocally false\" and described it as \"political harassment\".\n\nThe hotel was opened to the public in September 2016, several weeks after Mr Trump accepted the Republican Party's nomination for president.\n\nIn 2017, Mr Trump resigned from his companies, and placed them in a trust to be run by his sons.\n\nBut the Office of Government Ethics said at the time that Mr Trump's plan didn't \"meet the standards\" of former presidents. In 2019, an internal GSA watchdog said the agency had chosen to \"ignore\" the Constitution when allowing the Trump Hotel to keep its lease after Mr Trump's election.\n\nThe Trump Organization has been looking for buyers for the 263-room hotel since 2019, but has so far been unable to sell the property.", "The Tylorstown landslide has left a scar on the hillside\n\nSatellite technology usually used to find water on other planets could help make Wales' coal tips safe.\n\nThe Welsh government-commissioned project comes after landslides at a tip in Tylorstown, Rhondda Cynon Taf, during Storm Dennis in February 2020.\n\nAnalysis after the slide showed stability problems would be widespread, and affect other tips in south Wales.\n\nThe data will be key to prioritising work on the tips, according to joint project manager Richard Pidcock.\n\nDue to climate change, Mr Pidcock said it was even more important to monitor the risks.\n\nIn 2020, Rhondda MP Chris Bryant warned it could cost £500m to ensure the safety of more than 2,000 coal tips across Wales.\n\nThe Coal Authority has appointed ground investigation specialists Central Alliance, who will use satellite imagery to analyse soil moisture at coal tips and surrounding areas across 10 local authority areas in south Wales.\n\nIt will assess a large number of high-risk tips, irrespective of ownership.\n\nTechnology used to find water on Mars is being used to assess soil moisture at coal tips\n\nIt is an adaptation of technology used to search for water and life on other planets such as Venus and Mars, and allows users to remotely measure soil moisture levels below ground level and assess risks.\n\nThe first stage starts in October to create a baseline during drier months, and will be followed with a second phase to capture seasonal change in winter early next year.\n\nThe assessment will confirm the effectiveness of existing drainage systems and identify any hidden moisture which could represent a future risk, the project leaders have said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In February, 60,000 tonnes of debris slid down the hillside at Tylorstown\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said: \"Alongside engineering works, technology has an important role to play in ensuring the safety of disused coal tips.\n\n\"It's important that all possible means of monitoring tips over the long term are considered, and funding different technology trials helps to ensure we have appropriate approaches in place.\"\n\nRichard Pidcock says the data will be key to prioritising work on the tips\n\nMr Pidcock, joint managing director at Central Alliance, said it was \"fantastic\" to see the Welsh government and Coal Authority use cutting-edge technology, which was originally developed by the company Asterra, to \"provide reassurance that existing drainage systems are effective and to identify hidden wet areas\".\n\nHe added: \"As we have seen from recent extreme weather events from around the world, it is vitally important to monitor the impact of climate change, and the GroundSat satellite mapping project will form an important dataset for that assessment.\"\n\nPhil Thomas lives near a coal tip in Ynyshir, and said the work needed to be done as soon as possible.\n\n\"I am really pleased to see the Welsh government and local authorities are working together to find out whether these tips are wet or need any kind of work, but it does surprise me it has taken 19 months to get to this point,\" he said.\n\nMr Thomas welcomed the use of new technology, but said this should not replace the use of older technology such as boreholes.\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. Aimee says she has not had a face-to-face appointment in 18 months, despite being sectioned in 2019\n\n\"I couldn't even take my children to school without a voice in my head.\"\n\nAimee, 29, from Bridgend, tried to take her own life after her mother's suicide in 2019, feeling it was a \"trigger\" for her mental health issues.\n\nShe said because of the pandemic she has not had a face-to-face appointment in 18 months, despite being sectioned in 2019.\n\nThe Welsh government said improving mental health is a priority, with an extra £42m spent this year.\n\nThe mother-of-two was diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress disorder and emotionally unstable personality disorder and said she been unable to access specialised help during the pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"My mother, Louise, had suffered all of her life with mental health problems.\n\n\"I was experiencing the normal stages of grief, and we as a family were all in a great deal of shock - we were not expecting it.\n\n\"I had spoken to mum the night before and I thought she seemed OK and quite feisty which is what she was like.\n\n\"After the funeral I just couldn't eat, or sleep and it all took its toll on my body.\"\n\nThe treatment Aimee wants has a long waiting list and she said it could cost her thousands privately\n\nAimee said even walking her children to school or making a cup of tea became difficult.\n\n\"I'd already previously suffered with my mental health. I started getting intrusive thoughts so I would have random things pop into my head.\n\n\"It was a constant battle against myself and it was exhausting. I had to try and act normal for my children, who had no idea what was going on but also fight against something which is still ongoing and how am I meant to fix it, without help?\"\n\nShe said she felt services had been lacking during the pandemic and \"mental health has become a new virus in itself\".\n\n\"I have not had a single face-to-face appointment since moving back to Wales, so I haven't had any mental healthcare for 18 months.\n\n\"I've had no psychologist or psychiatrist appointments, all my treatment has been solely over the phone with a GP and the advice is just to double my medication.\"\n\nAimee wants to undergo eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing therapy (EMDR), for which she said the waiting list was \"years long\".\n\nShe said privately the sessions she looked at cost £500 each, with patients usually needing at least five, according to Aimee.\n\n\"I haven't got that kind of money and I can't access it,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm dosed up to the eyeballs on medication. And if I don't take it I get extremely poorly. I'm looking for different ways of managing my mental health but how can I get better if I can't get help?\"\n\nThe Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said it could not comment on individual cases.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We encourage anyone who wishes to discuss a concern or complaint with us directly, and we will do our best to put it right.\n\n\"We continue to provide a comprehensive range of services for people with mental health issues, and we encourage anyone who may be needing support to get in touch with our teams.\"\n\nA recent report from the Samaritans found people who needed support during the pandemic had experienced reduced access to already-strained mental health services.\n\nExecutive director in Wales Sarah Stone said: \"What we need is for people to have the services that suit them. So face to face is really important to people and tailored services.\n\n\"The pandemic has highlighted and increased inequalities in a range of ways so the work we have done has showed issues about mental health and well-being, fear of unemployment, financial struggles and also people struggling to find the basics of feeding themselves and their families.\"\n\nSunday marks World Mental Health Day 2021, with its main theme being mental health in an unequal world.\n\nA survey carried out by mental health charity Mind Cymru found people living in a household receiving benefits had seen their mental health hit hardest during the pandemic.\n\nNearly six in 10 of the 650 people surveyed who lived in a household receiving benefits said they had poor or very poor mental health.\n\nThat compares with 34% of those not receiving benefits.\n\nHead of policy Simon Jones said there was an urgent need to tackle inequalities brought into focus by the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"We know that mental health services were under huge pressure even before the pandemic.\n\n\"The impact will have a lasting effect on the mental health of many people in Wales, and there is increasing evidence to suggest that it has had, and continues to have, a disproportionate impact on certain groups of people - specifically people in poverty, and those from non-white communities.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said: \"Improving mental health and well-being is a priority for us and we are investing an additional £42m this year.\n\n\"Many people in crisis need a range of social and welfare support, as opposed to specialist mental healthcare and we continue to work on strengthening the multi-agency response.\n\n\"Our Discretionary Assistance Fund has been available to provide hardship payments and working in partnership with Citizens Advice to address underlying financial needs, including specialist debt advice.\n\n\"We have also expanded support for low-level mental health issues, like easy-to-access online cognitive behavioural therapy, which includes support for money worries.\"\n\nThe BBC Action Line has details of organisations that may be able to offer help for mental health problems\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah Everard was killed by serving Met Police officer Wayne Couzens after he falsely arrested her\n\nBaroness Louise Casey of Blackstock will lead an independent review into the Metropolitan Police's culture and standards following Sarah Everard's murder, the force has announced.\n\nIt will examine the force's vetting, recruitment and training procedures.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said the move aimed to \"make sure that the public have more confidence in us\".\n\nThe review is expected to take six months.\n\nDame Cressida said: \"[Baroness Casey] is extremely experienced and highly respected and I know will ask the difficult questions needed for this thorough review.\n\n\"This will build a stronger Met, ensure lasting improvement in our service to London and public confidence in us.\"\n\nMet Police officer Wayne Couzens murdered Sarah Everard after falsely arresting her for a breach of Covid-19 guidelines as she walked home from a friend's house in south London on 3 March.\n\nHe has been sentenced to a whole-life prison term.\n\nOf her appointment, Baroness Casey said any acts undermining trust placed in police by the public \"must be examined and fundamentally changed\".\n\nShe said: \"This will no doubt be a difficult task but we owe it to the victims and families this has affected and the countless decent police officers this has brought into disrepute.\"\n\nBaroness Casey was formerly the government's chief adviser on homelessness and is a crossbench peer in the House of Lords.\n\nBaroness Casey has taken on roles for five prime ministers over the past 23 years\n\nDame Cressida also announced the Met would be launching a second investigation, examining its practices over the past 10 years.\n\nIt would look at cases in which somebody made an allegation of sexual misconduct or domestic abuse, against a police officer or member of staff, who was still employed by the force.\n\nShe said: \"We'll be going back to look at some of those investigations just to make sure that the processes that should have taken place have, and that we are taking the right management action after the case is closed, for example in vetting.\"\n\nThe Mayor of London Sadiq Khan welcomed Baroness Casey's appointment and said public trust in the police \"requires urgent rebuilding\".\n\n\"Baroness Casey's review must look into the wider culture of the Met Police, including issues of misogyny, sexism, racism and homophobia as well as thoroughly examining recruitment, vetting, training, leadership and standards of behaviour among officers and staff,\" he tweeted.\n\nBaroness Casey has worked on issues relating to social welfare for five prime ministers over the past 23 years.\n\nShe was made head of the Rough Sleepers' Unit in 1999 and went on to hold leadership positions including director of the national Anti-Social Behaviour Unit, the Respect Task Force and the Troubled Families programme.\n\nShe was also the UK's first victims' commissioner - undertaking an inspection into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham in 2015 - and carried out a review of community cohesion and extremism for then prime minister David Cameron, which was published in 2017.\n\nShe left the civil service in 2017 to establish the Institute for Global Homelessness before returning to public service to support the government's Covid-19 rough sleeping response.", "Expectant mothers are being sent to Cwmbran's Grange Hospital instead\n\nA health board has halted some maternity services because of the number of staff off sick.\n\nAneurin Bevan health board has stopped midwifery-led, and home-birthing services at four hospitals.\n\nThe Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny, Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan, Ebbw Vale and Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr, Ystrad Mynach, are all affected.\n\nThe temporary measures have been put in place for 11 days.\n\nExpectant mothers are being sent to Cwmbran's Grange Hospital instead.\n\n\"We are currently experiencing a high number of births and short term staff absence due to sickness and self-isolation in our midwifery services,\" the board said in a statement on Friday.\n\nThe board apologised to the eleven expectant mothers affected. The women were all booked in to give birth at one of the four units.\n\nIt said the plan would not impact on any others.\n\nThe measures came into force at 14:00 BST on Thursday 7 October and will continue until 08:00 BST on 18 October.", "Fellow politicians have paid tribute to Tory MP James Brokenshire, who has died aged 53, having been diagnosed with lung cancer more than three years ago.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson described the father of three, a former Northern Ireland secretary, as the \"nicest, kindest\" colleague.\n\nMr Brokenshire, a lifelong non-smoker, stood down as a Home Office minister earlier this year.\n\nHe died in hospital on Thursday night, having been admitted after his condition deteriorated.\n\nAn MP since 2005, Mr Brokenshire served in government under three prime ministers - David Cameron, Theresa May and Mr Johnson.\n\nHouse of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has ordered that flags in Parliament's New Palace Yard be flown at half-mast to mark \"a profound loss to us all\".\n\nMrs May tweeted: \"Truly saddened by the death of James Brokenshire. He was an outstanding public servant, a talented minister and a loyal friend.\"\n\nAnd Mr Johnson tweeted that it was \"desperately sad\", adding: \"James was the nicest, kindest and most unassuming of politicians but also extraordinarily effective.\"\n\nMr Brokenshire, who was MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup in Kent, resigned as Northern Ireland secretary in January 2018 following his lung cancer diagnosis, but made a comeback to the cabinet a few months later as housing secretary.\n\nHe lost that job in July 2019, after Mr Johnson took over from Mrs May in 10 Downing Street.\n\nMr Brokenshire re-entered government as a Home Office minister in February last year, but stood down in July this year, due to poor health.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former adviser Peter Cardwell: \"James was the best of politics and he was the best of humanity.\"\n\nFollowing his death, Mr Brokenshire's family expressed \"deep sadness\", adding: \"James was not only a brilliant government minister... but a dedicated constituency MP.\n\n\"But most importantly, he was a loving father to his three children, a devoted husband to Cathy and a faithful friend to so many.\"\n\nThe family also thanked NHS staff, including those at Guy's & St Thomas' hospital in London, for treating Mr Brokenshire \"with such warmth, diligence and professionalism over the past three-and-a-half years\".\n\nThey also shared a memorial page on his Twitter feed, which encouraged people to share memories and photos of Mr Brokenshire and to donate to the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation in lieu of flowers.\n\n\"In the last few years of his life James's passion was to help others with lung cancer, preventing others going through what he did,\" the memorial page said, describing him as an \"indefatigable campaigner for better lung cancer screening\".\n\nAfter his lung cancer diagnosis, Mr Brokenshire, a former lawyer, worked to promote greater awareness of the disease, urging people who showed symptoms to get tested.\n\nFellow Conservative MP Karen Bradley told the BBC News Channel the news of her \"understated\" friend's death was \"heartbreaking\", adding: \"I can't believe I'm not going to be able to sit down with James again and have a laugh about life, and chat about the issues that we both cared about.\n\n\"My thoughts are with Cathy and the family, who are just the most wonderful family. I'm devastated.\"\n\nJames Brokenshire (right) served under Theresa May, as well as David Cameron and Boris Johnson\n\nSir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"James Brokenshire was a thoroughly decent man, dedicated and effective in all briefs he held.\n\n\"He fought his illness with dignity and bravery. I'm incredibly sad to learn of his death and send my condolences to his wife and children.\"\n\nThe UK's most senior civil servant, Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, said: \"I had the personal privilege of working with him closely over a number of years and admired greatly his unwavering commitment to public service and compassion.\"\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, tweeted: \"So sorry to hear of the death of James Brokenshire, whose courage and faith were an inspiration to so many, myself included.\"\n\nBefore becoming the Old Bexley & Sidcup MP in 2010, Mr Brokenshire represented the seat of Hornchurch and Rainham, north-east London, for five years.\n\nHis death will prompt a Parliamentary by-election in Old Bexley and Sidcup, where he had a majority of 18,952 at the last general election.", "Last updated on .From the section Scotland\n\nScott McTominay sparked bedlam at Hampden as his stoppage-time winner against Israel kept Scotland on course for the World Cup qualifying play-offs.\n\nThe Manchester United midfielder bundled in his first Scotland goal after Eran Zahavi's brilliant free-kick and a Munas Dabbur finish twice had the visitors ahead in a thrilling contest.\n\nJohn McGinn briefly levelled with a superb strike before Lyndon Dykes - having had a weak penalty saved - volleyed an equaliser belatedly awarded after a VAR check after the break.\n\nScotland's concerted pressure looked set to fall short until McTominay pounced to leave his side two wins from a play-off spot, with trips to the Faroes Islands and Moldova up next.\n\nVictory moves Steve Clarke's men four points clear of Israel with three games to play in the battle to finish runners-up to Denmark.\n• None Podcast: 'I don't care if it went off McTominay's Adam's apple'\n\nThe unbridled elation at full-time was befitting of Scotland's first full house at Hampden since England's visit in June 2017. It was also in marked contrast to the despondency felt by those fans after a dreadful and error-strewn first 45 minutes.\n\nThe pre-match air of optimism and expectation was quickly doused when Zahavi bent a terrific free-kick into the top corner after just five minutes for his 26th goal in his last 28 caps.\n\nThe PSV Eindhoven attacker's finishing prowess should have been no surprise to Scotland in their seventh meeting with Israel in three years. Yet the free-kick was a needless concession from Jack Hendry, and the mistakes kept piling up before the break.\n\nThe damage could have been doubled when McTominay - back from injury to replace the suspended Grant Hanley in the back three - was caught out by a long ball and only Manor Solomon's poor touch when clean through let Scotland off the hook.\n\nThe goal stunned Scotland, who had threatened through Che Adams in the opening minute before completely losing momentum. Simple passes were going astray and the hosts struggled to put coherent attacks together.\n\nScotland needed something special - and McGinn provided it, giving former Hibernian goalkeeper Ofir Marciano no chance with a sublime curled finish from 20 yards after a flowing move driven by Andy Robertson.\n\nHowever, within two minutes, Scotland were trailing again. Another needless free-kick proved their undoing, this time McTominay the culprit, with Dabbur stabbing home after Craig Gordon had kept out Dor Peretz's effort.\n\nDykes should have ensured the sides went in level at the break, after Bibras Natkho slid in on Billy Gilmour as the midfielder latched on to Marciano's punched clearance just inside the box.\n\nBut the QPR striker - Scotland's match-winner in their previous two games - sent his penalty straight down the middle, where Marciano stayed put and saved with his foot.\n\nScotland - knowing how costly a draw would be to their qualification hopes - were much improved after the break and got a quick reward as Dykes made amends when he volleyed in Robertson's cross.\n\nEven that was fraught with worry for the Tartan Army, though, as referee Szymon Marciniak initially disallowed the goal for a high challenge on Ofri Arad, who had attempted to head clear, before reversing the decision after consulting the pitchside monitor.\n\nScotland were indebted to Gordon for preventing them falling behind again, the goalkeeper denying Zahavi, but Clarke's side had the momentum and Tierney planted a cross on to Dykes' head eight yards out, with Marciano shovelling clear.\n\nThe Israel keeper was then fortunate to be given a free-kick for a challenge by Dykes after his spill from a cross was knocked into the net by Tierney.\n\nScotland kept piling on the pressure but agony beckoned when McGinn was foiled in the closing stages by Marciano, before McTominay chose an opportune moment to open his international account.\n\nJack Hendry glanced on a corner in the Israel box and McTominay did the enough from a yard or two out to edge his side closer to the play-offs as Hampden erupted in delight.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nScotland's ability to put their supporters through the mill knows no bounds, yet the scenes at the end made all the suffering worthwhile.\n\nIt was a comeback of sheer tenacity from Clarke's side, whose first-half display was as bad as they've played under him.\n\nTo turn it around took plenty of guts and sheer doggedness. With Robertson rampaging forward and Billy Gilmour much more prominent in midfield, the hosts turned the screw on an Israel side who had been given far too much freedom.\n\nDefensive issues remain - is McTominay best suited at centre-back? - but those are for another day.\n\nWhat they said\n\nScotland head coach Steve Clarke: \"I told them at half-time - if you do want to lose the game, you're doing it in the perfect fashion.\n\n\"The talk at half-time was really just - we have to play it our way. We have to play with more tempo, a little bit more ambition, control the game better and we did that from the start of the second half more or less to the 96th minute. We got our reward.\"\n\nScotland midfielder John McGinn: \"The fans played a huge part. They could have easily went to the pub last five but they decided to stick with us. It was probably as good an atmosphere as I've heard here for years.\n\n\"I didn't think it would take me 39 caps to play in front of a full house at Hampden but certainly a night I will never forget and it was made extra special with a goal and three points.\"\n• None McTominay's 94th-minute goal was Scotland's first stoppage-time winner since Stephen McManus netted against Liechtenstein in September 2010.\n• None Dykes is only the second Scotland player to score in three consecutive World Cup qualifiers after Mo Johnston, who netted in five between September 1988 and April 1989.\n• None Scotland have won three consecutive home World Cup qualifiers for the first time since winning all five leading up to the 1998 finals.\n• None McGinn (10) has scored more home goals in qualifying matches (World Cup/Euros) than any other Scotland player.\n• None No player has scored more goals in the European World Cup 2022 qualification process than Israel's Eran Zahavi (seven). He has also scored in three of his four previous appearances against Scotland at Hampden.\n\nScotland will go for the two wins they need against the Faroe Islands in Torshavn on Tuesday (19:45 BST) and Moldova away next month. Should they slip up, another chance comes when they end the campaign at home to Denmark.\n• None Goal! Scotland 3, Israel 2. Scott McTominay (Scotland) with an attempt from the left side of the six yard box to the top left corner. Assisted by Jack Hendry following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Jack Hendry (Scotland) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by John McGinn with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. John McGinn (Scotland) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ryan Christie with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. John McGinn (Scotland) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ryan Christie.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lyndon Dykes (Scotland) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by John McGinn.\n• None Nathan Patterson (Scotland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. John McGinn (Scotland) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Billy Gilmour (Scotland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The child, who was hit on Ffordd Llanerch, in Pen-y-Cae, was taken to Wrexham Maelor Hospital\n\nA two-year-old boy has been taken to hospital after being hit by a police car in a 20mph zone.\n\nResidents living in Ffordd Llanerch, in Pen-y-Cae, Wrexham, said he was walking with a woman and another child when he was struck on Friday afternoon.\n\n\"The mother was hysterical,\" said Vanessa Jones. \"As I got there the little boy was trying to stand up.\"\n\nThe air ambulance landed at the scene, but the child was taken by road to Wrexham Maelor Hospital.\n\nPeople living in the street described how they heard screams and a loud bang when the crash happened outside their homes at about 15:30 BST.\n\n\"I was upstairs doing some bits and bobs in the bedroom and I could hear some screams,\" said Ms Jones, 30.\n\nShe sat with the child as neighbour Hiram Evans, 55, took a pillow, blanket and teddy bear for the child as they waited with the officers for an ambulance.\n\nHiram Evans said the youngster's mother was \"shocked and crying\"\n\nHe said boy's mother was \"very shocked and crying\".\n\n\"He was conscious all the time,\" Mr Evans said.\n\n\"The ambulance was on the scene straight away.\"\n\nSome residents said they were unable to get into their homes for a time as a cordon and several police cars remained at the scene.\n\nNorth Wales Police asked people to stay away from the area while officers investigated.\n\nThe force has appealed for witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage to get in touch.", "Olivier Rousteing's Instagram photo showed injuries he suffered last year, he said\n\nCelebrated French fashion designer Olivier Rousteing has revealed he was injured following an accident at his home last year, sharing a picture of himself in heavy bandages.\n\nRousteing, the creative director of fashion house Balmain, shared the news in an Instagram post on Saturday.\n\n\"Exactly a year ago, the fireplace inside my house exploded,\" he wrote.\n\nHe woke the next day at the Hôpital Saint Louis in Paris, and has since been recovering from his injuries.\n\nRousteing said his insecurities and fashion's \"obsession with perfection\" had stopped him from revealing all before now.\n\n\"To be honest I am not really sure why I was so ashamed,\" he wrote. As he recovered he had hidden his injuries with long sleeves and jewellery during interviews.\n\n\"Now, a year later - healed, happy and healthy,\" he wrote. He thanked the medical staff who had treated him despite \"dealing with an incredible number of Covid cases at that same time\", and spoke about how lucky he now felt.\n\n\"There is always the sun after the storm.\"\n\nThe designer, pictured here at Paris Fashion Week earlier this month, says he is \"healed, happy and healthy\"\n\nFellow fashion designers, models and other celebrities were among those to offer their support in response to Rousteing's post.\n\nThe designer Donatella Versace wrote she was \"so glad\" he was safe. \"Let love rule,\" said musician Lenny Kravitz.\n\nKim Kardashian West wrote \"I love you\", while her mother Kris Jenner said she was \"beyond proud\" of Rousteing, adding that his \"message of hope and strength and focus and love will always inspire everyone who you come in contact with\".\n\nRousteing took up his post as Balmain's creative director in 2011 at the age of just 25. According to a profile in Out Magazine the brand grew between 15% and 20% between 2012 and 2015.\n\nHe has opened boutiques in London and New York, the company's first outside Paris.\n\nA 2019 Netflix documentary, Wonder Boy, looked at his career and followed him as he searched for his biological mother.", "The band performed on stage at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow on 7 October\n\nPop band Genesis have postponed the final four UK dates of its reunion tour \"due to positive Covid-19 tests within the band\".\n\nThe group said they would reschedule the gigs due to take place in Glasgow on Friday, and at the O2 in London on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\nThey did not say who had tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Last Domino? tour started in September after being postponed by almost a year because of the pandemic.\n\nFrontman Phil Collins, 70, has been performing seated and has not been able to play the drums because of ongoing health issues, including back problems following surgery.\n\nHe told the BBC last month that he can now \"barely hold a [drum] stick\", and has been replaced behind the drum kit by his 20-year-old son Nicholas.\n\nThe pair have been joined on the road for the tour - the band's first since 2007 - by keyboardist Tony Banks and guitarist Mike Rutherford, both aged 71 and both founding members of the group.\n\nFrontman Phil Collins has been performing seated while his son Nicholas plays the drums\n\nGenesis had six number one albums in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s, with hits including Land of Confusion, Invisible Touch and I Can't Dance.\n\n\"This is a hugely frustrating development for the band who are devastated with this unlucky turn of events,\" a statement from the band said.\n\n\"They hate having to take these steps but the safety of the audience and touring crew has to take priority. They look forward to seeing you upon their return.\"\n\nThe band, who have sold more than 21 million albums in the US, are due to start the North American leg of the tour in Chicago on 15 November.", "Lava from the Cumbre Vieja volcano, which has been erupting since 19 September, has destroyed more homes and buildings.\n\nEarlier this week, two new vents that opened up in the volcano caused further eruptions. One local volcano expert has said the newly opened fissures have partially collapsed, causing the lava to flow in multiple directions.\n\nAuthorities have closed the local airport for the second time since the volcano started to erupt.", "Funerals were held on Saturday for victims of a suicide attack\n\nUS officials have met Afghanistan's ruling Taliban for their first face-to-face talks since Washington pulled its troops from the country in August.\n\nThe talks in Qatar are focusing on issues including containing extremist groups, the evacuation of US citizens and humanitarian aid, officials say.\n\nThe US insists the meeting does not amount to recognition of the Taliban.\n\nIt comes a day after Afghanistan suffered its deadliest attack since US forces withdrew.\n\nThe suicide bombing at a mosque in the northern city of Kunduz killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 100 others.\n\nThe Said Abad mosque was used by the minority Shia Muslim community in the Sunni Muslim-majority country. The Islamic State group said it was behind the attack.\n\nSpeaking after the talks with the US opened in Qatar, Afghanistan's Taliban-appointed Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said the two sides had agreed to uphold the terms of the Doha agreement signed in 2020.\n\nThe deal includes broad obligations on the Taliban to take steps to prevent groups such as al-Qaeda from threatening the security of the US and its allies.\n\nMr Muttaqi said US officials had also told the Taliban they would help in delivering Covid vaccines and humanitarian aid.\n\nThe US has not yet commented on the details of Saturday's talks, but a state department spokesperson previously said officials would use the meeting to press the Taliban to respect women's rights, form an inclusive government and allow humanitarian agencies to operate.\n\nThe meeting is set to continue on Sunday.\n\nMr Muttaqi told reporters that the Islamist group wanted to improve relations with the international community but also warned that nobody should interfere with any country's internal policies.\n\nAmerican officials have said the talks are a continuation of engagement with the Taliban on matters of national interest, not about giving legitimacy to the group's government.\n\nAs the talks were taking place in the Qatari capital Doha, in Afghanistan funeral ceremonies were being held for the victims of Friday's attack.\n\n\"[We] bury the bodies next to each other because we have no choice, and we have to prepare mass graves,\" one mourner said.\n\nThe United Nations said Friday's bombing was a \"third deadly attack this week apparently targeting a religious institution\" and was part of a \"disturbing pattern of violence\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pictures show the scene at the mosque after the suicide bomb attack", "Mrs Luttrell was only able to see her husband via a video-link while he was being treated\n\nA cancer patient whose wife was told he might not wake from a coma he was put in while being treated for Covid-19 has been called \"a cat with nine lives\" by doctors after making a speedy recovery.\n\nPaul Luttrell, who has myeloma cancer, went to Bristol's Southmead Hospital on 27 July and was placed in a coma.\n\nHis wife Dalma said she was \"very much prepared for the worst\", but the 52-year-old woke after 11 days and left hospital a month after arriving.\n\nShe said it was \"unbelievable\".\n\nMr Luttrell, from Frome, was sent to the hospital after nurses noticed he was \"very unwell\" and had to put him on oxygen whilst on a routine dialysis visit.\n\n\"They put me into an induced coma for 11 days and it took me a week to fully wake up,\" he said.\n\n\"When I did, I asked doctors to call Dalma.\n\n\"They couldn't believe it.\"\n\nMr Luttrell said he hoped his story will show that the dangers of Covid-19 still exist\n\nMrs Luttrell said following conversations with her husband's doctors, she had \"very much prepared for the worst\".\n\nShe also said the medical team had warned her that as he was in a coma, he would probably need a long recovery time if he survived.\n\nHowever, within two weeks ,she said she \"had a call from him\", adding: \"It was unbelievable.\"\n\nMr Luttrell, who had been double vaccinated, said though he had had lucid dreams whilst in the coma of \"terrible things\", after he woke, he could walk \"my stairs at home to go to dialysis\" within a week.\n\n\"My haematologist and doctors said I was a cat with nine lives,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he said he felt lucky to be alive and was worried that about \"people still not taking [coronavirus] seriously\".\n\n\"Get vaccinated,\" he said, adding: \"Covid is very real.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Up to 50,000 people descended on Glasgow Green for TRNSMT last month\n\nMore than 500 cases of Covid-19 have been linked to the TRNSMT music festival, new data shows.\n\nAbout 50,000 people descended on Glasgow Green for the three-day event last month.\n\nThey had to bring proof of a negative lateral flow test to gain entry.\n\nPublic Health Scotland said 551 who tested positive for the virus reported having been at the festival around the time of their illness when speaking to contact tracers.\n\nSome 1,645 people were also found to have been close contacts of those who tested positive.\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld said it was likely that some of these people were infected at TRNSMT but it was not a \"super-spreader\" event.\n\nThe figures were published in response to a freedom of information request from the Press Association news agency.\n\nTRNSMT was one of the first mass events held in Scotland since the start of the pandemic.\n\nAccording to Public Health Scotland, the figures do not mean Covid-19 was contracted at the event, only that those who spoke to Test and Protect recorded having been at TRNSMT around the time of their illness.\n\nFollowing the event which started on 10 September, national clinical director Professor Jason Leitch said the festival was not responsible for a spike in cases.\n\nProf Bauld, professor public health at the University of Edinburgh, said it was not possible to say definitely how people caught the virus at the festival.\n\n\"I think it's certainly possible that some of those cases were infected at TRNSMT but we can't prove it,\" she added.\n\nProf Bauld said there were always risks when mass events are held during periods of relatively high levels of infection in the community.\n\nAt the time of TRNSMT about one in 60 people in Scotland had Covid.\n\nBe she added: \"TRNSMT was not a super-spreader event.\n\n\"It's really important to recognise that in the weeks following the festival, we actually saw a decline in cases in Scotland and we certainly didn't see a surge related to that festival.\n\n\"But clearly it's not without risk and that may be reflected in these numbers.\"\n\nIn the week immediately following the festival, 30,928 cases of Covid-19 were recorded as part of the Scottish government's daily tally, meaning the number of confirmed cases linked to TRNSMT was 1.7% of the total.\n\nWeekly Covid cases in Scotland hit a peak of just under 44,900 in the week ending 6 September - just before TRNSMT. They have since fallen to just under 17,600 in the week to 3 October.\n\nThere were 2,627 cases recorded by the Scottish government on Friday and 16 deaths following a positive test.\n• None 'No evidence' of spike in Covid cases after TRNSMT", "Several people at the embassy have reported symptoms\n\nPolice in Berlin say they are investigating after staff at the US embassy reported experiencing symptoms of the so-called Havana syndrome.\n\nThe probe into an \"alleged sonic weapon attack on employees of the US Embassy\" began in August, police said.\n\nMore than 200 US officials have reported suffering from the illness since 2016.\n\nOn Friday President Biden vowed to find out \"the cause and who is responsible\" for the syndrome.\n\nThose affected say they experienced a sudden onset of pressure sensations inside their heads, and of hearing strange buzzing sounds coming from a particular direction. Others have complained of dizziness, nausea and fatigue, among other symptoms.\n\nSeveral people at the US embassy in Berlin had reported symptoms of Havana syndrome, Der Spiegel reported.\n\nAn embassy spokesperson declined to comment on the police inquiries, but told Reuters that a US investigation was ongoing into cases worldwide.\n\nMr Biden's statement came as he signed a bill pledging better healthcare and increased financial support for victims.\n\nBut he characterised the condition as \"anomalous health incidents\" rather than saying it was the result of attacks.\n\nHe said civil servants, intelligence officers, diplomats, and military personnel all over the world had been affected.\n\nThe mysterious illness first emerged at the US and Canadian embassies in Havana in 2016. Since then there have been a number of similar reports.\n\nLast month the CIA's station chief in Vienna was removed for failing to respond appropriately to an outbreak of the mysterious syndrome at the embassy, where there have been more recorded cases than any other city apart from Havana.\n\nDays earlier a CIA officer who was travelling to India with the agency's director reported symptoms consistent with Havana syndrome.\n\nAnd in August, Vice President Kamala Harris' flight from Singapore to the Vietnamese capital Hanoi was briefly delayed after an American official reported symptoms.\n\nHowever, the cause of the illness remains unclear. Last year, a US National Academy of Sciences panel found that the most plausible explanation was \"directed, pulsed radio frequency energy\"..\n\nAnd in 2018 a scientific study of diplomats affected in Cuba found that they had experienced a form of brain injury. The cause was not conclusively determined, but researchers said it was most likely the result of directed microwave radiation.\n\nIn July, CIA director William Burns said there was \"a very strong possibility\" that the symptoms were being caused deliberately and that Russia could be responsible. However, Moscow has strongly denied responsibility.", "Facebook has apologised after again reporting problems with its services, days after a major outage hit WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook for hours.\n\nThe company said that a \"configuration change\" had impacted users globally.\n\nIt added that the incident was not related to the outage that saw its products taken offline for over six hours earlier this week.\n\nIts Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Workplace products had been affected, it said.\n\n\"We're so sorry if you weren't able to access our products during the last couple of hours,\" the company said it a statement on Friday evening. \"We know how much you depend on us to communicate with one another. We fixed the issue - thanks again for your patience this week.\"\n\nEarlier, web monitoring group Downdetector said that for a relatively short period of time on Friday there was an avalanche of messages from users reporting problems with Instagram.\n\nSome of them immediately took to Twitter and other social media platforms to complain about the second Instagram disruption and share memes on the issue.\n\nOn Monday, Facebook - which owns WhatsApp and Instagram - blamed an internal technical issue for the major outage which not only affected the firm's services, but also employees' work passes and email.\n\nThe services were down from about 16:00 GMT until around 22:00 on Monday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pictures show the scene at the mosque after the suicide bomb attack\n\nA suicide bomb attack on a mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz has killed at least 50 people, officials say, in the deadliest assault since US forces left.\n\nBodies were seen scattered inside the Said Abad mosque, used by the minority Shia Muslim community.\n\nMore than 100 people were injured in the blast in the northern city.\n\nThe Islamic State group said it was behind the attack. Sunni Muslim extremists have targeted Shias who they see as heretics.\n\nIS-K, the Afghan regional affiliate of the IS group that is violently opposed to the governing Taliban, has carried out several bombings recently, largely in the east of the country.\n\nMore than 300 people are believed to have been attending Friday prayers when the attack happened\n\nAn IS suicide bomber reportedly detonated an explosive vest as worshippers gathered inside the mosque for Friday prayers.\n\nZalmai Alokzai, a local businessman who rushed to a hospital to check whether doctors needed blood donations, described seeing chaotic scenes after the attack.\n\n\"Ambulances were going back to the incident scene to carry the dead,\" he told AFP news agency.\n\nLocal security officials were quoted by Tolo News as saying that more than 300 people were attending the prayers when the attack happened.\n\nThere are fears that the death toll will rise further.\n\nThe United Nations said Friday's bombing was a \"third deadly attack this week apparently targeting a religious institution\" and was part of a \"disturbing pattern of violence\".\n\nThe UN referred to Sunday's bombing near a mosque in the capital Kabul that left several people dead, and an assault on a madrassa (educational institution) in the eastern city of Khost on Wednesday.\n\nMeanwhile the US said diplomats would on Saturday hold the first in-person talks with Taliban leaders since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\nDuring the two days of meetings the US would press the Taliban to respect women's rights, form an inclusive government and allow humanitarian agencies to operate, a state department spokesperson said.\n\nIS-K, the group that targeted Kabul airport in a devastating bombing in August, has repeatedly targeted Afghanistan's Shia minority in the past. Suicide bombers have struck mosques, sports clubs and schools. In recent weeks, IS has also stepped up a campaign of attacks against the Taliban.\n\nIS targeted a funeral prayer service attended by a number of senior Taliban leaders in Kabul on Sunday, and there have been a spate of smaller attacks in the eastern provinces of Nangarhar and Kunar, where IS previously had its stronghold.\n\nFriday's attack, if it has been carried out by IS as they claim, would mark a grim expansion of their activities into the north of the country. The Taliban say they have arrested dozens of members of IS and are believed to have killed others suspected of links to the group, but publicly they have also played down the threat IS poses.\n\nMany Afghans hoped that the Taliban's takeover would at least herald a more peaceful, if authoritarian, era. But IS represents a significant threat to the Taliban's promise of improved security.\n\nThe Taliban took control of Afghanistan after foreign forces withdrew from the country at the end of August following a deal agreed with the US.\n\nIt came two decades after US forces had removed the militants from power in 2001.", "High energy costs are forcing manufacturers to warn of higher prices for their goods as they pass on increases to consumers.\n\nIceland boss Richard Walker said higher energy bills and other costs meant price rises were now \"inevitable\".\n\nThe warning came as analysts predicted that household energy bills could rise by hundreds of pounds next year.\n\nThey said the energy price cap, which protects domestic consumers, could soar by £400 in the spring.\n\nCornwall Insight forecasts that the energy price cap will rise to about £1,660 by next summer.\n\nThat is about 30% higher than the record £1,277 level for the cap set for winter 2021-22, which began at the start of October.\n\n\"With wholesale gas and electricity prices continuing to reach new records, successive supplier exits during September 2021 and a new level for the default tariff cap, the Great British energy market remains on edge for fresh volatility and further consolidation,\" said Craig Lowrey, senior consultant at Cornwall Insight.\n\nEnergy regulator Ofgem said the price cap \"will ensure that consumers don't pay more than is absolutely necessary this winter\".\n\nBut if gas prices stay high, the price cap will rise, Ofgem said.\n\nThe regulator said its \"number one priority is to protect customers\", but acknowledged \"this is a worrying time for many people\".\n\nBut while the price cap helps households, there is no such safeguard for businesses, which have to absorb the full impact of rising global energy prices.\n\nMr Walker warned that Iceland's energy bill would go up by £20m next year. Alongside higher salaries to address lorry driver shortages and other new costs, he said grocery prices would have to increase.\n\n\"It's inevitable that we will see price rises,\" he told the BBC. \"The UK supermarket industry is one of the most competitive in the world.\n\n\"Our margins are very very tight and we're not an endless sponge that can just absorb all of these different cost increases.\"\n\nAndrew Large, director general of the Confederation of Paper Industries, said: \"This is a highly inflationary situation for the British economy and members will clearly be in a position where they do try to pass those costs on to consumers where they can.\"\n\nOne paper manufacturer, the Northwood Group, said the industry had been \"left to fend for itself\" in the face of \"horrendous\" knock-on effects from the gas price rise.\n\n\"The spike [in gas prices] that we have seen since January is equivalent to a 550% price increase, which of course destroys any industrial planning,\" said chairman Paul Fecher.\n\nLaura Cohen, chief executive of the British Ceramic Confederation, said many of her member firms could even be forced to stop production \"due to uneconomic higher energy costs\".\n\nThis could cause \"severe damage\" to production facilities such as brick kilns, which could not easily be turned off at short notice, she said.\n\nMeanwhile, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has said that by decarbonising the UK's power supply, the country will protect customers from volatile fossil fuel prices.\n\n\"The UK so far, as many of you know, has made great progress in diversifying our energy mix. But we are still very dependent, perhaps too dependent, on fossil fuels and their volatile prices,\" he told a conference organised by trade body Energy UK.\n\nHe said that the government's recent pledge to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2035 - 15 years ahead of the previous target - would help.\n\n\"Our homes and businesses will be powered by affordable, clean and secure electricity generated here in the UK, for people in the UK,\" Mr Kwarteng said.\n\nThe Energy Shop - a price comparison site - warned people to prepare themselves for even greater increases in household bills.\n\nIt said that the next increase in the price cap, due to come in from 1 April 2022, could be £500 or even higher.\n\nFounder Joe Malinowski warned: \"If things don't settle down soon, increases of £600, £700 or even £800 cannot be ruled out.\"\n\nNine energy suppliers have already collapsed in recent weeks and more could be facing the same fate.\n\nThey were unable to keep their price promises as the wholesale price of gas soared.\n\nTheir customers have already seen annual bill increases of hundreds of pounds when they moved to a new provider and away from whichever low-rate fixed deal their supplier had offered.\n\nSome of the heat was drawn from the crisis on Wednesday when Russia said it would increase gas supplies to Europe.\n\nUK wholesale gas prices hit a record high during the day before falling after the Russian intervention.\n\nBut price volatility could continue as investors remain nervous about low stockpiles of gas across Europe.\n\nIf you feel powerless against international business and politics when watching your domestic energy bill go up, you are in good company.\n\nNormally, customers are urged to get active, search and switch to save money - but not now.\n\nUntil recently, the energy price cap was a backstop, protecting the vulnerable. Now it is the most competitive tariff available.\n\nThe cap is shielding households from the wild fluctuation in prices seen on the wholesale markets, but that is only a crumb of comfort when bills and prices across the board are still expected to see a sharp increase.\n\nSo for now, experts simply advise customers to find ways to save energy, brace themselves and budget for bigger bills. Wrap up for a financial chill that could last longer than the winter.\n\nThe energy price cap sets the maximum price suppliers in England, Wales and Scotland can charge customers on a standard - or default - tariff.\n\nThat includes the fixed daily amount customers pay, plus the price per unit they pay for electricity and gas.\n\nThe cap was increased on 1 October, with about 15 million households facing a 12% rise in energy bills, the biggest jump, to the highest amount, seen since the backstop was introduced in January 2019.\n\nThose on standard tariffs, with typical household levels of energy use, saw an increase of £139 - from £1,138 to £1,277 a year.\n\nPrepayment meter customers with average energy use saw a £153 increase.\n\nThat's a far cry from a year previously when on 1 October 2020, the energy price cap was cut by £84, to £1,042.\n\nWill you be affected by rising energy prices? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "North Korea has confirmed it successfully tested a new submarine-launched ballistic missile on Tuesday.\n\nState news outlet KCNA said the missile had \"advanced control guidance technologies\", which could make it harder to track.\n\nNorth Korea has carried out a flurry of weapons tests in recent weeks, launching what it said were hypersonic and long-range weapons.\n\nThe UN prohibits it from testing ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons.\n\nBallistic missiles are considered more threatening than cruise missiles because they can carry more powerful payloads, have a longer range and can fly faster.\n\nNorth Korean state media on Wednesday said its latest missile had new \"controlling and homing\" technology which allowed it to move laterally. It was also capable of \"gliding and jumping movement\". It released pictures of the missile as well.\n\nIt said it was fired from the same submarine that launched an older missile in a 2016 test.\n\nThis missile was one of many new weapons put on display at a defence exhibition in Pyongyang last week.\n\nReports did not mention leader Kim Jong-un, suggesting he did not attend the test.\n\nOn Tuesday, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said one missile had been launched from the port of Sinpo, in the east of North Korea where Pyongyang usually bases its submarines.\n\nIt landed in the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, and travelled about 450km (280 miles) at a maximum height of 60km.\n\nIn October 2019, North Korea tested a submarine-launched ballistic missile, firing a Pukguksong-3 from an underwater platform.\n\nAt the time, KCNA said it had been fired at a high angle to minimise the \"external threat\".\n\nHowever, if the missile had been launched on a standard trajectory, instead of a vertical one, it could have travelled about 1,900km. That would have put all of South Korea and Japan within range.\n\nBeing launched from a submarine can also make missiles harder to detect and would allow North Korea to deploy its weapons far beyond the Korean Peninsula.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does North Korea keep launching missiles?\n\nThe latest launch comes as South Korea develops its own weapons, in what observers say has turned into an arms race on the Korean peninsula.\n\nSeoul is holding what is said to be South Korea's largest ever defence exhibition this week. It will reportedly unveil a new fighter jet as well as guided weapons like missiles. It is also due to launch its own space rocket soon.\n\nNorth and South Korea technically remain at war as the Korean War, which split the peninsula into two countries and which saw the US backing the South, ended in 1953 with an armistice.\n\nKim Jong-un said last week that he did not wish for war to break out again. He said his country needed to continue developing weapons for self-defence against enemies, namely the US which he accused of hostility.\n\nMeanwhile, South Korean, Japanese and US intelligence chiefs are meeting in Seoul to discuss North Korea.\n\nThe US envoy to North Korea, Sung Kim, is expected to discuss how to restart dialogue with Pyongyang, including on whether there should be a formal declaration of the end of the Korean War.\n\nThis week he reiterated the stance of US President Joe Biden's administration that it is open to meeting with North Korea without pre-conditions.\n\nPrevious talks between the US and North Korea broke down due to fundamental disagreements on denuclearisation.\n\nThe US wants North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons before sanctions can be eased, but North Korea has so far refused.", "All remaining investigations into allegations of abuse by British soldiers in Iraq have now finished without any prosecutions being brought.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said the Service Police Legacy Investigations - which was looking at the claims - had now \"officially closed its doors\".\n\nThe SPLI's job was to investigate Iraqi civilians' claims of serious criminal behaviour by UK armed forces.\n\nSince it began, it has assessed 1,291 allegations, Mr Wallace said.\n\nThe SPLI was made up of Royal Navy Police and Royal Air Force Police.\n\nIt took charge of investigations in February 2017, after the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT) - which had been looking at them - was shut down.\n\nThe investigations related to the alleged behaviour of UK armed forces in Iraq during the war from 2003 to 2009.\n\nIn a written statement to the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr Wallace said that although 178 allegations had been formally pursued through 55 separate investigations, no soldiers had been prosecuted as a result of the SPLI's work.\n\nAccording to the SPLI, in 2019 five people were referred to the military prosecutor, the Service Prosecuting Authority, but no charges were brought.\n\n\"The vast majority of the more than 140,000 members of our armed forces who served in Iraq did so honourably,\" said Mr Wallace in his statement. \"Many sadly suffered injuries or death, with devastating consequences for them and their families.\"\n\nHe said while some allegations against British troops were credible, others were not.\n\nThe credibility of allegations had been a \"significant challenge throughout the investigations\", he said.\n\n\"However not all allegations and claims were spurious, otherwise investigations would not have proceeded beyond initial examination and no claims for compensation would have been paid.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Defence's investigations into allegations of war crimes will have satisfied few.\n\nThe initial investigations, under IHAT, were criticised by MPs in 2017 who said it empowered law firms to bring cases on an \"industrial scale\". One of those lawyers, Phil Shiner, was later found guilty of misconduct.\n\nVeterans and those still serving were swept up in long, costly and often clumsy investigations, even when some had already been cleared of wrongdoing.\n\nNor did IHAT satisfy those who believed that there were genuine cases to answer.\n\nThe MoD wanted to show it was properly investigating allegations of war crimes. But it did not want those investigations to be conducted by anyone else.\n\nMost importantly, the MoD did not want this to end up in the International Criminal Court in the Hague.\n\nIn 2020 the ICC decided not to pursue a formal investigation into alleged war crimes by British troops in Iraq. But prosecutor Fatou Bensouda still said there was clear evidence that UK forces were responsible for numerous war crimes including illegal killings, torture and rape in Iraq.\n\nMr Wallace added: \"It is sadly clear, from all the investigations the UK conducted, that some shocking and shameful incidents did happen in Iraq. We recognise that there were four convictions of UK military personnel for offences in Iraq including offences of assault and inhuman treatment.\n\n\"The government's position is clear - we deplore and condemn all such incidents.\"\n\nIn 2005, three British soldiers who abused Iraqi civilians were jailed and dismissed from the Army in disgrace.\n\nTwo years later, a soldier was jailed for a year in connection with the death of Iraqi civilian Baha Mousa in September 2003.\n\nIn total, the Ministry of Defence has paid out more than £20 million in compensation settlements for abuse claims from Iraqi nationals.\n• None All but one Iraq war case against UK soldiers dropped", "The FBI has given no details about the searches\n\nFBI agents are sweeping properties in the US linked to Russian billionaire oligarch Oleg Deripaska.\n\nMr Deripaska, who has close ties to Russia's President Vladimir Putin, was placed under US sanctions in 2018.\n\nThe oligarch's spokesman told Reuters news agency the FBI is searching two homes owned by relatives of Mr Deripaska under court warrants related to those sanctions.\n\nOthers stood guard outside behind yellow crime scene tape.\n\nThe representative said another property in New York was also being searched.\n\nSo far it is unclear exactly why the searches are taking place. A spokesperson for the FBI told NBC News the agency was conducting \"law enforcement activity\" at the Washington DC property, without giving any further details.\n\nMr Deripaska, 53, made his fortune in the 1990s as a metals broker. In 1997 he founded the industrial group Basic Element, one of Russia's largest, which he still owns.\n\nThe US Treasury placed Mr Deripaska under sanctions in 2018 along with six other Russian oligarchs, as well as a number of companies they own and senior Russian government officials.\n\nSteve Mnuchin, then Treasury secretary, said the move was a response to Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election, which Moscow denies.\n\n\"The Russian government engages in a range of malign activity around the globe,\" a statement released at the time said. \"Russian oligarchs and elites who profit from this corrupt system will no longer be insulated from the consequences of their government's destabilizing activities.\"\n\nA year later US President Donald Trump lifted sanctions on three firms linked to Mr Deripaska after he ceded control, a move criticised by Democrat politicians. Sanctions remained on the magnate himself, however.\n\nMr Deripaska also has links with Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager for President Trump, who was convicted of fraud before his pardon by Mr Trump in December 2020.\n\nIn 2016 the Guardian newspaper reported that Mr Manafort had worked with Mr Deripaska on investment deals in Ukraine.", "A man who is believed to have had the heaviest kidneys on record has spoken of his determination to get his life back following surgery to remove them.\n\nThe inherited condition causes fluid-filled cysts to grow in the kidneys and can lead to kidney failure. It affects around one in 1,000 people and there is no cure.\n\nThe BBC met Warren a few weeks before his major operation at Churchill Hospital in Oxford, and caught up with him three months later.", "Google has unveiled its latest smartphone, containing the tech giant's first self-designed computer chip.\n\nThe Pixel 6 contains Google's \"Tensor\" processor, which it says enables new phone features powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning.\n\nIt is also the first phone in the series with a \"Pro\" model, designed to compete at the high end of the market.\n\n\"The whole goal when we started was to reach this point,\" said Rick Osterloh, Google's head of devices.\n\n\"Really, this is our original vision that we're finally able to get to after building a lot of capabilities both in technology and in product development capabilities,\" he told the BBC.\n\nGoogle owns and operates the Android platform, used by almost every mobile phone maker apart from Apple. But the top end of the Android market has been dominated by other smartphone brands such as Samsung, whose phones can cost more than £1,000.\n\nGoogle's Pixel line has often been priced in the middle of the market.\n\nBut the new Pixel 6 will retail for £599/$599, while the Pro model will cost £849/$899. bringing it closer to the price of competing top-end devices.\n\nThat is the same launch price for the base model as the Pixel 5, which had, Google said at the time, been designed for \"an economic downturn\".\n\n\"Obviously, there's a lot of technology and these are expensive, for sure, but we're trying to offer users good value despite the fact that these are flagships,\" Mr Osterloh said.\n\nBoth the Pixel 6 and Pro are standard form-factor smartphones with a striking large horizontal bar across the upper back of the phone.\n\nThat bar contains all the camera lenses and sensors, instead of putting them off to one side in a camera \"bump\" popular on many modern models.\n\nBoth versions have a 50-megapixel (MP) main camera and a 12MP ultrawide. The Pro model has an additional 48MP camera, giving it a 4x optical zoom.\n\nThe Pro model also has more memory, a higher-resolution screen, and a faster screen refresh rate of up to 120hz - or 120 screen refreshes a second, which can make animations and fast movements appear smoother.\n\nModern smartphones rely heavily on \"computational photography\" to take good, clear photos. It is what gives each phone maker their own distinctive \"look\" to photos.\n\n\"For a long time, Pixel has been known for awesome photography, which is truly a function of our ability to do AI-driven, machine-learning-driven improvements to the camera experience,\" Mr Osterloh said.\n\n\"With this new platform, with Tensor, we've literally designed the platform to to be able to support he most cutting-edge work we have in all aspects of AI.\"\n\nOne of those is what Google calls a \"magic eraser\" - a system where the Photos app will detect distractions in the photo such as someone walking in the background, and try to remove them. The company says it can also be used for things such as power poles or wires, and users can manually select things to remove as well as the automatic system.\n\nAnother new feature is \"face deblur\".\n\nWhen taking a photo with the rear-facing camera, it will use all available cameras and take multiple versions. So if a person is constantly moving - such as Google's example of a young child - the camera will attempt to fix a blurry face by combining all the data, and attempt to figure out what the non-blurred version should look like.\n\nThe new processing power in its latest chip means that technology can now be applied to videos as they are recorded, giving them the same type of style as Pixel's still cameras.\n\nAsked if the new features would make their way to other Android phones, Mr Osterloh said: \"Many of them will only be Pixel\".\n\nHe said while it is possible some might eventually be available on other devices, \"a lot of it really requires this custom architecture and therefore it's likely to be on products that run Tensor for the foreseeable future only\".\n\nGoogle had first teased the existence of the Pixel 6 and Pixel Pro in August - along with its Tensor processor.\n\nUntil now, it has used chips designed by chip firm Qualcomm. But it says the Tensor chip is up to 80% faster than the Pixel 5 from 2020, as well as being power-efficient.\n\nOne significant advantage to its new chip, Google says, is that it can do more on the phone itself, without being connected to the internet - particularly through Google's popular virtual assistant.\n\nFor example, it says that voice transcription - which now uses the Google Assistant - will be faster and more accurate. Users can say \"Hey Google, type\" instead of tapping a button, and can also use voice commands to send messages. The voice system can be used at the same time as the text keyboard.\n\nGoogle's recorder app also leverages the snappier processor to live-transcribe audio recordings as they're made, even when the phone is not connected to the internet.\n\nIt also means that Google's live translation features are snappier than before, as more of the processing is done on the machine itself.\n\nBut it does not mean that Google Assistant will work perfectly offline for privacy campaigners.\n\n\"To be really useful, you need to assume that it's going to use the cloud,\" Mr Osterloh said.\n\n\"The speech recognition part of that workflow will happen on the device... [and] all the dictation\".\n\nBut most people ask for weather, or sports scores or other kinds of information that has to be retrieved from the internet.\n\n\"We're moving more and more workloads from the cloud to the device, we're trying to do that... to make sure the user has the best possible performance. But certainly this indicates a direction for privacy as well.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Children's Commissioner Koulla Yiasouma described the waiting times as \"terrifying\"\n\nTwenty-four children in Northern Ireland with confirmed or suspected cancers had to wait over a year for a first appointment, a review has found.\n\nThe figure, for April, is in a review of waiting lists by the NI Commissioner for Children and Young People.\n\nMore than 17,000 children were waiting more than a year to see a hospital consultant for the first time.\n\nThe health minster later said that by September there were no \"red flag\" paediatric patients waiting that long.\n\nThe review examined official waiting list data for children's health services not published as part of the Department of Health's statistical bulletins.\n\nThe commissioner said the waiting times were \"terrifying\".\n\nKoulla Yiasouma said that waiting for any health service treatment can and does have a \"profound impact on a child's health outcomes, emotional and mental well-being\".\n\nShe said it was \"shocking not only for the child but their families too\".\n\n\"Each and every single one of them is a child and each and every single one of them is a child whose life has almost been put on hold, and a family whose life has been put on hold, because they are not getting the most fundamental right of healthcare that they deserve,\" she said.\n\nDr Ray Nethercott, of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said he was shocked by the cancer figures.\n\n\"It is outrageous and there are probably many other words that spring to the minds of parents who are worried and concerned and colleagues who are facing into this,\" he said.\n\n\"Some of the answer will be about embracing and delivering that reform, delivering innovation, delivering different ways of managing children as close to home as possible.\n\n\"To be able to do that, it's not all about the workforce, but it's actually about giving some due care and attention to child health services as a distinct entity.\n\n\"I can't say that there's any way to do it immediately - I've got lots of ideas as do many of my colleagues.\n\n\"But really children and children's voices and people that work with children have a very small voice in our health system.\"\n\nThe review, called More Than Just a Number, examined the number of children and young people on waiting lists, and the length of time they wait to access first or review appointments with consultants for treatment in hospitals and also for services based in the community.\n\nIt found that in April 2021, one in five children and young people in Northern Ireland were waiting for a first or review appointment with a consultant.\n\nIt also found 17,194 children and young people were waiting more than one year and 510 more than four years.\n\nThe conditions affected included scoliosis, speech and language therapy and autism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMandy O'Connor has two daughters waiting for reviews.\n\nHer eldest daughter had an operation in Turkey for scoliosis in 2018 that cost them £35,000 for the operation alone, otherwise she would have been waiting 18 months for surgery in Northern Ireland.\n\nShe has not been seen in Northern Ireland since that operation and the family is travelling to Turkey on Wednesday for a follow-up appointment.\n\nHer second daughter doesn't know if she has scoliosis which means time is of the essence to find out so they can tackle it early.\n\n\"From when Tasha [her eldest daughter] was diagnosed she was in extreme pain for the 16 weeks while we were fundraising,\" Mrs O'Connor said.\n\n\"To think what she would have been like for 18 months on that waiting list and even for the referral it was 16 weeks.\n\n\"It was marked urgent at the time - Tasha wasn't seen for a referral. The referral went in on July 2018, she wasn't seen until November 2018.\"\n\nShe said her second daughter had to wait 12 months for a first referral.\n\n\"That was in August 2019. She wasn't seen until August 2020 and as yet she hasn't been seen since.\"\n\nThe review found 17,194 children and young people were waiting over one year to see a hospital consultant for the first time\n\nAs well as looking at hospital waits, it also raises other issues including the \"complete absence\" of regional monitoring or reporting of waiting times for child health services in the community.\n\nThe absence of such critical information according to the commissioner makes it impossible to get a clear understanding of the number of children who are waiting for these services.\n\nIt found that at least 26,818 children in Northern Ireland were waiting for a community-based health service but it is thought the figure is much higher.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said he was grateful to the commissioner for the \"detailed review\".\n\n\"My department and the wider HSC (Health and Social Care) system will carefully consider the report and recommendations from the commissioner as part of our ongoing work to transform and rebuild services,\" he said.\n\n\"Waiting times were clearly unacceptable prior to Covid-19 and have been exacerbated by the devastating impact of the pandemic across all aspects of service provision including, unfortunately, across children's services.\n\n\"Addressing these waiting lists is a top priority for me... it will require systemic change and long-term investment.\"\n\nMs Yiasouma said she welcomed the health minister's commitment to improve waiting lists and to address the \"underlying issues which drive them\".\n\n\"Waiting times are one of the clearest indicators of a system under immense strain and unable to meet the needs of its population,\" she added.\n\n\"We must strive to get to a point where all children and young people can get access to the right care, at the right time and the right place and no child ls left waiting months or years in a queue to access services.\"\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said the waiting times figures for children with cancer were \"utterly appalling\".\n\n\"I think we should see somebody very senior in the Department of Health appointed as a deputy chief medical officer to oversee children's health in Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"I think we need to invest more in children's health.\n\n\"I think children should have a degree of priority when it comes to such services.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTributes are being paid to former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, who has died of Covid-19 complications aged 84.\n\nThe former top military officer died on Monday morning, his family said. He was fully vaccinated.\n\nPowell became the first African-American secretary of state in 2001 under Republican President George W Bush.\n\nHe also sparked controversy for helping garner support for the Iraq War.\n\n\"We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,\" the family said in a statement, thanking the staff at the Walter Reed Medical Center \"for their caring treatment\".\n\nPowell had previously been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer which may have made him more susceptible to Covid symptoms, according to US media, as well as Parkinson's disease.\n\nPresident Joe Biden, calling Powell a \"dear friend\", said he had embodied the \"highest ideals of both warrior and diplomat\".\n\nFormer President Bush was among the first to pay tribute to \"a great public servant\" as well as \"a family man and a friend\" who \"was such a favourite of presidents that he earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom - twice\".\n\nMr Bush's vice-president Dick Cheney saluted Powell as \"a man who loved his country and served her long and well\" while also being \"a trailblazer and role model for so many\".\n\nFormer President Barack Obama, a Democrat, tweeted that Powell \"understood what was best in this country, and tried to bring his own life, career, and public statements in line with that ideal\".\n\nCondoleezza Rice, Powell's successor as secretary of state and the first black woman in the role, called him \"a truly great man\" whose \"devotion to our nation was not limited to the many great things he did while in uniform or during his time spent in Washington\".\n\n\"Much of his legacy will live on in the countless number of young lives he touched.\"\n\nCurrent secretary of state Antony Blinken called Powell's life \"a victory of the American Dream\".\n\nPowell gave the Department of State \"the very best of his leadership,\" Mr Blinken said. \"He never stopped believing in America, and we believe in America in no small part because it helped produce someone like Colin Powell.\"\n\nFormer UK Prime Minister Tony Blair - who worked closely with Powell during the early years of the Iraq War - said he was someone of \"immense capability and integrity\" who was \"a great companion, with a lovely and self-deprecating sense of humour\".\n\nColin Powell was a soldier for 35 years and rose to the rank of four-star general\n\nRemembrances also poured in from prominent African-American leaders. Civil rights activist Al Sharpton called him \"a sincere and committed man\", while members of the Congressional Black Caucus praised his \"legacy of valour and integrity\".\n\nUS Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin, the first black man to serve in that role, hailed Powell as \"a tremendous personal friend and mentor\" who would be \"impossible to replace\".\n\nOnce a moderate Republican, Powell became a trusted military adviser to a number of leading US politicians.\n\nBut he broke with his party to endorse Barack Obama in 2008, as well as Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020. A sharp critic of Republican president Donald Trump, Powell said he could no longer call himself a Republican after the violent 6 January riot at the US Capitol.\n\nHe also saw service and was wounded in Vietnam, an experience that later helped define his own military and political strategies.\n\nHowever, he would say himself that his own legacy had been damaged by a speech to the United Nations Security Council which used faulty intelligence to back the invasion of Iraq.\n\n\"It was painful. It's painful now,\" Powell told ABC News in 2005.\n\nColin Powell was an iconic American success story. The child of immigrants, he became the first black man to rise to the highest positions in US military and diplomacy.\n\nIn the 1990s, Powell was one of the few American public figures with appeal that crossed political boundaries - reminiscent of General Dwight D Eisenhower after the Second World War.\n\nUnlike Eisenhower, Powell would not ascend to the presidency - although there were abundant calls for him to run.\n\nThose calls dwindled after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, a decision Powell later acknowledged was a \"blot\" on his legacy. He had staked his reputation on the presence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction - and his reputation suffered for it.\n\nIn his later years, Powell became a different kind of icon. His drift away from the Republican Party following Donald Trump's rise to power reflected the dwindling influence of Powell's moderate, internationalist faction within the American conservative movement.\n\nPowell's life may be somewhat overshadowed by his cause of death, as he now ranks as the most prominent American to succumb to Covid-19.", "Sir David was attacked during a meeting with his constituents on Friday\n\nNorthern Ireland's first and deputy first ministers have led tributes at Stormont to the Conservative MP Sir David Amess who was killed last week.\n\nFirst Minister Paul Givan described him as a political \"giant\" at Westminster and a \"tireless\" backbencher who was a good friend of the DUP and the union.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill expressed sympathy to his family.\n\nShe said no politician \"should face any attack when carrying out work on behalf of their constituency\".\n\nMs O'Neill also highlighted the abuse she and other Northern Ireland assembly members (MLAs) have been subjected to on a daily basis.\n\nShe also revealed that she once had to \"physically remove an uninvited person from her home\".\n\nMr Givan also warned about the rise in abuse being directed at public representatives both online and also in the media.\n\nIn his tribute to Mr Amess, he singled out the MP's work in helping migrants working in his constituency.\n\nMLAs from across the chamber joined the tribute to Sir David and also called for an end to the abuse of public representatives.\n\nSir David was stabbed at his constituency surgery in Essex on Friday.\n\nPoliticians in Northern Ireland have been contacted by police about their security following the attack.\n\nEarlier, a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) peer who survived two murder bids described Sir David's murder as \"an attack on democracy, not just an individual\".\n\nThe Continuity IRA left a bomb outside Lord Dodds' constituency office in 2003\n\nLord Dodds said there was determination across the political spectrum \"to carry on\".\n\nThe peer is a former deputy leader of the DUP who served as MP for North Belfast from 2001 to 2019.\n\nIn 1996, Lord Dodds, then a Belfast councillor, and his wife, DUP assembly member Diane Dodds, both escaped injury in a gun attack.\n\nThe couple were visiting their ill son in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital when the IRA shot and wounded their police bodyguard.\n\nSeven years later, dissident republicans left a bomb outside the former DUP deputy leader's constituency office.\n\nLord Dodds said that following Sir David's murder, politicians from across the United Kingdom will be thinking: \"There by the grace of God, it could've been me.\"\n\n\"Because it appears completely random,\" he said.\n\n\"Why was it Jo Cox, why was it David Amess? Many hundreds of MPs hold constituency surgeries, particularly on Fridays and at weekends.\n\n\"This is an attack on democracy, not just an individual - people trying to silence and shut down political opinion and debate, democracy in the United Kingdom.\"\n\nBut he said that \"there is a determination across the political spectrum to carry on and not let these people win\".\n\nThe former DUP MP also called for a social media crackdown on online trolls.\n\nHe said that politicians, in particular females, are \"abused on a daily basis\" on social media.\n\n\"We've seen people attacked before on social media but it has got a lot worse and social media companies have to take responsibility and stop these anonymous trolls that whip up hate and hysteria,\" Lord Dodds told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"There needs to be a greater condemnation across the board from political spectrum, especially from those who seek to eulogise terrorism at times.\n\n\"Because of social media, there is a lot more known about elected representatives, about their movements, their appointments.\n\n\"MPs want to reach out to their constituents through social media, but it does have its drawbacks.\"", "Ismail Abedi has so far refused to answer questions in case he incriminates himself\n\nThe elder brother of the Manchester Arena suicide bomber has left the UK ahead of an appearance at a public inquiry he had been ordered to attend.\n\nIsmail Abedi, 28, has always refused to answer questions from the inquiry in case he incriminates himself.\n\nIts chairman, Sir John Saunders, had rejected Ismail Abedi's position and demanded he appear as a witness.\n\nThe BBC found him in Manchester, where he still lived, last year and asked him why he was refusing to participate.\n\nAbedi left the UK some weeks ago on a flight to the Middle East, the BBC understands.\n\nHe asked for immunity from prosecution before he would agree to give evidence, but Sir John refused his request.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nHis younger brother Hashem Abedi was jailed last year after being convicted of murdering all those who died.\n\nPaul Greaney QC, counsel to the inquiry, said Ismail Abedi was \"not currently in the country and there is no indication as to when he will return\".\n\nMr Greaney suggested Sir John may want to use his powers to compel attendance and urged Ismail Abedi to comply.\n\n\"As he surely must understand, the public may infer he has something to hide and so, sir, may you\", Mr Greaney said.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed in the May 2017 bombing\n\nIsmail Abedi was arrested the morning after the bombing and interviewed extensively by counter-terrorism police for nearly a fortnight but was later released without charge.\n\nHe denied any involvement in or knowledge of the bombing and stated he had played no part in the radicalisation of his younger brother.\n\nWhile he initially answered police questions, he subsequently gave \"no comment\" answers during the majority of his 25 interviews.\n\nThe inquiry was also told he was stopped by police after arriving at Heathrow Airport in 2015 and his mobile phone had contained recruitment videos and literature produced by the Islamic State group.\n\nThe hearing heard authorities viewed his Facebook account, which included a picture of him holding a machine gun with the Islamic State group logo imprinted on the image.\n\nSalman Abedi in the foyer of the Manchester Arena just seconds before he blew himself up\n\nEvidence presented during Hashem Abedi's trial also related to his brother Ismail.\n\nHis name was used to buy car insurance for Salman and Hashem Abedi, neither of whom had a driving licence, for a car they bought to transport materials around Manchester during the preparations before the attack.\n\nA bank card in the name of the brothers' mother Samia - which received more than £1,000 in benefits each month despite her being in Libya - was used by Salman and Hashem Abedi to buy relevant items during their attack preparations.\n\nThe card was found in Ismail's possessions when he was arrested following the bombing.\n\nThe inquiry previously heard the police investigation remains open and there would be further attempts to speak to him.\n\nThe Abedi brothers' father Ramadan and mother, both suspects over the attack, are in Libya. Neither has engaged with the inquiry.\n\nMeanwhile, the inquiry has also heard Ahmed Taghdi, another witness due to give evidence this week, was stopped from leaving the UK on Monday.\n\nCurrently in custody, he is expected to appear before the inquiry as a witness on Thursday.\n\nThe hearing was told he was able to provide evidence of a return ticket to the UK on 20 October. His original destination was not disclosed.\n\nLast week, the inquiry chairman went to the High Court in order to compel the 29-year-old to attend.\n\nMr Taghdi, a childhood friend of Salman Abedi, was arrested during the police investigation into the atrocity.\n\nThe inquiry has previously heard how he accompanied Salman Abedi on a visit to jailed terrorist Abdalraouf Abdallah, who experts believe \"groomed\" the bomber and helped buy a car that was used to store explosives.\n\nMr Taghdi, who was a prosecution witness in the trial of Hashem Abedi, has denied any involvement in or knowledge of the attack when questioned by police and was later released without charge.\n\nHe is now due to give evidence on Thursday, while Abdallah, currently in custody, is due to give evidence on Wednesday, both in person.\n\nAbdallah was jailed for terror offences in May 2016\n\nThe inquiry has been told that both are key witnesses as the hearings turn to why and how Salman and Hashem Abedi became radicalised.\n\nMr Greaney said: \"This is without question one of the most difficult and troubling questions for the inquiry to grapple with.\n\n\"It is very difficult to comprehend why a person with any shred of decency could ever think of detonating a suicide bomb in the midst of a crowd, killing or maiming many innocent victims.\"\n\nOn Tuesday the inquiry heard evidence from radicalisation expert Dr Matthew Wilkinson, who detailed his general overview report of Islamist extremism.\n\nHe will return to give evidence later this year on matters relating to Salman Abedi.\n\nThe inquiry will also hear evidence about Salman Abedi's family, his friends and associates, his internet and social media use, his educational background and the mosques which he and other family members attended.\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. Menopause: 'There must be a supportive voice in workplace'\n\nNorthern Ireland's employers could end up on the \"wrong side of the law\" unless they make strides to facilitate women going through the menopause.\n\nThat is according to the Equality Commission's chief commissioner.\n\nWith women making up nearly half of the working population, there is pressure for better awareness and for workplaces to support those experiencing symptoms.\n\nThe commission's Geraldine McGahey said that \"many employers are doing really well - others are not\".\n\n\"I think every employer should be walking away thinking I need to check my practices and procedures, I need to check what the needs are of my female employees, both now and in the future,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\nThe issue has reached parliament, where Westminster's women and equalities committee has begun an inquiry into the consequences of menopause in the workplace.\n\nIt is estimated 900,000 women in the UK have left jobs as a result of menopausal symptoms.\n\nGeraldine McGahey says guidance drawn up by various bodies, including the Equality Commission, provides good practice examples\n\nThe Equality Commission said positive strides are being made.\n\nEven with the pandemic, some employers have been making changes including the local health trusts.\n\nBelfast City Council is currently finalising a menopause policy developed through its women's steering group.\n\nPwC's Lynne Rainey says women over 40 are the fastest growing demographic in the workforce\n\nPricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which has offices in Belfast, has implemented a number of changes, including changing insurance arrangements so women can access cover for menopause.\n\nFacilitating working from home and training career coaches about the issue is also on offer.\n\n\"It is a business-critical issue for us. Women over 40 are the fastest growing demographic in the workforce.\n\n\"They bring a huge amount of experience and expertise and, as a business, which is clearly a space of diversity and inclusion, we need a workforce that remains inclusive and diverse and we want to retain that talent.\n\n\"We also want to attract to us as well.\"\n\nFor those going through the menopause, such as Linzi Conway, a 51-year-old self-employed management consultant, the symptoms can be \"debilitating, especially the impact of insomnia\".\n\n\"As I have no one to pass the work on to, I sometimes muddle through and that lack of support is a challenge,\" she said.\n\nLinzi, who works from home, said a result for her would be being able to explain to a client that she is unable to work on a particular day due to menopause symptoms - but \"we aren't quite there yet\", she added.\n\n\"It's absolutely not an excuse, these are real symptoms, especially the tiredness, the pains and the brain fog - they all affect our ability to do a day's work.\n\n\"I think one of the benefits of the pandemic is forcing us to remodel and look at our work place differently and allowing that flexibility of working life, and that is going to help a lot of people whether it is menopause, mental health or anything else.\"\n\nEarlier this year, the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions' NI committee and the Labour Relations Agency produced new guidance to address equality issues in relation to women affected by the menopause in employment.\n\nIt provides good practice examples and suggested tools for both employers and employees.\n\nGeraldine McGahey said the tools can be as simple as good ventilation, a fan on the desk, change in uniform or just providing a culture where people feel comfortable talking about it.\n\n\"We are finding a really positive interest in the subject,\" she said.\n\n\"Our first conference had 121 delegates and that is organisations not people.\n\n\"We are running more events and have had over 500 downloads of our guidance notes.\"", "At least one house was completely destroyed in the blast\n\nTwo adults and two children have been taken to hospital after an explosion at a South Ayrshire housing estate.\n\nPolice say four homes were caught up in the blast in Ayr. Witnesses said at least one terraced house was destroyed, with those on either side of the property severely damaged.\n\nThe explosion was reported in the Kincaidston area at 19:10 on Monday and was heard for miles around.\n\nInquiries are ongoing to establish the cause of the blast.\n\nScottish Gas Networks said it was ensuring the site around the \"serious explosion\" was made safe.\n\nEmergency crews were called to the scene just after 19:00 on Monday\n\nLocal councillor Chris Cullen told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the explosion in Gorse Park was caused by gas.\n\nAsked to describe the scene, Mr Cullen said: \"It is quite harrowing actually.\n\n\"Early yesterday evening there was a row of houses and now there is a hole.\"\n\nMr Cullen also told the programme that if the gas from the affected properties could not be capped, then it could be days before people were allowed to return to their homes.\n\nThe area around the explosion was covered with debris\n\nA car parked in a nearby street was among the vehicles damaged by flying debris\n\nThe area was evacuated, with two local rest centres set up to provide shelter to those that needed it.\n\nThe fire service said nine appliances and specialist resources, including an air ambulance, attended the incident.\n\nA man who lives about 100m from the explosion site told the BBC that his whole house shook with the force of the blast.\n\nKerr McCann was one of the first on the scene. He was arriving home when saw a \"massive plume of fire\" in the sky over the street.\n\nHe said: \"Immediately after I felt a big bang, I knew it was an explosion. I was in the army so I know what explosions are.\n\n\"I ran up, about a quarter of a mile away... There was fire in the back garden and pretty much in where the house was.\n\n\"The house was not where it was, it was scattered about the street.\"\n\nMr McCann said he and other people who had run to help were removed from the area for their own safety shortly after.\n\nHe added: \"The whole house has disappeared, the gable end of the other house is opened up and there's cars with windows put in from the shrapnel.\n\n\"Passing the shop on the way back I heard people saying stuff came off the shelves from the explosion.\"\n\nCaroline Finnett, who lives in Kincaidston, was playing bingo at a friend's house when she heard a \"massive bang\".\n\nShe heard sirens and saw smoke billowing, so made her way back home. Her street was littered with broken roof tiles.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"We walked up to where the house has been blown away, and it was horrendous - was like something from a movie set. It was overwhelming.\n\nMs Finnett then took hot food to the community centre where those affected are sheltering, and offered up her spare room to anyone who needed it.\n\nWe are at the entrance to the Kincaidston estate which, at the moment, is as far as we are allowed to go.\n\nLocal residents are being allowed in and out of the area.\n\nPolice say that investigations into the explosion are ongoing and there has been a sizeable presence from Scottish Gas Networks here.\n\nThere is a lot of chat on social media, which we have not been able to verify, that it was a gas explosion.\n\nThere is work going on to make sure that people can return to their homes and still have heating while the gas to the area affected by the explosion is sealed off to prevents any further danger.\n\nBut police did tell us earlier this morning that the area still isn't 100% safe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The blast was reported in Kincaidston shortly after 19:00 on Monday\n\nHomes nearby were evacuated and the area showered with debris following the blast\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"Four houses have been affected by the explosion.\n\n\"Two adults and two children have been taken to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock.\n\n\"A number of premises have been evacuated and two local rest centres have been set up to assist.\n\n\"Local road closures are in place and we would advise people to avoid the area at the present time.\"\n\nA spokesman for Scottish Gas Networks said: \"At around 20:00 tonight we received a request to assist the emergency services following the reports of a serious explosion in Gorse Park, Ayr.\n\n\"Our engineers are currently assisting the emergency services to ensure the immediate vicinity is made safe in our role as the gas emergency service.\"\n\nCommunity appeals have been started for food and drink supplies for those staying at the rest centres.\n\nBusinesses have been offering meals and the nearby Sundrum holiday caravan park offered accommodation for anybody who needed it.\n\nGlazing firms and several joiners pledged to help residents secure their properties.\n\nOn Tuesday morning South Ayrshire Council said the response from the local community had been overwhelming.\n\nIt tweeted: \"Thank you all so much for your generosity following the incident in Kincaidston last night. We have everything we need. Please stop bringing donations now.\"", "Octavian, who has worked with artists including Skepta and Mura Masa, won BBC Music's Sound of 2019\n\nRapper Octavian, who won the BBC's Sound of 2019 award, has announced he's quitting music.\n\nIn 2020 an album release was scrapped, and he was dropped by his record label, after allegations of physical and mental abuse by his ex-girlfriend.\n\nHe strongly denied the allegations at the time and said he was dealing with the matter \"legally and properly\".\n\nThis week he wrote on Instagram that he is \"not in a good place\" and that \"all this negativity is draining.\"\n\n\"Thank you for your patience. Forever grateful. Going away for now. Will see you soon,\" he wrote.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe rapper and his label parted ways in November 2020.\n\nPosting on Twitter and Instagram, the musician's ex-partner claimed he \"frequently kicked and punched\" her during their three-year relationship.\n\nA spokesperson for Black Butter Records told Newsbeat at the time: \"We at Black Butter have taken the decision not to continue working with Octavian and we will not be releasing his album.\n\n\"We do not condone domestic abuse of any kind and we have suggested Octavian seeks professional help at this time.\"\n\nHis ex-partner posted a thread on Twitter, including a video and photos, saying she was subject to physical, verbal and psychological abuse during their relationship. She alleges violence including being kicked in the stomach.\n\nOctavian acknowledged at the time on his own Instagram that she was his ex-girlfriend and said he broke up with her. In a separate, longer video reposted by another account he said he had never been abusive.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "MPs bowed their heads in a minute's silence to remember their former colleague, Sir David Amess, who was killed in his Essex constituency.\n\nBoris Johnson said that Sir David \"simply wanted to serve the people of Essex\".\n\nFollowing sessions of remembrance in both Houses, members attended a memorial service at nearby St Margaret's Church.", "Channel 4 subtitles, signing and audio description are not likely to return on TV until mid-November, almost two months after a catastrophic fault.\n\nThe outage, which has already lasted more than three weeks, has angered deaf, hard of hearing and visually impaired viewers.\n\nMore than 500 people have complained to broadcasting regulator Ofcom.\n\nThe fault happened on 25 September when a fire suppressant system destroyed hard disks at a broadcast centre.\n\nAn emergency back-up subtitling system also failed. The channel is building a new system from scratch, and said it will fix the problem more quickly than its current prediction of mid-November if it can.\n\nThe incident at the broadcast centre owned by Red Bee Media also affected other broadcasters like the BBC and Channel 5, although their services have now been restored.\n\n\"Channel 4 would like to apologise to viewers for not currently being able to provide access services,\" a statement said. \"We realise how frustrating this is for our viewers.\"\n\nThe broadcaster will begin to offer subtitles for its biggest shows like The Great British Bake Off and Gogglebox on its online catch-up service All4 from this week.\n\nHowever, the channel cannot provide audio description or sign language services at all. \"These services were irretrievably lost during the incident and we won't be able to restore them until we move to the new system we are building,\" it said in an update published on Tuesday.\n\nIt added: \"We cannot rush this and run the risk of something going wrong. Something like this needs to be installed slowly to ensure our channels don't come off air and to prevent something like this happening again.\n\n\"That means that full access services might not be available until the middle of November. Clearly, if we can do anything to speed up this process, we will.\"\n\nMark Atkinson, chief executive at hearing loss charity RNID, said: \"For more than three weeks, the 12 million people in the UK who are deaf or have hearing loss have felt excluded and increasingly angry, because the system to provide subtitles and signed content is broken.\n\n\"It's impossible to imagine a failure that affected the hearing community being allowed to go on for so long.\n\n\"The BBC and Channel 5 are now offering a near-normal service, but it is unacceptable that the system could have failed so spectacularly, and that Channel 4 have still not fixed the problem. Further, there was a failure across the board to communicate to deaf people regularly and - most importantly - accessibly.\n\n\"We're pleased that Channel 4 have started providing updates in British Sign Language to the deaf community. They must ensure deaf people and people with hearing loss are kept informed about what steps they are taking until the problem is fixed.\"\n\nAn Ofcom spokesperson said: \"We remain extremely concerned by the impact on people who rely on these services. Channel 4 did not have strong backup measures in place, and it should not have taken several weeks to provide a clear, public plan and timeline for fixing the problems.\n\n\"We now expect Channel 4 to meet the timings it has set for restoring these vital services.\"\n\nThe Last Leg host Adam Hills addressed the ongoing problems on 8 October\n\nA spokesman for Red Bee Media said: \"Things are improving every day and we are able to deliver more and more accessible programmes, but we are unfortunately still experiencing issues with receiving the media for which our access teams create pre-recorded subtitles, audio descriptions and signing.\n\n\"As soon as there are any more updates, we will share these.\"\n\nThe original fault temporarily took Channel 4, Channel 5 and S4C off air completely, and led to transmission problems in the subsequent days, such as E4 being forced to delay the Married At First Sight series finale.\n\nOn 8 October, presenter Adam Hills addressed the problems on Channel 4's The Last Leg, holding up a hand-written sign reading \"Sorry there's still no subtitles\", followed by another saying \"Sort it out\".\n\nThe Times reported that the fire suppression system at Red Bee's headquarters sucked all the oxygen out of a room, causing a \"sonic wave\" that shut down the transmission servers.\n\nA spokesperson for the London Fire Brigade said: \"Firefighters were called to reports a gas suppression system had activated at a building on Wood Lane in White City on Saturday 25th September.\n\n\"The suppression system had activated in a server room and on site engineers worked to ventilate the room. Firefighters carried out a search of the building and a sweep of the room but found no fire apparent.\"", "Apple has unveiled its M1Pro and M1Max chips used to power new MacBook Pro laptop computers.\n\nApple says the M1 Max chip, with 57 billion transistors is the most powerful it has ever built.\n\nThe new chips were announced almost a year after the firm revealed its first Mac computers powered by silicon of its own design.\n\nIt comes after reports that Apple cut its iPhone 13 production targets amid the global computer chip shortage.\n\nIndustry analyst Mikako Kitagawa of Gartner said \"the performance boost is pretty impressive\".\n\nApple claims the new chips will achieve comparable performance to the latest 8-core PC laptop chip running at top speed while using 70% of the power.\n\nGoing flat-out the chip, the company claimed, would be up to 1.7 times faster than the 8-core PC chip.\n\nSuch claims have not yet been independently verified.\n\nApple's chips are sometimes referred to as being 'Arm-based' because it licenses the instruction sets from the British-based company of that name.\n\nThese instruction sets determine how processors handle commands. However, the core processor circuits are of Apple's own design.\n\nFor years Apple has used chips designed by Intel. The move to designing its own silicon has been positive for the firm, says Ben Wood, chief analyst of CCS Insight.\n\n\"The advent of Apple Silicon has been a shot in the arm for the MacBook line-up,\" he said.\n\nThe two chips power the new 14in and 16in MacBook Pro laptops and a new operating system, macOS Monterey.\n\nIn the \"Unleashed\" launch presentation Apple stressed the MacBook's power and long battery life.\n\nThere has been a sense, one analyst said, that workers in creative industries are starting to drift away from the Macbook Pro.\n\nBut they would find the new machines appealing, according to Ms Kitagawa. \"Apple is really defending the creative professional market which is their core market,\" she said.\n\nThe MacBooks were unveiled at a time when the company has warned of the impact of the global chip shortage.\n\nPreviously Apple boss Tim Cook said that the issue could affect products using M1 chips. Recent reports suggest that the shortage might hit iPhone 13 production.\n\nApple designed-silicon will not, Ben Wood says, insulate the company from the shortage.\n\n\"The fact that Apple has designed its own chips does not necessarily mean it is immune from the wider chipset shortages,\" he said.\n\n\"There is little doubt it will be in a strong position to secure supply, but ultimately the overall shortage of semiconductors comes down to manufacturing capacity.\"\n\nMs Kitagawa also noted that as dedicated graphics chips (GPUs) are in short supply, the new MacBook Pros may be \"more immune to the shortage as the machine does not have discrete graphics: one less component that they need to worry about.\"\n\nIn particular the abandonment of Magsafe - a magnetically secured power-supply that releases with a firm pull.\n\nBen Wood said, \"many users will be ecstatic that the MagSafe power connector has returned. When you've invested a small fortune in a MacBook, the last thing you want is for a careless trip over a power cable to see it crashing off the desk onto the floor.\"", "Shareholders in the supermarket chain Morrisons have approved a multi-billion pound takeover offer from a US private equity group.\n\nClayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) can now continue to take over the UK's fourth-largest supermarket group.\n\nMorrisons said 99.2% of shareholders voted in favour of the £7bn ($9.7bn) deal.\n\nThe takeover had been the subject of fierce competition from two US-based investment groups.\n\nThe CD&R private equity group won the auction early in October with an offer of 287p per Morrisons ordinary share, against a rival bid from Fortress, for 286p per share.\n\nCD&R's auction offer was slightly higher than the 285p-a-share offer that was recommended by Morrisons' board in August.\n\nIn July, Morrisons turned down an offer worth £5.5bn from CD&R, saying it significantly undervalued the business.\n\nThe takeover marks a return to the UK grocery sector for Sir Terry Leahy, the former chief executive of Tesco, who is a senior adviser to CD&R.\n\nMorrisons chair Andrew Higginson said: \"We thank shareholders for the strong support received at today's meetings.\n\n\"We remain confident that CD&R will be a responsible, thoughtful and careful owner of Morrisons and we will now move forward with the remaining steps in the acquisition process.\"\n\nThere has been speculation that Sir Terry could be appointed as chair of Morrisons.\n\nOn Tuesday, Sir Terry said: \"We are very pleased to have received the approval of shareholders and are excited at the opportunity that lies ahead.\n\n\"The particular heritage, culture and operating model of Morrisons are key features of the company and we will be very mindful of these during our tenure as owners.\n\n\"We very much look forward to working with the Morrisons team, not just to preserve the company's many strengths - but to build on these, with innovation, capital and new technology - helping the business realise its full potential and delivering for all of its stakeholders.\"\n\nThe deal is expected to complete on 27 October.\n\nMorrisons has been involved in a legal dispute over equal pay since 2019.\n\nLast month Leeds Employment Tribunal found that Morrisons' shop floor workers, who are mostly female, could compare their pay with the supermarket's mostly male warehouse workers.\n\nShop floor staff are hoping to claim up to £100m in missed pay.\n\nLaw firms Leigh Day and Roscoe Reid have been representing about 2,300 Morrisons workers.\n\nEmma Satyamurti, a Leigh Day partner, said the takeover deal shows that employees are the \"backbone of the company and so it makes sense that the supermarket should invest in them\".\n\n\"We hope the new owners feel the same and bring an end to the equal pay dispute by paying shop floor workers what they are worth.\"\n\nMorrisons was founded in Bradford in 1899 - where it still has its headquarters. The group has almost 500 shops and more than 110,000 staff.\n\nThe son of founder William Morrison's, the late Sir Ken Morrison, ran the business for 50 years.\n\nPreviously, CD&R said it recognised Morrisons' \"history and culture, and considers that this strong heritage is core to Morrisons and its approach to grocery retailing\".\n\nThe private equity firm said it would help Morrisons to build on its strengths, including its close relationships with suppliers and its property portfolio.\n\nMorrisons chairman Andrew Higginson and chief operating officer Trevor Strain both previously worked with Sir Terry at Tesco.", "Tesco has opened its first checkout-free store in central London where people can shop without having to scan a product.\n\nThe UK's biggest retailer said its branch in High Holborn has been converted to allow customers to shop and pay without using a checkout.\n\nThe new format, known as GetGo, follows similar stores opened by Amazon.\n\nCustomers with the Tesco.com app will be able to pick up the groceries they need and walk straight out again.\n\nTesco said \"a combination of cameras and weight sensors\" would establish what customers had picked up and charge them for products directly through the app when they left the shop.\n\nThe technology is provided by Israeli tech start-up Trigo, which has similar partnerships with supermarkets in Germany and the Netherlands.\n\nPreviously, some of Tesco's staff have been able to use the system in the store at its headquarters in Welwyn Garden City, but this is the first time it has been available to regular customers.\n\nKevin Tindall, managing director of Tesco Convenience, said: \"Our latest innovation offers a seamless checkout for customers on the go, helping them to save a bit more time.\n\n\"This is currently just a one-store trial, but we're looking forward to seeing how our customers respond.\"\n\nHowever, Tesco is not the only supermarket experimenting with till-free tech in the UK.\n\nRichard Lim, chief executive of retail analyst group Retail Economics, said Tesco's move was \"reflective of the way the wider industry is heading\".\n\nAmazon Fresh now has six \"just walk out\" stores in London, having initially rolled out the technology in 2018 in the US city of Seattle, for example.\n\n\"One critical element of this for Tesco is also about gaining data and trying to elevate their proposition as much as they can for their customers,\" Mr Lim added.\n\nThe firm's Clubcard programme already has 6.6 million users on its app, so the retailer is \"well ahead of the curve\" when it comes to using information on what a customer buys, or how they shop, to personalise their experience, Mr Lim says.\n\nThe supermarket has also benefited from a swing to online shopping during the pandemic.\n\nAccording to its most recent set of results, Tesco's group revenues jumped by 5.9% to £30.4bn for the six months to August compared with the same period last year.", "England have been ordered to play one match behind closed doors as a punishment for the unrest at Wembley Stadium during the Euro 2020 final.\n\nUefa also imposed a ban for a second game, which is suspended for two years.\n\nThe Football Association was fined 100,000 euros (£84,560) for \"the lack of order and discipline inside and around the stadium\" for the game.\n\n\"Although we are disappointed with the verdict, we acknowledge the outcome of this Uefa decision,\" said the FA.\n\nThe ban is the first time the FA has received a punishment that has resulted in England having to play a home match behind closed doors.\n\nFans fought with stewards and police as they attempted to break into Wembley for the match on 11 July, which England lost to Italy on penalties.\n\nHundreds of fans got into Wembley for the showpiece without tickets after areas around the stadium became packed hours before the evening kick-off.\n\nMany sat in the area reserved for players' relatives, while England defender Harry Maguire later said that his father Alan suffered two suspected broken ribs before the game.\n\nManchester United central defender Maguire said his father was caught up in the stampede and was \"struggling to breathe\" after being trampled on.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police had said that 51 arrests were made connected to the final, with 26 of those made at Wembley.\n\n\"We condemn the terrible behaviour of the individuals who caused the disgraceful scenes in and around Wembley Stadium at the Euro 2020 final, and we deeply regret that some of them were able to enter the stadium,\" added the FA.\n\n\"We are determined that this can never be repeated, so we have commissioned an independent review, led by Baroness Casey, to report on the circumstances involved.\n\n\"We continue to work with the relevant authorities in support of their efforts to take action against those responsible and hold them to account.\"\n\nThe ban will be in place for England's next home game in a Uefa competition, which will be in the Nations League next June.\n\nUefa said the fine related to \"the lack of order and discipline inside and around the stadium, for the invasion of the field of play, for throwing of objects and for the disturbances during the national anthems\" at the Euro 2020 final.\n\nEngland fans booed the Italian anthem before the match.\n\nKevin Miles, the Football Supporters' Association's chief executive, told BBC Radio 5 Live he was \"sickened\" by what he saw at the final.\n\n\"On arrival at the stadium a couple of hours before kick-off, it was already pretty chaotic outside,\" he said.\n\n\"I think there was a failure from early in the day from the policing outside the ground right through to the security arrangements on the perimeter of the ground, and then inside.\n\n\"We don't have a bad track record of behaviour at Wembley and in that sense it was a bit of a one-off, but it's a glaring one. It's not acceptable.\"\n\nIn July, the FA was fined more than £25,000 for crowd problems before and during the semi-final victory over Denmark, which included Kasper Schmeichel having a laser shone in his eyes as he prepared to face a penalty from Harry Kane.\n\nFollowing Euro 2020, Hungary were ordered to play their next three home games - with the third game of the ban suspended - behind closed doors after Uefa found their supporters guilty of discriminatory behaviour during the tournament.\n\nHungary were also fined 100,000 euros but their supporters were allowed in for a World Cup qualifier against England on 2 September in Budapest as it fell under Fifa jurisdiction.\n\nFollowing that game, football's world governing body told Hungary's FA to play two matches behind closed doors - one suspended for two years - and fined them £158,400 for the racism experienced by England players.\n\nThe FA was never going to escape punishment for the disorganised, shameful shambles that was the Euro 2020 final at Wembley between England and Italy.\n\nFrom hours before kick-off, Wembley was thronged by thousands of fans. As kick-off drew nearer, it became clear that the situation was out of hand outside the stadium and would also become chaotic inside.\n\nOne personal recollection is being offered a large sum of money for my media accreditation literally a few yards from the official entrance when, at any major tournament worthy of the name, it would be impossible to get anywhere near this close without a ticket inspection and security.\n\nThis was the most minor of inconveniences compared to what thousands of others suffered but it was an indicator that something had gone very badly wrong.\n\nSupporters fuelled by alcohol stormed barriers and it was clear control had broken down inside the stadium with stewards being abused and ticketless fans even invading the disabled sections to take up seats. There was an atmosphere of threat and chaos.\n\nOn what was meant to be a memorable day as England played their first major men's final for 55 years, any sense of celebration disappeared hours before kick-off and the experience was wrecked for thousands of well-behaved fans who bought their tickets in good faith.\n\nIt was a dreadful experience and it was inevitable that the FA would pay a price. This will effectively amount to one game played behind closed doors and a 100,000 euro fine. The shame will be reflected by the sight of the giant stadium deserted for that one game.\n\nThe FA has declared itself disappointed with the outcome but, while announcing its insistence that everything will be done to ensure there is no repeat, many who endured that shocking Wembley day will feel the punishment could easily have been heavier.\n\n'One of the most serious failures I can remember'\n\nFootball policing expert Owen West, a former chief superintendent at West Yorkshire Police, told BBC Sport that the events of that day were \"hugely embarrassing\".\n\n\"This was one of the most serious failures that I can remember,\" he said.\n\n\"Things like a systematic breach of turnstiles, things like people tailgating, and two or more people being able to get through a space that was designed for one.\n\n\"What we saw [among fans trying to get inside Wembley] was the sharing of real-time intelligence, pointing out on social media where there were vulnerabilities, where there was a lack of police officers, where there was weak and inexperienced stewarding, where gates weren't particularly well protected.\n\n\"And the problem for Wembley authorities and the Met Police was that that level of sophistication and organisation was not matched by those that were there to prevent it happening in the first place.\"", "Services in and out of London Charing Cross station are facing disruption \"all day\", Southeastern says\n\nRail passengers have been warned of severe disruption across parts of London and the south east of England.\n\nUrgent repairs to a track in south-east London have led to delays and cancellations to Southeastern trains in and out of Charing Cross.\n\nSome services have been diverted to London Victoria.\n\nTrains to and from Euston are also facing disruption after a woman was hit by a train in north-west London. She has been taken to hospital.\n\nSoutheastern said the number of trains running to and from Charing Cross would be \"severely restricted\" all day. Full details are available on the company's website.\n\nServices were suspended at Euston while emergency services treated the woman, who was injured at Headstone Lane station, Harrow. The incident is not being treated as suspicious, police 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 Avanti West Coast This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAvanti West Coast said lines had reopened but services may be cancelled or delayed throughout the afternoon.\n\nNetwork Rail tweeted that a set of points had cracked in the New Cross area.\n\n\"We have engineers on site and they will be able to fix most of the problem this afternoon, but will need to go back in overnight to complete the job, when trains aren't running and we cause the least disruption,\" the company said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Network Rail Kent and Sussex This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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End of twitter post 2 by Network Rail Kent and Sussex\n\nThameslink said it expected its services between Rainham and Luton to be busier than usual due to the Southeastern disruption.\n• None Rail operator taken over by government\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Food and drink firms are seeing \"terrifying\" price rises, a sector trade body has said, warning of a knock-on effect for consumers.\n\nFood and Drink Federation boss Ian Wright told MPs inflation is between 14% and 18% for hospitality firms.\n\nThe price rises for food firms' ingredients will lead to consumer price rises, he said, and described the situation as concerning.\n\nThe UK's rate of inflation was 3.2% in August and is expected to rise further.\n\nBank of England governor Andrew Bailey recently warned it \"will have to act\", suggesting that UK interest rates may soon rise from the historic low of 0.1%.\n\nMr Wright told MPs on the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy select committee: \"Inflation is a bigger scourge than anything else because it discriminates against the poor.\"\n\nThe Office for National Statistics will publish the latest inflation figures for September on Wednesday. It is expected to rise further above the Bank of England's target of 2% for longer than previously thought.\n\nMake UK, the manufacturers' organisation, said that inflation was becoming \"baked in\" among its members.\n\nStephen Phipson, chief executive at Make UK, told MPs that while there was a welcome rise in demand, many manufacturers are looking at 30% to 40% average increases in material costs.\n\n\"When people are able to get hold of materials they are passing those costs on which does imply to us that inflation is more or less baked in at this stage now,\" he said.\n\n\"This is not a transitory inflationary demand we are seeing really serious issues now in terms of price increases.\"\n\nDes Gunewardena, chief executive of high-end restaurant group D&D London, says his business has seen half of its costs rise, including surging energy prices.\n\nHe says staff shortages are his \"number one issue\" and has increased salaries by 10%.\n\nThe business has 1,700 employees across the UK and is currently 150 staff short, which he said could lead to a \"nightmare situation\" in the busier December period.\n\nTable covers have been reduced from 400 on a Friday night at his Quaglino's restaurant to between 300 and 350 due to staff shortages.\n\nHowever, he said the restaurants have seen increased customer spending, so he is stocking up on specific champagne brands ahead of time, to pre-empt possible supply problems.\n\n\"I think we'll have a very strong Christmas so there's no need to panic yet, but I expect further inflation in January when there won't be the same spending to offset the extra costs\".\n\nAmid concerns about deliveries of food, fuel and other items in the run-up to Christmas, the government is taking steps to address the shortage of HGV drivers.\n\nThe shortage has been blamed on several factors, including Covid, Brexit and tax changes.\n\nThe government introduced temporary visas for 5,000 lorry drivers to work in the UK, although only just over 20 of the 300 applications have been approved so far, according to Conservative Party chairman Oliver Dowden.\n\nDuncan Buchanan, policy director at the Road Haulage Association (RHA), told the select committee that the government's visa scheme to ease driver shortages had been \"designed to fail\".\n\n\"Reports haven't really eased at all things are not visibly getting better at this stage,\" he said.\n\nRegarding the government's measures to try to ease the crisis, Mr Buchanan said \"visually on the ground that is not having an effect\".\n\nA survey by the RHA of its members estimated there was now a shortage of more than 100,000 qualified drivers in the UK.\n\n\"The consumer is really going to visualise this in terms of reduced choice. We have supply chain disruption but that doesn't mean we are going to run out of food,\" Mr Buchanan added.", "Sir David Amess was one of Parliament's characters: fun, friendly, unconventional and outspoken.\n\nHis broad grin and boyish enthusiasm were fixtures in the House of Commons chamber for nearly 40 years.\n\nHe never scaled the heights of government, choosing to dedicate his career to his beloved Essex and the causes he cared about most. The 69-year-old was one of those rare MPs who earned cross-party respect for the conviction he brought to his opinions and campaigns. They ranged from passionate support of Brexit to animal rights - and anything that brought Essex up in the world.\n\nHe always took his work seriously, but himself rarely.\n\nHe was stabbed to death while in his constituency surgery in the seaside town of Leigh-on-Sea, an attack that has stunned his constituents and colleagues from across the political spectrum.\n\nSir David burst on to the political scene as the new MP for Basildon in 1983, the embodiment of what was known then as Essex Man, the archetypal aspirational voter who helped deliver a landslide victory for Margaret Thatcher that year.\n\nA prominent animal lover within Westminster, David Amess regularly entered Parliament's dog of the year show\n\nWith an East End accent and relatively humble origins, he gained a high profile on TV and radio, and triumphed against the odds in the 1992 general election when he unexpectedly held on to his seat.\n\n\"My colleagues and supporters, go out and rejoice and celebrate!\", he declared.\n\nFrom that moment on David Amess was cheered by his Conservative colleagues every time he rose to his feet in Parliament, where he would rarely pass up the chance to mention Basildon.\n\nHe held the seat until 1997 when he realised the seat would be lost to Labour after boundary changes and switched his loyalty and devotion to nearby Southend West. For years he campaigned for Southend to become a city, mentioning it virtually every week in Parliament - he retweeted a BBC Essex tweet along these lines just a day before his death.\n\nSir David - who was married with five children - was also a devout Catholic.\n\nHe was socially conservative: he supported capital punishment and opposed abortion. He was an early Eurosceptic. He was also a strong supporter of animal rights, including a fox hunting ban, and he campaigned against fuel poverty, advocated tackling obesity and raised awareness of endometriosis, a painful gynaecological condition that some women suffer.\n\nAlthough for many years he was a parliamentary aide to the former cabinet minister, Michael Portillo, he never held ministerial office; he was too unorthodox for that.\n\nSir David was a keen participant in the annual MPs' pancake race\n\nDeputy prime minister Dominic Raab paid tribute to \"a great common sense politician and a formidable campaigner with a big heart, and tremendous generosity of spirit - including towards those he disagreed with\".\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said he was \"a thoroughly decent man\".\n\nHis loss will be felt keenly in his Southend West constituency. Trembling with emotion Father Jeff Woolnough, parish priest of St Peter's Catholic church in Eastwood Road North, Leigh-On-Sea, told the BBC Sir David was a \"great, great man, a good Catholic and a friend to all\".\n\nBorn in Plaistow in 1952, he went to school in London and did many things before turning to politics.\n\nHe taught at a school in London before embarking on a career as a recruitment consultant. He did attract unwelcome publicity in 1997, when he was the victim of satirist Chris Morris on his Channel 4 show Brass Eye, when he was shown with other well-known figures condemning Cake, a made-up drug. Sir David said Channel 4 should feel \"shame\" for the programme, as it came soon after the case of his then-constituent 18 year old Leah Betts, who died after she took ecstasy.\n\nHe was one of those MPs who used Parliament to sponsor bills, to sit on committees, to form alliances, so that he could shape law from the backbenches.\n\nAs an animal welfare specialist, he led campaigns to ban cages for game birds and end the transport of live animals for export - and was a patron of the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation. Sir David was what they call an old school parliamentarian - the epitome of a constituency MP who died serving those he was so proud to represent.", "There had been speculation that the rules could be eased after the October break\n\nSecondary school pupils must continue to wear facemasks in the classroom after the Scottish government decided against lifting the measure.\n\nThe government said keeping the current rules in place would allow more time for 12-15 year olds to be vaccinated.\n\nIt said it hoped to be able to lift the restrictions at the \"earliest possible time\" - but gave no indication of a timescale.\n\nThe existing rules on face coverings for school staff will also remain.\n\nIt means that secondary school pupils and staff must cover their faces at all times when they are at school.\n\nBut primary school staff will only need to wear a face mask when they are moving around the school or in communal areas such as canteens and staff rooms - and there is no requirement for primary school pupils to wear face coverings.\n\nThere had been speculation that the rules for secondary pupils could be relaxed after draft guidance - which has not been published - recommended lifting the requirement for face coverings to be worn in the classroom.\n\nHowever, Scotland's chief medical officer later advised that while there were \"encouraging signs\", a more cautious approach was needed.\n\nThe announcement was welcomed by the EIS teaching union, which said it help to ensure schools were able to remain open while also allowing more time for \"ventilation challenges\" to be met in schools ahead of winter.\n\nBut Scottish Conservative education spokesman Oliver Mundell said the announcement would be a \"massive disappointment\"for pupil and parents, adding: \"Scotland's schools should have been a priority for the SNP but with facemasks in classrooms remaining, young people have once again been sent to the back of the queue.\n\n\"Pupils, parents and teachers need to see a plan from the SNP for a return to normal learning as soon as possible.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said the recent decline in Covid cases in Scotland was starting to level off, and it was therefore important to continue to take a cautious approach.\n\nShe added: \"Progress with vaccinating 12-15 year olds has been remarkable and is already over 40%.\n\n\"However, this was only rolled out a few weeks ago and allowing further time will mean that the encouraging figure rises even higher.\n\n\"We will continue to monitor case rates on a weekly basis, with a view to lifting restrictions at the earliest possible time.\"\n\nShe acknowledged that the announcement would be disappointing for some pupils and their parents, but said safety had to be the \"overriding priority\".\n\nThe rules on wearing face coverings in English schools were lifted on 17 May.\n\nThis is not news we were expecting to hear. It had been understood that relaxations would be made to schools guidance following the October holidays. Instead, we are staying still.\n\nThe government says cases aren't falling in the way it had hoped, but that has been the situation for some weeks now. It says it wants more teenagers to be vaccinated.\n\nWill we see further relaxation of these school rules as we head towards the Christmas holidays? Will we stay as we are, or even tighten up on classroom restrictions, as we brace for what could be a difficult winter? It looks like the next month could be crucial.", "David Morris was convicted of killing four members of the same family in 1999\n\nA forensic review of the Clydach murders has made \"significant findings\" linking convicted killer David Morris to the crime scene, police have said.\n\nMorris, who died in August aged 59, was convicted of killing four members of the same family in the Swansea Valley village in 1999.\n\nSouth Wales Police said a link between him and a sock had been identified during an independent investigation.\n\nPolice agreed to a forensic review of evidence in January.\n\nThe force added this was the first time DNA evidence had linked Morris to the murder scene in Kelvin Road.\n\nThe BBC has learned the family of David Morris are questioning the findings and do not accept them.\n\nMorris was convicted in 2002 of killing Mandy Power, her daughters Katie and Emily and her mother Doris Dawson, who were bludgeoned to death at their home.\n\nHe was twice tried for murder and was serving a 32-year sentence when he died.\n\nMandy Power and her daughters, Emily and Katie, were murdered in their home in 1999\n\nLast October, doubts were cast about the conviction as potential new witnesses and expert views emerged.\n\nBut South Wales Police said a scientific link between Morris and a sock, which it added was widely accepted as being used by the murderer during the killings, had been identified.\n\nThe force added that while a link to Morris - or a male relative of his paternal lineage - had been found, it cannot determine how or when Morris's profile was transferred on to the sock.\n\nA campaign to release Morris gathered pace before his death\n\nScientists found it was \"more likely\" Morris contributed to the DNA profile found on two different areas of the blood-stained sock, than if he did not contribute DNA to them.\n\nPermission was granted to take a blood sample from Morris after his death on 20 August to allow forensic examinations to take place.\n\nThe technology used in the process would not have been available to the original investigating team, the force said.\n\nThe link was identified using Y-STR profiling, a technique which specifically targets male DNA, even in a sample which contains a mixture of male and female cellular material.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable David Thorne, of South Wales Police, said: \"The decision to carry out an investigative assessment did not constitute a reopening or reinvestigation of the murders, nor did it demonstrate any lack of confidence in the conviction of Morris and the subsequent case reviews.\"\n\nDavid Morris faced two trials for the murders and was found guilty at both\n\nHe added: \"This is significant as the sock was recovered from the murder scene and it was widely accepted that it was used by the killer.\n\n\"The outcome of the forensic assessment and completion of further actions have not established any information that undermines the conviction of Morris.\n\n\"In my view, as the independent senior investigating officer, the new findings from the samples taken from the sock support the existing evidence that originally convicted him.\"\n\nEmily and Katie Power died in the attack in 1999\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Thorne said it showed the force's \"commitment to providing evidence-based answers to the issues which have been raised about this case over many years\".\n\nHe added: \"This commitment has now resulted in a forensic link between the convicted killer David Morris and an item of great significance which was recovered from the murder scene\n\n\"South Wales Police commissioned the review in the hope that we could in some way provide closure for those most affected by the murders.\"", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the Queen has agreed Southend will be granted city status following the killing of MP Sir David Amess.\n\nSir David was stabbed to death at Belfairs Methodist Church on Friday.\n\nHe regularly championed Southend's case to be a city during his time in Parliament.\n\nMr Johnson told the House of Commons he was \"happy\" to announce Southend \"will be accorded the city status it so clearly deserves\".\n\nThe prime minister said: \"That Sir David spent almost 40 years in this House, but not one day in ministerial office, tells everything about where his priorities lay.\"\n\nPeople in Leigh-on Sea have been remembering Sir David\n\nHe added Sir David \"never once witnessed any achievement by any resident of Southend that could not somehow be cited in his bid to secure city status for that distinguished town\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told Parliament he was \"so pleased\" by the announcement.\n\nSir Keir said the news was \"a fitting tribute to Sir David's hard work\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parliament pays tribute to Sir David Amess, following his killing\n\nJames Duddridge, who represents Rochford and Southend East, the constituency neighbouring Sir David's Southend West seat, said the decision \"means a lot to everybody\".\n\nHe said residents did not want Southend to be remembered as the city where Sir David was killed but \" for characteristics such as its pier, airport and football\".\n\nSir David, who championed Southend's bid for city status as part of The Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022, was described by Home Secretary Priti Patel as \"Mr Southend\" following his death.\n\nAs well as bringing extra prestige, city status is an opportunity for areas to attract more tourism and boost the local economy.\n\nOn its website, Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, which had campaigned with Sir David, previously said city status would bring not only \"prestige and standing, but an opportunity to lever further investment\".\n\nSouthend is a tourist hotspot and has a thriving creative arts scene\n\nOn the latest announcement, council leader Ian Gilbert said he felt a \"mixture of emotions\" after hearing the news.\n\nHe said it was \"clearly what Sir David would have wanted\".\n\n\"While I don't want it to have come in these circumstances, I'm still pleased and proud that it is happening,\" he added.\n\nLeader of the council's Conservative group, Tony Cox, said the decision meant Sir David's \"legacy will forever live on in Southend-on-Sea\".\n\nHe added: \"I cannot thank Her Majesty the Queen and the prime minister enough for granting that legacy, but what truly breaks my heart is that he is not around to see it.\n\n\"I am sure he will be looking down on us now saying, 'My work in Southend is now complete'.\"\n\nLabour councillor for Kursaal ward in Southend, Matt Dent, said: \"Everyone who knew Sir David knew how passionate he was about Southend getting city status.\n\n\"It was something he worked into every conversation. It's such a shame he is not here to see it.\"\n\nThe Archbishop of York, the Most Reverend Stephen Cottrell, who grew up in Southend and was a friend of Sir David's, said with Southend having been declared a city people can \"forget about a statue of Vera Lynn at Dover, we are going to put a statue of David Amess at the end of Southend pier\".\n\nChelmsford MP Vicky Ford and Southend United FC both tweeted that it was a \"fitting\" tribute to Sir David.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Southend United This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDowning Street said the award of city status to Southend was a \"very rare honour\".\n\n\"This was an exceptional circumstance,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\n\"It is a very rare honour which Sir David campaigned passionately for.\n\n\"He was a tireless champion of Southend, celebrating its achievements, the work of its residents and its thriving local businesses and diversity.\"\n\nCh Supt Simon Anslow signed the Book of Condolence along with colleagues including Chief Constable BJ Harrington and Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Roger Hirst\n\nSpeaking after signing a Book of Condolence at Southend's Civic Centre, Essex Police Ch Supt Simon Anslow said: \"Having long been a champion for Southend, it is of course truly tragic that his main goal in Parliament has been achieved in the days following his sad death, with confirmation today that Southend will be afforded city status by Her Majesty The Queen.\n\n\"Today has been a mark of respect for the man - indeed it has been a mark of respect for what will be Essex's new city.\"\n\nIn a 2019 speech to the Commons calling on Southend to be given city status, Sir David celebrated the town for everything from its hospital and airport to its investment in digital infrastructure.\n\nHe also praised Leigh-on-Sea for being voted the \"happiest place in the United Kingdom\" and said people in Southend \"walk on water\" while on its famous pier.\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 officer was arrested on 15 December 2020\n\nA detective at Greater Manchester Police has been charged with child sexual abuse offences.\n\nLee Cunliffe, 40, a detective constable based in Salford, was charged with 11 offences earlier.\n\nThey include two counts of attempting to arrange the commission of a child sexual abuse offence.\n\nMr Cunliffe, who was arrested in December 2020 and has been suspended from duty since then, is due to appear before magistrates on 26 October.\n\nThe officer has been bailed ahead of the hearing.\n\nHe will also face one count of possessing and three counts of making an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child.\n\nHe has also been charged with two counts of misconduct in public office and two counts of perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe offences are alleged to have taken place between January and September 2020.\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.", "Wylfa Newydd nuclear plant was switched off in 2015 and is being decommissioned\n\nThere is a \"better than reasonable chance\" that Wylfa on Anglesey will get a new nuclear power plant, the Welsh Secretary has said.\n\nSimon Hart said it would be a \"game-changer\" for the north Wales economy, and if it came to fruition, the project would involve thousands of jobs.\n\nThe UK government has announced a £120m fund, available for firms looking to build small modular reactors.\n\nOfficials have held early talks over a potential new plant on the island.\n\nThe discussions with American engineering firm Bechtel about building a Westinghouse reactor have been described as being at an exploratory stage.\n\n\"The ball is now in Westinghouse's court\" said Mr Hart.\n\n\"They say they are looking for a £20m to £25m contribution and they now need to put forward a compelling bid. We want to help them as best we can.\"\n\nWylfa is currently the site of a power station which is in the process of being decommissioned after the last part of the plant was switched off in 2015.\n\nEarlier in 2021, Hitachi and Horizon's plans for a new power station on the island were formally dropped.\n\nReports suggested the company was offered a \"strike price\" - a price on energy that ministers would guarantee to the builders of the project - of around £75 per megawatt hour.\n\nThe nuclear plant was intended to have a generating capacity of 2,900 megawatts (MW) and have a 60-year operational life.\n\nThat plan was worth between £16bn and 20bn and promised 9,000 jobs in construction alone.\n\nWylfa is mentioned twice as a site for a new nuclear power plant in the UK government's net-zero strategy, which was published on Tuesday.\n\n\"I do not think we would be mentioning Wylfa twice by name if there were not a better than reasonable chance that this is something we would be able to see through to fruition,\" said Mr Hart.\n\n\"And if we are able to, it will be transformative for everyone who lives on the island and across north Wales.\"\n\nIt is thought any project would take 15 years from getting the go-ahead to completion.", "Officials are keeping a close watch on a new descendant of the Delta variant of Covid that is causing a growing number of infections.\n\nDelta is the UK's dominant variant, but latest official data suggests 6% of Covid cases that have been genetically sequenced are of a new type.\n\nAY.4.2, which some are calling \"Delta Plus\", contains mutations that might give the virus survival advantages.\n\nTests are under way to understand how much of a threat it may pose.\n\nExperts say it is unlikely to take off in a big way or escape current vaccines.\n\nIt is not yet considered a variant of concern, or a variant under investigation - the categories assigned to variants and the level of risk associated with them.\n\nThere are thousands of different types - or variants - of Covid circulating across the world. Viruses mutate all the time, so it is not surprising to see new versions emerge.\n\nOriginal Delta was classified as a variant of concern in the UK in May 2021 after overtaking the Alpha variant to become the dominant type of Covid in circulation.\n\nThis offshoot or sublineage of Delta has been increasing slowly since then. It includes some new mutations affecting the spike protein, which the virus uses to penetrate our cells.\n\nSo far, there is no indication that it is considerably more transmissible as a result of these changes, but it is something experts are studying.\n\nThe mutations - Y145H and A222V - have been found in various other coronavirus lineages since the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nScientists are constantly checking for new genetic changes that Covid is undergoing.\n\nSome emerging variants are worrying, but many are inconsequential. The difficult job is spotting, tracking and managing the ones that could matter.\n\nThe UK is a front-runner in carrying out these vital lab analyses, having completed more than a million tests so far.\n\nThe first step is to pick up new mutants worth watching, such as this new offshoot - AY.4.2.\n\nNext, if there is a strong suggestion that the genetic changes might make the virus more contagious, it is classified as a variant under investigation and more checks are done.\n\nIf it becomes clearer that it could be more transmissible and escape some of the built up immunity from past infections or vaccines, or potentially cause more serious disease, it is moved into the variant of concern category. That's the one Delta belongs to.\n\nAt this stage, experts don't think AY.4.2 is likely to take hold - so in time it could well burn out and drop off the watch list.\n\nProf Francois Balloux, director of University College London's Genetics Institute, said: \"It is potentially a marginally more infectious strain.\n\n\"It's nothing compared with what we saw with Alpha and Delta, which were something like 50 to 60 percent more transmissible. So we are talking about something quite subtle here and that is currently under investigation.\n\n\"It is likely to be up to 10 percent more transmissible.\n\n\"It's good that we are aware. It's excellent that we have the facilities and infrastructure in place to see anything that might be a bit suspicious.\n\n\"At this stage I would say wait and see, don't panic. It might be slightly, subtly more transmissible but it is not something absolutely disastrous like we saw previously.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why do new variants of Covid-19 keep appearing? BBC's health reporter Laura Foster explains\n\nThe Prime Minister's official spokesman said: \"It's something we're keeping a very close eye on.\n\n\"As you would expect we're monitoring it closely and won't hesitate to take action if necessary.\"\n\nA few cases have also been identified in US. There had been some in Denmark but new infections with AY.4.2 have since gone down.\n\nThe UK is already offering booster doses of Covid vaccine to higher risk people ahead of winter to make sure they have the fullest protection against coronavirus.\n\nThere is no suggestion that a new update of the vaccine will be needed to protect against any of the existing variants of the pandemic virus.\n• None BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron: How worried should we be?", "Foreign investment deals in low-carbon sectors in the UK to be announced on Tuesday will create about 30,000 jobs, the government has said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is set to announce 18 new deals worth £9.7bn as he opens a global investment summit.\n\nThey include investments in sectors such as wind and hydrogen energy, sustainable homes and carbon capture.\n\nThe prime minister said investors had recognised \"the massive potential in the UK for growth and innovation\".\n\nInvestments from companies such as Spanish energy firm Iberdrola, logistics firm Prologis and grocery service Getir would power the UK's economic recovery and help to achieve the government's levelling up agenda, he added.\n\nMr Johnson will open the Global Investment Summit in London on Tuesday, bringing together more than 200 business executives.\n\nThe government has assembled a formidable guest list of the great and good of global business for an investment summit it hopes will alert other international investors to opportunities in the UK.\n\nThe bosses of the world's biggest investment firm, Blackrock, the biggest bank in the US, JP Morgan, as well as the top brass from energy giants such as EDF will gather at the Science Museum in London.\n\nAnnouncements of nearly £10bn in investment in the UK have been timed to coincide with the event.\n\nBy far the biggest single investment is from Spanish firm Iberdrola, which owns Scottish Power. Its announcement of a further £6bn in offshore wind investment - on top of £10bn over the last five years - will cement the UK's position as a world leader in offshore wind, just two weeks before the major climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nThe recent spike in gas prices has brutally exposed UK and EU reliance on fossil fuels, which may also encourage French firm EDF that their plans for a new nuclear plant at Sizewell in Suffolk will get government blessing. The chairman of EDF is due to have a breakfast meeting with the Business Secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng.\n\nThe government will hope this summit will help reverse a declining trend in foreign investment in new projects since 2015.\n\nLater, Mr Johnson will take part in a panel discussion with Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates on the role of private companies in tackling climate change.\n\nIberdrola, which owns Scottish Power, will confirm that it will invest a further £6bn in off-shore wind farms off the coast of Suffolk.\n\nThe wind turbines in its East Anglia \"hub\" are set to create about 7,000 jobs - although they have yet to secure planning permission.\n\nPrologis will commit to invest £1.5bn in the UK over the next three years to develop net zero carbon warehouses across London, the South East and the Midlands, supporting about 14,000 new jobs.\n\n\"We believe private sector innovation has, and will continue to play, a major role in overcoming the environmental challenges the world faces today,\" said Prologis chief executive Hamid Moghadam.\n\nMeanwhile, Getir plans to put more money into expanding its activities across the UK. The firm uses a fleet of electric vehicles and is aiming to create about 7,000 permanent jobs in 2022.\n\nUltimate Battery Company will also invest £28m in setting up a UK plant for eco-friendly batteries.\n\nOn Tuesday, the UK government is expected to announce its overall strategy for radically reducing the greenhouse gas emissions generated in across all sectors including industry, agriculture, transport and homes.\n\nThe government has pledged to reduce emissions sharply by 2035 and to reach net zero by 2050 - meaning the country will absorb as much carbon dioxide (through actions such as tree planting) as it emits.\n\nThe announcements come just two weeks before the start of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow - one of the largest world meetings to date on how to tackle global warming.", "Zac Harvey, left, died in a caravan fire which also left his brother Harley, right, seriously injured\n\nA caravan fire which killed a three-year-old boy and seriously injured his four-year-old brother was probably caused by an electric fan heater, an inquest has heard.\n\nZac Michael Harvey died of smoke inhalation in the blaze in Ffair Rhos, Ceredigion, on 19 January, 2020.\n\nThe toddler was sleeping in a caravan with his father Shaun Harvey and brother Harley, who both escaped.\n\nCoroner Peter Brunton said Zac died as a result of misadventure.\n\nGiving evidence, fire service investigator Christopher Howells said the fire was likely to have been started by an electric fan heater.\n\nAberystwyth Coroner's Court heard Shaun Harvey told Dyfed-Powys Police he had used a heater but believed he had switched it off before going to sleep.\n\nA coroner ruled his death was the result of misadventure\n\nIt was powered from a nearby house using an extension lead, Mr Brunton was told.\n\nLater, Shaun Harvey woke to an inferno which had consumed the caravan and could not get both his sons out in time.\n\nZac's mum Erin said previously that Harley's positivity helped the family through their ordeal\n\nZac's brother Harley, then four, was not expected to survive his injuries, but made a full recovery.\n\nMr Brunton gave his condolences to Zac's mother, who was at the inquest, and said he hoped his conclusion would bring some comfort to them.", "Goto Energy has become the latest UK energy firm to cease trading amid a sharp rise in wholesale gas prices.\n\nThe firm supplied gas and electricity to around 22,000 domestic customers who will now be moved to a new supplier.\n\nIt joins a number of small firms that have gone bust following a global spike in gas prices.\n\nEnergy regulator Ofgem will now find a new supplier for households, who are asked to do nothing until the transfer takes place in the coming weeks.\n\nGoto Energy's collapse takes the number of customers affected by the current wave of UK energy company failures to more than two million.\n\nOfgem said that the unprecedented increase in global gas prices - which have risen 250% since the start of the year - was putting financial pressure on suppliers.\n\n\"Ofgem's number one priority is to protect customers,\" said Neil Lawrence, director of retail at Ofgem.\n\n\"I want to reassure affected customers that they do not need to worry: under our safety net we'll make sure your energy supplies continue.\"\n\nMr Lawrence added that if customers have credit, the funds are protected, so customers will not lose the money that is owed to them.\n\n\"Goto Energy is now the 16th provider to exit the market since the beginning of 2021,\" said Justina Miltienyte, energy policy expert at Uswitch.com.\n\nShe said it was important that Goto Energy customers did not do anything until they were moved to a new supplier, as trying to switch providers could create administrative delays in getting their credit balance returned.\n\n\"They should make a note of their meter readings now, and again when contacted by their new supplier, to ensure their bills are accurate.\"\n\nLast week, Pure Planet, which was backed by oil giant BP, and Colorado Energy joined the growing list of small energy firms that have gone bust recently.\n\nPure Planet said it had been caught between rising costs and the UK's energy price cap, which limits what companies can charge consumers.\n\nThis had left its business \"unsustainable\", it said.\n\nNine suppliers collapsed in September, but business and energy minister Kwasi Kwarteng ruled out supporting struggling energy firms, although he warned more companies could collapse.\n\nThe regulator's price cap, which covers 15 million households across England, Wales and Scotland, protects customers on default tariffs by limiting charges including how much customers pay per unit of energy.\n\nBut providers say they cannot pass on rising wholesale gas prices to customers because of the cap.\n\nSuppliers that have recently gone bust include Avro Energy, People's Energy and Green Supplier Limited.\n\nRising prices have had reverberations throughout the supply chain.\n\nLast week, gas shipping firm CNG wrote to its energy supplier customers saying that it would no longer supply the wholesale market.", "Zara Owen said she had drunk less than usual on the night it happened\n\nA student who believes she was injected with a needle during a night out says the experience has left her \"genuinely really scared\".\n\nZara Owen, 19, said she blacked out shortly after arriving at a nightclub in Nottingham on 10 October.\n\nThe next thing she remembers is waking up in her bed with pain in her leg before discovering a pin prick.\n\nNottinghamshire Police confirmed it was looking into multiple reports of people being \"spiked physically\".\n\nMs Owen, who is studying French and Spanish at the University of Nottingham, said she recalls going into Pryzm nightclub with her friends and ordering a drink at the bar.\n\nShe has no further recollection of the evening but was told by her housemate she was found on her own in a takeaway.\n\nThe student, who said she had drunk less than usual and had never blacked out before, said she was shocked to subsequently discover the pin prick mark in her leg.\n\n\"I'm genuinely really scared. It's one of those things that you hear about but never think will happen to you,\" she said.\n\n\"It makes you question yourself. Why me and how?\"\n\nShe called for security to be bolstered at nightclubs with extra bag and pocket searches.\n\nMs Owen later discovered a pin prick mark on her leg\n\nMeanwhile Ellie Simpson said her sister, who does not want to be named, also believes she was injected with a mystery liquid during a night out in Nottingham.\n\nShe said the 19-year-old - who is a student from Derby - felt a \"pinch on the back of her arm\" as she left Stealth nightclub on 12 October.\n\nShe then blacked out and was taken to hospital.\n\nMs Simpson, 21, said: \"I don't think it's quite yet sunk in what's happened to her.\n\n\"It's really frightening because I don't know how you're meant to prevent it.\n\n\"Obviously you can put your hand over your drink but how do you stop somebody stabbing you with a needle?\"\n\nMs Simpson said her sister was still \"in shock\" and has not been out clubbing since.\n\n\"Normally she's the type of person that would stick up for herself, so I think if it could happen to her it could happen to somebody who is more vulnerable,\" she said.\n\nA Stealth spokeswoman said the venue was working with police\n\nNottinghamshire Police said it had been made aware of similar incidents in the city over recent weeks.\n\nSupt Kathryn Craner said: \"We are currently investigating reports of individuals suspecting that their drinks have been spiked.\n\n\"Linked to this a small number of victims have said that they may have felt a scratching sensation as if someone may have spiked them physically.\"\n\n\"We do not believe that these are targeted incidents.\n\n\"They are distinctly different from anything we have seen previously as victims have disclosed a physical scratch type sensation before feeling very unwell.\n\n\"This is subtly different from feelings of intoxication through alcohol according to some victims.\"\n\nThe force said a 20-year-old man had been arrested \"on suspicion of possession of class A and class B and cause [to] administer poison or noxious thing with intent to injure, aggrieve and annoy\" following an incident in Lower Parliament Street on 16 October.\n\nThe man has now been released on bail.\n\nStealth nightclub confirmed it had received two reports within the past two weeks from customers who thought they may have been spiked by a needle.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Both were seen by our on-site medic, and we are currently liaising with police to aid in their investigations.\"\n\nThe nightclub said reports of spiking were taken very seriously and staff would continue to carry out thorough searches and capture CCTV footage to aid police investigations.\n\nA spokesman for Rekom UK, which owns Pryzm, said: \"While these incidents are incredibly rare, we take all reports of this nature very seriously and will do all we can to make sure that they don't happen in our clubs.\n\n\"We urge anyone who sees suspicious behaviour, or suspects they have been a victim of spiking, to seek assistance immediately from a member of staff.\n\n\"We would also encourage them to contact police, so that any allegation can be properly investigated.\"\n\nMeanwhile concerned female students in the city have set up a group and are planning a nightclub boycott next week to put pressure on venues to do more to prevent spiking.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We want to raise awareness and implement some changes.\"\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.", "John Kerry is the US Climate Envoy\n\nAmerica's climate envoy John Kerry says the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow is the \"last best hope for the world to get its act together\".\n\nMr Kerry told the BBC that key countries were pursuing policies that border on being \"very dangerous\".\n\nHe said that if greenhouse gas emissions were not reduced enough over the next nine years there was no chance of meeting long-term targets.\n\nThe aim is to hold the rise in the earth's temperature to 1.5C.\n\nScientists have said that would require global carbon emissions to fall by 45% from 2010 levels by the end of this decade.\n\nBut apart from a brief period during Covid-19 lockdowns, emissions are still rising.\n\nChina, the world's biggest emitter, will be key to any hopes of a strong outcome at COP26, when it is held in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November.\n\nLeaders and delegates from around the world will attend the summit, including Mr Kerry and US President Joe Biden.\n\nMr Kerry has previously said the US will push for rapid action after four years of \"reckless behaviour\" under previous President Donald Trump.\n\nHe said the US would now move forward with \"humility and ambition\" in the global negotiations.\n\nA former presidential candidate, Mr Kerry has long been a powerful voice in climate politics. As President Obama's Secretary of State he played a key role in securing the Paris agreement in 2015.\n\nThe US Special Envoy on Climate Change told BBC Radio 4 documentary Glasgow: Our last best hope? that there were a lot of big promises without the necessary action.\n\n\"The truth is emissions are going up around the world, not down in enough countries, and key countries are pursuing policies that border on being very dangerous for everybody.\"\n\nMr Kerry has previously called on China to increase the speed and depth of its efforts to cut carbon.\n\nChina has promised to peak emissions by 2030 - but the US diplomat said that was not good enough.\n\n\"If you don't reduce enough between 2020 and 2030 the scientists tell us we can't get where we need to go. We will not be able to hold the earth's temperature rise to 1.5 degrees and we won't be able to achieve net zero by 2050.\"\n\nMr Kerry said he wanted Glasgow to raise the ambition of the 20 major economies in the world.\n\nHe said he would be looking for definite road-maps to net zero and money to help less developed countries also reach their goals without suffering economic hardship.\n\nMr Kerry called this the \"greatest test of global citizenship\" he could think of.\n\n\"Glasgow is coming at a point where these scientists have told us we have about nine years remaining within which to make the most critical decisions. Those decisions have got to really start in earnest and in a significant sum in Glasgow.\"\n\n\"We have to get on the road here and we've been talking about it for 30 years.\n\n\"So this is really what Glasgow is about, the last best hope to do what the scientists tell us we must which is to avoid the worst consequences of climate by making decisions now and implementing them now.\"\n\nCOP26 President Alok Sharma has also said world leaders must act now to limit global warming.\n\nMr Sharma told the BBC's No Hot Air podcast the aim was to get countries to \"stick with the goals\" agreed at the Paris summit in 2015.\n\nHe said: \"World leaders came together and said that they would act to limit global temperature rises to well below 2C, aiming for 1.5C and that's what we want to try and achieve.\n\n\"I think Glasgow has to be the moment that the world acts. We've got some commitments but we need to go further.\"\n\nMr Sharma added: \"We need to make sure that we can say with credibility that we've kept 1.5C in reach.\n\n\"Now is the time for all of us to act, but particularly for the biggest emitters - the G20 nations and the developed countries who promised finance to support developing countries - they also need to step up.\"", "Lord Janner, who died in 2015, denied all charges against him\n\nPolice investigations into allegations of child abuse against a former MP were marred by \"a series of failings\", a report has found.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) said Leicestershire Police officers \"shut down\" investigations into Lord Janner \"without pursuing all inquiries\".\n\nIt also criticised Leicestershire County Council's \"sorry record of failures\" over abuse.\n\nThe former MP died in December 2015.\n\nProfessor Alexis Jay, chairman of the inquiry, said police and prosecutors \"appeared reluctant to fully investigate\" claims against Lord Janner despite \"numerous serious allegations\".\n\n\"On multiple occasions police put too little emphasis on looking for supporting evidence and shut down investigations without pursuing all outstanding inquiries,\" she said.\n\n\"This inquiry has brought up themes we are now extremely familiar with, such as deference to powerful individuals, the barriers to reporting faced by children and the need for institutions to have clear policies and procedures setting out how to respond to allegations of child sexual abuse.\"\n\nLord Janner's family has always maintained his innocence.\n\nHis son Daniel said the inquiry \"fails to challenge our late father's innocence\" and \"offers no proof whatsoever of guilt\".\n\nProfessor Alexis Jay is leading the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse\n\nThe inquiry heard accounts from 33 complainants, with allegations of abuse stretching across three decades.\n\nIn 1999, Leicestershire Police's Operation Magnolia looked into allegations made against the politician, but the inquiry found it \"seemingly involved a deliberate decision by [the force] to withhold key statements\" from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which it described as \"serious and inexcusable\".\n\nOperation Dauntless was set up in May 2006 following further claims from another alleged victim, with the report criticising police and CPS decisions not to carry on the investigation as \"unsound and strategically flawed\".\n\nIn 2012 a further police probe, named Operation Enamel, was set up to look at evidence that may not have been considered in earlier investigations.\n\nAfter further evidence and more complainants came forward, Lord Janner was charged with 22 offences, including indecent assault and buggery, which dated from the 1960s to the 1980s.\n\nAt the time of his death, Lord Janner was due to face a trial over claims made by nine complainants, with the prosecution seeking to add further charges.\n\nGreville Janner, pictured here in 1987, was a Leicester MP for Labour for 27 years\n\nIn October 2020, the inquiry heard evidence from Lord Janner's alleged victims.\n\nNone of the complainants were called to give evidence in person, due to it focusing solely on the state responses to their allegations, rather than the authenticity of the claims.\n\nChristopher Jacobs, who represented some of the complainants, described the case of Tracey Taylor - who has waived her right to anonymity - who was put into care as a 14-year-old in the 1970s.\n\n\"She said she was raped by a man who said his name was Greville Janner, he said he was an MP and that he could make her the next prime minister's wife,\" Mr Jacobs told the inquiry.\n\n\"She has told the police about the abuse, but she has never been believed due to her mental health problems. On some occasions, police mocked her statements, calling her Crazy Tracey.\"\n\nTim Betteridge, another complainant to waive his anonymity, said he was sexually abused by Lord Janner on two occasions, including once in an allotment and once in a mobile unit.\n\nThe inquiry heard Mr Betteridge raised the alarm but was told by care home staff \"nobody would believe him because he was just a brat in care\".\n\nThis report did not find evidence of a conspiracy to protect a local MP, but its officials believe what they discovered was actually more serious.\n\nAdults who had grown up in children's homes weren't taken seriously when they came forward to make allegations, because of their backgrounds.\n\nThe claims of one accuser were rejected because he may have had a history of mental illness. However, later police inquiries looked at his medical records and concluded that wasn't the case.\n\nThis investigation isn't the only one where the inquiry has seen evidence that alleged crimes against children have been dismissed prematurely.\n\nIts final report will have to come up with recommendations to prevent it happening again.\n\nThe inquiry also heard \"a number\" of staff at Leicestershire County Council had concerns over Lord Janner's association with a child in care.\n\nThe report stated \"undue deference\" was shown to the politician, who had \"unrestricted access\" to the child, with \"little if any thought given to any child protection issues\".\n\nNo inquiries were made into staff concerns, and the council has accepted it \"failed to take adequate steps in response\" to them.\n\nFormer PM Tony Blair had nominated Lord Janner for a peerage\n\nThe inquiry also examined the Labour Party's response to the allegations, saying it was not enough for it to leave it to the police and CPS due to Lord Janner's \"privileged and powerful position\".\n\nDavid Evans, the current general secretary, told the inquiry new systems were now in place should any allegations be made against a sitting MP.\n\nThe inquiry also said Lord Janner should have been subject to scrutiny when he was nominated for a peerage by then-prime minister Tony Blair, weeks after sweeping to power in 1997.\n\nMr Blair previously told the inquiry he was aware of the allegations but they were not a \"bar\" as Lord Janner had denied them, and there had not been any charges.\n\nLeicestershire Police said the force would study the report \"scrupulously and examine it for any actions or improvements\".\n\nChief Constable Simon Cole said: \"I would like to reiterate the wholehearted apology I gave in February 2020 to any complainant whose allegations during earlier police investigations into Lord Janner were not responded to as they should have been.\n\n\"It is fair and correct to say that the allegations could and should have been investigated more thoroughly, and Lord Janner could and should have faced prosecution earlier than 2015.\"\n\nLeicestershire County Council leader Nick Rushton said the authority accepted the report's findings.\n\n\"The council at the time simply did not do enough to keep the children in its care safe and for that, I am sorry,\" Mr Rushton said.\n\nA spokesperson for the CPS added: \"The CPS has acknowledged past failings in the way allegations made against Lord Janner were handled. It remains a matter of sincere regret that opportunities were missed to put these allegations before a jury.\"\n\nRichard Scorer, a lawyer at Slater and Gordon - which represented 14 complainants at the inquiry - said: \"Had investigations been conducted properly, it is clear that Lord Janner could have been prosecuted in his lifetime.\n\n\"Sadly the clock cannot be rolled back and the criminal trial of Lord Janner which could and should have taken place will never be possible.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by this story please visit the BBC Action Line.\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 Amess' widow Julia was accompanied by the church's Rev Clifford Newman\n\nThe family of Sir David Amess have visited the church where he was killed to see some of the many tributes left in his memory.\n\nSir David's widow, Julia, was comforted by family members as she spent about 10 minutes reading messages at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea.\n\nBoris Johnson led MPs in making tributes in the House of Commons.\n\nHe vowed Sir David's death would not \"detract from his accomplishments as a politician or as a human being\".\n\nThe Queen has agreed to award Southend city status, after a long-standing campaign by Sir David, the prime minister confirmed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parliament pays tribute to Sir David Amess, following his killing\n\nA minute's silence was held earlier and a service took place at St Margaret's Church, next to Parliament, where the Archbishop of Canterbury gave an address.\n\nSir David, 69, the Conservative MP for Southend West, had been meeting constituents when he was stabbed multiple times on Friday. A 25-year-old British man, Ali Harbi Ali, is being held under the Terrorism Act.\n\nThe father-of-five's death has sparked an outpouring of grief, not only within his local community in Essex where he had been an MP for nearly 40 years, but from across the country.\n\nThe church where he was killed is surrounded by large piles of flowers, heart-shaped balloons and framed pictures, and people continued to lay tributes on Monday.\n\nDuring their visit, the family held each other as they read some of the messages. They later bowed their heads and formed a semi-circle around the church's minister, the Reverend Clifford Newman, who spoke to them privately.\n\nThe family described Sir David as strong and courageous, a patriot and a man of peace\n\n\"We realised from tributes paid that there was far, far more to David than even we, those closest to him, knew,\" the family have said\n\nA mural of Sir David has been painted at a skate park in Leigh-on-Sea\n\nMr Johnson said Sir David was a \"seasoned campaigner of verve and grit\" who \"never once witnessed any achievement by any resident of Southend that could not somehow be cited in his bid to secure city status for that distinguished town\".\n\nMPs spoke of their grief at losing a much-loved colleague and friend in Sir David.\n\nConservative former prime minister Theresa May said he gave an \"extraordinary\" service to his constituents.\n\n\"I suggest to anybody who wants to be a first-class constituency MP that you look at the example of David Amess,\" she said.\n\nConservative former minister Mark Francois described Sir David as his \"best and oldest friend in politics\".\n\nMr Francois added: \"Everything I ever learned about being a constituency MP I learnt from David Amess.\"\n\nLabour MP Kim Leadbeater, the sister of Jo Cox - the MP murdered by a right-wing extremist five years ago - said her thoughts were with Sir David's family.\n\n\"I do have a unique perspective on what those closest to David are going through and I want to send them my love, support and solidarity, from myself, my parents, our family, and the people of Batley and Spen,\" she said.\n\nBoris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer were among MPs and peers at a church service to honour Sir David\n\nThe service at St Margaret's Church, beside Westminster Abbey, included a reading by Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle\n\nAt the weekend, Sir David's family released a statement saying the wonderful tributes to him had given them strength, but they were still trying to understand \"why this awful thing has occurred... nobody should die in that way\".\n\n\"We are absolutely broken, but we will survive and carry on for the sake of a wonderful and inspiring man,\" they said.\n\nAli Harbi Ali is being detained at a London police station\n\nDetectives are continuing to hold Ali Harbi Ali, a British national of Somali heritage, at a London police station and have until Friday to question him.\n\nThe BBC has been told he was referred to the counter-terrorist Prevent scheme some years ago, but was never a formal subject of interest to MI5.\n\nIt is also understood that his father, Harbi Ali Kullane, who was previously an adviser to Somalia's prime minister, has been visited by police who have taken his phone for analysis.\n\nPolice officers spent the weekend searching three addresses in London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brendan Cox says public reaction to Sir David Amess' death will comfort family\n\nAhead of the formal tributes in Parliament, MPs discussed their own personal safety concerns.\n\nMany MPs have spoken of a toxic and increasingly polarised political culture where online trolling has become widespread, including personal insults and direct threats of violence.\n\nLabour's Tulip Sadiq told the BBC that all MPs, especially women, are subject to attack and that her mother feared for her doing the job.\n\nSir David's neighbouring MP in Southend, Conservative James Duddridge, said \"no-one that loves me, none of my friends, would want me to be a Member of Parliament\" but they support him because it is \"honourable\" and \"worthwhile\".\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said he had received \"three threats to life and limb\" over the past two years - but he does not want to \"allow those who attack our democracy\" to win.\n\nAnd Labour's Chris Bryant said a man had been arrested over a death threat he received at the weekend.\n\nAsked whether MPs' surgeries with constituents should take place online, Downing Street said the murder could not \"get in the way of democracy\".\n\n\"MPs may rightly be concerned about security, they've been contacted by police to discuss their activities and events so their arrangements can be reviewed,\" the No 10 spokesman said.", "Downing Street says it is \"keeping a very close eye\" on rising Covid cases - but the cabinet has not yet discussed rolling out its Plan B to control coronavirus in England this winter.\n\nDaily cases have been above 40,000 for seven days in a row, with 43,738 new Covid cases reported on Tuesday.\n\nAnother 223 deaths have been recorded, the highest since March, although daily figures are often bigger on Tuesdays.\n\nPM Boris Johnson has told the cabinet the UK faces \"a difficult winter\".\n\nUnder the government's winter plan, if the measures currently in place are not enough to prevent \"unsustainable pressure\" on the NHS, then steps like making face coverings mandatory in some settings and introducing vaccine passports could be considered as part of Plan B.\n\nThe prime minister told ministers the government had \"a plan in place to steer the country through this period\" and that people should \"continue to follow the guidance and get their jabs when called upon\".\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson had stressed that the government's autumn and winter plan \"continues to keep the virus under control\".\n\nNo 10 said the government was \"not complacent\" about rising cases but that, due to the vaccination programme, \"the levels we are seeing in both patients admitted to hospital and deaths are far lower than we saw in previous peaks\".\n\nThe seven-day average of new Covid cases in the UK has risen from around 34,000 a day at the beginning of October to 44,145 cases per day.\n\nAnd the number of people in hospital across the UK who have Covid has risen by 10% in a week, from 7,039 on 11 October to 7,749 on Monday.\n\nThe number of deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test reported on Tuesday was the highest since 9 March, although due to reporting lags over the weekend daily figures are often higher on a Tuesday.\n\n\"Clearly we're keeping a very close eye on rising case rates,\" the prime minister's spokesman said.\n\nHe said there were \"no plans\" to use the Plan B contingency measures but stressed that the most important message for the public was \"the vital importance of the booster programme and indeed for those children who are eligible to come forward and get our jab\".\n\nChildren aged 12 to 15 in England will be able to book their jabs at vaccination centres, as well as through school, after concerns about rollout delays.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid told MPs younger teenagers would be able to book their jabs outside of school to \"make the most of half-term\".\n\nEarlier Prof Neil Ferguson, who is a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said it was \"critical\" to accelerate the booster jab programme, as well as for younger teenagers to receive a vaccine.\n\nHe said there was no reason to \"panic right now\" but \"people need to be aware that we have currently higher levels of infection in the community than we've almost ever had during the pandemic\".\n\nOn Tuesday Northern Ireland announced its own autumn and winter plan, which will see face coverings remain a legal requirement in crowded indoor spaces.\n\nThe Welsh government has previously set out its plans for winter, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying Christmas this year was likely to be more normal.\n\nScotland has set out a winter vaccination strategy and already has measures in place such as the requirement of proof of vaccination status at nightclubs and face masks in schools.\n\nMeanwhile, officials say they are monitoring a new descendant of the Delta variant of Covid, which is causing a growing number of infections.\n\nDowning Street said that there was \"no evidence to suggest it is more easily spread\".", "North Korea has fired a suspected submarine-launched ballistic missile into waters off the coast of Japan, South Korea's military has said.\n\nPyongyang unveiled the missile in January, describing it as \"the world's most powerful weapon\".\n\nIt comes weeks after South Korea unveiled a similar weapon of its own.\n\nNorth Korea has carried out a flurry of missile tests in recent weeks, including of what it said were hypersonic and long-range weapons.\n\nSome of these tests violate strict international sanctions.\n\nThe country is specifically prohibited by the United Nations from testing ballistic missiles as well as nuclear weapons.\n\nThe UN considers ballistic missiles to be more threatening than cruise missiles because they can carry more powerful payloads, have a longer range and can fly faster.\n\nOn Tuesday South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said one missile had been launched from the port of Sinpo, in the east of North Korea where Pyongyang usually bases its submarines. It landed in the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan.\n\nThey said it was suspected to have been a submarine-launched ballistic missile.\n\nSouth Korean media reported that this particular missile was believed to have travelled about 450km (280 miles) at a maximum height of 60km.\n\nJapan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said two ballistic missiles had been fired, calling the launches \"very regrettable\".\n\nIn October 2019, North Korea tested a submarine-launched ballistic missile, firing a Pukguksong-3 from an underwater platform.\n\nAt the time, state news agency KCNA said it had been fired at a high angle to minimise the \"external threat\".\n\nHowever, if the missile had been launched on a standard trajectory, instead of a vertical one, it could have travelled around 1,900km. That would have put all of South Korea and Japan within range.\n\nBeing launched from a submarine can also make missiles harder to detect and allow them to get closer to other targets.\n\nThe latest launch comes as South Korea develops its own weapons, in what observers say has turned into an arms race on the Korean peninsula.\n\nSeoul is holding what is said to be South Korea's largest ever defence exhibition this week. It will reportedly unveil a new fighter jet as well as guided weapons like missiles. It is also due to launch its own space rocket soon.\n\nNorth and South Korea technically remain at war as the Korean War, which split the peninsula into two countries and which saw the US backing the South, ended in 1953 with an armistice.\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un said last week that he did not wish for war to break out again. He said his country needed to continue developing weapons for self-defence against enemies, namely the US which he accused of hostility.\n\nNorth Korea has been pushing for years to develop and test nuclear-armed missiles from submarines.\n\nBut can they actually fire them from a submarine? We will have to wait for images of the launch, which will give analysts a better idea of just how far Pyongyang has come.\n\nAnd let's be clear about the threat - the country's submarines are reportedly noisy and easy to track. The regime is thought to have only one submarine capable of launching missiles while a second one is being built at Sinpo.\n\nThere is, of course, also a bit of showmanship going on here.\n\nJust last month, South Korea launched its own submarine-launched ballistic missile and the North was not impressed.\n\nSo, amidst this regional arms race, is there still hope for talks?\n\nSeoul still thinks so. But Kim Jong-un is sending mixed messages. One minute he is launching missiles and the next he is sending missives through state media about potential peace talks.\n\nAs ever, Pyongyang is proving difficult to read.\n\nMeanwhile, South Korean, Japanese and US intelligence chiefs are meeting in Seoul to discuss North Korea.\n\nThe US envoy to North Korea, Sung Kim, is currently on his way to the city to discuss how to restart dialogue with Pyongyang, including on whether there should be a formal declaration of the end of the Korean War.\n\nIn the last 24 hours, he has reiterated the stance of US President Joe Biden's administration that it is open to meeting with North Korea without pre-conditions.\n\nPrevious talks between the US and North Korea broke down due to fundamental disagreements on denuclearisation.\n\nThe US wants North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons before sanctions can be eased, but North Korea has so far refused.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does North Korea keep launching missiles?", "Leslie Bricusse, the prolific British songwriter behind many of cinema's biggest hits such as Candyman and Goldfinger, has died at the age of 90.\n\nHis friend Dame Joan Collins described him as \"one of the giant songwriters of our time\".\n\nPetula Clark, who sang You and I from 1968's Goodbye Mr Chips, told BBC Radio 4 he was \"extraordinary\".\n\nBricusse's career spanned 60 years with other credits including Talk to the Animals from Doctor Dolittle.\n\nHe also wrote Candyman and Pure Imagination from the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.\n\nStage impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber released a statement, calling Bricusse \"the most underestimated British songwriter of all time\".\n\nJohn Berlinsgame from Variety told the Today programme that Bricusse was \"not only an artist but a lyrical genius\".\n\nIn his six decade career, he was constantly writing and had a catalogue of more than 1,000 songs to his name.\n\nHe wrote the lyrics to Shirley Bassey's classic Goldfinger, one of the most memorable Bond theme tunes, with long-time collaborator Antony Newley.\n\nBricusse also wrote the lyrics to You Only Live Twice, sung by Nancy Sinatra.\n\nOther collaborations with Newley, Dame Joan's former husband, included Feeling Good, made famous by Nina Simone.\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 joancollinsdbe 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\nBricusse's agent confirmed the songwriter's death \"with a breaking heart\", saying he died in his sleep on Tuesday morning. He had been married to actress Yvonne Romain for more than 60 years.\n\nDame Joan said: \"One of the giant songwriters of our time, writer of Candyman, Goldfinger amongst so many other hits, and my great friend Leslie Bricusse has sadly died today.\n\n\"He and his beautiful Evie have been in my life for over 50 years. I will miss him terribly, as will his many friends.\"\n\nFilm expert Berlinsgame told the Today programme: \"He would be clever, very witty but also heartfelt and emotional.\"\n\nVocalist and actress Clark also told Today: \"He was a dear friend who I've known for many years. He wrote all the time, never stopped. I will miss him… he was extraordinary, I'm just beside myself.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elaine Paige This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStage star Elaine Paige said on Twitter: \"Shocked & saddened by the news that the brilliant & wonderful Leslie Bricusse has died.\n\n\"One of our great songwriters. My first ever professional role was in Roar of the Greasepaint musical [for which Bricusse wrote Feeling Good]. We've been friends for many years.\"\n\nBorn in Pinner, north west London, Bricusse and Newley's fruitful partnership saw them write 1961 musical Stop the World I Want to Get Off and the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, based on Roald Dahl's popular children's book.\n\nDavid Walliams paid tribute to Bricusse's songwriting saying on Twitter: \"The great Gene Wilder sings Leslie Bricusse's magical Pure Imagination from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. It is so beautiful it makes me weep.\"\n\nBricusse also wrote many other musicals including Scrooge and Hook, the latter with Hollywood composer John Williams.\n\nSometimes working under the pseudonym Beverley Thorn, he co-wrote skiffle singer Lonnie Donegan's 1960 hit My Old Man's a Dustman (Ballad of a Refuse Disposal Officer).\n\nCher, Henri Mancini, Leslie Bricusse and Placido Domingo after the Oscar success of Victor/Victoria\n\nBut it was Bricusse's contribution to musicals that defined his career. This included two Oscars for his work. Talk to the Animals won best original song in 1968, while Victor/Victoria - which he wrote with Henry Mancini - won best original song score or adaptation in 1983.\n\nHe won a Grammy in 1963, which he shared with Newley, for the song What Kind of Fool Am I? from Stop the World I Want to Get Off.\n\nAsked in 2015 how he felt about winning his Academy Awards, he said: \"The Oscars are brilliant. If the whole world was run by the Oscar committee it would be a much better place.\n\n\"I have nothing but admiration for them. I'm playing par - I'm 10 nominations and two wins. So if you reckon you win one in five, I'm on par,\" he said.\n\nAlso in 2015, he staged Pure Imagination - The Songs of Leslie Bricusse, a musical revue reflecting on his vast back catalogue.\n\nGene Wilder sang Bricusse's Pure Imagination in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory\n\nThe composer and lyricist was said to be adamant that his musical theatre scores should be sung traditionally, rather than jazzed up to suit a particular producer's whims.\n\nPresenter and former musical theatre star Philip Schofield said: \"I'm so sad to hear of the death of my friend, the brilliant Leslie Bricusse whose songs I loved singing in Dr Dolittle. My love to his family.\"\n\nBricusse described himself in his book Pure Imagination: A Sorta-biography as \"one of the luckiest people I know, second only perhaps to Ringo Starr\".\n\n\"It's not really an autobiography. It's about incidents rather than my entire life, and it's about other people as much as me. I just put down the things I remembered!\"\n\nBricusse stated at the outset of one of his early chapters that he would be dropping names \"like fragrant rose petals\".\n\nThe book was interspersed with anecdotes and quotes from some of his famous friends, including Dame Julie Andrews, Sir Elton John and Sir Michael Caine.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Justin McLaughlin was rushed to hospital but was later pronounced dead\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of Justin McLaughlin in Glasgow.\n\nThe 14-year-old was wounded in an incident at High Street train station at about 15:45 BST on Saturday.\n\nHe was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later.\n\nPolice confirmed the 16-year-old was due to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Tuesday and that inquiries remained ongoing.\n\nA dedicated police website has been set up to collect information about the incident.\n\nJames McParland, the headmaster at St Ambrose High School in Coatbridge where Justin was a pupil, said the community was \"shocked and saddened\" by the death.\n\n\"Justin was a valued member of our community and his loss will be felt by staff and pupils alike,\" he said.\n\n\"Our prayers and thoughts are with his family and friends, and additional pastoral support will be available to young people within the school on their return on Monday morning.\"\n\nIn an online tribute, the teenager's aunt, Maggie McLaughlin, said his family were \"absolutely heartbroken\".\n\nShe said he was the \"biggest gentle giant\" with \"a smile that would take up the full world\".\n\nCoatbridge and Chryston MSP Fulton MacGregor said: \"I am deeply shocked and saddened, as we all are, by the death of Justin McLaughlin and my thoughts are with Justin's family, friends and the school community of St Ambrose High School at this tragic time.\n\n\"The community are grieving such a devastating loss of a young life with so much future ahead of him.\"\n\nNiven Rennie, director of the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit, said the murder was \"devastating\" for all involved.\n\nThe unit approaches violence as a disease to be prevented, and has worked closely with partners in the NHS, education and social work.\n\nMr Rennie told BBC Scotland such incidents not only affect the victim's family but also the families of the individuals involved and those who witnessed the incident.\n\nHe said: \"It is a tragic event and it is that ripple effect. That's why in Scotland we try and reduce that as much as we can.\n\n\"Our ultimate aim is to make Scotland the safest country in the world and there is still a lot of work ahead of us in that respect.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nSixty eight percent of all Premier League players have now had both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, the league has announced.\n\nThe Premier League also confirmed that 81% of players have had at least one jab.\n\nThe numbers mark a large increase in uptake of the vaccine.\n\n\"This latest data shows the tide is very clearly turning,\" Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, England's deputy chief medical officer, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It shows that people are listening to sensible messages from well-informed health professionals. That is where you get the good advice from, you don't get it from the internet, or Instagram or Facebook.\n\n\"It is brilliant and is a real positive change.\"\n• None Newcastle goalkeeper Darlow urges players to get vaccinated for Covid-19\n• None The Sports Desk podcast: Should sport get tough on vaccine hesitancy?\n\nAt the end of September there were only seven clubs in the Premier League where more than 50% of players were fully vaccinated.\n\n\"Vaccination rates are collected by the Premier League on a weekly basis and the league continues to work with clubs to encourage vaccination among players and club staff,\" the league said.\n\nIn an interview with BBC sports editor Dan Roan, Prof Van-Tam believes more players will get vaccinations if not being jabbed compromises their ability to travel outside of the UK to play.\n\n\"I think the figures will rise more as it becomes obvious it is going to be difficult to travel internationally without having been vaccinated,\" said Prof Van-Tam.\n\n\"Football players will undoubtedly want to travel abroad - for leisure time as well as their tournaments and competitions.\"\n\nIn the English Football League, the BBC understands that, as of September, 49% of players were fully vaccinated - up from 18% the previous month.\n\nVaccination rates in English football are lower than a number of other sports and leagues, with Professor Van-Tam saying he was frustrated by there not being a higher take-up rate.\n\n\"All over the world we have seen, not just in the UK, vaccine acceptance rates for Covid are a bit lower in the younger adult age groups,\" he said.\n\n\"It is disappointing. Especially when you are someone like me who has given the last 18 months of your life in the quest to get vaccines as quickly as possible for the UK.\n\n\"For somebody like me who has burnt a lot of energy and cost my family lots of attention to get there, of course it is disappointing.\n\n\"But the latest data we have seen from the Premier League is very encouraging.\"\n\n'What athletes say and do really matters' - Van-Tam urges young adults to get vaccinated\n\nEarlier this month Republic of Ireland international Callum Robinson revealed he had chosen not to be vaccinated against Covid-19, despite twice contracting the virus.\n\nRobinson was speaking days after Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp expressed exasperation with Premier League players who have not had the vaccine.\n\nKlopp said that \"99%\" of his players have been vaccinated and that he had not had to convince them to do so, adding that he was jabbed to protect not just himself but \"all the people around me\".\n\n\"My message to footballers who are yet to be vaccinated is really the same to any young adult who has yet to be vaccinated: it is the best thing you can do for yourself, your friends and your family,\" said Prof Van-Tam.\n\n\"This is a really infectious virus, we are quite clear about that. The chances of you dodging it, swerving it or out-running it for the next few months, or few years, is nigh on impossible.\n\n\"So from that perspective it is really important to get the vaccine.\n\n\"It is going to massively reduce the chances of you getting infected and even if you are infected after it, it is going to massively reduce the chances of anything bad happening to you.\"\n\nProf Van-Tam said he understands the concerns of athletes about possible side-effects, stressing there are \"risks and benefits to every single medicine\".\n\n\"We are very clear there is a documented risk of myocarditis - inflammation of the heart - associated with the vaccine which is being offered to the under 40s. But it is extremely rare,\" he said.\n\n\"You must say 'what are the risks of myocarditis if I get Covid?' There is a new medical paper out in the United States which says the rates of myocarditis are six times higher after Covid than they are after vaccination.\n\n\"By all means choose the lowest risk pathway. But the lowest risk pathway is not to take chances with Covid.\"\n\nNobody should feel under pressure to disclose their vaccine status or speak openly about personal health records if they don't want to, said Prof Van-Tam.\n\nBut he added more athletes being open and transparent about taking the vaccine is \"better and more helpful to others\".\n\n\"I'm mad about football, most of this country is mad about football or another sport and sporting icons mean a huge amount to us,\" said Prof Van-Tam, a season-ticket holder at National League North club Boston United.\n\n\"Whether they like it or not footballers and sports people are role models, particular for young adults and children. What they say and do really matters.\"\n\nPremier League managers have previously called on their players to get immunised, including Klopp, Pep Guardiola, Mikel Arteta, Nuno Espirito Santo, Steve Bruce and Graham Potter.\n\n\"At their age they are more open to some of these conspiracy theories,\" England manager Gareth Southgate said of younger people in the UK.\n\n\"They are reading social media more, they are perhaps more vulnerable to those sort of views.\n\n\"From what I can see there is a bit of confusion around.\"\n\nProf Van-Tam agrees with Southgate's view, saying he is worried about the influence of social media and influence of untrusted sources on the decision-making process of young people about the vaccines.\n\n\"If your boiler goes you don't call a doctor, you call a central heating engineer,\" said Prof Van-Tam.\n\n\"If you want to know something about vaccines, and you want trusted, reliable information about what you should do and what the best course of action is, turn to somebody who has spent years and years of training for that role.\n\n\"Turn to health professionals, a doctor, a nurse or a pharmacist. Go to the right sources. Don't trust Instagram.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt was the look on the face of the sonographer that told one mother something was wrong with her baby.\n\nSharon Gorvett was 20 weeks pregnant with her third child in 2004 when a doctor told her that her unborn daughter was \"incompatible with life\".\n\nShe was automatically booked for a termination, but surprised her doctors when she said she did not want one.\n\nShe is now taking part in an exhibition to help awareness for baby loss, and give other parents \"a little hope\".\n\nDoctors thought Ms Gorvett's daughter Sophie had Edwards Syndrome, a rare but serious condition where most babies die before or shortly after being born, due to organ defects.\n\nChildren with the condition often die before or shortly after birth, with 5-10% living beyond their first year.\n\nMs Gorvett said she had not been asked, and had not agreed to a termination, but was automatically given a slot for one.\n\n\"They explained what was involved and I said: 'No, it's not something I want to do',\" she said.\n\nAt one point she said the consultant asked her: \"Are you telling me that this pregnancy is very precious to you?\"\n\n\"Of course it's very precious, she's still my child, my baby, and I want to spend as much time with her as possible,\" she said.\n\nShe was told her daughter would either pass away in the womb, while she was being born or shortly after birth.\n\nShe was told most parents in her situation did not want interventions to help the baby if anything went wrong.\n\n\"Well, I'm not most parents,\" she said.\n\nSophie was born early and was a \"little fighter\" says her mother\n\nSophie was born early at 5lb 12oz born and \"was a little fighter\" and \"so pretty\", said her mother.\n\n\"I didn't even have a bed for her to sleep in because I didn't think I'd be leaving the hospital with a live baby.\n\n\"We had to stop on the way home and buy a Moses basket for Sophie.\"\n\nSharon Gorvett said Sophie completed the family and now \"it'll never be complete\".\n\nThe family spent 13 weeks with Sophie, and said even though her life was short, it was filled with love, and with the small beautiful things we often take for granted in our day-to-day lives.\n\nShe said: \"We took her to see the cows and we picked a bluebell for her. She felt the sun on her face and we showed her the moon.\n\n\"We took her out, like you would any other baby, visited family and friends, took lots of photos and just made every day special.\"\n\nSophie died at 13 weeks while out on a walk with her family\n\nWhen Sophie's heart started to fail, the family went away to a cottage where she died.\n\n\"We were out walking by the side of the Brecon canal. She took about three breaths and she was gone. She didn't struggle, it was very peaceful. We've since planted a pink Hawthorn tree there and put a plaque where she passed away.\"\n\n\"Our family was complete when she was there, and now she's not there, it'll never be complete, but she's still very much with us, I've told my grandchildren all about their aunty Sophie, and we still mark her birthday every year.\n\n\"She was my daughter from the moment I found out I was pregnant, and she will always be my daughter.\"\n\nMs Gorvett is one of a number of women taking part in a new digital exhibition which aims to offer more support to grieving parents.\n\nPartly funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, 'You're Not Alone' calls for more open discussion around life limiting genetic birth disorders.\n\nThe project has been created by the Mold based charity, Same but Different but in conjunction with Soft UK, who provide information and support to families affected.\n\nPhotographer and Founder of the Same but Different charity, Ceridwen Hughes, said the project aims to raise awareness about the importance of talking about grief through baby loss, whilst celebrating the lives of the babies, no matter how short their lives.\n\nShe said baby loss often feels like a \"whispered secret.\"\n\nShe added: \"No-one knows what to say to a grieving parent and often people are too afraid to even say the child's name for fear of causing more upset and yet the parents I have spoken to yearn to remember and celebrate the lives of their child, no matter how short their life.\"\n\nFor Ms Gorvett, taking part in the project was a way to honour Sophie's memory, 17 years after she was born, and also to remind medical professionals that all parents really want is \"a little hope\", and the recognition that their children are individuals who should be assessed on their own merit.\n\nIf you've been affected by the issues discussed, help and support is available via BBC Action Line.", "We'll only use winter plan B if NHS pressure gets too much - No 10\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus cases in the UK reached nearly 50,000 yesterday, which would have been the first time that's happened since mid-July. No 10 says it is keeping a \"very close eye\" on the situation - and urged people to get their booster jabs. \"We have seen case rates rising, we've started to see some indications that hospitalisations and death rates are increasing also,\" the PM's spokesman says. \"The most important message for the public to understand is the vital importance of the booster programme and indeed for those children who are eligible to come forward and get our jab. \"We're seeing some groups come forward slightly more slowly than they did perhaps when they were getting their first or second vaccination and it's important that the public understand that getting your booster jab is just as important as getting your first and second dose.\" And asked about whether ministers had discussed rolling out the government's \"plan B\" of extra rules for winter - which you can find more about here - he says: \"It remains the case we would only look to use that if the pressure on the NHS was looking to become unsustainable.\"", "The new logo was unveiled by the BBC on Tuesday\n\nThe famous BBC logo has had a makeover after audiences told the corporation its services looked \"old-fashioned\" and \"out of date\".\n\nThe three blocks incorporating the letters BBC will be slightly wider apart and will feature the corporation's own Reith font.\n\nNamed after the BBC's founder, it will replace the current Gill Sans one.\n\nNews and Weather will also have new symbols made up of three blocks placed at different angles for each service.\n\nBBC Sounds, iPlayer, BBC Sport and BBC Bitesize will have similar icons in various different colours.\n\nAnd services like the iPlayer will become easier to use and navigate, the BBC said.\n\n\"As we update our digital services, it makes sense to modernise how we present them too,\" said the BBC's chief customer officer Kerris Bright. \"Updated, recognisable colours, logos and graphics will identify each service and help improve navigation between them.\"\n\nHere's a look at some of the new logos:\n\nOn TV, viewers will see BBC One, Two and Four using updated designs in the segments between programmes from Wednesday (20 October).\n\nOther changes will be brought in gradually over the coming months.\n\nThe BBC said it wanted to modernise \"all aspects of our services so the experience feels coherent wherever you access our content\" adding that it wanted to \"join the dots\" between the different BBC services \"through simplified layouts and graphics\".\n\nThe new BBC logo had a soft launch late last year when it began to appear on BBC Select, the corporation's streaming service for the US and Canada.\n\nSome critics felt the new version wasn't significantly different to the old one and questioned the cost involved.\n\nBut the BBC told The Sun earlier this year: \"We are using our own font - which we own the intellectual rights to - when we update content or BBC products.\n\n\"It would be wrong to suggest the costs of the design of the blocks was significant.\"\n\nIt's understood the precise design costs will not be published as they are commercially confidential.\n\nMany users on Twitter had fun making light of the new logos, with some pointing out an apparent similarity between the new logos and the fictional one in BBC comedy W1A, which lampoons the inner workings of the corporation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Scott Bryan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHugh Bonneville, who plays the BBC's Head of Values Ian Fletcher on the show, joked online that the fictional Fun Media PR company would have a job on their hands proving in court that the logo had been copied despite their similar-looking pitch in one of the episodes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Hugh Bonneville This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFellow actor Jason Watkins, who portrays Director of Strategic Governance Simon Harwood replied, also in character, saying the company had noted how the BBC Sounds logo \"is of course an utterly 'opposite colour-way'\".\n\nThe BBC blocks logo was first introduced in 1958 and has gone through various updates over the years, the most recent in 1997.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says she is \"deeply concerned\" about Poland's court ruling\n\nPolish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has accused the EU of blackmail in a heated debate with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen over the rule of law.\n\nThe clash in the European Parliament follows a top Polish court ruling that rejected key parts of EU law.\n\nMrs von der Leyen said she would act to prevent Poland undermining EU values.\n\nIn response, Mr Morawiecki rejected \"the language of threats\" and accused the EU of overstepping its powers.\n\nPoles overwhelmingly support being part of the EU, opinion polls suggest, but Poland's right-wing nationalist government has increasingly been at odds with the union on issues ranging from LGBT rights to judicial independence.\n\nThe latest row has come to a head over an unprecedented and controversial ruling by Poland's Constitutional Tribunal that in effect rejects the core principle that EU law has primacy over national legislation.\n\nThe case, brought by the Polish prime minister, was the first time that an EU member state's leader had questioned EU treaties in a national constitutional court.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mrs von der Leyen told the European Parliament that the European Commission - the EU's executive - was \"carefully assessing this judgement\".\n\nShe said the situation had to be resolved, but she was adamant: \"This ruling calls into question the foundations of the European Union. It is a direct challenge to the unity of the European legal order.\"\n\nVowing to take action, Mrs von der Leyen set out three ways the European Commission could respond to the Polish court judgement.\n\nThe options, she said, were legally challenging the court ruling, withholding EU funds and suspending some of Poland's rights as a member state.\n\nThe European Commission is yet to approve €57bn (£48bn; $66bn) of Covid-19 recovery funds earmarked for Poland, and may not do so until the dispute is settled.\n\nPoland's Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki (R), said his country had been attacked in an \"unjust\" way\n\nIn a speech that ran over his allotted time, Mr Morawiecki said Poland was \"being attacked\" by EU leaders and it was \"unacceptable to talk about financial penalties\".\n\n\"Blackmail must not be a method of policy,\" said Mr Morawiecki of Poland's ruling conservative-nationalist Law and Justice party.\n\nSeeing this fiery debate in Strasbourg, you might wonder whether this so-called Polexit is a real prospect - given that it appears there are two very different legal, political and cultural perspectives set on a collision course.\n\nBut the resounding answer amongst those I've spoken to is no.\n\nOn the EU side, one diplomat recently told me they believed the EU couldn't survive another exit.\n\nSo there are huge political calculations to weigh up here, as well as legal ones.\n\nPresident von der Leyen is under mounting pressure to take action. It's a major test of her presidency.\n\nYou could see on Tuesday she wished to impress upon MEPs she was ready, if needed, to take a tough line. Yet last Friday, outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared to urge compromise over confrontation.\n\nThere is an argument to say that, if the EU opted for strong action, it could just serve to escalate the crisis and push Poland further away.\n\nBut, if it decides on a more conciliatory course, does the bloc look weak and undermine its entire legal basis?\n\nMr Morawiecki said the Polish court ruling on 7 October had been misunderstood and only questioned one area of EU treaties.\n\nHe said EU treaties must not threaten a member state's constitution, which outline laws and principles that specify how a country should be governed.\n\nThe Polish court ruling and the European Commission's response to it has divided opinion among the political leaders of EU member states.\n\nLuxembourg's Foreign Minister, Jean Asselborn, said the clash threatened the existence of the EU, while Germany's Minister for European affairs, Michael Roth, said the union must not compromise on its founding values.\n\nBut Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said linking issues about the rule of law to funding risked inflicting \"unimaginable harm to European Union unity\".\n\nMr Nauseda offered to mediate EU talks after a meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda.\n\nThe tribunal ruling has raised concerns that Poland - like the UK - could exit the EU in a so-called Polexit. But Mr Morawiecki has repeatedly insisted the country has no plans to leave the union.\n\n\"We should not be spreading lies about Polish Polexit,\" he told the European Parliament.\n\nUnlike the UK before its Brexit referendum in 2016, support for membership of the EU remains high in Poland. Mass protests have been held by Poles who back remaining a member.\n\nEarlier this month, more than 100,000 people gathered in the capital, Warsaw, to show their support for Poland's EU membership.\n\nAt one rally, Donald Tusk, former president of the European Council and now leader of the opposition party Civic Platform, called on people to \"defend a European Poland\".", "A government plan that could see MPs face by-elections if they are suspended for sexual harassment or bullying is being debated in the Commons.\n\nIt follows a controversy over Rob Roberts, a Welsh MP who was suspended from Parliament for six weeks in May for sexual misconduct.\n\nA loophole meant he did not face a petition that could trigger a by-election.\n\nLabour says the measures should also apply retrospectively.\n\nIt would mean the rule change would apply to Mr Roberts, a former Tory MP who now sits as an independent after losing the Conservative whip.\n\nHowever, the government is expected to oppose Labour's amendment, meaning it is likely to fail.\n\nIn May, Delyn MP Mr Roberts was suspended for six weeks after Parliament's Independent Expert Panel found he had sexually harassed a member of his staff.\n\nHe apologised and said he would \"continue to serve\" his constituency, and has since spoken in debates in the House of Commons.\n\nHowever, his suspension did not lead to a recall petition - a process where voters can potentially trigger a special election to try and remove them.\n\nThis was because it was handed down by the independent panel, a body set up last year to examine sexual harassment and bullying cases.\n\nUnder the Commons rules, recall petitions are only automatically triggered if an MP is suspended for at least 10 days by a different body, the Commons Standards Committee.\n\nThe committee used to examine sexual harassment and bullying cases, before they were transferred to the independent panel.\n\nRob Roberts was elected as Conservative MP for Delyn in North Wales at the 2019 election\n\nUnder the government's plan, the standards committee would have to mirror any sanction recommended by the independent panel, if it would have triggered a recall petition under the old system.\n\nThe suspensions would run at the same time, but would allow MPs to face a recall petition.\n\nMPs will vote on the plans because Labour have tabled an amendment to them.\n\nLabour argue that the rule changes should apply retrospectively to MPs suspended by the Independent Expert Panel before they were agreed - including Mr Roberts.\n\nThe chairman of the independent panel has come out against this idea, arguing it would undermine the panel's independence.\n\nShadow Commons leader Thangam Debbonaire said: \"Labour have put forward a solution to close the loophole allowing the person who has recently been found to have sexually harassed to escape a sanction he would otherwise have faced\".\n\n\"The MP has not done the decent thing, so we have to do this and it is perfectly workable.\n\n\"If the government choose to vote it down, they will continue to cover a member who has recently been sanctioned for sexual harassment of staff. His constituents should be able to decide if he is the right person to represent them.\"\n• None MP Rob Roberts told staffer to be 'less alluring'", "Alta Fixsler suffered a brain injury at birth and could not breathe, drink or eat without medical help\n\nA seriously ill two-year-old girl whose parents wanted her to be at home at the end of her life has died in a hospice.\n\nAlta Fixsler, from Salford, suffered a brain injury at birth and died, surrounded by her family, on Monday.\n\nEarlier this month, her parents lost their legal battle against Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust for life support to be withdrawn at home rather than in hospital or a hospice.\n\nHer father told the BBC that Alta \"was our whole world\".\n\nA High Court judge had ruled her treatment should be withdrawn in a children's hospice.\n\nHer father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: \"She passed away in a hospice on Monday. I don't know even how to explain how I am feeling.\n\n\"She fought for her life for three hours after the life support was turned off.\"\n\nFollowing her brain injury at birth, Alta was left unable to breathe, drink or eat without medical help.\n\nHer father said the protracted court battle had been \"very painful\".\n\n\"The trust would not let us take her home,\" he added.\n\nJudges at the High Court ruled Alta's treatment should be withdrawn\n\nThe girl's parents, who are Hasidic Jews, previously lost their fight against the removal of life support. They had argued it was against their faith.\n\nHer father previously told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that taking her home was \"something that we wanted from day one when the doctors said she is not going to live more than a few hours\".\n\nThroughout the legal battle medics insisted Alta had no chance of recovery.\n\nHigh Court judge Mr Justice MacDonald also said her parents' idea of taking her abroad to Israel for alternative treatment would expose her to \"further pain\".\n\nHe said ceasing life-sustaining treatment was in the toddler's \"best interests\" and moving her would cause her discomfort \"for no medical benefit\".\n\nA spokesman for Alta's family said: \"Despite our best efforts and deep discussions to continue Alta's critical care and give her the best possible quality of life, we are distraught at the decision taken by the court to end her life.\n\n\"We strongly believe that making life-changing decisions on behalf of children ought to be a parental right and it is important that we open up the debate around this.\n\n\"We call on the government to look at the current legislation and change it.\"\n\nA spokesman for law firm TKD Solicitors, which represented Alta's parents, said she had been remembered at a funeral service in Israel.\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.", "More MPs have opened up about their own personal safety following the death of their colleague, Sir David Amess, who was stabbed multiple times during a meeting with his constituents in Essex on Friday.\n\nMany have spoken of a toxic and increasingly polarised political culture where online trolling has become widespread, ranging from personal insults at one end of the spectrum to direct threats of violence and even death at the other.\n\nLabour MP, Tulip Siddiq, told BBC Breakfast all MPs, especially women, are subject to attack and that her mother feared for her doing the job.\n\nSeveral too have spoken of concerns about the safety of their staff and their families amid calls for security measures to be stepped up, particularly while MPs are in their constituencies meeting voters.\n\nLabour MP Tulip Siddiq has told the BBC her mother feared for her safety.\n\nMs Siddiq said the threats and abuse she gets \"range from very trivial things\" such as commenting on her appearance, her height and her name to \"more sinister\" threats such as advocating violence against her or her family.\n\nShe said being an MP had had a \"constant effect\" on her family for years, especially her parents.\n\nShe recalled the murder of the former Labour MP, Jo Cox, in 2016 and said her own mother called her immediately on hearing an MP had been attacked \"because her first thought was it must have been me\".\n\nShe added: \"It is just this constant effect on her of hearing there has been abuse directed at us, that we're getting death threats, that all of us MPs are constantly racially abused, whether you're from a Jewish faith or have a Muslim last name.\n\n\"Whatever it is, people will pick on you.\n\n\"These keyboard warriors, at some point you do think I just need to ignore them and get on with my job.\n\n\"You do start to develop very thick skin but maybe that's the wrong way to go about it.\"\n\nJames Duddridge attending the vigil for Sir David Amess - their constituencies neighbour each other.\n\nSir David's neighbouring MP in Southend, Conservative James Duddridge, told Radio 4's Today programme about the fears his family and friends live with.\n\n\"No-one that loves me, none of my friends would want me to be a Member of Parliament.\n\n\"The only reason they support it is because they know that that's what I believe is an honourable thing to do, a worthwhile thing to do, something I'd always wanted to do, something that I have enjoyed. \"\n\nLabour MP, Chris Bryant said he received a death threat this weekend after calling for people to be kinder following Sir David's death.\n\nHe said Parliament has been \"turned into a bit of a fortress\" in recent years, but he believed MPs are most vulnerable in their constituencies when they hold surgeries and meeting voters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour MP Chris Bryant says he has been subject to numerous threats in recent years\n\nHe said one of the best things about the British political system is that MPs are \"very accessible\" but \"over the last few years, there has been a terrible ratcheting up of nastiness\".\n\nMr Bryant said he questions \"all the time\" why he does the job but his concerns are \"not just about me\".\n\n\"It's about my staff and it's about my family as well.\"\n\nHe said he went in to politics because he cares about poverty, climate change, human rights and the growing use of food banks.\n\n\"I'm passionate about wanting to change the world and no-one is going to stop me,\" he added.\n\nJustice Secretary Dominic Raab said: \"Although it is shocking and it is heart-wrenching, this is not entirely out of the blue\" because \"everyone has had this experience of intensifying abuse and that tipping in to threats\".\n\nHe said he has had \"three threats to life or limb that have required an intervention in the last two years\".\n\nMr Raab said that while every step must be taken to make sure MPs, especially female politicians, can do their jobs, \"we don't want the terrorists to win, we do not want this wedge placed between us and our communities\".\n\nAnd he said he will continue to have face-to-face surgeries rather than moving all his meetings online.\n\nDowning Street has said that it will be \"down to individual MPs and the police\" whether MPs should continue to meet constituents face to face.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said MPs may \"rightly\" be concerned about their security following the killing of Sir David.\n\nThe spokesman said MPs \"have been contacted by the police to discuss their activities and events so their arrangements can be reviewed.\"\n\nLabour's Jess Phillips said while security advice is welcome, she individually has to \"make the decision about how close I am to my constituents\".\n\n\"Often the best security advice in the world is quite hard to follow when you're in your home town, not just because I want to be a good representative but because I live there\", she said.\n\nShe added that MPs need to \"demystify what politics is\" because \"people don't consider people like me to be frontline workers but that's exactly what we are\".\n\nShadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds told BBC Breakfast he too had received death threats due to his job.\n\n\"I've had incidents since I've become a Member of Parliament, whether it's intimidation while out on the streets, death threats, terrible letters, awful emails.\n\n\"I am in no sense alone in that.\n\n\"I don't know a Member of Parliament who has not suffered in that way.\n\n\"It's clear that something now has to change.\"\n\nDame Eleanor Laing says MPs are \"vilified\" in the media\n\nDeputy Speaker Dame Eleanor Laing told Radio 4's Today it was a \"pity\" the media does not say nice things about MPs when they are still doing their jobs.\n\nShe said: \"It can be deeply upsetting when you know that MPs and ministers are working hard to solve some problem or other and when the matter is discussed in the media, MPs are vilified, ministers are spoken to very harshly and it does help to create a culture of aggression.\n\n\"Why can't we just try to have a culture of kindness?\" she added.", "Dennis Hutchings, 80, denied attempting to murder and cause grievous bodily harm to John Pat Cunningham\n\nAn ex-soldier has died while on trial over a fatal shooting during Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nDennis Hutchings, 80, denied attempting to murder and cause grievous bodily harm to John Pat Cunningham.\n\nMr Cunningham, 27, was shot in the back as he ran from an Army patrol near Benburb, County Tyrone, in 1974.\n\nMr Hutchings' trial was adjourned for three weeks due to illness and the court heard on Monday that he had tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe non-jury trial had been sitting at Belfast Crown Court for three days a week to allow Mr Hutchings, who had been suffering from kidney disease, to receive dialysis treatment.\n\nMr Hutchings, from Cawsand in Cornwall, was an ex-member of the Life Guards regiment.\n\nHe also suffered from heart failure and fluid on the lung. He died in the Mater Hospital in Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nHis death was confirmed by an Army veterans' group on behalf of his family.\n\nDennis Hutchings' supporters had made an issue of his age and ill-health during a long campaign against his prosecution.\n\nLegal attempts to have his case thrown out failed before it reached trial stage.\n\nHis death will very likely reopen arguments around legacy prosecutions.\n\nThe government is proposing to end all future investigations and court cases related to Troubles incidents prior to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.\n\nPart of its reasoning is to protect veterans.\n\nThis development leaves just one other veteran facing trial, David Holden, who is accused of the manslaughter of Aidan McAnespie in 1988.\n\nAll other recent cases involving former soldiers have collapsed.\n\nUnionist politicians have criticised the decision to prosecute Mr Hutchings.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said there were \"serious questions around those who made the decision that Dennis should stand trial once more\".\n\n\"Whilst understanding the desire of the Cunningham family for justice, we have consistently challenged those in legal authority who insisted that Dennis stand trial again.\n\n\"He was an 80-year-old veteran, in ill-health on dialysis and there was a lack of compelling new evidence.\n\n\"This is a sad indictment on those who want to rewrite history, but also demands serious questions of the Public Prosecution Service about how this trial was deemed to be in the public interest.\"\n\nJohn Pat Cunningham was 27 at the time of his death but had a mental age of between six and 10\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie said the decision by the Public Prosecution Service to proceed with a trial given Mr Hutchings' ill-health demanded an independent review.\n\n\"The questions must be asked, did this trial hasten Mr Hutchings' death and did it meet the evidential and public interest tests?\" he said.\n\n\"Regrettably that will be too late for the Hutchings family and will be of little comfort to them at this time.\"\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister said the \"needless dragging of an 80-year-old soldier through the courts has had a very sad end\".\n\n\"The strain on this man was cruel, with him requiring regular dialysis, while being brought to Belfast to face a trial of dubious provenance,\" he said.\n\nThe Sinn Féin MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone Michelle Gildernew said she was aware of a grieving family following the death of Mr Hutchings, but the Cunningham family also continued to grieve.\n\n\"Let's remember that grief knows no bounds,\" she tweeted.\n\nMr Hutchings had previously lost a Supreme Court challenge to have a trial before a jury.\n\nIn July, the UK government confirmed plans to bring forward legislation to ban all prosecutions related to the Troubles.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the legacy proposals would allow Northern Ireland to \"draw a line under the Troubles\".\n\nThe plans, which are opposed by NI political parties and victims organisations, include an end to all legacy inquests and civil actions related to the conflict.", "Olivia has been the most popular baby name for girls since 2015, pictured, actress Olivia Wilde\n\nBabies born to women under 35 were more likely to be given short, modern names last year compared to older mothers.\n\nOfficial birth data in England and Wales for 2020 showed Olivia and Oliver were still the most popular baby names overall - for the fifth year running.\n\nNew entries into the top 10 included Ivy, Rosie and Archie. Oliver was particularly popular in the North East.\n\nThe largest movers into the top 100 boys' names were Milo (80th) and Otis (96th) and the girls' was Maeve (94th).\n\nData from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed 4,225 baby boys were named Oliver in 2020, down from 4,932 the previous year, while a total of 3,640 newborn girls were named Olivia, down from 4,082.\n\nOlivia and Oliver have been the most popular names in England and Wales since 2015.\n\nThe name of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's son, Archie, moved up the boys' list from 19th to ninth, with 2,944 babies named Archie in 2020, up from 2,544 in 2019. It is the first time Archie has made the top 10.\n\nIt is also the first time Charlie has not been in the top 10 since 2005, slipping to 12th place with a total of 2,810 babies named Charlie in 2020, down from 3,355 in 2019.\n\nSince 2010, Ivy has risen 221 places to become the sixth most popular name for girls in England and Wales in 2020.\n\nArthur and Noah have seen an increase in popularity over the last two decades, both rising more than 200 places in the ranks to the boys' top five in 2019 and 2017 respectively.\n\nIn 2020, the largest movers into the top 100 boys' names were Milo (80th) and Otis (96th), both rising 28 places since 2019.\n\nMaeve has risen 124 places since 2019 and was the largest new entry into the top 100 girls' names (94th).\n\nMuhammad was top in four regions of England and Arthur in three regions.\n\nIn Wales, Noah was the top boys' name but only the fourth most popular name in England and Wales combined.\n\nThe name Archie moved up the boys' list from 19th to ninth\n\nSiân Bradford, from the ONS, said popular culture and celebrities continued to provide inspiration for many parents.\n\n\"Maeve and Otis, characters from the popular programme Sex Education, have seen a surge in popularity in 2020,\" she said.\n\n\"While the name Margot has been rapidly climbing since actress Margot Robbie appeared in the popular film The Wolf of Wall Street.\"\n\nShe added: \" We continue to see the age of mothers having an impact on the choice of baby name.\"\n\nExplaining why it uses mothers' data to glean the most popular baby names, an ONS spokeswoman said: \"To get a complete statistical picture for our baby names analysis, we rely on a mother's data, because information relating to mothers should appear on every birth registration.\"\n\nIn 2019, pop star Dua Lipa and Star Wars' Kylo Ren were among the influences on parents for the choice of baby names.\n• None Dua Lipa sets New Rules on most popular baby names\n• None Baby names in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Henderson denies the charge of endangering the safety of an aircraft\n\nA man acted \"recklessly and dangerously\" when he organised a flight carrying Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala, a court has heard.\n\nDavid Henderson, 67, of Main Street, Hotham, East Riding of Yorkshire, enlisted a pilot who was neither qualified nor competent, said prosecutor Martin Goudie.\n\nSala and pilot David Ibbotson died in the crash in January 2019.\n\nMr Henderson denies endangering the safety of an aircraft.\n\nThe defendant had previously admitted a charge of attempting to discharge a passenger without valid permission or authorisation.\n\nEmiliano Sala had just signed with Cardiff City\n\nMr Henderson was scheduled to pilot the flights which took Sala, 28, from Cardiff to Nantes and back again, but could not, as he was on holiday in Paris with his wife, Cardiff Crown Court heard.\n\nInstead, he asked Mr Ibbotson, who he knew, to pilot the flights, despite him not having a commercial licence, Mr Goudie said.\n\nThe court was told that Mr Ibbotson was not competent to fly in the poor weather Mr Henderson knew had been forecast.\n\nHe added Mr Henderson \"ignored certain requirements\" and that the organised flights were \"not operated and organised out of a love for Emiliano Sala or Cardiff City Football Club\", but for his business interests.\n\nThe second flight in the single-engine Piper Malibu came down in the English Channel on 21 January.\n\nSala's body was recovered, but Mr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowley, Lincolnshire, has never been found\n\nIn the summer of 2018, more than six months before the crash, Mr Henderson was told by the aircraft's owners that Mr Ibbotson \"should not pilot the Piper-Malibu again\" after he committed two airspace infringements while flying it.\n\nMr Goudie told the jury the defendant \"was aware that there were issues with Mr Ibbotson's flying from the start\", even before the letters from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).\n\nFollowing the letters, Mr Ibbotson wrote to Mr Henderson suggesting he thought Mr Henderson would not be using him again.\n\nFay Keely, who represented the trust which owned the aircraft, was \"not aware Mr Ibbotson was the pilot\" on either of the flights between Nantes and Cardiff, the court heard.\n\nResponding to Mr Ibbotson, Mr Henderson replied: \"I am just responding to emails from Fay who has forwarded me two letters from CAA.\n\n\"I have always said the flying we do is challenging and everyone has to be on the ball. It is a steep learning curve for someone new to the operation.\n\n\"The prerequisite is a willingness to listen and learn. We both have an opportunity to make money out of the business model but not if we upset clients or draw the attention of the CAA... As self-employed sole traders we both have debtors and creditors and surely you understand that to remain legal we can't take money in advance.\"\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB disappeared from radar near the Channel Islands on 21 January.\n\nBut Mr Henderson, who managed the day-to-day operations of the aircraft, had contacted Mr Ibbotson again about flying the aircraft by 5 August.\n\nMr Goudie said: \"Right from the get-go, Mr Henderson was aware he was dealing with someone who had a private licence, not a commercial one.\"\n\nCommunications between Mr Henderson and Mr Ibbotson from August and October 2018, showed Mr Henderson talking about flying at night and flying outside his qualifications.\n\nThe court heard Mr Henderson tried to rearrange the time of the return flight to Cardiff, but this was to avoid incurring costs at Cardiff Airport and not because of Mr Ibbotson's lack of qualifications to fly at night.\n\nMr Goudie told the court the pilot did have an American qualification, which he received in 2014, but he was not allowed to be paid as a private pilot.\n\nHe added Mr Ibbotson never held a commercial pilot's licence in the UK and his rating to fly the type of aircraft expired on 20 November 2018.\n\nOn the night the plane went missing, Mr Goudie said Mr Henderson sent a text message to an aircraft engineer saying \"don't say a word\", and asked others to keep quiet because \"questions may be asked about his flying\".\n\nAnother text to a different recipient said: \"Ibbo has crashed the Malibu and killed himself and VIP pax! Bloody disaster. There will be an enquiry [sic].\"\n\nMr Goudie said: \"It's clear on the evidence that [Mr Henderson] knew Mr Ibbotson well, frequently discussed his qualifications with him and knew he was deficient.\"\n\nHe said Mr Henderson responded to written questions from the CAA in June 2020, and said he \"didn't know the precise status of Mr Ibbotson's licences and ratings\". Mr Goudie said this was a \"lie\".\n\nHe added Mr Henderson denied being the operator of the aircraft at the time, something he now accepts.", "Police had to escort cabinet minister Michael Gove away from a crowd of anti-lockdown protesters who attempted to surround him in central London.\n\nFootage shared on social media show a crowd with video cameras approaching the communities secretary, chanting and shouting, while others questioned him about what they falsely called \"illegal lockdowns\".\n\nIt comes days after the home secretary promised to review MPs' security in the wake of the fatal stabbing of Sir David Amess.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said no arrests have been made, but that it will review officers' body-worn cameras.\n\nA spokesperson for the prime minister said it is \"unacceptable for those who disagree to target individuals\".", "The government has laid out its plans to reduce emissions sharply by 2035 and take the UK towards being a zero carbon economy by 2050. These including more electric cars, planting trees and moving away from gas-powered central heating.\n\nBut what potential hazards are there ahead for ministers?\n\nSome in the prime minister's own party doubt the economic arguments in favour of moving towards what they consider an over-reliance on renewable energy sources.\n\nConservative MP John Redwood asked in the House of Commons what would happen when the sun stopped shining and the wind stopped blowing. Another, Steve Baker, said a lot of \"assumptions\" were involved and asked that ministers carry out a \"comprehensive audit\" of their plans.\n\nTory MP: What happens when the wind doesn't blow?\n\nOthers are concerned about the cost to the general public, particularly those on lower incomes, and the impact that, in turn, may have on their chances at the next election.\n\nCraig Mackinlay said it could become \"electorally difficult\" once people realised the plans \"cost them money\" or mean \"a lifestyle that's not as convenient\".\n\nGiven that the Conservatives have an 80-seat majority, this is unlikely to stop any plans becoming law, but if some of Mr Johnson's backbenchers are not persuaded, there could be some political turbulence.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband was scathing in his response to the government's announcement, saying there was nothing like \"the commitment we believe is required\", in terms of investment, to cut greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nLabour's commitment to borrow and invest £28bn per year in tackling climate change is a markedly different approach to the Conservatives. The Treasury has said borrowing heavily to cut greenhouse gases goes against the \"polluter pays\" principle and passes the costs on to future taxpayers.\n\nIt's not certain how this will play out in Parliament or whether this could become an important dividing line between the parties - and how it would play with voters.\n\nThe Treasury accepts there will be an overall cost to achieving net zero emissions in the short term, but sources stress the cost of inaction would also be significant.\n\nNo overall figure is given but officials admit new taxes will be needed to recoup the revenue lost from the move away from petrol and diesel fuelled cars, for example.\n\nThe government raised £37bn from fuel duty and vehicle excise duty in the 2019-20 financial year, or about 1.7% of GDP.\n\nA carbon tax could plug some of this, but the takings would dwindle as emissions fall, leaving a big shortfall.\n\nHow will voters feel if their bills go up to cover the costs?\n\nIn an assessment to go with the government's carbon-cutting plans, the Treasury said that \"as with all economic transitions, ultimately the costs and benefits of the transition will pass through to households through the labour market, prices and asset values\".\n\nThere is evidence of public support for stronger measures to tackle climate change, but if households end up having to spend a lot more money to go greener, there could be increased unease among voters that the government will not want ahead of a likely general election in the next couple of years.\n\nIn particular, it is feared this could go down badly in some of the former industrial areas of the the Midlands and northern England where the Conservatives made large gains from Labour in 2019.\n\n\"Any policies we bring in will be designed to be fair across the board,\" the PM's spokesman said.\n\nOne thing most governments agree on is that any effort to reduce emissions must be international if it is to succeed in limiting temperature rises.\n\nWith the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow fast approaching, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hope his plan prompts other countries to make similar commitments and boost the chances of the UK brokering a renewed global effort to cut greenhouse gases.\n\nIf the world's biggest CO2 producers - including the US, China and India - reach an agreement it could ease domestic political pressures and allow him to claim more of an environmental \"legacy\".\n\nUS President Jo Biden and Indian PM Narendra Modi are attending COP26, but China's Xi Jinping is not thought likely to do the same.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV footage showing a man believed to be Ali Harbi Ali, accused of the fatal stabbing of Sir David Amess\n\nCCTV footage, obtained by the BBC, has emerged showing the man believed to be the suspect in the killing of MP Sir David Amess.\n\nPolice investigating the attack have been gathering CCTV from shops and businesses near where it is believed the alleged killer lived.\n\nSouthend West MP Sir David, 69, was fatally stabbed in Essex on Friday.\n\nAli Harbi Ali, 25, is being held under the Terrorism Act and officers have until Friday to question him.\n\nWhitehall officials have confirmed the man's name to the BBC.\n\nThe CCTV footage shows a man, believed to be the suspect in the case, walking down Gordon House Road, in the direction of Gospel Oak Overground Station\n\nThe manager of a convenience store, on Highgate Road, said on Saturday police had asked to view his CCTV footage from the previous morning and he then gave them a copy.\n\nOther shops along Highgate Road also confirmed police had visited and gathered CCTV footage from the day of Sir David's death.\n\nSir David, who had been an MP since 1983, was meeting constituents at a church in Leigh-on-Sea when he was stabbed multiple times at around 12:05 BST on Friday.\n\nOfficers investigating the case have searched two addresses in the London area.\n\nA 25-year-old man was arrested at the scene of the killing. Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\n\nFloral tributes to Sir David were being moved on Tuesday from outside Belfairs Methodist Church, where he was attacked, to his constituency office.\n\nA sign from Southend Borough Council outside the church asks those paying tribute to the MP to leave flowers at Iveagh Hall. A book of condolence is open both there and at the Civic Centre in Southend.\n\nOn Monday, Sir David's family, including his wife Julia, visited the church to read some of the messages left in his memory.\n\nLater MPs paid tribute to their colleague and Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the Queen had given her approval for Southend to be granted city status - something for which Sir David had long campaigned.", "\"None of us are immune\" to addiction, the Duchess of Cambridge warned as she highlighted the \"devastating impact\" of the pandemic on addiction rates.\n\nShe said that by understanding what lies beneath addiction \"we can help remove the taboo and shame that sadly surrounds it\".\n\nCatherine delivered the keynote speech at the launch of the Taking Action on Addiction campaign.\n\nShe also spoke to TV star Ant McPartlin about his struggles with addiction.\n\nThe duchess is patron of addiction charity the Forward Trust, which is behind the Taking Action on Addiction campaign.\n\nShe told the event: \"Addiction is not a choice. No-one chooses to become an addict. But it can happen to any one of us. None of us are immune.\n\n\"Yet it's all too rarely discussed as a serious mental health condition. And seldom do we take the time to uncover and fully understand its fundamental root causes.\"\n\nShe added that by understanding what lies beneath addiction \"we can help remove the taboo and shame\" which surrounds it.\n\nMcPartlin, who compered the event alongside his TV partner Declan Donnelly, struggled with a two-year addiction to super-strength painkillers following a knee operation in 2015.\n\nHe entered rehab after crashing his car while more than twice the alcohol limit in 2018.\n\nHe told the duchess that \"by the time I asked for help, it was bad\" but that \"as soon as you opened up to people [...] the problems start to disappear\".\n\n\"It gets better and help is there,\" he added.\n\nThe duchess also spoke about how the Covid-19 crisis had affected addiction rates, saying some 1.5 million more people were facing problems with alcohol, with almost one million young people experiencing an increase in addictive behaviour.\n\nShe said: \"Around two million individuals who were identified as being in recovery may have experienced a relapse over the past 18 months.\"\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge gave the keynote speech at the launch of the Taking Action On Addiction campaign\n\nShe said that \"we can all play our part\" in helping people with addiction \"by understanding, by listening, by connecting\".\n\nCatherine met beneficiaries of the Forward Trust, as well as former addicts, to hear about their experiences.\n\nShe later joined her husband at a private reception at Kensington Palace to mark the unveiling of the statue of Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nThe reception had been postponed from July, when the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex officially presented the memorial of their mother.\n\nThe guest list is thought to have included Diana's close friends, former staff and relatives.", "Dennis Hutchings, 80, denied attempting to murder and cause grievous bodily harm to John Pat Cunningham\n\nThe decision to prosecute a former soldier over a fatal shooting during Northern Ireland's Troubles was in the public interest, prosecutors have said.\n\nDennis Hutchings, 80, from Cawsand in Cornwall, died in Belfast on Monday.\n\nHe had denied attempting to murder and cause grievous bodily harm to John Pat Cunningham.\n\nThe Cunningham family said they \"wish to acknowledge that this is a difficult time for his family and they should be given time to grieve\".\n\nMr Cunningham, 27, was shot in the back as he ran from an Army patrol near Benburb, County Tyrone, in 1974.\n\n\"When the time is judged appropriate, the family will respond in more detail to the issues surrounding the prosecution of Dennis Hutchings,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"We respectfully remind the public of the facts that were pronounced at the trial, which were uncontested.\"\n\nSpeaking before the trial got under way, Mr Hutchings told the BBC he felt ex-soldiers were being used as \"cannon fodder\" by politicians.\n\nMr Hutchings was interviewed earlier in October, shortly before his death, by the BBC's Ireland correspondent Emma Vardy.\n\nHe said that former soldiers were being unfairly reinvestigated for their actions because records were kept by the military on soldiers' activities.\n\n\"Everything a soldier does from the minute a round is fired, it's logged, on the radio, it's logged in the control room.\n\n\"Talking abut the other side, the terrorist sides, there are no records.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was a bloody war between two sides, and we were stuck in the middle, it was my job when I was here to try and keep the peace, try and protect people.\"\n\nMr Hutchings' solicitor, Philip Barden, who had worked with him for 10 years, has called on the government to \"halt the historic prosecution of veterans\".\n\n\"I was with him on Monday shortly before he passed away,\" he added.\n\n\"I hope that the government will now enact a statute of limitation that will end the shameful pursuit of Army veterans in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"This should be known as Dennis' Law as it is the cause that he fought and died for.\"\n\nThe Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions in Northern Ireland, Michael Agnew, said the file submitted to the PPS by police \"included certain evidence not previously available\".\n\nYou can read his full statement here.\n\nThe non-jury trial had been sitting at Belfast Crown Court for three days a week to allow Mr Hutchings, who had been suffering from kidney disease, to receive dialysis treatment.\n\nIt was adjourned on Monday after the court heard he had tested positive for Covid-19. He died in the Mater Hospital in Belfast later that afternoon.\n\nJohn Pat Cunningham was 27 at the time of his death but had a mental age of between six and 10\n\nUnionist politicians have criticised the decision to prosecute Mr Hutchings.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said there were \"serious questions around those who made the decision that Dennis should stand trial once more\".\n\n\"Whilst understanding the desire of the Cunningham family for justice, we have consistently challenged those in legal authority who insisted that Dennis stand trial again.\n\n\"He was an 80-year-old veteran, in ill-health on dialysis and there was a lack of compelling new evidence.\"\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie said the decision by the Public Prosecution Service to proceed with a trial given Mr Hutchings' ill-health demanded an independent review.\n\n\"The questions must be asked, did this trial hasten Mr Hutchings' death and did it meet the evidential and public interest tests?\" he said.\n\nThe deputy director of public prosecutions said the PPS commenced proceedings against Mr Hutchings in 2015 after \"a careful consideration of a wide range of issues, including the strength of evidence against him and the relevant public interest considerations\".\n\n\"The PPS decision to prosecute Mr Hutchings for attempted murder was taken after an impartial and independent application of the Test for Prosecution,\" Michael Agnew added.\n\n\"Whilst a review of a previous 'no prosecution' decision does not require the existence of new evidence, the police investigation in this case resulted in a file being submitted to the PPS which included certain evidence not previously available.\n\n\"In the course of the proceedings there were rulings by High Court judges that the evidence was sufficient to put Mr Hutchings on trial and also that the proceedings were not an abuse of process. \"\n\nDennis Hutchings' supporters had made an issue of his age and ill-health during a long campaign against his prosecution.\n\nLegal attempts to have his case thrown out failed before it reached trial stage.\n\nHis death will very likely reopen arguments around legacy prosecutions.\n\nThe government is proposing to end all future investigations and court cases related to Troubles incidents prior to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.\n\nPart of its reasoning is to protect veterans.\n\nThis development leaves just one other veteran facing trial, David Holden, who is accused of the manslaughter of Aidan McAnespie in 1988.\n\nAll other recent cases involving former soldiers have collapsed.\n\nMr Agnew said the PPS recognised concerns \"in some quarters\" in relation to the decision to prosecute.\n\n\"However, where a charge is as serious as attempted murder, it will generally be in the public interest to prosecute.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland Veterans Commissioner Danny Kinahan said he was \"incredibly sad to learn of the passing\" of Mr Hutchings.\n\n\"It has to be recognised that we need a fair, balanced and proportionate system that has been promised,\" he said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson's official spokesman said \"sincere condolences go to the family, friends and loved ones of Dennis Hutchings\".\n\n\"The Ministry of Defence supported Mr Hutchings throughout his trial with legal representation and pastoral care, and that will continue to be offered to his family,\" he said.\n\n\"This tragic case highlights that the criminal justice approach broadly is no longer working and that is why we are committed to introducing new legislation to bring greater certainty for all communities, including the veterans and families of victims.\"\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said while she was conscious of Mr Hutchings' grieving family, she was also thinking of the family of John Pat Cunningham, who had been campaigning for 47 years.\n\n\"They shouldn't have had to wait this long,\" she said.\n\n\"My message today would be very straightforward to the British government - get on with implementing the Stormont House Agreement, find a way to allow families to have closure, to deal with the past in an adequate way.\n\n\"We agreed that many, many years ago in the Stormont House Agreement and the proposals they have put on the table at this moment in time are not acceptable to anyone.\"\n\nJohnny Mercer, Plymouth MP and former veterans minister, who travelled to Northern Ireland with Dennis Hutchings, said he was devastated by his death.\n\n\"He was polite, kind, generous and strong. He was determined to prove his innocence,\" Mr Mercer said.\n\n\"I have huge admiration and respect for his resilience, and that of his family and his partner, Kim.\n\n\"In a nation that is quick to forget the price of the freedoms we enjoy, it was a privilege to be close to him, and I remain fiercely proud of him.\"\n\nMeanwhile, relatives of Troubles victims were in London on Tuesday lobbying politicians in their campaign against the government's legacy proposals\n\nIn July, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis announced plans for a statute of limitations which would end all prosecutions related to the Troubles up to April 1998 and would apply to military veterans as well as ex-paramilitaries.\n\nThe proposals, which the prime minister said would allow Northern Ireland to \"draw a line under the Troubles\", would also end all legacy inquests and civil actions related to the conflict.\n\nAt Westminster on Tuesday afternoon, a cross-party group of MPs signed an open letter \"totally rejecting\" the UK government's proposals on how to deal with legacy issues.\n\nIt was signed by, among others, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Louise Haigh, SDLP leader and Foyle MP Colum Eastwood and MP Joanna Cherry from the Scottish National Party.\n\nSpeaking outside Parliament, campaigner Raymond McCord, whose son Raymond Jr was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries in 1997, called on the prime minister \"to take these proposals away\" and said they have to be scrapped\".\n\nHe said they had received \"total support from every political party at Westminster except the Tories\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Covid took my healthy body and gave me one that just didn't work\"\n\nA woman battling long Covid for 18 months has said she feels angry and frustrated at the lack of help in Northern Ireland.\n\nZoe McNulty, 27, from Londonderry feels people have been left relying on internet support groups for help.\n\nThere are still no dedicated health services for those living with long Covid symptoms in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut the health department has pledged to start services by the end of October.\n\nLong Covid clinics were opened across England in November 2020.\n\nMs McNulty told BBC Northern Ireland's Spotlight programme: \"You see people over in England going to long Covid clinics and they're doing really well.\n\n\"No offence to the [Northern Ireland] government but they've been happy to leave me sitting here.\n\n\"If I had a long Covid clinic months ago, could I have been better by now? I am essentially just left in the dark, like, figure it out on your own.\"\n\nRebecca Logan, a former fitness instructor and nurse, is an advocate for long Covid sufferers in Northern Ireland.\n\nShe said the situation was \"desperate and inexcusable\".\n\n\"Since this time last year, I have been trying to get answers about when we will get health service help,\" she said.\n\nSymptoms of long Covid can include extreme fatigue, breathlessness and brain fog\n\nMs Logan said the situation was \"absolutely appalling\".\n\n\"Large numbers of working-age people have been left with no support or guidance from the NHS, while they become more and more debilitated.\"\n\nThe programme also features Newtownards pastor Mark McClurg who faced a life-threatening battle with Covid in March 2020 and still has long Covid.\n\nHe said: \"My faith is what I am. It's what's carried me through from ICU to this moment in time.\n\n\"And the amount of people who have continually prayed for me, that's just so humbling.\"\n\nThe Department of Health (DoH) said it intends to have new services for the treatment and assessment of long Covid available in all health trust areas by the end of October.\n\nHowever, the department admitted to Spotlight that it also has not yet collected the data required to assess what services are actually needed.\n\nMs McNulty belives she caught Covid-19 while working in a pharmacy in March 2020\n\nAn estimated 20,000 people in Northern Ireland have some form of long Covid.\n\nMs McNulty suspects she caught Covid-19 while working in a pharmacy in March 2020.\n\nShe is no longer able to work or study, and had to end her three-year relationship with her Italian boyfriend.\n\n\"There is a fear that this could be forever. That this could be my life,\" she said.\n\nMs Logan now uses a wheelchair and walking stick because she can't walk far without being breathless.\n\n\"I hosted a meeting of people with long Covid the other night, and there were people so desperate and even crying,\" she said.\n\n\"People in their 40s, young children, all ages. People grieving the life they had before long Covid hit them, it's heart-breaking.\"\n\nOne-in-10 people in the UK with Covid-19 are self-reporting long Covid symptoms, according to an ONS survey\n\nIn the UK, long Covid is broadly defined as a condition that develops during or after the initial Covid-19 infection; continues for more than 12 weeks; and its symptoms cannot be explained by an alternative diagnosis.\n\nMore than 200 symptoms have been linked to the illness, but some of the main symptoms are: extreme fatigue, breathlessness, brain fog (neurological and memory loss), heart problems and severe headaches.\n\nMore than one-in-10 people in the UK who have had Covid-19 are self-reporting with long Covid symptoms, according to a recent survey by the Office of National Statistics (ONS).\n\nIt is estimated that about £2.5m a year will be needed for long Covid support in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health said there are difficulties collecting data on long Covid because of a changing picture in which some people recover but others become ill.\n\nInformation is now being gathered but it will be a number of months before there is enough to analyse, the department said.", "Minogue said she \"couldn't believe\" the public reaction to the news\n\nSinger Kylie Minogue has confirmed she is moving back to Australia after 30 years of living in the UK.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 2's Zoe Ball she \"couldn't believe\" the public reaction to the news.\n\nBut Minogue said she will \"always\" want to regularly visit the UK after she moves back to the country of her birth.\n\nShe said: \"I've had friends call me, my friend at my local restaurant was like: 'Kylie, what do you mean? You can't go'.\"\n\n\"I said: 'I'm not really going. I've lived here for 30 years, I'm always going to be back.\"'\n\nThe 53-year-old said she does not think \"too much will change\" after her move as she will come back often.\n\n\"I can't not be here, are you kidding?\" she said. \"I have spent a lot of time with my family this year in Australia and it felt really good and I have been talking about that for a while. Don't worry, I will not be a stranger.\"\n\nMinogue's new single is a collaboration with Years & Years singer Olly Alexander\n\nMinogue also discussed the possibility of going on tour again. \"I'm dreaming of doing dates,\" she told the Radio 2 breakfast show host.\n\n\"We are inching closer to being able to do something like that. Patience. I can't wait.\"\n\nMinogue added: \"Keep your disco outfit not too far away. Not at the back of the cupboard.\"\n\nThe singer's new single A Second To Midnight, is a collaboration with Years & Years star Olly Alexander, who recently starred in Channel 4 drama It's a Sin.\n\n\"We shot the video a couple of weeks ago, which was super fun and I just can't wait for people to hear this,\" she said. \"[Alexander is] so sweet and gorgeous\".\n\nMinogue, who shot to fame after appearing in soap opera Neighbours, has had a hugely successful pop career with hits including Love At First Sight, Can't Get You Out of My Head, Slow, I Should Be So Lucky and Spinning Around.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "London Heathrow Airport was among the airports affected\n\nPassengers at some UK airports faced delays after self-service passport gates were hit by faults for the second time in weeks.\n\nTravellers arriving at Heathrow on Wednesday morning described the queues as a \"total disgrace\".\n\nGatwick and Edinburgh airports were also affected by the fault.\n\nThe Home Office said the problems with the e-gates, which are operated by UK Border Force, were caused by a technical issue and have been resolved.\n\nThe self-service gates allow travellers with biometric passports to pass through border control without a manual inspection.\n\nE-gates also stopped working for several hours on 24 September following a systems failure, which meant passengers had to wait to have their travel documents inspected by staff.\n\nPassengers arriving at Heathrow spoke of the \"shambles\" that greeted them.\n\nChristian Jones, 41, returning from a trip to Finland, told the PA news agency: \"The queues were snaking out of the arrivals hall all the way down the corridor and into the connecting flights corridor... I queued for one hour but others, I believe, queued for about four hours.\"\n\nA Heathrow spokeswoman said a \"systems failure\" had impacted the e-gates\n\nVibhaker, 73, who did not wish to give her surname, was waiting at arrivals in the airport for her niece, who was travelling to the UK to start a masters course in sports medicine.\n\n\"The whole area was [a] total shambles, heavily crowded with no possibility of social distancing. She got out after three hours... [a] total disgrace.\"\n\nGeorge Zarkadakis, an artificial intelligence engineer from London, wrote on Twitter: \"System for scanning passports is down (again). Expected time of waiting for arriving passengers: 2-4 hours.\n\n\"I think I'll stay home next time... and stick to Zoom calls.\"\n\nChristian Jones, who took this photo, said the queues were snaking out of the arrivals hall\n\nA Heathrow spokeswoman said a \"systems failure\" had impacted the e-gates.\n\n\"This issue, which impacted a number of ports of entry, has since been resolved and the e-gates at Heathrow are back up and running again.\n\n\"Our teams remain on hand and are working with Border Force to monitor the situation, and to get passengers on their way as quickly as possible.\"\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said: \"This morning a technical issue affected e-gates at a number of ports. The issue was quickly identified and has now been resolved.\n\n\"We have been working hard to minimise disruption and continue to monitor the situation closely.\n\n\"We apologise to all passengers for the inconvenience caused.\"", "Council tax in England could rise by as much as £220 per year within three years, researchers have said.\n\nThis is to keep local services running and help pay for social care reforms, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) think tank said.\n\nIt comes amid warnings that councils continue to face severe funding pressures due to the pandemic and must find new sources of income.\n\nThe government said it had given them £12bn since the start of the crisis.\n\nUnder current government spending plans, council tax bills will need to rise by at least 3.6% a year just to keep services running at pre-pandemic levels, the IFS said.\n\nThat would mean bills would have to rise by £160 by 2024-25, it said.\n\nBut extra cost pressures that eat into central government grants could easily push up council tax by 5% a year, or £220 by 2024-25, it said.\n\nIn addition, the government's plans for social care, which include capping costs, won't be completely paid for by a planned rise in National Insurance contributions, the IFS said.\n\nThe plans are likely to cost £5bn per year eventually, it said, nearly three times the funding currently allocated.\n\nThe government has made much of the idea that after decades of governments neglecting the increasingly pressing issue of underfunded social care, this was a nettle it was determined to grasp.\n\nWhat's concerning in the IFS report is who might get stung.\n\nA large part of the goal of the social care reforms was to address unfairness in the means-testing system.\n\nBut the IFS report highlights the risk that, without further funding, it could create new unfairness elsewhere.\n\nTo extend publicly-funded care to those who've spent £86,000 of their own money on fees will cost extra, and local authorities may only be able to recoup that by tightening eligibility criteria - so many poorer people lose access.\n\nSecond, the way the funds are allocated to local authorities dates back to 2013.\n\nBecause some areas like Blackpool have seen their populations fall, but others, like Tower Hamlets have seen them jump since then, the risk is that the money won't go where it needs to.\n\nIFS research economist Kate Ogden said: \"The government has stepped up with billions in additional funding for councils to support them through the last 18 months.\n\n\"It is likely to have to find billions more for councils over the next couple of years if they are to avoid cutting back on services, even if they increase council tax by 4% a year or more.\"\n\nShe said that the coming financial year is \"likely to be especially tough\", with ongoing Covid-19-related pressures and squeezes on budgets\n\nShe added that the local government funding system was \"hopelessly out of date\", being based on 2013 population levels, leading to \"unfairness\" in the distribution of resources between councils.\n\nCouncil tax goes towards funding local services such as policing, the fire service and street cleaning. The funding is topped up with grants from central government and business taxes.\n\nHowever, these central government grants were slashed between 2009-10 and 2019-20, especially in areas such as public transport, housing and planning.\n\nThe Local Government Association said councils \"continue to face severe funding and demand pressures that will stretch the local services our communities rely on to the limit\".\n\n\"The significant financial pressures facing local services cannot be met by council tax income alone,\" said LGA chairman James Jamieson. \"Councils are particularly alarmed that the government's solution for tackling social care's core existing pressures appears to be solely through the use of council tax, and the social care precept.\"\n\nMr Jamieson called for local services to be \"the top priority\" in the upcoming Spending Review.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The government has allocated more than £12bn directly to councils since the start of the pandemic - with more than £6bn available to spend as they see fit - recognising that councils are best placed to deal with local issues.\n\n\"We have also taken historic action to fix the social care crisis - the Health and Social Care Levy will raise £12bn a year to fund the NHS and social care.\n\n\"The Spending Review will continue to focus on supporting jobs and delivering the public's key priorities.\"", "R. Kelly was found guilty of sex trafficking last month\n\nYouTube has removed two of R. Kelly's channels following his sex trafficking conviction last month.\n\nThe singer used his status to sexually abuse women and children over 20 years, a jury found.\n\nYouTube's taken down RKellyTV and RKellyVevo, saying the decision is \"in accordance with our creator responsibility guidelines\".\n\nThe singer won't be able to create any new channels, but his music will still be available on YouTube Music.\n\nHis tracks will stay on the audio-streaming service, and music videos of his that are posted by other YouTube users will stay up.\n\nThe platform has taken down channels after convictions before, such as in the case of USA gymnastics coach Larry Nassar, who was jailed for molesting hundreds of young gymnasts.\n\nR. Kelly's due to be sentenced in May next year and could spend the rest of his life in prison.\n\nThe MuteRKelly campaign, which wants the singer's music to stop being broadcast or streamed, has called on other major platforms to follow YouTube's move.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by MuteRKelly-Official This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNewsbeat has contacted Apple, Spotify and Amazon to see if they're making changes or not.\n\nR. Kelly's trial heard from 11 accusers - nine women and two men - who described the sexual humiliation and violence they went through.\n\nAfter two days of discussion, the jury found the singer guilty on all nine charges he was facing.\n\nHe's one of the most famous people to face sex charges since the #MeToo movement, which was sparked by sexual assault claims against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Amazon is expanding its presence on the High Street by opening its first non-food store in the UK.\n\nThe shop, in the Bluewater shopping mall near Dartford, will sell around 2,000 of its most popular and best-rated products.\n\nIt's called Amazon 4-star, because every item has been given more than four stars by customers.\n\nHowever, one retail expert said the shop could be \"muddled and uninspiring\".\n\nThis will be the first Amazon 4-star store outside the US, where there are already more than 30 outlets.\n\nThe range of products, which takes in books, consumer electronics, toys, games and homeware, reflects what Amazon customers are buying online.\n\nThere's a \"Most Wished For\" section, for instance, showing the most popular products from customers' wish lists.\n\nDigital price tags are used to ensure the prices are the same in-store and online. Shoppers don't need to have an Amazon account to use it.\n\nAnd customers will also be able to collect items ordered online as well as return items without the need for packaging and labels.\n\nAndy Jones, director of Amazon 4-star UK, declined to say how many more stores he plans to open in the UK.\n\nThis global giant is often accused of killing the High Street by undercutting traditional retailers and paying less tax.\n\nNow it's moving onto their physical patch as well.\n\nHowever, retail expert Natalie Berg said the Amazon move \"is purely about experimentation\".\n\nThe giant's aim, she said, is to encourage more online shopping.\n\n\"This is not about shifting more product; it's about baiting shoppers into Amazon's ecosystem,\" Ms Berg said.\n\n\"It's about getting shoppers to engage with Amazon's devices, reminding Prime customers of the value in their memberships, and offering additional choice when it comes to collection and returns of online orders.\"\n\nAmazon has already opened six grocery convenience stores in the UK with checkout-free technology.\n\nBut Ms Berg said the jury is still out as to whether the world's most disruptive retailer can do one of the most fundamental retail tasks - run stores.\n\n\"The 4-star concept has the potential to be a bit muddled and uninspiring,\" she said.\n\n\"The store features a smorgasbord of products, the result of Amazon's very scientific, data-led approach to physical retail.\n\n\"But when you strip out the high-tech touches, I struggle to see how it differentiates from any other retailer,\" says Ms Berg.\n\nLandlords, though, may welcome the move as they try to find new players to take on empty shops, driven largely by our shopping habits moving online.", "Farmers have warned that a mass cull may be necessary if the labour shortage is not addressed soon\n\nThe prime minister is not taking the prospect of a national pig cull seriously, according to a top vet.\n\nSome 600 pigs have already been shot and a mass cull is \"the next stage\", the National Pig Association said.\n\nBoris Johnson asked a journalist if he had ever eaten a bacon sandwich, saying: \"Those pigs when you ate them, were not alive\".\n\nVet Duncan Berkshire, who is involved in planning any cull, said the remarks were \"enormously disappointing\".\n\nMr Berkshire is liaising with the Department for Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) over the logistics of tackling farms' overcrowding concerns as adult pigs are not being slaughtered fast enough.\n\nAbattoir labour shortages are being blamed on Brexit and the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Berkshire said: \"Unfortunately those discussions are around the horrific case where we are looking at not only when, but also how, we will have to enact a cull of healthy animals which would then just go for incineration,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe said the numbers of pigs that had already been culled \"are unfortunately starting to rack up\".\n\n\"We are already at a few hundred at the moment. But if we don't get movement soon on the backlog of pigs that is present on farms at the moment, we are going to have to enact some of these more drastic actions.\"\n\nPig farmers protested outside the Conservative Party conference in Manchester on Monday\n\nWhen asked about the prime minister's remarks, Mr Berkshire told Today: \"He is unable to see the difference between what we have as a UK supply chain...[and] the absolute abhorrent food wastage that will be the case if we end up having to shoot healthy pigs\".\n\nHe said the animals \"in every other way would be fit for everyone to eat but we are just going to end up having to put them in a skip and send them for incineration\".\n\n\"It's distressing enough just having to start planning for that absolute wastage,\" he said.\n\nPig farmer Kate Morgan said Mr Johnson's comments were an \"absolute insult\" and a \"kick in the teeth\".\n\nShe said unless the government solves the shortage of butchers in processing plants by issuing short-term visas for foreign workers, she may have to cull pigs on her East Yorkshire farm \"by the end of October\".\n\nZoe Davies, chief executive of the National Pig Association said there was difference between animals being killed for food and culled.\n\nResponding to the PM's comments, she said: \"These animals were going to feed the nation. It should not be allowed to happen.\"\n\nShe called on the government to increase the number of worker visas for abattoirs, and to lower the English language requirement.\n\n\"At the moment it's the same level as doctors or vets\", she said.\n\nShe warned that while there has not been a mass cull of pigs yet, such a measure is \"the next stage in the process\".\n\nOne Yorkshire farmer had to kill hundreds of \"perfectly healthy, viable piglets\" as he no longer had space for them, a friend told the BBC.", "A Missouri man has been executed for murder despite pleas for clemency by advocates who said he had an intellectual disability.\n\nErnest Johnson received a lethal injection on Tuesday after the US Supreme Court refused to consider a stay of execution earlier in the day.\n\nThe 61-year-old's pleas for leniency had received support from Pope Francis and two members of Congress.\n\nAttorneys for Johnson argued he was ineligible for the death penalty because multiple IQ tests had shown he had the mental capacity of a child and read at a primary school level.\n\nJohnson, a black man, had been born with foetal alcohol syndrome after his mother drank heavily during her pregnancy.\n\nHe had also been missing a fifth of his brain tissue since 2008 after undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumour.\n\nAttorneys pointed to a 2002 Supreme Court ruling that asserts that using the death penalty against Americans with intellectual disabilities violates the Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution, which prohibits \"cruel and unusual punishments\".\n\nHowever, the US state's top court denied Johnson a stay of execution last year and refused to take up his case again. The state's Republican governor had also refused to block the sentence from being carried out.\n\nElected officials, racial justice activists and faith leaders joined the efforts to spare Johnson's life.\n\nA representative of Pope Francis - who in 2018 changed the teachings of the Catholic faith to officially oppose the death penalty in all circumstances - wrote last week to Missouri's governor that the pope \"wishes to place before you the simple fact of Mr Johnson's humanity and the sacredness of all human life\".\n\nBut on Monday, Governor Mike Parson announced the state would \"deliver justice and carry out the lawful sentence Mr Johnson received in accordance with the Missouri Supreme Court's order\".\n\nWriting in support of the execution, Attorney General Eric Schmitt said that the facts of Johnson's actions \"plainly reflect the offender's ability to plan, strategise, calculate, and scheme effectively\".\n\nJohnson had asked to be executed by firing squad but his request was denied by the Missouri Supreme Court, and he was instead executed by lethal injection.\n\nIn a handwritten statement before his death, Johnson apologised for his crimes and thanked his family, friends and lawyer for their support.\n\nHe is the first inmate to be put to death in the state since May 2020 and the seventh to be executed in the US this year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.", "A sandstorm that lasted 20 minutes has caused significant damage to houses in the town of Catanduva in São Paulo, Brazil.\n\nSandstorms also blanketed other cities and towns in the state causing the sky to turn different shades of orange and brown. The skylines across the state changed colour as strong winds combined with a drought that has hit the country.\n\nNot all droughts are due to climate change, but excess heat in the atmosphere is drawing more moisture out of the earth and making droughts worse.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.2C since since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nEmma Raducanu says it has been \"pretty cool\" to receive the congratulations of other players at Indian Wells, but now is the time to get back to business.\n\nThe US Open champion, 18, has a bye to the second round of the BNP Paribas Open in California as the 17th seed.\n\nShe will face world number 100 Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus on Friday in her first match since winning in New York.\n\n\"It's really nice,\" the Briton said of the congratulations of her peers.\n\n\"All the players are very friendly. I'm still very new on the tour - so it's pretty cool.\n\n\"But I haven't really spent too much time hanging around. I've just been training and getting about my business, and then leaving.\"\n\nSince becoming the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam singles title, Raducanu has attended the Met Gala and the London premiere of the new James Bond film.\n\nShe added: \"It's been a very cool three weeks. I got to experience some great things that I probably never would have got to do before.\"\n\nRaducanu is currently without a permanent coach having decided against extending her short, but incredibly successful, partnership with Andrew Richardson.\n\nShe is being assisted in Indian Wells by Jeremy Bates, who works with the British number six Katie Boulter as part of his duties as a Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) national coach.\n\n\"Jeremy is part of women's tennis at the LTA, so while he's here, he's helping me out,\" Raducanu said.\n\n\"But going forwards, I'm just going to wait and try and find the right person. I'm not going to rush into anything. I want to make sure I make the right decision.\n\n\"I'm just looking for the general things in a coach, really. Someone you get along with well, and someone who can push you.\"\n\nSasnovich, 27, booked her meeting with Raducanu thanks to a 6-0 6-4 win over Colombia's Maria Camila Osorio in round one.\n• None Trained to protect others but can these fighting witches protect themselves?", "Next chief executive Lord Wolfson has said labour shortages could be solved by companies hiring overseas workers and paying a \"visa tax\".\n\nStaff were not available in the places needed and seasonal workers were difficult to recruit, he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nNext has warned warehouse and logistics staffing is under pressure.\n\nThe comments are the latest in exchanges between the pro-Brexit Tory peer and Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nMr Johnson said Lord Wolfson \"doesn't want any kind of control or restraint on the number of people that he can access from abroad to run his business\".\n\nBut in response, Lord Wolfson said this was \"absolutely not\" the case.\n\nLord Wolfson suggested businesses could get visas for skills they \"desperately need\" and recommended that they should have to pay UK workers the same amount as overseas workers. To make this competitive, he argued businesses should have to pay a \"visa tax on top - lets say 7% of wages\".\n\n\"We need to design a system that delivers the skills but at the same time makes sure UK workers are not deprived of opportunities that they might want,\" he said.\n\nHe added that this solution would \"ensure people are not being brought into the UK to undercut UK workers because they will always be more expensive and it provides the skills Britain desperately needs to keep its industry moving\".\n\nHe suggested that only UK businesses should be able to apply for these visas, rather than workers, and that it should not cost the employers more than recruiting in the UK.\n\nThe retail chain currently pays store sales consultants and stock assistants between £6.55 to £9.21 an hour and warehouse operatives between £9.30 and £11.26 an hour.\n\nAt Next, Lord Wolfson said that warehouse wages had gone up by around 60% in the last 10 years and 70% for Christmas wages, and added that \"wages have already gone up significantly\".\n\nBut, he said the firm was still finding that there were not enough workers in particular areas who wanted to move for short periods of time.\n\nLast week, Next warned of price rises and staff shortages before Christmas unless immigration rules were eased.\n\nIt also said higher shipping costs, particularly for larger furniture items, were pushing up its prices.\n\nThe company's warning over potential staffing issues during the festive period was made in its half-year results, which showed profit before tax was up by 5.9% compared to 2019 levels.\n\nThe firm said rising shipping costs had driven up prices by about 2%, with its larger home products \"bearing the brunt of the increase\".\n\nIt added that in the first half of next year, it expected prices to increase by an average 2.5%, with homeware prices up 6%.", "A California man is suing a psychic who he says falsely claimed she could remove a curse put on his marriage by a witch hired by his ex-girlfriend.\n\nMauro Restrepo said Sophia Adams promised she could save his marriage if he paid $5,100 (£3,742) to exorcise the spell, according to a fraud suit filed with the Torrance Superior Court.\n\nMs Adams allegedly told Mr Restrepo he and his family would be \"unhappy and in danger\" if the curse was not lifted.\n\nHe is now seeking $25,000 in damages.\n\nIncluded among several other allegations made by Mr Restrepo are charges of negligence, civil conspiracy and both intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress.\n\nMr Restrepo said that he contacted Ms Adams after searching for psychics on Google.\n\nMs Adams' website bills her as a \"psychic love specialist\" and \"Ph.D Life Coach,\" which the suit claims \"made plaintiff more confident that he was speaking with a professional that could help him\".\n\nDuring the session, Ms Adams read his tarot cards and told him he had \"mala suerte\", or \"bad luck\", placed on him \"by a witch hired by his ex-girlfriend\" and unless the curse was removed it would ruin Mr Restrepo, his children and his marriage, the court papers say.\n\nDespite making an initial deposit of $1,000, Mr Restrepo says that Ms Adams' \"did not in any way help\" his marriage and he had been suffering from sleepless nights, anxiety and anguish.\n\nThe lawsuit also names as defendants Ms Adams' husband, daughter and landlords.", "Every party conference ends with the headline event - the leader's speech.\n\nAnd it is safe to say Boris Johnson knew how to please his audience.\n\nThe flowery language, the historical references, the bashing of the opposition - they were all there in spades.\n\nAnd the membership laughed and applauded along, with particular cheers for ending cancel culture, encouraging capitalism and the success of British sports stars.\n\nThe speech itself was not policy heavy - we counted one new announcement in 45 minutes - and there was no whooping at the mentions of tax or climate targets.\n\nIt was also bordering on breathless, as the PM kept up the pace of his performance.\n\nBut what seemed to matter to the gathered party faithful was the humour, the bravado and the positivity of their leader, which they believe makes him popular with the wider public.\n\nThis is only the reaction to the speech in the Conservative conference bubble of course, and we can't say how it will have played out in living rooms across the country.\n\nBut from a party perspective, the PM seems to have the crowd onside, and if there are any doubts about his leadership, you wouldn't hear them here.\n\nThe audience lapped up the PM's jokes and optimistic outlook Image caption: The audience lapped up the PM's jokes and optimistic outlook", "New Education Minister Jeremy Miles helped deliver healthy eating lessons this week - and has pledged to deliver an affective exam grading system\n\nStudents and parents should have confidence in how grades in Wales will be awarded this year, the new education minister has said.\n\nGCSE and A-Levels will be decided by schools and colleges after exams were cancelled in a bid to avoid a repeat of last summer's exam \"fiasco\".\n\nBut one headteacher has said the workload for staff was \"extraordinary\".\n\nEducation minister Jeremy Miles said the \"right balance\" had been struck in \"extremely challenging\" circumstances.\n\nThe system for deciding grades descended into chaos in he middle of the coronavirus pandemic last summer after thousands of results were downgraded by examining officials.\n\nIt led to the previous education minister issuing an apology and abandoning the results, instead relying on teachers' original estimated exam grades.\n\nThis summer's results are being determined by teachers after exams were cancelled - but many schools have scheduled assessments to collect evidence for grades.\n\nThe head at one south Wales secondary said staff and students were under \"immense pressure\".\n\n\"There's around 30,000 grades that we as a school need to award to students,\" said Hugo Hutchison, head of the 1,700-pupil Monmouth Comprehensive School.\n\nMr Miles says he has confidence in this year's approach to grading\n\n\"For each of those 30,000 grades we need to write an individual subject record. It is an enormous amount of work.\n\n\"And for each of those grades, there are also a number of assessments, a number of papers that counts towards it.\"\n\nMr Hutchison said it felt the assessment model this year was like \"building an aeroplane, whilst we are already flying it\".\n\nIt said this was all at an \"incredibly difficult time\" for pupils who have lived through the Covid pandemic.\n\nRebecca Williams from the Welsh teaching union UCAC said her members were \"under strain\".\n\n\"The want learners to get their results and for those to be fair,\" she said.\n\n\"But doing that is putting immense strain on individuals and on the system as a whole.\"\n\nThe head of the Welsh exams body WJEC said he accepted reaction to how the grading system was working had been \"fairly mixed\".\n\n\"But I think the system coming together is trying to provide the best option it can under very difficult circumstances,\" said Ian Morgan\n\nWJEC exam board chief Ian Morgan accepts there are \"difficulties and pressures\" under this year's system\n\nMr Morgan said schools and colleges had been given \"flexibility\" to use a range of evidence to back-up grades, including tests and access to past exam papers.\n\n\"I think from the learners point of view, learners just want fairness,\" he added.\n\n\"From a parent's point of view, parents want to know that learners are being treat fairly and appropriately.\n\nMr Morgan said he recognised there were \"difficulties and pressures\" for schools implementing the grading system.\n\n\"I understand it's challenging and I'm not walking away from the challenge that it has created,\" he said. \"The schools and colleges know their learners best.\"\n\nWales' new education minister said he thought the grading system was \"deliverable\".\n\n\"I've seen an extraordinary effort put in to design a system with school leaders which is credible and equitable,\" said Mr Miles.\n\n\"So, that balance of trusting teachers to make the judgments they can make about the attainment of their pupils on the one hand, but also having a mechanism to ensure consistency across the system - I think that balance has been struck.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Patsy Stevenson was issued a £200 fixed penalty notice following her arrest\n\nA woman who was pictured being arrested at the Sarah Everard vigil has said \"about 50\" police officers have since contacted her via a dating app, leaving her \"terrified\".\n\nPatsy Stevenson, 28, said the officers approached her on Tinder after she was handcuffed at the vigil on 13 March.\n\nShe said they knew she was \"fearful of police\" and had done it \"for a reason\".\n\nThe Met said its officers \"must abide by our high standards of professional behaviour, both on and off duty\".\n\nHundreds attended the vigil on Clapham Common in south London following the death of Ms Everard, who was murdered by Met Police officer Wayne Couzens after he abducted her while she was walking home.\n\nThe event had been cancelled after the Met said it would be illegal under lockdown restrictions.\n\nMs Stevenson said the event was \"a turning point\", where \"everyone realised we actually we all go through the same things\", but the \"sombre atmosphere... turned very scary very quickly\" after police started trying to disperse the crowd.\n\nShe was handcuffed and held down by two officers, and was also issued with a £200 fine.\n\nShe has since launched legal action against the Met Police over the arrest.\n\nShe said that since the arrest, \"about 50\" police officers and security guards had approached her via the dating app.\n\n\"They were all in uniform on their profiles or it said 'I'm a police officer',\" she said.\n\n\"I do not understand why someone would do that.\n\n\"It is almost like an intimidation thing, saying 'look we can see you', and that, to me, is terrifying.\n\n\"They know what I went through and they know that I'm fearful of police and they've done that for a reason.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patsy Stevenson explains why she felt the vigil was important.\n\nMs Stevenson said she had also become the focus of internet conspiracies since her arrest and \"can't count the amount of death threats I've had\".\n\nShe said people had claimed she was a \"crisis actor\" paid to attend the vigil and get arrested to legitimise attacks on the police.\n\nShe added that many of the threats had been about kidnapping her.\n\n\"Now there's always that fear when I'm out and I see someone staring at me,\" she said.\n\n\"I just want to be able to live the way you live without fear.\n\n\"But then again, I'm a woman.\"\n\nSarah Everard was abducted and killed by serving police officer Wayne Couzens\n\nMs Stevenson said she was not \"anti-police\" and had reported the threats, which are being investigated, though had not reported the dating app contacts.\n\nShe said the police needed to start \"taking accountability\" for officers' actions and the Met's advice that women should flag down a bus if they have concerns when stopped by an officer was \"part of the problem\".\n\n\"Stop telling women how to change their behaviour just to stay alive,\" she said.\n\n\"If they started looking into it properly and... listening to people's concerns and then enacting change, we would be able to trust them more.\"\n\nThe Met said Ms Stevenson should \"please contact us and provide us with more information so we can work to establish if any MPS officer is involved [and] whether any misconduct may have occurred.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, who has rejected calls to resign, confirmed on Monday there would be an independent review into the force's standards and culture and Home Secretary Priti Patel also said an inquiry into the \"systematic failures\" that allowed Wayne Couzens to continue to be a police officer would be launched.\n\nThe death threats and abuse Patsy Stevenson says she's received come at a time when scrutiny on the treatment of women is higher than ever - not just by the police, but by society in general.\n\nThe photos of her being arrested at the vigil caused shock across the country and while a police watchdog found officers acted appropriately in what the Met called an \"extraordinarily challenging circumstance\", Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary did say public confidence in the force had suffered as a result.\n\nThe inquiry into how killer Wayne Couzens was able to be a serving police officer and a review into culture within the force may go some way to reassuring people that all in authority believe such appalling crimes must never be allowed to happen again, but it goes far beyond that.\n\nWomen like Patsy say they need to see action, not only hear words.\n\nPatsy's death threats prove it's not just the streets that need to be safer, but the social media platforms many people use every day and that is an even wider issue that goes far beyond policing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Game-streaming platform Twitch has been the victim of a leak, reportedly divulging confidential company information and streamers' earnings.\n\nMore than 100GB of data was posted online on Wednesday.\n\nThe documents appear to show Twitch's top streamers each made millions of dollars from the Amazon-owned company in the past two years.\n\nTwitch confirmed the breach and said it was \"working with urgency\" to understand the extent of it.\n\nIn a statement posted on Twitter, the company said it would \"update the community as soon as additional information is available\".\n\nFortnite streamer BBG Calc told BBC News: \"The earnings list got my figure 100% correct.\"\n\nAnother streamer confirmed to the BBC that their earnings were \"accurate\" while a third person closely linked to a high profile player said the details were \"about right\".\n\nThose behind the leak also claimed to have the source code for the video platform itself.\n\nThe documents, shared in online forums, appear to show payments made from August or September 2019 to October 2021.\n\nSome versions shared online point to well known streamers, including Dungeons & Dragons channel CriticalRole, Canadian xQC and American Summit1g, as being among the top earners.\n\nTwitch famously fiercely guards operational details such as how much its streamers are paid, so this looks extremely embarrassing for the company.\n\nAnd it comes at a time when competitors such as YouTube Gaming are offering huge salaries to snap up gaming talent, so the fallout could be significant.\n\nAside from the salary details, the documents seems to contain the site's source code and even technical details for yet to be released products and platforms.\n\nAnd evidence is building at least some of the data looks real.\n\nSecurity experts tell me the files contains things such as internal server details that can be accessed by Twitch employees only.\n\nAnd if it is all confirmed, it will be the biggest leak I have ever seen - an entire company's most valuable data cleaned out in one fell swoop.\n\nBut the list of payments, apparently from Twitch itself, is unlikely to include sponsorship deals and other off-platform activities - or account for tax paid on income.\n\nAnd many, if not all, of these top streamers are effectively large-scale media operations, with their own employees and business expenses - so the numbers do not represent \"take-home pay\" for those listed, even if genuine.\n\nThe documents also reportedly contain a trove of internal Twitch data.\n\nMetadata being posted to internet forums appears to show folders of data named after important software areas, including:\n\nThe documents also allegedly contain source code for Twitch's website and related services, labelled \"part one\" - suggesting there may be more unreleased material.\n\nIn the earliest known online post linking to the data, the anonymous poster labelled the Twitch community \"a disgusting toxic cesspool\" and claimed the leak was being posted \"to foster more disruption and competition\" in video streaming.\n\nIn recent months, Twitch has been battling a number of issues on its platform, such as \"hate raids\" - organised harassment of streamers from minority backgrounds.\n\nAnd in early September, a boycott titled \"a day off Twitch\" saw creators effectively strike in protest at the lack of action on hate raids.\n\nThe UK's Information Commissioner's Office said it had not been notified of any data breach by Twitch or Amazon.", "\"We just want to get the fire going and get the tent out,\" said Iain Rich\n\nRecord house prices and a lack of foreign travel may have helped an unexpected boom in one niche market.\n\nDemand for plots of woodland is reportedly soaring, with many buying land that cannot be developed.\n\n\"It's just so tranquil,\" said Iain Rich, 57, from his newly-purchased woodland in rural west Wales.\n\n\"I had my birthday party here recently, which was lovely, just a barbecue and a bottle of bubbly which we chilled down in the stream.\"\n\nHe and wife Helen enjoy nursing a campfire, surrounded by moss-covered oak trees dating back hundreds of years.\n\nThe only noise we can hear comes from a lone buzzard circling overhead.\n\nIt was disconcerting at first, when the last bar of phone signal vanished at least half a mile ago, but then it was peaceful.\n\nAs idyllic as their spot is, perched at the top of an ancient tree-covered valley, this was never their plan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two families explain why they decided to spend their savings on a woodland in Wales\n\nLike so many other first-time wood owners across the UK, it was the pandemic that changed their path.\n\n\"I think, in all honesty, because we've both retired, our grand plan was to travel,\" admits Helen, 57.\n\n\"We had pretty grand plans, but that came to a sudden and grinding halt with Covid.\"\n\nIt was Iain who then suggested the couple look at woodlands during the first lockdown, after becoming curious about for sale signs he'd spotted while out cycling.\n\nSince then they haven't looked back, buying two neighbouring plots in just a few months.\n\nIt means many of their evenings and weekends are now spent battling brambles, but there are perks too.\n\n\"People who buy woodlands do it because they love it,\" said Iain.\n\n\"We get itchy feet when we haven't been. We just want to get the fire going and get the tent out.\"\n\nHe said they have invested about £80,000, but \"it's been worth it for us\".\n\n\"Probably, as an investment, for the first time in our lives, it's actually working. We have children who also love the area.\"\n\nHelen added: \"We'll pass it on to the next generation and then, hopefully, they'll pass it on to next generation after that.\"\n\nExpert Chris Colley said managed woodland has more biodiversity than untended sites\n\nUntil the pair bought their woodland, it had been left relatively untouched and unexplored for decades.\n\nThere are many vast clumps of land in private ownership, with no commercial or economic use.\n\nCompanies, such as the one Iain and Helen bought from, said it was gradually acquiring huge forgotten plots and selling them off in manageable chunks to wilderness enthusiasts.\n\nEven now, more than six months after buying their site, Iain and Helen own swathes of mysterious woodland they have yet to explore.\n\nThey hope hidden in the acres of brambles could be forgotten freshwater springs or clues to the woodland's use in centuries gone by.\n\n\"There is a lot of woodland across the whole of the UK, but particularly in Wales, that is undermanaged,\" explained specialist Chris Colley from Woodlands.co.uk\n\n\"Ancient woodland and more recently-planted woodland needs management. It needs tender care to maximise its environmental benefit and its value for wildlife.\n\n\"A managed wood will have more biodiversity than something that's been left alone untended.\"\n\nThe business Chris works for, and others, have said that woodland sales have skyrocketed since the pandemic, with almost all stock selling out.\n\n\"Up to the start of the pandemic it was a steady business, the average wood that would go on the market would probably take two or three months to find a buyer,\" said Chris.\n\n\"Since the pandemic, that has gone down to maybe two weeks, and we're quite often putting woods on the market now and they're selling within two or three days.\n\n\"It's a huge increase in demand for somewhere to get away from the world, to get away from the pandemic and to reconnect with nature.\"\n\nKatie de Silva with her children Mia and Kai\n\nFor Katie de Silva, buying her small plot of woodland, nestled among towering poker-straight conifers in Pembrokeshire, was also an opportunity to reconnect her young family.\n\n\"My husband has always been a chef, and a very good one, so he's always had to work away and the kids hardly ever saw him,\" she said.\n\n\"When lockdown happened, it was amazing. We actually got to have six months together. I think it really opened up opportunities for us to become a real family again.\"\n\nThey had spent the first lockdown living in a flat above a shop with no outside space, so they looked into buying a patch of woodland for children Mia, nine, and Kai, six, to have \"adventures\".\n\n\"I thought it was a bit bonkers at first,\" said Katie.\n\n\"Also, we were planning to buy a house and I'd always looked for somewhere that had loads of outdoor space, but with lockdown, house prices soared.\n\n\"This has meant by having a piece of woodland, we don't actually need much of a garden.\"\n\nSome woodlands can cost hundreds of thousands, but most are smaller sites costing between £20,000 and £50,000.\n\nIn an effort to keep costs down, Katie's family bought their site with friends before dividing it up.\n\nThe fact they made a decision to purchase during the first lockdown in March 2020, meant they were able to rely heavily on the woods when tight restrictions returned again last winter.\n\n\"It was really tough that second lockdown,\" reflected Katie.\n\n\"This gave us a reason to get out, and to push through it, and to do something really great.\n\n\"Even in the middle of winter, when it was freezing cold, we could get the children out and they'd spend about eight hours down here digging and rolling and doing what kids do.\n\n\"You can go to the woods for free, of course, you don't need to buy one.\n\n\"We wanted to camp out and we love building things, and it's the pride in doing it, it's really important to us.\"\n\nLike retirees Iain and Helen, Katie and her husband bought their wood with one eye on the future.\n\n\"It's meant to be a piece of land that stays with us,\" said Katie.\n\n\"The children can enjoy growing up here. We're all nature lovers.\n\n\"This is a culmination of everything we always wanted to have. It really means something.\"", "This picture taken in 2014 shows asylum seekers at Australia's Manus Island detention centre\n\nAustralia is to stop sending asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea (PNG), marking an end to its controversial detention regime in the nation.\n\nPNG is one of two Pacific countries paid by Canberra to detain asylum seekers and refugees who attempt to reach Australia by boat.\n\nAustralia said its arrangement with PNG would conclude by the end of the year.\n\nBut it will continue its divisive \"offshore processing\" policy on the remote island nation of Nauru.\n\n\"Australia's strong border protection policies… have not changed,\" Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews said on Wednesday.\n\n\"Anyone who attempts to enter Australia illegally by boat will be returned, or sent to Nauru,\" she added, without clarifying it is not illegal to seek asylum.\n\nThe 120 asylum seekers and refugees remaining in PNG will have the option to resettle there or to be moved to detention in Nauru.\n\nDuring Australia's eight-year presence in PNG, there have been major incidents of violence, including hunger strikes, riots and the murder of an Iranian asylum seeker by guards.\n\nReza Barati was murdered during a riot at the Manus Island detention centre in 2014\n\nIn total, 13 people detained by Australia in PNG and Nauru have died from violence, medical inattention and suicide.\n\nFormer detainee and refugee Thanus Selvarasa said the closure was \"a good decision, but eight years is too long and PNG is not safe for refugees to resettle\".\n\n\"We came to Australia seeking asylum, we were moved to offshore processing. They change policy each time, they are playing politics with our lives,\" he said in a statement.\n\nOther activists called for Australia to provide safe resettlement for the remaining men.\n\nAustralia has sent more than 1,900 men to detention centres on the island while their applications for refugee status were being processed.\n\nMany have languished there for years because Australia hardened its immigration law in 2013 to deny resettlement visas to asylum seekers who arrive by boat.\n\nAustralia argues its policies are justified because they prevent deaths at sea.\n\nBut offshore and indefinite detention has been widely criticised as harmful, inhumane and in breach of international law.\n\nRights groups and the UN have frequently criticised Australia's centres in PNG and Nauru for substandard conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn 2017, Australia paid a A$70m (£37m; $50m) settlement to over 1,900 detainees who had sued for harm suffered in detention.\n\nIt was also forced to shut its Manus Island detention centre, after PNG's Supreme Court decision ruled it was illegal.\n\nExperts say the closure of the PNG facilities had been expected as Canberra had not sent new asylum seekers there in recent years.", "A Conservative politician who missed a crucial vote on compulsory Covid passes in nightclubs and big events in Wales was at the Tory conference in Manchester at the time.\n\nGareth Davies says he was \"angry\" that he was unable to access the Welsh Parliament's remote voting system.\n\nBut the Senedd's Presiding Officer Elin Jones said he had been given \"every opportunity to be present\".\n\nHis absence meant Welsh ministers won by one vote.\n\nElin Jones had said on Tuesday that she had provided her personal phone number to allow Mr Davies to vote.\n\nThe Night Time Industries Association called for the decision to be taken again, but that was not echoed by any of the Senedd's party groups.\n\nUnder the new law evidence of full vaccination or a negative Covid test within 48 hours will be required when visiting nightclubs or large events.\n\nHealth Minister Eluned Morgan has said the vote will not be re-run.\n\nThe Conservative Party conference has been taking place in Manchester\n\nThe Senedd, because of the Covid pandemic, is sitting in a hybrid session where MSs can attend in person or take part via Zoom.\n\nIt had not been clear, initially, where Mr Davies had been at the time of the decision.\n\nThen, around Wednesday lunchtime, the Vale of Clwyd politician said he was \"working and representing the group at the Conservative Party conference and I would have been able to vote remotely if I'd have been able to access the remote voting tools\".\n\n\"I am deeply upset, frustrated and angry at last night's events and my inability to cast a vote against vaccine passports,\" he said.\n\nHe said concerns have been raised with the Senedd's ICT department.\n\nHowever BBC Wales was told attempts had been made by the Senedd to contact Mr Davies but \"no one could get hold of him\" - a Tory source said that was because he was speaking to the chief whip Darren Millar and staff.\n\nOne MS said that just before the vote Elin Jones read out a phone number to the Tory chief whip for Gareth Davies to call her on.\n\nDarren Millar had told Ms Jones there were difficulties with getting one of his members onto Zoom.\n\n\"Elin waited for a phone call. The phone didn't ring,\" the MS said.\n\nThey added that Ms Jones then offered Mr Davies another 30 seconds to get in touch before eventually deciding to proceed.\n\nAt the time of the vote on Tuesday evening Ms Jones said: \"We are holding the vote please, and we have made every opportunity possible for that... member to get in, including sharing my personal phone.\"\n\nShe later added: \"It is a member's responsibility to give themselves sufficient time to secure their Zoom connection in time for voting, just as it is for any member travelling to the Senedd to vote.\"\n\nOn Wednesday she declined to give Mr Davies a chance to make a personal statement to the Senedd, saying as he had shared it with the media it was already in the public domain.\n\nMr Davies later put the statement on Facebook, saying he was not able to call the presiding officer: \"I was already on a call at that time frantically speaking with Welsh Conservative staff members in an attempt to solve the ICT problems.\"\n\nWith the whole opposition against the plans, and Labour controlling only half of the Senedd's 60 seats, if Mr Davies voted there would have been a tie.\n\nThe new law would have failed to pass as a result.\n\nMandatory Covid passes are being introduced this coming Monday in Wales\n\nAsked about holding a re-run of the vote, Eluned Morgan told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers that that is \"not how democratic processes work\".\n\n\"You don't keep on having a vote until you get the answer that you want,\" she said.\n\n\"Actually this is a system that's been in place for about four months already. People have been using it throughout the summer.\n\n\"What we know is that the people of Wales want to be protected.\"\n\n\"We had a huge mandate as a result of the election because of our cautious approach.\"\n\nConservative Monmouth MS Peter Fox told the programme that a re-run \"would be a difficult thing to do\".\n\n\"Democracy has a set of processes, and you have to follow them and, you know, sometimes you don't like the outcome of the decision or the circumstances in which you've created a decision.\n\n\"But democracy is what it is and if you start eroding that where are you ending up?\"\n\nFollowing the vote the Welsh Conservatives called for the ending of the hybrid arrangements.\n\nBut there was frustration in the party outside of the Senedd group of Tories.\n\nTory councillor David Fouweather, of Newport, tweeted that the Conservative group should have got their whip \"sorted\", adding: \"Letting Wales down. Abolish the assembly.\"\n\nParliaments, and governments, are generally reluctant to re-run votes because doing so can open a huge can of worms.\n\nDo so on this occasion and it's not hard to imagine politicians routinely queueing up for a re-vote on this or that issue, conjuring up ingenious, or not so ingenious, arguments as to why.\n\nThe Senedd authorities insist there was no failure on their part to allow every Senedd member a fair chance to vote on Covid passes, and therefore there is no case for a re-match.\n\nThis was down to a particular Conservative member, Gareth Davies, not doing what he needed to do to vote, they say.\n\nMr Davies, of course, disputes this.\n\nMistakes when voting do happen from time to time, by the way, but tend to go unnoticed by the world at large because there are usually no significant consequences.\n\nHowever, fifteen years ago the Labour Welsh health minister of the day, Brian Gibbons, caused great amusement by pressing the wrong button and, with help from a party colleague who failed to vote with Labour, accidentally backed an an inquiry into the state of the Welsh Ambulance Service.\n\nThat vote stood and all the indications are that this one will too.", "Promoting opportunity across the UK is \"our mission as Conservatives\", Boris Johnson has told his party conference.\n\nThe 45-minute conference address was his first directly to Tory members since the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Johnson called his government a reforming, can-do government, which after \"decades of drift and dither\" would reform social care and opportunities across the UK.\n\nAnd he insisted reducing \"aching gaps\" between regions would \"take the pressure off\" south-eastern England, as well as boosting places that felt left behind.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA former Facebook employee has told US politicians that the company's sites and apps harm children's mental health and stoke division in society.\n\nFrances Haugen, a 37-year-old former product manager turned whistleblower, heavily criticised the company at a hearing in the Senate.\n\nFacebook has faced growing scrutiny and increasing calls for its regulation.\n\nFounder Mark Zuckerberg hit back, saying the latest accusations were at odds with the company's goals.\n\nIn a letter to staff, he said many of the claims were \"illogical\" and pointed to Facebook's efforts to fight harmful content.\n\n\"We care deeply about issues like safety, well-being and mental health,\" he said in the letter, made public on his Facebook page. \"It's difficult to see coverage that misrepresents our work and our motives.\"\n\nFacebook is the world's most popular social media site. The company says it has 2.7 billion monthly active users. Hundreds of millions of people also use the company's other products, including WhatsApp and Instagram.\n\nBut it has been criticised on several fronts - from failing to protect users' privacy to not doing enough to halt the spread of disinformation.\n\nMs Haugen told CBS News on Sunday that she had shared a number of internal Facebook documents with the Wall Street Journal in recent weeks.\n\nUsing the documents, the WSJ reported that research carried out by Instagram showed the app could harm girls' mental health.\n\nThis was a theme Ms Haugen continued during her testimony on Tuesday. \"The company's leadership knows how to make Facebook and Instagram safer, but won't make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people,\" she said.\n\nShe criticised Mark Zuckerberg for having wide-ranging control, saying that there is \"no one currently holding Mark accountable but himself.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Facebook's Monika Bickert says commissioning research into issues shows the company is prioritising safety above profit\n\nAnd she praised the massive outage of Facebook services on Monday, which affected users around the world.\n\n\"Yesterday we saw Facebook taken off the internet,\" she said. \"I don't know why it went down, but I know that for more than five hours, Facebook wasn't used to deepen divides, destabilise democracies and make young girls and women feel bad about their bodies.\"\n\nThe answer, she told senators, was congressional oversight. \"We must act now,\" she said.\n\nMr Zuckerberg, in his letter, said the research into Instagram had been mischaracterised and that many young people had positive experiences of using the platform. But he said \"it's very important to me that everything we build is safe and good for kids\".\n\nOn Monday's outage, he said the deeper concern was not \"how many people switch to competitive services or how much money we lose, but what it means for the people who rely on our services to communicate with loved ones, run their businesses, or support their communities\".\n\nFrances Haugen said the company repeatedly prioritised profits over its users safety\n\nBoth Republican and Democratic senators on Tuesday were united in the need for change at the company - a rare topic of agreement between the two political parties.\n\n\"The damage to self-interest and self-worth inflicted by Facebook today will haunt a generation,\" Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal said.\n\n\"Big Tech now faces the Big Tobacco jaw-dropping moment of truth,\" he added, a reference to how tobacco firms hid the harmful effects of their products.\n\nFellow Republican Dan Sullivan said the world would look back and ask \"What the hell were we thinking?\" in light of the revelations about Facebook's impact on children.\n\nIn a statement issued after the hearing, Facebook said it did not agree with Ms Haugen's \"characterisation of the many issues she testified about\". But it did agree that \"it's time to begin to create standard rules for the internet.\"\n\n\"It's been 25 years since the rules for the internet have been updated, and instead of expecting the industry to make societal decisions that belong to legislators, it is time for Congress to act,\" the statement read.\n\nMark Zuckerberg's blog is lengthy and thoughtful. He doesn't name Frances Haugen - but he has clearly been rattled.\n\nHis main argument is that the research she leaked has been misrepresented by both her and the media. He argues that the negative internal research has been cherry-picked and positive conclusions brushed over.\n\nInterestingly, he thinks this episode could have a chilling effect on internal research in companies - worried that bad conclusions might one day be leaked.\n\nBut there is of course a simple come back to this. Release the data.\n\nFacebook and other social media companies don't have to do internal research; they could let their data be analysed independently.\n\nTo be fair to Facebook, the company does give researchers some access. However, only Facebook has the full spectrum of user metrics needed to fully analyse its effect on society.\n\nHis arguments too are at times overly simplified. Why would we want to make people angry, he asks.\n\nI'm sure he doesn't. But it's been proven over and over again that social media that provokes any emotion, whether it be laughter, love or anger gets more engagement.\n\nZuckerberg believes passionately that Facebook is a force for good. It's becoming harder and harder to find people on Capitol Hill who think that.", "Most of those who died in the complex of camps at Auschwitz died at the Birkenau extermination camp\n\nStaff at the site of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz have condemned anti-Semitic graffiti discovered there and they have appealed for information.\n\nNine barracks were spray-painted with anti-Semitic phrases and slogans denying the Holocaust, according to the Auschwitz memorial and museum.\n\nThe graffiti was found at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site, the largest of the 40 camps that made up the Nazi complex.\n\nPolice have been informed of the incident and are investigating.\n\nStaff have called on anyone who may have been in the vicinity of the death camp on Tuesday morning and witnessed the incident to contact them, especially anyone with photos taken around the Gate of Death, at the entrance to Birkenau, and the wooden barracks.\n\nThe memorial centre said the vandalism was \"an outrageous attack on the symbol of one of the great tragedies in human history and an extremely painful blow to the memory of all the victims of the German Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau camp\".\n\n\"As soon as the police have compiled all the necessary documentation, the conservators of the Auschwitz memorial will begin removing traces of vandalism from historical buildings,\" it added.\n\nThe statement noted that while the security system at the 170-hectare site was \"constantly being expanded\", it was funded from the museum's budget, which had been hit during the coronavirus pandemic. Fully enclosing the site would not be possible for some time, it added.\n\nThe Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial preserves the Nazi extermination camp set up on occupied Polish soil by Germany during World War Two.\n\nAt least 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz in the four and a half years after it opened in 1940. Almost one million of them were Jews. The majority of the victims were sent to the gas chambers at Birkenau.\n\nIsrael's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial condemned what it said was an \"attack not only on the memory of the victims, but also on the survivors and any person with a conscience\".\n\nWhile vandalism at Auschwitz is rare, in 2010 a Swedish man was jailed for more than two years for plotting the theft of the infamous \"Arbeit macht frei\" sign that hangs over the entrance.\n\nEarlier this year the wall of a Jewish cemetery near the camp was defaced with swastikas and other Nazi symbols.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJustice Secretary Dominic Raab has been accused of failing to understand the meaning of the word misogyny in an interview about violence against women.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said \"insults and misogyny is absolutely wrong whether it's a man against a woman or a woman against a man\".\n\nMisogyny refers to a hatred or prejudice towards women.\n\nOpposition parties seized on his apparent confusion after he was corrected by the interviewer.\n\nLabour's shadow justice secretary David Lammy said: \"No wonder the Conservatives are hopeless at tackling violence against women and girls.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat equalities spokesperson Wera Hobhouse said: \"It's little wonder the Conservatives are failing to tackle misogyny when their justice secretary doesn't even seem to know what it is.\n\n\"These comments are an insult to the millions of women and girls impacted by misogyny and show just how out of touch the Conservatives are on this issue.\n\n\"Women and girls deserve better than these callous remarks.\"\n\nDuring the interview, Mr Raab reiterated the government's opposition to making misogyny a hate crime, arguing it would lead to \"criminalising insults\".\n\nCalls for misogyny to be made a hate crime have increased, following the conviction of Wayne Couzens for the murder of Sarah Everard, and such a move is backed by Labour and the Lib Dems.\n\nAsked on BBC Breakfast if the government would make misogyny a hate crime, Mr Raab - who was made justice secretary in September - said it was a \"legitimate\" debate to have but argued that it wouldn't \"solve the problem we've got\".\n\nWhen a crime is carried out against someone - such as assault, harassment or criminal damage - if it is proven that it was because of their race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity, it is considered a hate crime.\n\nThere is no specific hate crime offence in England and Wales, but when a crime falls into one of the above categories, judges have enhanced sentencing powers and can increase the punishment as a result.\n\nCampaigners say sex and gender should be added to this list, arguing misogyny is one of the \"root causes\" of violence against women.\n\nMr Raab added that \"insults, and misogyny is or course absolutely wrong, whether it's a man against a woman or a woman against a man\".\n\nBBC Breakfast Presenter Sally Nugent told Mr Raab that the dictionary definition of misogyny is in fact hatred towards women.\n\nAsked to clarify his comments later in the interview, Mr Raab said: \"What I meant was, if we are talking about things below the level of public order offences of harassment, intimidation, which are rightly criminalised - if we are talking about, effectively, insults with a sexist basis, I don't think that criminalising those sorts of things will deal with the problem that we have got at the heart of the Sarah Everard case.\n\n\"Just criminalising insulting language even if it is misogynistic doesn't deal with the intimidation, the violence and the much higher level of offence and damage and harm that we really ought to be laser-like focused in on,\" he added.\n\nOne of those supporting making misogyny a hate crime is Sue Fish the ex-chief constable of Nottinghamshire.\n\nShe told the BBC it would be \"one vital step\" towards ensuring women are not subject to violence.", "Five people were shot and killed in the Keyham area of Plymouth\n\nA member of police staff has been issued with a gross misconduct notice over their handling of Plymouth gunman Jake Davison's application for a shotgun certificate.\n\nDavison shot and killed five people in Keyham, Plymouth, on 12 August.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said the certificate was returned to Davison weeks before the killings.\n\nThe misconduct notice relates to the handling of two assaults in 2020 admitted by Davison.\n\nMaxine Davison, 51, Stephen Washington, 59, Kate Shepherd, 66, Lee Martyn, 43 and three-year-old Sophie Martyn, were all killed by Davison before he turned the gun on himself.\n\nThe IOPC is investigating how the apprentice crane operator was originally granted a shotgun certificate in 2017 by Devon and Cornwall Police.\n\nThe watchdog is also examining how Davison was handed back the weapon and certificate weeks before the shooting - having been seized after admitting the two assaults on youths in a park in September 2020.\n\nDavison was placed on a voluntary intervention programme following the assaults - an alternative to being charged or cautioned.\n\nHis shotgun and licence were not seized for another three months until concerns were raised directly with the police by a member of staff working on the intervention programme.\n\nIn July, Davison was given back his shotgun, which he used for clay pigeon shooting, and his certificate.\n\nLee Martyn and his daughter Sophie were both killed in the attack\n\nThe IOPC said it was investigating whether the police officer \"shared information appropriately with the force Firearms and Explosives Licensing Department\" regarding the violent offences, and whether they \"took appropriate steps to seize the shotgun certificate, shotgun, and ammunition\".\n\nThe watchdog said \"the serving of such notices advises individuals that their conduct is subject to investigation, but does not mean that disciplinary proceedings will necessarily follow\".\n\nIt added that it hoped to complete its investigation into Devon and Cornwall Police's decision-making in relation to Davison's possession of a shotgun and shotgun certificate, by the end of the year.\n\nDavid Ford, IOPC regional director, said his organisation was reviewing \"a substantial amount of information gathered from Devon and Cornwall Police and elsewhere\".\n\nHe said: \"Based on the evidence gathered so far, we have now served disciplinary notices on two individuals within the force to advise them their conduct is subject to investigation.\"\n\nMaxine Davison, the gunman's mother, was named by police as his first victim\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police Assistant Chief Constable Jim Nye said the force was \"fully cooperating\" with the investigation.\n\nHe said: \"We acknowledge that the IOPC has served a police officer with a misconduct notice and a staff member with a gross misconduct notice, in relation to their involvement with Jake Davison.\n\n\"The force is supporting our staff through this process.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson delivered conference his speech under the slogan \"build back better\"\n\n\"It's all about him\" is how one cabinet minister described Boris Johnson's week in Manchester at the Conservative conference.\n\nThe platform was his. The Tory party truly is his.\n\nHis closing speech was almost as much about entertaining the home crowd as outlining new policy.\n\nBut little matter, perhaps. In that room - at that moment - the prime minister was in total command of his party, and politically dominant in the country, unafraid to weave together clashing political traditions.\n\nA Conservative leader raising tax to pay for the health service, and cheered for promising to send protesters \"snugly\" to jail.\n\nThe size of his political personality and ambition leaves little oxygen for anyone else here, let alone air for the opposition to breathe.\n\nBut that alone can't be a match for the scale of the country's problems. Charisma is not a substitute for solutions for concerns firms and families hold right now.\n\nAnd away from this conference that persona can grate as well as delight. The prime minister says he seeks to unite, but is a divisive figure.\n\nOne of Mr Johnson's colleagues suggested that he's a politician on a bungee cord - he leaps to plummet, then soars to great heights, then drops again.\n\nThere are plenty of acute problems this autumn and, of course, unforeseen events that could drag him down.\n\nBut many Tories believe they leave Manchester tonight on their way to a fifth term in office - a modern record that the prime minister would love to set.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do pupils and teachers make of the plans to return to more emphasis on exams?\n\nPupils could face lower grades in 2022 as Qualifications Wales aligns its approach with England.\n\nAcross the border the UK government wants to wind unusually inflated grade levels back to pre-Covid levels over two years.\n\nThe Welsh regulator has confirmed next year it wants to see a \"midway point\" between the results of 2019 and 2021.\n\nThe plan is that by 2023 results will be back in line with those of pre-pandemic years.\n\nQualifications Wales chief executive, Philip Blaker, said GCSE, AS and A level students had faced \"unprecedented disruption\" over the past 18 months.\n\n\"We want to make sure that their assessments next summer are as fair as possible,\" he said.\n\n\"Next year we will see a return to normal assessments which provide a fair and consistent approach for learners.\n\n\"We have considered the fairest way to award grades, taking views from stakeholders across Wales and working with other qualifications regulators across the UK.\n\n\"Our approach will align with that taken in England. This means that results in 2022 will reflect broadly a midway point between 2021 and 2019 and provides a level playing field for Welsh learners, particularly those applying for admission to universities across the UK.\"\n\nHe said: \"If circumstances change, and the exam series is cancelled we are putting contingency plans in place that will allow schools and colleges to award grades in an approach based upon that used in summer 2021.\n\n\"We will work with WJEC to inform schools and colleges of these plans so everyone is clear what needs to be done.\n\n\"We know that learners may be anxious and have concerns about the return to exams, which is why we are planning a range of communications to support them.\"\n\nFfion has welcomed the return to \"normal grades\"\n\nA-Level students at Ysgol Dyffryn Conwy in Llanrwst, Conwy county, welcomed the move.\n\nFfion, 16, said: \"It's better we are going back to more normal grades as opposed to keeping going with the ridiculous grade inflation we have now.\"\n\nEben, also 16, said the experience \"will help us going forward\", adding: \"At the moment we only have one small experience of exams, of revising and preparing.\"\n\nThis year A level and GCSE grades rose, after being based on estimates by teachers.\n\nQualifications Wales said it had announced there would be exams in March, though there were calls for clarity over next year's exams in Wales from teachers and unions in July.\n\nIt said 2022 would act as a \"transition year\" to reflect the disruption to learners' education caused by the pandemic.\n\nClassroom assessments have been used in place of formal exams over the pandemic\n\nBut exams could yet be cancelled because of the pandemic.\n\nQualifications Wales said: \"If exams are cancelled, schools and colleges will be asked to award centre-determined grades to learners.\n\n\"The centre-determined grade approach would be similar to that used in 2021, but with some improvements to take account of the learning from this year.\"", "Children aged between 12 and 15 will be offered vaccination by the end of term, Eluned Morgan says\n\nIt is likely to be November before most schools in Northern Ireland begin to vaccinate 12 to 15-year-old pupils.\n\nLetters and consent forms for the Covid-19 vaccine are expected to be sent to parents of eligible children in mid-to-late October, according to the Public Health Agency (PHA).\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have recommended healthy 12 to 15-year-olds be offered one vaccine dose.\n\nVaccinations for pupils in Scotland and England are already taking place.\n\nHowever, the approach being taken by each nation differs.\n\nIn Wales, the government has set a target, saying by the end of the school half term all pupils in that age bracket will have been offered a single dose.\n\nMore than 140,000 children in Wales will qualify for the jab.\n\nIt is thought a majority will receive their jab in school.\n\nChildren will be encouraged to discuss the decision to receive a jab with their parents\n\nIn Northern Ireland, communication with families has yet to start.\n\nParents will get a letter, consent form and Covid-19 vaccine information material prior to vaccine teams visiting schools, a PHA spokesperson told BBC News NI.\n\nOn consent, the PHA advice is that while the letter is addressed to the child, it encourages them to discuss the decision about the vaccine with their parents.\n\nIn secondary schools \"some young people may be mature enough to provide their own consent\", said the PHA.\n\n\"This sometimes occurs if a parent has not returned a consent form but the child still wishes to have the vaccine on the day of the session,\" the agency added.\n\n\"Every effort will be made to contact the parent to seek their verbal consent.\"\n\nThe PHA is urging parents and guardians to look out for the consent form coming home in schoolbags.\n\nThe agency urged parents to read the information leaflets and talk to children about the vaccine and make an informed decision.\n\nThe vaccination programme for 12 to 15-year-olds who are immunosuppressed in Northern Ireland is already taking place.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the schools immunisation programme also covers the childhood flu programme, which this year will see a further roll out of the free flu vaccine to include school children up to year 12.\n\nEngland's vaccination programme is also based in schools.", "High energy costs are forcing manufacturers to warn of higher prices for their goods as they pass on increases to consumers.\n\nIceland boss Richard Walker said higher energy bills and other costs meant price rises were now \"inevitable\".\n\nThe warning came as analysts predicted that household energy bills could rise by hundreds of pounds next year.\n\nThey said the energy price cap, which protects domestic consumers, could soar by £400 in the spring.\n\nCornwall Insight forecasts that the energy price cap will rise to about £1,660 by next summer.\n\nThat is about 30% higher than the record £1,277 level for the cap set for winter 2021-22, which began at the start of October.\n\n\"With wholesale gas and electricity prices continuing to reach new records, successive supplier exits during September 2021 and a new level for the default tariff cap, the Great British energy market remains on edge for fresh volatility and further consolidation,\" said Craig Lowrey, senior consultant at Cornwall Insight.\n\nEnergy regulator Ofgem said the price cap \"will ensure that consumers don't pay more than is absolutely necessary this winter\".\n\nBut if gas prices stay high, the price cap will rise, Ofgem said.\n\nThe regulator said its \"number one priority is to protect customers\", but acknowledged \"this is a worrying time for many people\".\n\nBut while the price cap helps households, there is no such safeguard for businesses, which have to absorb the full impact of rising global energy prices.\n\nMr Walker warned that Iceland's energy bill would go up by £20m next year. Alongside higher salaries to address lorry driver shortages and other new costs, he said grocery prices would have to increase.\n\n\"It's inevitable that we will see price rises,\" he told the BBC. \"The UK supermarket industry is one of the most competitive in the world.\n\n\"Our margins are very very tight and we're not an endless sponge that can just absorb all of these different cost increases.\"\n\nAndrew Large, director general of the Confederation of Paper Industries, said: \"This is a highly inflationary situation for the British economy and members will clearly be in a position where they do try to pass those costs on to consumers where they can.\"\n\nOne paper manufacturer, the Northwood Group, said the industry had been \"left to fend for itself\" in the face of \"horrendous\" knock-on effects from the gas price rise.\n\n\"The spike [in gas prices] that we have seen since January is equivalent to a 550% price increase, which of course destroys any industrial planning,\" said chairman Paul Fecher.\n\nLaura Cohen, chief executive of the British Ceramic Confederation, said many of her member firms could even be forced to stop production \"due to uneconomic higher energy costs\".\n\nThis could cause \"severe damage\" to production facilities such as brick kilns, which could not easily be turned off at short notice, she said.\n\nMeanwhile, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has said that by decarbonising the UK's power supply, the country will protect customers from volatile fossil fuel prices.\n\n\"The UK so far, as many of you know, has made great progress in diversifying our energy mix. But we are still very dependent, perhaps too dependent, on fossil fuels and their volatile prices,\" he told a conference organised by trade body Energy UK.\n\nHe said that the government's recent pledge to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2035 - 15 years ahead of the previous target - would help.\n\n\"Our homes and businesses will be powered by affordable, clean and secure electricity generated here in the UK, for people in the UK,\" Mr Kwarteng said.\n\nThe Energy Shop - a price comparison site - warned people to prepare themselves for even greater increases in household bills.\n\nIt said that the next increase in the price cap, due to come in from 1 April 2022, could be £500 or even higher.\n\nFounder Joe Malinowski warned: \"If things don't settle down soon, increases of £600, £700 or even £800 cannot be ruled out.\"\n\nNine energy suppliers have already collapsed in recent weeks and more could be facing the same fate.\n\nThey were unable to keep their price promises as the wholesale price of gas soared.\n\nTheir customers have already seen annual bill increases of hundreds of pounds when they moved to a new provider and away from whichever low-rate fixed deal their supplier had offered.\n\nSome of the heat was drawn from the crisis on Wednesday when Russia said it would increase gas supplies to Europe.\n\nUK wholesale gas prices hit a record high during the day before falling after the Russian intervention.\n\nBut price volatility could continue as investors remain nervous about low stockpiles of gas across Europe.\n\nIf you feel powerless against international business and politics when watching your domestic energy bill go up, you are in good company.\n\nNormally, customers are urged to get active, search and switch to save money - but not now.\n\nUntil recently, the energy price cap was a backstop, protecting the vulnerable. Now it is the most competitive tariff available.\n\nThe cap is shielding households from the wild fluctuation in prices seen on the wholesale markets, but that is only a crumb of comfort when bills and prices across the board are still expected to see a sharp increase.\n\nSo for now, experts simply advise customers to find ways to save energy, brace themselves and budget for bigger bills. Wrap up for a financial chill that could last longer than the winter.\n\nThe energy price cap sets the maximum price suppliers in England, Wales and Scotland can charge customers on a standard - or default - tariff.\n\nThat includes the fixed daily amount customers pay, plus the price per unit they pay for electricity and gas.\n\nThe cap was increased on 1 October, with about 15 million households facing a 12% rise in energy bills, the biggest jump, to the highest amount, seen since the backstop was introduced in January 2019.\n\nThose on standard tariffs, with typical household levels of energy use, saw an increase of £139 - from £1,138 to £1,277 a year.\n\nPrepayment meter customers with average energy use saw a £153 increase.\n\nThat's a far cry from a year previously when on 1 October 2020, the energy price cap was cut by £84, to £1,042.\n\nWill you be affected by rising energy prices? 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.", "Labour has accused Boris Johnson of announcing a \"less generous recycling\" of a scheme aimed at luring more maths and science teachers to deprived areas.\n\nIn his Conservative Party conference speech, the PM said the \"best\" staff would get £3,000 tax-free salary boost from the \"levelling up premium\".\n\nBut Labour said this effectively meant a return to recently scrapped early-career payments for teachers.\n\nThese were worth up to £7,500 in areas of England with high educational needs.\n\nIn his conference speech in Manchester, Mr Johnson promised the government would work to bring better jobs and pay to all areas.\n\nBut he argued that, for this to happen, educational opportunities had to be spread more evenly.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"There is absolutely no reason why the kids of this country should lag behind and why so many should be unable to read or write or do basic mathematics at 11.\"\n\nHe added that \"to level up you need to give people the options, the skills that are right for them, and to make the most of those skills and knowledge you need urgently to plug all the other gaps in the infrastructure that are still holding people and communities back\".\n\n\"We are announcing a levelling up premium of up to £3,000 to send the best maths and science teachers to the places that need them most,\" Mr Johnson also said.\n\nUnder the new scheme, teachers in the first five years of their careers will be able to get the payments if their specialist subject is maths, physics, chemistry or computing.\n\nDowning Street said this would cost £60m over three years, with the money coming from new funding, and would support staff recruitment and retention.\n\nEarly-career payments, which initially applied only to maths teachers, were introduced in England in 2018-19.\n\nGiven to those in their third and fifth years in the job, they amounted to £5,000, or £7,500 in areas with high educational needs.\n\nIn 2020-21, the scheme expanded to include - with lower payments - maths, physics, chemistry and foreign languages teachers starting postgraduate teacher training.\n\nBut the scheme was scrapped for those starting training in the 2021-22 academic year.\n\nFor Labour, shadow education secretary Kate Green said: \"The Conservatives have no idea how to improve education and outcomes for young people. The premium announced today is a less generous recycling of an old policy that Boris Johnson's government scrapped just a year ago.\n\n\"Under the Conservatives, teacher vacancies have more than doubled, school funding will be lower in real terms next year than it was in 2010 and the promised £30,000 teacher starting salary has still not been delivered.\"\n\nNatalie Perera, chief executive of the Education Policy Institute, called Mr Johnson's announcement that the government was reinstating targeted payments to get teachers into challenging areas a \"welcome move - albeit one that has come late in the day\".\n\nSam Freedman, a former adviser at the Department for Education, told BBC Radio 4's the World at One: \"It is a policy that existed, was introduced in 2018, lasted a couple of years and then was scrapped.\n\n\"So this is actually a kind of U-turn and they are bringing it back in a slightly tweaked form, which is certainly welcome because we have a serious recruitment problem and retention problem with teachers that this may do a small amount to help with, but it is not a new policy.\"", "An inquiry will be launched into \"systematic failures\" that allowed Wayne Couzens to continue to be a police officer, Priti Patel announced.\n\nThe home secretary said the public \"have a right to know\" why he remained in the Metropolitan Police despite concerns about his behaviour.\n\nCouzens kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard while he was a serving officer, using his police warrant card.\n\nHe has since been linked to allegations of indecent exposure.\n\nThe Met has faced mounting questions over its policies and procedures in the wake of Ms Everard's murder.\n\nIt was revealed Couzens - who worked as an armed officer in the Met's parliamentary and diplomatic protection team - was linked to several alleged incidents of indecent exposure, including in the days before Ms Everard's abduction in March.\n\nSpeaking at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Ms Patel said: \"We need answers as to why this was allowed to happen.\n\n\"I can confirm today there will be an inquiry, to give the independent oversight needed, to ensure something like this can never happen again.\"\n\nThe Home Office said the inquiry would be in two parts, with the first examining Couzens' behaviour and establishing a definitive account of his conduct in the lead up to his conviction for Ms Everard's murder.\n\nIt said the second part would address specific issues, such as vetting procedures, standards, discipline and workplace behaviour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel: \"It is abhorrent that a serving police officer was able to abuse his position of power\"\n\nThe exact nature of the inquiry is still unclear.\n\nThe Home Office said it would initially be non-statutory but could be converted to a statutory one if required.\n\nIf statutory, the inquiry would have the legal power to call witnesses and limit the government's control over how it operated.\n\nThe person who would lead the inquiry and its terms of reference would be confirmed \"in due course\".\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse pointed out the first option - a non-statutory inquiry - was much quicker to put in place but stressed it would not begin until the separate Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) inquiry was complete.\n\nOn BBC Radio 4's PM, he acknowledged his surprise on finding out that examining social media postings had only became a part of the police vetting procedure a year ago.\n\nThe modern world was moving fast, he said. The vetting \"net\" has to be as tight as possible, with a regard for recruits' right to privacy while ensuring they were \"the right people with the right values\", he added.\n\nJamie Klingler, co-founder of the campaign group Reclaim These Streets, set up after Sarah Everard's murder, insisted the inquiry needed to be statutory and judge-led - and needed to include women.\n\n\"It seems really specific about Wayne Couzens and not about the system that allowed a Wayne Couzens to happen,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"It's not admitting that there is systemic misogyny within the force that allowed this to happen, and by not doing so it's pushing it under the carpet rather than exposing [it] at all levels.\"\n\nCouzens, 48, killed Ms Everard, 33, after stopping her on a street in Clapham, south London. He was sentenced to a whole-life prison term last week.\n\nSpeaking earlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he did not support calls to make misogyny a hate crime, saying there was \"abundant\" existing legislation to tackle violence against women.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast that \"widening the scope\" of what you ask the police to do would just increase the problem - but recruiting and promoting more female officers would help change the culture within forces.\n\nThere is an air of crisis in British policing as it faces a significant moment of reckoning.\n\nNever have leaders felt that public trust is so low they have had to advise women to consider fleeing if they are uncomfortable when confronted by one of their own officers.\n\nThis is the aftershock of the appalling crimes of Wayne Couzens, who kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard while working for the Metropolitan Police.\n\nDespite repeated attempts to force Home Secretary Priti Patel's hand, she has very publicly backed Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick by renewing her contract last month.\n\nBut questions now confront policing - and the difficulty its chiefs and ministers are having in answering them is why the crisis feels too deep.\n\nWas Couzens' ability to pull on the uniform a failure of the system?\n\nAnd how should police leaders and the government respond?\n\nRead more from Dominic here.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, who has rejected calls to resign, confirmed on Monday there would be a separate independent review into the force's standards and culture.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Dame Cressida said Ms Everard's murder had made \"everyone in the Met furious and we depend on public trust\".\n\n\"In this country policing is done by consent and undoubtedly the killing of Sarah and other events has damaged public trust,\" she said, adding she was determined to rebuild it.\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, said it was important the inquiry looked at how allegations of violence against women and girls were handled by police officers, as well as Couzens' conduct and the culture within the police.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said the inquiry \"must leave no stone unturned\" and should address reports of \"widespread cultural issues\".\n\nSpeaking earlier at the Conservative Party conference, Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said making communities safer and allowing women to walk home feeling safe at night was his \"number one priority\".\n\nThe Met Police said 650 more police officers would patrol hotspot areas in London over the next six months, with 150 of these working in local wards as \"Bobbies on the beat\".\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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.", "Boris Johnson is to promise that his government will show more \"guts\" than any before as it works to deal with issues facing society and the economy.\n\nIn his Conservative Party conference speech, the prime minister will pledge to move the entire UK towards high-wage, high-skill employment.\n\nAnd he will accuse previous Labour and Tory governments of \"delay and dither\".\n\nHis speech, expected at 11.30 BST, will be his first to the Conservative audience since before the pandemic.\n\nThis week's conference in Manchester has taken place amid concerns over rising inflation, supply chain problems, and petrol and worker shortages.\n\nBut on Tuesday, the prime minister told the BBC he was \"not worried\" about current problems, arguing that the economy was under short-term stress as it recovered from the worst of Covid.\n\nHe will use his speech to proclaim an optimistic, combative message to Conservatives, and the wider electorate.\n\n\"After decades of drift and dither this reforming government, this can-do government that got Brexit done, is getting the vaccine rollout done and is going to get social care done,\" he will say.\n\n\"We are dealing with the biggest underlying issues of our economy and society, the problems that no government has had the guts to tackle before.\"\n\nMr Johnson's conference speech last year was viewed only online because of Covid restrictions.\n\nBut he will deliver his address this year in front of a packed conference hall, with some delegates queuing from the early morning to secure their place.\n\nConference attendees have been arriving early to bag a seat for the speech\n\nThis year's comes on the same day that the government officially ends the £20-a-week universal credit top-up brought in to help low-income households during the pandemic.\n\nAnd it follows the announcement last month of an extra tax to fund social care and the NHS in England, which has prompted anger among some Conservative MPs.\n\nThere are some underlying tensions between what's going on in this conference and what's happening in parts of the country.\n\nBoris Johnson is trying to sell a new economic vision - his post-Brexit realignment.\n\nGone, the PM says, is mass immigration, to be replaced with higher wages and better conditions to encourage people into key sectors.\n\nWhat's happening just now, says Mr Johnson, is stresses and strains after the pandemic.\n\nBut for many people life feels a bit uncertain. Costs are rising. Inflation is a worry. Universal credit is being reduced for millions.\n\nThere are fears in the Conservative Party too about the cost of living over winter.\n\nSo while Mr Johnson sells his economic plan for the future, many will want assurances about the next few weeks and months.\n\nWhen he addresses the Manchester conference, the prime minister will restate his commitment to \"level up\" all areas of the UK - a pledge credited with helping his party take many previously Labour-held seats in northern England and the Midlands at the 2019 general election.\n\nHe will say the country is moving \"towards a high-wage, high-skill, high-productivity economy\", in which \"everyone can take pride in their work and the quality of their work\".\n\nMr Johnson will say \"talent, genius, flair, imagination, enthusiasm\" are \"evenly distributed around this country\", adding: \"There is no reason why the inhabitants of one part of the country should be geographically fated to be poorer than others, or why people should feel they have to move away from their loved ones, or communities to reach their potential.\"\n\nThis, he will argue, will take \"pressure off parts of the overheating South East, while simultaneously offering hope and opportunity to those areas that have felt left behind\".\n\nThe prime minister is not expected to make an announcement on raising the level of the national living wage.\n\nThe Low Pay Commission is expected to make a recommendation on a national living wage later this month, ahead of the Budget, but earlier this year, the commission predicted it would recommend a rate of £9.42 an hour from April 2022.\n\nSome Conservative supporters have raised concerns that the party might be regarded as neglecting its traditional heartlands in favour of its newly conquered former Labour seats.\n\nThe loss of the previously true-blue constituency of Chesham and Amersham, Buckinghamshire, to the Liberal Democrats in a by-election in June added to those worries.\n\nBut Mr Johnson will argue that altering society in the wake of Brexit will benefit the whole UK.\n\n\"We are not going back to the same old broken model with low wages, low growth, low skills and low productivity, all of it enabled and assisted by uncontrolled immigration,\" he will say.\n\nInstead of using migrant labour to keep wages down, he will say, the system must work to \"allow people of talent to come to this country, but not to use immigration as an excuse for failure to invest in people, in skills and in the equipment or machinery they need to do their jobs\".\n\nOn Sunday the government announced that 300 temporary visas would be issued to overseas lorry drivers to ease fuel shortages.\n\nSome 4,700 visas intended for foreign food haulage drivers are being extended, as well as 5,500 for foreign poultry workers.", "Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford were targeted for abuse\n\nA father-of-three who posted an \"abhorrent\" video abusing three England players after the Euro 2020 final has been handed a suspended sentence.\n\nBradford Pretty used racist terms to refer to Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka in the Facebook clip.\n\nPretty's solicitor said it was a \"moment of drunken madness\".\n\nThe 50-year-old plasterer was sentenced to 50 days in prison, suspended for 12 months, at Folkestone Magistrates' Court.\n\nPretty was also ordered to carry out 200 hours of community service.\n\nPlaying the video for the court, prosecutor Julie Farbrace said: \"It shows him talking about the game... in particular talking about the England players who had missed a penalty at the final.\n\n\"In relation to the matter there were people who commented on the video, people who were upset about the word he put in there.\"\n\nIn the video, an intoxicated Pretty can be heard saying: \"Where do I start? Where do I start?\n\n\"So gutted like all of us.\n\n\"Proper deflated, big proud of the boys, big proud, but anyone and everyone that knows me well will understand what I am talking about.\"\n\nBukayo Saka was also subjected to abuse\n\nPretty, from Folkestone, goes on to refer to Rashford, Sancho and Saka missing penalties and uses two racist terms to refer to them.\n\nWhen challenged about his language in the comments, Pretty apologised but spoke out against \"political correctness\" saying: \"I am standing up and saying what I said for the weak ones...England 'til I die.\"\n\nHis defence solicitor Richard Graham acknowledged the video was \"abhorrent\".\n\nHe said Pretty had drank \"15 or 16\" cans of lager on the day of the final and was \"clearly heavily intoxicated\" in the video.\n\nPretty admitted sending a message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.\n\nEngland lost 3-2 on penalties to Italy after a 1-1 draw at Wembley in the final on July 11 this year. Rashford, Sancho and Saka all missed from the spot for England in the deciding shoot-out.\n\nElizabeth Jenkins, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"Hate crimes such as these have a massive impact on players and their mental health.\n\n\"The CPS takes this kind of offending very seriously and this case shows that where offensive content is reported to the police, we can successfully bring offenders to justice.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "The maker of Quality Street and Lion bars has said it is experiencing some supply chain problems ahead of the Christmas period.\n\nBut Mark Schneider, the chief executive of Nestle, told the BBC that it was working hard to make sure products made it on to shelves this winter.\n\nA number of sectors have had problems with their supply chains due to a chronic shortage of HGV drivers.\n\nFactors including global bottlenecks with shipping have also played a part.\n\n\"Like other businesses, we are seeing some labour shortages and some transportation issues but it's our UK team's top priority to work constructively with retailers to supply them,\" he said.\n\nWhen asked whether he could guarantee Quality Street would be in the shops this Christmas he replied: \"We are working hard.\"\n\nNestle, which also makes Aero and KitKat, is the world's largest producer of dairy products - and works with hundreds of thousands of farmers around the world with millions of cows.\n\nAhead of a major climate summit in Glasgow next month, chief executive Mark Schneider was in the UK to launch a range of non-dairy, plant-based alternatives to its milk and chocolate in an attempt to further reduce the company's greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nAgriculture accounts for 20% of the world's greenhouse emissions and methane from belching cows is a major contributor.\n\nAlong with new non-dairy products, Nestle is also working with new types of feed for cattle that produce less methane per litre of milk produced.\n\nMark Schneider said Nestle was working hard to overcome supply chain issues ahead of Christmas\n\nMr Schneider also admitted it was responding to the commercial reality of a market that has seen consumers - particularly those who are younger and more affluent - move away from dairy products to oat and soya-based alternatives.\n\n\"We think less meat and dairy is good for the planet, but it's also good for diet and health, and it is also a big commercial opportunity,\" Mr Schneider said.\n\nHe said that these alternative products would cost more than their dairy equivalents at first but that the cost would come down over time.\n\n\"The first unit is always going to be a little more expensive, this is a hump you have to get over, and then at some point economies of scale kick in making them more affordable as we have seen in electric cars.\n\n\"Some consumers are willing to pay a premium now for products that pave the way for that,\" he said.", "UK wholesale gas prices hit a record high before falling after Russia said it was boosting supplies to Europe.\n\nRussia President Vladimir Putin appeared to calm the market after gas prices had risen by 37% in 24 hours to trade at 400p per therm on Wednesday.\n\nUK gas was 60p per therm at the start of the year, but high global demand and reduced supply has driven prices up.\n\nThe high cost of wholesale gas has seen several UK energy firms collapse and halted production across industries.\n\nFollowing Mr Putin's comments on supplies, gas prices dropped to about 257p a therm later on Wednesday.\n\nSusannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the changing gas prices underlined the \"volatility in the market and the nervousness amongst investors about low stockpiles of gas across Europe\".\n\n\"When Putin's promises help calm the storm of rising prices which was pummelling financial markets, it's clear investors are desperate for any gust of good news blowing in,\" she said.\n\nThe surge in prices led to Energy Intensive Users Group, which represents steel, chemical and fertiliser firms, calling on the government to help keep businesses and industries running.\n\nIndustry leaders said surging costs had already resulted in steel production halting \"at times of peak demand\".\n\nLast month, US-owned CF Industries shut two UK sites that produce 60% of the country's commercial carbon dioxide supplies because of the rise in gas prices, before the government stepped in to meet its operating costs for its Teesside plant for three weeks.\n\nThe shut down led to a shortage of carbon dioxide - a by-product of the fertiliser factories - which sparked warnings from food producers and supermarkets of shortages in the supply of fresh produce. The gas is to stun animals for slaughter and in packaging to prolong shelf life.\n\n\"We have already seen the impact of the truly astronomical increases in energy costs on production in the fertiliser and steel sectors,\" said Richard Leese, chairman of the Energy Intensive Users Group.\n\n\"Nobody wants to see a repeat in other industries this winter, given that UK EIIs [energy intensive industries] produce so many essential domestic and industrial products and are intrinsically linked with many supply chains.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: \"We are determined to secure a competitive future for our energy intensive industries and in recent years have provided them with extensive support, including more than £2bn to help with the costs of energy and to protect jobs.\n\n\"Our exposure to volatile global gas prices underscores the importance of our plan to build a strong, home-grown renewable energy sector to further reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.\"\n\nBesides industry struggles, a total of nine energy suppliers have collapsed in recent weeks, which has affected nearly 1.73 million customers in September alone.\n\nThe companies that have gone bust have been mostly smaller firms, which have been unable to deliver price promises to customers because of the surge in gas prices.\n\nFirms going bust has also had a knock on effect to auto-switching services, with Look After My Bills, famous for its popularity on BBC Two's Dragon's Den, \"pausing\" its operations, and fellow auto-switching company Flipper closing down completely.\n\nFlipper said in a statement that it had withdrawn from the market and was closing because it could \"no longer sustain the great savings\" its customers had \"come to expect\".\n\nMeanwhile, Look After My Bills said it was \"temporarily pausing\" its switching service, but would be \"back as soon as we can\" access energy deals \"right\" for customers.\n\nAffected customers have been told they will be switched to a new tariff by energy regulator Ofgem and be contacted by their new supplier.\n\nIt has advised people to take a meter reading and to wait until a new supplier has been appointed before looking to switch to another energy firm.\n\nJonathan Brearley, the boss of Ofgem, has warned that the cost of protecting customers from failing energy providers could lead to higher bills.\n\nA higher energy price cap came into force on Friday, with those on standard tariffs, with typical household levels of energy use, seeing bills go up by £139 to £1,277 a year.\n\nCustomers are protected from sudden hikes in gas prices through the energy price cap, which sets maximum prices and charges for those on a standard or default tariff.\n\nHowever, the next revision of the cap, which will affect bills from the start of April, is likely to rise significantly to reflect the greater costs faced by suppliers.\n\nAnalysts at energy consultancy Cornwall Insight have predicted the next cap will mean the typical household will have an annual bill of £1,600 and the impact of the crisis could be felt into 2023.\n\n\"The explosion of choice and innovation seen in the sector in the last decade by challenger suppliers has been fundamentally altered in a matter of months, and while all eyes will inevitably be on this winter, the need for an enduring solution to ensure that the gains experienced by almost three decades of competition are not lost,\" said its senior consultant, Craig Lowrey.", "John Atkinson was not assessed by paramedics for 47 minutes, the inquiry heard\n\nThe family of a care worker killed in the Manchester Arena attack have praised \"heroic\" efforts by a member of the public to try and save him.\n\nJohn Atkinson, 28, was one of 22 people who died when a bomb was detonated in the arena foyer on 22 May 2017.\n\nMembers of the public and police helped him but he was not assessed by paramedics for nearly 50 minutes.\n\nThe public inquiry has previously heard he may have survived had he been given medical treatment more quickly.\n\nIt has been looking at the individual circumstances of the deaths of each victim, who were killed when Salman Abedi detonated a device at an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nMr Atkinson, from Radcliffe in Bury, was 20ft (6m) away from Abedi when the bomb went off and was separated from the friend he had attended the concert with.\n\nThe inquiry heard CCTV footage showed that within five seconds of the blast Mr Atkinson crawled on his hands and knees across the floor of the foyer.\n\nA member of the public, Ronald Blake, phoned 999 within 52 seconds of the blast and used a belt as a tourniquet to try and stem the bleeding from Mr Atkinson's leg.\n\nMr Blake, who was injured himself and had no first aid training, stayed with Mr Atkinson for nearly an hour holding the tourniquet the entire time, the inquiry heard.\n\nJohn Cooper QC, representing Mr Atkinson's family, told Mr Blake: \"I profoundly thank you on their behalf for the hard work, dedication and heroics you performed on that night trying to save John.\"\n\nRonald Blake used a belt as a tourniquet and held it on John Atkinson's leg for nearly an hour\n\nMr Blake said Mr Atkinson was conscious and talking while they were together and he was \"shocked\" to discover the next day, when he was being treated in hospital for his own injuries, that he had died.\n\nGiving evidence, he told the inquiry: \"I have never had any first aid training and my natural instinct at the arena was to try and stop the blood and keep him conscious.\n\n\"When I left him with the paramedics I thought he was going to survive.\"\n\nMr Blake replied \"yes\" when Mr Cooper asked him: \"During the time you were dealing with John it was obvious, wasn't it, that he was very, very severely injured?\"\n\nThe inquiry heard it was more than 45 minutes before anyone came to help lift Mr Atkinson out of the foyer and down the stairs to the casualty clearing station at the adjoining Victoria railway station.\n\nBritish Transport Police constable Jessica Bullough, who assisted Mr Atkinson, said: \"We realised that no-one was coming to help us and so it was better to get people downstairs.\"\n\nA decision was made to grab a display board to carry Mr Atkinson out of the foyer, the inquiry heard.\n\nHowever, a metal barrier then needed to be fetched as the board was too \"flimsy\" and would not fit in a nearby lift.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed in the May 2017 bombing\n\nThe inquiry heard PC Leon McLaughlin asked North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) incident commander Dan Smith for a stretcher to carry Mr Atkinson down the stairs.\n\nPC McLaughlin said he felt he was \"ignored\" and told by Mr Smith to \"blanket him up\" and \"leave him there for now\".\n\nThe officer said he felt \"frustrated\" but said it was \"clear that they were not going to move from where they were….and provide me with any meaningful help\".\n\nThe inquiry heard only three NWAS paramedics entered the foyer on the night, two of them just a few minutes before Mr Atkinson was evacuated.\n\nOn the available footage Mr Atkinson was not triaged, assessed or assisted by NWAS personnel for the 47 minutes he was in the room, the hearing was told.\n\nThe hearing has been told the issue of whether Mr Atkinson could have survived is key, and that over the next few days the court will hear from experts who believe better medical treatment could have made a difference.\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.", "Matthew Boorman, a father of three, died after being stabbed\n\nThe man who died during a series of stabbings in Gloucestershire has been named as 43-year-old Matthew Boorman.\n\nHis family said in a statement that Mr Boorman was \"a loving husband and a father to three gorgeous young children who all love him and miss him tremendously\".\n\nPolice responded to multiple reports of people being stabbed in Walton Cardiff near Tewkesbury, on Tuesday evening.\n\nA man in his 50s was arrested and remains in custody.\n\nPolice said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attacks, which happened at about 17:20 BST in the Snowdonia Road and Arlington Road area\n\nDue to previous contact with the arrested man, Gloucestershire Police is referring itself to the Independent Office of Police Conduct.\n\nThe force thanked those who were first on the scene, including two off-duty police officers who \"bravely intervened to tackle and restrain\" the man.\n\nSeveral members of the public also tried to intervene, Gloucestershire Police said.\n\nOne man has died and another two people were attacked\n\nA resident who lives near-by, but did not want to be named, said: \"Everyone is in shock as things like this never happen here.\"\n\nA witness, who also did not want to be named, said they saw an off-duty police officer trying to calm down a man who was \"brandishing a knife\".\n\nThey added: \"I was in a bit of shock as that is not something we deal with around here. Everyone is shook up. Here in our community, this is not something we are used to.\"\n\nA number of police cordons are in place at the housing development\n\nMr Boorman suffered serious injuries and died at the scene, despite receiving treatment. A second man suffered serious stab wounds and remains in a critical but stable condition at Southmead Hospital in Bristol.\n\nA woman was also wounded in the leg and was taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital for treatment.\n\nCh Insp Roddy Gosden said: \"This was a horrific incident in a quiet residential area.\n\n\"We understand those who saw what happened will be traumatised and many in the local community will be upset and worried.\n\n\"Today and over the next few days local policing team officers will be patrolling the area to listen to peoples' concerns and refer people to available support.\n\n\"The man who was arrested in connection with the incident remains in police custody at this time.\"\n\nCh Insp Roddy Gosden said police would be visiting local residents in the coming days to reassure them\n\nA number of police cordons are in place around the new housing development where the stabbing took place. Officers also remain at the scene.\n\nDet Insp Ben Lavender said the investigation was in its early stages and appealed for anyone with information or mobile phone footage of the attack to contact police.\n\nLocal MP Laurence Robertson tweeted that he wanted to express a \"huge thank you\" to the emergency services and residents who helped the victims.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDrones are being used to deliver post to a remote Orkney island.\n\nA large, twin-engine drone is carrying mail between Kirkwall and North Ronaldsay.\n\nUp to 100kg (220lbs) of post can be carried on the journey of about 35 miles (56km). Travelling at more than 90mph, the trip takes under 20 minutes.\n\nThe two-week trial is being carried out by Royal Mail to help better connect remote island communities and reduce carbon emissions.\n\nOnce the mail arrives at North Ronaldsay - a community of about 70 people - it is delivered in the usual way by a local postal worker.\n\nUncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can fly in poor weather conditions, including fog, and unlike boat services they are not affected by tides.\n\nIf the trial - with Windracers Ltd - is successful, the technology will be considered by Royal Mail to support deliveries to remote areas across the UK.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Breakfast This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 trial is part of the Sustainable Aviation Test Environment (Sate) project based at Kirkwall Airport.\n\nNick Landon, chief commercial officer at Royal Mail, said it was designed to help deliver the best possible service for customers wherever they live in the UK, while protecting the environment.\n\nPost is flown from Kirkwall to North Ronaldsay\n\nNorth Ronaldsay postwoman Sarah Moore said: \"It's really exciting to be involved in this trial. North Ronaldsay is a very remote area of the UK and I'm proud to be involved.\"\n\nThe trial began on Monday and runs until 15 October.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Universal credit: What £20 means to me\n\nA Conservative peer who helped design the universal credit system has renewed her call for a vote on the end of the £20-a-week top-up to the benefit.\n\nBaroness Philippa Stroud said it was a \"really bleak day\" for many families as the extra money is withdrawn from Wednesday.\n\nBut the new justice secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC the top-up was always meant to be temporary.\n\nExtending the booster payment would cost around £6bn a year.\n\nThe government has said that spending has to be brought under control after unprecedented emergency interventions during the pandemic.\n\nMr Raab defended the withdrawal of the booster payment, insisting the government wanted to \"avoid the benefits and welfare trap\" and universal credit was designed to encourage people back into work.\n\nHe pointed out the £400bn ministers put into helping the economy, workers and the most vulnerable was \"clearly unsustainable\" in the long-term.\n\nBut the government has continued to help jobless people find work, he added, citing the £4.3bn stimulus package unveiled by the chancellor last year.\n\nMr Raab told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"What we've done - national living wage, personal allowance, the ending of the over-reliance on cheap labour from abroad which depresses wages - is so critical to our vision for the economy.\"\n\nUniversal credit is a benefit for working-age people and was brought in to merge six benefits - such as income support and child tax credit - into one payment.\n\nIt can be claimed whether a person is in or out of work and is drawn by more than 5.8 million people in England, Scotland and Wales - with almost 40% of them classed as being in employment.\n\nThe benefit is made up of a standard allowance - which differs according to age and personal circumstances - plus any additional amounts that apply, such as having children, a disability or health condition that stops someone from working.\n\nA £20-a-week increase to universal credit was brought in as a temporary measure to help those on low incomes hit financially by coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nThe extra universal credit payment works out as about £87 a month, or £1,040 a year.\n\nThe scheme is officially due to end on Wednesday, but the exact date the money will stop being paid will vary depending on the day a person usually receives their universal credit.\n\nBaroness Stroud, who is chief executive officer of the Legatum Institute think tank, told the same programme that their calculations showed the withdrawal of the top-up would push 840,000 people into poverty - including 290,000 children.\n\n\"There are people who are out of work who will move back into work, but there are also 450,000 who will move into poverty today as a result of this who have disabilities or who have children who are disabled,\" she said.\n\nBaroness Stroud reiterated her call for a cross-party House of Lords vote on the decision to remove the £20-a-week top-up \"that would say to the House of Commons, think again on this issue\".\n\nShe previously told the BBC she would table an amendment to the Social Security Bill when it reached the House of Lords, but this has not yet happened.\n\nNicola Flower says the £20 booster payment helped pay for heating during her cancer treatment\n\nFor Nicola Flower, from Cornwall, the uplift in universal credit has helped her stay warm by paying for heating bills during her cancer treatment.\n\nShe told the BBC she has had to shield for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic and is still waiting for an operation.\n\n\"I had no choice but to go on it [universal credit],\" she said. \"It was a godsend because I wouldn't have managed otherwise. I have never been on benefits before in my life. I have always done three jobs.\"\n\nNicola, who worked as a seamstress, in a supermarket and as a cleaner, said the she knew the £20 uplift was \"an extra\", but added with fuel prices and gas prices rising, she could do with the money.\n\nCampaigners, charities, and MPs have called for the top-up to be made permanent to help those who are still struggling.\n\nThe Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN) has urged the government to continue the uplift, saying food banks are struggling to support \"ever-increasing\" numbers of people.\n\nThe network - which represents 500 UK food banks and providers - says it is \"running out of options\" as volunteer numbers and public donations have dropped, food supply shortages have caused problems, and staff are already stretched to meet current demand.\n\nEarlier this week the homelessness charity Crisis warned that about 100,000 renters could face eviction when the £20 booster payment ends.\n\nThe Labour party accused ministers of being \"complacent about the cost of living crisis\" amid concerns over rising energy prices and the end to the top-up in universal credit.\n\nIts shadow business secretary Ed Miliband warned the end to the booster payment risked \"plunging\" people into fuel poverty.\n\nPaddy Lillis, general secretary of the shopworkers union Usdaw, said: \"It is shameful the government is removing this crucial lifeline for low-paid workers and their families; particularly as they face rising utility bills and national insurance increases, along with fuel and food shortages that are impacting the cost of living.\"\n\nHe urged the prime minister to \"do the right thing\" by cancelling the withdrawal of the universal credit top-up and \"committing to reforming a social security system that doesn't provide the support working families need\".\n\nBut the government has insisted the uplift to universal credit was always meant to be temporary and designed to help people through the toughest stages of the pandemic.\n\nIt added that higher wages, rather than taxpayer-funded benefit rises, would be the best way to tackle poverty as the country emerged from Covid restrictions.", "Brighton and Hove Albion FC said it was helping police with the investigation\n\nA Premier League footballer who was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman has been bailed.\n\nThe Brighton and Hove Albion player, in his 20s, was held at a nightclub in Brighton early on Wednesday.\n\nOn Thursday morning he was released on conditional bail until 3 November while inquiries continue.\n\nA man in his 40s was also questioned and bailed to the same date, Sussex Police said. The woman is receiving specialist support from officers.\n\nBrighton and Hove Albion FC said it was helping police with the investigation.\n\n\"The matter is subject to a legal process and the club is therefore unable to make further comment at this time,\" it added.\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.", "Offering essay-writing services to students for a fee will become a criminal offence under plans to tackle cheating by \"essay mills\".\n\nThe government says the move will protect students from the \"deceptive marketing techniques of contract cheating services\".\n\nProviding pre-written or custom-made essays for students to present as their own is already illegal in some places.\n\nThere are more than 1,000 essay mills in operation, according to the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, the watchdog for standards in UK universities.\n\nThe agency's Gareth Crossman said the decision \"sends a clear signal\" but the higher education sector must work together to put these \"unscrupulous outfits\" out of business.\n\nA 2018 survey suggested that 15.7% of recent graduates admitted to cheating, but Universities UK said that the use of essay mills by students was rare.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Universities have become increasingly experienced at dealing with such issues and are engaging with students from day one to underline the implications of cheating and how it can be avoided.\"\n\nShe added that universities welcomed the decision to make essay mills illegal, and said all universities had codes of conduct with severe penalties for submitting work that is not a student's own.\n\nStudents said there should be more academic and pastoral support, so that they are \"never in the position of feeling that they have to turn to essay mills in the first place\".\n\nThe National Union of Students said: \"These private companies prey on students' vulnerabilities and insecurities to make money through exploitation, and never more so than during the pandemic.\"\n\nThe ban on essay mills is one of a number of measures being introduced to the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill.\n\nIt will also include changes to careers advice in schools intended to give equality to technical education, ensuring that pupils have opportunities to learn about apprenticeships, T-levels and traineeships.", "In future platforms such as TikTok will have Ofcom keeping a close eye over how they enforce policies\n\nOfcom has laid out the measures it will require video-sharing platforms to take to better protect users.\n\nThe VSPs, including TikTok, Snapchat, Vimeo and Twitch, must take \"appropriate measures\" to protect users from content related to terrorism, child sexual abuse and racism.\n\nA third of users have seen hateful content on such sites, Ofcom says.\n\nThe regulator will fine VSPs that breach the guidelines or - in serious cases - suspend the service entirely.\n\nOfcom promised a report next year into whether those in scope - and there are 18 in total - were taking the appropriate steps.\n\nSpecific legal criteria determine whether a service meets the definition of a VSP and whether it falls within UK jurisdiction.\n\nYouTube is expected to fall under the Irish regulatory regime but it will come in scope of the Online Safety Bill, which has a much broader remit to tackle online harms on the big technology platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook and Google, once that becomes law.\n\nOfcom said one of its main priorities in the coming year would be to work with VSPs to reduce the risk of child sexual abuse material being uploaded.\n\nAccording to the Internet Watch Foundation, there has been a 77% increase in the amount of self-generated abuse content in 2020.\n\nAnd it acknowledges the massive amount of content will make it impossible to prevent every instance of harm.\n\nBut it promised a \"rigorous but fair\" approach to its new duties.\n\nChief executive Dame Melanie Dawes said: \"Online videos play a huge role in our lives now, particularly for children.\n\n\"But many people see hateful, violent or inappropriate material while using them.\n\n\"The platforms where these videos are shared now have a legal duty to take steps to protect their users.\"", "A stink bug that can spoil crops and infest homes has been trapped in Surrey as part of a monitoring study.\n\nThe brown marmorated stink bug is native to Asia, but has spread to parts of Europe and the US, where it can destroy fruit crops.\n\nA lone stink bug was caught at RHS Garden Wisley this summer within weeks of the setting up of a pheromone trap.\n\nThe adult may be a stowaway brought in on imported goods or part of an undiscovered local population.\n\nDr Glen Powell, head of plant health at RHS Garden Wisley, said the stink bug may become commonplace in gardens and in homes within a decade.\n\n\"This isn't a sudden invasion but potentially a gradual population build-up and spread, exacerbated by our warming world,\" he said.\n\nIt's not yet clear if stink bugs are living undetected in parts of England or are rare visitors that hitch-hike in on imported goods or passenger luggage and survive for only a short time. So far, no eggs or immature bugs have been found that would suggest the bug is breeding and has set up home.\n\nThe bug has been caught only twice before in pheromone traps set up to lure it in by means of a natural chemical - in all cases as lone instances. The previous finds were at Rainham Marshes in Essex and in the wildlife garden of London's Natural History Museum.\n\nAccording to the department for the environment, Defra, the bug has been intercepted in the UK on several occasions - in passenger luggage flown in from the US, clothing and wood imports from the US, and stone imported from China.\n\nThe trap at Wisley is part of a national monitoring project led by a plant science research company, NIAB EMR, in Kent, and funded by Defra.\n\nDr Michelle Fountain, head of pest and pathogen ecology at NIAB EMR, said: \"[The] brown marmorated stink bug represents a significant threat to food production systems in the UK so it is crucial that we continue to monitor any establishment and spread of the pest.\"\n\nA single male stink bug was trapped at Wisley in Surrey this summer\n\nThere are more than 40 species of stink bugs, also known as shield bugs, already present in the UK. Most pose no threat to plant health and are not considered pests.\n\nBrown marmorated stink bugs, which have a distinctive rectangular-shaped head, get their name from the odour they emit when threatened.\n\nIn the US, they can invade houses, clustering in their hundreds, and can be devastating for farmers, destroying fruit such as nectarines and peaches and feeding on a wide range of ornamental trees, vegetables and other plants.\n\nInvasive species cost the UK economy over £1.8bn a year and can threaten the survival of other plants and animals. A Defra spokesperson said: \"The brown marmorated stink bug is not a significant threat to our crops - but as with all pests and diseases we will continue to monitor any threats closely.\"\n\nAnyone finding what they believe to be a brown marmorated stink bug is asked to take a picture and report the sighting at BMSB@niab.com or via email to Entomology@rhs.org.uk.\n\nThe insect can be confused with other species - more information can be found here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson tells Laura Kuenssberg he is \"not worried\" about a jobs gap and rising prices in the UK.\n\nBoris Johnson is famous for looking publicly on the bright side.\n\nMaking people laugh, making people feel good, is part of what successful politicians do.\n\nHis optimism is what defines his public persona. It's also what fuels accusations that he isn't serious about the country's problems and would rather crack a joke than crack a problem.\n\nDon't doubt though for a moment that Boris Johnson is deadly serious about power and holding on to it.\n\nThere is concern in some corners of government, including among some cabinet ministers, that Number 10 is brushing away concerns about the economy too easily.\n\nIn our interview with the prime minister this morning he said he's \"not worried\" about the squeeze on supply chains, labour shortages or inflation.\n\nSpeaking earlier he said there was no crisis. And he's trying to use this moment to argue that what we are seeing are merely the birth pangs of a new economic model.\n\nBusiness will sort things out quickly, he believes, it's down to the market to fix it, rather than government to \"patch and mend\".\n\nBut talk to some of his colleagues, some of whom made their own warnings about specific economic pinch points before the summer, and you don't quite hear the same.\n\nWhen the prime minister displays a disregard for Westminster's conventions or politesse it's one thing. But running the risk of looking like you don't understand everyday concerns is another.\n\nThe polls right now suggest that the government is not being punished for queues at the pump or empty shelves. Johnson loyalists credit his political appeal that seems to defy natural gravity. But if prices continue to creep up and disruption continues, those feelings could turn.\n\nYou can't just tell people to cheer up if their gas bill is going up, their weekly shop costs more and they are losing £20 a week from universal credit.\n\nAfter what they consider a successful first big foreign trip, and dominance in the polls, Downing Street is in a bullish mood.\n\nBut confidence can tip into complacency - a sentiment that few voters would reward.", "Fresh tensions surfaced last week over the number of fishing licences issued to French fishermen\n\nFrance has intensified pressure on the UK over post-Brexit fishing rights, warning bilateral co-operation could be at risk.\n\nThe government in Paris is angry that the UK granted 12 licences out of 47 bids for smaller vessels to fish in its territorial waters.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex has accused the UK of not respecting its Brexit deal commitments on fishing.\n\n\"Britain does not respect its own signature,\" he told French MPs.\n\n\"Month after month, the UK presents new conditions and delays giving definitive licences... this cannot be tolerated.\"\n\nThe prime minister warned that all bilateral agreements with the UK could be at risk if the European Commission did not take a tougher stance on the UK government. No details were given, but the two countries have a raft of agreements covering defence, security and border controls as well as energy and trade.\n\nThe UK's Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has said the government's approach has been reasonable and fully in line with its commitments.\n\nSpeaking at the Conservative party conference, the UK's Brexit minister rejected French claims that the UK was in breach of the Brexit trade deal.\n\nLord Frost insisted that 98% of EU applications to fish in British waters had been granted, adding that the UK had been \"extremely generous\".\n\nThe Commission said it was in constant contact with UK authorities to ensure all licence applications were dealt with as soon as possible. \"The UK has published its methodology and we are now discussing the differences with the British and Jersey authorities regarding the rights of the boats involved.\"\n\nBBC Brussels correspondent Jessica Parker says there is little sense that the Commission is poised to act, with post-Brexit relations in a delicate state as the EU prepares solutions for fixing the controversial Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nFresh tensions surfaced last week between Britain and France over post-Brexit fishing rights.\n\nFrance was infuriated last week by the relatively small number of licences granted to smaller vessels, when Sea Minister Annick Girardin spoke of French fishing being \"taken hostage\" for political ends.\n\nThe UK said it would consider further evidence to support remaining bids for fishing rights.\n\nFrance on Tuesday repeated its threat to cut the UK off from energy supplies.\n\nA UK government document in July said that 47% of the country's electricity imports were from France.\n\nFrench Europe Minister Clément Beaune told Europe 1 radio: \"The UK depends on our energy exports, they think they can live alone while also beating up on Europe and, given that it doesn't work, they engage in aggressive one-upmanship.\"\n\nThe Channel island of Jersey became a flashpoint for tensions last May, when French fishermen staged a protest outside the port of St Helier and two Royal Navy ships were sent to patrol the area.\n\nAt the time Ms Girardin threatened to cut off Jersey's electricity supply - 95% of which is delivered by three underwater cables from France.\n\nFrench fishermen complained about being prevented from operating in British waters because of difficulties in obtaining licences.\n\nUnder an agreement with the EU, French boat operators must show a history of fishing in the area to receive a licence for Jersey's waters. But it has been claimed additional requirements were added without notice.", "Tina Turner has been inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice\n\nTina Turner sold the rights to her music catalogue, including hits like The Best and Nutbush City Limits, to music publishing company BMG.\n\nThe deal also sees BMG acquire the rights to Turner's name, image, and likeness for future sponsorship and merchandising deals.\n\nThe company did not disclose how much it paid, but industry sources said the figure would be north of $50m (£37m).\n\nTurner said she was confident her music was \"in reliable hands\".\n\nThe 81-year-old is one of the most recognisable and vibrant stars in pop music history.\n\nBorn Anna Mae Bullock in Tennessee, she joined Ike Turner's band as a backing singer when she was 18. Within two years, she was the star of the show, and the duo scored a string of hits with future R&B standards like A Fool In Love, River Deep, Mountain High and Nutbush City Limits.\n\nIke and Tina Turner were one of the biggest soul and R&B acts of the 1960s\n\nIke and Tina married in 1962, but their relationship was turbulent and violent and she filed for divorce in the 70s.\n\nTurner's solo career quickly eclipsed that of her partnership with Ike, with five platinum albums including 1984's Private Dancer, which went three times platinum in the UK.\n\nHer biggest hits include that record's title track, What's Love Got To Do With It, The Best, Steamy Windows and the Bond theme Goldeneye.\n\nShe has received 12 Grammy Awards and will enter the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame as a solo artist in October - her second induction after entering the pantheon with Ike Turner in 1991.\n\nThe deal with BMG sees her handing over her share of the recording and publishing rights for those hits and dozens more, spanning the six decades of her career. Warner Music will remain the record company distributing the star's music.\n\n\"Tina Turner's musical journey has inspired hundreds of millions of people around the world and continues to reach new audiences,\" said BMG boss Hartwig Masuch.\n\n\"We are honoured to take on the job of managing Tina Turner's musical and commercial interests. It is a responsibility we take seriously and will pursue diligently. She is truly and simply, the best.\"\n\nHe said the company intended to introduce Turner's work to new audiences, particularly on streaming and music-focused social media platforms like TikTok.\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 Tina Turner Official This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Tina Turner Official\n\n\"Like any artist, the protection of my life's work, my musical inheritance, is something personal,\" said Turner in a statement.\n\n\"I am confident that with BMG and Warner Music, my work is in professional and reliable hands.\"\n\nThe star has largely been in retirement since 2009, but interest in her work has surged thanks to the 2021 HBO documentary Tina, and a West End musical based on her life, Tina.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tina Turner: \"I am really proud of what my future as a star became\"\n\nShe is the latest artist to cash in on the value of their back catalogue, following in the footsteps of Blondie, Shakira and Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks.\n\nUniversal Music Group paid somewhere near $400m (£295m) to acquire Bob Dylan's entire songbook last year, while Neil Young made about $150m (£110m) by selling a 50% share of his music to London-based investment company Hipgnosis.\n\nThe deals give superstar artists and writers a guaranteed windfall, while the new owners collect royalties every time the songs are streamed, sold or placed in movies.\n\nThe pandemic seems to have accelerated the trend, with rock legend David Crosby saying he was forced to sell his songs to Irving Azoff's Iconic Artists Group in March because of his \"inability to play live\".\n\n\"I can't work ... and streaming stole my record money,\" he explained in a tweet while the deal was being negotiated.\n\n\"I have a family and a mortgage and I have to take care of them so it's my only option... I'm sure the others feel the same.\"\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. \"I'd love to say I could forgive, but I can't\" - former firearms officer on armed policing unit culture\n\nAn ex-firearms officer says she has been through \"absolute hell\" after an employment tribunal found evidence of a sexist \"boys' club\" culture in a Police Scotland armed response unit.\n\nRhona Malone's case was brought after a senior officer said two female armed officers should not be deployed together.\n\nHer victimisation claims succeeded but a sex discrimination claim was dismissed.\n\nIt said its response at the time was \"nowhere near good enough\" and will address the issues raised by the ruling as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nMs Malone told BBC Scotland \"I've finally got justice, the acknowledgement I've been looking for.\"\n\nShe continued: \"I didn't want to leave my job, there was no reason for this, it was completely unnecessary.\n\n\"I didn't need to go to court for any of this, but they made it so difficult. They put me and my family through absolute hell and torture, for years I was in limbo.\n\n\"As a police officer I stood up for people's rights, I expected the same in return.\"\n\nMs Malone was a police officer for seven years before qualifying as a firearms officer\n\nBefore the tribunal action commenced Ms Malone says Police Scotland offered her a pay-out on the condition she signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) - a legal document to stop her speaking about what happened and from assisting any colleagues in a similar situation.\n\nMs Malone refused as she says this \"went against everything I believed in\".\n\nShe added: \"Because they [Police Scotland] have hidden behind NDAs, not dealing with the problem or dealing with the culture, this happened to me and it took my career away from me.\n\n\"It took my mental health away from me, I loved my job.\"\n\nIn its judgement, the employment tribunal accepted evidence that there was an \"absolute boys' club culture\" within the armed response unit in Edinburgh where Ms Malone worked.\n\nIt also found Sgt Rachel Coates, a former colleague of Ms Malone, was told by a senior firearms instructor that women should not become authorised firearms officer \"because they menstruated and that affected their temperament\".\n\nWhen Sgt Coates asked if female authorised firearms officer could wear trousers and a top, rather than a one-piece, so it would be easier to go to the toilet, the firearms instructor swore at her.\n\nThe outcome of Rhona Malone's case is a serious and embarrassing blow for the reputation of Scotland's national force, at a time when sexism within UK policing is under fierce scrutiny.\n\nThe employment tribunal has said she was a respected and committed officer with an exemplary record before she joined the firearms unit in Edinburgh in October 2016. Less than four years later she had retired from the force on the grounds of ill-health.\n\nAfter hearing from serving and former officers, the tribunal has accepted that the culture within the armed response unit was an \"absolute boys club.\" That description came from a man - a former police sergeant.\n\nIt's accepted that a chief firearms instructor said female officers shouldn't be equipped with guns because menstruation would affect their temperament.\n\nThe tribunal decided that the evidence of the inspector whose email began all of this was not credible, and that Rhona Malone was victimised through a bungled grievance handling process, much of which involved a newly appointed female area commander.\n\nPolice Scotland has more than 22,000 police officers and support staff who on a daily basis perform a vital role, protecting the public and bringing criminals to justice.\n\nThe number of individuals involved in this one case was very small and major organisations lose employment tribunals from time to time, but Police Scotland is not just any old organisation and a firearms unit is not just any old department.\n\nIn its response to the tribunal's findings, the force has made no attempt to dispute any of this or play it down. Instead it said it's worked hard to improve standards and knows \"there is still much to do.\"\n\nLast year former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini QC raised concerns about discrimination within Police Scotland. At the time, the Chief Constable Iain Livingstone said he was committed to improving public confidence in the force.\n\nThat task won't be any easier after this case.\n\nRhona Malone said the tribunal case \"wasn't about embarrassing Police Scotland\" but rather achieving \"accountability and acknowledgement\"\n\nThe tribunal also found that Ms Malone was an \"entirely credible and reliable witness\", but the evidence of her former superior, Insp Keith Warhurst, was \"contradictory, confusing and ultimately incredible\".\n\nInsp Warhurst sent an email in January 2018 saying two female firearms officers should not be deployed together when there were sufficient male staff on duty.\n\nIn the email he said it made \"more sense from a search, balance of testosterone perspective\".\n\nBut the tribunal found that the instruction was not implemented, as staff were told it did not represent the views of senior management. As a result of this, it dismissed the direct discrimination claim.\n\nMs Malone said she felt \"every department shut the door on me\" when she tried to deal with the issue when she was still employed by the force.\n\nShe added: \"My reputation was really affected, I was being targeted because I was standing up for myself and they couldn't deal with that - all they wanted to do was protect their self interest.\"\n\nMs Malone claimed there was a culture of \"self preservation\" among senior officers in the force rather than getting to the root cause of any issues.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Williams said: \"It is clear the culture in armed policing in 2017 and 2018 was unacceptable. Since then, we have worked hard to improve standards but we know there is much still to do.\n\n\"Sexism, misogyny and discrimination of any kind is deplorable. It has no place in society and no place in policing. Everyone in policing has a responsibility to lead change so we better reflect, represent and serve our communities and improve the experience of officers and staff.\n\n\"As an organisation, our response when a dedicated female officer raised legitimate concerns was nowhere near good enough. I apologise unreservedly to Ms Malone for those failings and for the significant impact they had on her.\"\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Williams said the force would address the issues raised by the ruling as a \"matter of urgency.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The executive is meeting on Thursday to look at the remaining Covid-19 rules\n\nFirst Minister Paul Givan has said he hopes Northern Ireland's government will not have to deploy contingency coronavirus plans to help manage health pressures this winter.\n\nThe executive will meet on Thursday to look at the remaining Covid-19 rules.\n\nThose include social distancing in hospitality venues and mandatory wearing of face coverings.\n\nMr Givan said he hoped there would be the \"headspace\" to approve more relaxations.\n\nThe executive previously agreed that decisions taken at its meeting on 7 October will take effect on 14 October.\n\nThe first minister said officials were continuing to monitor rates of transmission, and that there had been a \"marked decrease\" in the number of hospital admissions.\n\n\"In that context I would hope we can take further steps forward,\" he said.\n\n\"We'll then look to contingency plans should it become necessary - but I hope it isn't.\n\n\"I believe people in our society have the power to take sensible decisions, take their own personal responsibility seriously - all of that will help us avoid having to ever deploy a contingency plan over that winter period.\n\n\"But it is prudent that the executive makes plans for that and has tools at its disposal, should it be required.\"\n\nThe issue of so-called vaccine passports is also likely to be raised again at Thursday's meeting.\n\nLast week, Health Minister Robin Swann warned that a delay by the executive in agreeing a vaccine passport policy had limited options for easing more restrictions.", "Sarah Everard was murdered by a serving police officer in South London\n\nA Labour peer is to demand a fuller inquiry into the Metropolitan Police and the circumstances surrounding the murder of Sarah Everard.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel announced a non-statutory inquiry on Tuesday into \"systematic failures\" that allowed her killer to remain a police officer.\n\nPolicing Minister Kit Malthouse said a non-statutory inquiry would be faster.\n\nBut Shami Chakrabati said non-statutory inquiries lacked both independence and powers to make witnesses appear.\n\nThe former shadow attorney general has now tabled an amendment to the government's policing bill - due back in the Lords in two weeks - demanding a statutory inquiry, led by a judge, to begin within a month of the law passing.\n\nAnd she has put another proposal forward to ensure police officers are not allowed to ask a woman to get into a car unless they are accompanied by another officer.\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said it stood by the department's earlier commitment, that to \"provide assurance as swiftly as possible\" the inquiry will be on a non-statutory footing, which can be converted to a statutory inquiry if required.\n\nShe added: \"The chair and terms of reference for the inquiry will be confirmed in due course.\"\n\nThe killing of Ms Everard sent shockwaves throughout the UK and raised questions about the safety of women on the streets.\n\nWhen details of her murder emerged last week - that serving police officer Wayne Couzens used his warrant card to fake an arrest to kidnap her, before raping and killing her - the police faced growing calls for answers over its policies and procedures.\n\nThe Met confirmed it would carry out an independent review into its standards and culture, and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is also carrying out a review.\n\nBut Ms Patel said a Home Office inquiry would \"give the independent oversight needed to ensure something like this can never happen again\".\n\nThe department said the inquiry would initially be non-statutory but could be converted to a statutory one if required, with Mr Malthouse telling BBC Radio 4's PM the first option was much quicker to put in place.\n\nBut Baroness Chakrabati pointed to the review into the murder of Daniel Morgan, where a non-statutory panel set up by then-Home Secretary Theresa May took eight years to report back.\n\nWhen its report was finally released, the panel said its work was \"made more difficult\" by not having the power to \"compel witnesses to testify, nor could we compel the Metropolitan Police to disclose documents in a timely manner\".\n\nIn her amendment, the Labour peer wants an inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005 - making it statutory - to start within one month of the policing bill being approved to \"identify the lessons to be learned for the professional culture, funding, vetting and organisation of policing, the prevention of violence against women and the investigation and prosecution of misogynistic crimes\".\n\nThe amendment also says the chair should be a senior woman judge or retired judge, alongside a panel of other members with relevant experience.\n\nBaroness Chakrabati will make her proposals in the Lords on 20 October\n\nBaroness Chakrabati told the BBC: \"Neither the Met commissioner's internal review [into the circumstances surrounding Ms Everard's death] nor the home secretary's non-statutory inquiry will have either the robust independence or powers to compel cooperation that are so urgently required.\n\n\"The Daniel Morgan review panel described the obstruction they faced in June.\n\n\"Anything short of a full-blown judge-led 2005 Act inquiry will short-change women who have been let down by the police and criminal justice system for at least a decade.\"\n\nThe Home Office said: \"The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts B Bill is currently going through Parliament and we will consider amendments as they are raised.\"", "Ms Malone was a police officer for seven years before qualifying as a firearms officer\n\nThe culture in an armed policing unit within Police Scotland was \"horrific\" and an \"absolute boys' club\", an employment tribunal has found.\n\nIt accepted evidence of a \"sexist culture\" in the armed response vehicles unit (ARV) in the east of Scotland.\n\nFormer firearms officer Rhona Malone raised the tribunal against the force alleging sex discrimination and victimisation.\n\nHer victimisation claims succeeded but the discrimination claim was dismissed.\n\nIt also found that Ms Malone was an \"entirely credible and reliable witness\", but the evidence of her former superior, Insp Keith Warhurst, was \"contradictory, confusing and ultimately incredible\".\n\nInsp Warhurst sent an email in January 2018 saying two female firearms officers should not be deployed together when there were sufficient male staff on duty.\n\nPolice Scotland apologised unreservedly to Ms Malone and said it would address the issues raised in the judgement \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\nMs Malone told BBC Scotland she was \"extremely emotional and phenomenally grateful\".\n\nHer solicitor, Margaret Gibbon, described the employment tribunal's judgement as \"damning\".\n\n\"The employment tribunal's findings lay bare the misogynistic attitudes and culture within armed policing and the hostile treatment police officers face when they try to call it out,\" she added.\n\n\"Of equal concern is the employment tribunal's findings that it did not consider credible much of the evidence it heard from Police Scotland's witnesses, including testimony from high-ranking police officers and senior members of staff.\n\n\"The serious issues this judgement brings to light need to be urgently addressed by Police Scotland\".\n\nMs Malone had worked as a police officer for seven years before becoming an authorised firearms officer (AFO) in Police Scotland's ARV team in 2016.\n\nShe was based in Edinburgh, Fettes Team 1, in October 2016, where she was one of two women in a team of 12 AFOs. Of 60 AFOs in Edinburgh's ARV division, four were women.\n\nIn its judgement, the tribunal accepted evidence that there was an \"absolute boys' club culture\" within the ARV which was \"horrific\". It also found:\n\nThe tribunal also accepted that Insp Warhurst sent an email saying two female officers should not be deployed together.\n\nIn the email he referred to \"the obvious differences in physical capacity\" and said it made \"more sense from a search, balance of testosterone perspective\".\n\nBut the tribunal found that the instruction was not implemented, as staff were told it did not represent the views of senior management. As a result of this, it dismissed the direct discrimination claim.\n\nIf the email had been acted upon, the tribunal said it would have been viewed as \"inherently discriminatory\".\n\nHowever the tribunal did accept Ms Malone's claims of victimisation.\n\nThese related to incidents including a threat of withdrawing her firearms authority, a suggestion that she could be transferred to Stirling, handling of grievances and a failure to investigate complaints.\n\nIn one of the tribunal hearings, Richard Creanor, a former firearms officer, said there was \"absolutely a boys' club culture\" that existed in parts of Police Scotland's armed response unit and also claimed Insp Warhurst had sent a message with a picture of topless women to a WhatsApp group of police officers.\n\nHe told the hearing: \"You have to understand the culture in firearms, they operate within their own rules.\"\n\nLawyer Stewart Healey, acting for Police Scotland, suggested to Mr Creanor during the evidence session that he \"had it in for Mr Warhurst\" and was making up the claims.\n\nBut the tribunal ruling accepted Mr Creanor's evidence and described him as a \"credible and reliable\" witness.\n\nThe tribunal judgement was also critical of two senior officers.\n\nIt found the evidence of Ch Supt Andrew McDowell's \"implausible\" in that the reason he gave for not investigating Ms Malone's complaint was because he \"receives thousands of emails\".\n\nThis was described as \"wholly unsatisfactory\" in the judgement given Ch Supt McDowell's seniority.\n\nIn addition, the judgement said the actions of Police Scotland official Alasdair Muir were \"neither honest nor reasonable\".\n\nIn a statement published in response to the judgement Assistant Chief Constable Mark Williams, of Police Scotland, said the culture in armed policing in 2017 and 2018 was unacceptable.\n\n\"Since then we have worked hard to improve standards but we know there is much still to do,\" he said.\n\n\"As an organisation, our response when a dedicated female officer raised legitimate concerns was no where near good enough. I apologise unreservedly to Ms Malone for those failings and for the significant impact they had on her,\" he added.\n\n\"This judgement highlights serious issues and we will set out action to address them as a matter of urgency.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How to identify the UK's oldest meat-eating dinosaur\n\nMore than half a century after first being unearthed from a Welsh quarry, four small fossil fragments have finally been assigned to a new species of dinosaur.\n\nResearchers from London's Natural History Museum say Pendraig milnerae is the oldest meat-eating dinosaur ever discovered in the UK.\n\nIt existed over 200 million years ago, their analysis suggests.\n\nThe name Pendraig means \"chief dragon\" in Middle Welsh.\n\nThe animal was very likely the apex, or top, predator in its environment. That said, it wasn't exactly a giant. Think of something chicken-sized with a very long tail.\n\n\"It was a typical theropod; so, a meat-eating dinosaur that walked around on two legs, like T. rex or Velociraptor that you'll know from the movies, but much earlier in time,\" explained the NHM's Dr Stephan Spiekman.\n\nArtwork: Pendraig probably had sharp teeth and predated on other small reptiles\n\nThis is one of those classic fossil stories.\n\nPendraig is described by just four, albeit beautifully preserved, bone pieces. A vertebra, elements of the pelvis and a femur. These items were originally pulled from a limestone quarry near Cowbridge in South Wales in the 1950s.\n\nTheir interesting features were occasionally discussed within the NHM, but then the fossil material somehow got lost in the vast collections of the museum, mistakenly stored with crocodilian remains.\n\nOnly recently were the bones recovered from the \"wrong drawer\" and recognised for their true significance.\n\nPendraig is really ancient. It's late Triassic in age. It could be as much as 214 million years old, putting it close to the base of dinosaur emergence.\n\nIndeed, Pendraig would have been a fossil when the previously mentioned T. rex and Velociraptor were still strutting their stuff in the Cretaceous, just before the asteroid struck to wipe them both from the face of the Earth 66 million years ago.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stephan Spiekman and Susie Maidment: \"This is a very special dinosaur\"\n\n\"We've only got these four fragments, but the preservation is fantastic. The fossil is completely three dimensional; it's undistorted,\" Dr Spiekman told BBC News.\n\n\"What's so interesting and important here is that we're getting to see the very early stages of the evolution of the dinosaurs. These animals eventually came to dominate the Earth, but in the late Triassic they were only one of several groups of reptiles that were living on land.\"\n\nThe geological study of the British Isles tells us that during this time, what is now the Bristol Channel region of the UK was a series of islands made from much older limestone that had been folded and pushed upwards.\n\nPendraig would have lived somewhere across the archipelago.\n\nHow this particular specimen died, we can only speculate. But its bones were embedded in a gryke, or fissure, in the limestone. Perhaps the dino fell in; maybe it was already dead and got washed in during a flood. No-one can say for sure.\n\nThere's a bit of a puzzle related to the size of the animal, which is on the small side of what might be expected. Dr Spiekman wondered if Pendraig might be an example of dwarfism, a phenomenon you sometimes see in species that are confined to islands and their limited resources. But the analysis in this case came to no firm conclusions.\n\nAngela Milner was perhaps best known for the Surrey dinosaur Baryonyx\n\nThe second part of Pendraig's name - its species name - recognises an influential figure in British dinosaur science: Angela Milner, who died in August.\n\nThe former deputy keeper of palaeontology at the Natural History Museum was associated with another major theropod discovery in the 1980s - an animal called Baryonyx - and was key in helping to bring Pendraig milnerae to light again.\n\n\"It wasn't lost for very long in the collections, but it was Angela we have to thank for tracking it down. She'd remembered seeing it and went off to look through the museum's drawers. And after three or four hours she returned to say, I found it!\" recalled co-author Dr Susie Maidment.\n\n\"Angela had a really influential career in UK palaeontology and was a huge loss to us here at the museum. We were some way through describing the fossil when she died, but we wanted to honour her by naming the fossil after her.\"\n\nPendraig milnerae is reported in the journal Royal Society Open Science. Authors on the paper are affiliated to the NHM; the University of Birmingham; Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Argentine Museum; and National Museums Scotland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says he wants a \"high-wage, high-skill, high-productivity, and low tax economy\"\n\nBoris Johnson has promised to \"get on with the job\" of uniting and levelling up the UK, in a speech to the Conservative Party conference.\n\nIn an upbeat address peppered with jokes, but light on new policy, the prime minister claimed a high-wage, high-skilled economy was being created in the wake of Brexit and the pandemic.\n\nHe also defended tax rises to pay for the NHS and vowed to fix social care.\n\nThe 45-minute speech was his first to a conference since the pandemic began.\n\nIn it, the prime minister said the overwhelming Conservative general election victory in 2019 placed an onus on his government to deliver change demanded by voters.\n\nThe main theme of his speech was \"levelling up\", with the PM saying that reducing gaps between regions would ease pressure on south-eastern England, while boosting places that felt left behind.\n\nHe also repeated pledges set out at during his party's conference this week in Manchester to crack down on crime, improve transport links and broadband, and reform the housing market.\n\nAnd he sought to reassure Tories anxious about plans to increase National Insurance to pay for the NHS and social care by claiming it was what predecessor Margaret Thatcher would have done, if the economy had been hit by a \"meteorite\" like the pandemic.\n\n\"She would have wagged her finger and said that more borrowing now is just higher interest rates and even higher taxes later,\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister wants a new economic model with better pay and conditions. He wants to persuade voters his is the party to distribute wealth and opportunity more evenly across the UK. He wants people to feel good about the future.\n\nLevelling up has been the slogan repeated by ministers at this conference. We only got a sliver of meat on the bones today. This was a speech thin on policy, big on jokes and rhetorical flourishes.\n\nConservatives love Mr Johnson because he makes them feel good - it's a strategy that is key to understanding his success as a politician.\n\nBut will it be enough? There are some difficult months ahead for many people.\n\nRising prices, supply chain issues, the end of the universal credit top-up and furlough.\n\nMany Conservatives acknowledge the cost of living squeeze - and are worried about the impact.\n\nCritics will accuse the prime minister of ignoring those big issues in favour of what they see as vague promises for the future.\n\nBut the hope in Manchester was that Boris Johnson's unflinchingly upbeat vision of a post-Brexit, post-pandemic Britain is as popular with voters as it is with Tory activists.\n\nThe Conservative conference has taken place amid concerns over rising inflation, supply chain problems, and petrol and worker shortages.\n\nBut Mr Johnson insisted that the present problems were the result of an economic rebound in the wake of Covid shutdowns.\n\nHe added that controls on immigration represented the \"change that people voted for\" in the 2016 Brexit referendum, while also promising to end declining home ownership among young people by building more housing.\n\nHe announced a £3,000-a-year bonus for teachers, as an incentive for struggling areas of England to recruit maths and science specialists. The policy replaces a similar nationwide scheme that has recently been phased out.\n\nDowning Street said the new \"levelling up premium\" would cost £60m, but no details have yet been given over which areas will qualify.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"There is no reason why the inhabitants of one part of the country should be geographically fated to be poorer than others,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"You will find talent, genius, flair, imagination, enthusiasm - all of them evenly distributed around this country. But opportunity is not.\"\n\nMr Johnson referred to Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, who was recently photographed dancing in an Aberdeen nightclub, as \"Jon Bon Govi\" - an allusion to the rock star Jon Bon Jovi.\n\nHe also mocked Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, whom he has frequently dubbed \"Captain Hindsight\".\n\n\"If Columbus had listened to Captain Hindsight, he'd be famous for discovering Tenerife,\" he joked.\n\nBut Sir Keir accused Mr Johnson of \"playing this game where he's pretending that he's just sort of just landed from the Moon and he's looking around and saying, 'Things look pretty awful around here, we need a bit of levelling up, things are so awful'\".\n\nHe told ITV's Peston programme: \"He and the Tories have been in government for 11 years, so we're in this state because of the way that they have governed the country.\"\n\nThe CBI business lobby group said Mr Johnson said set out a \"compelling vision\" but had so far \"only stated his ambition\" on raising wages.\n\nShevaun Haviland, who heads the British Chambers of Commerce, said firms supported the aim of a higher-wage, higher-skill economy but warned: \"This will not happen overnight.\"\n• None Five things we learned at Tory conference\n• None Have these pledges been met?", "Tesco has seen sales and profits grow faster than expected as Britain's biggest supermarket group shrugged off the pandemic impact.\n\nIn the six months to August, Tesco said it \"outperformed\" the grocery sector, but also flagged that the sales surge could now start to \"fall away\".\n\nBut it would still mean stronger profits growth this year than was first thought, a Tesco statement said.\n\nIt came as rival Morrisons said it was recruiting 3,000 staff for Christmas.\n\nThe jobs are in distribution centres and manufacturing sites across the UK, ranging from warehouse and production staff to pickers and packers, as well as other skilled roles such as fork-lift truck drivers.\n\nLike Morrisons, Tesco is adjusting to labour shortages and supply chain problems in the run-up to the key festive period.\n\nHowever, chief executive Ken Murphy said the company was \"in good shape for Christmas\", adding he believed the company's resilience was due to its \"long-standing partnerships with suppliers\".\n\n\"With various different challenges currently affecting the industry, the resilience of our supply chain and the depth of our supplier partnerships has once again been shown to be a key asset,\" he said.\n\nBut he told a conference call with journalists that there would still \"be bumps in the road in the run-up to Christmas. We're seeing our share of challenges\".\n\nAnalyst Sophie Lund-Yates, from investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown, said \"Tesco's enormous scale means it is weathering the supply chain crisis better than others. It is times like these when being the biggest fish in the pond really counts.\n\n\"The size of Tesco's distribution network also can't be overstated, which again gives the group the flexibility to deliver the goods at scale.\"\n\nTesco's group revenues jumped by 5.9% to £30.4bn for the six months compared with the same period last year. Operating profits increased by 28% to £1.3bn for the period.\n\nSales in the first six months of Tesco's financial year rose 2.6% to £27.3bn, while UK like-for-like sales rose 1.2%, having risen 0.5% in the first quarter.\n\nAnalysts said Tesco was benefiting from its huge online business, from a pricing strategy that matched the prices of German-owned discounter Aldi on around 650 products and the success of its Clubcard Prices loyalty scheme, which offered lower prices to members.\n\nBut the company has again signalled concerns about possible food price inflation, following Tesco chairman John Allan's warning last month in an ITV interview that costs could rise by 5% this winter.\n\nBritain's biggest retailer is on a bit of a roll. Trading has been better than expected and with impressive results. Even Tesco Bank has bounced back to profitability.\n\nThe retailer says it has managed to keep hold of most of the new customers it gained during the pandemic after doubling its online slots.\n\nThe focus now is delivering Christmas amid a whole host of supply chain challenges. Boss Ken Murphy says Tesco is in good shape for the all-important festive trading and that the business has many unique advantages. For instance, it makes extensive use of rail to deliver supplies.\n\nTesco sends 65,000 containers across the UK by rail every year and it wants to increase that to 90,000 in the next few months to help mitigate the shortage of drivers.\n\nTesco's huge scale may also help it weather the storm, but Mr Murphy also expects \"bumps in the road\" ahead.\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor, said likely price rises, along with the HGV driver shortage, pointed to the future looking \"more uncertain\" for Tesco.\n\n\"The supermarket has already warned the UK government that the shortage of lorry drivers could cause severe disruption to deliveries, causing panic buying in the run-up to Christmas,\" she said.\n\n\"While this may push up sales temporarily, it also means chaos when stock runs out and rising costs for the supermarket, which it may struggle to pass on to its customers in a competitive market.\n\n\"Add supply chain disruption, an energy crisis, wage inflation and a lack of workers to the basket, Tesco has considerable headwinds in the final quarter of the year.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Morrisons said it was anticipating that Christmas trading would be busier than usual as \"customers try to make up for last year's restricted celebrations\".\n\nThe company said its new jobs, with pay starting at £10 an hour, included both permanent and temporary roles.\n\nMorrisons underlined in its statement that it \"welcomed\" 16-24-year-olds, saying that full training would be given, so \"no prior experience is required\".", "Virginia Giuffre, then Roberts, was pictured with Prince Andrew in London in 2001\n\nPrince Andrew has been granted access to a sealed document his lawyers believe could help end the sexual abuse case being brought by Virginia Giuffre.\n\nA US judge gave permission for the agreement between Ms Giuffre and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to be shared with the prince's lawyers.\n\nMs Giuffre's lawyers had made the offer to release the document but believe it will be \"irrelevant\" to the civil case.\n\nThe Duke of York, 61, has consistently denied Ms Giuffre's allegations.\n\nMs Giuffre, 38, claims she was sexually assaulted by the prince at three locations including New York City.\n\nAndrew B Brettler, who represents Prince Andrew, had argued at a previous hearing that Ms Giuffre had entered into a \"settlement agreement\" with Epstein that would end her current legal action,\n\nDuring the first pre-trial hearing of the case last month, Prince Andrew's lawyer said the agreement \"releases the duke and others from any and all potential liability\".\n\nThe prince's lawyers have said in court that Ms Giuffre agreed in 2009 not to sue anyone else connected to Epstein when she settled her damages claim against the billionaire sex offender, who died in prison in 2019.\n\nThe precise wording of that deal is currently confidential - sealed by a court.\n\nIn a court document filed on Wednesday, US Judge Loretta Preska agreed to a request from Ms Giuffre's lawyer, David Boies, to provide the duke's legal team with the document.\n\nMr Boies previously said about the document: \"Although we believe that the release is irrelevant to the case against Prince Andrew, now that service has been accepted and the case is proceeding to a determination on the merits, we believe that counsel for Prince Andrew have a right to review the release and to make whatever arguments they believe appropriate based on it.\"\n\nThen known as Virginia Roberts, Ms Giuffre claims she was assaulted by the prince at the London home of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and at Epstein's homes in Manhattan and Little Saint James, in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nHer case claims Prince Andrew engaged in sexual acts without Ms Giuffre's consent, including when she was 17, knowing how old she was, and \"that she was a sex-trafficking victim\".\n\nThe prince has consistently denied the claims and, in 2019, told BBC Two's Newsnight programme: \"It didn't happen.\"\n• None Prince accepts being served with US lawsuit papers", "Aubrey Padi was ordered to serve a minimum of 23 years\n\nAn estranged husband who hid in his wife's home then stabbed her to death in the night has been jailed.\n\nTamara Padi was \"brutally\" stabbed multiple times in her home in Stalybridge, Tameside, in July in an \"incomprehensible\" attack.\n\nAubrey Padi, of Carrfield in Hyde, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to murdering his 43-year-old wife.\n\nThe 46-year-old was jailed for life at Manchester Crown Court and ordered to serve a minimum of 23 years.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said the couple split in February.\n\nOn 7 July, Padi let himself into his wife's home in the early hours and lay in wait for her arrival.\n\nShe arrived home shortly after 01:30 BST with a friend who was staying over.\n\nThe friend, who was sleeping downstairs in the living room, was woken at about 03:30 by screaming from upstairs, police said.\n\nTamara Padi was described as a \"happy and outgoing soul\" who was \"loved by everyone\"\n\nMs Padi's friend saw her estranged husband attempt to flee out of the front door but then he turned around, went back upstairs and stabbed Ms Padi multiple times.\n\nHe then told the friend to call 999 and left the property. Ms Padi was taken to hospital but died shortly after arriving.\n\nMs Padi was described as \"happy and outgoing soul\" who was \"loved by everyone\", in a family tribute after her death.\n\nA friend also paid tribute, saying Ms Padi was \"full of love and made sure everyone around her felt that love\".\n\nDet Insp Lee Shaw said: \"This was a brutal attack on someone that this man had vowed to love and care for.\n\n\"The actions of Aubrey Padi are incomprehensible, and it is only right that he remains behind bars for at least the 23 years the judge has imposed on him.\"\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. First responders and others react to Rust set death\n\nFilm director Joel Souza says he is \"gutted by the loss of my friend and colleague\" Halyna Hutchins, in his first statement since a gun accident on the set of a movie in New Mexico.\n\nMs Hutchins was killed and Mr Souza wounded when a prop gun with a live round was fired by actor Alec Baldwin.\n\nMr Souza thanked well-wishers for their \"outpouring of affection\".\n\nCourt records say Mr Baldwin was handed the gun by an assistant director who told the actor that it was safe.\n\nMs Hutchins, a 42-year-old cinematographer, was fatally shot in the chest in Thursday's incident on the set of the film Rust in Santa Fe. Mr Souza, 48, who had been standing behind Ms Hutchins, was treated in hospital for a wound to the shoulder and later discharged.\n\nPolice are still investigating the incident and no charges have been brought.\n\nJoel Souza thanked \"hundreds of strangers who have reached out\"\n\nIn his statement, Mr Souza said: \"I am gutted by the loss of my friend and colleague, Halyna. She was kind, vibrant, incredibly talented, fought for every inch and always pushed me to be better.\n\n\"My thoughts are with her family at this most difficult time. I am humbled and grateful by the outpouring of affection we have received from our filmmaking community, the people of Santa Fe, and the hundreds of strangers who have reached out… It will surely aid in my recovery.\"\n\nCourt submissions show the assistant director, Dave Halls, did not know the prop contained live ammunition and indicated it was unloaded by shouting \"cold gun!\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Baldwin - who was the star and producer of the film - said he was \"fully co-operating\" with the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office.\n\n\"My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nAlec Baldwin said he was fully co-operating with the police\n\nMs Hutchins, 42, was from Ukraine and grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle. She studied journalism in Kyiv and film in Los Angeles. She was the director of photography for the 2020 action film Archenemy.\n\nAccording to the Los Angeles Times, about half a dozen members of the camera crew on Rust had walked out hours before the tragedy after protesting over working conditions on the set at the Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe.\n\nThere had been at least three earlier prop gun misfires on the set, sources told the Times.\n\nMs Hutchins had studied journalism in Kyiv and film in Los Angeles\n\nThe union members had also complained that they were promised hotel rooms in Santa Fe, but once filming of the Western began they were required to drive 50 miles (80km) from Albuquerque every morning.\n\nThe BBC has obtained a document showing which crew members were listed as scheduled to be on set that day.\n\nIt names a head armourer, the crew member responsible for checking firearms. Hannah Gutierrez Reed is in her twenties and had recently worked in this role for the first time, on the movie The Old Way.\n\nIn a podcast in September she said she almost turned down that job \"'cause I wasn't sure if I was ready... but doing it, like, it went really smoothly\".\n\nThe prop gun that Baldwin fired contained a \"live single round\", according to an email sent by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees to its membership, reports Variety.\n\nIn Rust, Baldwin was starring as an outlaw whose grandson is sentenced to hang for an accidental killing.\n\nThe actor is best known for his role as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock and for his portrayal of Donald Trump on the sketch show Saturday Night Live.\n\nSuch incidents on film sets are extremely rare.\n\nReal firearms are often used in filming, and are loaded with blanks - cartridges that create a flash and a bang without discharging a projectile.\n\nIn 1993, Brandon Lee - the 28-year-old son of the late martial arts star Bruce Lee - died on set after being accidentally shot with a prop gun while filming a death scene for the film The Crow.\n\nThe fatal shooting happened on the set of the Western film Rust in New Mexico", "Tesco's website and app are now up and running again, following a service outage that began on Saturday.\n\nThe retail giant's services had crashed after what Tesco said were attempts \"to interfere with our systems\".\n\nThe possible hack at Britain's biggest supermarket began with shoppers unable to order goods and track deliveries.\n\nTesco initially said there was \"an issue\", but in a Sunday update said there had been deliberate disruption.\n\nThe supermarket later confirmed on Twitter that its groceries website and app were back up and running, but it was temporarily using a \"virtual waiting room\" to manage the high volume of traffic.\n\nTesco said the attempts to compromise its systems were made overnight from Friday to Saturday, but was not more specific.\n\nAccording to Downdetector, which monitors website outages, shoppers began reporting issues early on Saturday morning.\n\nThe scale of the problem, and whether the issue was nationwide or only in certain areas, remained unclear on Sunday night.\n\nShoppers complained over the weekend about a lack of information, with many wanting to know how to cancel orders and whether they can get money back.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, a Tesco spokesperson said: \"There is no reason to believe that this issue impacts customer data and we continue to take ongoing action to make sure all data stays safe.\n\n\"Since yesterday, we've been experiencing disruption to our online grocery website and app.\n\n\"An attempt was made to interfere with our systems which has caused problems with the search function on the site. We're working hard to fully restore all services and apologise for the inconvenience.\"\n\nMeanwhile, shoppers were trying to change or cancel deliveries, or switch to other supermarkets.\n\nTesco customer Chris Hodgson, who lives in Stoke-on-Trent, told the BBC the app had not been working properly for \"a couple of days\".\n\nHe picked up his click-and-collect order on Sunday, but had only managed to do half his weekly shopping before the website went down. \"The collection member of staff hadn't been informed of any issues,\" Mr Hodgson said. \"After I showed him the website, he said it was an unusually quiet day.\n\n\"I asked if I could reject the whole order and was informed I could only reject substituted items. I'll have to go out again this afternoon. If you're on a budget it's annoying, it's an inconvenience.\n\n\"Nothing from Tesco, no way of contacting them. Really poor by Tesco,\" he said.\n\nTesco has opened a check-out free store where customers use the app to choose groceries and leave with them\n\nAnother customer, Rebecca, from North Wales, got a delivery of 120 Pepsi drinks on Sunday instead of her order.\n\n\"We were meant to get a week's shop this morning,\" she told the BBC. \"The website was down all yesterday so we couldn't amend or cancel. All we received was 120 cans of Pepsi Max.\"\n\nRebecca, who asked for her surname not to be used, added: \"I'd been going in to the order over and over yesterday, right up until the 11.45 deadline. I didn't try calling, there must be thousands in the same boat.\n\n\"Fortunately someone suggested that Asda had delivery slots for today so I managed to place an order last night (just before their deadline) for enough food for the next few days.\"\n\nTesco initially said on Saturday it was \"working hard to get things back up and running\", and apologised for the inconvenience.\n\nThe firm's online sales have soared recently, especially during lockdown, with the supermarket ramping up capacity.\n\nIts latest financial results say the scale and reach of its online operations are \"unmatched in the UK\", with total sales topping £6bn. Tesco said it had 6.6 million app users.\n\nTesco has faced previous hacks. In 2014 about 2,000 customer accounts were deactivated amid fears login details were compromised, and there was also a cyber attack on the supermarket's bank arm.\n\nBut the problem is becoming more common globally. Earlier this year, international meat manufacturer JBS had to shut down about 25% of its operation. And large swathes of US fuel supply were closed after a ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline.\n\nFew sectors have escaped the attention of cyber-criminals, with airlines, banks, universities, local authorities, utilities and tech giants such as Microsoft all having faced attacks on their computer systems.\n• None Why does the internet keep breaking?", "An A-level history textbook has been withdrawn after a youth worker said she was \"horrified\" to discover an image asking whether the treatment of Native Americans had been exaggerated.\n\nThe AQA-approved book asked students to balance \"criticisms of treatment of Native Americans\" with \"defence\" of their treatment in the late 1800s.\n\nThe period saw some massacres of Native American tribes by the US government.\n\nThe publisher Hodder has withdrawn the book.\n\nIn one section the textbook - called The Making of a Superpower: USA 1865-1975 - asked students \"to what extent do you believe the treatment of Native Americans has been exaggerated?\"\n\nHannah Wilkinson, who offers history mentoring sessions at Durham Sixth Form Centre, said the exercise was \"quite problematic\".\n\n\"It was deeply shocking to see how ingrained racial injustice is,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"The period we're looking at is a period of American policy where Native Americans were treated terribly,\" she said.\n\n\"The way the textbook framed it suggests that maybe the treatment of Native Americans has been exaggerated.\"\n\nFrom the early the 17th Century through to the late 19th Century a series of wars took place between European colonists and Native American tribes. They became known as the American-Indian Wars.\n\nIn this time the Native American population fell heavily, partly due to new diseases brought by the Europeans and partly due to wars and massacres. Several historians have accused the colonialists of a \"genocide\" against Native American tribes.\n\nWhether or not the US government's actions amounted to a genocide, it imposed policies that targeted Native American land, freedom, and wellbeing.\n\nMs Wilkinson teaches history for students who need extra support as part of her work with St Nicholas Church, Durham.\n\n\"My concern is that it presents really oppressive policies in an objective way. That didn't seem appropriate to the historical context,\" she said.\n\n\"I am definitely worried this is a wider pattern. We like to think that compared to America that we don't really have an issue of racial injustice.\"\n\nShe added: \"This period goes from slavery, to Jim Crow, to civil rights. If this is how they're presenting the history of Native Americans with such bias my concern is whether that is a repeated pattern in the framing of US history and whether that is coming up throughout the course.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hannah Wilkinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAQA has previously had to apologise for textbooks which contained racial stereotypes.\n\nAn AQA spokesperson said the exercise \"doesn't match our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and should never have made it through our process for approving textbooks\".\n\n\"We know our approval process wasn't always good enough in the past - but we've improved it since then and we do things differently now, including working with external diversity experts and providing better training for our reviewers and staff.\n\n\"We contacted the publisher as soon as we heard about this content, and we're pleased they've worked very quickly to put this right.\"\n\nAQA said publisher Hodder Education would remove book from sale \"and review its content\".\n\n\"We're also working together with publishers to ensure that new and updated editions of AQA-approved textbooks meet our commitment to EDI (equity, diversity and inclusion),\" the exam board said in its response to Ms Wilkinson's original tweet.\n\n\"We agree that this content is inappropriate and are going to remove this book from sale,\" HodderSchools tweeted. \"We will conduct a thorough review of the content with subject experts.\"", "Dubai officially opened the world's largest and tallest ferris wheel on Thursday, as part of an initiative to bolster the city's status as a major tourism hub. It's known as the \"Dubai Eye\" and stands at 250m.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eluned Morgan says she has never understood politicians who refuse to apologise where it's due\n\nWales' Health Minister Eluned Morgan has apologised for the mistakes made by the Welsh government in its initial handling of the pandemic.\n\nShe was responding to a report by MPs which said the UK's early response to the pandemic is one of the worst ever public health failures.\n\n\"I'm prepared to apologise to all of those who have suffered,\" she said.\n\nThe report said the slow move to lockdown led to a higher initial death toll than if ministers acted sooner.\n\nIt said the slow move into restrictions - backed by UK government scientists and adopted by the UK's central and devolved governments - was \"wrong\" and \"deliberate\".\n\nThe study, written by two House of Commons committees, claimed scientific advisers and government suffered \"a degree of group think\".\n\nWales and the rest of the UK went into lockdown on 23 March - while the policy was controlled by ministers in Cardiff, early on they acted alongside the Westminster government.\n\nThere were 2,289 deaths in Wales due to Covid, and 2,512 deaths involving Covid, in the first wave of the pandemic up to the end of July 2020.\n\nWales went into lockdown on 23 March 2020\n\nOpposition parties reiterated calls for a Wales-only public inquiry, with Plaid Cymru saying the Welsh government \"must take responsibility for its actions\".\n\nIn the Senedd, First Minister Mark Drakeford declined to say whether he agreed the early response was one of the worst ever public health failures in the UK, and said he had not read the report.\n\n\"I've been asked the question many times, 'Were there things that you would have done differently had you known then what you know now?' \" he said.\n\n\"We didn't know those things then, we were following the advice that we had at the time.\"\n\nHe said as \"our knowledge grew\" ministers have \"not hesitated to take our own decisions where we thought that was in the best interests of Wales\".\n\nThere have been a total of 8,262 deaths where Covid was mentioned on the death certificate up to 24 September this year.\n\nSpeaking at a press briefing, Ms Morgan said: \"Of course I'm prepared to apologise to all of those who have suffered during the pandemic.\n\n\"This was a new disease that we'd never seen before. None of us knew how it was going to impact, none of us knew how it was going to spread, none of us had any idea that it could be spread even without showing any symptoms.\"\n\nShe added: \"Of course we made mistakes at the beginning of that process, because of the lack of information and data and knowledge that we have now learned.\n\n\"I think we have a duty and responsibility to say sorry to people where we've made mistakes.\"\n\nBut the minister argued it would have been \"extremely difficult\" to have locked down Wales before England, because of the border and \"because furlough was not available\".\n\nShe said since then, the Welsh government has taken a \"far more cautious approach compared to that of the rest of the United Kingdom\".\n\nBut Ms Morgan denied that the Welsh government had suffered from group think - when a group of individuals reaches a consensus without critical reasoning.\n\nA decision to scrap community testing for coronavirus early in the pandemic was described by the report as a \"serious mistake\".\n\nWales, in common with the rest of the UK, took the same approach. Ms Morgan partly blamed this on a limitation on the number of tests available at the time.\n\nCatherine Griffiths's father Harry died with Covid in his Aberystwyth care home\n\nFigures showed that there were 157% more care home deaths from all causes than there would be normally in April 2020, with 1,171 in total.\n\nThe daughter of a man who died from Covid last year said it was \"good to have an apology\" but said it was \"slightly qualified\".\n\nCatherine Griffiths, whose father Harry Griffiths died with Covid in his Aberystwyth care home, told BBC Wales: \"They didn't know what was happening in the first wave but they knew what was happening in the second wave, my father died in the second wave.\n\n\"They should have protected people they should have acted and learned from countries in the Far East. While we were going into the second wave they were asking people to do quick tests before they enter care facilities, and we weren't doing that.\"\n\nMs Griffiths is part of the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru group, which is calling for a dedicated public inquiry for Wales into decisions made about the pandemic.\n\nThere are calls for a Wales-only public inquiry into the Covid response\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the report showed the \"fatalistic approach at the heart of this Westminster government\" but also called for a Welsh public inquiry.\n\nPlaid health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said: \"The Welsh government must take responsibility for its actions - good and bad, and there should be no avoidance of detailed scrutiny.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Russell George said: \"The pandemic was an unprecedented crisis and as these reports show decision-makers in government followed the science and evidence provided by experts.\"\n\nHe added the report shows \"why we need a Wales-specific Covid inquiry\".\n\nHowever Mark Drakeford argued in the Senedd that the report strengthens the argument for the Welsh \"experience to be properly investigated within the wider UK context\".\n\nThe first minister has backed a UK government inquiry, but has not ruled out a Wales-only effort if he is not satisfied with what is set up by the UK government.\n\nMr Drakeford told the Senedd he was yet to receive a reply to a letter to Communities Secretary Michael Gove on the 10 September setting out a \"series of tests\" the Welsh government would apply \"to give us confidence\".\n\nThe first minister said he was hoping to have a meeting with the prime minister in the coming days, and added he expects devolved governments to be \"properly involved\" in the appointment of the UK government's inquiry chair.\n\nDuring the press conference it was announced that the Welsh government had set a target of offering all 12 to 15-year-olds a Covid vaccine by the end of October.\n\nThe government also said all residents of care homes will have been offered a booster by the same date.\n\nDr Gill Richardson, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Vaccines, said she expected the majority of people over 50 or who have an underlying health condition to have been offered their booster by the end of the year.\n\nA Welsh government statement said the committees' report \"does not scrutinise decisions made by any of the devolved governments in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"Some actions and decisions in the pandemic response were taken at a UK level on a four-nations basis - we have always been open to working together where there are shared decisions and shared responses.\n\n\"We have followed the advice of our medical and scientific advisers and have taken a more cautious approach. Independent reports, by Audit Wales, have shown our approach to testing, for example, was less costly and more efficient than that taken by the UK government.\"", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak will lay out the government's latest tax and spending plans on Wednesday 27 October.\n\nIt's the government's second Budget of the year, after one in March, and will coincide with the conclusions of the 2021 Spending Review, which will give details of how government will fund public services for the next three years.\n\nResponding to the most recent public sector finance data this week, the chancellor said: \"At the Budget and Spending Review next week, I will set out how we will continue to support public services, businesses and jobs while keeping our public finances fit for the future.\"\n\nWhat are his options? Here we look at six things to watch out for in the Budget that could affect your personal finances.\n\nEnergy bills are set to rise this winter\n\nThe chancellor is reportedly considering a cut to the 5% rate of value added tax on household energy bills.\n\nThe move would be popular and timely against the background of soaring energy bills this winter and is something the government is now able to do because of Brexit.\n\nBut the move could attract criticism as it would - in effect - mean subsidising fossil fuels ahead of the climate summit.\n\nAlso, a VAT cut on domestic energy bills would cost about £1.5bn a year, which may just be too much for the chancellor.\n\nExtra tax on sparkling wine could be cut\n\nThere are rumours the chancellor is planning to simplify the way that alcohol is taxed in the UK.\n\nThe 2019 Conservative election manifesto promised to review it, so now could be the time.\n\nOne suggestion is to reduce the premium on sparkling wine to the same level as still wine, which could knock 83p off a bottle of Champagne or Prosecco.\n\n\"The government should stop trying to favour certain parts of the industry, instead focusing on removing distortions and creating a simpler system of alcohol taxes targeted at socially costly drinking,\" said Kate Smith, associate director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.\n\nThe drinks levies have been in place since the 1600s and raise £12bn a year for the government.\n\nIf you sell a second home, you'll pay capital gains tax\n\nThere are rumours that the current Capital Gains Tax rates may be tinkered with.\n\nThe tax is paid when people sell assets such as shares or a second home.\n\nIt's been suggested that rates could be aligned more closely with income tax rates, which could mean scrapping the current tax rates of 10% and 20% (or 18% and 28% for property) and instead making everyone pay income tax rates on their gains.\n\nA report by the Office of Tax Simplification, published in November 2020, recommended that CGT rates should be increased to bring them into line with income tax.\n\nBut it would be unlikely to raise significant extra amounts of tax, as it is typically paid by only about 275,000 taxpayers and raises less than £10bn a year.\n\nStudents could be asked to repay their loans sooner\n\nThere are reports that graduates may be asked to start paying back student loans earlier.\n\nThe chancellor could do that by lowering the threshold at which people start repaying their student loans, a move that could save the Treasury about £2bn a year.\n\nCurrently, English and Welsh students who enrolled at university after 2012 pay 9% of everything they earn above £27,295 per year. They repay the same 9% until the loan is fully repaid or until 30 years after graduating.\n\nIf the threshold were reduced to £25,000, it would cost anyone earning more than the current limit an extra £206 a year, while if it were slashed to £20,000, it would cost an extra £656 a year.\n\nMinisters are rumoured to have proposed cutting the threshold to as low as £23,000 and giving graduates 40 years as opposed to 30 to repay their debt.\n\nA worker washing dishes could see their minimum wage rise\n\nIn his March Budget, Mr Sunak announced that the National Living Wage (what the governments call the minimum wage) would increase for workers over the age of 23.\n\nSince then, the government has come under pressure to help employees further - especially as younger workers have been some of the worst hit by the economic downturn.\n\nOne solution the chancellor has been reportedly looking at is to increase the National Living Wage by 5.7% to £9.42 per hour from its current rate of £8.91.\n\nThat would bring it close to the Living Wage Foundation's current recommendation of £9.50 an hour.\n\nThe government could raise cash by cutting tax relief on pension savings for those on high salaries.\n\nBut pension experts warn such a move would not be as simple as it sounds, Steven Cameron, pensions director at Aegon, said: \"A move to a flat rate of pensions tax relief, rather than the current system where relief is based on the rate of income tax paid, would be far from simple to implement.\"\n\nHe said it would be particularly difficult for defined-benefit schemes and could mean medium to high earners, including doctors in public sector schemes, facing big tax bills.\n\n\"Removing higher-rate relief would be a direct attack on middle Britain, leading to people who do the right thing and save for their future being hit with extra tax costs,\" said Tom Selby, head of retirement policy at AJ Bell.\n• None Why is UK inflation so high?", "Whitney Dowler: \"I told myself to just keep ignoring him and he'll soon go away. But he didn't\"\n\nA former student has said she suffers panic attacks if people walk too close after being assaulted by a university lecturer as she walked home at night.\n\nWhitney Dowler, 22, tried to run away from Kary Thanapalan, 49, as he pursued her in Treforest, Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, in November 2020.\n\nMs Dowler waived her right to anonymity to speak out after attacks on women, including the murder of Sarah Everard.\n\nShe said: \"Men like Kary are why women are so afraid to walk home alone.\"\n\nThanapalan, of Egypt Street, Treforest, was jailed at Cardiff Crown Court in May after admitting sexual assault.\n\nHe fled when Ms Dowler's friend arrived after the trainee library assistant sent a text message asking for help.\n\nThanapalan lost his job as a senior lecturer of aeronautical and mechanical engineering at the University of South Wales following the assault.\n\nHe did not teach Ms Dowler, from Bargoed in Caerphilly county, who was in her final year studying IT at the university when she was assaulted.\n\nShe said she had been walking home alone after meeting a friend for a night out when Thanapalan approached her.\n\n\"Avoiding eye contact, I hurried past him but he shouted 'baby' and began following me,\" she said.\n\n\"Panicking, I told myself to just keep ignoring him and he'll soon go away. But he didn't.\n\n\"I started to run and the man caught up with me and grabbed my arm.\"\n\nShe said she was assaulted and \"shoved him off\" before running away, only to be pursued again.\n\n\"He kept saying I was breaking his heart and that I was going to come home with him.\n\n\"I was sobbing and telling him 'no' over and over.\"\n\nWhitney Dowler: \"If someone walks near me on the street now, I have a panic attack\"\n\nShe said: \"At one point we reached a busy street and a car pulled up next to me.\n\n\"It was a male driver who asked if I was okay. Crying, I told him that I was being followed.\n\n\"The driver offered me a lift home but I realised he was also a stranger.\n\n\"I didn't know if he was a threat as well. I couldn't trust anyone - so I said 'no'.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in these stories:\n\nAs she approached Treforest railway station, she sent a text message to a friend who lived nearby and he arrived shortly afterwards.\n\n\"As I got to the station car park, the man grabbed me again and groped my breast,\" said Ms Dowler.\n\n\"Suddenly, I spotted my friend in the distance and I screamed for help.\n\n\"He ran towards us, screaming at the man to get off me.\n\n\"Thankfully, he let go of me and fled. I thought I was going to be raped or killed.\"\n\nShe reported what happened to police and Thanapalan was arrested after CCTV footage was seized and a Facebook profile of the defendant matched the description given.\n\nA DNA swab was taken and found to match that on his victim's cheek.\n\n\"If someone walks near me on the street now, I have a panic attack,\" said Ms Dowler.\n\n\"I don't know if I'll ever feel safe again.\"\n\nDuring sentencing, defence barrister Anthony O'Connell said his client was remorseful and had lost his previous good character.\n\nHe said he had suffered a self-inflicted \"spectacular fall from grace\", including losing his job.", "Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen will give evidence to MPs on Monday as part of government plans for social media regulation.\n\nMs Haugen, an American data scientist, worked at Facebook for two years and leaked documents that she said proved Facebook repeatedly prioritised growth over users' safety.\n\nShe met the campaigner Ian Russell, whose 14-year-old daughter died by suicide after viewing disturbing content on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook.", "The rules on how much people pay for social care vary around the UK\n\nWales needs a national debate on how to fund the future of social care, according to the head of the country's biggest charity for older people.\n\nVictoria Lloyd, chief executive of Age Cymru, said urgent reform of the social care system was essential to prevent people going without support.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said there would be announcements on social care in the coming months.\n\nAlthough devolved, he said he intended to work on a four-nation approach.\n\n\"If this is a can the UK government continue to kick even further down the road, then the point will come when we will have to make our own decisions,\" he said.\n\nWelsh Labour promised in its manifesto for last week's Senedd election it would \"consult on a potential Wales-only solution\" if the UK government did not bring forward proposals within the current parliament.\n\nTuesday's Queen's Speech made only passing reference to reforming social care, but the Secretary of State for Wales, Simon Hart, since said plans would be forthcoming \"within months\".\n\nMs Lloyd said the commitment was welcome but action to properly fund the system - and a discussion on how to do so - was needed now.\n\nVictoria Lloyd says a debate is needed in Wales\n\n\"We know we've got an ageing population, we know there are people that need care out there that currently aren't receiving it,\" she said.\n\n\"We need more funding in the system.\n\n\"There are many ways of doing that and I think what we need is a big debate in Wales about how we best do that fairly, transparently and to meet the needs of all of us.\n\n\"We think it's really important that the Welsh government acts as soon as they are able.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's worse now than in the first wave\"\n\nThe Welsh government has made a number of reforms to social care in recent years, but has said a more wholesale solution to funding was a priority.\n\nSpeaking before the election, Mr Drakeford said his government had its own plan \"ready to go\" on social care, but said the integration of the benefits system was problematic.\n\nHe told Politics Wales he would not give \"just an arbitrary month\" in terms of how long he was prepared to wait for the UK government to act.\n\nEconomist Siôn Jones says all options are difficult from a political perspective\n\nThe Welsh government has also previously pledged to ensure care workers receive at least the real living wage, £9.50 per hour, by the end of this Senedd term in 2026.\n\nIn the 2019-20 financial year, local authorities in Wales spent more than £653m on care for people over the age of 65.\n\nIn the same year, the overall council spending on social services exceeded £2bn for the first time.\n\nA study carried out in 2017 estimated the amount paid out privately for care in Wales at more than £400m.\n\nSiôn Jones, an economist who has researched social care funding options for the Welsh government, said wholesale reform was feasible, but costly.\n\n\"In the absence of any more money coming via the Barnett Formula to Wales [the mechanism by which UK government spending is allocated to the devolved nations], their main options are to switch expenditure from other parts of the Welsh budget, which is certainly possible, but difficult.\n\n\"It might be quite likely that if there was a shift in spending from somewhere else, it may well need to come from the health service,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Labour leader says it is 657 days since the PM announced he had a \"clear plan we have prepared\" to \"fix\" social care\n\n\"We know there's always pressure for more expenditure in the health sector and there's currently pressure to pay health workers more, as well as care workers.\n\n\"Another option could be to raise general tax revenue through an increase in the Welsh income tax, which is possible, but obviously has political difficulties.\n\n\"The third option is to introduce some kind of specific tax or levy, that would raise funds specifically for care services.\n\n\"They're all feasible in principle, and they're all difficult from a political perspective\".\n\nPolitics Wales is on BBC One Wales on Sundays at 10:00 BST and on the BBC iPlayer\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has asked patients not to attend its A&E departments unless their condition is life-threatening\n\nGlasgow's health board has urged patients only to attend A&E if an issue is \"life-threatening\".\n\nThe plea comes after it emerged that a third of those who went to the board's flagship hospital in one week were there for minor injuries.\n\nHealth boards across the country have struggled to deal with normal service on top of the pandemic.\n\nThe military are providing support to NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Borders. NHS Grampian have also requested help.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said 32% of attendances at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital's A&E department were deemed not to be life threatening, with staff treating injuries including bruising, cut fingers and lower back pain.\n\nOn Saturday, Scott Davidson, the deputy medical director at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said: \"We would urge everyone that, unless their condition is life-threatening, they should not attend an emergency department.\n\n\"If you are in any doubt about who you should contact, please call NHS24 on 111 to access the appropriate care. If necessary you will be given an onward referral to our flow navigation centre team, who will call you back and undertake a virtual consultation.\n\n\"This can be undertaken in your own home and may mean the condition can be treated without you leaving home. Should you need to attend an emergency department, the team will instruct you to do so.\"\n\nHe said that some of the \"minor ailments\" A&E departments were seeing patients for included cuts and scrapes, dental pain, urinary tract infections, and sore throats.\n\nNHS Lanarkshire said its three hospitals - Monklands (pictured), Wishaw and Hairmyres - were at capacity.\n\nOn Friday, NHS Lanarkshire said it had moved to the \"highest level of risk\" as its three hospitals were at \"maximum capacity\".\n\nIt said due to \"critical occupancy levels\" and \"the overall pressure on the whole health system in Lanarkshire\", it had moved up to the highest risk category, which is colour-coded as black.\n\nLaura Ace, NHS Lanarkshire's strategic commander and deputy chief executive, said: \"The sustained pressure continues across our three acute hospitals and is showing no signs of easing. We are facing relentless pressures, bed shortages and staff shortages due to sickness, stress and self-isolation.\n\n\"We took the decision at the end of August to temporarily postpone the majority of non-urgent planned care procedures and, unfortunately, the current pressures mean we are having to further stand down elective (planned) procedures including some cancer procedures, which we will reschedule as soon as possible.\"\n\nShe added that the current situation was \"unprecedented\".\n\nEarlier this week, NHS Grampian became the latest Scottish health board to ask for military help amid the pandemic.\n\nNHS Lanarkshire and NHS Borders are already receiving assistance from the armed forces.", "A man's love affair with a wooden rollercoaster has resumed and he has finally enjoyed his 6,000th ride after it was delayed by the pandemic.\n\nRyan Hackett, 61, from Milford Haven, has been riding the Megafobia at Oakwood Theme Park in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, for more than 25 years.\n\nHe's done as many as 21 rides in one day in the past and was on the verge of hitting the milestone before lockdown.\n\nRyan said Covid had \"a lot to answer for\" and he'd \"missed the park dreadfully\", but he was delighted to be back on the rollercoaster.\n\n\"It's escape from reality, it's two minutes of forgetting all your worries. You come here, ride this baby and enjoy.\"", "Two police forces in Wales have been contacted about alleged spiking cases involving needles\n\nReports of people being spiked by injection are being investigated by police in Wales.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it had been contacted about a \"small number\" of alleged spiking cases involving needles.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police is also making inquiries after a \"suspected needle assault\" was reported to them.\n\nThe forces said they had contacted pubs and clubs to alert them about the reports.\n\nIt comes as the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) said there had been hundreds of reports of drink spiking and spiking by needle across Britain in the past couple of months.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it had, in the past, trained staff at city centre licensed premises to help them keep people safe from spiking.\n\n\"We regularly see examples of where this training has paid off,\" the force said.\n\n\"In addition, we are working with licensed premises to alert them to spiking methods that have been reported in other areas of the UK, and asking them to be extra vigilant at this time.\"\n\nDyfed-Powys Police's Insp Matthew Howells said it was investigating an assault reported in Aberystwyth on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"On this occasion it is believed that no liquid has been injected into the victim,\" Insp Howells said.\n\nHe said the force was aware of posts about spiking by needle that had appeared on social media.\n\nIt was also working with the local authority, and pubs and clubs, to let them know about concerns.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has asked police for an update after a number of cases of women reporting being spiked by needles\n\nInsp Howells said: \"We are also working with the university to identify other persons referred to in social media posts so that our investigations can use every opportunity to gather evidence to identify suspects.\"\n\nThe NPCC said there had been about 140 confirmed reports in September and October of drink spiking, and 24 reports of injections.\n\nIt said the \"concerning number\" included both men and women, with the majority of cases involving young women.\n\nAlleged attacks were known to have taken place in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nThe organisation's drugs lead, Deputy Chief Constable Jason Harwin, said alleged offences had taken place at licensed premises and private parties.\n\n\"We are working at pace with forces, law enforcement agencies such as the NCA (National Crime Agency) and other partners including the Home Office and universities to understand the scale of offending, establish any links between the allegations and ultimately bring any identified offenders to justice,\" he said.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has asked police forces for an update following a number of cases of women reporting being spiked by needles in nightclubs.\n\nIn Nottingham two men have been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into spiking incidents.\n\nA boycott of clubs in some cities, including Cardiff, will take place on 29 October.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool humiliated Manchester United and their under-pressure manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as they handed out a thrashing in front of a stunned Old Trafford. On a day of acute embarrassment for United and Solskjaer, 10 years and one day since they lost 6-1 at home to Manchester City, Liverpool emphasised the vast gulf between the sides in brutal fashion. Mohamed Salah was predictably their main tormentor as the Egypt forward claimed a hat-trick, the first of which meant he had scored for the 10th successive game. Solskjaer cut a dejected figure as he and his players faced the full fury of their own fans, especially at half time, after an insipid and disorganised performance. The worrying signs were there for United after five minutes as Liverpool sliced them open when Salah set Naby Keita through to score at the Stretford End. Diogo Jota then slid in at the back post unmarked to add a second from Trent Alexander-Arnold's delivery eight minutes later. Liverpool were tearing United apart and the irresistible Salah got his first when he thumped the ball into the roof of the net from Keita's cross then beat David de Gea with a low effort to give Jurgen Klopp's side a four-goal half-time lead. Many Manchester United fans left at the break and Solskjaer's response was to send Paul Pogba on for Mason Greenwood, but on a day when nothing went right for United even that mainly cosmetic move backfired horribly. Salah raced on to Jordan Henderson's superb pass to complete his treble five minutes after the break then Pogba was sent off for a reckless lunge at Keita that saw Liverpool's midfielder taken off on a stretcher. The rest was a formality as Liverpool cruised to victory in front of thousands of empty red seats deserted by the home supporters.\n• None Solskjaer 'won't give up' after thrashing by Liverpool\n• None 'Liverpool are light years ahead of embarrassing Man Utd - and Solskjaer has to take blame'\n• None How social media reacted to Old Trafford rout Liverpool back to their ruthless best Mohamed Salah is now the top-scoring African in Premier League history with 107 goals Liverpool were always going to come back stronger from the suffering of last season, when injuries and the worst run of home form in the club's history saw them drawn into a dogfight for a place in the Champions League. They rallied superbly to finish third and carried that good form into this new campaign, with an ominous composure about Klopp's side from the first day. With Virgil van Dijk back in defence and Salah playing at a level that suggests he is the world's best player, they are a ruthless machine and how United felt that power. Bruno Fernandes actually missed a very good chance to put United ahead before Keita opened the scoring but once Liverpool got ahead, Solskjaer's side had no answer. With Salah as the main weapon, they cut through United at will, reducing both their players and the crowd to nervous agitation every time they went forward. Salah is in the form of his life and this United defence was an open invitation to him and Liverpool's range of attacking options. In the last eight days alone, Liverpool have scored 13 goals in three games on their travels, taking in the 5-0 win at Watford and the 3-2 victory against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League. This was Liverpool looking as formidable, confident and dangerous as they did when they won the title in 2019-20. It is shaping up to be a three-horse race along with Chelsea and Manchester City for the title and this was the performance of true thoroughbreds. The only downside to their day was the injury to Keita, injured in a two-footed challenge by Pogba in what is a cruel blow to the midfielder given he has been showing the best form of his stop-start Liverpool career. What now for Solskjaer? Manchester United have lost by a margin of five or more goals at Old Trafford without scoring themselves for the first time since a 5-0 defeat at home to Manchester City in 1955 under Matt Busby Solskjaer was in defiant mood after United came from two goals down to beat Atalanta in the Champions League but there is a frailty and confusion about this team that means they will constantly fall short - and this inevitably puts further pressure on the manager. There are defeats that carry greater significance than others and the sight of United chasing shadows five goals down while Solskjaer stood helplessly on the touchline being taunted for long periods by joyous Liverpool fans made this one of those days. Any defeat to Liverpool is painful for United fans. When the defeat is as comprehensive as this one and in front of their own supporters, it is a day that will cut deeply to every part of Old Trafford. It was a defensive shambles, with poor communication and lack of understanding about what the team is trying to do cruelly exposed by Liverpool. As a result, this game was effectively over within 13 minutes. Solskjaer has praised the backing of United's fans and the Stretford End largely stuck with him and the team but there is no disguising the fact there were loud jeers at half time and by the time the final whistle sounded, huge sections of the stadium were deserted. There was also a lack of discipline in the United performance, Cristiano Ronaldo perhaps fortunate to escape a red card for kicking out at Curtis Jones while he was on the floor then Pogba - presumably sent on to restore some slight semblance of order - getting one for his challenge on Keita. United have been steadfast in their backing for Solskjaer but the shock waves of this result will have questions being asked more strongly than ever about his position by everyone from the club's hierarchy to their fans.\n• None Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Scott McTominay with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Diogo Dalot with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Curtis Jones (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mohamed Salah with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Fred tries a through ball, but Edinson Cavani is caught offside.\n• None Aaron Wan-Bissaka (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Jordan Henderson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) left footed shot from very close range is blocked. Assisted by Scott McTominay with a headed pass.\n• None Aaron Wan-Bissaka (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Medical equipment was visible in the road outside Regency Court\n\nEight men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after two teenage boys died.\n\nEssex Police said officers found three people injured after it had received a number of calls to Regency Court, Brentwood, at about 01:30 BST.\n\nTwo of those have since died, the force said, while the third was treated for non-life threatening injuries.\n\nBrentwood and Ongar's Conservative MP, Alex Burghart, called it a \"very dark day for our town\".\n\nPolice said they were \"working to establish how the boys died\" and post-mortem examinations would take place.\n\nThe BBC understands the boys are suspected to have suffered stab wounds.\n\nPolice were called to an area of Brentwood, Essex, in the early hours of Sunday\n\nDet Ch Insp Andy Clarkson, of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, said: \"We understand there will naturally be shock and concern within the community after such a tragic loss of life.\n\n\"But, at this stage, we do not believe there is any wider threat to the public.\"\n\nForensics officers have been working in a tent beside Regency Court\n\nA neighbour said he had tried to warn police about anti-social behaviour in the area in recent weeks.\n\nMark MacIntosh told the PA news agency he had only just arrived home before he heard shouting and screaming coming from a nearby residence.\n\n\"I realise that what I heard was somebody yelling out in pain who may have lost his life shortly thereafter,\" he said.\n\nHe claimed the area had been dealing with problems which stemmed from a multi-storey car park that overlooks the scene.\n\n\"There's constant anti-social behaviour, drinking, drugs, shouting, fighting,\" he said.\n\n\"I've heard people saying 'I'm going to kill him' up there. I've come down and broken up a knife fight down at the bottom here before.\"\n\nMr MacIntosh said he had warned police \"three weeks ago\" that something bad would happen if they did not arrange \"constant patrols\" of the area.\n\nPolice said two of the three injured boys died\n\nCh Insp Mark Barber, of Essex Police, had earlier said there would be a \"highly-visible police presence\" in Brentwood following the deaths.\n\n\"I am acutely aware that this incident will shock many within the community,\" he said. \"My officers will be there throughout the day - they will be there to reassure you and keep you safe.\n\n\"If you have any concerns or information on the incident then, please, do not hesitate to come forward and speak to them.\"\n\nPolice urged witnesses from Regency Court and central Brentwood to speak to them\n\nMr Burghart said: \"This a very dark day for our town. My deepest condolences to the families of the boys who have so dreadfully lost their lives.\n\n\"I must urge anyone with any information to immediately share it with the police so that justice can be done as swiftly as possible.\"\n\nFlowers have been left at nearby Coptfold Road\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.", "Richard Ratcliffe says his family have been \"caught in a dispute between two states\"\n\nThe husband of the detained British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is beginning a hunger strike in Whitehall, demanding the government does more to secure her release.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been held in Iran for five years on spying charges, recently lost her appeal against a second prison sentence.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe said his wife was \"increasingly distraught\".\n\nThe Foreign Office says it will \"continue to press Iran\" on the issue.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a 43-year-old mother-of-one from London, has been detained in Iran since 2016 and has not seen her daughter for two years.\n\nShe has been serving the second of two prison sentences, this one on parole for a conviction of propaganda against the Iranian regime. She is staying with her mother in Iran - but is not allowed to leave the country.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe has always denied any wrongdoing.\n\nBut now she faces a return to prison, after losing an appeal against the most recent sentence. Mr Ratcliffe said it was only a matter of time before she would be summoned back to jail.\n\nThe hunger strike began on Sunday near to the Foreign Office and Downing Street in London. It is the second time Mr Ratcliffe has used the tactic, after a 15-day hunger strike outside the Iranian embassy in London in 2019.\n\n\"Two years ago I went on hunger strike in front of the Iranian embassy, on the eve of Boris Johnson taking over as prime minister,\" said Mr Ratcliffe in a statement online.\n\n\"We are now giving the UK government the same treatment. In truth, I never expected to have to do a hunger strike twice. It is not a normal act. It seems extraordinary the need to adopt the same tactics to persuade government here, to cut through the accountability gap.\"\n\nHe said that although Iran remained the main country responsible, \"the UK is also letting us down\".\n\n\"It is increasingly clear that Nazanin's case could have been solved many months ago - but for other diplomatic agendas. The PM needs to take responsibility for that.\"\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after she was released from house arrest in Tehran in March 2021\n\nHe added: \"It can be difficult to capture the feeling of a life wasting away, watching prison creep closer while we sit in the PM's in-tray.\"\n\nMr Ratcliffe said he was making four demands from Mr Johnson, including recognising Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe as a hostage, and for the UK to push for an end to hostage-taking when negotiating the Iran nuclear deal.\n\nHe also called for the government to pay the £400m debt that the UK owes Iran, dating back from a deal between the two sides over tanks in the 1970s.\n\nMr Ratcliffe believes his wife has been imprisoned as leverage for the debt.\n\nHe spoke to the new Foreign Secretary Liz Truss earlier this month, but said he was told the government's response was to do nothing yet until Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was returned to prison.\n\n\"For us, reimprisonment is too late, it would mean not seeing Nazanin until 2023,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Ratcliffe: Nazanin speaks to her daughter most days, while under house arrest in Iran\n\nThe MP Tulip Siddiq - who represents the constituency where the Zaghari-Ratcliffes live - called on the government to listen to Mr Ratcliffe.\n\n\"It breaks my heart that my constituent Richard Ratcliffe has once again been forced to go on hunger strike to protest against the government's failure to free Nazanin,\" she said.\n\n\"It should never have come to this. It's time for the government to listen to the demands of Nazanin's family, including paying the debt we owe to Iran, and finally bring her home.\"\n\nAnd the boss of charity Amnesty International called the situation \"incredibly upsetting\".\n\n\"Like Richard, we've grown tired of hearing ministers saying they're 'doing all they can' for Nazanin and other arbitrarily-detained Britons in Iran - it doesn't look like that to us, and it certainly hasn't produced results,\" said Sacha Deshmukh.\n\nHe demanded the government sets out a strategy for getting Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe home, and added: \"We call on Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and other ministers to take the time to come out of their offices to visit Richard at his tent. Ministers need to hear first-hand how desperate this situation is.\"\n\nOn Sunday, a Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"Iran's decision to proceed with these baseless charges against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is an appalling continuation of the cruel ordeal she is going through.\n\n\"Instead of threatening to return Nazanin to prison, Iran must release her permanently so she can return home.\n\n\"We are doing all we can to help Nazanin get home to her young daughter and family and we will continue to press Iran on this point.\"", "Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Kobe Bryant, said she learned about the death of her husband by seeing \"RIP Kobe\" notifications on her phone.\n\nBasketball star Bryant died with his daughter, 13-year-old Gianna, and seven others in the January 2020 crash.\n\nMs Bryant is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for negligence and invasion of privacy.\n\nShe alleges that officers shared graphic photos of the crash scene, including Kobe and Gianna's bodies.\n\nDuring a deposition, a county attorney asked Ms Bryant when she was first made aware of the crash.\n\nMs Bryant said that she was informed by a family assistant that her husband and daughter had been in a helicopter accident, but that five people had survived. She thought that they were likely among the survivors.\n\nBut then messages started popping up on her phone.\n\n\"I was holding onto my phone, because obviously I was trying to call my husband back, and all these notifications started popping up on my phone, saying 'RIP Kobe. RIP Kobe. RIP Kobe',\" Ms Bryant said, according to a transcript of the deposition.\n\n\"My life will never be the same without my husband and daughter,\" she added.\n\nKobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others died when a helicopter crashed in California last year\n\nIn March, Ms Bryant published the names of Los Angeles County police officers who she said shared graphic photos of the scene of the crash.\n\nShe alleges that one of the officers shared with a bartender photos of Kobe Bryant's body and the others distributed \"gratuitous photos of the dead children, parents, and coaches\".\n\nThe Los Angeles Times newspaper reported in February last year that an internal police investigation found officers shared photos of victims' remains.\n\n\"I don't think it's fair that I'm here today having to fight for accountability,\" Ms Bryant said.\n\n\"Because no one should ever have to endure this type of pain and fear of their family members. The pictures getting released, this is not okay.\"\n\nMs Bryant said that she had asked Sheriff Alex Villanueva to make sure nobody took photos at the scene.\n\nThe sheriff's department has declined to comment on the pending lawsuit.\n\nMs Bryant said that she has kept the clothes her husband and daughter were wearing when they died.\n\n\"And if their clothes represent the condition of their bodies, I cannot imagine how someone could be so callous and have no regard for them or our friends, and just share the images as if they were animals on a street,\" she said.\n\nYou may also be interested in...\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. African basketball stars discuss Kobe Bryant's legacy one year since his death in a helicopter crash.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Greta Thunberg says she's 'completely different' in private\n\nClimate activist Greta Thunberg has told the BBC that summits will not lead to action on climate goals unless the public demand change too.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview ahead of the COP26 climate summit, she said the public needed to \"uproot the system\".\n\n\"The change is going to come when people are demanding change. So we can't expect everything to happen at these conferences,\" she said.\n\nShe also accused politicians of coming up with excuses.\n\nThe COP26 climate summit is taking place in Scotland's largest city, Glasgow, from 31 October to 12 November.\n\nIt is the biggest climate change conference since landmark talks in Paris in 2015. Some 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions, which cause global warming.\n\nMs Thunberg, who recently launched a global series of concerts highlighting climate change called Climate Live, confirmed she would be attending COP26. She said her message to world leaders was to \"be honest\".\n\n\"Be honest about where you are, how you have been failing, how you're still failing us... instead of trying to find solutions, real solutions that will actually lead somewhere, that would lead to a substantial change, fundamental change,\" she told the BBC's Rebecca Morelle.\n\n\"In my view, success would be that people finally start to realise the urgency of the situation and realise that we are facing an existential crisis, and that we are going to need big changes, that we're going to need to uproot the system, because that's where the change is going to come.\"\n\nMs Thunberg did not believe that UK plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions to reach a target of net zero by 2050 were sufficient, or that the UK was a climate leader.\n\n\"Unfortunately there are no climate leaders today, especially not in the so-called global north. But that doesn't mean that they can't suddenly decide that now we're going to take the process seriously,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking about the targets for reaching net zero - which means not adding to the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - she said that it was a \"good start\", but cautioned that it \"doesn't really mean very much in practice\" if people continued to look for loopholes.\n\nKevin Mtai will be one of many activists attending COP26\n\nCOP26 will be attended by climate activists from across the world.\n\nKevin Mtai, a climate justice campaigner from Kenya, told the BBC that inclusivity at the summit was important.\n\n\"I hope this climate conference is going to be an inclusive conference, to include all voices in the talks. They need to use indigenous people in the talks, marginalised people in the talks, people from the most affected areas,\" he said.\n\n\"It's very important for people from the global south to speak for themselves, not other parts of the globe to speak on their behalf. Because we are the ones who have been affected by climate change, so it's very important we can hear from our own people, with our own ideas, our own voice.\"\n\nFrom her home in Sweden, Ms Thunberg also spoke about her own role as a campaigner.\n\n\"I don't see myself as a climate celebrity, I see myself as a climate activist... I should be grateful because there are many, many people who don't have a platform and who are not being listened to, their voices are being oppressed and silenced.\n\n\"I'm a completely different person when I'm in private. I don't think people would recognise me in private. I'm not very serious in private. I appear very angry in the media, but I am silly in private.\"\n\nWhen asked about why she sang a Rick Astley hit at the launch of Climate Live, she said that it was a climate movement in-joke. She has previously taken part in the internet phenomenon \"rick-rolling\" by tweeting out what she said was a link to a new speech, but actually linked to the music video for the song.\n\n\"Why not? I mean we have internal jokes within the climate movement, where we always rickroll each other.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Javid says £5.9bn for the NHS is \"new money\" to tackle waiting lists\n\nThe NHS in England is to receive an extra £5.9bn in this week's Budget, the government has announced.\n\nThe money will be used to help clear the record backlog of people waiting for tests and scans, which has been worsened by the pandemic, and also to buy equipment and improve IT.\n\nHealth bodies welcomed the latest pledge but said it would not solve the problem of staff shortages.\n\nSajid Javid, the health secretary, said the funding was \"new money\" and that Mr Sunak would set out exactly where it was coming from during Wednesday's Budget and Spending Review.\n\nMore than five million people are waiting for NHS hospital treatment in England, with hundreds of thousands waiting more than a year.\n\nThe £5.9bn is on top of the £12bn a year that was announced in September..\n\nThat money will be raised through tax increases - the rise in National Insurance and, from 2022, the Health and Social Care Levy - and will be spent on resources such as staffing.\n\nThe £5.9bn will be used to pay for physical infrastructure and equipment - not day-to-day spending.\n\nSome of the £5.9bn - £2.3bn - will be used to fund more diagnostic tests, like CT, MRI and ultrasound scans, the government said.\n\nMore clinics in shopping centres for scans and tests - which the government had already announced - will be opened.\n\nThese will help clear the backlog of tests by the end of this Parliament, the government said.\n\nAlso included in the £5.9bn total is:\n\nA proportionate amount will also go to the health services in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAccess to tests and scans is a real bottleneck in the system at the moment, slowing down the ability of the NHS to work its way through the backlog in routine care and, sometimes, delaying the diagnosis of cancer.\n\nIt has been known for years the NHS does not have enough equipment to carry out tests and scans. And the machines it has are ageing.\n\nThe problems mean as demand has increased, performance has deteriorated.\n\nThe aim is to get these tests done within six weeks of referral, unless it is an urgent cancer case.\n\nBut currently around a quarter of patients wait longer than that. Before the pandemic fewer than 5% did.\n\nThe funding will help, in time, improve the situation.\n\nBut the big issue that it does not tackle is staffing - there is a shortage of specialists to carry out these tests.\n\nAround one in 10 posts are currently vacant.\n\nThere are various reasons for this, including more part-time working, the numbers retiring and problems recruiting internationally because of the pandemic.\n\nBuying new machines is much easier than training, recruiting and retaining staff. Until that is resolved, many are sceptical about what this announcement will actually achieve.\n\nWaiting lists have grown as routine operations were cancelled throughout the pandemic and people who put off seeking help for symptoms come forward.\n\nSome of those in the healthcare sector warned it was not enough to keep up with costs and demand.\n\nChristopher Rigby, an NHS radiographer from Yorkshire, said: \"We haven't got the workforce to staff the hospitals we have now let alone all these new centres.\"\n\nNHS Providers - which speaks for hospital and other NHS trusts - warned the health service needed more staff to deliver services.\n\nA body representing healthcare leaders, the NHS Confederation, said the funding \"falls short of what is needed to get services completely back on track\".\n\nThe NHS is sending out a further two million invites for Covid booster jabs this week.\n\nThe health secretary said \"we should actively be looking at\" making jabs mandatory for NHS staff, as they are for care workers.\n\nMr Javid told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he would wear a face covering during Wednesday's Budget announcement in the Commons.\n\nBut he said now was not time to activate England's \"Plan B\", that would make face masks mandatory in many places.\n\nAre you an NHS professional or patient affected by the NHS backlog? 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.", "Fighting erupted in the stands at about 16:30 BST\n\nFour police officers were hurt when trouble flared during Coventry City's Championship clash with Derby County.\n\nOne was taken to hospital with a dislocated shoulder and three others suffered minor injuries at the Coventry Building Society Arena on Saturday.\n\nFighting erupted between rival fans in the stands at about 16:30 BST and a 23-year-old man was arrested.\n\nAs fans left a further disorder took place outside. Another man has been charged with affray, police said.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable of West Midlands Police Jayne Meir said: \"While the vast majority of football fans attend matches to enjoy the game, it is wholly unacceptable that officers get injured during violence like that seen yesterday.\n\n\"A full investigation is under way in partnership with the club and those found to have taken part in the disorder face prosecution and a lifetime ban from matches.\"\n\nThe match ended 1-1 as the Rams ended their host's 100% winning start to the Championship season.\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 UN conference will bring 25,000 delegates to Glasgow\n\nScotland's health secretary says there is \"absolutely a risk\" of Covid cases rising after the COP26 summit in Glasgow.\n\nHumza Yousaf said he expects to see a spike in cases after 25,000 delegates descend on the city in a week's time.\n\nMr Yousaf said the Scottish government was not currently considering imposing more restrictions.\n\nHe also stressed that there were many mitigations in place to prevent Covid being transmitted at the conference.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's The Sunday Show Mr Yousaf said that the Scottish government was doing everything it could to limit transmission of the virus during the 12 days of the summit.\n\nHe said: \"We have been working with the UK government and the United Nations (UN) to make COP as safe as we possibly can.\n\n\"Mitigations like daily testing in the blue zone, very strict isolation protocols in place, face coverings being worn in the blue zone and so on. We will do everything we possibly can to make the event because we recognise the climate emergency itself is the biggest public health emergency and crisis that we face globally.\"\n\nHe said: \"There is no public health expert in the world who would say there is no risk in the midst of a global pandemic to have tens of thousand of people descending onto largely one city so there is absolutely a risk of Covid cases rising thereafter but we will do everything we can to mitigate that.\n\n\"Of course we would expect there to be positive cases linked to COP but we are also very, very assured by the protocols we have got in place to be able to isolate those cases as best as we possibly can.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Humza Yousaf said he would expect a rise in coronavirus cases following an event as large as COP26\n\nThe UK government has insisted every measure is being taken to mitigate risk.\n\nCOP President Alok Sharma told BBC Scotland's No Hot Air podcast: \"People want to know we are taking every measure to ensure that COP26 is safe for the participants and also, really importantly, for the people of Glasgow. That is why we have a detailed regime in terms of safety.\n\n\"People will be tested every day before they come into the venue. If they are found to be positive they will have to self-isolate.\n\n\"They will be wearing masks moving around the venue, we will have rigorous cleaning regimes in place and social distancing.\n\n\"We also made an offer to any accredited delegate who wasn't able to get vaccinated in their home nation to say we would support them in that vaccination process.\"\n\nCases in Scotland were on the rise throughout the summer as coronavirus restrictions were relaxed, but began to fall in September as the vaccination programme reached its end with young people included, but the drop has levelled off, with cases in October rarely falling below 2,000 per day.\n\nExperts, including government adviser Prof Devi Sridhar, have raised concerns over a potential increase in cases associated with so many people being in a relatively small area.\n\nResponding to a tweet from a member of the public last week, Prof Sridhar said: \"I could be wrong (and hope I am) but yes. A mass event with major movement of people in and out with an infectious virus will cause an increase in cases.\n\n\"While in the case of Covid will put stress on limited health services. Which triggers need for further restrictions.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Prof. Devi Sridhar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 health secretary said that the Scottish government was not actively considering bringing back restrictions.\n\nBut he did not rule out any measures later in the year. He said restrictions would continue to be reviewed every three weeks but said it would be \"foolish\" to pretend he knew what was going to happen in two or three months' time.\n\nMr Yousaf admitted he was concerned about the months ahead.\n\n\"We can't get away from the fact that this will be the most challenging winter in the NHS's 73-year existence and this is the case across the entire UK,\" he said.\n\nScottish Labour's deputy leader Jackie Baillie called for more action ahead of the summit and before winter pressures increase.\n\nShe said: \"The health secretary simply had no answers to the potential impact of COP26 on our NHS.\n\n\"We are looking down the barrel at a winter of extreme pressure on our NHS and potentially surging levels of Covid.\n\n\"We need action from the health secretary to avoid this, not warm words.\"\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Dr Sandesh Gulhane said that Mr Yousaf was \"unable to provide any confidence that our NHS is prepared\" as delegates started to arrive for COP26.\n\nHe said: \"This event is unlike anything that Scotland has previously hosted, and under the backdrop of Covid there needs to be reassurance that every mitigation is being taken, so health services are not overwhelmed by a surge in cases.\n\n\"The minster needs to focus on stepping up testing and the booster programme to protect capacity within our NHS and those most vulnerable.\n\n\"Humza Yousaf needs to take action if the SNP are serious about managing the potential impact COP26 could have on our NHS.\"\n\nMr Yousaf also strongly denied claims that Scotland's Covid-19 booster vaccine programme was lagging behind.\n\nHe said the rollout started as soon as the Joint Committee on Vaccine and Immunisation (JCVI) had authorised the move.\n\n\"I completely reject the suggestion the booster programme is failing. We are on track to meet the targets I laid out to parliament previously.\n\n\"Groups 1-4, the JCVI priority groups, we are confident of getting vaccinated by mid November. Then groups 5-9 in the months thereafter and absolutely by early next year. Those aged 60-69 can expect letters to be received very soon.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel Reeves wants to see the government's Plan B implemented now, alongside Plan A\n\nLabour is calling on the government to bring in its Plan B measures to tackle Covid in England, including advice to work from home and compulsory masks.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves also told the BBC the vaccine programme was \"stalling\" and needed to work better.\n\nBut Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the data did not currently suggest \"immediately moving to Plan B\".\n\nThe measures, which aim to protect the NHS from \"unsustainable pressure\", also includes mandatory Covid passports.\n\nPlan A, which is currently in place, involves offering booster jabs to the most vulnerable, a single dose to healthy 12 to 15-year-olds and encouraging unvaccinated people to get jabbed.\n\nThe NHS Confederation and the British Medical Association are among the groups who have called for some restrictions to be reintroduced in England, amid rising cases.\n\nMeanwhile in Wales, ministers are to consider whether to extend the use of Covid passes for a wider range of venues.\n\nMs Reeves told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"I think the first thing is the government have got to do more to make Plan A work.\n\n\"If the scientists are saying work from home and masks, we should do that. So get A working better because the vaccination programme has been stalling, and introduce those parts of Plan B.\n\n\"But there are also things not in A or B that need to be done, like paying statutory sick pay from day one and also better ventilation in public spaces.\"\n\nAsked whether Plan B should be introduced now, she said: \"Yes, but let's not let the government off the hook with Plan A either.\"\n\nA Conservative Party spokesman said it was the third time Labour had changed its position on Plan B in four days.\n\nAppearing on the same programme, Mr Sunak was also asked whether it was time to bring in the government's back-up plan.\n\n\"We're monitoring everything, but at the moment the data does not suggest that we should be immediately moving to Plan B, but of course we will keep an eye on that and the plans are ready,\" he said.\n\nThe chancellor also said reintroducing the furlough scheme was \"not on the cards because we don't envisage having to impose significant economic restrictions in the way that we had to over the last year\".\n\nHe added that the vaccine rollout was the \"first line of defence\" and the booster campaign was the best way to protect people through the winter.\n\nMore than 325,000 booster jabs were given in England on Saturday - the biggest daily figure for boosters yet, NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard tweeted.\n\nProf Adam Finn, a member of the government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said the vaccination programme by itself was not enough \"to bring things under control\".\n\n\"We do need to have people using lateral flow tests, avoiding contact with large numbers of people in enclosed spaces, using masks, all of those things now need to happen if we're going to stop this rise and get things under control soon enough to stop a real meltdown in the middle of the winter,\" he told Sky News' Trevor Phillips On Sunday.\n\nAsked if the government should move to Plan B now, he said: \"Well, some kind of Plan B.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats said it looked \"increasingly likely\" Covid restrictions would have to be reintroduced because of the \"government's bungling and inaction\".\n\nDr Katherine Henderson, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, told the programme emergency departments were \"already struggling to cope\", with large queues of ambulances waiting outside hospitals.\n\nOne in 55 people in England had Covid last week, according to the latest ONS figures, the highest rate since the end of January.\n\nDemands for compulsory mask wearing, vaccine passports and more working from home have been growing - backed by many doctors and people representing NHS trusts.\n\nLabour's position has not been altogether clear on this.\n\nWhen asked by Andrew Marr whether Plan B should be introduced \"now\", shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves agreed. But she also suggested the priority should be accelerating the rollout of booster vaccines to the over-50s and first jabs to teenagers.\n\nOn the same programme, Chancellor Rishi Sunak repeatedly ruled out reimposing stricter measures \"immediately\" - perhaps suggesting a slight change of tone from senior ministers.\n\nThe key measure to watch for is pressure on hospitals.\n\nAs things stand, there are currently 6,405 people being treated for Covid on wards in England. The number has been rising but is still no higher than it was in mid-September - and well below the 34,000 seen in January.\n\nIn minutes of a meeting of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) on 14 October, which were published on Friday, the scientists said restrictions should be prepared for \"rapid deployment\" and that acting earlier could reduce the need for stricter measures over a longer time period.\n\nThey said that out of the government's back-up measures, advising people to work from home was likely to have the most impact on the spread of Covid.\n\nStricter rules are already in place in other parts of the UK, with masks compulsory in some settings in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK reported 39,962 new cases - the first time in 12 days that cases have dropped below 40,000.\n\nThere were also another 72 deaths reported within 28 days of a positive test.", "Disruption is expected in Glasgow over the weekend as the first major road closures for COP26 take effect.\n\nRoutes including the Clyde Arc and part of the Clydeside Expressway closed on Saturday night while Finnieston Street will only allow local access on Sunday.\n\nRail strikes also look set to go ahead for the duration of the summit, following a breakdown in union talks.\n\nThe climate conference is expected to draw 25,000 delegates and runs from 31 October to 12 November.\n\nSecurity is expected to be tight, particularly around the attendance of some 120 world leaders, and police have announced how they plan to approach disruptive climate activists.\n\nRoad closures will last until Monday 15 November.\n\nSome days are expected to be busier than others, with the biggest disruption expected on Saturday 6 November which has been designated as the Global Day For Climate Justice.\n\nAbout 100,000 protesters are expected in Glasgow, with a march which begins at Kelvingrove Park at noon before making its way to Glasgow Green for about 15:00.\n\nPeople across the city can expect to be affected by delays, diversions or road congestion, from pedestrians and cyclists to drivers and those using public transport.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roads in Glasgow close ahead of the COP26 climate change summit\n\nThe RMT confirmed that strikes during COP26 would go ahead, with ScotRail workers planning action from 1-12 November amid an ongoing dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nThe union's general secretary Mick Lynch said the decision to press on with industrial action was made on Friday after the train company \"failed to get serious\" in talks with the union.\n\nHe said ScotRail had missed \"a golden opportunity\" for progress by offering \"nothing of any consequence\".\n\nMr Lynch continued that there was still time to avoid \"the chaos of a transport shutdown during COP26 if the key players get back with some serious proposals\".\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson welcomed that three out of four railway trade unions had now accepted, or recommended acceptance of, the pay offer.\n\nThat offer amounts to a 2.5% pay increase backdated to 1 April 2021, and a 2.2% increase effective from 1 April 2022, with a one-off £300 payment for staff working during COP26.\n\nBut the government said it was \"disappointed\" the offer was rejected by the RMT.\n\nA spokesperson said after this, ScotRail sought to focus the issue of rest day working, which the RMT said needed to be addressed.\n\nHowever, an offer on rest day working was \"rejected out of hand\" and the union returned to the issue of pay, according to the government.\n\nIt said: \"We don't think anyone, including the membership of the RMT, wants to disrupt COP26 or the chance to showcase Scotland's green, clean railway to a global audience. We hope that encompasses the RMT leadership too, although their approach to seeking resolution does appear to call this into question.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Ian McConnell, of ScotRail, said he was \"incredibly frustrated\" that the union had \"point blank rejected\" the latest proposal.\n\nHe accused the leadership of having \"moved the goalposts without consulting their members\".\n\nMr McConnell said time was running out to reach agreement, adding: \"It seems RMT bosses are intent on sabotaging Scotland's railway's role during COP26.\"\n\nContingency plans were being developed to provide a core service for the duration of the summit, he said.\n\nAppearing on BBC Radio Scotland, Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken urged people to plan ahead of travelling and check the Get Ready Glasgow website for more information.\n\nMs Aitken also said cleansing teams were out clearing up fly-tipping \"hotspots\" after the issue of mounting rubbish in the city was raised on Question Time.\n\nAbout 1,500 Glasgow City Council staff including those in refuse collection and cleansing plan to strike for a week during the climate summit due to an ongoing pay dispute.\n\nUnion members rejected an £850-a-year increase for staff earning up to £25,000 a year, and are instead calling for a £2,000 pay rise for staff.\n\nConcerns have also been raised about the impact the summit could have on Scotland's Covid cases.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, of Edinburgh University, tweeted that a mass event such as COP26 \"will cause an increase in cases\" and could \"trigger a need for further restrictions\".\n\nJillian Evans, head of health intelligence for NHS Grampian, said the risk of infection during mass events was high even if safety precautions were in place.\n\nShe warned many of those attending would not be fully vaccinated.\n\nMs Evans added: \"We've got a really fragile situation, the number of cases in Scotland have been plateauing - plateaued at higher levels than ever before.\"\n\n\"You're looking at numbers we probably haven't seen before, whether that leads to restrictions will depend on the scale of this. I would say the stakes are really high,\" she said.\n\nThe Scottish government has said appropriate mitigation measures will be in place for the summit and Covid-19 continues to be closely monitored.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Erdogan orders 10 ambassadors to be declared 'persona non grata'\n\nTurkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ordered 10 ambassadors, including those from the US, Germany and France, be declared persona non grata.\n\nIt follows a statement from the envoys calling for the urgent release of activist Osman Kavala.\n\nHe has been in jail for more than four years over protests and a coup attempt, although he has not been convicted.\n\nPersona non grata can remove diplomatic status and often results in expulsion or withdrawal of recognition of envoys.\n\nThis week's statement on Mr Kavala jointly came from the embassies of the US, Canada, France, Finland, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden. Seven are fellow Nato allies of Turkey.\n\nThe Council of Europe, Europe's main human rights watchdog, has given Turkey a final warning to heed a European Court of Human Rights ruling to free Mr Kavala pending trial.\n\nAddressing a crowd in Eskisehir on Saturday, Mr Erdogan said the ambassadors \"cannot dare to come to the Turkish foreign ministry and give orders\".\n\nHe said: \"I gave the necessary order to our foreign minister and said what must be done. These 10 ambassadors must be declared persona non grata at once. You will sort it out immediately.\"\n\nHowever, what will happen now remains unclear.\n\nOsman Kavala has spent more than four years in jail, without conviction\n\nMr Erdogan said the envoys should either understand Turkey or leave, Turkish media reported.\n\nThere has been little response from the ambassadors so far, although the German foreign ministry said the nations involved were in \"intensive consultation\".\n\nNo official notification has been received from Turkish authorities.\n\nThe Norwegian foreign ministry told Reuters its envoy had \"not done anything that warrants an expulsion\".\n\nTurkey's foreign ministry had summoned the ambassadors on Tuesday to protest at their \"irresponsible\" statement on the Kavala case.\n\nThe embassies' statement had criticised the \"continuing delays\" in Osman Kavala's trial, which \"cast a shadow over respect for democracy, the rule of law and transparency in the Turkish judiciary system\".\n\nIt urges a speedy resolution and calls for \"Turkey to secure his urgent release\".\n\nMr Kavala was last year acquitted of charges over nationwide protests in 2013, but almost immediately rearrested.\n\nThe acquittal was overturned and new charges were added relating to the military coup attempt against the Erdogan government in 2016.\n\nMr Kavala denies any wrongdoing and critics of the Erdogan government say his case is an example of a widespread crackdown on dissent.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Erdogan defended Turkey's judicial system, saying: \"I told our foreign minister: We can't have the luxury of hosting this lot in our country. Is it for you to give Turkey such a lesson? Who do you think you are?\"\n\nThe Kavala case has been a source of tension between the Turkish government and its Western allies. Turkey has been accused of applying criminal law against its critics and breaching the rule of law. The Kavala case is one example.\n\nAs a businessman, Mr Kavala had been campaigning for freedom of speech and democracy. President Erdogan says he supported the Gezi protests in Turkey in 2013. He believes those protests were aimed at toppling himself and his government. That is why he believes all the calls for Mr Kavala's release are directly targeting himself. Hence his harsh response.\n\nTurkish officials told me that they did not know when the trial should start. But if it does, we can expect a response from the countries now speaking out, and that will have consequences for the Turkish economy, which is already struggling, since some of those countries are Turkey's biggest trade partners.\n\nThis is a very bold move, probably a show of strength, especially for domestic politics a year and a half before elections. Some analysts believe it is rhetoric for domestic consumption. But others argue Mr Erdogan may be serious in pursuing this order. It remains to be seen.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland bowled West Indies out for 55 as they made a stunning start to their Men's T20 World Cup campaign with a six-wicket win in Dubai.\n\nIn a near-perfect bowling performance, England humiliated the defending champions by dismissing them in 14.2 overs.\n\nAdil Rashid took a barely believable 4-2 while Moeen Ali and Tymal Mills were brilliant, both claiming 2-17.\n\nChris Gayle was the only West Indies batter to reach double figures in a feeble batting display - the second-lowest total against England in T20s.\n\nAlthough England lost four wickets as they attempted to wrap up victory and increase their net run-rate in Group 1 of the Super 12s, it was still a statement opening win from the world's top-ranked side and one of the tournament favourites.\n\nOpener Jos Buttler ended 24 not out as the chase was completed with a massive 11.4 overs to spare.\n\n\"It is as good as it gets,\" said England captain Eoin Morgan.\n\nEngland - bidding to become the first team to hold the 50-over and 20-over World Cups - face Bangladesh in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday and Australia in Dubai next Saturday.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Australia held their nerve to chase 119 and beat South Africa by five wickets in Abu Dhabi.\n• None It was the first time England have won a T20 with more than 10 overs to spare and the first time West Indies have lost with more than 10 overs to spare.\n• None West Indies' 55 was the third-lowest total at a T20 World Cup and their second-lowest score in T20s.\n• None England's win was the fourth largest at the T20 World Cup in terms of balls remaining.\n\nThis match was a repeat of the 2016 World T20 final, won by West Indies after Carlos Brathwaite hit four consecutive sixes in the final over.\n\nDespite England's batting wobble, the rematch was not as dramatic, but it was no less staggering.\n\nWest Indies are fancied to do well in this tournament, not least because of their vaunted batting line-up. But instead of racking up runs, their batters slumped back to the dressing room in a sorry procession.\n\nEngland were majestic with the ball and in the field as every move made by Morgan came off.\n\nAfter winning the toss he handed the new ball to off-spinner Moeen, who dismissed Lendl Simmons and Shimron Hetmyer within three accurate overs.\n\nMills marked his turnaround from injury nightmare to international recall by having Gayle caught in his first over at a World Cup.\n\nAdil Rashid, usually England's big T20 threat, was not needed until the 11th over, but when he was introduced he bowled Andre Russell with his first ball. The leg-spinner went on to blow away the tail.\n\nEngland were excellent but West Indies' performance with the bat raised questions about their method in T20 cricket.\n\nEngland bowled 43 dot balls in the first 10 overs, their most in that period since 2012.\n\nWest Indies' approach seemed to be to block or try to hit a six - or, on this occasion, block or bust - as batters fell repeatedly to attacking strokes.\n\nThey salvaged some pride with the ball, Akeal Hosein taking a fine diving catch to have Liam Livingstone caught and bowled, and all is not lost for them, with the top-two teams in the two six-team groups progressing to the semi-finals.\n\nTwo of the three lowest scores in T20 World Cup history have now been scored in the last two days - Sri Lanka bowled the Netherlands out for 44 on Friday - while Australia and South Africa played out a low-scoring thriller earlier on Saturday.\n\nThe early signs are that this may not be a high-scoring World Cup.\n\n'We need to take it on the chest as big men' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"To start a world tournament or campaign like that, full credit has to go to our bowling unit.\n\n\"He (Moeen) summed up conditions beautifully, hit his lengths well and took chances when his match-ups were right.\n\n\"I am delighted for big T (Mills). He has had an incredibly unfortunate journey throughout his career. He is as good as I have seen him.\"\n\nWest Indies captain Kieron Pollard: \"Being bowled out for 55 is unacceptable. It was plain to see. I don't think we were good enough on all counts.\n\n\"We need to take it on the chest as big men. Sometimes you just have to bin it and move on. It's very important we forget a game like this.\"\n\nEngland spinner Adil Rashid: \"As a bowling group we bowled exceptionally well. Everything fell into plan. Moeen started off brilliantly, along with Woakesy, and then Tymal, CJ and myself we backed up really well.\n\n\"Moeen showed us his talent again, bowling the first over tight and that set our tone off for the rest of the innings.\"\n• None 'That day was going to be a bad day': Exclusive footage and interviews from January's storming of the US capitol\n• None Caught between life and death in the swinging sixties", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak tells Andrew Marr the Budget will see investment in public services\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has said \"strong investment in public services\" will be at the heart of his plans for rebuilding the economy when he sets out his Budget next week.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, he said he would drive growth by spending on infrastructure, innovation and skills.\n\nBut he said he did not have a \"magic wand\" to make rising costs disappear.\n\nLabour wants VAT on energy bills to be cut to zero to help families.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, who was speaking on the same show, said many households were facing a \"tough winter\", and were worried about putting food on the table and heating their homes because prices were going up \"on everything\".\n\nMr Sunak will set out his Budget on Wednesday, amid concern among some in his own party too that rising energy prices, inflation and tax hikes are causing a cost of living crisis in the UK.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the chancellor said his previous budgets had been about taking action to protect incomes and jobs, but it was now time to look to the future and reshape the economy.\n\nHe said: \"One of the elements of building a stronger economy is having strong public services, and you will see that next week - whether it's the NHS, which we've already taken steps to support significantly to recover from coronavirus - children, schools, skills, all of these things, policing and crime.\n\n\"You will see investment across the board in public services because that's what we were elected to deliver and that's what we are getting on and doing.\"\n\nAsked if he would raise public sector wages in line with inflation, the chancellor said \"that will be one of the things we talk about\".\n\n\"Over the past year, we took a decision to have a more targeted approach to public sector pay,\" he continued, but \"going forward we'll have to set a new pay policy and that'll be a topic for next week's spending review\".\n\nHe said there was \"no magic wand\" to make the factors contributing to high inflation disappear - such as pressure on global supply chains as economies have reopened after Covid, and soaring energy prices.\n\nAnd while his \"instincts\" were to cut tax, Mr Sunak said he was having to grapple with \"an economic shock - the biggest in three hundred years.\"\n\nBut shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said immediate help was essential and ministers needed to match their rhetoric with action.\n\n\"People are facing a tough winter now with prices of everything going up, not least gas and electricity bills,\" she said.\n\n\"When we pay our gas and electricity bills, 5% of that money goes automatically to the taxman.\n\n\"There's something very simple the government could do. It would be immediate and it would be felt automatically on people's bills next month - and that is to cut that rate of VAT from 5% to 0%.\"\n\nShe said she had been looking at VAT receipts and they had come in more than £2bn higher than forecast because of rising prices, giving the chancellor some wriggle room to act.\n\n\"Let's use that money to ease that pressure on people who are worried about the winter months, worried about putting food on the table and heating their homes\" she added.\n\nAnd she said Labour would not have made the \"appalling\" cuts to universal credit payments which came into force earlier this month.", "The social care sector is reaching a \"critical point\" and staff are dreading winter, one care manager says\n\nCare homes in Wales could fill 20,000 vacancies \"by the end of the week\" if they could find the staff, according to a leading industry figure.\n\nMario Kreft, chairman of Care Forum Wales, said the sector was facing its worst crisis \"in living memory\".\n\nHe said the care sector had been left in a \"fragile state\" by the pandemic, and called for staff to be paid more.\n\nThe Welsh government said it had provided £48m to help local authorities ease pressures in social care.\n\nA care worker in north Wales said she was dreading the winter as the sector reached a \"critical point\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Mr Kreft said that \"if we could find 20,000 people quickly, they would all be in jobs by the end of the week\".\n\nSocial care workers need to be paid more to address a staffing crisis, says Mario Kreft, chairman of Care Forum Wales\n\nHe said he respected the fact Wales' health minister Eluned Morgan had apologised for mistakes made in the early stages of the pandemic, but added lessons needed to be learned to strengthen the social care sector.\n\n\"I can tell you this is the worst crisis for social care we have ever seen in living memory - it's because the sector was so fragile, so we've got to find a mechanism to ensure that people are properly rewarded.\n\n\"Social care is a vital part of the foundation economy. It's worth over £50bn in the UK each year so we shouldn't be looking at cost, we should be looking at value.\"\n\nMr Kreft said social care needed to be made equal to other health care work.\n\nEmma Murray is the manager of At Home - Vale Senior Care, a domiciliary care service in Denbigh, Denbighshire.\n\nShe manages a team of 10 carers and said the social care sector had reached a \"critical point\".\n\nCare manager Emma Murray says the sector is desperate for staff\n\n\"You don't want to deliver care that's unsafe. We're desperate at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to try and attract people into the job, give better incentives, proper contracts, bonuses and flexible working.\n\n\"I'm not looking forward to the winter after the last 18 months. We're going to be working very long hours keeping everyone warm, safe and well.\"\n\nAnne Gulliver is a nurse at Dolywern, a home for 30 adults with physical disabilities in Wrexham.\n\nShe said she had picked up more shifts recently due to Covid and the shortfall in staff, which was becoming \"more prevalent, post-Covid\".\n\nMs Gulliver said \"greater funding is needed\" to attract more workers because \"the pay is not enough\".\n\n\"The impact on the residents is that they get basic care but they lose out on things like quality time that we'd spend with them.\"\n\nAnne Gulliver says people are leaving care because they are \"burnt-out\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"Ministers are committed to delivering the real living wage for social care workers early in this Senedd term.\n\n\"There are long-standing challenges in recruitment and retention in social care, which have been made worse by the pandemic.\n\n\"Our recent national recruitment campaign resulted in an increase in job applications and we will be repeating this activity.\"", "New simplified travel rules have come into force in the UK, with the traffic light system replaced by a single red list.\n\nMost fully vaccinated travellers arriving from non-red list countries will no longer have to take a test before setting off for the UK.\n\nAirlines UK said it would make travelling abroad easier and cheaper.\n\nBut those coming from red list destinations must still pay to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days.\n\nUnder the changes, which came into force at 04:00 BST, the green and amber lists have been scrapped.\n\nTesting rules are also being eased for people travelling from non-red list destinations who have been vaccinated in the UK, the EU, the US, or any of 18 other recognised countries.\n\nAnyone under 18 who is resident in those countries can also travel to the UK without testing.\n\nThese groups were already able to avoid self-isolating on their arrival back in the UK.\n\nAll travellers - except children under five years old - will still have to pay for a PCR test two days after arrival.\n\nPeople who are not fully vaccinated will need a pre-departure test and a PCR test on days two and eight after they return, and must self-isolate for 10 days at home.\n\nAnd those arriving from red list countries, including Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines and South Africa, must quarantine for 10 days in a government-approved hotel, at a cost of £2,285 for one adult. Only UK or Irish nationals, or UK residents, are allowed to enter the UK if they have been in a red country in the previous 10 days.\n\nThe red list is due to be updated later this week.\n\nThe government may also announce additions to the list of countries whose vaccination certificates are recognised by the UK.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"We are accelerating towards a future where travel continues to reopen safely and remains open for good, and today's rule changes are good news for families, businesses and the travel sector.\n\n\"Our priority remains to protect public health but, with more than eight in 10 people now fully vaccinated, we are able to take these steps to lower the cost of testing and help the sector to continue in its recovery.\"\n\nThere was a surge in holiday bookings after the government announced the changes last month and the travel sector has welcomed the move.\n\nThe industry previously criticised the government for being too slow to ease and simplify rules on testing and quarantine.\n\nFrom later in October, the government has said fully vaccinated people coming to England will no longer have to take a PCR test two days after arrival and can take a cheaper lateral flow test instead.\n\nNo date has been set for this change but ministers are aiming to have it in place for the half-term school break.\n\nSo far, no other UK nation has followed suit.\n\nScotland has said it will \"align with the UK post-arrival testing regime\" but has not announced further details. The Welsh government said it had \"concerns\" about easing its testing regime.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, which represents UK carriers, said: \"Things are moving in the right direction and the removal of these restrictions will make it easier and cheaper for people to travel.\"\n\nHowever, he said the UK remained \"an outlier on arrivals testing for vaccinated passengers\".\n\nAirlines UK hopes to see more countries removed from the red list at the next update and further mutual recognition of vaccine status for those jabbed in other countries, he added.\n\nWillie Walsh, head of industry body the International Air Transport Association, welcomed the change as a \"positive step\", saying the government's testing and quarantine restrictions had been both unscientific and costly.\n\n\"People have been led to believe that the risk is people flying into the country. The risk was inside the country,\" he said.\n\nAlan French, chief executive at Thomas Cook, said more options would now be available for travellers.\n\n\"They will be more confident if they book the holiday, they can travel safely there and be able to return in a transparent way, which is something they've not been able to do,\" he said.\n\nMr French said since the government announced the changes, three weeks ago, his company had seen bookings more than double.\n\nThe UK recorded 30,439 cases on Sunday, with the total number of cases in the past seven days up one per cent on the previous week.\n\nHowever, the number of Covid deaths and hospital admissions are falling, with 43 deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported on Sunday.\n\nHow will the new system affect you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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.", "Andrew Marr is joined by chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak MP and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves MP. News Review with Saffron Cordery, NHS Providers, and Lucy Fisher, deputy political editor of The Telegraph.", "Hutchins was a \"wonderful mother, first and foremost\", a former colleague told the BBC\n\nHalyna Hutchins, the cinematographer who died when actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on a film set, has been remembered as \"an incredible artist\".\n\nHutchins had been working as director of photography on the set of Rust.\n\nAmerican Cinematographer magazine had named her one of its rising stars in 2019, and she previously worked on 2020 independent superhero film Archenemy.\n\nArchenemy director Adam Egypt Mortimer told BBC News the fact she had died on a set was \"really unbelievable\".\n\nHe said: \"Halyna was an incredible artist who was just starting a career I think people were really starting to notice.\n\n\"The fact that she would be killed on a set in an accident like this is unfathomable. It just seems inconceivable.\"\n\nHutchins' most recent post on Instagram, from Tuesday, showed her riding horses on set.\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 halynahutchins 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 Twitter, Alec Baldwin said \"there are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours.\"\n\n\"My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFellow cinematographer Catherine Goldschmidt described Hutchins as \"lovely, warm, funny, charming, outgoing\", and praised her for being \"so talented\".\n\n\"What's so tragic is she's made beautiful films already but when you think about what was ahead of her, that is also so sad,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"She was also a mum, which I think is very difficult,\" Goldschmidt added. \"When I first met her I remember being really impressed, shocked even that this beautiful, creative, outgoing, enthusiastic talented cinematographer also is raising the child.\n\n\"I think for women in this industry it is very difficult. So I was very impressed that she was able to do that.\"\n\nHutchins was described by a friend as a \"rockstar cinematographer\"\n\nAlex Fedosov, who like Hutchins is a Ukrainian film-maker working Hollywood, said she was \"rising fast in her career\" and was \"an artist and a visionary\".\n\n\"She was so talented, a photography director with her own vision, her own strong ideas,\" he told BBC News Ukrainian.\n\n\"When we worked together on set, I was assistant director, I would rush her and say, 'Hurry up, we need to film this'. She would smile calmly but carry on in her own rhythm because she knew what she wanted to achieve.\"\n\nInnovative Artists, the agency that represented her, described her as \"a ray of light\" in a statement.\n\n\"Her talent was immense, only surpassed by the love she had for her family,\" the agency wrote. \"All those in her orbit knew what was coming; a star director of photography, who would be a force to be reckoned with.\"\n\nFedosov added Hutchins was a \"wonderful mother, first and foremost\".\n\nHe also questioned how her death could have happened, saying: \"Standards of safety in the US are very high. There is always an expert on set. There are always checks ahead of filming. Blanks are used sometimes to achieve a better effect on camera but it is always done with high degree of safety.\"\n\nDirector Adam Egypt Mortimer told the BBC that safety on movie sets is paramount. \"The fact that a gun went off and killed Halyna is both shocking from an industry point of view and just absolutely tragic from the point of view of knowing this amazing artist who suddenly not with us.\"\n\nJames Gunn, director of The Suicide Squad and Guardians of the Galaxy, said: \"My greatest fear is that someone will be fatally hurt on one of my sets. I pray this will never happen. My heart goes out to all of those affected by the tragedy today on Rust, especially Halyna Hutchins and her family.\"\n\nDirector and cinematographer Elle Schneider wrote a thread on Twitter about the death of her \"friend and rockstar cinematographer\".\n\n\"I don't have words to describe this tragedy. I want answers. I want her family to somehow find peace among this horrific, horrific loss,\" she said.\n\n\"Women cinematographers have historically been kept from genre film, and it seems especially cruel that one of the rising stars who was able to break through had her life cut short on the kind of project we've been fighting for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by AFI Conservatory This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHutchins was born in Ukraine in 1979 and grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle.\n\nHer website said she spent her upbringing \"surrounded by reindeer and nuclear submarines\".\n\nShe entered the film industry after gaining a degree in international journalism from Kyiv State University. After working on documentaries in the UK, she moved to Los Angeles, where she graduated from the American Film Institute conservatory in 2015.\n\nShe began working her way up in Hollywood, with credits on films including Blindfire, which she described as a \"racially charged cop drama\" written and directed by Mike Nell.\n\nShe also worked on horror feature Darlin', directed by Pollyanna McIntosh, which debuted at the SXSW film festival 2019.\n\nAmerican Cinematographer, a monthly magazine published by the American Society of Cinematographers, interviewed Hutchins in 2019.\n\nShe explained to them why she moved from journalism to cinematography, saying: \"My transition from journalism began when I was working on British film productions in eastern Europe, travelling with crews to remote locations and seeing how the cinematographer worked.\n\n\"I was fascinated with storytelling based on real characters.\"\n\nHer early life as a self-described \"army brat\" meant she was \"already a movie fan because 'there wasn't that much to do outside'\", the magazine added.\n\nIt said she gained \"hands-on shooting experience from documenting her forays into such extreme sports as parachuting and cave exploration\".\n\nAfter her death, the magazine paid tribute to the film-maker, saying: \"We're deeply saddened by the news from Santa Fe regarding the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Safety on the set should always be of paramount concern to everyone, especially when working with firearms.\"", "Ed Sheeran attended the Earthshot Prize Awards in London last week\n\nEd Sheeran says he is self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe chart-topping musician said in a post on his Instagram page that he would continue to give planned interviews and performances from home.\n\nSheeran, who lives near Framlingham in Suffolk, said: \"Apologies to anyone I've let down, be safe everyone x.\"\n\nLast week he performed in London as part of the inaugural Earthshot Prize awards, hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nIn his post, Sheeran said: \"Hey guys, quick note to tell you that I've sadly tested positive for Covid, so I'm now self-isolating and following government guidelines.\n\n\"It means that I'm now unable to plough ahead with any in-person commitments for, so I'll be doing as many of my planned interviews/performances I can from my house.\"\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\nHis new album, titled =, is due to be released on Friday.\n\nAs part of the promotion, Sheeran was due to join Apple Music's Zane Lowe next week to play songs from his album and take questions from fans.\n\nSheeran's latest singles Shivers and Bad Habits have both topped the UK chart\n\nLast week it was announced Sheeran would read a CBeebies Bedtime story, telling a story about a boy who has a stutter.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "People have paid tribute to the cinematographer who died on Thursday\n\nA vigil has taken place in New Mexico to mourn cinematographer Halyna Hutchins after she was fatally shot on a US film set.\n\nIndustry professionals were among those who attended the event in Albuquerque, lighting candles for the 42-year-old.\n\nHutchins was shot by a prop gun by actor Alec Baldwin on the set of western film Rust on Thursday. Baldwin had been told the gun was safe.\n\nThe incident has raised concern about safety on film sets.\n\n\"She was so dynamic and when something like this happens, it's devastating to all of us,\" Sandi Kay, an Albuquerque film worker, told Reuters news agency at the vigil on Saturday.\n\nPeople at the vigil said they were 'devastated' by the cinematographer's death\n\nLane Luper, a colleague of Hutchins, said he was lucky to work with the cinematographer.\n\n\"To work with somebody that is that collaborative and never thought of herself as better than anyone on that set, I would have been lucky to have ever done another move with another person like that or her, and now I don't get to and it sucks,\" Lane added.\n\nOthers at the vigil included actors Jon Hamm and John Slattery, who are currently filming nearby.\n\nSome people were seen holding signs that called for increased safety measures on film sets.\n\n\"I think that it's definitely a stark reminder for gun safety on set, and I am with the idea of banning real guns from set if that is possible,\" film worker Cheryl Lowe told Reuters.\n\nThe incident has raised concern about safety on film sets\n\nAccording to court records, assistant director Dave Halls did not know the prop gun contained live ammunition and indicated it was unloaded by shouting \"cold gun!\".\n\nDirector Joel Souza, who was standing behind Hutchins, was wounded in the incident.\n\nAccording to the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, there were at least two accidental gun discharges on the set days before the incident.\n\nCrew members said that the discharges were inside a cabin that was being used as a set location. These crew members were part of a group that quit hours before the incident took place over complaints about working conditions and unpaid work.\n\nThe film's producers said in a statement on Friday that they had not been told about the safety issues but said it will be \"conducting an internal view of our procedures while production is shut down\".\n\nSuch incidents on film sets are extremely rare.\n\nReal firearms are often used in filming, and are loaded with blanks - cartridges that create a flash and a bang without discharging a projectile.\n\nIn 1993, Brandon Lee - the 28-year-old son of the late martial arts star Bruce Lee - died on set after being accidentally shot with a prop gun while filming a death scene for the film The Crow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The director who worked with Ms Hutchins on the 2020 action film Archenemy says her death is \"unfathomable\"", "Insulate Britain protesters blocked the M25 in Essex in September\n\nProtesters who block major roads during the UN climate conference in Glasgow will be moved and may face arrest, police have said.\n\nPolice Scotland said this would apply even if the COP26 protests are peaceful as they could be unlawful and unsafe.\n\nDep Ch Con Will Kerr told BBC Scotland officers have a \"whole range of tactics\" to use in such circumstances.\n\nAlthough disruption is expected, DCC Kerr insisted emergency services would still respond to those who need them.\n\n\"Some protesters will inevitably try and block some roads. If it's not a main arterial route, we'll take a sensible proportionate approach to it,\" he said.\n\n\"If it's a main route, if it involves movement plans for the world leaders, if it involves major disruption to the life of the city, then we will move in and if the protesters won't move, we will remove them.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Will Kerr said police will move protesters who block major routes\n\nAsked how quickly the police would move people, he said: \"It depends on how many people, what the environment is, but it also depends on how quickly we need to move for the safety of the protesters themselves.\n\n\"Running on to major roads to try and block it is a very unsafe thing to do. If we need to step in quickly, we will step in quickly.\"\n\nThe force said that because the UN actively encourages protest, certain groups have been accredited and assigned a time and venue to gather.\n\nPolice Scotland has met with a number of groups to discuss how the event will be policed, including Extinction Rebellion.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Bernie Higgins said there was \"no one size fits all to protest\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Bernie Higgins (left) and Deputy Chief Constable Will Kerr (right) briefed the media on policing plans for COP26\n\n\"Some groups will do a lie in,\" he said. \"If people want to go to George Square and lie down, crack on, because you're really not going to have much impact on the conference.\n\n\"If however you decide to try and shut the Kingston Bridge then that's really, really dangerous for yourself, it's really, really dangerous to other road users and potentially it would prevent ambulances responding to calls so we would move very swiftly to clear that area and it would result in arrests.\"\n\nHe added that police could put diversions in place if protesters block minor routes.\n\nA number of roads will already be closed during the climate summit\n\nAbout 10,000 officers will be deployed each day to the conference in Glasgow next month, where around 120 world leaders and heads of state are expected to attend.\n\nEvery force in the UK will assist Police Scotland with operations, including British Transport Police, the Civil Nuclear Constabulary and Ministry of Defence police.\n\nSpecialist resources such as firearms officers, dog handlers, mounted branch, search teams and the marine unit will be used.\n\nSignificant events during the conference, running from 31 October to 12 November, include the two-day world leaders summit on 1-2 November and the youth event on 5 November.\n\nPolice Scotland also expect 100,000 people to attend a climate rally on 6 November in the city centre.\n\nThe style of policing throughout the event will be \"friendly, fair and accommodating\", according to the force.\n\nIn addition to road closures, DCC Kerr said there was potential for \"further disruption\" if pressure on agencies and services becomes \"more acute\".\n\nHowever he stressed: \"I can reassure the public that if they need an emergency response from us they will get it.\"\n\nDCC Kerr added: \"There's no straightforward, simple or single answer to the complex problem of tens of thousands of people and well over 100 world leaders moving about a city over a compressed period of time.\n\n\"Our principal and simple objective is relatively straight forward, to run a safe and secure environment in which the conference can take place. We are very confident the conference will take place in that secure environment.\"\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.\n• None What was agreed at COP26?", "The protocol is the Brexit deal for Northern Ireland which keeps it in the EU's single market for goods\n\nThe first round of new talks on the Northern Ireland Protocol was \"constructive\", UK officials have said.\n\nHowever big gaps remain, particularly on the role of the European Court of Justice (ECJ).\n\nEU and UK officials held technical talks in Brussels last week, and an EU team will arrive in London on Tuesday to continue negotiations.\n\nThe lead negotiators, Lord Frost and Maroš Šefčovič, are expected to meet at the end of next week.\n\nA European Commission spokesperson declined to comment on the talks.\n\nThe protocol is the Brexit deal which prevents a hard Irish border by keeping Northern Ireland inside the EU's single market for goods.\n\nThat also creates a new trade border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, something the EU accepts is causing difficulties for many businesses.\n\nUnionist politicians say the arrangement undermines Northern Ireland's place in the UK.\n\nUnionists say the protocol damages trade and threatens Northern Ireland's place in the UK\n\nThe EU has suggested a package of reforms which would reduce the practical impacts of the protocol.\n\nThe UK wants more fundamental change, including the removal of the ECJ from its oversight role in the deal.\n\nA UK government source said: \"The talks this week were constructive and we've heard some things from the EU that we can work with.\n\n\"There's been plenty of speculation about governance this week but our position remains unchanged: the role of the ECJ in resolving disputes between the UK and EU must end.\n\n\"We need to see real progress soon rather than get stuck in a process of endless negotiation.\n\n\"Whether we're able to establish that momentum soon will help us determine if we can bridge the gap or if we need to use Article 16.\"\n\nLord Frost is expected to meet his EU counterpart Maroš Šefčovič next week\n\nArticle 16 is the part of the deal which allows parts of the protocol to be temporarily suspended if they are causing serious difficulties or leading to diversion of trade.\n\nIf one side uses Article 16 the other can take \"proportionate rebalancing measures\".\n\nIreland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has suggested the talks have a rough deadline of late December.\n\nHe told the Press Association news agency that there is a finite \"window\" within which the EU is willing to find solutions.\n\n\"I think that window is on offer now to the British government if they want to use it to find a way of implementing the protocol in a way that responds to the vast majority of the issues and problems that have been raised,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't tell you when the EU will decide that that approach is getting us nowhere if there's no agreement.\n\n\"But certainly I think there's a window between now and late December, when the EU, I think, will be open to continuing dialogue and trying to find a way of making this work.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The pandemic has led to an \"unprecedented\" rise in the number of \"fake stray dogs\"\n\nPeople have tried to sell their lockdown dogs on Gumtree before disguising them as strays so rescue centres take them in, a charity warned.\n\nMore than 3.2 millions pets were bought by UK household during lockdown, figures from March showed.\n\nHope Rescue, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, said the number of dogs being dropped off at its rescue centre in Pontyclun was the highest in its 15-year history.\n\nThe charity expects the trend to continue for the next two years.\n\nCharity staff said some dog owners had called a dog warden and pretended their own pet is a stray, or taken the dogs directly to a rescue centre claiming they had found it abandoned.\n\nOne-year-old Maggie, an old English sheepdog crossed with a golden retriever, was taken in as a stray, but the next day staff saw a recent advert on Gumtree asking for £500 for her.\n\nSara Rosser, head of welfare at Hope Rescue Centre, said: \"We have to take stray dogs and so fake strays are jumping the queue ahead of dogs that really are abandoned.\n\n\"It is definitely unprecedented numbers at the moment.\"\n\nOne-year-old Maggie was left at a rescue centre as a stray but then staff saw an ad on Gumtree from her owners\n\nThis online advert for Maggie was found after she was brought into Hope Rescue centre as a stray\n\nShe said in the past week alone, five had come into the centre that they knew were fake strays, but the number \"could be much higher\".\n\nThe centre now has 150 strays - more than it has ever had before.\n\nShe said: \"The rescues are full and then the vets are ringing us saying 'is there any chance you can take them because we're concerned that dog is going to be put to sleep'.\"\n\nCharlie is a six-year-old terrier who came into Hope Rescue as a stray\n\nThe centre said these were \"desperate times\" and others like them were at \"crisis point\".\n\nCentres are at capacity, Ms Rosser said, because of the increase in people who got dogs during lockdown and later realise they cannot look after them as life returns to normal.\n\nShe added: \"At the moment what we're hearing from all the rescue centres that we work with is that they are also full and that they are under massive pressure.\"\n\nSara Rosser says many owners are realising they do not have the time to look after a dog out of lockdown\n\nDogs arriving at rescue centres post-pandemic are said to have a higher incidence of health or behavioural problems, or both, making them more difficult to rehome.\n\nOften these dogs have no background information on these issues, which lengthens the adoption process.\n\nHope Rescue said it had received more than 7,000 applications to adopt dogs in 2021, and has had to suspend applications because of the volume.\n\nOften, dogs cannot be transferred to other rescue centres because they have also reached capacity.\n\nMeg Williams, enterprise development manager at Hope Rescue, said: \"We think this is going to be lasting for two to three years, maybe even longer.\n\n\"The problems are going to continue, not everyone is choosing the right dog for their household.\"", "Healthcare Science is one of the T-levels already on offer\n\nThe government will reconfirm its commitment to a \"skills revolution\" with a spending package to be unveiled by the chancellor on Wednesday.\n\nRishi Sunak will announce £1.6bn to roll out new T-levels for 16 to 19-year-olds, and £550m for adult skills in England in his autumn statement.\n\nAnd there will be £830m confirmed to continue a five-year-scheme to revamp and modernise colleges.\n\nCollege principals said the funding was welcome but would not go far enough.\n\nSixth form colleges and 16-19 education finances have been struggling for many years.\n\nA report by the IPPR think-tank last year suggested colleges in England would have needed an extra £2.7bn a year since 2010 just to catch up with investment levels then.\n\nThe £1.6bn cash investment for colleges over three years to 2024-25 will be used, in the main, to provide additional classroom hours for up to 100,000 young people taking T-levels. Presently there are about 6,000 students on T-level courses.\n\nThese are the government's new vocational qualifications, equivalent to three A-levels, that have been developed with businesses to meet the needs of industry.\n\nCurrently, there are 10 T-levels available currently However, in time the government wants the list to be expanded to include training for many more professions.\n\nThe funding will also cover inflationary pressures and accommodate the higher number of teenagers in the population.\n\nAn extra £550m is being invested in adult skills through the Skills Fund by 2024-25. This fund offers short courses and so-called \"skills boot camps\" for adults who have no qualifications beyond GCSE level.\n\nAnd there is a further £170m for apprenticeships and training.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"Our future economic success depends not just on the education we give to our children but the lifelong learning we offer to adults.\"\n\nHe said his £3bn investment would create a \"skills revolution\", which would build on the government's job creation plans and spread opportunity across the UK by transforming post-16 education.\n\nMr Sunak told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show \"more sector-orientated training schemes have been shown to be really powerful\" and \"the best way to get to a high wage economy is to improve people's skills\".\n\nAt the heart of the government's plan for 16 to 19-year-olds in England is a qualification that few have yet heard of, the Technical or T-Level.\n\nOne T-level is designed to be equivalent to three A-levels, or up to 3 BTecs.\n\nT-Levels are meant to be substantial and quite demanding courses, which include at least 45 days of work placement.\n\nAt the moment, only around 6,000 students across England are enrolled to study the first T-levels, which they will complete next summer.\n\nThe government hopes to scale up the numbers rapidly as more T-levels are introduced, partly through a controversial decision to remove funding from popular BTecs in similar subjects.\n\nAssociation of Colleges chief executive David Hughes said: \"We always expected the increased funding wouldn't go far enough, but in the circumstances we view this as a good start in a tough spending round.\n\n\"That the chancellor is leading with this announcement in advance of the Comprehensive Spending Review shows just how far we've come in making the government recognise the importance of investing in people to close the skills gap.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am hopeful that the lack of mention of education recovery is because of a significant announcement on Wednesday at the dispatch box.\"\n\nHe said his organisation had calculated that it was going to take at least £300m per year to support education recovery for 16 to 19-year-olds.\n\nBill Watkins, chief executive of the Sixth Form Colleges Association, said: \"Today's announcement focuses on the small minority of 16 to 18-year-olds that pursue a technical course.\n\n\"That's welcome, but all students deserve to have their education properly funded and we hope that Wednesday's spending review will also focus on the vast majority of young people that study A-level or BTec qualifications.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, welcomed the investment in the further education sector, which he said had traditionally been \"starved of funding\".\n\nHowever, he told BBC Breakfast the move was a \"gamble\" when it was still unclear how many teenagers would want to do T-levels.", "New rules allowing travellers returning to England to take lateral flow tests instead of more expensive PCR tests have come into force.\n\nFully-vaccinated people arriving from a non-red list country can now use a lateral flow test on, or before, day two of their return.\n\nThe government said the move was a \"huge boost\" for the travel industry.\n\nWales will make the same change a week later. Scotland and Northern Ireland have indicated they may follow suit.\n\nBefore then, anyone travelling on to the other UK nations in the 10 days after arrival in England must follow the rules for testing and quarantine in those places.\n\nThe latest change to the travel rules in England comes in time for many families going on half-term holidays.\n\nThe lateral flow tests for returning travellers must be bought from private providers - NHS kits cannot be used - with prices listed on the government website starting at £19.\n\nPassengers need to book tests before travelling to the UK. They must send a picture of their lateral flow test to verify the result, and failure to do so could result in a fine of £1,000.\n\nThe change also applies to under-18s who live in the UK, whether or not they are vaccinated.\n\nTravellers will still need to complete a passenger locator form before they return.\n\nThe Department of Health said that anyone who tested positive would have to take a PCR test, which they could get free through the NHS.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"I'm delighted that from today eligible travellers to England, who have had the life-saving Covid-19 vaccine, can benefit from a cheaper lateral flow test, providing faster results.\n\n\"This huge boost to the travel industry and the public will make it easier and cheaper for people to book holidays and travel abroad.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Foster explains how lateral flow tests work and how to do one\n\nDr Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency, said it was \"critical\" that people with positive lateral flow tests \"get this checked\" with an NHS PCR test.\n\n\"This way we can continue to monitor new variants and stay on top of the virus,\" she added.\n\nSince 4 October, fully-vaccinated passengers travelling to the UK from any non-red list country no longer have to take a Covid test before setting off.\n\nPeople who are not fully vaccinated - and are 18 or over - still have to self-isolate at home for 10 days after arrival in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeated his call for people to get their booster jabs as the UK reported more than 40,000 daily Covid cases for the 11th day in a row.\n\nOn Saturday there were 44,985 cases recorded and a further 135 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test.\n\nMr Johnson, who has so far resisted calls by some health experts to reintroduce Covid restrictions despite rising infection levels, said: \"Vaccines are our way through this winter.\n\n\"We've made phenomenal progress but our job isn't finished yet, and we know that vaccine protection can drop after six months.\n\n\"This is a call to everyone, whether you're eligible for a booster, haven't got round to your second dose yet, or your child is eligible for a dose - vaccines are safe, they save lives, and they are our way out of this pandemic.\"\n\nPeople eligible for boosters include anyone aged 50 and over, those living and working in care homes for the elderly, and frontline health and social care workers.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS England's national medical director, warned the country faced the prospect of a \"tough winter\".\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, he said vaccines remained \"the strongest weapon in the armoury\" and urged people to get their booster jabs to \"protect the freedom and Christmas that we have all earned\".\n\nOn Saturday, a member of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), which advises the government, said he was \"fearful\" there could be another lockdown Christmas if measures were not brought in soon.\n\nProf Peter Openshaw told BBC Breakfast: \"We all really, really want a wonderful family Christmas where we can all get back together.\n\n\"If that's what we want, we need to get these measures in place now in order to get transmission rates right down so that we can actually get together and see one another over Christmas.\"", "Friends stars including Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Matt LeBlanc have paid tribute to James Michael Tyler, who starred as Gunther in the sitcom, after he died at the age of 59.\n\nTyler was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 2018.\n\nAniston said the show \"would not have been the same\" without Tyler's performance as the Central Perk waiter.\n\n\"Thank you for the laughter you brought to the show and to all of our lives. You will be so missed,\" she said.\n\nTyler's much-loved character worked in the show's coffee house and had a crush on Aniston's character Rachel, who also worked there as a waitress in the show's early seasons.\n\nShe shared an Instagram post which included a photo of Tyler from the set and a clip of the pair in the final episode as Gunther declared his love for the departing Rachel, who turned him down gently.\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 jenniferaniston 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\nCo-star Cox, who played Monica, added her own tribute. \"The size of gratitude you brought into the room and showed every day on set is the size of the gratitude I hold for having known you,\" she wrote.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by courteneycoxofficial 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\nLisa Kudrow, who played Phoebe on the show, offered: \"James Michael Tyler, we will miss you.\" Referencing a line from the show's there tune, she added: \"Thank you for being there for us all.\"\n\nLeBlanc, meanwhile, shared a photo of his character Joey chatting to Gunther in Central Perk.\n\n\"We had a lot of laughs buddy,\" LeBlanc posted. \"You will be missed. RIP my friend.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 3 by mleblanc 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\nDavid Schwimmer, aka Ross, thanked Tyler \"for playing such a wonderful, unforgettable role\" and \"for being such a big hearted gentleman and all around mensch off screen\".\n\n\"You will be missed, buddy,\" he went on.\n\nTyler appeared in almost 150 episodes of the comedy, which ran from 1994 to 2004. Gunther was and remains a hugely popular character among fans.\n\nTyler's manager said the actor \"passed away peacefully at his home in Los Angeles on Sunday morning\".\n\nA statement added: \"The world knew him as Gunther (the seventh Friend)... but Michael's loved ones knew him as an actor, musician, cancer-awareness advocate, and loving husband. If you met him once you made a friend for life.\n\n\"Wanting to help as many people as possible, he bravely shared his story and became a campaigner for those with a prostate to get a... blood test as early as 40-years-old.\"\n\nDavid Crane, who co-created Friends, told the BBC that Tyler started as an extra on the show and was given the role because he could work the coffee machine.\n\n\"As time went on, I think we realised he's funny - a really good actor,\" Crane said.\n\n\"We just kept giving him more and more, and when we realised there was a storyline about his secret love for Rachel, it was just the gift that kept on giving.\"\n\nOn Tyler's comedic timing, Crane added: \"His delivery was impeccable, he was so good that we found ourselves going to him for the punchline for a whole scene or for a whole episode.\n\n\"With just the littlest opportunity he created this indelible character.\"\n\nTyler revisited the Central Perk in 2015 as part of a Warner Bros studio tour\n\nIn May, Tyler made a brief appearance on the Friends reunion special via Zoom.\n\n\"It was the most memorable 10 years of my life, honestly,\" the actor said at the time.\n\n\"I could not have imagined just a better experience. All these guys were fantastic and just a joy to work with. It felt very, very special.\"\n\nWarner Bros Television, one of the co-producers of the sitcom, said Tyler was \"a beloved actor and integral part of our Friends family\".\n\nHe continued to perform in recent years while undergoing treatment for cancer.\n\nHe also starred in two short films - The Gesture and the Word, and Processing - winning best actor awards at film festivals.\n\nIn 2021, his spoken word performance of Stephen Kalinich's poem If You Knew was adapted into a short video to raise awareness for the Prostate Cancer Foundation.\n\nTyler is survived by his wife Jennifer Carno, whom his manager described as \"the love of his life\".", "BBC Radio 1 presenter Adele Roberts has announced she is to undergo surgery for bowel cancer.\n\nRoberts, 42, who hosts Weekend Breakfast, said she was diagnosed at the start of the month and would have surgery to remove a tumour on Monday.\n\n\"So far the outlook is positive and I feel so lucky I can be treated. It's just the start of my journey but I'm going to give it everything,\" she said.\n\nThe former Big Brother star missed both her radio shows this weekend.\n\nThe radio DJ, from Southport, Merseyside, revealed her diagnosis in an Instagram post, saying she had sought medical advice after struggling with her digestion \"for a while\".\n\nShe wrote: \"It's all happened so quickly and I'm so sorry to post something like this on here but I hope it helps anyone who might be worrying, or suffering in silence.\n\n\"As I've learned over the last few weeks, there's no 'normal' with cancer. Sadly it can affect anyone, at any age, anytime. It doesn't discriminate. Early detection can save your life.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm going to have surgery [on Monday] to remove the tumour and then see if I need anymore treatment or if the cancer has spread.\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 adeleroberts This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn her post, she finished by saying: \"The hardest thing wasn't even finding out I had cancer, it was telling my family. It broke my heart.\n\n\"If you know any of them please look after them for me until I can see them again. Especially my Katie (her girlfriend). I worry about her being on her own while I'm away.\"\n\nHer girlfriend, Kate Holderness, also wrote an emotional post on Sunday evening, calling Roberts \"my hero, my world, my love\".\n\nShe explained that she couldn't go with Roberts to the hospital or be there when she wakes up after her operation. \"It's the most horrible feeling desperately wanting her to get in that hospital ASAP but desperately not wanting to be without her.\"\n\nShe said it had been hard to get her head around how \"unfair\" the diagnosis was as Roberts did \"all the things they say help you prevent cancer\" and didn't do the things that were supposed to put you at higher risk.\n\n\"But I now understand it can happen to anyone. Cancer's never fair is it?\"\n\nA Radio 1 statement said: \"Our love and support is with Adele, Kate and their families at this very difficult time.\n\n\"Everyone at Radio 1, along with millions of listeners, wishes her a speedy recovery and we look forward to welcoming Adele back on air soon.\"\n\nSinger Jessie Ware and actress Suranne Jones were among those to send their support to Roberts on Instagram, along with some of her BBC colleagues.\n\nRadio presenter Scott Mills wrote: \"We all love you Adele. It's amazing you posted this. You're awesome and you've got this.\"\n\nRadio 2 broadcaster Sara Cox said Roberts was \"brilliant and brave to share this to help people\", adding that she was sending her \"a thousand gentle hugs\".\n\nAdele Roberts, who was part of the BBC's presenting team for the London Marathon in 2019, has competed twice in the event\n\nRoberts rose to fame after appearing on the third series of Channel 4's Big Brother series in 2002. Contestants that year included ITV's This Morning presenter Alison Hammond, and Jade Goody, who died in 2009 after being diagnosed with cervical cancer.\n\nShe joined the BBC in 2012 as part of the Radio 1Xtra team, before moving to Radio 1 in 2015 to host the Early Breakfast Show. She took over the Weekend Breakfast programme earlier this year.\n\nShe also appeared on ITV's I'm a Celebrity in 2019, and was the first person in that series to be eliminated from the jungle.\n\nMost people with these symptoms do not have bowel cancer, but the NHS advice is to see your GP if you have one or more of the symptoms and they have persisted for more than four weeks.\n\nAnd if you, or someone you know, have been affected by cancer, information and support is available on the BBC's Action Line page.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We want the NHS backlogs to be cleared as fast as possible\"\n\nBoris Johnson chose to visit a hospital he knows only too well to highlight the new funding package for the NHS in England.\n\nHe spent anxious days in intensive care at St Thomas' Hospital in central London in April 2020, seriously ill with Covid.\n\nThe pandemic continues to cast a long shadow over the NHS and that's because of uncertainty over how case numbers and hospital admissions will develop next year.\n\nHospitals have to maintain infection control measures and contingency plans to deal with any further surge in patient numbers.\n\nAnd that has a bearing on how much non-urgent work they can do.\n\nSo that makes it hard to tell how much money will be needed to make inroads on the backlog of operations cancelled at the height of the pandemic.\n\nBreaking down the figures shows that NHS England is getting an extra £6.6bn in the next financial year for day-to-day services, which falls to £3.6bn the following year and then is set at £5.6bn in the next 12 months. This is on top of the five-year settlement announced in 2018 which increased NHS funding by £20.5bn a year in real terms.\n\nThe new funding is intended to cover not only costs of reducing waiting lists but also additional spending linked to Covid.\n\nThere seems to be an underlying assumption that the overall burden on the NHS will be lighter after next year with less virus-related pressure.\n\nMr Johnson was visiting a training centre at St Thomas' and there were no patients being cared for so masks were not required when we sat down for an interview.\n\nHe talked of the nine million extra treatments which, in his view, the NHS could do as a result of the higher funding.\n\nBut there was no attempt to sugar the pill as he added that scale of the challenge could not be underestimated.\n\nI pressed him on whether the number waiting more than a year for a routine operation, at more than 300,000, would come down significantly following the new investment.\n\nHe would not be drawn on a target either on that measure or the waiting list number.\n\nHe acknowledged that \"things may well get more difficult before they get better\".\n\nJudging by the prime minister's responses there is no clear view in Downing Street what will happen to waiting lists.\n\nHe was anxious not to give a hostage to fortune by making predictions on numbers of the direction of travel.\n\nWhitehall officials will have drawn up a range of scenarios with widely varying outcomes.\n\nThe documents accompanying the health and care announcement refer to a 30% increase in hospital activity from pre-pandemic levels, but note that this is an aim rather than a pledge.\n\nMr Johnson seems to be putting his faith in social care investment taking the pressure off hospitals by getting older and frail patients discharged more swiftly.\n\nBut a rapid improvement in outcomes seems highly unlikely with the new social care funding taking time to kick in.\n\nRepresentatives of health service organisations are clear that what has now been promised to the NHS frontline is not sufficient to meet the demands on the service.\n\nThey had called for £10bn more in the next financial year for day-to-day running costs in England.\n\nMatthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said: \"The NHS is grateful for this extra investment and it will help reduce the backlog - the problem is that its only enough to address that backlog and if the costs of Covid continue it won't be enough.\"\n\nWorkforce is another longer term issue which isn't fully addressed in the new policy statement.\n\nMany staff are exhausted and, while willing to work extra hours to get through more operations and procedures, may struggle to keep up the increased workload for a sustained period.\n\nVacancies and rota gaps can't be resolved overnight as training new staff takes several years.\n\nAs the Institute for Fiscal Studies has noted the NHS has historically needed more money than original plans and allocations with patient demand growing more rapidly than expected.\n\nIt is unlikely this time that there will be a departure from precedent.", "A member of staff at University Hospital Monklands attends to a Covid patient on the ICU ward earlier this year\n\nNHS Lanarkshire has moved to the \"highest risk level\" as its three hospitals are at maximum capacity.\n\nThe military is already providing additional support at University hospitals Hairmyres, Monklands and Wishaw.\n\nBut the health board described occupancy levels as \"critical\" and said the \"sustained pressure\" shows no signs of easing.\n\nIt also confirmed some elective cancer procedures have been cancelled.\n\nEarlier this week, NHS Grampian became the latest Scottish health board to ask for military help amid the pandemic after NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Borders.\n\nNHS Lanarkshire deputy chief executive Laura Ace said: \"We are facing relentless pressures, bed shortages and staff shortages due to sickness, stress and self-isolation and University hospitals Hairmyres, Monklands and Wishaw are all at maximum capacity\n\n\"The safety of our patients and staff is our top priority and we are working through short and medium term actions to increase staffing and also improve the flow of patients out of hospital.\n\n\"The military are providing additional support within our hospitals.\"\n\nThe health board temporarily postponed the majority of non-urgent planned care procedures at the end of August.\n\nBut it has now confirmed the current pressures mean it is having to further stand down elective planned procedures, including some cancer services.\n\nIt added these will be rescheduled \"as soon as possible\".\n\nMs Ace added: \"The current situation is unprecedented and marks a different level of risk for NHS Lanarkshire as a whole and moves our current status to the highest level of risk.\"\n\nEarlier this week the board warned patients on social media to expect long waits at A&E as its hospitals were being overwhelmed by the numbers attending and requiring admission.\n\nMs Ace said: \"To help free up hospital beds, we have also asked for any assistance from family members to allow us to discharge people home or to interim care placements as soon as possible.\n\n\"We know the impact of the current pressures are being felt right across the health and social care system, including GP practices which remain extremely busy.\n\n\"We recognise that our staff are doing everything they can and showing the highest levels of professionalism, commitment and resilience.\"\n\nShe added that it is hoped the move to the highest risk level will help reduce the pressures on our staff and services.", "Mr Quiñónez won bronze in the 200 metres at the 2019 World Athletics Championships\n\nOne of Ecuador's best-known athletes, Alex Quiñónez, has been shot dead.\n\nHe was shot along with another person outside a shopping centre in the city of Guayaquil on Friday night. A motive is not yet clear.\n\nTributes have been pouring in for Mr Quiñónez, 32, who was described by Ecuador's athletics federation as the country's greatest sprinter.\n\nPresident Guillermo Lasso promised that those behind the killing will be found and punished.\n\nIt comes after a 60-day nationwide state of emergency came into force in Ecuador on Monday in response to a wave of violent crime.\n\nOfficial figures suggest the number of murders in the first eight months of this year are double those in the same period last year.\n\n\"With great sadness, we confirm the murder of our sportsman Alex Quiñónez,\" the Sports Ministry announced on Twitter.\n\n\"We have lost a great sportsman, someone who allowed us to dream, who moved us....he was the greatest sprinter this country produced.\"\n\nMr Quiñónez won bronze in the 200 metres at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha. He was suspended prior to the Tokyo Olympics due to \"breach of his whereabouts obligations\".\n\n\"May he rest in peace. Those who take the lives of Ecuadoreans will not remain unpunished,\" he said.\n\nThis is the second killing of an international athlete this month.\n\nAgnes Tirop, a Kenyan runner who recently broke the women-only 10km road race world record, was stabbed to death in her home. Her husband has been arrested on suspicion of murder.", "Almost £2bn will be invested by the government into building new homes on derelict or unused land in England, the chancellor is expected to announce in Wednesday's Budget.\n\nThe government said 160,000 greener homes could be built on brownfield land the size of 2,000 football pitches.\n\nIt also pledged to invest £9m towards 100 urban \"pocket parks\" across the UK.\n\nHowever, concerns have been raised that not enough affordable homes are being built.\n\nNigel Wilson, chief executive of Legal and General, told the BBC's Today programme the £1.8bn investment was the \"right direction of travel\", but was \"not enough scale right now\".\n\nHe warned people living in smaller cities and towns were being \"left behind\" due to not enough homes being constructed.\n\n\"You shouldn't have to be rich to be green,\" he said. \"It's very difficult for poorer people to get on the green (housing) ladder.\n\n\"There's a lot of active listening going on (by the government), but we don't just want CGI housing - we want real housing built across the UK.\"\n\nThe government said the funding was part of its efforts to meet the UK's net zero target by 2050.\n\nIt hopes the plans will help regenerate parts of England and support 50,000 new jobs.\n\nThe proposals also include creating so-called \"pocket parks\" - measuring the size of a tennis court - to create more green spaces.\n\nMore than 2.5 million people across the UK currently live further than a 10 minute walk from their closest green space.\n\nTim Farron, Liberal Democrat spokesperson for housing, said people buying new homes would be \"forced to fork out thousands to upgrade their homes in the future to cut their bills and reduce emissions\".\n\n\"In his Budget, the chancellor should bring forward new standards for greener homes to ensure all new homes are cheap to heat and produce minimal emissions,\" he said.\n\nZoe Nicholson, Green Party leader of Lewes District Council, said building on brownfield sites made sense, but added the government's investment was an \"absurdly small amount of money\".\n\n\"It would be more effective if they handed this £2bn of funding to local authorities, which would allow them to build net zero council homes,\" she said,.\n\n\"This announcement seems to be little more than a gimmick intended to distract us from the fact that their agenda is to simply 'build, build, build' on our countryside to the benefit of greedy developers.\"\n\nThe Labour Party has not responded to requests for comment.\n\nAs well as funding for new housing developments, the chancellor is expected to confirm £65m to develop new software to help with the digitisation of the town planning system.\n\nThe first phase will see the system rolled out to up to 175 local authorities in England.", "Just a week after being admitted to hospital with an infection, 92-year-old Esme Hanson was well enough to go home.\n\nBut it would be four months before she could return to her family because of a lack of available care.\n\nOne care provider told BBC Wales staff shortages were so bad, it handed care packages back to the local council.\n\nThe Welsh government admitted the situation was \"fragile\", and it had committed £48m of extra funding to ease the social care crisis in Wales.\n\nWhen Mrs Hanson became unwell in May, she was admitted to Morriston Hospital in Swansea. Her care arrangements, put in place due to her dementia, were cancelled.\n\nHowever, it was not until September that a new package was finally re-instated, by which time her mental health had deteriorated, according her son Andrew.\n\nHe said his family were \"lucky\" to finally get her home.\n\n\"If you've got somebody over 70 that needs care, you don't know when they're going to come out of hospital,\" he added.\n\nEsme Hanson spent four months in hospital waiting for home care to be arranged\n\nIt was only after the Older People's Commissioner for Wales advised the family to organise their own care, and ask the council to fund it, that Mrs Hanson's care arrangements were put in place and she was discharged.\n\nHe said his mother now received \"wonderful\" care at home three times a day.\n\nSwansea council said it was extremely sorry for the delay and that every effort was made to find a package of care with a provider during the \"unprecedented\" times of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut Mrs Hanson's experience is not unique. There were more than 1,000 patients in Welsh hospitals unable to return home due to a lack of care, according to Welsh government figures last month.\n\nCare company director Keri Llewellyn said staffing levels were at their lowest for almost 20 years\n\nCare Forum Wales has warned the care sector is facing its biggest staffing crisis \"in living memory\".\n\nOne home care company, All Care, said staffing levels were at their lowest since 2002 and recruitment has been \"virtually zero\" for months.\n\nDirector Keri Llewellyn said \"a downward spiral\" of staffing shortages meant companies were handing back care packages to councils.\n\nShe added care staff were exhausted from working through the pandemic, while low wages made recruitment and staff retention difficult.\n\n\"I do need something for my staff now. Some hope, maybe a retention bonus,\" said Ms Llewellyn.\n\nThe strain of working through the pandemic has told on carers such as Nicola Peta Hales and Jane Davies\n\nCare manager Jane Davies has been helping with daily rounds due to staff shortages.\n\n\"You are very tired and you need to spend time with your own family, but you can't see those people go without care,\" she said.\n\nNicola Peta Hales, 54, said the stress of being a domiciliary care worker almost became too much.\n\n\"I did feel like quitting and I was very close to it not so long ago, but I decided to stay because I love the job.\"\n\nThe Association of Directors of Social Services (ADSS) Cymru has called on the UK and Welsh governments to provide more help.\n\nLast month, the UK government announced a national insurance tax rise, some of which will be used to help fund the care system. On Wednesday, the chancellor is due to outline spending plans for the next three years.\n\nThe Welsh government admitted the situation was \"fragile\".\n\nDeputy Minister of Health and Social Care Julie Morgan said implementing a living wage of £9.50 per hour for carers was a priority, along with improving working conditions.\n\n\"We have to get the system to a place where there are not long waits,\" she added.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPolice are investigating a graphic banner displayed by Crystal Palace fans that targeted the Saudi Arabian-led takeover of Newcastle United.\n\nThe banner took aim at the Premier League's ownership test, following Newcastle's recent £305m sale.\n\nIt featured illustrations of a man dressed in traditional Arabic clothing alongside what appeared to be Premier League chief executive Richard Masters.\n\nThe banner had a checklist with alleged offences by the Saudi Arabia regime.\n• None Six reasons why Newcastle takeover is controversial\n\nListed on a picture of a clipboard under the headline 'Premier League Owners Test' were 'Terrorism, beheading, civil rights abuses, murder, censorship and persecution'.\n\nThe man in Arab-style clothing was also holding a sword with blood on it.\n\nPalace fan group Holmesdale Fanatics has taken credit for the banner - displayed during the 1-1 draw between the clubs on Saturday - on Twitter, and issued a statement.\n\n\"The Saudi led takeover of Newcastle has rightly received widespread condemnation and anger,\" it said.\n\n\"To give the thumbs up to this deal at a time when the Premier League is promoting the women's game and inclusive initiatives such as rainbow armbands, shows the total hypocrisy at play and demonstrates the league's soulless agenda where profits trump all.\"\n\nThe takeover was 80% financed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), whose chair is Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.\n\nWhen approving the takeover, the Premier League said it had received legal assurances from the new owners that the Saudi state would not control Newcastle United and there would be penalties if it was proved otherwise.\n\nThe fans group's statement said this decision \"made a mockery\" of the 'Owners and Directors' test.\n\nCroydon Metropolitan Police have released a statement on Twitter, which says: \"On Saturday 23 October police received a report of an offensive banner displayed by Crystal Palace fans.\n\n\"Officers are assessing the information and carrying out enquiries. Any allegations of racist abuse will be taken very seriously.\"\n\nProud and Palace, the club's official lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender supporters group, also protested on Saturday, posting a video on their Twitter account.\n\nIt is understood Crystal Palace themselves did not have any prior knowledge of the banner being brought into the ground.\n\nThey have been asked by police for information surrounding the circumstances and are co-operating with the investigation.\n\nNewcastle, Crystal Palace and the Premier League have all been approached for comment by BBC Sport. The Premier League declined to comment.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Newcastle reversed their guidance on fans celebrating the takeover by wearing \"traditional Arabic clothing or Middle East-inspired head coverings\" at matches - saying supporters should now \"feel free\" to do so.\n• None 'That day was going to be a bad day': Exclusive footage and interviews from January's storming of the US capitol\n• None Caught between life and death in the swinging sixties", "Matt Hancock resigned from government in July but remains an MP\n\nFormer Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been given a role with the United Nations as a special representative.\n\nWriting on Twitter, the ex-minister said the job would focus on helping Africa's economy recover from Covid.\n\nIt comes four months after Mr Hancock resigned from his cabinet post for breaking social distancing guidelines by kissing a colleague.\n\nThe Under Secretary General of the UN, Vera Songwe, praised his \"success\" in tackling the UK's pandemic response.\n\nIn a letter posted online by Mr Hancock, Ms Songwe said the \"acceleration of vaccines that has led the UK move faster towards economic recovery is one testament to the strengths that you will bring to this role, together with your fiscal and monetary experience\".\n\nThe announcement also comes on the day a report from MPs was published, claiming the government and its scientists' failure to do more to stop Covid spreading early in the pandemic was one of the country's worst public health failures.\n\nMr Hancock's official title will be \"UN special representative on financial innovation and climate change for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa\".\n\nHis new role will be unpaid and he will continue as a Conservative MP.\n\nMr Hancock said he was \"honoured\" to be appointed and would help \"promote sustainable development\", alongside working on the economic recovery.\n\nMs Songwe said the UN had been working with people across the world on Africa's climate actions and resilient recovery - and that she wanted to appoint Mr Hancock \"given your global leadership, advocacy reach and in depth understanding of government processes through your various ministerial cabinet roles\".\n\nShe added: \"The role will support Africa's cause at the global level and ensure the continent builds forward better, leveraging financial innovations and working with major stakeholders like the G20, UK government and COP26.\"\n\nIn his acceptance letter, which he also posted on Twitter, Mr Hancock wrote: \"As we recover from the pandemic so we must take this moment to ensure Africa can prosper.\"\n\nThe chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, said it was a \"fascinating and important appointment\".\n\nHe added: \"Boosting the economies of Africa is one of the most essential tasks of this generation.\"\n\nMr Hancock announced his resignation in June after the Sun newspaper published pictures and a video of him and Gina Coladangelo - who were both married at the time with three children - kissing.\n\nThe newspaper said the images had been taken inside the Department of Health and Social Care on 6 May.\n\nMatt Hancock resigned as health secretary after pictures were published of him kissing Gina Coladangelo - pictured here with him on 1 May\n\nFollowing the revelations, a number of Conservative MPs, as well as Labour and the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, had called for Mr Hancock to go.\n\nMs Coladangelo also left her role as a non-executive director at the DHSC.\n\nMr Hancock ended his 15-year marriage to his wife, Martha, and the relationship with Ms Coladangelo is understood to be a serious one.", "Bishop Christian Stäblein broke off his holiday to visit the grave and issue a statement, the Church said\n\nGermany's Protestant Church and other authorities have condemned the reuse of the vacant burial plot of a Jewish music professor for a neo-Nazi.\n\nThe remains of Prof Max Friedlaender were moved to another site in 1980, but a tombstone still commemorates him at the cemetery outside Berlin.\n\nA Holocaust denier was buried there on Friday after the grave's reuse was approved.\n\nThe burial plot is in one of Germany's largest Protestant cemeteries, in Stahnsdorf near Potsdam.\n\nProf Friedlaender, who died in 1934, was from a Jewish family but was a member of the Protestant Church. He was a bass singer and musicologist who specialised in the songs of Franz Schubert.\n\nGerman media report that Henry Hafenmayer, the man now buried in the plot in Stahnsdorf, was a Holocaust denier and blogger linked to several neo-Nazi groups.\n\nNeo-Nazi supporters laid wreaths on the grave, with nationalist messages and ribbons adorned with the Nazi-era iron cross symbol. They placed a portrait of Hafenmayer in front of Prof Friedlaender's shrouded tombstone.\n\nThe memorial was covered by the cemetery officials as is usual practice when a grave site is reused, the Church said.\n\nAmong the mourners was Horst Mahler, a neo-Nazi who has spent years in jail for racist incitement, German media report.\n\nIn an apologetic statement, Bishop Stäblein said the burial was \"a terrible mistake and shocking occurrence, in view of our history\". The bishop, who leads the Church in that part of Germany, said \"we must immediately see whether and what we can undo\".\n\nPictures of the funeral were posted on Flickr by RechercheNetzwerk.Berlin, an organisation campaigning against anti-Semitism.\n\nThe organisation says Hafenmayer published anti-Semitic propaganda on his blog, called \"End of the Lie\", and glorified Nazism.\n\nThe Church said that Hafenmayer's representative had originally requested a more central burial plot, which had been refused by the cemetery authorities as there were many Jewish graves in that area.\n\nThe selection of Prof Friedlaender's former plot appears not to have been turned down because the cemetery records recorded him as Protestant.\n\nPolice and officers from the department of state protection were present at the funeral, the Church said, and the cemetery authorities were aware of the dead man's neo-Nazi links.\n\nThe president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany said that he was shocked at what had happened.\n\nJosef Schuster said it was unbearable that right-wing extremists should \"haunt\" the grave of Prof Friedlaender, and in doing so they had desecrated his memory.\n\nThe Protestant Church itself had approved Hafenmayer's being given a plot (though not this specific one) despite his neo-Nazi connections, on the principle that everyone had the right to a final resting place, it said, but there were no Protestant ministers at the ceremony.\n\nJewish graves and Holocaust memorials have been vandalised previously by neo-Nazis in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.\n\nThe Berlin official in charge of combating anti-Semitism, Samuel Salzborn, has launched a legal action against the mourners for allegedly disturbing the peace of the dead and for racial incitement.", "A single person will need post-tax annual income of £10,900 for a minimum standard of living in retirement, academics have estimated.\n\nThat spending budget increases to £16,700 for a couple, the calculations for The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) suggest.\n\nFor the first time in the assessment, Netflix subscriptions and items such as haircuts are included.\n\nThe PLSA said lockdowns gave workers a foretaste of retirement needs.\n\n\"The pandemic has emphasised the importance of economic security as well as social and cultural participation in retirement,\" said Nigel Peaple, director of policy and advocacy at the PLSA.\n\n\"We hope the updated standards will encourage people to think about whether they are saving enough for the retirement lifestyle they want and, in particular, whether they are making the most of the employer contributions on offer in their workplace pension.\"\n\nThe calculations for retirement living standards are pitched at three different levels - minimum, moderate and comfortable - and are developed and maintained independently by the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University.\n\nThe assessment is intended as a guide for those planning their retirement savings. Housing costs are not included on the assumption that most pensioners have paid off mortgages, although the PLSA said that decision would be kept under review.\n\nThe minimum retirement living standard covers a typical retiree's basic needs plus enough for some social activities, such as a week of holiday in the UK, eating out once a month, but not including running a car.\n\nThe estimate of an annual budget for the minimum standard has risen since 2019 by £700 for a single person, and by £1,000 for a couple.\n\nThe total requirement would generally be made up of a full state pension of £9,339 per year, as well as some workplace pension savings.\n\nThe moderate retirement living standard includes a two-week holiday in Europe and more frequent eating out.\n\nThis was assessed to require a budget of £20,800 for a single person, £600 higher than two years ago, and £30,600 for a couple, up £1,500.\n\nThe PLSA said around half of single employees were on track to expect a lifestyle between minimum and moderate. The position would be better for couples who were able to share costs.\n\nThe annual budget needed for a comfortable retirement living standard has increased since 2019 by £600 to £33,600 for one person and £2,200 to £49,700 for a couple.\n\nThis covered items such as regular beauty treatments, theatre trips, and annual maintenance and servicing of a burglar alarm.\n\nAbout one in six single employees is projected to have an income between moderate and comfortable.\n\nTom Selby, head of retirement policy at investment firm AJ Bell, said: \"The pandemic has exposed gaping holes in the finances of millions of people, with many having little or nothing saved for an emergency.\n\n\"What's more, contribution levels into pension schemes remain low, particularly among self-employed workers. As the UK economy slowly recovers from lockdown, it is vital financial resilience becomes a key focus for policymakers, both in the short and long-term.\"", "The Queen has attended a service marking the centenary of the Royal British Legion, of which she is patron.\n\nShe was accompanied by the Princess Royal for the Westminster Abbey event, led by the Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend David Hoyle.\n\nThe Queen, 95, was seen using a walking stick as she arrived via the Poet's Yard entrance.\n\nThe Royal British Legion is the largest armed forces charity in the UK and organises the annual poppy appeal.\n\nShe was accompanied by the Princess Royal for the service\n\nIn his address, the Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend David Hoyle, celebrated the Royal British Legion's ability to stand \"between us and the men and women who have been set apart by serving in the forces\".\n\nHe said: \"The legion remembers truths that some would urge us to forget. The legion speaks into our silence. The legion stitches back together our shattered experience and makes us whole.\"\n\nThe dean went on: \"War poets have observed again and again that we cheer and clap when armies march out. Later, when the wounded are being ferried back, the cheering tends to stop. We want to move on. We always want to move on.\n\n\"I do wonder if we will really learn the lessons from this pandemic, or whether we will give in to all the voices that want to turn the page. But the legion always remembers and tells truths we must not forget.\"\n\nThe dean said the legion \"tells truths we must not forget\"\n\nDuring the service, retired Lt Gen James Bashall, the Royal British Legion's national president, took part in a rededication reaffirming the charity's commitment to its work, and Princess Anne gave a Bible reading.\n\nOther readings were given by Gen Sir Nick Carter, Chief of the Defence Staff, and Victoria Cross hero Colour Sgt Johnson Beharry.\n\nThe Queen received flowers after the service\n\nThe Queen had been pictured using a stick in 2003 after surgery on her right knee, but the Westminster Abbey service is thought to be the first time she has used one at a major public event.\n\nThe use of the aid, and arriving by the Poet's Yard entrance which was a shorter walk to her seat than the traditional Great West Door, are both understood to have been arranged for the Queen's comfort. Buckingham Palace did not comment.", "The Labour leader was warned to move to the left while visiting a HGV driver training centre and taking a lesson.\n\nBut after reversing the vehicle, and striking a bollard on the course in Oldham, he was warned he would have failed a test.\n\nThe UK government has introduced temporary visas for 5,000 fuel tanker and food lorry drivers from abroad, after a Road Haulage Association (RHA) survey found there were was a shortage of more than 100,000 qualified drivers.", "Foreign tourism, once an engine of the Thai economy, has collapsed\n\nThailand plans to end Covid quarantine requirements for fully vaccinated travellers from at least 10 low-risk nations from 1 November, officials say.\n\nPM Prayuth Chan-ocha admitted that \"this decision comes with some risk\" - but it is seen as a key step to revive the country's collapsed tourism sector.\n\nThe 10 nations seen as low risk include the UK, China, Germany and the US.\n\nThe country has been recording more than 10,000 positive infections daily since July.\n\nIt has fully vaccinated around 33% of its almost 70 million people. Half the population has received one dose.\n\nMr Prayuth said Thailand would also allow entertainment venues to reopen on 1 December and permit alcohol sales.\n\nHe added that the authorities were planning to open Thailand for more countries on that date.\n\nMr Prayuth's comments came in a televised address on Monday.\n\nReferring to visitors from 10 low-risk nations, he stressed that \"when they arrive, they should present a [negative] Covid test... and test once again upon arrival\".\n\nIf the second test is also negative, any visitor from those countries \"can travel freely like Thais\", the prime minister said.\n\nBut he warned that the government would act decisively if there were to be a spike in infections or an emergence of a highly contagious variant of Covid-19.\n\nIt is estimated that Thailand - popular for its sandy beaches and non-stop nightlife - lost about $50bn (£37bn) in tourism revenue in 2020.\n\nThe economy suffered its deepest contraction in more than two decades as a result of the pandemic.\n\nThailand was the first country outside China to record a Covid-19 case in January last year.\n\nIt took the drastic step of sealing its borders in April, effectively killing off a tourist industry accounting for perhaps 20% of GDP, but managed to cut new daily infections to just single figures, one of the best records anywhere.\n\nThis year though, with the arrival of the Delta variant, infections have soared, from a total of less than 7,000 at the end of 2020, to 1.7 million today. The argument for keeping out foreign visitors to contain Covid became much less persuasive, especially with tourist-related businesses pleading for restrictions to be eased.\n\nThe success in containing Covid last year had another unforeseen consequence; it led the Thai government to believe it need not rush to order vaccines. The result has been a tardy and at times confused vaccine programme, and a public outcry.\n\nThe need for some economic good news is in large part what has driven it to start reopening, well before reaching its own declared target of getting 70% of the population vaccinated.\n\nIt is proceeding cautiously though, with only 10 countries on the list until the end of the year. Like other countries in the region Thailand's health system has limited ICU capacity; in August ICU units in Bangkok were quickly overwhelmed by the number of serious Covid cases.\n\nIn any case, even with an end to the two week quarantine requirement, a recovery to the 40 million tourists who came in 2019 is unlikely next year, or even the year after.\n\nJust over 70,000 visitors came into the country in the first eight months of this year, compared with 40 million in the whole of 2019.\n\nThailand has reported more than 1.7 million confirmed Covid cases since the pandemic began, with nearly 18,000 deaths, according to America's Johns Hopkins University.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The UK's largest commercial port says the supply chain crisis has caused a logjam of shipping containers.\n\nThe Port of Felixstowe, which handles 36% of the UK's freight container traffic, blamed the busy pre-Christmas period and haulage shortages.\n\nHowever, it said the situation has been improving over the last few days.\n\nShipping giant Maersk told the BBC it is re-routing some of its biggest ships away from the port.\n\nThe Financial Times first reported on Tuesday that Maersk was re-routing ships away from Felixstowe to other European ports, where smaller vessels will be used for UK deliveries.\n\nLars Mikael Jensen, head of global ocean network at Maersk, told BBC Radio 5 Live's Drive programme that some of its largest 20,000-container ships were waiting outside Felixstowe for between four to seven days.\n\n\"We've taken those measures because we saw, because of the big ships, there is a limit to how many berths they can call in Felixstowe, and because its slower, it took longer to handle every ship,\" he said.\n\n\"Instead of wasting time waiting, we progressed to the next stop, and arranged that the boxes are relayed from that port rather than wait for a week and then discharge.\"\n\nProblems at Felixstowe come as retailers and other groups warn of mounting concern about stocks in the run-up to Christmas trading.\n\nThe port has blamed several factors for the build-up of shipping containers, including the busy pre-Christmas peak, haulage shortages, poor vessel scheduling, and the impact of the pandemic.\n\nOn top of this, there are a high number of empty containers currently sitting at the port. Felixstowe said it is asking shipping lines to remove them as quickly as possible.\n\n\"The vast majority of import containers are cleared for collection within minutes of arriving and there are over 1,000 unused haulier bookings most days,\" the port stressed.\n\n\"However, the situation is improving and there is more spare space for import containers this week, than at any time since the beginning of July, when supply chain impacts first started to bite.\"\n\nIndustry bodies estimate there is a shortage of about 100,000 drivers with several sectors from retailers to domestic refuse collection affected. The government recently drafted in military personnel to help deliver fuel and to issue emergency temporary visa to foreign drivers.\n\nThe shortage has been caused by several factors, including European drivers who went home during the pandemic, Brexit, tax changes and a backlog of HGV driver tests.\n\nTim Morris, head of the Major Ports Group, which represents port operators, said the industry had been had been hit by a whole host of issues, including Brexit border changes, global demand for goods travelling by sea, and the pandemic.\n\n\"It has not been easy and there have been times of real stress on the ports system,\" he said. \"Ports have taken significant action to respond to the challenges and build resilience.\"\n\nThe problem is not just confined to the UK. Ports across the world have also suffered significant delays. Retailers have highlighted particular issues in China and east Asia, where pandemic restrictions and poor weather conditions have affected shipping.\n\nSarah Treseder, chief executive of the trade group UK Chamber of Shipping, said there are reports of dozens of ships forced to wait outside ports in America and Asia.\n\n\"We anticipate the disruption will continue while the underlying market volatility stabilises,\" she said.", "The US had offered a $5m reward for information leading to Sami Jasim al-Jaburi's capture\n\nIraq says it has captured the jihadist group Islamic State's financial chief in an operation outside its borders.\n\nSami Jasim al-Jaburi was arrested in a \"complex external operation\" by the Iraqi National Intelligence Service, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi tweeted, without specifying a location.\n\nHe added that Mr Jasim, also known as Hajji Hamid, was a deputy leader of IS under the late Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.\n\nThe US had offered a $5m (£3.7m) reward for information leading to his capture.\n\nIts Rewards for Justice website alleged that he was \"instrumental in managing finances for [IS] terrorist operations\" and had supervised the group's \"revenue-generating operations from illicit sales of oil, gas, antiquities, and minerals\" after it seized large swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014.\n\nIraqi officials are hailing the capture of Sami Jasim as a significant blow to IS.\n\nThey say, cryptically, that he was captured in a foreign intelligence operation without immediately revealing where.\n\nThe high-level IS operative is believed to have been not only in charge of the group's finances but also of its cross-border operations in Syria and Iraq where it continues to attack police and military bases.\n\nHis value to the Iraqi security forces will be not so much his loss to IS - where he will be swiftly replaced - but in what information he yields to his captors about imminent attacks.\n\nSince the military defeat of IS and its self-declared caliphate it has reverted to being an insurgency, conducting hit-and-run attacks. It's estimated to have around 10,000 fighters at large in the Middle East.\n\nFurther afield it remains a dangerous security threat in countries as far apart as Afghanistan and Mozambique.\n\nIraq's Security Media Cell said the detainee was close to the new leader of IS, Amir Mohammed Said Abdul Rahman al-Mawla, who replaced Baghdadi after he killed himself during a US special forces raid on his hideout in Syria in 2019.\n\nAlthough Mr Kadhimi did not reveal where Mr Jasim had been captured, a senior Iraqi military source told AFP news agency it had happened in Turkey. There was no immediate response from Turkish authorities to the report.\n\nEarlier this year, the Iraqi government announced it had killed another alleged deputy IS leader, Jabir Salman Saleh al-Isawi, as well as the leader of IS in southern Iraq, Jabbar Ali Fayadh.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIS once controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching from eastern Iraq to western Syria and imposed its brutal rule on almost eight million people.\n\nDespite the group's defeat on the battlefield in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria two years later, it is estimated that thousands of militants remain active in both countries.", "Hundreds of people could die in floods in the UK, the Environment Agency has warned in a hard-hitting report that says the country is not ready for the impact of climate change.\n\nEarlier this year in Germany, dozens of people died in floods.\n\n\"That will happen in this country sooner or later\" unless the UK becomes more resilient to increasingly violent weather, the agency concludes.\n\nEmma Howard Boyd, chair of the agency, said: \"It is adapt or die.\"\n\nThe apocalyptic tone is deliberately intended to startle governments, companies and communities into preparing for global warming effects such as higher sea levels and more extremes of rainfall and drought.\n\nThe new report, seen by the BBC ahead of its publication on Wednesday, assesses the country's readiness to cope with the many different risks of climate change.\n\nIn its response, environment department Defra said it was taking key measures to protect the UK from the effects of global warming.\n\nWe are currently heading for an increase in the global average temperature of just under 3C by the end of the century.\n\nBut the agency projects that even a smaller rise of 2C would have severe consequences:\n\nAccording to Ms Howard Boyd: \"We can successfully tackle the climate emergency if we do the right things, but we are running out of time to implement effective adaptation measures.\n\n\"Some 200 people died in this summer's flooding in Germany. That will happen in this country sooner or later, however high we build our flood defences - unless we also make the places where we live, work and travel resilient to the effects of the more violent weather the climate emergency is bringing.\"\n\nThe agency calls for new thinking on flood protection, closer partnerships between government and businesses, and projects to restore natural systems that absorb carbon and hold back rainwater.\n\nMs Howard Boyd added: \"With the right approach we can be safer and more prosperous. So let's prepare, act and survive.\"\n\nThe loss of life in Germany last July is a reminder of the last time flooding led to a massive death toll in the UK.\n\nBack in 1953, a storm surge killed 307 people in England and 19 in Scotland.\n\nThat tragedy forced a radical rethink about flood protection and a massive investment in coastal defences that eventually led to the Thames Barrier in London.\n\nNow, as officials across the UK weigh up future phases of flood defence, the report identifies what it calls five \"reality checks\" about climate change:\n\nThe agency calls for new thinking on flood protection, saying that \"business as usual\" approaches are no longer adequate.\n\nIn practical terms, that means better co-ordination between companies, national agencies and local authorities, with businesses and homeowners encouraged to take basic steps to flood-proof their own properties.\n\nIt wants more investment in natural ways of reducing flood risk, such as restoring upland areas that can retain rainwater upstream and improving management of the soil so there's less run-off.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.\n\nThe agency also suggests trialling new arrangements and technologies for warning local communities about flood risks, and having closer coordination with other emergency services.\n\nThe agency acknowledges that billions of pounds have been spent on flood defences - and that more is earmarked.\n\nAnd it recognises that the UK, as host of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow next month, is highlighting the importance of helping communities and nature adapt to climate change.\n\nIn response, Defra highlighted several key measures designed to adapt to a changing climate: £5.2bn to protect 336,000 properties from flooding and coastal erosion better; a national framework to manage water supplies; and a £640m Nature for Climate Fund to tackle climate change and adaptation together.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are taking robust action to improve resilience to climate change across the whole country and economy, and adaptation to climate change is integrated in policies throughout government.\n\n\"We're also using our COP26 presidency to drive climate adaptation around the world, protecting communities and natural habitats.\"\n\nDo you have any questions about the forthcoming COP26 global climate conference in Glasgow?\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 no room for big spending announcements for hard-pressed public services in this month's Budget, the Institute for Fiscal Studies says.\n\nThe influential think tank has published new analysis, suggesting borrowing will be lower than forecast.\n\nBut the IFS says if the chancellor hopes to balance the government's finances, he will still have to keep a tight rein on spending.\n\nThat's despite his planning the biggest tax rises for more than 25 years.\n\nMr Sunak is due to deliver the next Budget on 27 October.\n\n\"Rishi Sunak, a Conservative chancellor, is presiding over an increase in the tax burden to record levels in the UK and an increase in the size of the state (public spending as a fraction of national income) to levels not seen since the days of [Margaret] Thatcher,\" said IFS director Paul Johnson.\n\n\"Yet the combined effects of ever-growing spending on the NHS, and an economy smaller than projected pre-pandemic, mean that he is still likely to be short of money to spend on many other public services,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson said that meant \"little or no scope\" to increase spending on things such as local government, the justice system and further education, which have seen sharp cuts over the last decade.\n\nSpending on services other than health, such as defence, schools and aid, might also have to increase by less than Mr Sunak was planning pre-pandemic, the IFS said.\n\nMr Johnson said the chancellor would be \"hoping against hope\" that the economy performed better than expected over the next few years, pushing up tax revenues that would \"help to dig him out of what still looks like a fair-sized hole\".\n\nThe IFS produces analysis of the country's finances in its Green Budget every year. Like a government green paper, the aim is to inform and provoke discussion around budgetary decisions.\n\nThe report highlights the UK's strong economic recovery this year, in the wake of the vaccine roll-out, meaning that borrowing this year could be more than £50bn lower than was forecast in March. But it says less rapid growth after this year's bounce back would mean the public finances improve more slowly in the years to come.\n\nAnyone making forecasts like these a year ago would have been laughed at and called a crazy optimist.\n\nThe amount the government is expected to borrow this financial year is £50bn less than was predicted even just back in March.\n\nThat suggests those arguing against cutting public spending too soon, for the sake of reducing that borrowing, were right.\n\nIn a pandemic, they argued, to prioritise sorting out the public finances before securing the economic recovery was putting the cart before the horse.\n\nIn the meantime, the vaccine-led recovery has brought tax money rolling into the Treasury much faster than was expected.\n\nWith 7% economic growth predicted this year and borrowing dropping rapidly, we can now see how quickly, when the economic horse is accelerating, the public finance cart comes trundling behind.\n\nChristian Schulz, director of European Economics at investment bank Citi, which collaborated on the Green Budget, said the global economic outlook had improved.\n\nHowever, the UK economy was still likely to be 4% short of its pre-pandemic trajectory at the end of 2021, he said.\n\n\"The medium-term recovery also remains far from secure,\" said Mr Schulz. \"Instead, an uneven rebound to date points to a more profound Brexit- and Covid-related reconfiguration in the years ahead.\n\nThe IFS suggested that in order to cope with long-term pressures on spending, the chancellor might find he needs to raise taxes further, on top of the 1.25% health and social care levy announced last month.\n\nFor the levy to meet future spending demand in those areas, the IFS estimates it could need to more than double to 3.15% by the end of this decade.", "Eva Maria Nichifor's parents described her as their \"miracle\"\n\nParents have paid tribute to their \"perfect baby girl, a gift from God\", after she was killed in a car crash.\n\nSix-month-old Eva Maria Nichifor died after the two-car collision in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, on Friday.\n\nIn a statement, her parents Florin and Carmen said they were \"distraught by our loss\", with her mother previously speaking of her \"indescribable pain\".\n\nLucy Dyer, 23, from Llanelli, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving and drink driving.\n\nFlowers and tributes to Eva Maria Nichifor have been left at the roadside in Llanelli\n\nThe crash happened at the Heol Goffa crossroads, in Llanelli, at about 21:00 BST on Friday.\n\nEva's parents, who originate from Romania but now live in Llanelli, said in a statement issued in both English and Romanian: \"She was our miracle, our perfect baby girl, a gift from God. She will always be in our hearts.\n\n\"We would like to thank everyone for their support at this horrific time. It has meant so much to the whole family.\n\n\"We would now like time to grieve and would ask to be given privacy in which to do so.\"\n\nAt Llanelli magistrates' court on 11 October, Ms Dyer, of Heulwen Terrace, Llanelli, was remanded in custody to appear at Swansea Crown Court on 12 November.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has not committed to any additional government help for businesses struggling amid record gas prices.\n\nSome industries have warned firms could be forced to shut down operations.\n\nMr Kwarteng said he was working closely with the chancellor over possible support for energy intensive sectors - but a Treasury source denied this.\n\nThe business secretary said domestic customers would not see a change to the energy price cap this winter.\n\nAsked on BBC One's Andrew Marr programme whether there would be additional government help for energy-intensive companies, Mr Kwarteng described the situation as \"critical\" and said he was \"looking to find a solution\".\n\nWhen Andrew Marr suggested this sounded like a \"yes\" the business secretary said: \"No, it doesn't sound like yes at all.\n\n\"We already have existing support and we're looking to see whether that's sufficient to get us through this situation.\"\n\nSpeaking to Times Radio Mr Kwarteng, who met leaders from heavy industry on Friday, said he was not going to commit to \"any firm figure or subsidy\" for companies.\n\nAsked about whether the government would ensure factories would not have to close if they could not pay for gas he said it was a commercial decision and \"up to them\".\n\nHe added: \"We are not in the business of bail-outs. What we are in the business of is ensuring security of supply and that is what I am focused on.\"\n\nCEO of British Glass Dave Dalton, who was at Friday's meeting with Mr Kwarteng, said some of the confederation's \"significant\" members were \"teetering on the edge\".\n\n\"I think some companies are staring down the ability to survive, absolutely - ultimately that obviously cascades on to jobs and impacts on the consumer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nGareth Stace, director general of UK Steel, said he was frustrated by the lack of action to support businesses.\n\nHe told the BBC that without help in the next week or so, there would be \"significant and permanent damage to the UK steel sector\".\n\nUnite leader Sharon Graham said the country was \"contemplating factory shutdowns across viable manufacturing and businesses\" and that workers were \"worried sick\".\n\nBusinesses have been shouting louder and louder for support through this period of soaring energy prices.\n\nThis morning, the business secretary told the BBC he was listening to their concerns - but would not commit to any extra support.\n\nThose industries that use a lot of energy for manufacturing say that the time for working out a way forward has long gone.\n\nThe director general of UK Steel, Gareth Stace, expressed his frustration, saying pauses in steel production will only increase.\n\nThe government says the current situation emphasises the need for a revolution in how we generate energy, moving towards home-grown renewables.\n\nBut that's little comfort for those businesses dependent on energy from fossil fuels now, competing with intense demand in a global market.\n\nOn the Andrew Marr show, Mr Kwarteng denied asking for \"billions\" from the Treasury to subsidise energy-intensive businesses and said supply itself was \"not an issue\".\n\nA Treasury source said the business secretary had been \"mistaken\" to say that he had been working on possible support measures with the Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nBridget Phillipson, Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said the government \"needs to get a grip\" and called for \"urgent answers on who exactly is running the show\".\n\n\"The two key government departments responsible for the current cost of living crisis have spent this morning infighting about whether they were in talks with each other. What a farce,\" she said.\n\nShe also accused the government of having \"put its out of office on\", referring to reports that the prime minister is on holiday in Spain.\n\nA number of Conservative MPs have called for the government to take action to support heavy industry.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford called on the UK government to \"nurse\" businesses through the crisis, describing it as a \"perfect storm\".\n\nThe domestic consumer energy price cap, which is reviewed every six months, sets the maximum level a supplier can charge a consumer on a standard tariff in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nMr Kwarteng told Marr that protecting consumers was his \"first and foremost objective\" and as such the price cap would stay at its current level until its next update which is due to in April.\n\nSome suppliers say the cap is just delaying an inevitable increase in consumer prices and should be reviewed more regularly.\n\nEnergy regulator Ofgem has warned households will see further \"significant rises\" in the spring, when the cap is reviewed.\n\nAsked by Marr if he was sure the lights would stay on this winter, Mr Kwarteng said \"yes, I am\".\n\nDue to high gas prices household energy suppliers have been forced to sell gas for less than they can buy it due to the price cap, leading some to fail.\n\nLast month, nine domestic energy supply companies went out of business, forcing 1.7 million customers to move to new suppliers and on to higher rates.\n\nPaul Richards, chief executive of Together Energy, which he said is currently making losses, said while he supported a price cap to protect customers, the current mechanism \"is not fit for industry, nor is it fit for customers\".\n\nHe said it protected customers in the short term but somewhere between £1bn and £3bn in costs would be spread back across business and households as a result of suppliers going bust.\n\nThe founder of OVO Energy Stephen Fitzpatrick told Marr that it has been \"too easy\" for companies to enter the energy market and that there will be more companies in difficulty.\n\nHe said the market was a complicated one, and he thought some people had not understood the risks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eluned Morgan says she has never understood politicians who refuse to apologise where it's due\n\nWales' Health Minister Eluned Morgan has apologised for the mistakes made by the Welsh government in its initial handling of the pandemic.\n\nShe was responding to a report by MPs which said the UK's early response to the pandemic is one of the worst ever public health failures.\n\n\"I'm prepared to apologise to all of those who have suffered,\" she said.\n\nThe report said the slow move to lockdown led to a higher initial death toll than if ministers acted sooner.\n\nIt said the slow move into restrictions - backed by UK government scientists and adopted by the UK's central and devolved governments - was \"wrong\" and \"deliberate\".\n\nThe study, written by two House of Commons committees, claimed scientific advisers and government suffered \"a degree of group think\".\n\nWales and the rest of the UK went into lockdown on 23 March - while the policy was controlled by ministers in Cardiff, early on they acted alongside the Westminster government.\n\nThere were 2,289 deaths in Wales due to Covid, and 2,512 deaths involving Covid, in the first wave of the pandemic up to the end of July 2020.\n\nWales went into lockdown on 23 March 2020\n\nOpposition parties reiterated calls for a Wales-only public inquiry, with Plaid Cymru saying the Welsh government \"must take responsibility for its actions\".\n\nIn the Senedd, First Minister Mark Drakeford declined to say whether he agreed the early response was one of the worst ever public health failures in the UK, and said he had not read the report.\n\n\"I've been asked the question many times, 'Were there things that you would have done differently had you known then what you know now?' \" he said.\n\n\"We didn't know those things then, we were following the advice that we had at the time.\"\n\nHe said as \"our knowledge grew\" ministers have \"not hesitated to take our own decisions where we thought that was in the best interests of Wales\".\n\nThere have been a total of 8,262 deaths where Covid was mentioned on the death certificate up to 24 September this year.\n\nSpeaking at a press briefing, Ms Morgan said: \"Of course I'm prepared to apologise to all of those who have suffered during the pandemic.\n\n\"This was a new disease that we'd never seen before. None of us knew how it was going to impact, none of us knew how it was going to spread, none of us had any idea that it could be spread even without showing any symptoms.\"\n\nShe added: \"Of course we made mistakes at the beginning of that process, because of the lack of information and data and knowledge that we have now learned.\n\n\"I think we have a duty and responsibility to say sorry to people where we've made mistakes.\"\n\nBut the minister argued it would have been \"extremely difficult\" to have locked down Wales before England, because of the border and \"because furlough was not available\".\n\nShe said since then, the Welsh government has taken a \"far more cautious approach compared to that of the rest of the United Kingdom\".\n\nBut Ms Morgan denied that the Welsh government had suffered from group think - when a group of individuals reaches a consensus without critical reasoning.\n\nA decision to scrap community testing for coronavirus early in the pandemic was described by the report as a \"serious mistake\".\n\nWales, in common with the rest of the UK, took the same approach. Ms Morgan partly blamed this on a limitation on the number of tests available at the time.\n\nCatherine Griffiths's father Harry died with Covid in his Aberystwyth care home\n\nFigures showed that there were 157% more care home deaths from all causes than there would be normally in April 2020, with 1,171 in total.\n\nThe daughter of a man who died from Covid last year said it was \"good to have an apology\" but said it was \"slightly qualified\".\n\nCatherine Griffiths, whose father Harry Griffiths died with Covid in his Aberystwyth care home, told BBC Wales: \"They didn't know what was happening in the first wave but they knew what was happening in the second wave, my father died in the second wave.\n\n\"They should have protected people they should have acted and learned from countries in the Far East. While we were going into the second wave they were asking people to do quick tests before they enter care facilities, and we weren't doing that.\"\n\nMs Griffiths is part of the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru group, which is calling for a dedicated public inquiry for Wales into decisions made about the pandemic.\n\nThere are calls for a Wales-only public inquiry into the Covid response\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the report showed the \"fatalistic approach at the heart of this Westminster government\" but also called for a Welsh public inquiry.\n\nPlaid health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said: \"The Welsh government must take responsibility for its actions - good and bad, and there should be no avoidance of detailed scrutiny.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Russell George said: \"The pandemic was an unprecedented crisis and as these reports show decision-makers in government followed the science and evidence provided by experts.\"\n\nHe added the report shows \"why we need a Wales-specific Covid inquiry\".\n\nHowever Mark Drakeford argued in the Senedd that the report strengthens the argument for the Welsh \"experience to be properly investigated within the wider UK context\".\n\nThe first minister has backed a UK government inquiry, but has not ruled out a Wales-only effort if he is not satisfied with what is set up by the UK government.\n\nMr Drakeford told the Senedd he was yet to receive a reply to a letter to Communities Secretary Michael Gove on the 10 September setting out a \"series of tests\" the Welsh government would apply \"to give us confidence\".\n\nThe first minister said he was hoping to have a meeting with the prime minister in the coming days, and added he expects devolved governments to be \"properly involved\" in the appointment of the UK government's inquiry chair.\n\nDuring the press conference it was announced that the Welsh government had set a target of offering all 12 to 15-year-olds a Covid vaccine by the end of October.\n\nThe government also said all residents of care homes will have been offered a booster by the same date.\n\nDr Gill Richardson, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Vaccines, said she expected the majority of people over 50 or who have an underlying health condition to have been offered their booster by the end of the year.\n\nA Welsh government statement said the committees' report \"does not scrutinise decisions made by any of the devolved governments in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"Some actions and decisions in the pandemic response were taken at a UK level on a four-nations basis - we have always been open to working together where there are shared decisions and shared responses.\n\n\"We have followed the advice of our medical and scientific advisers and have taken a more cautious approach. Independent reports, by Audit Wales, have shown our approach to testing, for example, was less costly and more efficient than that taken by the UK government.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footballers 'have right to see where data goes'\n\nHundreds of footballers have threatened legal action against the data collection industry, which could change how information is handled.\n\nLed by former Cardiff City, Leyton Orient and Yeovil Town manager Russell Slade, 850 players want compensation for the trading of their performance data over the past six years.\n\nThey also want an annual fee from the companies for any future use.\n\n\"Letters before action\" have been sent to 17 big firms, alleging data misuse.\n\nData ranges from average goals-per-game for an outfield player to height - however, Mr Slade has previously expressed concern this is sometimes wrong.\n\nIf the group pursues legal action and is successful, it could lead to a radical change of a multi-billion pound industry behind professional sport that trades on players' information.\n\nSlade's legal team said the fact players receive no payment for the unlicensed use of their data contravenes General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules that were strengthened in 2018.\n\nUnder Article 4 of the GDPR, \"personal data\" refers to a range or identifiable information, such as physical attributes, location data or physiological information.\n\nBBC News understands that an initial 17 major betting, entertainment and data collection firms have been targeted, but Slade's Global Sports Data and Technology Group has highlighted more than 150 targets it believes have misused data.\n\nFormer Cardiff City manager Russell Slade is leading the group\n\nWhile receiving a fee for the use of their data might not have much impact on the high earners of the Premier League, Slade feels strongly that those lower down the pyramid, in both the men's and women's game, would see tangible benefits.\n\n\"It's incredible where it's used,\" Slade said. \"On one player, and I'm not talking about a Premier League player or even a Championship player, there was some 7,000 pieces of information on one individual player at a lower league football club.\n\n\"There are companies that are taking that data and processing that data without the individual consent of that player.\n\n\"A big part of our journey has been looking at that ecosystem and plotting out where that data starts, who's processing it, where it finishes and that's a real global thing.\n\n\"It's making football - and all sports - aware of the implications and what needs to change.\"\n\nThe use of data in sport is nothing new. Its collection, distribution and use has become a staple part of the modern sporting environment, be it by clubs to manage player performance, or by third party companies to base things like odds on.\n\nIf the move is successful, the implications could have far-reaching effects beyond football.\n\nBBC News understand discussions are already underway within other professional sports to bring potential legal action regarding the trading of data.\n\nFormer Wales international Dave Edwards, one the players behind the move, said it was a chance for players to take more control of the way information about them is used.\n\nHaving seen how data has become a staple part of the modern game, he believes players rights to how information about them is used should be at the forefront of any future use.\n\n\"The more I've looked into it and you see how our data is used, the amount of channels its passed through, all the different organisations which use it, I feel as a player we should have a say on who is allowed to use it,\" he said.\n\nThe footballers say they want compensation and an annual fee for the use of their data\n\n\"Anyone else in the world would have that say. Just because we're footballers and we're in the public domain that gets overlooked.\n\n\"If you were in another job, if you were a teacher or a lawyer and this sort of details was being passed around your field of work it wouldn't sit right with that person.\n\n\"I don't think we, as individuals really differ from that.\"\n\nThe lawyer behind Global Sports Data and Technology's action, Chris Farnell, believes it could be start of a sport-wide reshaping of how data is traded.\n\n\"This will be significant change if the precedent is set throughout football and how data is used throughout sport in general,\" he said.\n\n\"It will change significantly how that data is being used and how it's going to be rewarded.\"", "James Gray (left) with Nadhim Zahawi at the parliamentary reception\n\nTory MP James Gray has been asked to step back from activities with a charity, after reports he mixed up two ethnic minority ministers at an event, saying \"they all look the same to me\".\n\nThe MailOnline has reported he confused then-vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi with Health Secretary Sajid Javid.\n\nFollowing the event, St John Ambulance said it did not \"tolerate racism\".\n\nMr Gray acknowledged that he mixed up the two men but denies saying \"they all look the same to me\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, the North Wiltshire MP said: \"I think I said 'I mixed you up', something like that\", adding that it was a \"very silly non-story\".\n\nHe said he hadn't been contacted by the charity about stepping back from his role and had even received an invitation on Tuesday to one of their events.\n\nHe also denies reports Mr Zahawi - who was born in Iraq - spoke to him about the incident at the event, adding that the men are close friends.\n\nThe BBC has been told the charity spoke to Mr Gray over a week ago about stepping back from his involvement with the charity and that the invitation to the MP from St John Ambulance was inadvertently sent out and would be retracted.\n\nAsked for a response, the Conservative Party said: \"These comments were misjudged. We do not tolerate racism or discrimination of any kind.\"\n\nMr Gray has been accused of making the remarks in September at a reception in Parliament held to celebrate the work of St John Ambulance's volunteers and staff during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAs a Commander in the Order of St John, the parent charity of St John Ambulance, Mr Gray was hosting the event.\n\nAccording to the reports, he was introducing Mr Zahawi to the stage but instead referred to him as Sajid Javid, who was also at the event.\n\nAfter his mistake, the MP is said to have told the audience: \"They all look the same to me.\"\n\nMr Gray has previously apologised for his comments about Labour chair Anneliese Dodds\n\nFollowing the event, the charity said it had asked Mr Gray to step back from activities with the organisation.\n\nA spokesman said: \"St John does not tolerate racism in any way, shape or form.\n\n\"We spoke with James Gray following the event about our values as an open, inclusive and progressive charity.\"\n\nLast month, Mr Gray apologised for joking that \"a bomb\" should be delivered to the office of Labour Party chair Anneliese Dodds.\n\nSpeaking to the Mail on Sunday, he said: \"It was a foolish remark,\" he told the Mail on Sunday, adding: \"I meant no offence and hope none was taken.\"\n\nEarlier this year Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner also confused Mr Javid - who has Pakistani heritage - with another politician - referring to him as \"Sadiq Javid\" apparently partly confusing him with Labour London Mayor Sadiq Khan.", "Stephen Port was sentenced to a full-life term in November 2016\n\nA detective investigating the circumstances of serial killer Stephen Port's first homicide felt that the case was likely to be one of murder and told senior officers of his concerns.\n\nAnthony Walgate, 23, was found dead outside Port's flat block in June 2014.\n\nDet Ch Insp Tony Kirk tried to establish a murder inquiry, an email shown to an inquest jury revealed.\n\nPort would go on to murder three more men using the date rape drug GHB before homicide detectives took on the case.\n\nThe inquest jury at Barking Town Hall also heard evidence from Det Ch Insp Christopher Jones, the senior murder detective involved in the case in the week after the death.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jones told the hearing it was \"not possible\" that detectives would have taken the case less seriously because Mr Walgate was \"young, gay and working as an escort\".\n\nThe jury, which is examining the Metropolitan Police's handling of the investigation, heard Det Ch Insp Kirk's email was sent a week after Mr Walgate's body was found outside Port's flat in Cooke Street in Barking, east London.\n\nIt set out that it was known to the force that Port, now 46, had lied to officers about not knowing Mr Walgate, who he had in fact arranged to meet two days before the killing.\n\nA post-mortem examination found that the 23-year-old died as a result of ingesting high levels of the date rape drug GHB.\n\nThe jury heard how Det Ch Insp Kirk pointed out in his email that Port had previously had an allegation made against him that he had drugged and raped another man, and had no means of paying the £800 Mr Walgate charged for his work as an escort - which was how the two men came to meet each other.\n\nIn the message, to Supt John Sweeney of Homicide Command, Det Ch Insp Kirk said: \"I feel we as an organisation have a duty to his (Mr Walgate's) friends and family to get to the bottom of his death in what are increasingly suspicious circumstances.\n\n\"This investigation concerns the death of a young and what appears to be a fit and healthy male and, on the balance of probabilities, at the hands of another.\n\n\"I appreciate that a murder charge might not be the final outcome, but the investigation is becoming increasingly complex.\"\n\nSupt Sweeney decided to leave the investigation with the less experienced detectives in the Barking borough command, the inquest heard.\n\nJurors were also told that detectives did not then carry out a vital download of Port's laptop requested by the homicide team.\n\nThe laptop, which had been seized by police, contained evidence of him using search terms to do with drugging and raping boys, the inquest heard.\n\nThe paramedic who found Mr Walgate's body previously told the jury he had regarded it as an \"unexplained suspicious death\".\n\nMr Kovari's and Mr Whitworth's bodies were found in the graveyard of St Margaret's Church\n\nSpeaking on Monday, Det Ch Insp Jones explained that in his opinion at the time, the death was unexplained - but he said he had not been told the post-mortem examination had found bruises suggesting Mr Walgate had been moved while he was still alive.\n\nNor had he been told that dead man's underpants were inside out and back to front, the jury heard.\n\nPort's next two victims, Gabriel Kovari, 22, and Daniel Whitworth, 21, were found dead by the same dog-walker three weeks apart beneath a large maple tree in a corner of the same cemetery, at St Margaret's Church.\n\nMr Kovari's body was found on 28 August 2014 and Mr Whitworth's was discovered on 20 September, in almost exactly the same spot.\n\nThe final victim, aspiring police officer Jack Taylor, 25, was found near the cemetery on 14 September 2015.\n\nIn 2016, Port was found guilty at the Old Bailey of the four murders and sentenced to a whole-life order.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "With growing concerns about a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the authorities in Turkey have stepped up security on their border and warned they won't accept an influx of Afghan migrants and refugees.\n\nTurkey already has the world's largest refugee population of around 4 million people - 3.6 million of whom are Syrians - but there is growing anti-migrant sentiment.\n\nMany Afghans cross Iran to get to Turkey, hoping to travel onwards to Europe.\n\nOfficials in eastern Turkey say so far this year about 90,000 people have been prevented from illegally crossing the border, most of them Afghans.\n\nBBC international correspondent Orla Guerin reports from the Turkish border province of Van.", "Jonathon Ramsbottom admitted causing Mr White's death by careless driving while under the influence of drugs\n\nA delivery driver who knocked down and killed a cyclist while high on drugs has been jailed for seven years.\n\nJonathon Ramsbottom, from Rochdale, collided head-on with Stephen White in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, in May 2020.\n\nMr White, 54, who was training for an Ironman triathlon, died as a result of a \"catastrophic\" brain injury.\n\nRamsbottom, 37, who was on bail for drugs offences at the time of the crash, pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving.\n\nStephen White, from Bolton, suffered a brain injury and died after the crash in May 2020\n\nBradford Crown Court heard Mr White, from Bolton, had been on a training ride when Ramsbottom crashed into him in his van on Church Road.\n\nA blood test later revealed the Yodel delivery driver had traces of cocaine in his system measuring four times the legal limit.\n\nThe court heard Ramsbottom had also not worked the previous day because he did not feel fit enough after taking taking cocaine and cannabis.\n\nPassing sentence Judge Richard Mansell QC said: \"Any careful, sensible and sober driver would have seen him and avoided him.\n\n\"You were driving too fast, one arm out of the window, with a passenger in the vehicle and with excess cocaine and some cannabis in your system.\n\n\"These two drugs, often used in combination by so many young men who work in manual or trade jobs, are fast becoming a scourge of our society.\n\n\"Cyclists take their life in their hands when they go out on just about any road in our country now.\"\n\nHe said the case was seriously aggravated by the fact Ramsbottom was on bail for conspiring to supply cocaine at the time.\n\nThe court heard he was jailed in December 2020 for four-and-a-half-years for that offence.\n\nIn a victim impact statement Mr White's wife described him as \"a loving and loyal family man\" and said: \"I still cannot really believe that Steve didn't come home that day.\"\n\nJudge Mansell said Ramsbottom's seven year sentence would be served consecutively to the sentence for supplying cocaine.\n\nHe also banned him from driving for 11 years.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance says his job is \"not to sugarcoat\" reality when speaking to the PM about Covid.\n\nHe said he had to give Boris Johnson and MPs the evidence - not worrying whether they would like it.\n\nIn a BBC Radio 4 interview, he also said \"you've got to go sooner than you want\" when it comes to taking action.\n\nHe was speaking before a report said the UK's early Covid response was one of the worst public health failures.\n\nThe MPs' report said the government's approach was to try to manage the situation and in effect achieve herd immunity by infection - but this led to a delay in introducing the first lockdown, costing thousands of lives.\n\nSir Patrick told The Life Scientific: \"My mantra for a long time during this (pandemic) has been... you've got to go sooner than you want to in terms of taking interventions.\n\n\"You've got to go harder than you want to, and you've got to go more geographically broad than you want to.\n\n\"And that is the Sage advice. And that's what I've been saying. And I will say it going forward, and the prime minister knows that's what I think. And he knows that's what I would do in that situation.\"\n\nAt the beginning of the pandemic, he had told the BBC in March 2020 that the aim was to \"reduce the peak\" of infections and that the population would build up a \"degree of herd immunity\".\n\nBut in the new interview, he stressed that as more evidence came in, the scientific judgements changed.\n\n\"For a politician, that feels like a U-turn, or for the media that often feels like a U-turn,\" he said. \"It's not a U-turn - this is new evidence that gives you a new position: this is the way we progress, the way we learn.\"\n\nSir Patrick told interviewer Prof Jim Al-Khalili his job was \"to give the scientific evidence as best you can, unvarnished - not worrying about whether the person hearing it is going to like it or dislike it\".\n\nHe said: \"I view my job as giving scientific advice, like it or not, to the prime minister and cabinet to enable them to make decisions.\n\n\"My job is not to sugarcoat it. My job is not to tell them things they want to hear... it's to make sure that they understand what the science at that moment is saying, what the uncertainties are, and to try to make that as clear as possible.\"\n\nHe said he and fellow scientists were labelled as \"gloom-mongers\" by some parts of the media, and added: \"Maybe we were, but we were trying to just tell people as we saw it, and as the experts were helping us understand it, what the situation was, and therefore what the options might be.\"\n\nSir Patrick, who often spoke alongside the prime minister at Downing Street press conferences at the height of the pandemic, described it as \"an incredibly fraught period\".\n\nHe said there was \"massive uncertainty, lots of unknowns, and huge decisions that ministers and the prime minister had to make, and a lot of it very informed by science\".\n\n\"Did I spend my entire days feeling calm? No, I didn't. And, you know, there were times when, of course, it was incredibly busy as well,\" he said.\n\nSir Patrick also said there were times he doubted his abilities, saying: \"All of us felt times when there was enormous pressure, and you just felt, am I doing a good job? Am I the right person in the job at the moment? Am I able to get the evidence through clearly enough or not?\"\n\nHe said it was \"not enough as a science adviser to say, I went in there and told them\", but rather he wanted to make sure \"this has been properly understood\".\n\nBut he said the most difficult part of the job had been press intrusion into his personal life.\n\n\"Those are the times when you thought actually you know, is this really something I can do?\" he said.\n\n\"When you've got my family being affected by press, being intrusive into things that weren't actually germane to the job I was doing, that was probably the most difficult time actually.\"\n\nAs for the current coronavirus situation, Sir Patrick said he had personally reduced his contacts and wore a mask in crowded places.\n\nThere will be a \"balancing act\" over the next few months, and winter \"will be a big pressure for sure\", said Sir Patrick, adding: \"We're not out of the woods yet.\"", "Sarah Everard, originally from York, was killed by serving police officer Wayne Couzens after he falsely arrested her\n\nA former cabinet minister has said a police, fire and crime commissioner (PFCC) \"should go\" over comments he made following the Sarah Everard case.\n\nNorth Yorkshire PFCC Philip Allott was criticised after saying Ms Everard never should have \"submitted\" to arrest by killer Wayne Couzens.\n\nHe later apologised for the comments, but said he would remain in post.\n\nJulian Smith, Conservative MP for Skipton and Ripon, has said Mr Allott had lost the trust of women.\n\n\"Recent comments of the NY Police & Crime Commissioner were completely unacceptable,\" the MP and former Northern Ireland Secretary tweeted.\n\n\"Prior to Thursday's Police & Crime Panel meeting to discuss the PCC's future I believe the PCC has lost trust of women and victims groups & should go,\" he said.\n\nJulian Smith is a North Yorkshire MP and former Northern Ireland Secretary\n\nDuring the sentencing of Wayne Couzens at the Old Bailey on 30 September, it emerged he tricked Ms Everard by falsely arresting her for a breach of Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nThe following day, Mr Allott told BBC Radio York he believed \"women, first of all, need to be streetwise about when they can be arrested and when they can't be arrested\".\n\nHe added that Ms Everard \"should never have been arrested and submitted to that\".\n\nOver 10,000 people have since signed an online petition calling for Mr Allott to step down as PFCC over what he said.\n\nMr Smith's tweet was supported by North Yorkshire's former PFCC Julia Mulligan, who tweeted: \"Thank you Julian for speaking out.\"\n\nMr Allott has been the elected North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for five months\n\nMr Allot, who was elected in May, said in an interview with BBC Look North he was \"horrified\" by how his comments had been seen.\n\n\"They are not the kind of language that I would normally use and I am so deeply sorry.\"\n\nHis comments will be discussed at a meeting of the North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Panel on 14 October.\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.", "A deal to avert another carbon dioxide crisis in the food and drink industry has been extended until early 2022.\n\nUS firm CF Industries, a key CO2 producer in the UK, has agreed to continue supplies of the gas.\n\nIt said that should give the government and firms time to find other sources of CO2, used in fizzy drinks and for keeping food fresh, as well as to stun pigs and chickens before slaughter.\n\nFirms will now have to pay more for their CO2, but it is unclear how much.\n\nLast month, the government stepped in to subsidise one of the firm's plants after its shutdown due to high gas prices threatened food supplies.\n\nCF Industries suspended production at two sites - Cheshire and Billingham - which make 60% of the UK's commercial carbon dioxide.\n\nIt reopened its Billingham plant in north-east England after the government agreed to meet the costs of running it for three weeks.\n\nBillingham produces up to 750 tonnes of CO2 per day as a by-product of producing ammonia for fertiliser. CF Industries' plant at Ince in Cheshire remains closed with no date given for a reopening.\n\nThe government said: \"CO2 suppliers have agreed to pay CF Fertilisers a price for the CO2 it produces that will enable it to continue operating while global gas prices remain high, drawing on support from industry and delivering value for money for the taxpayer.\"\n\nThe agreement meant industry could have confidence it would receive future CO2 supplies, without further taxpayer support, said the government.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association said the agreement provided \"some reassurance that supplies will be maintained\".\n\n\"However, industry has been given no detail on what the price will be or how it will be calculated going forward,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We understand that Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng took the decision to temporarily exempt parts of the CO2 industry from competition law to facilitate this agreement. What we need now is some detail and transparency around how the new pricing structure will work.\"\n\nIan Wright, chief executive of the Food and Drink Federation, said the agreement was \"welcome news\".\n\nBut he added: \"The increased cost of buying CO2 is yet another burden on the food and drink industry, which is already facing enormous stresses.\n\n\"This will, of course, add more pressure on prices for shoppers and diners.\"\n\nIt looks like there will be enough CO2 to keep Christmas beers bubbly - but after that, there are no guarantees.\n\nThere's an ominous line in the CF Industries press release. They expect CO2 users to develop \"robust alternative sources\" between now and January.\n\nThat won't be easily done. Lots of industrial processes produce CO2, but few produce a stream so pure and reliable that you'd want to dissolve it in your lemonade.\n\nDistributor Nippon Gases has warned that supply is tight across Europe, so imports will be hard to come by.\n\nThe government says that the firms which need the CO2 from Billingham will be paying more for it - and whatever long-term solution does emerge, it's likely to be more expensive too.\n\nBut the UK only needs about 600,000 tonnes of CO2 a year. At about £200 a tonne before the current crisis, that's about £120m, relatively small beer for industries that count their turnover in the billions.\n\nCompared to the other pressures those industries face - staff shortages, and higher costs for energy and shipping - more expensive CO2 is an extra cost they don't need, but it won't be their biggest headache.\n\nWhen CF shut its facilities after making fertiliser became uneconomic because of the rising price of wholesale gas, it cut off a vital source of CO2 for other sectors.\n\nSupermarkets began reporting limited stocks of some food items, while the pig industry warned that if slaughterhouses could not process animals, then farmers would have to cull their stocks.\n\nThe US firm said it now expected the UK government and industrial gas customers to \"develop robust alternative sources of CO2 as part of a long-term solution for meeting demand in the country\".\n\nLast month, it emerged the British food industry would be forced to pay five times more for carbon dioxide as part of a government deal with CF Industries to restart production in the UK.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said carbon dioxide prices would rise from £200 per tonne to £1,000.\n\nHouseholds, too, are being hit by higher energy bills, with those on standard tariffs, with typical household levels of energy use, seeing bills go up by £139 to £1,277 a year on average.\n\nSeveral energy suppliers, unable to pass on wholesale prices to consumers on fixed deal, have gone out of business. Their customers have been switched to other suppliers, but will be put on variable contracts that will be higher than previous deals.\n\nMeanwhile, the business department has sent the Treasury a formal request for support for energy-intensive industries hit by high gas prices, the BBC understands.\n\nIt came after talks between ministers and industry leaders earlier on Monday.\n\nA source said: \"Everyone in government understands the importance of this situation.\n\n\"We need to solve this quickly.\"\n\nDetails of the proposal from Mr Kwarteng have not been disclosed but are thought to focus on a temporary solution to high energy prices.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Kwarteng told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme the situation was \"critical\" and said he was \"looking to find a solution\".\n\nMr Kwarteng said there were Treasury talks about support measures to ease the impact on firms. However, a Treasury source later said the business secretary had been \"mistaken\".\n\nSectors such as ceramics, paper and steel manufacturing have called for a price cap, though talks with government on Friday failed to reach a solution.", "The property on Princess Drive suffered \"considerable damage\" the fire service said\n\nA woman narrowly escaped injury after a car smashed into her bungalow while she was inside.\n\nThe front of the house in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, was destroyed when it was struck by the vehicle at 20:05 BST on Monday.\n\nThe driver, a 67-year-old man, was taken to hospital and later arrested on suspicion of drink driving, West Mercia Police said.\n\nBut the woman, believed to have been in the room hit by the car, was unharmed.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service said the woman was assessed at the scene and discharged with self care advice.\n\nThe driver suffered non-life threatening injuries and was taken to Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, it added.\n\nThe driver was taken to Royal Shrewsbury Hospital for treatment after the collision\n\nPosting on Facebook, Bridgnorth Fire also praised the woman who called 999 after witnessing the impact.\n\n\"[The caller was] giving full and correct details to our fire control while dealing with first aid and making contact with the occupier all on her own,\" it said.\n\n\"Communication and keeping calm in a stressful situation are skills rarely used by members of the public but can make a massive difference.\"\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 drawing was found in bubble wrap and leaning against a wall in an attic\n\nA drawing by a great Italian artist of the 18th Century is to go under the hammer after it was found in a loft.\n\nThe work by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was uncovered at Weston Hall, near Towcester, Northamptonshire, ahead of the manor house being put up for sale.\n\nHenrietta Sitwell, whose family owned Weston for 300 years, said it was one of many \"exciting discoveries\".\n\nAuctioneers Dreweatts said it was \"probably the most important find\" at the house and could fetch £250,000.\n\nThe auction of the hall's contents, called Weston Hall and the Sitwells: A Family Legacy, takes place on 16 and 17 November at Donnington Priory in Berkshire.\n\nMs Sitwell said her great-uncle, the writer Osbert Sitwell, bought the drawing in 1936, and no-one had known where it was until last year.\n\n\"As I peeled back the wrapping, I instantly recognised it as something special,\" she added.\n\n\"It was thrilling to think that such a captivating and important work of art by such a revered Old Master was just lying there gathering dust over the years.\"\n\nTiepolo (1696-1770) was described by the National Gallery as \"the greatest Italian Rococo painter\" whose main subjects were Christian and mythical figures.\n\nThe work features Punchinello, the hook-nosed, humpbacked clowns who were some of the stock characters taken from the Commedia dell' Arte - an early form of professional theatre.\n\nIt has been given a \"conservative estimate\" of £150,000-£250,000, Dreweatts said.\n\nThe sale also features clothing and jewellery that belonged to poet and writer Edith Sitwell.\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.", "Euromillions winners can expect to meet Andy Carter, or one of his colleagues, after confirming their success\n\nA record Euromillions jackpot will roll over after no ticket holder won in Tuesday's draw.\n\nBut the £184m prize will not be added to for the next draw on Friday as it has reached its maximum level.\n\nThe previous largest UK prize was in 2019 when an anonymous ticket-holder won the £170m Euromillions jackpot.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter said \"any money that would have gone into the jackpot will now boost prizes in the next winning prize tier\".\n\nTuesday's winning numbers were 06, 13, 22, 45, 49 with Lucky Stars 10, 11. The Millionaire Maker Selection was ZKZF66866.\n\nThe National Lottery said a \"huge influx of players\" before the 19:30 BST cut-off time caused its website and app to run slower than normal - although some customers said they were unable to access the website at all.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the draw, Mr Carter said he had seen a wide range of reactions from winners over the years.\n\n\"I've seen people be sick with excitement, I've seen people resign their job on the spot, I've seen people jumping up and down.\n\n\"I've known husbands who haven't told wives and wives who haven't told husbands, I've been to homes where there's literally a party going on already,\" said Mr Carter, whose job it is to advise winners.\n\nThe jackpot for Euromillions - which is played in nine European countries - is currently capped at €220m, meaning that once it reaches that point it cannot roll over again and add extra prize money.\n\nThat cap was reached on Friday and the jackpot will stay at the same level for five draws unless it is won.\n\nBut on the fifth occasion the jackpot amount must be won - even if that means sharing it among all those ticket-holders who are just one number short.\n• None £170mBritain's richest ever lottery winner stayed anonymous after their win in October 2019.\n• None £161mColin and Chris Weir (pictured) from North Ayrshire, Scotland in 2011.\n• None £148mAdrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, in 2012.\n\nThe Euromillions jackpot cap rises by €10m whenever it is won somewhere in one of the nine countries. The cap was most recently raised in February this year. It can keep rising until a maximum of €250m.\n\nMr Carter or one of his colleagues would be among the first people to speak to any winner, to provide them with advice and put them in touch with previous winners.\n\n\"If you've won a large amount of money, the best thing you can do is go and have a cup of tea with another winner, because they're the people that will truly understand,\" Mr Carter said.\n\nWith £184m under their belt, a UK winner could buy a house in each of the top 10 priciest streets in the UK, including in Kensington Palace Gardens in London, where the average house price is nearly £30m.", "As we've been hearing, Science Minister George Freeman has suggested that a major cause of the UK's Covid death toll was the country's high rate of obesity- related disease. But that's far from the only explanation.\n\nBBC health correspondent Nick Triggle, data journalist Christine Jeavans and head of statistics Robert Cuffe examined the reasons back in January when the death toll was at about 100,000 - now it is over 137,000.\n\nThey found that obesity was a factor, with some studies suggesting it doubled the risk of death for an individual.\n\nThe UK also has high levels of diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems, all of which increase the risk of Covid. These health issues are compounded by inequality in the UK, with the pandemic exacerbating the gap in health and life expectancy between the wealthy and the poor.\n\nSome other factors may have been outside the UK's control.\n\nThe UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. By the end of March 2020 the virus had been introduced from 1,300 separate locations.\n\nCountries such as Australia and New Zealand never had to deal with this on such a scale.\n\nThe UK is also among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with more than 20 million people - which meant the virus could spread quickly.\n\nThey also examined policy mistakes, including the delay in the first lockdown, although they say the data available to scientists and politicians making the decision at the time was poor.\n\nThe fact that the UK only launched its Test and Trace system in May highlighted another failing - we were not prepared, especially compared to Asian countries which already had testing and contact tracing systems in place for a pandemic.\n\nAnd in considering the delays over introducing later lockdowns, they quote one expert saying \"the failure to learn from wave one stands out\" as a reason for the UK's poor response to the pandemic.", "The couple bought them at a country house sale for about £300 and thought they were 19th Century models\n\nA pair of stone sphinx statues that a couple bought for £300 and put in their garden for 15 years have sold at auction for £195,000.\n\nThe items were listed as being a \"pair of 19th Century carved stone garden models\".\n\nAuctioneer James Mander said the price was reached because the buyers, who have remained anonymous, \"seemed to think they are actually Egyptian\".\n\nHe added the sellers were \"really pleased\" with the result.\n\nMr Mander, whose firm is based near Sudbury in Suffolk, said the couple had decided to sell the \"heavily weathered\" statues of the mythic Greek/Egyptian creature as they were moving house.\n\n\"All the time they sat there and they [the sellers] had no idea what they had in their garden,\" said Mr Mander.\n\nHe said the \"unassuming\" metre-long (3ft) statues were \"just amongst\" other items in the couple's garden that were sold in the online auction on Saturday.\n\nThe 20m high Great Sphinx at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt is believed to have been created during the reign of Khafra, who ruled 2558BC to 2532BC\n\nThe mythic creature has the body of a lion, wings of a bird of prey and usually has a human head\n\nHe said it was \"quite surprising really\" when they fetched £195,000 after 15 minutes of bidding.\n\n\"We had no expectations at all then the bidding started at £200 and it crept up and up,\" he added.\n\n\"It got to £100,000 and seemed like it was going to stop and then carried on.\"\n\nMr Mander said the statues were badly weathered and were \"unassuming\"\n\nOf the sellers, Mr Mander added: \"It's a lovely story and as an auctioneer it's a dream.\n\n\"They're a lovely couple, they've just moved house, so it's really nice and from my perspective the perfect scenario.\"\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.", "Ten people in London and Kent have been arrested on suspicion of supplying fraudulent passports to more than 100 high-level organised criminals.\n\nEarly-morning raids in South London, Kent, Essex and Merseyside followed an international police investigation.\n\nThe gang is accused of supplying passports to clients including jailed drug dealer Jamie Acourt, a suspect in the murder of Stephen Lawrence.\n\nThose arrested are suspected of using paid \"lookalikes\" to obtain passports.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) said the gang used the \"lookalikes\" to apply for legitimate replacement passports, but using a criminal's photo, rather than their own.\n\nJacque Beer, the NCA's regional head of investigations, said: \"This is one of the most significant NCA investigations of recent times.\n\n\"We believe that this group's activities has enabled some of the most serious organised criminality in the UK and around the world.\"\n\nShe said if the suspects were convicted, it would have \"dismantled a criminal service that allowed drug and firearm traffickers, suspected murderers, and fugitives to evade detection and operate internationally under false identities.\"\n\nMs Beer said the hope is the case will lead to the \"strengthening of safeguards against criminal exploitation of the UK passport issuing system\".\n\nOfficers smashed down the doors of a flat in south London at 05:00 BST on Monday and arrested a 66-year-old man.\n\nHe is suspected of being a broker between criminals looking for fraudulent passports, and those willing to supply them.\n\nSix men and three women believed to be members of the crime group were also arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of public justice and making false instruments.\n\nThese raids took place in Sutton, Sydenham, Rotherhithe, Hackney, Battersea and Hayes in Kent. The suspects are aged between 34 and 71.\n\nThe investigation began several years ago when HM Passport Office discovered criminals were using a \"loophole\" to obtain legitimate passports with fraudulent details.\n\nAccording to the NCA, the gang are believed to have sourced passports for specific criminal clients who wanted to hide their identity.\n\nThey would find someone who looked like the client and pay them to apply for a replacement passport. Someone else would be paid to countersign the application.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The NCA's Chris Farrimond spoke to BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds about the operation\n\nBut when the passport form was sent in, the client's photo would be used instead of the image of the \"lookalike\" original passport holder.\n\nThe NCA alleges the gang found people prepared to, in effect, sell their personal details for passport applications in return for payments of £2,000.\n\nBecause the passports were not simply forged and therefore appeared legitimate, they were extremely valuable within the criminal underworld.\n\nFourteen men suspected of receiving the passports or helping to countersign documents were arrested in Kent, Essex and Merseyside. They are aged between 38 and 73.\n\nThe NCA and HM Passport Office have been tracking individuals using the fraudulent passports for years.\n\nAs a result, the BBC has been told that more than 100 people said to be senior figures in organised crime have been arrested.\n\nThose arrested are suspected of using paid \"lookalikes\" who would help criminals obtain genuine passports\n\nChris Farrimond, deputy director of operations at the NCA, explained: \"These were serious criminals, who, for one reason or another, could not make use of their normal passport.\n\n\"Either they were on the run, or they were so involved in criminal business that they wanted to keep their activities under the radar.\"\n\nThey are believed to include Jamie Acourt, extradited from Spain and jailed for drug offences.\n\nThe NCA suspect he was a client of the gang, and says he would not have been tracked down had it not been for the fact he was travelling on a passport supplied fraudulently.\n\nIn 2018, the agency told the BBC that Acourt had been tracked using \"intelligence methods\".\n\nThe NCA believes passports were also supplied to Richard Burdett, jailed with his brother Daniel for importing 16 guns into the UK.\n\nBurdett was arrested in July 2019 after being stopped by police in Amsterdam. To confirm his identity he produced a genuine British passport, bearing his photo but fraudulently obtained.\n\nHe had used it to travel to Ireland to evade police in the UK, his trial was told.\n\nPassports were also supplied to organised crime organisations in Scotland and Ireland.\n\nSecurity Minister Damian Hinds said: \"This is a fantastic result and will do significant damage to the serious organised crime groups who want to inflict misery on our shores and around the world.\"\n\n\"The close working between the NCA and Her Majesty's Passport Office has been at the heart of this hugely successful operation.\"\n\n\"The government is working to make the UK border one of the most effective and secure in the world, which will also support our ambition of dismantling ruthless organised crime groups.\"", "The vehicle crashed near the Flying Fox roundabout on the A5 in Bedfordshire\n\nFour people have died following a crash near a roundabout in Bedfordshire, police have confirmed.\n\nPolice said emergency crews were called to a single-vehicle crash near the Flying Fox roundabout on the A5 at about 03:40 BST on Sunday.\n\nThere were reports of a car alight in a field near Heath and Reach.\n\nOfficers said they were working in a \"dignified and meticulous manner in order to establish what happened in this tragic, awful incident\".\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man who had been travelling in the car was pronounced dead at the scene and confirmed three other people travelling in the car had also died.\n\nBedfordshire Police said officers were involved in a \"complex investigation\" into the crash\n\nThe force said work at the scene was \"highly complex\" and was likely to continue into Tuesday.\n\nActing Sgt David Burstow, from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire serious collision investigation unit, said: \"Specially trained officers are speaking to their families and are offering them support, while forensic identification is still to take place.\n\n\"While we believe no other vehicles were involved, our investigations are ongoing into the circumstances surrounding the incident.\"\n\nSgt Burstow asked people to avoid speculation on social media, but asked for witnesses or those with information about what happened to come forward.\n\n\"We would be particularly interested to hear from anyone with dashcam or CCTV footage which could help with our inquiries,\" he added.\n\nThe crash happened near to the Flying Fox roundabout on the A5\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A teacher from a secondary school in Wrexham has been arrested on suspicion of grooming.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said officers attended an incident in Radcliffe, Bolton, at about 18:00 BST on Sunday and a man had been arrested.\n\nThe force added the 46-year-old man had been bailed pending further inquiries, which were ongoing.\n\nWrexham council said it would not be appropriate to comment, as it related to an ongoing process.\n\nThe council said: \"All matters will be dealt with through the appropriate policies, procedures and safeguarding arrangements in partnership with the relevant agencies.\"", "In an upcoming comic book issue, Superman will become romantically involved with his friend, a pink-haired reporter named Jay Nakamura\n\nDC Comics has announced that its latest Superman, Jon Kent, will be bisexual.\n\nIn its next comic book issue, due for release in November, Jon will be pictured in a same-sex relationship with his friend Jay Nakamura.\n\nThe storyline is part of 'Superman: Son of Kal-El', a series following Jon as he takes on the mantle of Superman from his father, Clark Kent.\n\nDC Comics made the announcement on National Coming Out Day, an annual LGBT awareness day started in the US.\n\nSince the series was released in July, Jon has already fought wildfires caused by climate change, scuppered a high school shooting, and protested against the deportation of refugees.\n\nIn an earlier issue, Jon struck up a friendship with Jay - a bespectacled, pink-haired reporter.\n\nDC Comics said the pair will become romantically involved in the upcoming fifth issue, after Jon \"mentally and physically burns out from trying to save everyone that he can\".\n\nSeries writer Tom Taylor told the BBC that DC Comics was already mulling the idea of a same-sex relationship before he pitched it\n\nDetails of the plot has yet to be revealed, but images shared by DC Comics show Jon and Jay sharing a kiss.\n\nSeries writer Tom Taylor told the BBC that, when he was first offered the job, he pondered \"what Superman should be today.\"\n\n\"It struck me that it would be a real missed opportunity if we replaced Clark Kent with another straight white saviour,\" said Mr Taylor.\n\nTo his surprise, before he could pitch the idea of Jon being bisexual, he was told that DC Comics was already mulling the idea.\n\n\"There's been a real shift over the last few years - ten years ago, five years ago this would have been more difficult, but I think things have shifted in a really welcome way,\" said Mr Taylor.\n\nHe said that, despite backlash from \"trolls\" on social media, reaction to the storyline has been overwhelmingly positive.\n\n\"We have people saying they read this news today and burst into tears - people saying they never thought in their life that they would be able to see themselves in Superman... literally the most powerful superhero in comics,\" recalled Mr Taylor.\n\n\"You'll always have people who'll use the old line of 'don't put politics into comics' - forgetting that every single [comic book] story ever has been political in some way,\" he said. \"People who don't realise that the [Marvel comic series] X-Men were an analogy for the civil rights movement.\"\n\n\"We try to bring those people with us, but we are writing for the people who will hopefully see this Superman... and say 'This Superman is like me. This Superman is fighting for things that concern me',\" he added.\n\nYou might be interested in watching:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Being bisexual 'didn't even cross my mind as an option'", "A light show replaced the traditional fireworks to see in 2021\n\nLondon's famous riverside New Year's Eve fireworks display has been cancelled for a second year because of \"uncertainties caused by Covid\".\n\nEngland was under strict lockdown last year, but despite all restrictions having been lifted, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has again called the event off.\n\nNormally about 100,000 people pack the streets around Victoria Embankment.\n\nThere will still be a celebration in Trafalgar Square, with details to be announced \"in due course\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London's new year celebrations featured a message of hope from David Attenborough\n\nThe beginning of 2021 was rung in by millions of viewers watching a light show on television.\n\nExplaining why this year's event was also being cancelled, a spokesperson for the mayor said: \"Due to the uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, our world-famous New Year's Eve display will not be held on the banks of the Thames this year.\n\nLondon's light show which started 2021 was watched by millions of viewers on TV\n\n\"Last year's successful show took place in a slightly different way due to the pandemic, and this year a number of exciting new options are being considered as part of our New Year's Eve celebrations in London.\"\n\nCity Hall added that \"as always, London will be welcoming the New Year in a spectacular way\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "North Korea says it needs to continue developing weapons for its protection\n\nNorth Korea's leader has vowed to build an \"invincible military\" in the face of what it says are hostile policies from the United States, state media report.\n\nKim Jong-un added that weapons development was for self-defence, and not to start a war.\n\nMr Kim made the comments at a rare defence exhibition while flanked by a variety of large missiles.\n\nNorth Korea has recently tested what it claims to be new hypersonic and anti-aircraft missiles.\n\nThe South meanwhile has recently tested its own submarine-launched weapon.\n\nIn his speech at the Self-Defence 2021 exhibition held in the North's capital, Pyongyang, Mr Kim addressed the military build-up in the South and said that North Korea did not want to fight its neighbour.\n\n\"We are not discussing war with anyone, but rather to prevent war itself and to literally increase war deterrence for the protection of national sovereignty,\" he said.\n\nMr Kim, surrounded by an array of military hardware including tanks, accused the US of stoking tensions between North and South Korea.\n\nHe said there was \"no behavioural basis\" to make North Korea believe that the US was not hostile.\n\nThe US under President Joe Biden has repeatedly said it is willing to talk to North Korea, but has demanded Pyongyang give up nuclear weapons before sanctions can be eased. North Korea has so far refused.\n\nKim Jong-un didn't just talk about his new military might - he showed it to us.\n\nThis was the equivalent of a military parade. We have not seen this kind of defence exhibition since Mr Kim took power.\n\nSurrounded by intercontinental ballistic missiles and portraits of him dressed in military uniform, he told those gathered that he felt \"bottomless pride\" as he touched the missiles.\n\nAnd he made it clear that he's not done building his arsenal, which he says he needs as a deterrent.\n\nHe vowed to continue work on his wish list of weapons, while noting that South Korea was doing the same by building up its defence force in recent years.\n\nThis is Mr Kim's way of telling those criticising his arms programme that they are hypocrites. He wants Pyongyang to have the right to build up its military - just like Seoul.\n\nYet, just days earlier he urged his officials to focus on improving the lives of North Korean people as they face a \"grim\" economic situation.\n\nWith limited funds and under strict economic sanctions, can he really build an \"invincible\" force and help his people?\n\nAnd if it comes to a choice - what will it be?\n\nNorth Korea is banned from testing ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons by the UN. It has repeatedly flouted these bans and has been heavily sanctioned as a result.\n\nLast month, the UN atomic agency said North Korea appeared to have restarted a reactor which could produce plutonium for nuclear weapons, calling it a \"deeply troubling\" development.\n\nNorth Korea has always maintained that it needs to continue developing weapons for defence.\n\nBut observers say it is also being used as a way to rally the impoverished country. North Korea is thought to be in dire economic straits after authorities shut borders to stop the spread of Covid-19.\n\nCrucial supplies like food and fuel have been cut off from China, North Korea's main political and economic ally.\n\nMr Kim, unusually, wore sandals with socks paired with a formal dark suit at the exhibition, prompting some renewed speculation outside North Korea that this could be related to his health.\n\nKim Jong-un's choice of footwear was remarked upon\n\nMr Kim is thought to have had medical problems linked to his weight, including gout which can result in foot swellings. He had been seen limping in public in the past.\n\nReuters quoted Colin Zwirko, an analyst with Seoul-based NK News, as saying: \"He lost a significant amount of weight in a short period in May, and in September he was seen standing on padded mats during long speeches, which is not typical.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does North Korea keep launching missiles?", "Lord Frost warned the UK could still trigger Article 16 if the EU did not agree on changes to the existing protocol\n\nBrexit Minister Lord Frost has proposed plans for an entirely new protocol to replace the existing Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nIn a speech to diplomats in Portugal on Tuesday, he described his new legal text as \"a better way forward\".\n\nThe protocol is the special Brexit deal agreed for Northern Ireland to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nUnionists argue it undermines Northern Ireland's constitutional position in the UK and creates a trade barrier.\n\nIn a plea to the European Union to allow for \"significant change\" to post-Brexit rules governing trade with Northern Ireland, Lord Frost said his proposed text would support the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nHe said it was forward-looking, improved on the current \"excessively rigid\" protocol, and would allow the EU and UK to \"get back to normal\" by removing \"the poison\" from their relationship.\n\nWith the EU expected to put forward proposals on Wednesday, Lord Frost again warned Brussels London could unilaterally waive some of the terms of its agreement if the bloc failed to budge.\n\n\"We have a short, but real, opportunity to put in place a new arrangement, to defuse the political crisis that is brewing, both in Northern Ireland and between us,\" Lord Frost said.\n\nHowever, Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Louise Haigh said the move to replace the protocol was \"stoking tension while solving nothing\".\n\nIn a tweet, the Labour MP said Lord Frost's speech \"sets the stage for another destabilising stand-off, with the agreement businesses and communities need further away than ever\".\n\n\"Stability, jobs and livelihoods depend on real progress in Northern Ireland in the coming weeks,\" she said.\n\n\"It would be a serious abdication of responsibility to block a pragmatic way forward and provoke more poisonous instability.\"\n\nLord Frost urged the EU to look carefully at the UK's new legal text, and said the existing protocol could not survive, as it did not have support right across Northern Ireland.\n\nHe also warned the UK could still trigger Article 16 - which allows either side to effectively override large parts of the agreement - if the EU and UK could not agree on changes to the existing protocol.\n\n\"We would not go down this route gratuitously or with any particular pleasure but it is our fundamental responsibility to safeguard peace and prosperity in Northern Ireland and that is why we cannot rest until this situation is addressed,\" said Lord Frost.\n\nThere are two schools of thought about how this latest negotiation is shaping up.\n\nThe first is that Lord Frost's hard line on the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is standard pre-negotiation tactics, aimed at grinding out another concession or two.\n\nAfter all the Brexit process has always delivered a deal, even at times when it seemed improbable.\n\nThe UK government wants to remove the ECJ from its oversight role as part of the Northern Ireland Protocol, saying as long as it continues the protocol will never survive.\n\nThe EU, on the other hand, has said it would be very hard for the protocol to continue without the court's oversight.\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has warned that the UK's demands on the protocol could cause \"a breakdown in relations\" with the EU.\n\nHe has hinted that maybe the UK doesn't want a deal unless it's total victory.\n\nUnder that scenario, the UK would go through the motions before triggering Article 16.\n\nIt would use this to gut the protocol while calculating that the EU's ability to retaliate is limited or or at least would take a long time to amount to anything.\n\nWe should find out which view is right by the end of this year.\n\nThe Brexit minister said the protocol represented \"a moment of EU overreach when the UK's negotiating hand was tied\" and that it could not \"reasonably last in its current form\".\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson signed up to the protocol as part of his Brexit agreement in 2020, but has since argued it was agreed in haste and was no longer working for the people of Northern Ireland.\n\nThe EU has repeatedly said it would not renegotiate the protocol, criticising the UK for reneging on an agreement that both sides signed in good faith.\n\nThe UK government also wants to reverse its previous agreement on the oversight role of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which is the EU's highest court.\n\nLord Frost said his new text proposed reliance on \"international arbitration instead of a system of EU law ultimately policed in the court of one of the parties\".\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson has threatened to pull his party out of Stormont\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) - Northern Ireland's largest unionist party - said if the current protocol was not replaced with a long-term solution Northern Ireland would be exposed to \"further harm and instability\".\n\nThe DUP leader has previously warned his party may quit Stormont if its demands over the protocol are not met.\n\nBut Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the protocol was an international treaty that \"recognises the special status of this island.\"\n\nIts implementation, the Sinn Féin vice-president added, was \"not negotiable\".\n\n\"The conduct of the British government throughout these negotiations has been duplicitous and disgraceful and is an effort to break yet another international agreement\".\n\nShe said: \"The attempts by the Tories and the DUP to undermine the protections and opportunities of the Protocol and impose a hard border must be opposed\".\n\nUlster Unionist assembly member Steve Aiken said it was \"self-evident\" the existing protocol was not working.\n\nHe said the party would consider the UK government's legal text and the EU proposals due on Wednesday.\n\nThese will focus on easing practical problems, rather than changing oversight arrangements.\n\nBut Alliance deputy leader Stephen Farry MP said Lord Frost had \"chosen to enter into another layer of delusion\".\n\nMr Farry said short of the UK \"rejoining the Customs Union and Single Market, there is no alternative than for the UK to work with the EU in a spirit of partnership to achieve as many mitigations and flexibilities as possible.\"\n\nSDLP MLA Matthew O'Toole said Lord Frost's remarks represented a \"deliberate distortion of facts and contempt for people here\".\n\nHe said Lord Frost had negotiated the protocol, agreed to its terms and \"backed Boris Johnson's campaign to sell it during the last general election\".\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister said: \"If, as Lord Frost says, it is the UK that governs Northern Ireland, then, there must be an end to the European Union's writ in this part of the United Kingdom.\n\n\"Put simply, it requires an end to the Protocol in all its parts.\"\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\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said he hoped the UK government was \"serious about moving on in partnership\".\n\nHe said Wednesday's EU proposals \"will deliver practical solutions to make the Protocol work better\".\n\nOn Monday, Mr Coveney accused the UK of repeatedly dismissing EU proposals for the protocol ahead of their publication.", "Sally Rooney said she supported \"the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom, justice and equality\"\n\nIrish author Sally Rooney is at the centre of a controversy after refusing to allow her new book to be translated into Hebrew by an Israeli company.\n\nThe acclaimed writer said it was in support of calls to boycott Israel over its policies towards the Palestinians.\n\nShe said it would \"be an honour\" to have Beautiful World, Where Are You translated into Hebrew by a company which shared her political position.\n\nA senior Israeli minister said such boycotts were a form of anti-Semitism.\n\nRooney issued a statement clarifying her action after being accused of refusing to allow her novel to be translated into Hebrew at all.\n\nThe allegations came after it emerged that she had turned down a bid by Israeli publisher Modan for the rights to translate the book.\n\nShe said that while she was \"very proud\" that her two previous novels - Conversations With Friends (2017) and Normal People (2018) - had been translated into Hebrew, \"for the moment, I have chosen not to sell these translation rights to an Israeli-based publishing house\".\n\nBeautiful World, Where Are You was released last month to much acclaim\n\nCiting a recent report by Human Rights Watch which accused Israel of practising apartheid, Ms Rooney said her decision was in support of the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which calls for a complete boycott of Israel.\n\nShe could not, she said, \"accept a new contract with an Israeli company that does not publicly distance itself from apartheid and support the UN-stipulated rights of the Palestinian people.\n\n\"The Hebrew-language translation rights to my new novel are still available, and if I can find a way to sell these rights that is compliant with the BDS movement's institutional boycott guidelines, I will be very pleased and proud to do so.\"\n\nApartheid was a policy of racial segregation and discrimination enforced by the white minority government against the black majority in South Africa from 1948 until 1991.\n\nIsrael has long claimed BDS opposes the country's very existence and is motivated by anti-Semitism. It vehemently rejects any comparison with apartheid and called the HRW report \"preposterous and false\".\n\nRooney's stance was met with an outpouring of anger and praise on social media.\n\nThe Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel said Palestinians \"warmly welcomed\" her decision, while others said she had been misrepresented.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by PACBI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Mehdi Hasan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRooney's clarification though did not assuage critics, who said it made no difference to her intentions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTweeting in Hebrew, Israel's Diaspora Minister Nachman Shai said: \"The cultural boycott of Israel, anti-Semitism in a new guise, is a certificate of poor conduct for her and others who behave like her.\"\n\nThe Israel-Palestinian conflict has long been a battleground for those in the arts world, as well as celebrities and academics. Earlier this year, Rooney signed an open letter in support of Palestinian artists and writers accusing Israel of crimes against the Palestinian people.\n\nRooney has received several book prizes in the UK, including The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in 2017 and a Costa Book Award in 2018.\n\nBeautiful World, Where Are You was published last month to warm reviews.", "A shortage of skilled workers has created a \"crazy period\" for the Welsh jobs market, a leading recruitment firm has said.\n\nCardiff-based Yolk Recruitment said candidates were in a \"position of control and power\".\n\nThe firm said clients' job vacancies had increased by 35% compared to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nOfficial figures show numbers in work in Wales rose by 25,000 in the three months to August.\n\nThere were also 44,000 more people in employment compared to the same quarter last year, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures showed.\n\nDespite this, unemployment in the three months to August increased by 0.2% to 4% overall - below the UK average of 4.5%.\n\nResearchers suggest that the shortage of skilled workers will remain a challenge for the next five years.\n\nSteven Lloyd, 47, from Gilfach, near Bridgend recently retrained as an HGV driver.\n\n\"The passion was always HGV and lorries, but unfortunately - with the cost - I was never able to afford the outlay for the training,\" said Steven.\n\nHe previously drove buses, but after being made redundant during the pandemic, retrained for his dream job.\n\nAfter losing his job during the pandemic, Steven Lloyd is retraining for his dream job\n\nThe cost, which can run into thousands of pounds, has been covered by Remploy, which Steven was referred to by his Job Centre in Porth, Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\n\"It has made my dream come true really, it is just wonderful,\" he said.\n\n\"With lorries, you are delivering goods, you're in the cab on your own - with the radio on, you can sing along. But it is also just being part of a team, especially with the shortage [of drivers]. You are contributing something really valuable at the moment.\"\n\nChief operating officer of John Raymond Transport, Geraint Davies, said the Bridgend-based company had turned to organisations such as Remploy after struggling to recruit drivers through the usual channels.\n\nThe company has had to increase wages to attract workers and while it has 140 drivers, could easily employ another 15 or 20 if they were available, he said.\n\nPavan Arora of Yolk Recruitment says 35% more jobs are 'available and open'\n\n\"It is a crazy period that we have seen, especially since the start of the summer,\" said Pavan Arora, chief commercial officer for Yolk Recruitment in Cardiff.\n\nHis own team of recruiters has expanded to deal with the boom in vacancies.\n\nThe recruitment office has a gong which staff will strike when job deals are completed. It is being struck a lot these days.\n\n\"Right now, as a business, we have seen an increase of around 35% in demand compared to pre-pandemic levels. So that's 35% more jobs available and open,\" he said.\n\nThere have been well-publicised shortages among lorry drivers, but sectors including technology companies and financial services firms are also having difficulty finding staff.\n\nHospitality continues to struggle too, with wages increasing and some pubs and restaurants closing temporarily because of a lack of staff.\n\nMr Arora recalled thousands of applicants were chasing a few jobs as the pandemic took hold last year, but the reopening of society has flipped the jobs market. It means some job candidates have a choice of roles, and can demand increased salaries or more flexible working patterns.\n\n\"It is your pickings, it is your time, the position of control and power is in your court slightly,\" Mr Arora said.\n\n\"What you have to be aware of is that there are a lot of counter offers. So there are a lot of employers that are trying to retain staff as they look to leave a business.\n\n\"That is a challenge for new employers, but also candidates have to be aware that maybe they can get more from their current employer before going to the employment market, because everyone is feeling the pinch of how crazy the current jobs market is.\"\n\nRhys Griffiths from the Open University said skills shortages predated Covid\n\nThe shortage of skilled labour, even for entry level roles, is preoccupying businesses. Research by the Open University found the majority of Welsh companies it surveyed had suffered as a result of the shortage of workers.\n\n\"Employers are facing skills shortages, they are finding it challenging to recruit people into their businesses,\" said Rhys Griffiths, the business relationship manager for the Open University.\n\n\"Covid is having an impact on some of the decisions and challenges that they are facing,\" he added.\n\n\"But we have been tracking the skills shortage. What is apparent is that the skills shortages have been there for a number of years and will continue.\"\n\nUniversities and colleges are working with businesses to offer apprenticeships or tailored training, but the Open University's research found that firms expect staffing issues to continue for the next five years.\n\nHospitality businesses are already attempting to work with training providers to address the shortage.\n\nHospitality businesses are already attempting to work with training providers to address the shortage.\n\nThe north Wales restaurant group Dylan's is launching an academy, and will work with schools and colleges to recruit and train staff by providing a qualification and a guaranteed job.\n\nThe restaurant's head of marketing, David Retallick, said it was the company's response to the crisis in recruitment across the hospitality sector.\n\n\"It is an opportunity for us to offer working experience alongside the apprenticeship programmes that already exist.\n\n\"This is our own Dylan's spin on how we bring up and develop young people in the industry - allowing people to break in slowly, rather than giving them a shock-horror treatment where they go to their first job and they suddenly realise that they are really in the deep end.\"\n\nMr Retallick said the trainees would have working patterns that aimed to shed the image of antisocial hours and low pay that had traditionally been attached to hospitality jobs.\n\nHe said: \"We are limiting hours, we are not putting people on weekend work or on double shifts, and we are paying above the minimum wage for 16 to 21 year olds. We are just making sure it as well-facilitated by the business as possible.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland's path to the 2022 World Cup hit an unexpected stumbling block when they were held to a draw by Hungary in a qualifier Gareth Southgate called a \"big disappointment\".\n\nThe game was marred by crowd violence between Hungary fans and stewards and police.\n\nSouthgate's side are still in pole position to reach Qatar but this was a disjointed display despite England taking on the Hungarians with an attacking line-up.\n\nThe early stages at Wembley were overshadowed by ugly scenes involving Hungary fans, who jeered England's players while holding up a banner protesting against taking the knee before clashing with police and stewards.\n\nIn a subdued atmosphere and after a semblance of order had been restored, Hungary took the lead in the 24th minute when Luke Shaw was penalised for a high challenge on Loic Nego and Roland Sallai sent Jordan Pickford the wrong way from the spot.\n\nEngland were level before half-time, John Stones turning in at the far post after Tyrone Mings and Declan Rice touched on Phil Foden's free-kick.\n\nHungary then survived in relative comfort, Harry Kane's struggles for form summed up when England's captain was substituted even though they were searching desperately for a winner.\n• None Follow reaction to the game here\n\n\"I don't think we played at the level we have done and Hungary defended very well. We didn't do enough to win the game,\" Southgate told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"I don't know if subconsciously we thought this was going to be an easier game because we beat them comfortably [4-0] in September but they've been very good defensively right through the summer.\n\n\"In the first few minutes we were taking heavy touches and colliding into tackles. We didn't show the composure and quality that we have done generally.\"\n\nKane's search for form goes on\n\nThe notion of Kane being taken off as they pressed for a winning goal might have been unthinkable at one point but he could have no complaints here when he was replaced by Tammy Abraham with 14 minutes left.\n\nIt came just after he had snatched at a chance in a manner which reflected a striker searching in vain for form and confidence.\n\nThis was the first time he failed to score in a qualifier for England since September 2017, a run of 15 goalscoring games in a row.\n\nKane's performance was very average throughout, a shadow of the player who has been a spearhead for England for so long.\n\nHe had set up a chance for Raheem Sterling just before he was taken off. Sterling, one of a record five Manchester City players in England's starting line-up, could not cash in and was also taken off at the same time as Kane. He is another who is currently nowhere near his best.\n\nKane will surely bounce back but it was a display that once again poses the questions about how much he has been affected by a summer of speculation when he wanted to leave Tottenham for Manchester City but eventually had to stay in north London.\n\nHe does not look himself and the sooner the old spark returns the better for England and Spurs.\n\nSouthgate gave the public what they wanted by fielding an England team with just one holding midfielder in Declan Rice and letting the talented triumvirate of Foden, Mason Mount and Jack Grealish loose on Hungary.\n\nFoden and Grealish had their moments although Mount was quiet as England lacked the attacking thrust to apply serious pressure and break down a well-organised Hungary defence.\n\nIt was a surprise when Grealish was replaced by Bukayo Saka just after the hour. It certainly came as a surprise to many in the Wembley crowd who loudly registered their disapproval, although Saka was given a rapturous welcome.\n\nWith Kalvin Phillips injured and Jordan Henderson on the bench, England's attack-minded selection left them more open to a counter-attack. Hungary did threaten on occasions but they were not good enough to accept the invitation. Better teams might so Southgate has certainly been given food for thought and will learn lessons from this.\n\nEngland are still on course to go to Qatar but this was a disappointing performance in what was a largely dull encounter, with most of the attention sadly focusing on the clashes between Hungarian fans and police and stewards moments after the kick-off.\n\nThis was a highly unsatisfactory night all round, although Hungary celebrated their hard-earned point after the final whistle.\n\nEngland are three points above second-placed Poland with two qualifiers to go next month.\n\n\"We're in a very strong position in the group but tonight is a big disappointment,\" said Southgate. \"We have to make sure we get it right next month.\"\n\nEngland need four points from a home game with Albania and trip to San Marino.\n• None Attempt saved. Ollie Watkins (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (England) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Substitution, England. Ollie Watkins replaces Tammy Abraham because of an injury.\n• None Offside, England. Luke Shaw tries a through ball, but Tammy Abraham is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Luke Shaw (England) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Filip Holender (Hungary) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Zsolt Nagy. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The blaze was brought under control at about 20:50 BST on Tuesday, according to London Fire Brigade\n\nA child was taken to hospital following a blaze at a tower block in south London on Tuesday night.\n\nA woman was also injured and 50 people were evacuated after a flat on the 20th floor of the building in Westbridge Road, Battersea, caught light.\n\nOne person who lives on the 20th floor said she first heard \"an explosion\" and then saw flames \"gushing out\".\n\nLondon Fire Brigade (LFB) said the fire was thought to have been accidental and caused by a candle.\n\nFire crews had been called to the scene shortly after 20:00 BST, with about 70 firefighters battling the blaze at its height.\n\nAt its height, about 70 firefighters were involved in tackling the blaze\n\nA resident who lives on the 20th floor said she called 999 after hearing \"an explosion from next door\".\n\n\"The smoke took on quick, then it just started engulfing the whole landing,\" she said.\n\n\"The flames were just gushing out of the flat.\"\n\nAnother neighbour on the same floor said she and her children fled down 20 flights of stairs.\n\n\"I instantly just got wet towels and put it over their faces,\" she said. \"They came out with no shoes on, nothing.\n\n\"A man helped me carry my son down the stairs and my other son was helping my daughter.\"\n\nLFB said the flat had been destroyed by the fire\n\nShe said her family was not offered any first aid from the ambulance and Wandsworth Council did not tell them about any overnight accommodation being available.\n\n\"The man from the council was just oblivious,\" she added. \"They said they didn't know there was a fire.\"\n\nClaire Walsh, who lives on the third floor, said \"everyone was screaming\" and \"banging down neighbours' doors\" as they tried to evacuate.\n\n\"There's no sprinklers, there's no fire alarm system, there's no nothing, so we literally relied on each other to get out of the building,\" she said.\n\nFifty people were evacuated from the building\n\nIshika Deb, who lives nearby and witnessed the blaze, said it had \"started with a loud bang\" and \"the glass exploded\".\n\n\"I was outside with my neighbour and glass started pouring out from the flats,\" she said.\n\nAnother witness said residents who had left the building were taken to nearby pubs while fire crews dealt with the blaze.\n\n\"A lot of people are crying. There are children in their pyjamas and people carrying their cats,\" he said.\n\nFire crews tackled the blaze on the 20th floor\n\nLFB said the blaze had completely destroyed the flat on the 20th floor of the building.\n\nStation commander Pete Johnson explained that there had been \"lots of visible flame\" when firefighters first arrived at the scene.\n\n\"Crews were faced with a lot of smoke issuing from the top of a block of flats,\" he added.\n\nThe fire was under control by 20:55, LFB said.\n\nSpeaking about the council's actions following the blaze, a Wandsworth Council spokesman said: \"We arranged for a nearby community centre to be opened as an emergency shelter but fortunately the fire was dealt with quickly and efficiently so this was not needed.\n\n\"We spoke to the small number of residents affected by smoke and water damage and offered them overnight emergency accommodation but they chose to stay with friends and relatives.\n\n\"If anyone requires further housing assistance tonight we will of course arrange that.\"\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. Magic FM DJ Emma Wilson believes Wayne Couzens exposed himself to her 13 years ago\n\nRadio presenter Emma Wilson has said Sarah Everard's murderer Wayne Couzens flashed her and that Met Police officers laughed when she reported it.\n\nThe Magic FM DJ - who is also known as Emma B - said he exposed himself to her when she walked past an alleyway in Greenwich, south-east London, in 2008.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour she recognised him when she saw his photo in news reports.\n\nThe Met Police is investigating the presenter's complaint.\n\nMs Wilson told the programme she was \"so very sure\" it was Couzens - who at the time was a volunteer officer with Kent Police - and that it \"adds to the clamour of chances there were to stop this man\".\n\nCouzens - who went on to become a Met Police officer - was given a whole-life term last month for the kidnap, rape and murder of Ms Everard.\n\nThe police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), is looking into the Met's handling of three other alleged indecent exposure incidents involving Couzens, including two said to have taken place in south London three days before he murdered Ms Everard.\n\nThe other allegation centres around a report of how Kent Police investigated a claim in 2015. Details of a car linked to Couzens had been passed on to police but he was not identified.\n\nA Met Police review found that an allegation Couzens exposed himself outside a fast-food restaurant in the days before he murdered Ms Everard had been allocated for investigation, but by the time of the marketing executive's abduction it was not concluded.\n\nThe IOPC said two Met officers had been served with misconduct notices for possible breaches of professional standards in relation to the incident.\n\nSarah Everard was murdered after being tricked into Couzens' car as she walked from Clapham to Brixton\n\nMs Wilson said she knows it was Couzens who exposed himself to her as he had a \"face that doesn't go anywhere, it stays with you\".\n\nShe explained how she ran into a nearby shop to alert police who then visited her to take a statement.\n\n\"They were asking me what I could see... he was playing with himself and there were specifics about his state of arousal that they thought were quite amusing. It was really humiliating,\" Ms Wilson said.\n\n\"I remember clearly saying to them, 'I really hope this is all he needs to do' and I said that at the time because I was so struck by how feeble their response was.\"\n\nThe presenter said the incident was \"aggressive, it was purposeful, it was calculated\" and that \"it wasn't this comic character that we have of this local peeping Tom or the local flasher in the flasher mac\".\n\n\"There's a really big part of me that hopes it wasn't him because if it was, this is horrific that it could have gone on for so very, very long.\"\n\nThe Met Police said at the time, that a search of the area was conducted but the suspect could not be found. CCTV inquiries were unsuccessful and the matter was passed on to the local safer neighbourhoods team for intelligence.\n\nThe force added that to the best of its knowledge, it was \"not aware\" of any reports before his March arrest where he had been named as a suspect.\n\nIt said if it received any allegations it would investigate.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Met Police Deputy Commissioner Bas Javid acknowledged there was a \"crisis\" of confidence in policing in the wake of Ms Everard's murder.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: \"We want women and girls particularly to feel safe in communities.\n\n\"There's a lot of work to be done to rebuild that trust and give people the confidence to come forward.\"\n\nHe said as well as the independent review into the force's standards and culture, the Met Police was taking other steps to be \"proactive\".\n\nThose measures include undertaking an examination of all ongoing sexual and domestic abuse allegations against officers and staff, and significantly boosting the number of officers who investigate police misconduct.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWales scraped past Estonia with an unconvincing win in Tallinn to keep hopes of finishing second in their World Cup qualifying group in their own hands.\n\nKieffer Moore poked in from a yard out to give his attack-minded but defensively shaky side a half-time lead.\n\nThey became increasingly disjointed in the second half and were fortunate to preserve their lead as Estonia's Erik Sorga and Mattias Kait missed good chances.\n\nThe hosts, ranked 111th in the world, pressed gamely for the goal which would have earned them a second draw in a month against Wales, but Robert Page's men clung on for a crucial victory.\n\nThe Czech Republic's 2-0 win in Belarus keeps them second in Group E, ahead of Wales on goal difference but having played a game more.\n\nWith Belgium almost certain to secure the only automatic qualification spot as group winners, Wales are looking at the play-offs as their most realistic route to a first World Cup finals since 1958.\n\nThey are already effectively guaranteed a play-off place thanks to their success in the Nations League, but finishing second in this qualifying group could secure a more favourable draw in that knockout stage.\n\nWales finish their regular qualifying campaign with home matches against Belarus and Belgium next month, while the Czechs host Estonia in their final fixture.\n\nWales attack but shaky at the back\n\nIf Wales and the Czech Republic finish on the same points, second place will be decided by goal difference.\n\nWith that in mind, Wales manager Page said his side would go all-out attack in Estonia to avoid a repeat of the frustrating goalless draw in last month's reverse fixture in Cardiff.\n\nPage supported his claim by selecting an attacking line-up in Tallinn, recalling playmaker Harry Wilson and handing a first start to Huddersfield winger Sorba Thomas, who was playing non-league football only nine months ago.\n\nEstonia appeared to have similar intentions as Taijo Teniste registered the game's first shot on target after just 40 seconds - one of a handful of chances the home side were afforded by an occasionally erratic Welsh display in the first half.\n\nDespite their defensive jitters, the visitors were still the dominant force with Wilson firing a free-kick narrowly over and Connor Roberts seeing a fine curling effort well saved by Karl Hein.\n\nFrom the resulting 12th-minute corner, Joe Rodon and Aaron Ramsey's headers prompted a scramble which led to the ball falling to Moore, who prodded it over the line from a yard out.\n\nMoore then had a backheel effort saved by Hein as Wales continued to pour forward but, like they did in the Czech Republic on Friday, Page's side also played themselves into trouble.\n\nThe pass of the half was unintentional as Wilson, inside his own penalty area, played the ball straight to Sergei Zenjov, who beat Danny Ward with his finish but the covering Rodon was on hand to clear off the line.\n\nThe sloppier Wales' performance became, the less this game was about improving goal difference and more about simply preserving victory.\n\nEstonia continued to threaten in the second half, with an unmarked Sorga heading narrowly over from Markus Poom's free-kick before Kait could only shoot straight at Ward from a promising position.\n\nWhile still porous in defence, Wales also faded as an attacking force.\n\nThey might have had a penalty when Marten Kuusk's flailing arm gave Moore a bloody nose inside the Estonia box but, although referee Sandro Scharer booked Kuusk, he did not award Wales a spot-kick after judging Moore committed the first foul.\n\nEstonia were growing in confidence and substitute Vlasiy Sinyavskiy almost levelled in the 77th minute with an arcing shot which was palmed away by Ward.\n\nA rare Welsh counter-attack then saw substitute Mark Harris have a shot saved by Hein but Page's men spent the closing stages on the back foot.\n\nThey managed to repel Estonia's late attacks and, despite the frustration of another mediocre display against Estonia, this was still a valuable win to set Wales up for their two final group matches in Cardiff next month.\n• None Attempt missed. Brennan Johnson (Wales) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Daniel James.\n• None Vlasiy Sinyavskiy (Estonia) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Mark Harris (Wales) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Vlasiy Sinyavskiy (Estonia) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Markus Poom.\n• None Daniel James (Wales) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Police bodycam footage showed officers dragging the man from his car\n\nUS police are investigating video showing a black man being dragged from his car by officers as he repeatedly screams \"I'm paraplegic\".\n\nBodycam footage shows officers stopping Clifford Owensby in Dayton, Ohio, last month and asking him to step out of his car so they can search it for drugs.\n\nMr Owensby, 39, refuses, saying he does not have use of his legs.\n\nThe officers insist he must get out and then pull him from the vehicle by his hair and arms as he calls for help.\n\nThe Dayton Police Department says it is now investigating the incident that took place on 30 September.\n\nAuthorities say the officers stopped Mr Owensby because he was driving away from a house suspected of hosting involvement in drugs. Police say they found a bag of cash containing $22,450 (£16,500) in the car.\n\nMr Owensby has not been charged over any drug-related offences.\n\nDuring the incident, Mr Owensby repeatedly refuses requests to leave the car, although officers do say they will help him out.\n\nMr Owensby asks an officer to call in a \"white shirt\", meaning a superior.\n\n\"Here's the thing, I'm going to pull you out and then I'll call a white shirt,\" an officer replies.\n\nAs his frustration increases, he says: \"You can co-operate and get out of the car or I'll drag you out of the car. Do you see your two options here?\"\n\nDayton's mayor Nan Whaley described the footage as \"very concerning\".\n\nCivil rights groups say they are also looking into the incident.\n\n\"To pull this man out of the car, by his hair - a paraplegic - is totally unacceptable, inhumane and sets a bad light on our great city of Dayton, Ohio,\" Derrick Foward, of the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told the Washington Post.\n\nA paraplegic person is unable to voluntarily move lower parts of the body.\n\nSome have defended the officers' actions.\n\nJerome Dix, president of Dayton Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 44, said they had \"followed the law, their training and departmental policies\".\n\n\"Sometimes the arrest of noncompliant individuals is not pretty, but is a necessary part of law enforcement to maintain public safety,\" Mr Dix told the Dayton Daily News.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We wait to see what actions are taken to ensure this never happens again,\" say John Atkinson's family\n\nThe family of a man killed in the Manchester Arena attack say he was \"badly let down\" by some members of the emergency services.\n\nJohn Atkinson, 28, was one of 22 people who died in the bombing on 22 May 2017.\n\nA public inquiry has previously heard he might have survived had he been given treatment more quickly.\n\nMr Atkinson's family said mistakes had been made and \"precious time was allowed to ebb away while John needed urgent hospital treatment\".\n\n\"This should never have been allowed to happen. John had so much to give,\" they added.\n\nThe inquiry heard healthcare worker Mr Atkinson lost a significant amount of blood as he laid in agony on the foyer floor for 47 minutes before being carried downstairs.\n\nAbout 20 minutes later, he went into cardiac arrest and was taken to Manchester Royal Infirmary but he was pronounced dead a short time later.\n\nLast week, consultant paramedic Dan Smith, the operational commander for North West Ambulance Service (NWAS), told the inquiry he was \"truly sorry\" if any decision he made impacted on his survivability.\n\nIn a statement read outside the court on Monday, Mr Atkinson's family said they could not accept this apology.\n\n\"Actions speak louder than words, and we wait to see what actions are taken to ensure this never happens again,\" they added in a statement read on their behalf by their lawyer Richard Scorer, from Slater and Gordon.\n\nThe family said Mr Atkinson \"was kind, intelligent and would light up any room he walked into\".\n\n\"He was the best uncle to his nephews, most caring of sons and brothers, he worked with young adults with autism and he looked forward to being a foster father,\" they added.\n\nThe inquiry earlier heard how Mr Atkinson had pleaded with NWAS senior paramedic Phillip Keogh not to let him die.\n\nMr Keogh treated him about an hour after the explosion but it was another 30 minutes before he was moved to an ambulance.\n\nThe inquiry was told Phillip Keogh lost most of his equipment just before he treated John Atkinson\n\nHe agreed Mr Atkinson had been left waiting too long to be taken to hospital, reducing his chances of survival.\n\nThe delay was \"inadequate\", he told the inquiry.\n\nMr Atkinson, from Bury, died shortly after arriving at the Manchester Royal Infirmary one hour and 35 minutes after the bomb was detonated in the arena foyer.\n\nHe was brought down from the foyer on a metal barrier and put on the floor of Manchester Victoria railway station concourse, the inquiry heard.\n\nMr Keogh said it was \"obvious he had lost a lot of blood\" and he had several makeshift tourniquets on his legs.\n\nHe said he was worried about Mr Atkinson developing hypothermia as he had been left in the doorway and was not covered in blankets.\n\nThe inquiry heard Mr Atkinson had pleaded with the paramedic \"don't let me die\".\n\nMr Keogh said he had tried to comfort him by telling him he would not let him die, but said he \"already had grave concerns for [his] outcome\".\n\n\"I thought then that his chances of survival were absolutely slim but I wasn't going to tell him the truth because that's just not what you do,\" he said.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed in the May 2017 bombing\n\nThe inquiry was told Mr Keogh lost most of his equipment just before he treated Mr Atkinson.\n\nMr Keogh accepted that Mr Atkinson should have been given a blood clotting agent earlier, which was in his lost equipment bag, however he told the court he did not believe it would have saved his life.\n\nMr Atkinson went into cardiac arrest as he was being placed on an ambulance stretcher, the inquiry heard.\n\nMr Keogh described the difficulty of carrying out chest compressions as he was wheeled to an ambulance.\n\nThe paramedic, who had previously served in Afghanistan as a reservist army paramedic, told the court that he went directly to Manchester Arena despite being told he should go to a rendezvous point because there may have been an active shooter.\n\nHe said: \"I was aware that people were injured at the arena and if I wasn't going to go, then who was going to go?\"\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.", "Matthew Corrie said he was struggling to recruit staff\n\nA Christmas tree seller is asking his customers to make deliveries for him because he cannot find staff to fill vacancies.\n\nMatthew Corrie, of Fife Christmas Trees in Dunfermline, said he came up with the idea because more and more people were opting for a delivery service.\n\nBefore the pandemic, most customers collected their tree in person.\n\nHe is offering customers a discount if they collect their own tree and deliver one to someone else near their home.\n\nBusinesses in a range of sectors have been reporting difficulties in attracting workers.\n\nA shortage of HGV drivers and specialised workers has led to gaps on supermarket shelves and problems with fuel supplies across the UK in recent weeks.\n\nMatthew Corrie (left) with his children on the Harburn Estate, where he buys his Christmas trees from Charlie Spurway (R)\n\nThere have also been shortages of workers in sectors such as hospitality and the care sector, and some retailers have warned that they may struggle to ensure supplies are in place for the Christmas trading period.\n\nMr Corrie, who has some delivery drivers, said he had tried advertising everywhere for extra staff to deliver his trees this year, but without success.\n\nHe said he had been deluged with delivery orders last year, and this year was already looking like it would be even busier.\n\n\"As with other businesses, I'm very short staffed and cannot get vacancies filled so I had to sit down and think of a way around it,\" he said.\n\n\"There is no way I can't deliver them and leave people without a tree at Christmas. There was no option but to think outside of the box.\"\n\nThere are more than one million Christmas trees, which take 10 years to grow, on 1,000 acres of the Harburn Estate\n\nHe said he came up with the plan while looking at the list of addresses on the orders he has already received.\n\nHe is offering customers a £10 discount if they will deliver a tree to someone else living nearby.\n\nMr Corrie said: \"I've put this idea to friends and some laughed but others said they think people will help, especially when they know how desperate I am.\n\n\"Customers know of the global staff shortage so I'm sure most will be willing to help.\n\n\"Quite often people have room on their roof racks for more than one tree.\"\n\nHis business sells about 1,500 trees each year, supplied by Charlie Spurway at the Harburn Estate in West Lothian.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Customers who have recently bought Tesco Max All-In-One Chesty Cough & Cold Lemon Sachets are being asked to check the dosing information on the packaging because some batches have been incorrectly labelled.\n\nThe medicine should not be given to those under the age of 16, but some of the sachets being recalled say children aged 12 and over can take them.\n\nTesco has taken the product off shelves for now.\n\n\"We would like to reassure patients and parents that if you or someone under the age of 16 have used recently these sachets and have suffered no ill effects there is no cause for concern. If anyone has any questions please speak to your healthcare professional and report any adverse reactions via the Yellow Card scheme.\"\n\nThe Yellow Card Scheme is a website for reporting suspected adverse drug reactions.\n\nThe packs involved each contain 10 sachets that have the drug paracetamol in them. Other ingredients include an expectorant (intended to help clear phlegm) called Guaifenesin and decongestant called Phenylephrine.\n\nParacetamol is an everyday medicine that children can take, but, like other medicines it can be dangerous if your child takes too much.\n\nThe affected sachets, which contain 1000mg of paracetamol, incorrectly state that children aged 12 years and over can take 4 sachets (diluted in water) over a 24-hour period, which would deliver the equivalent of 4000mg of paracetamol in total.\n\nThe recommended dose by age, however, is:\n\nIt means someone who is 12-15 might potentially take 1000mg more than they should.\n\nChair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Thorrun Govind said parents should not panic if this has happened, but should follow the advice to monitor their child for any potential side effects.\n\n\"Nausea and vomiting or drowsiness are some of the things to look out for,\" she said.\n\nThe NHS says if your child has an extra dose of paracetamol by mistake, wait at least 24 hours before giving them any more.\n\nIf they have taken two extra doses or more, they may need treatment.\n\nThe recall does not affect any other products that share the same product licence number (PL 12063/0104) but are distributed by other retail stores.", "Nicki Minaj has defended Jesy Nelson against claims of \"blackfishing\" in her latest music video, Boyz.\n\nBlackfishing is a word used to accuse someone of pretending to be black or mixed-race.\n\nNicki, who features on the song, said on Instagram: \"Y'all gotta stop.\"\n\nShe added on Twitter: \"If you know someone has been suicidal from bullying in the past, why try to get a bunch of people to bully them again about something else?\"\n\nThe pair went on Instagram live to promote the single.\n\nJesy said she was \"in a group with two women of colour for nine years\" and the subject was never brought up until they recorded her last video with the group, Sweet Melody.\n\nAs Jesy began to explain about being messaged by one of her ex-bandmates, Nicki interjected saying people should \"focus on your own energy.\"\n\nBoyz, which samples Diddy's song Bad Boy for Life, is Jesy Nelson's first solo release since leaving Little Mix last year.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Jesy Nelson 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\nIn the video, Jesy is heavily tanned and her hair is styled with wigs and braids. She wears basketball shorts and gold teeth, and sings about wanting a boy who's \"so hood, so good, so damn taboo\".\n\nSome people say it is wrong for white people to profit from imitating stereotypically black characteristics - when black people themselves have been held back for having the very same characteristics.\n\nBut Nicki Minaj said: \"There's a lot of women out here in the United States that tan, get bigger lips.\n\n\"I wear straight blonde hair when I want to.\"\n\nNicki went on to say Jesy's bandmates were only \"calling [her] out\" to help their \"personal vendetta\" against her.\n\nShe said: \"Don't wait a decade after you've made millions with the person.\"\n\nJesy laughed as Nicki Minaj referred to her ex-bandmates as \"clowns\". So far, there's been no response from Leigh-Anne or the rest of the band.\n\nJesy later said: \"My intention is never to offend people of colour with this video and my song.\n\n\"When I was in the video with [Nicki], I didn't even have any fake tan on. I'd been in Antigua prior to that for three weeks.\n\n\"I'm just really lucky that as a white girl, when I'm in the sun I tan so dark.\n\n\"My hair's naturally curly, I've always had curly hair. I wanted to get a wig that emulated the same texture as my hair, I genuinely didn't think I was doing anything wrong.\"\n\nIn a recent interview with Vulture, Jesy said: \"I'm very aware that I'm a white British woman; I've never said that I wasn't.\"\n\nNewsbeat has asked Jesy Nelson's label Polydor to comment about the video but so far, there's been no response.\n\nSome fans have been asking how this video was approved, and why the artists decided to discuss it on Instagram live.\n\nGeorge Griffiths is a freelance pop music critic, and he was tuned in last night. He told Newsbeat he found it \"really chaotic\".\n\n\"I know everything is managed by PR and management to a certain degree but that did not look managed at all.\n\n\"This was to celebrate her debut single with Nicki Minaj, Boyz, and there wasn't a lot of celebration involved.\n\n\"It took a turn for the worst and didn't really recover. It was awkward to watch it I can't imagine how awkward it would have been to participate in it.\"\n\nBut George says that it doesn't need to taint the past success of Little Mix.\n\n\"When you see members of a pop group argue, fans kind of rewrite history. But all those great moments happened and just because this has happened now it doesn't invalidate all the strength and the happiness The Little Mix put forward before the split.\"\n\nJesy Nelson is not the first person to be accused of blackfishing. Newsbeat spoke to someone criticised for the same thing in 2018.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aga is one of a number of white women accused of pretending to be black.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Large stores in California will be required to have a separate gender-neutral section, complete with a mixed variety of items\n\nCalifornia has become the first US state to require large retailers to display toys and childcare items in gender-neutral ways.\n\nThe new law, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on Saturday, does not ban boys and girls sections in shops.\n\nBut large stores must have also have a separate, gender-neutral section.\n\nThese must display \"a reasonable selection\" of toys and childcare items, regardless of whether they've been marketed towards a particular sex.\n\nCompanies will face a $250 (£184) fine for their first violation, and $500 (£368) penalties for others.\n\nThe new law was passed by California's state legislature last month, and will come into effect in 2024 now it has been signed by Governor Newsom.\n\nIt will apply to retailers with 500 or more employees across their California stores.\n\nClothing will be unaffected, but the law will affect toys and any \"childcare items\" intended to aid sleep, relaxation, feeding, teething or sucking.\n\nIn its wording, it said the changes would help consumers spot \"unjustified differences in similar products\" and tackle gender bias in children's products.\n\nEvan Low, one of the law's co-authors, called the segregation of toys 'the antithesis of modern thinking'\n\nDemocrat Assemblyman Evan Low, one of the law's co-authors, has previously said the bill was inspired by his staff member's eight-year-old daughter, who asked her mother why she had to go to the boys section to find a certain toy.\n\n\"The segregation of toys by a social construct of what is appropriate for which gender is the antithesis of modern thinking,\" said Mr Low in a statement.\n\nHe said that categorising toys by gender had \"led to the proliferation of science, technology, engineering and mathematics-geared toys\" in boys sections, while those for girls were directed towards pursuits like \"caring for a baby, fashion, and domestic life.\"\n\nThe Consumer Federation of California, a consumer advocacy group, has been among those in favour of the law.\n\nIn a statement to The Sacramento Bee newspaper, it said separating products by gender \"helps to disguise the unfortunate fact that female products are often priced higher than male products.\"\n\nSome US retailers have already taken steps away from gender stereotypes in their businesses. In 2015, Target announced that it would stop using some gender-based signs in its stores.\n\nBut in the last two years, similar bills to enforce gender-neutral commercial spaces have been shot down in California's legislature.\n\nDetractors have argued that it infringes on free speech, and business owners' ability to adapt to the free market.\n\nOne of the most most vocal critics has been the California Family Council, a conservative advocacy group. It has accused gender-fluid clothing entrepreneur Rob Smith of lobbying for the bill for his own commercial gain.\n\nYou may be interested in watching:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Open Barbers: The barber shop where hair has no gender", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nHungary fans fought with police in the opening minutes of Tuesday's World Cup qualifier against England at Wembley.\n\nSome of their supporters, totalling almost 1,000, booed as England players took the knee before kick-off.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said \"minor disorder\" broke out as they arrested a fan for \"a racially aggravated public order offence\" in relation to comments directed towards a steward.\n\nIn a statement, Fifa said it \"strongly condemns\" the incidents.\n\nCrowd trouble also marred Poland's World Cup qualifying victory over Albania, with the game suspended for more than 20 minutes after home fans threw objects at the visiting players.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Fifa is currently analysing reports of last night's Fifa World Cup qualifier matches in order to determine the most appropriate action.\n\n\"Fifa strongly condemns the incidents at England v Hungary and Albania v Poland and would like to state that its position remains firm and resolute in rejecting any form of violence as well as any form of discrimination or abuse.\n\n\"Fifa has a very clear zero-tolerance stance against such abhorrent behaviour in football.\"\n\nOn the trouble at Wembley, a Metropolitan Police statement said: \"Officers entered the stand to arrest a spectator for a racially aggravated public order offence in relation to comments directed towards a steward.\n\n\"As officers made the arrest, minor disorder broke out.\"\n\nThe game ended 1-1 with John Stones levelling for England after Roland Sallai's penalty for Hungary.\n\nThe Football Association said it would investigate, while there have been calls from anti-discrimination body Fare Network's executive director Piara Powar to ban Hungary.\n\nEngland boss Gareth Southgate said he was unaware of the severity of the incidents at the time.\n\n\"I'm only hearing this as I'm doing the interviews,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live after the game. \"I was aware of a disturbance. It sounds like it was not acceptable but I haven't seen the detail.\"\n\nHungary fans - many in the black T-shirts of the country's ultras - clashed with stewards soon after the game started and police arrived, hitting supporters with batons.\n\nMany then climbed over a barrier in response and hit security personnel - with police driven back into the concourse.\n\nThere was trouble too when the sides met in Budapest with Hungary ordered to play two matches behind closed doors by Fifa following the racism English players experienced.\n\nJohn Murray, commentating for BBC Radio 5 Live, said: \"There are about 1,000 Hungary fans in that section. There was black netting over the seats either side to keep it isolated from England supporters.\n\n\"We were told before that they were all Hungary fans based in the UK who have taken the tickets. As soon as the match began there were really disturbing scenes.\n\n\"There were people in hi-vis jackets and fighting going on in the stands. There were punches being thrown. It was quite aggressive.\n\n\"A lot of the supporters involved were wearing black. There was trouble for most of the first half an hour or so and then things seemed to settle down.\"\n\nA smoke bomb was also released after Sallai's penalty gave Hungary a 24th-minute lead.\n\nFifa needs to look at Hungary as a problem - Powar\n\nFewer than 1,000 tickets were sold to Hungary fans for this game, the reverse fixture of last month's meeting at Puskas Arena.\n\nRacist abuse was aimed at England players in that qualifier while Southgate's side were also pelted with objects in the second half and a flare was thrown on the pitch by Hungarian fans. Fifa opened disciplinary proceedings after England's 4-0 win.\n\nDespite Uefa ordering Hungary to play three home games behind closed doors after their supporters' discriminatory behaviour at Euro 2020, fans were allowed in for the World Cup tie as it came under Fifa's jurisdiction.\n\nFootball's world governing body then ordered Hungary to play two matches behind closed doors - one suspended for two years - and fined the Hungarian Football Federation £158,400.\n\nPowar believes Hungary probably have \"the most problematic fanbase in Europe now in terms of national teams\" and that they cannot go \"unwatched regardless of where they are playing\".\n\nHe added: \"What Fifa needs to do is to recognise Hungary and Hungarian football as having a particular issue.\n\n\"We've seen these types of incidents involving racism, homophobia and the anti-taking of the knee stance from the beginning of the summer.\n\n\"Fifa neesds to look at Hungary as a problem, as a footballing entity that perhaps should serve a ban for a period of time and then demonstrate the measures they're taking to rectify some of the problems that we see.\"\n\nThere was also trouble at Wembley when England lost to Italy in the Euro 2020 final on 11 July.\n\nEngland fans fought with stewards and police as they attempted to break through gates before the match.\n\nAfterwards, riot police could be seen breaking through crowds outside the stadium as people departed.\n\nBeer bottles were thrown amid chants against Italy and the Met Police said there had been 45 arrests at the final, with 19 officers injured \"while they confronted volatile crowds\".\n\nUefa opened disciplinary proceedings against the FA over the events.\n• None Listen to the mystery surrounding a toxic new political conspiracy\n• None Which player's homecoming was the greatest in Premier League history?", "A County Down construction firm has closed resulting in about 100 job losses.\n\nJMC Mechanical and Construction is based in Waringstown, but has premises in Bleary and Lisburn as well.\n\nIts work includes providing maintenance services to the Housing Executive and other social housing providers.\n\nThe Portadown Times reported workers were told on Monday afternoon by the firm's owner James McCully and an accountant.\n\nThe family business was established in 2000.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Sinn Féin assembly member John O'Dowd said employees were \"called in and told they had no work\".\n\n\"They were told they weren't going to be paid for last week's work and there was also a question mark over redundancy,\" he added.\n\n\"My main concern is for the workers and their families.\n\n\"I already have a question in to the economy minister asking how his department are going to support and protect these workers and have already made contact with the liquidators.\"\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party MP for Upper Bann Carla Lockhart said it was devastating news for employees and their families.\n\nShe said JMC was a longstanding and respected company that had \"obviously suffered greatly as a result of the pandemic\".\n\nSDLP assembly member Dolores Kelly said the news came as a \"huge shock\".\n\n\"I am heartened to hear that a number of employees have already secured jobs and hope the rest will soon, especially at a time when skilled tradespeople are in such high demand,\" she added.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the Housing Executive said: \"We are sorry to hear that one of our contractors, JMC Ltd, has announced that it is entering liquidation.\n\n\"The company was the repairs contractor for our tenants in the Lisburn and Castlereagh area and was also the contractor for a number of improvement schemes across Lisburn and Castlereagh and the Belfast area.\n\n\"Our priority at this stage is to ensure minimal disruption to services for tenants and those planned maintenance improvement works which are on site.\"", "The government is looking at how to tackle \"embodied carbon\" as part of an upcoming building strategy.\n\nDevelopers may have won praise in the past for demolishing draughty buildings for energy-efficient replacements.\n\nBut engineers now say existing buildings should be kept standing due to the amount of carbon emitted when original building materials were made - known as embodied carbon.\n\nA government spokeswoman said they were working on this issue.\n\nAnd Business minister Lord Callanan told a recent conference that it was \"one of the areas we want to look at\".\n\nBut despite the peer saying the government was in \"the final stages\" of creating its new heat and building strategy, neither gave more detail about what measures may appear.\n\nMaking steel, concrete and bricks for buildings creates a lot of carbon, with concrete alone causing 8% of global emissions.\n\nAs a result, climate experts are urging ministers to make it hard for developers to demolish buildings without first exploring ways to refurbish and extend them.\n\nThe chairman of the government’s advisory climate change committee, Lord Deben, said the government had been slow to accept this reversal of established thinking and ministers had not had \"the will and the clout to develop these policies\".\n\n“We need to think differently,\" he said. \"It’s not acceptable to pull buildings down like this. We have to learn to make do and mend.\"\n\nLord Deben said there needed to be a planning law to stop giving permission for demolitions, adding: \"We are simply not going to win the battle against climate change unless we fight on every front.\"\n\nLord Callanan told a recent conference run by Property Week: “We’re in the final stages of building our Heat and Building Strategy at the moment. This is one of the areas we want to look at.\"\n\nExperts said one simple step would be to make firms planning large scale developments to calculate the total impact on the climate before starting work - something that is already mandatory in several countries.\n\nBut it is not yet clear how far ministers will go, partly because the issue is relatively new to Whitehall.\n\nThe problem is huge but barely discussed, with the built environment creating 27% of the UK’s emissions.\n\nBusiness minister Lord Callanan said the government was looking into embodied carbon as part of its upcoming building strategy\n\nThe engineering giant Arup calculated around 50% of the whole-life emissions of a building could come from the carbon emitted during construction and demolition.\n\nAnd this proportion will only grow as buildings are increasingly cooled and heated using low-carbon electricity – shifting more of the carbon burden on to the construction process.\n\nThe government itself has been embroiled in a row about the embodied emissions that will be created in the construction of a new “Justice Quarter”, combining courts and a police headquarters in London’s Fleet Street.\n\nThe Architects’ Journal, which has been campaigning on the issue, urged ministers to insist that the existing buildings are refurbished, rather than demolished.\n\nThe journal has calculated that the difference between expanding the old buildings and replacing them amounts to 19,180 tonnes of CO2 – that’s the equivalent of 4,171 passenger cars driven for a year.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice - which oversees the Courts and Tribunals Service - told the journal it was a matter for the City of London, as it was developing the site.\n\nA government spokeswoman told BBC News that embodied carbon was \"an issue and one that we have been working on addressing for some time”.\n\nShe said the government was already supporting a number of construction projects that aimed to reduce carbon emissions, improving supply chains, and software for simultaneous cost and carbon modelling.\n\nBut she declined to comment further in advance of the coming heat and buildings strategy.\n\nThe chief executive of the UK Green Building Council, Julie Hirigoyen, said it was \"very good news that ministers are at last looking at this\".\n\nShe told BBC News: “We really must come to grips with the issue of embodied carbon in buildings – we’ll never hit our climate targets unless we do.\"", "Esyllt Calley claims moving vascular services away from Ysbyty Gwynedd has been detrimental to her husband Pete's treatment\n\nA distraught wife says her husband faces losing both his legs due to flawed restructuring by a health board.\n\nVascular services were centralised by Betsi Cadwaladr health board at Glan Clwyd hospital in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, in April 2019.\n\nBut it was controversial, and resulted in several high profile resignations.\n\nThe health board says it remains \"committed to providing a stable, high quality vascular service for north Wales\".\n\nIt says it has \"invested £2.3m in a state-of-the art hybrid vascular theatre\" at Glan Clwyd hospital.\n\nEarlier this year, Arfon MS Sian Gwenllian called for the overhaul of vascular services to be undone.\n\nThe vascular system is made up of arteries and veins, and is the body's way of circulating blood between the heart and different organs.\n\nEsyllt Calley from Llanllyfni, Gwynedd, is adamant that removing specialist services from her local hospital in Bangor has been detrimental to patients like her husband.\n\nSince 2019, people from around north Wales have had to travel to access a centralised vascular service in Bodelwyddan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pete Calley: 'He was such a jolly person... but that's gone'\n\nPete Calley, 51, is currently a patient at Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor, awaiting an operation to amputate his second leg because of complications originating from diabetes he has lived with for 22 years.\n\nSix years ago he had toes amputated at Glan Clwyd hospital, but Mrs Calley claims the surgery was not conducted properly which she said led to a further operation and months of rehabilitation.\n\nHe returned to Glan Clwyd 18 months ago needing to have his leg amputated. Mrs Calley said they had to operate three times within a week.\n\nMrs Calley said her husband now has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after undergoing several operations at the Glan Clwyd site, where vascular services are now centralised. He is refusing to return there for treatment.\n\n\"He's been affected so badly. Just saying the name 'Glan Clwyd' is enough to send him into a panic attack. I feel I've lost the man I married. I love my husband, but he's changed.\"\n\nShe said Betsi Cadwaladr health board had now agreed to fund his treatment at a Liverpool hospital.\n\nPete Calley is due to become a father for the fifth time next year, his second child with Esyllt Calley\n\nBreaking down in tears, Mrs Calley was adamant the restructuring of the vascular services in north Wales had affected her husband's health.\n\n\"I know Pete would still have his leg if it wasn't for Glan Clwyd. And he certainly wouldn't be a double amputee,\" she said.\n\n\"Within two years of having the vascular unit at Glan Clwyd, he's facing becoming a double amputee. In six years as a patient at Ysbyty Gwynedd, he lost no more than two toes.\n\n\"I just don't understand why they moved a unit that was so good.\"\n\nProfessor Dean Williams, who resigned from his position as head of the vascular unit in Ysbyty Gwynedd in 2019, said he had helped develop a world-class limb salvage unit at the hospital.\n\nHe said he had received assurances from senior staff at Betsi Cadwaladr health board that this service would remain at the Bangor site, despite centralisation at Glan Clwyd.\n\nProfessor Dean Williams said the 'world class' limb salvage unit he helped build at Ysbyty Gwynedd has been 'dismantled'\n\n\"When the centralisation went ahead, all major vascular surgery and emergency admissions were removed from Bangor,\" said Prof Williams.\n\n\"To have agreements thrown away, see a world-class service dismantled and then see the predicted consequences of that decision unfold in front of us was difficult and is still difficult to witness.\"\n\nBethan Russell-Williams, who was an independent board member at Betsi Cadwaladr, also resigned over the plans to reform vascular services, and said she had no regrets.\n\n\"Patient outcomes are much worse now than they were when services were available at Ysbyty Gwynedd,\" she said.\n\n\"More patients are having major lower limb amputations, and more patients are dying following major lower limb amputations.\"\n\nResponding to the allegations, Dr Nick Lyons, executive medical director of Betsi Cadwaladr, said: \"Even in this large health board area, we do not have the volume of complex vascular cases for teams to keep their skills and expertise up at each of the three acute hospitals.\"\n\nDr Lyons said a review conducted last year by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) found \"that the service has a robust surgical on-call arrangement and appropriate pathways for emergency and complex vascular intervention\".\n\n\"The RCS noted the commitment from all involved to improve the service and that 'an excellent foundation' is in place to continue the development and improvement of the vascular service in north Wales,\" he added.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We cannot comment on individual cases and this is a matter for the health board. We are in regular dialogue with the health board and will continue to monitor progress within the vascular service.\"", "French media said the incident took place shortly before 06:00 local time. File image\n\nThree migrants have been killed and one seriously injured after a train struck them in south-western France.\n\nA local mayor and police said the migrants were lying on the tracks when they were hit in a coastal town near Biarritz on Tuesday morning.\n\nA police investigation is under way but the circumstances of the incident remain unclear.\n\nThe mayor of Ciboure said the area was well-known as a transit route for migrants.\n\nMayor Eneko Aldana-Douat told BFM TV the migrants \"were sleeping or lying\" on the tracks.\n\nPolice are trying to identify the migrants. Citing a police source, the Parisian newspaper said all of them were Algerian nationals.\n\nThe one who survived suffered a broken leg and has been taken to hospital, local prosecutors told the AFP news agency.\n\nFrench media said the incident took place shortly before 06:00 local time (04:00 GMT) about 500m (1,640ft) from the train station in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, a seaside town in France's Basque country near the Spanish border.\n\nThe train had left Hendaye and was heading for Bordeaux.\n\nTrain services were interrupted but gradually resumed after a few hours.", "The UK's failure to do more to stop Covid spreading early in the pandemic was one of the country's worst public health failures, a report by MPs says.\n\nThe government approach - backed by its scientists - was to try to manage the situation and in effect achieve herd immunity by infection, it said.\n\nThis led to a delay in introducing the first lockdown, costing thousands of lives, the MPs found.\n\nBut their report highlighted successes too, including the vaccination rollout.\n\nIt described the approach to vaccination - from the research and development through to the rollout of the jabs - as \"one of the most effective initiatives in UK history\".\n\nBut campaigners criticised the report for failing to focus on those who had died, saying references to practical issues, including problems with laptops, was \"laughable\".\n\nThe 150-page document, Coronavirus: Lessons learned to date, is from the Health and Social Care Committee and the Science and Technology Committee, and MPs from all parties.\n\nIt predominantly focused on the response to the pandemic in England. The committees did not look at steps taken individually by Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.\n\nThe MPs called the pandemic, which has claimed more than 150,000 lives in the UK and nearly five million worldwide so far, the \"biggest peacetime challenge\" for a century.\n\nSome early failings, the report suggested, resulted from apparent \"group-think\" among scientists and ministers.\n\nIt meant the UK was not as open to different approaches on earlier lockdowns, border controls and test and trace as it should have been.\n\nA woman whose twin sisters died within three days of one another after testing positive for Covid says the report from MPs uses the success of the vaccine programme to deflect from earlier failures.\n\nZoe Davis' sisters Katy and Emma, who were both nurses, died in April 2020.\n\nShe says: \"Nobody is saying that the vaccine programme hasn't been phenomenal but the frustrating thing is that's a deflection of what is actually being brought to attention and the overall message is that Covid failures have cost lives.\"\n\nLindsay Jackson, from Derbyshire, whose mother died with Covid, said the report confirmed her fears she had about care home visits in March 2020.\n\n\"I knew in my own mind the lockdown was too slow, I knew the social care sector wasn't being looked after, I knew people shouldn't have been released from hospital without tests, and this just confirms that.\"\n\nShe is calling for the government to move to a public inquiry now to see if anyone is culpable.\n\nConservative MPs Jeremy Hunt and Greg Clark, who chair the committees, said the nature of the pandemic meant it was \"impossible to get everything right\".\n\n\"The UK has combined some big achievements with some big mistakes. It is vital to learn from both,\" they said.\n\nCabinet Office minister Stephen Barclay said scientific advice had been followed and the government had made \"difficult judgements\" to protect the NHS.\n\nHe said the government took responsibility for everything that happened - saying the government would not shy away from any lessons to be learned at the full statutory public inquiry, expected next year.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the report was a \"damning indictment\" and showed the errors and failures of running down the NHS before the pandemic.\n\nHe called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to apologise to the bereaved and hold the public inquiry as soon as possible.\n\nWhen Covid hit, the government's approach was to manage its spread through the population rather than try to stop it - or herd immunity by infection as the report called it.\n\nThe MPs said this was based on dealing with a flu pandemic, and was done on the advice of its scientific advisers on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).\n\nBut the idea was not challenged enough by ministers in any part of the UK. Although other parts of Europe were guilty of this too, the MPs added.\n\nToo little was done in the early weeks to stop Covid spreading, the MPs said, despite evidence from China and then Italy that it was a virus that was highly infectious, caused severe illness and had no cure.\n\n\"The veil of ignorance through which the UK viewed the initial weeks of the pandemic was partly self-inflicted,\" the report said.\n\nAsked whether herd immunity had been a policy in the early days, Mr Hunt said he did not think there was any desire for the whole population to be infected.\n\nHowever, he said there was a \"fatalism that it was likely that in the end, that will be the only way that we will stop the progress of the virus\".\n\nDecisions on lockdowns and social distancing during those early weeks - and the advice that led to them - were described as \"one of the most important public health failures the UK has ever experienced\".\n\nThe advice from scientists changed on 16 March 2020 - with a lockdown announced a week later.\n\n\"This slow and gradualist approach was not inadvertent, nor did it reflect bureaucratic delay or disagreement between ministers and their advisers,\" the report said, describing it as a \"deliberate policy\".\n\n\"It is now clear that this was the wrong policy, and that it led to a higher initial death toll than would have resulted from a more emphatic early policy. In a pandemic spreading rapidly and exponentially, every week counted.\"\n\nA Liverpool FC and Atletico Madrid football match on 11 March - as a pandemic was declared by the WHO - and the Cheltenham Festival of Racing between 10 and 13 March, may have spread the virus.\n\nMr Barclay said hindsight was \"an issue\". Had the government known how much the country would be willing to endure, lockdown may have come sooner, the minister added.\n\nThe MPs also highlighted how ministers in England rejected scientific advice to have a two-week \"circuit-breaker\" in the autumn.\n\nThey said it was impossible to know whether that would have prevented the second lockdown in November, although they pointed out it had not in Wales.\n\nThe UK was one of the first countries in the world to develop a test for Covid in January 2020, but failed to translate that into an effective test-and-trace system during the first year of the pandemic, the report said.\n\nTesting in the community stopped in March 2020 and for weeks during the first peak only those admitted to hospital were tested.\n\nIt was not until May that the NHS Test and Trace system was launched in England, but the report described its start as \"slow, uncertain and often chaotic\".\n\nIt said the system was too centralised, only later making use of the expertise in local public health teams run by councils.\n\nBut it praised the target set by then Health Secretary Matt Hancock to get to 100,000 tests a day by the end of April, saying it played an important part in galvanising the system.\n\nThe greatest praise though was reserved for the vaccination programme and the way the government supported the development of a number of vaccines, including the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nIt said the whole programme was one of the most effective initiatives in history, and will ultimately help to save millions of lives here and across the world.\n\nA key step, taken early on following a suggestion from chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, was to set up a task force that combined the talents of scientists, the NHS and the private sector, led by the \"bold leadership\" of venture capitalist Kate Bingham.\n\nThe development of treatments, such as dexamethasone, for Covid through the UK Recovery Trial was another area where the UK's response was genuinely world-leading, the report said.\n\nAnd the NHS and government were also credited with the way hospital intensive care capacity was increased to ensure the majority who needed hospital treatment received it.\n\nThe report's recommendations include comprehensive government plans for future emergencies, a bigger role for the armed forces in emergency response plans, and considering a government and NHS volunteer reserve database.\n\nThe MPs said the pandemic had also exacerbated existing social, economic and health inequalities which would need addressing.\n\nThe report highlighted \"unacceptably high\" death rates in ethnic minority groups and among people with learning disabilities and autism.\n\nFor ethnic minorities, there were a variety of factors, including possible biological reasons and increased exposure because of housing and working conditions.\n\nFor people with learning disabilities, not enough thought was given to how restrictions would have a detrimental impact on them - particularly in terms of accessing health care more generally. Do not resuscitate orders were also used inappropriately.\n\nThere was a lack of priority attached to care homes too at the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe rapid discharge of people from hospital into care homes without adequate testing or isolation was a prime example of this.\n\nThis, combined with untested staff bringing infection into homes from the community, led to many thousands of deaths which could have been avoided.\n\nScience minister George Freeman said it was too early for any proper discussion about blame or fault.\n\nAsked about the higher UK death toll, he said: \"A lot of that is actually to do with the very, very heavy obesity-related cardiometabolic chronic disease cohort that we've been carrying for years - that's a failure of public health in this country over decades.\"\n\nLobby Akinnola, of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign group, said Mr Freeman's comments were \"grossly offensive\", adding that \"the statutory inquiry cannot come soon enough\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People at Bulldogs Boxing and Community Centre talk about those swerving the jab\n\n\"Because I'm younger I'll be able to fight it off, but I feel for the elderly.\"\n\nMackenzie Itzstein got the Covid vaccine to protect his grandparents - at 22, he believed he was low risk.\n\nBut even teenagers are being hospitalised with \"serious Covid\", Swansea Bay's public health director has said.\n\nKeith Reid called on more sports clubs and celebrities to back a campaign to encourage people to get the vaccine.\n\nMackenzie was living with his grandparents when they all contracted Covid.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales alongside other young people at the Bulldogs Boxing and Community Centre in Port Talbot, he said: \"I was in the family home with my Nana and Grampa and they had it too.\n\n\"I was more concerned for them rather than me,\" he said, believing younger people were relatively safe from the virus.\n\nMackenzie Itzstein said he was more concerned for his grandparents' health than his own\n\nThis is a common myth public health boss Mr Reid is keen to dispel. He said his own health board has recently seen cases of young people being admitted to hospital.\n\n\"Young people do get serious Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"We've seen 45 young people in hospital in the last three months - by young people, I mean below the age of 15, treated for Covid.\n\n\"And we've also seen a lot of cases where young people have taken Covid home and shared it with other household members, some of whom have been quite vulnerable.\"\n\nSeren Jenkins, 22, rejected any notion that young people might feel \"invincible\" - that Covid wouldn't affect them so severely.\n\n\"I'm sure there are loads of younger people that are like that, but I know loads of older people who've been exactly the same - everyone's probably done so many things wrong, I don't think it's fair to put it on one age group.\"\n\nWhen lockdown was announced she said she was \"pretty careful\".\n\n\"I didn't see my family for about 14 weeks.\"\n\nSeren Jenkins said she also knows older people who think they won't be badly affected by Covid\n\nShe has had Covid, has been vaccinated and says she routinely wears masks in shops and on public transport. But lockdown has had an unexpected effect.\n\n\"I think it's had a really positive influence on me - I tend to not really say no to anything any more.\"\n\nNeath Port Talbot recently had the highest rate of Covid cases across the UK, as well as the highest case rate among the under-25s in Wales.\n\nVaccine take-up rates amongst the under-30s are also the lowest - albeit they were last to be offered the jab.\n\nBut not all sports clubs have backed a campaign to encourage people to get the Covid vaccine, according to Mr Reid.\n\nOf the region's two top sports clubs, he said, only the Ospreys had backed the drive.\n\n\"One avidly supported our vaccine campaign, another one haven't,\" he said.\n\nBut Swansea City FC said it was committed to helping the local vaccination programme and the stadium had been provided free of charge as a Covid testing facility.\n\nThe club said its players and staff were spoken to regularly by its medical team about safety and vaccinations, adding that \"we respect them with the decisions that they undertake for both themselves and their families.\"\n\nMr Reid said seeing role models having the jab gave fans \"a lot of assurance that vaccines are safe and effective\".\n\n\"We've seen the contrast between two really high level sporting teams within Swansea Bay region - one who avidly supported our vaccine campaign and have been very prominent in the community and another one who haven't,\" he said.\n\n\"And that's due to attitudes amongst players themselves.\"\n\nIt is understood fewer than half the players at most Premier League and English Football League clubs have been vaccinated.\n\n\"Undoubtedly people from other walks of life, and especially from sporting walks of life, can have great influence on the health behaviour of our communities and it's to their credit when they stand up and do that,\" said Mr Reid.\n\nNudges like these can be all the more important when considering the health of a local authority area like Neath Port Talbot.\n\n\"We saw the arrival of a new highly transmissible and infectious version of coronavirus at the same time that people were starting to move around more freely and mix more freely and I think that's what's driven up the rates,\" said Mr Reid.\n\n\"With schools going back when Delta (variant) was already pretty prevalent in the region - that's just added an extra element to the mix and we've seen rates in school kids in particular drive those headline figures.\"\n\nShane Miller, 18, who works part time at Bulldogs Boxing Club in Port Talbot, said it was an easy decision to be vaccinated, as he works with people with disabilities at the club and needed to be cautious.\n\n\"I know a lot of people were very relaxed about Covid,\" he said. \"I know two people who don't want the vaccine - they don't like needles or they just don't believe in Covid.\n\n\"I try and explain it's safer to have it, just in case, but it's the type of people who just don't listen.\"\n\nHe added transport can be an issue for those travelling to vaccination centres. \"They could do them in local chemists - if it was more local than that I think more people would have a better chance of getting there.\"\n\nIt is a point acknowledged by Keith Reid.\n\n\"It's much more difficult if you're working or you've got childcare responsibilities to get along to a vaccination centre,\" he said.\n\n\"We've seen a slower rise in coverage in those age groups, partly maybe because of the difficulty of getting along to vaccination - and higher scepticism I think, about what's the benefit of getting vaccinated.\"\n\nProfessional boxer Connor McIntosh saw his first child born during lockdown\n\nProfessional boxer Connor McIntosh, 26, said he and his girlfriend were expecting their first child during lockdown - Bronagh May is now a year old.\n\n\"I didn't even leave the house - we weren't going to take any risks,\" said the construction health and safety consultant.\n\n\"I've had my first jab and I'll have my second in the next couple of weeks - I'll have to have it done before my first professional fight anyway, for safety measures.\"\n\nBut did he have any reservations?\n\n\"Not really - it's a tough one, it's come out really quick - a lot of people don't know exactly what's in them - you get a lot of people on Facebook thinking they're proper scientists and they know exactly what's in them - but if it's going to make things go back to normal quicker, then I think yeah, everyone should have them.\n\n\"I think if everyone plays ball and just helps each other out, hopefully we can all get through it and things will go back to normal sooner rather than later.\"\n\nRhodri Williams said he was anxious about going to watch his first football match after lockdown ended\n\nRhodri Williams' parents both work in the NHS - one for the ambulance service, one as a nurse.\n\n\"The only time I would go out of the house was to go for a run with my brother, once a day,\" said the 22-year-old, who has had both his jabs.\n\n\"The people that are coming out and saying that the vaccine could kill them, or the government are putting stuff in it - they're the people that would go to Mexico and have their jabs no problem, but they're not getting anything out of this so they don't see the point in getting it.\n\n\"Some people don't want it because they don't know what's in it - but they don't know what's in their cigarettes or their vapes either.\n\n\"I've got a season ticket down the Swans - the first game back against Sheffield United was a bit of a shock, because I hadn't been around that many people since Covid.\n\n\"It wasn't that I was scared, it was more that I had a bit of anxiety about going with all these people, but when you're in the game it's brilliant how they do it - where I was sitting there was plenty of spacing and I didn't feel at all at risk there.\"\n\nSo does he agree that sports stars and celebrities have a role here?\n\n\"I've seen a lot of people, especially on TikTok and Instagram - celebrities filming their experiences of going to get a vaccine and putting it in a positive light - and maybe that's going to inspire a couple of the younger people to go and get their vaccine.\"\n\nSwansea City says it \"placed great importance on its role during the pandemic\"\n\nIn a statement, Swansea City said it \"is committed to assisting with the regional vaccination programme in the Swansea Bay area.\n\n\"The club places great emphasis on its role within the community and we are already engaging with the local health board about ways in which we can help in the future.\n\n\"Our players and staff receive regular dialogue from the club's medical team regarding public safety and vaccinations, and we respect them with the decisions that they undertake for both themselves and their families.\n\n\"Swansea City placed great importance on its role during the pandemic, such as opening its doors to the NHS for healthcare training purposes and providing our North Car Park as a Covid testing facility. Both of these ran for over a year without any charge being made by the club, while other venues rented out their facilities at a cost.\n\n\"The club would also like to place on record its sincere thanks to all those who have, and continue to, play an active and important role in the vaccination programme.\"", "Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has had a job offer from the United Nations withdrawn.\n\nMr Hancock announced this week that he had been given a role helping Africa's economy recover from Covid.\n\nThe UN said he would bring valuable experience - but Mr Hancock now says a rule has come to light that prevents him from taking the job while an MP.\n\nLeading figures across Africa and UK opposition parties had criticised the UN's choice of the MP for the role.\n\nOn Tuesday, the former health secretary tweeted a copy of the letter from UN Under-Secretary General Vera Songwe offering him the unpaid role.\n\nHe was congratulated by former cabinet colleagues, including Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Housing Secretary Michael Gove and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries.\n\nBut the West Suffolk MP faced a backlash from critics on social media, who pointed to the fact that a highly critical report from MPs on the UK government's handling of the pandemic had been released on the same day.\n\nMr Hancock's new role came four months after he resigned from his cabinet post for breaking social distancing guidelines by kissing a colleague.\n\nHe had been planning to continue as a Conservative MP while working as the UN special representative on financial innovation and climate change for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.\n\nThe UN has now told him the appointment \"is not being taken forward\".\n\nMr Hancock said he had been \"honoured to be approached by the UN\" but it later wrote to him to explain that UN rule \"has subsequently come to light\".\n\nHe added: \"Since I am committed to continuing to serve as MP for West Suffolk, this means I cannot take up the position.\n\n\"I look forward to supporting the UN ECA in their mission in whatever way I can in my parliamentary role.\"\n\nThis is undoubtedly an embarrassment for the former health secretary who was looking to resuscitate his political career.\n\nThe first step in doing so appeared to come with the announcement about the unpaid role.\n\nIt was not a UK government one - but there was glowing support from many senior former cabinet colleagues.\n\nMatt Hancock says a technical rule has now come to light which prevents him from taking the job as he is a sitting MP.\n\nBut the appointment attracted anger too, coming on the day a group of MPs had been highly critical of the government's handling of the pandemic. And some in the international community questioned the MP's expertise, past mistakes, and his suitability for such a challenging role.\n\nIt appears that added to pressure on the UN to withdraw the invitation - and three days later a spokesman confirmed it was not being taken forward.\n\nUN sources say the appointment should never have been made in the first place.\n\nGordon Brown was a sitting MP when he took a similar role. He was appointed in 2012, two years before he announced his intention to stand down as an MP.\n\nIn her letter to Mr Hancock offering him the job, Ms Songwe said his \"success\" in handling the UK's pandemic response was a testament to the strengths he would bring to the role.\n\nIn his reply, the MP said: \"As we recover from the pandemic so we must take this moment to ensure Africa can prosper.\"\n\nThe withdrawal of the offer was welcomed by campaign group Global Justice Now.\n\nThe group's director Nick Dearden said: \"If Matt Hancock wants to help African countries recover from the pandemic, he should lobby the prime minister to back a patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines.\n\n\"If he'd done that when he was in government, tens of millions more people could already have been vaccinated.\n\n\"The last thing the African continent needs is a failed British politician. This isn't the 19th Century.\"", "Former US President Barack Obama has confirmed he will attend the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow.\n\nHe will join current president Joe Biden and more than 120 heads of state at the conference, which gets under way on 31 October.\n\nMr Obama is expected to meet young climate change activists and highlight their work around the world.\n\nCOP26 will be the biggest climate change conference since landmark talks in Paris in 2015.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Obama said he would use his trip to Scotland to \"lay out the important progress made in the five years since the Paris Agreement took effect\".\n\nHe will also \"urge more robust action going forward by all of us - governments, the private sector, philanthropy and civil society\".\n\nConfirmation of Mr Obama's visit will be seen as a huge boost for the UN summit, which be held at the Scottish Exhibition Campus from 31 October until 12 November.\n\nThe summit will take place at the SEC campus in Glasgow\n\nBoris Johnson and other leaders of the G7 nations are set to lay out plans to cut emissions causing climate change.\n\nOn Friday, after weeks of hesitation, Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison also confirmed he will be at the summit.\n\nBut there have been reports China's President Xi Jinping would not be attending, although the country will be represented by its government officials.\n\nPope Francis announced earlier this month that he will not travel to Scotland for the conference after earlier saying he would like to do so.\n\nAbout 25,000 delegates are expected to attend the Glasgow summit.\n\nTens of thousands of campaigners and businesses will also be there to hold events and stage protests.\n\nThe COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.\n\nDo you have any questions about the forthcoming COP26 global climate conference in Glasgow?\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 aftermath of the drone strike in the Afghan capital, Kabul\n\nThe US government has offered financial compensation to the relatives of 10 people mistakenly killed by the American military in a drone strike on the Afghan capital, Kabul, in August.\n\nAn aid worker and nine members of his family, including seven children, died in the strike.\n\nThe Pentagon said it was also working to help surviving members of the family relocate to the US.\n\nThe strike took place days before the US military withdrew from Afghanistan.\n\nIt came amid a frenzied evacuation effort following the Taliban's sudden return to power and only days after a devastating attack close to Kabul's airport by IS-K, a local branch of the Islamic State (IS) group.\n\nUS intelligence had tracked the aid worker's car for eight hours on 29 August, believing it was linked to IS-K militants, US Central Command's Gen Kenneth McKenzie said last month.\n\nThe investigation found the man's car had been seen at a compound associated with IS-K, and its movements aligned with other intelligence about the terror group's plans for an attack on Kabul airport.\n\nAt one point, a surveillance drone saw men loading what appeared to be explosives into the boot of the car, but these turned out to be containers of water.\n\nGen McKenzie described the strike as a \"tragic mistake\" and added that the Taliban had not been involved in the intelligence that led to the strike.\n\nThe strike happened as the aid worker - named as Zamairi Ahmadi - pulled into the driveway of his home, 3km (1.8 miles) from the airport.\n\nThe explosion set off a secondary blast, which US officials initially said was proof that the car was indeed carrying explosives. However, an investigation found it was most likely caused by a propane tank in the driveway.\n\nOne of those killed, Ahmad Naser, had been a translator with US forces. Other victims had previously worked for international organisations and held visas allowing them entry to the US.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emal Ahmadi: \"Ten people died here... including my daughter, she was two years old\"\n\nThe compensation offer was made on Thursday in a meeting between Colin Kahl, the under-secretary of defence for policy, and Steven Kwon, the founder and president of an aid group active in Afghanistan called Nutrition and Education International, the Pentagon said in a statement.\n\nMr Kahl noted Mr Ahmadi and others who were killed \"were innocent victims who bore no blame and were not affiliated with ISIS-K or threats to US forces\", said a statement attributed to Defence Department spokesman John Kirby.\n\nHe reiterated Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin's commitment to the families, including \"condolence payments\".\n\nMr Austin has apologised for the attack, but Mr Ahmadi's 22-year-old nephew Farshad Haidari said that was not enough.\n\n\"They must come here and apologise to us face-to-face,\" he told the AFP news agency in Kabul.\n\nWhen the US started to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban managed to seize control of the country within about two weeks in a rapid offensive. Kabul fell on 15 August.\n\nIt sparked a mass evacuation effort from the US and its allies, as thousands of people tried to flee. Many were foreign nationals or Afghans who had worked for foreign governments.\n\nThe security situation was further heightened after the IS-K attack on the airport. A suicide bomber killed up to 170 civilians and 13 US troops outside the airport on 26 August.\n\nMany of those killed had been hoping to board evacuation flights leaving the city.\n\nThe last US soldier left Afghanistan on 31 August - the deadline President Joe Biden had set for the US withdrawal.\n\nMore than 124,000 foreigners and Afghans were flown out of the country beforehand. But some people were unable to get out in time, and evacuation efforts are ongoing.", "Conservative MP Sir David Amess has been stabbed as he met constituents at a regular surgery.\n\nEssex Police said they were called to reports of a stabbing in Leigh-on-Sea at 12:05 BST and arrested a man.\n\nPolice recovered a knife and said they were not looking for anyone else in connection to the incident.\n\nFormer party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said he was \"praying for a full recovery\".\n\nHe said on Twitter: \"My thoughts are with David Amess MP and his family at this awful time.\n\n\"Praying for a full recovery following this appalling, shocking news. This angry, violent behaviour cannot be tolerated in politics or any other walk of life.\"\n\nThe 69-year-old, who is MP for Southend West, was stabbed as he met constituents at Belfairs Methodist Church.\n\nAn air ambulance was sent to the scene.\n\nArmed police were seen outside the church where Sir David met consituents\n\nSouthend councillor John Lamb, who was at the scene after the stabbing, said Sir David was a family man, with four daughters and a son.\n\n\"He's always trying to help people, and especially refugees he's tried to help. He's a very amicable person and he does stick by his guns, he says what he believes and he sticks by it,\" Mr Lamb said.\n\nHe told the BBC the MP had not been taken to hospital but was operated on by medics at the scene.\n\nMr Lamb said he was still waiting to hear the extent of Sir David's injuries, but understood the MP was in a \"very serious\" condition.\n\nThe Jo Cox Foundation, the charity set up in memory of the MP who was murdered in 2016, said it was \"horrified\" by the stabbing.\n\n\"We are thinking of him, his family and loved ones at this distressing time,\" the foundation said.\n\nLabour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer said he was thinking of Sir David, his family and his staff after the \"horrific and deeply shocking news\".\n\nWere you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? 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. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Patel pays tribute to MP as 'man of the people'", "Boris Johnson has led tributes from the political world to Sir David Amess MP, who was stabbed to death at his constituency surgery in Essex.\n\nThe prime minister said he was \"one of the kindest, nicest, most gentle people in politics\".\n\nWatch to hear from other politicians, including Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, close friend Ann Widdecombe, and Kim Leadbeater - the sister of Jo Cox, the MP who was murdered in 2016.", "Alan Hawkshaw - pictured backstage at Top of the Pops while in The Shadows - composed the music for 35 films and \"countless\" television shows\n\nThe musician who wrote the theme tunes for Grange Hill, Countdown, and Channel 4 News has died aged 84.\n\nAlan Hawkshaw was also a member of The Shadows, toured with the Rolling Stones, and was sampled by Jay-Z.\n\nHe was admitted to hospital this week with pneumonia and died in the early hours of Saturday, his agent said.\n\nHis wife Christiane said: \"It was heartbreaking to say goodbye to Alan, my husband of 53 years and the love of my life.\"\n\nShe added: \"We spent the last few hours gazing at each other with love, holding hands, no need for words.\n\n\"I told him he and I were forever, and even though he has been unable to speak for the past two months, he managed a few 'forevers' and I knew he was at peace.\"\n\nHawkshaw wrote the music for more than 35 films and \"countless\" television programmes, his website 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\nIn the 1960s Hawkshaw was in rock'n'roll group Emile Ford & The Checkmates, which toured with the Rolling Stones.\n\nHe joined The Shadows in the 1970s and worked as Olivia Newton-John's musical director, arranger and pianist.\n\nHe was awarded best arrangement by The American Academy of Arts and Sciences for Newton-John's \"I Honestly Love You\".\n\nHawkshaw was instrumental in a host of hits and worked with artists including Barbra Streisand, Tom Jones, Lulu and David Bowie.\n\nA statement from talent agency DNA Music Limited called Hawkshaw \"one of the most sampled musicians in the world\".\n\n\"Hip hop producers in particular have plundered Alan's catalogue of works including the biggest of them all, Jay-Z with Pray which featured on the American Gangster album,\" it said.\n\n\"Alan would often joke, 'I'm one of the oldest rap artists in the world.'\n\n\"He also famously said of Streisand, 'Barbara held this song of mine eight years until I sent her a note via one of her lawyers saying please record it before one of us dies.'\"\n\nShe went on to record his song Why Let It Go.\n\nIn 2004, in association with the Performing Rights Society, he set up The Alan Hawkshaw Foundation.\n\nThe scholarship programme funded over 70 scholarships at the Leeds College of Music, now the Leeds Conservatoire, and the National Film & Television School.\n\nHawkshaw, who was from Leeds, also underwrote the Radlett Junior Tennis Tournament, in the Hertfordshire town where he lived and, according to his website, donated 10% of his income to less well-off people.", "The army has barracks at locations including Tidworth, Bulford and Larkhill\n\nA soldier has died in a training exercise on Salisbury Plain.\n\nThe 23-year-old was part of a crew operating an armoured vehicle in a training area near Enford, Wiltshire, on Friday.\n\nA source said the vehicle overturned and hit a tree, trapping several survivors and the dead man inside.\n\nThe presence of live ammunition meant firefighters could not use cutting equipment, so Army engineers rescued those inside, the source added.\n\nIt took several hours for the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers to free the soldiers.\n\nAn Army spokesman said: \"It is with sadness that we can confirm the death of a soldier on Salisbury Plain Training Area.\"\n\nWiltshire Police said it was investigating alongside the Health and Safety Executive and the Army.\n\nOffering condolences to the man's family, Devizes MP Danny Kruger said: \"While thankfully rare, it is vital that all serious accidents that take place during military training exercises are comprehensively investigated.\n\n\"We owe so much to the young men and women who risk their lives for our safety and we must do everything we can to keep them safe as well.\"\n\nSoldiers have been testing out new kit as part of their training exercises on Salisbury Plain\n\nA spokesperson for Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue said crews were called to the scene at 11:57, along with a heavy rescue unit. The patient was taken to Salisbury Hospital, the ambulance service added.\n\nMost recently, Salisbury has been the base for the Army Warfighting Experiment with troops testing out new kit as the Army adapts to digital warfare which is increasingly becoming more prominent across the world.\n\nThis week, private companies have also been pitching their latest gear, with soldiers testing out equipment and giving them feedback.\n\nThe British Army currently has about 76,500 soldiers, with about 15,000 based around the West Country.\n\nSalisbury Plain is the UK's largest training area for the British Army\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In northern Mauritania, people are seeing first-hand the impact of climate change.\n\nRising temperatures and desertification are wiping out communities and as the Life at 50C series has discovered, many are being forced to leave their ancestral homes in search of a better life.", "Before and after: The artwork was intended to make Cardiff more \"vibrant and welcoming\"\n\nArtwork commissioned for Cardiff city centre has been washed away by cleaners following a \"miscommunication error\".\n\nThe murals were commissioned by For Cardiff, a body aimed at making the city \"vibrant and welcoming\".\n\nThey were painted to celebrate diversity by three young female artists, including Beth Blandford, who said she was \"absolutely gutted\".\n\nFor Cardiff apologised and said it was \"due to a devastating error involving our cleansing contractor\".\n\nThe murals were painted by local artists Amber Forde, Temeka Davies, and Beth Blandford as part of the Pwsh Cardiff art project\n\nThe artwork was cleaned off on Thursday morning\n\nBeth, 25, from Cardiff, said: \"I'm absolutely gutted, I can't believe it, it took me about five days and most of those days were 12-16 hour days,\" she said.\n\n\"We really planned this project out, we were so excited, it's a real shame.\n\n\"I feel like public art in Cardiff is something that is lacking anyway, especially from female artists and showing female and diverse communities.\n\n\"These are voices that need to be heard, and it was just washed off due to a mistake, it feels a bit overwhelming really.\"\n\nBeth Blandford said while the misunderstanding was \"gutting\" she places no blame on the cleaning crews\n\nAmber Forde, 20, from Cardiff, said she wanted her culture to be at the centre of the pieces she created.\n\n\"I had three murals, each one tied back to my culture, I'm half Bajan half Welsh, so I tied that into my colour scheme.\n\n\"I was really devastated, throughout the project I would finish work and go straight to work on the project. I was pretty distraught for me and the girls.\"\n\nAmber said it was vital to have public art celebrating diversity in Wales.\n\n\"I think it's really important because it gives the visibility and shows how diverse how Cardiff is. Especially as a lot of the artists involved were working class or from minority groups.\"\n\nAmber Forde wanted her culture to be at the centre of her artworks\n\nRachel Kinchin, creative producer for Pwsh, the collective that created the artwork, said: \"For Cardiff funded this, and are very supportive and are as gutted as we are, but something fundamentally horrific has happened in some sort of communication\".\n\nIn a statement, For Cardiff said that \"due to a devastating error involving our cleansing contractor\", the \"beautiful artworks\" had been removed.\n\n\"We offer our sincere and heartfelt apology to the talented artists, Beth Blandford, Amber Forde and Temeka Davies who took the opportunity to brighten up Cardiff.\n\n\"We're working with the creative director of the project as to how we can best rectify this situation as quickly as possible,\" it added.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after she was released from house arrest in Tehran in March 2021\n\nThe British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has lost an appeal against a second jail sentence in Iran.\n\nHer family said on Saturday that there had been no court hearing, but her lawyer was informed of the outcome.\n\nFirst jailed for five years in 2016 after being accused of plotting against the regime, she was sentenced to another year's confinement in April on charges of \"spreading propaganda\".\n\nShe spent the final year of her term on parole at her parents' home in Tehran.\n\nBut concerns have been raised that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe may now be sent back to prison.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, said that his wife was \"waiting for the call to summon her back\" and said that she was \"traumatised at the thought of having to go back to jail\".\n\nShe had called her daughter several times over the course of the day to tell her she loves her, such is her fear that her return to confinement may be imminent, he said.\n\nMr Ratcliffe has not seen his wife in person since her imprisonment in 2016. Their daughter, Gabriella, who was with her mother in Tehran when she was arrested, has been with him in the UK since 2019.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss denounced the Iranian decision as \"an appalling continuation of the cruel ordeal\" Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is going through.\n\n\"We are doing all we can to help Nazanin get home to her young daughter and family and I will continue to press Iran on this point,\" Ms Truss said.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was a project manager for the charity Thomson Reuters Foundation when she was was arrested in April 2016 after having taken her daughter to Iran to celebrate the Iranian new year and to visit her parents.\n\nIranian authorities alleged that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was plotting to topple the government in Tehran and Iran's Revolutionary Guards accused her of leading a \"foreign-linked hostile network\" when she visited.\n\nShe completed a five-year sentence in March this year, only to be slapped with a fresh one-year jail term for \"propaganda against the system\".\n\nShe is one of a number of Western passport holders being held by Iran in what human rights groups condemn as a policy of hostage-taking aimed at winning concessions from foreign powers.\n\nHer husband has alleged that she is being held hostage over a long-standing debt of £400m ($550m) that Britain owes Iran for a tank deal that was never fulfilled.\n\nOver the five and a half years since Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's arrest, it has become increasingly clear that she's a chess piece in a geopolitical game, and that political calculations lie behind Iran's legal moves against her.\n\nThe UK government repeatedly says it's doing all it can to get her home. But Iran has made it abundantly clear that her freedom - and that of other dual nationals - will come at a price.\n\nIn particular, it wants the UK to repay the debt owed since before Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was born, when Iran bought tanks that were not delivered after the Islamic Revolution of 1979.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe sees the failure of her appeal - without even a court hearing - as merely a \"judicial figleaf\" for continuing to hold her hostage. And he fears that unless the debt is paid she is \"never coming home\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nRoberto Firmino scored a hat-trick as rampant Liverpool condemned Claudio Ranieri to a miserable start to life as Watford manager in a one-sided game at Vicarage Road.\n\nThe home side had no answer to Liverpool's fluid attacking play.\n\nSadio Mane became the third African player to score 100 Premier League goals before Roberto Firmino struck either side of the break and Mohamed Salah finished a brilliant individual goal with a smart shot beyond Ben Foster.\n\nSalah's goal takes him level with former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba as the highest-scoring African player in Premier League history with 104 goals.\n\nFirmino completed the scoring in the final minute for his first hat-trick since December 2018.\n• None Salah is best player in world - Klopp\n• None Has Ranieri walked into a nightmare at Watford?\n\nThe result means Liverpool have scored three goals or more in all six away games in all competitions so far this season, something no other English top-flight side has ever managed. It also extended their unbeaten start to the season and keeps them second in the Premier League table.\n\nIt could easily have been more but a combination of bad luck and - from Salah - a terrible mis-control cost them further opportunities.\n\nWatford did not manage a corner until the 78th minute. That it was greeted with huge cheers and a standing ovation just about summed up Ranieri's day.\n• None Best action and reaction from Watford v Liverpool, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League games\n• None Go to the Watford page\n• None Go to the Liverpool page\n\nWatford is Ranieri's 22nd different job in his long and varied coaching career. Rarely can he have endured a start as sobering as this.\n\nIt was Watford's heaviest Premier League defeat since their eight-goal hammering by Manchester City in September 2019 and their biggest at home since the same opponents scored six here two years before that. There was certainly nothing to trigger a celebration before his 70th birthday on Thursday.\n\nThe dimensions of Vicarage Road mean the edge of the managers' technical areas are about as close as it is possible to get to the side of the pitch.\n\nIt meant that Ranieri was almost on top of the action as the size of his task was laid bare.\n\nA long pre-match chat with Liverpool counterpart Jurgen Klopp was about as good as it got for the Italian.\n\nThe hosts simply did not get near enough to their talented opponents. Salah was given far too much space by Danny Rose even before he created the opener. Firmino was allowed to drop into the space between Watford's defence and midfield without anyone tracking his movements and Liverpool stroked the ball about at will further back, with no press to hurry them up.\n\nWith a paltry 17% possession, no shots, no corners and, obviously, no goals, the first half was a non-event for Ranieri and his new team. And if he hoped the introduction of Tom Cleverley into midfield for the second period would improve matters, he was sadly mistaken as Liverpool scored twice within 10 minutes of the restart.\n\nWatford did rally towards the end, with Ismaila Sarr striking a post, although by then any chance of turning the game into a contest was long gone.\n\nIf there was a consolation for Ranieri, it is that there should be no dissenters if he wants to make significant changes during his first full week working with his new team.\n\nHowever, with a fixture list that includes Everton, Arsenal, Chelsea and both Manchester clubs among Watford's next seven opponents, Ranieri needs a plan if his club's famously trigger-happy owners are not to be considering whether to axe yet another manager.\n\nThis was Liverpool's biggest win since the 7-0 hammering of Crystal Palace last December, which was also the last time Firmino, Salah and Mane all scored in a top-flight game.\n\nIn joining Egypt's Salah and Ivorian Didier Drogba as African goalscoring centurions, Senegalese Mane is part of a pretty exclusive Premier League club.\n\nSalah's curling pass with the outside of his left foot could not have been any more inviting and Mane showed superb composure to meet the ball with perfect timing and give Foster no chance.\n\nFirmino's three were welcome - but they were also all pretty straightforward. The first two were tap-ins thanks to James Milner's low cross into the six-yard area and the ball running loose from a desperate Ben Foster save after Craig Cathcart had turned the ball towards his own goal.\n\nThere was a bit more to the Brazilian's third as he ran forward with intelligence, something no defender countered, after Neco Williams had crossed.\n\nBut there was no doubting Salah's was the goal of the game.\n\nSurrounded by three players on the edge of the Watford box, through a combination of speed, dexterity and brilliant close control, Salah got rid of them all before finding the target with his usual unerring accuracy.\n\nIt means he has now scored in eight successive matches in all competitions and in nine out of 10 in total, underlining why Liverpool are so keen for him to sign an extension to his current contract, which has less than two years to run.\n\nWatford are next in action against Everton at Goodison Park on Saturday, 23 October (15:00 BST). Liverpool are at Atletico Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday (20:00). Their next Premier League game is at Manchester United on Sunday, 24 October (16:30).\n• None Goal! Watford 0, Liverpool 5. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Neco Williams.\n• None Offside, Watford. João Pedro tries a through ball, but Ismaila Sarr is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Ismaila Sarr (Watford) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jeremy Ngakia with a cross.\n• None Offside, Watford. João Pedro tries a through ball, but Juraj Kucka is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Cucho Hernández (Watford) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Moussa Sissoko.\n• None Offside, Watford. Ismaila Sarr tries a through ball, but João Pedro is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Ismaila Sarr (Watford) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Pedro.\n• None Offside, Watford. Jeremy Ngakia tries a through ball, but João Pedro is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by James Milner with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Ismaila Sarr (Watford) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The Queen appeared to suggest she was irritated by leaders' slow response to the climate crisis.\n\nThe Queen has appeared to suggest she is irritated by people who \"talk\" but \"don't do\", ahead of next month's climate change summit.\n\nHer reported remarks were overheard during the opening of the Welsh parliament on Thursday.\n\nThe monarch, who is due to attend the UN's COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, said she did not know who was coming to the event.\n\nPrince Charles and Prince William have also spoken of their climate concerns.\n\nGlobal leaders are meeting in Glasgow between 31 October and 12 November to negotiate a new deal to stall rising global temperatures.\n\nUS President Joe Biden and members of the G7 nations will be attending COP26. On Friday, after weeks of hesitation, Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison also confirmed he will be at the summit.\n\nBut there are reports China's President Xi Jinping would not be attending, although the country will be represented by its government officials in Glasgow.\n\nDowning Street said it was up to individual countries to confirm attendances at COP26.\n\nVideo clips featuring the Queen's conversation during the opening of the Senedd were picked up by the event's live stream camera, according to the Daily Mail.\n\nThe clips - parts of which are inaudible - show the Queen chatting with the Duchess of Cornwall and Elin Jones, the Senedd's presiding officer.\n\nThe Queen appears to say: \"I've been hearing all about COP... I still don't know who's coming.\"\n\nIn a separate clip, she remarks \"we only know about people who are not coming\", before adding: \"It's really irritating when they talk, but they don't do.\"\n\nMs Jones appears to reference the Duke of Cambridge in her reply to the Queen's remarks, saying she had been watching him \"on television this morning saying there's no point going into space, we need to save the Earth\".\n\nThis wasn't a formal intervention from the Queen, but a few private words that were overheard.\n\nThat her comments about climate change are making headlines shows how unusual it is to hear the Queen's private thoughts on public matters - because her role requires her to stay outside of political debate.\n\nThis rare insight suggests the 95-year-old Queen remains very engaged with the current issues around the COP26 summit - in a week when Prince Charles and Prince William were also talking about protecting the environment.\n\nBut it also shows the occupational hazard of being followed everywhere by cameras and microphones.\n\nAnd in her comments about having \"no idea\" who was coming to COP26, there was also a glimpse of a slightly exasperated host, not sure who was going to turn up for an event.\n\nPrince William spoke to the BBC's Newscast on Thursday, and suggested entrepreneurs should focus on saving Earth rather than engaging in space tourism.\n\nHe also warned the COP26 summit against \"clever speak, clever words but not enough action\", saying it was \"critical\" for the world leaders to \"communicate very clearly and very honestly what the problems are and what the solutions are going to be\".\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's climate editor Justin Rowlatt, the Prince of Wales said he was worried that world leaders would \"just talk\" when they meet, saying: \"The problem is to get action on the ground\".", "The courthouse in Khartoum was crowded for the start of the trial\n\nSudan's ousted long-serving leader Omar al-Bashir has gone on trial in the capital, Khartoum, in connection with the military coup that brought him to power more than three decades ago.\n\nThe 76-year-old, who has already been convicted for corruption, could face the death penalty if found guilty over his role in the 1989 coup.\n\nMore than 20 former officials are on trial alongside him.\n\nBashir was forced from power in 2019 following popular protests.\n\nThe civilian uprising started in late 2018 as anti-austerity demonstrations but quickly morphed into a call to end President Bashir's rule.\n\nOn 11 April 2019, the military announced that he had been ousted and arrested.\n\nA joint transitional government made up of the top army officials and civilians was later formed in August.\n\nOmar al-Bashir took power in a 1989 coup and was toppled by the military in 2019\n\nBashir is also wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and genocide in the western Darfur region.\n\nThe authorities in Sudan said in February they were are ready to hand the former leader over to the ICC.\n\nThe defendants including former vice presidents Ali Osman Taha and Bakri Hassan Saleh were in a caged off area in the courtroom, the AFP news agency reports.\n\n\"This court will listen to each of them and we will give each of the 28 accused the opportunity to defend themselves,\" it quotes court president Issam al-Din Mohammad Ibrahim, as saying.\n\nOne of the country's former Vice-Presidents, Ali Osman Taha, was pictured in the court room alongside other defendants\n\nIt adds that one of Bashir's 150 defence lawyers, Hashem al-Gali, said in court that their client and other defendants were facing \"a political trial\" being held \"in a hostile environment\".\n\nThe court adjourned the trial until 11 August before any statements or evidence could be given, the Reuters news agency reports.\n\nThe decision was reached to allow more lawyers and family members of defendants to attend, it adds.\n\nBashir seized power in a military coup on 30 June against the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadek al-Mahdi.\n\nAlong with other officials who served in his government Bashir is accused of having plotted the coup in which the army arrested Sudan's political leaders, suspended parliament, closed the airport and announced the overthrow on the radio.", "Medical science has transformed the pandemic, and the experimental technologies that helped develop vaccines in record time have strapped rocket boosters to scientific ambitions. Could we be entering a golden age of new vaccines?\n\nIf you head to the cutting edge of vaccinology you will find Prof Dame Sarah Gilbert, from the Jenner Institute and the architect of the Oxford vaccine.\n\nUsing a revolutionary technology, the team at Oxford had a vaccine ready to start clinical trials in just 65 days. In partnership with pharma giant AstraZeneca, more than 1.5 billion doses have been distributed around the world.\n\nYou might assume that once you had reached the top of your professional tree you would be free to think profound thoughts that push the boundaries of human knowledge. Yet nearly every time I interview Prof Gilbert, I get the sense that a huge chunk of her time is taken up buying fridges and freezers. After all, if you can't keep viral samples and prototype vaccines cold then you can't do vaccine research.\n\n\"I'm still being asked for more,\" Prof Gilbert tells me.\n\nBut the kitchen, where such appliances are most commonly found, is not a bad place to build an understanding of the leap in vaccine science achieved by Prof Gilbert and her contemporaries.\n\nThe new generation of vaccines are quick to make and highly flexible. \"It's like decorating a cake,\" says Prof Gilbert.\n\nThe old-school method of developing vaccines means you must go back to the raw materials and start from scratch for every vaccine you make. It is like starting with a bench of flour, sugar, eggs and butter. The next step is to take the offending virus, or other disease-causing microbes, and either kill it or weaken it to make a vaccine.\n\nTake the two seasonal flu vaccines that are given each year. The adult jab is made by growing influenza viruses inside eggs. The viruses are then purified and killed to make the vaccine. The nasal spray for children has live viruses, but these are made weak and unstable so they can grow in the cooler temperatures of the nose, but not in the warmth of the lungs.\n\nBut it takes a lot of work to start from scratch for every new disease and there is plenty that can go wrong. You can end up with the vaccine-equivalent of a soggy bottom.\n\nThe development of Oxford's coronavirus vaccine used a completely different approach known as \"plug-and-play\".\n\nWith this type of vaccine most of the work has already been done - the cake has been pre-baked, it just needs to be \"decorated\" in order to match its target.\n\n\"We've got the cake and we can put a cherry on top, or we can put some pistachios on top if we want a different vaccine, we just add the last bit and then we're ready to go,\" Prof Gilbert tells Inside Health.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine's \"cake\" - or platform, to employ the scientific term - is a virus that causes the common cold in chimpanzees. It has been genetically modified to make it safe so that it cannot cause an infection in people. The \"decoration\" is whichever genetic blueprint is needed to train the immune system to attack. Such a blueprint is added to the cake and job done.\n\nIt was this work, applied to the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus, that led to Prof Gilbert's many accolades which range from a damehood to a Barbie doll made in her image. \"Barbie's comfortably ensconced in my office, but yeah I am thinking of sending Barbie as a stand-in.\n\n\"It would be useful to have a double who could go and do interviews for me,\" she says.\n\nIt would be useful to have a double...I am thinking of sending Barbie as a stand-in\n\nTwo of the other big Covid vaccines - one made by Pfizer-BioNTech and the other by Moderna - use another style of highly adaptable plug-and-play vaccine technology. And all these technologies should make it quicker and easier to develop the vaccines of the future.\n\n\"There's a lot of vaccine development that we need to do now that we can do it,\" says Prof Gilbert.\n\nTop of her list of targets are the official \"priority pathogens\". While Covid was a surprise, these are the deadly known threats that are bubbling away. They have the potential to cause large outbreaks and could be the pandemics of the future. Vaccines against them would save lives.\n\nSome of this work is already under way. Oxford has started clinical trials of a plague vaccine using its plug-and-play technology. Plague infamously caused the Black Death pandemic killing hundreds of millions of people. Separately Moderna is already looking at using its own mRNA technology to make a Nipah vaccine. The virus kills up to three-quarters of infected people.\n\nYet, the big barrier for tackling these diseases will be the same as it has always been - money. They affect some of the poorest parts of the world and there is concern that, even in the wake of pandemic, research won't be funded.\n\nAnd, while vaccine technology has leapt forward - the old enemies are still the same and some have tricksy quirks that mean they pose monumental challenges.\n\nAll vaccines need a target - called an antigen - that they train the immune system to attack.\n\nFor all the problems Covid has caused, the virus was a pretty simple beast and the target antigen was blatantly obvious. The outer surface of the virus is covered in spike proteins. So all researchers had to do was plug in the genetic blueprints for the spike protein, train the body to recognise it and be pretty confident that the vaccine was going to work.\n\nHowever, the target antigen is not obvious in other more complex microbes such as the three big killers - malaria, HIV and tuberculosis. HIV is a constantly moving target. It is a shape-shifter that rapidly mutates in order to alter its appearance and outwit our immune system. It is hard to know how to pin it down.\n\nWe already have vaccines against malaria and tuberculosis, but they are far from perfect.\n\nThe world rightly celebrated the rollout of the first malaria vaccine in Africa, this month, but it is only about 30% effective at preventing severe disease. That's because the malaria parasite has a complex life-cycle, during which it morphs into a variety of forms, across two species. A tuberculosis bacterium is also far more complex than a coronavirus.\n\nThere's a long list of antigens to choose from in TB and malaria, and the right one has remained frustratingly elusive.\n\n\"There's such a huge range of choices, and it's not obvious what we should be using,\" Prof Gilbert tells me. \"It's taking a long time to find the right antigen, so that's much more difficult. They are much more difficult than with these outbreak pathogens, which are fairly simple viruses.\"\n\nHowever, BioNTech is using its tech to try to develop an HIV vaccine.\n\nSo, if plug-and-play was the revolution that was proven during the pandemic, what's next on the horizon?\n\n\"I think the next big leap in vaccines, rather than totally new technologies, is making the technologies we've got more stable, that will be great,\" says Prof Gilbert.\n\nVaccines are a bit like Goldilocks - they need to be kept at just the right temperature from the moment they're made to the moment they're given. It means there's a global network of freezers, fridges, cold boxes and so on, known as the cold chain. But it is hard to get vaccines to some of the remotest and poorest parts of the world, particularly where there is no electricity.\n\nShe also says it would be \"really good\" if we could get vaccines that don't require needles.\n\nIt might be better to stop giving some vaccines as injections. You may get a better immune response to some lung infections (such as Covid) by giving them as a spray. \"Because that's where the virus itself would normally go, it's different if you've got a blood-borne infection like Dengue fever.\"\n\n\"But this is something that we can't do very quickly, there is quite a lot of vaccine testing to be done\".\n\nInside Health is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 21:00 BST on Tuesdays and 15:30 BST on Wednesdays, and is available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.", "The US has said that it will reopen its borders to fully vaccinated travellers from 33 countries on 8 November.\n\nUnder new rules announced by the White House, vaccinated people who have had a negative test in the 72 hours before travelling will be allowed to enter.\n\nThe move marks the end of the tough restrictions that have been imposed on travellers since early last year.\n\n\"This policy is guided by public health, stringent and consistent,\" a White House spokesman said.\n\nThe new rules will apply to Schengen countries - a group of 26 European nations - as well as the UK, Brazil, China, India, Iran, Ireland, and South Africa.\n\nThe current rules bar entry to most non-US citizens who have been in the UK, China, India, South Africa, Iran, Brazil or a number of European countries within the last 14 days.\n\nHowever, the policy has caused controversy, as passengers from 150 other countries, many of whom have struggled with high rates of Covid infection, have continued to enter the US freely.\n\nOfficials announced that people who have been jabbed with one of the vaccines that are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or have been granted an Emergency Use Listing from the World Health Organization (WHO) will qualify under the system.\n\nThe Emergency Use aspect will allow travellers who have received the AstraZeneca jab, widely used in the UK, as well as China's Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines, to enter the country.\n\nIt was also confirmed that travellers will not be required to go into quarantine upon entering the country.\n\nThe announcement was swiftly celebrated by would-be travellers across the globe.\n\nAmong them was Kent resident Dan Johnson, who told the BBC he had been unable to visit his father in the US before he died of cancer in March.\n\n\"I never got to say goodbye and hadn't seen him since 2019 due to the travel restrictions,\" he said. \"It's been the hardest thing in the world. Lifting the ban feels much too late, but does mean that I can finally visit my step-mum and help her sort dad's belongings.\"\n\nAnother UK resident, Kate Urquhart, said she would be travel to Los Angeles to see the final concert of American rock band The Monkees' farewell tour in November.\n\n\"I was almost resigned to not going,\" she said. \"Today's announcement is great news.\"\n\nFriday's announcement sheds light on the changes first announced back in September. Biden administration officials had initially said the new policy would go into place in \"early November,\" leaving many foreign nationals unsure when to make or adjust their travel plans.\n\nVirgin Atlantic CEO Shai Weiss welcomed the move and said it reflected the success of the global vaccine rollout.\n\n\"The UK will now be able to strengthen ties with our most important economic partner, the US, boosting trade and tourism as well as reuniting friends, families and business colleagues,\" she said.\n\nThe US has lagged behind many other countries in removing its travel restrictions, prompting friction with a number of its allies.\n\nOn Tuesday, US officials announced that restrictions at its land borders with Canada and Mexico for fully vaccinated foreign nationals would also end.\n\nHowever, unvaccinated travellers will continue to be barred from entering at land borders.", "Sir David Amess was one of Parliament's characters: fun, friendly, unconventional and outspoken.\n\nHis broad grin and boyish enthusiasm were fixtures in the House of Commons chamber for nearly 40 years.\n\nHe never scaled the heights of government, choosing to dedicate his career to his beloved Essex and the causes he cared about most. The 69-year-old was one of those rare MPs who earned cross-party respect for the conviction he brought to his opinions and campaigns. They ranged from passionate support of Brexit to animal rights - and anything that brought Essex up in the world.\n\nHe always took his work seriously, but himself rarely.\n\nHe was stabbed to death while in his constituency surgery in the seaside town of Leigh-on-Sea, an attack that has stunned his constituents and colleagues from across the political spectrum.\n\nSir David burst on to the political scene as the new MP for Basildon in 1983, the embodiment of what was known then as Essex Man, the archetypal aspirational voter who helped deliver a landslide victory for Margaret Thatcher that year.\n\nA prominent animal lover within Westminster, David Amess regularly entered Parliament's dog of the year show\n\nWith an East End accent and relatively humble origins, he gained a high profile on TV and radio, and triumphed against the odds in the 1992 general election when he unexpectedly held on to his seat.\n\n\"My colleagues and supporters, go out and rejoice and celebrate!\", he declared.\n\nFrom that moment on David Amess was cheered by his Conservative colleagues every time he rose to his feet in Parliament, where he would rarely pass up the chance to mention Basildon.\n\nHe held the seat until 1997 when he realised the seat would be lost to Labour after boundary changes and switched his loyalty and devotion to nearby Southend West. For years he campaigned for Southend to become a city, mentioning it virtually every week in Parliament - he retweeted a BBC Essex tweet along these lines just a day before his death.\n\nSir David - who was married with five children - was also a devout Catholic.\n\nHe was socially conservative: he supported capital punishment and opposed abortion. He was an early Eurosceptic. He was also a strong supporter of animal rights, including a fox hunting ban, and he campaigned against fuel poverty, advocated tackling obesity and raised awareness of endometriosis, a painful gynaecological condition that some women suffer.\n\nAlthough for many years he was a parliamentary aide to the former cabinet minister, Michael Portillo, he never held ministerial office; he was too unorthodox for that.\n\nSir David was a keen participant in the annual MPs' pancake race\n\nDeputy prime minister Dominic Raab paid tribute to \"a great common sense politician and a formidable campaigner with a big heart, and tremendous generosity of spirit - including towards those he disagreed with\".\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said he was \"a thoroughly decent man\".\n\nHis loss will be felt keenly in his Southend West constituency. Trembling with emotion Father Jeff Woolnough, parish priest of St Peter's Catholic church in Eastwood Road North, Leigh-On-Sea, told the BBC Sir David was a \"great, great man, a good Catholic and a friend to all\".\n\nBorn in Plaistow in 1952, he went to school in London and did many things before turning to politics.\n\nHe taught at a school in London before embarking on a career as a recruitment consultant. He did attract unwelcome publicity in 1997, when he was the victim of satirist Chris Morris on his Channel 4 show Brass Eye, when he was shown with other well-known figures condemning Cake, a made-up drug. Sir David said Channel 4 should feel \"shame\" for the programme, as it came soon after the case of his then-constituent 18 year old Leah Betts, who died after she took ecstasy.\n\nHe was one of those MPs who used Parliament to sponsor bills, to sit on committees, to form alliances, so that he could shape law from the backbenches.\n\nAs an animal welfare specialist, he led campaigns to ban cages for game birds and end the transport of live animals for export - and was a patron of the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation. Sir David was what they call an old school parliamentarian - the epitome of a constituency MP who died serving those he was so proud to represent.", "Flowers have been laid at the scene where MP David Amess was stabbed\n\n\"It could happen to any one of us.\"\n\nThose were Sir David Amess's own words, describing the danger that MPs can face, and the awareness they all carry, that their work can - in rare and terrible circumstances - put them in harm's way.\n\nIn his published diaries of a long life as an MP, Sir David wrote of the creeping risks: checking the locks, taking care not to meet people alone, alert to what could go wrong.\n\nThe contract between us and our politicians is not written down anywhere. Yet part of it is understood by everyone.\n\nWe expect the MPs we elect to see us in person, not to hide behind Parliament's ornate gates and wood-panelled walls.\n\nThat demand is met gladly by the vast majority of MPs.\n\nBut, increasingly, the job has been accompanied by abuse, intimidation - and risk for MPs and their staff.\n\nOne member of the cabinet told me today: \"Everyone has had a threat... everyone has had frightening moments.\"\n\nDealing with harassment, coping with security concerns and reporting those concerns to the police, is sadly routine in politics in the 21st Century.\n\nIt is inevitable in the coming days that there will be calls for a kinder atmosphere at Westminster, and cooler heads in real life, and online.\n\nIt is not, however, inevitable that anything at all will change.\n\nWith an agonising echo of the murder of Jo Cox, another life has been lost today. Another family has lost a parent and partner.\n\nAnother MP killed doing the most important part of the their job - spending time with those he represented, and listening to those he served.", "Tributes have been pouring in to Conservative MP Sir David Amess, who has died after being stabbed in his constituency in Essex.\n\nBoris Johnson - who laid flowers at the scene on Saturday - said he was one of the \"one of the kindest, nicest, most gentle people in politics\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer, who went to Essex with the PM, hailed Sir David's \"profound sense of public duty\".\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said he was a \"bright light of Parliament\".\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge said they were \"shocked and saddened\" by the death of Sir David, who \"dedicated 40 years of his life to serving his community\".\n\nSir David was stabbed whilst holding a constituency surgery, where voters can meet their local MP and discuss concerns.\n\nA 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after the attack at a church in Leigh-on-Sea. Police are treating the killing as a terrorist incident.\n\nA Conservative backbencher for nearly 40 years, Sir David entered Parliament as the MP for Basildon following the 1983 general election.\n\nHe switched seats in 1997, when he was elected MP for nearby Southend West - the Essex constituency he represented until his death.\n\nEssex Chief Constable BJ Harrington, Sir Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson outside the church in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex on Saturday\n\nHis constituents have spoken of their shock at his killing, with residents choking back tears as they spilled on to the streets after his death.\n\nFather Jeff Woolnough - a parish priest in Sir David's constituency said the MP had \"that great ability to communicate at all different levels\".\n\n\"Through that wonderful smile he could placate and just settle an awkward discussion very quickly - it is a great gift.\"\n\nConservative councillor Kevin Buck said the MP had \"died doing what he loved - meeting the people and helping the people\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Essex, Judith Canham, the former deputy chair of the Southend West Conservative Association, said Sir David had a \"photographic memory\".\n\n\"Sometimes I'd be out canvassing with him and he'd see someone he hadn't seen for a long time and he'd say 'how was your hip operation?'.\"\n\nDavid Stanley - founder of the children's disability charity the Music Man project which Sir David supported - said his friend \"loved grand ideas and coming up with amazing statements\".\n\n\"We were going to conquer Broadway, we were going to break a world record - which we later did at the Palladium,\" he said referring to the time the charity performed the largest ever triangle ensemble.\n\nSurfers' Against Sewage leave a message thanking the MP for his support\n\nVirginia Lewis-Jones, the daughter of Dame Vera Lynn, says Sir David was a passionate supporter of a proposed memorial to the late singer.\n\nShe said he would \"grab it like a terrier\" when he committed himself to campaigning on any issue.\n\nFellow Tory MP Andrew Rosindell said Sir David was his \"oldest friend\" in Parliament, and he felt \"sick inside at what has happened\".\n\n\"We've all lost a very special person in our lives,\" he added.\n\nLabour MP Harriet Harman entered the House of Commons in 1982, one year before Sir David and remembers it as a \"polarised\" time.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, she said had been \"determined not to have friendly relations with any Conservative MPs, but it was impossible to sustain that with David Amess because he was so friendly and so determined to work with MPs on other causes\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch to hear tributes to Sir David Amess MP from the political world\n\nMr Johnson said Sir David was \"a fine public servant and a much loved friend and colleague\" who \"believed passionately in this country\".\n\nThe PM also praised his \"outstanding record\" of campaigning in Parliament, where he was known for his activism on animal welfare.\n\nMr Johnson's predecessor Theresa May said his death was \"heartbreaking\" and a \"tragic day for our democracy\".\n\nShe added that Sir David was a \"decent man and respected parliamentarian, killed in his own community while carrying out his public duties\".\n\nFormer prime minister David Cameron called Sir David a \"thoroughly decent man\" and \"the most committed MP you could ever hope to meet\".\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay said Sir David had built a \"built a reputation for kindness and generosity\" during his decades-long career as an MP.\n\nSir Lindsay confirmed that MPs would be given time to pay tribute to Sir David in the Commons, when they return from recess on Monday.\n\nHis predecessor as speaker, John Bercow, said Sir David was a \"wonderful loving human being\" and \"quintessentially a constituency parliamentarian\".\n\n\"He could talk to and hear from and engage with anybody, from a monarch to the local milk person,\" he added.\n\nSir David is the second MP to be killed in the past five years, following the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox in 2016.\n\nShe was killed outside a library in Birstall, West Yorkshire, where she was due to hold a constituency surgery.\n\nJo Cox's sister Kim Leadbeater, who is now the Labour MP for the Batley seat she represented, said she was \"totally shocked to think that something so horrific could happen again to another MP and family\".\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said Sir David was a \"thoroughly decent man, who was well-liked across parties and the House of Commons.\"", "Tim Perry and Aaron Parsons are among the first batch of tenants who have moved into 12 new houses\n\nA formerly homeless couple have a chance to buy a house for £1 under a scheme to help key workers and others on to the property ladder.\n\nTim Perry and Aaron Parsons are among the first tenants who have moved into 12 new houses at a development in Wednesfield, Wolverhampton.\n\nThey become eligible for the £1 purchase on the 25th anniversary of moving in.\n\nMr Perry, a machine press operator, said he felt \"ecstatic\", adding: \"[I'm] still pinching myself over it. It feels so weird and [I'm] so blissfully happy.\"\n\nHelp to Own was set up by the city council, West Midlands Combined Authority, and fund management business Frontier Development Capital Ltd, for \"working families struggling to save enough deposit to fulfil their dream of home ownership\".\n\nThe council said the scheme provided long-term rent security and enabled tenants to build up a \"loyalty premium\" as they made their monthly payments.\n\nThis can be taken as cash if they leave the scheme within 20 years, or they can buy the home for just £1 a quarter of a century after joining.\n\nThe 100 properties, being built on Lakefield Road at The Marches development, are a mix of two, three and four-bedroom houses.\n\nSo far, 86 of the houses have been offered to successful applicants\n\nMr Perry said the lack of a deposit had appealed, adding \"it's pretty much you can move in after just paying application fees and solicitors' fees\".\n\nHe said previously he had been \"sofa surfing on friends' couches and stuff\".\n\nNHS staff and other key workers are also among the first 32 tenants to receive the keys to their new homes under the initiative.\n\nSo far, 86 of the houses have been offered to successful applicants, and more than 41% of the homes will go to a key worker, according to those behind the scheme.\n\nTim Perry said he was \"still pinching\" himself\n\nHelp to Own is not a social housing scheme, but is available to anyone struggling to get on the property ladder, subject to credit checks.\n\nThe council has put £5.7m into the project, while the combined authority has contributed £4.7m.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "The man arrested by police following the killing of the MP Sir David Amess has been named as Ali Harbi Ali.\n\nThe 25-year-old is being held under the Terrorism Act and officers have until Friday to question him.\n\nWhitehall officials confirmed the man's name to the BBC, and said he was a British man of Somali heritage.\n\nThe BBC understands Mr Ali was referred to the counter-terrorist Prevent scheme some years ago, but was never a formal subject of interest to MI5.\n\nIt also understands that his father, Harbi Ali Kullane, who was previously an adviser to Somalia's prime minister, has been visited by police who have taken his phone for analysis.\n\nPolice officers have spent the weekend searching three addresses in the London area.\n\nIt is thought a converted Victorian property in Lady Somerset Road in north-west London is linked to the investigation. Neighbours said officers started searching it late on Friday night.\n\nFurther searches, also believed to be part of the inquiry, have been taking place at a property in Bounds Green Road, north London, and another in Cranmer Road, Croydon.\n\nA police search at a house in north London is thought to be linked to the inquiry\n\nSir David, who had been a Conservative MP since 1983, was stabbed multiple times during a regular Friday meeting with his Southend West constituents at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.\n\nSouthend councillor John Lamb said he has since spoken to two of Sir David's assistants who were at the constituency surgery with Sir David at the time of the attack.\n\nHe described how one was in the room with Sir David taking notes. \"All of a sudden there was a scream from her, because the person deliberately whipped out a knife and started stabbing David,\" he said.\n\n\"The other lady who was getting names from people outside, she came running in and saw poor David had been stabbed.\"\n\nHe said both were quite distressed but were \"coping quite well\" under the circumstances.\n\nCatholic priest Father Jeff Woolnough said he tried to administer last rites to Sir David shortly after the stabbing but police told him he could not enter a crime scene. Instead, he prayed for his friend on the street behind a police cordon.\n\nAli Harbi Ali was initially arrested on suspicion of murder and held in Essex.\n\nHe has since been transferred to a London police station where he was further detained under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act.\n\nPolice say they are not looking for anyone else for now.\n\nIt is thought Ali Harbi Ali did not spend long in the Prevent programme - which aims to stop people becoming radicalised.\n\nTeachers, members of the public, the NHS and others can refer individuals to a local panel of police, social workers and other experts who decide whether and how to intervene in their lives.\n\nEngagement in the scheme is voluntary and it is not a criminal sanction.\n\nSir David, 69, who was married with four daughters and a son, is the second MP to be killed in recent years following the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox in June 2016.\n\nThe latest attack has raised concerns for the safety of MPs, many of whom hold constituency surgeries which anyone can attend.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said MPs had access to a \"panoply\" of security measures - many of which were put in place after Ms Cox's murder - but said changes could be made to constituency surgeries.\n\nAny measures needed to be proportionate, she told the BBC's Andrew Marr show. \"We're here to serve, we're here to be accessible to the British public.\"\n\nMs Patel described hearing the news that Sir David had died, saying \"our worlds were shattered\".\n\nA post-mortem examination of Sir David took place on Saturday, police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Home Secretary Priti Patel says security measures for MPs are \"being looked at\"\n\nMeanwhile, Tory MP Andrew Rosindell said the killing of his friend and fellow Essex MP \"shouldn't change things in a way that stops us going about our democratic role\".\n\n\"There's got to be some balance to this. I don't have an answer,\" he told BBC Breakfast on Sunday. \"This is not the Britain I want, this is not the country that we're used to.\"\n\nLabour's Diane Abbott MP said she would prefer to meet constituents behind a screen to prevent possible stabbing attacks.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said he wanted to avoid a knee-jerk reaction but insisted \"the best had to come out of this hideous killing\".\n\nHe said security measures would be reviewed to improve MPs' safety and urged MPs to take up measures already available to them.\n\nPeople in Leigh-on Sea have been remembering Sir David\n\nConservative MP Mark Francois described his colleague as his \"oldest and best friend\" as he laid flowers\n\nTributes to Sir David have been pouring in from politicians and constituents, with the home secretary saying his \"infectious personality\" meant he \"touched so many lives\".\n\nOver the weekend, people have gathered for a candlelit vigil in Leigh-on-Sea to mark Sir David's life and attended a church service to share their memories of him.\n\nMany constituents have reflected on his gentle nature and willingness to listen and to help.\n\nSir David had long campaigned for Southend to be given city status. On Sunday, Sir Lindsay Hoyle said that would be \"a good thing to do\" in his memory.", "Conservative MP Sir David Amess was speaking to voters at a church in the town of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, when he was stabbed to death on Friday. Here's how the emergency services responded in the initial aftermath of the attack.", "A patient is taken to a specialist hospital for Covid treatment in Moscow\n\nRussia on Saturday recorded 1,000 Covid-related deaths in a single day for the first time since the pandemic began.\n\nThe figure had been rising all week, with the Kremlin blaming the Russian people for not taking up vaccination.\n\nOnly about a third of the population has had a jab, amid wide distrust of the vaccines.\n\nRussia's figure of 222,000 Covid deaths is the highest in Europe, with another 33,000 infections reported on Saturday.\n\nThe government has avoided bringing in strict restrictions because it says it needs to keep the economy working.\n\nThe Kremlin has instead focused on public apathy on vaccination.\n\nThis week, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: \"In a situation where infections are growing, it is necessary to continue to explain to people that they must get vaccinated.\n\n\"It is really irresponsible not to get vaccinated. It kills,\" he said.\n\nThe government insists the health system has not been overwhelmed and can cope with the rising number of patients.\n\nHowever, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko urged doctors who had left practices because of Covid fears to get vaccinated and come back to work.\n\nThe number of active cases of infected people in Russia is around 750,000 - also the highest it has been since records started in February 2020.\n\nOverall infections since the outbreak began are now closing in on 8 million.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to see the full interactive\n\nThe figures for the percentage of Russians who have had single and full vaccination are surprisingly close together - both just short of a third of the population.\n\nThis suggests a large number of people do not want to be vaccinated at all. Recent opinion polls suggested that figure could be more than 50%.\n\nRussia has not been slow in developing vaccines. Its Sputnik V was rolled out quickly last year and it has approved three others.\n\nBut it appears to have failed to convince many at home they are either necessary or reliable.\n\nIt has had more success selling Sputnik V around the world. But although the vaccine was made available for other countries quickly, it also ran into delivery issues, with some nations unable to get their doses on time.\n\nAbout 70 nations have authorised the use of Sputnik V but, like Russia's other vaccines, it has yet to be approved by the World Health Organization.\n\nThis, along with the lack of international vaccines inside Russia, has led some Russians to take advantage of vaccination tour packages.\n\nSerbia - which Russians can enter without a visa - is one nation where visitors can get a jab of a vaccine such as Pfizer, and open up the possibility of travelling around the world.", "Nazanin, pictured here with husband Richard, was detained at an Iranian airport in April 2016\n\nIt's more than 1,800 days since Richard Ratcliffe waved goodbye to his wife Nazanin at the departure gate at London's Gatwick Airport, worrying only about how their young daughter would cope with the long flight to Tehran.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe had taken Gabriella to spend time with her Iranian grandparents three times before.\n\nAnd Richard had no reason in the world to think he wouldn't be back at the airport a fortnight later to pick them up.\n\n\"It was a slightly rushed goodbye,\" he recalls. \"Gabriella, at the time, was one and three quarters and a bit of handful. So I was just really wishing her good luck with the flight.\"\n\nThat was the last time he saw his wife in person.\n\nNazanin was arrested by members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard at Tehran Airport as she prepared to fly home.\n\nSince then, she's endured eight months of solitary confinement, blindfolded interrogations, hunger strikes to press for medical treatment, false promises of release, and almost five years of separation from her family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prior to the end of Nazanin's jail sentence, her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, spoke to the BBC's Caroline Hawley\n\n\"At the beginning, I just thought that this was so profoundly unfair that if we just shouted it from the rooftops, the right people would intervene and it would get sorted,\" Mr Ratcliffe told me. \"Never in my imagination did I think this would take five years or more.\"\n\nHe adds: \"Now the end of her actual sentence - which was once the worst-case scenario - looks like a good outcome, at this point.\"\n\nAt a secret trial in 2016, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced to five years in jail for \"membership of organisations working against the Iranian state\" - a reference, her husband says, to her work for the charities BBC Media Action and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. And no, she wasn't training journalists at the time of her arrest.\n\nSunday 7 March is the official date of her release - her lawyer has seen it marked in the computer of the Iranian judiciary. She's been counting down the weeks on a calendar at her parents' home, where she is now under house arrest with an ankle tag.\n\nBut her husband - who has fought an extraordinary, high-profile campaign for her release - doubts that she will be allowed to fly home.\n\nHe describes his wife as a hostage - used as a bargaining chip over a long-standing debt that Britain owes Iran for a tank deal that was never fulfilled.\n\nNazanin misses her daughter Gabriella, six, \"all the time\", her husband has previously said\n\n\"The Revolutionary Guard have been completely consistent over the past five years - that they arrested Nazanin as leverage for the tank debt,\" says Mr Ratcliffe.\n\n\"They've held her all the time that it's not being paid. And I think that if the tank debt is not paid, not only will Nazanin and other dual nationals continue to be held but more collateral will be taken.\"\n\nHer case may also be caught up in negotiations over Iran's nuclear deal, the JCPOA, which the UK is working with European allies to revive.\n\n\"There's the potential for this to drag on and on,\" says Mr Ratcliffe. \"It's perfectly possible that Nazanin gets a new court case thrown at her.\n\n\"The family have never seen a copy of the charges on which she was sentenced. There is no written documentation on anything. So they preserve the space to make it up as they go along at every stage.\"\n\nHe worries about the impact that any prolongation of the family's separation will have on both his wife and Gabriella, now six, who has also been counting down the days until her mother's release - on a calendar she made herself.\n\nShe returned to the UK to live with her father and start school in October 2019, hoping that her mother would soon follow behind.\n\n\"Gabriella has been promised so many times that 'Mummy is coming home soon,'\" says her father.\n\nNazanin was temporarily reunited with her daughter while on a three-day release from prison in 2018\n\nThe darkest period for Nazanin herself came in 2016, when she was held alone in a dark room, incommunicado. Her interrogators told her, wrongly, that Richard was having affairs and that they had photographic evidence.\n\n\"I don't think I can possibly understand what she's gone through,\" Mr Ratcliffe says.\n\n\"It's a very practised technique of really breaking someone. That fear and abuse led her to feel suicidal. She said to me: 'It would be better if I just died and you could get on with your lives.'\"\n\nIn her first letter from jail to her husband, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe wrote in despair: \"Every day and every second I would submerge more and more in an ocean of doubt, fear, threat, loneliness... my wails would go unheard in that tiny, dingy, cold, grey cell.\"\n\nBeing parted from her daughter for so long has been a source of agony and guilt.\n\nShe apologised to her daughter from jail, saying: \"Forgive me for all the nights I was not by your side to hold your warm, little hand till you fall asleep.\n\n\"Forgive me for all those moments you missed the bosom of your mother, for all those teething fever nights that I was not there for you; forgive me.\"\n\nGabriella returned to the UK to start school in 2019\n\nSeparated by thousands of miles, the family now speaks twice a day over Skype.\n\nMs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is now 42, watches Gabriella draw and they play games together.\n\nGabriella looks forward to swimming with her mother, and going to a toy shop - one day.\n\nThe couple hope to have another child, but fear that time may now be against them.\n\nLate last month, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, phoned Ms Zahari-Ratcliffe in Tehran, reassuring her that the government is doing all it can to bring her home, but managing expectations of an imminent release.\n\nThe Foreign Office says that she and other dual British-Iranian nationals are \"arbitrarily detained\" by the Iranian government. It adds: \"We do not accept Iran detaining dual nationals as diplomatic leverage.\"\n\nBut Mr Ratcliffe has been critical of the UK government's approach.\n\n\"Not to do anything that's going to rock the boat means there's no cost whatsoever to the hostage takers to continue the practice and to continue to wait,\" he says.\n\n\"And so both sides can wait each other out because they're not the ones bearing the cost of the waiting - whereas the victim and the family certainly are.\"\n\nAs for what might happen on Sunday and over the next few months, Richard says, stoically: \"Fate will deal us the hand it deals us. But one day the sun will come.\"", "Emergency services were called to Kirkby Avenue at about 13:30 BST\n\nA man in his 50s has died after a house collapsed in an explosion, police have said.\n\nEmergency services were called to Kirkby Avenue in Clayton-le-Woods, Chorley, at about 13:30 BST.\n\nGas company Cadent confirmed it was at the scene to support emergency services but said it was \"too early to say what caused this\".\n\nNearby residents have been evacuated and a cordon has been put in place.\n\nOne neighbour told BBC Radio Lancashire: \"My wife thought a washing machine had blown up until we went outside and the whole of the front of the house had blown out completely.\"\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service (LFRS) said search and rescue dogs had been assisting in the search for casualties.\n\nIt said seven fire engines were at the scene and advised residents to close windows and doors if affected by any smoke.\n\nA spokesman said the urban search and rescue team were assisting at the scene.\n\nNearby homes were evacuated after the blast\n\nA spokesman for Cadent said: \"We are at the scene of this incident to support the emergency services and ensure everything related to gas is safe.\n\n\"We'll thoroughly check the local gas network and we will support the authorities as they look into all possible causes.\"\n\nPolice said an investigation into the exact cause of the blast was ongoing.\n\nNearby roads have been closed and people have been advised to avoid the area.\n\nA spokeswoman for North West Ambulance Service said: \"Our Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) is currently on the scene, along with a MERIT (Medical Emergency Response Incident Team) doctor, an ambulance and an operational commander.\"\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 vigil on Saturday night was held near where Sir David Amess was killed\n\nDetectives are continuing to question a 25-year-old British man who was detained at the scene of Friday's fatal stabbing of MP Sir David Amess.\n\nOfficers spent Saturday searching three addresses in the London area and are not seeking anyone else.\n\nPolice are treating the attack in Essex as a terrorist incident, which may be linked to Islamist extremism.\n\nThe BBC understands the man was referred to the counter-terrorist Prevent scheme a few years ago.\n\nPrevent is the UK's terrorism-prevention programme, which aims to stop people being radicalised.\n\nTeachers, members of the public, the NHS and others can refer individuals to a local panel of police, social workers and other experts who decide whether and how to intervene in their lives.\n\nEngagement in the scheme is voluntary and it is not a criminal sanction. It is unclear whether any further action was taken in the case of the suspect.\n\nThe suspect, who has not been named, was arrested on suspicion of murder on Friday. He was further detained under the Terrorism Act, and is now being held in a London police station.\n\nOn Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said detectives \"were granted a warrant of further detention at Westminster Magistrates' Court, allowing them to keep the man in custody until Friday 22 October, when the warrant expires\".\n\nGovernment sources told the BBC that from initial inquiries, the UK national appeared to be of Somali heritage.\n\nBBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said Whitehall officials were saying the arrested man was not on a database of terror suspects.\n\nThe UK's threat level has not changed since Friday and remains at \"substantial\", meaning a terror attack is likely.\n\nSir David, a Conservative MP since 1983, was holding one of his regular Friday meetings with his constituents at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea when he was stabbed multiple times.\n\nThe 69-year-old was married with four daughters and a son. A candlelit vigil is being held in Leigh-on Sea to mark Sir David's life.\n\nSir David is the second MP to be killed in recent years, following the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox in July 2016.\n\nThis latest attack has raised concerns for the safety of MPs, many of whom hold constituency surgeries which anyone can attend.\n\nThe home secretary described Sir David as a \"man of the people\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said security measures were being put in place to protect MPs - but insisted they would carry on serving the country unimpeded.\n\n\"We will carry on, we live in an open society, a democracy,\" she said during a visit to the scene of the attack with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and Commons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle.\n\n\"We cannot be cowed by any individual or any motivation... to stop us from functioning, to serve our elected democracy.\"\n\nMs Patel maintained a balance could be found to allow face-to-face meetings with constituents to continue.\n\nHowever, Conservative MP Tobias Elwood - who came to the aid of a stabbed police officer during the 2017 terror attack in Westminster - suggested MPs speak to constituents on the phone or over Zoom for the time being.\n\nLabour MP Diane Abbott said she would prefer to meet constituents behind a screen to prevent possible stab attacks.\n\nAnd Kim Leadbeater, the sister of Mrs Cox, said her partner had asked her to stand down as MP for Batley and Spen after Sir David's death.\n\nScotland Yard's decision that the killing of Sir David Amess was an act of terrorism confirms that, on the basis of what they know so far, the killer was motivated to use violence to further their cause.\n\nThere's no public suggestion from investigations at the moment that there is a specific additional threat to MPs. But detectives and colleagues in MI5 will be delving deeply into the life of the suspect to understand how he reached this mindset - and whether this was an attack by a \"lone actor\" or someone who is part of a network.\n\nSecondly, it confirms the initial conclusion that there would need to be more resources thrown at the investigation.\n\nBehind the scenes, a wider range of detectives and support staff will now have been brought into action. If officers have recovered the suspect's mobile phone, they will now be forensically examining its contents to uncover potential evidence of mindset and planning.\n\nA phone - and any bank cards - will also help detectives track the suspect's movements in the days and weeks before the incident.\n\nThat in turn leads them to CCTV, so they can build a three-dimensional view of his life.\n\nTributes to Sir David have been pouring in from politicians as well as his local constituents.\n\nThe prime minister described him as \"one of the kindest, nicest, most gentle people in politics\", with an \"outstanding record of passing laws to help the most vulnerable\".\n\nMs Patel called Sir David a \"man of the people\" who was killed doing \"a job he loved\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"dark and shocking day\", adding that the country had \"been here before\" with the death of Jo Cox.\n\nFather Jeff Woolnough, a parish priest who led a mass on Friday evening in Sir David's memory, described him as a \"great, great guy\" and said faith communities had \"lost their greatest supporter\".\n\nMembers of Southend-On-Sea's Muslim community said, in a joint statement, his death was an \"indefensible atrocity\" and that Sir David would be remembered for his warmth, selflessness and kindness.\n\nThe mood in Leigh-on-Sea, which Sir David represented for decades, is one of bewilderment.\n\nAs police and global media descend upon the usually quiet Essex town, people have gathered to pay tributes outside the Belfairs Methodist Church where the long-standing MP was attacked.\n\nResident Audrey Martin remembers him as \"an absolute gentleman\" who took time out to speak to her when she first moved to the area from Scotland.\n\n\"He just had this aura about him,\" she says.\n\nAnd constituent Lorraine Migliorini highlights Sir David's work for children and young people with special educational needs.\n\n\"He was genuinely interested and listened to them which was fantastic,\" she says. \"He got things done.\"\n\nJulie Everitt, who has co-ordinated a vigil for him, says she would \"always remember him for his genuine smile\" and his passion for animal rights.\n\n\"He would go on campaigns, he was against the badger cull, he was against trophy hunting and fox hunting,\" she says.\n\n\"He was a good gentleman, he had a good heart.\"\n\nRead more from Orla and Richard at the scene here.\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness the attack? If you feel able to do so please get in touch. 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 spacecraft has launched from Cape Canaveral on a mission to uncover \"the fossils\" of the Solar System.\n\nThe Lucy probe will head out to the orbit of Jupiter to study two groups of asteroids that run in swarms ahead of, and behind, the gas giant.\n\nUS space agency (Nasa) scientists say the objects are leftovers from the formation of the planets.\n\nAs such, these trojans, as they're known, hold important clues about the early evolution of the Solar System.\n\nLift-off, aboard an Atlas-V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, went ahead on schedule at 05:34 EDT (09:34 GMT; 10:34 BST).\n\nNasa has initially committed $981m (£720m), over 12 years, for the mission. In this time, the Lucy probe will visit seven trojans.\n\nThe Lucy fossil skeleton changed our understanding of human origins and evolution\n\nThere is a famous human fossil from Africa that was nicknamed Lucy, which taught us much about where our species came from. And this new Nasa mission takes direct inspiration - and the name - from that origins story, except the fossils this spacecraft seeks are hundreds of millions of km from Earth, circling the Sun in formation with Jupiter.\n\n\"The trojan asteroids lead or follow Jupiter in its orbit by about 60 degrees,\" explained Hal Levison, Lucy's principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado.\n\n\"They're held there by the gravitational effect of Jupiter and the Sun. And if you put an object there early in the Solar System's history, it's been stable forever. So, these things really are the fossils of what planets formed from,\" he told reporters.\n\nArtwork: Lucy is just one in a series of Nasa missions to the Solar System's asteroids\n\nLucy will use its instrumentation to study the city-sized (and bigger) objects, detailing their shape, structure, surface features, composition and temperature.\n\nIf the trojans are made from the same sorts of materials as Jupiter's moons, it would suggest they formed at the same distance from the Sun as the gas giant. But this isn't the expectation.\n\n\"If, for example, they're made of the sorts of things we see much further out in what we call the the Kuiper Belt, then that tells us they might have formed out there and then at some point got pulled inward,\" said SwRI mission scientist Dr Carly Howett.\n\n\"This mission is a test of our models. We have this theory that there was a big re-juggle of objects early in Solar System history, when some things gravitationally got thrown out and some got thrown in. The evidence points to this billiard ball theory, but we'll be able a check on that,\" she told BBC News.\n\nThe mission plan is the result of some extraordinary navigational calculations.\n\nSolar System dynamicists worked out that if the probe periodically returns to make a flyby of Earth, it can use a sling-shot effect to visit both trojan swarms.\n\nSaturday's launch would see Lucy make its encounter with the leading group of trojans in 2027/28, followed by a tour of the trailing cluster in 2033. The total travel distance is over 6 billion km (4 billion miles).\n\n\"What's amazing about this trajectory is that we can continue to do loops through the swarms, as long as the spacecraft is healthy. And so after the final encounter with Patroclus and Menoetius, we plan to propose to Nasa to do an extended mission to explore more trojans,\" said Coralie Adam from KinetX Aerospace, which is providing navigation support to the project.\n\nAlthough focused on the trojans, Lucy will also visit a different type of asteroid on the way out to Jupiter's orbit - an object called Donaldjohanson (sic), named after the palaeoanthropologist who discovered the Ethiopian human fossil skeleton in 1974.\n\nThe 1.5-tonne Lucy spacecraft has initial funding for 12 years\n\nThe spacecraft shares a lot of engineering heritage with Nasa's New Horizon's mission, which made the first - and to date only - flyby of Pluto in 2015.\n\nLucy carries updated versions of some of New Horizons' main instruments.\n\nA big difference is the power source. Whereas the Pluto probe drew its energy from a nuclear battery, Lucy is flying with two, fan-like solar panels.\n\nThese \"wings\" are huge, over 7m in diameter. They have to be that big to generate sufficient electricity to drive the spacecraft's systems at the more dimly lit distance of Jupiter's orbit.\n\n\"When we're near Earth, those wings have about 18,000 watts of power. That would be equivalent to powering up my house and a couple of my neighbours',\" explained Katie Oakman, from spacecraft manufacturer Lockheed Martin.\n\n\"However, when we fly Lucy out to the trojan asteroids, we only have about 500 watts of power. That would only light a few light bulbs, and it wouldn't be enough to power up my microwave in the morning to warm my coffee.\"\n\nFortunately, Lucy's instruments only need 82 watts to do their job.\n\nLucy represents another stage in what is turning out to be a golden age for asteroid study by Nasa.\n\nThe agency's Osiris-Rex mission is just now heading home after picking up samples from the surface of an object known as Bennu.\n\nNext year, Nasa will launch the Psyche spacecraft to a metal asteroid, also called Psyche.\n\n\"It's really the time for asteroids, and I'm expecting a leap in understanding,\" said Dr Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator for science.\n\n\"To understand any population, we need multiple measurements of different types of asteroids. That's exactly what we're doing.\n\n\"You didn't mention it but I will. Asteroids can threaten the Earth and in November we will launch a collision experiment called Dart. It will be followed up by Europe's Hera mission and will help find out if you can impart momentum to a threatening object,\" he told BBC News.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer have visited Leigh-on-Sea to pay tribute to Conservative MP Sir David Amess, who was stabbed to death on Friday.", "Shares in Virgin Galactic dived as much as 20% on Friday after the space tourism company said it was postponing its first commercial flight.\n\nThe trip was scheduled for the third quarter of 2022, but will be delayed until the fourth as the firm conducts repairs and upgrades.\n\nIt also said it will not conduct a second planned test flight this year.\n\nVirgin is in a race with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Elon Musk's Space X to start flying tourists into space.\n\nIn a statement the firm said a planned upgrade programme, aimed at enhancing the durability of its ships, would begin a month later than planned.\n\nIt comes after routine tests revealed \"a possible reduction in the strength margins of certain materials\" used on its VMS Eve and VSS Unity craft.\n\nVirgin said this required further inspection but played down safety concerns.\n\n\"While this new lab test data has had no impact on the vehicles, our test flight protocols have clearly defined strength margins, and further analysis will assess whether any additional work is required to keep them at or above established levels,\" said company boss Michael Colglazier.\n\nThe company, founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, said its next test flight - Unity 23 - would now happen next summer. Commercial flights will start after that.\n\nLast month, the US Federal Aviation Administration lifted a no-fly order on Virgin Galactic after a flight in July deviated from assigned airspace on its descent.\n\nThe regulator had accused the company of not providing the necessary information about the flight in which Mr Branson participated.\n\nOn Wednesday, Hollywood actor William Shatner became the oldest person to go to space as he blasted off aboard the Blue Origin sub-orbital capsule developed by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.\n\nMeanwhile, four amateur astronauts blasted off from Florida on their private mission on one of Space X's Dragon spacecraft in September.", "The move is the latest stage of a national battle over reproductive rights\n\nUS President Joe Biden's administration has said it will ask the Supreme Court to block a Texas law that imposes a near-total ban on abortion.\n\nIt comes after a federal appeals court reinstated the law.\n\nThe Supreme Court cited procedural issues when deciding against intervening to block it last month.\n\nThe law bans abortions after what anti-abortion campaigners call a foetal heartbeat is detected, a notion disputed by medical authorities.\n\nThe law - which makes an exception for a documented medical emergency but not for cases of rape or incest - gives any individual the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past the six-week point.\n\nCritics have said this provision - which provides monetary awards for those whose lawsuits are successful - lets people act as anti-abortion bounty hunters.\n\nPresident Biden has vowed to fight the Texas ban, citing Americans' constitutional rights.\n\nSince the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v Wade, US women have had the right to an abortion until a foetus is viable - that is, able to survive outside the womb. This is usually between 22 and 24 weeks into a pregnancy.\n\nIn response to a Justice Department lawsuit over the Texas law, US District Judge Robert Pitman in Austin, Texas, last week issued a preliminary injunction halting its enforcement, calling it \"flagrantly unconstitutional\" and a violation of Roe v. Wade.\n\nThe judge said he would \"not sanction one more day of this offensive deprivation of such an important right\".\n\nBut the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals effectively reinstated the ban in Texas on most abortions once a heartbeat is detected in the womb.\n\nOn Thursday, the court confirmed the law would remain in place during ongoing proceedings.\n\nThe Justice Department is expected to formally file its appeal in the coming days.\n\nThe decision of the Supreme Court - which has a 6-3 conservative majority - will be watched closely throughout the US.\n\nIts initial refusal to intervene was seen as confirmation of its conservative leanings after appointments by former President Donald Trump.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The impact of the strictest anti-abortion law in the US", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands join a protest to back the military and oppose the government\n\nOpponents of Sudan's transition to democracy took to the streets of Khartoum on Saturday to call on the army to take control of the country.\n\nSeveral thousand demonstrators gathered outside the presidential palace as the country's political crisis deepens.\n\nMilitary and civilian groups have been sharing power since the toppling of President Omar al-Bashir in 2019.\n\nHowever, tensions have grown since a coup attempt attributed to followers of Mr Bashir was foiled in September.\n\nSince then, military leaders have been demanding reforms to the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition, a civilian alliance which led the anti-Bashir protests and formed a key part of the transitional government. The armed forces have also called for the replacement of the cabinet.\n\nHowever, civilian leaders say that the demands are part of a power grab from the armed forces.\n\nSupport for the transitional government has slumped in recent months amid economic woe\n\nOn Saturday, pro-military demonstrators chanted \"down with the hunger government\" and called for General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the armed forces and Sudan's joint military-civilian Sovereign Council, to instigate a coup and seize control of the country.\n\n\"We need a military government, the current government has failed to bring us justice and equality,\" one protester told AFP.\n\nUnlike previous demonstrations in the country, protesters were allowed to reach the gates of the presidential palace and there was little police presence.\n\nPro-government protesters have also called a rally on Thursday in response to Saturday's demonstrations.\n\nOn Friday, Sudan's civilian Prime Minister, Abdallah Hamdok, unveiled a plan to tackle what he called the country's \"worst and most dangerous\" political crisis in its two-year transition.\n\n\"I am not neutral or a mediator in this conflict. My clear and firm position is complete alignment to the civilian democratic transition,\" he said.\n\nMr Hamdok was sworn in as Prime Minister in August 2019, after mass protests saw the military step in and end the 30-year-rule of Omar al-Bashir in April.\n\nBut support for the transitional government has slumped in recent months as economic reforms spearheaded by Mr Hamdok have seen fuel subsidies slashed and inflation soar.", "A litre of petrol sold at UK forecourts has reached its highest level since September 2012, at 140.22p on average, according to RAC data.\n\nDrivers are paying on average 22% more to fill up their petrol tanks than this time last year, the RAC said.\n\nDiesel prices are also surging and are now just 4p off their April 2012 highs.\n\nThe bad news for drivers follows the temporary closures of many UK forecourts after they ran out of fuel.\n\nBut it's global oil prices, rather than supply chain disruption, that the RAC thinks is the main driver of higher prices at the pump. A barrel of crude oil has doubled in the past year.\n\nRAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said the government should consider cutting the level of VAT on motor fuel \"to help hard-pressed drivers\".\n\nAverage petrol prices are just 2p off their record high from April 2012 of 142p per litre, says the RAC.\n\nHowever, AA spokesperson Luke Bosdet said it will likely be diesel, currently at 143.42p a litre, that breaks its record price first.\n\n\"Unless we see a slight reversal in wholesale prices, we can expect in the next couple of weeks a rise of 3-5p per litre and that would put diesel above its 2012 high,\" he said.\n\nMr Bosdet said the global surge in gas prices was also driving up the cost of diesel because heating oil \"comes from the same part of the barrel\" and - since it was an alternative for gas - had seen increased demand.", "Clueless actress Stacey Dash has said she \"lost everything\" after becoming addicted to painkiller tablets.\n\nThe 54-year-old, best known for playing Dionne Davenport in the 1995 high school comedy movie, told US TV she was taking up to 20 Vicodin pills a day at one stage.\n\nSpeaking on The Dr Oz Show, she said: \"I was taking 18-20 pills a day.\"\n\n\"That's expensive,\" noted the host, before a tearful Dash replied: \"Yeah, I lost everything.\"\n\nDash, whose parents also suffered with drug addictions, went on to say she had recently celebrated five years of being sober.\n\n\"The greatest blessing is that not only have I been able to be honest with myself and become a better person,\" she said.\n\n\"I've been able to understand my parents and that they did love me, and that they were doing the best they could and they were just sick. They were addicted.\"\n\nVicodin is a popular brand of prescription drug - a hybrid of the pain medications hydrocodone and paracetamol - used to treat moderate to severe pain.\n\nIn July, four US drugs giants agreed to pay $26bn (£19bn) to settle claims they helped fuel an opioid addiction crisis. Last month in the UK, new research suggested that the use of opioids for pain relief soared during the pandemic as some patients waited longer for surgery.\n\nStacey Dash starred with Alicia Silverstone in the cult classic Clueless\n\nClueless, which starred Alicia Silverstone, alongside Dash, Brittany Murphy and Paul Rudd, was loosely based on Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma, and set in present-day Beverly Hills. Silverstone plays its central character, a schoolgirl called Cher, who sees herself as a matchmaker who goes on to give her new friend a makeover.\n\nIn 2016, Dash, who moved from acting into political commentary, defended herself after calling to scrap Black History Month, while discussing the lack of diversity at that year's Oscar nominations on US network Fox.\n\nShe was criticised on social media for her comments at the time, and responded by saying: \"I don't need a special month or special channel. What's sad is that these insidious things only keep us segregated and invoke false narratives.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Lewis Bloor appeared on The Only Way Is Essex for three years from 2013\n\nA £3m diamond fraud trial involving The Only Way is Essex star Lewis Bloor has collapsed after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) admitted it failed to disclose some evidence.\n\nAbout 200 people were conned into buying coloured diamonds at a 600% mark-up, prosecutors claimed.\n\nMr Bloor, 31, was accused of playing a \"key role\" in one company involved.\n\nBut he and five others were acquitted after the CPS did not disclose evidence which could have helped the defendants.\n\nAfter four weeks of the trial at Southwark Crown Court, Judge Adam Hiddleston directed the jury to find the defendants not guilty.\n\nProsecutors had said the alleged victims were cold-called and told lies about the value of the diamonds, which were bought from a wholesaler and sold on.\n\nThe trial heard Mr Bloor left the company after he joined the ITV reality show in 2013 and his TV career took off.\n\nHe denied conspiracy to defraud between May 2013 and July 2014.\n\nThe five others also cleared of conspiracy to defraud were:\n\nThe CPS abandoned the prosecution after admitting that material that could have helped Mr Bloor and his co-defendants had not been properly disclosed to defence lawyers.\n\nProsecutor David Durose QC said the material was \"wrongly described\" and that \"the inconsistencies were profound\".\n\n\"We have come to the conclusion that we cannot confirm to the court that the prosecution has discharged its disclosure duties in this case,\" he said.\n\nNarita Bahra QC, representing Mr Potter, called for the CPS to conduct an inquiry into the case after what she described as \"a litany of disclosure failings\".\n\nShe said the Metropolitan Police instructed expert witnesses employed by a company which had a contract with the force to auction jewellery and watches seized in raids and prosecutions.\n\n\"Those experts had already given evidence in another trial, in the middle of their contract with the Metropolitan Police where their relationship with the police was not disclosed,\" she said.\n\nA CPS spokesman said: \"As an organisation we remain committed to working with investigators, defence teams and courts to ensure we get disclosure right.\"\n\nMr Bloor also appeared in Celebrity Big Brother in 2016\n\nAfter being cleared, Mr Bloor said: \"The hardest thing about this case has been the onslaught of death threats, calls for me to commit suicide and abuse to my family.\n\n\"What we now want to happen is that the trolls online take a look at themselves and stop abusing strangers for a quick kick and light laughter with friends.\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.", "Apple has taken down one of the world's most popular Quran apps in China, following a request from officials.\n\nQuran Majeed is available across the world on the App Store - and has nearly 150,000 reviews. It is used by millions of Muslims.\n\nThe BBC understands that the app was removed for hosting illegal religious texts.\n\nThe Chinese government has not responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThe deletion of the app was first noticed by Apple Censorship - a website that monitors apps on Apple's App Store globally.\n\nIn a statement from the app's maker, PDMS, the company said: \"According to Apple, our app Quran Majeed has been removed from the China App store because it includes content that requires additional documentation from Chinese authorities\".\n\n\"We are trying to get in touch with the Cyberspace Administration of China and relevant Chinese authorities to get this issue resolved\".\n\nThe company said it had close to one million users in China.\n\nThe Chinese Communist Party officially recognises Islam as a religion in the country.\n\nHowever, China has been accused of human rights violations, and even genocide, against the mostly Muslim Uyghur ethnic group in Xinjiang.\n\nEarlier this year the BBC reported that Uyghur imams had been targeted in China's Xinjiang crackdown.\n\nApple declined to comment, but directed the BBC to its Human Rights Policy, which states: \"We're required to comply with local laws, and at times there are complex issues about which we may disagree with governments.\"\n\nHowever, it is not clear what rules the app has broken in China. Quran Majeed says it is \"trusted by over 35 million Muslims globally\".\n\nLast month, both Apple and Google removed a tactical voting app devised by jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\n\nRussian authorities had threatened to fine the two companies if they refused to drop the app, which told users who could unseat ruling party candidates.\n\nChina is one of Apple's biggest markets, and the company's supply chain is heavily reliant on Chinese manufacturing.\n\nApple chief executive Tim Cook has been accused of hypocrisy from politicians in the US for speaking out about American politics, but staying quiet about China.\n\nMr Cook criticised Donald Trump's ban of seven Muslim-majority countries in 2017.\n\nHowever, he is also accused of complying with the Chinese government over censorship - and not publicly criticising it for its treatment of Muslim minorities.\n\nThe New York Times reported earlier this year that Apple takes down apps in China if deemed off limits by the Chinese government. Topics that apps cannot discuss include Tiananmen Square, the Chinese spiritual movement Falun Gong, the Dalai Lama, and independence for Tibet and Taiwan.\n\nBenjamin Ismail, project director at Apple Censorship, said: \"Currently Apple is being turned into the censorship bureau of Beijing.\n\n\"They need to do the right thing, and then face whatever the reaction is of the Chinese government.\"\n\nAnother popular religious app, Olive Tree's Bible app, was also taken down this week in China. The company told the BBC they had removed the app themselves.\n\n\"Olive Tree Bible Software was informed during the App Store review process that we are required to provide a permit demonstrating our authorization to distribute an app with book or magazine content in mainland China,\" said a spokesperson.\n\n\"Since we did not have the permit and needed to get our app update approved and out to customers, we removed our Bible app from China's App Store.\"\n\nOn Friday, The Mac Observer reported that Audible, the Amazon owned audiobook and podcast service, removed its app from the Apple store in mainland China last month \"due to permit requirements.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Microsoft said it was shutting down its social network, LinkedIn, in China, saying having to comply with the Chinese state had become increasingly challenging.\n\nThe decision was made after the career-networking site faced questions for blocking the profiles of some journalists.", "The Wolverhampton Science Park houses the offices and laboratories of Immensa Health Clinic\n\nThe head of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has ordered an investigation into why it took a month to identify a laboratory giving incorrect Covid test results.\n\nDr Jenny Harries said it was \"not clear yet\" what went wrong at the private lab in Wolverhampton.\n\nAbout 43,000 people in England and Wales may have been wrongly told their Covid-19 test was negative.\n\nTesting at the lab has been suspended and those affected are being contacted.\n\nQuestions are also being raised around how the lab won a multi-million pound government contract.\n\nConcerns were flagged when people had positive lateral flow tests (LFTs) but negative follow-up PCR results from the lab between 8 September and 12 October. Most of those affected live in south-west England.\n\nThe error could mean thousands of people infected with Covid were wrongly told to stop isolating, and may have infected others.\n\nDr Harries, chief executive of the UKHSA and head of NHS Test and Trace, said local public health teams had been querying tests over the last few weeks, but it was only in the last few days that the problem was pinpointed.\n\n\"It is the location of the laboratory, combined with the geography and the time period, that has allowed us to understand this now,\" she said.\n\n\"I want to make sure if there are any further problems with other laboratories we can absolutely spot them as quickly as possible.\"\n\nDr Harries said she would conduct \"a serious incident investigation\" to make sure it doesn't happen again.\n\nAll samples from the lab, where Immensa Health Clinic Ltd runs the testing operations, are now being sent to other labs.\n\nUKHSA said all other labs were working normally and there were no technical issues with the test kits themselves.\n\nGovernment records show that Immensa, which was founded in May 2020 just months after the start of the pandemic, has been awarded contracts for Covid testing by the Department of Health valued at £181m.\n\nIt is connected to another company, Dante Labs, which provides genetic sequencing and other laboratory services from offices in Wolverhampton and Cambridge.\n\nIt also sells private PCR Covid tests to travellers, and is one of 20 companies being investigated by the UK competition watchdog over concerns it may have unfairly treated customers.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said people \"should not be concerned\" by the lab's suspension.\n\n\"We're looking into what went wrong with that particular testing centre, but it doesn't affect the overall numbers,\" he said.\n\nOnly a few thousand out of the 43,000 affected by the wrong result could potentially still be infected now and they will be contacted first, by text and email, to recommend they have another test.\n\nProf Alan McNally, from the University of Birmingham, told the BBC he was \"astonished\" by the revelation and could not work out how so many tests could be incorrect.\n\n\"It comes down to quality control and quality assurance, oversight and management,\" he said.\n\n\"I cannot fathom the failings that would lead to this level of false negative results.\"\n\nThe UKHSA said about 400,000 samples had been processed by the privately-run lab and it estimated 43,000 people may have been given incorrect negative test results, with 4,000 of those from Wales. Some may also be in the south-east of England and scattered across the country.\n\nGraham Loader and his wife went about their normal business after negative PCR results\n\nGraham Loader, from Newbury, says his family have had three positive LFTs, all followed by negative PCR tests taken at the testing site at Newbury Showground in West Berkshire.\n\nHe said each time the family got a positive LFT but negative PCR test, they assumed the LFTs must have been at fault.\n\n\"I think we just blamed the LFTs because they were a bit basic,\" he said.\n\n\"I thought they must be detecting something from a cold and be an error.\"\n\nHis wife, a school teacher, had felt a bit unwell but didn't have the classic symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nShe had a negative PCR test but took some time off as a precaution, despite being advised she did not need to.\n\nMr Loader, who coaches a boy's football team, thought he had come down with a cold.\n\nHe added: \"I completely trusted the PCR, so I feel bad for all the people I've been in contact with.\"\n\nDr Will Welfare, public health incident director at UKHSA - which replaced Public Health England, said: \"As a result of our investigation, we are working with NHS Test and Trace and the company to determine the laboratory technical issues which have led to inaccurate PCR results being issued to people.\n\n\"We have immediately suspended testing at this laboratory while we continue the investigation.\"\n\nHe said the public should remain confident in using both kinds of test, and continue to get a follow-up PCR test after a positive LFT.\n\nThe company said it was \"fully collaborating\" with health officials on the matter and added it had already analysed more than 2.5 million samples for NHS Test and Trace.\n\nMany coronavirus testing sites in England and Wales are likely to be affected by the lab errors, including one at Newbury Showground used by the Loader family.\n\nOn Thursday evening West Berkshire council told people who had received a negative result at the site between 3 and 12 October, to book another test.\n\nFor several weeks, there have been widespread reports in the south-west of England of people testing positive with LFTs, but then later testing negative after a PCR test.\n\nScientists had called for the issue to be looked into quickly, with one study suggesting positive LFT results were very accurate and should be trusted.\n\nHave you been contacted by NHS Test and Trace and been asked to take another Covid test? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also 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 number of floral tributes have been left near the scene where Sir David Amess was stabbed\n\nThe killing of Sir David Amess has shocked the country. But news of the MP's death has perhaps been felt most keenly in his Essex constituency, where he was known to and beloved by many. A day after he was attacked while serving the public, as he had done for almost 40 years, the local community tries to make sense of what happened.\n\nThe mood in Leigh-on-Sea is one of bewilderment. Sir David Amess had represented the area for decades and his constituents speak warmly of a man who dedicated his life to serving them.\n\nAs detectives attempt to piece together possible motives for his fatal stabbing, a thick gathering of police and global media has descended upon the usually quiet Essex town.\n\nPeople have gathered to pay tributes outside the Belfairs Methodist Church, on Eastwood Road North, where Sir David was attacked.\n\nSir David died at the scene after being stabbed multiple times\n\nResident Audrey Martin remembered her MP as \"an absolute gentleman\" who \"dedicated his whole life to his constituents here\".\n\n\"For many, many years he's just been a pillar of society, helping out all different people,\" she said.\n\nShe told the BBC how Sir David had \"taken time out\" to speak to her when she first moved to the area from Scotland.\n\n\"I just wanted to talk and just tell him how I was feeling at that moment in time, moving to Leigh-on-Sea, leaving my friends behind in Scotland and not having friends here.\n\n\"He just had this aura about him.\"\n\nAbigail Mkhize held back tears as she recalled how Sir David had helped her with her Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).\n\n\"Six years ago I was having chemotherapy and because I was working as an agency nurse, I had problems with getting the help with ESA, so I went and saw him,\" she said.\n\n\"He said, 'This is not right, you've been here for so long and you don't deserve this - I will sort it out' and he did.\"\n\nMs Mkhize has lived in Southend for 20 years and said she \"always felt comfortable\" knowing Sir David was around to help.\n\n\"He was the father of all nations, that's how we can describe him,\" she said. \"Whether you were black, white, irrespective of where you come from he gave that love, affection, kindness, caring.\"\n\nAbigail Mkhize, pictured on the left, with her sister Ntombi, said Sir David was \"an amazing man\"\n\nA steady trickle of locals have been slowly edging to the cordon tape to lay flowers and stand for a moment, remembering their MP.\n\nClusters of bouquets have been laid near the scene of the attack, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer among those to have paid their respects.\n\nResidents said they were touched that Mr Johnson had paid a visit so soon and felt he seemed clearly affected by what had happened.\n\nThose who knew Sir David have remembered him as \"universally liked\" regardless of their politics.\n\n\"What he was was a thoroughly decent man: he believed in right and wrong. He was always a positive person, always had a smile on his face,\" said Councillor Tony Cox, of Southend Borough Council.\n\nLocal people have \"lost a great man, they've lost a great MP, they've lost a respected parliamentarian and they've lost a good constituency advocate,\" he said.\n\nBoris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer laid tributes at the scene where Sir David was stabbed\n\nConstituent Lorraine Migliorini highlighted Sir David's work for children and young people with special educational needs.\n\n\"He was genuinely interested and listened to them which was fantastic,\" she said.\n\n\"He got things done and I think all of the special needs groups around here are very very grateful for what he's done.\"\n\nJulie Everitt, a constituent, said she would \"always remember him for his genuine smile\" and his passion for animal rights.\n\n\"He would go on campaigns, he was against the badger cull, he was against trophy hunting and fox hunting,\" she said.\n\nMs Everitt has co-ordinated a vigil for people to \"pay our respects to Sir David and our heartfelt sympathies to his loved ones\".\n\n\"I wrote to him on several occasions and he would always reply.\n\n\"He was a good gentleman, he had a good heart,\" she said.\n\nSome said they were especially shocked to hear police were investigating a possible terrorism link to Sir David's killing.\n\n\"For it to be classed as a terrorist attack is scary, very scary,\" said Tara Wilkinson.\n\nShe said Leigh-on-Sea was a close-knit community and one where you would \"never\" expect a terrorist attack to occur.\n\n\"It's just such a small community, to hear this here is just awful.\"\n\nTara Wilkinson said her community was \"devastated\" by the death of MP Sir David\n\nA 25-year-old man arrested on suspicion of Sir David's murder remains in custody.\n\nA vigil to mark Sir David's life will take place in Leigh on Sea at 19:00 BST.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The day started out much like every other Friday morning for Sir David Amess. One of Essex's most longstanding MPs, he held meetings with his Southend constituents every second week, in recent years varying the location to meet more of the local residents that relied upon his help.\n\nThis week he was at the Belfairs Methodist Church in his home town of Leigh-on-Sea. He tweeted on Tuesday about the upcoming event inviting constituents to join him.\n\nSir David was known for being passionate about his job - and constituents and colleagues spoke of his boundless enthusiasm for his role. These constituency surgeries were at the heart of his political life.\n\nJust 15 minutes before the attack, the 69-year-old father of five was spotted standing on the church steps, chatting and laughing with locals.\n\nAt around 12.05pm, accompanied by two female members of his staff and nearing the end of the drop-in event, Sir David entered the church to meet some more constituents, where he may have noticed the inscription: \"All are welcome here: where old friends meet and strangers feel at home.\"\n\nLocal councillor John Lamb said that it was at this point that the attacker emerged from a small group of waiting constituents and attacked Mr Amess, stabbing him several times.\n\n\"I'm told that when he went in for his surgery there were people waiting to see him, and one of them literally got a knife out and just began stabbing him,\" Mr Lamb said.\n\nLee Jordison, who works at the nearby Hicks Butchers, told the PA news agency: \"We could see a police cordon set up... (someone outside) told me a woman had come out screaming on the phone, saying 'someone's been stabbed, please get here soon', he's not breathing'.\"\n\nPolice arrived on the scene shortly after the stabbing, and arrested a 25-year-old man and recovered the knife used in the attack. At 1.50pm, Essex police confirmed that the man had been arrested in connection with the stabbing.\n\nOne witness, electrician Anthony Fitch, told Sky News that he had witnessed the man being led from the church and being put in the back of a police car.\n\n\"We arrived to do some work on the adjacent building... and at the point when I was crossing the road I saw an upset lady on the phone saying 'you need to arrive quickly, he's still in the building,'\" he said.\n\n\"There were loads of armed police, overhead there was an air ambulance as well as a police helicopter. Obviously wondered what the hell was going on, you don't often see armed police around the local area.\n\n\"I saw the suspect get put into a police van, get taken away and then they cordoned the whole road and pushed us all down the road.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch how emergency services responded in the initial aftermath of the attack on Sir David Amess\n\nAt 2.13pm, an air ambulance arrived at the nearby Belfairs sports ground to move Sir David to a hospital.\n\nHowever, members of his team began to fear the worst, as paramedics remained at the scene rather than moving towards the helicopter. For almost two-and-a-half hours they battled to save his life.\n\nBut just before 3pm, Essex police confirmed that Mr Amess had died at the scene.\n\nAs news of his death filtered through, tributes began to pour in from friends, constituents and fellow MPs.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said that Amess was \"one of the kindest, nicest, most gentle people in politics\".\n\nLocal councillor Dan Nelson told the BBC that Sir David had died \"doing what he loved best, and that was to help residents of Southend West\".\n\nRofique Ali, a local Conservative Party member, described the MP as his best friend in the world.\n\n\"I have known him for many years, and he was so kind to everyone,\" he said. \"I can't forget David.\"\n\nAnd resident Melanie Harris left a card at the scene that read: \"What has the world come to? What a senseless waste of a charming, witty and kind and gentle soul who deserved a lot more than to be snatched from life.\"\n\n\"You were always a pleasure to speak to. Thank you for restoring my faith in politicians.\"\n\nA member of the public leaves flowers at the scene\n\nBy mid-afternoon a full \"Gold\" command meeting was activated by police chiefs back in London - meaning some of the most senior and experienced leaders of major incidents were sitting around the table to work out how to respond.\n\nJoining the discussions were representatives from the security service, more commonly known as MI5, whose investigators sit side-by-side with detectives on many investigations.\n\nAnd watching on from government was Home Secretary Priti Patel - a close personal friend of Mr Amess. She said later on Twitter that she was devastated to learn of his death.\n\nThe conference was an inevitable decision: the killing of an MP is not an everyday occurrence - and the last time it happened, when Jo Cox was murdered in 2016 - it was an act of terrorism by a far-right extremist.\n\nAs daylight faded, members of the press gathered to hear police announce that an investigation was under way. Senior officers appealed to the public for information.\n\n\"This is a shocking and utterly despicable attack against somebody who was an outstanding MP and has worked tirelessly for their community for many, many years,\" said police commissioner Roger Hirst.\n\nHe added that members of Metropolitan Police's specialist Counter Terrorism Command would now try to make sense of an utterly senseless killing.\n\nBy early evening, investigators - still seeking a motive - had at least established the suspect's identity. A government source told the BBC the man arrested was a British national who, according to initial inquiries, was of Somali heritage.\n\nMeanwhile, at St Peter's Roman Catholic Church, locals gathered together to remember the man who, for many, was the only MP they had ever known.\n\nA mass is held at Saint Peter's Catholic Church, following the stabbing of UK Conservative MP Sir David Amess\n\nFather Jeffrey Woolnough told the service: \"Have you ever known Sir David Amess without that happy smile on his face? Because the greeting he would always give you was always that happy smile.\"\n\nAnd he paid tribute to Sir David as a man who carried with him \"that great east-London spirit of having no fear, and being able to talk to people and the level they're at\".\n\nShortly after midnight, police formally declared the attack a terrorist incident, explaining that their early investigations had revealed a \"potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism\".\n\nOfficers continued to search two London addresses in connection with the attack, while the suspect remained in custody at an Essex police station.", "Hazrat Wali died in hospital following the attack on Craneford Way\n\nA boy of 16 has been charged with the murder of an 18-year-old stabbed to death on a playing field in south-west London.\n\nPolice found Hazrat Wali fatally injured in Craneford Way, Twickenham, at 16:45 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThe Richmond upon Thames College student was taken to hospital but died an hour later.\n\nThe suspect, from Hammersmith and Fulham, is due to appear at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court later.\n\nMr Wali was found with stab injuries at the park on Tuesday afternoon\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "French President Emmanuel Macron has called a bloody crackdown on Algerian protesters by police in Paris 60 years ago an \"unforgivable crime\".\n\nOn 17 October 1961, French police turned on Algerian demonstrators. Some were shot, others were drowned.\n\nThe precise number of victims is not known, but some say several hundred could have lost their lives.\n\nMr Macron is the first French president to attend a memorial for those killed that day.\n\nHe joined a commemoration beside the bridge over the River Seine which was the starting point in 1961 for a march against a night curfew imposed only on Algerians.\n\nMr Macron told relatives of victims on the 60th anniversary of the bloodshed that \"crimes\" were committed under the command of the notorious Paris police chief Maurice Papon. Papon was revealed in the 1980s to have collaborated with occupying Nazi forces in World War Two in transferring Jews to Nazi death camps.\n\nThe 1961 march was repressed \"brutally, violently and in blood\", Mr Macron's office said in a statement. Some 12,000 Algerians were arrested, many were wounded and dozens killed, it added.\n\nBut activists hoping for an even stronger recognition of responsibility were left disappointed.\n\nMr Macron stopped short of an apology and did not give a public speech, with the Élysée Palace issuing only the written statement.\n\nThe president's statement \"is progress but not complete. We hoped for more\", Mimouna Hadjam of the Africa93 anti-racism association told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"Papon did not act alone. People were tortured, massacred in the heart of Paris and those high up knew,\" Hadjam added, calling for recognition of a \"state crime\".\n\nSome say several hundred could have lost their lives in the massacre\n\nHistorian Emmanuel Blanchard said that Mr Macron's comments represented \"progress\" and had gone \"much further\" than his predecessors.\n\nThe massacre, which happened during the war against French rule in Algeria, was denied or concealed by French governments for decades.\n\nThe first commemorations of the event were organised in 2001 by the mayor of Paris.\n\nIn 2012, then-President François Hollande said the Republic recognised that Algerians had been killed that day in a \"bloody repression\", and he paid tribute to the victims.", "Boris Johnson has paid tribute to Conservative MP Sir David Amess who has died after being stabbed at his constituency surgery in Essex.\n\nThe PM said he was one of the \"kindest, nicest, most gentle people in politics\".\n\nSir David, 69, had been an MP since 1983 and was married with five children.\n\nPolice said a 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after the attack at a church in Leigh-on-Sea.", "Katrina Rainey died after she was found in a burning car in Knockloughrim in County Londonderry\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with murdering his wife, who was found in a burning car in County Londonderry.\n\nThomas Rainey appeared before Dungannon Magistrates' Court via video link from Musgrave Street police station in Belfast, charged with the murder of Katrina Rainey.\n\nMr Rainey, 59, spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth.\n\nMrs Rainey, who was in her 50s, died in hospital on Tuesday evening after she was found in the car earlier that day.\n\nEmergency services had been called to the scene in the Quarry Road area of Knockloughrim, near Maghera, at about 05:40.\n\nAt the court hearing on Saturday morning, no application for bail was made.\n\nMr Rainey was remanded into custody and will appear again in court in four weeks' time.\n\nMrs Rainey's funeral service is due to take place later.", "Sir Elton John has now had eight number one singles\n\nSir Elton John has topped the UK singles chart for the first time in 16 years with a little help from Dua Lipa.\n\nTheir collaboration Cold Heart (Pnau Remix), which reworks his hits including Sacrifice, Rocket Man and Kiss the Bride, made it to number one after three weeks at number two.\n\nHe last topped the singles chart in 2005, when he appeared on US rapper 2Pac's posthumous single Ghetto Gospel.\n\nDua Lipa released a number one album last year during lockdown\n\nSir Elton's first ever number one came courtesy of a collaboration with another female singer, Kiki Dee, with 1976's Don't Go Breaking My Heart.\n\nDua Lipa's collaboration with the singer-songwriter, who recently underwent hip surgery, sees her collect her third number one, following her breakthrough anthem New Rules and One Kiss with Calvin Harris.\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 EltonJohnVEVO 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\nTheir musical hook-up - a disco-tinged re-working of some of his best-known songs, as remixed by Australian dance trio Pnau - put an end to Ed Sheeran's four-week stay at the chart summit.\n\nLast month, Sir Elton postponed his upcoming 2021 UK and European tour until 2023, due to a hip injury from this summer when he \"fell awkwardly\".\n\nElsewhere in the albums chart on Friday, Sam Fender secured his own second number one with Seventeen Going Under, totalling 44,000 equivalent chart sales.\n\nSam Fender celebrates his latest number one with fellow Geordies Ant and Dec\n\nIt caps a big few weeks for the Newcastle United fan, who appeared on the BBC Breakfast sofa admittedly hungover after having celebrated the football club's takeover at St James's Park the night before.\n\nSpeaking on the show in a club tracksuit, he said his saxophone player started playing outside the ground and \"5,000 Geordies started singing along\".\n\nHis new album is ahead of Drake's Certified Lover Boy in second place, and Olivia Rodrigo's Sour in third.\n\nFender and Sir Elton have built up a friendship in recent years, and speaking on his Apple Music 1 radio show, the veteran star said he thinks of the younger musician as a son.\n\n\"Well, for everyone who's listening at home or wherever you are, Sam and I have become great friends,\" he said. \"And he's like a member of our family.\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 SamFenderVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"Our boys, Elijah and Zachary, love him so much, and [Sir Elton's husband, filmmaker] David [Furnish]. He's like our eldest son in a way. And it's just great when we see each other.\"\n\nHe added: \"We play each other music and we cheer each other up when we're down in the dumps and it's a lovely thing. A friendship that's blossomed so beautifully.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Part of the seizure made by Australian police.\n\nAustralian police have announced the seizure of the largest heroin shipment ever recorded in the country, worth around A$140 million (£76m; $104m).\n\nAuthorities said the shipment, which weighed 450kg, included 1,290 packages of heroin with unique red branding.\n\nThe seizure was made at the Port of Melbourne - Australia's largest port - on September 29.\n\nOffices said they arrested a Malaysian man after the huge haul was discovered in a container of ceramic tiles.\n\nHe was later charged with the import and attempted possession of a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug. He could face a sentence of up to life in prison.\n\nTesting of the substance in the packages showed it was heroin.\n\nThe shipment originated in Malaysia and was bound for a business located in Melbourne. Several locations were later raided in the Victorian state capital.\n\nSpeaking following the announcement, Acting Assistant Commissioner Krissy Barrett of the Australian Federal Police said the discovery had been made thanks to close co-operation between international police forces.\n\n\"We have a strong relationship with the Royal Malaysia Police (RMP) and in particular the RMP Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department,\" she said. \"We continue to work together in identifying and disrupting transnational organised crime syndicates that seek to harm both our nations and generate millions of dollars of profits from criminal activity.\"\n\nCommissioner Barrett added that police estimated that they had saved one life for every two kilograms of the drug removed from circulation in Australia's communities.\n\n\"It is important to note that in addition to the arrests made, the primary outcome of this operation is the preservation of an estimated 225 lives\" she said.\n\nIn 2019, authorities made an even bigger bust, when they discovered an enormous haul of methamphetamine worth around A$1.2bn (£660m, $840m) hidden inside stereo speakers at a Melbourne port. Around 37kg of heroin was also found in that raid.", "A bow-and-arrow attack that killed five people in Norway this week is likely to have been due to the killer's mental illness, police say.\n\nEspen Andersen Brathen has admitted going on a killing spree in the small town of Kongsberg on Wednesday.\n\nIt was the worst attack in Norway since far-right extremist Anders Breivik massacred 77 people a decade ago.\n\nThe suspect, a Danish Muslim convert, is now in custody in a medical facility pending a psychiatric evaluation.\n\n\"The strongest hypothesis after the first days of the investigation is that illness is in the background,\" said police inspector Per Thomas Omholt.\n\nHowever, police are investigating a range of motives including \"anger, revenge, impulse, jihad, illness and provocation\", Mr Omholt said.\n\nHe added that Brathen had admitted to the killings but did not admit guilt.\n\nA full psychiatric evaluation is necessary to determine whether Brathen can be held legally responsible for his actions. This could take several months.\n\n\"This indicates that things are not exactly as they should be,\" said his lawyer, Fredrik Neumann, referring to his client's mental health.\n\n\"A complete judicial assessment will clarify that,\" he told Norwegian daily VG.\n\nThe head of Norway's PST intelligence service, Hans Sverre Sjovold, said Brathen had been in and out of Norway's healthcare system \"for some time\".\n\nBrathan was known to PST, which is in charge of Norway's anti-terrorism efforts, but it is as yet unclear why.\n\n\"There were fears linked to radicalisation previously,\" police official Ole Bredrup Saeverud told reporters.\n\nFive people were killed and three others injured, including an off-duty police officer, in Kongsberg, which is about 80km (49 miles) south-west of the capital, Oslo.\n\nPolice first received a report of a man shooting at people with a bow and arrows at 18:12 local time (16:12 GMT) on Wednesday. Shortly afterwards, officers arrived on the scene.\n\nThe officers were then shot at with arrows before the attacker escaped. Attacks were subsequently reported in different locations.\n\nPolice have said the victims were most likely killed after officers first confronted the attacker.\n\nThe suspect was arrested at 18:45 - 35 minutes after the attack began. Warning shots were fired during the arrest, police said.\n\nNorwegian media questioned why it took police more than half an hour to arrest the suspect after the first reports of an attack. Mr Saeverud said it had been a \"confusing\" situation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "A girl was stopped by a man in the Three Bridges area of Crawley at 08:00 BST on Wednesday\n\nA chef has been charged after a teenage girl was approached by a stranger in a hi-viz jacket who stopped and searched her before cycling off.\n\nIt happened in Three Bridges, Crawley, West Sussex, on Wednesday, when the 14-year-old was on her way to school.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and was due to appear at Brighton Magistrates' Court.\n\nMr Young has been charged with kidnap with intent to commit a relevant sexual offence, kidnap, impersonating a police officer and two breaches of a sexual harm prevention order.\n\nSussex Police said the girl was unharmed and receiving support.\n\nSupt Marc Clothier said: \"We have not received any similar reports at this time and there is no current risk to anyone in the community in relation to this case.\"\n\nSussex Police said more uniformed patrols would be in the area and issued advice to anyone worried about lone police officers.\n\nSupt Clothier said: \"We understand some people may want additional reassurance when interacting with a lone police officer and when you are alone.\n\n\"If this is the case, genuine officers can use their police radio on loudspeaker to talk to the operator in the police control room.\"\n\nHe added: \"The operator can confirm the identity of the officer, that they are on duty and carrying out legitimate policing business. You can also ask a passer-by to observe.\"\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 US has closed its land borders with Canada and Mexico since March 2020\n\nThe US has said it will reopen its land borders with Mexico and Canada to fully vaccinated travellers from November.\n\nIt means those sealed out of the US because of the pandemic can enter - for any reason - using land and ferry crossing points.\n\nUnvaccinated travellers will still be banned from entering the US from Mexico and Canada by land.\n\nAir travel is currently allowed with a negative Covid test, but will require proof of vaccinations as of 8 November.\n\nThe US has curbed travel from Mexico and Canada since March 2020.\n\n\"We are pleased to be taking steps to resume regular travel in a safe and sustainable manner,\" Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement.\n\nCurrently, most non-US citizens who have been to the UK, China, India, South Africa, Iran, Brazil and a number of European countries within the past 14 days are not allowed into the US.\n\nBut those rules will also be lifted in November, the Biden administration announced last month.\n\nEssential travellers, including students, truck drivers, US citizens and healthcare workers were never banned from crossing land borders. However from January 2022, they will also need to show proof of vaccination to get into the US from Mexico or Canada.\n\n\"This approach will provide ample time for essential travellers... to get vaccinated,\" the Department of Homeland Security said.\n\nAn exact date in November has not yet been announced, but will be \"very soon\", an official told Reuters news agency.\n\nCanada opened its border to fully vaccinated travellers from the US on 9 August. Mexico's border has remained open throughout the whole pandemic.\n\nA controversial law which allows the US to swiftly expel undocumented migrants to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in holding facilities will stay in place, US media reports. The border legislation, known as Title 42, has cut off access to asylum for hundreds of thousands of migrants trying to enter from Mexico.\n\nSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said President Biden was \"doing the right thing\"\n\nNews of the reopening has drawn praise from US lawmakers with constituencies along the Canadian border.\n\nAmong them was Chuck Schumer, the Democrats' Senate Majority Leader.\n\n\"Kudos to President Biden for doing the right thing and increasing cross border travel between Canada and the US,\" he said.\n\n\"This reopening will be welcome news to countless businesses, medical providers, families, and loved ones that depend on travel across the northern border,\" added New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.\n\nThe announcement of new rules in September was a surprise to many - coming days after the US government said it was not the right time to lift restrictions.\n\nThe US has recorded some 44.5 million coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, and more than 716,000 deaths.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why are US officials getting vaccinated in public?\n\n22 October 2021: This article was amended to add the updated information that proof of vaccination will be required for air travel from 8 November", "The British Committee for Iran Freedom (BCFIF) has issued a statement condemning the \"vicious attack, which was an assault not only on Sir David, but also on democracy in the UK\".\n\nSir David was a champion of human rights and democracy in Iran for more than three decades. He consistently spoke in support of the Iranian people’s democratic aspirations and the Iranian Resistance movement, NCRI, the BCFIF said.\n\n\"One of the proudest things I have ever done in my political career is to support the National Council of Resistance of Iran which calls for the Iranian regime to be replaced with a safer and more democratic government,\" Sir David said on 6 September.\n\nIn an email to the BBC, supporter Jahed Madumi wrote: \"With great sorrow I heard about Sir David Amess' loss.\n\n\"As an Iranian I have to say that he was a great friend of our nation, and he always defended the freedom for the people of Iran.\"\n\nMr Amess is seen above with the British delegation during the Conference In Support Of Freedom and Democracy In Iran in Paris in 2018.", "Anti-abortion activist Eva Alper approaches women outside health clinic that provides abortions in Texas\n\nA new law restricting access to abortions is being celebrated by supporters in Texas, but for the doctors and pro-choice activists who could be prosecuted under it, this was a dark day.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, Eva Alpar was approaching women outside a clinic that provides a range of health services, including abortions.\n\nAs a volunteer with the San Antonio Coalition for Life, she tracks the number of cars that come by each hour and hands out goodie bags with snacks and body wash to women going inside to seek services.\n\nInside the bags are brochures that list alternatives to an abortion.\n\nThe previous 72 hours had been busy at this south Texas clinic. Across the state, abortion providers said more patients were looking to terminate their pregnancies ahead of the new law which effectively bans abortions after six weeks.\n\nFor Ms Alpar, this law - which came into effect on Wednesday after the US Supreme Court did not intervene - is a huge win.\n\n\"A good day [on the job] means I'm able to get at least one referral,\" Ms Alpar said, standing in 90F (32C) heat right next to speeding cars that often honk at her.\n\n\"That means we get them to leave Planned Parenthood and go over to a woman's [health centre] instead,\" to discuss alternatives to an abortion. (Planned Parenthood is one of the largest abortion services providers in the country.)\n\nOn Wednesday, members of the anti-abortion coalition showed up again at the clinic, only to find it closed for medical procedures.\n\nThe website for the location reads: \"Due to Texas' new law SB 8, we are unable to provide abortion at this time. We are challenging this law and hope to resume abortion care in the future.\"\n\n\"Today is a wonderful day for Texas,\" said Catherine Nix, the executive director of the Coalition for Life, after briefly speaking to a woman who accepted a bag from her.\n\n\"We are here everyday trying to help women choose life, and today the law is now behind us to help us do that.\"\n\nThis law, one of the nation's most restrictive, is not directly meant to penalise women seeking abortions. While it bans abortions after the detection of a foetal heartbeat, the law's broad language suggests lawsuits may be brought by private citizens against those who aid, abet or perform abortions.\n\nThat includes someone who helps a patient cover the medical cost of terminating a pregnancy or provides them transportation to get the procedure - if it's done after six-weeks gestation.\n\nThe law could impact someone like Bridget, who has previously volunteered with the Clinic Access Support Network to drive patients to their abortion appointments.\n\n\"This bill is targeting people who already do not have the resources necessary to get themselves to an appointment,\" she said. That includes people, often women of colour, from low-income homes who don't count on a support system from their families or partners.\n\n\"The whole purpose of the bill is to bankrupt organisations like ours and shut down clinics.\"\n\nAccording to the Texas Policy Evaluation Project at the University of Texas, this law will prevent eight in 10 people from obtaining abortion care. Many women do not know they are pregnant before the six-week point cited in the law.\n\nDr Ghazaleh Moayedi, who carries out abortions in her OB/GYN practice in north Texas, said she feels targeted. In the 15 years that she has worked in abortion care, she has seen greater restrictions in the state, but never anything as aggressive as this law.\n\n\"Providing abortion care, and accessing abortion care is actually the very heart of being Texan,\" Moayedi told the BBC.\n\n\"Texans don't believe that the government should interfere in our personal lives. We believe that the community takes care of each other. It doesn't make sense that our legislators here in the state continue to go after folks for their personal lives, because that's really not what we're about here.\"\n\nShe said that the bill will immediately stop access to care for 90% of the people that see her for abortions and that those patients will likely be forced to consider going out of state or to continue unwanted pregnancies.\n\nShe is worried about the people who will be forced into continuing an unwanted pregnancy - and she also worries for herself.\n\n\"I'm afraid for my personal future and the future of my career as a result of this.\"", "Arfon Jones posted the tweet shortly after the death of Sir David Amess was confirmed\n\nA former police and crime commissioner has faced a backlash for a tweet posted after the killing of Sir David Amess.\n\nIn the now deleted tweet Arfon Jones, PCC for north Wales between 2016-2021, said \"this is what happens\" when you have a government that \"sows hate\".\n\nBrecon and Radnorshire Conservative MP Fay Jones replied that Mr Jones was \"not fit for public office\".\n\nThe former Plaid Cymru member has since apologised for the tweet, adding that it was \"untimely and offensive\".\n\nMr Jones has since deleted and apologised for the tweet\n\nMP Sir David Amess died after being stabbed multiple times at his constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex on Friday.\n\nPolice said the killing was being treated as a terrorist incident.\n\nFay Jones said Mr Jones's comments were \"completely out of line\".\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\nMr Jones has been asked to comment.", "The community has been left stunned by the events of the past few hours\n\nResidents choked back tears as they spilled on to the streets of Leigh-on Sea after the killing of their MP Sir David Amess.\n\nHe was \"so kind to everyone\" said Rofique Ali, a local Conservative Party member, who described the MP as his best friend in the world.\n\n\"I have known him for many years, and he was so kind to everyone,\" he said.\n\nChoking back tears, Rofique Ali said Sir David was kind to everyone\n\nSir David, who was meeting people at his constituency surgery, had been an MP in Essex for almost 40 years, and theirs since 1997.\n\nThe 69-year-old was stabbed multiple times in Belfairs Methodist Church.\n\nA man was arrested on suspicion of murder and a knife recovered from the scene.\n\nNews filtered through the neighbourhood that Sir David had been killed in their church and on their street. Reporters and people laying flowers have gathered on this normally quiet residential street of semi-detached houses, flats and tall trees.\n\nA police cordon surrounds the church, police cars line the road. The mood is quiet and sombre.\n\nEverybody is shocked that something so unexpected and devastating can happen here - and in a church.\n\nBut above all, they talk of an MP always willing to listen to them, to help them and to be part of their community.\n\nThat community has been left stunned by the events of the past few hours and people have come forward to pay tribute to his work as a local MP, at pains to emphasise that he was a kind man.\n\nMelanie Harris placed flowers at the scene and a card thanking Sir David for his help as her MP\n\nResident Melanie Harris left flowers at the scene. She said they were \"a small gesture to show we care\".\n\nShe also left a card that read: \"What has the world come to? What a senseless waste of a charming, witty and kind and gentle soul who deserved a lot more than to be snatched from life.\n\n\"You were always a pleasure to speak to. Thank you for restoring my faith in politicians.\"\n\nMohamad Imani said Sir David had been a great friend and ally to people in Iran\n\nMohamad Imani, who is a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a coalition of Iranian dissident groups which is calling for regime change in the country, said he was \"shocked\" by Sir David's death.\n\nMr Imani said the MP had been a \"great friend\" of the NCRI and a \"hero for human rights\".\n\nHe said he had met him several times in Parliament and travelled with him to conferences in Paris, France and Tirana, Albania.\n\n\"I have a lot of memories with him, always laughing and joking,\" he said. \"He was a very kind man and a great human.\"\n\nStephen Aylen, who was a local councillor for 25 years, said: \"He was very involved, a proper MP.\n\n\"For this to happen, what can I say?\"\n\nAlysha Codabaccus, 24, said: \"This kind of thing just doesn't happen around here. This is a nice quiet area, it happened in a church, there's a school just up the road.\n\n\"It's something completely out of the blue, it's just really shocked us all and this should not have happened.\"\n\nKevin Buck said the world had lost a decent person\n\nKevin Buck, a Conservative Southend councillor, who worked with Sir David for 10 years, said he was \"shocked and numb\".\n\n\"I just can't believe he was with us here this morning, and not here now.\n\n\"He was a remarkable MP because he was a remarkable man - kind, compassionate and caring.\"\n\n\"We are so utterly appalled,\" said parish priest Kevin Hale\n\nParish Priest Kevin Hale said the community was \"absolutely shocked and appalled\" and it was \"hard to believe\".\n\n\"Sir David was a neighbour of ours, a good friend of the parish, a frequent visitor, a familiar face in the area and a great supporter of everything in the community,\" he said.\n\n\"We're all so utterly appalled. Our hearts and our prayers go out profoundly to his wife and children.\"\n\nRay Howard, a Conservative councillor in Canvey Island for 51 years, and who canvassed for Mr Amess, spoke of his deep upset.\n\n\"He didn't want to become a minister, he didn't want to go higher, he just wanted to be good constituency man, and what a good man and parliamentarian he has been.\"\n\nReporters and people laying flowers have gathered in the normally quiet street\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The killing of Conservative MP Sir David Amess is being treated as a terrorist incident by police.\n\nSir David was stabbed multiple times at his constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex on Friday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said there was a potential link to Islamist extremism. A 25-year-old British man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel paid tribute to Sir David as a \"man of the people\" who was \"killed doing a job he loved\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer laid flowers at the scene together on Saturday morning.\n\nMs Patel and Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle also paid their respects outside Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea.\n\nSpeaking a short time later, Ms Patel said: \"We are all struggling to come to terms with the fact that David Amess has been so cruelly taken away from all of us.\"\n\nShe said the Southend West MP \"was absolutely there for everyone, he was a much loved parliamentarian, to me he was a dear and loyal friend, but also he was a devoted husband and father\".\n\nMs Patel, who has asked police forces to immediately review security arrangements for MPs, maintained a balance could be found to allow face-to-face meetings with constituents to continue.\n\n\"We will carry on, we live in an open society, a democracy,\" she said. \"We cannot be cowed by any individual or any motivation... to stop us from functioning\".\n\nSir David, 69, had been an MP since 1983 and was married with four daughters and a son. He is the second serving MP to be killed in recent years, following the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox in July 2016.\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer and PM Boris Johnson laid floral tributes on Saturday at the scene of the attack\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel and Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle also paid their respects\n\nThe Met said officers are carrying out searches at two addresses in the London area and are not seeking anyone else over the death.\n\nThe force believes the man, who is in custody in Essex, acted alone but inquiries into the circumstances of the incident are continuing.\n\nGovernment sources have told the BBC he is a British national who, from initial inquiries, appears to be of Somali heritage.\n\nBBC security correspondent Frank Gardner reports Whitehall officials are saying the arrested man was not on a database of terror suspects.\n\nScotland Yard's decision that the killing of Sir David Amess was an act of terrorism confirms that, on the basis of what they know so far, the killer was motivated to use violence to further their cause.\n\nThere's no public suggestion from investigations at the moment that there is a specific additional threat to MPs - but detectives and colleagues in MI5 will be delving deeply into the life of the suspect to understand how he reached this mindset and whether this was an attack by a \"lone actor\" or someone who is part of a network.\n\nSecondly, it confirms the initial conclusion that there would need to be more resources thrown at the investigation.\n\nBehind the scenes a wider range of detectives and support staff will now have been brought into action. If officers have recovered the suspect's mobile phone, they will now be forensically examining its contents to uncover potential evidence of mindset and planning.\n\nA phone - and any bank cards - will also help detectives track the suspect's movements in the days and weeks before the incident. That in turn leads them to CCTV so they can build a three-dimensional view of his life.\n\nSir David was holding a constituency surgery - where voters can meet their MP and discuss concerns - at the church on Friday when he was attacked at 12:05 BST.\n\nThe Met later said the fatal stabbing was being declared a terrorist incident, with the investigation being led by Counter Terrorism Policing.\n\nPolice added: \"The early investigation has revealed a potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism.\"\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone with any information or with footage from CCTV, dash cams or video doorbell, to contact them.\n\nSouthend borough councillor John Lamb, who went to the scene after hearing the MP had been stabbed, said: \"The paramedics had been working on Sir David for over two and a half hours and they hadn't got him on the way to hospital.\n\n\"We knew it had to be extremely serious and that the worst scenario could occur - we were hoping it wouldn't but it did.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the Home Secretary Priti Patel pay tribute to her \"friend\" and \"neighbour\" MP Sir David Amess\n\nThe mood in Leigh-on-Sea, which Sir David represented for decades, is one of bewilderment.\n\nAs police and global media descend upon the usually quiet Essex town, people have gathered to pay tributes outside the Belfairs Methodist Church where the long-standing MP was attacked.\n\nResident Audrey Martin remembers him as \"an absolute gentleman\" who took time out to speak to her when she first moved to the area from Scotland.\n\n\"He just had this aura about him,\" she says.\n\nAnd constituent Lorraine Migliorini highlights Sir David's work for children and young people with special educational needs.\n\n\"He was genuinely interested and listened to them which was fantastic,\" she says. \"He got things done.\"\n\nJulie Everitt, who has co-ordinated a vigil for him, says she would \"always remember him for his genuine smile\" and his passion for animal rights.\n\n\"He would go on campaigns, he was against the badger cull, he was against trophy hunting and fox hunting,\" she says.\n\n\"He was a good gentleman, he had a good heart.\"\n\nRead more from Orla and Richard at the scene here.\n\nPaying tribute to Sir David on Friday, the prime minister described him as \"one of the kindest, nicest, most gentle people in politics\".\n\nHouse of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle told BBC Two's Newsnight police were contacting all MPs to check on their security and reassure them.\n\nHe went ahead with his own constituency surgery on Friday evening, saying it was essential MPs retained their relationship with their constituents.\n\nBut Conservative MP Tobias Elwood - who came to the aid of a stabbed police officer during a terror attack in Westminster in 2017 - told the BBC he would recommend MPs temporarily stop having face-to-face meetings with constituents.\n\n\"You can move to Zoom... you can actually achieve an awful lot over the telephone,\" he said on Radio 4's World Tonight.\n\nAnd Kim Leadbeater, the sister of Mrs Cox and MP for Batley and Spen, said her partner had asked her to stand down from her role following Sir David's death.\n\nA Conservative backbencher for nearly 40 years, Sir David entered Parliament in 1983 as the MP for Basildon.\n\nHe held the seat in 1992, but switched to nearby Southend West at the 1997 election.\n\nRaised as a Roman Catholic, he was known politically as a social conservative and as a prominent campaigner against abortion and on animal welfare issues.\n\nHe was also known for his championing of Southend, including a long-running campaign to win city status for the town.\n\nTributes have been paid to Sir David from across politics and within his local community.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he had an \"outstanding record of passing laws to help the most vulnerable\", adding \"we've lost today a fine public servant and a much loved-friend and colleague\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch how emergency services responded in the initial aftermath of the attack on Sir David Amess\n\nFather Jeff Woolnough, parish priest at nearby St Peter's Catholic Church, led a mass on Friday evening in memory of Sir David, who he called \"Mr Southend\".\n\nHe described him as a \"great, great guy\" and said faith communities had \"lost their greatest supporter\".\n\nSouthend councillor John Lamb said Sir David was \"a very good, hard working constituency MP who worked for everyone\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"dark and shocking day\", adding that the country had \"been here before\" with the death of Jo Cox.\n\nConstituent Ruth Verrinder (right) and former councillor and mayor Judith McMahon (left) were at St Michael and All Angels Church to light a candle\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness the attack? If you feel able to do so please get in touch. 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.", "The forces' sweetheart died at the age of 103 last year\n\nThe daughter of Dame Vera Lynn has said she will include a tribute to MP Sir David Amess in a memorial to her.\n\nVirginia Lewis-Jones said the Southend West MP was \"the driving force\" in the campaign to have a statue erected in honour of the forces' sweetheart.\n\nMs Lewis-Jones was a friend of Sir David, who was killed in a suspected terror attack in Leigh-on-Sea.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, she said: \"David should also be remembered... it's half his memorial.\"\n\nDame Vera Lynn, whose songs helped raise morale in World War Two, died at the age of 103 in June 2020.\n\nHer family, friends and supporters would like to see a permanent memorial placed on the White Cliffs of Dover, which were immortalised in one of her most famous songs.\n\nSir David launched the memorial appeal in Dover in June and was in regular contact with Ms Lewis-Jones about the fundraising.\n\nMs Lewis-Jones said he \"was really the instigator of the whole thing, he was the driving force, our leading light.\"\n\nSir David helped to launch the memorial campaign earlier this year\n\nMs Lewis-Jones said: \"We just can't take it in, the shock was unbelievable.... he was just such a kind, wonderful man.\"\n\nShe added: \"I think in some way, David should also be remembered in the memorial for what he has done to this point and hopefully in spirit will continue to do.\n\n\"We've got to continue, not only for my mother but also for David for what he began and for what we will continue to do because it's half his memorial as well.\"\n\nMs Lewis-Jones said Sir David should never be forgotten\n\nThe statue, which will be designed and created by sculptor Paul Day, is expected to cost around £1.5m.\n\nThe appeal has raised just under £49,000 but more donations have flooded in since the death of Sir David on Friday, with one person writing \"In memory of Sir David RIP\" alongside their donation.", "It is thought New Zealand will be able to sell more lamb to the UK under the deal\n\nThe UK has agreed a free trade deal with New Zealand which it says will benefit consumers and businesses.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the deal will cut costs for exporters and open up New Zealand's job market to UK professionals.\n\nThe government hopes it is a step towards joining a trade club with the likes of Canada and Japan.\n\nThe New Zealand deal itself is unlikely to boost UK growth, according to the government's own estimates.\n\nOverall, only a tiny proportion of UK trade is done with New Zealand, less than 0.2%.\n\nLabour and the National Farmers Union (NFU) said the deal could hurt UK farmers and lower food standards.\n\nBut International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan said it \"affords opportunities in both directions for great sharing of produce\" and British farmers should not be worried.\n\nMr Johnson and New Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, agreed the pact in a video call on Wednesday after 16 months of negotiations.\n\nTariffs will be removed on UK goods including clothing, ships and bulldozers, and on New Zealand goods including wine, honey and kiwi fruits.\n\nProfessionals such as lawyers and architects will be able to work in New Zealand more easily, the government said.\n\nHowever, the deal is not likely to increase UK economic growth - or GDP - according to the UK government's own assessments. New Zealand will fare slightly better as it may be able to sell more lamb to the UK.\n\nBut, like the trade deal recently struck with Australia, the UK hopes this is a step towards joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) - a trade bloc that includes Australasia, Canada, Mexico and Japan among others.\n\nThe UK already has deals with many of the members, rolled over from when it was in the EU. But CPTPP membership would give it more access in terms of services and digital trade.\n\nIn a video of the deal being struck, Mr Johnson said: \"We've scrummed down, we've packed tight, and together we've got the ball over the line and we have a deal. And I think it's a great deal.\"\n\nMs Ardern said: \"I loved your use of rugby metaphors, but if we were going to continue that on, then naturally it would conclude with the All Blacks winning.\n\n\"And I know that New Zealand feels that way with this free trade agreement, but actually, it's good for both of us, as it happens.\"\n\nThe NFU said the deal, like the one with Australia, could have a \"huge downside\", especially for UK dairy and meat farmers.\n\nIts president, Minette Batters, said the Australia and New Zealand deals mean \"we will be opening our doors to significant extra volumes of imported food - whether or not produced to our own high standards - while securing almost nothing in return for UK farmers\".\n\n\"The fact is that UK farm businesses face significantly higher costs of production than farmers in New Zealand and Australia, and it's worth remembering that margins are already tight here due to ongoing labour shortages and rising costs on farm,\" she said.\n\n\"The government is now asking British farmers to go toe-to-toe with some of the most export-orientated farmers in the world, without the serious, long-term and properly funded investment in UK agriculture that can enable us to do so.\n\nEmily Thornberry, shadow trade secretary, said the government's own figures showed the deal would \"cut employment in our farming communities, produce zero additional growth, and generate just £112m in additional exports for UK firms compared to pre-pandemic levels\".\n\nShe added that the only winners were \"the mega-corporations who run New Zealand's meat and dairy farms\".\n\n\"As our economy recovers from the pandemic, we need trade deals that will boost jobs and growth, open up big new markets for UK exporters, and support our objectives to buy, make and sell more in Britain. This trade deal with New Zealand fails on every count,\" she said.\n\nThe international trade secretary said British farmers should not be concerned about increased lamb imports because the lambing seasons were different in the UK and New Zealand.\n\nAnne-Marie Trevelyan said: \"I'm very comfortable it's a complimentary - because of the seasons… consumers will have more choice.\"\n\nShe said trade with New Zealand was currently worth £2.3bn a year but had the potential to increase by up to 30% by 2030.\n\nA bottle of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc could cost 20p less as a result of this trade deal and other products like Manuka honey and kiwi fruits could also cost less.\n\nIn terms of overall trade, even by the UK government's own analysis a tariff free trade deal will make no difference at all to the country's GDP - the total value of the goods and services the UK produces.\n\nOverall the trade between the two countries is less than 0.2% of the UK total and in fact in 2018 New Zealand ranked as only our 53rd biggest trading partner.\n\nSo why does this deal matter?\n\nThe UK signed its first big post-Brexit deal with Japan last year and in June it also signed a draft agreement for a trade deal with Australia.\n\nBoth countries, as well as New Zealand, are members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership or CPTPP.\n\nThe combined GDP for the 11 nations that form the CPTPP in 2020 was £8.4trn - one of the key reasons given by the UK government when it formally applied earlier this year.\n\nThis deal is the first agreed during the tenure of Britain's new Secretary of State for International Trade, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, who took over from Liz Truss last month.\n\nShe believes that by getting this deal done the UK's application to the CPTPP will be looked upon more favourably.\n\nThat being said, the trade deal the UK really wants is with the US.\n\nBut with the recent change in administration in the White House that seems further away.", "The FBI has given no details about the searches\n\nFBI agents are sweeping properties in the US linked to Russian billionaire oligarch Oleg Deripaska.\n\nMr Deripaska, who has close ties to Russia's President Vladimir Putin, was placed under US sanctions in 2018.\n\nThe oligarch's spokesman told Reuters news agency the FBI is searching two homes owned by relatives of Mr Deripaska under court warrants related to those sanctions.\n\nOthers stood guard outside behind yellow crime scene tape.\n\nThe representative said another property in New York was also being searched.\n\nSo far it is unclear exactly why the searches are taking place. A spokesperson for the FBI told NBC News the agency was conducting \"law enforcement activity\" at the Washington DC property, without giving any further details.\n\nMr Deripaska, 53, made his fortune in the 1990s as a metals broker. In 1997 he founded the industrial group Basic Element, one of Russia's largest, which he still owns.\n\nThe US Treasury placed Mr Deripaska under sanctions in 2018 along with six other Russian oligarchs, as well as a number of companies they own and senior Russian government officials.\n\nSteve Mnuchin, then Treasury secretary, said the move was a response to Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election, which Moscow denies.\n\n\"The Russian government engages in a range of malign activity around the globe,\" a statement released at the time said. \"Russian oligarchs and elites who profit from this corrupt system will no longer be insulated from the consequences of their government's destabilizing activities.\"\n\nA year later US President Donald Trump lifted sanctions on three firms linked to Mr Deripaska after he ceded control, a move criticised by Democrat politicians. Sanctions remained on the magnate himself, however.\n\nMr Deripaska also has links with Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager for President Trump, who was convicted of fraud before his pardon by Mr Trump in December 2020.\n\nIn 2016 the Guardian newspaper reported that Mr Manafort had worked with Mr Deripaska on investment deals in Ukraine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Children's Commissioner Koulla Yiasouma described the waiting times as \"terrifying\"\n\nTwenty-four children in Northern Ireland with confirmed or suspected cancers had to wait over a year for a first appointment, a review has found.\n\nThe figure, for April, is in a review of waiting lists by the NI Commissioner for Children and Young People.\n\nMore than 17,000 children were waiting more than a year to see a hospital consultant for the first time.\n\nThe health minster later said that by September there were no \"red flag\" paediatric patients waiting that long.\n\nThe review examined official waiting list data for children's health services not published as part of the Department of Health's statistical bulletins.\n\nThe commissioner said the waiting times were \"terrifying\".\n\nKoulla Yiasouma said that waiting for any health service treatment can and does have a \"profound impact on a child's health outcomes, emotional and mental well-being\".\n\nShe said it was \"shocking not only for the child but their families too\".\n\n\"Each and every single one of them is a child and each and every single one of them is a child whose life has almost been put on hold, and a family whose life has been put on hold, because they are not getting the most fundamental right of healthcare that they deserve,\" she said.\n\nDr Ray Nethercott, of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said he was shocked by the cancer figures.\n\n\"It is outrageous and there are probably many other words that spring to the minds of parents who are worried and concerned and colleagues who are facing into this,\" he said.\n\n\"Some of the answer will be about embracing and delivering that reform, delivering innovation, delivering different ways of managing children as close to home as possible.\n\n\"To be able to do that, it's not all about the workforce, but it's actually about giving some due care and attention to child health services as a distinct entity.\n\n\"I can't say that there's any way to do it immediately - I've got lots of ideas as do many of my colleagues.\n\n\"But really children and children's voices and people that work with children have a very small voice in our health system.\"\n\nThe review, called More Than Just a Number, examined the number of children and young people on waiting lists, and the length of time they wait to access first or review appointments with consultants for treatment in hospitals and also for services based in the community.\n\nIt found that in April 2021, one in five children and young people in Northern Ireland were waiting for a first or review appointment with a consultant.\n\nIt also found 17,194 children and young people were waiting more than one year and 510 more than four years.\n\nThe conditions affected included scoliosis, speech and language therapy and autism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMandy O'Connor has two daughters waiting for reviews.\n\nHer eldest daughter had an operation in Turkey for scoliosis in 2018 that cost them £35,000 for the operation alone, otherwise she would have been waiting 18 months for surgery in Northern Ireland.\n\nShe has not been seen in Northern Ireland since that operation and the family is travelling to Turkey on Wednesday for a follow-up appointment.\n\nHer second daughter doesn't know if she has scoliosis which means time is of the essence to find out so they can tackle it early.\n\n\"From when Tasha [her eldest daughter] was diagnosed she was in extreme pain for the 16 weeks while we were fundraising,\" Mrs O'Connor said.\n\n\"To think what she would have been like for 18 months on that waiting list and even for the referral it was 16 weeks.\n\n\"It was marked urgent at the time - Tasha wasn't seen for a referral. The referral went in on July 2018, she wasn't seen until November 2018.\"\n\nShe said her second daughter had to wait 12 months for a first referral.\n\n\"That was in August 2019. She wasn't seen until August 2020 and as yet she hasn't been seen since.\"\n\nThe review found 17,194 children and young people were waiting over one year to see a hospital consultant for the first time\n\nAs well as looking at hospital waits, it also raises other issues including the \"complete absence\" of regional monitoring or reporting of waiting times for child health services in the community.\n\nThe absence of such critical information according to the commissioner makes it impossible to get a clear understanding of the number of children who are waiting for these services.\n\nIt found that at least 26,818 children in Northern Ireland were waiting for a community-based health service but it is thought the figure is much higher.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said he was grateful to the commissioner for the \"detailed review\".\n\n\"My department and the wider HSC (Health and Social Care) system will carefully consider the report and recommendations from the commissioner as part of our ongoing work to transform and rebuild services,\" he said.\n\n\"Waiting times were clearly unacceptable prior to Covid-19 and have been exacerbated by the devastating impact of the pandemic across all aspects of service provision including, unfortunately, across children's services.\n\n\"Addressing these waiting lists is a top priority for me... it will require systemic change and long-term investment.\"\n\nMs Yiasouma said she welcomed the health minister's commitment to improve waiting lists and to address the \"underlying issues which drive them\".\n\n\"Waiting times are one of the clearest indicators of a system under immense strain and unable to meet the needs of its population,\" she added.\n\n\"We must strive to get to a point where all children and young people can get access to the right care, at the right time and the right place and no child ls left waiting months or years in a queue to access services.\"\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said the waiting times figures for children with cancer were \"utterly appalling\".\n\n\"I think we should see somebody very senior in the Department of Health appointed as a deputy chief medical officer to oversee children's health in Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"I think we need to invest more in children's health.\n\n\"I think children should have a degree of priority when it comes to such services.\"", "Sarah Buckle said she was left feeling \"vulnerable\" and \"violated\"\n\nA petition calling for compulsory searches at nightclubs has been signed by more than 100,000 people after a number of reported spikings by needle.\n\nOne student, who believes she was injected in a Nottingham club, said she felt \"vulnerable\" and \"violated\".\n\nNottinghamshire Police confirmed it was looking into reports of people being \"spiked physically\".\n\nAbout 130,000 people have signed a petition asking the government to make searching guests a legal requirement.\n\nThe area with the highest number of signatures is Nottingham, particularly the parts of the city popular with students.\n\nHannah Thomson said the response to her petition, and the fact it will now be debated in Parliament, was \"amazing\"\n\nHannah Thomson, 24, from Glasgow, said she set up the petition after seeing a report on social media about a woman being injected with a needle in Edinburgh and then seeing stories elsewhere.\n\n\"The response has been so much bigger than I thought,\" she said. \"And we've done it, just through the power of young girls.\"\n\nShe said she thought searches could be done with metal detectors or pat-downs, rather than full airport-style security.\n\n\"I would much rather have a pat down than a needle in the back,\" she added.\n\nOne woman who believes she was spiked with a needle is Sarah Buckle.\n\nShe was on a night out in Nottingham on 28 September when she suddenly became ill.\n\nThe University of Nottingham student said: \"One moment I was talking fine, and then I couldn't get my words out.\n\n\"They took me to sit down but then I couldn't get up again.\"\n\nShe said she remembered very little up until the next morning, when she found herself in a hospital bed.\n\nThe 19-year-old noticed a small pin prick on her hand, which later developed bruises and began to throb.\n\nMiss Buckle said she was left shaking for two days\n\n\"I feel violated,\" she said. \"I've had too much to drink before and this was completely different.\n\n\"To be in hospital for 10 hours, and to have no recollection of anything for that long, is absolutely crazy.\n\n\"I'm confused by why this is going on, it's terrifying. You can cover your drinks but how are you going to stop someone stabbing you?\"\n\nAnother 19-year-old student, Zara Owen, told the BBC she blacked out shortly after arriving at a club in Nottingham and later discovered a pin prick in her leg.\n\nShe believes she was spiked through an injection.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Student who reported needle attack in Nottingham nightclub speaks to BBC\n\nGroups from more than 30 universities around the UK have joined an online campaign calling for the boycott of nightclubs.\n\nCampaigners say they are seeking \"tangible\" changes to make night-time venues safer, such as covers or stoppers for drinks and better training for staff.\n\nLarissa Kennedy, president of the National Union of Students (NUS), said: \"It's absolutely disgusting that in the past few days a number of students have reported instances of women being spiked on nights out.\n\n\"My rage, love and solidarity goes out to all those who have been impacted.\"\n\nA University of Nottingham spokesperson added: \"We are working closely with Nottinghamshire Police and the city's nightlife venues to monitor, review and learn from incidents and experiences in the city centre.\n\n\"We have contacted them about the specific concerns raised and will continue to liaise with them.\"\n\nNottingham MP Nadia Whittome said the conversation should not become about what women can and can't do\n\nNadia Whittome, Labour MP for Nottingham East, said she had been contacted by a number of constituents who were \"terrified of going out\", including one woman who suspects she was injected.\n\nShe called for quicker gathering of evidence after a suspected spiking, as well as long and short-term measures to prevent it happening.\n\n\"It's very difficult to know what the solutions are,\" she said. \"We have an idea of what the solutions aren't.\n\n\"After Sarah Everard in particular, trust in police is at an all-time low, it's been shattered. Police officers in clubs is not going to reassure women.\"\n\nYvette Cooper, chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, asked a police chief on Wednesday about the scale of the problem.\n\nSarah Crew, the temporary Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Police - who also has a role on the National Police Chief's Council - said she only became aware of spiking by injection \"this morning\".\n\n\"I can see there are a number of police forces investigating them,\" she said. \"I think it's a fair assumption there may be a sexual motive in those, but there isn't an indication.\"\n\nMs Cooper said she had spoken to someone who was in A&E last night, believing she had been spiked with a needle.\n\nShe added Home Secretary Priti Patel had asked for a report.\n\nSupt Kathryn Craner, from Nottinghamshire Police, said the force was investigating an increase in reports of drinks being spiked in the city.\n\nShe added: \"We've also received a small number that have been associated with pain or a mark on part of their body or a scratching sensation, as though they have been physically spiked.\n\n\"We are taking these reports really seriously and have dedicated resources to it to understand what is happening.\"\n\nThe force said a 20-year-old man had been arrested \"on suspicion of possession of class A and class B and cause [to] administer poison or noxious thing with intent to injure, aggrieve and annoy\" following an incident in Lower Parliament Street on 16 October.\n\nThe man has now been released on bail.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? 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.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir David Amess was not reached by a priest who went to the scene of the attack\n\nA so-called \"Amess amendment\" is being proposed to ensure access for Catholic priests to administer the last rites, including at crime scenes.\n\nIt follows concerns a priest was unable to reach Sir David Amess, a Catholic, at the scene where he was attacked.\n\nLabour MP Mike Kane is seeking to add this to legislation currently going through Parliament.\n\nIt would give a presumption that priests could pray with a Catholic \"in the final moments of life\".\n\nThe intention is to add the \"Amess amendment\" to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.\n\nIt's understood that there are peers ready to put forward the amendment in the committee stage in the House of Lords and cross-party discussions are under way.\n\nIn the Catholic church the sacrament of \"anointing the sick\" is given to those who are ill or dying.\n\nA local priest who went to the scene of the attack on Sir David in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex did not reach him.\n\n\"I think it's vital that people of faith can receive the ministry and sacraments they need in the final moments of life and at the point of death,\" said Mr Kane, who spoke of Sir David's Catholic faith in a tribute in Parliament this week.\n\n\"There should be a presumption by the authorities whether it be a care home or a crime scene that pastors can tend to the spiritual needs of the individual concerned.\"\n\nThe proposal from Mr Kane would assert the right of priests to be allowed to reach those who were seriously ill or to say prayers for those who had just died.\n\nSir David was remembered at a church service in Leigh-on-Sea\n\nHe says this would have to respect safety and medical considerations, and would be decided in conjunction with authorities at the scene.\n\nBut the idea of allowing a priest to enter such a crime scene should be a \"non-starter\", according to Paul Millen, a former head of scientific support at Surrey Police and author of books about managing crime scenes.\n\nHe says that he is a Catholic himself, and recognises the importance of anointing the sick, but says this would be an unacceptable risk to forensic evidence in what should be a very controlled environment.\n\nMr Millen says it could disturb evidence at a crime scene, which could be DNA, fibres or footmarks, and it could \"compromise proof of guilt or innocence\".\n\nMike Kane paid tribute to Sir David Amess in the Commons this week\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Live, Conservative MP Matt Warman said there needed to be clearer guidelines about such decisions.\n\n\"But the counterpoint I would make is that no one would want to see a situation where for whatever reason a trial were declared void because a crime scene had been contaminated,\" said Mr Warman.\n\n\"I think it's an immensely difficult decision. We all want to see justice done and there has to be a balance together.\"\n\nBut Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh said the importance to some people of such religious moments had to be recognised and questioned whether a trial was likely to be \"jeopardised by a priest going in to give the last rites\".\n\nA spokesman for the Catholic Bishops' Conference welcomed the principle of ensuring that priests could administer the sacrament of the sick - but recognised that this could be complicated during an emergency.", "Dame Cressida Dick says \"public concern is high\" following the murder of Sarah Everard\n\nPlain-clothes officers in London will video call a uniformed colleague to confirm their identity when stopping a lone woman, it has been announced.\n\nDame Cressida Dick said the new system would be introduced after Sarah Everard was murdered by a serving officer who faked an arrest in order to kidnap her.\n\nShe told City Hall \"the onus is on the officer\" to make lone women feel safe.\n\nThe video call will be \"instigated by the officer and not by the woman having to ask for this,\" Dame Cressida said.\n\nIt comes after the Met was heavily criticised for suggesting that women should try to flag down a passing bus.\n\nDame Cressida said it was not the force's intention to create headlines that alarmed people.\n\nShe told London Assembly members that the new scheme would be called Safe Connection.\n\nThe Commissioner explained it would allow a woman who was stopped by an officer to immediately have verification they are genuine.\n\nWayne Couzens (right) is believed to have shown Sarah Everard his police warrant card before abducting her\n\nDame Cressida said: \"Because my plain-clothes officers will call into a control room, they will then have a video call with a sergeant in uniform who will say 'yes that's so-and-so, he's PC XYZ' and so on\".\n\nShe added: \"The onus is on the officer to deal professionally with the person that they are speaking to.\n\n\"In the very unusual circumstance in which a plain-clothes officer is talking to a lone female, which is likely to be extremely unusual in London, we would expect them to go to every effort first of all to recognise that the woman may feel uncomfortable, to explain themselves well, to identify themselves well.\n\n\"It would normally be the case that they [officers] would be in a pair anyway.\"\n\nFears were raised after Ms Everard was raped and murdered by Wayne Couzens in March.\n\nThe body of Sarah Everard was found hidden in woodland\n\nAs a serving officer he used his warrant card and handcuffs to kidnap the 33-year-old as she walked home from a friend's house in south London.\n\nCouzens was given a whole-life sentence last month.\n• None The crises and controversies of Cressida Dick\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The attack happened just outside Mile End Tube station in the early hours of Wednesday morning\n\nA man is being treated in hospital with life-threatening injuries after being stabbed on a night bus in east London.\n\nThe 34-year-old victim was found just before 01:00 BST on Wednesday, suffering stab wounds on board a Route N25 bus outside Mile End Tube station.\n\nThe Met Police said he remains in a critical condition.\n\nTwo other men, aged 34 and 22, were treated for slash injuries which are not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nAll three men were taken to hospital, London Ambulance Service said.\n\nA 34-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm, the Met said.\n\nMile End Tube station was closed for several hours - as was the westbound carriageway of Mile End Road where the bus stopped.\n\nBoth have now re-opened and the bus has been removed from the scene.\n\nPeople waking up here in Mile End to this news tell me they're shocked and saddened.\n\nOne witness who was heading to work claims he saw the driver of the bus climb out of the window to escape - although we've not been able to verify this.\n\nPolice were on the scene within a matter of minutes after the driver activated the panic button.\n\nFollowing the attack police forensics worked through the night and the road has now been cleared.\n\nThe N25 bus, which was heading to Oxford Street, has been taken away from the scene under police escort.\n\nForensic officers examine the bus after it moved away from the scene\n\nThe night bus features decoration in memory of the 7/7 attacks and reads \"Spirit of London, remembering 7/7\".\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 blaze at an Antrim industrial estate was started deliberately, the fire service believes.\n\nFirefighters were called to Rathenraw industrial estate at 20:35 BST on Tuesday and had to work \"in challenging conditions\".\n\nIt is believed a lorry caught fire, spreading to a truck containing plastic and 30 other trailers, 18 of which were destroyed.\n\nThirty-eight firefighters and six appliances were at the scene\n\nThirty-eight firefighters and six appliances were at the scene at the height of the blaze.\n\nWater jets and foam were used to help bring it under control.\n\nPlumes of black smoke could be seen across the town\n\nThe blaze was burning for several hours\n\nNorthern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) said the fire was believed to have been caused by \"deliberate ignition\" and the incident was dealt with by 01:33 BST on Wednesday.\n\nPolice said they were investigating.\n\nStiles Way, which runs beside the industrial estate, was closed in both directions.\n\nPolice asked residents living nearby to stay indoors and keep their windows closed due to large amounts of smoke in the area.\n\nResidents were urged to keep windows closed\n\nPolice said a significant amount of damage was caused by the fire.\n\nDet Sgt Lyttle said that inquiries were ongoing and appealed for anyone with information to contact police.", "The UK's biggest study into severe sickness during pregnancy is published today, based on the data of thousands of women who shared their experiences with the BBC.\n\nThe condition, hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), leads to prolonged and severe nausea and vomiting. Some women can be left vomiting up to 100 times a day. The impact, says the study, leads many to consider terminating their pregnancy, alongside 'suicidal thoughts'.\n\nThe report is released by King's College London, and the research was conducted by BBC News and Pregnancy Sickness Support.\n\nWatch the BBC's Daniela Relph interview with Laura Anderson, who kept a video diary of her experience of hyperemesis gravidarum two years ago.\n\nFor information and support for issues covered in this video, visit bbc.co.uk/actionline", "Facebook has been fined £50.5m ($70m) by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which accuses it of deliberately breaking rules.\n\nThe case related to Facebook's 2020 acquisition of Gif-sharing service Giphy, which is under investigation.\n\nThe CMA said Facebook had not provided information, ignored many warnings, and committed a \"major breach\". The firm denies deliberately breaking rules.\n\nThere are also reports that its parent company might change its name.\n\nTech news site The Verge revealed the news about the firm - which owns the Facebook service itself, as well as WhatsApp, Instagram, Oculus VR, and other brands.\n\nThe £50m fine the CMA handed Facebook is more than 150 times higher than the previous record handed down for similar offences, at £325,000.\n\nSpeaking about its decision to fine the social media giant, the CMA said in a statement: \"This is the first time a company has been found by the CMA to have breached an [order] by consciously refusing to report all the required information.\"\n\nGiphy is widely used by Facebook's competitors to power animated Gif images used in social media apps, on mobile keyboards, and elsewhere online. That led to potential competition concerns.\n\nThe CMA issued something called an \"initial enforcement order\", which limits how companies that are merging, but under investigation, operate. It is designed to keep the entities semi-separate and in competition with each other until the investigation is over.\n\nFacebook is obliged to provide updates and information to make clear how it is complying with the order.\n\n\"Given the multiple warnings it gave Facebook, the CMA considers that Facebook's failure to comply was deliberate,\" the CMA said.\n\nThat \"fundamentally undermined its ability to prevent, monitor and put right any issues\".\n\nThe fine for that offence is £50m. Separately, the CMA announced a £500,000 fine for Facebook changing its chief compliance officer - twice - \"without seeking consent first\".\n\nFacebook refutes the allegation that it deliberately broke rules, saying it had complied with the main obligations, and the row is instead about the details of how it did so.\n\n\"We strongly disagree with the CMA's unfair decision to punish Facebook for a best effort compliance approach, which the CMA itself ultimately approved. We will review the CMA's decision and consider our options,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe Verge's report saying that Facebook plans to rebrand next week suggested that the new name will reflect Facebook's ambition to build the metaverse - the next version of the internet - rather than its traditional social media site roots.\n\nEarlier this week, the company announced it plans to hire 10,000 employees in the European Union to do just that.\n\nThe company's annual Connect conference, scheduled for 28 October, may provide the backdrop for such an announcement.\n\nIt also comes after weeks of news stories about Facebook's alleged shortcomings, fuelled by internal leaks by whistleblower Frances Haugen, who gave evidence to the US Congress.\n\nAsked about the potential name change, a Facebook spokesperson said: \"We don't comment on rumour or speculation.\"\n\nA Facebook name change would actually make a lot of sense.\n\nWhen Facebook started out, there was no real distinction between Facebook the platform and Facebook the company.\n\nBut as Facebook has snapped up companies like Instagram and WhatsApp, the name has become confusing.\n\nAnd with the number of people who actually use Facebook declining in many countries in the West, it's likely the name will become increasingly divorced from the growth areas of the company.\n\nThat said, it's hard to fathom why Facebook would think now is a good time to change its name.\n\nFacebook is currently in a whirlwind of negative press attention over leaks from whistleblower Frances Haugen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRather than simply apologise, as Facebook often does, it has adopted a different media strategy.\n\nThe social network has come out guns blazing, rejecting Ms Haugen's testimony, and claiming both her and the media have misrepresented the documents she leaked.\n\nChanging the company's name, at this point, would seem like it is doing so because the brand is toxic.\n\nPerhaps Facebook has decided to change tack, or this was something planned for a while, or they feel they've been left with little option?\n\nWhatever the truth, by not denying this story, Facebook has fuelled speculation that the company is in crisis mode.", "A protester has been arrested for a public order offence after a mock gallows was erected outside Parliament.\n\nThe action was part of a small anti-vaccine protest held in Parliament Square on Wednesday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said a man had been taken into custody. The gallows and noose have now been taken down.\n\nConservative MP Michael Fabricant called the incident \"crass and unthinking\" following the death of Sir David Amess.\n\nLabour's Hilary Benn also called the protest \"scandalous\", adding: \"We should be able to carry out our job without being threatened by people out in Parliament Square.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MPs from across the House are angry about the erection of a gallows by protesters at Westminster days after an MP was killed.\n\nPolice were seen dismantling the gallows shortly after 16:00 BST and a man was seen being put into a police van and taken away from the scene.\n\nMr Fabricant told the Commons that Piers Corbyn - an anti-lockdown protester and the brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn - was part of the group protesting.", "Nearly 1,500 people have been arrested in England and Wales in a week-long operation against so-called county lines drug dealing networks.\n\nPolice say they have started focusing on senior figures controlling phone numbers used to sell drugs.\n\nOfficers are also using modern slavery and human trafficking laws to prosecute gangs exploiting vulnerable children.\n\nSome 139 county lines were closed, and almost £2m of Class A drugs, including cocaine and heroin, seized.\n\nCounty line gangs are urban drug dealers who sell to customers in more rural areas via dedicated phone lines.\n\nThey have become central to the trade in illegal substances across Britain and the way they operate is often accompanied by serious violence.\n\nGangs in cities operate phone lines advertised in other towns and rural areas to supply drugs, while remaining at arm's length to reduce the risk of arrest.\n\nBut police changed tactics two years ago and now have a strategy of identifying the \"line holder\" by analysing phone records, meaning gang leaders can often be arrested in possession of the phone, proving their involvement.\n\nAs a result the number of arrests has been growing during regular week-long operations in which different police forces co-ordinate their efforts.\n\nA total of 85% of defendants are now pleading guilty and the conviction rate is 99%, said Graham McNulty, deputy assistant commissioner of the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC).\n\n\"We are making significant inroads into dismantling violent county lines.\n\n\"The figures speak for themselves. We're stopping abhorrent criminals abusing young people and lining their own pockets in the process,\" he said.\n\nAn assessment of county lines drug dealing produced by the NPCC suggests the number of active lines has fallen from around 2,000 in 2018 to 600.\n\nIn the latest police push, between 11 October and 17 October:\n\nPolice also visited 894 addresses used by drug gangs for their operations against the will of the resident, a practice known as \"cuckooing\".\n\nMost of the gangs operate from Merseyside, the West Midlands and London.\n\nCounty lines gangs groom children and vulnerable adults to get them moving drugs around the country, often using threatening and coercive behaviour.\n\nNearly £2m worth of class A drugs were seized during operations between 11 and 17 October\n\nPolice are pioneering the use of \"victimless prosecutions\" which aims to reduce the need for victims to give evidence in court.\n\nHowever, the Children's Society, a charity that works with young people facing abuse, neglect and exploitation, wants the government to boost the law on the criminal exploitation of children by adding a definition of the offence to the new Policing Bill.\n\nIryna Pona, Policy Manager at The Children's Society, said: \"This should also provide clarity for professionals in identifying young victims and would be strengthened further by a national strategy, supported by funding, to ensure more children get earlier help, ending the current postcode lottery in support.\"\n\n\"There needs to be a relentless focus among professionals upon identifying and supporting children at risk of exploitation as early as possible.\"\n\nThe Children's Society runs a campaign, Look Closer, designed to help people spot signs that children and vulnerable adults are involved with county lines.\n\nJames Simmonds-Read, from The Children's Society's prevention programme which has worked alongside police said: \"It's vital that professionals spot instances where children have been exploited by criminals, so we are pleased that many vulnerable people - including young people - have been identified as being in need of support.\"\n\n\"The public can also play a crucial role in spotting signs of exploitation and reporting them to the police and Look Closer highlights how everyone from commuters to transport and shop staff can help children to escape horrific exploitation.\"\n\n\"Young people may not ask for help themselves because they have been manipulated into thinking they are making a choice or because they have been subjected to terrifying threats.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hunting for children caught up in county lines drug gangs\n\nThe British Transport Police try to stop drugs being transported on trains.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Crime Agency is focusing on stopping drugs getting into the country in the first place.\n\nRecently the NCA has charged six men with importing 2.3 tonnes of cocaine worth £190m.\n\nOther seizures include 5.2 tonnes of cocaine being transported by sea, and the discovery of heroin and cocaine inside a British lorry.\n\nNCA Director of Investigations Nikki Holland said: \"It is a high priority for the NCA to build on the successes we have had in source countries and along the drugs supply routes, so that organised crime groups land fewer drugs in our towns and cities and prevent them being pushed further afield through county lines groups.\"", "The Queen was pictured on Tuesday evening, hosting a Global Investment Summit at Windsor Castle\n\nThe Queen has cancelled a trip to Northern Ireland and has \"reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for the next few days\", Buckingham Palace says.\n\nThe 95-year-old monarch will remain at Windsor Castle but is still expected to attend the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow later this month.\n\nThe Queen is in \"good spirits\" but \"disappointed\" that the visit cannot go ahead, the palace said.\n\nShe was due to begin the two-day trip on Wednesday.\n\nThe nation's longest-reigning monarch has attended a series of events in recent days, hosting a Global Investment Summit at Windsor Castle on Tuesday evening.\n\nEarlier in the day, she held two audiences via video link, greeting the Japanese ambassador Hajime Hayashi and the EU ambassador Joao de Almeida.\n\nOn Monday, she held a virtual audience with the new governor-general of New Zealand, and at the weekend, she attended the races at Ascot.\n\nIt was revealed on Tuesday that the Queen had declined the Oldie of the Year award, from the magazine of the same name, saying: \"You are only as old as you feel\".\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokesman said: \"The Queen has reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for the next few days.\n\n\"Her Majesty is in good spirits and is disappointed that she will no longer be able to visit Northern Ireland, where she had been due to undertake a series of engagements today and tomorrow.\n\n\"The Queen sends her warmest good wishes to the people of Northern Ireland and looks forward to visiting in the future.\"\n\nThe Queen's decision is understood to be unrelated to coronavirus.\n\nBuckingham Palace is keen not to cause any alarm and has stressed that the Queen has \"reluctantly accepted\" the advice of doctors to rest for the next few days.\n\nShe has had a busy schedule of engagements over the past couple of weeks that would test the resilience of many people far younger than her.\n\nI saw her last Tuesday at an event at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIt was the first time she had used a walking stick in public.\n\nShe also took a shorter route into the Abbey.\n\nWe were told this was \"for her own comfort.\"\n\nBut she still looked incredibly well and engaged for a 95-year-old.\n\nIt is clear though that getting older takes its toll on us all and the Queen's diary will be carefully managed going forward.\n\nThe Queen had been due to arrive in Hillsborough in County Down on Wednesday afternoon and attend a church service marking the centenary of the formation of Northern Ireland in Armagh tomorrow.\n\nAn advance team was already in Northern Ireland making preparations for the two-day visit.\n\nMeanwhile, the Prince of Wales was also at Windsor Castle on Wednesday for an investiture ceremony where the chef and TV presenter Mary Berry was made Dame Commander.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, said on Twitter: \"We thank Her Majesty for her good wishes to the people of Northern Ireland and trust that she will keep well and benefit from a period of rest.\n\n\"It is always a joy to have Her Majesty in Royal Hillsborough and we look forward to a further visit in the near future.\"\n\nWishing her well, Ulster Unionist leader Doug Beattie said the Queen had been \"a source of great comfort during Northern Ireland's darkest days and provided lasting leadership as we moved into a new era for all our people\".\n\nPrince Charles held the investiture ceremony for Dame Mary Berry on Wednesday\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said he wished the Queen \"all the very best as she takes a few days' rest\".\n\nChurch leaders in Northern Ireland said in a joint statement that they were sorry she would not attend the Service of Reconciliation and Hope in Armagh, and acknowledged \"the significance of her commitment to the work of peace and reconciliation, which has meant a great deal to people throughout this island\".\n\nThe Queen first travelled to Northern Ireland in 1945, just after the end of World War Two, when she was a princess. If it had gone ahead, this week's trip would have been her 26th visit.\n\nRoyal visits to Northern Ireland during its centenary year have included the first in line to the throne, Prince Charles who went to Belfast in May, and Prince William who visited Londonderry in September.", "MPs have voted against bringing in a tougher air quality target, after it was introduced to the Environment Bill by the House of Lords.\n\nPeers had amended the legislation to set a limit on particle pollution which would be at least as strict as World Health Organisation guidance, by 2030.\n\nBut the Commons rejected this, in line with the government's wishes.\n\nThe bill, first published in 2019, is currently going back and forth between the two Houses of Parliament.\n\nThe process - known as \"ping-pong\" - will continue until both can agree on the final measures to be included, after which it can finally enter law.\n\nThe Commons votes come just a few days ahead of the COP26 global climate summit beginning in Glasgow on 31 October, with ministers keen to get the bill through Parliament before then.\n\nMPs also rejected an amendment added by the Lords which would place a duty on water companies to reduce raw sewage discharges into rivers.\n\nThe government says the bill will improve air and water quality, tackle plastic pollution, restore wildlife, and protect the climate. Some of its measures apply only in England, or in England and Wales, but there are a number of UK-wide provisions.\n\nThe bill would also set up a watchdog - the Office for Environmental Protection - to monitor progress on improving the environment.\n\nThe Commons voted to remove a Lords amendment designed to guarantee that body's independence, but MPs did agree to a proposal to allow charges to be levied on all single-use items, rather than just those made of plastic.\n\nBeccy Speight, chief executive of the RSPB, accused the government of \"falling short of its pledge to leave the natural environment in a better state than it inherited it\".\n\nAnd campaign group Surfers Against Sewage said it was \"astonishing that, in this critical decade for the environment, the government is opting out of amendments designed to better protect the planet and all its precious inhabitants\".\n\nBut a Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spokesperson said the \"landmark\" bill would \"transform how we protect our natural environment, make better use of our resources and clean up our air and water.\"\n\n\"It is vital that the bill now completes its passage into law as soon as possible, so we can meet our commitment of leaving the environment in a better state for future generations,\" they added.", "Some Covid restrictions must immediately be reintroduced if England is to avoid \"stumbling into a winter crisis\", health leaders have warned.\n\nThe NHS Confederation said a back-up strategy, or Plan B, which includes mandatory face coverings in crowded and enclosed spaces, should be implemented.\n\nUK cases have been rising sharply but deaths are well below the winter peak.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said it was not time for Plan B yet and urged greater uptake of booster jabs.\n\nHe said he did not want further lockdowns or to jeopardise the \"hard-won gains\" of reopening the economy.\n\n\"I don't want to inject any hint of complacency but I think so far our approach is working\" he said, pointing to lower rates of hospital admissions and deaths than in earlier waves of infection.\n\nDaily Covid cases have been above 40,000 for eight days in a row, with 49,139 new infections reported on Wednesday, and, as of Tuesday, there were 7,891 patients in hospital.\n\nAnother 179 people were reported to have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid.\n\nDowning Street said on Wednesday that there were no plans to activate Plan B for winter, saying that they would continue to monitor the data but that vaccination had broken the link between cases, hospital admissions and deaths.\n\n\"Our focus remains on ensuring we get boosters out to those who are eligible,\" a No 10 spokesman said.\n\nUnder the government's Plan A for dealing with Covid in England this winter, which is currently in place, booster jabs are being offered to about 30 million people, a single dose of a vaccine is available for healthy 12 to 15-year-olds and people are advised to wear face coverings in crowded places.\n\nIf these measures are not enough to prevent \"unsustainable pressure\" on the NHS, then steps like making face coverings mandatory in some settings, asking people to work from home and introducing vaccine passports could be considered as part of Plan B.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kwasi Kwarteng: 'I don't want to reverse to a situation where we have lockdowns'\n\nMatthew Taylor, head of the NHS Confederation, which represents health service organisations, urged the government to roll out Plan B to avoid hospitals becoming overwhelmed.\n\n\"The health service is right at the edge,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe pressures would only grow worse and the nation had to make a decision to take pre-emptive action, he said, adding: \"Or do we stumble into a crisis once again, despite the evidence?\"\n\nIt is not surprising that NHS leaders are warning about a very challenging time ahead with the risk of a \"winter crisis\".\n\nSome may feel it is a familiar refrain and that the health service often raises concerns ahead of winter.\n\nBut the significance of this intervention by the NHS Confederation is that it came just hours after Downing Street had ruled out Plan B at this stage and said it had not been discussed by the cabinet.\n\nThe confederation is, in effect, taking issue with ministers by suggesting the key government test for implementing Plan B in England - the likelihood of the NHS coming under unsustainable pressure - has already been met.\n\nConcerns about the pace of the rollout of the vaccine booster programme and a steady increase in Covid cases and hospital numbers have left some amber lights flashing.\n\nMinisters will argue more time is needed to assess data before taking big decisions on restrictions affecting everyday lives.\n\nBut they have acknowledged they will now be keeping \"a very close eye\" on case numbers.\n\nThe NHS Confederation has also called for a package of further measures to support frontline services - what it terms as a \"Plan B plus\". This could include encouraging people to get vaccinated, turn up to appointments on time and even volunteer to support the NHS.\n\nAs the UK's early vaccine rollout means some people may be at risk of waning immunity, there has been criticism over the pace of the booster jab programme.\n\nAbout 4.8 million people had their second dose more than six months ago, but have not yet received the top-up - a gap that is growing each week.\n\nBut NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard told MPs on Tuesday that \"there is no delay\" in sending out invitations for booster jabs. Instead she put it down to people being slow to coming forward for their third dose.\n\nProf Adam Finn from the University of Bristol, one of the members of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), urged the government to encourage greater voluntary measures now that we had a higher level of infections than at any point in the pandemic.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"Relying on the vaccine programme to take care of the problem is not going to be a solution, I'm afraid.\"\n\nProf Andrew Pollard, chair of the JCVI, said Covid hospital admissions tended now to be elderly people with other health conditions, who don't have severe symptoms and are staying for a shorter period of time before being discharged.\n\n\"The biggest pressure is still the unvaccinated, from an intensive care perspective,\" he told the Today programme. \"The boosters don't have an impact on that, that's where we really need to have people who are unvaccinated to be vaccinated.\"\n\nOn Tuesday Northern Ireland announced its own autumn and winter plan, which will see face coverings remain a legal requirement in crowded indoor spaces.\n\nThe Welsh government has previously set out its plans for winter, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying Christmas this year was likely to be more normal.\n\nScotland has set out a winter vaccination strategy and already has measures in place such as the requirement of proof of vaccination status at nightclubs and face masks in schools.\n\nMeanwhile, officials say they are monitoring a new descendant of the Delta variant of Covid, which is causing a growing number of infections.\n\nDowning Street said there was \"no evidence to suggest it is more easily spread\".", "Investigators leading a search for the missing fiancé of a murdered US blogger have found apparent \"human remains\" in a Florida park, the FBI has said.\n\nAgents said items belonging to Brian Laundrie, who is a person of interest in Gabby Petito's death, were also found during the search.\n\nMr Laundrie has been missing for over a month after returning to Florida from a joint trip without his partner.\n\nHer body was later found in Wyoming, where the couple had been travelling.\n\nIn a news conference on Wednesday, FBI special agent Michael McPherson confirmed that investigators had found \"what appears to be human remains\" on a search in the Carlton Reserve area.\n\nHe said the remains were discovered along with personal items including a backpack and notebook belonging to Mr Laundrie.\n\n\"These items were found in an area that up until recently had been underwater,\" he added.\n\nOfficials say the remains have not yet been identified and a search of the area is ongoing.\n\nThe case of Ms Petito, 22, and Mr Laundrie, 23, has sparked widespread media attention.\n\nThe couple had spent their summer on a road trip through national parks, documenting their nomadic \"van life\" trip on social media.\n\nMs Petito's parents reported her missing on 11 September after they were unable to contact her since the end of August.\n\nIt eventually emerged that Mr Laundrie had returned to Florida without Ms Petito on 1 September. Her family repeatedly appealed for her fiancé and his family to cooperate with investigators, but he then went missing himself.\n\nHis parents told police they last saw him on 13 September - when he went hiking alone and never returned.\n\nMs Petito's body was eventually discovered in Wyoming on 19 September. A coroner ruled last week that she had been strangled to death and left for weeks before her body was found.\n\nMr Laundrie has not been charged with crimes relating to Ms Petito's killing, however, the FBI has issued a federal arrest warrant and charged him with fraudulently using her debit card after her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA lawyer for Mr Laundrie's parents confirmed they were in the area where the items were discovered on Wednesday.\n\n\"Chris and Roberta Laundrie were at the reserve earlier today when human remains and some of Brian's possessions were located in an area where they had initially advised law enforcement that Brian may be,\" Steve Bertolino said.\n\nHe added the couple would \"wait for forensic identification of the remains\" before commenting further.\n\nMr Bertolino earlier told reporters that \"some articles\" had been discovered on a trail frequented by Mr Laundrie within a park where a car driven by him was earlier discovered.\n\nThe FBI's Tampa field office tweeted after the discovery that the nature reserve was closed to the public.\n\nFBI special agent Michael McPherson said that officers would likely be processing the scene for several days.\n\n\"I know you have a lot of questions, but we don't have all the answers yet,\" he told the media.\n\nThe plight of Gabby Petito has captured global attention and triggered a debate over the amount of attention accorded to missing white women compared with other missing persons.", "Morocco has banned flights to and from the UK due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSeveral UK airlines and holiday companies have been told by the Moroccan government that flights will be suspended from 23:59 BST on Wednesday until further notice.\n\nFlights between Morocco and Germany and the Netherlands have also been suspended.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the Moroccan embassy and tourism office, as well as the UK Foreign Office for comment.\n\nLatest figures from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said that Morocco's weekly rate of reported coronavirus cases on 14 October stood at 10.4 per 100,000 people, compared with 445.5 per 100,000 people in the UK.\n\nOn Tuesday, the UK reported 43,738 new Covid-19 infections, with new cases above 40,000 for seven days in a row. The number of patients in hospital rose by 10% in a week to 7,749 on Monday.\n\nAnother 223 deaths were recorded, the largest number since March, although daily figures are often higher on Tuesdays.\n\nThe UK government updated its advice on travel to Morocco to state that the Moroccan government has suspended direct flights between the UK and Morocco for an unspecified period of time.\n\nUK passengers are not banned from travelling from the country, but must travel via a third country to do so.\n\nThe advice states that UK travellers will need to provide proof that they have been fully vaccinated for at least two weeks or a negative PCR test taken no more than 48 hours before boarding.\n\nThey will also be asked to present a Public Health Passenger form to the Moroccan authorities on arrival.\n\nEasyJet has said that it was told this morning. It has cancelled its outbound flights from the UK, Germany and Netherlands to Morocco until 30 November.\n\nThe airline had two flights operating from Manchester and Gatwick to Marrakech, which it will operate as \"ferry flights\" for return customers due to travel back to the UK today.\n\nIt said that, ahead of receiving further guidance from the Moroccan government, it intends to fly inbound flights in the coming days as repatriation flight options.\n\n\"We are contacting all customers whose flights are cancelled with their options, which include a free of charge transfer, receiving a voucher or a refund,\" an EasyJet statement said.\n\nBritish Airways has cancelled a flight from Heathrow to the same destination, meanwhile holiday operator Tui confirmed it had also been contacted by the Moroccan government.\n\nTui said: \"We are contacting customers in departure date order to discuss their options, which include amending to another destination or a full refund. We would like to thank our customers for their patience and understanding during this time.\"\n\nThe tour operator said it currently has about 2,000 UK travellers in Morocco, but hasnot yet confirmed whether it will need to bring these passengers back early.\n\nThe flight ban will affect families in England and Wales who booked half-term holidays in Morocco for next week.\n\nMorocco's National Office of Airports said the policy will remain in place \"until further notice\".\n\nThe UK's Foreign Office has updated its advice on travel to Morocco to include the latest development.\n\nIt says that passengers returning to the UK from Morocco should contact their airline or tour operator to arrange an alternative route via a third country, such as Spain or France, where flights are operating as normal.\n\nAlison Sedgewick says the changes to restrictions have put her off travelling until next spring at least\n\nAlison Sedgewick is currently on holiday in Agadir, off the south-western coast of Morocco, with her husband and son.\n\nOn Thursday, they were due to return from their first holiday in the two and a half years since her son was born.\n\n\"You couldn't write it… the one week we've chosen to go away and they've closed the borders while we're here,\" she said.\n\nHowever, Ms Sedgewick added she felt hopeful that because she booked a package holiday with Tui, things would get sorted out swiftly. She said she received a \"holding message\" from the tour operator, telling her she will hear more information within 24 hours.\n\n\"I'm hoping it'll be a bit sooner than that because the bus to the airport is supposed to be picking us at half six tomorrow evening,\" she added.\n\nWhile she joked that her main concern is ensuring she doesn't run out of nappies for her son, Ms Sedgewick said she did feel put off the idea of travelling during the upcoming winter months.\n\n\"We debated doing a city break in November or December but I don't feel confident travelling abroad over winter because things like this might become more common,\" she said.\n\nPeter Mercer said the ban will have a \"major impact\"\n\nMeanwhile, Peter Mercer, the owner of the Dar Zaman boutique hotel in Marrakech, said that several guests were \"rushing around\" and attempting to return to the UK on Wednesday before the ban came into place.\n\n\"It's going to have a major impact, not just from the UK but also the flights from Germany and the Netherlands,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not very encouraging because we're suddenly back to where we were in March 2020. In terms of our business model, it is worrying. People perhaps will lose faith in travel because restrictions can be imposed with little notice.\"\n\nWhile Mr Mercer said that he agrees with the Moroccan government's actions to reduce the spread of coronavirus, he hopes any restrictions on travel will be short-term.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "Steve Bannon has not publicly commented on Tuesday's vote in the House Select Committee\n\nUS lawmakers investigating the 6 January Capitol riot have supported holding a top aide of ex-President Donald Trump in contempt of Congress.\n\nSteve Bannon, a right-wing media executive who became Mr Trump's chief strategist, was summoned to testify before the panel, but refused to do so.\n\nLawyers for Mr Bannon argued that communications involving the former president are protected.\n\nIf convicted, he could face a fine and up to one year in prison.\n\n\"It appears that Mr Bannon had substantial advanced knowledge of the plans for January 6, and likely had an important role in formulating those plans,\" congresswoman Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican and vice-chair of the committee probing the riot said in her opening statement.\n\nSubpoena documents quote Mr Bannon as saying on his radio show the day before the riot \"all hell is going to break loose tomorrow\".\n\nBut Mr Trump has urged his former aides to reject any requests to testify, claiming they have the right to withhold information because of executive privilege - a legal principle that protects many White House communications.\n\nThe former president filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block the House inquiry from obtaining records from the US National Archives.\n\nMr Bannon - who was fired from the White House in 2017 but remained loyal to Donald Trump - has not publicly commented on Tuesday's vote. Through his lawyer, he has said that he will not cooperate until Mr Trump's executive privilege claim is resolved by a court.\n\nPresident Joe Biden's administration says Mr Trump has no legitimate privilege claim.\n\nThe boundaries of the claim will be tested on Thursday, when the House of Representatives votes on whether to uphold the contempt charge against Mr Bannon.\n\nIf upheld, the case will be referred to the justice department, which has the final say on bringing charges.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nThe riot on 6 January saw a mob of Mr Trump's supporters storm the Capitol building to disrupt the official certification of Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nMore than 670 people have since been charged with taking part.\n\nDemocrats argue that Mr Bannon is stalling to push back proceedings until after the midterm elections in November 2022, which may alter the balance of power in the House, which is the lower chamber of Congress.\n\nContempt of Congress cases are notoriously difficult to litigate - the last time such a prosecution took place was in 1983 against a Reagan administration official.\n\nBefore leaving office in January, Mr Trump pardoned Mr Bannon of charges that he had defrauded donors who gave money to fund construction of a southern border wall.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNorthern Ireland households could see gas bills increase by another 50% in December, the Utility Regulator has warned.\n\nJohn French said \"unprecedented\" increases in international wholesale prices were to blame.\n\nThe most recent price increases only began to take effect at the start of this month.\n\nMr French said consumers could also expect regulated electricity prices to increase by up to 20% in January.\n\nNormally regulated gas prices are set twice a year in April and October.\n\nHowever, if wholesale prices move by more than 5%, the gas companies can ask for an ad-hoc review.\n\nThe October price rise was based on a wholesale price of about £1.15 per unit.\n\nThe current unit price is about £2.30.\n\nMr French said he had warned consumers in August of record increases in global wholesale energy prices.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there has been a rapid and sustained acceleration of wholesale gas prices since then,\" he said.\n\n\"When we agreed to firmus energy and SSE Airtricity Gas Supply's new regulated tariff at the end of August, the wholesale cost of natural gas was £1.15 per therm - a then record high.\n\n\"However, with continuing supply constraints, mainly from reduced gas supplies from Russia, wholesale prices peaked at a new record high of nearly £4.10 per therm in early October.\n\n\"In the last week, the wholesale price has reduced slightly to around £2.40 per therm, but this is still a 109% increase from the end of August.\"\n\nWholesale energy costs make up about half of gas and electricity bills.\n\nSSE Airtricity increased its gas prices for households and small businesses by 21.8% at the start of October.\n\nIt has 178,000 customers in Northern Ireland.\n\nFirmus energy increased prices in its Ten Towns Network area by 35% and by 33% in greater Belfast.\n\nPower NI, which has a regulated price, increased its main tariff by 6.9% in July..\n\nMost unregulated electricity supplies have increased their prices since then, in some cases more than once.\n\nMeanwhile, the Northern Ireland Consumer Council has warned that home heating oil prices are also increasing.\n\nIt tracks prices on a weekly basis and says they are now at a three-year high.\n\nPat Austin from National Energy Action, the UK-wide fuel poverty charity, said the figures were \"eye watering\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Evening Extra programme, Ms Austin said urgent government intervention was needed and called for a taskforce to address the problem.\n\n\"This is only going to be further bad news for households in Northern Ireland, set to deepen the levels of fuel poverty and broaden that figure as well,\" she said.\n\n\"We've no fuel poverty strategy in Northern Ireland which is disgraceful - that's the responsibility for the Department for Communities.\"\n\nShe said between 40% and 50% of households could be experiencing fuel poverty.\n\n\"The cold kills, it's not just about sticking another jumper on,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid said people should take up their offer of a jab, or risk restrictions being reimposed\n\nIf not enough people get vaccinated, it is more likely restrictions will be reintroduced in England, the health secretary has said.\n\nSajid Javid said the government would not be bringing in its Plan B measures, which include mandatory face coverings and working from home, \"at this point\".\n\nHe added that he did not believe the current pressures on the NHS were unsustainable.\n\nBut he warned cases could rise to 100,000 a day.\n\nDaily Covid cases have been above 40,000 for eight days in a row, with 49,139 new infections reported on Wednesday.\n\nNHS leaders have said some restrictions must immediately be reintroduced if England is to avoid \"stumbling into a winter crisis\".\n\nUnder the government's plan for tackling Covid in England over the winter, restrictions will only be reintroduced if the NHS comes under \"unsustainable pressure\".\n\nMr Javid told a Downing Street news conference: \"If not enough people get their booster jabs, if not enough of those people that were eligible for the original offer... if they don't come forward, if people don't wear masks when they really should in a really crowded place with lots of people that they don't normally hang out with, if they're not washing their hands and stuff, it's going to hit us all.\n\n\"And it would of course make it more likely we're going to have more restrictions.\"\n\nHowever, No 10 earlier said there were no plans for another lockdown in England.\n\nAsked about the pressures on the NHS, Mr Javid said: \"Don't get me wrong, there are huge pressures, especially in A&E, in primary care. At this point we don't believe they're unsustainable.\"\n\n\"If we feel at any point it's becoming unsustainable… we won't hesitate to act,\" he added.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England, said he expected the number of Covid patients in hospitals to continue to rise due to the high number of infections in the community.\n\n\"It undoubtedly feels exceptionally busy in the NHS and our NHS organisations are telling us that all the time,\" he said.\n\nProf Powis said there was \"no one number\" that the government would consider to trigger new restrictions - but it would look at factors including infection rates, vaccine effectiveness, hospital admissions, as well as flu and other viruses.\n\nAs of Tuesday, there were 7,891 patients in hospital. Another 179 people were reported to have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus on Wednesday.\n\nIt is important to remember that the situation is very different to 12 months ago.\n\nThe vaccination programme has transformed the situation, and has completely changed the calculation for ministers about the risks of coronavirus cases spreading, versus the many downsides of restrictions.\n\nBut there are nerves in Westminster about what might happen next. The health secretary warned the pandemic is not over, and the government's efforts to control it can't be either.\n\nAnd once again, at those famous three lecterns in Downing Street, ministers are asking all of us to think again about how we act.\n\nThe ultimate fear from the government's critics is that, in an echo of last autumn, their actions to control the disease could come too late.\n\nMr Javid also announced that people eligible for a Covid booster jab can book online if they have not received an invite from the NHS.\n\nBooster doses can be offered to people who are at least six months on from receiving their second dose.\n\nThe health secretary said boosters could be booked online if people had not been invited within a week of reaching the six month milestone.\n\nSeparately, around 14% of people in the UK aged 12 and over remain unvaccinated.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth accused Mr Javid of complacency, telling the BBC: \"The simple truth is that the so-called wall of defence we've built up with vaccination is now crumbling.\"\n\nHe said it was disappointing the health secretary did not give details on \"how he is going to grip this and drive up the vaccinations we need\".\n\nMeanwhile, the government has agreed deals for two new Covid treatments.\n\nThe Antivirals Taskforce has secured 480,000 courses of molnupiravir, which trials found cuts the risk of hospital admission or death by about half, as well as 250,000 courses of PF-07321332/ritonavir, which is currently undergoing clinical trials.\n\nIf approved by the UK's medicines regulator, the Department of Health said thousands of patients would be able to access the treatments this winter.", "Covid has severely affected healthcare staff and may have killed between 80,000 and 180,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.\n\nHealthcare workers must be prioritised for vaccines, WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, and he criticised unfairness in the distribution of jabs.\n\nThe deaths occurred between January 2020 and May of this year.\n\nEarlier, another senior WHO official warned a lack of jabs could see the pandemic continue well into next year.\n\nThere are an estimated 135 million healthcare workers globally.\n\n\"Data from 119 countries suggest that on average, two in five healthcare workers globally are fully vaccinated,\" Dr Tedros said.\n\n\"But of course, that average masks huge differences across regions and economic groupings.\"\n\nFewer than one in 10 healthcare workers were fully vaccinated in Africa, he said, compared with eight in 10 in high-income countries.\n\nA failure to provide poorer countries with enough vaccines was highlighted earlier by Dr Bruce Aylward, a senior leader at the WHO, who said it meant the Covid crisis could \"easily drag on deep into 2022\".\n\nLess than 5% of Africa's population have been vaccinated, compared with 40% on most other continents.\n\nThe vast majority of Covid vaccines overall have been used in high-income or upper middle-income countries. Africa accounts for just 2.6% of doses administered globally.\n\nThe original idea behind Covax, the UN-backed global programme to distribute vaccines fairly, was that all countries would be able to acquire vaccines from its pool, including wealthy ones, writes BBC Global Affairs correspondent Naomi Grimley.\n\nBut most G7 countries decided to hold back once they started making their own one-to-one deals with pharmaceutical companies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins looks at the ethics of Western countries rolling out Covid booster jabs while millions globally remain unvaccinated\n\nDr Aylward appealed to wealthy countries to give up their places in the queue for vaccines so that pharmaceutical companies can prioritise the lowest-income countries instead.\n\nHe said wealthy countries needed to \"stocktake\" where they were with their donation commitments made at summits such as the G7 meeting in St Ives this summer.\n\n\"I can tell you we're not on track,\" he said. \"We really need to speed it up or you know what? This pandemic is going to go on for a year longer than it needs to.\"\n\nThe People's Vaccine - an alliance of charities - has released new figures suggesting just one in seven of the doses promised by pharmaceutical companies and wealthy countries are actually reaching their destinations in poorer countries.\n\nThe alliance, which includes Oxfam and UNAids, also criticised Canada and the UK for procuring vaccines for their own populations via Covax.\n\nOfficial figures show that earlier this year the UK received 539,370 Pfizer doses from Covax while Canada took just under a million AstraZeneca doses.\n\nOxfam's Global Health Adviser, Rohit Malpani, acknowledged that Canada and the UK were technically entitled to get vaccines via this route having paid into the Covax mechanism, but he said it was still \"morally indefensible\" given that they had both obtained millions of doses through their own bilateral agreements.\n\nThe UK government pointed out it was one of the countries which had \"kick-started\" Covax last year with a donation of £548m.\n\nThe UK has also delivered more than 10 million vaccines to countries in need, and has pledged a total of 100 million.\n\nThe Canadian government was keen to stress that it had now stopped using Covax vaccines.\n\nThe country's International Development Minister, Karina Gould, said: \"As soon as it became clear that the supply we had secured through our bilateral deals would be sufficient for the Canadian population, we pivoted the doses which we had procured from Covax back to Covax, so they could be redistributed to developing countries.\"\n\nCovax originally aimed to deliver two billion doses of vaccines by the end of this year, but so far it has shipped 371m doses.", "The New England shilling was struck in 1652 and is said to be one of the earliest US coins\n\nA rare example of one of the US's first coins has been found hidden in a collection kept inside a sweet tin.\n\nThe mid-17th Century New England shilling was found by Wentworth Beaumont at his family's home of Bywell Hall in Northumberland.\n\nThe coin was struck in 1652 for use as currency by early settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.\n\nIt is hoped the coin could sell for £200,000 when it goes for auction in London next month.\n\nMr Beaumont, an art adviser, said the old confectionery tin which contained the coin and a number of others had been found in the hall's study,\n\nHe said: \"I'd never seen it before and when I opened it I thought it was just a rather bizarre collection of random old coinage.\n\n\"However, as I don't know anything about coins, I felt it was worth checking out.\"\n\nThe jumble of coins was kept in an old Barker and Dobson confectionery tin\n\nCoin specialist James Morton, who inspected the discovery for auctioneers Morton and Eden, said: \"I could hardly believe my eyes when I realised that it was an excellent example of a New England shilling.\"\n\nHe said the coin is the \"star of the collection\", which also includes a Massachusetts \"Pine Tree\" shilling, two examples of \"Continental Currency\" pewter dollars dated 1776, a \"Libertas Americana\" bronze medal and several British hammered gold coins.\n\nMr Beaumont is descended from William Wentworth, who visited New England in 1636, and several members of the family went on to hold prominent positions in colonial America.\n\nHe said: \"I can only assume that the shilling was brought back from America years ago by one of my forebears.\"\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.", "Health Secretary Sajid Javid has agreed that MPs should set an example by wearing face coverings in the Commons.\n\nAsked at a Downing Street news conference about many Conservatives not doing so, he said politicians should \"set an example\".\n\nMPs have not been compelled to use face coverings since Parliament reduced limits on the number of them attending debates over the summer.\n\nBut unions representing Commons workers have called for the rules to change.\n\nMore Labour and SNP MPs than those on the Conservative benches have been seen wearing masks since full sittings returned.\n\nAt at the press conference, Mr Javid was asked whether there was a \"difference between what you're telling people to do and the behaviour of some senior public figures\" and reminded that \"nobody\" on the government front bench had been wearing a mask at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nMPs in the House of Commons on Wednesday, hours before Mr Javid's news conference\n\n\"I think that's a very fair point,\" he replied.\n\n\"As I say, we've all got our role to play in this and we the people standing on this stage play our public roles as a secretary of state, as someone in the NHS, as the head of UKHSA (UK Health Security Agency).\n\n\"We also have a role to play to set an example as private individuals as well, I think that's a very fair point and I'm sure a lot of people will have heard you.\"\n\nLinda Bauld, a professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, told the PA news agency the lack of mask-wearing among Conservative MPs was \"striking and very unfortunate\".\n\n\"Leaders need to lead by example and with these [coronavirus case] numbers and the concerns we have, absolutely, I think politicians from all parties should be wearing a face covering when they're in the chamber, when they can't distance etc,\" Prof Bauld said.", "The bus was hit as it passed under Jisr al-Rais bridge\n\nA bomb attack on a military bus in central Damascus has killed 14 people, Syrian state media say.\n\nTwo explosive devices attached to the vehicle blew up as it passed under Jisr al-Rais bridge during the morning rush hour, Sana news agency reported.\n\nAlthough Syria has been embroiled in civil war for a decade, such attacks in the capital are increasingly rare.\n\nSoon afterwards, army shellfire also reportedly killed at least 10 people in the opposition-held north-west.\n\nThe region is the last stronghold of the rebel and jihadist groups that have been trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad since 2011.\n\nThe war has left at least 350,000 people dead, and caused half the population to flee their homes, including almost six million refugees abroad.\n\nWednesday's bombing in Damascus was reportedly the deadliest in the city since March 2017, when 31 people were killed in a suicide attack at the main court complex that was claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).\n\n\"I was sleeping when I heard a strong explosion. I woke up and saw a bus on fire, which came to a halt after hitting the sidewalk,\" Abu Ahmed, a fruit vendor at a market near the bridge, told AFP news agency. \"I later heard the sound of a second explosion, but this one was not as strong as the first one.\"\n\nVideo from the scene showed the charred remains of the bus, with smoke billowing from its broken windows as firefighters put out the flames.\n\nSana said military engineers defused a third explosive device that had fallen from the vehicle.\n\nInterior Minister Mohammed al-Rahman told state TV that security forces would \"pursue the terrorists who committed this heinous crime wherever they are\".\n\nNo group has yet said it was behind the bombing, but suspicion will fall on IS, which has attacked military vehicles in the east of the country this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two children, a decade of war in Syria: Rahaf and Mustafa symbolise the suffering inflicted by Syria's war\n\nFour children and a female teacher were among the 10 people killed in the town of Ariha, in the north-western province of Idlib, according to the Syria Civil Defence, whose rescue workers are widely known as the White Helmets.\n\nAnother 20 people were wounded, some of them critically, when shells struck main roads and a busy market while children were heading to school at the start of the day, the organisation said, blaming pro-government forces.\n\n\"When we arrived at the school and the students were there, the shelling and air strikes started,\" a local teacher told Save the Children. \"The students were horrified, they started screaming, we didn't know what to do. We were worried the students would get injured as the buildings are not protected.\"\n\nShells struck residential areas and a busy market in Ariha as children were going to school\n\nThe UN children's agency said Wednesday's violence was \"yet another reminder that the war in Syria has not come to an end\".\n\n\"Civilians, among them many children, keep bearing the brunt of a brutal decade-long conflict,\" it added.\n\nNorth-western Syria has seen sporadic violence since a ceasefire brokered in March 2020 by Turkey and Russia ended a government offensive.\n\nTurkey, which backs the opposition, and Russia, a key ally of Mr Assad, have deployed troops to the region in an attempt to prevent a major escalation.", "Shareholders in the supermarket chain Morrisons have approved a multi-billion pound takeover offer from a US private equity group.\n\nClayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) can now continue to take over the UK's fourth-largest supermarket group.\n\nMorrisons said 99.2% of shareholders voted in favour of the £7bn ($9.7bn) deal.\n\nThe takeover had been the subject of fierce competition from two US-based investment groups.\n\nThe CD&R private equity group won the auction early in October with an offer of 287p per Morrisons ordinary share, against a rival bid from Fortress, for 286p per share.\n\nCD&R's auction offer was slightly higher than the 285p-a-share offer that was recommended by Morrisons' board in August.\n\nIn July, Morrisons turned down an offer worth £5.5bn from CD&R, saying it significantly undervalued the business.\n\nThe takeover marks a return to the UK grocery sector for Sir Terry Leahy, the former chief executive of Tesco, who is a senior adviser to CD&R.\n\nMorrisons chair Andrew Higginson said: \"We thank shareholders for the strong support received at today's meetings.\n\n\"We remain confident that CD&R will be a responsible, thoughtful and careful owner of Morrisons and we will now move forward with the remaining steps in the acquisition process.\"\n\nThere has been speculation that Sir Terry could be appointed as chair of Morrisons.\n\nOn Tuesday, Sir Terry said: \"We are very pleased to have received the approval of shareholders and are excited at the opportunity that lies ahead.\n\n\"The particular heritage, culture and operating model of Morrisons are key features of the company and we will be very mindful of these during our tenure as owners.\n\n\"We very much look forward to working with the Morrisons team, not just to preserve the company's many strengths - but to build on these, with innovation, capital and new technology - helping the business realise its full potential and delivering for all of its stakeholders.\"\n\nThe deal is expected to complete on 27 October.\n\nMorrisons has been involved in a legal dispute over equal pay since 2019.\n\nLast month Leeds Employment Tribunal found that Morrisons' shop floor workers, who are mostly female, could compare their pay with the supermarket's mostly male warehouse workers.\n\nShop floor staff are hoping to claim up to £100m in missed pay.\n\nLaw firms Leigh Day and Roscoe Reid have been representing about 2,300 Morrisons workers.\n\nEmma Satyamurti, a Leigh Day partner, said the takeover deal shows that employees are the \"backbone of the company and so it makes sense that the supermarket should invest in them\".\n\n\"We hope the new owners feel the same and bring an end to the equal pay dispute by paying shop floor workers what they are worth.\"\n\nMorrisons was founded in Bradford in 1899 - where it still has its headquarters. The group has almost 500 shops and more than 110,000 staff.\n\nThe son of founder William Morrison's, the late Sir Ken Morrison, ran the business for 50 years.\n\nPreviously, CD&R said it recognised Morrisons' \"history and culture, and considers that this strong heritage is core to Morrisons and its approach to grocery retailing\".\n\nThe private equity firm said it would help Morrisons to build on its strengths, including its close relationships with suppliers and its property portfolio.\n\nMorrisons chairman Andrew Higginson and chief operating officer Trevor Strain both previously worked with Sir Terry at Tesco.", "Emiliano Sala had just signed with Cardiff City\n\nThe pilot of a plane that crashed into the English Channel, killing footballer Emiliano Sala, was ordered not to fly the aircraft, a court has heard.\n\nFay Keely said she asked that David Ibbotson not fly her plane after being told of previous infringements.\n\nDavid Henderson, 67, was the plane's operator and was responsible for choosing appropriate pilots.\n\nMr Henderson is on trial at Cardiff Crown Court accused of endangering the safety of an aircraft.\n\nSala, 28, was involved in a multimillion-pound transfer from French club Nantes to Cardiff City FC, when the plane crashed into the sea in January 2019, killing the striker and pilot Mr Ibbotson, 59.\n\nMr Henderson denies the charge of endangering the safety of an aircraft.\n\nHe has previously admitted a charge of attempting to discharge a passenger without valid permission or authorisation.\n\nDavid Henderson was the aircraft's operator since its purchase in 2015\n\nMs Keely said she had bought the Piper Malibu aircraft in 2015 through her family's trust, Cool Flourish Ltd, of which she is secretary and director.\n\nShe said that she had told Mr Henderson in 2018 that Mr Ibbotson should not fly the aircraft again after she was notified by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of two infringements that had happened while he was in the air.\n\nShe later found out that Henderson had hired Mr Ibbotson again, this time to pilot a flight carrying her sister a month later, in August 2018.\n\nSala's body was recovered, but Mr Ibbotson, 59, from Crowley, Lincolnshire, has never been found\n\nShe said: \"Later on in the year, in August, he tried to contact me while I was on holiday. He was due to fly my sister on a trip and was going to be piloting himself.\n\n\"I found out after the event that he was unavailable and had asked David Ibbotson to fly instead of him.\"\n\n\"He allowed that to happen without my permission,\" she added.\n\nAsked by defence counsel Stephen Spence QC if she had warned Henderson not to hire Mr Ibbotson again, she said: \"No. As far as I was concerned I had made my feelings clear that he shouldn't be flying the aircraft.\"\n\nThe Piper Malibu aircraft was bought under advice from Mr Henderson, Ms Keely told the court\n\nIn an text message exchange from August 2018, that was read to the jury, Mr Henderson had a conversation with someone who had flown with Mr Ibbotson.\n\nIt said: \"The Ibbotson experience was interesting! He was all over the place. Had to help him out coming into White Waltham [airfield].\"\n\nMr Henderson replied: \"His handling OK? Takes a lot to try and knock these new guys into shape.\"\n\n\"He's just not very quick and not thinking ahead,\" was the reply.\n\nIn another text message, found on Mr Henderson's phone from July 2018, Mr Ibbotson explained he had \"messed up a couple of times\" during a flight.\n\nJurors also heard that, hours after the night-time crash, Mr Henderson had messaged aircraft engineer David Smith telling him to \"keep very quiet\", adding \"need to be very careful. Opens up a whole can of worms\".\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB disappeared from radar near the Channel Islands on 21 January\n\nThe court has already heard that Mr Ibbotson did not hold a commercial pilot's licence, was not allowed to fly at night, and that his rating to fly the Piper Malibu had expired.\n\nDespite this, when Mr Henderson was unavailable to fly the plane carrying Sala between Nantes and Cardiff in January because he was away with his wife in Paris, he hired Mr Ibbotson again.\n\nMr Smith, an employee of aircraft maintenance company Eastern Air Executive, said he had become aware of some issues with the aircraft on January 21 before it was due to fly back from France to the UK and insisted it was checked by a French engineer.\n\nThe trial is expected to last until the end of next week.", "Mr Slater - now a cricket commentator - was arrested at his home in Sydney\n\nFormer Australian cricketer Michael Slater has been arrested over an alleged domestic violence incident.\n\nThe 51-year-old - now a cricket commentator - was arrested at his Sydney home on Wednesday and taken to a police station, local media reported.\n\nNew South Wales Police confirmed an alleged incident happened last week. They have not disclosed further details.\n\nNo charges have been laid and Mr Slater has not commented publicly.\n\nThe former batsman was part of the Australian cricket team from 1993 to 2001, playing 74 Tests.\n\nHe has since held prominent positions on TV but was let go last week by Australia's Channel Seven, which cited financial pressures.\n\nMr Slater made headlines in May when he accused Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison of having \"blood on his hands\" over his response to the pandemic.\n\nIt followed the government issuing a two-week ban on Australian citizens returning from India during the height of that nation's coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe father-of-three had been in India at the time, commentating for local networks on the Indian Premier League season.", "Vaccine pioneer Prof Sir Andrew Pollard: \"Our very lives depend on our investment in science.\"\n\nOne of the scientists behind the Oxford Covid vaccine has said that our lives depend on future investment in science.\n\nProf Sir Andrew Pollard told BBC News that other nations will overtake the UK unless the Chancellor sticks to his commitment to double science spending.\n\nScientific leaders have been making representations to the Treasury ahead of next week's Autumn Budget.\n\nThere is concern that a pledge to increase funding to £22bn by 2024 will not be met.\n\nProf Pollard told BBC News: \"Our very lives depend on our investment in science because so much of what we aspire to in our society requires a strong scientific base. We absolutely have to invest in science otherwise we will fall behind other countries over the months and years ahead.\"\n\nThose lobbying the Treasury to stick to its commitment have highlighted the key role UK science played in developing vaccines, drugs and providing invaluable scientific advice to the public and ministers throughout the pandemic.\n\nAnd the chair of the Commons Science and Technology Committee, Greg Clark, said a failure to keep to the pledge could threaten the UK's economic growth: \"As we prepare to compete as a country in the future, it is unquestionable that one of our strongest assets is our science and technology base.\n\n\"The world is becoming scientifically more intensive. For us to go backwards would be to opt out of future prosperity.\"\n\nTwo British Nobel prize winners gave evidence to Mr Clark's committee this morning. One, Prof Sir Paul Nurse, said: \"We have to have a country that thrives on brains and skills and that is driven by science and research.\"\n\nThe other, Prof Sir Peter Ratcliffe, told MPs that the UK government failing to invest in science would be like New Zealand not investing in rugby.\n\n\"We are good at it. Why wouldn't you invest behind strength,\" he said.\n\n\"You might get away with slightly smaller investment than other countries for a while, but that's not going to last.\"\n\nIn November 2019, Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged to double the amount the government spends on scientific research. That pledge was reinforced by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak in March 2020, when he committed the government to the £22bn increase.\n\nThe spending hike was to keep up with the UK's economic competitors, which have been investing heavily in research. British science is seen as among the best in the world, but successive governments have been spending a smaller proportion of GDP on research and development (R&D) compared with other advanced economies.\n\nThe UK's increase in R&D spending as a proportion of GDP between 1999 and 2019 has been 0.1%, considerably less than many of its economic competitors.\n\nThe ambitious spending boost announced by the Chancellor last year was to help the government meet another of its objectives: for private and public spending on research in the UK to reach 2.4% of GDP by 2027. But even that target is a relatively modest aim as it would still leave the UK behind Germany, Japan, Korea and the US.\n\nAn analysis by the Campaign for Science and Engineering (Case) indicates that if the government puts off increasing annual research spending to £22bn by 2024 by three years it will lose £11bn of investment from the private sector and so fail to reach its target of 2.4% of GDP.\n\nProf Sarah Main, who is the campaign's executive director, said that without the investment that has been promised, the UK could lose jobs and economic growth in the process: \"While the UK target is ambitious, it is the least ambitious target of all the G7 countries,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"Across the world, other countries are pushing fast and hard on their science and innovation capability. The risk is that ideas, talented people and opportunities for investment ad partnerships will move overseas.\"\n\nThose close to negotiations with the Treasury told BBC News they received \"strong signals\" last week that, while the government would maintain its target of increasing annual science spending to £22bn, it would not commit to do so by 2024.\n\nThere was also concern that the chancellor would give the appearance of an increase by adding existing spending to the science budget - but the reality could be flat cash for several more years.\n\nWith a week to go before the chancellor's Autumn budget, all the submissions have been made. The Treasury has produced its calculations and come up with its plan.\n\nThe proposed budgets for each part of government are now in a political phase and simply put, it is now up to Boris Johnson whether to exert pressure on the Treasury to deliver on the promise he made to transform the UK economy into a \"science superpower\".\n• None Campaign for Science and Engineering The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lord Janner, who died in 2015, denied all charges against him\n\nPolice investigations into allegations of child abuse against a former MP were marred by \"a series of failings\", a report has found.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) said Leicestershire Police officers \"shut down\" investigations into Lord Janner \"without pursuing all inquiries\".\n\nIt also criticised Leicestershire County Council's \"sorry record of failures\" over abuse.\n\nThe former MP died in December 2015.\n\nProfessor Alexis Jay, chairman of the inquiry, said police and prosecutors \"appeared reluctant to fully investigate\" claims against Lord Janner despite \"numerous serious allegations\".\n\n\"On multiple occasions police put too little emphasis on looking for supporting evidence and shut down investigations without pursuing all outstanding inquiries,\" she said.\n\n\"This inquiry has brought up themes we are now extremely familiar with, such as deference to powerful individuals, the barriers to reporting faced by children and the need for institutions to have clear policies and procedures setting out how to respond to allegations of child sexual abuse.\"\n\nLord Janner's family has always maintained his innocence.\n\nHis son Daniel said the inquiry \"fails to challenge our late father's innocence\" and \"offers no proof whatsoever of guilt\".\n\nProfessor Alexis Jay is leading the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse\n\nThe inquiry heard accounts from 33 complainants, with allegations of abuse stretching across three decades.\n\nIn 1999, Leicestershire Police's Operation Magnolia looked into allegations made against the politician, but the inquiry found it \"seemingly involved a deliberate decision by [the force] to withhold key statements\" from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which it described as \"serious and inexcusable\".\n\nOperation Dauntless was set up in May 2006 following further claims from another alleged victim, with the report criticising police and CPS decisions not to carry on the investigation as \"unsound and strategically flawed\".\n\nIn 2012 a further police probe, named Operation Enamel, was set up to look at evidence that may not have been considered in earlier investigations.\n\nAfter further evidence and more complainants came forward, Lord Janner was charged with 22 offences, including indecent assault and buggery, which dated from the 1960s to the 1980s.\n\nAt the time of his death, Lord Janner was due to face a trial over claims made by nine complainants, with the prosecution seeking to add further charges.\n\nGreville Janner, pictured here in 1987, was a Leicester MP for Labour for 27 years\n\nIn October 2020, the inquiry heard evidence from Lord Janner's alleged victims.\n\nNone of the complainants were called to give evidence in person, due to it focusing solely on the state responses to their allegations, rather than the authenticity of the claims.\n\nChristopher Jacobs, who represented some of the complainants, described the case of Tracey Taylor - who has waived her right to anonymity - who was put into care as a 14-year-old in the 1970s.\n\n\"She said she was raped by a man who said his name was Greville Janner, he said he was an MP and that he could make her the next prime minister's wife,\" Mr Jacobs told the inquiry.\n\n\"She has told the police about the abuse, but she has never been believed due to her mental health problems. On some occasions, police mocked her statements, calling her Crazy Tracey.\"\n\nTim Betteridge, another complainant to waive his anonymity, said he was sexually abused by Lord Janner on two occasions, including once in an allotment and once in a mobile unit.\n\nThe inquiry heard Mr Betteridge raised the alarm but was told by care home staff \"nobody would believe him because he was just a brat in care\".\n\nThis report did not find evidence of a conspiracy to protect a local MP, but its officials believe what they discovered was actually more serious.\n\nAdults who had grown up in children's homes weren't taken seriously when they came forward to make allegations, because of their backgrounds.\n\nThe claims of one accuser were rejected because he may have had a history of mental illness. However, later police inquiries looked at his medical records and concluded that wasn't the case.\n\nThis investigation isn't the only one where the inquiry has seen evidence that alleged crimes against children have been dismissed prematurely.\n\nIts final report will have to come up with recommendations to prevent it happening again.\n\nThe inquiry also heard \"a number\" of staff at Leicestershire County Council had concerns over Lord Janner's association with a child in care.\n\nThe report stated \"undue deference\" was shown to the politician, who had \"unrestricted access\" to the child, with \"little if any thought given to any child protection issues\".\n\nNo inquiries were made into staff concerns, and the council has accepted it \"failed to take adequate steps in response\" to them.\n\nFormer PM Tony Blair had nominated Lord Janner for a peerage\n\nThe inquiry also examined the Labour Party's response to the allegations, saying it was not enough for it to leave it to the police and CPS due to Lord Janner's \"privileged and powerful position\".\n\nDavid Evans, the current general secretary, told the inquiry new systems were now in place should any allegations be made against a sitting MP.\n\nThe inquiry also said Lord Janner should have been subject to scrutiny when he was nominated for a peerage by then-prime minister Tony Blair, weeks after sweeping to power in 1997.\n\nMr Blair previously told the inquiry he was aware of the allegations but they were not a \"bar\" as Lord Janner had denied them, and there had not been any charges.\n\nLeicestershire Police said the force would study the report \"scrupulously and examine it for any actions or improvements\".\n\nChief Constable Simon Cole said: \"I would like to reiterate the wholehearted apology I gave in February 2020 to any complainant whose allegations during earlier police investigations into Lord Janner were not responded to as they should have been.\n\n\"It is fair and correct to say that the allegations could and should have been investigated more thoroughly, and Lord Janner could and should have faced prosecution earlier than 2015.\"\n\nLeicestershire County Council leader Nick Rushton said the authority accepted the report's findings.\n\n\"The council at the time simply did not do enough to keep the children in its care safe and for that, I am sorry,\" Mr Rushton said.\n\nA spokesperson for the CPS added: \"The CPS has acknowledged past failings in the way allegations made against Lord Janner were handled. It remains a matter of sincere regret that opportunities were missed to put these allegations before a jury.\"\n\nRichard Scorer, a lawyer at Slater and Gordon - which represented 14 complainants at the inquiry - said: \"Had investigations been conducted properly, it is clear that Lord Janner could have been prosecuted in his lifetime.\n\n\"Sadly the clock cannot be rolled back and the criminal trial of Lord Janner which could and should have taken place will never be possible.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by this story please visit the BBC Action Line.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Brewdog promotion which said customers could win \"solid gold\" beer cans was misleading, the advertising watchdog has found.\n\nThe Scottish brewer offered shoppers the chance to find a gold can hidden in cases sold from its online store.\n\nBut some winners complained to the Advertising Standards Authority after they discovered the cans were not solid gold, but were gold-plated instead.\n\nThe ASA upheld the complaints and said three adverts were misleading.\n\nIn response to the ASA's ruling, James Watt, co-founder and chief executive at Brewdog, said: \"We hold our hands up, we got the first gold can campaign wrong.\"\n\nThe ruling comes amid heavy criticism of Brewdog in recent months, with a letter from ex-workers stating former staff had \"suffered mental illness\" as a result of working for the craft beer brewer.\n\nIt made a number of allegations, including that Brewdog fostered a culture where staff were afraid to speak out about concerns.\n\nThe ASA said it received 25 complaints in relation to three social media adverts stating its can prize was made from \"solid gold\".\n\nIn its ruling, the watchdog said it \"understood the prize consisted of 24 carat gold-plated replica cans\", but added \"because the ads stated that the prize included a solid gold can when that was not the case, we concluded the ads were misleading\".\n\nThe ASA said it had told Brewdog not to state or imply that consumers would receive a solid gold can when it was not the case.\n\nOne of the competition winners, Mark Craig, still contests the value of the gold-plated can that he won and believes it is \"not worth anything\".\n\nMr Craig, from Lisburn, Northern Ireland, told the BBC: \"They are meant to be there for the little guy and this is two fingers to their customers who are the ones who were taken by this.\"\n\nHe criticised the company's apology, which he said appeared to be encouraging people to buy more beer in a \"new competition run correctly this time\".\n\nBrewdog said its social media posts which contained the words \"solid gold\" did so in error and repeated that mistakes were a result of miscommunication between its marketing and social media teams.\n\nAs well as complaints over the prize's authenticity, some winners questioned how much the can was worth. Brewdog claimed it was valued at £15,000.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Watt said he would reflect on how to become a better leader\n\nMr Watt said the company stood by its valuation which it previously said was based on several factors, including the manufacturing price, metal and quality of the product.\n\nThe ASA said Brewdog told investigators that a single 330ml can, made with the equivalent 330ml of pure gold, would have a gold value of about $500,000 (£363,000).\n\nThe ASA said it considered a general audience \"was unlikely to be aware of the price of gold, how that would translate into the price of a gold can, and whether that was inconsistent with the valuation as stated in the ad\".\n\nThe brewer has been heavily criticised in recent months with allegations being made about its culture, which has led to an independent review of the organisation.\n\nSo far, more than 100 interviews with former staff have \"either taken place or are scheduled for the coming weeks\" as part of the review, according the firm's website.\n\nMr Watt has previously apologised to former staff and said their complaints would help make him a better chief executive.\n\nHowever, in a recent interview with the Daily Telegraph, he said the brewer \"should have been clearer about the high-performance culture\" and suggested there was a \"mismatch of expectations\" among certain employees.\n\nThe BBC previously reported that a note from Mr Watt to staff said it was \"fair to say that this type of fast-paced and intense environment is definitely not for everyone, but many of our fantastic long-term team members have thrived in our culture\".\n\nAs well as the ruling on Brewdog, the ASA also upheld a complaint against an advert by plant-drink maker Alpro on the side of a bus.\n\nThe complainant believed commercial almond farming caused environmental damage and challenged whether the product was \"good for the planet\" as stated.\n\nThe ASA said there was \"no qualification\" to the claim and \"little context provided\" in the ad to interpret it.\n\nIt added that Alpro revealed the almonds used in its almond drink were cultivated in a sustainable way and not sourced from regions with environmentally damaging processes.", "A Nottingham student who believes she was injected with a needle during a night out told BBC Breakfast she suffered \"terrifying\" memory loss and was \"limping\" the next day.\n\nZara Owen, 19, told the BBC's Charlie Stayt she reported the incident to the police, but hasn't received any treatment or testing.\n\nSuperintendent Kathryn Craner from Nottinghamshire Police told BBC Breakfast that they were looking into multiple reports of people being \"spiked physically\". One man has been arrested \"on suspicion of possession of class A and class B and cause [to] administer poison or noxious thing with intent to injure, aggrieve and annoy\".\n\nShe added people should always report suspicious activity, and said the police would always take action in relation to those.", "Prosecutors say the accused wanted to fight in Yemen, which has been gripped by civil war for years\n\nTwo former German soldiers have been arrested on suspicion of trying to form a terrorist mercenary force to fight in Yemen's civil war, prosecutors say.\n\nArend-Adolf G and Achim A face terrorism charges after police raids in southern Germany on Wednesday.\n\nThey allegedly planned to recruit up to 150 men for a private army made up of former police officers and soldiers.\n\nThey wanted to offer their services to Saudi Arabia's government for illegal missions in Yemen, prosecutors said.\n\nYemen has been racked by a civil war between the Saudi Arabia-backed internationally recognised government and the armed Houthi movement since 2014.\n\nSaudi Arabia entered the civil war in 2015 shortly after the capture of the capital, Sanaa, by the Houthis, who are supported by Iran.\n\nThe accused former soldiers wanted Saudi Arabia to finance their private operations in Yemen, prosecutors in Germany said. The men tried to approach Saudi Arabian government agencies but they received no response and their efforts were unsuccessful.\n\nIn a statement, federal prosecutors outlined extensive and serious allegations against the two \"ringleaders\", who had \"military knowledge and skills\".\n\nThe prosecutors allege that Arend-Adolf G and Achim A decided to set up a mercenary force under their exclusive command at the start of 2021. They planned to pay each member of their unit a wage of about €40,000 (£33,700; $46,400) a month for their services, prosecutors said.\n\nArend-Adolf G had allegedly already tried to recruit at least seven people.\n\nGermany's Spiegel magazine, which first reported the arrests, said the mercenary force was supposed to attack and capture areas held by the Houthi rebels in Yemen.\n\nArend-Adolf G and Achim A \"expected civilians to be killed and injured in connection with fighting\" in Yemen, prosecutors said.\n\nProsecutors also suspect the accused men wanted to advertise their military service for deployments in other conflicts.\n\nCiting sources, Spiegel said a tip from Germany's Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) put the investigators on the trail of the men.\n\nOne of the accused was arrested in Munich and the other in Germany's south-western Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district. Their apartments in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg were searched.\n\nThe former soldiers are expected to appear in court on Wednesday for a hearing about pre-trial detention.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. (November 2020) Three Yemeni teens share how their lives have changed", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV footage showing a man believed to be Ali Harbi Ali, accused of the fatal stabbing of Sir David Amess\n\nCCTV footage, obtained by the BBC, has emerged showing the man believed to be the suspect in the killing of MP Sir David Amess.\n\nPolice investigating the attack have been gathering CCTV from shops and businesses near where it is believed the alleged killer lived.\n\nSouthend West MP Sir David, 69, was fatally stabbed in Essex on Friday.\n\nAli Harbi Ali, 25, is being held under the Terrorism Act and officers have until Friday to question him.\n\nWhitehall officials have confirmed the man's name to the BBC.\n\nThe CCTV footage shows a man, believed to be the suspect in the case, walking down Gordon House Road, in the direction of Gospel Oak Overground Station\n\nThe manager of a convenience store, on Highgate Road, said on Saturday police had asked to view his CCTV footage from the previous morning and he then gave them a copy.\n\nOther shops along Highgate Road also confirmed police had visited and gathered CCTV footage from the day of Sir David's death.\n\nSir David, who had been an MP since 1983, was meeting constituents at a church in Leigh-on-Sea when he was stabbed multiple times at around 12:05 BST on Friday.\n\nOfficers investigating the case have searched two addresses in the London area.\n\nA 25-year-old man was arrested at the scene of the killing. Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\n\nFloral tributes to Sir David were being moved on Tuesday from outside Belfairs Methodist Church, where he was attacked, to his constituency office.\n\nA sign from Southend Borough Council outside the church asks those paying tribute to the MP to leave flowers at Iveagh Hall. A book of condolence is open both there and at the Civic Centre in Southend.\n\nOn Monday, Sir David's family, including his wife Julia, visited the church to read some of the messages left in his memory.\n\nLater MPs paid tribute to their colleague and Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the Queen had given her approval for Southend to be granted city status - something for which Sir David had long campaigned.", "Manager Steve Bruce has left Newcastle United by mutual consent just 13 days after the Saudi Arabia-backed £305m takeover of the club was completed.\n\nThe 60-year-old took charge of his 1,000th match as a manager in Sunday's 3-2 defeat by Tottenham - his only game as Magpies boss under the new owners.\n\nBruce said there had been \"highs and lows\" and that he hoped the new owners could \"take the club forward\".\n\nGraeme Jones will take interim charge of the Premier League side.\n\nNewcastle said the appointment of a new manager \"will be announced in due course\".\n\nBruce is understood to have received in the region of £8m after his contract was paid up in full.\n• None Who will be the next Newcastle boss? Assess the candidates and vote\n• None All the reaction to Bruce leaving Newcastle\n• None Newcastle ask fans not to wear 'culturally inappropriate' clothing\n\nThe Tyneside club have made a winless start to the Premier League season and sit second from bottom after three draws from their opening eight games.\n\nBruce was appointed Magpies manager in July 2019 and achieved finishes of 13th and 12th in his two full seasons in charge.\n\n\"I am grateful to everyone connected with Newcastle United for the opportunity to manage this unique football club,\" said Bruce.\n• None Everything you need to know about Newcastle United, all in one place\n• None What Newcastle need to do to stay in Premier League - Danny Murphy analysis\n\n\"I would like to thank my coaching team, the players and the support staff in particular for all their hard work.\n\n\"There have been highs and lows, but they have given everything even in difficult moments and should be proud of their efforts.\n\n\"This is a club with incredible support and I hope the new owners can take it forward to where we all want it to be. I wish everyone the very best of luck for the rest of this season and beyond.\"\n\nBruce had a 27.4% win percentage from 84 league games at Newcastle, which was the ninth best compared to previous Magpies managers who had been in charge of at least 20 Premier League matches.\n\nA Newcastle statement said the club \"would like to place on record its gratitude to Steve for his contribution and wishes him well for the future\".\n\nThe club's next game will be at Crystal Palace at 15:00 BST on Saturday, 23 October.\n\n'It's taken its toll on my whole family'\n\nIn an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Bruce said: \"I think this might be my last job.\n\n\"It's not just about me; it's taken its toll on my whole family because they are all Geordies and I can't ignore that.\n\n\"They have been worried about me… especially my wife Jan.\n\n\"I'm 60 years old and I don't know if I want to put her through it again. We've got a good life so, yeah, this will probably be me done as a manager - until I get a phone call from a chairman somewhere asking if I can give them a hand. Never say never, I've learnt that.\"\n\nHe added: \"I wanted so badly to make it work.\n\n\"I was so proud to be manager of Newcastle United, even in the dark times, I was determined to keep going and to keep this club in the Premier League.\"\n\nNewcastle forward Allan Saint-Maximin, who joined the Magpies in August 2019, is one of the side's key players and he said it had been an \"honour and a privilege\" to have Bruce as his coach.\n\n\"You are, without a doubt, one of the most gentle people that I have ever met in the world of football,\" wrote Saint-Maximin on social media.\n\n\"You have been a man of your word, a caring man and a fair man who never hesitated to protect us. I will never forget how you treated me, for that I will be forever grateful.\"\n\nBut, having managed the club himself on an interim basis at the end of the 2008-09 season, Shearer added he felt some sympathy for those working under previous owner Mike Ashley.\n\n\"I think it was right for both parties,\" the former England striker told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"As tough as it will be, Steve's big enough and strong enough to know you have to take criticism when you don't win games. And he hasn't won any games this season.\n\n\"It was an almost impossible club to manage in the circumstances. Every manager who's been in over the last 14 years has found it very, very difficult.\"\n\nBruce's appointment under former Newcastle owner Ashley was met with criticism from fans and he has failed to win them over during his time on Tyneside.\n\nDuring his final game against Spurs, some Magpies fans sang, 'We want Brucey out' as they made the new owners aware about their feelings about his position.\n\n\"Fantastic news, I think every single Newcastle United fan is over the moon with this,\" supporter Alex Hurst from The True Faith podcast told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"It's been a long time coming, arguably it should have happened at least a week earlier but I think we're not going to worry too much about that now.\n\n\"It's a new era for the football club and it was essential that Steve Bruce was moved on.\"\n\nHe added: \"No wins this season and, quite simply, if you look at Steve Bruce's record this season but also over the last 38 games as a whole, I think they've won seven of those 38 games, very few football managers in any division in any country would be able to survive that sort of record.\n\n\"To put it simply, I think he was yesterday's man. He might have been a good manager 20 years ago but he's not any more.\"\n\nFormer Newcastle defender Steven Taylor spent 13 years at the club between 2003 and 2016 and he had sympathy for Bruce as well as other managers who had been at the club during Ashley's reign.\n\n\"The upstairs hierarchy were the ones that were controlling everything that was going on,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"There are previous managers that I've played under who didn't want to play certain players, they got told to play these players and that's how it was at the football club at the time. It has been difficult.\"\n\nBruce disappointment may come with a sense of relief - analysis\n\nIt was always Steve Bruce's dream job to take charge of Newcastle United but he has received a lot of criticism from the supporters, a lot of abuse which I know he feels has gone too far at times.\n\nI think he is a realist. He would have said the takeover from a footballing sense is the best thing for Newcastle United Football Club in terms of the investment it will undoubtedly bring.\n\nI think he is also a realist in that he knew that it would probably mean that they'd want to bring in their own manager and I think in that sense what will be, will be.\n\nYes he'll be disappointed, any manager would be to lose his job, but I think when he reflects there might be an element of relief as well because of the criticism and abuse that he has received, that he's no longer in the firing line.\n\nIt became quite clear at the weekend that the supporters were not going to tolerate such a position for much longer, it's very very hard for any manager to survive in those sort of circumstances.", "Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, were found by a search party of loved ones, two days after a gathering to celebrate the older sister's birthday\n\nA self-styled \"black magician\" has been removed from Facebook and Instagram after a BBC investigation exposed his influence on the killer of two sisters.\n\nDanyal Hussein, 19, killed Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman in a park in Wembley, north London, in June 2020.\n\nThe BBC has previously shown how Hussein was active on an occult forum until hours before his arrest.\n\nThe trial heard of a \"demonic\" pact where Hussein committed to sacrificing women in return for money and power.\n\nSentencing is due to take place on 28 October.\n\nThe online forum, of which Hussein was a member, is run by an American occultist called EA Koetting, who provides instructions for such pacts and has encouraged murder.\n\nKoetting is from Utah and his real name is Matthew Lawrence. He has convictions for drugs and weapon possession offences.\n\nHe uses mainstream social media to advertise and recruit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC uncovers evidence about the Satanic forums that inspired killer Danyal Hussein\n\nThe \"pact\", in which Hussein committed to killing women, was addressed to the \"mighty king Lucifuge Rofocale\", believed by the killer to be a powerful demon.\n\nKoetting promotes the idea that people can enter into pacts with the demon, telling followers that action will be required from them.\n\nThe BBC showed parallels between Koetting's public instructions about such pacts and what Hussein did, including what the killer requested and how the document was signed.\n\nHussein remained on the forum for two years, and sought advice from others on demonic pacts.\n\nThe BBC found that he was last active on the forum shortly before detectives raided his family home.\n\nSome of Koetting's written works openly discuss and encourage murder.\n\nOne of his texts, which he recently promoted on YouTube, advises people to study terrorist methods, quotes the moors murderer Ian Brady, and states: \"Always remember the first rule of murder: never kill a person that you have a reason to kill.\"\n\nThe text was written for an American Satanist group, Tempel ov Blood, whose violent material has appeared as an influence on seven young men recently convicted of neo-Nazi terror offences in a series of trials in the UK.\n\nPart of a larger British organisation, Order of Nine Angles, its extremist material advocates child murder and sexual violence, with members appearing at the sites of dreadful crimes to celebrate what happened.\n\nAn image of Matthew Lawrence who uses the name EA Koetting, taken in a US prison\n\nKoetting accepts being in the organisation.\n\nOne book states he \"joined with an American cell of the notorious British Order of Nine Angles\" and \"shoved himself beyond morality and humanity\".\n\nKoetting's pages on Facebook and Instagram, which had thousands of followers, had been left online, but the social media giant said they had now been removed for violating its \"dangerous individuals and organisations policies\".\n\nA spokesperson for YouTube said: \"Hate has no place on YouTube and we are deeply saddened by this terrible incident.\n\n\"We have strict policies to ensure that our platform is not used to incite violence and we are in the process of carefully reviewing the content against these stringent rules.\"\n\nKoetting has never responded directly to the BBC's questions, but following publication of our investigation he posted online saying: \"I'm bringing the battle to their doorsteps and I fly faster than the wind.\"", "The business secretary has denied that individuals will bear the cost of changing to greener ways of living.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng said it was \"not true\" to say that the move to more environmentally friendly transport and energy production would \"cost us\".\n\nThe government plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to reach a target of net zero by 2050.\n\nThe Treasury has hinted tax rises may be necessary as revenues from fossil fuel-related activity dry up.\n\nAchieving net zero means the UK will no longer be adding to the total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Without action on climate change, the world faces a hotter planet, rising sea levels and extreme weather.\n\nThe Treasury said hitting the target would put pressure on public spending, but added \"the biggest impact\" came from \"the erosion of tax revenues from fossil fuel-related activity\".\n\nLast year, £37bn was raised through fuel duty and vehicle excise duty, but is believed the transition to electric vehicles could create a temporary tax vacuum by the 2040s, meaning new revenue-raising measures would be needed.\n\nA net-zero report by the Treasury said future governments \"may need to consider changes to existing taxes and new sources of revenue\" rather than relying on higher borrowing.\n\nIt also warned policies to support the adoption of electric vehicles \"may disproportionately benefit\" richer people, with those on lower incomes potentially bearing the brunt of increased costs.\n\n\"As higher income households drive more and are likely to adopt EVs [electric vehicles] earlier, the costs and benefits of EV adoption are likely to fall on higher income households first,\" the Treasury report said.\n\n\"Conversely, any changes to the cost of running an internal combustion engine vehicle will fall disproportionately on lower-income households, so there could be a trade-off in some instances.\"\n\nAsked on the BBC's Today programme if there was a danger that poorer people could lead to \"subsiding the green guilt of the rich\", Mr Kwarteng replied: \"No, I don't accept that at all.\"\n\nHe added that the transition to electric vehicles was \"successful and we should be doing it more rapidly\", but admitted there was still \"range anxiety\" over how far such vehicles could travel.\n\nMr Kwarteng said up to £90bn by 2030 of private investment would help the country to source more energy from renewables, with \"evidence\" for such forecasts based on previous investments of £100bn being ploughed into offshore wind farms since 2012.\n\n\"It's not a heroic assumption to say that by 2030, we would have attracted an additional £90bn,\" he said.\n\nAs well as plans to encourage more people to drive electric cars, the government is also going to offer subsidies of £5,000 from next April for people to switch from gas boilers to low-carbon heat pumps.\n\nHeat pumps extract warmth from the air, the ground or water - a bit like a fridge operating in reverse - and are powered by electricity. An air-source heat pump costs between £6,000 and £18,000, depending on the type installed and the size of a property.\n\nAlthough up to 25 million UK homes have gas boilers, the government's grants will fund just 90,000 pumps over three years. Critics have said the plans do not go far enough.\n\nMr Kwarteng added the cost of heat pumps could \"come down\" as more companies began manufacturing them, which would see more people \"adopt them\".\n\n\"People will have seen that in their own lives. A few years ago with things like iPhones, at the beginning they were very, very expensive. Of course, the unit cost, as the private sector invests in producing these things, comes down,\" he said.\n\nThe recently released iPhone 13 handset is currently priced at £779 on Apple's website.\n\nMr Kwarteng admitted it was a \"lot of money\" to install a heat pump, adding: \"No-one is saying we are imposing heat pumps on anybody.\n\n\"What we are trying to do is encourage behaviour.\"\n\nThe government's net-zero plans come as global leaders prepare to meet in Glasgow to negotiate how to curb climate change.", "Food and drink firms are seeing \"terrifying\" price rises, a sector trade body has said, warning of a knock-on effect for consumers.\n\nFood and Drink Federation boss Ian Wright told MPs inflation is between 14% and 18% for hospitality firms.\n\nThe price rises for food firms' ingredients will lead to consumer price rises, he said, and described the situation as concerning.\n\nThe UK's rate of inflation was 3.2% in August and is expected to rise further.\n\nBank of England governor Andrew Bailey recently warned it \"will have to act\", suggesting that UK interest rates may soon rise from the historic low of 0.1%.\n\nMr Wright told MPs on the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy select committee: \"Inflation is a bigger scourge than anything else because it discriminates against the poor.\"\n\nThe Office for National Statistics will publish the latest inflation figures for September on Wednesday. It is expected to rise further above the Bank of England's target of 2% for longer than previously thought.\n\nMake UK, the manufacturers' organisation, said that inflation was becoming \"baked in\" among its members.\n\nStephen Phipson, chief executive at Make UK, told MPs that while there was a welcome rise in demand, many manufacturers are looking at 30% to 40% average increases in material costs.\n\n\"When people are able to get hold of materials they are passing those costs on which does imply to us that inflation is more or less baked in at this stage now,\" he said.\n\n\"This is not a transitory inflationary demand we are seeing really serious issues now in terms of price increases.\"\n\nDes Gunewardena, chief executive of high-end restaurant group D&D London, says his business has seen half of its costs rise, including surging energy prices.\n\nHe says staff shortages are his \"number one issue\" and has increased salaries by 10%.\n\nThe business has 1,700 employees across the UK and is currently 150 staff short, which he said could lead to a \"nightmare situation\" in the busier December period.\n\nTable covers have been reduced from 400 on a Friday night at his Quaglino's restaurant to between 300 and 350 due to staff shortages.\n\nHowever, he said the restaurants have seen increased customer spending, so he is stocking up on specific champagne brands ahead of time, to pre-empt possible supply problems.\n\n\"I think we'll have a very strong Christmas so there's no need to panic yet, but I expect further inflation in January when there won't be the same spending to offset the extra costs\".\n\nAmid concerns about deliveries of food, fuel and other items in the run-up to Christmas, the government is taking steps to address the shortage of HGV drivers.\n\nThe shortage has been blamed on several factors, including Covid, Brexit and tax changes.\n\nThe government introduced temporary visas for 5,000 lorry drivers to work in the UK, although only just over 20 of the 300 applications have been approved so far, according to Conservative Party chairman Oliver Dowden.\n\nDuncan Buchanan, policy director at the Road Haulage Association (RHA), told the select committee that the government's visa scheme to ease driver shortages had been \"designed to fail\".\n\n\"Reports haven't really eased at all things are not visibly getting better at this stage,\" he said.\n\nRegarding the government's measures to try to ease the crisis, Mr Buchanan said \"visually on the ground that is not having an effect\".\n\nA survey by the RHA of its members estimated there was now a shortage of more than 100,000 qualified drivers in the UK.\n\n\"The consumer is really going to visualise this in terms of reduced choice. We have supply chain disruption but that doesn't mean we are going to run out of food,\" Mr Buchanan added.", "Managers of community care services supporting more than 15,000 people in England, say acute staff shortages are forcing them to turn down new clients.\n\nThe National Care Forum of mainly not-for-profit organisations, says care providers are having to make tough decisions about who they can help.\n\nLast week health bosses said the care shortage meant more patients judged fit to go home were stuck in hospital.\n\nThe government is promising extra money to train and recruit new care workers.\n\nCare providers are facing acute problems in recruiting and retaining frontline staff for a variety of reasons including burnout from the pandemic and higher pay rates being available elsewhere as the economy picks up.\n\nManagers told researchers many existing staff were struggling with an increased workload and wanted to quit.\n\nResearchers for National Care Forum (NCF), together with the Outstanding Managers Network, questioned 340 managers and said their answers highlighted the \"stark reality\" in the care sector.\n\nBetween them, those questioned employ more than 21,000 staff who care for more than 15,000 people at home or in care homes.\n\nThe findings suggest that they have nearly a fifth of positions vacant, with backroom staff having to fill in as frontline carers.\n\nMore than two thirds said they were having to stop or limit services.\n\nThese pressures are resulting in having to say no to new clients, including those being discharged from hospital, researchers say.\n\nIn other instances, managers say they have had to hand home-care contracts back to councils.\n\nThe researchers estimate that, between them, they have turned down nearly 5,000 requests for help in the past six weeks.\n\nHospitals are already warning of the knock on effect this is having on them, and managers fear that with existing workers exhausted, this may be just the beginning of the staffing crisis.\n\nOne manager told the researchers it was \"heartbreaking, turning down 10 plus packages of care that are needed a day\".\n\nAnother, in the same position, said: \"Sadly, have not got enough staff to look after them safely\".\n\nAnother was worried about financial viability, having increased wages to compete for staff, without any increase in funding.\n\nA fourth was \"seriously considering having to close\".\n\nNCF chief executive, Vic Rayner, said the findings were \"uncomfortable reading and offer evidence of the stark reality\".\n\n\"Providers are having to make very difficult decisions about who they can support, sometimes resulting in people with high or complex needs not getting access to the care and support they desperately need,\" Mr Rayner added.\n\nSeparate research, last week, suggested that more care jobs are unfilled than before the pandemic.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, has called the situation \"dire\" and particularly worrying with winter about to put extra pressure on services.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said the government was providing at least £500m to support the care workforce as part of the £5.4bn to reform social care.\n\n\"We are also working to ensure we have the right number of staff with the skills to deliver high quality care to meet increasing demands,\" said the statement.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Floods are causing havoc in India and Nepal\n\nMore than 180 people have died after heavy rainfall triggered flash floods in Nepal and two Indian states - Uttarakhand and Kerala.\n\nHomes were submerged or crushed by rocks swept into them by landslides.\n\nAt least 88 people died in Nepal and 55 in Uttarakhand, including five from a single family, with dozens more missing in both nations.\n\nRains further south in India's Kerala state also triggered deadly floods, leaving another 42 dead there.\n\nIn Nepal the victims included a family of six, among them three children, whose house was buried in a sudden deluge of soil and debris.\n\nThe worst-affected areas are Panchthar district in east Nepal, and Ilam and Doti in west Nepal.\n\nRescuers were struggling to reach 60 people stranded for two days in the village of Seti in west Nepal, Reuters reported.\n\nNepal's government is giving $1,700 (£1,220) to the families of each victim of the floods.\n\nIn the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand schools have been closed and religious and tourist activities suspended.\n\nThe Ganges burst its bank in Rishikesh and the popular Nainital region was severely affected.\n\nUttarakhand, which normally sees up to 30.5mm (1.2in) of rain for the whole of October, recorded 328mm in a 24-hour period this week.\n\nBut the Indian Meteorological Department says the rainfall is now easing.\n\nUttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami announced a compensation of 400,000 rupees (£3,800; $5,300) for the families of those who have died and a further 190,000 rupees for those whose homes were destroyed.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his condolences on Twitter: \"I am anguished by the loss of lives due to heavy rainfall in parts of Uttarakhand. May the injured recover soon.\"\n\nOverflowing rivers have swept away bridges as here in Chalthi, Uttarakhand\n\nWhile attributing the heavy rains to the climate crisis, experts have also cited hydro-power projects in the higher reaches of the Himalayas, and excessive and often unchecked construction on steep slopes which cause damage to the region's fragile ecology.\n\nExperts also say higher temperatures have meant lesser snow in the Himalayas - and this, coupled with heavy rains, is pushing large volumes of water downstream, triggering flash floods.\n\nThe southern coastal state of Kerala has also seen heavy rain since Friday.\n\nThousands of people have been moved to safety, with more than 1,600 homes destroyed or damaged.", "Molnupiravir is one of the antiviral drugs Image caption: Molnupiravir is one of the antiviral drugs\n\nThe UK government has announced deals for Covid-19 antivirals which it says could be groundbreaking this winter.\n\nAntivirals are treatments used to either treat those who are infected with a virus or protect high-risk people who may have been exposed to the virus.\n\nThe two new treatments are molnupiravir from Merck (MSD) and PF-07321332/ritonavir from Pfizer.\n\nThe two new antivirals are expected to be given to those most at risk from the virus, helping reduce the severity of symptoms and ease pressure on the NHS over winter, the government says.\n\nBoth first need to be evaluated by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).\n\nA recent interim clinical trial results suggested that molnupiravir cuts the risk of hospitalisation or death by about half.\n\nChair of the Antivirals Taskforce Eddie Gray said: \"This is a very important development in our mission to find antivirals for those exposed to Covid-19, supporting the renowned vaccination programme and the NHS over the coming months.\"", "People are taking out more money when they visit ATMs, with the average amount climbing more than £10 to just under £80 in the last two years.\n\nBut they're using cash machines 40% less than before and withdrawing £44 a month less.\n\nWithdrawals are now nearly £100m less a day than in 2019, said cash machine network Link.\n\n\"Covid has turbocharged the switch to digital,\" said Nick Quin, head of financial inclusion at the network.\n\nBefore the pandemic, each adult in the UK visited a cash machine on average three times a month, taking out on average £66.99. That amount has climbed to £78.54.\n\nHowever, 18 months after the coronavirus crisis started, visits are now less than twice a month.\n\nThat means the total average amount each month withdrawn per person has fallen £44, from £200.97 to £157.08.\n\nThe total value of Link ATM withdrawals is currently running at around £1.6bn a week, compared with around £2.2bn in 2019.\n\nMeanwhile the amount people can spend on a contactless card rocketed to £100 earlier this month, after climbing to £45 in April 2020.\n\n\"Crucially, even though we're withdrawing almost £100m less per day, millions still rely on cash, especially in the most deprived areas of the country,\" said Mr Quin.\n\n\"It is important we continue to protect access to cash across the country.\"\n\nThe latest Financial Lives survey from the Financial Conduct Authority showed that more than five million people rely on cash every day.\n\nLink's new figures suggest that some wealthier parts of Edinburgh and London have shown a fall in cash machine use by as much as 60%.\n\nBut there remains a greater reliance on cash in areas such as Liverpool, Bradford and Birmingham where the fall in ATM usage is considerably smaller.\n\nLink said it heard from more 400 communities this year wanting better cash access.\n\nIt has installed more than 70 machines across the country in response to those requests and a further 30 in areas identified as lacking cash access.\n\nIt said it is encouraging people to speak up if they find it difficult to access cash free of charge.\n\n\"It is important we continue to protect access to cash across the country,\" said Mr Quin.\n\nLink said the number of ATMs has not dropped as quickly as cash usage.\n\nSince the beginning of the pandemic, the number of free-to-use ATMs has dropped 9% from 45,000 to 41,000.\n\nIn July the Financial Conduct Authority warned that people living in rural areas are having to travel further to find somewhere to withdraw and deposit cash free of charge.\n\nThe City watchdog said almost every urban resident has access to a bank, building society, post office or ATM within two kilometres of their home, but only three-quarters of the UK rural population has similar access.\n\nIt is considering stronger requirements of the sector to ensure the millions of people who rely on notes and coins have access to it.\n\nMeanwhile the charity Age UK said that people required the same guarantee of access to cash as they did for running water, electricity and the post.\n\nAbout 2.4 million people aged 65-and-over rely on cash in their daily lives, it said.\n\nThe charity warned that many would face being excluded from society if they could not get hold of notes and coins.\n\nConstituency areas with the smallest percentage declines in the volume of cash withdrawals:\n\n* based on figures from Link comparing August 2019 with August 2021\n\nConstituency areas with the biggest percentage declines in the volume of cash withdrawals:\n\n* based on figures from Link comparing August 2019 with August 2021", "One home was completely destroyed in the blast in Ayr\n\nDozens of people will spend a third night away from home after an explosion at a property in Ayr.\n\nFour houses in Gorse Park, Kincaidston, are likely to be demolished while 35 others are damaged or strewn with debris.\n\nA family of four remains in hospital after the blast on Monday, the cause of which is still being investigated.\n\nPolice Scotland said it was too early to determine whether it had been caused by gas.\n\nEngineers from Scottish Gas Networks (SGN) remained at the scene on Wednesday.\n\nA 43-year-old woman and a 16-year-old boy are being treated for serious injuries at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.\n\nA 47-year-old man is in the city's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital while an 11-year-old boy is in the adjoining Royal Hospital for Children.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, South Ayrshire Council confirmed residents of 46 properties could safely return to their homes.\n\nWork is ongoing to re-establish gas supply in the wider area\n\nOf the properties that will be left standing, four have been \"significantly\" damaged and will need extensive repairs before householders can return, the council said.\n\nOthers were damaged by debris and some are not safe to access due to broken windows or debris strewn across gardens or inside properties.\n\nThe council said teams were working to remove debris, but that some people could return to their homes while their next-door neighbours could not.\n\nWork is ongoing to re-establish gas supply to the wider area.\n\nEmergency services will decide whether people can return to their homes\n\nCouncil leader Peter Henderson said: \"I know that council teams, the emergency services and partners have been working tirelessly to help as many people as possible to return to their homes.\n\n\"This is no easy task and I am relieved that their painstaking work has allowed some families to get back home today. Of course, it's still very early days and the devastation caused by this tragic event will take considerable time to rectify.\n\n\"We are committed to working alongside our communities and partners to support them through the aftermath of this terrible event.\"\n\nEarlier, the deputy leader of South Ayrshire Council, Brian McGinley, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that some residents were back in their homes, some were staying with family and friends and others were in hotels.\n\n\"We need to realise that this has been a very major incident, it's a very demanding and technical situation,\" he said.\n\n\"Clearly we're working as fast and as hard as we can to make sure everybody is safe, that everyone's needs are met. But it's going to take a long time for this community to recover.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Aileen 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\nMr McGinley added: \"Volunteers are providing rest and food for local people and emergency services - they have clothes, drinks and foodstuffs available. Some people have been a bit traumatised by it so they can come down, have a cup of tea and chat to people about it.\"\n\nThe council also said it had been overwhelmed by donations from the public and offers of help from local businesses.\n\nA hub for residents affected by the incident and emergency service workers has been set up at Kincaidston Community Pavilion.\n\nOne community worker told the BBC that about 120 residents were initially unable to return to their homes following the explosion.\n\n\"[They] had to register to say what location they were in approximate to the explosion and then they could get let back in their houses,\" he said. \"We had kids in getting their evening meals.\n\n\"As far as I'm led to believe one of the local hotels has put some of the residents up, that was [Tuesday] afternoon - I don't know what the situation is now.\"\n\nHe said the centre had received donations from local businesses, including takeaways, supermarkets, bakers and butchers to support displaced people.\n\n\"It's been quite hectic but the emergency services are very appreciative of what we've done for them - the community has rallied round.\"\n\nA total of 35 homes were damaged or strewn with debris\n\nScottish Fire and Rescue Service area commander Ian McMeekin described the aftermath of the explosion as \"extremely challenging\".\n\nAt its height, nine appliances responded to the explosion, which happened shortly after 19:00 on Monday, as well as urban search and rescue teams.\n\nMr McMeekin said: \"There is significant damage to the properties and the surrounding area.\"\n\nHe also thanked the local community for their \"support and understanding\".\n\nResidents needing support following the blast have been urged to contact 0300 123 0900.\n\nThe gas distribution company SGN said it would continue to work with \"expert parties\" in the coming days to establish the cause of the explosion.\n\nA temporary, above-ground gas pipeline has been installed for homes in Kincaidston.\n\nThe company said: \"We'd like to reiterate our reassurance to the local community that the gas network across the area remains safe and secure to use.\n\n\"Our engineers have carried out full safety checks in the area to ensure the safety of all the homes close to the damaged properties.\n\n\"We're aware some residents may have turned off their gas supply at the meter as a result of the incident.\n\n\"If this applies to you, then our engineers are available to visit your property and safely turn your gas supply back on.\"", "Downing Street says it is \"keeping a very close eye\" on rising Covid cases - but the cabinet has not yet discussed rolling out its Plan B to control coronavirus in England this winter.\n\nDaily cases have been above 40,000 for seven days in a row, with 43,738 new Covid cases reported on Tuesday.\n\nAnother 223 deaths have been recorded, the highest since March, although daily figures are often bigger on Tuesdays.\n\nPM Boris Johnson has told the cabinet the UK faces \"a difficult winter\".\n\nUnder the government's winter plan, if the measures currently in place are not enough to prevent \"unsustainable pressure\" on the NHS, then steps like making face coverings mandatory in some settings and introducing vaccine passports could be considered as part of Plan B.\n\nThe prime minister told ministers the government had \"a plan in place to steer the country through this period\" and that people should \"continue to follow the guidance and get their jabs when called upon\".\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson had stressed that the government's autumn and winter plan \"continues to keep the virus under control\".\n\nNo 10 said the government was \"not complacent\" about rising cases but that, due to the vaccination programme, \"the levels we are seeing in both patients admitted to hospital and deaths are far lower than we saw in previous peaks\".\n\nThe seven-day average of new Covid cases in the UK has risen from around 34,000 a day at the beginning of October to 44,145 cases per day.\n\nAnd the number of people in hospital across the UK who have Covid has risen by 10% in a week, from 7,039 on 11 October to 7,749 on Monday.\n\nThe number of deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test reported on Tuesday was the highest since 9 March, although due to reporting lags over the weekend daily figures are often higher on a Tuesday.\n\n\"Clearly we're keeping a very close eye on rising case rates,\" the prime minister's spokesman said.\n\nHe said there were \"no plans\" to use the Plan B contingency measures but stressed that the most important message for the public was \"the vital importance of the booster programme and indeed for those children who are eligible to come forward and get our jab\".\n\nChildren aged 12 to 15 in England will be able to book their jabs at vaccination centres, as well as through school, after concerns about rollout delays.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid told MPs younger teenagers would be able to book their jabs outside of school to \"make the most of half-term\".\n\nEarlier Prof Neil Ferguson, who is a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said it was \"critical\" to accelerate the booster jab programme, as well as for younger teenagers to receive a vaccine.\n\nHe said there was no reason to \"panic right now\" but \"people need to be aware that we have currently higher levels of infection in the community than we've almost ever had during the pandemic\".\n\nOn Tuesday Northern Ireland announced its own autumn and winter plan, which will see face coverings remain a legal requirement in crowded indoor spaces.\n\nThe Welsh government has previously set out its plans for winter, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying Christmas this year was likely to be more normal.\n\nScotland has set out a winter vaccination strategy and already has measures in place such as the requirement of proof of vaccination status at nightclubs and face masks in schools.\n\nMeanwhile, officials say they are monitoring a new descendant of the Delta variant of Covid, which is causing a growing number of infections.\n\nDowning Street said that there was \"no evidence to suggest it is more easily spread\".", "Leslie Bricusse, the prolific British songwriter behind many of cinema's biggest hits such as Candyman and Goldfinger, has died at the age of 90.\n\nHis friend Dame Joan Collins described him as \"one of the giant songwriters of our time\".\n\nPetula Clark, who sang You and I from 1968's Goodbye Mr Chips, told BBC Radio 4 he was \"extraordinary\".\n\nBricusse's career spanned 60 years with other credits including Talk to the Animals from Doctor Dolittle.\n\nHe also wrote Candyman and Pure Imagination from the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.\n\nStage impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber released a statement, calling Bricusse \"the most underestimated British songwriter of all time\".\n\nJohn Berlinsgame from Variety told the Today programme that Bricusse was \"not only an artist but a lyrical genius\".\n\nIn his six decade career, he was constantly writing and had a catalogue of more than 1,000 songs to his name.\n\nHe wrote the lyrics to Shirley Bassey's classic Goldfinger, one of the most memorable Bond theme tunes, with long-time collaborator Antony Newley.\n\nBricusse also wrote the lyrics to You Only Live Twice, sung by Nancy Sinatra.\n\nOther collaborations with Newley, Dame Joan's former husband, included Feeling Good, made famous by Nina Simone.\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 joancollinsdbe 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\nBricusse's agent confirmed the songwriter's death \"with a breaking heart\", saying he died in his sleep on Tuesday morning. He had been married to actress Yvonne Romain for more than 60 years.\n\nDame Joan said: \"One of the giant songwriters of our time, writer of Candyman, Goldfinger amongst so many other hits, and my great friend Leslie Bricusse has sadly died today.\n\n\"He and his beautiful Evie have been in my life for over 50 years. I will miss him terribly, as will his many friends.\"\n\nFilm expert Berlinsgame told the Today programme: \"He would be clever, very witty but also heartfelt and emotional.\"\n\nVocalist and actress Clark also told Today: \"He was a dear friend who I've known for many years. He wrote all the time, never stopped. I will miss him… he was extraordinary, I'm just beside myself.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elaine Paige This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStage star Elaine Paige said on Twitter: \"Shocked & saddened by the news that the brilliant & wonderful Leslie Bricusse has died.\n\n\"One of our great songwriters. My first ever professional role was in Roar of the Greasepaint musical [for which Bricusse wrote Feeling Good]. We've been friends for many years.\"\n\nBorn in Pinner, north west London, Bricusse and Newley's fruitful partnership saw them write 1961 musical Stop the World I Want to Get Off and the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, based on Roald Dahl's popular children's book.\n\nDavid Walliams paid tribute to Bricusse's songwriting saying on Twitter: \"The great Gene Wilder sings Leslie Bricusse's magical Pure Imagination from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. It is so beautiful it makes me weep.\"\n\nBricusse also wrote many other musicals including Scrooge and Hook, the latter with Hollywood composer John Williams.\n\nSometimes working under the pseudonym Beverley Thorn, he co-wrote skiffle singer Lonnie Donegan's 1960 hit My Old Man's a Dustman (Ballad of a Refuse Disposal Officer).\n\nCher, Henri Mancini, Leslie Bricusse and Placido Domingo after the Oscar success of Victor/Victoria\n\nBut it was Bricusse's contribution to musicals that defined his career. This included two Oscars for his work. Talk to the Animals won best original song in 1968, while Victor/Victoria - which he wrote with Henry Mancini - won best original song score or adaptation in 1983.\n\nHe won a Grammy in 1963, which he shared with Newley, for the song What Kind of Fool Am I? from Stop the World I Want to Get Off.\n\nAsked in 2015 how he felt about winning his Academy Awards, he said: \"The Oscars are brilliant. If the whole world was run by the Oscar committee it would be a much better place.\n\n\"I have nothing but admiration for them. I'm playing par - I'm 10 nominations and two wins. So if you reckon you win one in five, I'm on par,\" he said.\n\nAlso in 2015, he staged Pure Imagination - The Songs of Leslie Bricusse, a musical revue reflecting on his vast back catalogue.\n\nGene Wilder sang Bricusse's Pure Imagination in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory\n\nThe composer and lyricist was said to be adamant that his musical theatre scores should be sung traditionally, rather than jazzed up to suit a particular producer's whims.\n\nPresenter and former musical theatre star Philip Schofield said: \"I'm so sad to hear of the death of my friend, the brilliant Leslie Bricusse whose songs I loved singing in Dr Dolittle. My love to his family.\"\n\nBricusse described himself in his book Pure Imagination: A Sorta-biography as \"one of the luckiest people I know, second only perhaps to Ringo Starr\".\n\n\"It's not really an autobiography. It's about incidents rather than my entire life, and it's about other people as much as me. I just put down the things I remembered!\"\n\nBricusse stated at the outset of one of his early chapters that he would be dropping names \"like fragrant rose petals\".\n\nThe book was interspersed with anecdotes and quotes from some of his famous friends, including Dame Julie Andrews, Sir Elton John and Sir Michael Caine.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM speaks of “criminal sanctions with tough sentences” for those who add “foul content” to the internet.\n\nSir Keir Starmer is demanding urgent government action to \"clean out the cesspit\" of online extremism.\n\nThe Labour leader offered to work with Prime Minister Boris Johnson to fast track new online safety laws.\n\nMr Johnson promised to get the first stage of the long-awaited Online Safety Bill through the Commons by Christmas.\n\nHe said it would include criminal sanctions for those allowing \"foul content\" - but did not confirm whether that would include company directors.\n\nLabour is calling for the directors of internet firms to be held liable for the content of messages posted on their sites.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said it was now three years since the government had promised a crackdown on online extremism and hate speech but the proposals had yet to begin their passage into law.\n\n\"Meanwhile, the damage caused by harmful content online is worse than ever,\" he told MPs.\n\nHe criticised \"dangerous algorithms\" on Facebook and Instagram - and said he had been shown examples of \"violent Islamism and far-right propaganda\" on TikTok, a social media site popular with teenagers.\n\nBut he added: \"Telegram has been described as the app of choice for extremists.\"\n\nTelegram, which has half-a-billion users, is a messaging app, which also has \"channels\" allowing individuals to broadcast to an unlimited audience.\n\nTelegram has risen to global prominence as an app of choice to co-ordinate global protest movements; but has also been accused of not doing enough to purge extremist channels run by those involved with the so-called Islamic State group and the Capitol Hill riots.\n\nCampaign group Hope Not Hate and the Board of Deputies of British Jews had both said the free-to-use encrypted messaging service had \"facilitated and nurtured a sub-culture that cheerleads terrorists\", Sir Keir said.\n\nThe messages shown to Sir Keir by Hope Not Hate, posted by anonymous Telegram users, include threats to \"kill all women\", \"kill politicians\" as well as homophobic, Islamophobic and racist abuse.\n\nSir Keir said \"tough sanctions\" were needed - but the government's proposed legislation did not include criminal sanctions against the directors of online platforms.\n\nMr Johnson said the government would look at ways to \"toughen up\" the law and promised to \"come down hard on those who irresponsibly allow dangerous and extremist content to permeate the internet\".\n\nHe added: \"What we hope for also, is that no matter how tough the proposals we produce, that the opposition will support it.\"\n\nRegulator Ofcom would have the power to levy fines of up to £18m or 10% of global profits, whichever is higher, on social media platforms which fail to comply with the new online safety laws.\n\nThe regulator would also be given the power to block services from the UK if they are deemed to present a risk of significant harm to UK citizens.\n\nThe bill also includes an option to introduce a new criminal offence for senior managers if further action is needed to ensure compliance - something Labour has been calling for.\n\nAsked if Mr Johnson was now backing criminal sanctions, a Downing Street spokesperson said the government was \"alive\" to the issue, adding: \"We will continue to listen and work with the companies involved.\"\n\nConservative MP and chairman of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport committee Julian Knight said a quicker timetable for the bill risked undermining scrutiny of it.\n\n\"We find ourselves in an unworkable situation where, at the whim of the prime minister at the despatch box, the process of scrutiny of this important piece of legislation to tackle online harms will be undermined. We need urgent clarity on this matter,\" said Mr Knight.\n\nLabour Leader Sir Keir Starmer claimed that the messaging app Telegram is \"the app of choice\" for extremists. But is he right?\n\nExtremist content has been largely forced off mainstream social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and terror groups have moved elsewhere in attempts to spread their ideologies.\n\nTelegram has half a billion users, the vast majority using the service in the way it was designed - to exchange messages, images and video with friends, family, and people with shared interests.\n\nIn countries like Iran, it's one of the few platforms where people can speak freely about social issues and politics without fear of persecution.\n\nHowever, there are significant numbers who use Telegram to share extremist content and illegal pornography.\n\nAttracted by the platform's secret chats with end-to-end encryption and its seemingly relaxed content moderation policies, Telegram became a haven for jihadist groups, earning it the name \"Terrorgram\". Working with international law enforcement agencies, Telegram has been successful in eliminating most jihadist content.\n\nBut other extreme content, including what might be defined as \"terrorist\" is still present. It's easy to find racism, sexist and homophobic abuse, anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism, violent imagery, and encouragement of criminal activity on Telegram from users in the UK and around the world.\n\nTelegram told the BBC that it was \"surprised\" by Sir Keir's statement, saying that \"calls for violence are expressly forbidden on Telegram\".\n\n\"Our moderators routinely remove content that violates this rule using a combination of proactive monitoring of public spaces and user reports,\" the Telegram statement concluded.", "Yat-Sen Chang was jailed for nine years\n\nA former English National Ballet principal dancer who used his \"fame and prestige\" to sexually assault his students has been jailed.\n\nYat-Sen Chang, 50, attacked girls and women at the English National Ballet and Young Dancers Academy in London between December 2009 and March 2016.\n\nChang was previously convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault and one count of assault by penetration.\n\nHe was jailed for nine years at a hearing at Isleworth Crown Court.\n\nChang had joined the English National Ballet in 1993 and was a principal dancer at the company until 2011, performing in productions including The Nutcracker, Coppelia and Sleeping Beauty.\n\nThe Cuban-born star was accused of attacking four females, aged between 16 and 19 at the time, by inappropriately touching them during massages at the schools.\n\nIn victim impact statements read in court one woman revealed she had been left feeling \"vulnerable and numb\" by what happened to her, while another said Chang had ruined \"most of my late teenage years\".\n\n\"I still feel haunted, violated, shamed and humiliated,\" she added.\n\nChang has danced with companies in Cuba and France as well as with the English National Ballet\n\nThe trial heard the \"internationally renowned\" ballet dancer was \"famous and revered\" among his students, but he had \"used his position\" to target his victims.\n\n\"For his part, he trusted that his fame and his position would protect him from complaint, or from consequences of his actions,\" prosecutor Joel Smith said.\n\nDuring sentencing, Judge Edward Connell told Chang he had first used his \"fame and prestige in the ballet world to abuse young women\", and then became \"emboldened when the young women did not report your conduct\".\n\n\"Your offending has had a profound impact on all your victims and you have demonstrated no remorse for your appalling behaviour,\" he said.\n\nChang had denied the charges, describing himself as \"a hero in the ballet world\" and saying he had \"no idea\" why the allegations were being made against him.\n\nHis barrister, Kathryn Hirst, said \"he maintains that he is not guilty in these matters\" but \"accepts the jurors' verdicts\".\n\nThe dancer, who had been living in the German port city of Kiel during the trial, was found not guilty of one count of assault by penetration.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "North Korea has confirmed it successfully tested a new submarine-launched ballistic missile on Tuesday.\n\nState news outlet KCNA said the missile had \"advanced control guidance technologies\", which could make it harder to track.\n\nNorth Korea has carried out a flurry of weapons tests in recent weeks, launching what it said were hypersonic and long-range weapons.\n\nThe UN prohibits it from testing ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons.\n\nBallistic missiles are considered more threatening than cruise missiles because they can carry more powerful payloads, have a longer range and can fly faster.\n\nNorth Korean state media on Wednesday said its latest missile had new \"controlling and homing\" technology which allowed it to move laterally. It was also capable of \"gliding and jumping movement\". It released pictures of the missile as well.\n\nIt said it was fired from the same submarine that launched an older missile in a 2016 test.\n\nThis missile was one of many new weapons put on display at a defence exhibition in Pyongyang last week.\n\nReports did not mention leader Kim Jong-un, suggesting he did not attend the test.\n\nOn Tuesday, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said one missile had been launched from the port of Sinpo, in the east of North Korea where Pyongyang usually bases its submarines.\n\nIt landed in the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, and travelled about 450km (280 miles) at a maximum height of 60km.\n\nIn October 2019, North Korea tested a submarine-launched ballistic missile, firing a Pukguksong-3 from an underwater platform.\n\nAt the time, KCNA said it had been fired at a high angle to minimise the \"external threat\".\n\nHowever, if the missile had been launched on a standard trajectory, instead of a vertical one, it could have travelled about 1,900km. That would have put all of South Korea and Japan within range.\n\nBeing launched from a submarine can also make missiles harder to detect and would allow North Korea to deploy its weapons far beyond the Korean Peninsula.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does North Korea keep launching missiles?\n\nThe latest launch comes as South Korea develops its own weapons, in what observers say has turned into an arms race on the Korean peninsula.\n\nSeoul is holding what is said to be South Korea's largest ever defence exhibition this week. It will reportedly unveil a new fighter jet as well as guided weapons like missiles. It is also due to launch its own space rocket soon.\n\nNorth and South Korea technically remain at war as the Korean War, which split the peninsula into two countries and which saw the US backing the South, ended in 1953 with an armistice.\n\nKim Jong-un said last week that he did not wish for war to break out again. He said his country needed to continue developing weapons for self-defence against enemies, namely the US which he accused of hostility.\n\nMeanwhile, South Korean, Japanese and US intelligence chiefs are meeting in Seoul to discuss North Korea.\n\nThe US envoy to North Korea, Sung Kim, is expected to discuss how to restart dialogue with Pyongyang, including on whether there should be a formal declaration of the end of the Korean War.\n\nThis week he reiterated the stance of US President Joe Biden's administration that it is open to meeting with North Korea without pre-conditions.\n\nPrevious talks between the US and North Korea broke down due to fundamental disagreements on denuclearisation.\n\nThe US wants North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons before sanctions can be eased, but North Korea has so far refused.", "A UK stuntman involved in a serious accident while rehearsing for America's Got Talent: Extreme last week has thanked supporters from hospital.\n\nJonathan Goodwin posted a picture of himself jokingly saying \"na-na-na-na-na to death\" on Instagram on Wednesday.\n\nIt was reported that the 41-year-old got sandwiched between two vehicles suspended in the air before falling to the ground.\n\nHe said he would take a break after the accident left him on \"the brink\".\n\nAccording to TMZ, the stunt involved the Welshman having to free himself from a straitjacket while dangling by his feet between two swinging cars. However, instead of safely dropping between them on to an air mattress below, Goodwin was caught between them and fell to the ground.\n\nA spokesperson for the show confirmed to Variety at the time that he was responsive and had been taken to the hospital.\n\n\"A couple of days ago my life took a complete left turn,\" Goodwin, aka The Dare Devil explained to his Instagram followers in his update.\n\n\"And the outpouring of love from all the corners of the world; from people I didn't even think would know or remember me… has just been astonishing.\"\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 jonathangoodwinofficial This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I have been to the very brink and dodged the worst that a human being can, without fear… because I was protected by love,\" he continued.\n\nAdding: \"To death I say na-na-na-na-na boo boo… and to the rest of you… watch this space. There is a long road to recovery and that won't look like what it did… I may leave the daft [stuff] alone for a while, but I have a lot left to do in this world.\"\n\nHis fiancée, the actor Amanda Abbington tweeted: \"I love you so very, very much. It's actually ridiculous how much I love you, my beautiful loon.\"\n\nBBC News has contacted the show's producers for comment. The show was suspended after the incident.\n\nThe America's Got Talent spin-off features judges Simon Cowell, Terry Crews, former WWE wrestler Nikki Bella and motorsports champion Travis Pastrana.\n\nThe series is due to air in the US on NBC later this year or early next year.\n\nJonathan Goodwin has performed in London's West End as one of The Illusionists\n\nGoodwin, from Pembrokeshire, has appeared on shows including the Discovery Channel's One Way Out and How Not to Become Shark Bait, as well as Channel 4's Balls of Steel, the Jonathan Ross Show and Britain's Got Talent.\n\nIn 2012, he was given his own stunt series, titled The Incredible Mr Goodwin, on UKTV's Watch.\n\nHis on-air stunts have involved him allowing himself to be attacked by a shark, free climbing skyscrapers, and lying on a single nail as a breezeblock is broken on his chest with a sledgehammer. He has also performed \"extreme planking\" (when you hold a plank position for hours at a time) and been \"buried alive\" for entertainment purposes.\n\nLast year, Goodwin, who has performed in London's West End as one of The Illusionists, was also a semi-finalist on America's Got Talent.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "All remaining investigations into allegations of abuse by British soldiers in Iraq have now finished without any prosecutions being brought.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said the Service Police Legacy Investigations - which was looking at the claims - had now \"officially closed its doors\".\n\nThe SPLI's job was to investigate Iraqi civilians' claims of serious criminal behaviour by UK armed forces.\n\nSince it began, it has assessed 1,291 allegations, Mr Wallace said.\n\nThe SPLI was made up of Royal Navy Police and Royal Air Force Police.\n\nIt took charge of investigations in February 2017, after the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT) - which had been looking at them - was shut down.\n\nThe investigations related to the alleged behaviour of UK armed forces in Iraq during the war from 2003 to 2009.\n\nIn a written statement to the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr Wallace said that although 178 allegations had been formally pursued through 55 separate investigations, no soldiers had been prosecuted as a result of the SPLI's work.\n\nAccording to the SPLI, in 2019 five people were referred to the military prosecutor, the Service Prosecuting Authority, but no charges were brought.\n\n\"The vast majority of the more than 140,000 members of our armed forces who served in Iraq did so honourably,\" said Mr Wallace in his statement. \"Many sadly suffered injuries or death, with devastating consequences for them and their families.\"\n\nHe said while some allegations against British troops were credible, others were not.\n\nThe credibility of allegations had been a \"significant challenge throughout the investigations\", he said.\n\n\"However not all allegations and claims were spurious, otherwise investigations would not have proceeded beyond initial examination and no claims for compensation would have been paid.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Defence's investigations into allegations of war crimes will have satisfied few.\n\nThe initial investigations, under IHAT, were criticised by MPs in 2017 who said it empowered law firms to bring cases on an \"industrial scale\". One of those lawyers, Phil Shiner, was later found guilty of misconduct.\n\nVeterans and those still serving were swept up in long, costly and often clumsy investigations, even when some had already been cleared of wrongdoing.\n\nNor did IHAT satisfy those who believed that there were genuine cases to answer.\n\nThe MoD wanted to show it was properly investigating allegations of war crimes. But it did not want those investigations to be conducted by anyone else.\n\nMost importantly, the MoD did not want this to end up in the International Criminal Court in the Hague.\n\nIn 2020 the ICC decided not to pursue a formal investigation into alleged war crimes by British troops in Iraq. But prosecutor Fatou Bensouda still said there was clear evidence that UK forces were responsible for numerous war crimes including illegal killings, torture and rape in Iraq.\n\nMr Wallace added: \"It is sadly clear, from all the investigations the UK conducted, that some shocking and shameful incidents did happen in Iraq. We recognise that there were four convictions of UK military personnel for offences in Iraq including offences of assault and inhuman treatment.\n\n\"The government's position is clear - we deplore and condemn all such incidents.\"\n\nIn 2005, three British soldiers who abused Iraqi civilians were jailed and dismissed from the Army in disgrace.\n\nTwo years later, a soldier was jailed for a year in connection with the death of Iraqi civilian Baha Mousa in September 2003.\n\nIn total, the Ministry of Defence has paid out more than £20 million in compensation settlements for abuse claims from Iraqi nationals.\n• None All but one Iraq war case against UK soldiers dropped", "A Florida man has pleaded guilty to murdering 17 people in a 2018 mass shooting at a high school campus in Parkland, Florida.\n\nNikolas Cruz, 23, also pleaded guilty to 17 counts of attempted murder for those he injured in the attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.\n\nHe faces the possibility of the death penalty or life in prison.\n\nOne of the deadliest school shootings in US history, the incident became a rallying cry for gun control activists.\n\nMr Cruz was 19-years-old when he shot dead 14 students and three employees with an AR-15 rifle at his former school. Another 17 people were wounded.\n\nThe case will now head to a penalty trial in which jurors must determine whether Mr Cruz is spared the death penalty to face life without parole.\n\nJudge Elizabeth Scherer has said she hopes that the case - for which thousands of jurors will have to be screened - can begin in January.\n\nIn court on Wednesday, Judge Scherer asked Mr Cruz how he pleaded to each murder.\n\nFollowing the plea, Mr Cruz tearfully addressed the judge and the victims' families.\n\n\"I am very sorry for what I did and have to live with it every day,\" he said. \"If I were to get a second chance, I would do everything in my power to help others.\"\n\nMr Cruz added that he has \"nightmares\" about his crime and \"can't live with\" himself. He also said that he believes that the US would \"do better if everyone would stop smoking marijuana\".\n\nLawyers representing Mr Cruz had repeatedly said that he would plead guilty if the death penalty was not considered. Last week, his attorney, David Wheeler, told the judge that Mr Cruz's lawyers were asking the court to impose 17 consecutive life sentences for the massacre.\n\nThe offer had been rejected by prosecutors, who in earlier court documents said they would seek his execution and prove that the crime \"was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel\".\n\nFollowing the hearing, Tony Montalto - whose 14-year-old daughter Gina was killed in the shooting - told the Associated Press that Mr Cruz's guilty pleas \"are the first step in the judicial process\".\n\n\"But there is no change for my family,\" he added. \"Our bright, beautiful and beloved daughter Gina is gone while her killer still enjoys the blessing of life in prison.\"\n\nMarch for Our Lives, a gun law reform organisation started by Parkland survivors in the wake of the shooting, said in a statement that it has \"no comment\" on Mr Cruz and \"a guilty plea will not erase the past, and it will not bring us peace\".\n\n\"What is clear is that gun violence is a systemic crisis and a uniquely American epidemic,\" the statement said.\n\nThe organisation added that it is \"appalled and disgusted that policymakers continue to waffle and play games\" rather than implement reforms. \"We are not at peace, we are as angry and determined as ever.\"\n\nLast week, Mr Cruz pleaded guilty to a separate charge of attempted aggravated battery and three other felony charges stemming from an attack on a jail guard nine months after the shooting.\n\nOn Wednesday, Judge Scherer sentenced Mr Cruz to 26 years in prison for the jailhouse assault.\n\nIn a hearing on Friday, he acknowledged that his conviction in the jailhouse assault could become an \"aggravating factor\" in determining whether he will be executed.\n\nAhead of Mr Cruz's guilty plea, Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime was killed in the shooting, told CBS News that he hoped that Mr Cruz would pay for his crimes \"with his life\".\n\n\"My daughter should be living the best years of her life. My son heard his sister get shot and his life is forever impacted. My wife and I had two children that killer took this from us.\"\n\nNikolas Cruz was 19-years-old when he attacked the school\n\nMr Cruz had been expelled from the school in 2017. Students and staff later described him as an \"outcast\" and troublemaker.\n\nHe had previously been investigated by local police and the Department of Children and Family Services after posting evidence of self-harm on the Snapchat app.\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) later admitted it did not properly follow up on a tip-off about Mr Cruz the month before the shooting.\n\nMany of the shooting's survivors went on to become prominent advocates for gun legislation reform and have demanded that action be taken to prevent similar incidents.\n\nIn an event marking the third anniversary of the shooting in February, US President Joe Biden called for Congress to pass gun law reforms, including a ban on assault weapons and an end to legal immunity for gun manufacturers.\n\n\"We owe it to all those we've lost and to all those left behind to grieve to make a change,\" Mr Biden said. \"The time to act is now.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Our kids died in the Parkland school shooting, but we disagree on guns\"", "We’re going to bring our coverage of this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions to a close.\n\nAs we mentioned earlier, the Health Secretary Sajid Javid will hold a press conference in Downing Street at 17:00 BST on the Covid booster vaccination programme and the procurement of antiviral drugs.\n\nYou will find our live coverage and analysis here as it happens.\n\nWith you on board for PMQs were Jennifer Scott, Kate Whannel and Paul Seddon.\n\nThanks for following along with us today.", "Google has unveiled its latest smartphone, containing the tech giant's first self-designed computer chip.\n\nThe Pixel 6 contains Google's \"Tensor\" processor, which it says enables new phone features powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning.\n\nIt is also the first phone in the series with a \"Pro\" model, designed to compete at the high end of the market.\n\n\"The whole goal when we started was to reach this point,\" said Rick Osterloh, Google's head of devices.\n\n\"Really, this is our original vision that we're finally able to get to after building a lot of capabilities both in technology and in product development capabilities,\" he told the BBC.\n\nGoogle owns and operates the Android platform, used by almost every mobile phone maker apart from Apple. But the top end of the Android market has been dominated by other smartphone brands such as Samsung, whose phones can cost more than £1,000.\n\nGoogle's Pixel line has often been priced in the middle of the market.\n\nBut the new Pixel 6 will retail for £599/$599, while the Pro model will cost £849/$899. bringing it closer to the price of competing top-end devices.\n\nThat is the same launch price for the base model as the Pixel 5, which had, Google said at the time, been designed for \"an economic downturn\".\n\n\"Obviously, there's a lot of technology and these are expensive, for sure, but we're trying to offer users good value despite the fact that these are flagships,\" Mr Osterloh said.\n\nBoth the Pixel 6 and Pro are standard form-factor smartphones with a striking large horizontal bar across the upper back of the phone.\n\nThat bar contains all the camera lenses and sensors, instead of putting them off to one side in a camera \"bump\" popular on many modern models.\n\nBoth versions have a 50-megapixel (MP) main camera and a 12MP ultrawide. The Pro model has an additional 48MP camera, giving it a 4x optical zoom.\n\nThe Pro model also has more memory, a higher-resolution screen, and a faster screen refresh rate of up to 120hz - or 120 screen refreshes a second, which can make animations and fast movements appear smoother.\n\nModern smartphones rely heavily on \"computational photography\" to take good, clear photos. It is what gives each phone maker their own distinctive \"look\" to photos.\n\n\"For a long time, Pixel has been known for awesome photography, which is truly a function of our ability to do AI-driven, machine-learning-driven improvements to the camera experience,\" Mr Osterloh said.\n\n\"With this new platform, with Tensor, we've literally designed the platform to to be able to support he most cutting-edge work we have in all aspects of AI.\"\n\nOne of those is what Google calls a \"magic eraser\" - a system where the Photos app will detect distractions in the photo such as someone walking in the background, and try to remove them. The company says it can also be used for things such as power poles or wires, and users can manually select things to remove as well as the automatic system.\n\nAnother new feature is \"face deblur\".\n\nWhen taking a photo with the rear-facing camera, it will use all available cameras and take multiple versions. So if a person is constantly moving - such as Google's example of a young child - the camera will attempt to fix a blurry face by combining all the data, and attempt to figure out what the non-blurred version should look like.\n\nThe new processing power in its latest chip means that technology can now be applied to videos as they are recorded, giving them the same type of style as Pixel's still cameras.\n\nAsked if the new features would make their way to other Android phones, Mr Osterloh said: \"Many of them will only be Pixel\".\n\nHe said while it is possible some might eventually be available on other devices, \"a lot of it really requires this custom architecture and therefore it's likely to be on products that run Tensor for the foreseeable future only\".\n\nGoogle had first teased the existence of the Pixel 6 and Pixel Pro in August - along with its Tensor processor.\n\nUntil now, it has used chips designed by chip firm Qualcomm. But it says the Tensor chip is up to 80% faster than the Pixel 5 from 2020, as well as being power-efficient.\n\nOne significant advantage to its new chip, Google says, is that it can do more on the phone itself, without being connected to the internet - particularly through Google's popular virtual assistant.\n\nFor example, it says that voice transcription - which now uses the Google Assistant - will be faster and more accurate. Users can say \"Hey Google, type\" instead of tapping a button, and can also use voice commands to send messages. The voice system can be used at the same time as the text keyboard.\n\nGoogle's recorder app also leverages the snappier processor to live-transcribe audio recordings as they're made, even when the phone is not connected to the internet.\n\nIt also means that Google's live translation features are snappier than before, as more of the processing is done on the machine itself.\n\nBut it does not mean that Google Assistant will work perfectly offline for privacy campaigners.\n\n\"To be really useful, you need to assume that it's going to use the cloud,\" Mr Osterloh said.\n\n\"The speech recognition part of that workflow will happen on the device... [and] all the dictation\".\n\nBut most people ask for weather, or sports scores or other kinds of information that has to be retrieved from the internet.\n\n\"We're moving more and more workloads from the cloud to the device, we're trying to do that... to make sure the user has the best possible performance. But certainly this indicates a direction for privacy as well.\"", "Ismail Abedi has so far refused to answer questions in case he incriminates himself\n\nThe elder brother of the Manchester Arena suicide bomber has left the UK ahead of an appearance at a public inquiry he had been ordered to attend.\n\nIsmail Abedi, 28, has always refused to answer questions from the inquiry in case he incriminates himself.\n\nIts chairman, Sir John Saunders, had rejected Ismail Abedi's position and demanded he appear as a witness.\n\nThe BBC found him in Manchester, where he still lived, last year and asked him why he was refusing to participate.\n\nAbedi left the UK some weeks ago on a flight to the Middle East, the BBC understands.\n\nHe asked for immunity from prosecution before he would agree to give evidence, but Sir John refused his request.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nHis younger brother Hashem Abedi was jailed last year after being convicted of murdering all those who died.\n\nPaul Greaney QC, counsel to the inquiry, said Ismail Abedi was \"not currently in the country and there is no indication as to when he will return\".\n\nMr Greaney suggested Sir John may want to use his powers to compel attendance and urged Ismail Abedi to comply.\n\n\"As he surely must understand, the public may infer he has something to hide and so, sir, may you\", Mr Greaney said.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed in the May 2017 bombing\n\nIsmail Abedi was arrested the morning after the bombing and interviewed extensively by counter-terrorism police for nearly a fortnight but was later released without charge.\n\nHe denied any involvement in or knowledge of the bombing and stated he had played no part in the radicalisation of his younger brother.\n\nWhile he initially answered police questions, he subsequently gave \"no comment\" answers during the majority of his 25 interviews.\n\nThe inquiry was also told he was stopped by police after arriving at Heathrow Airport in 2015 and his mobile phone had contained recruitment videos and literature produced by the Islamic State group.\n\nThe hearing heard authorities viewed his Facebook account, which included a picture of him holding a machine gun with the Islamic State group logo imprinted on the image.\n\nSalman Abedi in the foyer of the Manchester Arena just seconds before he blew himself up\n\nEvidence presented during Hashem Abedi's trial also related to his brother Ismail.\n\nHis name was used to buy car insurance for Salman and Hashem Abedi, neither of whom had a driving licence, for a car they bought to transport materials around Manchester during the preparations before the attack.\n\nA bank card in the name of the brothers' mother Samia - which received more than £1,000 in benefits each month despite her being in Libya - was used by Salman and Hashem Abedi to buy relevant items during their attack preparations.\n\nThe card was found in Ismail's possessions when he was arrested following the bombing.\n\nThe inquiry previously heard the police investigation remains open and there would be further attempts to speak to him.\n\nThe Abedi brothers' father Ramadan and mother, both suspects over the attack, are in Libya. Neither has engaged with the inquiry.\n\nMeanwhile, the inquiry has also heard Ahmed Taghdi, another witness due to give evidence this week, was stopped from leaving the UK on Monday.\n\nCurrently in custody, he is expected to appear before the inquiry as a witness on Thursday.\n\nThe hearing was told he was able to provide evidence of a return ticket to the UK on 20 October. His original destination was not disclosed.\n\nLast week, the inquiry chairman went to the High Court in order to compel the 29-year-old to attend.\n\nMr Taghdi, a childhood friend of Salman Abedi, was arrested during the police investigation into the atrocity.\n\nThe inquiry has previously heard how he accompanied Salman Abedi on a visit to jailed terrorist Abdalraouf Abdallah, who experts believe \"groomed\" the bomber and helped buy a car that was used to store explosives.\n\nMr Taghdi, who was a prosecution witness in the trial of Hashem Abedi, has denied any involvement in or knowledge of the attack when questioned by police and was later released without charge.\n\nHe is now due to give evidence on Thursday, while Abdallah, currently in custody, is due to give evidence on Wednesday, both in person.\n\nAbdallah was jailed for terror offences in May 2016\n\nThe inquiry has been told that both are key witnesses as the hearings turn to why and how Salman and Hashem Abedi became radicalised.\n\nMr Greaney said: \"This is without question one of the most difficult and troubling questions for the inquiry to grapple with.\n\n\"It is very difficult to comprehend why a person with any shred of decency could ever think of detonating a suicide bomb in the midst of a crowd, killing or maiming many innocent victims.\"\n\nOn Tuesday the inquiry heard evidence from radicalisation expert Dr Matthew Wilkinson, who detailed his general overview report of Islamist extremism.\n\nHe will return to give evidence later this year on matters relating to Salman Abedi.\n\nThe inquiry will also hear evidence about Salman Abedi's family, his friends and associates, his internet and social media use, his educational background and the mosques which he and other family members attended.\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 government research paper recommending people \"shift dietary habits\" towards plant-based foods has been hastily deleted.\n\nThe paper focuses on changing public behaviour to hit climate targets and also suggests promoting domestic tourism and portraying business travel as an \"immoral indulgence\".\n\nIt was deleted soon after publication by the Department for Business.\n\nBeis said the paper was academic research and not official policy.\n\n\"We have no plans whatsoever to dictate consumer behaviour in this way. For that reason, our Net Zero Strategy published yesterday contained no such plans,\" it said.\n\nThe Behavioural Insights Unit, also known as the Nudge Unit, wrote the document.\n\nThe unit is most known for its role in the design of the sugar levy and early comments on the pandemic \"herd immunity\" strategy.\n\nThe document was swiftly deleted and has been replaced with a note saying it was published in error, but BBC News obtained a copy.\n\nIt was also later put online by Alex Chapman, a researcher at the New Economics Foundation.\n\nThe Behavioural Insights Unit made a recommendation, following the example of the sugar levy, with a tax on producers or retailers of \"high-carbon foods\" to incentivise plant-based and local food diets.\n\nIt suggests \"building support for a bold policy\", such as a tax on producers of sheep and cattle meat.\n\nHowever, it states that an \"unsophisticated meat tax would be highly regressive\".\n\nThe research paper also says the government can begin to get people used to the idea of plant-based food through its spending at hospitals, schools, prisons, courts and military facilities.\n\nIt also states a \"timely moment to intervene\" in changing diets could be to target people attending university or first-time renters.\n\nThe document recognises that \"asking people to directly eat less meat and dairy is a major political challenge\", although a positive portrayal and \"smaller asks\" may be possible - for example, people learning one new recipe.\n\nWhen talking about flights, the paper suggests \"much stronger carbon taxes\".\n\nOne possibility discussed in the paper is trying to \"shift social norms\" to make in-person business meetings needing international flights a sign of \"immoral indulgence or embarrassment\" rather than a sign of \"importance\".\n\nMeanwhile, it says domestic tourism should be promoted to lessen consumer demand for international flights.", "Afghan refugees have been living in hotels for two months\n\nDozens of Afghan families staying in hotels as part of a scheme to resettle them are declaring themselves homeless.\n\nMore than 200 families have asked councils in London for emergency accommodation.\n\nThey are concerned that the Home Office scheme they are currently part of could see them moved to anywhere in the UK and away from family and friends.\n\nLondon Councils, which represents the city's 32 boroughs, says people should stay with the government scheme.\n\nThe organisation found 89% of the 204 families who have registered as homeless were unsure whether they are on the resettlement scheme.\n\nIt said if they leave the scheme and sign on with the councils, they would lose all support provided by the Home Office and could still be placed in temporary accommodation outside of their chosen area.\n\nDarren Rodwell of London Councils is urging all families in hotels to wait for clarification.\n\n\"The last thing we want is vulnerable people placed in more vulnerable communities,\" he said.\n\nBut some refugees believe they may not qualify for the scheme because a family member holds a British passport.\n\nThey think leaving the scheme is a safer option because they can sign on to council lists sooner, and even if they are moved temporarily away by councils, they could ultimately be moved back to the capital once a permanent place is found.\n\nThe city is already facing a housing crisis with about 165,000 people living in temporary accommodation organised by their borough.\n\nThe Home Office Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme's policy states families can be placed anywhere in the UK. If families leave their hotels, they will lose Home Office support.\n\nRefugees have also said they are frustrated with the slow pace of the scheme and a lack of communication.\n\nSaid Shinwari, who is a British citizen after previously working in the UK for more than 20 years, returned with his wife and eight children when the Taliban took control of their town.\n\nHe has been staying in hotels for nearly two months and is grateful for the help he has received. However, he is considering registering as homeless in the hope of accessing emergency accommodation.\n\nAs he worked in London for 20 years and has family in the capital, he wants to be housed there.\n\n\"I am concerned about my family and children because they are just inside the room. They need to go to school,\" he said.\n\nMr Shinwari says he has had very little communication from the government despite numerous attempts to contact officials.\n\nHarrow Council has received 10 applications and has moved five families into emergency accommodation.\n\nCouncillor Peymana Assad, also an Afghan refugee, said the applications were putting pressure on the council, which has very little housing stock available.\n\nMs Assad said she believes the problem is only going to get worse.\n\n\"We have such a large Afghan community already. We understand that we're going to have more cases come to us with more families leaving hotels,\" she said.\n\n\"We need the Home Office to communicate with Afghan refugees to give them clarity as to how the process is actually going to work. The council needs this too.\"\n\nThe Home Office said the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (DLUHC) was responsible for British nationals.\n\nIn a statement the DLUHC said: \"Through the effort and support of local councils, thousands of people were swiftly evacuated by our Armed Forces and have now been warmly welcomed to the UK and are being provided with permanent homes as quickly as possible.\"\n\n\"Those resettling here have access to essential provision, healthcare, education, and Universal Credit, while we arrange further wrap around support to enable these families to build a successful life in the UK.\"", "President Putin had previously said Covid-19 could play a part in his decision\n\nRussia's President Vladimir Putin will not attend the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.\n\nNo reason was given for the decision not to attend, but a Kremlin spokesperson said climate change was an \"important\" priority for Russia.\n\nCOP26 takes place in Scotland's largest city from 31 October to 12 November.\n\nRussia's decision is seen as a blow to efforts to get leaders to negotiate a new deal to stall rising global temperatures.\n\n\"Unfortunately, Putin will not fly to Glasgow,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, adding that climate change was \"one of our foreign policy's most important priorities\".\n\nWhen asked about Mr Putin's decision, a spokesman for Boris Johnson said the UK prime minister had previously strongly encouraged leaders to attend \"given this is a very critical moment in terms of tackling climate change\".\n\nMore than 120 leaders had confirmed their attendance, the spokesman said.\n\nMr Putin has not commented on the announcement of his non-attendance. He had previously said he would take part, but it appears now that will be virtually.\n\nSpeaking at an international energy forum in Moscow on 13 October, Mr Putin said the coronavirus pandemic would be a factor in his decision to travel.\n\nRussia has seen record levels of Covid-related deaths. On Wednesday, Mr Putin ordered a nationwide week-long paid holiday from 30 October to 7 November to try to reverse both the rising number of infections and vaccination hesitancy.\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping is also unlikely to attend COP26, though Chinese officials have reportedly not entirely ruled out a change of plans.\n\nEarlier in October, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison attracted widespread criticism for suggesting he might skip the summit, but he later announced that he would indeed attend.\n\nCOP26 is the biggest climate change conference since landmark talks in Paris in 2015. Some 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions, which cause global warming, by 2030.\n\nReducing global warming is essential to avoid the the worst consequences of climate change.\n\nMany observers will be watching how Russia and other major fossil fuel producers will be willing to reduce their reliance on them.\n\nA new UN report says oil and gas extraction are both set to rise sharply over the next decade.\n\nPresident Putin's decision to absent himself from COP26 adds to the list of key leaders who are either not coming or not yet confirmed.\n\nIt will be harder now for the UK to make the case that world leaders are fully engaged on the question when the head of the world's fifth biggest carbon polluter fails to show up.\n\nWhile Russia's carbon cutting plans have been described as \"critically insufficient\" by the Climate Action Tracker there have been signs in recent days that the country was starting to take emission cuts more seriously.\n\nPresident Putin recently outlined a net-zero target for 2060 saying that \"the role of oil and coal will decrease.\"\n\nThe Russians say they will still send a strong delegation and that climate change remains a priority for the country. But it will undoubtedly be a disappointment for the UK which had hoped that Putin would be open to making progress on a number of issues, including deforestation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large mounds called thermokarsts in Siberia are a result of permafrost thawing", "The terror threat level currently facing MPs has been raised from \"moderate\" to \"substantial\" following a review, the government has announced.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the Commons that police and intelligence services would \"properly\" reflect the change in their security arrangements.\n\nBut she added there was no information on \"any credible or specific threat\".\n\nThe announcement comes after Conservative MP Sir David Amess was killed in his constituency on Friday.\n\nHis stabbing, while meeting constituents at a church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, came five years after the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.\n\nA 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after the attack on Sir David and police are treating the killing as a terrorist incident.\n\nFollowing a security review by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, Ms Patel told the Commons: \"While we do not see any information or intelligence which points to any credible or specific or imminent threat, I must update the House that the threat level facing Members of Parliament is now deemed to be substantial.\"\n\nShe added: \"I can assure the House that our world-class intelligence and security agencies and counter-terror police will now ensure that this change is properly reflected in the operational posture.\"\n\nThe terror threat for the UK as a whole is currently also deemed to be \"substantial\", meaning an attack is \"likely\". At the \"moderate\" level, this is judged to be \"possible but not likely\".\n\nThe terror threat level is best understood as a shorthand that serves two purposes.\n\nFirst, it gives the public an insight into what security chiefs think. So while not as remotely revealing as local crime statistics - it gives us a bit of a clue as to the national picture and, in theory, helps keep the public aware.\n\nSecondly, it should help keep the UK's security and emergency agencies on their toes by making sure they have got the right plans and resources in place to minimise the likelihood or impact of an attack.\n\nFor 11 years, the level has been broken down publicly into three parts: The threat from international terrorism, the threat from Northern Ireland paramilitaries inside Northern Ireland - and the threat from those paramilitary groups to the rest of the UK.\n\nMy understanding is that until Wednesday there was not a formal assessment of the threat to Parliamentarians which had been kept secret.\n\nThe Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre - the body that analyses and assesses all available intelligence to come up with the rating would regularly discuss the safety of MPs in a similar way to how it would debate the threats to other potential targets in society.\n\nThat broad-brush assessment has now been formalised into an official rating of its own.\n\nAddressing the Commons, Ms Patel also called social media a \"cruel space\", saying: \"It has become far too permissive for too much cruelty and harm and it's not just levelled and leveraged towards elected Members of Parliament.\n\n\"We see children, different people of different races, religious groups being targeted and affected by some of the most awful, barbaric statements. That is what has to stop and change.\"\n\nFor Labour, shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on the the government to outline what would be done to protect the staff of MPs.\n\nHe added: \"In order to stand firm in the face of these threats, we must do everything possible to guard against these violent positions, not least as we hear, as the home secretary has set out, that the threat level to MPs has been raised to substantial, and we accept the assessment made by the joint terrorism assessment centre that the threat has increased.\"", "Police had to escort cabinet minister Michael Gove away from a crowd of anti-lockdown protesters who attempted to surround him in central London.\n\nFootage shared on social media show a crowd with video cameras approaching the communities secretary, chanting and shouting, while others questioned him about what they falsely called \"illegal lockdowns\".\n\nIt comes days after the home secretary promised to review MPs' security in the wake of the fatal stabbing of Sir David Amess.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said no arrests have been made, but that it will review officers' body-worn cameras.\n\nA spokesperson for the prime minister said it is \"unacceptable for those who disagree to target individuals\".", "The government has laid out its plans to reduce emissions sharply by 2035 and take the UK towards being a zero carbon economy by 2050. These including more electric cars, planting trees and moving away from gas-powered central heating.\n\nBut what potential hazards are there ahead for ministers?\n\nSome in the prime minister's own party doubt the economic arguments in favour of moving towards what they consider an over-reliance on renewable energy sources.\n\nConservative MP John Redwood asked in the House of Commons what would happen when the sun stopped shining and the wind stopped blowing. Another, Steve Baker, said a lot of \"assumptions\" were involved and asked that ministers carry out a \"comprehensive audit\" of their plans.\n\nTory MP: What happens when the wind doesn't blow?\n\nOthers are concerned about the cost to the general public, particularly those on lower incomes, and the impact that, in turn, may have on their chances at the next election.\n\nCraig Mackinlay said it could become \"electorally difficult\" once people realised the plans \"cost them money\" or mean \"a lifestyle that's not as convenient\".\n\nGiven that the Conservatives have an 80-seat majority, this is unlikely to stop any plans becoming law, but if some of Mr Johnson's backbenchers are not persuaded, there could be some political turbulence.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband was scathing in his response to the government's announcement, saying there was nothing like \"the commitment we believe is required\", in terms of investment, to cut greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nLabour's commitment to borrow and invest £28bn per year in tackling climate change is a markedly different approach to the Conservatives. The Treasury has said borrowing heavily to cut greenhouse gases goes against the \"polluter pays\" principle and passes the costs on to future taxpayers.\n\nIt's not certain how this will play out in Parliament or whether this could become an important dividing line between the parties - and how it would play with voters.\n\nThe Treasury accepts there will be an overall cost to achieving net zero emissions in the short term, but sources stress the cost of inaction would also be significant.\n\nNo overall figure is given but officials admit new taxes will be needed to recoup the revenue lost from the move away from petrol and diesel fuelled cars, for example.\n\nThe government raised £37bn from fuel duty and vehicle excise duty in the 2019-20 financial year, or about 1.7% of GDP.\n\nA carbon tax could plug some of this, but the takings would dwindle as emissions fall, leaving a big shortfall.\n\nHow will voters feel if their bills go up to cover the costs?\n\nIn an assessment to go with the government's carbon-cutting plans, the Treasury said that \"as with all economic transitions, ultimately the costs and benefits of the transition will pass through to households through the labour market, prices and asset values\".\n\nThere is evidence of public support for stronger measures to tackle climate change, but if households end up having to spend a lot more money to go greener, there could be increased unease among voters that the government will not want ahead of a likely general election in the next couple of years.\n\nIn particular, it is feared this could go down badly in some of the former industrial areas of the the Midlands and northern England where the Conservatives made large gains from Labour in 2019.\n\n\"Any policies we bring in will be designed to be fair across the board,\" the PM's spokesman said.\n\nOne thing most governments agree on is that any effort to reduce emissions must be international if it is to succeed in limiting temperature rises.\n\nWith the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow fast approaching, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hope his plan prompts other countries to make similar commitments and boost the chances of the UK brokering a renewed global effort to cut greenhouse gases.\n\nIf the world's biggest CO2 producers - including the US, China and India - reach an agreement it could ease domestic political pressures and allow him to claim more of an environmental \"legacy\".\n\nUS President Jo Biden and Indian PM Narendra Modi are attending COP26, but China's Xi Jinping is not thought likely to do the same.", "\"None of us are immune\" to addiction, the Duchess of Cambridge warned as she highlighted the \"devastating impact\" of the pandemic on addiction rates.\n\nShe said that by understanding what lies beneath addiction \"we can help remove the taboo and shame that sadly surrounds it\".\n\nCatherine delivered the keynote speech at the launch of the Taking Action on Addiction campaign.\n\nShe also spoke to TV star Ant McPartlin about his struggles with addiction.\n\nThe duchess is patron of addiction charity the Forward Trust, which is behind the Taking Action on Addiction campaign.\n\nShe told the event: \"Addiction is not a choice. No-one chooses to become an addict. But it can happen to any one of us. None of us are immune.\n\n\"Yet it's all too rarely discussed as a serious mental health condition. And seldom do we take the time to uncover and fully understand its fundamental root causes.\"\n\nShe added that by understanding what lies beneath addiction \"we can help remove the taboo and shame\" which surrounds it.\n\nMcPartlin, who compered the event alongside his TV partner Declan Donnelly, struggled with a two-year addiction to super-strength painkillers following a knee operation in 2015.\n\nHe entered rehab after crashing his car while more than twice the alcohol limit in 2018.\n\nHe told the duchess that \"by the time I asked for help, it was bad\" but that \"as soon as you opened up to people [...] the problems start to disappear\".\n\n\"It gets better and help is there,\" he added.\n\nThe duchess also spoke about how the Covid-19 crisis had affected addiction rates, saying some 1.5 million more people were facing problems with alcohol, with almost one million young people experiencing an increase in addictive behaviour.\n\nShe said: \"Around two million individuals who were identified as being in recovery may have experienced a relapse over the past 18 months.\"\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge gave the keynote speech at the launch of the Taking Action On Addiction campaign\n\nShe said that \"we can all play our part\" in helping people with addiction \"by understanding, by listening, by connecting\".\n\nCatherine met beneficiaries of the Forward Trust, as well as former addicts, to hear about their experiences.\n\nShe later joined her husband at a private reception at Kensington Palace to mark the unveiling of the statue of Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nThe reception had been postponed from July, when the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex officially presented the memorial of their mother.\n\nThe guest list is thought to have included Diana's close friends, former staff and relatives.", "Dua Lipa threw her support behind the idea\n\nThe team behind Dua Lipa and Lana Del Rey will choose the UK's entrant for the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nTap management, which also looks after Ellie Goulding and Hailee Steinfeld, will take over the selection after the UK came last in this year's contest.\n\nJames Newman failed to score a single point with his song, Embers, extending an embarrassing run of failures at the contest.\n\nNo UK entrant has made the top 10 since Jade Ewen in 2009.\n\nTap's involvement means that record label BMG will no longer be involved in selecting the UK's entry.\n\nTap Management began in 2009 after Ben Mawson, then a practising lawyer, met Lana Del Rey and helped her escape unfavourable deals she'd signed early in her career.\n\nRealising her potential, he teamed up with Ed Millett, an experienced music manager, and together they helped establish the New York musician as one of the defining voices of her generation.\n\nTheir company has since expanded to London, Berlin, Sydney and Los Angeles, while also establishing its own record label.\n\nReacting to the news Mawson said: \"We're really excited to be teaming up with the BBC for this event and will use Eurovision to authentically reflect and celebrate the rich, diverse and world-class musical talent the UK is globally renowned for.\"\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat, Mawson said the process of choosing the artist and song was \"not simple\".\n\n\"I think our conclusion was [Eurovision] is not as political as people think,\" he said. \"And I think we should focus on getting some really special music and a really special artist that represents Britain in the best possible way.\n\n\"We don't want to see Eurovision as a boom or bust night for the artist. We want to see this as a platform for development for a career. We don't know yet if they'll be a new artist but if they are we want to make sure this is going to be a really positive experience.\"\n\nSpeaking to The Sun, Dua Lipa said: \"I'm a proud Brit whilst also being a proud Kosovan. I'm happy to lend my manager to the cause. I'll be cheering them on!\"\n\nRock band Måneskin were the victors at this year's Eurovision\n\nDespite the lack of success in recent years the appetite for Eurovision is clearly still strong for viewers in Britain.\n\nThis year's Eurovision Song Contest was won by Italian rock band Måneskin, whose song Zitti E Buoni became a top 20 UK hit. Their victory was watched by an average audience of 7.8 million on BBC One, making it the most watched final since 2014.\n\nSpeaking of the hook-up with Tap, BBC entertainment boss Kate Phillips said that the corporation has \"grand ambitions\" for the 2022 contest, and was \"really excited to announce this collaboration that will enable us to tap into some great music talent.\"\n\nThe competition will take place at Turin's PalaOlimpico Arena on May 10, 12 and 14, with the final landing on the latter date.\n\nThe European Broadcasting Union announced on Wednesday that all 39 countries that took part last time out are set to return next year, plus two additional ones - Montenegro and Armenia.\n\nItaly has previously hosted the contest in Naples and Rome.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Boris Johnson went for a run in Manchester on Sunday morning\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged the Conservatives will \"change and improve\" the economy after the pandemic, as the party opens its annual conference in Manchester later.\n\nThe PM said the country cannot \"go back to how things were\" before Covid.\n\nHe has accused the haulage industry of being too reliant on low-paid immigration, amid shortages at petrol stations.\n\nThe military is due to begin delivering petrol across the UK from Monday.\n\nTwo hundred military servicemen and women, 100 of them drivers, will provide \"temporary\" support to ease pressure on forecourts.\n\nThe government has also announced 5,000 temporary visas for foreign lorry drivers to plug a shortage of lorry drivers worsened by Covid, Brexit and other factors.\n\nAlthough the industry and opposition parties have dismissed these figures as inadequate, Mr Johnson has said importing drivers is not a long-term solution.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, he said: \"What we don't want to do is go back to a situation in which we basically allowed the road haulage industry to be sustained with a lot of low-wage immigration.\"\n\nHe added that a \"mass immigration approach\" had made the sector less attractive by reducing wages and \"the quality of the job\".\n\n\"People don't want that. They want us to be a well-paid, well-skilled, highly productive economy and that's where we're going.\"\n\nHowever, he did not rule out issuing more temporary visas, saying the situation would remain \"under review\".\n\nThe conference comes amid a backdrop of the Army preparing to drive petrol tankers\n\nAhead of the Conservative conference beginning on Sunday, the prime minister vowed to take \"big, bold decisions\" to rebuild after the pandemic.\n\n\"We didn't go through Covid to go back to how things were before - to the status quo ante. Build Back Better means we want things to change and improve as we recover.\"\n\nThe post-pandemic recovery is set to be a key theme of the four-day event in Manchester, along with the government's effort to \"level up\" regional inequalities.\n\nAround 10,000 delegates are expected in Manchester for the party's first in-person conference since Covid, and the first since its 2019 election victory.\n\nAs the conference begins, the party has promised £22m extra funding for councils to renovate tennis courts, and £30m for schools in England to repair sports facilities.\n\nThe party argues this will help equalise access to sport in poorer regions, with unplayable courts more likely to be found in deprived areas.\n\nThe prime minister has both a substantial Commons majority and leads a party that most recent opinion polls suggest is more popular than Labour.\n\nBut as the conference here begins the pressures on the government stack up: queues at some petrol stations, fears of further shortages on shop shelves, even staffing issues in abattoirs.\n\nPrices are rising just as both the furlough scheme and the uplift to universal credit end and an increase to National Insurance looms.\n\nBoris Johnson insists he is taking what he calls the \"big, bold decisions\" on the priorities people care about, such as social care and supporting jobs.\n\nExpect plenty of talk here in the next few days about the government's desire to \"level up\", as ministers call it.\n\nIt is a promise that collides for many with the reality that it's bills that are going up.\n\nThe government has made \"levelling up\" a priority ahead of the next election but is facing criticism from some of its own MPs that the concept remains vague.\n\nOn Sunday, 10 Tory MPs elected in 2019 became the latest set of backbenchers to make demands on the issue, calling for more power to be handed to local councils, and for tax breaks for community businesses and social enterprises.\n\nThere is also concern in the party over the effect of rising inflation and surging energy costs, combining with the withdrawal of a universal credit top-up of £20 a week, which was introduced during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSome of the party's MPs, including former leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, have joined opposition MPs in warning about a squeeze on living standard for the poorest households.\n\nLabour, which has warned of a \"winter of discontent\", has urged the PM to recall Parliament to discuss the fuel crisis.\n\nThe party's leader Sir Keir Starmer has called on the government to issue \"enough visas\" to deal with the lorry driver shortage and give \"key workers\" priority access to fuel.\n• None Party conferences: What to expect this year", "Armed forces personnel will begin delivering petrol to garages across the UK from Monday, the government says.\n\nAlmost 200 servicemen and women, 100 of them drivers, will provide \"temporary\" support to ease pressure on stations.\n\nMinisters have also announced that up to 300 overseas fuel tanker drivers will be able to work in the UK immediately until the end of March.\n\nThere have been long queues at petrol stations this week after a shortage of drivers disrupted fuel deliveries.\n\nMinisters - who have maintained there is enough fuel if people buy at their normal rates - say the situation at petrol station forecourts is improving, with more fuel now being delivered than sold.\n\nBut they acknowledge some parts of the country are worse affected than others.\n\nBrian Madderson, chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association, which represents nearly 5,500 of the UK's 8,300 petrol stations said Scotland, the north of England and parts of the Midlands had seen a \"distinct improvement\" with fewer dry sites.\n\nBut he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it remained a \"big problem\" in London and south-east England, where \"if anything it had got worse.\"\n\nHe said the military drivers will be a \"large help\" but a \"prioritisation of deliveries to filling stations, particularly the independent ones, which are the neighbourhood sites\" was needed \"immediately\".\n\nMr Madderson warned drivers would see a rise in fuel prices next week, but because of \"global factors\" not because of profiteering.\n\nOn Friday, the RAC motoring group also said the disruption in deliveries was continuing to ease, though many areas were still experiencing supply issues.\n\nSmaller fuel stations were facing major supply problems as drivers filled up for the weekend, it said.\n\nMilitary personnel are currently training at haulier sites and will be on the road delivering fuel supplies across the country to \"help fuel stocks further improve\" from Monday, the government said.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said personnel would be seen working alongside drivers this weekend following training this week.\n\nIn addition to the 300 fuel tanker drivers being allowed to work temporarily in the UK, temporary visas are also being offered to 4,700 food haulage drivers who are able to arrive from late October and leave by 28 February 2022.\n\nVisas are being offered to a further 5,500 poultry workers who can come from late October and stay until 31 December.\n\nPreviously, the government said these temporary visas would last until Christmas Eve.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said there were \"continued signs that the situation at the pumps is slowly improving\".\n\n\"UK forecourt stock levels are trending up, deliveries of fuel to forecourts are above normal levels, and fuel demand is stabilising,\" he said.\n\n\"It's important to stress there is no national shortage of fuel in the UK, and people should continue to buy fuel as normal.\"\n\nMore than a week after queues started appearing on petrol station forecourts, just under 200 military personnel will take to the roads.\n\nMinisters say it takes time to train up servicemen and women to drive large tankers carrying highly flammable substances into built-up areas.\n\nWhile they will help with getting supplies to garages, there's been a concern inside government that falling back on the armed forces could be counter-productive.\n\nWhat message does it send to worried motorists to see soldiers driving petrol tankers? Could it lead to more panic buying?\n\nMinisters are confident the situation will continue to stabilise, but they've been under pressure to take more urgent action.\n\nIt's notable that alongside the decision to deploy the military, up to 300 tanker drivers will be allowed into the UK from overseas immediately - several weeks before the wider visa scheme comes into effect.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer called on the PM to recall Parliament from party conference recess, saying \"emergency action\" was needed to speed up the visas.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson accused the haulage industry of being too reliant on low-paid migrant workers.\n\nHe added that he would not allow the UK to repeat the \"failures\" of the past, by allowing mass immigration to create a \"low-wage, low-skill economy\" for British workers.\n\nThe haulage industry says the driver shortage already existed, but has been made worse by factors including the pandemic, Brexit, an ageing workforce, low wages and poor working conditions.\n\nA survey from earlier this year suggests a number of reasons for the driver shortage\n\nIn addition to offering temporary visas, the government last week set out a number of other measures aimed at limiting disruption in the run-up to Christmas and beyond.\n\nThese include increasing HGV (heavy goods vehicle) testing capacity, sending nearly one million letters to drivers who hold an HGV licence, encouraging them back into the industry, and offering training courses for HGV drivers.\n\nMeanwhile, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned there is global disruption to supply chains in other industries, which could continue until Christmas.\n\n\"These shortages are very real,\" Mr Sunak told the Daily Mail. \"We're seeing real disruptions in supply chains in different sectors, not just here but around the world. We are determined to do what we can to try to mitigate as much of this as we can.\"\n\nAnd the Financial Times reports that turkeys will be imported to the UK from France and Poland in the run-up to Christmas after farmers reared about one million fewer birds.\n\nBritish Poultry Council chief executive Richard Griffiths told the paper that Brexit had cut off the industry's supply of cheap labour.", "A Lithuanian man has had more than a kilogram of nails, screws, nuts and knives removed from his stomach by doctors, local media report.\n\nHe had been swallowing metal objects for a month after quitting alcohol, doctors said.\n\nSome of the objects retrieved during a surgery in Klaipeda University Hospital were 10cm (4in) long, according to Lithuania's LRT public broadcaster.\n\nIn its article (in Lithuanian), LRT published a KUH photo showing a surgical tray full of metal objects after the emergency three-hour operation.\n\nThe man was brought by ambulance with severe abdominal pain to the hospital on the Baltic Sea coast.\n\nHe is now reported to be in a stable condition, and is being monitored at KUH.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Boris Johnson: \"We can trust the police... but there is a problem\"\n\nBoris Johnson has urged the public to \"trust in the police\" but also acknowledged problems in how violence against women and girls is tackled.\n\nThe PM promised to fix a \"snarled-up system\" which had produced too few successful rape prosecutions.\n\nAnd he said the authorities should \"come down hard\" on officers found guilty of misconduct.\n\nIt follows the jailing of Wayne Couzens for Sarah Everard's kidnapping and murder.\n\nCouzens was a police officer at the time of her murder, and the Metropolitan Police is facing questions over its failure to stop him.\n\nThe force has also been attacked over its safety advice to women after it emerged that Couzens used his position as an officer to falsely arrest and kidnap Ms Everard.\n\nAmong the suggestions, it said women should flag down a bus if they have concerns when stopped by an officer. A Labour MP branded the advice \"derisory\".\n\nCouzens - who has been sentenced to a whole-life prison term - is believed to have been in a WhatsApp group with five police officers who are now being investigated for gross misconduct.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating the five, and one former officer, for distributing \"grossly offensive\", obscene or menacing material. Couzens is understood not to be one of those under investigation, but was involved in sharing messages.\n\nThe prime minister said the IOPC should \"come down hard\" on them.\n\nAsked if he had confidence in the police, Mr Johnson said: \"I do think that we can trust the police and I think that the police do a wonderful, wonderful job.\"\n\nBut he said the government needed to get to the bottom of \"what on earth\" happened in the Couzens case to ensure nothing like it happened again.\n\nHe added that \"hundreds of thousands\" of officers would be \"absolutely heart sick\" at the events surrounding Ms Everard's death.\n\nHowever, he also accepted there were problems including \"the way we handle rape, domestic violence and sexual violence\" complaints.\n\nHe said the length of time between reporting an incident to the court case was \"far too long\".\n\n\"It is a nightmare for the women concerned, we've got to fix it.\"\n\nThe prime minister also argued that recruiting more female officers would make \"a lasting difference to the police culture,\" adding that 37% of recruits last year were woman.\n\nEarlier this year, Home Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"deeply ashamed\" of low rape conviction rates.\n\nSarah Everard was was walking to her home in south London when she was kidnapped by a police officer\n\nBefore being arrested for the murder of Sarah Everard, Couzens had been linked to two previous allegations of indecent exposure.\n\nMet Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave admitted a vetting check on Couzens was not done correctly when he joined the Met, meaning a link to one of these allegations was missed.\n\nMr Ephgrave said that even if it had come up in the vetting process, it would not have changed the outcome as Couzens was not named as a suspect.\n\nIn a bid to ease concerns about women's safety, the Metropolitan Police has said it will treat indecent exposure allegations more seriously and announced an extra 650 new officers to patrol busy areas in London.\n\nScotland Yard has also issued advice to people who are detained by lone plain-clothes officers.\n\nThis includes asking \"searching questions\" about why they are being stopped and where the officer has come from.\n\nPeople should ask to speak to an operator on a police radio to verify the answers, the force said.\n\nIf someone feels they are in \"real and imminent danger\" they are advised to \"seek assistance\" by shouting to passers-by, waving down a bus or calling 999.\n\nLabour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy said on Twitter: \"This completely derisory advice shows they're still not taking it seriously.\"\n\nRefuge chief executive Ruth Davison said the Met had time and again \"responded to incidents of gender-based violence by telling women to change their behaviour\".\n\nShe added: \"Police forces across the country must be prepared for a fundamental shift and overhaul in their attitudes towards women and root out the misogyny that is at the heart of these failings.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You have little power to say no\" - Women react to the Met's safety advice following the Everard case\n\nFollowing Couzens' guilty verdict, the head of the Met Dame Cressida Dick said \"a precious bond of trust has been damaged\" and she would ensure \"any lessons\" were learned.\n\nThe Met has said it would publish a new strategy for tackling violence against women and girls soon.\n\nBut Labour MP and chair of the Home Affairs Committee Yvette Cooper said \"sorry is not enough\" and called for an independent inquiry to examine police culture and procedures.\n\nAnd Conservative Sir Bob Neill and London Mayor Sadiq Khan have suggested misogyny should be made a hate crime.", "The National Monuments Record of Wales said the hillfort was \"a masterpiece of Iron Age architecture and engineering\"\n\nUp to 60 local volunteers have been helping archaeologists excavate an iron age fort site dating back to 400 BC.\n\nFor three weeks Dyfed Archaeological Trust has been working on Pen Dinas hillfort in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion after receiving funding from Cadw.\n\nArchaeologists have made a number of finds including an amber bead and stone wheel thought to be a spindle whorl for weaving.\n\nIt is only the second time in its history the site has been excavated.\n\nLeading the excavation in the village of Penparcau, Fran Murphy said: \"I think they'd been lost - they were found on a hut platform where someone lived and they'd probably fallen through beneath the floor if you like.\n\n\"The amber is quite a rare find and the person whoever lost these objects would have been quite annoyed.\"\n\nThe amber bead is \"quite a rare find\", says Fran Murphy who led the excavation\n\nShe said it was difficult to give a date for the objects but it may be possible in time: \"I hope that by the end of this project we will be able to get radiocarbon dating, which should give us a much more precise date, but over 2,000 years old.\"\n\nPen Dinas is the largest iron age hillfort in Ceredigion.\n\nAt 60ft (18m) the most obvious monument on Pen Dinas is the Wellington Monument, a column built in the 1850s as a memorial to the Duke of Wellington.\n\nArchaeologists found a stone wheel thought to be a spindle whorl for weaving\n\nIn its heyday, more than 2,000 years ago, the huge fort covered an area of 3.5 hectares, the equivalent of about three and a half rugby pitches.\n\nDyfed Archaeological Trust has been working on Pen Dinas hillfort in the village of Penparcau, Aberystwyth, for three weeks\n\nMs Murphy said: \"It's such an enormous monument - and the work that went into creating it was all done by humans with hand tools, no JCB's or mechanical diggers here.\n\n\"It's an asset for the whole of Aberystwyth.\"\n\nShe said she would like more people to be able to enjoy it: \"I think if we could improve the access, if we can improve the signage to make people aware how accessible it can be, and to bring people up here to look around them and see how it's a part of the history that makes Aberystwyth and the surrounding area what it is.\"\n\nThe National Monuments Record of Wales says the Pen Dinas hillfort \"started life as a simple defended site on the north summit [of Pen Dinas hill]\".\n\nMargaret Burns' grandfather Jack was involved with the original excavation of the site in the 1930s\n\nIt said the site was developed over time and, at its height, was \"a masterpiece of Iron Age architecture and engineering\".\n\nMargaret Burns' grandfather Jack was involved with the original excavation of the site in the 1930s.\n\nHe was one of many local labourers who went to help the five-year excavation led by Darryl Forde, chair of geography and anthropology at Aberystwyth University.\n\nMs Burns, who lives at the bottom of Pen Dinas hill, said: \"I'm presuming that Prof Forde advertised for local men to come and help with the excavation as labourers, basically to help them with the dig.\n\nMargaret Burns' grandfather Jack was one of several local labourers involved with the original excavation of the site in the 1930s\n\n\"They were always, I presume, short of money in those days because it was 1934, and I suppose anything would be a benefit.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm down at the bottom of Pen Dinas and my grandfather was up there 87 years ago, so it's quite an emotional thing for me, really.\"\n\nMike Ginsberg, 80, if one of up to 60 local people who helped with the dig\n\nJust as Prof Forde enlisted the help of local volunteers during the 1930s dig, the Dyfed Archaeological Trust also called on residents to help in 2021.\n\nDuring the three-week dig about 60 local people helped the archaeologists, most of the volunteers coming from the village of Penparcau.\n\nMike Ginsberg, 80, was there almost every day because of his keen interest in archaeology.\n\nHe said while searching for the remains of the fort structure, his imagination would run wild: \"If 'dinas' as in Pen Dinas, means a city - and I assume 500 people [living there] then was a city - if it was built by 500 to 600 people, where did they live? How did they live? Where did they get their food from? The mind just goes on and on and on.\"\n\nMs Murphy said there were plans for the Pen Dinas site to be explored further next year: \"There's definitely hopes for future digs and Cadw are extremely supportive and we are looking for match funding from other partners to increase the amount of work that we can carry out.\n\n\"Locally, there has been a drive to raise the profile of Pen Dinas as an asset to the whole of Aberystwyth, to raise its profile and to make sure that it's appreciated and maintained for future generations.\"", "Thousands of videos, graphics and other images have been collected together to form a growing propaganda archive\n\nA Canadian citizen who allegedly narrated violent propaganda videos for the Islamic State group (IS) has been charged in the US.\n\nSaudi-born Mohammed Khalifa is accused of being \"the voice behind the violence\" by providing English narration on some 15 videos.\n\nMany of them encouraged supporters to join IS, while some showed the \"brutal execution\" of prisoners and hostages.\n\nIf convicted, the 38-year-old could face life in prison.\n\nMr Khalifa will appear before a US court next week on charges of providing \"material support to a terrorist organisation, resulting in death\". He denies the charges.\n\nProsecutors say he was also an IS fighter, and during one conflict shortly before being captured, threw a grenade at opposing forces.\n\n\"Through his alleged leading role in translating, narrating, and advancing IS's online propaganda, Khalifa promoted the terrorist group... and expanded the reach of videos that glorified the horrific murders and indiscriminate cruelty of IS,\" Raj Parekh, acting US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia said in a statement.\n\nAmong the videos are two IS productions which the US justice department has described as \"the most influential and exceedingly violent\" videos that promoted violence against foreign citizens, showed various IS attacks, and the deaths of unarmed prisoners.\n\nAnother video includes a voice recording of Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people in the Pulse Nightclub attack in Florida in 2016, swearing allegiance to IS.\n\nMr Khalifa left Canada in 2013 to join IS in Syria where he became a key member of the group's propaganda team, the US justice department said.\n\nHe allegedly served in a number of prominent roles before becoming its lead translator due to his English and Arabic language skills.\n\nBy translating the videos into English, he played an integral role in the recruitment and radicalisation of Westerners which caused the deaths of numerous people at the hands of IS, prosecutors say.\n\nMohammed Khalifa was captured in January 2019 during a firefight between IS and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) - a US-backed Kurdish-led militia which spearheaded the fight against IS in northwest Syria.\n\nHe was later handed over to the FBI.\n\nIn a newspaper interview after his capture, he said he had been a low-level fighter and \"just the voice\" of IS. He insisted that he had played no role in filming or carrying out the gruesome scenes he narrated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOnline videos showing beheadings and other atrocities were a key feature of IS's worldwide recruitment drive as the group extended its reach in Syria and Iraq.\n\nBut the propaganda effort dwindled as the militants began to lose territory from 2017.", "There is an air of crisis in British policing this weekend as it faces a great moment of reckoning.\n\nNever have leaders felt that public trust is so low they have had to advise women to consider fleeing if they are uncomfortable when confronted by one of their own officers.\n\nBut that is the aftershock of the appalling crimes of Wayne Couzens, who raped and murdered Sarah Everard while working for the Metropolitan Police, after kidnapping her in a fake arrest.\n\nHe was sentenced this week to a whole-life term in prison.\n\nWell first there is no sign that ministers are going to make Dame Cressida Dick, the commissioner of the Met and the UK's top officer, take the blame.\n\nDespite repeated attempts to force Home Secretary Priti Patel's hand, she has very publicly backed Dame Cressida by renewing her contract last month.\n\nBut questions now confront policing - and the difficulty its chiefs and ministers are having in answering them is why the crisis feels too deep.\n\nWas Couzens' ability to pull on the uniform a failure of the system?\n\nAnd how should police leaders and the government respond?\n\nClearly, society is not filled with homicidal sex offenders. But the fact is they do exist and it's unarguable that they use deception to get themselves into positions of trust.\n\nIn that context, Couzens' ability to hide undetected within policing is similar to the dreadful story of the Soham murders almost 20 years ago - in which a suspected sex offender was able to work as a school caretaker.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick says the force has been \"shamed\" and \"rocked\" by the case\n\nCouzens, we now know, has been the subject of three allegations of indecent exposure - including reports he drove into McDonald's naked from the waist down.\n\nThe first allegation of what has long been downplayed as \"flashing\" occurred in 2015 when he was in the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, guarding the Dungeness power station on the English Channel.\n\nThe police watchdog is still investigating what Kent Police knew about Couzens before he was able to transfer to the neighbouring Metropolitan force in London.\n\nScotland Yard says its vetting systems did not fail - but admits the system did not pick up this incident.\n\nAn investigation continues into how far an officer had got in establishing that Couzens was the suspect.\n\nThis question of how officers are vetted is now a very live issue - not just because of \"missed opportunities\" from previous allegations - but also whether the system is set up to screen out candidates who may have a propensity to violence.\n\nBut the focal point is quickly moving beyond whether vetting systems are technically good enough to root out dodgy candidates - to whether there is a permissive sexist culture that allows them to remain in the police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You have little power to say no\" - Women react to the Met's safety advice following the Everard case\n\nWhen I was a trainee reporter in Humberside more than 20 years ago and our newsroom got a tip of some kind of violence in the town, I'd call the police control room.\n\n\"Nah, just a domestic,\" the bored duty sergeant would reply.\n\nAnd that response, say critics, is the first part of the problem. For too long police forces have downplayed or ignored the everyday violence and misogyny that men inflict on women.\n\nJust last month, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary said there was an epidemic of violence against women and girls that deserved the same resources and focus as terrorism.\n\nSo why is it not a bigger priority?\n\nSue Fish, the former chief constable of Nottinghamshire, says there is a significant minority in uniform who are \"actively deviant\" - misogynistic officers who are abusing power - some of whom are in turn involved in domestic and sexual abuse.\n\nIn 2016, she ordered her force to start recording misogyny as a hate crime - and the Law Commission, which advises ministers on major legal reforms will soon publish its own proposals on the issue.\n\nBut Ms Fish's point is reinforced by the fact that the police watchdog is not just investigating what was known about Couzens - but also five other officers who were in a Whatsapp group that shared allegedly misogynistic and discriminatory messages.\n\nSue Fish says she has seen nothing from either the prime minister or Dame Cressida Dick that shows they understand how pervasive this culture is.\n\nWayne Couzens (right) is believed to have shown Sarah Everard his police warrant card\n\nThe Victims Commissioner Dame Vera Baird QC - a former police and crime commissioner and career criminal justice expert - also says sexism is rife in policing.\n\n\"There is no doubt whatsoever that, particularly for female victims, faith in the police has collapsed,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.\n\n\"We did a survey a year ago which showed that only 5% of rape complainants thought they could get justice by going to the police. This is the worst it has been - but it is not a new thing.\n\n\"Probably innate sexism runs through the police more deeply than it runs through society.\n\n\"There is no critical mass of female officers to change the culture. The culture remains male-dominated.\n\n\"I have heard people say that 'you can be gay, you can be black, you can be a woman. As long as you behave like a straight white male'.\"\n\nThe BBC understands recruitment data shows the number of women applying this year to join the police has been rising - and so chiefs know that their response to Sarah Everard's murder will be critical to maintaining that progress.\n\nMaggie Blyth, Hampshire's deputy chief constable, is about to become the first senior officer to co-ordinate a national strategy on violence against women and girls.\n\nShe's told the BBC that there is work to be done to regain the trust that has been lost - but this is also an opportunity that has to be seized.\n\nBack in the summer, Dame Cressida Dick wanted to emphasise that Wayne Couzens was a shocking but exceptional case.\n\nBut as he begins a whole life sentence, the dreadful crime has become British policing's third major crisis of trust in just over three decades.\n\nThe first was the 1989 Hillsborough disaster - in which innocent football fans were blamed for their own deaths amid a police cover-up of mistakes.\n\nThe second was the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence, leading to the devastating public inquiry conclusion that the Met Police was institutionally racist.\n\nHistory shows that the response to both of these awful events was, for too long, driven by denial, dither and delay.\n\nBut ultimately there had to be recognition of the injustice.\n\nAnd that's why the response to Sarah Everard's death will tell us so much about the future direction of British police.", "Mick Cullen took time out in a pub during torrential rain\n\nFundraiser Speedo Mick, who walks in just a pair of swimming trunks, was asked to leave a pub for being under-dressed during a charity trek.\n\nHe stopped at The Halfway House pub at Rame, Cornwall, in heavy rain on the trek across the UK and Ireland.\n\nAs he talks to Facebook viewers, a voice is heard saying: \"I can't have you standing there dressed like this.\"\n\nThe pub's landlord said he had \"never heard of him\", but on learning who he was, went after him with some food.\n\nSpeedo Mick, whose real name is Mick Cullen, walked from John O'Groats to Land's End in 2019 and 2020.\n\nHe took shelter in the pub between Falmouth and Helston on his latest charity trek.\n\nDuring a Facebook Live broadcast, viewers heard a staff member tell him he could not stay in the pub in his limited attire and his response: \"That's fine. No worries.\"\n\nMick Cullen is known for sporting Everton-emblazoned swimming trunks\n\nLandlord Darren Briggs said: \"We completely apologise. We did not know who he was.\n\n\"Because we have been so busy we have never heard of him.\"\n\nHe said they quickly realised who he was and went after him.\n\n\"We took him some food and he was very amicable,\" he said.\n\n\"If we had known he could have had anything he wanted on the house.\"\n\nMr Cullen posted on Facebook: \"I'm alright you beautiful people, all's good no hard feelings here at all.\n\n\"It's not the first time I've been chucked out of an 'ale house it happened on the last walk too.\n\n\"I know, me, the fashionista in my designer Everton Football Club Speedo's!\"\n\nAnd he posted later: \"It's been a difficult time for lots of businesses especially pubs, restaurants etc, they've had a terrible time of it, thankfully many have pulled through.\n\n\"Please for me, show them the love and support they need it.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "The musician used boilers to smuggle drugs\n\nBritish rapper Nines has been jailed for importing 28kg of cannabis into the UK from Spain and Poland.\n\nThe chart-topping musician, real name Courtney Freckleton, 31, and Jason Thompson, 35, were both given 28-month sentences.\n\nThe pair had previously pleaded guilty to drugs and money laundering charges.\n\nSentencing them both at Harrow Crown Court, Judge Rosa Dean said: \"What a waste of all of that talent, to be sat in Wormwood Scrubs.\"\n\nLast year, Nines topped the UK album chart with his record Crabs In A Bucket and was named best hip hop act the Mobo Awards.\n\nThe court heard the pair had been involved in one successful bid to import the class B drug, while another attempt had also been made.\n\nProsecutor Genevieve Reed said the money laundering charge related to a £98,000 debt, the value of the drugs, and the use of Bitcoin to buy the cannabis.\n\nSome of the cannabis was imported inside boilers brought into the UK from Poland, the court heard.\n\nNines, of Barbican, central London, and Thompson, of Barnet, north London, were arrested in June after police raids across London and Borehamwood in Hertfordshire.\n\nThe operation is understood to have stemmed from the infiltration of encrypted messaging service Encrochat.\n\nThe network, which was used by thousands of criminals worldwide, was infiltrated by authorities last year after being hacked by French investigators.\n\nFather-of-two Nines, who was known as \"Big Boss\" by his fellow conspirators, had previously been imprisoned for 18 months for possession of cannabis with intent to supply.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak is being accused of attempting to mount a \"stealth raid\" on Britain's foreign aid spending.\n\nDevelopment charities say the Treasury is hoping to use \"accounting tricks\" in this month's Spending Review to squeeze the aid budget by billions of pounds.\n\nThey fear new items will be designated as \"overseas development assistance\" in a way that would cut the amount spent directly on humanitarian aid.\n\nThe Treasury said it would continue to protect the world's poorest people.\n\nBut it would not speculate on future spending commitments ahead of a fiscal event.\n\nAny rebadging of overseas assistance would be seen by some as an attempt by Mr Sunak to seize further control of the aid budget while new Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is finding her feet.\n\nBut Foreign Office sources said Ms Truss - as a former chief secretary - was familiar with how the Treasury worked and it would be wrong to suggest she was unaware of what was going on.\n\nThe government is already cutting aid spending by reducing the target of what must be allocated to overseas assistance from 0.7% of national income to 0.5%.\n\nThat means a reduction this year of about £4bn, leaving the total amount being spent on aid at roughly £10bn.\n\nThere are strict international rules about what counts as aid and charities fear the Treasury is looking at options that would effectively break the spirit of these rules.\n\nThey say officials want the cancellation of a multi-million-pound debt owed by Sudan to the UK to count as official aid, even though the money was effectively written off years ago.\n\nThey say the Treasury wants some foreign currency handouts from the International Monetary Fund - known as Special Drawing Rights - to count as aid. These complex financial mechanisms are designed to help developing countries cope with Covid. But even though the money comes from the IMF and not UK coffers, officials want 30% to count towards the 0.5% target.\n\nThe Treasury is also understood to want to designate the cost of giving Covid vaccines to developing countries as official aid. This could amount to as much as £1bn.\n\nSome analysts say the Treasury is additionally considering switching large chunks of aid spending from so-called \"resource\" budgets to \"capital\" budgets, an accounting change that would make it harder for the Foreign Office to spend aid on what it wants.\n\nRanil Dissanayake, policy fellow at the Centre for Global Development think tank, said all these changes - if made together - could potentially reduce the FCDO's discretionary aid budget from £8bn to as little as £2bn.\n\n\"That would amount to a complete gutting of the UK's status as a major bilateral development presence, essentially depriving [the Foreign Secretary] of one of its most potent weapons almost immediately after she assumes the brief,\" he said. \"The UK's status as a serious bilateral donor would be under existential threat.\"\n\nHe added: \"Unless Liz Truss manages to stop the chancellor from bullying her department out of its spending power, the UK will become a near non-entity as a bilateral development actor as early as next year.\"\n\nOne source in the aid sector said: \"Rishi is trying to cut Liz Truss off at the knees before she's got her legs under the table.\"\n\nRomilly Greenhill, UK Director of ONE, the global campaign against poverty, said: \"It's incredibly worrying that UK aid looks set to be cut again, through accounting trickery by the Treasury.\n\n\"The chancellor looks set to count the sharing of surplus vaccine doses, a new injection of cost-free foreign exchange reserves and the cancellation of debts that haven't been repaid for decades as part of the aid budget. If these areas are included under the new 0.5% pledge, it will further squeeze funding to tackle poverty, conflict and climate, hurting people both in the UK and around the world.\n\nShe added: \"What's worse is that it's happening by stealth. The Treasury is combing the aid rules for loopholes and ambiguities to save money on technicalities. It will mean death by a thousand cuts for UK aid.\"\n\nAbigael Baldoumas, policy and advocacy manager at the international development network BOND, said: \"We are deeply concerned about a further assault on the aid budget. There is a real risk that the Treasury will use accounting tricks to reduce the amount of aid the Foreign Office can spend in ways that make a real difference to the lives of people living in poor and middle-income countries.\"\n\nShe added: \"Special drawing rights were issued to put more money in the hands of low and middle-income countries to tackle the devastating impact of the pandemic, not so that the Treasury could use them to replace of overseas development assistance.\n\nMeanwhile, Sarah Champion, International Development committee chair, said: \"The chancellor may think he's clever by playing these financial sleight of hand games, but it's not just the poorest in the world that suffer, it's the UK's international reputation.\"\n\nA Treasury spokeswoman said: \"We will continue to protect the world's poorest. The UK is one of the highest donors in the G7 and this year we will spend at least £10bn on overseas aid. We do not speculate on future tax and spending commitments ahead of fiscal events.\"\n\nThe Treasury said the UK would continue to \"score\" overseas development assistance \"fully guided by and in accordance with\" the rules laid down by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.\n\nIt also emphasised the UK's aid spending was \"considerably more\" than the 29 countries on the OECD's development assistance committee.", "Sunday's episode will feature special guests, favourite hymns, musical collaborations and a message from the Queen\n\nThe Queen has congratulated \"all those involved\" in BBC One's Songs of Praise as the show celebrates 60 years on air.\n\nNearly 3,000 episodes of the world's longest-running religious TV programme have aired since its first transmission, from Cardiff, in 1961.\n\nIn a message to be broadcast on Sunday's show in Westminster Abbey, the Queen applauded the series for showing Christianity as \"a living faith\".\n\nHosted by Aled Jones, the show will feature ex-presenters and star guests.\n\nIn a pre-recorded message, the Queen said: \"For 60 years Songs Of Praise has drawn together congregations and BBC viewers throughout the United Kingdom in collective worship.\n\n\"During that time, the programme has shown Christianity as a living faith, not only through hymns and worship songs, but also by featuring the many people who have put their faith at the centre of their lives.\n\n\"I congratulate Songs Of Praise and all those involved in the programme on its 60th anniversary.\"\n\nCommitted Christian and former star of The Goon Show, Sir Harry Secombe was a regular presenter in the 90s\n\nThe show, which continues to reach more than one million viewers each week, was the brainchild of TV producer Donald Baverstock, who - in 1961 - happened to see a test transmission of an outside broadcast of hymn-singing in Welsh from a Welsh chapel.\n\nHe later described the emotional draw of \"ordinary people, in their best hats, singing with their souls\".\n\nMr Baverstock suggested to Stuart Hood, then director of BBC TV programmes, that something similar might suit the designated \"closed period\", between 18.15-19.25 on a Sunday evening, which was - at the time - given over, by law, to religious programmes.\n\nThe first programme came from Tabernacle Baptist Church in Cardiff, from which a format developed of visiting cathedrals and parish churches all over Britain, with the focus on congregational hymn-singing.\n\nIt was an overnight success, reaching as many as 12 million viewers on some Sundays.\n\nThe original broadcasts went out live on Sundays from churches, many of which were chosen because they were near sports grounds, where the outside broadcast vehicles were in use on the previous Saturday afternoons.\n\nBy the time broadcasting restrictions were relaxed in 1972, the show had become a stalwart of the Sunday schedule.\n\nSir Cliff Richard performed at the show's 40th anniversary gala concert in London's Royal Albert Hall\n\nGloria Gaynor also performed at the gala concert in 2001\n\nSinger Charlotte Church presented the Christmas story from Jerusalem in 2000.\n\nOver the years, there have been 270 presenters on the programme, including Sir Cliff Richard, Charlotte Church and audience favourite singer Sir Harry Secombe - who crossed over to the show with the demise of ITV's hymn-themed show Highway in 1993.\n\nActress Dame Thora Hird went on to host spin-off show Praise Be! for 17 years.\n\nPam Rhodes, the programme's longest-serving presenter, has presented 386 episodes, having first appeared on the show in 1987.\n\nCurrent host, Aled Jones, has been with the show for 21 years, having made his Songs of Praise debut as a child in 1988.\n\nThe format of the show has changed over the years, reflecting the changing face of Christianity in the UK.\n\nInterviews were introduced in 1977, to complement the hymn-singing and viewers heard stories of faith from members of the local community.\n\nSongs of Praise hosts the Gospel Choir of the Year competition annually\n\nAs the years went by, there were increasingly ambitious outside broadcasts too.\n\nIn December 1982, Songs of Praise visited the Falklands to meet some of the islanders and armed forces stationed there. More recently, in 2015, an episode was filmed at the so-called \"Jungle\" migrant camp in Calais.\n\nTo mark the millennium, more than 65,000 singers performed live in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.\n\nThe show was relaunched in 2014 in a magazine format, and now features a range of churches, locations, congregations, and choirs - including gospel and Pentecostal churches - but remains firmly \"a Christian music show\".\n\n\"For 60 years, Songs of Praise has held a very special place on BBC One. Never has this been more important than the past year - when as churches had to close their doors, Songs Of Praise continued to bring together people of faith across the UK every Sunday,\" said Patrick Holland, director factual, arts and classical music.\n\nHe added: \"It is a great honour to pay tribute to the world's longest-running religious television programme - long may it continue.\"\n\nSongs of Praise: The 60th anniversary airs on Sunday at 2.45pm on BBC One", "The people of La Palma have been describing their struggles following a volcanic eruption which caused devastation on the Spanish island.\n\nMolten rock has flowed down into the ocean, destroying hundreds of properties and forcing thousands of people to flee their homes.\n\nResidents share what it has been like, living with the aftermath.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says the visit from the Queen is \"tinged with regret\" at the absence of Prince Philip, offering the parliament's condolences and sorrow.\n\nQuote Message: This is the first time you have opened our parliament without the Duke of Edinburgh by your side. On behalf of everyone in our chamber, and across Scotland, I convey again our deep sympathy and shared sorrow at your loss.\" from Nicola Sturgeon Scotland's First Minister This is the first time you have opened our parliament without the Duke of Edinburgh by your side. On behalf of everyone in our chamber, and across Scotland, I convey again our deep sympathy and shared sorrow at your loss.\"\n\nThe first minister says the Queen has been a \"steadfast friend\" of the parliament since it began and thanks her for her \"kind and thoughtful address\", describing it as the highlight of the day.", "A US private equity group is poised to take control of the UK's fourth-largest supermarket group.\n\nClayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) has won an auction for the British supermarket Morrisons with a £7bn ($9.5bn) bid.\n\nIt marks a return to the UK grocery sector for Terry Leahy, the former chief executive of Tesco, who is a senior adviser to CD&R.\n\nThe takeover saga has dragged on since June amid fierce competition from two US-based investment groups.\n\nCD&R's victory was announced by the stock market's Takeover Panel on Saturday. The private equity group offered 287p per Morrisons ordinary share, against a rival bid from Fortress, for 286p per share.\n\nCD&R's auction offer is slightly higher than the 285p-a-share offer that was recommended by Morrisons' board in August. In July, Morrisons turned down an offer worth £5.5bn from CD&R, saying it significantly undervalued the business.\n\nThe board, which will meet on Saturday, is now expected to recommend shareholders accept the new offer at a meeting set for 19 October.\n\nIf the bid is approved by shareholders, CD&R will take over Morrisons by November.\n\nMorrisons was founded in Bradford in 1899 - where it still has its headquarters. The group has almost 500 shops and more than 110,000 staff.\n\nThe founder, William Morrison's son, the late Sir Ken Morrison, ran the business for 50 years.\n\nPreviously, CD&R said it recognised Morrisons' \"history and culture, and considers that this strong heritage is core to Morrisons and its approach to grocery retailing\".\n\nThe private equity firm said it would help Morrisons to build on its strengths, including its close relationships with suppliers and its property portfolio.\n\nMorrisons chairman Andrew Higginson and chief operating officer Trevor Strain both previously worked with Sir Terry at Tesco.\n\nMr Higginson said the offer represented \"excellent value for shareholders while at the same time protecting the fundamental character of Morrisons\".\n\nHe said the private equity firm had \"a strong record of developing and growing the businesses in which they invest, and they share our vision and ambition for Morrisons\".\n\nSir Terry thanked the board for their recommendation and said CD&R looked forward to shareholders' approval of the deal, adding: \"We continue to believe that Morrisons is an excellent business, with a strong management team, a clear strategy, and good prospects.\"\n\nMorrisons is among a slew of UK companies that have been targeted by overseas investors - and looks set to become the second UK supermarket chain in a year to be acquired by private equity, after Asda was bought out in February.\n\nWith the UK hit hard by the pandemic and the value of the pound still below its pre-Brexit value, UK businesses may appear cheap to non-UK investors, argues the BBC's business editor Simon Jack.\n\nHe added that while some say these bids highlight the value of - and confidence in - UK plc, others are concerned that private buyouts increase debt levels, reduce transparency and mean that key decisions about the future of UK companies like Morrisons could be taken in New York rather than Bradford.\n\nSir Terry also advised CD&R on its acquisition of discount retailer B&M, which netted the private equity firm an estimated profit of £1bn when it sold it on.", "Sarah Everard was murdered after being abducted by a serving Met police officer\n\nA new verification check for lone police officers in Scotland has been introduced in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard.\n\nPolice Scotland said it wanted to reassure the public after she was abducted and killed by Metropolitan police officer Wayne Couzens.\n\nCouzens, 48, used his warrant card to abduct Ms Everard from a south London street before raping and murdering her.\n\nMembers of the public in Scotland can now request a control room check.\n\nPolice Scotland said there was \"understandable public concern\" about the \"horrendous murder of Sarah Everard\".\n\nThe force said its officers normally worked in pairs, but in future on the rare occasions a lone officer approached a member of the public they would \"proactively\" offer an identity check.\n\nUnder the new process, the officer's personal radio will be put on loudspeaker so that another officer or a member of control room staff can confirm they are who they say they are, that they are on duty and the reason the officer is speaking to them.\n\nThe control room will then create an incident number which can be displayed on the officer's mobile phone or radio to confirm the broadcast message details.\n\nIf a lone officer has become involved in an incident they will call 999 and allow the member of the public to speak directly to control room staff.\n\nWayne Couzens (right) is believed to have shown Sarah Everard his police warrant card\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Will Kerr said: \"The appalling circumstances of Sarah Everard's murder have deeply affected people and many are now understandably concerned about verifying an officer's identity.\n\n\"Police officers will, of course, continue to approach any member of the public who appears distressed or vulnerable, to offer support and assistance.\n\n\"However, although it is rare for a lone police officer to have to speak to a member of the public in Scotland, we absolutely recognise our responsibility to introduce an additional means of verification to provide further reassurance to anyone, in particular women who may feel vulnerable, and who might be concerned if they find themselves in this situation.\n\n\"The onus is on us, as a police service, to proactively offer this additional verification process to any member of the public who appears distressed, vulnerable or frightened.\"\n\nCouzens has been sentenced to a whole life sentence after targeting Ms Everard, 33, on a street in south London in March.\n\nHe used his police warrant card to trick her into being handcuffed, then drove her to Kent where he raped and murdered her. He later burnt her remains in what was a premeditated attack on a random victim.\n\nThe full details of his crimes only emerged during his sentencing last week, prompting national outrage and calls for more action to tackle violence against women.", "US media firm Ozy Media has announced that it is to close down amid a growing row over its business practices.\n\n\"It is.. with the heaviest of hearts that we must announce today that we are closing Ozy's doors\", the company said in a statement.\n\nIt follows reports that Ozy's chief operating officer deceived potential investors during a conference call and is now being investigated by the FBI.\n\nSome major advertisers subsequently cut ties with the firm.\n\nOzy's chairman Marc Lasry and ex-BBC journalist Katty Kay have also quit.\n\nIn another twist, Sharon Osborne, the wife of rock star Ozzy Osbourne, alleged the firm's chief executive, Carlos Watson, falsely claimed the couple had invested in the business.\n\nMr Watson made the claims in a TV interview with broadcaster CNBC in 2019 after settling a trademark dispute with the couple.\n\nMs Osbourne told CNBC on Thursday: \"This guy is the biggest shyster I have ever seen in my life.\"\n\nNeither Mr Watson nor Ozy Media has commented publicly on the claims.\n\nThese accusations are outrageous, almost unbelievable - part of a toxic culture of corporate behaviour that exists in parts of Silicon Valley.\n\nIt is common here to say your company is bigger, more innovative, more successful, more connected, than it really is. It's seen as \"hustle\", or \"hype\".\n\nHowever, \"fake it till you make it\" - as it's sometimes referred to - has led to some of the biggest scandals in Silicon Valley history.\n\nTheranos' CEO and founder is currently on trial in San Jose - accused of a spectacular fraud involving blood testing.\n\nSelling a dream that will one day be realised is what most companies do. It's why we have computers and smartphones. But there are countless examples of companies going too far.\n\nSome of the things Ozy Media has been accused of are actually pretty common in Silicon Valley,\n\nOverstating how popular your content is a classic of the genre - something numerous companies have been accused of.\n\nBut there are other accusations here that are simply astonishing - that if true may well lead to legal action.\n\nIt's the kind of story that will deeply worry investors, who are in a constant battle to separate the frauds from the visionaries.\n\nOzy Media, which was launched in California in 2013, produces left-leaning podcasts, television series and events, and has won an Emmy for its work.\n\nLast weekend, the New York Times reported that its co-founder and chief operating officer, Samir Rao, impersonated a senior leader at YouTube during a conference call with Goldman Sachs in February. At that point the investment bank was considering making a $40m investment in the media company.\n\nMr Rao reportedly claimed that Ozy's videos were highly popular on YouTube.\n\nKatty Kay called the allegations against the firm \"troubling\"\n\nAccording to the Times, the investors realised something was wrong and did not go through with the deal. Mr Watson has since apologised and said Mr Rao was suffering a \"mental health crisis\" at the time.\n\nYet amid growing scrutiny, Ozy this week said it had begun an internal investigation and Mr Rao had taken a leave of absence.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Lasry, who owns the NBA basketball team the Milwaukee Bucks, stepped down after only three weeks as chairman.\n\nIn a statement he said: \"I believe that going forward Ozy requires experience in areas like crisis management and investigations, where I do not have particular expertise.\"\n\nHe added that he remains an investor in Ozy Media.\n\nThe same day, major advertisers were reported to be pulling their ad campaigns with Ozy.\n\nTarget, Goldman Sachs and AirBnB did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But Ford said \"We are pausing our advertising while Ozy Media addresses their current business challenges\" and US banking services firm Ally Financial said its relationship with Ozy was on hold \"in light of recent developments\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Kay announced she had \"no choice\" but to cut ties, calling the New York Times' allegations \"deeply troubling\". The veteran broadcaster joined Ozy in June after more than three decades at the BBC.\n\nOn Friday, the Times published fresh claims about Ozy made by a former producer, Brad Bessey.\n\nMr Bessey, who was hired this summer to produce a talk show hosted by Carlos Watson, was reportedly told from the start it would appear in a prime time slot on the US cable network A&E.\n\nYet, he later found out A&E had rejected the show before it began taping, the Times said. Mr Bessey reportedly quit the firm, accusing Mr Watson and Mr Rao of playing \"a dangerous game with the truth\".\n\nIn the end \"The Carlos Watson Show\" show appeared on Ozy's own website and YouTube.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Ozy Media for comment.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nBritain's Lizzie Deignan took a sensational breakaway win in the first edition of the women's Paris-Roubaix.\n\nThe Trek-Segafredo rider pulled away from the peloton with more than 80km to go, before rain affected the course.\n\nThe legendary race on the brutal 'pave' cobblestones returned this weekend after the coronavirus pandemic caused it to be postponed in 2020.\n\n\"I feel so incredibly proud - women's cycling is at a turning point and today is a part of history,\" Deignan said.\n\n\"I'm also proud to be part of a team making history, and even fans watching at home are making history to show there's an appetite for women's cycling - and that these athletes can do one of the hardest races in the world.\"\n\nDeignan, who becomes the first Briton ever to win Paris-Roubaix, powered clear just over halfway through the 116km race before the riders reached the unforgiving cobbled sections that permeate the race known as the 'hell of the north'.\n\nThe 32-year-old took cobbled corners carefully to stay on the bike and protect a lead of two minutes 30 seconds.\n\nShe then also revealed after the race that she was not the rider her team had initially selected for the victory.\n\n\"[Winning] was really not the plan,\" she said. \"I just needed to be at the front on the first section of cobbles to protect the leaders - today I was third rider.\n\n\"I looked behind after the first cobbles and there was no-one behind me, so I thought they have to chase me so, I just kept going.\"\n\nJumbo-Visma's Marianne Vos of the Netherlands broke away from a group of 19 riders chasing Deignan and halved her lead by 10km to go.\n\nHowever, Deignan brilliantly held on to the bike as her rear wheel slewed left and then right across the mud on the treacherous Caphin-en-Pevele sector.\n\nDeignan, who has won the road world championships, Tour of Flanders and the one-day women's Tour de France, beat the sport's greatest riders to lift the famous cobblestone trophy.\n\nShe crossed the line in the soaking wet Roubaix outdoor velodrome ahead of Vos in second and team-mate Elisa Longo Borghini of Italy third, to claim prize money of £1,300.\n\nDeignan will contest the Women's Tour of Britain from Monday, while the men contest a 259km edition of Paris-Roubaix on Sunday for a first place prize of £26,000.\n\nThe first men's race was in 1896.\n\nMeanwhile, Britain's Adam Yates of Ineos Grenadiers finished fourth in the Giro dell'Emilia one-day race in Italy.\n\nThe 29-year-old, who came fourth in this year's Vuelta a Espana, was 10 seconds behind winner Primoz Roglic of Jumbo-Visma.\n• None What's the worst that could happen? Possibly everything! The Goes Wrong Show is streaming now\n• None Ricky Gervais reveals behind-the-scenes facts and secrets of the comedy classic", "Care home workers who are not prepared to get the Covid vaccine should get another job, Sajid Javid has said.\n\nThe health secretary said he was not prepared to \"pause\" the requirement for care staff in England to be fully vaccinated by 11 November.\n\nHis remarks come after warnings that some homes will be unable to cope if workers are forced to leave.\n\nThe National Care Association has urged the government to delay the jab deadline to give staff more time.\n\nIt says it will have a knock-on effect on the NHS if care homes have to cut resident numbers.\n\nFrom 11 November, it will be mandatory for anyone who works in a Care Quality Commission-registered care home in England to be fully vaccinated, unless they have a medical exemption.\n\nMr Javid told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"If you work in a care home you are working with some of the most vulnerable people in our country and if you cannot be bothered to go and get vaccinated, then get out and go and get another job.\n\n\"If you want to look after them (care home residents), if you want to cook for them, if you want to feed them, if you want to put them to bed, then you should get vaccinated.\n\n\"If you are not going to get vaccinated then why are you working in care?\"\n\nThe government has said compulsory vaccinations in care homes will save lives and claim it is \"a sensible and reasonable step\" to protect care home workers and the people around them.\n\nNadra Ahmed, National Care Association chairman, said care homes have already overcome significant resistance among staff to the vaccines.\n\nIn November last year she said just 40% of staff had said they would get it - but 86% of staff are now fully vaccinated.\n\nShe told Today: \"We are not anti-vaccine. What we are saying is we needed a bit more time to get people where they needed to be.\"\n\nWithout an extension to the deadline, the consequences for care homes and for the wider health sector will be severe, she said,\n\n\"The situation is chronic now with staffing and that deadline will just add to it,\" she said.\n\n\"We will have providers who are no longer able to staff their services safely and that can only mean they will have to be handing back contracts.\n\n\"They will have to be looking at whether they can minimise the number of beds that they use to keep themselves open, which will have a direct effect on the NHS's ability to discharge people out of hospital and into care settings.\"", "Panic buying at petrol stations has led to some key workers struggling to get the fuel they need to travel to their work.\n\nThe surge in demand for fuel came after fears lorry driver shortages would hit supplies of petrol and diesel.\n\nDoctors and unions representing teachers and carers have called for key workers to get priority at the pumps.\n\nOne hospice in Oldham tweeted that it was in \"urgent need\" of petrol for its cars.\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\nRosemary Botting, who runs Karosel Care and Domestic Services in West Sussex, told the BBC that if two of her carers were still unable to find a station with fuel ahead of their next shift, they would be unable to tend to \"vulnerable\" service users.\n\nMs Botting said if the current crisis wasn't resolved by next week, then she envisaged her care company would be in breach of safeguarding guidelines to its 12 customers.\n\n\"We will be putting our service users at risk,\" she said. \"We would not be able to send a carer out to somebody.\"\n\nMs Botting said her staff helped people living in rural areas throughout west Sussex, which meant driving - and a tank full of fuel - was essential.\n\nOne of her carers was half an hour late to her first call in because of traffic caused by queues at petrol stations, she said, which meant her first patient, who cannot get out of bed unaided, remained there until she arrived.\n\n\"I have got to inform all the other service users that their carer is running half an hour late. We pride ourselves on being on time,\" she said.\n\n\"We got through Covid. Not a single user in our care contracted Covid. The reason I do this job is because I care. It's just a bit of a nightmare at the moment.\"\n\nColin McDonald, an orthopaedic registrar at a district general hospital in the East Midlands, told the BBC that if fuel supply issues continued, and he couldn't to travel to work, there could be delays to patient surgeries at the start of his shifts, which could then delay his fracture clinics in the afternoon.\n\n\"This could lead to cancellations,\" he said. \"If patients live far away from the clinic they may not be able to get in, staff may not be able to get in.\"\n\nMr McDonald said he had been worried about not being able to get fuel on Sunday, but managed to buy some petrol which had been kept aside for key workers at a petrol station on Monday.\n\n\"Seeing people fill up multiple jerry cans of fuel - I just don't understand what their mentality is,\" he said.\n\n\"I find it very difficult to comprehend. It appears very selfish... they are just looking after themselves and not really considering the needs of others and key workers.\"\n\nAndrew Wagstaff, a civil servant from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, left his home at 04:45 BST to hunt for fuel to make his 57-mile trip to work.\n\nAfter finding all petrol stations closed in his area, he finally got fuel at Watford Gap service station.\n\nHowever, he said prices had been hiked to 157.9p per litre for diesel, which described as \"ridiculous\".\n\n\"It cost me £65 to fill up three quarters of a tank,\" he said. \"I do an essential job. It's frustrating that people - who are not essential workers - are just panicking for no reason.\"\n\nAndrew Wagstaff said people were panicking for no reason\n\nMost bus and coach services have not been affected by the fuel supply issues, according to the Confederation of Passenger Transport.\n\nMeanwhile, the Petrol Retailers Association (PRA), which represents 5,500 out of the UK's 8,000 filling stations,said there were \"early signs\" the crisis was \"ending, with more of our members reporting that they are now taking further deliveries of fuel\".\n\n\"Fuel stocks remain normal at refineries and terminals, although deliveries have been reduced due to the shortage of HGV drivers,\" said PRA executive director Gordon Balmer.\n\n\"We have conducted a survey of our members this morning and only 37% of forecourts have reported being out of fuel today. With regular restocks taking place, this percentage is likely to improve further over the next 24 hours\".", "Roma Taylor says the Windrush is a very painful and emotional subject\n\nThe stories of the Windrush generation need to be preserved so they can \"be told for generations to come\", a member for the community in Wales has said.\n\nVernesta Cyril was born in1943 in St Lucia and spent more than 30 years working in hospitals in Wales.\n\nShe was speaking ahead of an exhibition that tells the stories of more than 40 members of the community in Wales.\n\nWindrush Cymru: Our Voices, Our Stories, Our History opens at St Fagans National Museum of History on Saturday.\n\nIt will then go on a tour to other national museums across Wales from November until March.\n\nVernesta Cyril spent more than 30 years working in hospitals in Wales\n\nThe Empire Windrush arrived in Essex in 1948 carrying more than 1,000 passengers from the Caribbean after Britain asked for post-war workers.\n\nOver the next 40 years, thousands followed in their footsteps, with many making Wales their new home.\n\nWindrush Cymru - Our Voices, Our Stories, Our History will be on display at St Fagans National Museum of History in Cardiff from Saturday.\n\nMs Cyril, who was awarded Midwife of the Year in 2006 and an OBE for her contributions to the NHS, said: \"At last society has recognised the Windrush generation, so our stories can be told for generations to come\".\n\nRoma Taylor, founder and chair of the Windrush Cymru Elders, said: \"The Windrush is a very painful and emotional subject but all of our stories have to go out.\n\n\"It's important to us, our children and our grandchildren and for schools.\"\n\nMs Taylor arrived in the UK in 1959 and said Cardiff's Tiger Bay was \"the best place to live\".\n\n\"Everybody was for everybody, everyone looked after everyone and you had no problems,\" she said.\n\nVernesta Cyril is pleased society has \"at last\" recognised the Windrush generation\n\nThe history of the Windrush generation in Wales was recently the focus of an oral history project delivered by Race Council Cymru and funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund - this exhibition features the stories of more than 40, told in their own words.\n\nThe stories tell how the Windrush generation and their descendants made their mark in Wales through the jobs they worked, careers they built, the children they raised, and the contributions they made to our communities and culture.\n\nThe exhibition is delivered by Race Council Cymru in partnership with National Museum Wales, Wales Millennium Centre, People's Collection Wales, Windrush Cymru Elders and Black History Wales 365.\n\nVernesta Cyril was awarded Midwife of the Year in 2006 and an OBE for her contributions to the NHS\n\nIt is supported by Arts Council of Wales, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and Gower College Swansea.\n\nNational Museum Wales' head of public history and archaeology Sioned Hughes said: \"The oral histories recorded by the Windrush Cymru project will be archived at St Fagans as a permanent record of the lived experiences of the Windrush generation in Wales.\n\n\"We are immensely grateful to the Windrush elders for sharing their lived experiences with us for future generations.\"\n\nProfessor Uzo Iwobi, OBE, founder of Race Council Cymru said: \"I am proud to have supported the elders for many years, hearing their appeals for their stories to be captured for prosperity and continue their legacy for their children and grandchildren.\n\n\"I'm delighted that this project and exhibition have come to fruition - it's incredibly important to see these stories being passed down to the next generation.\"", "Alex Jones runs the Infowars website, which touts a range of conspiracy theories\n\nUS radio host and prominent conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has lost another legal case after falsely calling a mass school shooting a \"hoax\".\n\nTwenty children and six adults were shot dead at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut in 2012.\n\nBut Mr Jones claimed the event had been made up by supporters of gun controls and the mainstream media.\n\nHe will now have to pay legal costs to the parents of two six-year-old boys killed in the attack.\n\nMr Jones has long claimed on his radio show and right-wing Infowars website that the attack at Sandy Hook was \"completely fake\" and a \"giant hoax\".\n\nHe has faced a slew of legal cases from several parents of the victims. In response, he has acknowledged the shooting took place but denied wronging the families.\n\nIn Thursday's ruling, a Texas judge said Mr Jones had repeatedly failed to hand over legal documents and evidence to the court to support his claims about the attack. As a result, a default judgement was issued.\n\nJudge Maya Guerra Gamble wrote that Mr Jones and other defendants had shown \"flagrant bad faith and callous disregard\" by not turning over the files.\n\nThe ruling means he and Infowars must pay an undecided amount to the parents of Noah Pozner and Jesse Lewis, two six-year-old boys who died. The amount will be determined in another trial.\n\nMr Jones and an Infowars lawyer called the decision \"stunning\".\n\n\"We are distressed by what we regard as a blatant abuse of discretion by the trial court,\" they said in a statement.\n\nMr Jones's lawyers argue his comments were protected by free speech rights.\n\nBut he has lost several defamation lawsuits brought against him for his claims on the attack. Last year, Mr Jones was ordered to pay more than $100,000 (£76,000) to the father of another six-year-old child who was killed at Sandy Hook.\n\nAlex Jones has been banned by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for hate speech and abusive behaviour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lenny Pozner lost his son Noah in the Sandy Hook shootings, and then had to fight trolls who said it never happened\n\nThe attack at Sandy Hook remains one of the worst school shootings in American history.\n\nOn 14 December 2012, 20 children - aged between five and 10 - and six staff members were killed at the school in Newtown, Connecticut when a gunman opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle before killing himself.\n\nParents of Sandy Hook victims who have spoken publicly about their experiences have been harassed by trolls, both online and in person who make false allegations about the shooting.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBBC coverage: Watch live on BBC Two from 08:00 and BBC One from 10:00 with uninterrupted coverage and extra streams on the Red Button and online; live text from 08:00.\n\nThe London Marathon returns to the city's streets for the first full-scale staging of the race in more than two years on Sunday.\n\nMore than 40,000 runners will join some of the world's best on the usual course that starts in Blackheath and finishes 26.2 miles later in the shadow of Buckingham Palace on The Mall.\n\nThey will be joined by a similar number completing the distance 'virtually' via a tracking app on a course of their choosing.\n\nLast year, the race was shifted from it's usual April date as the coronavirus pandemic forced the suspension of sporting events worldwide.\n\nLast October, a small, elite field competed over 19 laps of a closed course around St James's Park, with the mass element of the event taking place remotely.\n\nLondon's race director Hugh Brasher said this year's event - 40 years on from the inaugural race in 1981 - \"could easily be the most memorable ever\".\n\n\"It will be a moment of joy, of true emotion,\" he added. \"It is more than just a marathon. It is about bringing people together and that is what we have missed so much in the last 18 months.\"\n\nThis is all you need to know about Sunday's race.\n• None 'This could be the most memorable London Marathon ever'\n• None Forty London Marathons and counting - the story of an 'EverPresent'\n• None BBC Sport coverage details- and how to contact us with your stories\n\nKenyan world record holder Brigid Kosgei is aiming for a third successive victory in the race after emphatic wins in 2019 and 2020. Germany's Katrin Dorre was the last athlete to complete such a treble in the women's race with wins between 1992 and 1994.\n\nShe will face stiff competition with Israel's Lonah Salpeter, the seventh-fastest woman over the distance, and Kenya's reigning New York City Marathon champion Joyciline Jepkosgei hunting a first London win.\n\nKosgei insists she is up for the challenge just eight weeks after winning Olympic silver in hot, humid conditions in Sapporo, Japan.\n\n\"After one week, I was well recovered,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"The big reason is I like too much London. I love London. I like the course. The way they welcome us. Even the race organisers. I like the place and how they cheer us on the way.\"\n\nCharlotte Purdue and Natasha Cockram, the first Briton in the 2019 and 2020 races respectively, are aiming to qualify for next year's World Championships in Oregon.\n\nPurdue, the fourth-fastest British woman over the distance, was bitterly disappointed to miss out on selection for the Tokyo Olympics, feeling she was wrongly overlooked on medical grounds.\n\n\"I was really annoyed and angry but as soon as I had London as a focus I just channelled all my energy into London,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"Now I'm all in on this race on Sunday.\"\n\nIn last year's men's race, Ethiopia's Shura Kitata explained how he had hit the breakfast buffet hard to power himself to a surprise victory over Kenyan great Eliud Kipchoge.\n\nHere's hoping the elite athletes' hotel has stocked up on pastries because Kitata is back to defend his crown.\n\n\"Last year's win had very great meaning because Eliud is such a famous, strong runner,\" said Kitata.\n\n\"It has brought me strength in my psychological and physical preparation, and also a lot of attention from the public as well.\"\n\nKipchoge, who had won four of the previous five London Marathons before 2020, is absent this time, with Britain's Mo Farah also missing after failing to qualify for Tokyo 2020 on the track and suffering a stress fracture in this foot.\n\nHowever, Ethiopia's Birhanu Legese, the third-fastest man of all time over the distance, is in the field along with compatriot and world silver medallist Mosinet Geremew.\n• None 'I'm running with the man who saved my life'\n\nGreat Britain's eight-time men's wheelchair winner David Weir competes in his 22nd London Marathon but is up against Switzerland's in-form Marcel Hug, who won four golds, including the marathon title, at Tokyo 2020.\n\nAmerican Daniel Romanchuk, a hugely impressive winner in 2019, is also in the field along with Canada's defending champion Brent Lakatos.\n\nWith more than 240,000 positive Covid tests across the United Kingdom in the seven days before race week, there are still precautions in place for the race.\n\nAll runners must provide a negative lateral flow test before they are allowed to line up in London and are being encouraged to bring only one other person to spectate and support them in person.\n\nStewards will ask people to move along the course if large crowds gather at any point.\n\nThe race will start with smaller waves of runners released over 90 minutes, and the usual baggage system, which takes warm-up kit from the start to the finish, has been streamlined to reduce the chance of transmission.\n\nOrganisers insist fuel supply problems should not be an issue, encouraging runners to use public transport for their journeys to the start and back home.\n\n\"Those services have been the best way for people to get to the event in its history and will remain that way,\" said Brasher.\n\nElectric lead vehicles at the front of the race, compostable drinks cups, goodie bags at the finish line made out of sugar cane instead of plastic.\n\nThe London Marathon has introduced a host of measures to mitigate the waste and carbon produced by the race.\n\nThe race has become a draw for runners all over the world with 84,125 overseas applications to run in the 2020 race.\n\nOrganisers have introduced a carbon levy to help offset those international runners' journeys to the start line. They have also helped fund tree-planting projects in east London and Kenya which absorb carbon dioxide.\n\nThere have also been changes to improve the experience of runners at the back of the field after some of 2019's slowest runners reported being insulted by officials and finding the clean-up operation taking place ahead of them.\n\nThere will be 50-strong team of 'tailwalkers' who will walk the course at eight-hour pace accompanied by a DJ providing motivational music. There will also be additional officials on hand about every 400m from 16 miles onwards to support any runners struggling to complete the course.\n• None What's the worst that could happen? Possible everything! The Goes Wrong Show is streaming now\n• None Ricky Gervais reveals behind-the-scenes facts and secrets on the comedy classic", "Steve Turner was elected as Cleveland's police and crime commissioner in May\n\nCleveland's police and crime commissioner has been referred to the police watchdog over a caution for theft he received in the 1990s.\n\nSteve Turner has admitted receiving the police caution while working as a manager at a supermarket.\n\nMiddlesbrough Labour MP Andy McDonald used parliamentary privilege to claim he had been sacked by a former employer for \"systematic theft\".\n\nMr Turner said he had \"voluntarily\" resigned and was not sacked.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it had received two referrals concerning Mr Turner's conduct from the Cleveland Police and Crime Panel, which scrutinises the PCC's work and decisions.\n\nThe IOPC said \"any indication a criminal offence may have been committed\" by a PCC must be referred and it would then \"determine whether the matter should be criminally investigated\".\n\nTwo referrals were \"being assessed to determine what further action may be required from us\", a spokesman said.\n\nIn an open letter on his social media Mr Turner said he made a \"stupid error\" and it had been a \"minor incident\".\n\nHe also insisted he had \"diligently followed all the rules\" governing the appointment of police and crime commissioners.\n\nMr McDonald said he was unfit to hold office and should step down with immediate effect, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nA spokeswoman for Mr Turner's office said: \"We extend our full co-operation to the panel and the IOPC and we will assist them with any inquiries they need to make.\"\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.", "Some filling stations, including this one in Streatham, south London, reported having no fuel on Saturday\n\nPetrol supplies remain critical in London and south-east England with many forecourts still dry, retailers said.\n\nBut the Petrol Retailers Association said there was a \"distinct improvement\" nationwide due to the \"restraint\" of drivers.\n\nThe association's survey of 1,000 petrol stations found 68% have both grades of fuel available, while 16% have no fuel at all.\n\nThe military is due to begin delivering petrol across the UK from Monday.\n\nSpeaking to broadcasters on a visit to a hospital in Leeds, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"You need to take all possible precautions but the supplies are getting in, they are getting to the forecourts, but people just need to be going about their business in the normal way.\"\n\nHe said he understood how \"infuriating\" it has been for people, but added the situation was stabilising and the problems had been driven by demand rather than supply issues.\n\nA shortage of drivers and high demand plunged the UK into a fuel crisis that caused lengthy queues outside some petrol stations and led to the closure of many forecourts.\n\nBrian Madderson, chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association, said: \"While more fuel is being delivered to forecourts than is being sold overall, the situation remains critical in London and the South East where many filling stations remain dry.\"\n\nThere were fewer dry sites in Scotland, the north of England and parts of the Midlands, he said.\n\nMr Madderson, who represents 5,500 independent retailers among the 8,300 petrol stations in the UK, said the extension of the HGV visa cut-off to March next year was welcome, and military drivers would begin having an impact from the beginning of next week.\n\nAlmost 200 servicemen and women, 100 of them drivers, will provide \"temporary\" support to ease pressure on stations.\n\nLarge queues and closed forecourts have been reported across London on Saturday.\n\nBBC Newsnight's policy editor Lewis Goodall tweeted that queues for petrol in one south London area were \"even longer\" on Saturday and were causing \"considerable congestion\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lewis Goodall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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, Mr Madderson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the military drivers would be a \"large help\" but independent, neighbourhood filling stations in London and south-east England needed to be made a priority for deliveries \"immediately\".\n\nHe also warned drivers would see a rise in fuel prices next week - but because of \"global factors\" not because of profiteering.\n\nAsked if the visas for foreign HGV drivers to work in the UK could be extended again, the prime minister said \"we will keep everything under review\".\n\nBut Mr Johnson said: \"What we don't want to do is go back to a situation where we basically allowed the road haulage industry to be sustained with a lot of low-wage immigration that mean wages didn't go up and facilities, standards, the quality of the job didn't go up.\"\n\nHe said poor pay and conditions meant that people did not want to drive lorries for a living, but the government wanted to see more investment in facilities for drivers.\n\nLarge queues and closed forecourts were reported across London on Saturday\n\nMilitary personnel are currently training at haulier sites and will be on the road delivering fuel supplies across the country to \"help fuel stocks further improve\" from Monday, the government said.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said personnel would be seen working alongside drivers this weekend following training this week.\n\nMinisters have also announced that up to 300 overseas fuel tanker drivers will be able to work in the UK immediately until the end of March.\n\nIn addition to this, temporary visas are also being offered to 4,700 food haulage drivers who are able to arrive from late October and leave by 28 February 2022.\n\nVisas are being offered to a further 5,500 poultry workers who can come from late October and stay until 31 December.\n\nPreviously, the government said these temporary visas would last until Christmas Eve.\n\nA survey from earlier this year suggests a number of reasons for the driver shortage\n\nIn addition to offering temporary visas, the government last week set out a number of other measures aimed at limiting disruption in the run-up to Christmas and beyond.\n\nThese include increasing HGV (heavy goods vehicle) testing capacity, sending nearly one million letters to drivers who hold an HGV licence, encouraging them back into the industry, and offering training courses for HGV drivers.\n\nMeanwhile, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned there is global disruption to supply chains in other industries, which could continue until Christmas.\n\n\"These shortages are very real,\" Mr Sunak told the Daily Mail.\n\n\"We're seeing real disruptions in supply chains in different sectors, not just here but around the world. We are determined to do what we can to try to mitigate as much of this as we can.\"\n\nAnd the Financial Times reports that turkeys will be imported to the UK from France and Poland in the run-up to Christmas after farmers reared about one million fewer birds.\n\nBritish Poultry Council chief executive Richard Griffiths told the paper that Brexit had cut off the industry's supply of cheap labour.", "Priti Patel on harassment: \"I want women to have the confidence to call it out\"\n\nPolice must take harassment and flashing more seriously, Priti Patel said, as forces face questions over how violence against women is dealt with in the wake of Sarah Everard's murder.\n\nThe home secretary said police had to \"raise the bar\" and treat everybody \"with respect, dignity and seriously\".\n\nThere are calls for an inquiry into police misogyny after a Met officer was jailed for murdering Ms Everard.\n\nWayne Couzens falsely arrested the 33-year-old in order to abduct, rape and murder her, and the Metropolitan Police is facing questions over its failure to stop him.\n\nMs Patel told the Daily Telegraph: \"I would say to all women: give voice to these issues, please... There is something so corrosive in society if people think that it's OK to harass women verbally, physically, and in an abusive way on the street and all that kind of stuff.\n\n\"I want women to have the confidence to call it out. I don't see all of this as low level.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has issued guidance about what women should do if challenged by a lone plain-clothes officer.\n\nSuggestions include asking \"very searching questions\" and requesting to speak to an operator on a police radio.\n\nWaving down a bus, running into a house or calling 999 is advised in the event someone believes they are in \"real and imminent danger\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Boris Johnson: \"We can trust the police... but there is a problem\"\n\nSue Fish, former chief constable of Nottinghamshire Police, called the guidelines \"completely absurd\" and \"impractical\", adding that the Met Police \"have absolutely no insight whatsoever\".\n\nMs Fish was chief constable of Nottinghamshire Police in 2016 when it became the first force to record misogyny as a hate crime in an attempt to tackle sexist abuse.\n\nShe criticised what she sees as a lack of action from Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, who is facing calls to resign over the force's handling of the case.\n\nMaking misogyny a hate crime made a \"significant difference\" in Nottinghamshire, Ms Fish told BBC2's Newsnight, adding that Dame Cressida should have taken similar steps in the Met.\n\n\"This isn't about an individual officer. This is about a prevailing culture within policing and it has to be broken. It has to have been broken many years ago,\" Ms Fish said, adding that a public inquiry was needed around policing and misogyny.\n\nCouzens - who has been sentenced to a whole-life prison term - is believed to have been in a WhatsApp group with five police officers who are now being investigated for gross misconduct.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct is investigating the five, and one former officer, for distributing \"grossly offensive\", obscene or menacing material. Couzens is understood not to be one of those under investigation, but was involved in sharing messages.\n\nAlice Vinten, who served in the Met for more than 10 years as a constable before leaving the force in 2015, said \"it was very much a lads' culture\" when she worked there.\n\nHowever, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme women were worried to report concerns about their colleagues because this was still \"stigmatised\".\n\nSarah Everard's killer, a serving police officer, pretended to arrest her in order to abduct her\n\nLord Blair, who served as Met commissioner between 2005 and 2008, said policing was now 40% women so it \"simply cannot be the case that the lads' culture of the 1970s is surviving everywhere\".\n\nMr Johnson acknowledged to the BBC that there is a \"problem\" in how police tackle male violence against women, but has insisted forces can be trusted.\n\nHe told the Times that too many women were \"finding their lives lost to this system\" while waiting and hoping for their cases to be taken seriously.\n\nThe PM added: \"There's another problem, which is partly caused by the failure of the criminal justice system to dispose of these [cases]. Are the police taking this issue seriously enough? It's infuriating. I think the public feel that they aren't and they're not wrong.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You have little power to say no\" - Women react to the Met's safety advice following the Everard case\n\nMeanwhile, there are calls for North Yorkshire commissioner Philip Allott to resign after he said women need to be \"streetwise\" about powers of arrest, adding that Ms Everard \"never should have submitted\" to the arrest by her killer.\n\nLabour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer condemned the comments, saying: \"I can't think of a more inappropriate thing for a police and crime commissioner to say at any time, but at this time in particular.\"", "Anna Taylor's challenge took her to Wales\n\nA woman from Cumbria has completed a rock-climbing challenge covering 83 routes across the UK.\n\nAnna Taylor, from Windermere, climbed a total of 10,000m (33,000ft) and cycled 2,400km (1,491 miles) over 62 days.\n\nThe 23-year-old, who started climbing at the age of 10, covered all 83 routes listed in renowned climbing guide Classic Rock, most of them solo.\n\nShe said the experience had been memorable and she was \"both delighted and relieved\" to finish.\n\n\"Soloing a wet route covered in vegetation is not much fun, while my legs were definitely not ready for cycling hundreds of miles while carrying all of my climbing gear,\" she said.\n\n\"Add in a bout of sickness and some lively weather and the round was far from straightforward, but the compensations more than made up for all of that.\"\n\nThe weather was not always kind, Ms Taylor said\n\nClassic Rock, first published in 1978, is well known in climbing circles and features what the writer and journalist Ken Wilson believed to be the UK's best rock climbs, graded up to \"very severe\".\n\nSome climbers have a long-term plan to tick off the book's routes and Ms Taylor is believed to be the first to complete them all while cycling between each one.\n\nCarrying all of her kit, she travelled from Cornwall to Wales, the Peak District, the Lake District and the Scottish Highlands, finishing on the notoriously challenging Cuillin Ridge on the Isle of Skye.\n\nShe said she had \"gained an even greater appreciation of the amazing landscapes on these shores, and of the amazing routes that Ken Wilson collected\".\n\nMs Taylor has climbed a number of routes considered to be very difficult and, in 2020, became the first woman to climb the 2,000ft (610m) sheer rock face of Mount Roraima, in Guyana, South America.\n\nSome of the book's climbs are categorised as very severe\n\nMany of the routes were undertaken solo\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "One referee association said it was withdrawing young officials from games this weekend\n\nYoung referees have been withdrawn from some children's rugby league games this weekend because of growing levels of verbal abuse from adults.\n\nHuddersfield Rugby League Referees Society said it no longer felt that \"league discipline will safeguard\" its under-18 officials.\n\nJunior ref Dylan, 14, said he was sworn at by a parent during a children's game last month, leaving him \"upset\".\n\nYorkshire Junior and Youth League said it was working \"to improve discipline\".\n\nHowever, referee societies in West Yorkshire say officials, many who are children themselves, are giving up the sport because of abuse.\n\nHuddersfield Rugby League Referees Society said it had tried working with the league to keep rugby enjoyable for everyone but \"no progress has been made\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Huddersfield Rugby League Referees Society This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Jayden Covell-Wood, from Dewsbury and Batley Referee Society, said: \"We don't feel safe sending our younger referees to a game when it's happening more regularly.\n\n\"It's getting too much. We're losing referees because of it. Some last two or three games before they're abused and it's just not good enough.\"\n\nJayden Covell-Wood, right, looks after junior referees as well as officiating games himself\n\nMr Covell-Wood, who is a rugby league referee himself, said the abuse had come from parents and coaches during under-10 games.\n\n\"I'm absolutely appalled at times. I just don't know what goes through an adult's head to even speak to a child that way,\" he said.\n\nJunior referee Dylan took part in an officials' course earlier this year, but despite only being involved in a handful of games he has already been subjected to abuse.\n\n\"The coaches and parents like to moan at every single call you give,\" he said. \"Sometimes I'll get abuse and I'll just want to end the game right there and go home.\"\n\nHis father Kevin said he noticed the abuse was getting worse, with his son being shouted and sworn at by a parent during a recent game.\n\nHe said: \"There's a lot of under-18 refs who are only lasting a few matches.\n\nDylan, right, started refereeing earlier this year after taking part in a course\n\n\"If they're facing this sort of abuse in the first few games, it's not good for the sport. Without the referees you don't have a game.\"\n\nHe said some parents felt because the young referees were paid they were open to be shouted at.\n\n\"You think 'why am I bothering to give my time up?' What makes a grown man or woman think they can verbally abuse a minor?\"\n\nYorkshire Junior and Youth League said it was working with the Rugby Football League and clubs to improve discipline across the country.\n\nIt acknowledged behaviour on the touchline \"is not where it needs to be\" and there was \"more work to be done\".\n\n\"In 2021 we have introduced a number of additional measures, including suspension of fixtures and more education for coaches,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nHarsher sentences for clubs who abuse referees, including being kicked out of competitions, were options open to the league, it added.\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.", "Sarah Everard's killer, a serving police officer, pretended to arrest her in order to abduct her\n\nA police boss who said women \"need to be streetwise\" about powers of arrest in the wake of the Sarah Everard case is being urged to resign.\n\nNorth Yorkshire commissioner Philip Allott sparked fury when he said Ms Everard \"never should have submitted\" to the arrest by her killer.\n\nA Met Police officer falsely arrested the 33-year-old in order to abduct, rape and murder her.\n\nLabour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for Mr Allott to quit.\n\nHe said: \"He should go. I can't think of a more inappropriate thing for a police and crime commissioner to say at any time, but at this time in particular. He should consider his position.\"\n\nMr Allott has apologised for his remarks and said he wanted to retract his comments.\n\nDuring the sentencing of Wayne Couzens at the Old Bailey, it emerged he tricked Ms Everard by falsely arresting her for a breach of coronavirus guidelines.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio York earlier, Conservative Mr Allott said women should be aware this was not an indictable offence - one considered serious enough to warrant a prison sentence or crown court hearing.\n\n\"So women, first of all, need to be streetwise about when they can be arrested and when they can't be arrested. She should never have been arrested and submitted to that,\" he said.\n\n\"Perhaps women need to consider in terms of the legal process, to just learn a bit about that legal process\".\n\nThe comments provoked an angry reaction on social media, prompting Mr Allott to reconsider.\n\nIn an apologetic tweet, he said he realised his remarks were \"insensitive and [I] wish to retract them in full\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Allott, who was elected in May, spoke to BBC Radio York\n\nMP for York Central Rachael Maskell added that Mr Allott's position was \"untenable\".\n\n\"Women are not feeling safe on our streets and it is for the police, including the police and crime commissioners to make sure we feel safer,\" she said.\n\nAmong those angered by Mr Allott's comments was campaigner Lucy Arnold, who organised a vigil outside York Minster following the death of Ms Everard, who was originally from York.\n\n\"I think frankly that was a horrifically offensive thing to say,\" she said.\n\n\"Does anyone really feel like they can stand up to a police officer? I am very confident I know my rights, I know the law, but no I wouldn't feel confident at all.\"\n\nLabour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer is among those calling for Mr Allott's resignation\n\nThe Everyday Sexism account accused Mr Allott of \"openly blaming Sarah Everard for what happened to her\", and Scotland's First Minister said the comments were \"appalling\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon tweeted it was not \"up to women to fix this\".\n\n\"The problem is male violence, not women's 'failure' to find ever more inventive ways to protect ourselves against it. For change to happen, this needs to be accepted by everyone,\" she said.\n\nLegal commentator David Allen Green added: \"There is not a competent lawyer in the country that would have advised Sarah Everard to resist arrest by a police officer with a warrant card.\"\n\nIn his interview, Mr Allott was also critical of the Met Police's alleged failure to investigate two indecent exposure incidents linked to Couzens in February, describing it as a red flag for any force.\n\n\"A murderer typically commits seven crimes before going on to murder, that man we know committed at least two crimes,\" he said.\n\n\"The police knew, so what should have happened is that it should have been picked up straight away.\"\n\nThe police watchdog has launched an investigation into its handling of the exposure reports, and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick has faced calls to resign.\n\nScotland Yard has advised people detained by a lone plain-clothes officer to ask \"searching questions\" and to speak to an operator on a police radio to determine if the officer is genuine.\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.", "Maureen McKenna has been Glasgow's director of education for 14 years\n\nWhen Maureen McKenna was six weeks into her job as Glasgow's director of education, staff at one of her schools were threatening to go out on strike.\n\nA pupil at Drumchapel High had brought a weapon in to class and she was refusing a request for him to be permanently excluded.\n\nShe recalls how she took a phone call from a union rep describing the alarm among staff.\n\nMs McKenna says she \"took a deep breath\" and told him the staff must do what they had to do.\n\nBut her role, she told him, was to get everyone together to look at the reasons why that child brought a weapon into school and then look at support for the family and the young person.\n\nShe says: \"I hung up the phone and I thought 'Oh god'.\"\n\nBut in the end, the staff didn't strike, instead teachers joined a meeting with social workers and others.\n\nIt was the first of several occasions during her 14 years in the job where Ms McKenna felt she had to push back against the status quo. Now, as she faces retirement at the end of the year, she stands by her decision on that first case.\n\n\"That young man went on and had a successful career at that school,\" she says.\n\n\"His additional support needs meant he didn't understand fully what he was doing. Would he have understood exclusion? Would sending him to a different school have changed his life? No, it would have probably made it worse.\"\n\nThere has been an 88% reduction in school exclusions in the past 10 years\n\nWhen the former maths teacher first took the top job in the city's education team in 2007, exclusions were at an all-time high and she knew she wanted to change that.\n\n\"They were just a habit,\" she says. \"Schools were excluding people again and again. I just didn't think they were reflecting enough about the context of the young person, where they had come from.\n\n\"In one of our secondary schools there were 770 exclusion incidents in one year, there are only 190 pupil days.\n\n\"It was like a revolving door - pupils are in school, an incident happens, straight out the door again.\n\n\"How were we ever going to improve outcomes and change lives? That is what education is most powerful at doing, changing people's lives, but they have to be in school.'\n\nMs McKenna's approach fitted with the work and ethos of Scotland's Violence Reduction Unit (VRU), which was started just before she took up her post. It aims to treat crime as a public health issue and look at root causes of the problem.\n\nThere has been an 88% reduction in school exclusions in the past 10 years, at the same time there has been a 50% reduction in youth crime.\n\nSeveral English councils and Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, have sent representatives to learn from Ms McKenna how the approach to exclusions could be having a positive impact on reducing violence.\n\n\"We need to be supporting our young people to make better decisions, because that's really what it's all about,\" she says.\n\n\"If you are in school and you see a bit of misbehaviour, you have to make those decisions yourself about whether you get involved or not.\n\n\"If you are doing that successfully in school then you are going to be able to do that successfully in the community.\"\n\nShe adds: \"English local authorities approached us and along with the violence reduction units down south, they are building on the success of the VRU and the schools' work up here, to take what they can for the English context.\"\n\nCutting back drastically on exclusions hasn't always gone down well with teachers and families, who feel it could mean more disruption in class.\n\nMs McKenna says there has never been a policy of zero exclusions.\n\n\"There are always times when for the safety of that child, or for the safety of other children, there needs to be an exclusion,\" she says.\n\n\"Without a shadow of a doubt. It's about understanding that when a child acts out, maybe they are communicating with you, rather than deliberately being bad.\n\n\"I'm not saying children don't behave badly, or that everyone in the city is perfect, absolutely not, it's a hard shift in Glasgow and it always will be a hard shift but if we can help our children to manage themselves better, we are creating the next generation of families.\"", "Jorja died on the day she was due to have her first Covid-19 vaccination, her mother said\n\nA 15-year-old girl has died from Covid-19 on the day she was due to be vaccinated.\n\nJorja Halliday, from Portsmouth, died at the Queen Alexandra Hospital on Tuesday, four days after she received a positive PCR test result.\n\nHer mother, Tracey Halliday, 40, said the GCSE student was a \"loving girl, talented kickboxer and aspiring musician\".\n\nJorja had cancelled her vaccine appointment because she was isolating.\n\nTracey Halliday said her daughter was \"very active\" and loved spending time with her friends and family\n\nMs Halliday said her daughter's death was \"heart-wrenching\" but she praised hospital staff who did \"everything they could to save her\".\n\nShe explained that Jorja developed flu-like symptoms the weekend before she died.\n\nShe took a PCR test which was positive so she began to isolate at home on Saturday 25 September.\n\nJorja's symptoms continued to worsen and by Monday she couldn't eat because her throat hurt, at which point she was given antibiotics.\n\nMs Halliday said her daughter's condition worsened and when she was seen by a doctor they admitted her to hospital because her heart rate was \"double what it should have been\".\n\nPaying tribute to her daughter, Ms Halliday said she was a \"loving girl\" and \"beautiful young lady\"\n\nShe said: \"They realised how serious it was and I was still allowed to touch her, hold her hand, hug her and everything else. They did allow me that.\n\n\"I'm at the point where I can't comprehend that it's happened. I was with her the whole time.\"\n\nHospital staff tried to put Jorja on a ventilator so her body could recover, but Ms Halliday said her heart rate didn't stabilise and \"couldn't take the strain\".\n\nMs Halliday confirmed her daughter had no underlying health conditions.\n\nPreliminary results after she was admitted to hospital indicated Jorja had Covid myocarditis, heart inflammation caused by the virus.\n\nJorja was the eldest of five siblings and \"loved spending time with her brothers and sisters\"\n\nJorja, the eldest of five siblings, was described by her mother as a \"loving girl\" who had lots of friends.\n\nMs Halliday added: \"Growing up she turned into a beautiful young lady, always wanting to help others, always there for everybody.\n\n\"It's heart-wrenching because your kids are always meant to outlive you, and that's the one thing I can't get over.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Most children are expected to receive their jab in school\n\nYoung people aged 12 to 15 in Northern Ireland will be offered Covid vaccines, while all over-50s and healthcare staff will be offered booster jabs.\n\nThe changes to the vaccine programme were announced by Stormont's Department of Health, with the first boosters to be given within 10 to 15 days.\n\nPeople aged 16 to 49 with underlying health issues can also have boosters.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said it would protect young people and prolong protection for those most at risk.\n\nAn estimated 900,000 people will be eligible to receive a booster jab in Northern Ireland.\n\nCare home residents will be first on the list when the booster roll-out begins in late September, according to the head of Northern Ireland's Covid-19 vaccination programme, Patricia Donnelly.\n\nMs Donnelly also said 12 to 15-year-olds were likely to be offered their vaccines in October.\n\nThere are about 98,000 young people aged from 12 to 15 in Northern Ireland and the decision to vaccine that cohort comes after the UK's four chief medical officers recommended the step.\n\nThese young people will be offered a single dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine with parental consent sought prior to vaccination.\n\nMost school-aged children aged 12 to 15 are expected to primarily receive their Covid-19 vaccination in school.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patricia Donnelly believes 12 to 15-year-olds will be offered jabs next month\n\nA schools-based vaccination programme is the model used for vaccinations including for human papillomavirus (HPV) and the annual flu programme.\n\nThey will be supported by GPs where necessary.\n\nConsent forms for vaccination will begin to be distributed via schools shortly, the department said.\n\nThere will be alternative provision for those who are home-schooled or in secure services.\n\nYoung people aged 12 to 15 who are part of an at-risk group will receive two doses, eight weeks apart, in line with advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\n\"This move will help protect young people from catching Covid-19 and is expected to prevent disruption in schools by reducing transmission,\" the health minister said.\n\nVaccinations for children aged between 12 and 15 in the Republic of Ireland began in August.\n\nThe Covid-19 booster vaccine announcement followed advice from the JCVI.\n\nThey advised booster jabs should be offered to people who are more at-risk from serious disease and were vaccinated as priority groups during the first phase of the vaccination programme early this year.\n\nCare home residents will be the first to be offered booster vaccines\n\nThe Department of Health said this meant the booster jabs will be offered to:\n\nMr Swann said care home residents and front-line health and social care workers would be first on the list.\n\n\"By early October we expect to see GPs starting to invite their oldest patients in to receive their booster dose as they pass the six-month mark from receiving their second dose,\" he said.\n\nRegardless of which vaccine brand these patients received in the earlier stages of the programme, the JCVI has advised a \"preference\" for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the booster programme.\n\n\"This follows data from the Cov-Boost trial that indicates the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is well tolerated as a third dose and provides a strong booster response,\" the department said.\n\nIt added that a half dose of the Moderna vaccine may be offered as an alternative, and in cases where patients have certain allergies, an AstraZeneca vaccine may be considered for booster protection.\n\nAs many younger adults have only recently received their second vaccine jab, the benefits of boosters for under-50s who are at less risk from Covid-19 are to be considered at a later date.", "Environmental activists have blocked three entrances to Farnborough Airport\n\nEnvironmental activists from Extinction Rebellion have blocked entrances to a private airport in Hampshire.\n\nCampaign group members are outside three entrances to Farnborough Airport protesting against carbon dioxide levels produced by private flights.\n\nSome of the protesters have locked themselves to a stretch limousine, fuel barrels and a steel tripod.\n\nAn airport spokeswoman said authorities were monitoring the situation and the airport was still fully operational.\n\nAn Extinction Rebellion spokesman said: \"As world leaders gather for the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow this month, protesters are calling on the world's super-rich elite of celebrities, oligarchs and business leaders to ditch private flights.\"\n\nProtesters have accused the airport of \"greenwashing\" after it announced a switch to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) which is created using non-recyclable household waste.\n\nGreenwashing is a term used for companies allegedly using misleading information to make products or services sound more environmentally friendly.\n\nTodd Smith, 32, activist and a former airline pilot from Reading, Berkshire, criticised Farnborough Airport's move to offer sustainable aviation fuel as an alternative.\n\nHe said: \"The term 'sustainable aviation fuel' was coined by the aviation and fossil fuel industry to deceive the public and greenwash the utterly destructive nature of biofuels.\n\n\"Biofuels result in land grabs, deforestation, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, rising food prices and land-use emissions which can be worse than the fossil fuel they are replacing.\"\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 government spokesperson previously told the BBC: \"We share the passion of many to end our contribution to climate change and protect the planet for this generation and those to come.\"\n\nA Hampshire Constabulary spokesman confirmed officers were at the scene of the protest and no arrests had been made.\n\nThey added: \"Everyone has the right to free speech and protest.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The rollout of third doses of Covid vaccines for vulnerable people with weak immune systems has gone \"badly wrong\", say charities.\n\nVaccine experts recommended on 1 September that immunosuppressed patients should be given the extra dose to give them fuller protection.\n\nBut Kidney Care UK and Blood Cancer UK say many are still waiting.\n\nNHS England says eligible patients should be offered the third doses by the end of next week.\n\nStudies have shown that people who are immunosuppressed - around 500,000 people in the UK - are unlikely to mount a strong defence against Covid-19, even after two doses of vaccine.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation advised that individuals such as those undergoing chemotherapy, HIV patients or people who have received an organ transplant, should get a third dose as soon as possible.\n\nOn 2 September, NHS England sent out guidance to doctors saying this third dose should be given at least eight weeks after the second jab, and at a time when the patient is not receiving treatment that may make the vaccine less likely to work.\n\nGPs and hospital consultants were asked to identify eligible patients and begin contacting them by 13 September.\n\nBut people have taken to social media to express their frustration at not being able to access a jab, despite the rollout of the separate booster programme for the over-50s and at-risk groups.\n\nSteve Harrison, from Lincolnshire, had a kidney transplant in December 2020 and is eligible for a third dose. He feels the most vulnerable have been forgotten.\n\nHe said: \"Arranging the third vaccine has been a nightmare. Neither my consultant nor my GP knew about it.\n\n\"I have spent days speaking to doctors, consultants, the CCG (Clinical Commissioning Group) and I am still no closer to having my vaccine booked.\n\n\"Shielding ending, restrictions lifting, the world getting back to normal and moving forwards, yet I feel like I am moving backwards.\"\n\nThe charities Kidney Care UK and Blood Cancer UK have both expressed concern at the high number of calls and emails they have received about the issue over the last few weeks.\n\nKidney Care UK has passed on the names of more than 80 GP practices to NHS England which it says were not currently assisting people with a third dose.\n\nFiona Loud, its policy director, said: \"This lack of clarity is causing a huge amount of stress, anxiety and frustration amongst thousands of kidney patients.\n\n\"This group are returning to work and public places with no specific national advice or support.\n\n\"They feel completely let down and many have told us this is the most worried and anxious they have felt throughout the entire pandemic.\"\n\nNHS England issued new guidance to hospital trusts on 30 September, with instructions that action be taken immediately to contact all those eligible for their third dose by 11 October.\n\nThese will be recorded as a \"booster\" shot until the national system can be updated to recognise third \"primary\" doses. This will ensure immunosuppressed patients can then be contacted again in six months for their booster fourth dose.\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"While a decision on when to get a third jab remains a decision between a patient and their clinician who know about their ongoing care and treatment, all hospitals have been asked to identify and offer a jab to those who are eligible, by the end of next week.\n\n\"Where vaccines cannot be administered at the same site, patients and their GP will be written to shortly so they can arrange their jab at their local practice or vaccine centre.\"\n• None Covid-19- How effective is a third vaccine dose- - BBC Future", "The home secretary will promise tougher powers to tackle demonstrators blocking motorways, after a string of protests by climate activists.\n\nAt the Tory party conference this week, Priti Patel will announce plans for longer sentences and new powers for police to seize protesters' equipment.\n\nClimate group Insulate Britain has blocked the M1, M4 and M25 in protests over the last three weeks.\n\nTheir campaign has already led to hundreds of arrests.\n\nOn Sunday, the government took out a fresh injunction aimed at preventing activists obstructing traffic on motorways and main roads around London.\n\nIt is the third such court order taken out by the National Highways agency in an attempt to stop demonstrations on major roads in south-east England.\n\nAnyone breaking the injunction faces imprisonment or an unlimited fine. However, previous injunctions have failed to stop the protests.\n\nMs Patel said the government would not \"tolerate guerrilla tactics that obstruct people going about their day-to-day business\".\n\nBoris Johnson told the Mail on Sunday that although the right to protest was \"sacrosanct\", there is \"no right to inflict chaos and misery on people trying to go about their lives\".\n\n\"This government will always stand on the side of the law-abiding majority, and ensure the toughest penalties possible for criminals who deliberately bring major roads to a standstill.\n\n\"We will give the police the powers they need to stop their reckless and selfish behaviour.\"\n\nInsulate Britain's protests have included occupying roundabouts on the M25\n\nHome Office sources said the government would seek to introduce the new powers by amending the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.\n\nThe wide-ranging legislation, which already includes new police powers over protests, is making its way through Parliament.\n\nMinisters want to make obstructing a highway punishable by an unlimited fine, six months imprisonment, or both. It currently carries a maximum fine of £1,000.\n\nThey also want to hand the police new powers to stop and search protesters suspected of carrying so-called \"lock-on\" equipment - such as glue or bike locks - used to secure themselves to protest sites.\n\nThis would add to existing police powers to stop and search individuals for offensive weapons and items intended for committing theft, burglary or damage to property.\n\nInsulate Britain's campaign, which has been going for more than three weeks, has seen more than 300 arrests.\n\nThe group, an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion, has previously vowed to continue campaigning despite arrests and injunctions.\n\nIn an open latter to Ms Patel last week it said: \"You can throw as many injunctions at us as you like, but we are going nowhere.\"\n\nThe campaigners want the government to insulate all homes across the UK by 2030 to help cut carbon emissions.\n\nThe government said it was investing £1.3bn to support people to install energy efficiency measures.", "Petrol prices have hit an eight-year high, the RAC has said, due to a rise in the cost of wholesale fuel.\n\nThe pump price spike also comes amid the current fuel supply problems and reports of profiteering at some petrol stations.\n\nThis is adding up to a \"pretty bleak picture for drivers\", the RAC said.\n\nThe government has put the army on standby to help ease fuel supply problems caused by a shortage of lorry drivers to make deliveries.\n\nThe RAC said that the average price of a litre of petrol across the UK increased from 135.87p on Friday to 136.59p on Sunday, the highest level since September 2013.\n\nThe motoring organisation warned that prices could rise further as retailers pass on the cost of rising wholesale prices.\n\nThe wholesale price of petrol rose from 123.25p on Monday last week to 125.22p just four days later.\n\nOil prices slumped at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, but demand has been rising in recent months as economies around the world have started to reopen.\n\nGlobal oil supplies have also taken a hit from hurricanes Ida and Nicholas passing through the Gulf of Mexico and damaging US oil infrastructure.\n\nThe price of Brent crude oil rose above $80 a barrel on Tuesday for the first time since October 2018.\n\nRAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said: \"When it comes to pump prices, it's a pretty bleak picture for drivers.\n\n\"With the cost of oil rising and now near a three-year high, wholesale prices are being forced up which means retailers are paying more than they were just a few days ago for the same amount of fuel.\n\n\"This has led to the price of a litre of unleaded already going up by a penny since Friday.\n\n\"We might yet see higher forecourt prices in the coming days, irrespective of the current supply problems.\n\n\"We are also aware of a small number of retailers taking advantage of the current delivery situation by hiking prices, so we'd remind drivers to always compare the price they're being asked to pay with the current UK averages which are 136.69p for petrol and 138.58p for diesel.\"\n\nThere is a national shortage of lorry drivers, which haulage firms have blamed on factors including Covid and Brexit.\n\nThe lack of drivers has been affecting businesses from food firms to petrol stations.\n\nDemand for fuel has been such that between 50% and 90% of pumps were dry in some areas of Britain, according the Petrol Retailers Association (PRA).\n\nThe industry group represents independent fuel retailers who account for 65% of all the 8,380 UK forecourts.\n\nThere have been claims on social media that some petrol stations are taking advantage of the surge in demand to inflate prices.\n\nTwitter user Trevor Lakin said that Shell was \"marking prices up and profiteering\" after charging 148.9p a litre at a petrol station.\n\nA Shell spokeswoman said that about half of Shell's UK network is owned by independent dealers who set their own prices.\n\n\"We are only able to control prices at the sites we own,\" she said, adding that \"Shell is prevented by law from telling dealer groups what to charge their customers for fuel.\"\n\nHoward Cox, founder of campaign group FairFuelUK, said price rises of between 5p and 10p per litre have become \"the norm in the last few days\".\n\nHave you noticed any price rises when refuelling recently? Get in touch to 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.", "Drivers encountered lengthy queues at many forecourts on Saturday\n\nBoris Johnson should recall Parliament to pass new laws to sort out fuel and food shortages, says Labour's leader.\n\nSir Keir Starmer says \"emergency action\" is needed to speed up visas for 5,000 extra HGV drivers.\n\nThe prime minister - who will be in Manchester next week at the Tory conference - said the UK supply chain was \"very resilient\".\n\nAnd he accused the haulage industry of being too reliant on low-paid migrant workers.\n\nThere have been long queues at petrol stations this week after a shortage of drivers disrupted fuel deliveries.\n\nMinisters have announced a temporary visa scheme for three months until Christmas Eve to make it easier for foreign lorry drivers to work in the UK.\n\nAsked in a BBC interview about the shortages, the prime minister said: \"This Christmas will be considerably more festive than last year.\"\n\nHe said the UK had \"very resilient supply chains\" and that he would not allow the UK to repeat the \"failures\" of the past, by allowing mass immigration to create a \"low-wage, low-skill economy\" for British workers.\n\nHe accused campaign groups representing the food sector of wanting go back to a system of \"unskilled, mass immigration\" that people \"had voted against\".\n\n\"The solution is to make sure these jobs are properly paid, that we attract people into them and that we invest in automation, facilities and plant because this country has lagged behind competitors for over a decade.\"\n\nDowning Street has been approached for a comment on calls for Parliament to be brought back from party conference recess to tackle the crisis.\n\nSir Keir told BBC News MPs should sit for \"one day, maybe next week\" to approve temporary visas for foreign lorry drivers.\n\nThe Labour leader said the prime minister was \"burying his head in the sand\"\n\nSpeaking outside a petrol station in north London, he said \"at this garage there's no fuel and it's typical of garages across the country.\"\n\n\"The government has said we need visas. There's no sign of any visas.\"\n\nHe accused Mr Johnson of \"burying his head in the sand\" over the crisis, adding that Labour would vote for whatever legislation is needed.\n\nThe Lib Dems are also urging a recall, with the party's business spokesperson Sarah Olney saying the country can not \"wait any longer for Boris Johnson to realise there is a problem to solve\".\n\n\"Care workers can't get to their patients, schools buses are being cancelled, and millions of drivers are left stranded in endless queues.\n\n\"Enough is enough. If the government can't do their job, then MPs should be able to do it for them.\"\n\nThe SNP did not rule out backing a recall. The party's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, said: \"At the very least we there should be cross-party discussions this weekend.\n\n\"We're certainly in the teeth of a crisis and we would welcome an early opportunity to debate it.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Halle has been told Great Ormond Street Hospital would be best placed to treat her\n\nA family say they have \"lost faith in the NHS\" as their 14-year-old daughter waits for life-changing treatment for her jaw.\n\nHalle, 14, is being fed through a tube and in constant pain as her jaw repeatedly dislocates.\n\nThe teenager, from near Cardiff, said she felt she was \"just living\" since the feeding tube was fitted in August.\n\nCardiff and Vale University Health Board said it was committed to providing treatment for Halle.\n\nHalle's mother Clare said she had been to A&E at least 15 times in the last six months.\n\n\"Halle's jaw can dislocate at any time - she could wake up with a dislocation or it could be when she's eating,\" said her mother.\n\n\"We would get to the hospital and then she'd have to have gas and air. I'd have to say to her: 'Five more breaths Halle and then they need to put it back in.'\n\n\"You could see the anxiety in her face, she was absolutely petrified.\"\n\nHalle, 14, is now being fed through a tube while she waits for surgery to fix her jaw\n\nThe teenager began having problems with her jaw in 2018 but the condition became significantly worse in March this year.\n\nHalle has not been formally diagnosed with a condition but doctors have said they think it might be hypermobility of the jaw.\n\nJoint hypermobility syndrome is when people, usually children and young people, have very flexible joints and causes them pain, according to the NHS.\n\nBy the end of July, Halle had to be admitted to hospital as she was not eating or drinking properly because she was worried her jaw might dislocate.\n\nHalle's mother Clare said she was determined to get her daughter the treatment she needs\n\n\"At the time, she was so weak and frail. The child is 14 years of age, she doesn't need her personal care met by me, but I had to shower her in the hospital because she was so frail,\" said Halle's mother.\n\n\"I just kept on saying to Halle: 'I promise you, I will get this sorted'. And that's why I am so determined to get her the treatment she needs.\"\n\nIn July, doctors at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, fitted bands to her back teeth to hold her jaw together, but those teeth are now coming loose.\n\nShe has also been seen by doctors in Birmingham and at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.\n\nShe has had some botox treatment in Birmingham, the only treatment available there because she is under 16, but that has not helped.\n\nHalle, who has just started her GCSES, has still been going to school when she can, but said it was hard.\n\n\"I don't want people to look at me like this sad frail person\" she said.\n\n\"I want to be known as strong and fun, but when I get home I am not that person.\n\n\"I go to school - I have migraines all day. I have chronic pain all day.\"\n\nThe family have been told that Great Ormond Street in London would be the best place for Halle, but say the local health board will not give them a new NHS referral because doctors said she could be treated in Birmingham.\n\n\"Seeing Halle and the change in her is horrific enough in itself,\" said her mother.\n\n\"Let alone the stress added to that about the battle I am having with the NHS. I just feel that we have lost all faith in the NHS.\"\n\nThe family are now trying to raise funds to have Halle treated privately\n\nThe family said they were now at the point of giving up, and faced a bill of £10,000 for private treatment.\n\nThey are trying to raise money for that treatment through a GoFundMe appeal online.\n\nAn official for Cardiff and Vale health board said: \"The health board is committed to providing any treatment for Halle locally where possible and in other specialist centres as needed.\n\n\"To that effect we have been liaising with colleagues in Birmingham and Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\n\"It is appreciated how difficult and distressing this situation is for Halle and her parents and we will continue to work with them to support any care which is deemed clinically necessary.\"", "The protests come a year ahead of the country's elections\n\nThousands of people have taken to the streets in towns and cities across Brazil to protest against the country's president Jair Bolsonaro.\n\nThe protests were organised by opposition parties and trade unions and fall exactly one year ahead of the country's elections.\n\nMr Bolsonaro is currently falling behind in opinion polls.\n\nMany Brazilians are upset at the president's handling of the pandemic - more than 600,000 people have died.\n\nDemonstrations took place in more than 160 towns and cities on Saturday.\n\n\"This president who is there represents everything that is backward in the world - there is hunger, poverty, corruption and we are here to defend democracy,\" protester Valdo Oliveira told AFP news agency.\n\nProtests were held in over 160 cities and towns\n\nThere have been more than 100 requests filed with the Chamber of Deputies to impeach Mr Bolsonaro. However, its leader has refused to follow up on them.\n\nSaturday's protests come after a number of rallies in support of Mr Bolsonaro last month. They were seen as an attempt to demonstrate that he can still draw huge crowds of supporters after recent polls had him trailing his left-wing rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by nine percentage points.\n\nThe elections are not due to be held until next October but Mr Bolsonaro's approval ratings have dropped to an all-time low.\n\nA poll by the Atlas Institute suggested that 61% of Brazilians described his government's performance as bad or very bad, up from 23% when he first took office in January 2019.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Demonstrators march to US Supreme Court building in support of abortion rights\n\nTens of thousands of people have marched at rallies across all 50 US states in support of abortion rights.\n\nThey have been galvanised in opposition to a new Texas law that severely limits access to abortions in the state.\n\nPro-choice supporters across the country fear that constitutional rights may be rolled back.\n\nIn the coming months, the Supreme Court is set to hear a case that could overturn Roe v Wade - the 1973 decision that legalised abortion nationwide.\n\nIn Washington DC, demonstrators marched to the Supreme Court building, holding signs such as \"Make abortion legal\".\n\nProtests were held from here in Los Angeles, on the west coast, to Washington DC, on the east coast\n\nThe start of the rally was disrupted by some two dozen counter-demonstrators.\n\n\"The blood of innocent babies is on your hands!\" shouted one man, but he was drowned out by the singing and clapping of the crowd, the Washington Post newspaper reported.\n\nOne woman who attended a march said she was there to support a woman's right to choose.\n\n\"While I've never been faced with that choice fortunately, there are many women who have and our government and men have no say in the outcome when it comes to our bodies,\" Robin Horn told Reuters news agency.\n\nThe rallies were organised by those behind the annual Women's March\n\nThe rallies were organised by those behind the annual Women's March - the first of which drew millions of people to protest a day after the inauguration of former President Donald Trump in 2017.\n\n\"This is kind of a break-glass moment for folks all across the country,\" said Rachel O'Leary Carmona, the executive director of Women's March.\n\n\"Many of us grew up with the idea that abortion would be legal and accessible for all of us,\" she added. \"Seeing that at very real risk has been a moment of awakening.\"\n\nMany women turned out at the protest in Texas, weeks after abortion was all but declared unlawful\n\nIn New York state, Governor Kathy Hochul spoke at two rallies.\n\n\"I'm sick and tired of having to fight over abortion rights,\" she said. \"It's settled law in the nation and you are not taking that right away from us, not now not ever\".\n\nAnother of the rallies was in Austin, Texas, where the state's legislature on 1 September enacted a law banning terminations after the detection of what anti-abortion campaigners call a foetal heartbeat - a point when many women do not know they are pregnant.\n\nThe so-called Heartbeat Act also gives any individual the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past the six-week point. Supporters say its aim is to protect the unborn.\n\nPoliticians in several other Republican-dominated states are considering similar restrictions.\n\nRights groups asked the Supreme Court to block the Texas law, but the justices ruled 5-4 against granting this.\n\nOn 1 December the court is set to hear a challenge to Mississippi's 15-week ban on abortion.\n\nThe verdict could upend the court's 1973 landmark Roe v Wade ruling, which protects a woman's right to an abortion until viability - the point at which a foetus is able to live outside the womb, generally at the start of the third trimester, 28 weeks into a pregnancy.", "Temporary visas are to be issued to 300 overseas fuel drivers \"immediately\", the government has announced.\n\nUnder the bespoke scheme, those foreign drivers will be able to work in the UK from now until the end of March.\n\nAdditionally, some 4,700 visas intended for foreign food haulage drivers will be extended by two months, lasting from late October to the end of February.\n\nBut the government said temporary visas were not a long-term solution and urged firms to invest in a UK workforce.\n\nMinisters have also extended the length of temporary visas being issued to 5,500 foreign poultry workers, amid fears of a shortage of Christmas turkeys on supermarket shelves.\n\nPreviously, the government said these temporary visas would last until Christmas Eve, but the visas have been extended by a week, and will now be valid until 31 December.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to recall Parliament from party conference recess, saying \"emergency action\" was needed.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said the UK supply chain remained \"very resilient\".\n\nThe temporary visa scheme for 5,000 foreign lorry drivers was originally announced a week ago when the ongoing driver shortage first began disrupting fuel deliveries to petrol stations around the UK.\n\nOn Friday, the Petrol Retailers Association said fuel supply remained a \"big problem\" in south-east England - and \"if anything it had got worse\".\n\nFrom Monday, 200 military servicemen and women, 100 of them drivers, will provide \"temporary\" support to ease pressure on forecourts, where queues are becoming commonplace and customers frustrated.\n\nSome of those 200 will be seen on the roads this weekend. Having completed specialised training over the past three days, many will be accompanying regular tanker drivers on their deliveries.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid said there was \"enough fuel in the country, there always has been\" but it had been a challenge to provide the number of drivers required.\n\nTrade association Logistics UK estimates that the UK is in need of about 90,000 HGV drivers - with existing shortages made worse by a number of factors, including the pandemic, Brexit, an ageing workforce, and low wages and poor working conditions.\n\nThe foreign drivers eligible for visas will not be limited to the EU, but the expectation is most of the drivers will be from Europe.\n\nLorry drivers have said some of the conditions they face in the job were putting off younger recruits - the average age of a HGV driver in the UK is 55.\n\nBut the PM has accused the haulage industry - as well as campaign groups representing the food sector - of being too reliant on low-paid migrant workers.\n\nIn addition to offering temporary visas, the government last week announced a number of other measures aimed at limiting disruption in the run-up to Christmas and beyond.\n\nThese include increasing HGV (heavy goods vehicle) testing capacity, sending nearly one million letters to drivers who hold an HGV licence to encourage them back into the industry, and offering training courses for HGV drivers.\n\nA survey from earlier this year suggests a number of reasons for the driver shortage", "Young protesters in Milan argue that ministers aren't doing enough\n\nRich countries' plans to curb carbon are \"smoke and mirrors\" and must be urgently improved, say poorer nations.\n\nMinisters meeting here in Milan at the final UN session before the Glasgow COP26 climate conference heard that some progress was being made.\n\nBut officials from developing countries demanded tougher targets for cutting carbon emissions and more cash to combat climate change.\n\nOne minister condemned \"selfishness or lack of good faith\" in the rich world.\n\nUS special envoy John Kerry said all major economies \"must stretch\" to do the maximum they can.\n\nAround 50 ministers from a range of countries met here to try to overcome some significant hurdles before world leaders gather in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut for extremely vulnerable countries to a changing climate the priority is more ambitious carbon reductions from the rich, to preserve the 1.5C temperature target set by the 2015 Paris agreement.\n\nScientists have warned that allowing the world temperatures to rise more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels is highly dangerous.\n\nAn assessment of the promises made so far to cut carbon suggests that the world is on track for around 2.7C.\n\nMinisters from developing countries say this is just not acceptable - they are already experiencing significant impacts on their economies with warming currently just over 1C.\n\nUS special envoy John Kerry called on all richer countries to step up\n\n\"We're already on hellish ground at 1.1C,\" said Simon Steill, Grenada's environment minister who argues that the plans in place just weren't good enough to prevent disaster for his island state.\n\n\"We're talking about lives, we're talking about livelihoods, they cannot apply smoke and mirrors to that.\"\n\n\"Every action that is taken, every decision that is taken, has to be aligned with 1.5C, we have no choice.\"\n\nSome delegates felt that richer countries aren't sufficiently engaged on the issue of 1.5C, because they are wealthy enough to adapt to the changes.\n\n\"They don't care about 1.5C because if there's sea level rise, they have the means to build sea walls, and they are just remaining there in their high walls of comfort,\" said Tosi Mpanu Mpanu, from the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\n\"Some countries are willing to do things but they don't have the means, some have the means but are not willing to do things. Now how do we find the right choreography?\"\n\nOn this question of choreography, ministers were in agreement that the G20 group of countries should be leading the dance.\n\nAlok Sharma is the UK minister in charge of COP26\n\nMr Kerry called on India and China, who are part of the G20, to put new carbon plans on the table before leaders gather in Glasgow.\n\n\"All G20 countries, all large economies, all need to try to stretch to do more,\" he told the gathering.\n\n\"I'm not singling out one nation over another. But I am encouraging all of us to try to do the maximum we can.\"\n\nThe mood on the street in Milan could not have contrasted more sharply with the formal, political roundtable discussions inside the PreCOP26 conference.\n\nOn Friday, students and activists marched to the doors of the conference venue - banners waving and arms linked in a human wall to protect Greta Thunberg, who led the procession. There were cheers of: \"We are unstoppable, another world is possible\". And just one day after sharing the stage with world leaders, and after meeting the Italian prime minister, 18-year-old Greta told a cheering crowd: \"We are sick of their blah blah blah and sick of their lies.\"\n\nMeanwhile, behind the concrete walls of the conference hall on Saturday, ministers were cautiously optimistic that their discussions had laid crucial foundations for the UN climate meeting in November. As he brought the meeting to a close, Alok Sharma, president for the much-anticipated COP26 in Glasgow, assured me that there was now a tangible \"sense of urgency\".\n\n\"It's this set of world leaders that are deciding the future,\" he said. \"We're going to respond to what we've heard here from young people.\"\n\nOne of the biggest remaining hurdles to progress remains the question of finance. The richer world promised to pay developing nations $100bn a year from 2020.\n\nThat figure hasn't yet been met and while ministers here were confident it would be achieved in Glasgow, the failure to land the money is eroding trust.\n\n\"Everything we need to do, we know what that is, and now it's just a question of who's going to be paying for it, who is going to be willing to share their technology,\" said Tosi Mpanu Mpanu.\n\n\"And that's where the problem is. So there seems to be at times selfishness or lack of good faith.\"\n\nDespite these reservations, the UK minister tasked with delivering success in Glasgow was in positive mood after the meeting in Milan.\n\n\"I think we go forward to Glasgow with a spirit of co-operation,\" said Alok Sharma.\n\n\"I do not want to underestimate the amount of work that is required but I think there is a renewed urgency in our discussions.\"\n\nHowever there are significant hurdles to clear before leaders arrive in Glasgow and technical questions about carbon markets and transparency are still unresolved.\n\n\"We need to change. And we need to change radically, we need to change fast,\" said EU vice-president Frans Timmermans. \"And that's going to be bloody hard.\"", "Two of Scotland's health boards have reinstated drop-in vaccination clinics, a day after saying they were being phased out.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and NHS Lanarkshire were criticised on Friday after saying they planned to focus on scheduled appointments.\n\nBoth have now said drop-in vaccinations are available again, with Glasgow's health board citing public demand.\n\nOpposition politicians said the lack of drop in clinics was \"unbelievable\".\n\nOn Friday - the day the Scottish government's vaccine passport scheme was launched partly to encourage vaccine take-up - there was no vaccination \"on-demand\" available in the whole of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) which covers 1.2 million people.\n\nNHS Lanarkshire, which covers 655,000 people, also announced there would be no drop-in vaccination from 1 October because its focus was now on booster jabs and flu vaccinations.\n\nHowever, on Saturday NHSGGC announced: \"In response to demand from the public, we are now running drop-in vaccination clinics for first and second doses this weekend.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde\n\nNHS Lanarkshire said seven centres would be offering drop-in vaccination, though it warned people that they were expected to be busy.\n\nScottish Labour's deputy leader Jackie Baillie had earlier called the halting of drop-in clinics \"extraordinary and dangerous\".\n\n\"It is down to this SNP government to stop going at a snail's pace and take action to ensure that health boards continue to provide vaccination clinics, particularly as the NHS is already in crisis before we even get to the pressure created by winter,\" she said.\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane MSP said: \"This is unbelievable. This flies in the face of the SNP saying their vaccine passport scheme would encourage uptake among younger groups.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said the vaccination programme was a \"remarkable achievement\" with 92% of people aged 18 and over having now had their first dose, and 86% of adults fully vaccinated.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Having made such progress it now makes sense to look at how we reach those who may have been hesitant and those in the younger age groups that have now become eligible.\"\n\nDrop-in clinics were also being delivered in and around universities and college campuses, the spokesperson added.", "A crocodile leapt out of the water at a wildlife park in Darwin and sank its teeth into a low flying drone.\n\nThe Australian Broadcasting Corporation caught the moment the reptile snapped.", "BBC News NI understands that both patients and staff at the Ulster Hospital have been affected by the outbreaks\n\nTwo wards have been closed at the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald, on the outskirts of east Belfast, due to outbreaks of Covid 19.\n\nOne of the wards provides care specifically for elderly patients.\n\nBBC News NI understands that both patients and staff are affected.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the South Eastern Health Trust confirmed that both wards were closed during the past two weeks.\n\nOver the past month, 96 patients tested positive for the virus on admission to the hospital and 16 others tested positive during their stay.\n\nAccording to the trust, it is their policy to admit Covid-positive patients to side rooms or bays, which are designated for patients with the virus.\n\nHowever, the trust also confirmed that at times non-Covid patients are admitted to these wards due to their clinical condition, such as when requiring respiratory treatment", "People stopped by a lone plain-clothes officer should challenge their legitimacy, the Met Police has said.\n\nThe force is seeking to reassure women after the murder of Sarah Everard by serving police officer, Wayne Couzens.\n\nThe Met has advised people detained by a lone plain-clothes officer to ask questions like \"Where are your colleagues?\" and \"Where have you come from?\"\n\nBut some women say this shifts the onus back on to them.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen spoke about her affection for Scotland and the challenges of Covid\n\nThe Queen has spoken of her \"deep and abiding affection\" for Scotland as she officially opened the sixth session of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood.\n\nHer Majesty was joined at the ceremony by Prince Charles and Camilla, The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay.\n\nIt was the first time she had attended the ceremony without Prince Philip, who died this year aged 99.\n\nAs at the last opening in 2016, The Queen was greeted by Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nAfterwards she met people nominated as \"local heroes\" for their work in the community during the Covid pandemic.\n\nAt the start of the ceremony, Her Majesty addressed MSPs gathered in the debating chamber.\n\nShe congratulated the parliament for being able to mark the new session safely in a \"very trying period\", and noted that it had been at the heart of Scotland's response to the pandemic.\n\n\"As we all step out from adverse and uncertain times, occasions such as this today provide an opportunity for hope and optimism,\" Her Majesty said.\n\n\"Marking this new session does indeed bring a sense of beginning and renewal.\"\n\nShe urged MSPs to work together despite their differences of opinion.\n\nCelebrating people who have made an \"extraordinary contribution\" during the pandemic, The Queen noted the \"countless examples of resilience and goodwill\" that have made a difference to others.\n\nShe told the chamber: \"I have spoken before of my deep and abiding affection for this wonderful country and of the many happy memories Prince Philip and I always held of our time here.\n\n\"It is often said that it is the people that make a place and there are few places where this is truer than it is in Scotland, as we have seen in recent times.\"\n\nThe monarch, who has been on her annual break at Balmoral Castle, will return to Scotland next month for COP26, when the \"eyes of the world\" will be on Glasgow.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament has a key role to \"help create a better, healthier future for us all and engage with the people they represent, especially our young people\", The Queen added.\n\nThe Queen was greeted at the Scottish Parliament by Edinburgh Lord Provost Frank Ross\n\nMs Sturgeon and the Scottish Parliament's presiding officer Alison Johnstone both reflected on the new diverse nature of the new parliament.\n\n\"I'm heartened that this parliament is the most diverse that we have ever returned,\" Ms Johnstone said in her opening remarks, noting the first women of colour elected to the chamber.\n\n\"I wish it hadn't taken so long,\" she added.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the chamber better reflected Scotland as a nation \"proud to call itself simply home for everyone who chooses to live here\".\n\nShe said all parties had more to do but there were more women, people of colour and people with disabilities in the Parliament than ever before.\n\nResponding to the Queen's speech, the First Minister offered the parliament's \"deep sympathy and shared sorrow at your loss\" and thanked her for being a \"steadfast friend of our parliament since its establishment in 1999\".\n\nMs Sturgeon continued: \"As we battle through the storm of a global pandemic, hope and the hankering for change is perhaps felt more strongly by more people than at any time in our recent history.\n\n\"That gives this Parliament a momentous responsibility and a historic opportunity.\n\n\"Covid has been the biggest crisis to confront the world since the Second World War - it has caused pain and heartbreak, it has exposed and exacerbated the inequalities within our society.\n\n\"But it has also revealed humankind's boundless capacity for inventiveness, solidarity and love.\n\n\"And for those of us in public service, it has reminded us that with collective political will, changes that we might previously have thought impossible or just too difficult can indeed be achieved.\n\n\"In the months ahead, we must take the same urgency and resolve with which we have confronted this pandemic and apply it to the hard work of recovery and renewal, to the task of building a fairer and greener future for this and the generations who come after us.\"\n\nDue to ongoing Covid restrictions, only invited guests were able to attend.\n\nThey watched a recorded programme of music and entertainment which organisers said reflected \"the rich diversity of Scotland's communities\".\n\nThe newly-appointed Makar, or national poet, Kathleen Jamie recited a poem specially written for the event.\n\nThe Royal Conservatoire Brass performed Fanfare for the Opening of Parliament 2021 from Glasgow Cathedral.\n\nMichael Biggins, BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2021, also performed Ae Fond Kiss by Robert Burns from the BBC Pacific Quay building in Glasgow.\n\nScottish Parliament clerk Rea Cris carried the mace ahead of The Queen as she entered the debating chamber.\n\nMs Cris said: \"It is an honour for me to take on this role within the parliament.\n\n\"The mace is part of the parliament's history and tradition, but the principles engraved on the mace continue to inspire our work today. Compassion is one that inspires me the most.\"", "Johnny Anderson's double-bellied mortar tanker was followed to a building site by people looking for petrol\n\nA tanker driver has told how he was tailed by about 20 drivers who were dismayed to discover he was not transporting petrol.\n\nJohnny Anderson, who drives for Weaver Haulage, was transporting dry mortar mix from Bilston, Wolverhampton, to a building site in Northamptonshire.\n\nWhen he reached his destination, he saw a line of traffic backed up behind him.\n\n\"The man at the front... actually said 'You could have stopped and told us you weren't a petrol tanker,\" he said.\n\nThe incident came as lengthy queues formed at forecourts amid petrol and diesel supply problems.\n\nMr Anderson, from Harworth, Nottinghamshire, said he was delivering to the David Wilson Homes development at Overstone on Thursday.\n\nHe was on the A43 when he first realised he was being followed.\n\n\"I didn't notice initially but then on the dual carriageway, I noticed nobody was overtaking me and saw a string of about 20 cars behind me,\" he said.\n\n\"When I eventually turned left into a road that would take me to the site entrance, all these cars turned left with me.\"\n\nJohnny Anderson said he went \"full McEnroe\" on one of the drivers who tailed him\n\nThree-quarters of a mile later, when he stopped at the site entrance, he heard car horns honking, he said.\n\nThinking something had fallen off his vehicle, he got out and saw the queue of vehicles.\n\n\"The man at the front wound down his window and asked me which petrol station I was going to,\" he said.\n\n\"When I said I wasn't, he asked me 'Why not?' and when I said I wasn't carrying petrol, he actually said 'You could have stopped and told us you weren't a petrol tanker'.\n\n\"I couldn't believe it... I just went full McEnroe and said 'You cannot be serious!'\n\n\"Then the bloke behind asked me where the nearest petrol station was. It just beggars belief.\"\n\nMr Anderson, who has been driving double-bellied tankers for about six years, said while it was \"quite funny\", there was also a serious side.\n\n\"My cargo isn't dangerous but, if they are following a petrol tanker, their training is to call the police if they think they're being followed,\" he said.\n\n\"People need to stop and think... driving a tanker, no matter what the product, is quite a pressurised job, so following them puts extra pressure on drivers already under pressure without having to worry about absolute morons.\"\n\nMr Anderson, who works for Ashbourne-based Weaver Haulage, has driven \"belly tankers\" for about six years\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Kathleen Jamie has been appointed for a three-year term\n\nPoet and essayist Kathleen Jamie has been appointed as Scotland's next Makar.\n\nThe 59-year-old is the fourth person to take on the role of national poet, following on from Jackie Kay.\n\nThe Scots Makar position was established in 2004 by the Scottish Parliament with Edwin Morgan the first poet to receive the honour.\n\nMs Jamie was brought up in Midlothian and began writing poetry as a teenager, publishing her first booklet aged 20.\n\nShe was appointed for a three-year term rather than five years like the last two appointments.\n\nThe expert panel who selected the poet said they had reduced the term because of the time demands of the role and to help encourage \"greater diversity, variety and interest\" in the post in the future.\n\nNicola Sturgeon formally welcomed Ms Jamie to the role at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh.\n\nThe first minister said she was \"delighted\" to confirm the writer as Scotland's national poet.\n\n\"Poetry is integral to Scotland's culture and history. The Makar has a central role in celebrating that legacy, and preserving its future by encouraging the next generation of young writers to leave their mark,\" she said.\n\n\"Kathleen is a highly accomplished poet who is known for her works in English and Scots, and the meaningful connections her writing draws between our lives and the landscape around us.\n\n\"I have no doubt she will continue to build on the exceptional work of her predecessors to promote Scottish poetry both here and abroad.\"\n\nMs Jamie has published three books of essays around nature, travel and culture called Findings, Sightlines and Surfacing.\n\nHer poems have appeared on the Underground systems of London, New York and Shanghai, and another was carved on a huge wooden beam on the national monument at Bannockburn.\n\nMs Jamie said: \"I am honoured and delighted to be appointed as Scotland's new Makar.\n\n\"The post confirms a weel-kent truth: that poetry abides at the heart of Scottish culture, in all our languages, old and new. It's mysterious, undefinable and bold. It runs deep and sparkles at once.\"\n\n\"Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay and the late Edwin Morgan have held this post before me, a trio of major poets. If I can achieve half of their outreach, humour and wisdom, not to mention their wonderful verse, I'll be doing well.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People who are immunocompromised have begun receiving third doses of Covid-19 vaccines in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIt marks the start of the \"booster\" programme, with older people to be offered third vaccination doses from next week.\n\nThese will be offered to everyone over 80, and people over 65 in residential settings.\n\nThe Health Service Executive (HSE) said there was a \"very good supply\" of vaccines in Ireland.\n\nProfessor Martin Cormican, who is HSE lead for infection control, said the additional dose for the immunocompromised will include anyone over the age of 12, but in the first instance it will be offered to those aged 16 and over.\n\n\"There will be a little delay for those between the ages 12 and 15,\" he told Irish broadcaster RTÉ.\n\nProf Cormican said this was because this group of people were vaccinated later and there is a need to wait two months.\n\n\"That is where you get the most benefit if you allow the interval of two months to go by,\" he added.\n\nProf Cormican the HSE would contact anyone eligible for a booster dose.\n\nIt is expected to take five to six weeks to administer third doses to all those who need one.", "BBC News NI outlines the latest data on coronavirus and Covid-19 vaccinations across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nOne more coronavirus-related death has been reported in Northern Ireland on Saturday.\n\nDeaths are measured by recording those who died within 28 days of receiving a positive result in a test for coronavirus.\n\nThe total number of deaths linked to Covid-19 in Northern Ireland since the start of the pandemic is 2,565.\n\nAnother 992 cases of coronavirus were reported on Saturday, down from 1,039 on Friday.\n\nThat includes cases confirmed from samples taken in recent days, not necessarily just in the latest 24-hour reporting period.\n\nA total of 240,331 cases of the virus have been confirmed in Northern Ireland since the pandemic began.\n\nThe Department of Health's Covid-19 dashboard is not updated at the weekend.\n\nThe most recent figures from Friday showed there were 342 patients with Covid-19 in hospitals in Northern Ireland.\n\nThere was 33 Covid-19 patients being treated in hospital intensive care units on Friday, up from 29 on Thursday.\n\nA total of 2,528,747 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nAnother 1,586 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the Republic of Ireland on Saturday, up from 1,059 on Friday.\n\nThe total number of deaths linked to Covid-19 in the Republic of Ireland since the start of the pandemic is 5,249.\n\nThat figure, which is subject to revision, is updated weekly and includes \"probable and possible\" Covid-19-linked deaths.\n\nThere are 298 patients with Covid-19 in hospitals, down from 308 on Friday.\n\nThere are 56 patients with Covid-19 in intensive care units, down from 59 on Friday.\n\nA total of 7,218,801 Covid-19 vaccines had been administered in the Republic of Ireland as of Thursday.\n\nOf those, 3,536,134 were first doses and 3,446,993 were second doses. Some 235,674 were single doses.", "Jurgen Klopp: Liverpool manager says vaccine is 'not a limit on freedom' Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nJurgen Klopp says 99% of Liverpool players are vaccinated Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says he does not understand why some people refuse the coronavirus vaccine. There have been concerns about the rate of vaccination in the Premier League with fewer than half of players jabbed at most clubs. Klopp says \"99%\" of his players have been vaccinated. Meanwhile Health Secretary Sajid Javid said it is \"disappointing\" at least five members of the England squad are reportedly refusing to be vaccinated. His comments came after The Sun reported five players have not had the jab despite organisers of next year's Qatar World Cup planning to ban all unvaccinated players. \"I would just appeal to these people, whether they are footballers, whoever it is... that the vaccines are working. Help protect yourself and protect those around you,\" Javid told Times Radio. \"They've made a conscious choice. It is disappointing, of course it is. \"They are role models in society. People, especially young people, I think will look up to them and they should recognise that and the difference that can make in terms of encouraging others.\" Klopp said he has not had to convince any players to be vaccinated. The German says he was jabbed to protect not just himself but \"all the people around me\". \"I don't understand why that is a limitation of freedom,\" he said. \"Because if it is, then not being allowed to drink and drive is a limitation of freedom as well - but we accept that. \"I got the vaccination because I was concerned about myself but even more so for everyone else around me. \"If I get it and suffer - my fault. If I get it and spread it around to everyone else - my fault and not their fault.\" This week it was revealed the Premier League is considering whether to \"reward\" clubs whose coronavirus vaccination rates are high. In an email to top-flight clubs last week, the Premier League said: \"Only seven clubs' squads are more than 50% fully vaccinated, so we have a way to go.\" On Friday, it was announced that Premier League players will be allowed to travel to red-list nations to represent their countries in this month's World Cup qualifiers - but only if they are fully vaccinated. \"I think we can say we have 99% vaccinated,\" added Klopp. \"I didn't have to convince the players, it was more a natural decision from the team. \"I can't remember really talking to a player and convincing him why he should because I'm not a doctor. \"What I would give, like in a lot of other situations, would be my advice - but it was not necessary.\" As of 2 October, almost 49 million people in the UK had received a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, while almost 45 million had received a second - an uptake of 89.9% and 82.5% of over-16s respectively. However, some people choose not to be vaccinated citing a number of factors, including their lack of confidence in the vaccine, concerns about side-effects, or a fear of needles. Others - a minority - opt out of vaccination because of their consumption of misinformation and conspiracy theories online, particularly on social media.\n• None Our coverage of Liverpool is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Liverpool - go straight to all the best content", "People who are immunosuppressed in Northern Ireland will be notified shortly about receiving a third dose of the vaccine.\n\nThe Department of Health told BBC News NI those classed as immunosuppressed have now been identified.\n\n\"They will be receiving a letter shortly advising them to book online to receive the third dose,\" it said.\n\n\"Those identified by GPs will be given a letter advising them to receive a third dose at a community pharmacy.\"\n\nVaccine experts recommended on 1 September that those affected should be given the extra dose to give them fuller protection.\n\nStudies have shown that people who are immunosuppressed, around 500,000 people in the UK, are unlikely to mount a strong defence against the virus, even after two doses of the vaccine.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a small number of people have recently received their third dose but the department said it expected the bulk of vaccinations to happen over the next few weeks.\n\nThe announcement comes as one more death with coronavirus and another 992 positive cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Saturday.", "Many bus companies cannot run services due to a lack of tourists\n\nAn industry body representing Northern Ireland's private bus and coach sector has said it is at its most vulnerable.\n\nBus and Coach NI said operators are at risk of collapse.\n\nCompanies have not been able to run services due to a lack of tourists. Some businesses have received grants from Stormont.\n\nKaren Magill, chief executive of Bus and Coach NI, told BBC Radio Ulster's Inside Business programme the future for some operators is uncertain.\n\n\"Our industry has been decimated by Covid-19 and at this point in time while other sectors of the economy are recovering, unfortunately we are not.\n\n\"We still have 75% of our fleet idle and we wont see any return to business until March or April next year,\" she said.\n\n\"Despite not being back to full capacity, with little or no income, and restricted demand, we have increased additional costs incurring every day.\n\n\"We have significant Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) loans and those increasing Covid debts and restricted demand mean companies are seriously vulnerable.\n\n\"If you have a loan of £1.5m, your monthly repayment now is £16,000, and this is based on actual figures from some companies,\" she said.\n\nAsked if she expects all operators to survive the next few months, Ms Magill said: \"At this point in time, no I don't.\"\n\nCoach operators rely heavily on international visitors who book excursions to well-known tourist areas.\n\nThe pandemic has seen a drastic reduction in the amount of visitors arriving on our shores.\n\nFor Sean Logan, who owns Logan Executive Travel in Dunloy, County Antrim that means his fleet is parked up.\n\n\"We would normally have 50 touring vehicles and at this time of year we would expect our yard to be empty. At the minute we are lucky to get two vehicles on tour a week.\n\n\"There is some school work but it's not what we need, with the value of the fleet we have and the debt we have incurred to survive so far.\n\n\"My house overlooks my yard and the first thing I see when I pull the curtains back in the morning is a coach park. That's basically what we are.\n\n\"They cost me money while they are sitting parked, earning nothing,\" he told Inside Business.\n\nMore than 90 companies have been provided with grants totalling £5.7m\n\nMr Logan had to lay off some office staff as there was not enough work.\n\n\"The staff we have taken back off furlough are on reduced time, working two or three-day weeks.\n\n\"I cannot guarantee categorically that we will survive [the winter]. We have survived this far and we will do everything we can. It has taken over 40 years of my life and we will do the best we can. It's an impossible situation,\" he said.\n\nMs Magill said additional financial support would help the industry.\n\n\"We have had two previous schemes through the Department for Infrastructure… at this stage 50% of businesses out there were not eligible for support. There was a formula which should have made life simple but didn't.\n\n\"We had one operator who received £3,200. Out of that, which is what they were eligible for, they had to pay £1,500 out to their accountant as we had to have all figures backed by an accountancy firm.\n\n\"Other operators have benefited from the scheme,\" she said.\n\nThe Department for Infrastructure said more than 90 companies have been provided with grants totalling £5.7m through two schemes.\n\n\"Minister Mallon is committed to doing all she can where she has the powers within her department and working with executive colleagues to support the industry through recovery.\"", "The man attacked a woman and a man in a pub on Glasshouse Street\n\nA hammer attack in London's Soho district has hospitalised four people.\n\nA 38-year-old man attacked two women - one aged in her 20s and one in her 30s - with a hammer on Regent Street at about 22.45 BST on Friday, police said.\n\nThe man then entered a pub on Glasshouse Street and attacked a woman, aged in her 40s, and a man in his 50s.\n\nSecurity staff restrained the man who was then arrested by police for Grievous Bodily Harm. All four victims were taken to hospital.\n\nNone of the victims are believed to be in a life-threatening condition.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Duterte had previously said he would stand as vice-president in next year's election\n\nPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he is retiring from politics and will not stand in elections next year.\n\nThe 76-year-old leader said last month that he would run for the vice-presidency in 2022. The country's constitution only permits presidents to serve a single six-year term.\n\nBut he now says he will withdraw, as \"the overwhelming sentiment of the Filipinos is that I am not qualified\".\n\nThe move comes amid speculation that his daughter could run for president.\n\nMr Duterte, a controversial \"strongman\" figure, came to power in 2016 promising to reduce crime and fix the country's drug crisis.\n\nBut critics say that during his five years in power, Mr Duterte has encouraged police to carry out thousands of extrajudicial killings of suspects in what he has called his \"war on drugs\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There's alarm over a spate of drug-related killings in a suburb of Manila taking place during Covid-19\n\nMr Duterte's daughter Sara Duterte-Carpio, who is currently mayor of the southern city of Davao, has given mixed messages about running for high office.\n\nLast month Ms Duterte-Carpio said that she would not join the race because she and her father had agreed that only one of them would stand in the election next May.\n\nHowever, she has led every opinion poll conducted this year.\n\nMr Duterte announced his surprise retirement at the venue in Manila where he was expected to register his candidacy.\n\nHe said that standing for the vice-presidency \"would be a violation of the constitution to circumvent the law, the spirit of the constitution\".\n\nHis spokesman Harry Roque, however, did not entirely rule out a political role for Mr Duterte in the future.\n\nMr Roque told the BBC that the announcement \"means that he is not interested in the vice-presidency anymore - as to whether or not he will completely retire from politics, I would have to clarify this point with him\".\n\nPresident Duterte's announcement should be taken with a pinch of salt.\n\nHe has form in saying similar things, only to make U-turns weeks later. In September 2015, in the build-up to the presidential elections, the then-mayor of Davao said he planned to \"retire from public life for good\".\n\nBut in a last-minute move in November that year, Mr Duterte was chosen as the PDP-Laban party's candidate. He went on to win the presidency in May 2016.\n\nCommentators say Saturday's announcement is in keeping with the \"2015 playbook\", with some speculating Mr Duterte could be a \"super sub\" for his ally Senator Christopher \"Bong\" Go, who has filed his candidacy for vice-president.\n\nThe drama plays well with voters, many of whom spend evenings glued to their TVs watching the twists and turns of the saga.\n\nMr Duterte is a shrewd operator who will know the announcement will place his family's name at the heart of his country's \"tsismis\", the Filipino word for gossip.\n\nWhen Mr Duterte first announced his intention to run, there was widespread speculation that he would seek a politically weak running mate in order to rule from the number-two role.\n\nHe had also publicly mused that, as vice-president, he would be immune from prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for presiding over the brutal \"war on drugs\" that has killed thousands in the country.\n\nHowever, it 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